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The Stevenote is today, and as anyone who has spent time in the RDF will tell you, it’s like the Nexus: “a mysterious plane of existence in which time has no meaning, and one may live in pure bliss forever”…

Chatting with Dad about buying a new Macbook pro…

(16:35:58) Steve/AIM: well, get the bootcamp pre-setup
(16:36:09) Steve/AIM: you can still download and 
  try parallels for fun
(16:36:20) Dad: it will come with XP installed
(16:36:33) Steve/AIM: cool
(16:36:43) Dad: will there be a conflict
(16:36:54) Steve/AIM: only in your heart

What you get when you unpack an Apple refurbished product.

TUAW says:

Plus, you won’t be tempted to save the box it comes in and take up room in your house, and that has to count for something.

(I just recently managed to throw away the 17″ Powerbook box I got two+ years ago…)

“have all your geek buddies messed up iTunes or something?”

“yes, we broke it with our love“

I must remember to download this on the home machine: Hazel, a wonderful-looking rule-based system maintenance app for OS X.

~stevenf wrote a post about how he’s using VoodooPad to store information on his Treo. Very neat. I’ve become a VoodooPad junkie as well, and — while it’s not as neat as Steven’s trick — I have a little trick I’ve whipped up to export a voodoopad document as a singel bookmarks page that I use as my browser’s homepage.

I hacked the template and stylesheet of the included GMDC Blog plugin, so that all the pages that are linked from the document’s index get included in the home page (the original plugin does this) but I stripped it down so that the blocks of links wrap to the page width.

Then I wrote an Applescript that lives in VoodooPad’s script menu that exports the document to /Library/WebServer/Documents/, using my plugin. Now whenever I want some new link available, I drop it in bookmarks.vdoc, and exportBookmarks. Easy.

Oh, I also mark all my stuff up as Markdown, and export the content as such (a setting in the export window).

Download the plugin: GMDCHack

My export script: exportBookmarks

I’m a real R.E.M. junkie. I recently got a bunch of iTMS money, and went a bit of a binge: my two best purchases were R.E.M.’s In Time, and their iTunes Originals collection. I also bought several R.E.M. music videos (Drive, Radio Song, Leaving New York, Near Wild Heaven, Animal, and Find The River). Wooo!