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Hear the new album via streaming QT/WMP/REAL:

U2 -How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb

I got a bit of help from the denizens of IRC (crschmidt, kpried) in creating a little bit of shell code that, when run, will get the current IP address of en0 (on my Powerbook that’s the Airport) and 1) put it on the clipboard, and 2) print it out. This should go on one line in your .bash_profile.

alias ip='/sbin/ifconfig en1 inet | grep inet | sed -e "s/.inet (.) netmask.*/1/” | tr -ds “n” “” | tee /dev/tty | pbcopy; echo’

If you’re running tcsh, modify as necessary.

Doing some work this evening… I lost my NetNewsWire subscriptions and managed to rebuild most of them from the cache folder, so I spent the time cleaning out the list, unsubscribing from many feeds that I just did not care about anymore. In the same spirit, I’ve been unsubscribing from a ton of mailing lists, and re-subscribing to them from my Gmail account. Let Google store my list archives, with all its searchable gigabyteness.

To read again and process — Web Usability - Accessible Forms:

“This document is concerned with what the user of a Website form “sees” and interacts with. It outlines how you can create forms for the Web that are more accessible…”

Hey, cool. I had the opportunity today to call in and chat with Jerry Schuman on his Techaura podcast. Jerry’s a cool guy, and we talked about TiVo, podcasting, TiVo, The Man, and well, TiVo. Mike Ramsay, listen up! You can subscribe to Jerry’s Techaura podcast with any of the ipodders listed here.

Well, it looks like my TiVo is going to get a lot less useful. Dammit.

PVRBlog: TiVo to add banner ads to service when fast forwarding

Slashdot: TiVo to sell your fast-forward button

PVRBlog, a new site I’m subscribed to, may have some interesting things to say about the intersection of podcasting and PVRs…