Carpe Diem
This wasn't exactly the post I had planned for the 13 loyal readers when I started kicking the tires of this site again. That'll come, but I saw this morning that Rentzsch has announced this year's C4 on his site, along with the list of presenters. I pretty much see...
published on Tuesday, the 15. May 2007
Small amusements
One of the great things about playing with pre-release software is you come across these little things that make you giggle and you know will make others you know giggle if they could see it with the proper context, and of course one of the annoying things is you're...
published on Wednesday, the 3. May 2006
Everything is under control
Around a week ago the following at the Internet Storm Center popped up in my feeds... Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Apple Mac OS X and applications. Proof of Concept code has already been posted along with the information regarding the vulnerabilities. At this time no patches or...
published on Monday, the 1. May 2006
My Jesus has street cred (aka, Do not read this post in Safari. Again.)
I was really surprised to see the following bit of Javascript show up in the comments of a previous post, and waited awhile to see if it'd get picked up by anyone, but it didn't, so here we are. While I knew Apple knew about it internally for quite awhile,...
published on Wednesday, the 12. April 2006
One born every minute
Subject: Wincent is mad at you He's mad about the "Deja doom" image on your site: URL to posting Did you send those e-mails to him? I'm inclined to believe that it was some jerk pulling a prank in reaction to Wincent's original post. I hope so anyway. You sending...
published on Thursday, the 6. April 2006
Strange days at AOL LLC
On Monday, we will announce to all employees the official name change of the company from America Online, Inc. to AOL LLC. AOL is changing its name from "America Online, Inc." to "AOL LLC" as the final step of its brand transformation that launched in 2005. In addition, AOL is...
published on Sunday, the 2. April 2006
Deja-Doom (aka, Do not read this post with Safari)
Chances are if you're loading this page in Safari (tested on multiple variants of 10.4 up to 10.4.5, on PPC and Intel boxen) you aren't reading this unless it's been fixed in a security update, as the image below crashes anything webkit-based in a very hardcore way. Actually, it crashes...
published on Tuesday, the 28. March 2006
Rumors of my demise
I'm used to friends sending me adorableness of those who'll forget I existed if I don't find a way to see them soon, but less used to random people tracking me down. It's oddly cool, if a little overwhelming sometimes as it scales up in number. Appreciated, just been...
published on Monday, the 27. February 2006
Quicksilver's gone!
1... From: Pepe Barbe Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 21:53:51 -0600 Subject: Quicksilver/Blacktree website is down Hey DB, Recently I noticed that the Quicksilver/Blacktree sites are down. I've been looking around for some info about this, and since you are the only Macelebrity ;-) that is reachable (sort of) I...
published on Thursday, the 2. February 2006
Some days I wish I had a link blog
Some days I sorta wish I had a link blog, because I go through a ton of things every day I'd like to point others towards, but don't have a few paragraphs worth to say about them......
published on Tuesday, the 31. January 2006