rich ruminations

• Anybody want to buy our Civic Hybrid? http://sacramento.craigslist.org/car/464714929.html #
• For the Javatards: http://tinyurl.com/yun4kr #
• Dick Cheney Halloween humor for Lee: http://tinyurl.com/2ho8wm #
• @leehinde There are several minutes at the end of Elliott’s video… just imagine him dressed as a Spice girl, dancing provocatively…. #
• I’ll get some pics posted later, I’m sure you can’t wait… #
• @cphares That would be an appropriate award #

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This is the video that Elliott created as part of his skit.

He won “Scariest.”

I share an office with Elliott… it’s always interesting!

Update: For my iPhone-enabled readers, who can’t get to the embedded YouTube content, here’s the link to the video.

A coworker did a hilarious music video for today’s Halloween contest at the office.

He won.

Great job, Garth!

Update: For my iPhone-enabled readers, who can’t get to the embedded YouTube content, here’s the link to the video.

Get into the Halloween spirit:

Jack-O-Lantern is a screen saver that displays a carved 3D pumpkin. The pumpkin is recreated in loving detail right down to the flickering candle inside. Several carving designs are included, and you can even create your own to be displayed. No getting your hands dirty carving the real thing. Artificial pumpkin smell not included.

I’ve got it installed on my MacBook Pro, works great on the built-in screen as well as the external 20″ screen.

Get it here.

Via PowerLine:

I liked this so much I bought the Saxophone Colossus (with Bonus Sampler) on iTunes. Great stuff!

This doesn’t look good:

Leopard BSOD

This is gonna leave a mark.

Releasing stuff on Friday is great, if it works, but then again, there’s always that danger of the Monday morning headline - APPLE’S NEW OS BRICKS THOUSANDS OF MACS.

Probably not going to be that bad, but it might be close.

Wow. You’d think after some of the buffoonery with the iPhone, the last thing that Apple needed/wanted was to put out something that would immediately annoy a significant number of people.

Well, they have. OS X 10.5 Leopard has…issues. Primarily, the upgrade installation option (which, after carefully reading the accompanying material, a LOT of people will try right off the bat) has a very, VERY nasty habit of leaving you staring at one of the last things a recent Apple user expects to see.

A Blue Screen of Death (BSOD). Well, not really a true hallmark Windoze BSOD, with indecipherable HEX included. It just . . . hangs. And refuses to start.

(Via Instapundit.com.)

I checked Macslash and some users there are reporting issues as well. I’m glad I decided to wait, hopefully Apple will sort this out quickly.

Hilarious

(Via Daring Fireball.)

MacDailyNews - Daedalus Capital CIO: Apple shares ‘going to $600’.

Wow.

Keeping track of passwords, credit card info, account numbers, combinations, and other personal data has become an important activity for many of us. For the past four or five years I’ve used the SplashID application, because it has both a Mac and Palm client, and can sync the data between them. SplashID was a must-have for me as a long-time Treo user.

Alas, with the iPhone, a new solution was needed, as SplashID isn’t available for the iPhone, and hasn’t had much attention on the Mac in several years.

I’ve been beta testing a cool utility called 1Password, which manages passwords, credit card, and other personal/private data. The UI is very nice, the features good. Full integration with all the usual Mac Web browsers, and data is maintained in the OS Keychain, fully encrypted and safe.

I’ve been beta testing the new 2.5 version the past few months. This version adds clever support for the iPhone. To work around the current inability to create an approved native iPhone application, 1Password creates a Safari bookmark that has the entire database encrypted and embedded, as well as a nice Javascript-based UI for accessing the data.

Version 2.5 is now shipping, if you are an iPhone user, give it a look. 

If this works, this blog post will generate a twitter.

I’m typing this post using my iPhone and the wPhone plugin for WordPress. Cool.

Well… it’s been awhile. Over a year in fact.

I’ve updated Wordpress to 2.3, which is a huge upgrade over the 2.1 version previously installed. I’ll be checking out all the new stuff.

I Installed the iWPhone plugin, which optimizes the site for iPhone viewing.