Spent the evening with Mary in Detroit’s Greektown – a first for me. We ate at Hellas. Never having eaten Greek food before, I had no idea what to expect. It was fantastic. My favorite was the Octopus – we ordered seconds. Then came Mousaka, some Saganaki and Grape leaves. (Didn’t care for the grape leaves.) We had 3 different desserts – Baklava, rice pudding and some custard thingy which was awesome.

I recently started a separate weblog so that I could record my experiences while learning to develop in Flash. It’s called New2Flash. I’ve got comments and trackbacks enabled there, so feel free to post. I can use all the help I can get!

Don’s still the man when it comes to usable things. New Scientist interviewed him. “The cellphone is a very interesting development – it’s really an emotion machine. The very success of SMS, despite the difficulty of using it, is that it lets people sort of touch each other and keep in touch throughout the day. It’s not about sending factual information, it’s about keeping the social structure going.”

The nntp//rss project is a local nntp server which pulls in rss feeds so that you can read your feeds in any newsreader. Cool. I’m using Mozilla news and Free Agent and loving it.

I read a large and growing number of weblogs every day, but only through RSS feeds. I don’t want to visit one or two hundred sites, looking for new posts, so I don’t. It is becoming apparent that if your blog doesn’t have a feed, I’ll rarely read it. With the recent proliferation of software like RSSBandit, SharpReader and Syndirella, it’s getting better and easier. In fact, using SharpReader today, with its

So oddpost, the quirky, fun-loving web-based email service, has released version 2. Always a sucker for trying everything once, I thought I’d take a look. After clicking “See a Demo”, I was redirected to a page (browserReject.html I think it was) “Oddpost currently requires Internet Explorer 5.0 (or higher) for Windows. If you?d like to see Oddpost released for other browsers or platforms, please drop us a line at . You can click here for more info about Oddpost?

On my way from some database work to some PHP work today, I needed to clean up some files of one of our web servers. Just a simple thing, zip up and delete a web site directory that we’d recently moved to newer hardware. That’s what I did, except it was the wrong directory. I had just deleted a live, well-trafficked web site. Poof! Gone! It took only about 20 minutes to restore it from tape, but somehow a

Industrial Light and Magic releases a new image format, OpenEXR. Its libraries are free and released under a modified BSD license. Most of it’s feature list is beyond my almost non-existant grasp of image formats, but it sure sounds cool.

One of Opera’s in-browser ads just started talking to me – loudly. That sort of thing has got to stop. Anyone know who I can complain to?

This is why I use Opera.

I’ve always tended to equate, or at least compare, programming and poetry. Paul Graham does it too, using painters for comparison. It’s a great read. “I think hackers just have to resign themselves to having a large random component in their reputations.” … “You need a good sense of design to judge good design. And there is no correlation, except possibly a negative one, between people’s ability

I’ve almost got my little php blog posting app to a point where it’s usable. Even made a bookmarklet for it. I’m not clever enough to come up with a great name for it, so right now I’m using “PHPetal.” I’ll post a version in the next day or so if anyone is interested. [I’ve almost got my little php blog posting app to a point where it’s usable. Even made a bookmarklet for it.