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New user? Tuesday, April 6, 2004
Tear-off menus rule
I just wanted to get this off of my chest. If I could only have one new feature in Mac OS X 10.4, I would want:
- EOF for Cocoa/ObjC (duh, okay, two features, this one goes without saying but it trumps everything by a million miles and I wouldn't want anyone thinking I don't care about it anymore, because I do!).
- Tear-off menus like in OpenStep/Rhapsody.
I really really miss tear-off menus. They are so darn handy.
There, I said it, and I feel better.
Monday, April 5, 2004
Quitting in disgust
Rafe: Quitting in disgust
You don't have to be financially secure to quit a job in disgust... I've done it twice, and I wasn't financially secure either time.
Granted, once it was because I was disgusted with my salary and I immediately moved to a higher paying job, but the other time I left myself unemployed and scrambling for work. I was in a situation where I was asked to do something I felt was unethical, and rather than harm my integrity, reputation and conscience, I quit the job. It severely screwed my family financially (we're still digging out of that mess actually), but it was the right thing to do and I don't regret it at all.
Nothing I control is worth more than my integrity and I'll sacrifice a lot to protect it.
I'm not suggesting that Rafe quit his job... heck if I quit my job every time I was "disgusted" at something going on at work I would have stopped looking for new jobs ages ago. But sometimes, the level of disgust necessitates a change regardless of the consequences.
Thursday, April 1, 2004
RE: YES!
On May 13th, 2000, I posted a message exclaiming that Cyan had learned to properly use a mouse.
Today, Xavier did it. I walked into our spare room and there was Xavier surfing some Clifford pages on pbskids.org (I have that site set up as their home page). He was "stuck" (one of his first words) and I told him to click on the red "Back" arrow. He promptly did!
He started mousing 15 days sooner than Cyan did... both on the same RevB Bondi Blue iMac. Way to go Xavier! :-)
