This is truly great advertising:

Originally posted to ydnar.vox.com in August 2006.

My prediction for WWDC tomorrow morning? The Mac Pro in a cube enclosure. Likelyhood? Probably just wishful thinking.

Originally posted to ydnar.vox.com in August 2006.

It’s 25 bucks, which I consider borderline extortion for a shareware app, but man is it good. Speed Download lights up my internet connection like nobody’s business. It can saturate my cable connection, besting Safari for the same download by almost 10-fold.

The only quibble I have with Speed Download besides the price is the developer’s fascination with red as a primary color for Every. Single. Icon. Hello, Apple UI guidlines?

Originally posted to ydnar.vox.com in August 2006.

What are the 5 words that best describe your life right now? Question submitted by mojito.

Patience, refinement, cooking, Pista, Vox.

The first two because life is a process. Cooking because it’s currently my favorite thing to do at home. Pista and Vox should be obvious. :)

Originally posted to ydnar.vox.com in August 2006.

Originally posted to ydnar.vox.com in August 2006.

Via Engadget:

Originally posted to ydnar.vox.com in August 2006.

What’s your cell phone’s ringtone? What made you pick it?

Vibrate.

Not because there’s a special place in hell reserved for people who use ringtones, but because Anil’s ring tone puts anything I could imagine to shame.

Originally posted to ydnar.vox.com in August 2006.

Went to Alice’s today, crosswinds on 280 can be a scary thing. Realized need for 6th gear.

Originally posted to ydnar.vox.com in July 2006.

Someone once told me that if you bother repeating something to 3 or more people, you might as well blog about it. Well, OK.

The coming format war between industry heavyweights (electronics or movie) over whose next-generation DVD will own the living room is already over. It will be a very expensive, but ultimately pointless pissing match honored for its place in history as the last gasp of physical media.

Why? Dead prez and Tubes.

The medium for delivery of HD movies is already here–the Internet. The same millions of people who’d otherwise spend the $600 on an HD-DVD player can already download the equivalent amount of data in less time than a trip to Blockbuster.

Some brilliant person at Sony’s movie division is going to figure out that instead of wasting the time & money chasing half a bifurcated market they can sell HD movies Right Now sans physical duplication, packaging and distribution costs. Therein lies the trick.

Originally posted to ydnar.vox.com in July 2006.

Originally posted to ydnar.vox.com in July 2006.