AT&T Disables Free iPhone Wi-Fi (For Now) - Mac Forums – this is my experience too, the wondrous free wifi service is now gone at my local sbuxii. bummer.

More airplane reads, I have been doing a lot of air travel:

* “The Ghost War”:amazon by Alex Berenson. Good cloak and dagger tale, china and the us brought to the brink by a rogue megalomaniac general. No new ground here but well written with a nicely flawed hero. * “Glasshouse”:amazon by Charles Stross. Far distant future, nano-enhanced humans fighting off bad guys who are infecting human society with the nano equivalent of a virus. Fun romp, nicely imagined. Stross is reliably entertaining * “The Monsters of Templeton”:amazon by Lauren Groff. A young woman returns to her hometown in a moment of personal crisis and delves into her own surprising past, uncovering a lot of dark family secrets. Oh and there is a sea monster too. And a ghost. Tho the titled monsters are generally the human and personal kind. * “Thirteen”:amazon by Richard Morgan. Wow, way better than I anticipated. Crazy mix of biotech, world domination schemes, secret agents, super humans, social criticism, with some extreme objectivism thrown in.

MD Manufacturing - VacPan for Central Vacuum installation – these are reportedly useful. We are doing a remodel and may want to add some of these.

American Le Mans Series :: World Class – likely going to be attending this next week. Looks like fun.

Skull-A-Day – daily inspiration

Electric Motors for Props - Bride of Power Pack - Halloween Prop Building Supplies For The Home Haunter - Monster Guts – new product from these guys for halloween, a variable speed power controller for wiper motors. pretty useful and not crazy expensive. and halloween is less than 6 months out…

El Gato Azul :: 316 W. Goodwin St. Prescott AZ :: – awesome tapas place with great margaritas and a great creekside location with indoor or outdoor dining. live music. we had a great time. PS Google Maps and Hertz EverLost both have the wrong location for this restaurant. 316 West Goodwin is right – about a block and a half west of town square on Goodwin.

sPortability - Playoffs – here we go, a first round by, and home field for the second round. Go Owls!

Residence Inn Prescott: Spacious suites and amenities for longer stays – this place is amazing. I’ve stayed in a number of Residence Inns, this one is fairly new and has great furnishings, interesting room designs, full set of services. Amazingly nice, much much nicer than the typical Residence Inn

Architecture astronauts take over - Joel on Software – “It’s Groove, rewritten from scratch, one more time. Ray Ozzie just can’t stop rewriting this damn app, again and again and again, and taking 5-7 years each time.” Ouch.

We are planning some remodelling and trying to exchange ideas with our designers. I know that the people who design websites for all the furniture industry mean well, and their sites look cool, but they are usability disasters. there is no way to send links back and forth to items we like because all the content is embedded deep in flash animations. KraftMaid Cabinetry, IKEA are great examples – we find a set of cabinets we like, and we have to tell our collaborators to go search for the item themselves. oh and of course there is no search function.

If searchable, linkable, plain old HTML is good enough for Amazon, the number one web retailer, how is it that it isn’t good enough for all the rest of these guys.

* Crapware: Superior Alternatives to Crappy Windows Software – i didn’t know about cdburnerxp * Rsyncx on the mac – potential beyondcompare alternative * Passpack password manager. I am not ready to give some service all my credentials but man do i need this * Noiseware – I like this app, hugely helpful on my basketball gym shots * firmware replacement for canon cameras – huh.