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Hi. Just bumped Cuckoo up to 1.1.1 to fix a bug that seems only to affect some 10.5 users. See the blog for details, or just go straight to the download page.

Update 7/26: I’ve also posted the command-line tool for manipulating login items that I wrote while developing the latest release. You might find it handy.

My PowerBook seems to be cursed. I still haven’t figured out why it switches to the wrong application sometimes (example situation: in iTerm; click on a Safari window; Safari pops to the front, then the Finder immediately pops up in front of everything. WTF?). Now I have a new bug: some of my applications appear to be cloning themselves in the Finder.

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Dusted off the old sketchbook, but didn’t have patience for anything fancier than mechanical pencil:

They barely got any lines in the latest Potter celluloid. Here’s hoping we see more of them next time. (As seen on Fleen: Elsewhere, others are rendering Rowling’s characters as a run-up to Deathly Hallows. Saturday is Order of the Phoenix day, hence this particular doodle.)

I guess Erin’s not the only one: Exhibit A,
Exhibit B.

You might recall that, several months ago, I went a little nuts about the iTunes 7 UI. To this day, I stand by my complaints, though I freely admit that my tone could have benefited from some moderation.

The ThinkMac blog (which, by the way, posted their own gripe about many of the same things I objected to) observed over the weekend that several of the most glaring inconsistencies were tidied up in iTunes 7.3. (For those keeping score, these are gripes #2 and #4c in the original dissection, plus the subsequent discovery of the impossible-to-hit pane resizer.)

Thanks, iTunes UI team!

Over the weekend I decided to fire up Google Reader again. (I’m still a fan of NewsFire, but now that I’m using the other GApps I’m sort of hooked on instant, painless, in-sync access from multiple machines.)

The UI is better than I remember it, but what is the deal with the message latency? At 4PM central time I took the following screenshot:

Five hours? I’m all for fetching feeds less frequently, but this delay is absurd. Is Google trying to cure my ADD?