steven n fettig's Jitterin' Thoughts

This is a random, random post. I'm working on a customer's warranty claims and am finding two things missing on my Mac that I would find quite useful.
1) Somehow link my del.icio.us bookmarks tagged “weblogs” to my NetNewsWire account. All of the items tagged weblogs should automatically show up on my list of accounts under NetNewsWire. I'm not surprised no one has done this, but I am that no one else has mentioned how useful something like this would be. The problem I have with using disparate programs that keep track of the same data (in this case a web “application” and a real desktop application) is that there are seldom good ways to link the two.
2) I want more hosting providers to offer receiving email via ssl. Even if email in it, of itself is not secure (and it *isn't*), I'd like to see more show explicit support for at least encrypting email passwords. I travel a lot and am becoming more and more wary of snooping on wifi hotspots.
3) The wonderful and invaluable OpenBSD pf ported to OS X. Yes, a ridiculous request because of a) the difficulty I imagine something like this would entail and b) I haven't seen anyone else make the request through the right channels. I still prefer pf over ipfw for so many reasons, not the least of which that the designers/hackers of pf really do *understand* how a normal person uses a firewall.