• XML-RPC vs. SOAP
• Multiple IE’s in Windows – much easier than multiple VMWare instances
• BOO-urns – definition, ref for when it comes up in conversation
• Treo 600 and it’s 3-pole jack – lame-o
• Potential Problems for Treo600SMS once Sprint SMS drops
• 10 things I love/hate about the Treo 600
• Patriot Act vs Strippers – is that a Protection from Pornography Week tie-in?

Highlights of last night’s Elliot Smith tribute: Papa M’s cover of “Not Half Right” (guitar, violin, cello, pedal steel), Rilo Kiley’s set, including Jenny singing “I Didn’t Understand” acapella. Beck showed up and played a great bunch of songs, as did Beth Orton w/ M Ward (amazing virtuoso guitar playing, as always).

I took some photos, may put up some on a gallery somewhere if I get a chance:

Mac observations:

• I’m running the latest (Nov.4.2003) Alpha of Adium 2.0. It’s quite nice. The new site is at SF. the strange thing of course is that the old site is still around. Now if only it could do file transfers (AV would be an added bonus)
• I’m using Mail for email now. v1.5 actually does organization by threading properly on Panther. Well, not properly. Visually it’s nice, but it does some sort of weird subject-line matching, and apparently ignores the RFC reply fields entirely? You know, jwz wrote a how-to on message threading, oh what 5, 6 years ago? There are a few other things I miss from Mozilla Mail, like easy filtering (especially to see only new messages), labels. I may switch back…
• One of the reasons I’m no longer using Mozilla Mail is because I’m trying the switch to using Mozilla Firebird as my primary browser. I installed about two-dozen extensions during a session and but it managed to restart OK, so I’m taking that as a good sign.
• Quicktime Player AppleScripts – never noticed this before. Some good stuff

• Treo 600 Support: upgrade – Handspring tips & tricks
• Single User Source Control
• The Future of String Theory — A Conversation with Brian Greene – The physicist and best-selling author demystifies the ultimate theories of space and time, the nature of genius, multiple universes, and more
• Information in the Holographic Universe – Theoretical results about black holes suggest that the universe could be like a gigantic hologram

• Feedbag error 17 in AIM means you’ve hit the 150 user contact limit? – had a problem adding users for a while, just got a useful error to google w/ in iChatAV
• Neil Gaiman Responds – excellent /. interview
• German crowned world beard champion
• Problems in infinite decision theory – the devil offers you to get out of Hell w/ a flip of the coin…
• text/plain – Mozilla Firebird extension that converts text urls/emails to links (nice)
• QuirksMode – sure you’ve probably seen it already, but I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention ppk’s new all-in-one site redesign
• Microsoft to use IBM chips in next Xbox – stranger things have happened I suppose – more info on /.

Barlow on BM:

If someone like Karl Rove had wanted to neutralize the most creative, intelligent, and passionate members of his opposition, he’d have a hard time coming up with a better tool than Burning Man. Exile them to the wilderness, give them a culture in which alpha status requires months of focus and resource-consumptive preparation, provide them with metric tons of psychotropic confusicants, and then . . . ignore them. It’s a pretty safe bet that they won’t be out registering voters, or doing anything that might actually threaten electoral change, when they have an art car to build.

See also: McBurners

• WWW::Mechanize::Examples
• hiptopSync – for OS X
• Danger Developer Wiki: user data calls – pimsync via XML-RPC

via ch’s ramblings

Wrote a little php script last night that uses Danger’s pimsync XML-RPC API to grab hiptop info (contacts, events, tasks, notes). Unfortunately this is only works against my dev acount (boo-urns). Back to LWP/Mech for screen-scraping.

• Subterranean Notes Guide to Digital Art on the Web