July 23, 2005
Whoa! The moon is made of cheese!!!
Check it out! (You’ll have to zoom in)
July 11, 2005
Editor’s Choice
Apparently, i-gizmo is now PXITE. It seems much faster and the design is better IMHO. Also, one of my photos was selected as the latest Editor’s Choice. I thought that was pretty cool. I took the photo in Austin while driving around downtown, but I’m not sure exactly where, probably somewhere on Guadalupe St.
July 1, 2005
Enter pin or press no.
Every once in a while I see something that would horrify most people if they noticed it, but I find it amusing. Today, I noticed the card verification procedure on the gas pump I was using. After swiping my card, I read “Enter pin or press no.” So what did I do? I pressed no of course, because that took one button press and the other option would have taken five. So now I know that if I ever have to steal a credit card, I can at least buy gas and a Frosty at Wendy’s.
June 28, 2005
WP + Tiger = More Happy Fun Time
Holy crap! Steve Smith over at Ordered List is awesome! He created an admin plugin for WordPress that makes wordpress look like Tiger. Pretty much the only thing I didn’t like about Wordpress is that the admin area was bland, but that idea is now toast. Ooooooh, so pretty.
iTunes + iPod = Happy Fun Time
iTunes 4.9 came out today and has podcasting support which is really cool. Some people are saying it’s disappointing because some of podcasts are a few shows behind in the directory. This is not a problem, you don’t have to use the directory. The advanced menu has an option “Subscribe to Podcast…” where you can manually enter a url for your favorite podcast feeds. I just checked it with Engadget, and sure enough, Apple’s directory is five shows behind, but you can still subscribe to a feed manually if you want to be sure to have the latest cast. Actually, now that I’ve looked, the Engadget entry in iTunes is pointing to their podcast that is hosted on weblogsinc.com, which is behind, instead of engadget.com. The iTunes directory is up to date.
Also, Apple updated the regular iPods…sort of. The people over at Engadget seem to think that anyone who recently bought an iPod photo will be very sad. Well, I bought an iPod photo “like a week ago” and I’m still very happy. Unless someone points me to some specs I haven’t seen yet it seems like they have basically just transitioned the iPod photo to being just a regular iPod. The new 20 gig is $299 and the 60 gig is $400 and mine was right in between so I don’t think I have any thing to be sad about. Although with the price drop for the 60 gig, maybe some people are sad about that. At any rate, they don’t seem any better than the iPod photos so whatever, I’m still glad I’ve had mine for a few weeks.