It'll Never Fly

Clever… not good, but clever.

Working on some PHP code for my WordPress blog to clean up the content it gets from Posterous.

Need a test message to tinker with.

Here’s another paragraph.

Me, too!
What happens if I only hit return once?

Last one. iPhone really could use an easier way to resend emails.

I lied, but possibly the second last time I'll be doing this. :)

A corollary to Godwin’s Law: as a discussion with my cubicle neighbour grows longer, the probability of a reference to the TV show “Angel” approaches 1.

Remember when I mentioned that Ma.gnolia died and I lost all my hosted bookmarks, but not to worry because they were all posted here automatically, albeit in a very non-retrievably-friendly way? Well, I've started back up at Delicious again and now I'm working on getting all my old bookmarks back on there. I've got them all collected in a single HTML document, but now I've got to put together some clever regex to strip them all out at put them in something Delicious will be able to import. I've skimmed the file and it shouldn't be too hard, but I don't know if the tags will survive the import. Going in the opposite direction, I see Delicious will include tags as a comma-separated string in a TAGS attribute when doing an export, so I've got a place to start anyway. Wish me luck!

I find it suspicious Lexycle (owned by Amazon) just happened to release the 2.1 update to Stanza (“at Apple’s request”) whose only change was to remove its hacky USB syncing, the weekend after Apple announces the iPad and iBookstore. Especially considering the other apps using the same hack were all notified and updated in early Dec (http://j.mp/bJfR9n) and Stanza 2.0 came out around the same time with the feature still intact. Amazon’s deviousness is already well documented. Amazon should stick to what it’s good at, being a retailer, because it sucks at being a bully in everything else.

iPhone OS 3.1

In General on September 11th, 2009 by Bob
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Looks like Apple has vastly improved the time it takes a photo to save to the camera roll in the 3.1 OS that just came out with iTunes 9. It’s still not as fast as the built-in camera app, and there’s still no geo-tagging, but it’s a step in the right direction.