UPDATE: See below for Mr. Sapienza’s latest reply
I thought I’d share my email exchange with Chuck Sapienza, programming manager for ESPN 980:
My original email:
Why are you now delaying podcast releases for 24
hours?
I try to listen to The Tony Kornheiser Show live via internet stream, but AS I HAVE A JOB, sometimes I’m in meetings or otherwise not at my desk between 10 and 12.
You ever have one of those moments where you think of the perfect retort to an idiotic comment days later? I’m having one of those now. And the inanity of the original comment to me is so beyond absurd, that it’s leaving me irritated and fuming even now.
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I’m pleased to announce that I’m releasing my first WordPress plugin for public use: TC Comment Out.
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AT&T and Verizon have formally announced their iPad 2 pricing plans, and it’s clear that they expect us to live in the stone age when it comes to internet usage on the go.
Here are the numbers, broken down:
| Verizon | AT&T | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gigabytes | Monthly Cost | Per GB | Gigabytes | Monthly Cost | Per GB |
| 1 GB | $20 | $20 | 250MB | $14.99 | $59.96 |
| 3 GB | $35 | $11.67 | 2 GB | $25 | $12.50 |
| 5 GB | $50 | $10 | |||
| 10 GB | $80 | $8 | |||
And of course, this doesn’t even include the cost if your data runneth over, which is a whole other absurd list of charges. Because of this mass confusion and chaos, I’m pretty much decided on wi-fi only.
Remember when AT&T offered unlimited data for iPad for $30? For one month? Then killed that?
Good times.
In an extremely un-Apple like move, the Cupertino, California company will release eighteen different variants of its new iPad 2 in the United States on Friday. Which model do you have your eye on?
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When you list out the options in this way, it seems a little ridiculous.
To much fanfare and Twitter-wide praise, Apple launched the iPad 2 today in San Francisco. (And much to my chagrin, they are not available immediately. I have to wait a whole week and a half. I’m so bummed.)
But now it’s time for rumor-mill roundups. How did I do? Okay, but not great.
So overall, my predictions were crap. Why did you even listen to me?
Well, everyone else has gotten into the act, so with a little more than twenty-four hours left in which to speculate, here are my official predictions as to what the new iPads to be announced tomorrow will have:
So how did I do? We’ll find out tomorrow afternoon.
Because on this point, I’m completely narcissistic, here’s my email that Mr. Tony read on today’s show:
I’m no doctor (I was actually a history major in college), but from the description of your symptoms you clearly have sweating sickness. Extremely fast acting and most often fatal, several outbreaks in England killed thousands of people in the 15th and 16th centuries before human beings developed a natural immunity to it. But you’re so old you may not have that immunity yourself. If I were you, I’d go to a doctor quickly so he can start with the leeches.
Update: URL shortening appears to happen in the background, without you choosing which shortener to use, and the shortened URL length is reflected in the character count.
Original post:
It’s been waaay too long coming, but Twitter finally released version 2.0 of the Mac Twitter client formerly known as Tweetie. Finally we can see native twitter retweets (an implementation I still don’t like, but it’s a fact of life in Twitter now, so clients need to be on board with it) and a slicker, more modern interface.
The first rule of web development is… Backup.
The second rule of web development is… Never transfer files when you’re tired.
In a related note, look what I pushed out last night for my brother: http://brianfinifter.com/