Tom Morris: 2006-09-19

I'm not going to be in Britain on the 1st of October - but if you are, be sure to go to the NO2ID benefit in Hackney. It's a comedy benefit event and the profits go to NO2ID. 2006-09-19T21:39:34Z

Yet another cool use for Grazr: embedding help files in to Salesforce.com. 2006-09-19T16:59:00Z

Are you as pissed off about iTunes as I am? Downgrade! I'm going back to 6.0.4 until Apple fix all the shit with this new version. Also, macfixit seems to have the solution for most of the crashing - Sound Enhancer. I've switched Sound Enhancer off, then I'll install iTunes 6 if it doesn't work. 2006-09-19T17:09:18Z

Want all the unreliability of the new iTunes without the new interface? AguaT will switch it back. Me? I like the new style, but just want the application to work for longer than ten minutes without crashing. 2006-09-19T15:52:46Z

Casey Luskin: "Why do so many people eagerly listen to a journalist with neither scientific nor legal training discuss a complex scientific and legal issue like intelligent design?" I don't know, but having absolutely no training in the subject has never stopped Denyse O'Leary. 2006-09-19T14:46:06Z

Lettuce, right? I can think of some much better uses than lettuce for this device. Smile and a wink 2006-09-19T12:53:11Z

I'm slowly becoming GTD compatible. I've reduced my unreads from over 600 e-mails to about 12. I'm closing my open loops - although I've got quite a few to go in real life. 2006-09-19T12:33:13Z

Got it! 2006-09-18T23:01:48Z

I'm writing a mobile OPML blogging interface - so that I can post to my OPML blog from my phone or PDA. I've got part of the way there - I've managed to post a file to my hosting.opml.org account from PHP. I'm using Keith Devens XML-RPC Library to do so - because though I like Simon's library, Keith's is simpler and closer to my style of coding (hacky, nasty, brutish and generally not OO unless necessary). What's nice about Keith's library is that I'm using his XML library (which is about the quickest way to get data from REST XML), and his XML-RPC library returns in exactly the same format.

I've got nothing against doing it in an OO manner - but decent XML libraries should be part of all languages without having to use objects.

Hopefully I'll have something to show in the next day or so.

There's quite a lot of work in getting this to work - but it's a lot of fun.

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New Grazr 2006-09-19T08:33:20Z

Grazr 1.0 is out now! I've dropped the new version in to my template. I'll update my software today to support the new version. They've got a great-looking new website and coverage on TechCrunch.

Grazr has added a YouTube function - which is something I'm going to try to use for some of my mashups.

The new version is excellent - and Adam and Mike deserve a big round of applause for putting out such a polished product. Smile and a wink

The Technorati seems to like it too, which is encouraging (and proof that I'm not as crazy as I think I am). The OPML space is not a zero-sum game. The success of one pushes us all forward.

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Diversity for the sake of sanity 2006-09-19T13:55:28Z

The comments are saying that Chris Messina's post the (lack of) diversity at the Future of Web Apps conference was courageous. I agree with most of the things said - as do Mike Arrington (and his partner in Crunch, Marshall Kirkpatrick), Tantek Çelik, Tom Coates and no doubt a few others in the whiteys gallery at the top of his post have agreed with him and signalled (gestured?) that in various ways. How exactly is it courageous to say something when the subjects of your post agree with you? I don't disagree that we need more diversity at tech conferences - not necessarily for 'affirmative action' reasons, but because having women and minorities participating tends to dampen some of the bullshit of certain alpha geeks.

Saying that web conferences need more minorities is courageous in the same way as saying that you prefer bruschetta to beans on toast is courageous. I'm not a courageous person - but this isn't courage - it's standard accepted wisdom. It would be courageous to say the opposite.

I'm dreaming that a gang of feminists, gays, lesbians and ethnic minorities who live in California could go and tell Steve Jobs to fix his god-damn iTunes 7 before I really go fucking spare.

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BBC Today Morning Briefing: INACCURATE 2006-09-19T18:06:18Z

The BBC were reporting that the first awards for blogging were given at the Lib Dem party conference. (I've got the MP3 - I'll pull the relevant audio out if anyone wants to hear it).

Not true. The Bloggies have been running since 2001.

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2006.09.19

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