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June 19, 2007 at 17:03
tags: blog, life
I’ve been thinking about this for a while, and I think I’m done with Web 2.0 mashups.
Ever since the sale of last.fm to CBS, I haven’t felt comfortable submitting my listening data. Most of you know I’ve felt the same way about Google and now I feel the same way now about delicious, flickr, facebook, etc. I’ve already moved my data off last.fm and soon I’ll remove it from the others.
The biggest loss for me is delicious, but I think I’ll be able to do something similar in this blog — maybe with a plugin or just how I tag it. As far as calendaring, photos, video and music sharing, I think between iCal, iPhoto and WebDAV, I can do most of what I want to do. Dreamhost even has BitTorrent and flash encoders to do file and video sharing.
Once I have more free time, I’ll explain my master plan in detail, but by the end of the month, I’ll be Web 2.0 free. Seriously. Why should CBS have my music listening habits? Why should Google know who I have appointments with? Why should Yahoo know what sites I’m recommending to my friends? Why should Facebook know what movies I want to see? It’d be one thing if they had clearly defined policies on what they do with the data, but they don’t.
You guys should join the revolution.
June 19, 2007 at 7:56
tags: blog
I know there was some issues with leaving comments on the blog, and I believe all those have been fixed.
In case someone on the internets stumbles on this page (or I run into the same problem again), the solution is to add a function_exists around the gravatar div in comments.php template.
<?php if (function_exists(‘gravatar’)) {?>
<div class=”gravatar”>
<img src=”<?php gravatar(“R”, 40); ?>” alt=”Gravatar” />
</div>
<?php } ?>
If you have no idea what this means, then don’t worry about it.
June 18, 2007 at 8:00
tags: life
It’s not everyday that I write that headline.
I figured since I was going to be out of country, I’d treat myself to some nice bacon and eggs for breakfast on Sunday. I had picked the most innocent looking pieces of bacon from the store but when they started to fry, the delicious strips developed a look — a look of danger…a look from the streets.
A few minutes later, I felt the sting of hot grease on my nose, I yelped and swung back at the bacon. Alas, that only resulted in bacon grease all over the stove. The ensuing mess brought me back to a more sensible state. Clearly, fighting inanimate pieces of flesh was not what I wanted to be doing at that moment.
I headed to the bathroom to examine the damage on my nose. A quick check revealed nothing so I headed to the kitchen to finish breakfast (and seek righteous revenge on the pork perpetrators). Revenge never tasted so good.
I hopped in the shower an hour later and when I was done I checked myself out in the mirror. I was still pretty (whew) but now missing a piece of skin on my nose. The time in the shower had apparently removed the skin the bacon had cooked in the short time on my face.
I’d always thought bacon a safe and friendly food, but this experience has shaken that foundation. Bacon is clearly some sort of terrorist organization. You have been warned.
June 15, 2007 at 16:31
tags: research
Been playing with the gadgets I brought with me to Boston. The pictures are being taken with N95 camera phone and I’m carrying the WBT201 GPS logging my location every second.
The software I’ve been using is slightly tricky. I use Nokia’s Media Transfer tool to move the images from the phone to my Mac. Then I’ve got a custom (Intel with expat support) version of gpsbabel to pull the traces off the GPS and convert them into nmea and gpx format. GPSPhotoLinker geotags the images before I drop them into iPhoto. The iPhotoToGoogleEarth plugin can export all the images with the nmea trace in a kmz which Google Earth opens beautifully.
The GPS is pretty accurate despite the trees and buildings. You can see that from the point that I shot the image, I have a great view of the basketball court. If you have GoogleEarth you can grab a copy of the entire trace.
June 14, 2007 at 9:11
tags: openmrs, rwanda
Made some changes to the SVN version of OpenMRS (alpha branch and form entry module) to better support my OS X build.
Haven’t checked in changes but basically there is some application logic that looks for OS X and changes how commands (jar, lcab, cabextract) and where it stores the OpenMRS files (~/.OpenMRS). Thanks to a broken darwinports server, lcab had to be installed manually (/usr/local/bin/lcab) and cabextract has to be installed in darwinports (/opt/local/bin/cabextract). Either way, the code looks for the binaries in /usr/local/bin/. I’ll be documenting this fact soon.
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