Heroes on Blu-Ray!

And lo, my resistance to Heroes Season 1 on HD-DVD has been rewarded:
Marking the rollout of the studio's first global release on Blu-ray(TM) will be the "Heroes: Season Two," which will debut beginning August 26, 2008. The highly anticipated premier of the sophomore season of NBC's "Heroes" will be buoyed by the simultaneous debut of "Heroes Season One" on Blu-ray(TM).
From thedigitalbits.com (I don't think that's a permalink, the site seems strange about that. Look for the "early update 4/17/08") Heroes season 2 wavered a little but in the (foreshortened by strike) end it was still pretty good television. And season one was the best show of last season, in my opinion. I almost bought Heroes S01 on HD-DVD several times, and the only holdup was that I could see HD-DVD wasn't the future. Heroes S01 on Blu-Ray? Oh yes please. Now I just need something that will rip Blu-Ray to my iPhone. Notice to hardware vendors: I'll buy a Blu-Ray drive for TinyGod as soon as this happens. For reals.
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More on the combo feed

OK, during some emails with Bwana I realized the combo feed wasn't broken the same way I thought it was and then I got intrigued enough to mess with it, so now it is fixed up. There's still a problem in that when a comment is posted neither the comment nor the combo feed update until I make another post. I'm not quite sure why yet. But the combo feed works as well as the separate comment-only feed does, and I'm going to call that good enough for today. Anyway, this is the combo feed URL: /~tsanders/wp-rss2+comments.php Apologies for the mayhem!
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1Password on sale

I just got an email about a one day sale on 1Password that is a pretty good deal - over 40% off for today only:
Hello everyone, I am not sure if you remember but in case you didn't know -- today is my birthday! It has become a tradition and to stay true to our roots today together with MacZOT we are holding a huge 1-day sale on all our products. If you do not own a copy of 1Password or know someone who needs it then today is the best day to buy it: http://agilefolks.com/s/15083762e I spend most of my waking hours working on and discussing 1Password, so I want you to be part of the festivities! Please enjoy some cake and ice cream with me and enjoy the bargain price too! Cheers! --Dave Teare Now 33-year old Co-author of 1Password Everyone is Switching to Mac! http://switchersblog.com
I've been meaning to write about 1Password. I've been using it for a few months and it is a really great application. The basic idea is this: each and every website gets its own strong password (say 20 random characters with numbers and punctuation). So now A ) you aren't using weak dictionary passwords on Amazon or your bank or whatever and B ) if scrubsite.com has their passwords hacked it's not the same password as your Amazon 1-Click. There are toolbars for each of the major browsers to easily input your saved passwords, and the whole shebang is locked in an OS X keychain, behind a single version. A native iPhone version is promised, but even now there's a trick with a Javascript bookmarklet that lets you store the passwords on your iPhone as well. I highly recommend 1Password. It does all that password security that you know you *should* do, but can't really bother with in real life. If you don't have it and you're a Mac user, think seriously about taking advantage of this sale!
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