There is plenty of talk going on about who stuck who in the ass with a needle and who’s juiced and all the rest of it. Frequently appearing in these discussions is Lance Armstrong, whose seven straight championships in Le Tour de France couldn’t have possibly been accomplished on athletic prowess alone. So, speculation runs rampant among sports fans as to whether Armstrong was juiced.
It is my firm belief that LA should never ever admit to doping if he did it. And here’s why.
Continue reading ‘Why Lance Armstrong should never admit to doping.’
That makes it easy to predict that under Leopard, the iPhone will sync Notes as special HTML emails with links and attachments, written in Market Felt (and yes the font can be changed if you can’t handle whimsy).
Apparently, whimsy is a new synonym for ugly.
Note QR Codes.
With my Notes wish list fulfilled, I’ll start over with another Notes related idea I’d like to see on the Phone. It involves that QR Code that reader Keller pointed out was big in Japan.
Well, now I want my iPhone camera to recognize barcodes and insert them as Notes. A QR barcode scan can decode 4,296 characters or about 2.8K of data. It would be great to be able to print out barcode stickers the iPhone could read.
Cities could tag tourism or transit signs with codes that present more information, or with links to a website. How about tagging coordinates or Google Map links?
Why bother saving the results of such scans to Notes? It would make much more sense to parse out URL information and bring it up in Safari directly on iPhone. Then, when you are standing in front of that tourism sign and scan that barcode, the information would be immediately available.
Using iPhone: Notes, ToDos, Attached Files, and Mac OS X Leopard
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Citebite [the blog]: Open to suggestion
I just realized that there is a potential for trackbacks getting lost in the CiteBite medium. Blog platforms that support trackbacks usually support this automagically via some sort of “Attempt to notify weblogs that this post links to” option. Great. Good on them. But if I am referencing a series of citebites, those links point there rather than to the original post. There are two workarounds for this.
- Include a link to the full post(s) the citebites will reference. This is probably the easiest solution right now.
- Dig up the trackback URL and enter it manually. This is too unwieldy to be of any use.
- The third option is to have CiteBite pass through those trackbacks. So, if I link to a citebite that references a line from a blog that accepts trackbacks, CiteBite could ping that trackback link so that the referenced site is notified.
Of course, I haven’t considered all of the logistics of this, but I think it’s an important mechanism that needs to be preserved.
There is a serious bug in the synching software for iTunes and iPhone. Let’s see if I can describe it cogently.
UPDATE: It looks like my suspicion about the cause of the problem is correct. Poor iTunes just got confused…
Continue reading ‘Playlist Sync Bug in iPhone’
I’m not sure who to blame this on. After upgrading to Safari 3 beta, I can no longer scroll in my account view on ING Direct’s website. Part of me wants to yell at them for not testing enough and then another part of me wants to yell at Apple for whatever changed between Safari 2 and Safari 3 beta that broke the site for me in Safari.
At least they aren’t going the, “You must use Internet Explorer 6 to view this page” route.
It’s just a statement of fact and observation, but this line from Roughly Drafted reminds us of how far Microsoft is behind Apple.
