cedric beust is amazed at home contrived and complex it is easy to create a "one-line Objective C program" that embedded WebKit as seen at this page -- and his complaint isn't completely out of there. the main problem is that you have to create an interface and provide some plumbing for the data to go where you want and then it's pretty simple. neat that it can be done i guess.#

awwww via bitch girls -- puppies are cute.#

i like it when scoble acknowledges that he pisses some people off. i think what's great about scoble is that he's so fresh like that, honest and what not#

malte tancred wonders about a proxy for the software update service in mac os x. my question is:
* "Does Software Update use HTTP/FTP to do it's business?"
** if yes: "Does it use my normal proxy settings?"
*** if yes: Good, my proxy server does what Malte asks for.
** if no: Why not? Even so, I can setup my firewall to do transparent proxy and get the SUP(Software Update Proxy) Service with a hacky work around.
** if no: Why not?#

jon udell talks about the dilemma that innovators have when they can't explain the benefit of their technology to their customers to be. his thoughts were spurred by adam curry trying to explain RSS to people without the concept of "syndication" or "aggregation" in their vocabulary, and also talks a little bit about "value-added rss feeds and blogs" as a nice killer app for rss, so that you can goto one site, one weblog, and get everything that you're interested in. interesting idea, but some people maybe object about REALLY being syndicated and filtered. a note. i'd never heard of adam curry but he's a very interesting guy, he has a cute convertible and a satisfactory penis and some great MTV stories, yup.#

leaving a job must really suck but on one hand i kind of secretly wish i had all my responsibilities removed so that i can become a historian, then read and write all day. but mark, it sucks but i really dig you.#

the blogoshere is not a police state#

michael crawford has a great article at kuro5hin about how indie musicians could get more exposure, his main tenant is that their websites should be usable and their mp3s easy to find. i was actually talking to someone about this two days ago, they said a band's website was "really nice" but i say even though it looked pretty it was really hard to find anything, i said "What if you went to the website and knew nothing about the band - could you find what you wanted? would you have the patience to 'scrub' every image and follow every link?" read mc's article.#

guido's oscon impressions via dan sugalaski who notes that he doesn't there there is much competition between parrot and python because parrot has no chance at the pie-thon challenge.#

also from oscon are matz's slides, they are pretty interesting. "programming languages are languages too"#

tim o'reilly links danny o'brien's observation that when you use microsoft products at home you're not their target user, so you're just "eating the scraps outside cube farm trash barrels", and also about dashboard. he writes that he likes dashboard as a "guide" versus a "computer decision maker", in his words: "Don't act like a personal assistant, making decisions for me. You're no good at that. Give me more information to make my own decisions. Increase my power, don't bleed it away."#

chromatic responds to people who are upset that perl6 isn't out yet by saying that a lot is done and if you're not doing anything to help then you shouldn't complained. i sent a few patches to parrot last summer, dan s committed them, but then i didn't do more. i suck, but not bad.#

an aspiring cook is good motivation that anyone can do it. i don't think i can cook, but i've never tried. agh.#

simon willison writes about how he is interested in maybe using cold fusion because he thinks the syntax is much cleaner in many cases. i used to cold fusion once and it was horrible. i wanted to shoot myself. but now i'm better.#

anil dash inspired simon willison to consider if it would be a good idea for google to help out mozilla and brand a "Google Browser", they cite the integration that seems eminent from redmond with MSN and IE. i think it's an interesting idea, but at the same time i think something like a portable google toolbar to other browser would be a better tactic because it's browser agnostic and gives many of the same gains as their own browser#

charles miller is "lacking in "stack memory which is a funny way to put what he's saying but i think stuff like these core dumps and stack overflows happen to us all. heh. also from charles miller is a request to fork the LGPL or at least for someone else to pick it up, because it's been abandoned practically by GNU and it's not fit for where it's used sometimes. word.#

queer eye for the straight guy looks like it's pretty funny. i agree with brent simmons make over shows - either of people or places - are some of the best because they give us hope that everything crappy can be made better and that's great. a quote: "Call it shallow, and I'll remind you that Oscar Wilde said it's only shallow people who don't judge by appearances. So it's shallow, but it's also powerful." - Oscar Wilde's a pretty rad guy.#

