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Has anyone seen or heard from Don Yacktman in the past, oh, three months? How about the past month? Week?

I have a vested interest in knowing what the heck is going on with Don due to the fact that he owns what was once my company, and the fact that he hasn't appeared to do jack squat with the software in what will quickly become a full year.

My friend José called me today after getting a new heart last Saturday. He's doing well and they say he has 0% rejection. Frickin' awesome!

I just checked the "value" of my home on Zillow.com (Mac users: use Firefox. Safari is not yet supported). It's "valued" at about $8k less than Carey and I paid for it. But that value is seasonal, too: I checked the graphs and the home was worth $18k more than Carey and I paid for it in August of last year (we bought in April/May).

In a way, the site is kinda creepy… yet I wish I'd had it when Carey and I were looking for our house. It wouldn't have changed our decision at all, but it's still interesting.

Ken Whisenhunt showed that he's not only a smart offensive coordinator, but that he's also an all-around smart person. He turned down Al Davis' offer to coach the Raiders. Oakland is a coaching graveyard, and with the Steelers, Ken sees the potential to win, oh, ten or so more Super Bowls in the next ten or so years. 🙂

Smart decision, Ken.

I hope I'm wrong (please, tell me if I am), but it does not appear that I can tell Entourage to apply "rules" via AppleScript. If I've overlooked the possibility, please tell me how this can be done.

A friend of mine wants to apply a certain rule (or all rules, if the first can't be done) to the incoming messages in a certain folder (that part is easy) on a schedule (this part is also easy).

Well, I said it before and I'll say it again: it's odd how incredibly unsatisfied I am with a Steelers Super Bowl victory. It largely boils down to the fact that the playoffs (Cinci, Indy, Denver) were so exciting and the Steelers had their A game only to bring their C/D game to the Super Bowl. Even still, they beat a Seahawks team that had their B/C game.

There's some chit-chat out there about two key things. The first is the umpiring. This is easily dismissed by people that, y'know, know the rules of football and want to go back and watch the tape. The NFL itself said that the game was "properly officiated." I have the game on TiVo. I've watched all of the controversial calls in slow motion. They were all made correctly. And even if one or two of them had gone wrong, the Steelers would have some legitimate beefs about bad calls, too, the most obvious of which was blocking Ben in the back on the INT return.

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So you can win some things if you download the billionth song.

Great. I can't even add some items to my shopping cart. I get an error 502. I owe someone an iTMS gift certificate and I can't even access the proper "page" to buy a gift certificate, nor can I add songs to my cart.

You know what would be nice for the iTunes Music Store? TABS. Yeah, tabs. That way I could open a page for each song I'd like to add when the darn thing starts working again.

As a lifelong Steelers fan, it's odd how incredibly disappointed I feel after a Super Bowl victory. Neither team brought their A game. Heck, I'd be hard pressed to give Seattle even a B, and Pittsburgh played at least one grade level below them. C+ and C- games, perhaps?

To those who want to blame the zebras, I have a few things to say. First, a push-off is a push-off. Second, you have to make a legal catch before something can be considered a touch-down, and hitting the pylon in the air doesn't count as your "second foot down in-bounds." He was out of bounds. Third, when you have one arm around the front of a player and one around the back, that's holding. Fourth, Ben's TD looked like he barely crossed the front of the goal line to me; the refs agreed, even after review. After the Indy game this year, nobody has a legitimate gripe about the umpiring in the game. Oh wait, there was one horrible call: I don't think you can get flagged for illegal blocking when you're making a tackle.

More in the full entry…

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Today I toggled a setting in this blog's "Feedback" area. I now immediately publish comments only from authenticated commenters. This is two steps up from "no one" and one step down from "Anyone."

MovableType hasn't been updated in months. The next time it is, I'd like to see a setting that immediately approves comments only on entries in the last x days (where x is a text field defaulting to, say, 14). Most spamments are on older entries. But I don't want to turn commenting off entirely because some older entries continue to get valid comments.

At any rate, we'll see how "Any authenticated commenters" works out. If you'd like your comments to appear more quickly, get a TypeKey account. You should be able to get one from the comments below…

Question: What are you doing for the Super Bowl?

My Answer: Staying here with just my wife and kid.

You are encouraged to answer the Question of the Day for yourself in the comments or on your blog.

Webster's, if you'd like to use this image for the next version of the dictionary, you have my express written permission to do so.

Can a judge sentence someone to self castration? Because folks like this should not be allowed to breed. Or even interact with other human beings.

Or maybe the judge could sentence the guy to write 1 million times on a chalk board "If my iPod is too loud, I will henceforth simply turn down the volume."

I don't know what all of the fuss is about - it still looks hideous. Absolutely hideous.

But so long as it renders pages properly, I couldn't care less how it looks because at least I don't have to use it.

This entry is mostly for my wife to make a decision (today). She's at a conference, so this is how I can reach her…

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I'm not a big fan of Super Bowl theme songs (by the way, how'd that work out for you, Cincinnati?), but at least the Steelers Super Bowl theme song doesn't suck. Word on the street is that the best the Seahawks can do, however, is "Sweet Shaun Alexander" set to the theme of "Sweet Home Alabama." Uhhh…