The Sox win their first division title since 1995!
Major party still going on at Fenway. Congratulations!
Only 11 more wins!
Month: September 2007
John Harvard plays Halo 3
Will have to see how some of my Harvard friends react to this MIT prank. Nice work!
Interesting article on VCs and blogging
Scott Kirsner has an interesting article in the September 24th Boston Globe about VCs and blogging.
It’s not time to panic….
..but almost?
Papelbon giving up a grand slam is not what I want to see at this point in the season. Nor is a sweep by Toronto.
Looking in tomorrow’s papers for Red Sox fans jumping off bridges for practice.
Lights Out
Despite the “VideoGate” incident, and all the trash talk of certain members of the San Diego Chargers, the Pats totally dominated tonight.
It was a perfect night to be at Gillette – gorgeous weather, the team firing on all cylinders, and the crowd was wild.
Too bad the Sox lost, though – was watching the game via Slingbox and giving updates in the stands..
Apple’s position on iPhone development
Ok, I’m one of those who thought the whole ‘Web 2.0’ development model rah-rah RSJ presented for the iPhone was, well, lame.
Now there’s been several ways to ‘jailbreak’ the phone, such as this one explained at tuaw.com.
But there’s always been the sword hanging over developer’s heads that Apple could disable this functionality with a firmware update. It seems that they’re not inclined – at the moment – to do so.
Greg Joswiak of Apple says that while they won’t support development, they won’t hinder it either. (nothing was said about breaking the service provider lock)
So if you break your iPhone, you own both parts. But that’s a pretty enlightened approach – and it gives them an opportunity to survey the landscape for application development (and developers) as well. Sometimes that works out (SoundJam/iTunes), sometimes it doesn’t (Watson/Sherlock).
It also implies that applications running on the iPhone should run on the iPod touch as well.
Update: Or maybe not.
The memories of youth
Iron Man was always one of my favorites – Spiderman was #1. Hoping the movie lives up to the trailer.. (don’t you always?)
Kudos for using Black Sabbath; I would have guessed they’d try to ‘modernize’ the song by having Britney Spears sing it.
Bad night for the rookie
[Disclaimer: I grew up a Mets fan in a family of Yankee fans. Adopted the Red Sox after I moved to the Boston area in 1989 – hey, the Mets had won a Series, might as well pull for the other guys. This has caused all sorts of grief from the aforementioned Yankee fans.]
Not one of the call-ups, but Dice-K. Someone must have the stat counting how many games he’s had a one-inning meltdown. Tonight’s was impressive, if you were a Baltimore or Yankee fan.
Meanwhile, A-Rod had another two-homer game.
Baseball in September. Gotta love it.
[and I was a Parcells fan, so started following the Patriots when he joined up in ’93. Stuck with the Pats since… not a bad choice!]
That didn’t take long.
Free Custom Ringtones in iTunes 7.4
Apparently the effort to update iToner is underway; it broke with iTunes 7.4.
The concept of paying a second time for music I’ve already purchased – especially if it was purchased to be played on the device upon which I am now expected to pay for again – doesn’t inspire me.
Is it because the labels have it in their contracts that ‘ringtones’ are a secondary use and Apple must charge, or is it just because Apple can?
Update: iToner 1.0.1 works. Slick.
Namaste, Real Steve
As a customer, I’m impressed. I mean, it makes sense in many ways, will engender goodwill, and after all, you’re going to spend more than the $100 anyway.
As a shareholder, though… “Wait. You sold how many iPhones? Multiply that by $100?” <thud>