stephendeken.net » apocrypha http://stephendeken.net/blog Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:29:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Diary-X Composer http://stephendeken.net/blog/2009/02/25/diary-x-composer/ http://stephendeken.net/blog/2009/02/25/diary-x-composer/#comments Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:48:15 +0000 Stephen http://stephendeken.net/blog/?p=22 Back when Diary-X was still around, I was writing a Mac OS X application I called ‘Diary-X Composer.’  It was intended to be an offline version of Diary-X, allowing you to keep a journal on your local computer, and optionally sync it to the Diary-X servers.  I designed a glossy blue book icon for it, because I seem to always do the most useless parts of application development up front.

I never actually released a finished version — I posted one disk image, once, that was a very very early alpha version, basically just using the existing Diary-X code with a custom-built version of Perl.  I did, however, put my little blue book icon on it, because I thought it looked really cool, and I really seriously have a problem with doing the useless parts first.

Anyway, a few months back, Michelle and I consolidated our web hosting accounts to a neutral hosting provider (one that neither one of us had used before): HostGator.  The very first time I logged in to our account, my eye was drawn directly to their FAQ icon:

hostgator-faq

That’s my little book icon!  It’s been doubled for some reason, apparently because there’s a lot of frequently asked questions.  Every time I log in to the admin panel it makes me smile.

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