Paolo had a feature request for Radio:

I don’t know exactly whom should I send the request to, so I’m posting it here.

Most of posts that I write have a bunch of links. Usually I write the post first, then I add the links. Adding links usually implies:

1. Running a search on google
2. Copying the url of the page I want to link
3. Creating the link in the post

Something like 95% of the times, the link I’m looking for is the first match in the google’s results page. Type any person name and his/her weblog are going to be the first hit. Type any product or company name, and the product or company sites are going to be the first hit.

Now… guess what I want? [Paolo Valdemarin Weblog: Feature Request]

Guess what I want too. But I want it in a slightly different form. I want to be able to hilite some text, copy it to the clipboard if necessary, run an Applescript on it (via Script Menu maybe?), and have the first link returned by google (or the one for ‘I’m Feeling Lucky’) put into the clipboard to be pasted. Even better, make it a service! Anyone know how hard this would be? Is this a good first project to for me in the Apple scripting/programming world?

Jules de Gaultier: “Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.” [Quotes of the Day]

Here’s a track listing (artist – track – label) for the mix mentioned in the previous post:

1. Autocat – Gimmie the Beat – Yoshitoshi
2. M.R.I. – Nightclubbing at Home – forcetracks
3. Tijuna – Groove is in the air – Bedrock Records
4. Sphere vs T-Meck – Deep as Fuck – Teknology
5. Hakan Lidbo – Proton/Elektron – forcetracks
6. Mr. C + Tom Parris – Nice ‘n’ Nasty – Plink Plonk
7. D-Culture – Situation Hot – Tri Lamb
8. Sven Dedek – Sine – PV Records
9. D.A.V.E. the Drummer + Ant – Hydraulix 2 – Hydraulix
10. Paragliders – Change Me – Tranceportation
11. Thomas P. Heckman & Mark Romboy – Ultra Vixens – undercurrent
12. Trancesetters – Roaches – Hooj Choons

Thanks to the pointer in the comments of a recent post I was able to discover ScummVM. Most of the old Lucasarts adventures used the ‘SCUMM’ engine and ScummVM lets you play all those old games. I grabbed the version for OS X and have happily been playing Sam & Max again. YAY!

Another day, some more CDs done. Getting down into the Cs now finally. What trip it’s been. Here’s the latest batch.

• Comatose-Non-Reaction – Danielle Dax
• Blast the Human Flower – Danielle Dax
• Vol. 2 – Miles Davis
• Birth of the Cool – Miles Davis
• Sunmachine – Dario G
• Nothing Stays – Cyberaktif
• Gift – Curve
• Pubic Fruit – Curve
• Standing at the Sea – The Cure
• The Head on the Door – The Cure
• The Cud Band E.P. – Cud

Good stuff in this batch. Especially Cyberaktif, The Cure, Curve, Miles… ahhh. I found myself listening to a few of these as they ripped.

Really nice article gives a description of Trackback for beginners. This is pretty good and gives some really nice details as well as ways people are using trackback.

Gizmodo.com has a great post about Mena Trott getting support for her Sidekick.

My Sidekick has entered a “deep sleep” mode and can not be awoken by the fix of reseting/powering on or pressing the “@, 1, 0” keys at the same time. Customer support was a horrible pain in which I which I was flat-out blamed for “overcharging the device.” The service rep told me that I should have watched the device charge and made sure to disconnect when it was done charging. To which I replied, “I’m supposed to sit and watch my phone charge?” Her reply: “Yes.”

Now I don’t feel so bad about waiting to get one. I have had one problem with my T68i and they are going to send me a new one. It took me a little bit to convince them the problem was the phone, but once I did it was smooth sailing. I’m actually waiting for the next generation of Sidekicks anyways. The kinks will hopefully be worked out and maybe we’ll have some bluetooth support in there too.

One Year Ago Today I posted about trying to find the bird. It still makes me giggle.

Damn, I just read that the bookmarks side drawer in Camino is going away. I actually liked it a lot. I didn’t realize it was so hated by people. I haven’t seen how the new bookmark manager works, so I’ll give it a chance though. Oh well, yet another reason to make sure I give some feedback on beta software that I really like.

Chris Pirillo posts the warnings on a label from an extension cord he bought today. I did good for the first few, but once we hit the warnings below, I realized I was soon to die. If you don’t see posts from me for a few days it’s because I’ve zapped myself.

do not plug one extension cord into another; avoid overheating; uncoil cord and do not cover it with any material; do not drive, drag, or place objects over cord; do not walk on cord. After use: grasp plug to remove from outlet; always store cord indoors; always unplug when not in use; do not unplug by pulling on cord; [C:\PIRILLO.EXE]