Link of the Day [7.08.08]

broderic on July 8, 2008

Will Shipley wrote a little library/media collection application called Delicious Library which was recently rewritten for Leopard. In this 2.0 version, he finds an awesome bug. It’s an epic tale of debugging wherein you get down into the mind of a developer. The best part is the fact that he thought it through while playing a video game. That’s always the case. For inspiration will strike in the oddest of moments.

Read the tale. Buy the software. Delicious Library 2.0 is a fine application to have on your new Mac.

http://wilshipley.com/blog/2008/07/pimp-my-code-part-15-greatest-bug-of.html

Doppelgangers

broderic on July 6, 2008

I knew it wasn’t just me who thought that there are too many dudes who can be mistaken for Zach Braff.

Nuke the fridge

broderic on June 20, 2008

Why haven’t I heard about this phrase before? It wants desperately to be the “jump the shark” for the late 00’s. Oh, well, you can’t have it all I guess.

But it does seem to sum up the problem with the movies nowadays. What to do when you’ve place your characters in an unbelievable, tenuous situation? You nuke the fridge! What absurdity! I like that, but it is the worst way to get out of a jam.

Plus, the fridge thing flying over the heads of the doomed nazis was absolutely brilliant. One step further down the bizarre that was Indy 4.

Link of the Day [6.14.08]

broderic on June 14, 2008

I’m tracking you as you surf this site. Sorry. Big brother is here.

But over the weekend statcounter went down. If you visited this site at the time, you would’ve had to have waited until the request for the statcounter badge timed out before you saw any content. Sorry again.

Those guys at statcounter also are sorry. And they’ll tell you how it happened. Blow by blow and in excruciating technical detail. Hunh? Whatever! But it’s good to know that they don’t keep you in the dark.

They’ll make amends next time.

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