This will be updated a bunch today as I find more stuff going through the 13.5k articles in my copy of NNW. New Links at the top.

• OmniFocus coming for the iPhone Well, crap. Here's hoping Things for the iPhone comes too.
• Backing up Data for Non-techies
• How gamers are adopting the wiki way I attended this panel, and in fact, two of the questions referenced in the article were asked by me. There are interesting things happening in these silo communities.
• YouTube Extends their API's Chromeless player sounds interesting.
• An open letter to SXSW and all computer conference organizers Haha, he said "Web 2.0 Entitlement Jackasses."
• hillary is mom jeans
• Joost to stream March Madness They say it's only a test. Which means they know it's not going to work well. That honesty is refreshing

Oh Hai. So much going on here in Atlanta. I am neck deep in wedding planning. I am also going to Texas on Thursday for SXSW Interactive. Some links from my MarsEdit dashboard to start your week off with.

• User Generated Web Video: FAIL I pretty much totally agree with this guy.
• Harper Collins is offering one of my favorite books of all time, American Gods by Neil Gaiman, for free online during the month of March.
• Actual Performance versus Perceived Performance. Really interesting analysis of file copies on Vista and XP.
• New Nine Inch Nails released online. I paid the five dollars to get a copy, but they are being crushed by the traffic. The ohmpark article I linked to talks about the genesis of this "experiment." White people like experiments. Also amusing, the name of the company payments go to is "The Null Corporation."
• I went to see Jose Gonzalez at the Variety Playhouse last night. Mini-Review: After missing his last three Atlanta stops, this show met up with all my lofty personal expectations. Jose is a marvel, and you should check him out.
• I received my new point and shoot camera on Friday, and spent much of the weekend playing with it. It's an impressive little beast, and I am happy to have a point and shoot that offers most of the manual control that my SLR does as well as RAW file output. Unlike the previous models, where the Panasonic was the same as the Leica, this one has some Leica fiddling with the image processing. Look in my FLickr stream for some examples.

Long Overdue for a link post. New Links added at the bottom throughout the day.

• Lincoln is Alive. Pretty funny video from work.
• barackobamaisyournewbicycle.com
• Mac OS X Application Code Signing Marc drops science, as always.
• LoL Tapirs Lawlz.
• Spore: Hands-on Preview
• AT&T Adds ExpressCard 3G Cell Data Option for MacBook Pro Bye Sprint.

It's true. I am in love with, and now engaged to, a stupid Red Sox fan. I asked Sue to marry me this weekend on our four day jaunt to Puerto Rico, and for some reason she said yes. I don't post a lot about my feelings and personal stuff on this site, so I will keep this short. I am a lucky man, and I am very happy.

• Jolly Trooper combines Pirates and Stormtroopers into one t-shirt of awesomeness. Too bad I am not buying any more t-shirts.
• J.J. Abrams "Mystery in a Box" He's totally right. I now want to have a beer with him.
• Thing I don't understand of the day: Sarbanes-Oxley Act
• Google is coming out with nice iPhone versions of it's apps.
• This Maverick's mini-site is awesome. I wish I wasn't a fat video game playing blob sometimes.

• I am totally addicted to the Items We Carry group on Flickr.
• Shuttle releases a $199 Linux box. I love my ShuttlePC. It's the best desktop form factor in my opinion.
• Kid Robot dropped the second series of Munny Zipper Pulls today. I never managed to find a TV one from the first season.
• "BUG is a collection of easy-to-use electronic modules that snap together to build any gadget you can imagine." This is hugely interesting.
• Strobist tackles Film Noir lighting. It's in my top five photography blogs now hands down.
• New Blog of the Day: WTFCNN?
• Microsoft buying Logitech Dammit. I don't think that's cool for consumers at all.
• Transmit updated to 3.6.4. Release Notes.
• I am giving Things a test drive. Definitely an easy to learn application. Looking for some tips and tricks posts online, haven't found any.
• The new Beanie Sigel (iTunes link) is really good stuff in a sea of stale commercial hip hop. In other music news, a Twitter from Merlin Mann has led to me listening to way too much Entombed this week. Wolverine Blues (iTunes Link) was one my favorite CD's of the Early ninties. Man was I a badass in my own mind back then.

• I took a lot of pictures of the newly engaged Brian and Lori. You can find some of them in Lori's Flickr Stream. I loved taking them, and would be happy to do it for you too. Shoot me a message.
• Boosh
• NetNewswire is now free, as is Feed Demon. Wow, crazy move.

