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Eric Albert, who I first encountered through his frequent and helpful posts on Apple's java-dev mailing list, has a weblog now. (Sorry for not responding to your email earlier!)

It seems Flash Player has started to suck. While watching this fine Flash animation (courtesy Jim), Mozilla crashed halfway through. So I loaded it in OmniWeb, which crashed about 3/4 of the way through. Finally I opened it in QuickTime Player, which actually let me skip past the part I had already seen. Imagine that, Macromedia, not wanting to re-watch a multi-minute presentation from the beginning!

The plugin version I'm using is 5.0r58. I see Flash Player 6 is out, I guess I'll try that, but I'm not very hopeful. Programs tend not to return from a state of extreme bugginess in subsequent versions. This dictates that the Jaguar Finder will suck at least as much as the 10.1 one does, but I still hold out hope.

How to reconstitute a 'locked' NIB file so Interface Builder can open it.


Lunch today was great. My mother made an interesting interpretation of crab cakes, and my favorite use of onion-as-vegetable. I'm certainly not going to be getting food like this any more after they leave, unless I learn to cook it…

I thought I had filtered Jon Katz articles from my Slashdot viewing, but somehow this one showed up. The “l970's”, indeed. I feel compelled to recommend The Mac is not a typewriter.

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