https://maisonbisson.com/ Recent content on MaisonBisson Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Fri, 17 Nov 2023 21:42:59 -0800 https://maisonbisson.com/post/geeking-out-on-45-photography/ Fri, 17 Nov 2023 21:42:59 -0800 https://maisonbisson.com/post/geeking-out-on-45-photography/ A set of links to videos I used to remind myself how to use my Toyo 45A 4×5 field camera, and a bit of inspiration I needed to get out there with it. https://maisonbisson.com/post/software-architects/ Thu, 27 Apr 2023 17:26:51 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/software-architects/ Somebody mentioned Gregor Hohpe&rsquo;s book The Software Architect Elevator. I&rsquo;m going to have to read it to be able to reconcile it against this feedback that emphatically states there&rsquo;s no room for architects in software. https://maisonbisson.com/post/product-management-advice-from-ford/ Sun, 16 Jan 2022 04:30:14 -0800 https://maisonbisson.com/post/product-management-advice-from-ford/ People can&rsquo;t always tell you why they like something. And when they do, they often point to things they can describe—or feel comfortable describing—rather than the real reasons. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-numbers/ Sat, 15 Jan 2022 00:54:03 -0800 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-numbers/ Why is Trump suddenly a public advocate of vaccines and booster shots? Somebody did the math for him, according to Donald G. https://maisonbisson.com/post/crypto-crazy/ Tue, 11 Jan 2022 02:04:25 -0800 https://maisonbisson.com/post/crypto-crazy/ The conclusion from Garbage Day: We have an entire class of wealth holders now who have assets that are not connected to any particular country. https://maisonbisson.com/post/gli-inet-ttl/ Sat, 08 Jan 2022 01:24:31 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/gli-inet-ttl/ I sometimes use a GL-iNet AR750S Slate instead of tethering to my phone. It&rsquo;s a nice, compact device, but I needed to change the TCP/IP TTL for one application. https://maisonbisson.com/post/b2c2b-is-the-new-b2b/ Thu, 15 Jul 2021 01:07:45 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/b2c2b-is-the-new-b2b/ The most recent StackOverflow developer survey shows 77% of developers prefer to use a free trial as a way to research a new service. https://maisonbisson.com/post/software-supply-chain-security-sboms-and-bidens-cybersecurity-executive-order/ Wed, 14 Jul 2021 01:38:10 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/software-supply-chain-security-sboms-and-bidens-cybersecurity-executive-order/ The Biden administration&rsquo;s May 12 executive order on cybersecurity outlined the most comprehensive government policy yet to protect public and private resources from cyber attack, and laid out a number of requirements for federal information systems going forward. https://maisonbisson.com/post/every-journalist/ Tue, 01 Dec 2020 00:02:55 -0800 https://maisonbisson.com/post/every-journalist/ Ryu Spaeth on the dirty job of journalism: [E]very journalist [&hellip;] at some point will have to face the morally indefensible way we go about our business: namely, using other people to tell a story about the world. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-three-tribes-of-the-internet/ Mon, 30 Nov 2020 00:09:41 -0800 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-three-tribes-of-the-internet/ Authors Primavera De Filippi, Juan Ortiz Freuler, and Joshua Tan outline three competing narratives that have shaped the internet: libertarian, corporate, and nationalist. https://maisonbisson.com/post/happy-db-cooper-day-fa0a30c/ Sat, 28 Nov 2020 20:00:00 -0800 https://maisonbisson.com/post/happy-db-cooper-day-fa0a30c/ D.B. Cooper day is celebrated on this day, the Saturday following Thanksgiving, every year. https://maisonbisson.com/post/vitaminwater-nophoneforayear-contest/ Sun, 22 Nov 2020 19:44:09 -0800 https://maisonbisson.com/post/vitaminwater-nophoneforayear-contest/ Back in the before times, Vitaminwater invited applicants to a contest to go a full year without a smartphone or tablet. https://maisonbisson.com/post/membership-driven-news-media/ Fri, 23 Oct 2020 14:23:09 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/membership-driven-news-media/ From The Membership Guide&rsquo;s handbook/manifesto: Journalism is facing both a trust crisis and a sustainability crisis. https://maisonbisson.com/post/political-bias-in-social-media-algorithms-and-media-monetization-models/ Thu, 22 Oct 2020 13:26:04 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/political-bias-in-social-media-algorithms-and-media-monetization-models/ <p>New reports reveal yet more structural political biases in consumption and monetization models.</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/media-monetization-vs.-internet-advertising/ Fri, 14 Aug 2020 14:54:53 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/media-monetization-vs.-internet-advertising/ Structural problems The internet is structured in favor of ad networks. Ad spend grows approximately at the rate of inflation, but the inventory of pages on which those ads can appear grows with each new Instagram post (about 100MM per day). https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-argument-against-likes-aim-for-deeper-more-genuine-interactions/ Sat, 08 Aug 2020 13:33:30 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-argument-against-likes-aim-for-deeper-more-genuine-interactions/ It’s worth revisiting the infamous 2005 definition of social software as software that facilitates social encounters: https://maisonbisson.com/post/paid-reactions-virtual-awards-and-tipping/ Fri, 07 Aug 2020 12:01:11 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/paid-reactions-virtual-awards-and-tipping/ Likes and reactions can stimulate more signal, leading to more user-activity on a site, but reactions that members pay to give to creators and other members on the site can be a revenue source. https://maisonbisson.com/post/social-media-reactions/ Thu, 06 Aug 2020 11:48:30 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/social-media-reactions/ Reactions in Twitter DMs. Likes are a most perfect binary, but the meaning of a like can vary. https://maisonbisson.com/post/likes-vs.-faves/ Wed, 05 Aug 2020 11:40:11 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/likes-vs.-faves/ Wikipedia credits Vimeo for introducing the first like button as a more casual alternative to favorites. https://maisonbisson.com/post/all-my-flickr-photos-for-indexing-and-archiving/ Wed, 03 Jun 2020 21:47:29 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/all-my-flickr-photos-for-indexing-and-archiving/ Links to all my photos in Flickr. 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size, large size Photo page, original size, large size Photo page, original size, large size Photo page, original size, large size Photo page, original size, large size Photo page, original size, large size https://maisonbisson.com/post/honey-cocktails-eau-de-lavender/ Tue, 12 May 2020 21:25:02 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/honey-cocktails-eau-de-lavender/ Liquor.com&rsquo;s recipe for eau de lavender, from a larger collection of cocktails with honey. They all look and sound delightful, but I can vouch for the eau de lavender. https://maisonbisson.com/post/satellite-tracking/ Sun, 19 Apr 2020 21:06:37 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/satellite-tracking/ If you&rsquo;re not reading Skyriddles blog, then you&rsquo;re not tracking the sky above. And you might have missed the re-discovery of a satellite launched in 1967 and lost for nearly 50 years. https://maisonbisson.com/post/b-iomx4h0bc/ Tue, 24 Mar 2020 23:31:26 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/b-iomx4h0bc/ @nakedlunchsf was notable for having both a strong contender for the best burger in the city, and the best veggie sando. https://maisonbisson.com/post/when-unzip-fails-on-macos-with-utf8/ Tue, 04 Feb 2020 21:14:59 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/when-unzip-fails-on-macos-with-utf8/ unzip can fail on macOS when UTF-8 chars are in the archive. The solution is to use ditto. https://maisonbisson.com/post/tiktok-vs-instagram/ Fri, 03 Jan 2020 15:02:46 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/tiktok-vs-instagram/ Connie Chan: Rather than asking users to tap into a video thumbnail or click into a channel, the app’s AI algorithms decide which videos to show users. https://maisonbisson.com/post/swipegram-template/ Sun, 29 Dec 2019 20:59:14 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/swipegram-template/ Benjamin Lee&rsquo;s instructions and downloadable template to make panoramic carousel Instagrams (AKA #swipegram), as illustrated via his animation above. https://maisonbisson.com/post/b5i4dv8piil/ Sun, 01 Dec 2019 21:33:14 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/b5i4dv8piil/ “It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. https://maisonbisson.com/post/b4lw8ffjjpt/ Fri, 08 Nov 2019 03:53:54 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/b4lw8ffjjpt/ “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” https://maisonbisson.com/post/notes-about-spotify-creator-features/ Sun, 03 Nov 2019 15:31:29 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/notes-about-spotify-creator-features/ Spotify often gets bashed by top creators. The service pays just $0.00397 per stream, but with 108 million users listening to an average of 25 hours per month, those streams can add up for creators who can get the listener&rsquo;s attention. https://maisonbisson.com/post/exiftool-examples-i-use-for-encoding-analog-camera-details/ Sun, 03 Nov 2019 07:08:57 -0800 https://maisonbisson.com/post/exiftool-examples-i-use-for-encoding-analog-camera-details/ <p>I&rsquo;m a stickler for detail and love to add exif metadata for my film cameras to my scanned images. These are my notes to self about the data I use most often. I only wish exif had fields to record the film details too.</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/random-notes-on-instagram/ Thu, 17 Oct 2019 15:26:59 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/random-notes-on-instagram/ Delete your photos Deleting your old photos is recurring advice to photograpehers. JP Danko suggests deleting photos just for simplicity of management. https://maisonbisson.com/post/every-media-has-its-tastemakers-and-influencers/ Tue, 15 Oct 2019 15:11:21 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/every-media-has-its-tastemakers-and-influencers/ <p>Every media, network, or platform has would-be influencers or promoters who can help connect consumers with creators. Don&rsquo;t mistake the value of these tastemakers, and be sure to find a place for them to create new value for your platform.</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/storehouse-the-most-wonderful-story-sharing-flop-ever/ Sun, 13 Oct 2019 13:08:18 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/storehouse-the-most-wonderful-story-sharing-flop-ever/ <p>Storehouse <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/13/storehouse-will-shut-down-services-july-15-entire-team-will-migrate-to-square/">shuttered in summer 2016</a>, just a couple years after they launched, but the app and website introduced or made beautiful a few features that remain interesting now.</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/b3k_pvijlds/ Thu, 03 Oct 2019 21:51:32 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/b3k_pvijlds/ “He had ridden his horse into the saloon on a dare—his practice was always to accept dares; it spiced life up a little. https://maisonbisson.com/post/editorial-efforts-at-scale/ Mon, 23 Sep 2019 15:48:59 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/editorial-efforts-at-scale/ <p>Anywhere you can find content—even user-generated content—you&rsquo;ll find a content strategy and editors ensuring that content aligns to strategy (and to community standards).</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/b2uovrgnh65/ Thu, 12 Sep 2019 19:12:22 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/b2uovrgnh65/ “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known” Words commonly misattributed to Carl Sagan, but most likely written by reporter Sharon Begley https://maisonbisson.com/post/b0jxfz7h_y1/ Tue, 30 Jul 2019 19:27:25 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/b0jxfz7h_y1/ <figure><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B0jXfZ7H_Y1/"><img src="1564514845-B0jXfZ7H_Y1-0.jpg"/></a> </figure> <p>Don’t make it dull<br> If thou can’t make it colorful</p> <p>Words by Arrow</p> <p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B0jXfZ7H_Y1/">At Instagram</a>.</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/about-that-table-of-hidden-rules-among-classes/ Fri, 19 Jul 2019 13:50:45 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/about-that-table-of-hidden-rules-among-classes/ The following table has been circulating recently. I sourced it to Framework for Understanding Poverty: A Cognitive Approach by Ruby Payne, PhD, who sells educational materials and consulting services through her company, aha! https://maisonbisson.com/post/bz_wp91hrxd/ Tue, 16 Jul 2019 19:43:55 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bz_wp91hrxd/ the couple in the booth next door, just been up all night smoking cigarettes and talking about life https://maisonbisson.com/post/bzbo4pxpi26/ Tue, 02 Jul 2019 19:06:51 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bzbo4pxpi26/ Maybe life is all about twirling under one of those midnight skies, cutting a swathe through the breeze https://maisonbisson.com/post/design-exercises-for-product-leadership/ Mon, 01 Jul 2019 17:00:42 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/design-exercises-for-product-leadership/ In a way, my career in tech started with graphic design. And as a not very good graphic designer, I eagerly looked for ways to improve my work. https://maisonbisson.com/post/bzjtsmojbrm/ Tue, 25 Jun 2019 20:02:34 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bzjtsmojbrm/ You say Rolls I say Royce You say God give me a choice You say Lord I say Christ https://maisonbisson.com/post/by3r3wtnh0f/ Tue, 18 Jun 2019 20:00:17 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/by3r3wtnh0f/ Before I built a wall I’d ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, https://maisonbisson.com/post/normcore-mysticore-streetwear-and-other-words-for-fashion/ Fri, 14 Jun 2019 08:39:01 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/normcore-mysticore-streetwear-and-other-words-for-fashion/ Normcore Normcore, at its most basic level, is fashionable people choosing to dress unfashionably, which is hardly a new idea. https://maisonbisson.com/post/how-big-is-s3/ Wed, 12 Jun 2019 14:21:16 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/how-big-is-s3/ <p><strong>tl;dr: somewhere between 12-40 exabytes.</strong></p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/bylmfw8n0v7/ Tue, 11 Jun 2019 19:24:29 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bylmfw8n0v7/ How do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue? https://maisonbisson.com/post/glitter-glitter-everywhere/ Sun, 09 Jun 2019 07:56:34 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/glitter-glitter-everywhere/ Near the entrance, metal shelves taller than a man were laden with over one thousand jumbo jars of glitter samples arranged by formulation, color, and size: emerald hearts, pewter diamonds, and what appeared to be samples of the night sky collected from over the Atlantic Ocean. https://maisonbisson.com/post/fighting-for-the-future-of-the-internet-in-2019/ Wed, 05 Jun 2019 07:45:23 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/fighting-for-the-future-of-the-internet-in-2019/ There are obviously conflicting opinions about how to piece together new and complex regulation, legislation, or tech innovation. