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Wednesday, 12th September 2007

Ways in Which iTunes’s Just-Released Official Ringtone Support Is Weird, Rude, and/or Just Plain Buggy. I’ve long been saying that the existence of a ringtone “industry” is a bug, not a feature.

# 10:08 am / apple, itunes, john-gruber, ringtones

£5 app. Monthly Brighton meetup for people interested in building (and maybe selling) lightweight software with 1-2 man teams. Nat and I went along last night and really enjoyed it.

# 12:12 pm / brighton, events, fivepoundapp

Paul Otlet described the “radiated library” in 1934. Beating Vannevar Bush in predicting something not unlike the Web by more than a decade.

# 5:28 pm / history, jason-kottke, paul-otlet, radiatedlibrary, vannevar-bush

A CouchDB GUI front end. Written in C# and .NET. It looks like writing frontends for CouchDB could make an excellent project for learning a new GUI environment.

# 11:59 pm / ciarangultnieks, couchdb, csharp, dotnet