;} Even Mozilla makes SVN merge errors!!!
Andrew Mager and I were very happy to see that we’re not the only ones who occasionally make file merge mistakes that go live 
;} Carl’s sunglasses
Carl’s sunglasses
Originally uploaded by magerleagues
;} Le mepris coming to Castro Theater
Le mepris coming to Castro Theater
Originally uploaded by iamconrad
If I had the discipline to keep a top ten list of the films I like, this one would be very close to the top. It’s a newly restored print and it will be playing in my neighborhood next month. I can’t really say how excited I am about this.
;} Torch relay protest
Torch relay protest
Originally uploaded by iamconrad
Andrew Mager and I took a break from CNET to go down to see the Olympic Torch run and the Protests along the Embarcaderro today.
;} UNIX MAN Pages coming to google search?
I noticed this while tweaking my google search preferences this morning.
Google seems to be rolling out a widget to display UNIX Man pages when you search for man + [term]… kinda like when you search for weather + [zipcode]… the only problem is that it does not seem to be working yet, at least not for me.
Even though it allows you to subscribe and shows a demo, it’s still not working for me. Try it out and post a comment if you get it to work!
;} Obama Signs in San Francisco : Making and Hanging Them
Making Signs and Hanging Them
Originally uploaded by iamconrad
Austin and I painted this sign today and hun it out the bedroom window, onto Market Street in San Francisco.
;} Castro Street: Barricades for Halloween Night
I took this picture on my way to the MUNI station this morning. Halloween is cancelled, but the city has already brought in a bunch of police barricades for tonight.
;} 5.6 Earthquake!!! (updated)
NOTE: This is, in fact, the worst blog ever. I didn’t think anyone other than my friends would see it, but it ended up going crazy on DIGG. Please go to the USGS for info on the earthquake, and PLEASE DON’T DIGG THIS POST ANYMORE!!!
Woah… this post got dugg and shut down my site! If I’d known so many people would see it, I wouldn’t have used such a sensational title…
9:45 PM PDT: Video showing light damage in San Jose.
9:16 PM PDT: The USGS says that there is a 30% chance of STRONG aftershocks over the next 7 days: link to USGS aftershock forecast
9:08 PM PDT: CBS 5 Reports damage in South Bay, including Stanford, Cupertino, Gilroy, San Jose and Dublin.
There was just an earthquake here in San Francisco.
Details from the US Geographic Survey http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/nc40204628.html:
A moderate earthquake occurred at 8:04:54 PM (PDT) on Tuesday, October 30, 2007.
The magnitude 5.6 event occurred 8 km (5 miles) NNE of Alum Rock, CA.
The hypocentral depth is 9 km ( 6 miles).
Magnitude 5.6 - regional moment magnitude (Mw)
Time Tuesday, October 30, 2007 at 8:04:54 PM (PDT)
Wednesday, October 31, 2007 at 3:04:54 (UTC)
Distance from Alum Rock, CA - 8 km (5 miles) NNE (31 degrees)
Milpitas, CA - 11 km (7 miles) E (91 degrees)
San Jose City Hall, CA - 15 km (9 miles) NE (45 degrees)
Sunol-Midtown, CA - 17 km (10 miles) NE (45 degrees)
Coordinates 37 deg. 25.9 min. N (37.432N), 121 deg. 46.5 min. W (121.776W)
Depth 9.2 km (5.7 miles)
Location Quality Excellent
Location Quality Parameters Nst=250, Nph=250, Dmin=3 km, Rmss=0.07 sec, Erho=0.1 km, Erzz=0.4 km, Gp=32.4 degrees
Event ID# nc40204628
;} Gmail now better than .mac Mail on iPhone
Last night Google began offering free IMAP service for Gmail. I’ve long preferred Gmail over Apple’s (not-free) mail service that’s bundled into .mac, mainly for it’s archive instead of delete function, awesome searching, and spam filtering, but since I got my iPhone back in June, I’ve been using my .mac account primarily (and having my gmail messages forwarded to .mac). This is because until today, Gmail has only offered POP mail support, and getting that to work well on an iPhone is really wonky. After last night’s update, however, I switched back to Gmail, got it set up on my iPhone and it works PERFECTLY. Your messages show up just as they should (no more accidentally downloading 300 million old archived messages through POP) and everything works like it does through Gmail’s web application: deleting messages removes them from the Inbox and archives them, moving junk mail to the Spam folder not only gets rid of junk, but it also reports the message as spam to Gmail, you can browse your entire mail archive via the All Mail folder, and you can even star messages by moving them into the Starred folder. All that’s missing is a search feature, which is not so much a Gmail limitation as it is one of the iPhone’s Mail.app. I’m hoping apple implements search in Mail, because that would be really cool. For the time being you can still switch over to Safari on the iPhone and do it through Gmail’s web interface.
Get instructions for setting up Gmail on your iPhone here.