End of Silence

Google’s Bosworth: Why AJAX Failed (Then Succeeded)
(tags: ajax browser javascript microsoft software development)

The insanely great songs Apple won’t let you hear. - By Paul Collins - Slate Magazine
This stuff annoys me when the weekly free iTunes downloads are released. There’s usually one or two listed from the other stores and I can’t have them. [...]

The 20th of this month was my 5 year blogaversary. The first post was January 20th 2002. I’m on my third hosting provider and my second blogging platform since that time. I’m still at the same company and the nearly three-year-old who was driving me insane at that time will be 8 tomorrow.

Unhappy Meals - Michael Pollan - New York Times
Article in this Sunday’s NY Times Magazine by Michael Pollan, author of Omnivores Dilemma.
(tags: michaelpollan omnivoresdilemma nutrition food nytimes)

NPR : Oscar Nominee Guillermo Del Toro
(tags: film npr movies freshair guillermodeltoro panslabyrinth)

Punknews.org | Best of 2006 - Adam’s picks
Hey, look! The Bad Rackets made the Adam’s 2006 mix tape on PunkNews. Sweet.
(tags: punknews badrackets mixtape)

Nortel: Business Communications Manager BCM - Callpilot with Exchange
Work crap.
(tags: nortel callpilot owa bcm)

Hack Attack: Share your iTunes music library over your home network
Now that we’ve got two shuffles and an iPod in the house and I use iTunes at work for podcasts and a few other things and we have it installed on at least one machine at home, I need to get more conversant in how [...]

Gold-Plated Indifference
I linked the Mahablog commentary on this as well, but here’s the Paul Krugman original op-ed this week on the Bush healthcare push that’s to be unveiled in the State of the Union tomorrow night.
(tags: paulkrugman healthcare insurance georgewbush policy nytimes opinion)

Alpha Geek: Whip your MP3 library into shape, Part I - Level the [...]

Buzz In Black
(tags: williamgibson ma-1 jacket ricksons patternrecognition cayce)

Get a map from any app with MappingService
(tags: mappingservice googlemaps mac osx)

Matteo Rattotti’s site
(tags: del.icio.us mac osx bookmarks delibar)

list of Mac OS X’s processes
(tags: osx mac reference activitymonitor processes)

MacSaber
(tags: mac osx starwars lightsaber macsaber)

Quake II X goes Universal
So I can play quake when I get my new [...]

When I started using Bloglines, I didn’t have a decent way of bookmarking stuff I read for later. Now, the delicious integration with Firefox and some people’s feeds is better, so I don’t use the Bloglines clipping feature, but I do have a bunch of links sitting in there gathering dust. I’m converting those to [...]

Scott points out that the NY Times published an article about Michael’s new book, Charity Girl, today. Check it out.
[tags]charitygirl, michaellowenthal, nytimes[/tags]