Dispatches

@jblyberg: I had to look it up a while ago too http://tinyurl.com/z87sg

sifting results of

@tinfoilraccoon: take the pledge: http://tinyurl.com/2x8qye

@tinfoilraccoon: is it really so complex that it requires training? PLS tell them Amazon and iTunes don’t require training, ask why OD does.

Aaron Schmidt alerted me to this how to sweetening up your site with fancy iPhone web clip icons.

user posts antisemitic content to wikipedia, then crosses out my comment in the requests for deletion page!?!? http://tinyurl.com/ytt5zh

@edventures: their hardware and operating system operations are getting squeezed. They’ve gotta look elsewhere.

I like MySQL. I like Sun. This could work well: http://tinyurl.com/yr43rl

tried sleep, failed. Surfing web oniohone in bed while Sandee sleeps soundly.

drove home clicking iphone maps locate button like walt mossberg on meth. works great in cities, crap in woods

New iPhone maps locate circle has yet to locate me

MacBook Air is sealed like iPod. Can’t replace battery, no RAM upgrades.

iPhone update finally downloading. Not leaving office until I get a locator button on my maps.

iPhone update server overloaded

@awd: wasn’t sure if there was a specific meeting your sarcasm was directed toward, though I’ve been following the drama all along

@mstephens7: bring cigars and ask if prez has has scotch in the office?

You’ve got the hardware, you’ve got the skills, go build a multi-touch electronic whiteboard with your Wiimote and a data projector.

Google Mail now supports IMAP, but what if you’ve been using POP3 all along and have a gajillion messages on the server, all marked unread and waiting in your inbox? How can I tell Apple Mail not to download the [Gmail]/All Mail IMAP folder without an ugly hack? [Update, the hack just causes Mail to crash a lot.]

Free from Nielsen Norman Group: Beyond ALT Text, Making the Web Easy to Use for Users With Disabilities, a report on web design for users with disabilities. “Seventy-five best practices for design of websites and intranets, based on usability studies with people who use assistive technology” According to the blog post, usability is three times better for non-disabled users.

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From the La Crosse Tribune, A boy and his cabbage of significant size:

Wisconsin ten-year-old Douglas Mezera grew a 31-pound cabbage for a competition sponsored by Bonnie Plant. The Alabama plant company’s program aims to promote gardening as fun and rewarding. What do you do with so much cabbage? “We made it into homemade sauerkraut,” Douglas’ mom said. “It’s good.”

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I thought the matter was dead after Boeing shut down their much hyped in-flight WiFi plans (yep), but Engadget got a seat on JetBlue’s private introductory flight for their WiFi service. The good news is that it’s free, the not surprising news is that Yahoo! is partnering in it (and it requires a Yahoo! account), the bad news is that all you get is Yahoo! IM and email. No web browsing, or anything else useful. Well, that and there’s no power outlets.