9 septembre 2010

	Belkin USB Hub It looks okay in the product shots, but in real life it's a huge slab of cheap-looking plastic. (Not that I care too much, what matters is that it works.) Edited with Snap Filters on my iPhone.

02:19	Am I missing something or does Game Center really not let you search for all of your friends at once? Can Apple be quite that clueless?

8 septembre 2010

13:42	I hate the moment when I have to delete everything from my old server before releasing it in the wild. What if I forget something?

7 septembre 2010

12:39	Since yesterday, my PHP files keep reverting spontaneously to a previous version. On the server as well as on my computer. Goddamn gremlins!

02:46	Ah, shit, of course — iTunes is backing up all the comics that ARCreader imported to an internal format instead of leaving the files alone.

02:45	Dear Santa: I'd really like not to wake up at 11am again tomorrow, and I'm willing to count that as my September 7th present, okay?

02:03	I hooked up my iPad because I wanted to put a .cbz in it; one Mad Men later I'm giving up and browsing the pages with Quick Look. Ngh.

01:57	The 10-hour iTunes syncs are just a ploy to remind you how much you need your iPad. See how you care now that it's unavailable?

00:21	Whaaaaa? A tweet just appeared, then promptly disappeared, in my timeline. User streams in Echofon are decidedly fun.

6 septembre 2010

22:36	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo — I didn't need to see that.

19:16	Oopsie, I forgot to restore the symbolic links. That'll teach me to use scp instead of rsync when I move the site over.

18:53	Unless I've broken something on the site, CPU load on new server is 1% when it would be 150% on the old. Think maybe I could've upgraded sooner?

00:34	I had quit Buffy Season Eight when it could be said that it had moments, but it really turns into all-out bullshit, doesn't it?

5 septembre 2010

14:00	The Romans wore socks with their sandals (via Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me). Well, shouldn't have expected class — their soldiers also wore fake pecs and abs.

11:47	Oh, right, that thing is also a Blu-ray player, I should buy at least one disc to see what it looks like.

4 septembre 2010

22:40	Spring cleaning my Transmit favorites feels good. Many bad memories in there.

22:33	My blogs have moved to the new server; glitches to be expected while the DNS propagates. (Do let me know if they persist in a few hours.)

22:04	A sane, easily reversible way to downgrade PHP to 5.2 on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx (Messier options abound if you try googling that.)

21:52	I'm guessing it's a Safari bug rather than Google's fault, but still annoying and I blame Google: the History menu is full of unhelpful "www.google.com/url" entries.

21:08	Oh, fuck me. The packages for my new Ubuntu server are stuck on a buggy version of PHP that can't connect to MySQL with SSL.

20:53	Going back from Twitter to Echofon on the iPad, I feel like I've traveled back in time half a dozen years.

16:01	I hate that fanless external drives and unpowered USB hubs are the norm because those stupid humans can't be bothered.

	Much better Edited with Snap Filters on my iPhone.

03:24	"Want To Use Gmail Priority Inbox With IMAP? Tough Luck" Don't tell me that 'important' messages actually disappear from the IMAP inbox?

01:28	Une guêpe ? A une heure et demie du matin ?

00:50	Saw a big Kindle screenshot and realized that the weak anti-aliasing makes type looks old-school Windows-y. And no way could I read that.

3 septembre 2010

23:43	I think I'm gonna stick with Echofon for iPad just for the last-read-tweet line. I just don't accept having to scroll up for new tweets.

23:03	"Hands-On With HDR Photos in the Next iPhone Update" Doesn't look HDR-y at all, thank god. And has valid uses.

	I believe I can fly But it's gonna be a while before I can make nice braggy videos. That thing is awfully unstable. Edited with Snap Filters on my iPhone.

13:23	Twitter on iPad has the same problem as on iPhone: it all breaks down if you tap on any menu item before the main timeline is done loading.

13:11	I'm down to 12GB free on my iMac. What the hell happened?

02:12	Pas envie de me prendre la tête avec le service clients de Cdiscount (s'il existe) pour 40€, mais rappelez-moi de ne jamais retenter.

01:38

“Exclusive: Facebook Blocked API Access to Ping After Failure to Strike Agreement, So Apple Removed Feature After Launch”

Normally, this API access is open and does not require permission. That is, unless some entity wants to access it a lot. In that case, Facebook requires an agreement for reasons primarily centered on protection of Facebook user data and, of course, infrastructure impact.

It’s hard to blame Facebook here. When Apple brags about having 160 million users, with credit card number on file, and decides to sic all of them (and simultaneously) on a Facebook app that will harvest the social network which Facebook took pains to cultivate for years (and for no other purpose than the harvesting itself — unlike, say, Zynga games which bring a lot of page views back to Facebook), you can’t quite fault Facebook for wanting to get some kind of compensation. Apple isn’t building something on top of the Facebook platform here, they’re trying to piggyback and supplant it.

It’s also easy to imagine Steve Jobs deciding — at the last moment, after long, failed negotiations — that Apple is big enough not to need Facebook at all, that it can just as well construct its social graph from scratch. Because that’s how much Steve Jobs and Apple know about social networking: not very.

If Apple is serious about Ping — and they should be, since music recommendations with inline preview have the potential to push a good deal of product — I wager that they’re the ones who will have to give in. Sure, people are signing up for Ping, but if my “entourage”’s experience is any indication, they’re not making a lot of friendship connections and, on Ping more than anywhere, the social graph is where the money’s at.

(I’m assuming that the provision regarding a compensation for extensive use of the API does exist in Facebook’s terms of use, but I see no reason to doubt it — and I’m too lazy to check — because it just makes sense.)

2 septembre 2010

18:51	Twitter's OAuth implementation is aggressively moronic Urgh.

17:37	So, iTunes 10… What's the keyboard shortcut I have to fucking invent to stop playing a video and close it at the same time? Damn idiots.

	17:23 Edited with Snap Filters on my iPhone.

14:50	When you open a separate window in iTunes it gets a title bar and the window widgets end up 20 pixels lower. Good job, guys.

14:06	Judging from the message boards, it looks like Facebook Connect was available on Ping when it launched, and has been removed. Um, okay.

12:40	It's pretty neat that they can add Ping to my iPhone without updating any software. (But not on the iPad; must be an iOS 4 thing.)

12:25	Not that I have any idea where I can connect Ping to Facebook; the welcome email just says it's possible.

12:24	Unless I'm missing something, you can't give out your iTunes Ping ID, only be searched by name (unless you connect to Facebook). Mhh.

12:20	(But why the two-line compose window when you have all of an iPad's screen at your disposal?)

12:20	The interface of Twitter for iPad is really interesting. At first glance, I like, but will have to see over time.

12:08	Busy day: iTunes 10, Twitter for iPad, and user streams on Echofon Mac (that should be fun!).

02:56	I've just been rather unreasonable on Amazon.fr. More about that tomorrow if they stick to the promised delivery schedule.

02:52	If we make a huge collective fuss about iTunes 10 still not being available, is there a chance Steve would fire the whole team? Please?

01:31	Of course now I want to learn to develop with the Unreal Engine. (And 3D modeling and texturing and animating and…)

01:09	Interview with Epic's Mike Capps I can't wait for the next Mass Effect on iPad.

00:22	Wait, the Apple TV remote on iPhone… is that yet another separate app, or does it indicate that the Remote app is getting an update? (P.S. Apparently it is the same app. Finally.)