Accuweather is ugly and cluttered to the point of unusablility. The As Adam said, Wunderground.com iPhone-customized web page is much better. I particularly like their "Wundermap," a full-screen scrollable, zoomable, live radar page.

Oh jeez. Your story was the equivalent of me sitting in Coach while the asshole next to me picks up the AirPhone and starts calling up everyone and yelling, "HEY GUESS WHERE I'M CALLING FROM??"

You know, I'm probably older than you, built a CP/M computer in '75, I was working at ComputerLand when you were just a customer, ran BBSes and used Compuserve, and even I'm bored to death with that crap from MY OWN history, hearing it secondhand as some sort of human interest story is just infuriating.

Before you feel inspired to write such an insipid introduction again, think of this aphorism: "Nostalgia isn't what it used to be."

I found one absolutely invaluable feature of WriteRoom: it has the ability to output HTML. I can create an RTF document and just select some text and add a link with a simple menu command. It appears as a colored link, just like a web page. Then when I'm done, I export it as HTML, all the links are expanded to HTML code.

Oh man does this make my life easier. I am especially happy that I can write complex articles with tons of links and since I'm not embedding code, my word count is accurate.

My entry:

My topic would be why podcasts should always include a text transcript. For example, you can search text transcripts with web indexing services, but you can't search voice audio files.

So you just got a lump of coal--now what?

How many more of these articles are in the queue? Please make it stop!

Don't worry, someone will ship a FireWire Expresscard soon. Everyone will be happy, it will only cost a few bucks for those people who need the feature, and everyone else's machines will be cheaper.

I will add my own contribution to the Lisa history archives. A couple of years ago, I scanned the Lisa Sales Marketing binder, 204 pages of everything Apple gave to Lisa dealers, including color scans of every Lisa product brochure. It was wildly popular when I posted it on my blog, and it looks like anyone reading this article will enjoy it too.

Read it here:

http://weblog.ceicher.com/archives/2006/05/apple_lisa_sales_marketing_bin.html

Oops, sorry for the doublepost. It looked like my comment didn't get posted.

A better approach:

Use the widget DashQuit. It quits the Dashboard, but if you hit F12 it starts again. This way you have all the advantages, it is inactive when not in use, and easily accessible when you need it.

Joshua, you're wrong, Dashboard does consume CPU cycles while in the background. There were some notorious cases of poorly written widgets consuming excessive CPU cycles even while in the background. I recall one example of a weather widget that went berserk downloading weather maps repeatedly, consuming massive amounts of net bandwidth and CPU. That's why people came up with stuff like DashQuit in the first place.