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-myth-of-the-rv/ Mon, 03 Jun 2019 07:25:41 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-myth-of-the-rv/ <p>The myth of an RV is that you can go anywhere and bed down wherever you end up. The reality is that you can’t go just anywhere, and bedding down is not much more comfortable or convenient than tenting.</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/astrophotography-in-san-francisco/ Thu, 30 May 2019 11:20:46 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/astrophotography-in-san-francisco/ <p><a href="https://spacetourismguide.com/best-places-stargazing-san-francisco/">From the Space Tourism Guide</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>Can You See the Milky Way in the Bay Area?</strong> Unfortunately, it is very difficult to see the Milky Way in San Francisco. Between the foggy weather and the light pollution from 7 million people, you can imagine that the faint light of our galaxy is lost to view.</p> </blockquote> <p>But <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nxtrfoto/6083364375/">C. Roy Yokingco</a> argues:</p> <blockquote> <p>Some people say the Milky Way cannot be photographed within 50 miles of a major metropolitan area. Well, this photo of the Milky Way was captured 12 linear miles south of downtown San Francisco, California.</p> </blockquote> https://maisonbisson.com/post/bxesqpba3-a/ Sun, 05 May 2019 04:14:38 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bxesqpba3-a/ @iamvijayselvaraj looking like he’s modeling the new EOS R for @canonusa while we were playing with strobes. https://maisonbisson.com/post/on-building-the-plane-while-flying-it/ Tue, 26 Mar 2019 07:13:51 -0800 https://maisonbisson.com/post/on-building-the-plane-while-flying-it/ &ldquo;Building a plane while flying it&rdquo; or some variation has been used to describe situations in education (2011), education (2016). https://maisonbisson.com/post/ed-zak-photographer/ Sat, 23 Mar 2019 20:20:40 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/ed-zak-photographer/ I found that hanging at Red&rsquo;s Java House and wanted to learn more about Ed Zak. https://maisonbisson.com/post/excellence-on-deadline/ Thu, 14 Mar 2019 09:37:22 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/excellence-on-deadline/ <h3 id="quality-over-deadline">Some people see deadlines as guidelines to aim for, not absolute dates by which a deliverable is expected by</h3> <p>This view of deadlines as flexible guidelines can be seen throughout western culture, as exemplified by the ongoing, <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/08/24/deadline-britain-eu-agree-brexit-deal-delayed-four-weeks-new/">oft delayed</a> <a href="https://qz.com/1571189/what-happens-now-that-theresa-may-lost-her-brexit-deal-vote/?utm_source=email&amp;utm_medium=daily-brief">Brexit negotiations</a>. However, deadlines also compete against other factors in any project. Consider the three constraints in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_management_triangle">project management triangle</a>:</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/a-mathematical-theory-and-evidence-for-hipster-conformity-in-four-parts/ Fri, 08 Mar 2019 07:55:12 -0800 https://maisonbisson.com/post/a-mathematical-theory-and-evidence-for-hipster-conformity-in-four-parts/ Academic publishes mathematical theory for conformance among hipsters: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1410.8001.pdf MIT Tech Review covers it, with a fancy photo illustration using a stock photo of a hipster-looking male: https://www. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-problem-with-content-management-systems-in-three-tweet-storms/ Thu, 07 Mar 2019 08:52:47 -0800 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-problem-with-content-management-systems-in-three-tweet-storms/ <p>Exhibit A: <a href="https://twitter.com/glichfield/status/1095391178009313280">a 2019 series of tweets</a> by <a href="https://twitter.com/glichfield">Gideon Lichfield</a>, editor of MIT Technology Review and formerly of Quarz, who asked:</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-legal-case-for-emoji/ Wed, 06 Mar 2019 08:15:35 -0800 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-legal-case-for-emoji/ Emoji are showing up as evidence in court more frequently with each passing year. Between 2004 and 2019, there was an exponential rise in emoji and emoticon references in US court opinions, with over 30 percent of all cases appearing in 2018, according to Santa Clara University law professor Eric Goldman, who has been tracking all of the references to “emoji” and “emoticon” that show up in US court opinions. https://maisonbisson.com/post/inter-az-cloud-network-performance/ Mon, 04 Mar 2019 07:17:35 -0800 https://maisonbisson.com/post/inter-az-cloud-network-performance/ Archana Kesavan of ThousandEyes speaking at NANOG75 reports that network traffic between AZs within a single region is generally &ldquo;reliable and consistent,&rdquo; and that tested cloud providers offer a &ldquo;robust regional backbone for [suitable for] redundant, multi-AZ architectures. https://maisonbisson.com/post/default-fonts-that-could-have-been/ Fri, 01 Mar 2019 04:06:50 -0800 https://maisonbisson.com/post/default-fonts-that-could-have-been/ <blockquote> <p>I learned about serif and sans serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating.</p> </blockquote> <p>From <a href="http://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2011/12/steve-jobs-and-typography.html">Steve Jobs in Stanford Graduation Address</a>, explaining how he fell in love with typography during his time at Reed College. <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/steve-jobs-death-apple-calligraphy-248900">He studied calligraphy like a monk</a>, but&hellip;.</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/spectre-is-here-to-stay/ Thu, 28 Feb 2019 08:50:34 -0800 https://maisonbisson.com/post/spectre-is-here-to-stay/ <blockquote> <p>As a result of our work on Spectre, we now know that information leaks may affect all processors that perform speculation&hellip;. Since the initial disclosure of three classes of speculative vulnerabilities, all major [CPU] vendors have reported affected products&hellip;. This class of flaws are deeper and more widely distributed than perhaps any security flaw in history, affecting billions of CPUs in production across all device classes.</p> </blockquote> <p>From Ross Mcilroy, Jaroslav Sevcik, Tobias Tebbi, Ben L. Titzer, and Toon Verwaest (all of Google) in <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.05178.pdf">Spectre is here to stay; An analysis of side-channels and speculative execution</a>. They continue:</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/bare-metal-clouds-are-hard/ Wed, 27 Feb 2019 08:28:00 -0800 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bare-metal-clouds-are-hard/ <blockquote> <p>The problem, explains Eclypsium, is that a miscreant could rent a bare-metal server instance from a provider, then exploit a firmware-level vulnerability, such as one in UEFI or BMC code, to gain persistence on the machine, and the ability to covertly monitor every subsequent use of that server. In other words, injecting spyware into the server&rsquo;s motherboard software, which runs below and out of sight of the host operating system and antivirus, so that future renters of the box will be secretly snooped on.</p> <p>Indeed, the researchers found they could acquire, in the Softlayer cloud, a bare-metal server, modify the underlying BMC firmware, release the box for someone else to use, and then, by tracking the hardware serial number, wait to re-provision server to see if their firmware change was still intact. And it was. BMC is the Baseband Management Controller, the remote-controllable janitor of a server that has full access to the system.</p> </blockquote> https://maisonbisson.com/post/taking-net-promoter-scores-too-far/ Tue, 26 Feb 2019 07:48:42 -0800 https://maisonbisson.com/post/taking-net-promoter-scores-too-far/ <blockquote> <p>Pick somebody in your life and send them a message asking them how their day is going on a scale of one to 10.