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• Software Distribution History: Shrinkwrap to Download to Appcasting NetNewsWire, my preferred RSS reader, isn’t particular about the file type within a given podcast. Audio (podcasting), video (videoblogging), images, pdfs (like 101sheets), torrents, or even applications (appcasting?). As you can tell from the appcasting link, Fraser Speirs was the first I knew of using an RSS feed to distribute his excellent iPhoto Flickr plugin.
• Legalizing Feng Shui Last month Assemblyman Leland Yee introduced a bill in the California legislature to put Feng Shui principles on the books. State officials were speechless “We know earthquakes knock down buildings, we know fire burns down buildings. We don’t know what feng shui does to buildings.” As Assemblyman Yee responded, “A lot of the principles of feng shui
• Feeling Temporarily Secure I’ve been to handful of airports - the underlying architecture of them all is: open, flowing, permanent. The ironic exception is the airport checkpoints - like pop-up stores in malls. Foldable tables, movable queue markers, equipment on wheels - makes it feel so temporary. Like it just might packed up and gone tomorrow. “The tables aren’t quite
• How We Should Get Podcasts On Our Phones There are a handful of services that bring podcasts to mobile phones over the phones data connection. Unfortunately, navigating the phone that way is really hard. I think there’s an easier way. Update 31 Aug 2007: I love the internet. If you wait long enough, the things you’re looking for will find you: “Podlinez is a free service that lets
• 9 Things Cullect Taught Me About Software  Forcing people to create an account to use your software is a bug. if you’re not scared to deploy, you’ve stopped caring. Murphy is alive and well. Google and a bookself of technical books can be equally useless. Good software is like an iceberg. if you ask for money, people will give it to you. Software is as hard as you