Top 10 Secrets They Don’t Want You to Know About the Debates, timely. Hat tip: Haughey.

How to survive writer’s block

Many congrats. Hat tip: Adam.

Open Letter to Steve Jobs by Aswath Rao.

Last week I went out to the H-Town blogs happy hour at Onion Creek, an excellent coffee place in the Heights. I met Elaine, Kathy, Ted, Cody, Lauren, and Kelly — all great folks. Here’s a photo of the ragtag crew.

Thanks to the fine people at Buffalo Technology my Powerbook is now equipped with the maximum 1.25 GB of memory. The difference is amazing, like night and day. My efforts to completely switch my everyday tasks to the Mac have been hindered by the lower screen resolution of the 12″ and the sluggish performance. The screen size has pretty much become a non-issue with some monitors I inherited and Synergy, I assumed the performance problems were due to it just having a slower processor, but all my Mac friends assured me that OS X just needed memory to breathe. They were right. I want to open every program on the system just to watch it.

Four million down, two to go.

Reader Adrian Loudermilk wrote in that he
produced a DVD of all the Bushisms you’ve heard of. Like Bush or not, I bet this is pretty funny.

My contact form, which sends mail to a whitelisted address so I don’t miss any messages, is getting absolutely hammered by spambots. They’re not hitting my comments and the contact form is something I wrote from scratch, but it has received over 200 spams in the past hour. The more they do stupid stuff like this the more data I have to block them in the future.

Son writes in that WordPress is listed on the front page of Flickr. Though I don’t use it myself for a few reasons, Flickr constantly wows me with its features, architecture, and innovation. I’m watching the service as it evolves out of beta with interest. Also one of their developers, Cal, has been helping out with WP a bit lately.

PM Clinic discussion, a list discussing project management in the context of web development from the great guy who brought us UI Web.

Byte-order marks in the beginning of files can output content before PHP is ready for it, a word to the wise. Just say no to BOM.

This unofficial Dr Pepper FAQ has more information about Dr Pepper than you could ever want, including instructions on how to get the cane sugar DP from different parts of the country.

Went to the Dr Pepper Museum yesterday with Elissa. It was pretty neat, lots of interesting stuff, but the highlight was definitely the old-style Dr Pepper they sold. It’s made with Imperial Pure Cane Sugar instead of corn syrup and it tastes amazing. I think you can order it on the internet (another site).

I’ll be in Austin for a few days so if you will too drop me a note.

Using this PHP and Flash graph tool I found via Jeremy I made this new stats page for Ping-o-Matic. If you hover over the line it’ll actually show you the data for that day.

Just got this in my forgot-my-username-and-password email from Blogger, “You could also try logging in/recovering your password from a different web browser – we recommend Mozilla Firefox: http://mozilla.org/products/firefox/ Sincerely, The Blogger Team.” Very nice, but if they had recommended “gbrowser” then I would’ve had a real scoop. Also, they have a really great website. I don’t know how much is Adaptive Path magic and how much is in-house, but the result is a pleasure to use.