Out of both a belief that it could be quite practical, and a desire to have a cool new gadget, I recently took delivery of a new Lenovo Ideapad S10. This netbook has been on the market for about a year now, and NCIX had it on sale for $350. I added a gig of RAM and got the complete package for a total of $409, after shipping and taxes.

I haven’t been working on Napkin for the past couple weeks. It’s because there’s something that’s prevented me from working on it. And while the headline of this article suggests that the cause is a curse of some kind, I’m bleeping it because I can’t say it yet. I’ll have something to announce on this in the next couple weeks, but for the time being, I’m using all my development time (and plenty of my “day job time”) working on this new project.

Have you ever tried learning to ski? Or skate? Or rollerblade? All these sports have something in common: it’s pretty easy to get started, but you’re gonna get hurt unless you learn how to stop. Cocoa is pretty similar, actually. You can code your guts out, but if you don’t know how to troubleshoot your problems, you’re in for a world of hurt.So too with my little printing problem from last time.

When I began this project, I was in a low point for my day job: the clients were unusually quiet, and I was even starting to get that pain-in-the-gut feeling when things are going bad. Right now, of course, things are right back to normal: crazy clients with crazy websites and crazy deadlines. So I’ve been working my fanny off, and subsequently paying less attention to our dear Napkin. But it’s still very much on my mind, and after a couple weeks, I’m back.

Okay, things are moving again. Having got my application to save and open documents, I decided that I would clean that up a bit, by filling in some configuration in XCode. Going to my Target and showing the properties, I was able to change the name of my documents from ???? to .nap, and provide nice document icons. I also named my document format: “Napkin Doc”, and so that’s what you see when you Get Info… on the saved documents.