magicofpi's comments

I'm actually working on this, after being inspired by Brett Simmons' article: http://inessential.com/2011/03/16/a_plea_for_baked_weblogs.

My app is pretty similar to what you're describing - you can compose posts online (or in plain text files), and when you're done, it generates a baked (static) version. It's written in PHP, just so you can easily use it on most servers. It's actually pretty close to being done - I can let you know when it's ready.

That's strange. It looks fine on FF4 using Snow Leopard.

http://d.pr/LXvR

I think the point is that, with Scheme, the tool you use is less important than the thinking you do. With Java, you have to worry about your environment before you can worry about programming.

It's nice that they're so good-natured about it. That gallery of photos, and the commentary, is hilarious.

And how did the Transmit icon get on a German... adult store?

Yes, exactly. Perhaps the 4 weeks approach is to link it with the existing home delivery system (which is also calculated by week), but it sounds strange in practice.

I guess we'll see how it turns out, though. Maybe most customers won't actually mind these irregularities.

Well, the iPad's pricing is relatively simple to figure out: $499, plus $100 for every storage increase after that. If you want 3G, that's $130 extra.

The New York Times, on the other hand, seems less logical. The website+smartphone app is $15/4 weeks, the website+tablet app is $20, all three is $35, so the website is worth... nothing? Or, you could go with the home delivery option, which would cost you $455 (all digital access) -$304.20 (daily delivery in NY) = $150.80 less per year, even though they have to print all that paper.

Yeah, I think a good number of people don't understand how tsunamis work, even here in Hawaii. During an emergency, radio and TV broadcasters here try to explain that tsunamis are more like solid walls of water - i.e. the entire ocean lifting up six feet, but of course, people don't listen. That makes it very dangerous when there's a tsunami warning (like last Thursday), because people think, oh, it's just like surfing! six feet is not even that much!, which means that some people don't evacuate. Plus there are always some geniuses that insist on sitting next to the shoreline, and the police have to shoo them away.

Update 3: About three hours later, there's still no all clear. Oahu and Kauai are a lot better off than Maui and the Big Island, where there have been reports of flooding and damage. They're still gathering information, though, because it's still dark here, but there may have been waves of up to 9 feet.

Update: Tsunami waves have begun to hit the islands, but it's relatively small for now.

Update 2: About an hour later, still very moderate waves, although the water has been receding so far that you can see the reefs. No damage reported. Pacific Tsunami Warning Center doesn't expect this to be a major event, although there's still a few hours left in the danger zone.

I'm in Hawaii right now (out of the evacuation zone). They expect the tsunami to hit in about 45 minutes. The tsunami sirens have been going off about every hour, the evacuation zones have been blocked off, and even the police are starting to move to higher ground. Honolulu Harbor is pretty much empty, and it seems like all flights in and out of the airport have been cancelled.

Also, Waikiki Beach is deserted, the hospitals are being inundated with people seeking shelter, and we're all basically holding our breath. The scary thing is that many people don't realize that a tsunami wave is not like a surfing wave; it's basically a solid wall of water, and we're expecting 6-7 feet at the moment.

If you want to follow what's going on, check out #hitsunami on twitter; it's being updated very frequently. Also, there's a live webcam of Waikiki Beach at http://hitsunami.info.

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Apple is also apparently sharing an developer version of Lion with security researchers[1], so hopefully it'll be more secure by next year.

[1] http://venturebeat.com/2011/02/26/apple-wises-up-by-sharing-...

To be fair, that's not really the whole interface, just a section of a sheet showing diffs. Here's what the whole window looks like: http://devimages.apple.com/technologies/tools/images/new_sin...

Location based services, I'd guess?

It looks really nice from the screenshots, but I can't get it to run on my iPad (running 4.2.1), even after restarting. Scrolling/tapping on any table rows will cause it to crash.

Here's another possibility: Sketch [1] (by the makers of Fontcase), which seems simple enough also. Incidentally, they also have an iPad app, called SketchPad [2].

For open source, there's an app I've tried a few times called Drawberry [3], which looks something like Pixelmator, but is for vector drawing.

[1] http://www.bohemiancoding.com/sketch/overview/ [2] http://www.bohemiancoding.com/sketchpad [3] http://raphaelbost.free.fr/DrawBerry.html

I think it makes more sense for "log in" - there's even a site explaining why: http://loginisnotaverb.com/

Basically, only "log in" makes sense as a verb (because could you say you "logined"?). Although as a noun, it's okay.