Why? Because they are making me run their actual program to use their service. I see the days of my using this quickly coming to an end. The one person I talk to on it (Hi Chris) will have to use something else also to talk to me.

From Reuters: North Korea calls Rumsfeld illiterate psychopath.

Once again, Apple rocks for offering more bonus stuff for its .Mac subscribers. This time it’s a free download of Lifli Software’s iBlog. The offer is only free till the 24th of November, so grab it while you can. I haven’t tried iBlog, but intend to check it out just to see how it works. For someone with a .Mac account who wants to start a blog, this is probably a great way to get started. It’s .Mac aware so that it publishes to your iDisk.

While this isn’t a regular feature for .Mac, I think it would be a great one in the future. Imagine combining this with the features in iPhoto. You can make a photo gallery, hit a button in iPhoto and it makes a blog post with the gallery. Or maybe even just posting a picture with a thumbnail. There’s lots of cool things that I think would really fit into their whole iLife setup. I’m supposed to be helping a neighbor with her new iMac this afternoon and will probably show her this.

So I just got done watching the first episode of the US version of Coupling. I dunno, the dialogue was pretty close to the original, even the staging was pretty close to identical. But the US actors, just didn’t have it. Most of it felt forced. Sally was too prettied up, Jeff didn’t have enough that weird borderline creepy guy thing, etc. The whole show just felt like it was slightly off target, and as a result it didn’t work that well for me. Oh well, luckily season 2 is coming out on DVD soon.

Oh, my other question. There were something like 25 or 26 episodes of Coupling on BBC. Is this show going to follow that then try and go on and on forever like every other sitcom? Ick.

I haven’t been posting much cause I’ve been dealing with some offline stuff, and also been doing a fair amount of work with the Individual.com website. It’s interesting seeing how a site slowly evolves. For instance, if you aren’t yet a user of Individual.com and you go there, you just get a login screen. Nothing to really give you an idea of what it is all about. So, we’re looking to change that. I’ve also gotten the okay to work on RSS stuff for the site, so I’m pretty psyched about that.

On the blog from, you can now see my most recent phonecam pic to the left. It will update automatically when I post new pictures.

Dave Winer writes about Replay Radio, saying it sounds perfect. It’s interesting, but the one I’m really waiting for is the Radio Shark (which I’ve mentioned here before). It does everything Replay Radio does, but a bit more. The big thing is that it comes with a USB AM/FM receiver can record from any AM/FM station. This makes it a bit more useful. It also gives you TiVo like features in that you can pause live radio. Yeah, it’s Mac only, and I’m not really sure if Griffin tends to support Windows that much (I just checked, they definitely do support Windows for some of their products). But I’m sure the Replay Radio folks don’t intend to support the Mac either.