下手の横好き世界２

A while back I posted a meme asking for topics to blog about. Here are the promised words:

I had an item in my OmniFocus VOX project for a while: "Commend My Book". I'm kind of glad that I never got around to it. This Western Digital external USB/FireWire hard drive has a pretty pleasing and Applelike enclosure. But this week, after a year and a half, it abruptly stopped working and I had to tear it apart. I found out that the insides are also Applelike, in that there's a whole lot of creative engineering going on in there, and trying to disassemble the dang thing to get something out is a real ordeal. I can't thank strangers on the internet enough for all the information they offer; this guy and this guy had exactly what I needed to get the drive out so that I could put it in another enclosure and get my data back.

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I think I'd like to keep making Muxtapes every now and then. Here's my first one, which I made on a challenge from Jules. I have another one ready to upload but I'll wait a couple of days.

Hey, it just occurred to me that Vox does the right thing when it comes to pronouns in user interfaces! Instead of muddling about and mixing up the way it refers to the user (like Windows' "My Documents" versus "Which type of installation do you want"), you are always you. These days even Apple gets this wrong sometimes.

At long last, I have posted my first column to Heisei Democracy. Be warned that while the column itself is pretty innocent, the site is pretty far on the other side of safe-for-workness. :D

Use your Unicode, people!

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My little OmniFocus random action widget told me to post about this, so I am.