LaunchBar for Mac OS X. I don’t think I’ve mentioned this before, but if you are using Mac OS X, you must check this utility out. I’ve been using it for the last couple of months, and finally registered it today. It just makes things easy. (I think I initially discovered this software via Have Browser, Will Travel.)
NY Times: The Future of Cellphones Is Here. Sort Of.. The best overview article on 3G wireless that i’ve seen to date.
74th Annual Academy Awards Nominees. Some real good stuff this year, even though it really wasn’t a banner year for great films. I very much would like to see Ben Kingsley win for Sexy Beast. It was an incredible performance.
I guess I’m not getting what the fuss is all about with this CSS versus tables thing. I have three or four tables at my house that work fine. In fact, I’m typing on one of those tables now. Why would I replace them with some CSS thing? Can I put my coffee on it?
Nokia Contact Sender is a great Mac OS X app that lets you send VCards to your Nokia phone. I just saved myself about an hour of typing on the keypad.
PHPGeek :: Home of PHPTriad and more Holy Windows XP Web interface Batman!
Ars Technica: Microsoft .Net Overview “In a remarkable feat of journalistic sleight-of-hand, thousands of column inches in many “reputable” on-line publications have talked at length about .NET whilst remaining largely ignorant of its nature, purpose, and implementation."
I Heart New York: X Icons has Mac OS X Radiohead icons.
Long day here at the Bump Clubhouse. I decided to finally install the Sonnet Technologies ZIF/G4 upgrade card in my Blue and White tower that I am using as my home fileserver/home Apache server. I bought the card open boxed about two months ago, but hadn’t the time or the inclination to install until today. It was such a good deal that I couldn’t pass it up. Well, lo and behold, I took the card out of the box and it isn’t a ZIF G4 at all, but a PCI G3, someone had pulled the ole switcheroo on Microcenter. I took it up there, and they let me return it after all. Even though I bought it in November. Good story of customer service and a big up to Marchand and Jim over at the Marrietta store for taking care of me. So now I have a much faster server. Yay.
Marvel Entertainment - dotComics I had no idea that Marvel had some of their comics online.
AdamIser : Adium Adium is a Mac OS X AIM client written in Cocoa.
This will verify that Radio now lives on a server, not on my local machine. This will allow me to access it from any computer with Internet access.
I’m still looking for work. If you have an opportunity, or know someone who does, I build great Web apps using Cold Fusion, PHP, and all sorts of databases. I have good, Fortune 500 client experience, and can do client interaction as well as development. I’ve been a developer for several years, and have also managed a department of developers. In addition to full time work, I’m interested in either contract or project work. Oh, I’m based in Atlanta so, unless I can telecommute, the job would have to be here. If you know of anything, please email me.
Oh, and not to take anything away from the Russian skaters who did win the medal, but the Canadian skaters who ended up with the Silver got screwed out of the Gold. Everyone who watched the broadcast, and seemingly everyone in the arena but the judges knew it. It’s a shame for the sport of figure skating really. There are people who don’t watch it except for the once every four year Olympic competitions. I, for one, have a hard time with sports where judges determine the outcome to begin with. Referees or umpires are one thing, they can have some effect on the outcome, but when judges have enough leeway to make someone who obviously gave an inferior performance win, I take exception.
Mac OS X Tip: If you use BBEdit 6.5 and Mac OS X, you should check out the Shell Worksheets feature they added in this release. It allows you to execute command line instructions and get results inside a BBEdit document. Very interesting stuff.
AppleSkinz are pretty cool looking. I might need to get a set for my upgraded G3 Tower, assuming they fit.
Radio Services alpha release. I can’t help but think that Mac OS X gets cooler every day. It seems like there are so many nuggets of goodness in the OS to discover that it’s almost overwhelming.
ZDNET: FTC’s working for a spam clampdown Well, I doubt very much that this effort will be successful, but I can hope, can’t I? Over the last few months the amount of spam I’m getting has risen to an almost unbearable level. Even with fine tuned mail filters, some still ends up in my inbox. (link via Camworld)
Las Vegas was very enjoyable. One of the real high points was going to see Blue Man Group. I’m not sure how I haven’t seen them before, but I loved it, and highly recommend it.
Radio UserLand : How to import posts from Blogger and Movable Type Just in case you missed it.
That last post wasn’t meant to be grumpy, and I really don’t mind answering questions. Heading out the door in a few minutes.
Just a quick note about my blogger entry import project. It’s true that I have imported all of my blogger entries and my pre-blogger entries into Radio with Userland’s help, but Userland will be releasing the code and docs for this process once they have cleaned things up, not me. Please wait until they do so because anything you get from me right now won’t be documented well. I imagine that they will be getting it out in the next couple of days. Not that I mind answering emails on the subject, but that I would prefer that everyone get this code with good documentation and support from Userland.
Network Security Updater for Microsoft Office v. X This fixes a denial of service vunerability that was caused by their network licensing checker.
Confessionalism - Fuck You Gallery It’s a sort of takeoff on the mirror project. (via davezilla)
Updates will be sporadic today, as I’m traveling to Las Vegas this afternoon for a weekend of relaxation and fun. I still have to pack and get the house ready for the cat sitter. I, of course, put that off until the last minute. I believe that the hotel where we are staying has high speed Internet access in the rooms, so I should get some updating in this weekend in the mornings. I’m hoping to finish the design here in the next few days, it would already be done if I could natively run my graphics apps in Mac OS X.