Blogged on May 14, 2009 at 09:54
What’s your opinion on new families: mono-parental, homosexual, the divorced that remarry… Can they be god educators?
In the name of selfishness we make decisions that are harmful to children. Children from divorced parents divorce more frequently. Children from mono-parental homes are lonely children. As to homosexual couples, their children are like a product. Every one has a right to happiness, health, everything we desire and also to have children. That’s dehumanizing.
My thoughts exactly.
Quote taken from the excellent interview with Aldo Naouri on parenting and education, in Público (portuguese only) and translated by yours truly.
(via Paulo)
Blogged on April 22, 2009 at 20:10
To take tabs off:
defaults write com.macromates.textmate OakProjectWindowShowTabBarEnabled false
To get them back:
defaults delete com.macromates.textmate OakProjectWindowShowTabBarEnabled
Thank you, Andrew.
I was wondering exactly that since, IMO, using the project view (with ProjectPlus, obviously) view to browser files is WAY more productive (Espresso gets this right).
Hope it’s useful to anyone else, but this is mostly for future reference.
UPDATE: This hack just hides the tabs! You can still navigate between tabs with keyb shortcuts and stuff… Not exactly what I was looking for, but… :/ gah
Blogged on April 21, 2009 at 04:51
“For some people, working alone is paradise. I am not one of those people. I don’t need to be independent. I need to be part of a team. I need to be part of something bigger than myself. I need to be with people who are smarter than me.” — Mike Lee in “Good night and good luck“
Gosh, I can’t tell you how much I see myself in that quote… I’ve known this about me for a while, but the last few weeks/months have proven this so excruciatingly…
Blogged on April 19, 2009 at 20:13
This blog will undergo radical changes (very) soon… Why am I posting this now? Because I need the pressure. :)
Now, get on with your lives, go hug someone you love and… buy Tweetie for Mac! ;)
Blogged on February 24, 2009 at 14:07
UPDATE: The new 1Password beta supports Safari 4 and you don’t have to edit any files. The solution I posted still applies to those who prefer to run the last stable version.
I wasn’t going to blog about this, but someone recommended I would for public reference. :)
So you upgraded your Safari to the shiny new public beta. You’re loving/hating it, but above all you just want to get that goshdarn 1Password plugin to work. I mean, we all know our lives depend on it… ;) This solution was based on previous experiences with some Safari upgrades and then lack of support from some extensions. I usually just change the max version for that plugin and *most of the times* it works flawlessly. So here’s a temporary fix for that:
1) “Show Package Contents” on your 1P application file (mine: /Applications/1Password)
2) Browse to “Contents > Resources”
3) Open “SupportedBrowsers.plist” (Property List Editor, if you have Developer Tools installed. Otherwise, open it with your favorite text editor).
4) Under “Safari”, just throw “5600.1″ as “MaxBundleVersion” (higher # than the current build–5528.16–but it doesn’t really matter :p).
Two more important notes:
1) Make sure you quit Safari before you do this. :)
2) If on starting Safari you still don’t have the button there, try “Customize Toolbar”… Should have the button there! ;)
3) Next time 1P updates itself, if they still don’t support Safari 4, you’ll have to follow this process again. :(
Hope this helps the two of you. It helped me and one more person. That alone makes it worth it! ;)
Good luck.
UPDATE: Just noticed the same solution on the 1P forums. I’ll link to it for reference.
PS: for you visitors, I’m planning a major design overhaul within the next month. I’d love you to check back then… :) In the mean time, you can always subscribe to my mostly useless RSS feed. Thanks. :)
Blogged on February 17, 2009 at 13:16
Sometimes I check through my spam folder and find some lovely gems. This one is an -obviously- automated translation from an already bad english version (as seen below). If you can read/understand portuguese, you’ll agree this is probably one of the more hilarious “PR Statements”… EVER! :p
Caro senhor / senhora
Desejo-lhe desfrutar de um ótimo dia! Gostaria de introduzir ourselves.We da China são um dos grandes grossistas, em Zhengzhou, China.I foi referido que você vive uma grande qualidade de vida pelo seu amigo que já foi nosso customers.So nós gostaríamos de saber se você está interessado a marca de produtos eletrônicos.
Como uma sincera atacadista, sinceramente gostaríamos de introduzir e mostrar nosso produtos eletrônicos de alta qualidade e baixo preço através de nosso website: http://domain.com
Esperamos a sua rápida resposta.
Atenciosamente,
wendy Gao
yuanda Export Trade Co., Ltd
Also included was the “english” version (which even though it’s not as funny, it’s pretty standard spam fun! :p)
Dear sir/madam
Wish you enjoy a great day! I would like to introduce ourselves.We are one of China’s big wholesalers in zhengzhou, China.I was referred that you live a very quality of life by your friend who has already been our customers.So we would like to know whether you are interested to brand’s electronic products.
As a sincere wholesaler,sincerely we’d like to introduce and show our electronic products in high quality and low price through our website: http://domain.com
Hope to your early reply.
