Nice little article from the Tribune about Chief Night at the Garden last night: EagleTribune.com, North Andover, MA – Hail to the Chief of Bruins Nation
Really nice article by Bill Kipouras about someone from the Bruins’ heyday… which is slipping further and further away (nice win last night, though).
No idea why I’m so prolific today, links-wise. Maybe it’s because it’s my one year anniversary doing the stupid thing I do.
At any rate, a few for your viewing pleasure:
And the writers are hard at work: Brill Building: Brian K. Vaughan, this is your future
The Soxaholix: Giving the slant-eyed hillybilly his due
What an awful (boring) game last night. Was Manning even on the field? I could have sworn Grossman had more completions to Indy players than Manning did.
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Too good. I wish all people would start taking this tack when questioned by the media… Perhaps the hair thing was a bit tired, though… maybe he could have talked about cheeses.
Paperback Writer: The Last Samurai Agent
“My master says that the perfect manuscript is a rare thing,” Natsu translated. “He says that you could spend your life looking for one, and it would not be a wasted life.”
Very funny little encounter with a ninja agent. I need to get one of those…
WrongRoom [dive into mark]
Here’s the basic problem: you’re writing a text editor. Stop doing that. It’s 2007. Saying to yourself “I’m gonna build my own text editor” is as silly as saying “I’m gonna build my own build system” or “I’m gonna build my own amusement park.”
🙂 He doesn’t touch on Writer.app, and I think he kind of misses the point. Well, or maybe WriteRoom does, if Mark is right.
What we’re trying to do with Writer.app is focus. It’s a *drafting* tool. Get that first draft done. Stop procrastinating. Get writing.
At any rate, it’s a rant, and it tangentially touches on something near and dear to my heart. I don’t necessarily agree with him and his annoying condescension, but I guess that’s Mark.
Please, Joe Sullivan, for the love of all that’s holy and good, please STOP. LETTING. DAN. F**&(ING. SHAUGHNESSY. WRITE. ABOUT. THE. PATRIOTS.
You have much more qualified writers back there (Jackie MacMullan springs to mind). Please, I’m sick to the back teeth of him, I think he’s a lazy, self-important blowhard who probably needs new pastures.
The last couple blurts of Writer.app have been focused on fixing some user bugs reported; like broken printing (characters were being chopped off), problems creating new documents if you didn’t have Courier New enabled for some reason.
The latest work was done to try and support languages that use two-byte characters (Korean, Japanese, Chinese…) and is currently out in a beta form… it’s not working perfectly, and we have a few things to work around, but it’s getting there. It’d be interesting to see how the alternate, more modern word processing mode fares with two-byte characters, I’m pretty sure it’ll be better than the more restrictive mode. At any rate, we have a minor beta out, which isn’t exactly public, but nor is it completely private. In fact, to you, now, it’s public. Because you know where to get it now. Well, not now, but in about fifteen seconds, if you keep reading.
Go on and download it (or the beta (listed as 1.2.3)), check it out.
At any rate, go on and check it out, and drop us a line at bugreports@supertart.com or software@supertart.com, and let us know what you think is missing… after all, that’s been our driving force for the last few releases. While I can’t guarantee your favorite feature will get in there, at least we’ll know about it, and possibly even get around to fixing it or improving on something.