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iCal (or, technically, BusyCal) Alarms in our house are a somewhat comedic event. If Carey and I are both on our portables ((See how I refrained from calling them "laptops"?)), three computers sound off at the same time along with her iPhone (an original, and thus, an EDGE phone). A symphony of beeps and dings and chimes rain down on us from every corner of the house.

Then, about a minute later, my iPhone 3G alerts me ((I just timed it: it's actually 0:55 behind my Mac Pro.)) What's up with that? Is the AT&T 3G network time off or something? Why is my phone so tardy?

I have my phone set to "Automatically" set the time. Or, rather, I did until I manually moved up the minutes by one just now.

Pens aren't making the playoffs. Trade Staal for a winger for Sid. MAF can't win the big game. It's so cold in the D. And some of the O.

And if you don't get those references, well, they're not real.

The Pens injury list is huge. Gonchar and Talbot came back last night, but the Pens self imploded. Malkin just got back. For weeks, Mark Eaton was the healthiest Pens D-man, and even he had some sort of illness this morning.

Skoula's out. Goligoski is out. Kennedy, Kunitz, Orpik, Letang, McKee. Malkin, Gonchar, Talbot just got back. Hey, it's still November.

They say that before you know it, they're gone. Today we're roughly 2555/6570 (38.9%) of the way there.

It's simply gone too far. Like affirmative action - great intent, horrible in practice if it prevents a company from being able to hire the most qualified individual.

Yippee! This change alone will save me 4.3 years of work every 30 days! No exaggeration! 😀

Rivet 2.3, Cynical Peak's software for sharing your movies, music, and photos with your Xbox 360, PS3, and now select XLNA devices, is now available. This is a free upgrade for existing customers and it fixes or improves on a lot of things:

• Added using a file's thumbnail for custom images. See release blog post for more info.
• Added automatic clean-up of the thumbnail cache.
• Added smart sorting. "The," "A," and "An" are ignored when sorting movies and photos (xbox still sorts with them). Music is sorted by using the song's sort name metadata (which can be set in iTunes).
• Improved photo viewing performance, especially when using Aperture.
• Improved parsing and start-up speed.
• Improved navigation for some devices.
• Reordered the top level listing.
• Fixed memory leaks.
• Fixed the issue where you could only add one photo path.
• Fixed preserving which playlists are selected between launches.
• Fixed a launch issue due to the computer name not being properly encoded.
• Added support for CEIVA Pro 80 picture frames from CEIVA Logic Inc., Denon audio/video receivers, and Plex Media Center for OS X.

December 1 on ABC?! It's true. I just saw a commercial.

Carla was missing, as was Elliot. JD, Turk, and Perry were in the preview. The Scrubs site lists Kelso, Elliot, Janitor, and three new people as well, so perhaps they're back too.

I wonder how accurate the cast list is, though, as The Middle which also features Neil Flynn was picked up for a full 22 episodes after just two shows, so… double duty for Neil or a smaller role on Scrubs, perhaps?

I like this comment from Lars the best:

The public API you are referring to is a Mac OS X API. You assert that it is alright to transfer the image provided by that API to another device and display it there. This may or may not be the case but in my opinion, you argument could be a non sequitur. Just because one system provides you the means of getting a certain bitmap does not automatically entitle you to use that bitmap somewhere else.

I think you should be allowed to use it and as a fellow developer I dislike the AppStore model as much as the next person. Nevertheless, your argument isn’t really logically sound here as far as I’m concerned.

I think Rogue Amoeba shouldn't have bothered to mention that "1.0 was approved." So you slipped one by the cops - so what? The speeding analogy Jeff mentioned applies here: just because you get away with something once doesn't mean you are granted a free pass to get away with it forever.

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As my tweet says:

I ordered Stack and Tilt swing from Amazon on Kindle. They instead sent me some book about Seymour Butts.

Indeed:

YouTube link is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSj4Al7GlGE.

Incidentally I spent ten minutes trying to find the best way to contact support at Amazon. To say they've made it difficult is quite the understatement. I finally decided to go with the "Contact Us" button.

On the bright side, the book ended up being even less than the lowest price it was previously ($15.84). $14.04 isn't bad. Porn - depending on your personal taste - may be bad.

Found another doortag from FedEx on my door just now… It's marked 2:23pm. I've been home since 8:30am. They don't ring the doorbell - they walk up to the door with a tag that's been pre-filled and stick it on, then walk away.

What I don't get is this: they're going to have to deliver it eventually. Do they just do this on days when they're behind?

Does anyone still truly care about an Apple Tablet? Either it'll be an underpowered computer running Mac OS X or it'll be an oversized iPhone or iPod Touch running mobile OS X, right?

Originally I thought it might be nice to have one simply if it acted as a remote desktop screen. That'd still be nice to have, without the bulk a laptop, but I don't think we'll ever see anything like that.

This bug still exists in Mac OS X 10.6.2. I thought for sure they'd have fixed that one.

A few days ago I mentioned a book that was more expensive on Kindle than in hardcover. They've since updated that pricing, but that's not the point.

The point is that the book - which I've had for awhile now thanks to Barnes and Noble's disregard for what may or may not even be an actual release date of November 12 - has a lot of illustrations in it. It has some pulled quotes and a lot of other little side notes and other things as well.

I think I'll scan a few pages and do a direct comparison, and post the results here. I think the Kindle may disappoint in this area. 16 shades of grey might not really cut it… For most books, clearly, that's not an issue.

I'll link back to this post when the comparison is up.

Zzzzzzzzzzz. The recurring joke about the inability of the Yankees to win a World Series while paying one player more than the entire Pirates payroll has come to an end, but the argument remains the same: baseball needs a salary cap.

Doesn't mean we'll see one in the next 10 or 20 years, but it's needed.

If you've heard about the one finger discount, you'll be pleased to know that Cynical Peak is honoring the coupon code.

But you didn't hear it from me, mmmkay?