Sincerely yours,
wendy gao
yuanda Export Trade Co.,Ltd
No, seriously… HAHAHAHAHA
Blogged on February 4, 2009 at 12:21
“(…) If you are “not creative,” if you are the sort of person that gets uncomfortable being creative or has been persuaded you’re not capable, don’t worry about it. Just stretch the sweatshirt in your spare time, watch the creative things other people have done, keep up with the state of the art. Then, when you do your “not creative” thing, most people will think it’s pretty creative indeed.“ — Seth Godin
I keep reading about how ”everyone is creative“ and I tend to disagree. I seriously think that my creativity comes from just looking at possible solutions and how real creative people would deal with the same issue. But at the same time, I’m pretty ingenious and I like finding ways of solving problems that can be really… hmmm… “creative”! I don’t think that’s creativity though. As I see it, when I find a solution that can be quite “unique”, I’m only assessing the situation, analyzing the data looking for patterns and possible solutions, and making a decision not worrying if it’ll fail or not.
Well, I guess you can call that creativity… But I like to call it *intelligence*: no ”magic“ or ”illumination“… just brain power! :)
Read the whole article. It’s inspiring, short and straight to the point!
How does your creative mind work?? Do you consider yourself “creative”? :)
Blogged on December 1, 2008 at 23:18
It won’t be news to most of you by now that Six Apart has taken over Pownce. Well, not completely, because they are shutting down Pownce and incorporating their technology and developers into the current line of products (maybe a new one?) under the power name “Pownce Technology”.
What surprises me most in all of this, are the “balls” to come out and say “You know that service that these folks created and (some of) you learned to love? Ya, Pownce: we’re shutting it down because we want the technology and developers behind it!”. Seems to be like a horrible move. I never invested much of time into Pownce, since I’ve always preferred Twitter for status updates and can’t see the point in “file” sharing other than putting pictures/files somewhere and linking them on Twitter via the tons of mashups out there that accomplish this purpose, but I’m sure that if I had invested any significant amount of time into using it as a social network, the news of a shutdown would crush me. Why not put Pownce into a feature-frozen state, maybe even getting a couple developers on board at Six Apart to keep it running, and start creating some avenues between it and some new features under the Six Apart “umbrella” (Vox? Typepad?).
My gut feeling about this move is that Six Apart will continue to sink by living in an old paradigm of development. They proved this with Movable Type by being late to the open source “game” and when coming around to it, doing it wrong IMO.
My guess is Pownce users will doubtfully embrace Vox or any existing Six Apart offer which will inevitably have them migrate (back?) to Twitter and other Twitter-clones… I also doubt the offer of a “Pro” account on Typepad will satisfy Pownce Pro customers…
Is it just me? I could be wrong… :)
Blogged on November 21, 2008 at 13:21
This post is more for personal reference than anything, but I’m sure someone else will find this useful. (I read/learned it here originally)
If, like me, you’re using Apple’s Mail (love it!) and use IMAP (e.g. hosted, GMail, etc…) you might find *really* annoying those automatic “Apple Mail To Do” folders that keep getting created under your INBOX… After much research I found that there is no way of disabling the To Do system on Mail (dumb because I’ve never used it and never will — Things FTW). The best workaround involves limiting the creation of those folders to just your client, not getting written to the server. For that to happen, just go to Preferences > Composing on your Mail.app. There, on “Create Notes & To-Do’s in” choose “On My Mac”. Here’s a screenshot:
So, hope this helps someone else avoid a stupid annoyance! And hope Apple allows us to DISABLE To-Dos in Mail in Snow Leopard. ;)
EDIT: Added the link for the iPhone screenshot of all the “Apple Mail To Do” folders under the Inbox.
Blogged on November 13, 2008 at 17:37
I break my blogging hiatus to rant! Yes. Rant. And this is a rant that would not fit 140 chars so: Blogging, here am I!
I’ll start off by saying that I don’t like companies that take advantage of their market supremacy to mock or extort their users and faithful clients. Pretty straightforward, right? Now lets take a look at Adobe.
Adobe is one of those companies who take your wallet first, and then take the time to make your nerves feel like they were torn by OJ Simpson, right before he ran away on that white SUV. No, not kidding! Their Installer is nerve-wrecking! Never seen it? Good. But check Pierre Igot’s, quite detailed, rant on the it.
If I was to rant about it myself I would add the already known loveliness of their pricing scheme. Especially the upgrades which, in my opinion, only encourage piracy as one’s attempt to remain sane (and avoid debt). One thing is spending $2500 for the Master Collection (I won’t go into the International Pricing Scheme–outrageous!), another is having to spend $900 to *update it* (not just upgrade, since most bugs are only actually fixed on the next major release)!!!! Pathetic!! It makes me like I wasted $2500 in buying a dated and buggy software and now, six months later, need to pay an extra $900 just to stay up to date… No, really!
But again, the point of this post was to pass on the link to that excellent post of Pierre’s, that I got via Gruber.
Oh, and a big shout-out to everyone at #Codebits! Hope you’re all having a great time! :) I wish I could see the Live Stream, but apparently the folks at PT think that peering to the US is secondary and pretty pointless. After all, nobody lives or even hosts anything in the US, right? -.-
Oh, and #Anita to you all!! :)
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