Just a quick post to talk about a cool website called Hulu.  This is a great and legal place to see video clips, full length TV shows, and even movies.  As I said, it is a legal service (there are others out there that look a little questionable) that is supported by a few short ads in each show.

One of the things I really like about it is that the site can remember where you were in watching a show, so you don’t have to watch a show from beginning to end in one sitting.

There are only two (very small) negatives: first, the selection is currently limited – not every episode of every show is available.  Second, you can’t save what your watching, so downloading a show to watch on a plane isn’t possible.

Overall, the plusses are strong and the negatives aren’t show stoppers.  Hulu is a great way to catch up on some great shows!

Browser | CPU | RAM Camino 46.6% 72.4M Safari 25.6% 49.6M

and Camino is not responding, according to Activity Monitor. It makes me a little sad, considering that I’ve been a Camino fan for so long. Oh well, the browser of the day is Safari.

To use it, download the package and install it where ever you want. I put it in “Applications” on OSX, and in my user directory on Windows. Then just double click the icon; this will bring up a menu allowing you to select a file to run. Shoes comes with a healthy collection of samples that you can work through to learn the Shoes syntax.

The basic syntax is pure Ruby goodness – clean and simple. Here is a simple example of a button and a text field:

Shoes.app :height => 200, :width => 200 do
stack :margin => 10 do
button “Button One” do
@mytextfield.replace “Button One pressed!”
end
@mytextfield = para “This is a test.”
end
end

Which looks like this when it runs:

Try it out. I think it’s a great tool for creating simple GUI’s!

A couple of months ago, a friend showed me his Nokia 770. And I thought, “I don’t need anything like that.” So, it was only a matter of days before I found one on eBay. The bottom line is that it is like a ‘92 Jeep Cherokee – sure there are newer, fancier models out there, but this one got it right.

In a nutshell, it’s a handheld PC that runs Linux. It’s not a PDA by design, but it has a lot of really neat apps that make it a great all around geek must-have. I can sync my Google calendars, read spreadsheets and documents, download Google maps, and even make phone calls with Gizmo!

These listed for several hundred dollars when they first came out, but since they have been superseded by the Nokia 800 and 810, they are a real bargain on eBay.

The main drawback to most wikis (from my point of view) is that most are web based. I’m a little leery about posting too much info online (believe it or not). The best solutions that I had found before now were thew emacs wiki-mode and TiddlyWiki. They work, after a fashion, but never completely scratched my itch. But now I can have the best of both worlds – a plain text wiki, and TextMate. This may be the start of something great!

(if this were a review I’d go into more detail, but it’s not, and I’m tired, so that’s it for now)