The Apple iTunes Affiliate Program offers a 5% commission on referral purchase at the iTunes music store. I’ve been wanting this since they launched.

Mark Cuban already has a Sidekick II

Hicks designs an elemental new icon to replace crappy new one for BBEdit 8.

For several months, I have been using OmniOutliner to keep track of my multitude of simultaneous projects, and iCal to manage the daily to-do items that I have with due dates. Earlier this week, a few different blogs noted the release of Process, an outliner for Mac OS X designed specifically for project management purposes. I’ve spent the last couple of days getting used to it, and I’m now totally sold on it as a replacement for the Omni/iCal combo. It adds a few features that make a big difference to me for the purposes of project management, aside from the obvious ability to use one application where I currently use two. First, the ability to color label individual items makes my gigantic to-do list much easier to read. Secondly, I was just thinking last week that I would like it very much if OmniOutliner supported a tabbed interface, and the “Projects” that Process handles are a perfect substitute. I can also prioritize each item, and assign it a to-do alarm. These alarms aren’t limited to your run of the mill alert message and sound. They can be an alert, automatically open a fill or application, play a sound, or even execute a unix command. Finally, the application allows you to link specific tasks to files in the filesystem, making it easy to remember where that specification or diagram is currently located. Process fits nicely into the way I work, and the way that my mind breaks up projects. I recommend checking it out if you already use an outliner of some sort for project management.

For years and years, really since it’s inception, I was the number one bump on google. A couple of months ago, some band named bump of chicken took the top spot. I wasn’t upset, I don’t get a lot of traffic, and I doubt that many people are typing the word bump into google. Now, however, some bicycle club with the abbreviation bump as its name has taken the number two spot away. I am not happy, I feel less bumpy.

Last week, while in New York, in a moment of late night, semi-coherent, convenience store shopping, I picked up a pack of Japanese Yogurt Hi Chew Candy. I am now addicted to the stuff. Chewy and delicious, and also available online, sounds good to me.

Mr. Merholz has a great graph that maps countries' Olympic medal counts to their population. It shows you how much perspective a little extra data can provide. I would be interested to see medals versus per capita economic statistics.

Siebkens Bar, originally uploaded by bump.

One of the bartenders, Patrick told all sorts of fun stories about the various famous people, from Paul Newman to Ashley Judd, who had ended up there during the racing weekends. (Oh, and the other fun bar in Lake Elkhart, Brown Baer, has the best cornbread I have ever tasted. The cheeseburger may have also been the best I have ever had, but I was too distracted with the slab of cornbread to notice.)

Flickr is a very interesting site for sharing photos. Since subscribing to the RSS feed of photos with the tag “Atlanta”, I have become addicted to watching every day as interesting photos of the city I live in flow into my RSS reader. Today they launched Organizr, a Rich interfaced tool for working with your Flickr photo collection. Aside from the obvious hatred of the letter “e” that is exampled in their naming conventions, ludicorp is doing something that I miss in Web companies, building tools that combine the best technologies available to do things people want to do in interesting ways.

Well, I survived my first trip to do onsite coverage of a major golf tournament. We work very very hard in the weeks that proceed a tournament, getting the site in order, the scoring software ready, and all of our sponsorship and syndication ducks in a row. It was phenomenal to actually get to go to an event in person after working them from afar for so long. No rest for the wicked though, as the Ryder Cup is a scant four weeks away now. I find myself, however, energized by the experience, wanting to push myself to new levels of excellence for the site and the team. Wisconsin is a gorgeous state, and the people are super nice, polite, and friendly. I would like to go back some summer and spend more time in that area.

This week’s tip of the week is one of my favorites. Check this, “Live close to where you work.”

I’m going to start doing this every Friday. This week’s tip is “Drive like you are going somewhere.” This is an especially useful tip for those of you who seem to always be in front of me on my way to the office in the morning.

Backup Brain has a nice roundup of Safari add-ons.

