MCAndre

When I was browsing through blog hosts, I chose WordPress because to me, the others looked simple or even ugly. WordPress had a variety of great looking themes, a few widgets like Delicious and Flickr, and a good overall management design. Gradually, I came to realize that the editor automatically deletes any serious HTML code, including JavaScript and Flash elements. I couldn’t even embed a YouTube video.

Sloooooowly, WP is catching on. There’s a tag cloud, though the actual “Categories” assignment interface is lame. Admit it, tags are much better than static categories. But enough about that. I’ve been emailing support teams every day for a month now: Flock, Twitter, Zooomr, Delicious, FoxyProxy, Stylish.

Who’s with me? WP readers surf through many other sites that have dangerous scripts. Restricting them ain’t helping anybody. If JavaScript is outlawed, only outlaws will use JavaScript.

Come on, WordPress, get Twitter support, or let me put JavaScript in my text widgets. I suggest my twitter while these things develop.

Leopard’s out in October, huh? I missed the WWDC keynote as I didn’t have Internet access.

Firefox 3 alpha 5 is out, but I don’t see places on my Mac. I can’t wait for the JavaScript password management. Flock team, get ready to copy and paste!

Flock won’t update my feeds or remember which folders I have open. I want a setting to update my feeds every five minutes, and a button to force update feeds.

Night tour of the Zooomr HQ is funny. Kristopher Tate, the sole programmer at Zooomr.com, records the tour of the HQ with his Mac Pro’s or iMac’s iSight. He doesn’t even close Adium, his instant messager as he spins around in his chair, comments about an applet, then immediately shows off pure geek gold: a 6 x 9 foot whiteboard, a 30 in. flat screen and a 21in flat screen (which he won), a bean bag chair, and a framed Flickr photo (also won).

“It has the amenities of the Googleplex on a very very very miniturized scale.”

“We don’t have a chef, so I have to make my own food.”

Zoomr HQ is basically a house. One in which someone is using the exercise equipment, and “I don’t know why he should be using our equipment, but that’s okay, because we like to share.” One in which there are “a lot of living accommodations for our programming staff at Zooomr HQ: one”. Don’t get me wrong, any professionalism this video lacks reflects positively of the website. Kristopher, who “just got back from Japan,” displays the standard persona of a 20-year old web design wiz kid, wearing a tree-shrubbing Darth Vader t-shirt and asking how tired his eyes look.

Zooomr Mark III is still in development (starting from scratch), so of course the single programmer managing 15,000 users and now infinite storage space looks tired. Zooomr is an amazing operation, frequently referred to as “Flickr on steroids.” It gives away features that Flickr charges for, and incorporates emerging technologies, like OpenID. I still find it hard to believe Zooomr.com is an army of one. Keep up the good work, and do get some sleep, Kris.

Google Desktop is available for Macs. That’s great, but why would I use it when Spotlight is the greatest thing since Sliced Bread.app? The one additional search item on display at the website is Google Mail. Cool. Those who find it an addition to ⌘+Space, good for you! Honestly, even if the Google Desktop widgets never compare to Dashboard, I believe this is another win for multiple platform support.

I am blogging on my new MacBook.