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Oy. Somehow on my last crash, NetNewsWire lost its subscription data long with many of my preferences. Now I'm piecing together my 130+ subscriptions from NetNewsWire's cache...

iTunes 4: AAC encoding.

I know, I haven't been posting lately. But today is Apple's big music-related announcement, for which broadcast Jodi and I are going to the Chandler Apple Store. Yay!

Ok, I haven't had a really BAD (all capital letters) day for a long time until yesterday, and yesterday sucked.

This weekend Bill and I went mountain biking over to the Cave Creek Dam (1922, present day). It was an awesome ride with diverse terrain, including cross country, hard packed trails, gorges, and the large wash in front of the dam.

Mmmmm, coffee. Wireless coffee. Jodi and I are hanging at the Coffee Rush, a local coffee shop with free wireless internet access. Yummy!

I've been trying to diversify my NetNewsWire habits. Recently added:

• Joshua Allen, MSFT: Better Living Through Software
• Andy and Dave, the Pragmatic Programmers

Yeah, yeah, the real unix admins make backups of any file they're going to delete. And if they're just testing, they don't actually delete the file, they just move it or rename it. I, on the other hand, am still waking up and got a tad enthusiastic.

Oh, crap. He finally got me to check this out. Before, I only had to whine when this wasn't updated. Now I can jones for Sluggy Freelance, too.

"In other words," said Wil Shipley, President of The Omni Group, "it'sone of those releases that's got plenty of cool stuff, absolutely none of which makes for good press release copy. But you should stilldownload it, because it makes things better in a multitude of small ways." OmniOutliner 2.2.1 is out.

I know it's old hat by now for many, but I really like the new Macromedia.com website. It uses Flash in a good way, IMO. It's intereesting, integrated, but I don't feel like I'm forced to use it to get around the site. Tasteful.

"In other words," said Wil Shipley, President of The Omni Group, "it's one of those releases that's got plenty of cool stuff, absolutely none of which makes for good press release copy. But you should still download it, because it makes things better in a multitude of smallways." OmniOutliner 2.2.1 is out.

rdiv_start#enclosure linkonly=" true"='true"' urlonly="true"/>" border="0"> Richard Das created a sweet Flash demo of what Apple's patented "Piles" concept could look like. Check it out, it's rumored to be a part of Panther, the codename for the next version of Mac OS X.

"In other words," said Wil Shipley, President of The Omni Group, "it'sone of those releases that's got plenty of cool stuff, absolutely none of which makes for good press release copy. But you should stilldownload it, because it makes things better in a multitude of small ways." OmniOutliner 2.2.1 is out.

Well, most everyone knows by now, Scoble's headed to Redmond to become an Evangelist for the next version of Windows. I have mixed feelings about this - I've gotten a chance to chat with Robert a lot recently, and I have a feeling that's going to change (because he's going to be even busier and because he's now under the Mother-Of-All-Non-Disclosure-Agreements). So I'm a bit sad about that.

I'm spending the day writing a proposal for a potential client, for some corporate identity/print/web work. It will be a good project if I can make the proposal attractive enough (financially, and without screwing myself). I absolutely hate writing proposals. I suck at it, it's hard work, but it's absolutely necessary.

Nice. The Command Post got itself a spiffy new design.

Last night I hosted an all-guys Pampered Chef party in my home. Pampered Chef makes the very coolest kitchen utensils, gadgets, pots, pans, etc... A good friend of ours just became a consultant, and so we offered to host a party.

April 14, 2003, Gilbert, AZ: Apple released the second beta today of its new Safari web browser, bringing on new features and a "proper" implementation of tabs.

Hm. The first song in my "R.E.M. Revealed" playlist (random songs from my extensive R.E.M. collection) this morning: "Welcome to the Occupation".

Hang your collar up inside
Hang your dollar on me
Listen to the water still
Listen to the causeway
You are mad and educated
Primitive and wild
Welcome to the occupation