For those that are interested in cool phones, I have posted a review of the Nokia 6820 over at MobileTracker. It’s available now on AT&T Wireless and sports some nice features, namely a fold out QWERTY keyboard. It’s a great phone for business users. The next review will hopefully be the Motorola A630.
It’s a good mail day when a Daring Fireball shirt comes. I would brag about how cool it is and that it was limited edition so you can’t order one now, but that is just too easy. This is my first (maybe last?) blog-shirt.
Some posts don’t really spur anything with the original audience but have a huge second life in the sneaky world of search engine rankings. I liken this to a sleeper at the box office that gains ground in DVD sales. One such example of this is a rant I wrote about the USPS.
Since my posting nearly a year ago it has gotten a comment or two a week, making it a rather large repository for USPS horror stories. There are even a few USPS emplyees who found it (how I do not know) and defend their workplace!
The items that are successfully delivered to you, you knuckle heads turn right around and refuse the item and then have the nerve to leave the at your door so that your overwoked and physically worn carrier has to retote your “stupid,late night order this because I’m bored” packages back to the truck, while deliverying all the oversized self-degrading/porno magazines you morons order.
Neat!
I have still been reading at a pretty fierce pace lately… Here’s some of the latest off my book shelf:
Next up are Sarah [Update: Finished! And wow was it disturbing.] and Kiss Me Judas.
Any suggestions?
Though America is a free country, honking your horn at a woman in front of you who sits through an entire green light and goes at the end when it is yellow (leaving you no time to go) is illegal. Well… Maybe not, but I at least got pulled over for it and got a yelling at by one of Tampa’s finest. Despite saying that “excessive honking” is an offense he was “easy” on me and let me away with a warning. Christ.
So the new WYSIWYG Blogger is amazing… I tested it out here. I haven’t been that excited over a web service since Gmail. Now get busy SixApart–this would be great in TypePad!
Oh man. Going to have some fun with this. PHP 5 is out, for real this time. Now I just have to figure out how to compile it on OS X. I have only done binary installs in the past. Any tips? Update: This looks like it will work.
I am excited about v5 because it has some new XML/SOAP stuff (should make it easier to tie in with some common APIs) as well as SQLite. The new object stuff doesn’t hurt. It will be a fun few days.
I’ve had Internet Haganah on my bookmark bar for a couple of months now. It’s amazing. If you look at terrorist websites for a long period they all start to look the same. And oddly enough they remind me of cheesy porn sites–full of layered graphics (example). Maybe one day terror will find CSS.
Internet Haganah is run by a guy named Aaron Weisburd who is on a mission to shut down sites that spread jihad. He’s got some amazing spiders that go out and see what’s new in terror, and then posts information about where said sites are hosted. I’ve never talked to Aaron (donated to him though), but he’s got some balls–he posts his address on the site and today posted a death threat he got in the mail.
Who will it be? Edwards. Clinton. Gephardt. Vilsack. Bayh. Lots of choices. Too much coverage. Drudge says we’ll know tomorrow at 9AM. Wouldn’t be surprised to have word leak out by 7:30. We’ll see.
Was I the only one not informed that the 5th of July was the new 4th of July? Seriously, what’s with all the slackers taking off? Just because you missed a day off by having it on a Sunday doesn’t mean you should take off Monday.
