Jeremey's Weblog

The Apple Drug

I went and got my injection of software coolness this morning... iLife '05 and iWork '05 came out today. The Apple store opened an hour early and there was a huge line and all. Of course, by the normal opening hour, the line was all gone. Anyway, here's a (bad) photo from my phone:

That's the checkout counter in the far distance ahead. Fun.

The Life of Yaks

Aaaahh, to be a yak again... The Life of Yaks.

iTunes Psychology

I think an interesting psychology study could be made based on evaluating the "Top 25 Most Played" playlists of iTunes users. It's interesting to examine the most played songs vs. the highest rated songs. I have a lot of high-rated songs, but the top 25 most played is pretty telling. There are "favorite" songs that are really good, and then there are "favorite" songs that I listen to a lot (or have listened to a lot)... they're very different perspectives.

What would be really interesting would be a rolling "top 25 most played in the last month", to go along with the top 25 all time. I tried creating this via a smart playlist, but you can only get "the set of most played songs of all time that I've listened to in the last month".

Anyway... I propose disclosing your top 10 to each other as an effective way to introduce yourselves. Abuse of this system would be self-punishing... people who altered their listening preferences in order to present a certain image would be forced to endure listening to the music required to do so. I'm guessing that this would be sufficient deterrent for most.

Mac Mini!

As anticipated by Think Secret, Apple has announced the Mac mini. $499 for a Mac! Granted, it's just the computer, but that gives you the opportunity to use existing gear if you prefer (keyboard, mouse, monitor, etc.). Even fully equipped, that's not much money for an amazing computer.

Blog Editors

So I'm trying out MarsEdit, a blog editor/interface/whatever for Mac OS X. What's interesting is to see whether it will change my posting habits. Typically I don't post all that much... I think it's psychologically related to having to "go somewhere" and deal with a web UI and such.

MarsEdit is very Mac-like. If you're a Mac (OS X) person and you like Mac GUIs, you'll get along with MarsEdit very nicely. It's also super easy, and it reminds you of Apple Mail (which I use), etc.

So I think I'll be posting more, and possibly about more mundane things (like whatever is happening at the moment), because it's easy and it's immediately at hand. Or, like everything else, I may post a lot more at the beginning and then things will slowly approach the equilibrium of laziness.

At least it has a spell checker.

2005

So hey, it's like, 2005 now, eh? I bet you hadn't noticed and are really glad I posted about it.

Websites and Blogs and All

I've basically taken down my personal website... it just isn't useful and it consumes bandwidth, especially my photos. All the photos on my regular site (not my blog) were old and pretty much crap anyway. Since I've moved my blog to TypePad, I thought I'd link to my old blog for anyone who's interested. There are a bunch of (better, and smaller) photos at least.