NSLog();

We recorded this video yesterday (5D Mark II, iMovie :-)).

The "library" is boxed up in this storage/shipping crate.

You can sign up to be notified of some things at http://analyzrgolf.com/. At this time, the icon and that site are the only details we're releasing about this application.

Credit to Adrian Kenny for this icon. We liked a crate icon he'd designed, and asked him to modify it for this purpose. The Analyzr document is a one-off document that most people won't see (a bundle of data, videos, and thumbnail images).

Here's My iTunes Ping account (if you'd like to "follow" me). I promise - since I don't do much with new music or music in general - that I won't flood your screen with comments or purchases. 😉

Hacking Netflix thinks so. I, however, do not.

I'm looking for a Rails developer who will have some free time this winter for project I'd call moderate in size.

The project will involve the modification of an existing Rails application into a more feature-filled version of the application.

Some level of experience with design is considered a plus. If you are available, or know people who are, get in touch with me, preferably via email. Following up via IM to make sure your email wasn't caught in a spam filter is fine too. 🙂

You know what I'd like? A Netflix streaming video app.

Version 1.0 might be nothing more than a WebKit view that automatically takes you to your streaming queue and resizes the window a bit or employs some CSS tricks to play with the positioning so that you get mostly video playback in your viewer window.

I hate using a browser because, with Spaces, my browser windows tend to be collected in one Space while other apps (like MarsEdit and Cyndicate) exist in another space. I'd want to set my "Netflix Viewer.app" to be viewable in all spaces.

Additionally, since I'd rarely switch to my Netflix viewer app while watching a show or movie, I couldn't accidentally hit cmd-w like I sometimes do to my Netflix-in-Safari viewer.

Later versions could use an API, if Netflix provided one (they must, as the Wii, Xbox 360, and PS3 all have their own controls and work with remotes, etc.), to provide a DVD Player-like experience or something. The media playback keys on my Mac keyboard could work with this version 2.0, too.

Anyone want to develop such an app? 🙂

Thanks to people here and elsewhere upgrading by using me as their referrer, I've gone up from 2 GB of free storage to 6.2 GB of free storage.

I'm currently using about 70% of the 6.2 GB I get for free ((1.5 GB or so are a collection of videos I've downloaded or recorded for evolvr.)), and I don't feel particularly cramped. That said, I'd like to upgrade, if for no other reason than to give Dropbox some money as I've used and loved their product - for free - for quite awhile.

But their pricing plans simply don't make sense to me. For $99/year I can get 50 GB of space - that's overkill and a bit pricy. Never mind that I can get 100 GB of syncing storage space for $199 ((Oddly, that's a dollar more per year than two 50 GB accounts, or a penny more per month ($9.99 vs. $19.99) if you opt for the monthly payment plan)) - 50 GB is too much.

Why not a 20 GB account? Why not an account with some added features, like the ability to share .html files? Dropbox works really well, but 50GB is a big step up from 6.2 GB. Or 6.5 if another person signs up using the referral code above. Or even double what I have now - 12.5 GB…

I recently had an application wipe the creation date from about 2000 files, but leave the modification date intact. I was able to create a quickie AppleScript that relies on SetFile and GetFileInfo, a pair of CLI tools installed with the Developer Tools.

It's mostly here for my own use later on. I find myself re-learning when to get files as files, when to get them as aliases, when to access them via the paths, etc. just about every time I launch AppleScript.

tell application "Finder"
  set theFiles to the selection
end tell

repeat with theFile in theFiles
  set theFile to POSIX path of (theFile as alias)
  set copyDate to do shell script "/usr/bin/GetFileInfo -m '" & (theFile as string) & "'"
  do shell script "/usr/bin/SetFile -d '" & copyDate & "' '" & (theFile as string) & "'"
end repeat

Lest it go unsaid, this summer has been the exact opposite of last year: it's warm, dry, and fairly quiet as far as wind goes. Last year was cold, rainy, and windy. This year, every day is a golf day, and the biggest problem is simply that everyone realizes it and you can't get a tee time.

Summer 2010: Best Weather EVAR (in the vernacular).

Let me just say - I hate hate hate when the "From" name does not match the "reply-to" address in an email.

For example, a friend of mine named "Bob" posts to a blog to which I've subscribed to the comments, or a forum.

I get an email that says "from: Bob" and I reply with an inside joke that Bob and I will find funny and nobody else will understand.

The message is addressed to "to: Bob" but with an actual email address that auto-posts my comment to the blog or forum.

Boooo.

I've never gotten into TextMate. In Xcode I use the editor included there and all other times, use BBEdit.

TextMate 2.0 is still not here while BBEdit has been updated a few times since 2.0 was first talked about, so I'm wondering if people are still as crazy for TextMate or if, due to the lack of updates, it's popularity has been diminished.

You know, as interesting as things like this are, I really wonder if there's any actual practical application for this.

I like math, and I think it's great… but I think I like applied math a lot more than the theoretical, and I'm not sure if this has too many actual applications.

I've just read this nice piece on David Morehouse, the new CEO of the Pittsburgh Penguins.

Yet another reason to be glad that Kerry lost that election. 🙂

In bash… for item in *; do zip -m "${item}.zip" "${item}"; done

The summer is just about to come to an end and the wife and kid will soon be going back to school.

I can't say I'm over the moon about it, but it's not the worst thing to happen, either. 🙂