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Archive for July, 2005

Everything old is new again, again

Thursday, July 14th, 2005

August 2002 - Just like how old people start sleeping in separate beds, PalmSource and Palm Solutions move to separate campuses.

(Even the official website can’t quite get it straight)

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Air conditioning

Thursday, July 14th, 2005

Air conditioning’s still out. Current temp: 87°.

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Wilting

Thursday, July 14th, 2005

I think something may be seriously wrong with the air conditioning in our apartment.

P.S. Did you know you can get an Atom feed of just my sketchbook pages?

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Gruber on Apple’s sudden podcasting frenzy

Wednesday, July 13th, 2005

Podcasting is still very, very new. As in like still dripping-wet new. …

There are several signs, in fact, that Apple’s podcasting features were rushed to market …

Apple couldn’t have come up with a better name for this phenomenon if they’d gotten to choose it themselves.

From Is That a Podcast in your Pocket?, which might also be entitled “Apple Owes Adam Curry a Big Sack of Cash.”

[Also please see my own beef with iTunes' podcast support: Atom feeds need not apply.]

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“We’re so screwed.”

Wednesday, July 13th, 2005

Guy1: Yeah! Play again? C’mon. Alright, who do we play next?
Me: (walking up) Me.
Guy2: You got a partner?
Me: I don’t need one.
Guy1: You’re that good?
Me: Yes.
Them: (Noises indicating unsuredness of me and the situation)
(They foose, I immediately pass from 5 to 3 and score on an angle.)
Guy1: We’re so screwed.

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Rebooten-sie

Wednesday, July 13th, 2005

Wow, I guess this is what you get when you run Software Update but forget to reboot:

CoreGraphics server version 256.0 not compatible with client version 256.5; log out or reboot needed

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iTunes stares blankly at Atom podcasts

Tuesday, July 12th, 2005

I was disappointed to discover that while it has no problem interpreting podcasts distributed as RSS 2.0 with <enclosure> tags, iTunes completely ignores Atom feeds with <link rel=”enclosure”> elements. In fact, it’s pretty darned insensitive when it comes to parsing feeds in general. (Boo-urns, as Chris would say.)

See for yourself with my simple demonstration podcasts (don’t get used to it; this is the only podcast I’ll ever do):

Podcast (Atom) / Podcast (RSS)

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