I’m on the verge of removing text messaging from my phone plan – I think I’m down to 3-6/month that aren’t iMessages. I can route alerts and such to my Google Voice number.

I watched most of the tournament this weekend (laid up sick on the couch) and came out of it rooting hard for Kevin Na. It’s damn hard to be struggling with this in the spotlight he was in. He handled it with grace too.

My first question on Quora… I am genuinely interested in the answer(s).

Best episode yet of the new “A Show”.

I had a Roku but replaced it with a Sony Blu Ray that does Netflix and Amazon, and added an Apple TV. The Roku is fine, but I don’t miss it.

A full reboot “fixed” this for me as well. I’m hopelessly dependent on this feature and don’t know how people survive without it.

This is why I agreed that trading Pineda made sense. Like Steve, I’m sorry to see him go down.

Great slide deck on polyfills from Jason.

It means iTunes Match is down at the moment and any music not downloaded locally cannot be streamed.

It also means you can’t download your songs (to save a local copy). Bah!

Brilliant! I’ve long said that the problem with Timbuk2 bags is that they last forever. I carry a first generation Blogger bag that I love, except for the rough fabric on the back that pills my fleece, slacks, etc. It’s a few years old and still looks brand new. I also have a couple of 17″ Timbuk2 bags that I’ll probably never use again. A visit to the Timbuk2 store is on the list for my next trip to San Francisco.

The next thing you need to do is to configure as many real-time notifications as possible.

(thanks Donnie)

No, the real surprise was that after almost a decade out of major league baseball – an exile due in part to his inability to control his mouth – Bobby Valentine, a sixty-two year old man, was after all these years unable to control his mouth.

Rough start for the Red Sox this year.

I think webOS still has an opportunity to be a really interesting option (likely running on “Android” hardware)- it’s a great mobile OS.

MailCatcher runs a super simple SMTP server which catches any message sent to it to display in a web interface.

This looks super useful! (thanks Greg)

I love the shot of all the models. (thanks Eric)