Final Scratch is finally available for Mac OS X. Cool stuff.

Todd got our most recent event site to validate. My involvement with this one was purely scoring information in the form of leaderboards and scorecards during the event, but it’s nice to know that something I’ve worked on has validated.

Man am I tired. Not sure why exactly.

I suspect that the sustained amount of tracks that Apple will continue to sell via the iTunes music store will continue to decrease. I think this because they don’t seem to have the new releases that matter to what I perceive as their target audience. The new Radiohead cd, Hail to the Thief, was released today, and it is nowhere to be found on the iTunes music store. In fact, they also do not have about ten other new major label releases that I think matter from the last couple of months. For instance, the new Metallica cd, although that may have something to do with Metallica themselves, I find it amusing that their music is not available via this legal electronic distribution channel when they complained so vehemently about Napster. While adding the indies will be a huge step forward, and I am happy to see Apple pursuing them, I think they need to take a look at the Billboard top 200 album chart every week, and ask themselves why about half the CD’s on the current one are not available from their store. I don’t think a brick and mortar store would find it acceptable to only have half the merchandise that their customers were asking for, and I hope that Apple is treating this the same way.

Testing out posting to the site using my Sidekick. That is all.

It’s odd, I find myself in this weird purgatory of relationship land. I’ve been single, after about eight years of being in a single relationship, for about eight months. I thought originally that I would remain single for a few months, then be ready to date again. Unfortunately, I think the heart takes longer to heal than I originally thought. Of course, this depends on the type of person that you are. I find myself still missing her, and it’s not easy for me to say that at all. It’s even more difficult to write about it in an open manner like this, but I think that it’s good for me to express these thoughts. I shouldn’t miss her, I keep telling myself. Eight months is a long time to get used to the idea of not having someone in your life. I have wondered quite a bit if it was my loneliness that was driving that feeling, missing waking up next to someone that you want to spend time with, the meals out, the closeness and ability to confide in another person without reservation. I’ve tried to date, and discovered that I am still too messed up emotionally to pull it off. There’s parts of me that are ready, without any doubt at all, but the core, my “rendering engine” so to speak, is just still too confused. Unfortunately, the end result is a person with this hint of constant sadness, at least internally. I bought a shirt last week that has the slogan “I believe the next time I fall in love it will be forever,” and god do I want to believe that, really I do.

I did find the time over last weekend to read Designing with Web Standards. I can recommend this book with any hesitation whatsoever, and regardless of whether your role in Web development is as a designer, developer, business owner, or hobbyist. Jeffrey did a fantastic job of making the case for design and development with standards, but not in a heavy handed manner, and with wit that I wish I could employ. He also describes the pitfalls to watch out for and the techniques to use to avoid them with aplomb. I found it one of the easiest to read books about Web development I have ever read. Pick it up.

Boy, I’ll tell you, you work head down on something for a few days, and everything becomes a blur. I’m a little tired, actually more than a little. I guess I have the consolation of a paycheck though.

Version Control with CVS on Mac OS X

For some reason RSS on this site has been the broken for a while. I fixed it now. It’s here.

I’ve really been enjoying the new Jack Johnson, On and On. What do you call an album (vinyl) or CD when you purchase it via the Internet as MP3’s? An Mp3 group? An Mp3 album? I feel old when I call them albums now, and have attempted to remove that term from my vocabulary. An Mp3 distro? Naw, too Linuxish and geeky. Hmmm, I really don’t know what to call them. You?

Mark Van de Wall : “What’s surprising is that gamers haven’t figured out that they should stop buying these games.”

hmmm, test post

Yep, I’m quite busy, and somewhat confused.

Colin Moock: A Study in Flash Form Submission This is a good read for anyone thinking of using Flash to build Web applications.

Cam scraped his html entries into Movable Type. I’m glad to have him back, I missed his voice in my daily surfing.

I’m considering going to JavaOne in San Francisco next month. I really want to sharpen my J2EE skill base over the next few months, and with ColdFusion running on J2EE now, it seems like the next logical step for me. I’m not sure if I can get the time off from my current project yet, and still have to figure out if I can afford the expense, but any impressions of previous conferences are welcome.

Feed on Feeds is a server side RSS aggregator written in PHP. For those of us using Mac OS X, which ships with PHP, it is also a desktop aggregator.

For those of you that use iTunes, Apple’s iTunes Tips and Tricks page has some good nuggets.

Some blogging software engineered for ColdFusion MX.

In other sports related news, Roger Clemens got his 299th career victory last night against the arch-rival Red Sox. Not only does the win put the Yankees a game ahead of the Sox in first place, but it sets the table for a Memorial Day matchup between the two teams that could be Clemens' 300th victory. I’ve seen the Rocket pitch several times, but the most memorable was two years ago, at Fenway. He was throwing hard, and still had good velocity in the late innings of the game. I really hope that he goes into the Hall of Fame as a Yankee, he’s meant a lot to us Yankee fans over the last few years.

I guess just about everyone must know from all of the media attention that Annika Sorenstam is playing the PGA Tour event this week, The Colonial. Lots of differing opinions about this, but I’m happy for her that she is going to get to see what she can do at the highest level and I wish her the best. I think, however, based on the conditions out there today, that she will have an uphill battle making the cut. I think if the conditions were better on the course, and the ball would roll more, that she would have a much better chance. Having said that, I went out and played eighteen holes of golf with my co-workers on Tuesday, and I have a lot of respect for the way these folks, both the men and women, play. It’s not an easy sport to master, and especially where consistency is involved.

Good O’Reilly piece on organizing your Web development and staging on your Mac OS X box.

BrowserCam is a good idea. Might be a bit too expensive though for most folks to use it.

For the life of me, I can’t remember the name or URL of the site where I found this History of the Internet, but it is hilarious.