PodCast Helper is a stay-open AppleScript that looks at the current track in iTunes; if the genre is "podcast", it grabs the comment from the track, and parses it for timecodes and notes of the form:

Geek alert: Does anyone know if there's a way to ask iTunes for the elapsed time of the currently playing track? I don't see anything in the AppleScript dictionary, but maybe I'm looking in the wrong place...

This was a project weekend. There were a nummber of projects I'd been slacking on, and finally got to working on Saturday and Sunday.

Josh Aas: Camino, Firefox on Mac OS X, and My MF Employment: >"I'll also be working on making pages load faster, and Mac OS X rendering in general. This most likely includes making the gecko rendering engine use the Quartz API intead of Quickdraw. This will bring a lot of benefits, including making use of your graphics card to do a lot of the work that your CPU is doing right now because we use Quickdraw."

To Read - A List Apart: What's The Problem and Uses Cases Part II: Taming Scope.

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Oh boy oh boy oh boy! (WMV)

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Oh boy oh boy oh boy! (WMV)

I took our Mac Plus into work today and set it up on my desk. It doesn't do anything useful, but it looks really cool. :-) I still need a SCSI cable before it will boot (off the 10 mb hard drive), since I don't have a System floppy.

Oh boy oh boy oh boy! (WMV)

[8:40:41 PM] Kreg Steppe: Yea...that is it... BTW I tried one of those Bud Selects, have you had one?
[8:41:11 PM] Steve Ivy: huh uh. no budweiser will pass my lips
[8:41:31 PM] Steve Ivy: i only drink hoity toity beer

kevindevin.com In the Trenches - Tech Chat - 02-26-2005: >"My apologies for the sound quality it seems the more updates that Skype provides, the more functionality it breaks. It took us nearly an entire hour to get this Tech Chat going but we prevailed in the end!"

This sour-looking fellow is Ernst D. Bunker, a character I created for a short-lived series of rumor-site-parody columns at StepWise. Wanted to keep him around and this is the only copy of him I have. For the curious, he was sketched and shaded on paper with pencil, then scanned and the color layed in behind in Photoshop with a semi-transparent color wash.

TulipGirl: Desk Exercises

I've got another SiteLight coming up, but I've determined not to release this one without an audio conversation. That means waiting a while longer, until my victim, er, guest and I can arrange a time to chat.

It's been a while since I've jumped on a bandwagon late, but I thought this t-shirt was really funny, so I ordered one this past week. For background, see this Boing Boing post, and this one too.

Why would Apple even want TiVo? | PVRblog. Certainly, it makes sense to my Mac-shaped 8-second-instant-replay-addled brain.

Oh, now STOP it! It's just not fair to make a guy's heart lurch like that.

Tonight the SiteLight shines on Bill Brown's Found On The Web. Bill is a good friend, and I'm glad to be able to share his particular obsession with you.

Ok, now that I've gotten the hysterical hyperbole out of the way, this is what I mean: reading well-designed web sites in an RSS read does nothing to stimulate my creative juices. I realized this today after opening a post from StopDesign in Firefox and going "sooooo beautiful! I should look at Doug's site more often!" It was then that I realized that reading all my sites in |NetNewsWire|, efficient as it is, is robbing me of the creative kick in the pants I get from browsing and reading gorgeous, beautifully-crafted, web-standards-based websites.