Dan Wood: The Eponymous Weblog

Dan Wood is co-owner of Karelia Software, creating programs for the Macintosh computer. He is the father of two kids, lives in the Bay Area of California USA, and prefers bicycles to cars. This site is his weblog, which mostly covers geeky topics like Macs and Mac Programming.

Useful Tidbits and Egotistical Musings from Dan Wood

Categories: Mac OS X · Cocoa Programming · General · All Categories

Thu, 20 Oct 2005

Bizarre Yellow Button

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OK, this is strange Aqua user interface. My printer (a wonderful Kyocera laser printer) is out of toner. Look what happens when I try to print.

A Yellow button? Bizarre. Kind of cool, actually, but it's the first time I've seen something like that (from Apple, at least) since using the earliest Mac OS X betas.

Oh yeah, not enough room for 'Low Toner.' Yuck.

Thu, 13 Oct 2005

Jerry McNerney

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Last year, I helped a bit with the congressional campaign for Jerry McNerney in the neighboring congressional district, currently held by Republican Richard Pombo. Pombo, chair of the House Resources Committee , is the guy who sends out partisan mailers at taxpayer expense, who recently suggested selling off the national parks, and who has been tirelessly working to destroy the Endangered Species Act, finally passing his "Pombo Extinction Bill" in the House of Representatives. (Let's hope the Senate kills the bill.)

McNerney's just officially entered the race yesterday, and I'm going to help the campaign from time to time. I helped set up a weblog for the campaign, which is now "live" (though not yet linked to from the main site!)

McNerney still faces some opponents in the primary, but I think he's the right guy to take down the ultra-right-winger Pombo. Doing so will mean a lot for this district in California, but just as much nationally due to Pombo's current chairmanship.

Updating feed to RSS 2.0

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Prompted by a comment by Simone, I've updated the RSS feed for this weblog to RSS 2.0 — it was 0.91 before! The weblog is still powered by Blosxom — I will start using Sandvox when I have the time to make the transition — and it's showing its age.

Fri, 07 Oct 2005

Inquisitor: Must-Have add-on for Safari

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Check out Inquisitor. A Safari add-on that replaces the Google search in Safari. Wow. Real-time search results. A gorgeous UI. Also you can configure it to search other sites using different keyboard shortcuts. This is what I've been looking for. There's also an online version.

If this is what "Web 2.0" is about, then sign me up!

Tue, 04 Oct 2005

NetNewsWire Ch-Ch-Changes

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It's official: NetNewswire has been acquired. Congratulations to Brent and Sheila.

As one who has been down a similar path with a mixed experience, I mostly have a good feeling about this; I am fairly optimistic that this will be a win-win-win situation for NewsGator, Ranchero, and NetNewsWire users.

Specific list of supplies needed for Katrina Relief

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This page has a great list of specific items still needed for the S.O.S. Colaition (Saving Our Selves After Katrina), and the address to send them to.

(I'm filing this under 'Politics' instead of 'General' because of the picture of the guy poking his head up on the website here who is running the operation. He seems to make some people very angry. All the work he is doing is still going to make people angry, I'm sure, but I don't know why.)