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Given that I sometimes work in an Apple Store, I found an interesting article titled The Floor Plan with a Plan in a recent issue of Business 2.0. Unfortunately, the article is largely interesting because the subject fails to understand a good deal of what makes Apple Stores "Apple."

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Friend: I have her email
Friend: but an email that says "hi melissa. what school do you go to? would you like to have sexual intercourse?" would be pretty awkward
Erik: right
Erik: I suggest removing the school part

Vinay noticed my my list of DVDs (still a work in progress as of today) and made the comment:

i learned from erik that he used a text based database. i think that text based databases are out

See, the thing is Vinay, it's not worth the time or effort to maintain a real database. A flat file PHP array is fine. It's easier to back up, it's easier to read, it's easier to edit. If I was doing all the stuff he's doing, yeah, I'd use a "real" database. But I'm storing the DVD's name, a list of the actors, and its year. And that's it. Software development is all about choosing the right tools for the job. For this small task, a text file is fine. This site on a flat file? Hell no. I'm not sure how Jason uses flat files for his blog. Ugh.

Dan Isaacs loves his new TiVo. I'm not prone to over-excitement, but I've said it before and I'll say it again: having a TiVo changes your life. That porn you wanted to watch at 4am (cuz that's when all the good porn is on, naturally)? Now you can watch it at 3 in the afternoon when clients fail to give you work to do!

I'm being sarcastic. I don't watch porn. Seriously, nope, not me. I do, however, watch West Wing, Ed, Fastlane (which comes pretty close to porn sometimes), etc. Even though Dan said "TiVo fucking rocks" I'm going to refrain from swearing in this post. Errrr, dammit.

Tomas Jogin has some thoughts on his first trip the US of A (about twenty minutes south of me, actually).

It's 95 degrees as I write this, and so that wall of heat and humidity he's talking about? It's real. Want my air conditioning bill, buddy? Cars are huge and gas costs 1/3 what it costs in Sweden? Like I've previously pointed out, if gas rose at a rate equivalent to the cost of living, we'd be paying about five bucks a gallon at this point. I guess the Swedes are already.

Yes, people are fat. I hate that about this country. I'm in shape and I intend to be throughout my life. We're lazy freaking society and it bugs me. When I was in France, if I saw an overweight person, they were a tourist. It was that simple.

Enjoy your stay, Tomas.

Y'know, I would buy this Wingnuts game if I could only play it in a window. Alas, it does not allow such a silly thing! No, it'd rather force a 640 x 480 stretched display on my 1920 x 1200 monitor, resulting in the movement of my palettes, iTunes windows, and more when I quit playing.

I should ask Matt to give Freeverse a Bah.

So another week of Survivor, pushed back about 50 minutes because some odd looking chap who looks a lot like the President we had a decade ago had something to say, has concluded. Yawwwwwwwn. It's early, forgive me.

What did we get? Heidi is a complete moron. An absolute moron. "The fat girls can live off their fat more, so yeah they should do more of the work." All her talk of the "cute" versus "the ugly" has easily, easily put her in the latter category, but in a far worse way: she's just an ugly individual who needs to grow up. Jenna keeps wearing sorority clothing, and Jenna, Heidi, and Shawna all have an entirely sorority mentality. Said Jenna: "Don't be mad at us because we have good bodies. It's not our fault; get over it. Me and Heidi have the better bodies of the group and wanted to be on a tribe with men, because women can just get pissed about that fact and just vote us off for that reason." Deena, sorry to tell you: they're using you. Figure out a way to turn on them.

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Steven notes the arrival of HipTop 1.0.1. He doesn't, however, note the arrival of better T-Mobile coverage in my area or his. Oh well, we'll see. I've gotten some good uses out of the thing... Just wish I had a better reception in some other places.

Says Hyatt in a flurry of posts (two today!):

The first issue is Safari's limited support for the title attribute. We're going to dump our implementation in the status bar and just use a tooltip-style implementation instead (and yes, we'll pick up support for acronym and abbr at the same time).

Looks like I can soon ditch my Nice Titles hack.

David Hyatt discusses tabs in every browser since the Paleolithic age except Safari in this entry. I think the guy's sense of humor is pretty grand, given the "hypothetical" post and now this one. I only hope that the Apple management is aware of this, and that Hyatt steers clear of any trouble. Us Mac users don't need him getting canned for "leaking" any information, now, do we?

It's a good, or at least interesting discourse on tabbed browsing in Mozilla, Phoenix, and Chimera Camino. Well worth a read.

I think it's funny to scroll down 50 pages of a tutorial and then see the words "That's all there is to it."

From this article:

Historically, Unix users tend to work with plain-text files whenever they work with text at all, usually using one of two programs: the simple (but somewhat obscure) vi, or the highly configurable (and mind-bogglingly baroque) emacs.

Man, pico gets no love!

I'm not sure what in the hell Simon was thinking letting Carmen through to the next round. Her post-announcement rendition of Can't Fight the Moonlight was atrocious. Holy cow. Incredibly, incredibly bad.

I'm stunned. Horrible. Absolutely horrible.

I read four articles yesterday (1, 2, 3, 4) about the "ethics of blogging." I'll be blunt: I think it's a bunch of hooey.

If you're an ethical person, your ethics leave their mark on everything you do in life, everyone you know. If you're ethical, you're most likely an ethical parent, business person, citizen, and blogger.

Drafting a list of "Rules for Being Ethical" is both a waste of time and an indication of deeper issues in those drafting the lists. Most times I've seen people draft a list of "ethics" they've felt as though they have something to prove. Software engineers, for example, have been talking about codifying a standard of ethics similar to those of other engineers. The problem is that writing such a list doesn't prove anything to anyone: doing it does.

As far as I can tell, this is clearly one of those "talk the talk or walk the walk" situations. You won't find a list of my ethics on this site.

This year on American Idol, I'm going to go with the geeky looking guy. Go Clay! His performance was one of the best I think I can remember, and though Nick disagrees somewhat, I think that may be due to the fact that he missed Clay's first performance.

Clay's a bit odd looking, and like Randy I wonder where the voice comes from, but put him on a stage and make him sing like he can and the women will be after him anyway. Geek is chic these days, man!

P.S. Some of the girls are hot, but can't sing that well. Too bad.