Month: February 2004

I’m heading out to San Diego in the morning, and therefore have to charge up all of my gadgets.  Clockwise from the top left are a SPOT watch, AAAs for my DSC-U20 digital camera, my 3650, and my 9290.  Below is my ze4430us laptop, also charging.

In case a computer goes down at the house or if I loose connectivity, I’ll probably end up blogging at my backup blog.  If you don’t see lots of stuff from me in the next day or so, look for me over there.

I plan to keep notes here on the blog, so check back.

See y’all on the left coast.

Via Doc, it looks like there might be a helluva party at the emer3g1ng L0ft on Tuesday night.

I tend to do most of my online reading ahead of the Slashdot curve, but today I took some time to catch up with El Dot.  I’ve found that the most interesting bits rarely make it to the front page.  Here are the links that I looked at this evening:

• 10 Technologies That Refuse to Die.  Go Fortran!
• Broadband Reports has notes on tinkering with your WRT54G, which is really just a linux box in a funky blue dress.
• MozillaZine: Nvu 0.1 is out.  This project is backed by Lindows and released under a tri MPL/GPL/LGPL license.
• Bochs 2.1 is out.  It can now emulate AMD64 along with the classics.

I’ve started to get stuff together for the trip on Sunday out to San Diego for the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference.  Here’s a quick roundup of pre-Etech news and info:

• Danny O’Brien is going to be crashing at the Em3rg1ng L0ft, which should be the San Diego equivalent of Emerging Man.  If you’re still looking for a floor to crash on, look no further.
• Edd will be talking about BlueFOAF.
• Doug Kaye‘s IT Conversations will be covering the Digital Democracy Teach-In.
• Trevor Smith has remixed the session grid to an easy to grok At-A-Glance.  They make good desktop images, too.

Via Jeremy Hylton, Aikido is a new scripting language from Sun.  It is currently available for Solaris, Linux, and Mac OS X.

Cory announces on Boing Boing that Eastern Standard Tribe, his latest novel, is available for download and should be on store shelves in the next day or two.  The full text is available free of charge under a Creative Commons license, but don’t let that stop you from buying the book!

Mobilewhack points to a LinuxDevices article about Lycoris releasing a distro for PDAs called DL-PPC.  I wonder if I’ll be able to get it to run on my URThere @migo.

Here are some links for Monday:

• DevChannel has part two of their tutorial on web services with Axis.
• TheServerSide points to Zamples, which offers live code examples for the JDK 1.5 API.
• phpExifRW “is a pure PHP class to read, write, and transfer EXIF information that most digital cameras produce.”
• Via Newsforge, gnulinux.net reviews SuSE Enterprise Server 8.
• Werner Vogels helped finalize the lineup for Usenix 2004 over the weekend.
• CNet: the OMA released specs for DRM of mobile content.
• TechTV (via Gizmodo) reviews some of the top convertible Tablet PCs.  I still file them under cool but too expensive.  There’s a huge difference between sub-$1000/$1000ish and $2000ish.
• Anthony wants his mobile content.  Welcome to Mobitopia!
• CNet: TiVo is cutting prices on Series 2 hardware.

I’m tend to lurk a lot and talk a little in #joiito.  I also spend a fair amount of time on IRC, and have on and off since I was a kid.  I know that bots in IRC channels can be quite useful, but the bot feedback level is pretty high in #joiito today:

***laszlo [~laszlo@YahooBB219196000010.bbtec.net] has joined #joiito

<jibot>laszlo is a Tokyo-based journalist – http://www.issho.org/LaszloBlog and http://www.issho.org/PolyglotBang

<laszlo>chomp: http://www.issho.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1186 | IsshoNews (en): Professionals don’t steal

<shorten>laszlo’s url is at http://xrl.us/bemh

-surly:#joiito–  from laszlo 🙂      http://redirx.com/?xjg

<chomp>laszlo: URL posted.

Jibot is quite useful when in herald mode.  It makes mapping IRC nicks to people and blogs much easier.  We use a modified Chump bot in #mobitopia to keep track of and discuss links, and I don’t know if I could function well without it.  I’m not a huge fan of the url shortening services in IRC channels.  I could probably deal with one, but two seems a bit excessive.

Luckily the bots seem content with ignoring each other, or else we’d be in for some real fun.

Yes, I do know about the /ignore command, but I tend to find myself in front of several different clients throughout the day, so managing the /ignores is just not worthwhile.

Perhaps I’m just a bit cranky because it is monday.