Andrew’s Mac Tips Weblog

Call me persnickety, but when someone says something that is just plain wrong, well, I gotta vent. John Gruber (of Daring Fireball fame), has a fairly new podcast. He and his mate talk for what seems like forever on a wide range of subjects that occasionally include the Mac and iPhone.

In the latest edition he talks for a full five minutes about how he has great respect for the British and how they use the English language, and write it. He particularly likes the way they correctly use quote marks, ending sentences with the quote mark followed by the period, or ‘’full stop,” as the Brits would say.

He makes a point of saying that the comma or period or whatever that immediately follows the quoted text should not be inside the quote. He’s wrong.

He might be confusing quote with parentheses (in his defense), but wrong is wrong. Look at the way the punctuation is handled in this entry that you’re reading right now as an example; the same way that punctuation is handled in any well-edited book — American, or English.

Vent Over.

The Talk Show with John Gruber and Dan Benjamin

Last night I downloaded the 10.4.10 combo updater via dial-up. Yes, it can be done, if you have ten hours to spare. Anyways, here I am, all up to date.

The installation went very well. There were a couple of glitches with tweaks that I’d previously added, but that’s only to be expected. I thought I’d list the glitches below for the record.

First, Main Menu popped up a notice to say that it doesn’t yet support 10.4.10. Then I found that my system icons had reverted to the normal set; that was quickly fixed by running Candy Bar again. My brushed metal default finder windows were back so I downloaded the latest version of Uno and successfully ran that. There was one minor glitch with Uno where it said that I didn’t have the version of iTunes that could be modified — I don’t care about that as I like the look of iTunes just as it is.

The major glitch (and I hope it was a one off) was when I used Uno again to change the blue time bar on QuickTime back to the default color. I had a kernel panic. I think (hope) that was just because I didn’t immediately restart after running Uno.

Now that I have 10.4.10 I could install the latest QuickTime, which is great in that the full screen mode is enabled, with lots of options that I didn’t expect.

One last item that I haven’t gotten around to fixing yet — my Services menu is fully populated again. Should be able to fix that by running Service Scrubber…

…Done!

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