Just can’t find the energy for “real” blog posts. I’ll say it again…. twitter.com/jackbaty jackbaty.tumblr.com … are just too easy and too much damn fun. See you there.

When I launched Adium this morning it was kind enough to tell me that version 1.0.1 was available and asked if I’d like to install it. Of course I would, thank you. Once the install was complete, I was also asked if I’d like to allow the new version to use all of the previous Keychain information. Yup, so I clicked “Change All” and waited… and waited. My MacBook started thrashing so badly as to be unusable.

I just can’t seem to stop thinking about Twitter. The idea of a service which keeps everyone informed about my every move seems just silly. Then I remember how absolutely vitally important IM away messages are to Jessica and realize I’m probably wrong again. There’s a thing with Twitter that strikes a chord somehow. I don’t know why or how most folks will use it, but they will, and the whole thing may end up as something none of us expected.

Apple’s new Airport Extreme could not be simpler. Plug it in, run the Airport Utility and viola, 802.11/n. Next thing was to attach a big USB drive to it. I plugged the drive in and up popped a message telling me a new volume was available. Typed in my password and blam, big ole network volume is online for anyone on the LAN. Sweet.

Like it or not, Adobe’s Flex platform is going to gain significant steam with developers over the next 12 months. That may sound obvious, but of course it can’t be, since I only realized it myself just recently. Many of you currently into Flex think it’s already everywhere, but it’s not. Flex developers are still few and far between. And many of them are rummaging around looking for their first real project.

It’s the little things in a sysadmin’s life that can drive him to drink. Example? Certainly… Been fighting a problem for days with Flash loading XML generated from a Rails app. Worked fine everywhere but IE 6. For some reason, the XML just would not load into a Flash movie. Tried everything, versions of edge Rails, Mongrel, Apache proxy issues, you name it. Running telnet sessions into Apache and watching headers fly by was where most of yesterday went.

Freebird may be a cliche, but damn! it’s still got a kickass guitar solo. And by the way, guitar solos are not self-indulgent tripe – they’re *music* and we could use a little more of that these days. And someone has been kind enough to put together links to videos of the 20 greatest guitar solos ever.

Seth Godin, like pretty much everyone else, wants an iPhone. He also suggests that perhaps Apple hasn’t actually, as Mr. Jobs claims, reinvented the phone. He then presents a list of features that a truly reinvented cellphone would have. Odd thing is, I don’t want *any* of his suggested features. I think Apple has reinvented the cellphone not by introducing a bunch of new capabilities I may or may not need, but by dramatically improving the way I *already* interact with my phone.

UPDATE 2017-11-09 My complaints below have been addressed since this was first written in 2006. And my positive reactions have done nothing but increase. Tinderbox is driving me nuts. Try as I might I just can’t seem to get rid of it. Why would I want to get rid of it? Well… It’s kind of ugly and looks like an unfinished Carbon app. It’s hard to learn. Getting data out of it is supposed to be easy, but isn’t.

Jessica won the “Best Smile” award in her school’s mock elections. I thought I’d post the above image to make sure the whole thing doesn’t go to her head.

Now *that’s* Christmas. I may have it made into one of those corporate inspirational posters – “Teamwork” or something.

“It’s a harp fer chrissakes!” was my reaction each time I’d read another reviewer fawning over Joanna Newsom’s _Ys_. What use could I have for a silly retro dandelion-and-fairies harp playing waif? Armed with an iTunes gift certificate and being a sucker for all things recommended, I decided to see what the fuss was about. Three minutes into the opening “Emily” I knew I was listening to something unique. Twenty minutes later, after “Sawdust & Diamonds” I realized I’d for the most part stopped breathing.