Probably a short update. I started coming down with a cold on Friday, and by Saturday it was in full swing. I didn’t go to the Saints pre-season opener, and definitely didn’t make it to the 5:30 am game. In fact, I wouldn’t have moved at all during the weekend if I hadn’t run out of food and cough syrup Sunday morning.
Today, I’m still feeling pretty crummy. There are a couple hours of work I need to get done today, and that’s probably going to be it for the day — the way I’m feeling, they’ll probably take most of the day.
- The Saints played a real eye opener yesterday. There’s also an account from the Minneapolis paper. I wish I’d been there. [press-patch]
- Sheesh. Here’s an alert for web app designers about how google’s web accelerator works and what it means to web applications that offer “delete” or other similarly destructive buttons. [boing boing]
- If you’re running Safari on Tiger, don’t go to the zaptastic page without first turning off the
Open “safe” files after downloading
preference. The widget that gets auto-installed in your dashboard isn’t too damaging, but it could be. [vowe] - Breaking news from Boing Boing: We Won The Broadcast Flag Fight!. The DC Circuit of the US Court of Appeals has ruled the FCC does not have the jurisdiction to regulate what people do with TV shows after they’ve received them. [boing boing]
- Want to know how Real ID will affect you, since it looks like it’s going to become law, since the Senate passed it as part of the Iraq spending bill. You’ll be needing a new ID by May 2008. [slashdot]
- Apparently that national ID card act gets voted on in the Senate tomorrow, apparently. Check UnRealID.com for more information about why you don’t want one. [boing boing]
- I really really hate DVDs. I was sitting around yesterday, feeling sick, and trying to watch Once Upon a Time in Mexico, when just before everything comes to a head, the DVD quits working. After spending about a half-hour trying to scan or skip past the hiccup in the DVD, I ended up just shattering the damned thing and throwing it away because you can’t actually get to the damned data when a few bits on a DVD go bad. Equally annoying is Apple’s DVD Player which just tells you that it had a problem reading the disc, and offers you one option:
Quit
. I know it’s not easy, but the format has been out there long enough that someone should have a player with a “skip past the scratch” option by now, shouldn’t they?