At 03:12p +0100 08/07/2006, has didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus: >"Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time!" Yesterday I got a MySpace friend request from the Black Knight. :-) Or is that knnnnnnnniggit? At 11:30a -0700 08/07/2006, Philip Aker didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus: >What I find interesting lately is that OSA started with something >like 37 calls on AppleEvent descriptors and XSLT started with >something like 37 function handlers on XML elements. A prime number >in case it's relevant. Funny, just a day ago I found a fantastic page which discusses that number: http://www.archimedes-lab.org/numbers/Num1_69.html >There's a lovely book at Swiss Cottage Library (off Finchley Road) >called Sacred Geometry. Can do wonders for those experiencing full- >blown psychoses. There was an exhibit of paper polygons called Sacred Geometry at the Cathedral of St John the Divine Synod House in NYC years ago; dunno if it's still there. At 09:01p +0100 08/07/2006, John Delacour didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus: >The most depressing thing for me is that not only are fewer and >fewer new applications scriptable but that the app-specific scripts >menu is now a rarity (and Apple's scripts menu is totally useless). Hasn't everyone switched to FastScripts yet? I was thinking I'd found a bug, but now I believe it was just having difficulty communicating with Safari becase Safari was fixin' to crash. LOL. >Any application that doesn't allow the user to perform everyday >tasks of any complexity with key combinations is about as good as an >app written for System 6. I personally find almost all of Apple's >own applications quite useless, insubstantial and impossibly slow Yup, same here. iPhoto? WTF? I use GKON, man. >and of them use only TextEdit, thankful that it's rather more clever >than SimpleText and notepad.exe. I only use TextEdit as a kind of scratchpad; I use Tex-Edit Plus for all my real work. Tom Bender is God. :D -boo