So this iCloud stuff looks pretty cool. Is this $25/year for music piracy amnesty?

Apple in the next week will be releasing new software for the AppleTV that will allow direct-to-device downloading of rentals or purchases, along with the traditional computer-based transfer model. And they dropped the price by $70, along with introducing movie rentals. Looks like a pretty good deal.

I am officially unemployed until Wednesday, when I start my new job. I got home yesterday from work and took a nap. So off to a good start so far! Although Melissa does not respond well when I say "Woman, get me a beer!" I should say she responds about like you would expect, and leave it at that.

The CatCam/DogCam has been renamed the CritterCam, given that I move it from location to location. But it is up and running. Tell all your friends.

I think I will stick with this site theme for a little while. Did not like the "Fall" theme previously.

The DogCam™ (using patent-pending Fun-o-vision) is back online. You will probably notice a paucity of dogs, but a plethora of cats. That is because the DogCam™ (Dander-riffic!) is now pointing towards the back bedroom, which is the cats' domain.

Microsoft has announced that VirtualPC for Windows is now a free product. So you can run multiple OS's at the same time on one machine. Great for testing when a client asks that the web site they want must run on Windows XP, 2000, 98, Me, 95, 3.1, NT, DOS, and the Atari 2600.

Also, a funny story via Daring Fireball:
Franklin, writing to typeface designer John Baskerville regarding a printing customer who had complained that Baskerville’s typefaces were inferior to William Caslon’s:

Yesterday he called to visit me, when, mischievously bent to try his Judgment, I stept into my Closet, tore off the Top of Mr. Caslon’s Specimen, and produced it to him as yours brought with me from Birmingham, saying, I had been examining it since he spoke to me, and could not for my Life perceive the Disproportion he mentioned, desiring him to point it out to me. He readily undertook it, and went over the several Founts, shewing me every-where what he thought Instances of that Disproportion; and declared, that he could not then read the Specimen without feeling very strongly the Pain he had mentioned to me.

Who knew old Ben liked to have some fun with his customers! What a shame he did not have to deal with web design, and comments like "I have a hard time reading it from the other side of the room."

If one was to get a black MacBook, should one also get the black iPod? Or is it better to mix it up?

PBS has launched a downloadable TV program called NerdTV. You can download it as video or audio, or get a "USA Today" version that just has the most interesting parts of the interview. It is being distributed via the Creative Commons license, so you are free to re-edit it and re-distribute it, as long as you include a link back to the site, and don't charge for it. How refreshing.

Anyway, the link is here. Download the video or audio (it is good car listening) and give it a shot.