There’s an old axiom in computer science that states “adding developers to a late software project only makes it later.” (this applies to more than just software, but for that particular discipline, it’s acutely true). However, in this case, people weren’t added to a wholly different product. Their focus was just expanded to include a larger target platform space.

Have you noticed that there’s room for 5 more icons on the main iPhone screen? Do you think those “secret” features that haven’t been announced for Leopard are only for the desktop version of the OS? What if one of those secret features was the iPhone itself?

Something tells me that this will just make the iPhone better. And that’s a good thing. I’m still curious what it’s going to do for the Pro Apps, though. I’ll find out in Vegas in a couple of days.

Apple Statement
iPhone has already passed several of its required certification tests and is on schedule to ship in late June as planned. We canâ??t wait until customers get their hands (and fingers) on it and experience what a revolutionary and magical product it is. However, iPhone contains the most sophisticated software ever shipped on a mobile device, and finishing it on time has not come without a price â?? we had to borrow some key software engineering and QA resources from our Mac OS X team, and as a result we will not be able to release Leopard at our Worldwide Developers Conference in early June as planned. While Leopard’s features will be complete by then, we cannot deliver the quality release that we and our customers expect from us. We now plan to show our developers a near final version of Leopard at the conference, give them a beta copy to take home so they can do their final testing, and ship Leopard in October. We think it will be well worth the wait. Life often presents tradeoffs, and in this case we’re sure we’ve made the right ones. [Apr 12, 2007]

Wow. Bummer. Don’t get me wrong, I’m drooling for an iPhone as much as the next guy, but not at the expense of Leopard. The thing I’m curious about is how this shakes other things up. Like Final Cut Pro 6, for example. Guess I’ll find out about that on Sunday at NAB.

ugh.

This is stupid. Don’t these people realize how idiotic they sound when they say things like this?

When bridal shop owner Nancy Owen found ants in her store, she had two choices: relocate the critters or relocate her shop. Extermination was not an option.

That’s because the landlord of the Austin shopping center where her store was located is a supporter of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. The landlord imposed strict rules on tenants requiring that no meat or animal product be sold in their stores, and that no animals – including ants – be harmed.

“If you don’t have to cause animals to suffer – even the animals we don’t understand so well like ants or mice or chickens – why not choose to be kind rather than to be cruel?” asked PETA spokesman Bruce Friedrich.

Yeah, those ants sure are complicated buggers. There’s a lot we don’t understand there.

Here we go again with the stupid lawsuits.

A New Hampshire woman whose husband died in one of the planes that hit the World Trade Center sued President Bush and other government officials yesterday, contending their negligence of airport security resulted in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

First they say that the attempts to make things more secure invade our privacy, then they say they’re not doing enough. And how, exactly, was the state of airport security worsened when President Bush took office? I wouldn’t even try to pin that one on Slick Willie, much as I might like to.

And this just makes me mad.

OKLAHOMA CITY — A federal judge handed down bad news to those expecting their dinners to be forever free from interruptions Wednesday, ruling that the Federal Trade Commission (search) didn’t have the authority to slap telemarketers with a national “do-not-call” list.

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The telemarketing industry has claimed the list, slated to take effect Oct. 1, could reduce its business by half and cost it up to $50 billion in sales each year.

$50 BILLION!!!Give me a break! That means that on average they expect to sell $1,000 worth of their crap to each of the 50 million who have signed up, per year. I don’t think so.

Things are getting stupid, folks.

No wonder the US legal system can be called the “Legal Lottery”. You files your suit and you takes your chances.

And, by the way, if you think their suit actually has considerable merit, remember that ultimate drive capacity is actually limited to the file system you use on it. Different file systems use drives more or less efficiently. To make matters worse, file systems have a tendency to use “free space” faster when their closer to being full, or if the number of files is large. It’s a little more complex than I want to get into here, but it isn’t as simple as binary versus decimal.

It’s like teaching kids how to live with the faults of a screwdriver and a hammer, but not getting to show them what they can build with it.

After I run up to the store to get several bags of ice so we can transfer meat and such to an cooler, I make several calls around to see if I can locate a service person who can come out today and diagnose it. On the third call I manage to find someone and lo and behold, they’re there in an hour.

One defrost timer circuit and $180 later and we’re back up and running. Next is the oven, I suppose.

1. California, unsurprisingly, has again lost it’s mind.
2. Johnny Depp, while a brilliant actor, is a loonie.
3. The Dow continues to climb. At this rate it’ll hit 10k in October.
4. No one really knows when the Dual G5′s will be available. (too many links to post)
5. One Dem from Texas grows a backbone and regains a little ethical stance. (I’ll have to comment more about this one a little later)

I am going to be involved in researching and pursuing new business opportunities for WorkFlow, especially centered around two passions of mine: ministry technology and A/V.

First, I want to investigate ways to bring technology expertise to ministry efforts. There are a multitude of churches and ministry organizations out there that have the desire to utilize technology to further their mission work, but don’t have the vast sums of money or internal expertise to do so. I’m not talking about the Fellowship’s, Willow Creek’s, Saddleback’s, and Prestonwood’s out there. There are thousands of smaller churches and organizations that need consulting help from an organization that understands what they need and aren’t out there just to sell them some product.

In addition, there are many ministry organizations that have technology components to their mission, but don’t desire or need to have technology as a core competency. One such ministry is NetAccountability, who has contracted with me to help manage and plan their technology plans, from development to infrastructure. We’ll be working on future versions of the tools that support their ministry, as well as helping them evaluate how to proceed with their technical assets and strategy.

Other opportunities I want to explore with WorkFlow are centered around multimedia and Audio/Video technologies. As an avid FinalCutPro user (no pun intended!), I’ve been exploring this area for a while, and there are indeed some possibilities for bringing an out of the box technology approach to old processes in the post-production and broadcast realms.

There are wide-open gaps in the post-production workflow, especially where tracking media from content acquisition through post all the way to broadcast is concerned. There are standards popping up (AAF, MOS, etc.) that are supported by the standard products in the newsroom, but few solutions that tie these pieces together, especially economically. The interesting thing to this market is that if you don’t charge what Sony charges, you’re not seen as a credible player. But the technology is coming on so strong that the capability exists to string together a full and complete solution without bowing to Sony or Panasonic. We’re talking potential orders of magnitude reduction in price. And if you can get a single customer to bite on that and have success, it’ll spread like wildfire. That’s what I’m aiming for.

Originally my thinking was that I’d branch out and explore these opportunities separate from WorkFlow. But as I discussed things with Lance, we decided that it might make sense (for both WorkFlow and myself) to do this under the umbrella of the existing organization. I was flattered for Lance to consider that as a possible approach, as it gives me a lot of flexibility and stability to step out and pursue this. Quite honestly, it actually may be the thing that allows it to succeed. If so, we both benefit. I will still be available to WorkFlow for Sales Engineering and Architecture engagements, so I feel my skills/talents/etc. will be utilized more appropriately than in the past.

I’m excited! More as the days go on…

Now if the functionality of KungTunes could be integrated so I wouldn’t have to run a separate app for that…