Jim Roepcke's weblog have browser, will travel (est. 1999)

Toronto, home of 2 million times 3

Yahoo! News - Canada Blames Power Outage on Lightning

New York city is one of the largest cities in the world with over 2.5 million residents. NYC has over 3 million residents. NYC has over 4 million residents. All those statements are true, I suppose, but so is saying New York City has more than 1 resident.

Toronto's population was 4.6 million in 1997, and is somewhere around 6 million today. The Associated Press needs a new atlas.

Quicken 2003 QFX Import Web Connect fix

Based on a sample from MacCentral's AppleScript primer, I wrote (in about 1 minute) an AppleScript Droplet Application that makes Quicken QFX files selectable from the Import Web Connect feature in Quicken 2003 for Mac.

You can download this script. Double click the file to decompress the StuffIt file. The application will appear. Put it in your Applications folder or whereever else you want. You might want to put it in your Dock too.

After downloading a .qfx file using your web browser, drag the file and drop it onto the droplet icon. The script does its thing and quits without displaying any windows, you should notice the file's icon change to a Quicken file icon. Now you can import the file using the Import Web Connect command in the Quicken's File menu.

Quicken 2003 Mac

A computer is only as good as its software, which is why I like Macs. Of course, my wife won't let me near our books so I haven't used Quicken in about 10 years.

Dad downloaded a QFX file from his bank but Quicken refused to load it, it showed the file as being disabled in the Open dialog box.

Why is that? Here's why:

Quicken Support: Configuring Quicken for use with Web Connect

Quicken refuses to open a file unless it has the 'WBCN' type code attached to the file. And of course, no web server is going to send that information with the file, meaning that you would have to configure your browser to explicitly set that. And only Internet Explorer has the dialog box that lets you configure those kinds of settings (but I have a feeling they're system-wide), but dad's using Safari.

I copied the "SetFile" program that comes with the developer tools (it should come standard on all macs) so I could "SetFile -t WBCN pcf.qfx".

Hopefully Quicken 2004, which is shipping tomorrow, will not have that stupid problem.

Why do classic mac bigots love TYPE codes so much? Creator codes are mildly interesting, but TYPE is totally redundant when pretty much every file has an extension on it. Avie's TechNote was right, classic mac bigots are wrong.

Plone 1.0.4 released

A new version of the Plone Content Management System was just released. Hurrah!

Unfortunately, because of a bug in the previous version of Zope which shipped with older versions of Plone on Mac OS X, upgrading to the current version from 1.0.x is more of a hassle than it should be for Mac users. Thankfully, it's not a dead end.