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Jodi and I had dinner last night with Bill and Sandi. Bill surprised me with a late birthday present, the Coolest Mug Ever!

It’s got the “X”…
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It’s got the Apple…
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And includes a redmonk “r”!!
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I should point out that Bill handpainted this himself…

A while back I wrote an Applescript that would render an outline from OmniOutliner into html based on user-defined templates.

Well, version 3 (yes, it’s been much re-written) is on the way. Features:

• Supports a variation/version of Frontier’s #directives
• Template overriding
• Headline skipping based on a #norender directive
• Control over whether/how subheads are rendered

Here’s a sample.

Life can be so unfair.

I’m not much of a Metallica fan but I’m a huge fan of covers, remixes, and mashups.

What would happen if you put Metallica and the Beatles in a blender (other than a huge mess)? It might sound something like…

Beatallica!

Chris Lydon’s interview with David Sifry of Technorati is pretty cool.

I’m impressed with Chris’s interviewing, and the audio quality he’s getting too.

James Patten is doing some amazing work at MIT (where else!) on tactile user interfaces (computer interfaces made up of a tabletop that senses the positions of the objects on it’s surface) More information and an incredible QuickTime movie here.

Heh. Ptypes’ personality test confirms what I already knew - I’m an Idealist.

According to Myers Briggs I’m an (E/I)NFP. (I’ve tested three times on the 50/50 line between Extrovert/Introvert.)