T‑shirt ideas
Recently my brain has been coming up with random ideas for geeky t‑shirts. Having five minutes to spare with the excellent Freeverse Lineform to hand, I mocked them up. Render Encoding Comic All t‑shirt ideas copyright © Matt Gibson 2009 Base t‑shirt image courtesy banj0e/stock.xchng
Why Adobe AIR Apps Suck, Just Like Java Apps
Okay, don’t get me wrong. I use Adobe AIR applications, notably the almost-excellent TweetDeck (more of the “almost” in a second.) I also use Java applications. But I only use them when there’s no native alternative that does what I want. The reason is mostly in the user interface. The minor irritations that come with non-native […]
Finder Image Previews Randomly Not Working
Just a quick note: if you’ve got problems in OS X with your Finder previews not showing up, apparently fairly randomly, I may have the answer. This was my problem: some of my JPEG (and other) previews would be fine, some would be just showing the default “it’s a JPEG” icon. Quick Look actually worked […]
WordPress 2.7 and Safari and the Infinite Login Loop
Ow. I just spent about an hour bashing my head against a brick wall. I’m trying out the WordPress 2.7 Release Candidate 1 at the moment, on a little local testbed. Which turned out to be my problem. I installed WordPress fine, on a domain I’d called “gothick_wp.test”, just set up locally on Apache. But […]