Jarrett House NorthSecond verse, same as the first.

Worth collecting: usability studies like this one from Bruce Tognazzini (“Tog”) from 1989, which established that users think keyboard shortcuts are faster, while mouse actions turn out to be really faster. (via)

Wired: First Look: Delicious Library 2.0 Burns With Animated Cool. Looks like the 2.0 version (currently under development) of Delicious Library should address a lot of my criticisms of the program, as well as a lot of Core Animation goodness. Favorite features: publishing to templates, iTunes integration, export formats, library sharing, and smart bookshelves. For [...]

Alas, tis true—if you aren’t trick or treating or taking someone out trick or treating, the holiday is over way too soon. It was a pretty quiet day at the office followed by a relatively small parade of trick or treaters. (Favorites: the neighborhood “math kid” (he was Pi a few years ago) as the [...]

A follow up to my earlier note about tags and Microsoft Outlook: I am happy to say that Taglocity has changed my life. I used to have folders in folders in folders and dealing with any received mail was torture. Now I’ve implemented tags and my workflow has totally changed. I used to deal only [...]

…when greater Boston traffic goes completely and utterly to Hell the next morning. I swear, I spent 70 minutes just on the 10 miles of Rt. 2 between my home and 128, thanks to the four separate fender-benders I ran into. I didn’t stay up for the end, and thus missed Colorado’s runs… and A-Rod’s [...]

I have been running Leopard for about two hours now, having picked up the Family Pack this afternoon and backed up the MacBook Pro (first full backup since I bought the thing, frighteningly enough). Notes so far: seems snappier. I thought I’d hate the changed handling of folders in the dock (stacks?) but I actually [...]

The Onion: Terry Francona Announces Josh Beckett Will Start Games 1, 4, 7, 2, 6, 3, 5. In that order, of course, so that he can rest between games. Heh. My favorite take on the game last night had to be Fark’s Game One thread, which featured pix of poor overmatched Rox pitcher Jeff Francis [...]

And that’s all I know, really. I can download small files from the iTunes Store, but larger files (e.g. a 98 MB movie) fail with the message that the disk I am downloading to is full (err: -34). The problem of course is that it isn’t full at all: 18 GB free on the primary [...]

But I like the way we’re starting: three up, three down from Beckett. He steps off the plate; the TV (and maybe in Fenway, I don’t know) plays the Pixies’ “Here Comes Your Man.” Which has to be a first for MLB. Then Padroia steps up, and whaddaya know? Home run. Then Youk gets a [...]

Just got an email about the new iPhone Dev Center, which so far is focused on optimizing web apps for the iPhone rather than the promised full SDK that will apparently hit early next year. Still, it’s nice to see official sample code and docs.

That didn’t take long. TechCrunch is reporting about a FaceBook application called FriendCSV, which allows dumping selected pieces of data about your contacts to a comma-separated format. TechCrunch has the right angle about this; it’s fundamentally about getting your data back out of FaceBook and not being locked in their trunk. Some of the folks [...]

One of my neighbors was selling a Mitsubishi 3000 recently. I thought, “How nice, he’s outgrown fast cars.” Not so fast. Lisa pointed out a new car in his driveway when we were out on a walk, saying, “I think he got a classic Porsche.” A closer look told me it was no Porsche (though [...]

Rob England writes in a recent ITSMWatch article about the evolution of the ITIL Request, from not even being mentioned to being a peer with Incidents, and points out that ITIL could go further: ITIL v4 will, most likely, I predict, finally recognise that the Service Desk deals with generic Requests/Tickets/Issues/Incoming. These Requests have multiple [...]

The Virginia Glee Club will be in Cambridge on November 3, singing with the Wellesley College Choir (repeating a pairing that was done back in 1991 when I was a first year). Unfortunately, I won’t be in the audience at the First Congregational Church to see the group, because (in one of those weird coincidences) [...]

I didn’t hear any twisters during the night, and a quick scan out my window shows only some leaves on the ground, so I guess I survived my first experience being on a tornado alley. So far, the only actual indication of a twister coming through has been a report of a possible tornado that [...]