http://danpritchard.com/blog Dan Pritchard's thoughts on technology, politics, or whatever else comes to mind. Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:23:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en HAHA OH YEAH!!!!! http://danpritchard.com/blog/2008/09/18/video-test/ Dear Telco Industry, Why the hell can't I buy a damn phone that's cool from a company that doesn't try to rip me off? Why can't I just pay you, say, $70 a month, and you provide me a bunch of minutes and data. And sell me a phone, I'll pay ... http://danpritchard.com/blog/2008/06/24/open-letter-to-american-wireless-phone-carriers/ The sugar industry has been waging war on McNeil, the division of Johnson & Johnson which makes the Splenda artificial sweetener (Splenda is the trade name for the chemical compound sucralose). Let's start with how sucralose is made. A sucralose molecule, or C12H19Cl3O8, is created by adding three chlorine atoms to ... http://danpritchard.com/blog/2007/12/01/the-truth-about-splenda/ Something's wrong when the freaking ads are obviously not made by humans anymore. You ever click on the eBay spam ads that eBay puts on every single google search results page--no matter how irrelevant eBay is? You know the ones, like "CHEATING GIRLFRIEND--Find Cheating girlfriend on eBay!" Actually a quick ... http://danpritchard.com/blog/2007/10/20/find-payday-loans-online-at-ebay/ Nate Porter (1:44): I'm really excited to see what happens with the new ipods if they're platform is related to the iphone Dan (1:45): well i guess they've gotta be A. they operate so similarly and B. with all the resources apple pissed away on iphone they'd have been incapable of releasing ... http://danpritchard.com/blog/2007/09/05/leopard-iphone-os/ Too bad I never post in my blog anymore. Well, I wanted to say that Flight of the Conchords is an awesome show. I took a moment to compile a YouTube playlist of all the episodes of their new show to-date. UPDATE: YouTube videos were taken down. Sorry. http://danpritchard.com/blog/2007/07/28/flight-of-the-conchords/ If you're interested in seeing the photos from our 2007 vacation to Disneyland, they've been posted in the Photos section. http://danpritchard.com/blog/2007/07/22/disney-photos/ So on Apple's startpage today, I noticed this headline: Mac OS X Tip: FTP Files Right from the Finder ...so I clicked on the article, curious because I know for a fact that you can't write to a mounted FTP share on Mac OS X. "... did you know that you don’t have ... http://danpritchard.com/blog/2007/06/21/apple-forgets-they-didnt-implement-mounting-ftp-readwrite-on-tiger/ So I've been trying out Joost. It seems pretty cool. Let me know if you need an invite (you have to be cool, though, to get one. :) ) http://danpritchard.com/blog/2007/06/15/joost-ive-got-it/ http://danpritchard.com/blog/2007/05/16/falwell/