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The Sand Trap .com is switching to the Huddler platform next week. Wednesday is our target date.

I expect that the road will be bumpy. There are a LOT of things I don't like about the forum software they've got, BUT they're willing to listen and my odds of getting a feature through are about a thousand times higher with Huddler than with vBulletin.

Additionally, Huddler is going to take over any and all advertising concerns, so that I can focus simply on the "community" as they call it. Definitely looking forward to that.

It's the dead of winter and I've not made much progress on my PGA learning stuff. We're trying to get Analyzr shipping ASAP (still on target for early January, 2011), and that's taking up an inordinate amount of time. Also, The Sand Trap is converting to Huddler next week, so that is taking up time as well.

Perhaps I'll be able to study in February and March and take a trip south in early April. But otherwise, I worry that I might not finish out level 1 until early next winter. It wouldn't be a terrible thing - I'm in no real rush to finish out the PGA certification process. We're still going to be in Erie in a few years and I'm pretty well known as an instructor already, largely thanks to working with Dave and helping him to produce videos for YouTube, running The Sand Trap, working at Golf Evolution schools and on the forum, and sharing a few thoughts now and then on a few other sites.

A Mac application we're building includes the ability to download YouTube videos, and though we've previously written our own Objective-C code to do this, we're thinking of using this python script, youtube-dl to handle a lot of the process.

I believe we'd rip out (or modify) the script to simply take in a YouTube URL and to spit back out the download URL - perhaps via an NSTask - but I'm not sure. The goal is to be able to update more easily in the future when YouTube changes its URLs or HTML format as they seem to do every few months. We'd also want to get the title of the movie as well, but that shouldn't be all that difficult.

The problem is that once you hack it, it is going to take time to re-hack each subsequent version. Is the true solution to let the script download the movie and just import it immediately?

A distant alternative may be to find some way to use the JavaScript/HTML code found within the YouTube5 extension (which also works on Vimeo videos) ((xar -xf blah.safariextz spits out everything as individual resources.)), but there may be obvious licensing and copyright issues with that, so… probably not.

Oooooh, awesome! I'm thinking that one of these and of course one of these at a minimum. And since I'll likely find a way to acquire those, those who love me might want to look at this or this in the 17" x 22" sizes... 😉

Very cool, anyway. Even if I don't have the wall space (or the need) for any of them.

Come to think of it, I still have a number of Think Different posters framed up somewhere… along with the original Apple poster from 2004 showing the runner with an iPod on her hip. Hmmm…

If you sign up for Dropbox - and you definitely should, if you have not already - then please use this link: http://db.tt/U5OtLdx.

A really nice job that shows off the fact that a feeling I've had for awhile now is true - that the online Apple Store is getting super-cluttered.

Worth checking out, along with this post about Google Maps.

Gonna have to subscribe to the blog.

A friend of mine likes his iPhone. Loves it, really. Wants to use it all the time.

Unfortunately, he has terrible cell reception in his house. He gets good reception when he's out.

Simple question, hopefully with a simple answer: is there a solution out there that will give him VOIP calling and answering of phone calls when he's connected to a WiFi network and regular cell phone usage when he's out?

He doesn't want to have to change his number.

Just in case I forget: http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/.

I don't have all the details like the exact birth time, weight, length, etc. but I'd like to welcome my nephew Parker Smith into the world.

He's got a perfect alter-ego name should he one day become a superhero. 🙂

A bit of an inside joke…

I, Reader is a good little piece.

I'm currently well behind on my reading - a perpetual state. I'd love to stop watching TV and use an hour or two each evening to read, but I don't just sit on the couch during TV time, I'm typically watching TV, talking to Carey, working on the computer, emailing, Facebooking, talking on the forums, eating, etc.

About the only one of those things I can do while reading is eating, and I don't do that very often. Plus, I genuinely like a few shows and wouldn't give them up.

Speaking of viruses, there's new evidence to support the idea that schizophrenia is caused by a virus.

I love this stuff. Fascinating. It shows how much we still have to learn about the human body and the world in which we live.

Fascinating stuff.

And Microsoft estimates it took 10,000 man days of labor to create ((There's no truth to the rumor that Apple responded by saying "Yeah, but engineers as smart as ours could do it in 500.))? That's over 27 years.

Interesting, no?

I don't really care about basketball, but I do think the LeBron James thing showed what a joke ESPN has become.

A story:

One day a lady ran into Pablo Picasso. "It's you - Picasso, the great artist! Oh, you must sketch my portrait! I insist."

So Picasso agreed to sketch her. After studying her for a moment, he used a single pencil stroke to create her portrait. He handed the women his work of art.

"It's perfect!" she gushed. "You managed to capture my essence with one stroke, in one moment. Thank you! How much do I owe you?"

"Five thousand dollars," the artist replied.

"B-b-but, what?" the woman sputtered. "How could you want so much money for this picture? It only took you a second to draw it!"

To which Picasso responded, "Madame, it took me my entire life."

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