Champagne Velvet

aXbo sleep phase alarm clock

aXbo is able to calculate the optimal point at which to wake you

I signed up for the preorder today (1/24/06) and it says they are starting delivery today so I’m not sure why it’s still a preorder but we’ll see. Check out this article on sleep stages for more information. via hiptechblog.com.

Many thanks to Doug Allison, Hugo Jimenez, Jesse Tomalty, Dave Weishaus, and Reggie Zachariah for coming into town and making the weekend what it was - and not as dirty as it could have been.  A special thank you goes to Hugo for leaving that dent in the couch.

Keep in touch.

Update: Another special thanks to Jing Wang.

So about this secret cookie shop - the cookies are fantastic and it’s an incredible addition to the neighborhood.  Make sure you try both the oatmeal raisin and the chocolate white-chocolate chip.

ted: torrent episode downloader

Add your favourite tv shows to ted and ted will automatically download torrents of new episodes!

I was just thinking a couple days ago that someone should do this… DVR “season pass” style bittorrent downloading, and it works on Linux - a perfect add-on for a MythTV box.

From Web 1.0 to Web 2.0, expanding on Tim O’Reilly’s Meme Map which gives examples of Web 1.0 companies and their 2.0 successors.  It’s pretty unbelievable to me that it has still been less than a year since the term AJAX was coined.