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Bump: Apple announces plans to create iTunes for Motorola cell phones. As Robert says I didn’t expect that. Indeed. Not sure how good an idea this is, guess we’ll see.

Joi Ito links to a post by Seth Godin who mentions the idea of “greatest hits”, or weblog posts that you (as the blogger) think people should read first when coming to your site.

I think that making a “greatest hits” page easier to create makes sense. I personally like wiki pages for that sort of thing, but I could imagine it being built into a tool. Another thing people do is to put a sidebar section of favorite items and permalink from there.

Interesting idea, and I think this would be pertty easy to accomplish in WP with 1) a custom field for favorite posts - say “fav”, set to 1, true, or “oh yeah baby” - and 2) a small bit of SQL to pull the list of posts and link to them. Wonder if anyone wants to build it?

If you have a Powerbook G4 and your sound starts horking out, run the Apple Hardware Test (boot from the included disk, hold down Option and select “Apple Hardware Test”). It’s possible that you’ll get a logic board error 2ISS/1/5: 0x40. If so, call AppleCare (you did get AppleCare, right?) and they’ll hook you up.

Someone on #wordpress pointed to this WordPress-powered blog from MIT’s MediaLab Europe: Human Connectedness Group Blog

Some neat stuff going on there. Subscribed.

Sun Microsystem’s CEO, Jonathan Schwartz, has a blog. Now, I don’t care a heck of a lot about what’s going on at Sun, but I am enjoying hearing about life from Jonathan’s POV. Largely he’s using the blog to address issues that are facing Sun these days, like how they are going to monetize Java, or how to compete with “Free” software.

I’m once again working for a company that 1) is not in the I.T. market itself, 2) has real ideas that are changing the way our clients do business (for the better, I might add) and 3) must compete in the marketplace; a company where what I do has a tangible, immediate effect on the success or failure of our clients. Sounds normal enough, I suppose, but it makes me enjoy opportunities to spend time chatting with our CEO (in a company of 30 people I can still do that fairly often), making sure that I know where we’re headed and how we’re going to meet the challenges we face on the way there.

Reading Jonathan’s and Mark’s blogs are kinda like that.

Jodi and I managed to pick up a few more movies of interest today at Costco, listed herewith:

The Wedding Singer

I cannot believe it took us this long to obtain this classic.

Intolerable Cruelty

Part of a two-pack with the next film on the list, this Coen-brothers film is one of theirs I’ve liked most, though I still must get The Hudsucker Proxy. “You know, for kids!”

Lost In Translation

One might think Sophia Coppola had been taking lessons from Robert Altman, this movie has so little plot. And yet I really liked it, if for nothing else than the amazing atmosphere Coppola creates and the sense of culture shock that she conveys. (One of these days I should post about experiencing culture shock.)

Oooooh, Rands has a great justification for getting that 30″ monstrosity from Apple. N.A.D.D.!