Path Finder · Those of you in Mac-land should go have a look at “Path Finder” from Cocoatech, OS X specialists from LA. It's advertised as a file browser, a better replacement for Finder. And indeed, it is better; absolutely, comprehensively, massively better. But I can't use it ...
On Character Strings · In the recent essay on Unicode, I promised to say more about UTF-8 and UTF-16. Which is still a good idea, but a wonderful article by Paul Graham, The Hundred-Year Language, got me thinking about character strings in general, and how many different ways there are of approaching them ...
