We’re still nowhere close to complete, thus the low version numbers, but this is the first version that looks decent on a non-Mac. The transparency doesn’t seem to work on Linux (at least not on my Ubuntu 9.10 system), but the window corners are rounded on Windows. We still don’t have our own tabbed panes, [...]
So Spencer Ackerman has an amusing tongue in cheek post: http://attackerman.firedoglake.com/2009/12/29/time-to-profile-engineers/ Most of the terrorists have been engineers. As a non-engineer, I have no problem. (First they came for the engineers…)
So I was reading Steve Benin on John McCain’s stupid defense of Joe Lieberman. He quoted McCain’s tweet: Joe Lieberman — standing up for his principles on health care is being viciously attacked by the liberal left…what a disgrace! Silly John McCain. Lieberman doesn’t have any principles, but then neither does McCain. This was demonstrated [...]
So I’m reading James Hansen’s Storms of My Grandchildren, which is about global warming. He’s an optimist and believes that people in power will eventually do the right thing, or that they care about billions of people that aren’t them. I used to be optimistic. I do believe that it’s possible to avoid seriously dangerous [...]
We now have a Google Group called sea-glass-look-and-feel@googlegroups.com for discussing the look and feel. We’ll still make announcements on our blogs, but I think discussion will be easier in a group/mailing list format.
According to Brad deLong, who says it approvingly. See Brad deLong’s website. I read The Baseline Scenario every day. It’s James Kwak’s and Simon Johnson’s blog.
Okay, I have pretty much given Joe Lieberman the benefit of the doubt until recently. But now (see TPM) he’s threatening to filibuster a bill that contains the Medicare buy-in. He’s basically threatening to filibuster positions that he supported before 2006. I think the analysts are right who say he’s angry and bitter. He’s upset [...]
I’m currently working on getting JTextField to use the client property of “JTextField.variant” equals to “search” to print a rounded search field with an hourglass in it. My outer glow is messed up, but worse, my internal drop shadow is messed up. I’m using the Nimbus Effects classes, which I note that Nimbus itself doesn’t [...]
We had snow last night. It’s not the first snow of the year, that was a few weeks ago, but the first snow was gone in a few hours. This is sticking around. Here are a few pictures from outside my front and back windows.
Originally, I typed that title as “clound commuting”. Fingers don’t always do the right thing, even on a Dvorak keyboard. Ron Burk has an interesting comment on cloud computing. It pretty much mirrors my thinking on these subjects. Do we really want a vendor to keep our data, or would we rather keep it ourselves? [...]
