Cocoa Gestures adds mouse gestures to any Cocoa-based OS X application. At first, this struck me as a neat trick, but not something particularly useful. I've been using it for a few weeks now, though, and it really does make a difference. When I'm in the middle of doing something mouse-based, mouse gestures are convenient in the same way that keyboard shortcuts are when working with the keyboard. Just as I'd hate to have to reach for the mouse just to open a new terminal window, it's very nice not to have to go back to the keyboard, or even the menu bar, to change tabs in my web browser. If you use OS X, you should definitely give this a try. It's free software, so there's really no reason not to. I find that it goes particularly nicely with Chimera. _
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07:35:26 PM, Tuesday 3 December 2002

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MetaKit might be just what I need. Not quite as heavy as a full-scale RDBMS, but more structured than the filesystem, and more easily searchable than ZODB. _
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03:33:35 PM, Tuesday 3 December 2002

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As reported on Slashdot, the first reviews [2, 3] of the Two Towers movie are out. They sound reasonably encouraging, but tend to reinforce the impression I had from the first movie: Jackson is brilliant with the images (Hobbiton looked exactly like I had imagined it), and tells the story well when he stays close to Tolkien, but he just isn't competent to rewrite things from the books. The changes in this movie sound much like those in the previous one: unnecessary subplots added in an attempt to create 'tension', and clumsily explicit presentations of things that were shown more subtly--and more skillfully--in the books. _
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