Well, Astro MINI should be in the port this afternoon...I am very, very excited about that.

Instamapper is a really awesome service, and it's completely free.

I can't even get out of bed in the morning without my Blackberry, and I've always been impressed by the GPS chipset the 8800 uses (very accurate, weak signal lock, etc), so the two seem to be a perfect combination.

Stalk me here

Anyone know of a good, "Free" PLM system? The few I've looked at seem to be poorly maintained or otherwise "lacking".

Adam and Melissa were married this weekend past, too bad I couldn't have been there. Congratulations to both!

I'm eager to find out if they like our gift.

My brother David and Tyler's sister Courtenay just left the UAE. They visited us for ten days, which was a great excuse to get out and see and do a lot of things I've put off for too long. Pictures on Flickr

I've got about a dozen programming ideas burning in my brain, but after work I can only seem to find time to play my PSP Slim before bed.

Oh, and Rob is spinning up a new project for us, http://factory-default.com . Details to follow, but it promises to be fun and interesting.

Speaking of, have you seen Linode yet? Check it out. I am trying to find the motivation to move Superimposable.org from it's current hosting on The Planet to Linode. I've been really happy with The Planet, but it's too expensive for my needs, and Linode offers a ton of really great features.

A few moments ago I discovered a bug in the way twitter handles protected updates.

Apparently, if you search for a username, it will provide you with that users most recent tweet. This could easily be exploited through scrapes to provide a "feed" of a users "protected" updates.

So much for privacy. One more reason to hate twitter.

For the curious, here is how it's done,

Simply enter the URL in this format:
http://twitter.com/tw/search/users?q=USERNAME

This seems sporadic with the "normal" twitter, but the mobile version showed the last update 100% of the time (that I tried, about a dozen from a few machines)

The mobile url is:
http://m.twitter.com/tw/search/users?q=USERNAME

You will need to be logged in for this to work.

I just got my new messenger bag / laptop sleeve from Working Class Heroes.

I can't rant or rave enough about these goods. The bag itself is soooo wonderful. I actually fondled the bags leather the entire way home from the post office. Before a few weeks ago, I'd never even heard of "aniline leather".

Today, I'm in awe. I didn't know leather could feel so..nice.

The sleeve for my beloved (albeit dinged) Airbook is a great fit. I doubt the two will be far separated. And wool felt. Who would have thought?

I do have one complaint though: The Working Class Heroes website stated that the "unfold" bag would accommodate a 13" laptop horizontally. Accommodate might be a little bit of a stretch. Yes, my Airbook fits, horizontally, but it's pretty effin' snug. And there is no way I can fit it, and the wonderful case I bought, in together.

Otherwise, super happy pleased.
Now, admire the leather:

You win.

While it wasn't my "first" Apple, the first Apple I voluntarily used (and loved to pieces) was my 12" G4 Powerbook. Not all that long ago, I know.

Since then, I've converted whole heartedly, replacing pretty much every device in my life with a shiny Apple product.

Tonight was probably the last straw though. I bought a nano just for the gym.

RobM suggested I start noting on the Apple stickers (that come with many of the products) what it was and when I bought it. Creating sort of a scrapbook of rabid fanatical consumerism. I think I am going to have to take him up on it.

The list so far

• 12" G4 Powerbook
• 13" Macbook, white
• Macbook Air (ATA)
• 24" iMac (glass/black)
• Mac Mini (this server in fact)
• Airport Extreme Base Station
• Airport Express
• iPhone 8gb
• iPod 4th gen
• iPod 5th gen, 30gb
• iPod 5.5 gen, 80gb
• iPod Nano 3rd gen, 8gb
• Apple TV 40gb, 1st gen
• iWork
• iLife (twice)
• Tiger & Leopard
• .Mac

Which of course is not to mention the several gift iPods, a gift laptop, the dozen odd machines I've evangelized until friends/family/employers purchased, a couple of mice, keyboards, DVI dongles, random accessories, so on and so forth.

As soon as my MINI gets here, I am even installing a Mac Mini in it.
And when I return stateside, I will finally order my Mac Pro.

I am (almost) at the point where I walk by the Apple store, frustrated. I already own all that.

So, you win Steve. I've collected them all. I am at the point where I will be hard pressed to justify another of your shiny products in my life. Simple product refreshes will not tempt me. I need something new.

I was playing with webalizer the other night, and I foolishly had it generating reports into my sites root directory.

Which means it generated an index.html

Which means that freezerpants.com loaded index.html before index.php

Which means the past day and half or so, most people were getting a webalizer stats page instead of the site. Woops.

Temporarily fixed for now, thank goodness for Blackberries + SSH (since SSH is blocked at work).

Elsewhere..
Calling something a "social network" (or any variation of the sort) seems to guarantee a few things.

• Within a few months it will be over-run by teenage girls
• A few months later it will be over-run by strippers friend-whoring
• A few months after that it will turn into a freaking marketing vehicle, starting with ARGs and then moving into blatant advertisement
• The geeks will jump ship
• The Teen hipsters will notice the geeks have left, and declare it dead
• The hipsters will find the geeks in their new hiding place, restarting the cycle

Twitter, I am looking squarely at you, but it applies to all the others, past and future.

Elsewhere on the web..
I've been reading the blog of Menchuvian Candidate (found via Amy . If anyone knows her in MeatSpace, buy her a drink for me. Then read her site, it's awesome.

Meanwhile on the site...
I totally forgot that I set up an OpenID authentication endpoint here on the site ages ago. I used phpMyID , and if memory serves it was dead simple. Check it out.