i like mittens

thanks marshall! the menu itself feels a little overdone in with the numbers of fonts and sizes in play, but i really like the way they dissect the different marketing rules at work.

of course, there's always the ultra-simple value proposition route that 37signls have been pioneering at http://basecamphq.com/signup with the simple pitch above the fold, and the complexity and additional documentation beneath. (and yes i know that there is no page fold, so sue me.)

Thanks Tobias! One of the thing that impressed me was how quickly the group self-organized productively. Each team focused nicely around their talents, and our PO was a definite rockstar. :)

Thanks again for another great perspective on the Scrum process. Hope we get a chance to work together again one day!

- andy

The blog entry is being drafted now, and the photos have just been posted at http://www.flickr.com/photos/downtempo/sets/72157...

Marshall is heading over now to your class today -- looking forward to hearing how it goes!

Thanks Joerg, you guys were great to talk with! Looking forward to meeting up again one of these days, and next time, i'll keep in mind that Nando's has a delivery service... ;)

Thanks Nick -- I was sorry to miss meeting you in person! Hopefully I'll catch you out in Cape Town the next time I visit, it would be great to meet more of the Cape Town Rails development community.

Definitely, Oliver! I really like the way that the WOT has an expression of Thawte's goal to "make the Internet a better, more secure place" and not just "make money fast". It's unfortunate that email encryption for the masses remains elusive to this day!

chris, great seeing you the other evening. i'd love to try this subtitling solution out. drop me an email at my email personal address (my first name at downtempo.net) and let's talk about it!

thanks for the feedback, chris!

it's actually even more complicated than i first thought when i wrote this blog post. i blurred the line between "closed captioning" and "subtitles", which while usually related, are somewhat different from each other. iTunes has support for closed captioning, but almost no video titles with closed captioning. iTunes has *no* support for subtitles unless they're burned into the video content itself (which means no on/off switch for subtitles!).

i don't know if i got the version of the DVD that has "ruined" subtitles, but i thought my subtitles were pretty good. but iTunes would be a great platform for distributing "corrected" versions of movies. they've done this in the past for episodes of TV shows that had video encoding errors.

i hadn't tried out Plex before - just checked it out and it looks pretty cool, and there's a nice MacWorld review of Boxee and Plex that reviews these together. too bad none of them can stream Apple's protected video content from my library!

what the world needs is a solid universal subtitles standard that supports int'l character sets, colors, positioning, and everything else that global subtitle audiences demand. if anyone has seen one that fits these demands, i'd appreciate it if you could add a comment and let us know.

Robert, good point on the OpenID / IntenseDebate issue. it's a known issue with the IntenseDebate plugin, and hopefully they'll fix it soon (although it's been 6 months ago since it was logged as "working on it")