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Schubert IT has the coolest plugin - an inline PDF viewer for OS X browsers. I’ve tested it with Safari and OmniWeb 5. Super nice.

I had an idea tonight, inspired by a post on Bill Bumgarner’s site. Actually, it was in reading Bill’s RSS feed in NetNewsWire.

In this post, Bill has a form that searches a drink database. The form renders in NetNewsWire (of course) and can be submitted and used.

So… it occured to me that an RSS feed could be used as a source for a company’s internal forms. Any new form could be added to the feed, and if you changed the modified date when you serve it, then the updated list of forms would always be available in your newsreader.

Maybe not any more useful than a simple page of links, but interesting nevertheless.

Thoughts?

Using Open Firmware, Terminal, and the “bless” command to make sure your Mac boots from the disk you want it to:

Recovering From A Blinking ?

Jodi and I went with my new boss David and his wife Kristy to see the live taping of NPR’s Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me at the Arizona Biltmore Hotel and Spa. We had a lot of fun, even if it was (relatively) cold out. Adam Felber, comedian and blogger, won the quiz, bad jokes were made, and good times were had by all.

I’ve got nothing on my brother Bob, who (I think) has visited something like 17 countries, but here are my 13:

[ Deleted as their system replaced my map with someone else's. Grr. 07-15-2004] (create your own visited country map)