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I guess if Becks makes the effort to move down the road I wil have to head down to LA to watch one of his first games for the Galaxy.

This will be a huge deal for the MLS. I would love to see the stats pre/post Beckham.

Maybe more adults will be bending it like Beckham over here, instead of playing until they are twelve and then moving on to more lucrative sports.

I have been playing a lot with GreaseMonkey recently, and ran into a bug that was confusing.

I had added a key combo of Control-Return/Enter to do some work. Nothing was happening when I did that combo so I looked to see what was going wrong.

I put in:

window.addEventListener('keydown', function(e) {
alert(e.keyCode);
}, false);

and started keying around.

Hitting enter/return came up with 13. Good.

Control by itself returned 17. Good.

Control (left or right) and the main Return came back with 77 (which is M)

Control (left or right) and the Enter came back with 67 (which is C)

This is all on FF 2.0.1. Safari came back with flying colors (not much help for GreaseMonkey of course).

This means that if I hack it and capture all of the key combos, if someone really does do a Control-M or a Control-C it would ALSO fire off this event.

Has anyone else run into this? To me, it means that I have to choose another modifier key. Time for Shift-Return I guess.

When the completion list shows up in the browser, I often am surprised that the plain old root address isn’t first on the list:

As a mini feature, I would love to be able to highlight the first item and hit the left arrow key (or something) and have it put the root URL in the bar. In this case, http://ajaxian.com/.

Does this bug anyone else?

How long until Billy G comes out with a 2 button iPhone? :)

• I have wanted a phone that is basically all screen forever. They did it
• Running OS X (Cocoa developer rejoice)
• Will Flash/Apollo run on that bad boy soon?
• How many iPods will be on eBay today?
• I would hate to be in the room w/ Bill G watching this. Nice try Zune :)

R/WW asks Browster Is Gone, But Are Web Previews Here To Stay?

I was at a startup event and got to see Browster. I was a tad shocked that there was a business model there, and I guess there wasn’t? The major problem was the plugin that had ads all over the place too.

I see snap used on more and more blogs. I don’t think I like mini versions of a web page being shown to me. Most of the time it is all too small to mean anything.

There is room for context specific popups (a la netflix, gap, etc) but a micro page makes little sense to me.

And, let me choose if I want it. Let’s decide that if I hold down [insert key here] while mousing over it does the magic preview thing. If not, all I want is for the browser to tell me where I am going via the URL. Leave me alone!

I am often the first to make fun of these lists.

It is nice to hear that the company you are about to join is top of a 100 Best Companies to Work For 2007 list.

Context is a huge thing, and it may be the worst company to work for depending on what your criteria are. I am excited to get going.

It is interesting to see the results mashed up nicely too:

Some cool new apps are being shown at CES (it isn’t just hardware) including the WPF version of Y! Messenger:

It definitely looks nice. I am trying to find the functionality that will make it a better experience beyond looking nice.

I do like being able to use the slider to tweak the size of contacts to my exact needs.

The grouping based on items such as “fantasy football group” is cool too.

The integration of video and text seems clean.

Flickr integration? Nice.

The crazy animation for emoticons? Nooooooo :)

2007 will have us seeing major eye-candy for Windows users. What will be the Delicious Monster on the PC?

Thanks to a bunch of email / IM and a couple of comments on my initial entry on portable GPS systems, I ended up going for the TomTom 910 and although I wasn’t impressed before buying it, I have been mildly happy with it.

The arm works well so far, is easy to use and take on and off, and very solid.

The voice system does a decent job. I like it when it tells me things in advance (take a left and then the second right), and the key is that it tells you road names, so instead of having to just get good at knowing what 300 yards is, you can look up and see ‘yes, this is Foo St’ and turn there.

The funny point so far: When sending me on County Rd MM it said “Take a right on county road millimeter”. Trying to be too smart for its own good.

I have a fair few family and friends in the medical field, and I look forward to what comes out of the Google healthcare work.

I think there is a lot of room for social medicine that uses the wisdom of crowds. We tend to trust our doctors and think of them as near god-like figures, yet they misdiagnose more than anyone thinks (not because they are bad, but because they are human).

I would love to see a network of doctors around the world with varied backgrounds (western, eastern, hell even voodoo).

Doctors (and in theory in time the public) could tap into the network with cases and the network could offer their comments, advice, and votes.

Has anyone registered Medicine 2.0?

Who could argue with this? If only he would listen.