</p> </blockquote> <p>That&rsquo;s from author and game designer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_McGonigal">Jane McGonigal</a>, <a href="https://www.rd.com/advice/relationships/happy-text-message/">quoted in Reader&rsquo;s Digest</a>.</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/helvetica-vs-univers/ Mon, 25 Feb 2019 08:48:45 -0800 https://maisonbisson.com/post/helvetica-vs-univers/ Univers was intrinsically superior to Helvetica. It had a much larger family at the outset, with 21 members compared to four in 1960. https://maisonbisson.com/post/spielberg-on-the-theater-experience/ Sat, 23 Feb 2019 08:37:27 -0800 https://maisonbisson.com/post/spielberg-on-the-theater-experience/ There’s nothing like going to a big dark theater with people you’ve never met before, and having the experience wash over you. https://maisonbisson.com/post/how-pixar-dominated-the-last-three-decades-of-special-effects/ Fri, 22 Feb 2019 08:21:11 -0800 https://maisonbisson.com/post/how-pixar-dominated-the-last-three-decades-of-special-effects/ Pixar&rsquo;s Renderman is the visual effects software Hollywood didn&rsquo;t think they needed (seriously, George Lucas sold off the Lucasfilm Computer Division in 1986). https://maisonbisson.com/post/there-are-no-architects-at-facebook/ Thu, 21 Feb 2019 09:19:10 -0800 https://maisonbisson.com/post/there-are-no-architects-at-facebook/ We get there through iteration. We don&rsquo;t try to build an architecture that is failproof. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-problem-with-economies-of-scale/ Wed, 20 Feb 2019 08:12:12 -0800 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-problem-with-economies-of-scale/ Economies of scale quickly become economies of hassle From Jessamyn, amplifying the exasperation people feel when daily activities are made more complex by poor application of technology. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wither-hardware-startups/ Tue, 19 Feb 2019 08:35:37 -0800 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wither-hardware-startups/ [I]t’s getting harder to find independent hardware startups that can scale up to something big without getting bought. https://maisonbisson.com/post/turning-off-exposure-preview-on-my-fuji-x-e3/ Mon, 18 Feb 2019 08:02:52 -0800 https://maisonbisson.com/post/turning-off-exposure-preview-on-my-fuji-x-e3/ Nanda Kusumadi has quite a number of tips for configuring a Fuji X-E3. Those tips include using RAW photo recording and turning on 4K video capture (they&rsquo;re off by default), and one I hadn&rsquo;t considered: enabling Adobe RGB color space with its wider than sRGB gamut. https://maisonbisson.com/post/something-from-nothing-a-dog-park-a-parade-and.../ Fri, 15 Feb 2019 07:38:47 -0800 https://maisonbisson.com/post/something-from-nothing-a-dog-park-a-parade-and.../ On a lark, Jaime Kornick created Patrick&rsquo;s Park. Then she created a dog parade, then&hellip;. https://maisonbisson.com/post/future-for-linux-distro-vendors-2019/ Thu, 14 Feb 2019 10:18:57 -0800 https://maisonbisson.com/post/future-for-linux-distro-vendors-2019/ IBM&rsquo;s acquisition of Red Hat got me thinking about how the market for commercially supported Linux distros is changing. https://maisonbisson.com/post/kubesprawl/ Wed, 13 Feb 2019 09:28:26 -0800 https://maisonbisson.com/post/kubesprawl/ This leads to the emerging pattern of “many clusters” rather than “one big shared” cluster. https://maisonbisson.com/post/hard-solutions-to-container-security/ Tue, 12 Feb 2019 13:43:08 -0800 https://maisonbisson.com/post/hard-solutions-to-container-security/ The vulnerability allows a malicious container to (with minimal user interaction) overwrite the host runc binary and thus gain root-level code execution on the host. https://maisonbisson.com/post/on-asking-the-right-questions/ Mon, 11 Feb 2019 07:00:28 -0800 https://maisonbisson.com/post/on-asking-the-right-questions/ Long before digital cameras killed film, Kodak and Fuji were locked in a desperate battle for market share. https://maisonbisson.com/post/explore-for-inspiration-then-test-and-focus/ Fri, 08 Feb 2019 08:04:26 -0800 https://maisonbisson.com/post/explore-for-inspiration-then-test-and-focus/ Cultivate exploration: As a leader, you want to encourage people to entertain “unreasonable ideas” and give them time to formulate their hypotheses. https://maisonbisson.com/post/government-drinking-game/ Thu, 07 Feb 2019 09:32:33 -0800 https://maisonbisson.com/post/government-drinking-game/ The department of agriculture [had] an annual budget of $164bn and was charged with so many missions critical to the society that the people who worked there played a drinking game called Does the Department of Agriculture Do It? https://maisonbisson.com/post/making-words-prettier-okrent/ Mon, 04 Feb 2019 13:21:42 -0800 https://maisonbisson.com/post/making-words-prettier-okrent/ In Old English the past tense of &ldquo;can&rdquo; did not have an &ldquo;l&rdquo; in it, but &ldquo;should&rdquo; and &ldquo;would&rdquo; (as past tenses of &ldquo;shall&rdquo; and &ldquo;will&rdquo;) did. https://maisonbisson.com/post/on-building-a-culture-of-candid-debate/ Sat, 02 Feb 2019 08:59:03 -0800 https://maisonbisson.com/post/on-building-a-culture-of-candid-debate/ A good blueprint for [building a culture of candid debate] can be found in General Dwight D. https://maisonbisson.com/post/subtitling-videos/ Thu, 31 Jan 2019 08:40:25 -0800 https://maisonbisson.com/post/subtitling-videos/ There are plenty of people and companies offering human or automated speech-to-text services for video captioning, but embedding those captions in a video was a curiosity to me. https://maisonbisson.com/post/shuffle-sharding-in-dropboxs-storage-infrastructure/ Wed, 30 Jan 2019 09:00:20 -0800 https://maisonbisson.com/post/shuffle-sharding-in-dropboxs-storage-infrastructure/ First, some terms and context: [We aggregate blocks] into 1GB logical storage containers called buckets. [Buckets] are aggregated together and erasure coded for storage efficiency. https://maisonbisson.com/post/parts-of-a-network-you-should-know-about/ Tue, 29 Jan 2019 09:53:51 -0800 https://maisonbisson.com/post/parts-of-a-network-you-should-know-about/ If you’re running infrastructure and applications on AWS then you will encounter all of these things. https://maisonbisson.com/post/were-gonna-need-a-bigger-prng-cycle-length.../ Mon, 28 Jan 2019 08:55:44 -0800 https://maisonbisson.com/post/were-gonna-need-a-bigger-prng-cycle-length.../ The general lesson here is that, even for a high quality PRNG, you can’t assume a random distribution unless the generator’s cycle length is much larger than the number of random values you’re generating. https://maisonbisson.com/post/on-uber-eats-nobody-knows-your-restaurant-is-a-popup/ Sat, 26 Jan 2019 10:47:25 -0800 https://maisonbisson.com/post/on-uber-eats-nobody-knows-your-restaurant-is-a-popup/ For independent or family-owned restaurants with less traffic, Douglass points to the pop-up restaurant. Not to be confused with popup restaurants, which are dining concepts open for a limited time. https://maisonbisson.com/post/interconnected-machine-readable-data-at-scale/ Fri, 25 Jan 2019 11:58:26 -0800 https://maisonbisson.com/post/interconnected-machine-readable-data-at-scale/ The NGA provides a free database with no regulations on its use. MaxMind takes some coordinates from that database and slaps IP addresses on them. https://maisonbisson.com/post/interfaces-surface-area-durability/ Thu, 24 Jan 2019 10:43:47 -0800 https://maisonbisson.com/post/interfaces-surface-area-durability/ A DOS program can be made to run unmodified on pretty much any computer made since the 80s. https://maisonbisson.com/post/in-praise-of-refactoring/ Wed, 23 Jan 2019 08:14:22 -0800 https://maisonbisson.com/post/in-praise-of-refactoring/ Under the right conditions refactoring provides a sort of express lane to becoming a master developer. