Over on Twitter, Brett Kelly (@inkedmn) mentioned that he’s tired of most of his music collection. This was a problem for me a while back, but I have two suggestions that can help. If you’re in need of a breath of fresh musical air, read on. Read the rest of this entry »
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There was some hubbub a while back about the way the titles of posts in John Gruber’s linked list over at Daring Fireball link to the referenced post. (Read a synopsis here.) I myself wasn’t a very big fan (although I have gotten used to it), but today I stumbled on what I think is a very compelling reason for this linking style.
With all due respect to Gruber, I don’t have much interest in bookmarking or archiving his blockquotes with minimal commentary. What I’m interested in is the post he’s linking to! Imagine my serendipity when using Fraser Speirs excellent Applescript for archiving the current NetNewsWire item to Yojimbo. The URL for Gruber’s linked items is not to Daring Fireball but to the item in question. So, the script archived the actual item that Gruber linked to and not his linked list post. Not that my opinion matters a hell of a lot, but perish the thought that Daring Fireball’s linked list style change.
Sidebar: The other side effect of getting used to Gruber’s linking style is that I find myself expecting that linking behavior from other sites and being confused when I’m taken to their site. Most notably among these is kottke.org.
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This post is basically copy-pasted from Seth Dillingham’s site with minimal alterations where appropriate. For my part, I’d like to add that this is the height of distaste. I was feeling Mike Lee when he said, “Who would steal from the Icon Factory?”
Twitterific is a great little Twitter client for Mac OS X. The software is free if you don’t mind seeing an ad once an hour. They show up in the same space as the “tweets” and can be skipped or ignored very easily. If you don’t like the ads, you can register the software for $15. It’s a good deal all around.
Some idiot unhappy person, however, has posted a hack that strips out the ads. People who use this hack are stealing money from the Icon Factory: they didn’t pay for the software, and they’re not showing the ads.
In response, I just registered my copy two copies, one for me and one for my wife. They now have my our $15~$30.
The idiot gentleman who posted the hack is defending himself, as if he didn’t do anything wrong. Here’s how we (all Twitterific users, especially software developers) should respond:
Let’s see if we can drum up at least a few hundred registrations for them, to show our support. Turn the idiot’s bad behavior into something good for the Icon Factory.
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★ More on the Amazon MP3 Store:
Which brings me to the jackassiest comment of the day regarding Amazon MP3, from Jupiter Research analyst David Card to the Associated Press: “In and of itself, (Amazon MP3) isn’t enough to change any market share. They have to do a good job at building their store.”
Well, perhaps Amazon can find a book or something about how to build a successful high-volume online store.
It’s writing like this that makes me love John Gruber and Daring Fireball. Snarky when appropriate but always cogently argued and insightful – unless he’s posting about sports. 
(Via Daring Fireball.)
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What are expectations? “Mike, you’re a smart guy so I expected more out of you. Since you failed to meet expectations, you get no raise. Frankly, I’m surprised Bob can even wipe his own ass. That he comes to work most days with his pants facing forward exceeds expectations, so he gets a ten percent raise, and a little gold star.”
Mike is quickly becoming one of my absolute favorite bloggers. When he posts, I listen because he’s not just posting to post, you know? Top notch all the way.
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[O]ne of the biggest obstacles in most people’s quest for freedom is their inability to imagine what they would do with all that extra time. Work fills a gaping void in most of our lives, a void into which we would rather not peer!
And the main reason that hole is so difficult to look into is because we have not figured out what we would fill it up with.
This is so true. The question that graces this post’s title isn’t just a headline. It’s a serious question that demands serious deliberation. Just for the sake of argument, what if you only worked four hours per week? What if more and more of us worked less and less? I think that without serious consideration of what we’d do with all that extra time, we’d merely think up new varieties of mischief and madness. I don’t think that’s what Tim is after at all.
When I initially pressed ⌘+2 to blog this, I intended to write a post that actually answered the question. But somehow, I managed to actually have a thought before dashing off a post full of platitudes and clichés about how I would do this or that with all that extra time. It turns out that I don’t really know what I would do with all that time. So, I won’t post my answer to that question until I actually figure it out.
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Oranged.net has released version 5 of their freelance business management software Studiometry. In version 5, it looks like they have added a new coat of paint and that’s about it. Oh, and they raised the price again. iCal synching, which they promised me would be implemented in Studiometry 4.1 has yet to see a proper implementation.
Someone should tell the Oranged folks that for Studiometry to continue to be viable, it is going to have to be rewritten from the ground up in Cocoa. The more I see from these guys, the more I want to chalk up my $169.95 (It costs $209.95 now.) to a learning experience and wash my hands of this wretched app.
P.S. iRatchet, Billings, if you had more robust invoice numbering ability, I would buy your app in a heartbeat. Look at the capabilities in Studiometry; it can’t be hard if they managed to do it.
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