18 July 2008

I watch the Watchmen!

That shudder you felt yesterday was a giant collective nerdgasm, as the trailer for the Watchmen movie appeared yesterday.  It's available at Apple in high definition and looks pretty great.  The Watchmen was a comic published by DC Comics in the late '80s about a group of flawed, neurotic superheroes.  The story was written by Alan Moore, who wrote  V for Vendetta, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and Swamp Thing, a comic I remember buying the first issue of because the artwork was done by Bernie Wrightson.


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07 July 2008

Getting ready for the new iPhone 3G

I'm doing a few things to get ready for the new iPhone 3G. I am preparing my existing data and services; collecting relevant web sites, planning for 1 particular application that I think will change how I use it and what I get out of it, and setting up a better plan so I save some money every month. I'll cover each of these over the next couple of posts.

First, I am updating my .mac environment. Initially this was to sync my browser bookmarks so my own copies were up to date in advance of this warning regarding the service. I definitely keep my bookmarks in sync between my various computers but I use del.icio.us to centralize and share my bookmarks as much as possible. Only my iPhone requires a Safari-managed bookmark list, as much as I can figure out.

In so doing, I also picked up a .mac family pack so that my girlfriend and mom could back up their desktop data easily. Now backups are running at my mom's once a month and both their addressbooks, calendars and bookmarks are backed up centrally.

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