Thanks to J$, I care about things like Kim Cameron's new Identity Blog
Ecto - another cool app, and now well tested by me.
Reverse dictionary lookup, very interesting: onelook.com
Am I the last person to find out that ESPN has RSS feeds?
As J$ has pointed out, this is about the last thing I needed to make certain that I don't actually work all day.
The main site, NFL, NBA, and MLB all have feeds...why can't I get any collegiate RSS lovin'?
Curse that little "Feed available" button in Firefox. Curse it.
Favre's mother ill: I predict a 109-0 trouncing of the Texans this weekend.
I'm sure this won't last long, but my grandma's pic is currently on the front page of cnn.com from a Veteran's Day Celebration in Cleveland.
Here's a screenshot (and a big one) for once it's gone. And to keep it light, here is my favorite picture of my grandma.
And I thought I was supposed to be the computer person in the family.
Update 11/11/04 2:30PM: already gone, enjoy the screenshots.
So, one of the big things I wanted to play with on my new Powerbook was all this iLife stuff. I was used to iTunes on windows, and iPhoto is pretty much a straight clone applied to photos rather than music. What I really wanted to get my hands on was iDVD, since I , ahem, acquired some digital rips of the original Star Wars Trilogy, "Han Shoots First" edition. Sadly, I can't seem to burn these as a movie DVD, only data.
In what seems an appalling scam, if you have Panther and want iDVD, you have to spend $50 to get iLife '04, which includes three iApps you already have, and the 'bonus' of iDVD and GarageBand.
That really chaps my ass, I don't want to shell out another $50, I just want to burn some movies on my fancy new Superdrive. What's going on here, Steve?
I hear there's a new browser being released today...
How cool is fink? This cool:
wizbook:/sw/bin wismar$ sudo apt-get install bison
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
bison
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 297kB of archives. After unpacking 954kB will be used.
Get:1 http://us.dl.sourceforge.net 10.3/release/main bison 1.35-2 [297kB]
Fetched 297kB in 1s (201kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package bison.
(Reading database ... 3942 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking bison (from .../bison1.35-2darwin-powerpc.deb) ...
Setting up bison (1.35-2) ...
Mac OS X is Debian with eye-candy that "just works". Gotta love it.
After far too many days waiting, my Powerbook finally showed up thanks to my good friends at UPS and eBay. 1.25 Ghz G4, 2GB's of RAM, 80 GB disk, superdrive, aiport express, bluetooth, the works (I think the illuminated keyboard might be my favorite part). I did a fresh Panther install just to be safe, and immediately got to playing.
My initial impressions are somewhat mixed. I've been completely blown away by the software installation process (see here for a good explanation) and the general polish of all aspects of the system are astounding. That said, I'm still having some hiccups with some little things, I think as a function of using Windows as the primary GUI in my life for the last 10 years or so. Why is the preference to chage the default browser in Safari and not in the System Preferences? Why in the world does the machine not rejoin the previously connected wireless network upon waking from sleep? That seems a little silly. And I really, really don't like the touchpad. I've come to love the 'gnubb-mouse' on my thinkpad in the middle of the keyboard. I'm going see if my navigation speed improves with some practice and a few weeks of keyboard shortcuts under my belt.
Those small gripes aside, I can't get enough Expose, SubEthaEdit, Konfabulator, Quicksilver, and all the rest. I still have to spend the time to import my mp3's and pics into iTunes and iPhoto and just get down with the iLife for awhile, play with that. Oh yeah, and God bless Fink
Overall, I'm quite impressed, and need to dig much, much further into this OS.
Saw The Incredibles. Pixar officially 6-0.
