Music has an odd power over me. It can subtly and direct manipulate my emotions. Like right now, Led Zepplin is really talking to me, deep in that emotional groove. Two months ago, I wouldn’t have given it a second listen. Also, Radiohead has floated back to the top.

Weird, eh?

I have been maintaining [my wife’s professional site](http://redbeedesigns.com) for the last few years using TextMate and half a brain. I converted both of our WordPress weblogs to use Subversion a couple of weeks ago. This will allow me to upgrade the sites without disturbing my custom code (what of it that there is) with a simple “svn co” command.

I host with [TextDrive](http://textdrive.com) and they allow shell access and Subversion repositories. I created a simple Subversion endpoint and imported all of Tammy’s web content into one spot. Now I can check out a file or working copy, edit away and commit the changes, all with a roll-back option. Sweet!

ethmar.com – EMFeed: “And now, the Holy Grail of Vegan cuisine: Tofu. Yes, tofu has finally graced our kitchen, and I’m here to tell you that speaking for myself, tofu is pretty darn boring. How anyone can claim that tofu is a 1:1 substitute for anything ‘carnivores’ like is a stinking miserable lie. But, I have a site to run and content to push, and besides, you for sure have one life to live, so try new things, huh?”

I’m on the [NetNewsWire](http://ranchero.com/netnewswire) beta mailing list (thanks Brent!) and this nugget crossed my mail reader this morning:

“Finally — I don’t do polls because numbers don’t tell me much. I’m a words geek, not a numbers geek.”

I can say that his apps benefit from this kind of quality feedback. It forces people like his beta testers to think, rationalize and then explain what’s right or wrong with a feature. It’s much better than “thumbs down” or “thumbs up”. It’s one of the primary reasons I use the software–the human factor.

If you’re coming here on a search for Panic Coda serial number, you’re lame. Buy the software and reward someone’s efforts instead of stealing. Just because you want something “real bad” doesn’t mean it’s OK to use a cracked serial number.

I bought it and so should you.

Engadget HD: “It appears that Mark Cuban wants to continue to set the bar high and has announced that he has already pre-ordered a few of those new 4k Red Digital Cameras that it seems everyone can’t stop talking about.”

dive into mark: “This problem actually occurred to me in passing. Then I took a nice satisfying shit and forgot all about it.”

l.m.orchard’s OPML blog: “Good morning. I wish that whomever had discovered coffee had been enshrined in myths and legends throughout time, perhaps as some sort of cousin to Prometheus in some versions of the tale.”

Tammy Kirks: “As they saying goes, ‘It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.’ That became very true on Saturday morning when Valerie called us to say she was going to an auction that had a Heywood-Wakefield dining room set we might be interested in.”

That’s so true. Click the link above for more, including two great photos of our dining room with the table. Also, we’ve got our old table up for sale and I’ll work on photos of that later this week…

dive into mark: “After it was filed, I got a $1500 bonus in my next paycheck. I saw the money and cried. I swore I would donate the money to the EFF Patent Busting Project, but it too got swallowed up by food and medical expenses and daycare and an unexpected tax payment and yes, mortgage payments. At our next quarterly all-hands meeting, my boss’s boss’s boss called me out specifically for a job well done on my first patent. I put the phone on mute and cried some more.”