burbank is burning

daily life

there goes the neighbourhood

DVD sales

marketing media

Maybe there would be more DVD been sold when they would not be such a pain to be opened. Between those layers of plastic and the stupid mandatory copyright notice and some random preview, menu stuff it takes up to 3 minutes to get to what I want: Watch the thing. Time not well spend.

apple tv

interdubs misc

a quick out of the box article about the apple-TV set top box.
The nice thing is that interdubs already supports iTunes. So my clients can show their clients work in progress via Apple TV. Today.

4 seasons

free of any reason misc

With four seasons you would think that they are equally long.
Not so:

Winter
88.994 days

Spring
92.758 days

Summer
93.651 days

Autumn
89.842 days

Source: space.com

mail fseek: Invalid argument panic: temporary file seek

internet linux malware

With a full mailbox mail might die with:

fseek: Invalid argument
panic: temporary file seek
Aborted

of course it’s all spam. That aside it seems that

mutt

can deal with these big mail boxes.

300

communication media

LA Times about 300, Zodiac Movie critics and audiences.

Callwave for voice mail: so far so good

technology

So far I love Callwave. It’s a service that will handles voice mail for cellphone accounts. For free. After a bit of set up that was almost instant for me and pretty well documented on their site they take over your cellphone voice mail. Which means that I get now an email when somebody leaves a message. Quicktime is a much nicer interface for voicemail than the phone.

ten percent market share

Sony

If these numbers are acurate then PS3 is holding 10% of the next generation gaming market.

uss san juan and DST

free of any reason technology

A billion dollar submarine that missed the Dailight Savings patch?
Emerging one hour off would do it.

y2k7

politics technology

All my servers moved into the new DST successfully. Which makes it easy to postulate the following:

If your computer or software shows the wrong date next week then your technology install sucks.
Either the people / company you pay to maintain it are stupid, incompetence, lazy etc, or you don’t
have support in the first place.

Oh, and it was the stupid Bush administration that caused this. Not OBL or anybody else. It’s a selfmade problem.
Born out of stupidity.

Next week will show how stupid / smart America really is.

12:00

update: the register calls the panic off and the register is always there when panic can be created