This is going to brief as its my second attempt to write this post - the first was interrupted by a system wide crash. (Mac’s don’t crash my arse!)

I’ve been trying to learn cocoa and have found developers blogs and especially their sample code to be very helpful, so I’ve decided to post my collection of (probably useless to most) scripts and source code.

So you can expect to see a few test projects and scripts posted as soon as I sort through all the crap.

**********Start moan*********

Does anyone have a list of spam keywords I can add to the Wordpress blacklist of words it will not allow in posts?

This is getting ridiculous. The more I add to the blacklist, the more seem to get through.

**********Moan over**********

While checking out my site stats to see how many people have visited, downloaded iQuotes, and how many people have accessed the RSS feed of quotes, I noticed that I had over 20,000 hits from one IP address. The next highest number of hits for one IP address is only 2,500, and the next 263.

Obviously, I felt compelled to find out who it was so I googled for IP address Trace and entered the address. The name came back as 17-202-13-240.apple.com. A traceroute tells me that it passes through San Jose at some point.

Now I don’t fully understand the IP address so I wondered if anyone could enlighten me on the significance of this.

Is it really Steve Jobs, sitting at his desk at 1 Infinite Loop reminiscing about the old times while watching my screensaver on his Intel Powerbook, or is there another explanation for this?

While researching Quartz Composer I came across very cool application called Quartz Desktop.

It enables you to play Quartz Compositions, such as iQuotes and Apple’s RSS screensaver.

Steve

The next version of PodTunes will include a progress bar with time remaining etc.

I also plan to work on a personalization script for QuarkXpress.

And a utility to back up to your iPod.

Makes a change from iTunes controllers!