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- When riding my bike to uni the other day I was just behind a small truck of a butchery that read 'Landfleischerei'. It looked like this:
Sometimes the need for ligatures or at least decent letter spacing is painfully obvious. Why don't people see this before printing truck-size stickers?
- Actually, achieving such bad letter spacing was quite hard to do in TextEdit as the command that is needed repeatedly to do it is safely stowed away in a submenu.
- Pierre Igot rightly points out that apart from being a good idea and easy to use from any application, the OS X address book is painfully sluggish. Perhaps the address book team should borrow the guy/girl off the iTunes team who implemented indexing and fast searching there.
- 2lmc on UK blogging awards. The photo is really cool. But I wonder why both the blogs The Guardian lists for the top positions in the 'best design' category are so poorly designed that I need to scroll horizontally to fully see them.
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OS X.3.2 update today. More than 30 Megabytes for no difference that I have noticed yet. The Finder still fails to use our local Windows network. My battery still seems to be completely hosed (less than 1Ah, thus less than an hour). After updating I got the usual 'this application has been updated...' dialogue from the keychain:
I wondered, what kind of sense the information in the extended bit of the dialogue box is supposed to make. In particular, what's the difference between both of the lines?
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And now I'm offered to update Quicktime. With another restart needed – yikes! And the promise that it it offers:
- Erstellung und Wiedergabe von mobilen Multimedia-Daten im beliebten AMC-Format
. Yeah right, the popular AMC format. The one that I've never heard of, that is. Don let marketing people write text which is supposed contain information. - Richard has seen an incredible number of bands this year. I'm a bit jealous. [Note that LiveJournal seem to offer full content feeds now – nice.]
- Let me recap the bands I have seen. The year started off well, as I visited Richard and we saw a lot of those bands together at the Eurosonic festival – will have to check who's playing next year, perhaps I should invite myself for another visit – and then only increased slowly: The Libertines [a few songs only], Pinkostar, Cadillac, Maliën, Revolt, The Superheroes, Mando Diao, Miss Black America, Ska-P, Parker, Dionysos, Whirlwind Heat, The White Stripes, Der Junge mit der Gitarre, Sofaplanet, Die Schröders, Extrabreit, TigerBeat, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Raketenjungs, Eaten By Sheiks, Wir sind Helden, The Flaming Sideburns, Danko Jones, Sepultura, The Strokes.
- Today the records I bought myself for christmas arrived from the U.S.. Including The Flaming Lips' Zaireeka. Fancy coming over with your stereo?
