Really annoyed at the security issues I've had with MT and needing a directory to have 777. Going to see if there is a way to use PHP on MT as well like Wordpress and if it can be easily converted over.

For those of you who don't visit Apple's Website on a regular basis, I suggest you check it out. It's a rather interesting implementation and I'm wondering how they accomplished it (AjAX, etc) technology wise.

Particularly the search. As you type something in it acts just like spotlight and highlights areas of the site for the word you're typing in.

Very nicely done

Since I've gotten closer to the industry side that contacts these analysts I've grown quite disillusioned with what they get to do every day. A former manager of mine worked for IDC for years, and often jokes about how they just made shit up on a regular basis.

Never before have I seen such an accurate account of how idiotic some of the analysts can be, and how clearly they're entire paycheck is paid for by someone who absolutely hates someone else.

It reminds me of a recent Daily Show. Don't they know we record these things?

Just a little advert of why I love Mac OS X for a moment. Unbeknown to her, I control every contact and how it's added/removed/changed and every conversation is completely logged and secure from anyones eyes but the administrator account on her computer. For details, see here on Apple's site: details on Mac OS X Parental Controls

Apple picks a fight it can't win or comments on the most recent Macbreak Weekly 44 by Leo Laporte who assumes Apple is releasing Safari for Windows so that they can lock in people to proprietary browsers.

What is it with these people? Why are they that stupid?

The iPhone.

If you're expecting the only applications available to third party developers to be written for the browser on the iPhone, you're going to need an environment to prototype and test it in.

That would be Safari on the machine you're developing on, not on the iPhone. That'd get really old to code, pick up a device, download the code, test it, watch it bow up, be unable to really debug. If you're a Mac developer, no problem. But if your the other 94-95% of the planet running a computer, you're running Windows.

That's it, it's not some rabid plot to take over the world ala Pinky and the Brain, it's a development platform.

(I'd like to claim I'm that creative, but no, that's a Fark headline

Wouldn't bother me normally, except for seven of Cavlin's toys were on the list.

Somehow, the state gets wind of it, and they dig up a fuel tax law and fine you $1000 and demand a $2500 bond + per gallon taxes on the fuel you generate, just like 'everyone else' that sells gasoline.

As previously mentioned the first tank was 33.9MPG with a bit of 'ooh what can it do'.

With a few weeks of regular driving, and at 492.2 miles in for a 14.082 gallons of gas I managed 35.0 MPG. The dash computer thing had said 36.