Archive for August, 2005

Flame on!

Published August 29th, 2005 in Chillaxin. Closed

Burning Man 2005 officially started this morning at 12:01am. San Francisco was full of RVs, trucks, and trailers all weekend. And I was preparing, shopping, and packing all weekend as well. I head up to Black Rock City with Doug and Claudia on Tuesday night. (We’ll probably arrive at the city around 2am. Ugh.). If [...]

Report-A-Bug Friday! (Take 2)

Published August 27th, 2005 in Nerdering. Closed

Update: Mail was fine all weekend – with my columns always set exactly as I left them… Until this morning. I woke my machine up and the attachments column was triple-wide and the date column was half-wide. I took screenshots, so I might just submit those and see what happens.
From the look of [...]

Report-A-Bug Follow-up

Published August 24th, 2005 in Nerdering. 0 Comments

The bug I reported about mail got filed as a duplicate. (4225195 – Mail: “Not In Mailbox” rule doesn’t include hierarchical mailbox – 20-Aug-2005 09:22 AM – Serious Bug – Duplicate)
The bug I reported about InterfaceBuilder got filed as an Enhancement request (4224775 IB: Instance view truncates object names – [...]

Report-A-Bug-Friday

Published August 20th, 2005 in Nerdering. 1 Comment

Yesterday was Report-A-Bug-Friday, and I reported two bugs:
4224775 Is the same as Brent Simmons’ Interface Builder bug. When you’ve got multiple objects with similar names, it’s difficult to find out which is which since IB truncates the names. I know, I know, maybe it’s not that difficult – but it’s more than pointing your mouse [...]

Glowing San Diego

Published August 15th, 2005 in Chillaxin. 0 Comments

This weekend, Lori, Matt, and I headed down to San Diego to stay with Ian & Christina. We flew down there on Thursday afternoon and took Friday off work. Our flight was delayed out of SFO because… wait for it… the windshield de-icer was broken. Even at altitude, I don’t think there’s much ice between [...]

The FCC’s a Joke in Your Town.

Published August 10th, 2005 in Just Sayin'. 2 Comments

I got a new cell phone last week. I got the bill for that phone this week. Everything was what I expected… except for one thing. The tax. The phone plus fees and everything was $175. The sales tax? Fifty-one dollars. Yes, that’s right, apparently Cingular thinks that my local sales tax is OVER 25%.
Huh?
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Growing Plumeria in San Francisco

Published August 7th, 2005 in Green Thumb. 63 Comments

One of my favorite flowers is the plumeria. You see them all over tropical destinations like Hawaii or Tahiti. You can sometimes find them in California – usually in San Diego or other southern regions. But they’re pretty rare everywhere else. Their flowers have an amazing perfume. I just bought one yesterday. I have no idea whether it will survive in San Francisco, but I’m going to try! Click here to read more…

Kauai

Published August 4th, 2005 in Chillaxin. 0 Comments

I went with Tom on one of the SD6 trips over the Fourth of July. The trip was to the Na’Pali coast of Kauai. I’ll put some pictures up this weekend.
Update: I posted some pictures here

Not Like Mom Used to Make

Published August 4th, 2005 in Just Sayin'. 0 Comments

When I was in college, my mom used to finish every roll of film by taking pictures of the cat and the dog – and then she would send them to me. I ended up with hundreds of pictures over the years – all very boring pictures of the pets sleeping.
This site is just like [...]

Tisk Tisk, Mr. Graphic Designer

Published August 2nd, 2005 in Just Sayin'. 3 Comments

My boyfriend is a graphic designer. He’s quite good, in fact. You can see glimmers of brilliance here and here. However, even with all that beautiful style, he and I disagree about a few things in his designs – especially when it comes to new windows.
I say that websites should generally not open links in [...]