Keynote wish

January 5, 2007

Tuesday is the Macworld keynote so I'll post my wish. It is pretty much a non-starter I'm sure but it would make life easier. I'd like to have the ability to have Apple Mail re-write the sender of emails. At the very least to display the name I'd prefer it display for people instead of whatever name they might put in. There was a time when "bob@aol.com" was just fine. Now that a few years have passed "Bob" is no longer at AOL and now has "bob@mycompany.com" and "bob@oldcompany.com" peppered throughout my inbox. It would be great to be able to search for all the emails from Robert and have them show up.

How popular is your name

January 4, 2007

Baby Names are the topic of an interesting site by the Social Security administration. You can view the most popular names, but the interesting use to me is to look at the trends of names over the last few decades. Though Joshua was low in the ranks when I was given the name it has been among the most popular names given to boys for the last twenty years.

How many people these days check to see if their child's name is an available domain name?

The little things

January 3, 2007

[Picture of Manure Fork]There are few things in life as annoying as a bad manure fork when one is cleaning corrals. Bad in this case is a metal-handled beast that has lost the rubber grip portion. Without the rubber grip the resulting leather glove on smooth metal routine means the fork rotates quickly when loaded and picked up. Tonight that came to an end when I stopped by the feed store and picked up a wooden handled fork on the way home. Life the way it should be.

Taping an execution

January 1, 2007

Adam Curry says the video of Saddam Hussein constitutes a MSM tipping point. "Recorded on a cellphone by a single citizen in Iraq, seen worldwide the very next day," Curry's blog post said.

Call me cynical but I am not buying it. First, where are the videos shot by "single citizens" in Iraq? If the citizens of Iraq are taking video with their cell phones and posting it to the internet why are we not seeing the videos elsewhere? And why would an event as tightly controlled as the execution of a brutal dictator be so uncontrolled as to have someone show up without it being planned. Somewhat conveniently said video was pointed out to the main stream media and picked up and aired within hours.

Somehow we are to believe that the fingerprints of the mainstream media are not all over this "happenstance."

Silly limits

January 1, 2007

Google's Apps for Domains has been in beta for a while now. The service is a nice way to combine several great Google services with one's own domain. Personalized start pages, calendars and email are a few of the services available. Nevertheless, Google also makes some silly choices. For example in signing up for a new domain name today the following email arrived:

Thanks for your interest in Google Apps for Your Domain. Unfortunately, we are not able to invite your domain example.com into the beta at this time, because you have reached the maximum number of domains per administrator. If we increase this limit, we'll let you know by email.

Now I wonder how they imagine this actually works. Do they imagine that people who are astute enough to reach the "domain limit" will balk at having more than one Google account to sign up additional domains with? That domain administrators reaching this limit do not have more than one Google account already would come as a bit of a surprise.

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