The Bubble About to Burst

If you haven't refinanced your home yet (we've refinanced twice in the past two years), you're running out of time: There Goes the Neighborhood is an article that argues that the current housing market is a bubble that is about to burst. When it does, it may well take the US economy down with it, and we should all expect our home values to fall by up to 20%.

Safari Shortcuts

If you use Safari as your browser, you may have looked at Apple's list of Safari shortcuts. After seeing the millionth reference to this calling it "all" the shortcuts, I finally got around to posting my list of Safari shortcuts that contains considerably more than Apple's. And not only that, it also includes how to add your own, which their's doesn't.

Given that other applications can install their own Safari shortcuts when they're installed, it's unlikely that my list is complete. Check it out, and if you have any shortcuts that I've left off, let me know—thanks!

Cool Miatas on the Coast

The Redwood Coast Miata Club is doing their Cool Weekend on the Coast event June 4-6. I don't think that I can make it, but darn it sounds like fun!

April Fool's 2004

Sites that pulled April Fool's jokes for 2004.

I don't get Kinja

I've read the announcements and looked around at Kinja, the weblog guide, and I have to admit that I don't get it. Can someone explain it to me?

As context, take a look at our Mac OS X Unwired site. It's got all the feeds I want on it, and it's easy to add more or take others off. Learning the free, open source software that runs it (Rippy the Aggregator) took me a little while (hours, not days), but that's mostly because I'm not a PHP whiz. Setting up another site like this would take me maybe 15 minutes, no matter what the topic or what blogs I wanted on it. And it flogs our stuff and has the ads we want on it, not Kinja's.

So what does Kinja do that Rippy doesn't, and why did it take them a year to create it?

We're down

If you're trying to get to Backup Brain, and you can't today, yeah, the site's down. It's no April Fool's joke, sadly. You might be able to get to the RSS feed, strangely enough, which is why I'm posting this.

On the off chance that anyone reading this has any suggestions on things to try, or any ideas on how why we're down, please let me know! The one thing I'm pretty sure about is that it isn't a DNS issue, because I can't get to http://216.92.122.183 either.

Later note: it appears that you can access pages other than the home page, and part of the problem might be due to issues with blogrolling.com slowness, but I'm not entirely sure. Suggestions would still be appreciated!

Air America Radio

I'm listening right now to Air America Radio. Live streaming talk radio that isn't far right—finally!

Rice to testify in public under oath

And the White House blinks, both on the oath question and the public v. private testimony question: Rice to testify in public under oath. It'll be interesting to see how many "discrepancies" there are between her statements under oath and her (numerous) recent statements to the media.

The JavaScript Blog launches!

Newly launched over at Weblogs, Inc.: The JavaScript Weblog. Remember when I said I had something going that I couldn't talk about yet? Well, that's the new baby. C'mon over and check it out, comment, link, subscribe, and recommend sites to me, please!

Panel presses for Rice's public testimony

This AP story, Panel presses for Rice's public testimony, shows that many people are missing the point, as I pointed out Friday. The problem shouldn't be that Rice isn't testifying publicly. It should be that she won't testify under oath. Just watch: the administration is going to make a huge deal over how they're giving in and letting her testify publicly, and she'll go to go to the panel, lie through her teeth, and get away with it.

Whether her testimony is public or private is secondary (although I'd obviously prefer public). What should be the most important is that she testify under oath, and pushing for public just makes life easy on the administration. Ask for what's most important, please?

MacTheRipper

Miraz pointed to MacTheRipper, a DVD extractor for MacOS X. This is mostly interesting because there's been several times where I've wanted to purchase and watch DVDs from regions other than the one I'm in (Region 1), and this looks like a way that I would be able to watch DVDs that I legally own. 'Cause, y'know, people might want to do that from time to time.

New car window shopping

It's likely that I'll be buying a new car in Summer '06, which means that what's likely to be on the market then can be previewed by looking at what's coming out for the '05 model year. Here's what Mazda might have.