A Greener Apple

Steve Jobs released a statement today (A Greener Apple) that thoughtfully and simply summarizes progress Apple has made in improving the environmental footprint of its products.  The letter covers everything from plans to phase out toxic chemicals to electronic waste recycling, and each step sounds more reasonable than the last. I would post excerpts here, [...]

Posted by Chris in Environment, Macintosh, Technology on May 2nd, 2007 | Comments Off

CPAN vs. dot-underscore

I was so keen on the idea of pushing a module to CPAN that I almost didn’t catch a fatal flaw in my scheme. Mac OS X (motto: It Just Works) was doing something odd to my tarball as it was created: it was adding a whole host of files that weren’t there originally. Not [...]

Posted by Chris in Macintosh, Technology on July 1st, 2005 | 4 Comments »

Gee! (your app smells terrific)

The worst part of having multiple e-mail addresses is keeping on top of new messages without spending every waking moment checking each account in sequence. That’s why I love “Gee!”:http://www.lloydslounge.org/gee/, a functional little GMail notifier for Mac OS X. Gee (I’m going to stop exclaiming it) checks GMail’s Atom feed for my messages and updates [...]

Posted by Chris in Macintosh on June 29th, 2005 | Comments Off