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This music video choreographed to match up with everything the user is doing on a Mac is wicked cool.

This is my first post from my iphone. Totally love this phone. Its not that hard to type with in landscape mode - you just have to learn to trust Apple’s smart retyper feature. Love it!

Interesting. I went to the Apple Store to custom configure a new MacBook Pro now that they’ve gotten speed bumps, and include Firewire 800, and I saw this on the options that you can add-on:

A MagSafe Airline Power Adapter.
Looks like Apple’s building one now (finally) and they’re selling them as add-ons through [...]

So life has been keeping me busier than shit lately. Sorry folks, that’s just the truth of it.
I’ve actually got about 4 or 5 good posts about half written, but none ready to post.
Long story short, I’m running a company now, and it’s in an industry that’s new to me, even though I’ve been [...]

My favorite reaction to Apple BootCamp announcement is this one from FuckedCompany.com:
Hell’s doors are now open
Apple’s new Boot Camp software will allow Mac users to run Windows XP.
When: 4/5/2006
Company: Apple Computer Inc
Severity: 30
Points: 130
Discuss in the Happy Fun Slander Corner
Yes, I still read F’dCompany… you don’t? It reminds me of the good old days… [...]

My friend Mark Engelhardt, owner of IntuitiveISP IM’d me last night to tell me about his $1.99 sale on .info domains. $1.99? That’s a great deal… better than GoDaddy or anywhere else I’ve seen them…
I figured it’s too good a deal to pass up, so I registered a few cool short .info [...]

Here’s the top search queries that brought traffic to this website in September:

Instead of forwarding this to all of my friends, I figured I’d post it here. I personally don’t mind my taxes being used to support PBS. My kid watches Sesame Street, and I listen to NPR whenever I’m not listening to my iPod.
Subject: This time, it’s for real: Save NPR and PBS
Hi,
You know [...]

I just want to point out how much I abhor people that use Plaxo.
In general, Plaxo users don’t enter complete contact information into their contact records stored inside of Plaxo. This sucks because after a person adds me to their Plaxo database, Plaxo then sends me an email asking me to confirm the details [...]

My best friend runs HartzVictims.org.
He set up HartzVictims.org because his kitty, Riley, was hurt by Hartz’s flea and tick products back in the summer of 2001. Riley was featured on the local cable news channel, and the wrote numerous letters to Hartz, to no avail.
So, in 2002, he started up the site, [...]

Mark Cuban: When will the music industry do it right ?:
This is the only industry in the world that can see thousands of its retailers close, reduce the number of products it sells via cutbacks in artist rosters and albums released, cut back marketing and promotional dollars and then blame a reduction in sales on [...]

I’m betting at this point that I won’t be posting again until next week, so, here are some links that I found interesting over the past month or so:

ascii movies [via Scoble]
before the web — a collection of personal historical perspectives and accounts of what went on before the dot com bubble…
The Official Bubb Rubb [...]

This site posts links to free MP3s as well as a few that are for sale… great stuff.
[via dasme]

I just watched E!’s best/worst coverage on the TV and had to comment about Lara Flynn Boyle’s dress:

Can you believe she wore that? I mean, she looks great, but the dress?
[Note, I don't normally comment on photos I put up here, but I couldn't resist this time]
Can’t wait till next Monday night — The [...]

Now Steven’s post on the Segway is just too funny:
John Robb: “Everyone who rides a Segway, wants to own a Segway.”
There has been a lot of Segway stuff showing up in the blogging community (and elsewhere) lately. The consensus seems to be that it’s a truly wonderful thingy indeed.
I wrote about my Segway experience [...]

I’ve been super busy trying to get my life in order after our move… regular postings will resume sometime soon (I hope)… dialup sucks and those open wireless nodes I mentioned a while back only work in the kitchen or so it seems (must be the rain).

Read this today:
Is technology maturing? HP is on the record stating that the technology industry is maturing. While this may provide cover as Carly reduces the once great innovator into a Microsoft VAR, in these recessionary days it’s worth pondering if the tech sector has any growth left. And what does “maturing” mean anyway?
Read More [...]

This from the Mailsmith FAQ:
1. Why don’t you support [insert favorite features here]
Our initial hope had been to release Mailsmith as a version 4.0 product. However, this turned out to be an unrealistic goal and we instead released Mailsmith 1.0
So, we weren’t able to put all of the features we would have wanted [...]

After reading this post about RSS feeds and costs from Mark Pilgrim, I’ve decided to stop pulling RSS feeds every 30 minutes with NetNewsWire. I was pulling them so often so that I could stay up to date, but, it’s really not that neccessary to pull them that often, so, I’m decided to do [...]

Quick note: My hosting provider, Intuitive ISP will be upgrading the server that this site is hosted on tonight between 9pm Eastern and 2am Eastern, so the site will most likely be down during that time. If you need a host for a website, I’d recommend Intuitive ISP, as they’ve always been able to [...]

Kasia wrote about her recent awareness of someone spamming her referrer logs. I’ve seen the same thing here on inluminent, and didn’t know what was causing it, but thanks to Kasia, I’ve learned that at least its not just me. Kuroshin’s article on it was pretty helpful as it also backs up the fact [...]

