apple

Yes, I carved an Apple logo into a pumpkin. I am that big of a nerd.

Well, I’ve been playing with MacOSX Leopard for just about 48 hours now, and I have to say that the experience has been nothing but excellent. While I won’t say it is as jam-packed with mind-blowing features as they’d like you to think, I will agree that it is defininately a worthwhile upgrade and the best operating system I’ve had the pleasure of using. And that’s saying a lot from a guy who still obsesses over BeOS.

Overall, I’m very happy with the upgrade. More details after the jump.

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Woz

Steve Wozniak came by Amazon last week to promote his new autobiography and sign some books. I had him sign a book of my own.

Update: My script no longer works with newer versions of Adium, but brnrdbrk was kind enough to update it for 1.3.

So I finally figured out how to write AppleScripts that hook directly into Quicksilver’s “text clipping” interface. For the longest time I’ve wanted to be able to set away messages from Quicksilver… and now I can:

using terms from application "Quicksilver"
    on process text ThisClipping

    tell application "Adium"
        set my status message to ThisClipping
        set my status type to away
    end tell

end process text

end using terms from It may not look like much, but I’m a happy boy. Put that into an AppleScript using Script Editor and save it to ~/Library/Application Support/Quicksilver/Actions. Restart Quicksilver, and you’ll be able to set any text you type in Quicksilver after the “.” command as your Adium away message.

The on process text terms has lots of other uses too. I’m sure I’ll come up with more.

Apple Dashboard Ski Reports

I upgraded to OSX 10.4.4 on my Powerbook today and discovered a great new Dashboard widget… ski reports!

Unfortunately it has some sort of bug that prevents you from having more than one instance up with different reports showing. So you can only watch the reports for one mountain at a time.

Oh, and I really reall really want one of the fancy new Apple MacBook Pro. If nothing else for the awesome new magnetic power connector…