Miscellaneous

It's all about the linking and sharing - anyone can publish...anything. Like this:

I know we've had IMAP discussions here before about Mail.app's less-than-stellar application of IMAP standards. Mail.app 3, shipping with OS X 10.5.0 has some nice improvements - the data detectors, etc. The are some annoyances: mail plug-ins are changed, so, developers will need to rewrite them. Here's my two big gripes, though:
1 - Mail.app has been a crash machine, dumping itself about once or twice a day.
2 - Offline changes seem to disappear once you're connected to a network again.

If you didn't catch it, while booted from the Leopard 10.5 install DVD, there's an Airport icon in the toolbar.  From there, you can enable Airport and join a network.  In the latest TidBITS, Joe Kissell asks, "Why would Apple include this seemingly useless feature, which can only tempt people to take an unnecessary action that might actually cause problems?"  I'll take issue with the "seemingly useless" connotation.

Speaking of reviews, here's an issue I'd never thought I'd weigh-in on: The Soprano's finale.  I don't watch the show, but there's been so much talk about the disappointment and rage about a disappointing ending.  I've talked a little in this blog about health, so, consider this one about mental health: relax.  It's just a television show.

A web-based project that I've been working on for some time now has (finally) gone live: WheresSpot.  This is an ambitions upgrade for us and brings so many advantages over our previous site, that I can't quite name them all.  Rather than give users individual blogs, there's one master 'Community Blog' that people can contribute to (and yes, we're pinging the major sites, so everyone gets some exposure).

I've been giving presentations on technical topics in one form or another for as long as I can remember: to co-workers at a company, to groups at companies that request me, or now, independently to groups that voluntarily show up :-).  While all of this started out with casual presentations, things have only been getting more formal.  I have two scheduled presentations that fit this category, and one that still doesn't have a date set.

Happy 2007! Although time is an abstract, and arbitrary in reality, the new year does provide a nice point for reflection and change. Time to review backup procedures? For your personal machine (think digital photos)? Time to hunker down and dig into a topic that you've always wanted to learn? It's time.

OK, perhaps love is a bit extreme.  But some of the messages that do make it past the filter do provide me with a few laughs sometimes.  I mean, who can come up with names like Herculaneum L. Pelvises?  Great stuff!!

Fellow tech, writer, blogger, human and Apple technology star Michael Bartosh passed away suddenly on the 12th of June, 2006.  Michael's passing has had, and will continue to have, an impact on the Apple community.  Many people have known Michael on one level or another, and most have been assisted by him on the technology side somewhere in their path.