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Saturday, July 16th, 2005 at 3:27 PM

Is anyone else having a problem with spam e-mail crashing Mail.app? For some reason, messages that have a lot of links cause Mail to lock up and eat CPU time while loading messages, or to simply not quit. After several “delete message, force quit” cycles, it goes away. It also happens when I receive en amil containing links intended to be comment spam on this site. Very odd.

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Thursday, July 14th, 2005 at 7:39 PM

I ran across this little gem on digg, and it’s one of those things ideas you think of but never act on, then kick yourself for later. Years ago, I had the idea of putting small LCD screens inside each key on a keyboard so that when you hold down a modifier key, such as control or option (alt), the entire keyboard pattern changes to show you what symbols are revealed. It’s everything the ridiculous Windows Alt-key combinations could ever hope to be, and what the Mac key combos could have been if the technology was available. Several years ago, though, I had neither the skills nor the technology to create such a keyboard, much less the inclination to patent the idea. Fast forward to today and you’ll find the Optimus keyboard — a brilliantly executed piece of engineering, combing sleek Apple-like style with low-power Organic LED screens in each key. Not only can the tiny displays change to show character mappings, they can also show color graphics such as icons or representations of actions, handy for Photoshop or other such applications. Designed by Art Lebedev (you may know them for their clever and popular bar code posters), the Optimus keyboard is not yet in production. However, I know this much: I want one. See some more photos of it on their site.

7/16/2005 10:41 PM Update: Read an interview with the creators.

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Wednesday, July 13th, 2005 at 4:16 PM

Several people have emailed me, asking how I managed to separate the comments and trackbacks following my posts. It was surprisingly easy, thanks to a different comments.php file by scriptygoddess. For the most part, it was just opening the file and pasting in that new script. I modified it slightly to work with my CSS, and added some small images as well, but now all content is separated as it should be.

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Monday, July 11th, 2005 at 10:30 PM

One of the coolest new technology sites, digg, recently launched the second revision of their site, and it looks killer. Complete with AJAX story digg-ing and a slick new interface, digg is up there with the best of them. Check out the new site, or digg my submissions.

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