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-day-to-day-drudgery-of-state-sponsored-hacking/ Tue, 22 Jan 2019 08:43:21 -0800 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-day-to-day-drudgery-of-state-sponsored-hacking/ After a review of bids and testing the capabilities of some of the exploits offered, the team decided to build its own malware. https://maisonbisson.com/post/who-controls-the-menu/ Fri, 18 Jan 2019 11:17:21 -0800 https://maisonbisson.com/post/who-controls-the-menu/ When people are given a menu of choices, they rarely ask: “what’s not on the menu? https://maisonbisson.com/post/cloudkit-uses-foundationdb-record-layer/ Thu, 17 Jan 2019 08:32:06 -0800 https://maisonbisson.com/post/cloudkit-uses-foundationdb-record-layer/ Together, the Record Layer and FoundationDB form the backbone of Apple&rsquo;s CloudKit. We wrote a paper describing how we built the Record Layer to run at massive scale and how CloudKit uses it. https://maisonbisson.com/post/you-can-identify-a-dog-on-the-internet-but-will-you-bother-to/ Wed, 16 Jan 2019 10:39:54 -0800 https://maisonbisson.com/post/you-can-identify-a-dog-on-the-internet-but-will-you-bother-to/ You can construct any [effing] narrative by scouring the internet for people claiming something. It doesn&rsquo;t make it relevant. https://maisonbisson.com/post/technology-choices-belonging-and-contempt/ Wed, 16 Jan 2019 09:11:29 -0800 https://maisonbisson.com/post/technology-choices-belonging-and-contempt/ I was taught to be contemptuous of the non-blessed narratives, and I was taught to pay for my continued access to the technical communities through perpetuating that contempt. https://maisonbisson.com/post/rollback-buttons-and-time-machines/ Tue, 15 Jan 2019 09:03:42 -0800 https://maisonbisson.com/post/rollback-buttons-and-time-machines/ Adding a rollback button is not a neutral design choice. It affects the code that gets pushed. https://maisonbisson.com/post/dont-let-requests-linger/ Thu, 10 Jan 2019 10:52:43 +0100 https://maisonbisson.com/post/dont-let-requests-linger/ In practice, we have fixed whole classes of reliability problems by forcing engineers to define deadlines in their service definitions. https://maisonbisson.com/post/polarization-vs.-judgement/ Wed, 09 Jan 2019 10:33:15 +0100 https://maisonbisson.com/post/polarization-vs.-judgement/ In a polarized climate, opponents would jeer even eloquence from an unwelcome source; partisans would chant lovingly for public incontinence if delivered on behalf of the home team. https://maisonbisson.com/post/shooting-down-star-wars-as-a-vehicle-for-exploring-human-relationships-with-future-technologies/ Sat, 01 Dec 2018 14:45:02 -0800 https://maisonbisson.com/post/shooting-down-star-wars-as-a-vehicle-for-exploring-human-relationships-with-future-technologies/ Into the ongoing fight between those who dismiss Star Wars as a shallow space opera vs. https://maisonbisson.com/post/incident-postmortems-customer-communication/ Mon, 19 Nov 2018 10:20:45 -0800 https://maisonbisson.com/post/incident-postmortems-customer-communication/ Incidents happen. The question is whether or not we&rsquo;re learning from them. There are a bunch of postmortem resources collected here to help teams maximize the learning and service reliability improvements they can gain from an incident. https://maisonbisson.com/post/pid-controllers-are-way-cooler-than-the-wikipedia-article-lets-on/ Mon, 12 Nov 2018 16:06:55 -0800 https://maisonbisson.com/post/pid-controllers-are-way-cooler-than-the-wikipedia-article-lets-on/ The Wikipedia entry on PID controllers is perfectly accurate, but it seems to bury the elegance of the technology and theory. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wikipedia-quotes-mathematical-models-of-vagueness-and-ignorance/ Sun, 11 Nov 2018 16:06:55 -0800 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wikipedia-quotes-mathematical-models-of-vagueness-and-ignorance/ [F]uzzy logic uses degrees of truth as a mathematical model of vagueness, while probability is a mathematical model of ignorance. https://maisonbisson.com/post/ipads-as-primary-computers-never-say-never/ Tue, 06 Nov 2018 18:49:39 -0800 https://maisonbisson.com/post/ipads-as-primary-computers-never-say-never/ This Twitter thread has some points worth considering for those interested in how our expectations and relationship with &ldquo;business tools&rdquo; changes over time: https://maisonbisson.com/post/common-root-causes-of-intra-data-center-network-incidents-at-facebook-from-2011-to-2018/ Tue, 06 Nov 2018 09:14:15 -0800 https://maisonbisson.com/post/common-root-causes-of-intra-data-center-network-incidents-at-facebook-from-2011-to-2018/ From A Large Scale Study of Data Center Network Reliability by Justin Meza, Tianyin Xu, Kaushik Veeraraghavan, and Onur Mutlu, the categorized root causes of intra data center incidents at Fabook from 2011 to 2018: https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-entirely-rational-yet-surprising-relationship-between-timecode-broadcasts-and-sputnik/ Mon, 05 Nov 2018 16:54:20 -0800 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-entirely-rational-yet-surprising-relationship-between-timecode-broadcasts-and-sputnik/ Many US folks just changed their clocks for daylight saving time, and here in California we&rsquo;re voting on a proposition that might lead to changes in California&rsquo;s time standards, so quite a number of people have time on their minds. https://maisonbisson.com/post/republics-power-and-populism-their-rise-and-fall/ Sun, 04 Nov 2018 08:13:41 -0800 https://maisonbisson.com/post/republics-power-and-populism-their-rise-and-fall/ Mike Duncan, writing in the Washington Post on the fall of the Roman Republic: Some in the Roman leadership could see clearly by the 130s and 120s B. https://maisonbisson.com/post/pour-one-out-for-the-sears-catalog-the-original-market-disrupter/ Wed, 24 Oct 2018 14:32:44 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/pour-one-out-for-the-sears-catalog-the-original-market-disrupter/ Whet Moser pointed out this enlightening Twitter thread that explains an aspect of Sears I hadn&rsquo;t considered before: by disrupting retail stores with mail-order, it was empowering a demographic that was often underserved in their communities: https://maisonbisson.com/post/donut-tours-everywhere/ Sat, 20 Oct 2018 15:34:44 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/donut-tours-everywhere/ I&rsquo;m a big enough fan of donuts that I&rsquo;ve planned tours to explore and celebrate them: https://maisonbisson.com/post/how-to-date-your-foodstuffs/ Mon, 15 Oct 2018 15:59:28 -0400 https://maisonbisson.com/post/how-to-date-your-foodstuffs/ Whet Moser, suddenly making sell-by dates on food products relevant to me: About a quarter of US methane emissions comes from food rotting in landfills. https://maisonbisson.com/post/fuji-instax-back-for-hasselblad/ Sun, 14 Oct 2018 07:29:31 -0400 https://maisonbisson.com/post/fuji-instax-back-for-hasselblad/ Isaac Blankensmith writing in PetaPixel about building an Instax instant film back for a Hasselblad 500: https://maisonbisson.com/post/can-we-train-ourselves-out-of-color-blindness/ Sat, 13 Oct 2018 10:33:50 -0400 https://maisonbisson.com/post/can-we-train-ourselves-out-of-color-blindness/ Which one of the boxes has an irregular color? A screenshot of the iGame color vision test. https://maisonbisson.com/post/psa-reminder-about-takt-time/ Fri, 12 Oct 2018 09:28:53 -0400 https://maisonbisson.com/post/psa-reminder-about-takt-time/ From Wikipedia a common misconception is that takt time is related to the time it takes to actually make the product. https://maisonbisson.com/post/notes-on-observing-the-milky-way/ Wed, 10 Oct 2018 21:52:55 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/notes-on-observing-the-milky-way/ Notes from Kevin Palmer at Dark Site Finder and Matt Quinn at PetaPixel. What is it? https://maisonbisson.com/post/restaurants-hotels-mustaches-wages/ Tue, 09 Oct 2018 08:58:58 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/restaurants-hotels-mustaches-wages/ Matthew Taub, writing in Atlas Obscura Around the same time, the first modern restaurants were rising around Paris. https://maisonbisson.com/post/boe2u3nfj6f/ Wed, 03 Oct 2018 19:04:39 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/boe2u3nfj6f/ A cold day in the desert. Coaldale, Nevada Music CC-BY-NC-SA: Dan Warren, “The Debate” https://maisonbisson.com/post/bad-maps-are-ruining-american-broadband/ Wed, 26 Sep 2018 14:05:14 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bad-maps-are-ruining-american-broadband/ Karl Bode in The Verge: In policy conversations, ISP lobbyists lean heavily on the FCC’s flawed data to falsely suggest that American broadband is dirt cheap and ultra competitive, despite real-world evidence to the contrary. https://maisonbisson.com/post/s3-and-cloudfront-configuration-frustration/ Sun, 23 Sep 2018 10:24:07 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/s3-and-cloudfront-configuration-frustration/ <p>It turns out that the interaction between S3, CloudFront, and Route53 can be bumpy when setting up buckets as CDN origins. It’s apparently expected that a CloudFront URL will read data from the wrong bucket URL <em>and</em> redirect browsers there for the first hour or more. The message from AWS is “just wait,” which makes for a crappy experience.