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The wrong way to dispose of a tree?
The other day when I was running, I saw someone driving along with a Christmas tree dragging behind him. Instead of putting the tree on the roof of the Ford Explorer to take to the recycle site, the driver tied a rope to the trailer hitch and the other end to the trunk of the tree. This was absolutely one of the times that I would like to have used my iPhone for running instead of my Garmin Forerunner 405 so that I could have taken a picture of this. However, a picture didn't tell the whole picture as the smell of burning wood (it wasn't on fire) added to the humor of the situation.
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Piracy in the Mac App Store
A number of web sites are reporting that apps in the Mac App Store can be pirated. While this seems to be news, it really isn't in my opinion. As long as I can remember, software has been pirated no matter what developers have done to protect the software. Many applications use a simple user name and registration code for registering; some send a request to a web server to verify the request. In all cases, the software can be cracked by people that are unscrupulous and aren't buying the software. Isn't there other news to report on besides something that really doesn't affect the average user that isn't going to user pirated software?
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Useless Time Capsule Feature
I finally got around to backing up my Time Capsule last weekend as I needed an offsite backup for it. While I have an offsite backup for my MacBook Pro, I didn't have an offsite backup for my Time Capsule which has my wife's backup on it as well as my own Time Machine backup. The AirPort utility has an option to archive the Time Capsule to a USB hard drive. There are 2 problems with this option; 1) it is all or nothing with no incremental option and 2) using it takes the Time Capsule off the network for the entire backup. When I did the backup (before I discovered #2), it took about 6 hours to backup.
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Why oh why? or What was I thinking?
I was profiling some code today and saw a blip when a startup window closes. For some reason that I have yet to explain, I struggled with the code. What I ended up putting in was something like this: