Charles on… anything that comes along

“What’s that T-shirt you’re wearing?” asked wife the other day.

Ah - that would be my Daring Fireball Linked List t-shirt. Very fine. Says “Daring Fireball” on the front. “Nice,” she says. “It actually fits you.” Warning to Britons buying DFLL shirts: order a size down. I’m usually a medium, and this one is a small. Or I’m large and that’s medium. Whatever.

Anyway, the Linked List is a subscription, and rather good: for your money, you get a password-protected RSS feed. Or if you’re tight, you can go and see the linked list for free, but it comes up later.

Later link is to Russell Beattie: Hands-On Mighty Mouse Review: “He likes it. They’re hard to get ahold of today: Beattie bought the second-to-last of only ten that his local Apple Store had in stock; I called the King of Prussia store to see if they had any, and was told they didn’t expect any until the end of the week.”

I laughed aloud at this Mighty Mouse stuff. (Adopts Apple voice-of-doom tone:) “Criticise us for having just one button, would you? HaHA! Now we have FOUR! And a clicking sound! Bow down, puny mortals!” It might be fun to get hands-on, though to be honest I’m more of a keyboard fiend myself. And what I truly, truly love is the two-finger trackpad scrolling introduced in the later Powerbooks, and now iBooks. It’s terrrific. If you don’t have it, but do have an Apple portable, try Sidetrack. Same stuff, though you gotta pay for it. It’s like a scroll wheel for touchpads.

Of course, all this is old stuff for Windows users, who’ve had this sort of capability on laptops forever.

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In the absence of a World Gummint that will impose a single electrical voltage and plug shape, you’re always left wondering whether your plug will fit the sockets in whatever country you travel to. (Answer: almost certainly not.) But at Electricity around the world: everything about plugs, sockets, voltages, convertors, etc. you can *see* what the plugs and sockets look like.

And learn, for instance, that Australians going to China won’t need an adaptor at all. Lucky sods.

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