Hex Color Picker 1.4 nets four mice in MacWorld! Awesome. Then I guess 1.5 will get five mice. (And don’t you dare remind me what 1.0 would have gotten.)
Even Odd
Weird of the week: NSXMLElement writes out numbers oddly in exponential form (35 → 3.5E1).
Related: Apple Support: ‘Open Firmware: Password Not Recognized When It Contains the Letter “U”‘. (“Solution: Don’t use a capital letter “U” when setting up an Open Firmware password.”)
More Good News
A few days ago, around 1260 days after starting to run Google ads on this site in early December 2003, I crossed $100 in earnings. This means that I will actually get money out of this in around 40 days.
Since I’ve passed this boundary and need to do no more pimping, I’m going to make the ad box much more unobtrusive shortly.
Thank you for clicking.
Good News, Everyone
The MacBook is back. The display is now not fucked up anymore – the telltale broken menu bar gradient is now smooth, and these 18-bit vs 24-bit images look different, so I have the full gamut at my disposal.
It turns out that the right fan was not broken. I was in fact informed that the MacBook does not have a right fan, which I guess explains the -1 RPM reading I got. It does however have a left fan, and my specimen in particular was clogged with dust. There were also thermal issues. The fans and cooling and a number of other parts were swapped. The yellowed topcase – what’s outside of the trackpad and keyboard, and in this case including them – was part of the last batch they ever sent with version one. I now have version two.
All repairs were free because they were within warranty. As pissed-off as I am that these things – except for dust in the fan – could at all happen in the first place, I am satisfied that they were fixed in a week, without needing to ship to the Netherlands for three weeks as all the old european Apple service horror stories go.
Or, in terms everyone can understand, the pony was delivered.