Born Sleepy - Sam Deane's blog

I just had a weird glitch where I realised that iCal wasn't showing the birthdays calendar, even though the relevant preference was turned on.

I looked on iCloud, and sure enough the birthdays were showing up there - proving that I hadn't somehow lost the data from my address book.

In the end I found a simple solution:

• Open iCal preferences
• Turn off "Show Birthdays calendar"
• Quit

Ever since Facebook woke up and started a series of relatively major changes to its user interface, I've been finding it frustrating to use.

I'm not alone of course - many people have said the same. I'm not from the "all change is bad" school of thought, so it wasn't just that a few buttons had moved around - which seems to be the gist of most of the criticism I've seen and heard.

For some reason, I just started to enjoy using Facebook less. The stuff it showed me seemed less relevant, and I felt less engaged.

I've been puzzling for a while about why exactly this is, and I've come up with a theory.

So, NSConference 2012 has finished. I wanted it to go on for another week, but alas it was impossible, and that many cooked breakfasts probably wouldn't have been advisable.

I won't go for a full on summary of the whole thing - a few other folks have been doing a good job of that.

Here's a quick take on my initial thoughts though.

Daniel Pasco just blogged an article named Radar Or GTFO.

The gist of his argument is that it's all very well moaning about Xcode 4, but unless you file Radar bugs on it, you don't have a leg to stand on.

Since I've recently been moaning about Xcode 4, I have a view on this.