photo by the awesome rob marini, at samovar for brunch this past weekend.

(oh why yes kevin is wearing the Science xkcd shirt! :P )

sorry i've abandoned you all for twitter. i still am primarily using twitter, but i just realized i never posted about anything that happened in the past two months here.

i met a guy. during wwdc. his name is kevin ballard. that's all.

:)

this whole day has been:
a certain group of people on twitter i follow arguing about religion,
an entertaining seder involving discussion about the omnipotence of a god,
more religion on a mailing list i'm on.

I'm glad it stopped, cause literally, the whole day has been like that. Entertaining, sure, but it gets sort of old after the first few hours.

Also, why am I blogging again? xD

can't spoil it, but here's the ending of the latest comic, which is an interesting problem to spend 10 minutes on.


Check it out on http://abstrusegoose.com/126 :p

I have friends with the most adorable children. Some of those friends can go overboard with wanting babies, but I don't think any of them come even close to the craziness of the mother who gave birth to octuplets recently.

She had SIX MORE KIDS AT HOME.

I feel sorry for the older kids. And who wants to bet she doesn't stop at 14? And who wants to bet she won't stop with fertility treatments and refusing selective reduction because she doesn't want to play god despite already having done so. I'm all for choice but maaaaan, is she really realizing what she is doing here with limited resources and what she is doing to her older kids? If so then good luck to her...

The best part of the story is how the husband will be going back to Iraq to support the family.


Yeeeeeaaaaaahhhhh.

Check this out. If you don't see something incredibly hilarious about either one or both of these images, something's wrong with you. :p

(context: rooms is a colloquy competitor.)

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colloquy reviews	individual reviewer's page

And to be completely truthful, the one on the left is a lot more hilarious if you're looking at the complete set of reviews on the app store: almost a couple dozen 4-5 star reviews, and this one 1 star one in the middle of it all. All I can say is..whoever wrote that review, thanks for your $1.99/1.59€ (minus 30 percent)!

(also, dho <3 if you're reading this, since I just spotted your review in that screenshot! ha!)

Colloquy is now on the app store. It is only $1.99. Please go check it out! :)

http://mobile.colloquy.info

On the other hand, if I hear one more person complaining about an open source project charging money for software, or that Colloquy should be free because it used to be free a year ago, or anything along those lines, I will...do something really unpleasant to you. What the hell is up with the assumption that open source means free. Open source means open source, and colloquy mobile source is in svn for anyone who cares to look at it and get it on their phones (with $99 to apple, or jailbreak).


On the other hand, I am open to suggestions that aren't "stop charging because IRC clients should be free" or something as equally outrageous.

What to do when you see an 0xE80000xx error:

Step 1: Try to throw the iPhone out the window.

Step 2: Restart Xcode and restart the phone if you failed to successfully complete step 1.

Step 3: Cross your fingers and try again.

Step 4: Goto Step 1

Step 5(?): Maybe you might have to reinstall iPhone OS or reboot your mac or do something even sillier. Ten times over.


Then eventually make a "I hate 0xE8000001" tshirt and make a fortune selling that and other similar meme tshirts at WWDC 2009 (i.e. "FUCKING NDA", "[REDACTED]" and more).


By the way, to fix the 0xE8000058 error, just remove the reference to the iTunesArtwork file.

http://my.opera.com/haavard/blog/2008/12/02/google-closes-the-web-in-korea

Not opera's opinion, but one of an opera employee nevertheless. This kind of retarded* attitude is why Opera will never stop being a niche desktop browser. I honestly think the Safari/Webkit guys are doing a better job bringing real open web standards to more people. And of course, Firefox, but not so much as of late. Still better than MSIE...


* I feel I have to qualify my use of "retarded" in that statement. Anyone who knows anything about how Korean websites work and what Korean people expect when they visit a website will know this guy is laughably stupid. Honorable intentions, but laughably stupid. Especially when it has to do with Google, a corporation.