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Paying for being stupid
The recent measles outbreak here in San Diego could easily have been prevented if the parents of the original infected child had vaccinated that child. However, the parents exercised their right to not vaccinate. Some parents believe that the mercury in vaccines leads to autism; the problem with this theory is that vaccines haven't had mercury (thimerosal) in them for years. At the same rate, autism rates have gone up, so it would lead any reasonable person to conclude that the vaccines (at least mercury in them) has nothing to do with autism.
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Planning for Aiden's first birthday
Our son, Aiden, is rapidly approaching his first birthday. We're trying to figure out what to do. Should we have a clown? How about a pony? How about one of those jumpy things? Wow, this is going to be huge. We're going to spend a lot of time and money planning a party that our son will never remember! Just kidding, we're not going overboard with his first birthday, maybe another birthday down the line, but why one that he won't appreciate? My wife has told me that some of the mothers she has run into are planning elaborate parties for their child's first birthday. What a waste.
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Can't please everyone
Today, a very irate user sent me email complaining about the merging of ReceiptWallet and DocumentWallet. He wrote a very long email messages saying he felt ripped off and there is no mention of this on our website. Well, it isn't mentioned on the website because it is in BETA and hasn't been put into general release. There is no need to mention beta versions on our website (except for a small mention on how to get the cutting edge version).
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Bit by a linker issue
Apple has some great code to handle adding and removing items as login items called LoginItemsAE which uses AppleEvents to talk to System Preferences. I've used it on a number of projects and found it to work well. That was until today. A client complained that my install code wasn't working that added it as a login item. I couldn't reproduce this on my Mac Mini (Intel) and I use the same piece of code in another app in the same bundle and it worked fine. After a bit of fighting with the system and remembering that sometimes Carbon framework needs to be linked, I linked it in and the problem went away. Why, oh why, didn't I get a linker error?