We brought home a new puppy this past weekend. He’s adorable and affectionate and I think he’s going to fit right in. This capped a good week for us. Bought a new car and brought home a new Basenji. It was a good week.

Ok, I am not going to suggest that anyone watch an 80 minute video to see what Google Wave is all about so I am using this video (It’s only 8 minutes long). Spend 8 minutes and you will get a pretty good idea of what Google Wave is all about. I see a lot of potential in this web app and think it will be an excellent group project tool.

Once this app goes mainstream things are really going to get good. Google’s choice to make it open source is going to really drive third party developers.

It’s Google for pete’s sake. They’re like internet gold.

Posting this link to explain to people why I detest the Red Cross and their business practices. Have you noticed how, if you are a blood donor, that they call you constantly with the zeal of a deranged telemarketer? You think they do this because for some holy, altruistic drive to help people?

You are delusional. They are doing it to make money. That’s their drive, to fill their pockets.

I could go on and on about this topic but I think you should do the research yourself. Spend 5 minutes with Google and see if you don’t come to despise them as I do.

To get you started I will list a few links for you to peruse at your leisure.

Bad Blood

Billion Dollar Greed

If you are like me and can’t stand YouTube annotations because most people use them way too much you can turn them off by following the instructions in the image above. You can turn them back on using the menu on the YouTube player but this will allow you to watch YouTube videos with the annotations turned off by default.

Thankfully the folks at YouTube were wise enough to provide this option or risk losing viewers at an exponential rate.

Penny Arcade! – The Wisdom Of Solomon.

If you would like to give this a go yourself, follow the steps below;

• Make sure iTunes isn’t running and open up a Terminal window and cut and paste the following command into the window and hit enter.

defaults write com.apple.iTunes carrier-testing -bool TRUE

• Download this file…

2. Open iTunes and select your iPhone. While holding down the Option key click the Update button. Browse to to the file you downloaded in the step above and continue.

• Turn off your iPhone to reboot it.
• Be sure your MMS settings are set the same as in the image below. (Settings -> General -> Network -> Cellular Data Network -> MMS)

You should now be able to at least receive MMS messages. It took a couple of hours before I was able to send them myself but as the images above show I can in fact send and receive MMS. You will be able to tell that MMS is now enabled as there will be a camera icon in the MMS message window to the left of the text input field. Clicking the send icon in the lower left when you are viewing a photo will now show an MMS button. Now I am not guaranteeing that this will work for anyone else but if you are in Blacksburg as I am it should work. I don’t know what will happen when MMS is officially rolled out but my guess is I will update my phone at that time and every thing will be just as if I had not updated my carrier file early.

Good Luck. If you have any questions feel free to leave a comment.

Here is a copy of the original ippc file should you want to revert back to the 4.0 version of the carrier file.

Came across this annoying little quirk this evening while working in Photoshop. I was constantly rotating the canvas of my image accidentally using the trackpad on my MacBook Pro. Now, I love the multi-touch track pad but in this instance it was getting a little out of hand. If you have run across this your self, click the image above or the link below to download a plugin that will disable this feature while using Photoshop.

Adobe – Photoshop : For Macintosh : Adobe Photoshop CS4 Disable Canvas Rotation Via Trackpad plug-in

via Flickr Photo Download: The Thing With Two Heads.

It sad but this was an actual real movie that someone spent money to produce.

Here’s the YouTube vid of the movie trailer.