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I don’t suppose anyone knows whether the built in modems on iMacs or Lombard model PowerBooks support Caller ID. Feel free to drop me an email if you do. It just occurred to me today that since I have Caller ID it would be fairly cool to whip up a little REALbasic program that announced who was calling. I suppose that even if those internal modems don’t support it I may have an old external that does.

I was surprised to wake up to a light skiff of snow this morning. Didn’t realize that was in the cards at all. Of course tonight we’re supposed to get a few inches of snow turning into freezing rain in the morning. With the steep hill outside my apartment that inevitably means I’m going to be hearing a lot of spinning tires tomorrow morning when I wake up.

Jamie Zawinksi has updated his site with step by step instructions on how to construct a large cd rack out of plumbing pipe. Not only does this turn out to be an expensive proposition, but it doesn’t even work all that well.

I was hoping for a competitive game, but this year’s Superbowl ended up being a little bit too close for comfort since I was rooting for the Rams. Still, games like this are a lot of fun, especially when your team comes out on top.

I wonder how long it’s going to be before we see the Kurt Warner Story on television or in theaters?

As is typical for the game there were many enjoyable commercials (an oxymoron if I’ve ever heard one now that I think about it) and as anticipated a ton of dotcom oriented ones as well. I thought the one during the second half with a few typewritten sentences telling how pathetic they were at making commercials, was unfortunately truth in advertising. Not only did they have a crappy URL (not catchy enough) that I can’t remember for the life of me, but they only showed it twice. Sad. Slashdot offers in depth coverage.

Hmm, Saturday’s almost over. But then I suppose that’s obvious.

I think hearing about Dave Winer’s experiences at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland has been pretty cool. A lot of people in weblogging circles are pretty down on him, but I have a lot of respect for the guy and what he’s doing for webloggers and the Internet as a whole.

It’s going to be fun watching the Super Bowl though. I always enjoy the new commercials, since they’re usually a step above the typical television advertisements we’re bombarded with.

Userland’s Brent Simmons talks about learning to program as a boy. I first started learning about programming on my old Apple IIe at around the same age as he did, but for me it’s always remained something I’ve just fiddled around with. I’m looking to change that in the future though.

Considering how little serious programming I’ve done in my life I have an insane number of O’Reilly books. I should pull out my trusty digital camera and take a picture of my bookshelf.

I was starting to think Etherlife was never going to be funny again after the last couple weeks. Thankfully Zach came back strong this week and allayed my fears. I especially enjoyed today’s bit of geek humor.

Mozilla Milestone 13 is ready to rumble. Hopefully this version will have fixed some of the keyboard command issues for the Macintosh.

I’m still annoyed that IE 5 for the Macintosh isn’t ready to go yet.

Barber Shops may be in decline (thanks Mr. Barrett), but it’s not for lack of my business. I’ve been going to the same place for the last ten plus year at least. I don’t know if my preferred shop has an actual name- I usually just refer to it as “the brothers” since it’s owned and run by two gentlemen siblings. I’m not sure what I’ll do once they close up their business and retire.

While attending college I had the privilege of getting a couple haircuts from a venerable barber by the name of Clarence. He maintained a small barber shop in Moscow, Idaho and I think he had been cutting hair for over sixty years at that point. He finally retired or perhaps even passed away within a year of my visits, but I’ll never forget the clackety clack of the old fashioned vibrating massager that he would run over his customer’s shoulders just prior to finishing a haircut.

It’s a little weird to go to Scripting News and not find it updated. Obviously Dave Winer is probably still on his way to Davos, Switzerland, but I’m kind of surprised he hasn’t been able to get to a web browser to post an update.

Oops! I totally forgot to update yesterday. Weird.

I successfully installed Windows 2k Professional Beta 3 on one of the computers in my office Monday. I haven’t done anything much beyond web browsing to this point, and I doubt I’ll be doing anything that will really stress test the system, but it seems to be working well so far. I definitely like the default colors a lot better than the old NT 4 ones.

Uh oh, looks like Outpost.com, one of my favorite online computer stores, had some problems with too much customer information availability. Hopefully they were able to get those taken care of before something like the recent credit card data hijacking took place. According to the article, credit card numbers were not at risk in this instance.

Before seeing Magnolia I’d heard references to the fact that there are all kinds of references to 82 throughout the movie. I found several obvious ones during my viewing, but Kempa has the most complete listing I’ve seen to date. I didn’t come close to catching all of these.

I got in quite a bit of sports this weekend. I watched GU finally beat USD at USD (in overtime no less). Then today I caught the end of the Jags/Titans game and all of the Rams/Bucs game. I was surprised by the outcome of the first game and pleased with the second as it means Jeff Robinson, one of my dad’s former basketball players, will be playing in the Super Bowl. Another weekend has come and gone. Work has been going well overall though so I can’t feel too bad.

I was pretty into the original Everything when I first heard about it on Slashdot (created over 100 hundred entries I think), but I stopped going regularly some time ago. I was vaguely aware that there was some kind of Everything 2 in the works, but I never paid much attention until this week. I’m looking forward to playing with it further.

I’ve been playing the new mac Alpha Centauri demo the last couple days and it’s definitely pretty cool. I definitely prefer strategy games (whether real time or turn based) to first person shooter games like Quake III Arena or Unreal Tournament.

Ars Technica has a new article discussing Transmeta’s new Crusoe chip from their resident processor expert.