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August 25th, 2003

The Geek Test

My friend Rob has been talking about The Geek Test
on his message board.  Well, I’m almost (not really) ashamed to
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admit that I got a 33.33% on it.

I mean, really, could I admit the superscript _ if I got “total geek”?
August 25th, 2003

Head trip

If you want to be weirded out, and you run Mac OS X, and you have installed the developer tools, run “/Developer/Applications/Quartz Debug” and check a few boxes. It’s *real* weird if your background rotates every five seconds.

The program flashes colors on top of the areas of the screen that Quartz is currently drawing.

August 25th, 2003

SIMBL, PithHelmet, and iCar

Yesterday I heard about PithHelmet, but I didn’t know what it is. Turns out, I discovered it today (again) when trying to figure out how one would go about setting Safari up to “keep state” a la Opera when you quit.

PithHelmet is an ad-blocker for Safari (the web browser) that sits on top of SIMBL, an application “enhancer.” I also got the other known project, iCar, which stands for “iChat auto-reply” so that people will get my away messages when I’m away.

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