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order 2933, try 91179, for sale 00.html”>Jodi Noffsinger: In an effort to appeal to the younger, and often non-church-going population, churches are bringing technology such as cameras, projection screens and computers into their worship ministries. No way!

I’ve had a strong desire lately to restart an old project of mine, one that I killed in 1998, one that dominated my life for two years. Anonymous Joe was the band I played in from 1996-1998. I officially ended it in November, 1998, shortly after it stopped being fun and we started taking ourselves too seriously (that was always my promise to myself: I’d quit when it stopped being fun).

At one point, I honestly thought I would one day play in Anonymous Joe for a living.

Steve (the drummer) and I did an acoustic show in Etown two years ago. Last summer, Jen played bass with Steve and me at the same venue. But the whole band, including Tanya on keyboards and the other Steve on guitar, hasn’t played together since 1998.

I doubt it would work with the original line-up anymore. Steve and Tanya have three kids now, and the other Steve was in Nashville last I heard.

The problem is, I don’t know if I could do it with anyone else. Jen and I play well together, but finding a drummer that clicks with us (and that can follow me) would be tough. Plus, I don’t have the guitar skills to carry a band on my own.

Oh, well… Just thinking about what might have been. I don’t really have the time or energy anyway.

Went to see Finding Nemo on Thursday. It was really great. I’ve yet to see a Pixar film that I don’t like. Marlin, the father character, was really easy for me to relate to (me being way overprotective and all). The story was involving, and the animation was, of course, phenomenal.

One thing bothered me, though. Before the movie (but after the trailers), they showed one of my favorite Pixar shorts: Knick-Knack. It was a modified version. Most of the animation was identical, except for the ashtray girl and the mermaid. In the version I’m familiar with, they were rather more, ummmm, well-endowed.

But I’ve probably put too much thought into this already.

Don Park says: I think both Dave and Evan are responsible for the mess we have today and I see little chance of a universal Blog API emerging for a while.  If I had the power to dictate things, I would have the Echo project adopt the union of Blogger API 1.0 and MetaWeblog API as Echo API 0.0 and extend it as needed without breaking backward compatibility.

Well said, Don. I couldn’t agree more. I can’t help but thinking that blog tool programmers are really getting shafted in all this nonsense. Thank you for putting into words what I was unable to.

Possible Screen Saver bug in OS X Jaguar? I’ll have to test it myself before I believe it (call me cynical).

Looks like Dell may not be eating its own dog food, drugs at least some of the time.

Note: This is not a scandal or a big deal in any way, shape, or form. This sort of thing is very common. Use the best tool for the job.

Still kinda funny, though.

Here’s a Panther walkthrough.

Here’s another (sorry, no permalink to be found).

Panther definitely looks cool. The improvements to Mail will be quite welcome by my colleagues and myself. The new Finder interface doesn’t look that bad; people should stop pissing and moaning. David, who had a chance to see it an action at NECC, said that Exposé is awesome.

One thing that frightens me, though, is tabpanels. They look significantly different in the screenshots I’ve seen. I wonder how weird they’ll make my programs look?

Backyard nukes.

Something I don’t advocate, but link to nonetheless.

Fly naked.

Anodization.

From Evan Williams, via the Blogger Developer Network: We will not be implementing or supporting the Blogger API 2.0… Well, thanks for telling us now. We are moving away from XML-RPC… and toward SOAP. Doh! Just when I finally had my half-baked XML-RPC stuff working really well! Dang. Interoperability… Well, OK. I must admit that this would be nice. But I don’t see why it can’t be done with XML-RPC. Why force all of us who make blogging clients learn, test, and implement a new protocol?

Brent Simmons agrees. And I’m with Brent. I may not like it, but there are pragmatic reasons to support it: customers. They’ve paid for a tool and they expect it to work. It’s my job to make it work.

Jake Savin of Userland chimes in as well: Will it be worth it? Will what we have at the end of this process be better than what we already have? I don’t have a crystal ball, but my fear is that we developers will have a large amount of work to do if we want to support this decision, and that the benefit to our users will be negligable. Well said, Jake.

Here’s another link to Ben Trott’s article on Why We Need Echo.

It’s a scary world when Dave Winer sounds like the voice of reason.

You are standing in an open field west of a white house, cheap with a boarded front
door.

There is a small mailbox here..

Mike, you must check this out.