Of course, I’m also excited to check out the SuicideGirls Live Burlesque Tour when they are in town on January 28th. I’ve never been to a burlesque show before.

William Gibson is going to be in Atlanta February 13th.

Saddam’s an OutKast: Hey Allah! Hahahahahaahaha.

PVRBlog discusses the new TiVo to Go features that TiVo announced at CES today. Sounds great to me. Of course, with some hacking you can do this today with a series 1 TiVo, but it’s great that they are going to bring this to the masses. I just wish that I didn’t have to wait until Fall 2004 for the feature.

Philips Mirror TV has to be the coolest idea for home electronics that I have seen in a while. I must have one or two.

Tom Cruise as Tony Stark?

Like Pete, I have switched to Thunderbird as my primary mail client on both my Windows and Mac OS X machines. It works, it is fast, and it is the same on both platforms without punishing me in order to do so. Worth checking out.

Missing Sync for Danger hiptop coming in Feb.

I got my machine back from Apple when I returned to Atlanta after the Christmas holiday. They ended up replacing not only the hard drive, but the display, display bezel, keyboard and some other parts. This was odd to me because I only took it in for the hard drive issue. The new keyboard is nice though, I had worn shiny spots on a bunch of the keys on the old one.

As you might expect, I had to reinstall virtually everything after having the hard drive replaced. It made me realize just how great I think iSync is. My Safari bookmarks and contacts were on the machine in a few minutes, and it saved me the terrible task of rebuilding these things. This also made me realize that Apple needs to extend iSync with an API that third parties can take advantage of in their own applications. It would be great to have my NetNewsWire subscriptions or Transmit bookmarks move over in the same way. I went to the iSync feedback form and asked. I wonder if I shall ever receive?

Wow, NFL STREET from EASports Big line, looks like it might be the next killer Football video game. The gameplay looks very fluid, the character modeling is impressive, and the arenas look very well done.

Merry New Year.

Here’s a screenshot of the pop-up blocker that will be built into Internet Exploder in Windows XP SP2.

Bobafred: How Not To Meet Women: Part I.

Jeez, it’s no wonder people are leaving AT&T Wireless in droves now that number portability is in play.(Assuming they can actually get out with all the problems AT & T has had releasing numbers.) The customer service aspect of their company is so fundamentally flawed it is ridiculous.

A couple of months ago, I switched from their old school TDMA service to GPRS, complete with shiny new smartphone. I have had an account with them for six years. In the switchover, they lost all of the billing settings that I had set up with them, but never mentioned that this would be the case. A month ago, I got a call from them saying that my account was overdue. I immediately paid the balance, but was confused as to why they didn't automatically bill me, like they had been doing for six years. I was informed that I had to log into their customer service Web site to set this up, and that they could not do the set up(re-setup from my perspective) over the phone. So I went to the site, and attempted to log into the system with the username and password I had been using all along. No dice. I was informed that I had to re-register for the customer service Web site. What? I have had an account for six years, you have all of my information. So I attempted to re-register. I was then informed that an account for my phone number already existed. Well, duh, I've had an account for six years. I was then informed that I should call a customer service number if I received this message. Ok, I'll call customer service and clear this up. I called and navigated through their voice activated menu system to the correct option. "We're sorry, we cannot answer your call right now. Please call us back at a later time."

What? Oh, I wonder why the number could possibly be so busy? I am currently printing a number portability checklist. Goodbye AT & T, and thanks for nothing.

Big up to Nick Bradbury for getting FeedDemon to Gold Master status. Should be for sale next week. I still wish NetNewswire was available on my WinXP machines, there is nothing that compares to it, but FeedDemon comes the closest in my opinion.

What is Match Mobile? How does it work? Hmmmm. Interesting idea, but I am not sure that the US market is ready for it.

Atom in Depth is a slide show going into some detail about Atom. I only had time for the first 17 slides right now, but I understand the formats, elements and thinking behind Atom better already.

I Ching Online

The Seven Deadly Sins

Why Andy, Why?

There is an important Security Patch for ColdFusion MX and JRun available today. It patches the Web services framework, and you need it if you have Web Services that are publicly accessible.

Location-aware Devices, Privacy, and UI Design by Howard Rheingold is a solid treatment of the tough trade-off between this possibly very useful technology set and the privacy issues that it raises. I’m also interested in the set of issues as it maps to online social networks. I’ve thought, several times, that a granular approach to profiles on sites like Friendster and Tribe.net would be a better approach than the all or nothing/almost nothing approach that these sites currently employ. After all, I would, for instance, want a potential mate to see a different set of things about me than a distant buddy that I hit the pubs with once in a while. Not, mind you, in the sense that there would be a lack of integrity between the two.

In the interest of fair and equal time: Bush Re-Election Campaign Creates Thousands Of New Jobs.

New York Times: The Dean Connection Whether you are interested in Dean and his campaign or not, this article is a very interesting piece about the community dynamics and social network ties that the Dean is playing on virtually, and in a way, the lack of these same ties offline in some of American culture right now. In a way, it seems that Dean is creating a prototypical online community that is based on offline values. Very compelling stuff.

Kris Kristofferson Endorses Clark.

Top Ten things you didn't know about Kris Kristofferson in semi-chronological order:

1. His father was an Army general.
2. He was a Gold Gloves boxer.
3. He was a Rhodes Scholar.
4. He was a helicopter pilot in the Army.
5. He resigned his commision in 1965, after being assigned to teach at West Point.
6. He got Johnny Cash's attention by landing his helicopter on Cash's lawn and handing him some demo tapes.
7. He was known for his heavy boozing.
8. He lost his helicopter pilot job after passing out at the controls.
9. Kris gave up alcohol in 1976.
10. He was in Convoy.

Bio info via IMDB.