“Who,” I asked myself, “in their right mind would want to spend $349 for a bunch of speakers with a dock connector on top?”
Sure enough, my father was interested.
High-five
What if we lived in a 33-dimensional universe? Very interesting reading.
The romping of gumdrops
In the first and only installment in our series “Things whose name or title contain ‘crisis’ and do not totally suck” we today bring you Candy Crisis. It’s a Puyo Puyo/Dr. Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine clone, and as such highly and frighteningly addictive and fun. OS X and Windows.
(A tip of the hat goes to the venerable Justin for pointing us towards this.)
The day after
(The day after my untimely wrecking of a perfectly fine OS X setup, that is.)
Charles thoughtfully added that I could just have trashed the LoginWindow preference plist. D’oh is the correct expression to use here - I do nothing if not fool around with plists all day.
My other users on this computer apparently hit permission hell - the user and group numbers didn’t match up with the old ones after all, and I had to change the owner and group owner of some home directories.
However, this whole exercise wasn’t a complete failure after all. A problem that has persisted since nary two months after installing OS X 10.4 has been wiped off the face of the earth - the very neat System Preferences search field works again. (Before, after being wrecked, it wouldn’t even show entries matching the name of the preference pane, and I cleaned out caches, search indexes and, yes, even the preference plist, and it didn’t work, not even on a new user. Now it works. Go figure.)