And speaking of widgets, the new version of the iStat Nano widget is quite nice.

Many of us use Netvibes or Dashboard widgets for viewing weather conditions and forecasts. If you don’t, now there’s Simpleweather.com. Lightest, fastest weather page I’ve ever used.

I’m not sure I should be saying this aloud, but I weigh 188.6 pounds and that’s just way too much. How hard could it be to lose 8 pounds in as many weeks? Starting now.

Finally, the new joecartoon.com has launched. All new design, Rails CMS, custom Flash media player, videos, games and more. Joe’s stuff has been cracking me up since he was still doing his thing in our building a number of years ago. It was a pleasure to be involved with the development of the new site.

This is probably the highest-traffic site I’ve been involved in deploying. In this case, nearly everything is page-cached which helps a great deal. Lots of benchmarking, asset management and guesswork. There’s much tweaking to do yet, but it’s a great start and running nicely so far.

Check it out, it’s fun

Journler is a great app for collecting all sorts of things. I only use if for things I write myself (e.g my journal). Now that I’m back on Wordpress for the blog I can also write and post blog entries from within Journler, which is nice.

So I moved back to Wordpress, whatuvit? I have enough Rails apps to keep running without having to worry about my blog. Besides, there’s no question that the Wordpress community is about as big as they get. Now I can post with MarsEdit, interact with Twitter and change themes every 6 hours and never run out of new ones.

Besides, you’re all using RSS anyway.

• They’re only small battles, but damn it would be nice to win one now and then. #

• So T.M. finally publishes a feed and no one tells me. http://www.tmcamp.com/ #

• Refactoring Wiki content and loving it. #

• Labeling the thousand A/C adapters scattered around my house #

• Adding database indexes #

• To office for a few #

• I can’t stop adding content to the new wiki. #

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Just can’t find the energy for “real” blog posts. I’ll say it again….

twitter.com/jackbaty

jackbaty.tumblr.com

… are just too easy and too much damn fun. See you there.

When I launched Adium this morning it was kind enough to tell me that version 1.0.1 was available and asked if I’d like to install it. Of course I would, thank you. Once the install was complete, I was also asked if I’d like to allow the new version to use all of the previous Keychain information. Yup, so I clicked “Change All” and waited… and waited. My MacBook started thrashing so badly as to be unusable.

Long story short, after farting around for a couple of hours, this post at unsanity.org had the answer.

sudo mv /var/db/CodeEquivalenceDatabase /var/db/CodeEquivalenceDatabase.old

or

open /var/db (and then manually move CodeEquivalenceDatabase to the trash.)

Seems securityd will flail about gobbling up memory and getting rid of CodeEquivalenceDatabase clears things up nicely.

I just can’t seem to stop thinking about Twitter. The idea of a service which keeps everyone informed about my every move seems just silly. Then I remember how absolutely vitally important IM away messages are to Jessica and realize I’m probably wrong again. There’s a thing with Twitter that strikes a chord somehow. I don’t know why or how most folks will use it, but they will, and the whole thing may end up as something none of us expected.

For me, it’s like an extremely lightweight blog with nothing at all attached to it. Wait, I already have one of those…