Thus far this [long] weekend I’ve spent an unhealthy amount of time just trying to make this look good. Installing WordPress itself is trivial, but then finding a half-decent theme, and then getting that theme to look exactly the way you want, is immensely time consuming and frustrating. For example, I want icons for each… Read more
I had a devil of a time trying to get Xcode to recognise my standard Core Data UIManagedDocuments, given they are bundles, not flat files. Turns out one of the keys was that your UTI must inherit from com.apple.package. I had rather more sensibly (IMHO) inherited from one of the built-in database UTIs. Silly me for… Read more
I’ve decided to finally get my website in order. Partly because of MobileMe’s impending closure, but also because I’ve wanted to resume blogging for a long time now, and especially so most recently because of my renewed interest in coding for pleasure. I’ll be moving the old site and most of its content over here… Read more
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
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
For the last week or two the neighbours on one side have been parking slightly into my driveway, so that they can try to squeeze two cars into theirs. At first this irked me a little, but I didn’t dwell on it. Tonight I pulled in and then straightened up ’til I was uncomfortably close… Read more
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