It’s all in the scene
Seagull Originally uploaded by Click Clack MA This amateur photographer does great work with his Nikon D40. Looking over his shots you can tell that he definitely has a knack for taking great shots.
Weird EXC_BAD_ACCESS error with NSPopAutoreleasePool
Recently I worked on a project that had a NIB and XIB in it and for some strange reason I was getting a EXC_BAD_ACCESS error message in GDB with NSPopAutoReleasepool being the culprit. The best part about the problem was that the only indicator I had for the call stack was was four question marks … Read more
Night time in SF
DSC_0071 Originally uploaded by Avid Image Going over some images I found this one that I took while I was out in San Francisco last year for the WWDC. This is a good shot taken with a Nikon D60.
Envy no more
I’m currently working on a website and like any website, it needs graphics. I was checking out some websites that have awesome icons, like CruxTech and Panic and I envy the cool tools that exist for Windows for making icons. One of those programs is Axialis IconWorkshop. This Windows only application looks really cool and appears to … Read more
The world is full of stinky software
I think it was a sign. I should have know that this was how my day was going to begin. I started up my Xbox 360 and I got the red rings of death. This is not the first time this has happened to me, but I’m especially pissed since this was Microsoft’s idea of … Read more
Decrypting email using GPG and AppleScript
In a previous posting, I had listing all of the applications you would need to decrypt and encrypt email messages in Apple Mail. However, I did find that after moving up to Mac OS X 10.5.6, I was unable to decrypt messages delivered from certain mail servers. I could decrypt the messages by hand, but … Read more
Using Encryption with Apple Mail
I’ll get straight to the point. This is how you do this for Mac OS X 10.5.6: 1. Download the GNU Privacy Guard installer and the GPG Keychain Access installer: Mac GNU Privacy Guard 2. Install GNU Privacy Guard and the GPG Keychain Access applications 3. Get the latest Sen:te GPG Mail plugin: GPGMail for Apple Mail 4. Read the … Read more
“I don’t like SPAM”
I like those emails that come to your inbox promising X, Y or Z. There are a lot of talented people who waste their time writing scripts that go out to the net and scrape webpages for email addresses. If you’re that good at doing something, use it for good, not for EVIL! So.. how … Read more
FreeBSD and TimeMachine
You would think that you could use your FreeBSD server as a file server to host your backups. It’s not as easy as I thought it would be for my laptop working over a wireless network. I actually use Retrospect for my backups, but I found that as my data got bigger, reliable backups were … Read more