Email from my mother: Yepeeeeeeeeeeeey , MAUI is great, getting my rental gear now. Was flying business class , now I am spoiled for life :) The next day, an IM while I was away: crazy windsurfing conditions here, need...
July 2005 Archives
Your rights to photograph
Your Rights and Remedies When Stopped or Confronted for Photography The general rule in the United States is that anyone may take photographs of whatever they want when they are in a public place or places where they have permission...
Fu
Wherein all things can be likened to kung-fu movie story lines / ancient chinese philosophy. The Wu Wa Wei Clan are warrior monks who live, study and train in a temple over on the mountainside. One of the nearby villages...
Oh yes.
My my. Two groups of system-defined and managed "cross posting slugs" (for reBlog goodness via slug-based RSS extraction1), author specific "tags" AND suggestions, based on all three arrays. You, whoever coded the del.icio.us tags UI on the post page,...
Letting go, moving on
Slowly but surely this "weblog" will be completely taken apart and rebuilt. I just unhooked the combined feed functionality. No more photolog and links in the main feed. I'm undecided as to whether those will be turned on at all,...
Tags in MT admin interface
It took a few hours but I've gone and done it. I hacked out the "suggested tags" UI goodies from del.icio.us and grafted it into the Movable Type admin's "Edit Entry" template. Now for my purposes, the "suggested tags"...
Local Google Map "Point of Interest"
In Tagzania I found the (so-far) only Montreal tagged Google Map point. This particular spot is pointed out as showing 3 seasons in one spot. The spot in question is just after the north bound access ramp to Highway 13,...
"We're not afraid!"
Right... The man shot and killed on a subway car by London police in front of horrified commuters had nothing to do with this month's bombings on the city's transit system, police said Saturday in expressing their regrets. They identified...
How da??
Somehow, I find myself in the unenviable position where I, a non-programmer, must figure out how to do tag intersections in PHP + SQL. How's that for meta? :D And it's such a beautiful day outside......
CC license jurisdictions
After my "set your Flickr license to Creative Commons!" post the other day, Mikel pointed out jurisdiction issues. I pinged Joi about it and he gave me a quick cryptic response (WiFi in airplanes rots your brains!), but one which...
Attention Siobhan
You just sent me an inquiry via my contact form. But you did not supply a valid email address. (I need to pop in some kind of validator...)...
Flickr & Creative Commons
Help push the more widespread awareness of the use of Creative Commons licenses on Flickr. You can copy and paste the code below into your Flickr Profile's "Describe Yoruself" field: ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please consider changing your Flickr photo license option...
Getting the job done
CTIN511 - Larry Gertz, originally uploaded by JulianBleeckr. Super impressive backchannel setup at the USC IMD. While a visiting lecturer speaks, the class takes notes and group-edits a single document (using SubEthaEdit), one person acts as "Google jockey", searching...
Yes, we have no bananas
There are NO air conditioning units left to be had (from the "big box" style retailers) anywhere on the Island Of Montreal. On the other hand, I now have THREE bicycles sitting in my living room. All of them more...
Touché
Damn... I'm on the verge of popping a reblog feed of Andrew's blog in my sidebar...The Karl Rove situation is a litmus test for just how far the Bush administration is willing to go to cling to power and lie...
Free Montreal WiFi Google mapped
Michael barked at me that "it's in WifiDOG CVS now!" the other night and I guess it's cause I haven't sparked my aggregator in a week that I missed it but... Here's a standalone GoogleMap of all Ile Sans Fil...
Bit Torrent Opera
Yahoo/AP reports: The upcoming Opera 8.0.2, now available in a test version, will try to make BitTorrent downloads seamless, just like any other download using HTTP or FTP for transfers. The exception is the appearance of a warning that users...
Long ride
14 miles... 21 kilometers. Olympic Stadium and the "Biodome" geodesic dome on Ile Ste-Helene. We stopped for japanese dinner at Osaka on way home. :)...
Microsoft says
Teach your kids the basics of safer blogging before they start Dated July 7th, MS published this article in their "Security At Home > Child Safety" webzine. Interestingly, much of it applies to everyone, not just kids: - Ask yourself...
