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MB did some graphic work for a fabric company and they sent us a mattress pad made out of a new material. It's called Outlast adaptive comfort.
Probably you won't believe me, as I wouldn't have believed anyone claiming that a mattress pad can change your life. But it's true.
You lay down on it, and for several minutes you can feel it pulling heat out of your body. But then it reaches temperature equilibrium, and it holds you there. All night. External temperature fluctuations be damned.
So what? Well, I didn't realize it until I started sleeping on this thing, but the main reason I would wake up in the middle of the night was to rearrange the covers because I was either too hot or too cold. But no longer. Seriously. I sleep right through now. And long. Twelve hours is no problem. This stuff is going to put a hurt on productivity like nothing since tetris. And I say bring it on.
Everybody can use good night's sleep.
You can watch Steve Jobs and his amazing reality distortion field today at noon eastern time.
This page isn't off to a great start in 2003. Neither am I for that matter, although I don't know what I have to complain about. I was melancholy in the days leading up to new year's eve, and despite that night actually turning out to be quite fun, I seem to have picked up where I left off once the party landed.
I need some sort of change. Not sure yet what this will entail. Luckily my life is such that making a change isn't precluded by too much. It's just making a choice that is difficult. Or assembling the choices. Or something.
One problem is that I spent an entire evening reading the development mailing list at the OSAF. This should probably get a whole post of it's own. But a quick statement of the result for me is that I should probably wait until Chandler ships (and I learn Python) before I move my personal software projects forward. If it turns out like I suspect there won't be any point in developing weblogging (knowledge management, personal info management, p2p information sharing, groupware, collaborative ware, etc...) applications that aren't built on Chandler.
So I think I'd like to turn my attention somewhere else for a few months and wait for that situation to shake out. I'm picking my head up a bit, and looking around, and hoping for some synchronistic collision with something other. I'd be interested if this didn't involve the web at all, but who knows? Probably I'll keep up some sort of lame infrequent stream of haphazzard posts here. This way, at least, you can be as confused about me as I am.
[update: I had the development mailing list link wrong. Fixed now.]
You've got blog. AOL ready to offer weblogging tools to their subscribers. Ev is a little skeptical:
My guess is that they will release something called blogs, or some derivative of the term, in a few months (not February), which won't seem like weblogs as most of us know them. They'll co-opt the term to rehash something they already have, with a new coat of paint. I'm not sure whether this will be a good thing or a bad thing.
The Wireless Commons Manifesto. This sounds like what I believe, although I wonder if leaving out some of the utopian language might be more effective? Still, I don't mind that sort of talk myself. I'll be watching where this one goes. The Community Wireless Definition is certainly right on the money.
Anybody else here those helicopters all night? Nothing in the news today...
Just saw this in the changelog for PHP 4.2.0: "Fixed HTTP file upload support to handle big files better."
I'm not sure if "better" means the problem is actually fixed, but this sounds like there has been at least some improvement over the dismal performance of large file uploads in 4.1.2.
I'd really like this to work because the FTP step I'm having people do now is really breaking the whole "everything inside the browser" concept.
Manhattan under 400 feet of water. (via kottke)
Boing Boing's Xeni Jardin points to tropisms.org, a video log on the internet. Yes, this is where we're going (although hopefully we'll lose Flash along the way.) Read Xeni's synopsis.