Paper towels in the restroom. Faucets that turn on and off by hand. Sometimes, it’s nice to have a good flow of water without having to worry about hand positioning. Bowls of Ghirardelli Milk Chocolate squares next to the ice water dispenser. Yum! Free!

I will be doing a lot of micro-posting this week on Twitter. My personal blog at ForkBender.com and this blog at CharlesSieg.com will be sharing this unedited feed. The URL is http://twitter.com/ForkBender.

The ultimate luxury for a modern day business traveller is peace of mind. I am on the way to the 2008 WWDC in San Francisco. I had a 3:05pm flight out of O’Hare until a wicked thunderstorm blew through the Midwest. Now that has become a 4:30pm flight. No big deal for me; other than that, the whole airport experience has been quite pleasant. I got checked in, checked in my one bag (first bag still free with United!

I did end up having a bit of trouble with Versions and Beanstalk. It happened when I upgraded my Beanstalk account to a paid account and, as part of the upgrade, got HTTPS connectivity to my repositories. When I changed the repository URL in Versions from the original HTTP version to the new HTTPS one, I ran into an error: Server certificate verification failed: issuer is not trusted There was more to it than that but that was the important part.

I recently decided to start using source control for my Mac software development. Yes, yes, I use source control - Subversion - all day long at work but had not gotten around to using it at home for other projects. One of the reasons is that I simply don’t want the hassle of setting everything up. I want to code, not fool around with the administrative tedium of doing backups, maintaining a repository, setting up SSL and securing the server, etc.

General Motors Gives Green Light to Volt GM finally got around to sending their electric car - Volt - to the production line. The first models are due in showrooms in 2010.

I have been resisting the urge to spend any time using Twitter. However, I have recently conceived of a few areas of my life where it might be interesting to do some real-time micro-posting. So I’ll be testing out the service over the next couple of weeks. In particular, I am aiming to do some real-time posting from the WWDC next week. I’ll be arriving in San Fran on Sunday, leaving on Friday.

AT&T Purportedly Nixes Retail Employee Vacations Between June 15 and July 12: “ Leaked memo states they wish to ensure sufficient staffing for ‘an exciting Summer Promotional Launch.’ They did the same thing last year for the original iPhone debut. So, question: Will there be tens of thousands of people across the country lined up all day waiting to buy the new iPhones, just like last year? I say yes.

Vodafone to Offer Apple’s iPhone in Ten Markets: “ On the newswire today: Vodafone today announced it has signed an agreement with Apple to sell the iPhone in ten of its markets around the globe. Later this year, Vodafone customers in Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy, India, Portugal, New Zealand, South Africa and Turkey will be able to purchase the iPhone for use on the Vodafone network.

VMware Fusion 2.0 Public Beta: “ Free upgrade for current VMware Fusion owners. New features include multiple monitor support, 3D acceleration, and conversion of Parallels virtual machines. ‘★’ “ (Via Daring Fireball.)