Site Trivia

• The site is developed on a 15" PowerBook 1.25 GHz and a 1.42 GHz Mac Mini.  Sweet little machine, especially driving a 23" ADC Cinema Display.  Can you say "acres of real estate?"
• Previous computers used (in order):  Blue and White G3 400, PowerMac G4 Quicksilver Dual 800 Mhz, and a 12" 1Ghz PowerBook.
• The desktop's name is Hadji. (And he smokes! Speed is good)...or he did at one point.  He is now, sadly, woefully out of date.  Sigh.  Progress marches on.  At least he's way, way faster than the G3 400 he originally was.  Gotta love brain transplants.  Even sadder, the PowerBook (named Bandit, what else?), is within a spitting distance of being as quick as the desktop.
• The image you see at the top left is a silhouette from a photograph I took of Seattle, Washington's skyline as seen from the ferry heading from Seattle to Bainbridge island. That's the iconic Space Needle, in case you're wondering.
• Fonts used: Macalicious uses for its text Geneva, though our style sheet also specifies Helvetica, Arial, and Verdana.  Navigation and titles use a mixture of Lucida Grande and Futura.
• Pay attention to the site's title tags on images.  You might learn something.   
• The Macalicious title graphic used to use the Cheap Motel True font.
• Seattle has the most extensive ferry network in the nation, linking the city to the myriad of inhabited islands of Puget Sound.
• My dislike of Microsoft is admittedly not entirely rational. Actually, a hefty proportion of that dislike is due only to the fact that MS products are just plain ugly. Then there's that whole predatory business practices thing.  We'll just skip getting into that argument.
• Macalicious is best viewed at a resolution of 1024x768 or higher.  It should actually view all right at almost any resolution.
• Hadji loved Cyberdog.  Unfortunately, Cyberdog was run over.  Where's a good vet when you need one?  At least we now have Safari.
• Macalicious owes a big fat thank you to Nobuhiro Kawai, creator of the 50s Modern Kaleidoscope Theme. The background pattern for the theme served as the template for the original Macalicious' own background, and by extension, inspired the entire site's design. [This is no longer true since version 2.0 of Macalicious was released, but the big fat thank-you still applies :-) ]
• Mt. Rainier makes a stunning backdrop to Seattle, which simply has to be seen to be believed.  It lies 87 miles from the city, is over two miles high, and is potentially the most dangerous volcano of the entire Cascade mountain range.
• Am I the only person to harbor the sneaking suspicion that Lazarus Long and Solomon Short are one and the same?
• Florida has only two seasons:  1. Summer, 2. Not-Summer.
• Though true, the preceding statement is no longer relevant to me, as I now reside in the Pacific Northwest.  Lovely part of the country, I must say.
• All graphics work on Macalicious is created using Adobe's Photoshop.  The site is laid out in 100% CSS, and pieced together in Macromedia's Dreamweaver.
• Macalicious 3.0 was launched on 12 April 2001. It marked actually the fourth design iteration of the website.  Now though we're up to version 4 or 5, or maybe that's 6 or 7.  Keep a site running long enough, and you lose count.
• Actually, as of April 2006, the site is running version 8.5.  It is entirely CSS driven, attempts to be XHTML 1.0 STRICT compliant (for the most part), and is running a chimerical hybrid of hand-coding, DreamWeaver created pages, and Blosxom driven pages. 
• If you hit Option-Escape whilst typing a word in a cocoa application (Mail, TextEdit, etc), you will get a scrolling menu of all possible words in the OS' dictionary that complete what you've typed.  Neat.
• With OS X 10.3, Apple introduced the ability to keep a local copy of a .Mac iDisk, which then automagically syncs as you change files on it.  The local copy of Macalicious is now stored  on my iDisk, allowing me to effortlessly work on files with both the desktop and PowerBook, and have all changes remain synchronized between multiple computers with no effort on my part.  This is what is meant by the word 'convenient.'