I posted about my software toolbox a while ago. Now I can see what I use and how I divide my time between applications both at home and work using Wakoopa. I can also read reviews and discover other great pieces of software that other people use.
It’s apparent that my workflow is a little disparate but things are looking up (on the Mac front at least) with Coda. One of my colleagues had been beta-testing this for a while and teasingly promising us “something fantastic” but giving nothing else away. Anyway, a few weeks ago it was released so I downloaded and installed for a play and it blew me away. It then totally nuked itself half-way through my demo period. I mean really fsked things up. I had to repair my hard drive for the first time ever (which scared me a little) and Automator won’t open anymore (although to be fair, I don’t know if this is related or not).
A new release of Coda has been made available which hopefully fixed whatever it was that caused my problem in the old version. It looks like I’ll may be using skEdit less and less.
“I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.”
- Woody Allen
Excellent sentiments Mr. Konigsberg, but while the latter is still not possible, living longer through your work is the only option. I guess having your genes passed on via your offspring is another way but I digress. In my hankering for Internet fame I have produced some pieces of code that could prove to be useful to somebody if not exactly bring the plaudits flooding in from outside the niche that is the web development community. But what to call them? A funky and self-describing name would be excellent. I got excited when I named a holding div “papoose” the other week for goodness sake!
We’re back to kids again. You don’t want to burden them with a name that they’ll be mocked because of for the rest of their lives – unlike Brad and Angelina (Shiloh Pitt? Ever hear of a Spoonerism guys?) or the parents of the unfortunate people I keep finding in my new game.
In trying to find a good name I hit my bookshelves and of course, the Internet. Classical mythology, astronomy, the anatomy of the brain, philosophy, Latin and Yiddish among others. Some ideas are just pretentious (Latin), some have worrying backgrounds (mythology) and some just sound plain stupid. I’m not sure what I’m looking for exactly but if nothing else, I picked up some good pieces of random trivia.
In light of recent postings of software lists in the comments I thought I’d better chime in with my two cents. After all, it is my blog! My favourite piece of software of late which always gets a good reaction from my less geeky friends is the marvelous MacOSaiX, which produced this topical image (click for larger version):
Eurovision.
The word itself is enough to strike terror into the heart of anyone who actually likes good music. On the other hand, it’s a great excuse for a party!
Singing along with a Timmy Mallet lookalike dressed in some kind of tinfoil drag outfit, to a tune you’ve never heard with lyrics you don’t know, subtitled in an alphabet you can’t read and in a language you don’t speak – a little booze obviously helps!
Writing this blog sometimes makes me feel a little like Neil Patrick Harris (bonus points if you get the reference). I know it has been a while since I actually posted anything but it is actually akin to watching a duck in the water. It may look like nothing is happening but there’s frantic activity below the surface.
Stay tuned.
Yesterday I completed the Edinburgh 10k in a time of 58:24. I was aiming for a sub-hour time but hadn’t trained for over a month thanks to a pain in my knee which happened on my first run without my iPod. I’m not sure if my knee always hurt and I never noticed it due to musical distraction or if it was just coincidence.
To be on the safe side I made up a quick 60 minute iTunes playlist to keep me going:
- We Will Become Silhouettes, The Postal Service
- Carolyn’s Bootie, The Presidents Of The United States Of America
- Float On, Modest Mouse
- Going Missing, Maxïmo Park
- Let Forever Be, The Chemical Brothers
- Pounding, Doves
- Never Had So Much Fun, Frenzal Rhomb
- Empire, Kasabian
- Mr. Brightside, The Killers
- Hungry, Kosheen
- Do Your Thing, Basement Jaxx
- Up The Bracket, The Libertines
- Knights Of Cydonia, Muse
- Crash, The Primitives
- God Put A Smile Upon Your Face, Coldplay
- Spitting Games, Snow Patrol
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May 7, 2007 in
Humour.
A long time favourite site of mine is yournotme.com – one of those sites I thought was fun but didn’t serve any real purpose. That was, until now.
For the uninitiated, the site searches UK data and tells you how many people share your name, or any other name you enter for that matter. My new pastime involves checking how many people have a comedy name. For instance, Isla Wight (four people), William Ding (one person), Helen Back (six) and Michael Hunt (a frankly staggering 561).
Someone I have never met or spoken to has just accepted my friend request on Facebook. The fact that it’s gorgeous uber-geek Amber MacArthur is neither here nor there. Currently she is approaching 2,000 other friends.
How is the explosion of online social networking changing our view and value of friendship? The fact that it is so easy to keep in touch with friends with the help of technology makes me think that maybe it’s taken for granted. In fact, another study published in 2006 claim that 25% of Americans feel that they have no-one to confide in and have fewer close friends than they did only a decade ago.
A 2003 MSN study revealed that an average Brit will make 396 friends in a lifetime of which we count six as close friends. We’ll stay in touch with just one in twelve of them – a little over 8%.
At the end of the 1990′s, the Institute of Social Research claimed that our desire to make new friends starts to wane from the age of 30 onwards. I wonder if that’s still the case?
