Posts, links, photos & tweets.
July 1, 2008
@sarahsosiak — “Microtagging” jumped the shark and nuked the fridge while we were registering the domain name.
June 27, 2008
Still no Full Screen Mode feature for web apps in [REDACTED]. Bummer.
June 26, 2008
@sarahsosiak — Breathing: +1. :) Also, you weren’t breathing?! Hope you’re feeling better, like way better.
June 25, 2008
Yes, goddamnit, I’m aware that “more than one layer is selected”. What could that possibly have to do with dragging a marquee selection?
June 24, 2008
The existence and position of the “Next Unread” button instantly make this app more appealing than Google Reader.
Due to security concerns, they’re going to disable a critical feature by default. Meanwhile, TypePad and Movable Type continue to have great support for third party apps.
@byrnereese — You’re not looking forward to “Web 3G”? (You heard it here first. You know that’s what they’re going to start calling it.)
June 21, 2008
Putting $70.20 worth of gas in my car. Planning on enjoying the drive as much as possible. :)
June 20, 2008
Looking forward to the creative explosion that will surely follow Yahoo’s implosion.
June 19, 2008
@MarsPhoenix — Nice work! Now you can put “found water on Mars” on your resume. :)
June 17, 2008
Must be hard to walk away from Flickr. Or maybe they’re already plotting the next big thing. :)
The sleeper hit of WWDC 2008 is those MobileMe web apps and SproutCore.
June 15, 2008
Eureka!
June 14, 2008
I was a little nervous about taking my iPhone to Canada as I’d heard horror stories of rampant international data usage leading to $3,000 phone bills. It turned out to be no trouble at all to make sure the phone wouldn’t go nuts overseas. First, AT&T has this page of tips which essentially boil down to:
- Turn off the General → Network → Data Roaming setting. (Which was already set to off when I checked it on my phone.)
- Change the Mail → Auto-Check setting to “Manual”.
- Use Wi-Fi networks whenever you need to access data.
The first one is the most critical as otherwise the phone will use any cell network it can find to send and receive data.
One thing these steps don’t protect you against is voice and SMS usage. I didn’t use the phone but I sent a few SMS messages which cost 20¢ per message.
June 13, 2008
Champagne malfunction. :)
Seeing a satisfying uptick in “I’m switching to TypePad” chatter in the Twitterverse.
June 12, 2008
“Movable Type has the best security track record of any popular installable blogging software.” I love graphs.
Post to any blog, or any update service, on any platform, from any iPhone. Powered by TypePad.
June 11, 2008
Tipping my hat to Remember the Milk. Their iPhone web app is indeed a worthy adversary. (But, for the love of Pete, change the name!)
@sarahsosiak — I would like to take the credit but the candy bars are all Tabitha’s doing. :)
@sarahsosiak — Thanks. I think we were in various airports and planes for 32 straight hours.
June 10, 2008
Landing at SFO! :)
Boarding a flight to SFO! :)
June 9, 2008
Beautiful. :)
Early details of the next big Mac OS X release.
Flight delayed, missed connection, stuck in Chicago overnight. This airport and I do not get along. :)
This is easily the best $8.95 I’ve spent on airport Wi-Fi. :)
Huge congrats to Ray, Steph, Michael, and the rest of the TypePad Mobile crew.
“Watching” the keynote from my iPhone in Montréal. Best. WWDC. Ever. :)
June 8, 2008
The iPhone is, hands down, my all-time favorite gizmo. Since the rumors sites have me pretty much convinced that I’ll soon be buying an a new version of the phone, and since the App Store is coming soon, I wanted to note a couple of things I’m hoping for:
Thinner, Lighter, Faster
Apple is so good at this stuff, I have no doubt that the next iPhone will be noticably thinner and lighter than the original, yet capable of running native and web apps faster and more reliably.
Native Feed Reader
Google’s Reader is easily my favorite feed reader on the iPhone today, but there’s a huge opportunity for Brent Simmons and the NewsGator crew to step in and steal all the marbles. I don’t know if they’re working on it, but I hope so.
Contacts and Calendar Mobile Syncing
I have to plug my phone into my computer to sync my contacts and calendars. What is this, 2007?
Native IM Client App
Of course, this one is obviously in the works, but I’m especially looking forward to it. AIM’s IM-via-SMS stuff is great, but native is native.
Video Chat
This seems like kind of a silly rumor to me but it would just be SO DAMN COOL. The kind of “living in the future”-awesome that Apple brought us with the original iPhone.
One more thing…
Post Keynote Update: The new, native, TypePad for iPhone! It was a pleasure to be able to work on this with Stephane and Ray, and extremely exciting to hear that Michael was asked to demo it at the WWDC Keynote. Congratulations to the team!
This just in from Montréal: Holy crap it’s hot here. That is all.
June 4, 2008
I never though this would actually see the light of day. Looking forward to giving it a try.
June 3, 2008
Exactly the same position as Bush w/r/t warrantless wiretapping.
May 29, 2008
The same excellent spam-blocking technology that defends TypePad blogs is now available for free to all bloggers no matter how many comments your site receives!
May 25, 2008
I’m finding it very difficult to rank the Indiana Jones movies after seeing this latest installment. One thing I’m quite sure of is that Raiders of the Lost Ark and Last Crusade place higher than Temple of Doom and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
But despite the shortcomings of the 2nd and 4th films, they’re both still pure Indy gold and you can’t help but love them. Harrison Ford just owns that role so completely, and the villains are just so comically goofy, that you just have to shovel popcorn into your mouth and enjoy it.
Update: Sounds like a few other people liked it too. Time to make another one!
May 23, 2008
Equally great video.
Great song!
May 14, 2008
I went to a university with a brand new, state of the art gymnasium. I think it was essentially free to the students and you could literally get lost inside it. I spent probably 15 minutes in that building the entire time I was there.
After college I didn’t make any effort to join a gym although for a while I was living on Nob Hill in San Francisco, working on Market Street, and walking to and from work every day. I’m not sure what the elevation change was exactly, but that was probably close to the best shape I’ve ever been in.
Tabitha, unlike myself, needs to go to the gym. She can’t not. When I started going with her about a year or so ago, I found it pretty brutal. But of course its grown on me considerably and these days I almost, almost, look forward to going.
TypePad Mobile now supports five platforms: iPhone, BlackBerry, Palm, Symbian, and Windows. Congratulations to the Mobile team!
May 9, 2008
Kottke’s aggregating the “When Obama wins…” Twitter fad. :)
What would you buy?
May 7, 2008
You can now buy the song from the closing credits of Cloverfield from the iTunes Store.
May 5, 2008
Tab and I went to Monterey for the weekend and had a really nice time relaxing, eating well, wandering, and generally taking it easy.
We made a point to go to the Monterey Bay Aquarium and tried to see pretty much everything, including the behind-the-scenes tour.
My main camera’s battery turned out not to be as charged as I thought it was so I spent a lot more time goofing off with the little video camera than I normally do. Expect to see more videos of otters appearing on Flickr soon. :)
Update: It’s starting already!
