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President-elect Barack Obama aparently has something in common with a city in the south of Japan - his name, Obama, which translates from Japanese as “Little Beach”.

Being a web developer I would not be without a really good text editor. I have two favorites; the classic standby BBEdit and my new best friend TextMate. One day I may sit down and write a nice comparison of the two and explain my disdain for dinosaurs like VI but for now all I want to do is highlight TextMate’s in-built scriptability that makes it possible to blog directly from it. If you’ve got this cool little editor take a look under the Bundles menu at the Blogging options. I’ll not explain in detail how to use this feature, its easy to work out - hey I did it. In fact this post and my last were both sent from TextMate.

I’ve finally managed to get my new theme to the point where I can apply it to this site. I’m going for clean and uncluttered and I hope to add lots of goodies for displaying images etc.

noun Psychology

1) a projective test designed to reveal a person’s social drives or needs by their interpretation of a series of pictures of emotionally ambiguous situations.

2) a poor excuse for a gambit in a post about this sites theme.

One of the things that broke when moving was my out-of-date WordPress theme so for the time being I’ll be using the classic theme.

Regular visitors may have noticed that PSDC was off-line for several hours today. That’s because PSDC now has a new home and is now hosted by aushosts. The move to aushosts came about because I wanted a more competitively priced Australian host for my site with more up-to-date hosting tools and a simpler administration back end.

Having flash-backs to the early days of the web this evening (wanted some images of NCSA Mosaic for a project); ended up routing around ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Web/Mosaic where all the old Mosaic code is archived. Being of nerd extraction the obvious thought struck me - could I get Mosaic to run now on my OS X Leopard box. Five minitues later and Mosiac 3.0 for windows was up and running through Darwine and I’m surfing the web 90’s style. Poor old thing crashes quite a bit, but that’s to be expected there’s been a lot of changes on the web in the past fifteen years.

This is my first blog entry useing the iPod Touch WP App - V cool - check it out at the iTunes App store for free.

Australians can opt-out of street view according to Google’s Rob Shilkin. Who says we’re paranoid - its a conspiracy!

Google have released “Street View” on Google maps right across this wide brown land of ours. So you can see my house from here. We’ll its not my house now, but the one I was born in.

http://tinyurl.com/6bw4gy

A large number of blogs are alive wit the news that OS X 10.5.3 has a little pressy in it for G-Mail users, in the form of the ability to Sync G-Mail contacts with Address Book. These same blogs are bitching that the feature is for “iPhone users only”. Well I don’t have an iPhone and it works for me. I do have a Windows Mobile 6 device and MissingSync, as well as all sorts of other weird sync/iPhone SDK software etc. so I don’t know why it works for me sans-iPhone.

References:
Lifehaker Australia
Offical Google Mac Blog