Monthly Archives: May 2005

The comma/open-bracket key fell off my Powerbook’s keboard. Now, whenever I want to type a comma, I have to press this strange jelly-like thing. Weird. It wouldn’t be so bad if it was at the same level as all the … Continue reading →

Just noticed something odd watching a Quicktime movie in Safari. If, at any time while running the movie or after it’s stopped, you hit cmd+BackArrow, instead of going back to the previous page as usual, the clip plays in reverse. … Continue reading →

If RSS is really “TiVo for the internet”, when does it start making recommendations? TiVo is basically an aggregator, just like NetNewsWire. It keeps track of the shows you “subscribe” to, checks to see when new “items” are available, and … Continue reading →

My mind is still a little boggled by this, but I’ll try to explain it the best I can. Last night, I opened up the Quicksilver preferences to see if there were any new plug-ins available (in the new Tiger … Continue reading →

I’ve added a new section to the bar of contextual info at the left there, under the title of “upcoming”. For a while now, I’ve kept a list of ideas for posts in a text file. Using the Quicksilver append … Continue reading →

I had another, lower-fi, idea yesterday in the car on the way to the airport that could supplement the idea of distributing music through local wifi networks. I call it “Give-a-Disc, Take-a-Disc”: Since I first discovered podcasting back in December … Continue reading →

After I told him about my idea for bloggable public space, my housemate/bandmate, Cary, thought of an interesting extension to it. In addition to creating a community bulletin board-style blog, the venues could use their wifi hotspots to distribute music. … Continue reading →

This isn’t my normal kind of post. There’s not really an idea here, more of just a standard-practice blogish act of pointing to something cool on the web. But, it does relate to a previous post on bloggable public space … Continue reading →