Adventures As Me

Applications that steal focus are the bane of my computer experience. Particularly egregious are the ’sudo’ type authentication dialogs on the OS X platform. On a multi-monitor setup ( which I have at work ) these dialogs remove the focus to a place where one is not looking. It is too easy to continue type [...]

Today marks at least my 10th attempt at making Emacs my main editor. I’m trying harder this time however. For example, this entire post was composed and submitted directly from Emacs.
A co-worker has been using Emacs exclusively for 1 year and I’m drawing on his knowledge and experience to improve my conversion.
One element that was [...]

My OS X Desktop system has a problem. When the screensaver activates, there is a small window, one or two seconds in length, wherein if I depress a keyboard key or move the mouse, the screensaver does not fully activate. However, it does not de-activate, leaving me with an unusable desktop.
The system does not respond [...]

Directx, the most common API on Windows for game development, is not backward compatible. Why?
When you upgrade to a new version of Windows ( e.g. from Windows XP to Windows Vista ) you need to install older versions of directx in order to use your older games. For Windows Vista, this means installing directx 9. [...]

Twitter went from being “why would I use this?” to “hmmm, look how many of my friends are using it” to “why doesn’t this integrate easily with anything I use?”
The closest is via SMS, but that can be costly for how often updates happen. What I would like to see:
1. Better integration with current IM [...]