For the basic case, I think an Accessibility Container isn't needed, because the objects are laid out in a top-to-bottom and left-to-right way. But we can't always depend on that.

Yesterday I mowed the front lawn, today the back, which was upwards of 20" tall in places, due to a couple of light rains we've had.

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Yesterday I did some bug hunting in the morning, and reading through the literature on the Xcode debugger, "Instruments". Although I am getting a small increase in memory usage, per hand play, it doesn't show up as a 'leak' per se. As far as I can tell it may just be the OS not releasing some cached image data - this is apparently a known issue with iOS. Hmmm.

After that I fiddled with Voice Over and Auto-Scan tools.

Work-wise, today, it's getting external switches working for the app. This is all under Apple's "Accessibility" initiative, and it's not particularly attractive under the hood. But it's the game and I'll have to play it.

Right now I'm just playing around with the Accessibility Container stuff. There will probably be several different interaction modes, but the container is necessary for most of them.

It's been a while, but why not?

Keeping busy.

Computer lab and school yesterday.

Today it was changing the water in the turtle tank (5 gallons, once a week), mowing the front yard (it's getting warm out!), and doing end-of-the-month bills (depressing).

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Updated Yosemite last week, but lost the Win7 partition. When I went to re-install Bootcamp the (mid-2012) MacBook Pro froze in the partitioning process. Yikes. I was able to reboot into Yosemite, but I can't afford to have a dead development machine, so no Win7 for now.

Which is a problem, because Adobe After Effects needs a 64 bit box. I could, if I was crazy, run Creative Cloud on the MacBook, but I'm not crazy so I won't.

No Adobe products on mission critical or internet enabled machines....

Still here

Been busy. The old blog and tumblr...

Still here

after two weeks on the road, back in town.

cats are happy to see me...

Old dreams are dangerous

Old dreams are dangerous. You might think they are gone, but like some sort of 17 year locust they wait their chance to burrow up from your subconscious.

Opposite our nice downwind slip in Richmond there had been a Norsea, the Beowulf, for a couple of years. Which I liked because of the parallel processing connection, and because it was beautiful, and because it clearly could be sailed on SF bay when the overly tender Coronado 25 would be on her beam ends.

I hadn't known what it was, but I knew I liked it.

So, when I saw the Marlow Gambler, it was a done deal.

Things happen...

I was working a job I didn't like, and needed something to do on the weekends, something to get me out of the house, out of town.

Yachtworld had daysailers, lots of them. But it seemed people wanted a lot for them, particularly with a (California licensed) trailer. That's what happens when you boat shop in early summer, I suppose.

So I started surfing, looking at pictures of Roberts steel boats (ugly, with a capital 'Ugh') and ended up looking at the picture of a cute double ender.

And the price was low. Well, low for 27', not for a daysailer. But so low that it was clearly a mistake and it was OK for me to email the broker, because it was clearly a mistake and the boat was really out of my reach. I could indulge in a fantasy of a pocket blue water cruiser without the danger of having to actually buy one.

Clearly.