UI has gone to the birds

A new app called Pixelmator has gone into private beta according to TUAW and while it looks like it could be a replacement for Photoshop Elements, the screenshots in their gallery make it look like the developers went overboard with the semi transparent look. I have no idea how the app will actually work, but when everything is semi transparent, it looks like it could be a mess. In this screenshot, this is a sheet upon on a window. It's a bit difficult to see where the sheet ends and the window begins. I've seen this trend in other apps such as Disco and just don't understand. While I'm not an old geezer, I can't imagine how people who are my father's age can use this as some people already have problems seeing the display.

Please developers, if you want to have this look, make it an option to turn it off.

Enforcing the law

The San Diego city council keeps making up little laws, such as no smoking on the beach, no smoking here are there, etc. While I wholeheartedly support these laws, not only are they hard to enforce, the police are stretched so thin that they can't enforce the current laws. On Sunday, my family and I went to hear a concert in La Jolla and saw several dozen dogs there. There are signs clearly posted that don't allow dogs from 9 am to 6 pm in the summer. There were lots of people, but I didn't see one police officer enforcing the law. This drives me crazy because we follow the law and didn't bring our dog; I love dogs and would love to bring my dog everywhere, but years ago, we got warned about having our dog at Mission Bay, so we've been very aware of when and where we can bring our dog.

C'est la vie!

Getting Mail.app to work the way I want

I use multiple email addresses for various reasons, but have all the mail come into one account. Mail.app handles this fine, but there is no way to link the signatures to the accounts. I seem to recall that there was a plugin to handle this awhile ago, but with Tiger mail, it wasn't needed. My switch to IMAP seems to have confused Mail and now I have to manually switch the signatures to match the account.

Not being one to do manual things over and over again, I hacked up a Mail.app plugin that sets the signature based on the from name (the signatures are named the same as the from addresses). It didn't take long and I'm not sure what I should do with this besides use it myself. Who knows what will happen in Leopard as this plugin uses undocumented APIs.

Am I such the exception that I have many email addresses and want 1 signature per address? I don't need multiple actual email accounts (Mail.app handles the signatures with those), just multiple addresses for my multiple personalities.

Target was issued a violation!

I just got a call from the San Diego County Agriculture/Weights & Measures department about my complaint of Target overcharging me. They inspected the items I indicated I was overcharged for and also found that they were overcharged. In addition, they performed a routine inspection of 50 items and were overcharged on 9 of them. If that wasn't enough, they got cited for not having the required notices about being overcharged.

I've never seen a public agency act so quickly on a complaint. While my overcharges were pennies, the inspector said that he was overcharged $5 on an item.

Scott's message to all...carefully check your receipts and be aware of the shelf prices.