Kvetch I just can't stand anymore: When making pixel-perfect web mocks, I have to create faux underlines by hand because Firefox draws them two pixels lower than browsers do. I can forgive Photoshop for the discrepancy since it doesn't purport to be a web design tool (though its anti-aliasing of underlines and the obscure means for fixing this are another issue), but Fireworks is all about creating assets for the screen, and especially the web.

Got a fix? Email me!

Hey everyone, please spend 10 seconds and let me know what tool you used to read this post. I'm trying to find out how people read the stuff I publish online. I'll post the results in a few days. Thanks!

If you're like me (that is to say, a quasi-connected person in Silicon Valley) you may have noticed a surge in invitations to the professional social networks du jour (LinkedIn, Facebook*, Plaxo). It's well established that a slight surge in new user signups in these services can result in a quick 'bloom' of contact requests, as new users induce other new users to sign up and so forth.

My theory is that this week's rumor of impending Yahoo! layoffs has resulted in a smattering of Yahoos signing up or fleshing out their networks, cascading in to a general surge of activity.

What do you think?

Rachel and I went to Macworld Expo today. We saw the MacBook Air, saw friends and some other cool stuff, and came home. Eager to try out the new iPhone goodies I tried to update my iPhone to today's 1.1.3 release and it locked up midway. Now when I plug it in to my computer, iTunes tells me it sees an iPhone in 'recovery mode' and do I want to erase and restore the iPhone or cancel? Trying to eras and restore results in an 'unknown error (6)' on my desktop mac, and results in an 'unknown error (1611)' when I try from my MacBook.

I've seen twitters from others who experienced an initial crash, but whose iPhones recovered afterward. The kicker is that my original iPhone had some hardware audio issues that were sufficient for the Genius at the Apple Store to swap me for a new iPhone yesterday, so my one-day-old iPhone is now bricked and it looks like I'll be quickly catching up with Rachel, who is currently on her third iPhone.

About half the people I know with iPhones have had a hardware swap-out since they got their phones. It's no wonder Apple needs revenue-share contracts with the wireless carriers. I'm betting they're not making much on hardware that needs to be replaced so frequently.

Anyone else have a problem upgrading to 1.1.3?

This might sound weird, but I haven't carried a key with me for the last three years. My Prius has a keyless ignition system where the car will open for me and start if I have the wireless doohickey in my pocket. The car has HomeLink, so I can open my garage door and my home from the car, and my badge would get me into Google.

Now I've traded the badge for an office key and it feels vaguely odd to carry around security physically encoded into a small metal shim. Still, it's not half as odd as not wearing a badge at my waist anymore. Several times a day I find myself idly grabbing for it at my side and, coming up empty, checking if I clipped it to my other pocket.

It's Day Three and things at FriendFeed are terrific. The pipeline is so short between our brains and the hands of our users (okay, mixed metaphors make for really disturbing mental pictures). Okay, got to go to work now. Later!

Today's my first day at FriendFeed! Paul wrote up a really nice intro.