I still think Facebook is Important(tm), but good lord can we just get rid of 99% of the “Apps” until someone figures out something useful? Zombies, drinking games, super-poking? I’ll wait, wake me when it’s ready.

just dropped the new Movable Type iPhone plugin into this here blog and instantly got a sweet UI for managing the site right from my phone. Using it right now as a matter of fact. Neat

In iCame, iSaw, iCaved David Carr of the NYT seems to think there’s a problem with the consistent pricing model of iTunes and suggests that variable pricing would be fine… The Web, after all, can easily enable infinitely customized pricing. eBay proved that people will not only track prices closely, but act in their own consuming self-interest. eBay!? Let’s see a show of hands, who likes eBay? That’s what I thought.

Uh, Hairspray was the best movie I’ve seen in a long time. I know, I can’t believe it either. Something this bright and giddy and unabashedly fun is just what a person needs. I’d sing if I could.

I bought an iPhone the day after it was released. Paid $599, and love almost everything about it. It was worth the money I paid for it or I wouldn’t have bought it. It’s now a couple months later and Jobs drops the price to $399. I would rather have paid $200 less than I did, but at the time there was no other option, so I made a choice and bought one.

A minor annoyance with Google Reader is that unread feed counts only go up to 100 (or 100+). Alluva sudden today, I get this… Much better, thanks! Update: And now search as well! Finally!

If you have a blog, and allow comments, please do me a favor. Include the real date and time with each comment. I’m too lazy to do the math when the comment says “Anonymous Dufus said, 241 days later…” 241 days later than what? Now I’ve got to scroll all the way back up and find the date of the original post and then start counting. By then I’m terribly confused and annoyed.

I’ve sent a couple emails recently which contained everything the recipient needed, and yet were completely misread. In both cases, I included the important bits in the very first line, which was promptly ignored. They looked something like this… My immediate and completely unscientific conclusion is that one should never include valuable information in the first line of an email. Stick with “Dear so-and-so,” or “Hi,” instead.

Twitter Rules. No, not as in “Twitter Rulz Dude!” but as in, “Here are a few nice guidelines on how to Twitter effectively and not annoy the shit out of those following you”. I ran into the above while looking around to find out if I was the only person who found the recent scourge of Tweets ending in “FTW!” completely annoying. I’m not.

Google Analytics is pretty cool, comprehensive and huge. I’m just a little guy with a little site and the whole Analytics thing can be overwhelming. I know there are tons of options for site tracking, but currently I’m in the middle of trying Clicky. It’s small, looks nice and gives simple tracking right down to the individual visitor level. Free for lower-traffic sites. Not much more for others.

It seems that Comcast is aggressively shaping BitTorrent traffic (torrentfreak.com) and in some cases resetting seed connections. There goes my ratio! Now it’ll take forever to download the latest episode of, er. latest Linux distro. A link in the above article points to a Whalesalad post on tunnelling BT connections over SSH. Should do the trick (althoug I haven’t actually tried it yet.)

Seth Godin on the modern version of hard work… bq. Hard work is about risk. It begins when you deal with the things that you’d rather not deal with: fear of failure, fear of standing out, fear of rejection. Hard work is about training yourself to leap over this barrier, tunnel under that barrier, drive through the other barrier. And, after you’ve done that, to do it again the next day.