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May 7, 2008
You can now buy the song from the closing credits of Cloverfield from the iTunes Store.
May 5, 2008
Tab and I went to Monterey for the weekend and had a really nice time relaxing, eating well, wandering, and generally taking it easy.
We made a point to go to the Monterey Bay Aquarium and tried to see pretty much everything, including the behind-the-scenes tour.
My main camera’s battery turned out not to be as charged as I thought it was so I spent a lot more time goofing off with the little video camera than I normally do. Expect to see more videos of otters appearing on Flickr soon. :)
Update: It’s starting already!
Finally got to see this over the weekend. Excellent. :)
May 3, 2008
My work generously keeps the kitchen full of drinks and snacks in order to optimize blood sugar levels. Over time, I’ve noticed that as the distance between my desk and the kitchen decreases, the number of trips I make to the chocolate drawer has increased. Exponentially.
So this last week, every time I wanted to get some M&Ms, or a Mini Baby Ruth, or a York Peppermint Pattie, I got a glass of water instead. I drank a tremendous amount of water. Gonna try to keep this trend going for as long as I can.
May 2, 2008
Bummed that I’m going to miss tonight’s Mario Kart Wii-fueled Foo Bar.
Looking forward to Iron Man tonight. :)
May 1, 2008
A little over a year ago I woke up in the middle of the night with my heart absolutely racing. My temperature was extremely high as well and for the next several weeks, I had a fever and just felt exhausted all the time. After the third week and several doctors visits they finally ran some tests and concluded that I had Mono.
No, thanks for asking, I have no idea where or how or I got it. :) Plus, I was 30 for crying out loud. I thought you couldn’t get Mono when you’re that old. Also, yes, it did take a very long time to completely get over it.
So yeah, that’s no fun but thankfully it’s long behind me now which makes it a prime candidate for our new series, Things I Didn’t Blog About at the Time.
April 30, 2008
@wii Mario Kart 5413-0306-1880
I know I’m not the only person who misses the rounded screen corners in the latest version of Mac OS X. I think some clever developer had published a little app to restore them, even before 10.5 had shipped. (Here it is, Displaperture.) What I’d really like though is for the Mac OS to sport the same tiny rounded corners that the iPhone uses.
Have you noticed that the iPhone screen has rounded corners? The radius is really small, no more than 5 pixels I think. (Except when the keyboard is up. Then the bottom corners have a larger radius. Probably in order to wrap nicely around the bottom row of soft keys.)
No doubt there’s an ancient and epic struggle between UI nerds about whether to use rounded display corners. The iPhone approach is a nice compromise between being attractive and maximizing display real estate, so I hope they do something similar for the Mac.
April 29, 2008
Getting used to Apple’s aluminum keyboard.
April 28, 2008
@bradchoate — Yup! :)
April 25, 2008
Wishing I had $1,300 to burn on WWDC.
April 23, 2008
Earlier: Putting finishing touches on features for TypePad beta testers. Watching @aa in action. Transforming 6AHQ into a minigolf course.
Also, did you know that Movable Type supports both static and dynamic publishing? As well as dynamic caching and conditional retrieval. All designed to keep your site running smooth even with lots of visitors.
April 20, 2008
Dedicated resources for bloggers as well as their blogs.
April 19, 2008
I know the truth and it’s very exciting, but you’ll just have to wait like everyone else. :) Add your guess to the comments!
April 17, 2008
@nseki — Heh, thanks! :) I dragged myself out of bed at the usual time and am overdosing on caffeine. I expect the crash to come around 4.
Designing iPhone software in the middle of the night. You know what’s great about that? Everything except waking up tomorrow. :)
April 16, 2008
@bradchoate — I’m seeing (or, not seeing) the same thing. :(
April 15, 2008
Hooking up Blog It! (http://www.typepad.com/features/blogit.html)
Celebrating my annual ritual of mailing our taxes in at the last minute. :)
April 14, 2008
Resubscribing to Textism. I like this trend. Mena’s back, Dean’s back… The web is young again! :)
April 10, 2008
Taking my wife out to lunch for her birthday. :)
April 9, 2008
The Olympic torch was supposed to come through this intersection. I
left when the police started pulling out. Now I’m hearing that the
route has been changed.
Posted from my iPhone.
Listening to multiple sirens from police cars heading towards the torch scene. Thinking about heading out there for a moment.
Following @laughingsquid and his coverage of the torch coming through SF. Sounds like things might be getting dicey not too far from here.
April 8, 2008
Playing with the Flickr video feature. This is a slam dunk.
I think there needs to be a design contest to create a Sunni/Shiite cheat sheet for McCain since it’s obviously a bit too complicated for him to keep straight.
April 7, 2008
Fighting off a cold. :(
April 3, 2008
Really appreciating OmniGraffle Pro’s new “Shared Layers” feature.
“Earning my sandwich.”
March 26, 2008
Opera says they’ll have a build out soon as well and Firefox probably won’t be too far behind. I wouldn’t hold my breath for Internet Explorer.
March 19, 2008
Apparently my prediction was right after all and it is now possible to use Time Machine with AirPort disks. Whoo-hoo!
The one we’ve been waiting for.
March 13, 2008
“He brought it. He walked out with it. And then he walked back in with it.” He pretty much always does. :)
March 12, 2008
Extremely cool integration between Movable Type and Yahoo’s new Fire Eagle service for securely sharing your location information on your blog.
Also, “‘Six Apart pioneered the mobile blogging experience with an iPhone-optimized blog service’, said Chris Alden, CEO, Six Apart.” :)
March 11, 2008
Sounds like minor fixes but no Time Machine-to-AirPort Disk support. Boo.
March 10, 2008
“My ExpressionEngine experiment was a good one, but after some more consideration, I ended up back on a the newest version of Movable Type. It’s all in the name of trying to get to Better, Stronger, Faster.”
In short, try Movable Type. It’s excellent. It’s better. :)
March 6, 2008
The TypePad web app for the iPhone and iPod touch now includes a statistics display for tracking page views and referrers on-the-go!
