Well, ok, not really... But I checked out Fandango.Com after seeing the ads at the last few movies I've seen. Fandango (so far) seems relatively simple. Browse in, find a movie, and buy a ticket for your local theater. Cool!

Wes Felter's discussion group is one of the most intellectual pieces of 'net property I visit. I only lurk, as I honestly don't always follow everything that's said there. Folks to listen to: Aaron Swartz, David McCusker. David's mind especially is incredibly dense. And I mean that in the nicest way - his brain, as visualized on the intellectual space-time-continuum would be like a black hole. Warning: David's weblog is a journey through a mind that does not work like yours.

Inessential: "Cocoa and Objective C seem (so far) much cooler than I expected. So when I see the mountain of things that are so damn right with OS X -- and Cocoa is just one of many things -- the few things that are not right just bug me all the more."

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Here are the new benchmark numbers from Jim (in ticks again):

Ok, I could SO go for one of these. Herman, oh ye of the Aeron chair, might I leave thy temple?

Louis Rosenfeld, co-author of the polarbear book, has started a blog. IAFTWWW is a great book.

Redmonk.Net is switching servers this afternoon. Jim did some benchmarks for me on current site speed (numbers in ticks):

[via Scripting News] The page is too stupid.

California Public Service Announcement.

Apple is providing a source code patch for applications using Cocoa's Document Architecture. The functionality will be patched system-wide in a Mac OS X update later on. This is the first time I've seen this kind of thing from Apple. Right on.

I just took possession of a bike I'm considering buying from my best friend - a Haro Impulse mountain bike, circa 1996. Of course, I couldn't resist - a couple hours later (just now) I took it out for a spin. MAN am I out of shape! :(

...This one was a slightly longer trek - about 5 miles, all in the name of filling up the tires.

Ok, so, having really learned nothing from my first venture out on the Green Machine (affectionately monikered by it's current owner), I got the bike home last night and took it out for another jaunt. This one was a slightly longer trek - about 5 miles, all in the name of filling up the tires. The filling station down the street from me only had the for-pay ($0.50) air pumps, and I wasn't about to pay for air.

Sean Gallagher on Microsoft's SDP: "Bill Gates said that Microsoft would still be the one to "productize" anything that comes out of the SDP. In other words, Microsoft would consume the brainpower of its clients, and sell it back to them as software and services."

Anyone know if Terminal Services are still available under Mac OS X?

Some light reading today. I'm working on a set of build scripts that rely on the behavior of bash; running them in my previous favorite shell - tcsh - produced less-than-desirable results. So, I found bash for OS X here and installed it.

Jonathan "Wolf" Rentsch in Tidbits: Webobjects: WO Is Me... Robert Scoble's YOUR MESSAGE HERE IS THE VOICE OF THE DEVIL is a rant-and-a-half.

Looks like Dave Winer has finally gotten over Internet Explorer.

Today is my wife Jodi's birthday! Happy Birthday honey! You can wish Jodi happy birthday too!