I had almost forgotten somehow that I can post here from my sidekick. I ended up getting a replacement Sidekick instead of going with the Treo 600. My existing Sidekick, the black and white model, had battery issues, and the battery in it is not user replaceable.
Daring Fireball: Like a Lead Zeppelin: “Don’t announce ship dates. Don’t announce forthcoming features. And don’t announce future pricing. When the software is done, then announce it. You will never disappoint.”
Guardian Unlimited has an interview with Evan, one of the founders of Blogger. It’s the first place where I have seen someone from Blogger actually comment on their stand on syndication. He says, “We went with Atom feeds for everybody - they’re on new blogs by default - because of the ease of use and simplicity.” I mean, it is Google’s software, and it is their decision to make, but I think that introducing Atom into the equation makes it more confusing. Even today, on a mailing list of some fairly technology savvy people that I am on, someone asked the RSS vs. Atom question, and I grimaced. If the best argument for going with Atom as a Syndication format is ease of use and simplicity, then they don’t really have a decent argument for not offering both and making Atom the default. This just makes them look ridiculous and bitchy to me. (via)
Blogger Help : Known Issues This is something that might be helpful to refer to in the future. A couple of interesting items in the list too. “Blog*Spot blogs occasionally render a massive amount of gibberish in Mozilla” Now that’s odd, I seem to see a lot of “gibberish” on Blogspot blogs, and I don’t always use Mozilla:-)
The Trailer for the next Pixar production, The Incredibles, is just flat out nice. There is more good stuff over at the movie’s Web site. I’m actually excited to see this movie now.
Couldn’t make it to Coachella, but want to wear the merchandise so you fit in with the cool kids? Well, now you can.
A List Apart: Separation: The Web Designer’s Dilemma
Digital Media Thoughts has some information about a fourth generation iPod, or so they are claiming. Sounds plausible to me, but also, upon further thought, sounds like something one could easily have cooked up.
Apparently, I am sponsoring The Atlanta ColdFusion User Group’s Next Meeting, which features Ben Forta as its speaker. Over the years, ACFUG has been very kind to me and to my career. I am happy to be both a board member and a sponsor.
They featured GasBuddy on some television show that happened to be on in my bedroom. For some reason, I can’t remember what show it was, but that’s unimportant. If you need to find the cheapest gas around you, gasbuddy.com is the place you need to surf. Me, I don’t drive so much.
Thomas Friedman : “There is something even more important to the Bush crowd than getting Iraq right, and that’s getting re-elected and staying loyal to the conservative base to do so.”
Google Groups use of Atom represents the first non-Blogger area of Google’s operation that standardizes on Atom. (via Kottke)
Fast Company: Are All Consultants Corrupt?
Six Apart launches Movable Type Developer Edition 3.0 and a contest for developers.
Rob Brooks-Bilson has a very interesting wishlist for the next version of ColdFusion. I couldn’t agree more about the enhancements to the CF Scheduler that he requests, and number 36 “Add XML validation against a DTD” is something that a lot of people, myself included, want very badly. I would add an overhaul of Query of Queries to this list, it is problematic quite a bit of the time, and it’s typing infrastructure behaves in a predictable but somewhat ridiculous manner.
Hollywoodreporter.com: “Valenti: Filtering smoking is filmmakers' call”
Gothamist: NYC Is Smoking Less. This is good news, and I am happy to report that my brother Chris is a member of that 11 percent. It’s also proof, in part, that banning smoking in bars is effective. It’s funny to me, because, here in Georgia, I hear a lot of people, and I mean a real lot, saying that they shouldn’t ban smoking in bars. The longer I go without a cigarette, the more I think it is a good idea.
Subtraction: Outraged by the Outrage at All the Outrage: “One of the most frustrating tricks that conservative politicians manage to actually get away with is the inversion of indignation, i.e., taking an offensive position on issues where clearly, all good sense would indicate that they should be defensive.”
EEG News: EA, Microsoft Bury Hatchet. and there was cheering in the hills, and also on Xbox Live. About frigging time they got it sorted out.
Outkast are filming their newest video at the end of my street in an old gas station.
I ratcheted the commenting requirements down to anyone. I’m going to see if that effects things much, and if it does, I might ratchet the setting back up.
G4 and TechTV Merger FAQ: “What will the merged network be called? G4techTV” Umm, I’m not a branding expert, or even a branding novice really, but even I know that G4techTV is an awful name for a cable network. How about just “T!”?
Engadget has some photo’s of Sony’s PSP Handheld. I4U goes a step further with specs and all kinds of other PSP information. Even more from Engadget.
Rating Bar puts a small iTunes star rating widget in your menu bar, making it easy to rate your music. I currently use the keyboard commands in Synergy to do this same thing and more(displays album artwork at the beginning of a new song, and provides play etc controls). It got me to thinking that it might be useful to list the ones that I use here for other folks to check out.
So those are the first two from left to right. The third one is BluePhoneMenu. It adds a menu with Signal and Battery strength for your Bluetooth enabled and supported phone (I have the Sony Ericcson T61x.) It also does on screen call notification, which is quite handy if you are a headphone wearing fool like myself.
Fourth from the left is the ubiquitous Quicksilver. I'll save everyone yet another description of this invaluable utility. Next to it is SlimBatteryMonitor which saves me some screen real estate on the menu bar for more utilities without taking away the functionality of the Apple battery monitor.
Next to that is the excellent, donationware, Menu Calendar. It gives me the current date without any hassles, access to a monthly calendar, and easy access to iCal. The rest are all Apple provided ones, Airport, Displays, Applescript, Security, Bluetooth, and Sound.
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