In August 2006, Apple sent WWDC attendees home with prerelease copies of Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard”. As with all major updates, the initial seeds of Leopard broke a lot of programs, in some cases requiring hefty code changes to fix. Attendees received prereleases of the operating system in order to get their programs working [...]

This post was originally published on November 13, 2006 (which wasn’t actually a Friday). It has been edited for style and content.

The date made me wonder why a Friday the 13th earns special mention any time an event comes up on that day. Consider that there are twelve months in a year, and each one [...]

I was reading a worst-case scenario guide on how to expunge a nasty e-mail and got to the part where it mentions automatic flame detection:

One e-mail program offers a “Mood Watch” function that monitors your typing and alerts you if a message is approaching “flame” status.

I vaguely recalled this as a feature of [...]

For some reason beyond my comprehension, Colloquis decided to make SmarterChild, an instant messenger bot, talk like a twelve-year-old AOL user. Here’s how to snap that out of him:

Ryan Govostes: I don’t like when you talk like that SmarterChild: i thought u did like when i talk like that. Ryan Govostes: [...]