missing out on flex?

Last week I finally started using an AIR application, TweetDeck, because my brother said it was cool. Now I'm reading about Flex and AIR, and I have to say, I might have been missing out on a good thing. It looks to me like Flex and AIR are together a powerful front-end platform for building nice applications... where by nice I mean the things that Ben Shine traditionally loves: smooth, swoopy, delicate, rounded, subtle, surprising, shiny.
This bears investigation.

what's running on port 8080?

I learned an important new unix command today: lsof. The name seems to stand for "list open files." The purpose of the command is to list information about the process who has opened a file. In unix-y OS's, sockets are file-ish, so lsof -i :8080 lists the process who opened the file named port 8080 on localhost, where ":8080" is interpreted as the address of a network file.
In my case, I traced the rogue 8080 to an instance of tomcat being started up by ~/Library/Caches/IntelliJIDEA70/tomcat_Unnamed_adomainahexid. I could tell from the domain name that this was a tomcat that I was developing with four months ago. Ouch.
I don't know why it was starting at system startup, but I'm not in the mood to dork around (anymore than I have already), so I rm -rf'd the cache directory and moved the tomcat install to apache-tomcat-6.0.18-hideme. It's gone now.

something else to hate about outlook 2003

When I reply to an email in Outlook 2003, the display of the original email in my inbox updates with the helpful annotation, "You replied on 2/6/2009 at 2:41 PM." That's fine.
What sucks, though, is that Outlook applies that annotation before I've actually sent the reply. There's a time period when I'm composing the reply during which Outlook claims that I've sent a reply to a message, but I I haven't actually replied yet.
Ways in which this might be disastrous are left as an exercise to the reader.