Tom Mollerus' Weblog

I visited the Adobe MAX 2008 site after reading Ben Forta's blog post about the ColdFusion "unconference" behind held during MAX.

After noticing a little animation in the very-grayed-out background, I clicked to see if anything would happen. It turns out that there are three adjacent mini-worlds, each with its own short puzzle for you to solve, which lead to one easter egg apiece. They're pretty fun. Follow the link above to MAX if you want to see for yourself, or read more if you want to know the easter eggs that I found.

I just discovered a neat little trick with VMWare on my MacBook Pro. I still need to QA against IE/Win, and I still love using Homesite+. Up until now, to use either of them I've launched VMWare, launched those programs, then switched to Unity mode. The next day, I would have to do the same thing all over again. But with less than 5 minutes of work, you can get your favorite old Windows apps to appear on and launch from the Dock. It works like this: if you switch your Windows VM to "Unity" mode so that the applications you have open appear each in their own window, their icons will appear on the right side of the Dock (note the Windows Remote Desktop and Firefox icons):

Now if you click-and-drag those icons from the right side of the Dock to the left side, they'll stay there permanently (note the Internet Explorer and Homesite+ icons):

And whenever you click on these icons, VMWare will start up and bring up the application for you-- in Unity mode! It's just like... no, it really is having your favorite Windows apps available to you just like any other MacOS app. Awesomeness, no extra charge.

Dear Hillary,

In your speech after the South Dakota primary tonight you asked for suggestions from the public on what to do about your campaign. Here is my response to your call for advice.

You insulted the American public by not acknowledging his historic victory when he became the first minority nominee. You chose to sacrifice the strength of the Democratic Party in order to guard your pride and your political leverage. If you continue to do so, you will only damage and diminish your own reputation.

Suspend your campaign.