Month: April 2005

Watch this if you are Canadian…or curious about how we do things up north.
Via canadiancomment and Neale News

I have 6.63GB of music on random in WinAMP right now. I love the mix!
A comment: Now that that the iPod Shuffle is has been sold to its new home, I am very glad to be rid of iTunes. I didn’t realize how bad it was until I re-installed WinAMP last night.
Wow. WinAMP has all the features I want. iTunes was non-intuitive and a processor/memory pig. iTunes doesn’t play OGG files, so I had to convert a lot of OGG files to MP3.
And if anyone wants to give me a present, and can’t afford a 15″ or 17″ Powerbook, this would be nice! Or this.

Ummm…Scoble, care to comment on this?
Via Eschaton.
I agree with Scoble that christianity is founded on solid priciples that we should use as one building block of our moral foundation; but most corporate Christian organizations have made intolerance and the feeling of moral superiority the foundations of their “faith”. [here and yes, the case in this sentence is important!]

The lazycoder brings joy to my heart with this. But in some respects, his comments are too narrow.
I have been working directly with right on the tip of the wave tech for over a decade. I have been at least in the front part of the wave with a number of other cool ideas.
In the last year, nothing has given me a tech thrill. Nothing has made me feel the intense love that Internet performance used to.
I am alone? Is the malaise rampant? Is there something out there that can drag all of us out of this deep, dark hole we have fallen into? Or has this cutting-edge, “new! New! NEW!” wave finally reached the beach?

Scobelizer comments on lazycoder.
Neuvo asks the same question I do.
Jeremy wants just one thing from Microsoft to excite him…
Cameron feels that the exodus trend is different from others.

In this post, where Scoble returns to his unabashed MSFT hyping (YAWN!), he does take time to remind us of Alan Turing.
One of the most influential thinkers in the mathematical, computing and intelligence sciences, Alan Turing was persecuted by the British government for being a gay man.
Did I mention that he was one of the people who finally broke the Enigma code, twice? The original code, and the refactored cipher.
If you ever get the chance, watch the film Breaking the Code. Derek Jacobi, who played Turing onstage for years prior to this film, captures the wide-eyed, yet courageous approach that this man brought to his life.

OMG! 96 processors and 192GB of computing power…at my desk?
C|Net brings us this joyous news.
Excuse me while I wipe up the drool….

Last post here on this topic.
Go read Kevin. He got promoted to my list of must reads with this posting.

Underlings! you will now refer to me by dark side name:

Inspired by Jon Carroll.
Linked to by tipperography.
Mass produced by … whump?
After the Microsoft/Gay Rights fiasco this weekend, today seems to be lighthearted insanity day.

The Newest Industry
The Newest Industry is a genetically-modified sheep that freezes anything it touches, follows a target of your choice and can heat a small house.

Mmmmm…meat that heats!
You have to use this!
Kind of reminds me of Step Right Up from Small Change.
Others:

Microsoft
Microsoft is a bedside table that keeps you warm at night and provides an RSS feed.

google
google is an electronic implant! It is water-resistant!

Oh man…10 minutes of my life I will never get back…

Via tipperography and bound by gravity

Go John!

“Although I blatantly admit that my promise was based more on joy and enthusiasm than my swimming abilities and physical health, I will do my very best to keep it,” he said in a statement.
Tetzchner entered the “freezing Oslo fjord” on Monday and started swimming toward the United States, the company said. Opera’s public relations manager, Eskil Sivertsen, is rowing an inflatable boat alongside Tetzchner “as an act of guilt after making the CEO’s statement public,” according to the Opera Web site.
It remains to be seen whether the CEO will actually complete the ambitious journey.
A map of the executive’s planned route features a stopover in Iceland for “Mum’s hot chocolate.” An update on Tetzchner’s swim is planned for Tuesday.

Is it just me, or is Opera the only company in the world that still has a sense of humour? I mean, they did bring the world their unique BORK! version of Opera 7.x.
Go Opera!