Fountains of Fun!

So I'm bursting to share an idea that's sure to make a splash. It's a new social networking site full of frothy, bubbling potential called the "You're In!" Nation. Follow friends on their Stream, run around tagging things for yourself, even update one-handed on your mobile device, while your other hand is occupied keeping things flowing straight. Once you're in, you're golden!

What?

I'm kinda nervous speaking in front of crowds, but…

My wife today asked me to "address the laundry situation," so I stood in front of the hamper, cleared my throat, and began, "Four score and seven years ago…".

She was not impressed.

These kids today, listening to their bleeps and their blorps…

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Just sayin', is all.

"And One More Thing…!"™

So, in hindsight, perhaps we should have realized that when Steve Jobs introduced the new iPhone 4, his introduction of the Bumpers in the same presentation was significant.  We may not have realized at the time that it was significant to (getting rid of) the antenna issues, but something…

Oh well, just a thought.

Syncing iPhone to iTunes 9.1

So some people have noticed that syncing an iPhone to the new iTunes 9.1 seems to result in iTunes not seeming to notice the device is connected.  My finding is that upon restarting after installation got everything working fine. YMMV.

Naked Sex!

Sorry, just running a test to see if readership went up at all with the above title.  Feel free to go about your business now.

Interesting (New?) Easter Egg in Mac OS 10.6.2 Sync Services Log

So I was browsing in System Profiler (as I often do.  Don't you?), and came across the following.  Note the highlighted text at the top (last) of the syncservices.log entries, and please excuse the smudging.  The window grab has been modified in no other way:

For those unaware, the late George Burns and his wife Gracie Allen had a schtick where, at the end of their comedy act, George would say, "Say goodnight, Gracie", and she is supposed to have replied, "Goodnight, Gracie."

She never actually did reply this way: her reply was always simply, "Goodnight."  Some other comedy troupes of the era had done this joke in the past, and apparently it stuck in the popular ethos as having been her.  And so it has, apparently, for Apple's SyncServices programmers.

Don't be too harsh on them, Apple.  The server had to report something, and this probably saves code over several more boring things it could have said.