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You know what would be cool? (in fact my best friend and I were just discussing this, this past weekend)
An LCD Remote for the iPod…
We can all wish can’t we?

Chuq was bitching about Marc Canter’s whining about Paolo’s pointing to a post by Todd Dominey. I read Chuq’s post, and followed the trail through to Todd’s post about the text-shadow CSS2 attribute, and am pleased to announce I am using it on this here website.
If you’re using Safari 1.1, then you’ll notice the [...]

From:    Do_not_reply@apple.com
Subject: Shipment notification for order # XXXXXXXXX
Date:    October 22, 2003 5:16:17 AM CDT
To:      John
Dear Apple Customer,
The following products shipped on 10/22/2003. Transit time will depend upon whether you have chosen standard or premium freight options. If your order is shipping standard freight, it should arrive within 2 - 5 business days of shipment.
Product #  Product Description                      Qty  Ext Price
__________ ________________________________________ ____ ________________
M9231LL/A  MAC OS X PANTHER 10.3 FULFIL/UTD-USA     1    129.00
_________________________________________________________________________
SHIPPINGA  OVERNIGHT SHIPPING CHARGE                1    12.00
_________________________________________________________________________

Woohoo! Panther [...]

Now that everyone has commented on iTunes for Windows and Microsoft’s reactionary statements, I figured I’d take a stab at sharing my own comments.
The WSJ published an article [sub. req.] that talked about the iTunes profit margins:
Consider the economics of the iTunes store. Apple charges 99 cents per song that is downloaded by a consumer. [...]

Wow.
go play this game, really. We need more like this. The power of video games to effect your world view has never been clearer.
[via Abstract Dynamics]

If you’re planning on upgrading to Panther, and use any of Unsanity’s great haxies, then you should check out their compatability chart.
I use WindowShade X, SafariNoTimeout 1.0 and ClearDock personally, so it’s nice to know that they’re all compatible now, except WSX, which is coming along quite nicely. Thanks Slava, et al.

An old friend (former boss of mine, actually) asked me for some advice on web-based discussion software. At first, my friend just asked a simple question:
“Can you recommend some sort of web-based software that I can use for online discussions?”
I’m sure that you’ll agree that that’s a pretty open-ended question, so, before I started [...]

Great little story here:
“I only index,” it told me. “I leave the ranking to the pigeons.”
“Oh,” I said, disappointed. “Well, then. Revisit-after soon, k?”
And then Googlebot was gone.
Brought a chuckle to my lips…

Google has a surprisingly web-centric view of the world:
define Google -ÝCurrently the most important spidering search engine by far, Google is dominating the search engine market.
define YahooÝ-Ýa combination search engine and search index to information on the World Wide Web.
define PayPal -ÝGómez distributes payments through its fulfillment partner, PayPal. Therefore, Gómez PEERs are required to [...]

(Preamble: I wrote this entry one year ago today… but never posted it for some reason. I’m posting it now, as originally written, as a reminder to myself about where I was a year ago)
Are you empowered?
In your life? In your job? In your life outside your job?
I am one of those that [...]

Over the past year, I’ve slowly gotten into ripping Mp3s of CDs that I own, and now that I own a computer with an 80GB HD, I don’t really have an issue with storage space like I used to (largest hard drive before the one in this new Powerbook was 40GBs, but that one is [...]

Great EFF movie:
Those wacky kids at EFF have done it again. Everybody must watch The MP3 Caper.
[via Vertical Hold]
Note: I’m not a member of the EFF, primarily because I haven’t taken the time to read up on what their real policies are and I have a tendency to stay out of political organizations…

Here’s a few links to stuff I’ve read over the past month or so:

Advertising
Deciding On The Advertising Media - good pros and cons list of different advertising mediums, but leaves out online advertising
The On-line Marketer’s Secret Weapon: A Site that Works
Salted Wound : Perfect Weblog Ads
Seth’s Blog: Why Web Ads Don’t Work
Fresh Inc: [...]

I don’t write about music at all, but I’m making an exception this one time.
I just sent Brad $16 (via Paypal), the price of a normal CD, because I love one of his songs, and I would have bought his album at full price, had I heard the song on the radio… but I didn’t. [...]

Adam Kalsey has purchased BlogSnob from idya [Press Release]. Congrats Adam… hope it works out well for you.
BlogSnob is a neat little text based advertising system that operated (in my opinion) much like LinkExchange did back when it first launched. Kalsey’s using BlogSnob to upgrade his Textad Exchange service.
You know what the fun [...]

Ok, after having my comments broken all day, because I tried to install MT-Blacklist without Storable.pm installed (it’s required), I’ve gotten it to work. I got an email from a few of you alerting me to my broken comments, and I appreciate it. If your host doesn’t support Storable.pm and it’s a shared [...]

MT Blacklist - a plugin for getting rid of MovableType comment spam… coming to a blog near you as soon as I find time to install it.

Steve previewed Panther (Mac OS X 10.3) in June of this year. Apple announced the shipping date yesterday. It’s coming to an Apple Store near you (not near me… there aren’t any Apple Store’s in Austin) on Oct. 24th.
They’ve also announced an Up-to-Date program for purchasers of new Apple computers… but it’s not like the [...]

Due to the release of Yahoo! News RSS Feeds, I’ve now stopped visiting Google’s News site. Thanks for the pointer Jeremy.

From Iuncture: Sales templates support personalization with consistency
Your customers want to be treated as individuals with every interaction– but how are you know what works to build strong buying relationships?Ý If every customer interaction is different it can be very difficult to discover best practices without some form of strategy.
Use models or templates [...]

Top Advertising Recruiter Reveals Job Trends & Tips from MarketingSherpa. Great tips.

Ok, I’ll play along. Here’s my dock:

Pictured: Finder, iSync, Terminal, Adium, NetNewsWire, Mail, Safari, BBEdit (version 6.5 cause it works, and I’m too cheap/lazy to upgrade), Anarchie (I mean Interarchy), Fireworks, iCal, Address Book, iTunes, iPhoto, System Preferences, Explorer (note: I don’t actually open it that much), and Trash. I use Cleardock, a [...]

Gruber hits the nail on the head with his latest “Dell’s Dud“:
This idea that the iPod’s position is precarious — that any day now, some cheaper weak-branded knock-off will knock Apple off its perch — is exactly backwards. The iPod doesn’t just lead in market share; it leads in mind share. Any competing player that [...]

“Confidence is contagious.”
Vince Lombardi (1913-1970)
Hall of Fame football coach