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From Daring Fireball, That Finder Thing:

In the OS X Finder, double-clicking on a folder produces completely different results depending on the visibility state of the current window’s toolbar. This is madness.

I miss the old Finder. As is the Mac-way, under pre-Mac OS X, the Finder just worked! And it worked fast, and it worked as you would expect it to work. And you could use labels, and… That’s probably one reason I spend so much time in the terminal, because the Mac OS X Finder is problematic. It’s gotten better, but I was hoping Jaguar would see massive Finder improvements instead of minor ones… I did use NeXTSTEP a bit, and I’ve got nothing against it, but right now I’m using Mac OS X, and I want to be using Mac OS X, not NeXTSTEP. Apple, fix it dammit!

Oh no! Used Mac parts reseller Shreve Systems closes. I always looked forward to seeing their poorly designed bargain basement ads in the Mac magazines… I mean, who knows when you might need to replace the power supply in your original Apple ][+ or get a logic board for a Mac Classic?

I’ve been looking at Drupal and it looks like it might work for some projects I have planned. Drupal is available under the GPL, which was one of the requirements I had. So far it’s close enough to what I need that I’m actually willing to dig in and see what it can and can’t do. Honestly Movable Type would be my first choice, but I have issues with their licensing.

jEdit 4.1pre6 now available: Yay… I’ve been using a development version of 4.1pre6 for a while, glad to see things are moving along. As usual, if you need a good text editor, and haven’t yet tried jEdit, give it a try.

I spent most of the weekend re-tiling our bathroom. (Luckily I had the help of someone who knew what they were doing.) I did not find tiling to be much fun. Every now and then people in the tech industry talk about how they think about chucking it all and going into some line of work that’s not computer related, like baking bread, or selling widgets, or what have you. Well, I’m glad I work in the tech industry, because I actually like it, and I think I’m good at it. Sure, sometimes I too think of getting out, but if I ever do, being a tile installation person will not be on my list of professions to try out…

Breathing in tile adhesive and grout powder is almost as bad as debugging Active Server Pages. I said almost.