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Adobe LiveCycle 7 Announcement. This is the stuff I work on.

I wrote a LitterMaid review a few years ago when I started using it, but mine has finally died. It may not have been completely beyond repair, but it was making some horrible grinding noises and having a hard time getting it’s job done. I didn’t replace it right away, because I’m going to be moving in […]

The Interdictor is covering New Orleans from a unique angle. He’s keeping a datacenter alive, and reporting on what he’s seeing.

Google Earth has made fresh imagery of the areas affected by the hurricane available.

I tried to do this a while ago, and ran into problems with iTunes crashing when I tried to set ratings. I tried this again with iTunes 4.9 and it worked! I don’t know if it was my system that was at fault, or if it was an iTunes bug, but either way now I […]

It’s cool that Wikipedia has a ‘live coverage’ mode for things that are going on now and changing rapidly. Here’s the page for Hurricane Katrina.

There are only two shows that I record and watch regularly.  Jon Stewart, and Mythbusters.  So it was very cool to see Miguel de Icaza comment on both of them in one post!  

Joe asked what’s up with importing ratings into iTunes. I tried with iTunes 4.9 editing the ratings using the COM interface to iTunes on Windows, and it did let me set the rating. This means it’s possible to write a tool to import ratings into iTunes. I still have my database of ratings from Windows […]

CNN’s Miles O’Brien is blogging the hurricane, live. Cool.

I’ve been looking for a new theme, because some of the articles I’ve written don’t work very well in the narrow format of the default theme.  For some reason, most of the WordPress themes I’ve found involve a very narrow strip of content down the middle of the page.  Strange.  I guess this works well […]