Archive for October 2004
- How to remove the American flag from your menubar (2004.10.31)
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When you select more than one input method in OS X, Canadian users will see a U.S. flag in their menubar. You can, as it turns out, change that
- Fact-check my RSS (2004.10.30)
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Fix my OPML file for me
- B-links, October 28 (2004.10.28)
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B-links, October 28
- How to attain perfect vegetarian-bachelor status (2004.10.26)
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Have nothing, nothing at all, in the fridge save for a case o’ Edensoy and two kinds of ethnic dips.
- Maple fungus (2004.10.25)
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Maple trees in Toronto are enduring a fungal outbreak (PDF) that stains their leaves black, irrespective of original colour.
- Walk right, stand left (2004.10.23)
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“When riding the escalator, please wear a skirt, carry your stuffed bust of boar in the crook of one arm, and ensure that your mirror-image clone holds his prosthesis well away from the edge.”
- Porthole wall (2004.10.20)
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Pity about the letterspaced Times. Ours doesn’t have that problem.
- Downcasting (I) (2004.10.18)
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Within hours of arrival, John and the Web Essentials posse started in with the running jokes. A later example: Cranberry juice. An early example: Taking photos of everything but people, particularly of sewer grates and access covers underfoot.
Despite the stick, it stuck, and by watching where I was going I managed to find a maintenance-hole cover with embossed Garamond type. Now, which cut, exactly?
