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Sleep deprivation has some impact on me. I am trying to be an early riser starting last week. It’s nice to wake up early everyday, but the keep popping-up night activities didn’t do a help on the need of sleep. Coffee keeps me awake, I probably need one of this. Out of juice to write anything, here’s the stuff I am reading-on:

• Mark Pilgrim takes a hard look at the recently released Photocast of Apple iPhoto 6 — which spikes critics from the RSS community, and wondering does Apple do understand the standard?

To sum up, the “photocasting” feature centers around a single
undocumented extension element in a namespace that doesn’t need to be
declared. iPhoto 6 doesn’t understand the first thing about HTTP, the
first thing about XML, or the first thing about RSS. It ignores
features of HTTP that Netscape 4 supported in 1996, and mis-implements
features of XML that Microsoft got right in 1997. It ignores 95% of
RSS and Atom and gets most of the remaining 5% wrong.

• On the other hand, this shows a good rectification of UI improvement on disabling the annoyed MiniStore on iTunes 6.0.2 — the MiniStore is turned on by default, displaying at the bottom panel of your music library.
• Paul Graham: How To Do What You Love. I hit some bottleneck in works lately and been pondering for what I actually want to do. Definitely a must read for me.
• Charles Petzold’s talk at NYC .NET developer group: Does Visual Studio Rot the Mind?
• Code as Design: Three Essays by Jack W. Reeves