bodhi tree swaying

I read Zits every morning. Today’s was particularly funny, I thought.

• Liked this quote: "You cannot live an authentic life without mastering the art of disappointing people."  Cheryl Richardson
• And this one: "Thinking without awareness is the main dilemma of human existence." Eckhart Tolle
• But this is another fake Buddha quote doing the rounds on Twitter, quotations sites, etc: ” ‘If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change’ – Buddha.” The entire tone of that statement is so far from anything I’ve read in any form of Buddhist scripture that I’m astonished anyone familiar with Buddhism would think for a moment this is genuine. And yet I see Buddhists passing this quote on as if it were.
• It’s good to know I live in the land of

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One problem with using a Mac is that often the desktop can end up looking very cluttered. Especially when using programs like Dreamweaver and Fireworks, which have many small panes, the experience of using a Mac can be rather like reading a newspaper where someone’s cut out many of the articles: it gets distracting because of all the “show-through” from other programs.

One solution is to use Command+Option+H, which hides all programs except the one that’s in the foreground. It’s a nice way of simplifying the view, and you can use the dock or Command+Tab to cycle through the programs you’re using. That doesn’t work in all applications, however.

Another solution that I found today is a free application called Isolator, which masks out what’s in the background, but allow you to click on it when needed, bringing that application into focus.

It’s very customizable so …

This is an “apropos of nothing” post if I ever wrote one.

If you’re an iPhone or iPod Touch (not iTouch!) owner do you remember web apps? Before Apple opened up its web store the only way short of hacking your machine (which I did) you could get a new application was to use a web-based one. These are probably still flourishing, but I’d imagine that the App Store has probably undercut their use a lot.

But… one I used and still use is Weightdate, which is a simple and free way to record your weight and have it displayed over time as a graph. So that’s my graph above.

It doesn’t quite cover a full year, starting in April 2007 and ending today. It’s an interesting pattern of weight gain and weight loss, especially since I haven’t consciously tried to do anything to alter my …

Given that one of the greatest inconveniences and deficiencies of the iPhone is the lack of any ability to copy and paste, and given that the second major revision of the device’s operating system lacked that ability, I have to wonder if Steve Jobs has no ability to blush. Don’t get me wrong, the iPhone is an astonishing invention. It brings near-ubiquitous access to the web, and does that in a way that is esthetically pleasing and eminently practical. But literally millions of jaws dropped when 2.0 came out and Apple continued to pretend that copy-and-paste was so unimportant that they simply didn’t need to include it. (Currently, the lack of c&p is the second most popular grouse on Please Fix The iPhone). It reminds me of an old British beer commercial where a …