Yes, I’m alive. (Also: Bluetooth Rocks!) January 14
Yeah… so I haven’t posted in a while, huh? How I managed to be deprived of opportunities and/or motivation to write in this journal for the last six months or so is a long story, perhaps for another time. 
Suffice to say that my professional and personal lives are now (finally) back in a state that I actually feel like writing about UE stuff when I have time to, so this probably won’t be the last entry for another six months.
In other news… I got a new cellphone last month, and a new PowerBook a couple weeks ago. Bluetooth is officially the Coolest Geek Toy Ever, especially when Salling Clicker is involved. Thus far, there’s been a lot of noise in the academic HCI community over “attentive user interfaces” but not a lot of good real-world implementations; but now, I’ve quickly made the transition to living with a computer that (thanks to a wireless connection to the phone in my pocket) knows when I’m present and can react accordingly. In fact, I’m sometimes rather annoyed when other parts of my computing experience can’t be usefully presence-aware. (More on that another time.)
Anywho, today I threw together a Clicker script for iPhoto 4… going through hundreds of kitten photos to mark the cutest ones and delete the blurry ones is so much more comfortable when we can do it while relaxing on the couch instead of leaning over the keyboard. It’s a keypad script designed for the Sony Ericsson T608/T610/T616, but it should be easy to translate to other devices as well. Here it is in case you might find it useful.