• At home I use a Corepad C1 XXXL Deskpad. It's essentially a gigantic mousepad. I like the thing so much that I just ordered one for my desk at work, and a backup in case I wear the one at home out and they stop making them. I have paranoia that they will stop making anything I like these days.
• Bitesize. A Flickr set by one of my contacts who makes magic with toys and a macro lens. Must see.
• Adam's Top Toys in the '07 I don't own any of these, except for number 1, and I own all of those.
• Ars gets its hands on the Optimus Maximus, begins payment plan Sounds like this thing is actually going to be a reality soon. A very expensive reality.
• A Day at the Cat Show Geek Entertainment TV kicks some comedic ass at a cat show. Fraught with pussy jokes.
• Stream XM and Sirius To Your iPhone and iPod Touch - With a Little Help
• 2880 x 900 Curved Monitor I'm wanting one of these and a new Mac Pro 8 core....

• When this comes out, I will need to find more friends.....
• Hacking the Kindle part 3: root shell and runtime system Interesting stuff here, including image support that is not turned on. I still haven't played with a Kindle.
• Reinvented Software started a support forum for Together. This was one of the reasons I wasn't going to use Together instead of Yojimbo. I seem to be back to that same argument again now...
• It's a matter of perspective First time I have ever linked to an Amazon blog post, but this one, talking about lens focal length and area of view, is an excellent quick read for you photogs.

This deserves a post unto itself. I was present at the first ever meeting of Brian and Lori. (At an Atlanta Flickr meetup no less.) I learned first over Facebook, then email, that they got engaged New Year’s Eve. Great people both, and made for each other, my life has been made richer by knowing them both. Congratulations.

A day late, but Happy New Year to those of you who read this. 2007 was an awesome year in a lot of ways, but I still have hopes to make 2008 even better. One way will be increased posting here, on Flickr and on Twitter. I plan on carrying my 4 months of being smoke free through all of 2008. Who knows what else the year will bring.

iTunesFS is a read only MacFuse filesystem of your iTunes library on Mac OS X. “A friend of mine wanted to copy some files from an iTunes playlist to an external drive, but iTunes wouldn’t allow her to simply let these files being dragged to the intended destination folder in Finder. She asked me what she could do about it.”

Yojimbo, which has become my Mac OS X choice for the management of my todo list and transient information on my work machine, was updated to 1.5 today. (Anyone know of an application like this for Windows?) I haven’t spent much time with the update yet, but the biggest update in terms of day to day use seems to be the addition of images as first class assets in the Yojimbo database. It’s really an excellent application for the management of transient information like notes, web archives of articles you want to read or passwords and serial numbers. (Those last are really not transient information, but it’s usefule to have them in an application that you have open all the time.)

In related news, I have been testing out Together, an application which is somewhat similar to Yojimbo, for the last few days. It's got a different approach to the storage of the items, and I honestly like it's UI a bit more than Yojimbo's currently. I imported all the items in my Yojimbo database in about five minutes, and I was off using it. Since it doesn't support .Mac syncing like Yojimbo, I set up some Chronosync scripts to copy the application, it's preferences, and the directories where it stores it's data to my 160Gb iPod, and to sync this stuff back on my laptop and Mac Pro. It's a somewhat tough call as far as which of these two apps I will end up sticking with long term, especially with Yojimbo being updated. Together has a few annoyances, and there's no user community like the mailing list that Bare Bones has for Yojimbo. Of course, I am still using Devonthink Pro to keep anything I might want access to long term.

For reference purposes, here's a screenshot of my Together UI, and here's one of my Yojimbo UI.

I was afk for the better part of the last week as my younger brother Paul got married over the weekend. It was our second family wedding in six months, so we are old pros at it now. I also now have two awesome sisters-in-law. I posted some photos in a Flickr Set, and you can expect more there as time allows. I will try and have that closed out before Christmas, since my Uncle gave me such a hard time about not “sending him a CD” of the pictures from the last wedding. Most of the pictures up there now have been modified with Lightroom somehow, as I try to learn to process my work with that tool.

Anyway, I'm back in Atlanta, and will probably be posting a bit between now and Christmas. Speaking of posting, MarsEdit is the deal on MacSanta today. It's the application I use to write posts on my desktop and post them to this site. I recommend it, and Red Sweater Software seems like a good steward of the application since they acquired it earlier this year.