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Apokalypse Software Corp. http://apokalypsesoftware.com words from the wilderness Sun, 13 Jul 2008 03:48:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Web Site Issues Persist Still, Sometimes I’m to Blame, And “Hello, Mori 1.6.11!” In spite of updating WordPress a couple months ago, a spammer has managed to hack his junk into the blog webpages. You can see it at the end the page source. It's after the closing <html> tag, where browsers ignore it, but Google doesn't. Looks like I'll be dumping WP ... http://apokalypsesoftware.com/blog/2008/07/12/117/ Louis Vuitton Must Now Save the People of Darfur (Or At Least Try To) Social Marketing analyst Jeremiah Owyang has posted an interesting tale of artist Nadia Plesner's hijacking of Louis Vuitton's luxury goods brand to help raise funds for Save Darfur's "Divest for Darfur" campaign. As I wrote on Jeremiah's blog, Luxury brands do not have the luxury of remaining silent. They are the expressiveness ... http://apokalypsesoftware.com/blog/2008/05/04/116/ Website was Down Due to Compromised WordPress System If you attempted to access the site for the past 24+ hours I apologize for the prolonged downtime. I upgraded the WordPress system the blog runs on (complete with fail, and no thanks to the WordPress community in #wordpress for their non-help -- I definitely will switch the blog to ... http://apokalypsesoftware.com/blog/2008/05/04/115/ The Easter mEgg Hunt Coupon System is Now Working, Discount Applied to All Past Sales in This Period Because of several problems with the system, I wasn't able to get the coupon discounts to work before. It is now up and running on our online store, and you'll be able to receive the special discount for the Easter mEgg Hunt. In fact, as a way of making amends for ... http://apokalypsesoftware.com/blog/2008/03/27/114/ Dear Sleazeball Politicians, We’re Taking Back Control of OUR Country, Like We’ve Been Taking Control of Our Spaces For years, you and your mealy-mouthed predecessors have promised to make things work, and make things better. And for years you've complained that whenever you tried to fix things somebody else threw up roadblocks. "It's the President's fault.", "It's Congress' fault.", or "It's the lobbyists' fault." And if only you ... http://apokalypsesoftware.com/blog/2008/03/14/113/ Keep Tabs on Apokalypse Software Between Blog Postings With Twitter Just a simple reminder, if you've got questions or suggestions regarding any Apokalypse products, I invite you to post them at the forums if they'll be of benefit and/or interest to the communities which use the products. Post feature requests and bug reports so I keep track of what needs to ... http://apokalypsesoftware.com/blog/2008/03/10/112/ An Urgent Mori 1.6.10 Release To Correct Bugs, and Workaround Spotlight Flaws While making the changes to Mori's code for 1.7, I encountered some oddities in test results, and it turned out there was a bug which I had introduced in an earlier release. While it doesn't appear to endanger data in Mori notebooks, it might not return all the results you ... http://apokalypsesoftware.com/blog/2008/02/27/110/ A Look (Back) at Mori’s Code When I purchased Mori, one of the first things I did was generate some documents about its codebase. For this, the main tool I used was Xcode's Class Model tool to generate charts of the various classes involved. I spent several days laying out the classes on the charts, then ... http://apokalypsesoftware.com/blog/2008/02/11/107/ Solving a New Event Bug Present in iCal When Scripting While trying to solve a user's problem with an mGTD script, I came across a subtle issue that demonstrates some issues that arise when violating a programming philosophy, tackling bugs in other people's code, and general uncertainty whenever coding in AppleScript. Working with AppleScript is generally considered iffy, because a lot ... http://apokalypsesoftware.com/blog/2008/01/25/100/ MacBookAir: Oh, the Compromises You’re Willing to Make Just to be Trendy. Wow. A lot of folks already have lists of what they don't like about the MBA. So do I. It isn't a tablet.The tablet interface opens up a whole new range of apps (just look at what changes the touchscreen interface has brought to the mobile market.) I could be so ... http://apokalypsesoftware.com/blog/2008/01/17/97/