“bura bura” – wandering (Japanese)
I found this via a post on the Jamline Yahoo! user group, but according to SonyBMG, Jamiroquai will be performing around Australia at the end of November/start of December. Woohoo!
The Sydney concert is on the 2nd December at Centennial Park (interesting…), and tickets go on sale on the 5th via VISA Entertainment and on the 16th via TicketMaster.
I can't wait!!!
François Joseph de Kermadec over at the O'Reilly MacDevCenter asks if dialogs in their current state are too easy:
Modern dialogs, on any interface, come with a default "OK" button that one can systematically trigger by pressing return or enter on our keyboards. It's easy, tempting and a seemingly quick solution.
I would tend to agree. It's all too easy, when shown a dialog, to hit enter or click on "OK" without thinking. If the action happens to be destructive (i.e. non-reversible), then some cursing might ensue.
However, I don't think implementing a text field that requires you to type "yes" or "no" is the solution. The approach that was revealed in iTunes 4.9 (highlighted by Fraser Speirs) is a good solution. Instead of "Yes"/"No"/"Cancel", verbs are used: "Move to Trash"/"Keep Files"/"Cancel", which (hopefully) forces the user to look at the dialog and think before continuing. After seeing that post by Fraser, we modified the way Connoisseur behaved. I certainly find it clearer when using the application now.
UPDATE: I think this is probably one of the worst dialogs I've seen:
Despite the fact that there's a lengthy explanation, who's going to read it? The user only sees the "Yes" and "No" buttons (it's one redeeming feature is that "No" is the default. Phew!) After a casual glance, the user is likely to have no idea that by clicking "Yes", their entire iPod will be wiped and re-synced with the current computer. Argh. The amount of people that have done this and emailed us about it is astounding!
Instead, why bot have "Wipe iPod" and "Keep iPod" as the options? I'm sure there are better solutions to this, but that's about all I can scrounge up at this time, at the butt-end of the week. 
So I've been fudging around with the internal drive in my PowerBook for the past few days, with little luck in fixing it, despite the fact that it occasionally mounts and doesn't have any disk errors. *sigh*
However… not everything's peachy. I came home tonight, turned on the Firewire drive (a MacPower Icecube II)… and nothing. The light turned on, but the hard disk didn't spin up. Ironically, when booting up the PowerBook, it boots off the problematic internal hard disk with no problems! WTF?! So now I have a working PowerBook, but a dud external drive (on which all of my latest Uni work and mail is) and no way to access it.
Sometimes I hate technology…