Remote backup script...
I've got an idea for a shell script/program that would be very useful to me, and probably countless others. In fact I bet countless others have already coded something like it up... Requirements: I don't care what programming language it's...
Some Soundsystem
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah, yeah... yeah, yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah, yeah... yeah, hey, hey, hey, hey Everybody keeps on talking about it... nobody's getting it done I'm gettin' tired, tired, tired of listening, listening... knowing...
Global Voices
So, we launched our redesign of Global Voices this evening. We absolutely had to "let 'er rip" today for various reasons, and as such we've allowed a few loose ends which I need to nail down over the coming days....
From my referer logs...
Haven't done this in aaaaaaages... Someone from "Distrito Federal, Buenos Aires, Argentina" searched for: photolog+sexy And roughly 11 hours later someone from "Region Metropolitana, Santiago, Chile" searched for: photolog+voyeur Obviously, their curiosity was not satisfied....
Also a bicycling weekend...
Basically the last 4 days have been wake up, code code code, eat, code code design code, bicycle bicycle eat, design design code, sleep. Most excellent Michael Lenczner has lent me a most craptasic 15 year old stolen-and-repainted-numerous-times mountain bike...
Wordpress weekend
OMG! I can write plugins!!! ... ... ... OMG! I HAVE TO write plugins... ;p Yes, I will be releasing two things:a WP plugin that extracts media file URLs from posts, allowing you to link them with a nifty icon...
Little PHP help pleeeease?
I'm wanting to write a little function to use in a WordPress template which will do the following: Taking an input haystack (which would be an entire weblog entry), find the first occurrence of the needle ".mp3". First chop off...
Mappin my route
Too cool. My jogging route. 4km each way. 4km uphill, 4km down. Be sure to check out the satellite view too (eventhough there are dang clouds in the way). (PDF for posterity)...
Sophisticated krishnas
The Hare Krishnas from down the street just went by. They seem to have hired a new arranger cause instead of just chanting, they had an accordion and some real bongos and were doing the traditional "hare hare krishna krishna"...
Fair and balanced?
I'd like to point out that, assuming that the terrorist attacks in London were perpetrated by Al-Quaeda / Muslim "extremists" - Der Spiegel and BBC Monitoring have reported a claim of responsibility by "Secret Organization - AlQuaeda in Europe" as...
A brief history of Podcasting
The first Podcaster The first Podcast Celebrity. Coca Cola anybody? Most ironic thing heard on a Podcast Today: "Indie nine one one, the best in unsigned, independant and undependant music... Sponsored by Audi!" - Indie911 Podcast Channel This must...
Slow motion cold
I've had a raw sore throat for well over two weeks now, and horking up small wads of mucous from the back of my throat. At first it was just annoying and, in typical fashion, I just bore it and...
Can hate be good?
"Hate something, change something." That's what was on the mind of Honda engineers when they supposedly made a better diesel engine. Interesting. I think it is an all-out race to not only find any and all alternatives for fossil fuels,...
Holy map!
Mobile GMaps is a free piece of software that displays Google Maps and Keyhole satellite imagery on Java J2ME-enabled mobile phones or other devices. Apparently it is super slow, and I imagine it sucks up alot of limited expensive bandwidth......
WOah
This may be old news but it's new to me; as Francis says, No joke. WebObjects is included with Tiger. For free. Amazing. While this *is* cool, it's sad too. Nevermind that the learning curve is high, it goes up...
Pointing thataway
I just want to point out that Joi's recent entry on the whole Live 8 thing has the best comment stream I've seen over there in a long time. (Sorry Joi... it's not you, it's the nutjobs and relentless pessimists...
It won't end
It won't end until I have run away and hidden myself so far and so deeply, that never will I know that you have left us. For without us, I could not continue. Ça ne finira pas Ça ne finira...
Apple Podcasts
I wonder if the next OS X "Security Update" will include an updated spellchecker which will recognize the word "Podcast", seeing how Apple now pretty much 0wnZ it... ;) Hrm... lemme spark up GarageBand here and......
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