Monthly Archives: November 2004

ChangeThis :: Legalize Neighborhoods Again!

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ChangeThis :: Legalize Neighborhoods Again!

David Greusel | Sometime in the mid-20th century, America forgot how to make cities. The combination of “traffic planning” and single-use zoning that swept the country after WWII erased urban districts and took away from many people the opportunity to work, play or shop where they live. This is not a new idea. It’s called a neighborhood, and it’s illegal in most U.S. cities.

and then continues inside with :

Have you ever wanted to walk out into the middle of a six-lane, medianized, signalized, double left-turn arterial street, wave your arms in the air and say, “Hey! We’re doing this all wrong! This is not how you make a city!” Well, of course you haven’t, because you’d get run over.

Doesn’t this just capture my feelings on urban vs. suburban living? In fact, suburban living is very aptly named in my opinion, summing up not only locale, but quality of experience as well.

CSS, Accesibility and Standards Links

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Wow! I’m a real fan of standards compliance, so when I stumbled across this page, I just about fell off my chair. It’s clean, it’s exciting, it validates and it’s full of useful resources. My new #1 source for information on CSS, Accesibility and Standards Links

( Of course I’m sure you’ve all seen CSS Zen Garden by now. If not — it is also a truly outstanding source of inspiration for CSS use. )

Apple Wake From Sleep Coma

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I’ve had problems over and over again when I wake my PowerBook from sleep when on the road. Occasionally it shows the spinning pizza cursor but never the login / password window and I have to restart the machine. If I’m lucky, I can ssh to the box and kill my processes, but that only works if I went to sleep in a mode that does DHCP on the built-in ethernet interface.

Apple has released an update today that addresses this problem (so they claim):

  • Resolves an issue in which the display could sometimes remain dark when waking from display sleep (the mouse pointer might appear, but normal function could not be restored) if using Screen Saver password on a portable computer.

If this truly fixes the problem — it will be a happy day indeed. This has been one of my biggest beefs with the otherwise fantastic little (Rev A) machine.

Update 2005.09.29: Someone else has potentially figured this problem out. It might lie with the lookupd process. unlockupd is a program (and daemon) that hangs out looking for a lookupd lockup and restarts it. Link.

Revised North American Map

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More than a few people have pointed me at this lovely revised map of North America. North American Post 2004 Election Map

Kudos to Herb for being first to point this out to me.

Perhaps it’s time to hole up somewhere and hibernate for the next four years while things shake out to the ‘South’. There certainly is Fear , Uncertainty, and Doubt; but I think it is now concentrated in the pink zone. No small co-incidence that the zone is pink, I’m sure.

Switch

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Here’s my somewhat tattered list of tips for people switching from Windows or Linux to the Mac platform. I might migrate it all to blog format too, but for now, here’s the switch page.

2004.11.04 If you select the ‘switch’ category on the Category cloud you’ll get all the Switch Tips now

2008.04.07 : Lots of people are still looking for these, so I’m going to leave it up here for a few days. I might even update some of the tips and add some more Leopard-specific ones.