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Updated from my last list, now that the "work of nearly indescribable beauty" has been released:

My lifestream site, , is now powered by tumblr, instead of my home-brewed Rails app. I never got the Rails app updating like I wanted, and then over the weekend it stopped responding at all. Since I started playing with lifestreams, so many good apps (tumblr, Jaiku) have come out that fighting with my own is not currently worth my time.

So yesterday was our Dish Network installation. It was scheduled for between 8 and 12, so I got permission to work remotely yesterday so I could be around. Well, around 11:00 I got a call from the installation dispatcher saying that my installer was running late, and that he would be at the house around 2:00 PM. Annoyed but used to this kind of thing in general, I waited.

>Read this aloud and your inner ear, by itself, will be carrying out at least the equivalent of a billion floating-point operations per second, about the workload of a typical game console. The inner ear together with the brain can distinguish sounds that have intensities ranging over 120 decibels, from the roar of a jet engine to the rustle of a leaf, and it can pick out one conversation from among dozens in a crowded room. It is a feat no artificial system comes close to matching.

Three great things happen today! iPhone, Ratatouille, and my birthday! Yay!

While checking out the site for Rands' new book, I ran across a year-old post (which I had read before) from Rands about the importance of The Cave to nerds (and men in general).

Since we're working on another adoption that will involve some very expensive travel, we had decided to start looking into deals that would help us rack up some mileage. So, Jodi found out that Dish offers some sort of mileage deal when you sign up. Cool, huh? Well, yes and no.

DBSTalk posted an overview of a recent customer chat with Dish Network CEO Charlie Ergen. One cool nugget: USB Storage support may finally come to Dish's DVR:

So yesterday, Jodi and I decided that we had had enough of being stuck in our Cox bundle, which - while being a pretty good deal - locks us into services we don't want and, after adding the HD services we want, pushes us into a price range that I'm just not comfortable paying.

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Originally uploaded by redmonk

Shailesh snapped a picture of me this weekend in full cheese zombie mode. I don't know, I see a big pot of queso and I lose the capacity for rational thought.

I want to fire Cox Communications.

John Gruber on YouTube on the iPhone

Dave Winer has an idea for a conference session:

Yesterday on the Surfin' Safari blog, it was announced that the webkit nightlies have a new web inspector. This new inspector is vastly improved over the previous web inspector and is actually approaching Firefox's Firebug extension in usefulness.

I'm currently beta-testing two new Mac apps that I love and at least one is approaching "can't live without" status.