Glad I didn't renew my bus pass

I'm Glad I didn't bother renewing my Lothian Buses bus pass at the end of last week.

Why? Quite simple. Had I taken the bus today I would have missed the two connections because the 37A was running on time.

The shortest route by bus to Roslin for me, is to take the 18 to Kaimes cross roads. Fingers crossed the 18 was running on time. Then I have to hope that the 37A is running 2 minutes late, otherwise I miss it and the next connection, with the 15A from Bilston into Roslin.

The problem with taking the earlier 18 is that the 15A only runs every hour, if I have to wait more than 10 minutes on the 15A, I'm faster walking!

By the time I'm missing either the 15A or 37A on a regular basis, I'm as well cycling the whole route, it only takes around 10 minutes longer than the fastest time I have managed by bus!

Most importantly, it is considerably more reliable!

Lothian Buses Drivers take Strike action

I have just noticed on Lothian Buses website: http://www.lothianbuses.co.uk/news/serviceChanges.asp that they will be running a Saturday service from 19 July 2005. It's a real shame for those who live out in the sticks.

Quinn

There is a clone of tetris built specifically for Mac OS X, with networking. The game is called http://www.stud.tu-ilmenau.de/~siha-in/thesoftware.html Quinn.

Blogger

So you can use email to blogger!

X11 Forwarding on Mac OS X Client

For those of you who might be wondering how to enable X11 forwarding, like I was. A quick Google search came up with a couple of Developer articles.

Vital Flaw inroad pricing plan from Darling

I've had another letter published in the Evening News

Automator PDF workflows

WARNING: If you are using a PDF Workflow from the Print sheet, then you may have a problem with permissions with the generated PDF.
Essentially, your web server won't see it as world and group permissions are set to nothing.

Spotlight behind dashboard

That's weird, after activating dashboard, press cmd+space for spotlight. You can search away and open results, behind dashboard.

PDFs not opening in Firefox

I've just noticed that Firefox isn't opening PDFs internally. I suppose that old PDF plugin is still of some use.

Mintelac

Going by ThinkSecret, the Intel macs are using a different build from those of us on the PowerPC machines. Will this change in the future???
If the build numbers end up the same, it will prove that they are using the same binaries!
We'll just have to wait and see.