Podcasty Update
I’ve updated the Podcasts page with Paul Boag’s excellent web design podcast and Frank De Graeve’s wonderful and soon-to-be-revived Neat Little Mac Apps.
New Null Blog Entry
I just posted my first contribution to the Null Hypothesis Unlikely Science blog. That’s the first thing I’ve properly written and published anywhere outside my own blog since I finished the last batch of book articles for them. I’m working on a lot of content for a new website at the moment, so I’m still writing, […]
Using OS X fonts in ImageMagick
Introduction This is a short explanation of how I got my OS X fonts working in ImageMagick. I won’t guarantee that it’s the best way — leave me a comment if you know better — but it’s what I did. This worked for me on OS X Leopard 10.5.2, with ImageMagick 6.3.3. I used MacPorts to grab one bit of […]
Google Errors
Why can’t every error message in the world have a GUID? Every single one? Seriously. How many times have you copied and pasted the text out of an error message so you could put it into Google1? How many times did you have to fiddle about with it, maybe to take your specific filename out […]