Interlude of peace and love 13 Feb 2008 Have you ever noticed that there are occasionally periods in which things just work, particularly with computers? I find that there is a confluence of coherence about every four years. I’m not sure if it’s just because the vendors – the Evil Apple Empire, or Micro$oft, whoever – recognises that if they don’t actually dangle a carrot of functionality from time to time we’ll all give up and start knitting or making model planes or killing software vendors or something, or if it’s an outcome of cycles of dysfunctionality that cancel each other out like standing waves, but I’m in one now. Sure, I had to download 341Mb of the latest update to OS X 10.5.2 to get it, but saints be praised, the Mac, the interwub, and even the connection to Micro$oft’s evil Exchange server (now there’s an oxymoronic name for that piece of… enterprise software) are all working. It helps, of course, that I’m hardly using M$ products, but that’s a given. I wonder how long it will last this time. PS: Even Time Machine is now working… Administrative Humor
Evolution A prehumous Darwin Award for Michelle Bachmann 2 May 2009 One of the things I don’t like about the Darwin Awards is that it presumes the only way to gain one is to remove yourself from the gene pool directly by dying. But that would be a Wallace Award. Darwin knew, as do we, that there are many ways one… Read More
Administrative Interesting past few days 9 Feb 20094 Oct 2017 Well, on Thursday night I was incredulous at a lecture by Steve Jones. On Friday night I met the fascinating Richard Grant from Our Competitor Blog Network, Nature Network. On Saturday I had a lovely lunch with my new colleagues at Sydney, and then proceeded to nearly drown while skin… Read More
Evolution Stein is right: Darwinism causes antisemitism 1 Apr 20084 Oct 2017 I have yet to see the film Expelled, because it hasn’t come to Australia yet, but I have become absolutely convinced that Ben Stein is correct. Darwinism causes antisemitism. I have therefore conveniently listed all the cases known of this below the fold. I’ll stick with those in which Jews… Read More
Well, now that you’ve mentioned it here … will Murphy’s law come into play? Will your electronic Utopia stick around once you have mentioned its existence to the outside world?
Well, now that you’ve mentioned it here … will Murphy’s law come into play? Will your electronic Utopia stick around once you have mentioned its existence to the outside world?
Well, now that you’ve mentioned it here … will Murphy’s law come into play? Will your electronic Utopia stick around once you have mentioned its existence to the outside world?
I remember spending an hour in an Apple store looking at OS 10.5. The only feature that I found which I really wanted was tabs in the terminal program, and even those couldn’t be switched with a hotkey. I’m thinking I might wait until OS 10.6…
I’m not feeling the love. Because my beloved laptop would only post occasionally, I sent it to the manufacturer for repair. Got it back from the manufacturer today. Now I don’t even get a battery charging indicator. Took a look under the keyboard and there are ground wires hanging loose. Metal tabs above the screws meant to retain them. All sorts of nonsense. The bright spot is that I sent it without my hard drive.
Completely OT – John or anyone else: when did ‘kind-based’ creationism (you know, God created various kinds, which all fit nicely into the ark, and when released onto a post-Flood world rapidly microevolved into the various, say, cat species, etc.) first show up?
Completely OT – John or anyone else: when did ‘kind-based’ creationism (you know, God created various kinds, which all fit nicely into the ark, and when released onto a post-Flood world rapidly microevolved into the various, say, cat species, etc.) first show up?
Mr Wilkins you give me courage to finally install my copy of 10.5 that has been sitting on my desk for two months because I’m scared of the melt down!