Flickr Massage
During a conversation with Gillian, Darren, and John last week, we were debating whether Flickr seems to be having an ever increasing number of Flickr Massages — their poetic term for scheduled maintenance.
I'm not sure if it's true or not, but I do know that they've been undergoing a maintenance window for the last 13 minutes, and I've already forgotten three times and been frustrated when I clicked my Flickr site bookmark (once) or clicked links to photos (twice). Maybe I'm just tired. Or maybe I'm an addict. I don't know.
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Also, BBedit has been nagging me to register for several days now, so, doing my good support-the-good-software-product duty, I clicked the Buy button, figuring the registration cost would be similar to the purchase price for my favorite text editor on the PC, a product roughly equivalent in features to BBedit called EditPlus 2, for which a license had been around US$30, if I remember correctly. As you might have deduced, I guessed wrong. By about US$169.
Who the hell charges $199 for a text editor? Aside from these guys, anyway?
I think they should be executively stripped of their Bare Bones Software company name, and be forced to rename themselves to Expensive Ass Software Which Tricks You Into Using Their Product Which You Think Is A Nice $30 Or $40 Text Editor And Then Asks For Your Whole Wallet.
Anyway, I like BBedit okay, but not as well as EditPlus, and considering I always have many, many free options, (not least of which is simply editing posts with vi directly on the server), I am not willing to pay that much to register it and would rather find something different.
The only features I really value above the standard text editor (roughly in order of importance) are integrated FTP and a spell checker. Sometimes unicode support is nice, too, but all Mac apps seem to do that now. Anyone have any suggestions?
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This week has been a little crazy, and tonight was the first night I've gotten home before 9pm. I had gotten through the workday riding on the idea of a nap upon arriving home, and I ended up following through with the idea, opening the windows so the cool 15 degree air could breeze through a little bit, pulling out my big warm quilt, and curling up with the cat.
Unfortunately, my cat has a bit of a grass-is-greener issue, and as soon as I'd fallen asleep he decided I would be more interesting awake and entertaining him. then, of course, less than a half hour after I was awake, he was unconscious on the couch. . . .
I'm not sure if it's true or not, but I do know that they've been undergoing a maintenance window for the last 13 minutes, and I've already forgotten three times and been frustrated when I clicked my Flickr site bookmark (once) or clicked links to photos (twice). Maybe I'm just tired. Or maybe I'm an addict. I don't know.
* * *
Also, BBedit has been nagging me to register for several days now, so, doing my good support-the-good-software-product duty, I clicked the Buy button, figuring the registration cost would be similar to the purchase price for my favorite text editor on the PC, a product roughly equivalent in features to BBedit called EditPlus 2, for which a license had been around US$30, if I remember correctly. As you might have deduced, I guessed wrong. By about US$169.
Who the hell charges $199 for a text editor? Aside from these guys, anyway?
I think they should be executively stripped of their Bare Bones Software company name, and be forced to rename themselves to Expensive Ass Software Which Tricks You Into Using Their Product Which You Think Is A Nice $30 Or $40 Text Editor And Then Asks For Your Whole Wallet.
Anyway, I like BBedit okay, but not as well as EditPlus, and considering I always have many, many free options, (not least of which is simply editing posts with vi directly on the server), I am not willing to pay that much to register it and would rather find something different.
The only features I really value above the standard text editor (roughly in order of importance) are integrated FTP and a spell checker. Sometimes unicode support is nice, too, but all Mac apps seem to do that now. Anyone have any suggestions?
* * *
This week has been a little crazy, and tonight was the first night I've gotten home before 9pm. I had gotten through the workday riding on the idea of a nap upon arriving home, and I ended up following through with the idea, opening the windows so the cool 15 degree air could breeze through a little bit, pulling out my big warm quilt, and curling up with the cat.
Unfortunately, my cat has a bit of a grass-is-greener issue, and as soon as I'd fallen asleep he decided I would be more interesting awake and entertaining him. then, of course, less than a half hour after I was awake, he was unconscious on the couch. . . .