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I first heard of Mint when it came out, but I never really looked at it too deeply. A few months ago I heard about Mint again, and heard about Peppers, and wondered what the heck Peppers were… Well, Peppers are plugins for Mint.

Pepper is a cute name for Mint plugins. Pepper. Mint. Peppermint! There is even a 3rd party plugin site named Peppermint Tea.

Maybe it’s just me, but I sort of found the name ‘Pepper’ a little goofy. Yes, it distinctly says that we are talking about a plugin for Mint, but why not just call them plugins? Maybe since Mint is aimed towards web geeks, it’s ok, and if you are geeky enough to know that a Pepper is a plugin, it’s all good.

Still, should the WordPress folks have called their plugins “Papers” or “Letters” or something? Should the Movable Type folks call their plugins “Typefaces” or something? They we’d have to explain that a plugin for application X is called a “Foo” and a plugin for application Y is called a “Bar” and so on…

You like videoblogs? Good… You are in for a treat…

April 3rd, 2006 through April 9th, 2006 is Videoblogging Week 2006. Folks from the Yahoo! Videoblogging Group will be attempting to post one new video each day during the week. Fire up your copy of FireAnt, or democratize yourself with the Democracy Player, and keep an eye on videobloggingweek2006.blogspot.com

Have you checked out the O’Reilly Radar lately?

Tag overload!

Or as I like to call it: tags gone wild!

It’s like Web 2.0 on steroids!

Just over a year ago we wondered if Garmin Hates Macs? and at the time, it seemed they did.

Has anything changed? Supposedly on January 10, 2006 they announced GPS Product Support for Mac OS X. Cool! Though they might want to update their FAQ, which says “Garmin does not support Macintosh computers at this time and does not have Macintosh software or connectors available” to match the above statement.

Honestly I don’t know what the Garmin statement means yet, I may have to ask the macmap Yahoo! Group to decipher it.

Update: See Garmin’s Mac Outpost in the Desert… and the Garmin Blog: Apple/Mac category.

I started toying around with Amazon S3, looking at the some of the code samples and just trying to get an idea of what I might be able to do with it…

Matt Croydon uses it to backup Flickr photos, and I’m sure others will come up with neat ideas, as well as working code do to some very cool things. Give them hackers some time, I think this will be big.

So far I’ve done little more than make some buckets, put files, and get files, but eventually I’ll probably dig into the Perl or PHP code a bit more and see what I can come up with. Thanks Amazon!