The new icon is 1150 bytes while the old one was 1406 bytes. That is quite a bit smaller. Should reduce the load on Google’s servers considerably.

Finally a clear article describing what NBC wants from Apple:

Microsoft May Build A Copyright Cop Into Every Zune

I really like the last bit:

Mr. Perrette said NBC understands the potential resistance. “In the short term, this will not win us a lot of friends,” he said. “In the long term, the consumer wants there to be quality premium-produced content, and in order for that to continue to be a viable business, there needs to be significant protection around it.”

I have some advice for NBC to ensure their success:

1. Stop giving away their content for free (Over the air).
2. Screw their customers (Filters everywhere).
3. Profit.

The newest scam in the certificate business is EV SSL (Extended Validation Secure Sockets Layer) certificates. If you pay more money, then you get a more “secure” certificate.

But the reality is the certificate is no more secure then any other. All you get is a green tinted tool bar in the web browser. You only get this green tinted tool bar if your browser publisher decides to implement this feature.

This is completely backwards.

The contents of an SSL certificate is really important, it needs to be presented to the user. All web browsers I have used have given the option for the user to view the certificate and this is good. But we need more. I think the chain of trust should be displayed above the web page every time a certificate is accepted by the browser. This section should not be removable or modifiable. No more “trusting” https. No need to buy overpriced certificates.

Here are some videos of my children:

First At Bat
Escaping

And something different:

Hilarious Muppets Bloopers!

It all went downhill after the purple horseshoes.

I don’t understand the need for services such as tinyurl and others like them. They obfuscate links. I pretty much refuse to use them, either as a consumer or a producer.

They seems to have been started because emailing links to web pages caused a lot of problems. Many email programs will insert line breaks on long lines of text. This will usually corrupt the URL.

But they are completely unnecessary in modern email clients. Now I see some forum moderators are demanding URLs to be shortened when posting content. Again, completely unnecessary because most forum software include tags to allow the naming of URLs.

On the CoCoaDev mailing list it was revealed that the MacBook Air’s operating system has it’s symbols stripped. That is an interesting step to take. I can only assume it is because of the small(-sh) hard drive that the machine comes with.

Like PDF on Mac OS X, if there is flash on the iPhone it’ll be Apple’s own implementation. There are just too many memories of the way Adobe treated NeXT regarding Display Postscript.

For the last half week I’ve been under the weather. So to speak. My daughter brought home a cold and I got it bad.
Just today, I am starting to feel good again. I’m sure my co-workers will appreciate that on Monday.

I had a laugh today. I took my younger daughter to the park today. They have a tire swing there. Megan really like to ride it.

When we first got there I pushed Megan a little, she likes to go fast. Then I sat down to watch people for a little bit. Frankly I was surprised by the number of fathers there with their children, way more than usual.

One father was there with his boy and girl. The boy was taking a lot of his time, so my daughter decided to ask this little girl if she wanted to tire swing with her. She looked to be about five years old, about half my daughter’s age. The girl agreed and they both got on the swing and Megan started pushing.

I was only half paying attention, and saw that Megan was spinning really fast. But it didn’t bother me much because it wasn’t as fast as I usually spin her. After a few minutes of this I see the little getting off the tire swing and walking toward her father, vomiting. Megan came over to me and I said to her she should apologize to her father. She didn’t. I ended up cleaning a little vomit off the tire swing. We left shortly after that.

The sickness didn’t seem to effect the little girls much. She was playing with other kids soon after.