My latest interest is looking at an API called OFX or Open Financial Exchange. OFX exists to allow clients to connect directly to financial institutions and download transactions. An example is downloading the transactions of a checking account for some period of time. I started looking into OFX because there seems to be a need for a good personal finance application for Mac OS X and the one feature missing from existing apps is live connectivity to banks.

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Lee Gomes of the Wall Street Journal has pieced together some informal statistics about the popular video sharing site YouTube.com. Among the exceedingly popular title keywords are:

“dance“, “love“, “music“, and of course “girl“

Can we say lapdance?

Sept. 2 Update: Read the article “Don’t touch that dial” featured on the Fortune magazine website.