Desktop Calendar as Weblog Interface?
I haven’t had nearly enough wacky programming ideas recently. Here’s one:
Apple is rolling out iCal, a free calendar application, for Mac OS X 10.2 (aka Jaguar)
All weblogs have calendars
What if iCal could be an interface to a weblog?
I don’t have Jaguar yet, but it might be interesting to play with this. Maybe an RSS [...]
Branford starts a label
From my old stomping grounds: Marsalis Music opens its doors. What’s interesting is that Branford explicitly bitchslaps the record labels in the press release:
“The consolidation of the record industry into major conglomerates has turned the business into a mega-hit pop music machine with a very short term focus. Artists who want to be [...]
Going back, not returning
Looks like I’ll be heading back to Sloan in early October for company recruiting. I wondered when I accepted HR’s request to help out how it would feel to go back to my school so soon. Now I think I know: familiar and strange. I still have a ton of friends in the greater Boston [...]
Bush plan for fighting fires: log them trees!
NYT: Bush, Citing Fires, Will Seek to Ease Laws on Logging. Um, excuse me? How did this get pitched—no, how did anyone say this with a straight face? “OK, we appear to have a fire fighting problem. Might as well cut all the trees down.”more…
X-Men 2 Trailer is Up
Just watched the X-Men 2 trailer. I think it looks already like the sequel will do a much better job of capturing the gripping paranoia that underlaid so much of the brilliant storytelling in the best days of the comic (“Days of Future Past,” for instance).
Now, the question is: Will the creators cop out and [...]
Long night’s journey into day
Couldn’t sleep last night for a lot of reasons. Part is the ongoing transition from school and short semester horizons to work and the long series of relational interactions. (Can’t say more, really, right now.) Part was an ill-conceived decision to go to a happy hour with some fellow returning interns—not that that was so [...]