Calling something a “blog”, or putting a graphic at the top of the page with the word “blog” in it, does not make something a “blog”. I’m not trying to be nit picky. I really don’t care that much. It’s just that things like this annoy me. I have known many blogs, and you sir, are not a blog. This practice is becoming prevelant, mostly among major media companies that don’t seem to get the concept.

CIA asks Bush to discontinue blog

T-Mobile Sidekick II reviewed by PC Magazine. There is also a slidehow of images of the device and some screenshots.

It seems lately, that this has turned into a Yankees blog. Today marks the 25th anniversary of Thurman Munson’s death. For those of you who wouldn’t know, Thurman Munson was the catcher for the Yankees in the Seventies. He was a remarkable player. On a team full of leaders and veterans, he was the captain, an honor that might mean more on the Yankees than any other professional sports franchise. (Derek Jeter is the current captain.) I can remember the day, twenty five years ago, when my father walked in the side door of our house, and announced that Thurman Munson had died in a plane crash. At first I thought he was kidding, our family has this odd sense of humor, and I thought he was pulling my leg. It, however, was true, and I was crushed. So, today I remember him fondly, a hero of my youth, a quiet, humble man, despite his myriad of onfield achievements. Today, his locker still sits empty at Yankee Stadium.

Update: There is a great tribute piece on the Yankees Web site.

So, the Yankees traded Mr. Unreliable, Jose Contreras, for Esteban Loaiza, in essence getting reliability but trading a player with four years left on his contract for one who is a free agent at the end of the season. I think it’s a fantastic, and unexpected move, and it should shore the starting rotation up going into the stretch run. The moral of the story is that the Yankees want to win it all this year, and are willing to continue to mortgage the future to do it. In many ways, this was a better, smarter deal than any one involving Randy Johnson would have been. Kudos to Mr. Cashman.

After this week’s DNC, and a lot of soul searching, I am quite close to making a decision about who to support in this year’s election. For a moderate, it’s not the easy clear cut decision that it is for the Dems and Pubs in the house. Interestingly, in my case, it seems like the places where the current administration has chosen to get more conservative are almost universally where my hot button issues are. I don’t see, however, how I could possibly make my mind up before the RNC. Another thing, after watching about 25 hours of DNC coverage this week, mostly on Fox News, I can say without hesitation that I have little or no interest in ever being credentialed and attending the conventions. It’s like a four day infomercial.

I’m on some wierd kick where I am listening to a lot of older Oasis. They were really good back then. I wonder when I will get tired of it again.

Gothamist: New Yankee Stadium Is In The Works I have very mixed feelings about this. It’s a shame that the older parks, with only a couple of exceptions, are being phased out. I’m happy that I have gotten to see as many games at the current Yankee stadium as I have seen. Thinking about Ruth, Mantle, Dimaggio, Gehrig, Maris, Berra, and all the others playing on that same field makes the place seem magical. I was just up there, and saw a game about three weeks ago. The stadium is not as nice as the modern facilities, like Turner Field here in Atlanta. Turner Field gives you ample opportunity to spend more money, and I would guess that would be part of the reason for a newer, yet smaller, Yankee Stadium. More luxury boxes mean more revenue. What is going to happen with Monument Park?

I’ve got more invites to give away. All you need to do to get one is to leave me your name, and current email address in this post’s comments.

I’ve been watching the FNC coverage of the DNC last night and tonight. The theory being that I will hear the most critical voice possible from Fox News, since they are terribly biased, not towards true conservatism, but towards the Republican party. Listening to the comments after Theresa Heinz Kerry’s speech tonight, I feel somewhat bad for Fox because they came off seeming quite ignorant with their analysis after her speech. One of their analysts could not resist the temptation to make comments that had a distinct xenophobic tone, primarily referring to her accent. Barack Obama definitely stole the show this evening.

The 2004 Atlanta Falcons Schedule looks pretty tough considering the fact that the Falcons only won five games last year. There are virtually no assured wins on the schedule, part of that being because their conference is so tough. The mood here in Atlanta, thus far, has been one of expectation. I realize, of course, that all but four of the games last year had Atlanta starting a second or third string quarterback.

Jon Stewart is mad at the media, and he then tells them why. (via)