</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/roughtime/ Sat, 22 Sep 2018 12:27:08 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/roughtime/ CloudFlare on the frustrations of clock skew: It may surprise you to learn that, in practice, clients’ clocks are heavily skewed. https://maisonbisson.com/post/parents-in-1996-vs.-2016/ Thu, 20 Sep 2018 22:48:46 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/parents-in-1996-vs.-2016/ <p><a href="https://twitter.com/breanneboland/status/1042429485033807873">This thread from Breanne Boland</a>, which starts with a screenshot<sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup> of another tweet:</p> <blockquote> <p>Your parents in 1996: Don’t trust ANYONE on the Internet.</p> <p>Your parents in 2016: Freedom Eagle dot Facebook says Hillary invented AIDS.</p> </blockquote> https://maisonbisson.com/post/twin-beech-beatty-nv/ Thu, 20 Sep 2018 21:15:31 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/twin-beech-beatty-nv/ Just outside Beatty Nevada you’ll find a weathered sign promising the services of a long-closed brothel, and next to it, an aircraft covered in generations of tags. https://maisonbisson.com/post/windows-95-was-30mb.-today-we-have-web-pages-heavier-than-that/ Wed, 19 Sep 2018 12:20:16 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/windows-95-was-30mb.-today-we-have-web-pages-heavier-than-that/ The title is a quote from Nikita Prokopov, who is wallowing in disenchantment. https://maisonbisson.com/post/claim-chowder-from-2013-computational-photography/ Thu, 13 Sep 2018 13:31:01 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/claim-chowder-from-2013-computational-photography/ Way back in 2013 I wrote: I’m sure somebody will eventually develop software to automatically blur the backgrounds of our smartphone photos, but until then, this is basic physics. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-color-of-copenhagen/ Wed, 12 Sep 2018 21:52:01 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-color-of-copenhagen/ The color of #Copenhagen Is it yellow, brown, mustard? I love all the shades. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-real-goldfinger-the-london-banker-who-broke-the-world/ Sun, 09 Sep 2018 23:06:02 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-real-goldfinger-the-london-banker-who-broke-the-world/ Goldfinger, the 1964 Bond film, is based on a premise that is incredibly foreign to today&rsquo;s audiences: moving gold between countries was illegal. https://maisonbisson.com/post/git-foo/ Mon, 03 Sep 2018 07:55:00 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/git-foo/ A few git commands I find myself having to look up: Resolve Git merge conflicts in favor of their changes during a pull: git pull -Xtheirs git checkout --theirs the/conflicted. https://maisonbisson.com/post/things-that-make-us-dumber-air-pollution-full-bladders/ Sat, 01 Sep 2018 15:55:09 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/things-that-make-us-dumber-air-pollution-full-bladders/ Air pollution is making us dumber, study shows: The team found that both verbal and math scores &ldquo;decreased with increasing cumulative air pollution exposure,&rdquo; with the decline in verbal scores being particularly pronounced among older, less educated men. https://maisonbisson.com/post/maintenance-and-renewal/ Sat, 01 Sep 2018 15:15:03 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/maintenance-and-renewal/ Abby Sewell, with photographs by Jeff Heimsath, in The National Geographic: Every spring, communities gather to take part in a ceremony of renewal. https://maisonbisson.com/post/hash-rings-sharding-request-replication/ Tue, 28 Aug 2018 23:19:16 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/hash-rings-sharding-request-replication/ Balancing data and activity between shards Your consistent hash ring leads to inconsistent performance: The basic consistent hashing algorithm presents some challenges. https://maisonbisson.com/post/steven-dean-mcclellan-2/ Wed, 15 Aug 2018 20:15:03 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/steven-dean-mcclellan-2/ Steven Dean McClellan, Bombay Beach At Instagram. https://maisonbisson.com/post/improving-automated-fault-injection/ Fri, 03 Aug 2018 16:03:51 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/improving-automated-fault-injection/ <p>Automated failure analysis is hard, manual failure analysis requires great expertise.</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/why-this-painting-of-dogs-playing-poker-has-endured-for-over-100-years/ Sun, 29 Jul 2018 22:55:26 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/why-this-painting-of-dogs-playing-poker-has-endured-for-over-100-years/ Jackson Arn in Artsy: The “Dogs Playing Poker” paintings, by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge, belong to that pantheon of artworks—Michelangelo’s David, Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus, Van Gogh’s Starry Night, Hopper’s Nighthawks— that are immediately recognizable to people of all ages and backgrounds, including those who don’t readily admit to enjoying art. https://maisonbisson.com/post/willie-in-christiana/ Wed, 11 Jul 2018 22:10:54 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/willie-in-christiana/ Willie has lived in Christiana since it was founded in 1971 At Instagram. https://maisonbisson.com/post/product-managers-project-managers-delivery-managers-and-engineering-managers-according-to-quora/ Tue, 10 Jul 2018 22:42:54 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/product-managers-project-managers-delivery-managers-and-engineering-managers-according-to-quora/ I&rsquo;m trying to write some job descriptions, so of course I found myself in Quora. https://maisonbisson.com/post/sunset-twin-beech-beatty/ Wed, 13 Jun 2018 20:52:16 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/sunset-twin-beech-beatty/ This beautiful old Twin Beech lies wrecked and abandoned near Beatty, NV. Locals tell stories of how the plane was used to shuttle guests from Las Vegas to the town’s brothel in the 1970s, but things went wrong with a publicity stunt, or perhaps a dare, and the plane made its final landing here. https://maisonbisson.com/post/love-locks-copenhagen/ Sun, 10 Jun 2018 17:57:45 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/love-locks-copenhagen/ Love locks in Copenhagen Toldbodgade bridge over Nyhavn inlet. At Instagram. https://maisonbisson.com/post/campanology-noun/ Sun, 27 May 2018 23:01:44 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/campanology-noun/ The Cambridge dictionary tells us that &ldquo;campanology&rdquo; means &ldquo;​the art or skill of ringing church bells. https://maisonbisson.com/post/bjayotqb2jd/ Sun, 20 May 2018 16:26:46 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bjayotqb2jd/ Bar Velo, Brooklyn #MediumFormat #FujiGW690III At Instagram. https://maisonbisson.com/post/transamerica-pyramid-from-columbus-avenue/ Thu, 17 May 2018 19:40:10 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/transamerica-pyramid-from-columbus-avenue/ #ispytransamericapyramid from the center of Columbus Avenue at Broadway At Instagram. https://maisonbisson.com/post/tantallon-castle-scotland/ Wed, 09 May 2018 19:57:41 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/tantallon-castle-scotland/ Tantallon Castle, Scotland At Instagram. https://maisonbisson.com/post/vxlan-routing-recommendations-from-cumulous-networks/ Fri, 04 May 2018 22:52:18 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/vxlan-routing-recommendations-from-cumulous-networks/ VXLAN routing recommendations from Cumulous Networks, which offers switch software (but not client software). https://cumulusnetworks.com/blog/vxlan-designs-part-1/ https://maisonbisson.com/post/flight-of-the-bumblebee/ Wed, 02 May 2018 19:23:14 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/flight-of-the-bumblebee/ Flight of the bumblebee Music: Jazzy Ashes, CC BY-NC-SA The Underscore Orkestra At Instagram. https://maisonbisson.com/post/steven-dean-mcclellan-1/ Wed, 25 Apr 2018 19:27:16 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/steven-dean-mcclellan-1/ Steven Dean McClellan, Bombay Beach At Instagram. https://maisonbisson.com/post/birdsong/ Tue, 24 Apr 2018 20:00:57 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/birdsong/ Birdsong, mural by Joshua Coffy At Instagram. https://maisonbisson.com/post/flickr-get-photo-page-from-image-name/ Tue, 17 Apr 2018 22:25:25 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/flickr-get-photo-page-from-image-name/ Let’s say you have an old-style Flickr photo URL like the following: http://www.flickr.com/photos/702783_509c609f44.jpg Now let’s say you want to find the page on Flickr for that photo? https://maisonbisson.com/post/poulsen-welding-shop-susanville-ca/ Sun, 15 Apr 2018 16:28:31 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/poulsen-welding-shop-susanville-ca/ Poulsen Welding Shop, Susanville, CA Growing up, I remember welding and fabrication shops being common. https://maisonbisson.com/post/object-storage-prior-art-and-lit-review/ Fri, 30 Mar 2018 13:35:33 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/object-storage-prior-art-and-lit-review/ This list is not exhaustive. Instead, it is a selection of object storage implementations and details that appear interesting. https://maisonbisson.com/post/naming-things-is-hard.-naming-people-is-harder./ Sat, 24 Mar 2018 20:18:17 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/naming-things-is-hard.-naming-people-is-harder./ Michael Sherrod and Matthew Rayback scoured American census records searching for atrocious baby names. The results are compiled in an amusing little book called Bad Baby Names: The Worst True Names Parents Saddled Their Kids With—and You Can Too! https://maisonbisson.com/post/yongma-land/ Wed, 21 Mar 2018 20:35:23 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/yongma-land/ Just a creepy fiberglass clown head at an abandoned amusement park outside Seoul At Instagram. https://maisonbisson.com/post/stereotypical-photo-of-the-brooklyn-bridge/ Wed, 14 Mar 2018 19:12:17 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/stereotypical-photo-of-the-brooklyn-bridge/ Gray skies at the #BrooklynBridge At Instagram. https://maisonbisson.com/post/bgmvzhfgonv/ Sun, 11 Mar 2018 22:05:52 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bgmvzhfgonv/ Yarn-bombed trees outside San Francisco City Hall At Instagram. https://maisonbisson.com/post/observing-an-abandoned-building-and-open-landscape-coaldale-nevada/ Wed, 07 Mar 2018 18:24:44 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/observing-an-abandoned-building-and-open-landscape-coaldale-nevada/ Open floor plan, Coaldale Junction, Nevada music: CC-BY-NC-SA Dan Warren At Instagram. https://maisonbisson.com/post/feature-flags-gone-wrong/ Mon, 05 Mar 2018 22:59:36 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/feature-flags-gone-wrong/ BTW – if there is an SEC filing about your deployment, something may have gone terribly wrong. https://maisonbisson.com/post/rain-sf-ferry-building/ Sun, 04 Mar 2018 17:03:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/rain-sf-ferry-building/ Much-needed rain soaks the tables at San Francisco’s Ferry Building. At Instagram. https://maisonbisson.com/post/spencer-wynn-hello-project/ Sat, 24 Feb 2018 20:51:37 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/spencer-wynn-hello-project/ Spencer Wynn&rsquo;s Hello Project is everything I need right now. https://maisonbisson.com/post/johnathan-little/ Wed, 21 Feb 2018 21:37:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/johnathan-little/ I first met Johnathan Little on US Route 95, about 25 miles due north of Pahrump, NV. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-kpa-soldier-guarding-the-door-to-north-korea/ Thu, 15 Feb 2018 21:26:45 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-kpa-soldier-guarding-the-door-to-north-korea/ The door behind this KPA soldier exits to North Korea. In addition to needing a stolid face, KPA soldiers must be expert martial artists, according to Wikipedia. https://maisonbisson.com/post/no-groceries-mina-nevada/ Wed, 14 Feb 2018 20:45:33 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/no-groceries-mina-nevada/ &ldquo;Grocery, sundries, ice cream&rdquo; in Mina, Nevada At Instagram. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-paradox-of-tolerance/ Sat, 10 Feb 2018 15:23:10 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-paradox-of-tolerance/ Less well known is the paradox of tolerance: Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. https://maisonbisson.com/post/claim-chowder-cloud-storage/ Sat, 03 Feb 2018 13:38:27 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/claim-chowder-cloud-storage/ Ten years ago Apple was still doing MacWorld Expo keynotes, and that year they introduced Time Capsule. https://maisonbisson.com/post/dalhousie-castle/ Thu, 11 Jan 2018 20:43:14 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/dalhousie-castle/ Sunrise to sunset at @dalhousiecastle Music: “The Moments of Our Mornings” CC-BY-NC Kai Engel https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-make-us-proud-and-yld-offices/ Thu, 04 Jan 2018 16:03:46 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-make-us-proud-and-yld-offices/ Just another awesome day at the Make Us Proud and YLD offices (find them on Twitter). https://maisonbisson.com/post/good-enough-satisficing-and-meeting-market-demand/ Tue, 02 Jan 2018 23:19:16 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/good-enough-satisficing-and-meeting-market-demand/ <p><a href="http://www.nandakusumadi.com/blog/2017/12/31/2017-when-designing-for-good-enough-made-great-products">Nanda Kusumadi</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Companies tend to over-serve customers in their products to the point that the <strong>surplus of performance metrics cannot be consumed</strong>. This leads to waste in R&amp;D, build and operational resources, basically a waste of human capital. Over-serving products have been optimised well beyond what a user can consume.