Oops. When setting up WebDAV early this morning I screwed up and made it so that my comments were password protected. It’s fixed now.

I can see it now, two young girls in their room, running around, tearing pages out of their dairies that contain incriminating evidence. One of them yells out “Hurry up! Mom’s coming!” as the other stuffs the paper into the Hello Kitty Hand Shredder, turning the crank as fast as she can.

When I first sad this j-list, I glanced at the picture and thought, “EW. Why would someone want to shred their hand?” I wonder just what their target audience is with this one. After some of Antipixel’s recent Hello Kitty postings I just had to share this one.

My TiVo knows me so well. I have the TV muted and just looked up to see Freakazoid! on. Sure it is one I’ve seen, but I love that it thought I might like to watch it.

Well, it seems like someone is crawling the rcs.userland.com discussion groups for emails addresses. I was stupid when I set up my account there and must have included my email address (or maybe I’m on the mailing list, that’s entirely possible). Either way, my email address has ended up being published onto a web page and crawled. I’m kind of pissed. Of course, Ms Helen Baker of Coolstats was nice enough to leave me her email address (If it is really a real address). I’m wondering if I should look into reporting Coolstats. I’m tired though, I’ll worry about it in the morning.

I hate that I have to jump through such hoops to keep my email address secret. It drives me absolutely crazy. To the folks at UserLand, please please do things to hide email addresses. Show the first bit of the address maybe and then provide a link to do a mailto (like you can generate within Radio).

I have absolutely no response to this.

I just found this great story on Steve Zeller’s weblog to do with switching from Windows to OS X. This echos a lot of my feelings I think. For a long time I used to put my nose up at Apple, and I’m definitely I gave it a try two years ago.

Patrick Beard forwarded me this switcher story link with the comment “This guy gets it”. If nothing else, I like the way he writes. Funniest quote:

Executives in the PC business use the word “sexy”, in such a way that I’m always surprised to discover that their children aren’t adopted, and the Mac interface is not “sexy” or sexy, and it would be grotesque to want it to be. It is, in fact, playful, often well over the line into frivolity. It is not businesslike, in precisely the way that nothing should be “businesslike”.

[Steve Zellers’ Radio Weblog]

Someone has posted an alternate friday five. I like this one enough that I think it must be answered.

1. If you had to engage in sexual intercourse with a Muppet, what Muppet would you choose? And why? I’d have to say Janice, because there just aren’t that many female options when it comes to muppets. And while I like bacon I’m not into pigs that way.
2. What is something you always thought would be tons of fun until you actually tried it and realized how silly it was? Not that I can think of.
3. Do you think Tiny Tim was a musical genius? He was a musical freak!
4. If you were Molly Ringwald in Pretty in Pink, would you choose Blaine or Ducky? Justify your decision. I would have ditched them both and gone after Iona (Annie Potts’ character). Because it would have been more interesting.
5. What celebrity couple creeps you out to no friggin end? Why? Oh gosh. I’d have to say Jack Nicholson and just about anyone. Especially his most recent one (runs off and looks it up online and then finds someone else posted it too) Lara Flynn Boyle.

I can’t remember where I found this in my RSS feed originally, I deleted the post by mistake. But it seems that Sony has a 20GB file server coming out that uses WiFi. It looks pretty small too. How very handy. How much do you want to bet we won’t see this here anytime soon.

Btw, is anyone able to provide some more translation of the site?

OSNews has an interview up with Ken Case, CEO of The Omni Group. Omni produces a lot of really solid software for the OS X. The one they are most known for currently is OmniWeb. I found the first part of it most interesting, where he was asked what he thought of the state of browsers in OS X and Safari. Here’s part of his response:

Safari appears to be a great alternative to Internet Explorer as a free web browser which ships with the operating system. It seems to be quite fast, small, and easy to use (much like the new 12″ PowerBook), and I’m very glad to see Apple basing their product on standards and open source technologies.

I don’t really see Safari as competition to OmniWeb: they’re aiming at capturing the entry-level browser user (that currently sticks with the bundled Internet Explorer), while we sell OmniWeb to those who really want the most efficient, powerful browsing experience possible.

This is what I’ve been saying all along in response to statements that Safari is going to kill off the other browsers out there. With all of Apple’s products for OS X they are going for something that does the basics and does it very well. Omniweb lets you configure just about everything to do with the web browser. It’s great. If they had a faster rendering engine (and tabs, I love my tabs) they’d be one of the best browsers out there. Currently I rate it down fairly low because it’s a little slow for my tastes.

Alan Corenk. “Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms.” [Quotes of the Day]