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Question: How many pictures (digital, analog, with your cell phone) do you take, on average, in a day?

My Answer: If we're rounding to whole numbers, zero. I'll take 20 at a time, but once a month. I found out today that my camera (a Nikon CoolPix 950 or something) absolutely sucks at taking pictures at a focal length of anywhere less than a foot.

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Question: Did you download the 30-day Motion trial?

My Answer: You bet your buttocks!

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PayPal can now be used to purchase songs with iTMS. In fact, the first 500,000 people to sign up with a PayPal account get 5 free songs.

Are there still 500,000 people with iTunes who haven't yet created an Apple ID and have a PayPal account? And can I - a long-time customer who also has a PayPal account, set my account to prompt me for my form of payment at purchase time?

P.S. I authenticated my PayPal account within iTunes, but I don't seem to get 5 free songs. My Apple ID is not new, nor is my PayPal account. Couldn't I get at least one free song? :-O

It may just be me, but it seems like ever since updating to 10.3.6 Photoshop's been having a fight with the shift key. The shift key no longer constrains proportions while dragging or draws perfect squares or circles. When I let go of the drag, the item snaps to the proportional size, but that's often nowhere near where I've guessed it might be.

This has happened in the past a few times, and deleting the preferences has never helped. I removed the plugins (all of them), and that didn't help. Disabling the two app plugins (adobelargecursor.bundle and the same for Panther) doesn't help. In the past, I think that it's required either a Photoshop update or an OS update.

Hrm.

I don't have a mini iPod, and the iTunes Music Store doesn't have the song used in this fan-made mini iPod ad.

This is what happens when you forget that you have a Yahoo email account you've never actually used for anything.

Gee, and only 43% of it is spam? Idontthinkso.

One thing I don't see happening: RSS Spam. Unlike email, with RSS/Atom you must explicitly ask for content. It's easy to tell who "sent" it to you. The anonymity spammers enjoy is not available in RSS.

Interesting fact I just read: boys tend to bond with their fathers (and male friends) side by side, facing the same direction and girls tend to bond with their mothers (and female friends) face-to-face. In my experience, that's held up pretty well.

• Sitting on a couch playing video games.
• Fishing in a stream.
• Shooting rifles at the range.
• Walking down a fairway (golf).
• Leaning inside the hood of a car.

Yep. I can think of a few others, but I'm satisfied.

Erie Mayor Rick Fillippi is a Democrat, and he's in trouble. Worse yet, he's a Democrat who snubbed Bush a few times in this most recent campaign, too.

I don't care who you are: when you're a mayor of a medium-sized city, and the President of the Freaking United States visits your city, you at least have the decency to meet him and welcome him to the city before bugging out.

Doing anything less than that is immature and stupid.

Scott and I are kicking around an idea, and we'd like to consult with an OpenGL developer on a potential new business. I can't give away too many details, but the basics are this:

• Custom 3D software for vertical market
• Leverages Mac OS X/OpenGL
• Software used to leverage services or be sold outright
• Related question: are there libraries of OpenGL objects for purchase, like trees or household items or automobiles?

If you've got some info or know of someone who does, my AIM name is iacas and my email is "me@" this domain. I prefer the AIM approach.

P.S. No, we're not looking to make a game of any kind. Nor build a business around re-creationg of automobile crashes.

Question: I asked the question about the Nintendo DS, and now I'm asking it about the Sony PSP: do you want one?

My Answer: No. The ability to play movies and, occasionally, a decent looking game is attractive. The battery life and price are not.

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Anyone know where one might acquire (purchase, get for free, whatever) a software development kit (SDK) for the Nintendo DS? I don't have any serious plans, but it might be fun just to hack around and make a simple game of Hangman or something.

Some people have told me that Nintendo is giving away the kits either free or very cheap, and that'd be awesome if people could distribute their own ROMs, etc. Geeks everywhere would be writing their own games for the world's #1 handheld gaming system. When can I browse the Web on my Nintendo DS?

Of course, the above paragraph is so atypical of Nintendo that I don't really believe it. Yet. I want to…

Update: Scott found this.

This might come in handy if you suspect that one of your Prefs files is corrupt.

sudo plutil -s ~/Library/Preferences/*.plist

Thanks to José for reminding me of this! (Obvious changes will be needed if a) you don't need to be root, and b) you want to check subfolders, or a different folder, or whatever. Y'all are smart enough to do that…)

Question: What's the most duplicitous thing you've ever done to a member of the opposite sex?

My Answer: Years ago, I failed to mention that I had a girlfriend just to see where things would go. True to form, they didn't go anywhere, which was why I knew I was relatively safe going in. I'm not much of a duplicitous person: my faults are right out there to gawk at. No hiding 'em!

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Ugh.