Ben Dunkle

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  • Best movies of all time (bmoat) list

    1. Napoleon Dynamite
    2. Apocalypto
    3. Alien
    4. Lilo and Stitch
    5. Blue Velvet
    6. The Matrix

    [more to come]

  • Testing out WP 6.5

    Hoping to find:

    • Renaming blocks (or at least groups)
      • Yes!
    • Better font management
      • Yes!
    • Native lightbox
      • wawa
    • Styling links
      • wawa

  • Depeche Mode

    Always been one of my favorite bands, but their songs are hit or miss. Actually, the segments of their songs are like that. At times they can blow me away with Gahan’s vocals and the layers beneath, and then lose me with a shift into something that’s just not right.

    E.g.:

    http://youtu.be/XfG8O_Fq_vg?t=1m34s

    The chorus there is as good as anything DM has done, but the rest of the song is just eh. Still, I’ll take it.

  • The English Beat at Ironworks

    Great show. Loved the sax, and seeing it live made me realize how hard it is to pull off solos like they did in the 80s. Not enough people there, which is a shame. We’re lucky they keep coming back and should support one of the most notable, iconic sounds out of that era.

  • Summer cloud

    Summer cloud

    Watching a cloud move slowly across the summer sky

    photo

  • Coda 2 review

    Just bought Coda 2. First impression:
    Apple store download took a while. Then I entered into some kind of OSX Lion spaces environment–weird, but maybe it’s because I don’t install stuff from the app store very often.
    I opened it, and was prompted to jion the mailing list, which I did. The second checkbox, allowing me to sync with iCloud, was greyed-out, and I couldn’t check it. Weird.
    I was prompted to import my transmit favorites. Yay! but I had to allow Coda to access my private credentials for each one. I have like 75 on this machine. So 75 clicks later, I finally imported all my transmit favorites. This could use some work, Panic.
    Looking forward to playing with it today!

  • Operating System developers should stick to developing operating systems.

    Apple and Microsoft make some of the most popular OS’s in the world: iOS, macOS, and Windows.

    As software goes, that’s about it. Everything else they force down the users’ throats is pure garbage. I’m talking about iTunes, Mail, MS Office, Photo software, and the list goes on.

    I honestly don’t know why this is. Google Docs is so superior to Office in every possible way. Gmail absolutely blows Apple’s Mail off the planet. iTunes is so confused about what its purpose is, so filled with layers of disconnected functionality, but it’s stuck on us users because that’s just how it is. I don’t know.

    I do know that on my Macbook, Mail and iTunes and Photos are always opening unexpectedly, for a variety of reasons, none of which make much sense. It’s a shame that I can’t just make them go away completely.