Mazie had Belgian waffles for the first time this morning. She’s a fan! The “big” waffles hold more syrup, FTW!
Testing out SQL schema, fixing, git pushing. Having fun. Beethoven is helping along in the background.
Downloading a 22.6MB app to decompress a 3.9MB file. This makes sense.
Creating some process flow diagrams using Instaviz on my iPhone before going to sleep. Thanks for the demo earlier Dan Grigsby.
It’s really lame that iTunes doesn’t have the classic christmas specials. No Rudolph! At least they have the Grinch. 😕
Dad: “The balloon popped, it’s broken, you can’t have it.”
Mazie: “Daddy, I want the balloon.”
Repeat x100.
I just took the plunge this evening and updated WordPress to 2.7. So far I’m pretty impressed. I wasn’t sure what I would think of the new admin interface but after using it I like it a lot. I can’t wait to give the automated upgrade feature a workout. If anything seems amiss, let me know.
Now the race is on to see how long it takes for good themes to come out that take advantage of the threaded comments feature in 2.7.
Mir:ror - RFID for the Home
I’ve been wondering when these little RFID gadgets will start to make a presence in the home. Big companies have done pretty amazing things with their supply chains using RFID, but what use will a geeky household be able to make of RFID. There hasn’t been much.
I was interested to see an email this morning from Violet, the makers of the Nabaztag. This company is definitely “out there”. I’ve tried explaining the Nabaztag to visitors and they just look funny when you tell them “it is a WiFi Rabbit”. Then it starts talking and moving its ears and they really wonder. Both Violet and Ambient Devices, makers of the Ambient Orb, are doing some really interesting things bringing the web into the real world.
Mir:ror is Violet’s newest product. This video explains it best.
It’s interesting. In essence the stamps are just RFID tags and they have made a consumer friendly RFID reader (the mirror). I can think of a couple of neat things to do with this, particularly if you keyed it with home automation. For example, take your keys and swipe them on the mirror to turn off all the lights in the house when you leave. I would love that.
It will be interesting to see what kind of applications people think of for RFID in the home. This is a cool first step.
Update: My friend John Riedl just posted about this on his blog as well.
- Installing Boxee to try it out.
- Hmm.. On first launch Boxee hard crashed my MacBook Pro. Not good.
- Boxee people - anyone know why it’s an installer? Why no drag-n-drop. (Hate installers and their voodoo.)
At Apple Store to warranty replace a defective AppleTV.
Of course Apple TV unit works great at the store. They are replacing anyway, yeah!