Okay, now I can start catching up. Here are a whole bunch of things I’ve really wanted to post about and haven’t had a chance. In no particular order:

Did you know you can send text messages from iChat to cell phones? I didn’t until a couple days ago. Here’s how. I tested it by texting to Elise—it works fine, and best of all you can use a keyboard instead of doing all that thumb-twiddling stuff.

Wolfgang’s Vault, the amazing repository of untold concert recordings, has resurrected Crawdaddy! The Magazine of Rock online. They have lots of new content, but from issue #14 here’s a reprint of a 1968 Paul Williams article about the current state of the music business. Amazing how similar the situation is these days, though from all I hear it’s actually worse now. This is a topic for another time, but it’s pretty obvious in five years the music business will bear very little resemblance to the complex and dysfunctional monster we have known all these years. I don’t know if it will be any better, but it will certainly be different.

Here’s a tutorial I want to try, from CreativePro.com: how to create the layered look in Photoshop. It gives kind of an Illustrator look to the image, and in fact you can go ahead and trace it in Illustrator if you want. Seems easy and pretty fun.

I followed a link from a cool shirt at my favorite t-shirt site, and found that I like Travis Pitt’s art work a whole lot.

There’s lots more—in fact I’m only halfway through my list—but I need to go do some things, so I’ll try to post later or tomorrow or something.