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Entries for week beginning June 24, 2007

June 30, 2007

Jill Bernard, riding a pony

Jill Bernard, riding a pony

The lovely Jill Bernard, performing her one-woman (and a drum machine) musical improv show "Drum Machine" at the Providence Improv Fest.

My Mile Marker

Enter the numbers every time you fill up your car, and track your distance travelled and MPG over time. I’ve often contemplated writing something to track this myself.

June 29, 2007

The AudioFile: Jacking Off the iPhone

Your lovely [RhymesWithNose] (or Shure or Sony or whatever) headphones? Won’t plug into the iPhone (at least without a bunch of hassle). You have to imagine Apple have something up their sleeves here, but it really makes little sense.

I CAN HAS IPHONE!

I CAN HAS IPHONE!

“Smart” Water

“Smart” Water

Apple sent out a couple of employees with bottles of water to keep the line cool.

The Mix-Up

CD Purchase: Beastie Boys - The Mix-Up

Record shop chain Fopp closes | News | NME.COM

This makes me tremendously sad. A large proportion of my student income was spent at their shop on Cockburn St in Edinburgh.

June 28, 2007

MusicBrainz Blog: The BBC partners with MusicBrainz for Music Metadata

More on the BBC/MusicBrainz link-up — Not only are the Beeb paying to use MB data on their site, the music experts over there will be helping update MB. This can only be a good thing.

WebShell

SSH from an iPhone! AjaxTerm tweaked for the iPhone interface.

AT&T Internal Apple iPhone document leaked

65 page training PDF. Summary: Go to an Apple Store, not a Cingular one, unless you want to wait for them to faff around offering credit checks and trying to upsell you on Family Plans and accessories. (Sweetest detail: They have custom iPhone carrier bags that they have to place the iPhone into and seal before you leave the store!)

Apple - iPhone at the Apple Store

Although there have been rumours saying that Apple have got plenty of iPhones available for the grabbin’, this page on their website seems to indicate they’re expecting shortages — It lets you know which stores expect to have iPhones available the following day.

Greg Packer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wikipedia page for the guy at the front of the line for the iPhone in New York. He’s quite the line-sitter!

My December

CD Purchase: Kelly Clarkson - My December

Spice Girls

Sign up now for a chance to buy tickets for their reunions shows. No. Really.

Oh Perilous World

CD Purchase: Rasputina - Oh Perilous World

June 27, 2007

June 26, 2007

‘Oh good, it’s raining again’ | Glastonbury 2007 | Guardian Unlimited Music

Quality grumpiness from Charlie Brooker. “The pop-up a tent was a joy. It comes flat, disc-shaped. You throw it in the air and it unfurls into a canvas shell. Within seconds I was the proud owner of a home fit for a tramp.”

Apple - iPhone - Rate Plans for iPhone

No iPhone premium as some feared — These look to be the same as Cingular’s existing voice-plan-plus-unlimited-data rates (which I’m already paying). Not clear if existing Cingular subscribers have to pay an (undisclosed) activation fee, though.

June 25, 2007

OliveToast MiniMail

Lovely little email floater for Apple Mail.

John Lam on Software: Steve Yegge ported Rails to JavaScript

Rails ported to JavaScript running on top of a JVM. My head asplode!

Global Nerdy: The World Needs More Dialog Boxes Like This

“Comic Sans is the most abused font in the history of computing, so please avoid using it unless it’s REALLY suitable.”

June 24, 2007

Friend Photos - Facebook Screensaver

OS X screensaver which grabs your friends’ photos from Facebook. Playing with this, I was reminded that a) I have some incredibly hot friends and b) I have some incredibly strange friends.

geeksinboston.com planning

geeksinboston.com planning

Today at DevHouseBoston2, Shimon Rura, Jeff Potter and myself started work on creating a local geek-event aggregator/notifier webapp.

With a design sensibility somewhere between Craigslist and Upcoming, it should be live in the next couple of weeks.

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