The newest issue of the Industry Standard’s newish magazine, Grok, is all about wireless. I was impressed with the entertainment issue, but less interested in the education issue that followed it. I like the concept of a vertical magazine that changes vertical’s monthly.

This article from today’s New York Times pictures(without any sort of credit) the recipe of the day from the Foodvision.com site that my company built. I don’t know if they asked for permission from Foodvision to picture it, but it’s for that reason that I don’t really like services like the ones discussed in this article. They take a small snippet from a Web site and picture it out of the context that the site intended that content to be show. It’s sort of involuntary reverse syndication. I guess the argument would be that this gets your site a visitor and exposure, but I would argue that without the context of the site it really doesn’t benefit the content provider in a commercial environment very much.

My Creative Nomad Jukebox arrived yesterday. I’ve really been looking forward to being able to carry 6 Gb of music with me wherever I go. It is almost exactly the size of the typical portable CD player, and a little heavier. The included software works with both PC’s and Mac’s and it uses a USB interface to hook to the computer. I was pleasantly surprised that they included a bunch of classical tracks on the device when I received it.

Here’s part 3 of The Truth In Advertising. It’s absolutely hilarious. Parts one and two were hilarious too, but I can’t seem to find them anywhere on the Web. If you know where I can find them, drop me a line.(Warning: This movie contains graphic language.)

This commercial has to be the funniest thing I’ve seen in a while.

AnywhereYouGo.com is a great wireless technology site for developers and people interested in things like WAP and Bluetooth.

Tim Burton’s Stainboy(Shockwave required)

How-To Install Samba on Mac OS X.

Holy Shit. The new caffe mocha redesign and splash page by ABC is incredible work. The new beats on the site aren’t bad either.

A slideshow on AppleScript and Mac OS X from Apple.

With Autumn basically here now, I’m contemplating the summer that just passed, which was the largest time of change in my adult life to date. I can’t help thinking how different my attitude towards adversity is than it was several months ago. Adversity is an opportunity to change things in yourself that you don’t like, to learn something new about you. Sure I’ve got a few new gray hairs that I didn’t have before, but I also am lighter, leaner, and have much better perspective about where I am and where I want to go.

Three weeks ago, I went to the doctor complaining about some pain I've been having in my side. The doctor took some X-Rays, and informed me that I had something in one of my lungs. I would have to get a CAT scan of my chest to see what it was. God I was scared. I was a smoker, I worked for an environmental engineering company that oversaw asbestos removal projects for a year, it could be anything the doctor said, it could be scar tissue, it could be a shadow in the xray, he didn't mention the other thing it could be because he didn't have to. I had to wait a whole week for the appointment. One of the longest weeks of my life.

They put me in this machine and ran this solution through my body that made me fell warm all over. it was over in about fifteen minutes, then I had to wait two days for the results. Two very long days. Finally, the doctor told me that it was nothing, a shadow in the xray perhaps. If you smoke cigarettes, think for a minute about what could happen to you as a result.

Graphic Designer’s Judgment Clouded By Desire To Use New Photoshop Plug-In

This springboard module makes your Handspring Visor into a cell phone. How about this idea: A device that is both a handheld computer and a cellphone out of the box that is a reasonable size and doesn’t run out of battery life in one hour. Everyone seems to be making phones into organizers and organizers into phones. Someone please think outside of your current product line. Please.

Well, I’ve spent quite a bit of time with Mac OS X this week, and I can tell you that I’m fairly impressed. I’ve been looking around the net for good resources, and I haven’t found nearly the amount of material I would like to. There also isn’t too much software to run natively. One surprise was that my copy of Quicken 2001 was already carbonized so that it ran directly in the X environment rather than in the Classic environment.

Here’s an article on hacking the Mac OS X dock

The gallery for Behind the Curtain has been posted. Unfortunately, my attempt at recording my day was blasted out of the water by circumstances beyond my control.

Need a copy of Henry David Thoreau’s Walden for your Palm OS device?

My copy of the Mac OS X beta arrived yesterday. While I’m sure I’ll end up writing a much longer piece with overall impressions and some detailed information for you techies, my first impressions were powerful ones. I installed it on my G3 Powerbook and on a Blue and White G3 tower yesterday. Installation is easy as pie. The Aqua interface didn’t annoy me as much as I thought. I had a little bit of a hard time getting the Classic(read legacy) Mac OS environment to work properly, but it was the fault of extensions that communicate directly with hardware. It’s seems very powerful, and it works. By the time this thing gets to market, it’s going to be a juggernaut.

I’ve been ripping all of my CD’s to MP3 over the last few weeks. When you have as many CD’s as I have, this isn’t a trivial task. I estimate that I will have ripped everything by this time next year, when other, higher quality formats start stealing MP3’s thunder.

I’ve, of course, obtained a copy of the new Radiohead album, Kid A. It’s brilliant. It’s a fitting follow up to OK Computer. You should be at the music store on October 3rd to buy it. I will be. You can find more information at Follow Me Around too.