Had a nice, small, relaxed dinner and bowling last night to pre-celebrate my birthday. Peter and Thunder got me an excellent-looking rum and armagnac. Krissa got me an excellent Jim Morrison biography which I first read part of in Yass, and which I’d been looking forward to reading the rest of. Also the Moulin Rouge [...]
Google is apparently blocking some Iraqi videos in the US. Scary.
Update: False Alarm. Still, a shitty world where Google even has to give you the option to block by location- one of the whole points of this internet thingy is that it wasn’t supposed to matter where you were. Not google’s fault, just unpleasant.
My sister’s album finally made it up at cdbaby. Yay. :)
Went on a retreat with work Friday. Was good, and relaxing- shocking how much of a difference a day completely computer-free can make to your state of mind.
We’re beginning to move forward on the Digital Media Exchange at work; should be interesting to see it [...]
ChipX86: awesome. I look forward to playing with it, and maybe showing it off to co-worker David Weinberger, who really thinks tags are the bomb. Am particularly excited by the deskbar integration- I’ve actually removed my menu bar at this point and just use deskbar. Of course, that doesn’t help me when I have to [...]
Cool to see that Open Clip Art is using CC tools to distribute their stuff- great testing and development ground for CC’s stuff, and hopefully better clip art for the rest of us :)
Was pretty blah this morning with a cold, so I stayed home; after some extra sleep I played briefly with gimmie. Might [...]
Spent Thursday in DC for a conference hosted by the Anti-Spyware Coalition. Interesting; met a lot of smart folks and talked a bit of shop. Feel actually much more comfortable with ‘badware’ now- it is clear that overloading ’spyware’ to mean ‘things that spy on you, and also all that other bad stuff’ is confusing, [...]
CC is looking for Summer Interns. Pretty cool. We’re still looking for an engineer for stopbadware.org as well. I personally am crazy at work- lots of stopbadware stuff, plus h2o and dmx starting to eat away at my time again. But I love it- just really a great place to work, surrounded by great people.
Am [...]
Did a fresh dapper install at work today (long story, involving much pain. vmware + XP, here I come.) Was really disappointed to see ‘Ekiga’ and ‘Evolution’ in the menus, bare, with no description of what they are, nearly a full year after Miguel talked about the problem with Evolution’s menu item at GUADEC. Otherwise, [...]