Apple just released their official directory of web apps for the iPhone.  I’ve been playing around with the Facebook app and it’s really neat.  They did a nice job of fitting everything onto the tiny screen.  Also, you can tap on phone numbers and it will start a call to that number.  You can click on addresses and it will open the Google Maps app with that address.  Very cool!

After so many years of using a Mac at home, I started to have thoughts, like, “well maybe Windows isn’t that bad. People seem to get along OK with it. My work computer has problems, but that’s probably because I do weird things with it.”

Joost looks really awesome.  Tons of free TV shows streamed on demand.  It’s too bad that their client software isn’t compiled for PowerPC.  :(  I’ve only had my PowerBook G4 for 4 years, but maybe it’s time to upgrade to a MacBook Pro if companies keep leaving PPC users out in the cold.

This article is a little old, but it hit me at just the right time. Lately, I’ve been on a binge of researching new programming languages and frameworks, now that I have so much free time and the fact that, lately, I’ve felt like I’ve fallen behind a bit after playing so much EU II and focusing on PHP for a year. In the process of playing catchup I started to feel overwhelmed - there’s so much out there - Hibernate, LINQ, CouchDB, Erlang, Ruby, Smalltalk, hey remember Scheme? SQLite, JQuery, Perl, Spring, ad nauseum.

This weekend has been an applelicious weekend! Today, Julie and I went to the Michigan Apple Festival to pick some apples, grab some donuts, guzzle cider, and savor an apple dumpling with ice cream. We then passed out on the couch/la-z boy. We picked some Red Delicious, Golden Delicious, Macoum, and Jonagolds. I think if I were alive prior to the industrial revolution, I would have been an apple picker. I think it would be the funnest job ever - hunting for apples and reaching way up to get them.

One thing that’s always bothered me is when people pronounce “SQL” as “sequel.”  Where did this come from?  I prefer to spell it out and say “ess kew ell” and I think it probably annoys people who say “sequel.”  I was reading about a new technology called SPARQL, which Wikipedia says is pronounced, “sparkle.”  Then I got to thinking: wouldn’t it be more logical to pronounce SQL as “sickle?”