Today on Backup Brain, Dori Smith said:

Thanks for the high regards Dori. B-)

But Dori... you didn't try very hard. At the bottom of the document on kbase.info.apple.com is a form, "Email this document". I sent myself the document. Right at the top of the document is:

Link to original article: PowerBook and iBook: Resetting Power Manager

Note the URL: http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n14449 ... it redirected me to http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=14449 . Both are perfectly linkable directly. And it could have been if it was a WO URL too.

something like:

http://kbase.info.apple.com/cgi-bin/ WebObjects/kbase.woa/wa/showDocument?artnum=14449

(I just made that URL up, it doesn't work...)

The problem isn't WebObjects, it's whoever did the design of the support site. There's no reason why a WO site can't have bookmarkable links... none whatsoever. Hopefully Apple will just program their kbase app properly so it exposes a direct link to documents without the email step.

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Well it's almost that time, to shake hands and say farewell. It's been an incredible 5 days. I'll never be the same again. :-)

I'm going to write a review of the course. I'll point you to it once it's online...

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Mark Pilgrim: "Import of existing pictures is a pain; pictures can be tagged with keywords, titles, and comments, but then there are no search features to use these[...]"

Not so.

There is a toggle switch to the left of the keywords box: Assign/Search. When in Assign mode, you assign keywords to photos. When in search mode, you search for photos with those keywords. I don't think there's a way to search the comments field (yet), but it's one-dot-oh so... give it time. And it's supposed to be simple enough for grandma to use... let's not turn this into a UI mess.

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I get knocked down, but I get up again, you ain't ever gonna keep me down!

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Check this out. Techstra makes it possible to supplement the provided material with author and reader provided errata, samples, comments, and links to related internet resources.

http://www.techstra.net/books/bignerd/

This makes a book a community. Right on.

(When you go there, choose the first edition and look for page 56. That's a good sample...)

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The Thai Iced Tea I had with dinner tonight (actually, both of them ;-)) have really done a number on me. I can't get tired. :-/

Maybe I'm just excited about another day at Genentech learning Cocoa, and a little sad that tomorrow's the last day. I'm going to miss that sweet PowerMac Cube, too.

A G4 makes all the difference with OS X, let me tell you. Wow.

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