For what it’s worth, I really like Tracy’s blog, but don’t tell her I said that or she’ll be all struttin’ around the office with that look on her face.

Want Google-like access to every email you get and send, cross-referenced and filed automatically, all the time? I did, it’s called ZOË

It has been fully indexed to the last significant bit. Information have been extracted. Relationships have been made. Links have been discovered. Information was put in context. Normalized. A knowledge base has been build. For you. Automatically. Accessible at akey stroke. When you need it. Without you moving any single one of yourbusy fingers to write some arcane filtering rules to some soon to beunmanageable folder structure (see “Intertwingularity”) in somecumbersome proprietary email system. No. Instead you get universalaccessibility to your very own knowledge base. Automatically. Just foryou.

Mitch Kapor, of Chandler fame, recently switched (back) to a Mac. The comments following that post have some good suggestions for must-have software. If you use a Mac, that is.

The Pod, by RoadWired, may be just the thing for carrying the camera, cell and accessories without looking, well, you know. (via BoingBoing)

It’s about time someone sticks up for Anna Kournikova.

It’s almost as if Kournikova has made it a crime to be pretty–and remember, before Anna suffered some serious injuries she was a really terrific young player, top 10.

Console apps get a bad rap. Things like, “What kind of geek idiot would want to remember all of those keyboard commands?” and “Oh, how very 70’s of you.”

I use Mutt for email and am trying Raggle for RSS feeds, and you know what, even though there are a couple of drawbacks, I can manage my email faster than you. I get a lot of email, usually around 1500 messages a day, not including spam. Most of these are mailing list messages. I actually try browsing most of them, and Mutt makes quick and easy work of it. Better threading, faster response time and “Look Ma, no mouse!” I’ve been using Thunderbird for a few days, just to make sure I’m not missing something. It did make using GnuPG easier, even though Mutt has great GPG support. And attachments are admittedly much easier to deal with with a nice GUI interface. But, when it comes to down-and-dirty crunching through mailing lists, modifying headers and such based on the recipient/folder/subject/whatever, there’s nothing like a good old-fashioned terminal and Mutt

All you console nuts should check out Raggle, a console RSS aggregator, written in Ruby. Fast and easy.

Brainstorms and Raves with an easy to understand summary of semantic elements and how they are, and should be, used. Also see the companion piece, Don’t fake your markup

Note to self, after getting that 17” TiBook, install iTerm, which looks to be a very capable replacement for the weak Terminal.app.

Dirty Pretty Things by Stephen Frears could have done so many things wrong, but resists at every turn. It’s about the characters. Nothing big, loud, fast or furious here. Just some solid performances held together by an interesting, if less solid story. Highly recommended.