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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
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>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
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>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
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