Charles on… anything that comes along

If you have, say, 300 feeds where you’re keeping articles beyond their expiry from the feed - say, for 900 days - then when you reach the level where you have >99,999 unread articles, the Dock will show that you have 00533 unread articles (say). Obvious enough to the user why this is happening.

Yes, I’ve discovered the most wonderfully minor bug.

This weekend while I was in North Carolina, my primary hard disk decided to corrupt itself. A minor inconvenience, I figured. After all, I’d been backing up with Apple’s “Backup” application every night.

Little did I know what a steaming pile of shit Backup turned out to be. The list of things Backup can not do is astounding, including:

Restoring a backup to a blank hard disk (you need to have the same username as before, with an OS installed). Restore incremental backups in one fell swoop. No, now I have to go through and figure out what the differences are between the 170 GB full backup and the nineteen incremental backups that occurred after that.
Backup Help is absolutely no help at all. Go figure.

OK, that’s got me worried now. After all, isn’t the idea of Backup 3 that it actually.. you know… backs up in a fashion you can restore?

Crap, i need to install Quicktime to see this? Dammit. Well, i do want to see the keynote, so… here goes.

Hi! Thank you! Here’s your link to Quicktime with iTunes. Would you like the professional version?
No, i want the free version.

Here’s the free Quicktime iTunes version, Ooh, all the cool kids have this! It’s what you want!

Funny. Real Player used to be like this. (Maybe still is?) A conversation between man and machine, except machine isn’t listening.