The iPod Photo has been causing me some headaches. Mostly because the hype has been so strong around the Mac web, but no one has really been able to tell me why I'd want one. (note: this is only about the iPod Photo... my thoughts on the 'U2 Special Edition' can be summed up with: "How 80's. And not in a good way")
posted on November 14, 2004 at 03:08 PMWho hasn't linked this great piece of web yet? I had it hit my desk early yesterday, saw how long it was and saved it in the hopes of getting around to it when I got back later in the evening. I'm glad I did, it's cute. It also gives me an excuse to link to their USA vs. Japan page, which I always meant to.
I got an amazing email from Frédérique et Hervé Sainct earlier today, who I'm just going to have to call Herv, because after his email, we're tight like that:
I had to include the above screenshot, both because I love O'Reilly and it was awesome to see the site on it... and they misspelled DrunkenBlog. Highly amusing.
I didn't quite understand how the category was chosen, and when I emailed Derrick Story to inquire I was notified that I was blocked by their spamfilters.
*picks his ego up off the floor*
Either way, the roundtable got some attention, and I meant to have the redux out a few days after it went out. Obviously that didn't happen, but I was listening, and the redux is now in danger of getting itself lapped by a month so I wanted to bang it out.
Where appropriate, I'm going to aggregate and paraphrase some of the questions I got more than three of, as I'm taking care of the others via email.
I mentioned awhile ago I was working on full-text feeds for the blog, or rather evaluating them, as when it comes to 'features' for DrunkenBlog the two most highly requested are full-feeds and/or a mobile feed. On average, I get about 5 emails a week asking for full feeds, and they're starting to pile up... so I wanted to give an update on what's going on behind the scenes.
Wired has a really interesting article up about the problem of dispute-resolution within MMOGs (massively mutiplayer online games).
I've been spending some time playing with the new Firefox builds for Mac OS X, and I have to say I've been impressed. In grabbing the nightly build, I was able to have links sent to it from other apps finally open in a tab instead of a new window, something I've been whining about forever. Keyboard shortcut goodness is in too, and combined with the potential of it's extension system... Firefox is getting really, really solid on OS X.
It's so solid that I wanted to take a look at it in the context of Safari and the larger browser sphere as a whole. As a word of warning, this one is going to be long-ish, and has been banged out before my normal morning-after doses of B1 and hair of the dog. I.E., par for the course.
I got some mail asking why I was giving Apple Remote Desktop a hard time in a previous post, and I suppose I should quantify my comment: while I do just find dealing with ARD loathsome, it's primarily from using Windows, and it's only because I want what ARD can't offer.
...that, well, can't print. And doesn't have a Preferences window. I've been playing with this code/web editor for awhile since being turned onto it (v1.0.1), like just about every blogger has, so as usual I'm about the last to weigh in.
There were several Apple-related vulnerabilities announced the other day:
- A vulnerability in Apple Remote Desktop
- Two Quicktime vulnerabilities
- A browser-related vulnerability, that, as it turns out, Safari is susceptible to.
I'm about to head out the door to watch the election coverage with friends, but Zach was kind enough to send me the latest beta of his first Mac OS X app that normal users can use, ThumbScrew.
Weird things happen when you absentee vote ahead of the normal schedule. Namely, everyone I know is running to the polls, and this is a big time for them, but my climax came early (no jokes from the peanut gallery). When I'm on the train for a few hours, I'm in a form of info-embargo; I'm not one of those people grabbing emails and RSS feeds at 28.8 baud from a cell phone.
