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""A different Brad": I haven't tried the Bamboo tablet yet, but I've heard good things about them (and used previous Wacom tablets in the past; good brand). But yeah, this is for my "HTPC" so wireless is important. I do use my iPhone as a trackpad sometimes, but I need a general purpose device that stays with my mini, since I can't afford to equip each of my three kids with an iPhone/iPod touch." - Brad Choate

"@me.chrisfullman.com - My job here is done." - Brad Choate

"There's some weird interaction going on with a scrolling Terminal window when you zoom in. Try running a command like "yes" (which repeatedly prints "y" to the console) while zoomed in. There's your sea sickness!" - Brad Choate

""OK. I'll agree to your 'no strict' policy if you let me kick you in the groin every time we have a production bug that would have been caught by 'use strict'."" - Brad Choate

Nice. Google Reader "shared" items are now using PubSubHubbub. - Brad Choate

(waves at Tatsuhiko ;) ) - Brad Choate

"Why thank you — this has been on my own to-do list." - Brad Choate

This stuff is really infuriating. Especially for me and my wife, who have an AT&T Family Plan. We can talk by phone to each other for free and the plan has unlimited data service, but SMS? I pay $5 for 200 messages for myself and $5 for 200 messages for her. AT&T counts each message sent OR received against your quota, so sending a single SMS to my wife eats 2 of our 400 SMS texts per month. - Brad Choate

"The reason you aren’t getting a lot of negative comments on this post is that you did a fantastic job with TextMate 1. I have no doubt version 2 will be even better." - Brad Choate

WANT - Brad Choate

I'm *this* close to doing this with a white MacBook for my home theater if Apple can't get the new Mac mini out soon. - Brad Choate

Please, please, please tell me this sort of thing can be disabled as a browser preference (or on a domain-by-domain basis). (And good grief, this is already supported on iPhone!) - Brad Choate

This is a post I've been meaning to write for some time. It seems obvious to me, and yet all the other big companies seem to miss this. Producing dozens and dozens of largely indistinguishable products does not help your product lineup. It makes each one harder to stand out from the others. - Brad Choate

osascript -e "set volume output volume 100" - Brad Choate

The more real-world code I see of Perl 6, the less I like it being called "Perl". Can we just keep calling it "Rakudo" instead? - Brad Choate

I also had a 2G iPhone with a dead strip; I added my Apple store experience in the comments: http://forums.macworld.com/message... - Brad Choate

True. - Brad Choate

"We credit Matt for the WordPress plugin, since it is a derivative of the Akismet WordPress plugin. The TypePad AntiSpam API is Akismet compatible, so the changes were fairly minimal (mainly, making the hostname for the service calls configurable instead of hardwired for the Akismet server). Thanks for the review — we'll update the version requirements on our site match what is shown on the WP Extend directory, that it is compatible with "versions 2.3 and higher"." - Brad Choate

"@themexican: I think it still does, but you should explore the new Asset tags in MT 4 -- in most cases, you can use those instead of the old EmbedImage plugin." - Brad Choate

"There is one "present time" clock, and the other 6 are future-time, spaced exactly 1 day apart for the whole week." - Brad Choate

jQuery plugin and demo that hooks into iPhone 2 MobileSafari's ontouch, ongesture events. You can drag, throw, rotate, scale elements in Safari web apps. - Brad Choate

A nice overview of the upcoming 4.2 release from CMSWire. - Brad Choate

Sweet — I just hope this isn't a loophole that will be closed eventually. - Brad Choate

I WORK at Six Apart, but David Jacobs never upgraded MY installation of Movable Type. He just says, "Hey, you're the MT engineer, do it yourself!". Pshaw. - Brad Choate

At face value, this is a backwards step. In the age where web sites are trying to collect more information about distinct users, developing profiles for them, why would Netflix reduce this capability? It will mean I have a family profile, not a personal profile. Which is corrupting the database of my own personal tastes with those of a 4, 5 and 8 year old. - Brad Choate

Will someone please tell WAMU about this? - Brad Choate

Microsoft should adopt either Mozilla or WebKit as the basis for IE going forward. I really fail to understand the need to perpetuate the IE legacy. How much are they wasting on the IE platform? Do us all a favor, Microsoft — including yourself. - Brad Choate

Hooray! - Brad Choate

Super-helpful bookmarklet for downloading what you're looking at out of a Trac repository. Works for http://code.sixapart.com/trac... for instance. - Brad Choate

This is painful. Especially for a family like mine with 2 iPhones. I expect it will be $20/month more for us. This is a 3G tax and one that shouldn't exist-- cell costs should be going downward, not upward. - Brad Choate

Sippey does a great job demoing the new TypePad iPhone app at WWDC2008, available July 11th! - Brad Choate