sweet dreams from the bikini d#

this blog post about venture capitalists and golf is pretty funny, goto the site mentioned and look up somebody. for example, joe tucci, the president and ceo of emc doesn't seem to have golfed much since 1998. weird?#

i think it's this post from web mink is interesting. i'm surprised but then again not so surprised that google would check out this sort of thing. i think daring fireball is okay because he recommends that you look at them and click if you like it rather than just clicking every so often.#

scoble and james robertson both think conferences are great because of the face time and the peoplepersonal contacts. i wish i've gone to a conference, i'm a big bum who sits in a box all day and only go outside when i need to get food. i'm partly transparent because of it. siiigh. i think i will resolve to goto a conference in the next year. yes.#

i enjoy stuff like this because i don't often check out job listing just for funny, horrible jobs. also from bewb is this post about the book corporate warriors that is about the privatized military that is utilized by the us military and the shit they pull: ''The problem with Privatized Military services is such. Most of these companies are "deployed" if you will, to countries that are failing, or are in some such turmoil that there is little law that exists, and many times it is the job of the company sent in, to re-establish law and order. Here's the problem; these companies are under no jurisdiction in these countries, so therefore they don't have to obey any laws. They are not on U.S. soil, so U.S. laws don't apply. They are not U.S. Military, so they don't have to obey military rules and regulations, and since most of the areas they work are failed states, no one there is going to stop them.''#

new lwn weekly edition gives us as small note on the old standby that with enough eyeballs all bugs are shallow #

new information and screenshots of xenogears 2. the new graphics look pretty good and it's equally nice to have the same characters back again, can't wait, can't wait.#

scheme is wonderful and i didn't realize don park was this cool --- i think everyone should love scheme. we're getting married you know?#

gene expression links this article from msnbc with great images of the juxtaposition of big and small. heh.#

i wish i had movie star romances like moxie, because uh... i like romance. it's nice, at least in the books. but i don't really know. i really like how moxie writes, whatever it is she's writing.#

larry wall's official state of the onion coverage: ''This is the 7th annual State of the Perl Onion speech, wherein I tell you how Perl is doing. Perl is doing fine, thank you. Now that that's out of the way, I'd like to spend the rest of the time telling jokes. In fact, the conference organizers have noticed that I spend most of the time telling jokes. So each year they give me a little less time, so I have to chop out more of the serious subject matter so as to leave time for the jokes.'' - he's sooo funny. he really does just joke the whole time. it's great.#

who are we really anyways?#

joel follows up yesterday and says that Munich's solution is to run VMWare and Windows on the new linux machines. genius. he also links this article on some of the problems that have grown organically within google#

Krzysztof Kowalczyk's Weblog mentioned the "memex" from as we may think the other day. and this great interview with jim gray mentions it towards the end. this interview is really wonderful... just so, intuitive and original solutions to problems. the discussion of mailing disks around reminds me of the great quote never under estimate the bandwidth of a truck full of disks#

i read this classic paper from Jeff Bonwick today, "The Slab Allocator: An Object-Caching Kernel Memory Allocator." It was pretty interesting. The author blurb at the end is great: "Jeff Bonwick is a kernel hacker at Sun. He likes to rip out big, slow, old code and replace it with small, fast, new code. He still can't believe he gets paid for this." - har har har.#

i got an interesting email from seventwentyfour the other day, they informed me a link on my site was broken - apparently the email was from a robot and it asked for feedback. when i replied i got another email telling my about how they offered this (and other services) for a particular amount per year and i could get a free trial. now i'm not really interested in the service but i think it's great the way that they tried to hook me by just giving me a taste and giving me info because i replied to their email. good show guys!#

chrystal loves accents at least certain types, northern accents. like boston. yesssss. she also thinks colin farrell is hot, i support that motion. i was reading chrystal's old posts: chrystal searches for a gay friend - "we could cuddle without him feeling the urge to touch my boobs." - hahahaa. yes.#