An Experiment in Bloggery

eddienull on #macdev posted a great link to a video of George Bush singing Sunday Bloody Sunday. I thought it was pretty great.

Chris Liscio just released the next major version of his application, FuzzMeasure Pro 2.0. I think congratulations for all his hard work are in order.

The other day my roommate’s friend Eric lent me his iPod to rip. That gave me probably about 35GB of music. This was in addition to my approximately 45GB of existing music. Unfortunately, this means I’m now about 25GB over the limit of my iPod (60GB iPod, really only holds 55GB). I was afraid of this happening - I’ve been trying to stay ahead of my music collection so I don’t have to pick and choose, but it looks like I’ll have to do that now. And unfortunately, given past history the next iPod size bump will be to 80GB, which isn’t quite enough for my current collection (and who knows, I may have even more music by then).

The other problem with this is, while iTunes is the best music jukebox for Mac, it’s not good enough to give me control over my music so I can easily pick and choose what I want to go into my iPod.

For the time being, I set up a smart playlist that limits itself to 55GB and sorts by date added, ascending. This way all of my existing music will go on my iPod and a portion of the new music will as well. But if I add any new music to my collection (like, say, buy another album from the iTMS) then it won’t end up on my iPod until I figure out how to manage this situation.

The DS Lite was released today, and I picked up my pre-order. I have yet to actually play with it yet (had to wait for it to charge), but it’s finally ready. I took some pictures of it first, though.

Well, it took me a while to track down, but if you’ve ever needed documentation on the Rez file format, you want the Building and Managing programs in MPW manual from developer.apple.com.

As far as I can tell, there is no soundtrack available for the movie Ultraviolet. And I don’t know why. I looked when the movie first aired, and I just searched again a few minutes ago. And it appears that the soundtrack simply does not exist. How can it be, that the producers of Ultraviolet have failed to capitalize on the soundtrack like this? Why, in this extremely commercial society, can I not find and purchase this item? Often times I see soundtracks for movies released before the movie itself, and yet this long after Ultraviolet came out there is still none. And I am annoyed.

Well, it looks like we’re almost at the 4.0 milestone for Typo. Tonight I knocked off 7 tickets (a couple just got re-categorized, but others got fixed/closed). Now there’s just 1 left, and it’s slaird’s responsibility. Unfortunately I have no idea what the time frame is on finishing it.

In any case, I’ll be pushing to get 4.0 out the door as soon as possible.

BTW, anybody currently on trunk and Rails 1.1, I highly encourage you to upgrade to HEAD. Why? Because I squelched the exceedingly verbose logging of sidebar rendering (in a quick test, a single sidebar rendered on the front page shoved 70k into the log file). It’s a fairly ugly hack, but it’ll save you from having to wipe your logs every week.

Well, Rails 1.1 is out now. And that is a problem for Typo. See, when we tried running it under Rails 1.1rc1 we discovered that this new version of Rails has certain problems with components. Basically, Rails isn’t setting up the component namespaces that we’re expecting it to. I guess this is what I’ll be spending tomorrow evening hammering on.

Update: As of 10:57 AM this morning, Typo trunk now supports Rails 1.1 (and should work with Rails 1.0 too).

This morning, Tom Cruise flew over (in his private WWII bomber plane) and came on to Yahoo! Campus to give a talk as part of Yahoo!’s Inspirational Speakers program. And let me tell you, it was pretty darn cool. Turns out Tom is a really nice guy, and pretty funny too. Tom and Terry (CEO of Yahoo) talked about Tom’s movie career, and had a few amusing anecdotes about Tom and Terry. Quite enjoyable.

After the event I managed to get a few pictures of Tom with my cameraphone. Click on the picture below to view the set.

Tristan and I went to see V for Vendetta with a couple friends tonight. And I was completely blown away. I was told the movie was great, but it exceeded all of my expectations. I went into it knowing absolutely nothing about the plot, and I liked it that way so I won’t say anything here about it. To put it simply, you should watch this movie.