[Gravitational Pull](http://homepage.mac.com/gravitate/iblog:) “It’s Super Sunday (finally!) and the pundits are
all over the place calling for the Eagles to upset the Patriots. Won’t happen. How is that
Andy Reid, the coach who couldn’t win an NFC championship game three years
running, is now some kind of genius, Donovan McNabb is better than Peyton
Manning and Brian Westbrook is Marshall Faulk, Edgerrin James and Marcus Allen
all rolled into one. Pleeze — spare me. Can you imagine what the hype would be
if the Eagles hadn’t rested their starters in their last 2 games and their stats
were even more impressive? Pats by 11 or more.”

You got that right… see my prediction below. Go Patriots!

Just a quick note on a new feature… documents on [[CarneyWeb]] may now be title free… this document is an example of just that.

Lsat night I went over to a friends house ostensibly to play poker with a group of guys that I used to work with. Well, that was the intent anyway. What ended up happening was a long (5 hour?) conversation/argument/shouting match/verbal brawl on topics that ranged from fixing social security to fixing discrimination to the superbowl. I haven’t had that much fun in quite a while.

Thanks guys! I can’t wait to do it again!

The Hipster PDA (Parietal Disgorgement Aid) is a fully extensible system for coordinating incoming and outgoing data for any aspect of your life and work. It scales brilliantly, degrades gracefully, supports optional categories and “beaming,” and is configurable to an unlimited number of options. Best of all, the Hipster PDA fits into your hip pocket and costs practically nothing to purchase and maintain. Let’s make one together.

####Building your first Hipster PDA

* get a bunch of 3″x5″ file cards (here’s 500 for less than 3 bucks)
* clip them together with a binder clip
* there is no step 3

I’m sold. I’m on my way to the store to get the needed equipment now. Imagine it, a PDA that never needs a battery recharge!!!

I’ve added a new feature to my website software. Every document now has an RSS feed icon denoted by: . This feed will be updated every time an item is added to the discussion of this document. This replaces the clunky email update option with a much more sophisticated solution. The URL at this link can be used to subscribe to the discussion in your favorite news aggregator.

This is true for all document types except blogs. Blogs generate a feed based on the items in the blog rather than any discussion for the blog.

As Dave Winer would say… *still digging*!

[Brent Simmons](http://inessential.com/?comments=1&postid=2984:) “Ask any weblog editor author—Adriaan or Fraser, for instance—and I bet they’ll tell you that weblog editing is surprisingly complex.”

He’s got that right. He continues:

Wouldn’t it be cool if weblog systems supported a standard set of attributes? Forget the API for a moment (though that’s important too)—I’m talking about the features different systems support….
Some informal convergence appears to be happening around Movable Type. Recent versions of WordPress and Drupal, for instance, are working toward Movable-Type-compatibility, where they support the same attributes. (They’re not quite there yet, but they’re getting there.)

I feel their pain. it took me quite a while to figure out how to get an XML-RPC server working, and then I found all these different APIs. right now, I have full support for [[Metaweblog]], and partial support for [[Blogger]] and [[Moveable Type]], but full support for them all is going to be painful. Not only that, but the documentation describing these APIs is almost non-existent. Can anyone point me in the right direction for complete descriptions of these things?

For instance, I want to support the trackback feature, but I can’t find any documentation of how that works. What about pingback? Is that the same thing? Two different implementations of the same idea??

I’d be pulling my hair out if I had any left [[:-)]].

Just a quick note on a new feature… documents on [[CarneyWeb]] may now be title free… this document is an example of just that.

Just a quick note on a new feature… documents on [[CarneyWeb]] may now be title free… this document is an example of just that.

[The Sand Trap](http://thesandtrap.com/:) “The FBR Open began rather mundanely for Phil Mickelson with a +2 round of 71 in the strong, gusting Thursday winds at the TPC of Scottsdale. Friday’s round was anything but mundane: a blistering 60 put Philly Mick in a tie for the lead heading into weekend play at the rowdiest stop on tour.”

Things are getting interesting in Phoenix! I hope Phil can keep it up!!!

[Slashdot](http://slashdot.org/:) “RatBastard writes ‘SF Gate’s Mark Morford asks: Why Does Windows Still Suck? After wtaching his significant other’s Windows PC drown in a sea of viruses and worms after only 4 minutes on her new DSL connection, Mark Morford wonders why the masses have not stormed Redmond waving torches and scythes in anger over the never-ending security flaws in Windows. Why haven’t they jetisoned the foul beast from Redmond and migrated en mass to the Macintosh or even Linux?'”

That’s a very good question. The answer is usually something along the lines of “I have to be compatible with everyone else so that I can get my work done.” Or they beg off with

The only reason it doesn’t happen like this on a Mac is that there are so many more PCs. If there were more Macs, it’d happen to them too.

[Bullshit](http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/188:)

So when you use Linux, you’re not using a perfectly safe OS. There is no such thing. But Linux and Mac OS X establish a more secure footing than Microsoft Windows, one that makes it far harder for viruses to take hold in the first place, but if one does take hold, harder to damage the system, but if one succeeds in damaging the system, harder to spread to other machines and repeat the process.

In other words, the reason there aren’t more viruses on those systems is that it’s so much **harder** to make them as virulent, so the hackers don’t bother and just go for the easier target.

The world would be a much happier place if people just read the above article, understood it, and took the appropriate action.