At work I use a PC, with Outlook, to manage my email. I hate it, but only becuase I can’t make myself like it, not for any quantifyable reason.
So, with that in mind, I realize that the FuzzyGroup has just released Inbox Buddy 0.9, a ‘plugin’ for Outlook. I’m downloading it right now, [...]

I may not have the time to do read all the time, but these books just got added to my ‘buy soon’ list:
Small Pieces Loosely Joined
Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done

I’ve wanted a TiVo for way too long, but upon reading this story on news.com, I’m thinking that I don’t want a TiVo, I just want to upgrade my PS2. Less boxes in the entertainment cabinet is good, and a great marketing angle for Sony. Too bad that the first US release of [...]

I have now harnessed the power of news.google into my RSS Aggregator of choice: NetNewsWire Lite.
Thanks to Bruce for setting up the RSS Feeds for news.google.

I can’t steal the punchline to this one from Kasia, so go read the joke and the punchline at her site. Classic.

Monday was a good day for incoming referrers.
It seems that Tony Pierce finally stumbled onto this little weblog, and thinks that I’m doing it better than him… Thanks Tony. That is terribly high praise, in my opinion. Most of you don’t know this, but Tony’s weblog was the key inspiration for [...]

Just ordered a 512MB Compact Flash card from Amazon for $149 after mail-in rebates. Great deal, considering a year ago I bought a 64MB card for about $150. [via gizmodo]

I meant to blog this earlier in the day, as it’s a great example of why I love Kuro5hin.org.
The other side of greener grass
I don’t know about other countries, but many US homeowners are really obsessed with their lawns. I guess growing grass around your house is better than pouring concrete. Of course, [...]

These books are on my ‘to buy and read’ list:
Small Pieces Loosely Joined
Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
Small Time Operator, 25th Ed

pelf \PELF\, noun:
Wealth or riches, especially when dishonestly acquired.
Pelf comes from Old French pelfre, “booty, stolen goods.” It is related to pilfer.
See Dictionary.com for more information.

I’m looking at buying a TiVo, or something similar (I’m tired of missing the show I like to watch, and would like to watch them faster, by getting rid of the commercials… heh… and I sell advertising for a living). I found a place to get your TiVo upgraded. I don’t have a Tivo, [...]

Let me make this very clear. I hate the Dallas Cowboys. I grew up in Houston, and was a ‘Luv Ya Blue’ kind of kid back in the day, and now that I live up here in Cowboy land, I hate it. I don’t even watch the evening news because that’s all [...]

I stumbled across the Daring Fireball weblog tonight, which is run by John Gruber, formerly of BareBones. Interesting reading over there…
The best piece I found though happens to be this tutorial on how to turn your dumb quotes into smart quotes in Movable Type. I’ll not copy the entire article here, but would [...]

This quick post by Cory Doctorow over at BoingBoing helps tell the story of why DRM in consumer devices just plain sucks for consumers. Toshiba’s got a great idea, which they implemented horribly. Again, Apple seems to be the hands down leader in the consumer electronics market, with others just trying to [...]

This is a small pet peeve of mine, and a few other people I’ve met through their weblogs:
Les Orchard has implemented a great ‘user-agent’ page in his personal news aggregator. Keith doesn’t like the fact that some aggregators out there use a webpage promoting the aggregator itself as their ‘user-agent’ url, as does John [...]

Ben and Mena posted a list of new features for MT 2.5 yesterday. Some of the Key features I’m anticipating are:

Integration of MTSearch
Ability to ping blo.gs and other services that accept pings adhering to the Weblogs.com XML-RPC interface.
“Keywords/Metadata” field added to entries.
More accessible default templates that follow guidelines from Mark Pilgrim’s Dive Into Accessibility.

Can’t wait [...]

I used these feeds to find the BBC news I read earlier in the day:
RSS feed of the front page
RSS feed of technology news
RSS feed of UK news
RSS feed of World news
Meant to post those earlier, but lost them and then found them again recently on Oblomovka.

I’m sitting at my desk, minding my own business, when I get an email from my boss that says “U.S., UK launch major Iraq airstrikes”
100 U.S. and British planes reportedly target military facility, but both sides keep mum.
British media reported Friday that 100 British and American planes have launched the biggest air attack on Iraq [...]

Spent a good while reading the GlennLogs last night (they were working fine versus the rest of the internet not existing) and I must say that Glenn seems to be an outstanding writer, and quite knowledgeable about the Mac OS. This post on Apple’s DDR use is an interesting read, and his post on [...]

Note: written on 9/5 in the evening:
Argh, there’s nothing more annoying than having issues with your DNS. I can get to about half of the internet, but not to my own websites (while I’m writing this that is).
It’s pretty annoying — its been like this since I got home from work at 6. [...]

Doc wanted to know how to capture instant JPGs instead of TIFF files with Mac OS X. I sent him an email recommending SnapzPro X from Ambrosia. Great software, and cheap to… and it even auto-uploads via FTP if you want it to. Wow, I didn’t even know that.

I just re-read my business plan answers this morning, tweaked them a bit and am readying them to send off to my partners… Seems like I’m really gung ho for this stuff to get started, so that we all know it’ll end sometime soon (at least the hard part will end, and we can always [...]

Ken Bereskin has finally posted a new tip for Jaguar, this one shows how CMD+Shift+4 can be used to do a screenshot of a window, or selection area. Cool Ken. He also shows how it can be invoked from the command line…