Calligraphy Animals
May 29, 2014I enjoyed Andrew Fox's calligraphy animals, (via Colossal). Extremely simple, yet evocative and pretty. Impressive work.
Renaming Looney Tunes
May 28, 2014Say you happened to have a whole bunch of classic Looney Tunes episodes, say about 175 of them, but they don't conform to the naming standards that Plex uses to organize them and download metadata.
You'd like to get these files into Plex. The simplest...
Moo v2.0
May 23, 2014I've finally managed to release v2.0 of Moo, an open source project that I use with some of my client projects. I've written it up in more detail on the Codiform blog.
OmniFocus 2
May 22, 2014
MacBook Pro Power Button
May 12, 2014
My
last MacBook Pro MacBookPro5,1 had an eject button on the keyboard
and a power button off the keyboard, to the right and closer to the screen. My
current Retina MacBook Pro MacBookPro10,1 has no eject button
(because it doesn't have an optical drive) and has a power button in its place,
on the keyboard.
When I first got this computer, the power button would simply bring up a dialog asking me if I wanted to shut down the computer. This was almost never what I wanted, it was likely an attempt to press the delete key that missed its mark. I found it mildly annoying.
After installing Mavericks, this behaviour changed: the power button would now sleep the computer. I was torn.
PS4 Data Uncorrupted
May 6, 2014
"O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!" he chortled in his joy.
Remember that Marvel Lego saved game that the PS4 was showing as 'Corrupted Data'? The one my son had sunk hours and hours into? The one I wrote about last week?
PS4 Corrupted Data
April 29, 2014Last night, after my son had finished all the other things he had to do, we went downstairs to play some more Lego Marvel on the PS4, to build up some more gold bricks and studs, buy more characters, and, frankly, just to spend some time doing what my son loves (video games).
After we'd been playing for twenty minutes, the game crashed. The PS4 and its early titles are pretty crashy for me, so this wasn't a total surprise. It doesn't happen during every gaming session, but it's not so infrequent that either one of us was really put off.
However, when we loaded Lego Marvel again, we discovered that the loading screen, instead of showing a 55%-ish complete saved game, now showed 'Corrupted Data'.
Unannounced Apple Product Ahead of Schedule
April 25, 2014Mysterious sources within the Apple supply chain indicate that an unnanounced Apple product is significantly ahead of schedule and will be released to the public significantly earlier than they were originally planning.
This aggressive move is likely...
The Negroni
April 16, 2014
Yesterday, I bought some Campari (Wikipedia, Campari Group) so I could try a couple of Campari-related cocktails, with the Negroni at the top of the list.
Although a classic Negroni is equal parts gin, campari and sweet vermouth, Speakeasy Cocktails recommended 2oz gin to 0.75oz each of campari and sweet vermouth. I tried that.
Cocktails
April 15, 2014On my last birthday, my wife got me a nice bar cart from West Elm, and we had some cocktails at my birthday party.
While I've had my share of Gin and Tonics, Rum and Cokes and the occasional classic cocktail (Old Fashioned, Martini), I have never really explored the world of cocktails with any dedication.