“Groovy Motherfucker”

My photos from our Scotland trip, overlaid onto a map of Scotland. Hooray for Flickry goodness.

Turns out you can get energy-saving lightbulbs which work with dimmer switches. Who knew! They’re pricey, but I’m getting some to see how they do.

I’ve finally had a chance to test this with files downloaded from Napster and Rhapsody’s subscription services, and it does what it says on the tin. The question of interest: If this could be chained to a transcoder that automagically converted downloads to MP3s that can be played on an iPod, would it cause more customers to sign up for PlaysForSure providers, and damage sales at the iTunes Music Store?

Track where users are clicking on your webpages so you can slap in advertising/tune your site’s usability (delete as appropriate)

Shareware Windows multitrack audio editor from Justin Frankel and co.

Website uptime-monitoring tool. Also graphs response-times which could make for interesting reading. Doesn’t require any authorization, so you can track your competitors’ sites too.

Cabel reviews the Nike+ shoe+iPod combo. Sounds like the kind of thing that might get me moving, like the Sportbrain of olde.

Walmart are making a huge push to get people buying the low-energy spiral bulbs. I’ve been using them since we moved house and I spent far too many hours wandering the aisles of Home Depot while Joy chose paint colours. The only place we still use incandescent bulbs is in the lamps attached to dimmers.