I had a fantastic time meeting everyone last week at OSCMS2007.

I know that some are still waiting for our notes from the discussion on community websites, as well as my source code from the theming presentation. Unfortunately, while coding away on my idea for the upcoming Last.fm module (and squeezing the last drop out of the conference with Greg, Dries, CHX and the Lullabot crew at the Sheraton) my hard drive bit the dust.

Michael Wolff has written a piece on Steve Jobs for the April 2006 issue of "Vanity Fair."

This impressionistic piece is good. Wolff writes of Jobs

... it turns out that Jobs is not marginal, or eccentric, or even fanciful at all. His is the at-one-with-the-American-consumer golden gut.

Calling Jobs the "ultimate media guy," who has outdone Bill Gates at every turn, Wolff declares Jobs the real winner.

The reader wonders if the claim is valid - at least I wondered. Isn't Microsoft far and away more commercially successful than Mac?

Well, Wolff has that covered.

... one day in the near recent past everybody woke up and found out that while all the geniuses were blathering on about content this and content that, the media culture had, in fact, come to be dominated by machines. It's Steve's gadget-centric world which we just live in.

I don't often write about gadgets and tools, so I thought I'd share some of my faves right here on my own computer.

Cyberduck -- A freeware ftp program for Mac that stands right up there with shareware Fetch. My only complaint is that it has one or two quirks in how it interfaces with Textwrangler (below). But nothing I can't live with. In fact, I find the interface a bit more intuitive than Fetch, so even though the dog has my 50 bucks ($25 each for two seats), I think I'll be working with the duck.

Textwrangler -- My favorite coding toy. It's easy to navigate, what with its document drawer, can open and save files directly via sftp/ftp, color codes program code, and does nice diff work. And best of all it's free. (But I may take advantage of a short-term sale to upgrade to BBEdit, which has all of these features plus the CVS capabilities I've been needing.)