IT’S SO FLUFFY!!!!!

Got my iPad 2 today. :D :D :D :D :D :D It’s so shiny!  And thin!  My old iPad is already bitching and moaning about being “replaced” and “detritus” and “nobody would even care if I just blew up my own motherboard” or whatever. Of course, superficially it’s not hugely different – it’s way thinner,… Read more

Kepler orbits are hard

Or at least, the material that covers them is.  Why is it so hard for someone to lay out the problem nice and simply – “given these parameters and position at origin time, the position & velocity at time T will be:…”. Still, it’s fun to screw around with.  I’m making some progress – I… Read more

All your display are belong to Skype

Just let Skype auto-update itself to version 5.  W..T..F..  the new UI is slick enough, yes, but it’s bloody huge.  The smallest window size is far from small.  It’s so bloody big I have to keep it closed by default. While the prior versions weren’t pretty nor fast, they were functional and sufficiently minimal.  This… Read more

Bought a pair of skis

Today I bought a pair of skis from some random woman at Google.  They’re probably hers, and are a fair bit shorter than I’d probably take generally, but I was pleasantly surprised when I got home to discover that they really aren’t that much shorter than my existing ski.  They’re also in good condition, seem… Read more

Changing the default organisation name in Xcode 4

Xcode 4 no longer provides any UI – that I can find, anyway – for changing the default organisation name, whether globally or in a particular project.  It’s claimed that it’ll still respect the user defaults setting, which may well be true, but what if you’ve already created your project? Well, the only workaround I… Read more

RSA’s totally supported, only not really

Evidently RSA signing keys aren’t supported on iOS, at least in 4.3.  The entire process of submitting a cert request, generating provisioning profiles, etc etc… that all works just peachy.  It’s the very last step – verification of the signed app newly installed onto the device, ready to run – that actually fails.  And with… Read more