The spiders watch us, tend us, and observe everything. Most people don’t notice them or even pay attention, but it always creeps me out a little when they push their way back into spacetime, wriggling out of the web between the worlds. I don’t like the way one will pause halfway, with the fabric of existence split open around it, its metaeyes gleaming as it scans my playa to take a snapshot of this herenow. Searching. Archiving. Somewhens it’s no more than that, the spider pulls back down the timeseam, spacetime seals closed around the tear, and it was never herenow again. Otherwhens, the spider comes out, letting spacetime close behind it, scans us, and modifies us if necessary. The last time the spider came out, Magister presented as a man, but he used to present as a woman. And Loli used to be a veteran of the razor wars, like I am, but now she isn’t anymore.  Read →

Is it just me, or has the world gone crazy? First, Microsoft announces that the next version of Office will use XML file formats as the default. Now, Apple announces that (after all these years of denial) they are moving to Intel chips. Vuja Dey (Vuja dey is the strange feeling you’ve never been here before).  Read →

My posts have been infrequent, in part because I’ve been working on lots of things to talk about. I’m in the last stages of putting together info on creating NSStatusItems (tools which show up in the menu bar across all applications in OS X) in PyObjC. I’ve also got some cool Quicktime and iSight tools coming soon. And I’ve renamed ZenPaint to DrawingBoard, but it’s working and just waiting for a little GUI cleanup before I post the first binary and source.  Read →