david sidlinger

In the meantime, please don’t mistake silence for inaction. - Dean Hachamovitch

Consider it done. In the meantime, I also won’t mistake silence for a viable strategy.

I recently started using VMware Fusion instead of Parallels Desktop to run virtual machines on my MacBook. The main reason I switched was support for multi-processor VMs, but I also had a nagging suspicion that Parallels’ kernel extensions might be behind the sleep issues my machine has been having.

I think Fusion is a great product, but I’ve run across something that caused me huge amounts of frustration. Sometimes, it would warn me that it couldn’t write preference information. Once that happened, it was all downhill. Attempting to change the application preferences would cause the whole application to die immediately. Most of the other applications I use would start acting funky.

It turns out you should never ever launch Fusion using Quicksilver.

I don’t know what exactly VMware is doing, but Fusion has earned the dubious distinction of being the only application that I know of that won’t work with the best application in the explored universe. My first guess is something to do with changing the process identity.

I like to imagine that it does feel some shame being the only item that I’ve had to add to my dock since installing Quicksilver.

An Evangelist at Microsoft thinks that “the Browser is on life support” due to Apollo, WPF/e, and their kin. Wow. Is it just me or is that a pretty big leap?

Browsers were definitely not the first way to interact with the internet, but they have persisted due to the (fairly) easy to understand page abstraction. If Flash is any indication, these technologies are pretty painful for the average user, because they take away a lot of the things that are baked in to the browser experience (bookmarks, for example).

[Update] Removed the screen grab and ad hominem attack. ;)

I’m going to start an experiment tomorrow. I’ve purchased pzizz, and I’m going to give daily energizing (read: napping) a try. After hearing Merlin Mann (of 43 Folders) extol its virtues and years of counting myself among the under-rested, I’m ready to throw down with some hardcore power napping.

If you decide to pick up pzizz for yourself, use the coupon code “TWIT” to save yourself 25% and throw a little support Leo Laporte’s way. You do listen to the TWiT pod/netcasts, don’t you?