Check out my latest post at The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Text to Audiobook free script.

I’ve always suspected that reality shows selectively censor what people are saying to make it seem much saucier than it actually is. If you’re skeptical, watch this clip from Sesame Street where some enterprising soul has selectively censored The Count. Watch it all the way through, and I dare you not to laugh:

Check out my latest post at The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Mac 101: system-wide thesaurus at the touch of a hotkey.

I’m just briefly testing out MacJournal here to see how it does with uploading to a WordPress blog. This is an update I’m doing to this post to see if apostrophe’s are now being properly handled.

I’m happy to report that the twitch in my left eye (you know, the one that caused me to write an off-the-cuff post that continues to drive the most traffic to this site of anything I’ve ever written - yeah, that one) went away for a long time.

But it’s back.

For probably the past month it has been making periodic appearances, but seems to really have taken root over the past week. Based on all of the advice this site receives, I know that it’s not really a surprise.

Lack of sleep? Check.
Not hydrated enough? Check.
Stress? Check. Check. Check.

The good thing is that all of this is actually controllable (at least to a large part), so I’m not too worried. But all of that notwithstanding, I have another theory as to the reason for this twitch.

Allergies.

As a kid I had wicked allergies, most of which have subsided considerably. But I still get hit with bouts of hay fever and occasional migraine headaches.

The thing is, this past week when my twitch has been really going hard, I’ve notice that my eyes feel like they’re burning. Eye drops help a bit, but not as much as I’d hoped.

I think I’m simply reacting to all the pollen that is in the air this time of year.

What do you think? Is there any merit to this theory?

Yes, the twitch is irritating, but I’m not going to let it get to me. Worrying about it only makes it worse in my experience, and I know that it has gone away in the past, and will again. But I can’t shake the thought that it’s all of the triggers I listed above combined with allergies that is really getting me right now.

A “journalist” named Preston Gralla recently wrote a Computerworld article titled Five reasons why Vista beats Mac OS X. Based on the overwhelming -467 ranking of this article and the scathing comments, it’s pretty clear that this guy is out to lunch.

Now, back when I was a Windows user I would have chalked this type of reaction up to the frothing-at-the-mouth Mac fanboys. And, to be sure, that could have something to do with it.

As well, the article may have been a simple attempt at baiting the Mac fan base. But Computerworld isn’t renowned for its Mac coverage; it’s mostly a PC / Windows oriented rag. So this incredible negative reaction is presumably coming, at least in part, from Windows users.

Yikes.

Check out my latest post at The Unofficial Apple Weblog, MindNode - Free mind mapping for Leopard.

You know, I like to think that I’m quite aware of what’s going on around me. If you think that way too, watch this video. It’s amazing how we can miss things that are right under our noses if we’re not looking for them.

[Via UneasySilence]

This one’s for my buddy Tim. I can’t play pool to save my life, but love playing it anyway. For anyone that likes trick shots, this clip is really amazing.

I’ve been on a Mac now for months, and those perplexing little symbols for keyboard shortcuts have been driving me crazy. I finally broke down and searched to figure out exactly what they all mean. I found a table at a site called OSXkeyboardshortcuts.com which has exactly what I needed: OS X Keyboard Shortcuts.

Almost every person I know that has been involved with software design should find this comic about software simplicity funny.

I can’t help but laugh every time I see this picture. Seriously.

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(Via David Chartier’s I’ve Tumbled, and I can’t get up!)