• Disk Utility cannot fix my Mac boot drive. Time to find out how good Time Machine is... #
• Looks like my Mac crashes were due to the RAM boards having worked loose. Lost a day's work and another day fixing it, but all-in-all happy #
• The Sounds of Sorting http://bit.ly …

• Holy crap! 2 weeks I'm on vacation and someone proves P != NP? http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Vinay_Deolalikar/ #
• Wikipedia doesn't have a page for "replica symmetry breaking." Dang. Other than that, I would TOTALLY follow the P != NP paper. #
• P != NP AND "Rubik's Cube requires 20 moves" http …

I’m not sure that this one will break into the public consciousness, but Vinay Deolalikar of HP may have proved one of the major challenges in complexity theory, that P != NP. In addition to being a great intellectual success, this particular problem has very big practical implications. Luckily, though …

• Microsoft LightSwitch is the classic "v3 will be awesome" app. #
• Google Wave, we hardly knew ye http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/update-on-google-wave.html #
• Just passed a scooter / moped gang. #
• Parked on Tarmac in DEN. At least weather looks good -- home later today. #
• Realized those staring in airport mistook my …

• United airlines phone-based support for missing bags: blatant lies by policy or personal initiative? Sachim Malik and others. #ual #
• RIP Loren Heiny, a familiar name in the Tablet PC community. #
• Just scored box seats to Neil Young tonight! \o/ #
• At Muddy Buddy Chicago. Sitting in air conditioned Lincoln Town Car …

• "The Chemist" Dileep Rao excellent analysis of Inception http://bit.ly/aom1VB #
• Companies are astroturfing reviews of their own iPhone apps on App Store. Not surprising, but disappointing. #
• "A new kind of grammars that can produce the empty language is designed in this book." Indeed. http://amzn.to/bQWktb #
• Oh …

• Manhattanhenge is today: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattanhenge #
• I'm guessing every attendee at PDC10 gets hardware running Windows SlatePad Foundation Services. #
• The lazy plotting of WW2: http://squid314.livejournal.com/275614.html #
• I write like Dan Brown when blogging, Raymond Chandler for publication: http://iwl.me/s/fe11a92f #
• Even …

“50 cents income, 51 cents expenses: Poor man. 50 cents income, 49 cents expenses: Rich man.” -- Mark Twain ^[1]^

Previously, we saw that the average paid iPhone app generates a little under \$6,000 and that you have a 50-50 chance of making something considerably less than that. Of course …

• Apparently no one came in to work on their weekend or day off in order to review my iPhone app. Someone get Steve Jobs on the phone! #
• Alien vs. Ninja http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M_QC2fatXQ (Man, you just know they're going to ruin the book...) #
• Happy aphelion …

I took this shot Thursday night up at Mauna Kea. I thought I was doing really well with the photography, but when I got home and imported the images, all of them were blurred. There wasn't any wind, and I thought the scope was polar-aligned well enough, so for the …