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One thing I don’t talk about much on this weblog (maybe never before) is that Jodi and I have been trying to have children for almost 4 years. We’ve explored various treatment options, and suspect what they call “male factor”. Yes, that means what you think it means. Due to our current financial situation we’re not actively exploring treatment right now.

I mention all this to explain why I found this Wired article so interesting: Male Chromosome Seriously Weird. The article discusses how researchers are now finding that the Y chromosome, which is responsible for a human becoming male, may also contribute to male infertility.

Jonathan Ive, perhaps most famous as the man behind the design of the original iMac, talks to Wired about the design of the new Power Mac G5.

I got a iChat video chat invitation from Sean McMains today, and I was like “I don’t have a camera…” When it popped up it was a one-way video chat - I could “>see Sean (PDF) and he got an audio feed on his end. Very very very cool!

In the “of-course-they’d-think-of-that” department, when an audio/video chat pops up, iChat automatically pauses iTunes, and restarts it upon closing the chat window. So nice. smile

I’ve found that my success using the new iChat AV and audio chat has been sketchy, and I’m thinking it’s related to the fact that one or both of use is behind a NAT. Anyone work out what ports iChat AV uses for audio chat?

Update: This Apple technote explains that iChat AV uses UDP 5060. Meanwhile, I’m still having little luck with audio chats.

John, please go back to OS 9 and leave us alone.

Well, Dustin and I went to the Apple Store for the Stevenote, and left happy. I’ll leave you in Feedster’s capable hands for more WWDC news from the blogoshpere.

Feedster on the WWDC.

Feedster on Panther, Apple’s new OS X.

Feedster on the Power Mac G5, Apple’s new racecar.

Feedster on XCode, Apple’s new IDE.

Hehe. Bill points (haha!) us to one fan’s obsessive documentation of Harrison Ford’s liberal use of The Finger. Haha!