Andy Ihnatko's YELLOWTEXTThe weblog of Andy Ihnatko, Chicago Sun-Times and Macworld tech columnist.We serve hard liquor to people who want to get drunk fast- April 14, 2006 "Another red-letter day for the Baileys!!!" I snapped. This is one of three different "It's A Wonderful Life" quotes that I keep using but which nobody ever identifies. The second is my usual response to "Merry Christmas" ("Happy New Year to you...IN JAIL! Go on home, George, they're waiting for you!") and the third is just plain good life advice. How many ideas for truly awful commercials would have been mercifully taken into the alley behind the ad agency and beaten to death, if only...http://www.cwob.com/yellowtext/yellowtext0406.html#54969 I can SO take off my waistcoat without removing my jacket!- April 12, 2006 I return from lunch (and a trip to Staples to pick up some more of those spiffy cheap folding storage boxes), to find not one but two emails emphatically asking the same question. Answer: 811 words in article.http://www.cwob.com/yellowtext/yellowtext0406.html#37253 Find!- April 12, 2006 Writing and office cleaning proceed apace. And when an office gets as cluttered as mine does, spring cleaning is like Christmas morning: you keep finding things that have been misplaced for so long that you forgot you even had them. 533 words in article.http://www.cwob.com/yellowtext/yellowtext0406.html#54499 Parked.- April 11, 2006 You've probably guessed from the most recent few posts that at this moment -- and I've just double-checked to make sure -- I am at home in Boston instead of in Boulder. This the first time I've missed the Conference on World Affairs since I was first invited eight or nine years ago. 918 words in article.http://www.cwob.com/yellowtext/yellowtext0406.html#29840 Picture Book (redux)- April 9, 2006 Hello, sensation-seekers...I've got my nieces and nephews over at the house, I've just taken a whole cardful of photos on assorted juvenile hooliganism, and now I'm showing my niece how easy it is to post a photo from my picture library: 134 words in article.http://www.cwob.com/yellowtext/yellowtext0406.html#57297 Nature's Most Perfect Food- April 9, 2006 Speaking of "I want to put a picture in a blog entry, but not if it's a lot of trouble": 340 words in article.http://www.cwob.com/yellowtext/yellowtext0406.html#18060 PIC-ture Book! Pic-tures of your Mama, Taken by your Poppa...- April 9, 2006 Okay, I rule: CWOBber (my homemade blog app, the output of which you are currently reading) now handles images automatically. Here, I'll show you: 1070 words in article.http://www.cwob.com/yellowtext/yellowtext0406.html#20550 Nothing to see here, folks...- April 9, 2006 This is a test of either how much I freaking LOVE AppleScript or how much it just likes to toy with me. 79 words in article.http://www.cwob.com/yellowtext/yellowtext0406.html#49282 Boy, when eBay says "Get It Here," they ain't kidding...- April 8, 2006 Incidentally, I've just clicked the "related websearch" of my last post. Check out the first ad that Google attaches to the search results: 100 words in article.http://www.cwob.com/yellowtext/yellowtext0406.html#89014 I AM in my happy place, dammit!!!- April 8, 2006 This will probably be the last post I make to this blog before I set fire to the house and try to make it all the way to Ecuador before local investigators realize that the bones they pulled out of the rubble aren't mine. 642 words in article.http://www.cwob.com/yellowtext/yellowtext0406.html#95053 |