</p> </blockquote> https://maisonbisson.com/post/atomic-cafe-neon/ Wed, 20 Dec 2017 20:16:58 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/atomic-cafe-neon/ The famous neon sign at @atomicliquors, #LasVegas’ oldest bar, where 1950s patrons used to enjoy views of nuclear tests from the roof. https://maisonbisson.com/post/aws-regions-azs-and-vpcs-nics-ips-and-performance/ Tue, 05 Dec 2017 21:32:01 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/aws-regions-azs-and-vpcs-nics-ips-and-performance/ Jump to section: Availability zones and regions VPCs Elastic IPs and Elastic Network Interfaces Network performance Resources by scope Connectivity by scope Availability zones and regions AWS’ primary cloud is available in 15 regions, each with two to six availability zones, not including separately operated regions (with independent identity) for GovCloud and China. https://maisonbisson.com/post/aws-andy-troutman-on-component-reusability/ Sat, 02 Dec 2017 15:35:40 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/aws-andy-troutman-on-component-reusability/ What we do first is we build very simple foundational building block services … we will build the simplest possible service that you could think of. https://maisonbisson.com/post/drivers-and-standards/ Fri, 01 Dec 2017 14:20:48 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/drivers-and-standards/ For both network and block storage, AWS is doing significant work to develop and maintain drivers in a variety of guest OSs. https://maisonbisson.com/post/hardware-virtualization-has-moved-to-hardware/ Wed, 29 Nov 2017 14:14:06 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/hardware-virtualization-has-moved-to-hardware/ <p>One of my takeaways from AWS&rsquo; bare metal announcements at re:Invent this week is that the compute, storage, and network aspects of hardware virtualization are now optimized and accelerated in hardware. AWS has moved beyond the limitations that constrained VM performance, and the work they&rsquo;ve done applies both to their bare metal hardware and their latest VM instance types.</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/notes-from-life-of-a-code-change-to-a-tier-1-service-dev206-at-aws-reinvent-2017/ Tue, 28 Nov 2017 15:35:40 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/notes-from-life-of-a-code-change-to-a-tier-1-service-dev206-at-aws-reinvent-2017/ <div style="position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden;"> <iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZnRLbsJ4Qfg" style="position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; border:0;" allowfullscreen title="YouTube Video"></iframe> </div> <p>Andy Troutman&rsquo;s talk is useful in explaining complex deployment workflows to management types.</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/camera-advice-a-film-camera-for-a-novice/ Mon, 30 Oct 2017 13:55:39 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/camera-advice-a-film-camera-for-a-novice/ A friend of mine sent me a question about a good film camera to get started with: https://maisonbisson.com/post/dave-wascha-on-product-management/ Sun, 22 Oct 2017 20:37:48 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/dave-wascha-on-product-management/ Dave Wascha (LI) speaking at Mind the Product in San Francisco on advice he wished he had as a younger product manager: https://maisonbisson.com/post/vcrs-that-rewind-faster/ Sat, 21 Oct 2017 20:19:06 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/vcrs-that-rewind-faster/ A story, possibly apocryphal (i.e. I can no longer find the source), tells of electronics manufacturers asking customers what features they wanted in their home video equipment. https://maisonbisson.com/post/continuous-disruption/ Fri, 20 Oct 2017 22:57:47 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/continuous-disruption/ Trains were once seen as icons of freedom. They freed riders from the dust and bumps of horse or stagecoach travel, and dramatically shortened travel times. https://maisonbisson.com/post/mortmar-california/ Wed, 18 Oct 2017 20:10:53 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/mortmar-california/ Carniceria, liquor, grocery This was once North Shore, California, but many maps now label it Mortmar. https://maisonbisson.com/post/gender-stereotypes-toys-and-the-sears-catalog/ Tue, 17 Oct 2017 13:58:04 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/gender-stereotypes-toys-and-the-sears-catalog/ Elizabeth Sweet, writing in the New York Times, way back in 2012 on her research into the role of gender stereotypes in the marketing of toys: https://maisonbisson.com/post/lawrence-lessig-republic-lost/ Sun, 24 Sep 2017 20:29:49 -0700 https://maisonbisson.com/post/lawrence-lessig-republic-lost/ Lawrence Lessig in a talk at Google in 2011 speaking on the topic of his book, Republic, Lost. https://maisonbisson.com/post/looking-up-at-muir-woods/ Sun, 10 Sep 2017 17:28:58 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/looking-up-at-muir-woods/ End of summer at #muirwoods with a @lomography #Spinner360 At Instagram. https://maisonbisson.com/post/extraterrestrial-highway-nevada/ Wed, 09 Aug 2017 22:09:03 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/extraterrestrial-highway-nevada/ The Extraterrestrial Highway, just north of Area 51 At Instagram. https://maisonbisson.com/post/ranch-hand-at-auction/ Sun, 30 Jul 2017 19:21:16 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/ranch-hand-at-auction/ A ranch hand stands ready to call a bidder in the cowboy auction at the @californiamidstatefair. https://maisonbisson.com/post/street-jazz/ Sun, 23 Jul 2017 13:33:34 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/street-jazz/ New Orleans-style jazz on the Embarcadero near Fisherman’s Wharf, shot on #Kodak #Ektar100 with a #hasselblad #hasselblad500elm https://maisonbisson.com/post/mendocino-sunset/ Wed, 19 Jul 2017 22:09:24 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/mendocino-sunset/ Sunset on the Mendocino Coast outside at @heritagehouseresort At Instagram. https://maisonbisson.com/post/no-more-border-walls-please/ Wed, 05 Jul 2017 18:55:23 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/no-more-border-walls-please/ America’s greatest legacy is found in the freedoms we uphold for all, not the prohibitions we levy on others. https://maisonbisson.com/post/hearst-castle-tour/ Tue, 20 Jun 2017 21:40:32 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/hearst-castle-tour/ Hearst Castle in 8mm Music: CC-BY-NC Charmed Life by Adam Selzer At Instagram. https://maisonbisson.com/post/contrails-above-sutro-tower/ Fri, 12 May 2017 22:21:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/contrails-above-sutro-tower/ #Parallel #contrails above #SutroTower, from #TwinPeaks, #SanFrancisco At Instagram. https://maisonbisson.com/post/user-stories-are-documentation/ Fri, 28 Apr 2017 15:48:28 -0800 https://maisonbisson.com/post/user-stories-are-documentation/ While writing up the draft docs for Joyent&rsquo;s Container Name Service I leaned heavily on the user stories and use-cases for the feature. https://maisonbisson.com/post/everybody-smiles-while-rolling-down-the-hill.../ Sun, 16 Apr 2017 14:51:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/everybody-smiles-while-rolling-down-the-hill.../ Everybody smiles while rolling down the hill at the Bring Your Own Big Wheel event! https://maisonbisson.com/post/ancient-aztec-chemistry/ Sat, 15 Apr 2017 13:22:15 -0800 https://maisonbisson.com/post/ancient-aztec-chemistry/ A 50-50 blend of morning glory juice and latex created rubber with maximum bounciness, while a 75-25 mix of latex and morning glory made the most durable material. https://maisonbisson.com/post/no-gas-at-mina-nevada/ Thu, 23 Mar 2017 00:19:05 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/no-gas-at-mina-nevada/ Mina, Nevada At Instagram. https://maisonbisson.com/post/echoes-of-product-management-advice-in-declarative-vs.-imperative-programming/ Mon, 06 Feb 2017 13:39:14 -0800 https://maisonbisson.com/post/echoes-of-product-management-advice-in-declarative-vs.-imperative-programming/ The following line in a post about the difference between declarative vs. imperative programming caught my attention for the way it echoes product management best practices: https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-hotel-huntington-and-sf-skyline/ Thu, 29 Dec 2016 02:18:21 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-hotel-huntington-and-sf-skyline/ The Hotel Huntington (now @thescarlet_sf) atop #CaliforniaStreet, #SanFrancisco Music: “Faster Does It” by Kevin MacLeod (CC-BY) https://maisonbisson.com/post/mcway-falls/ Wed, 28 Sep 2016 13:27:18 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/mcway-falls/ #McWayFalls in #BigSur Music: “Tomie’s Bubbles” by Candlegravity (CC-BY-NC-SA) At Instagram. https://maisonbisson.com/post/sutro-tower/ Thu, 01 Sep 2016 04:34:21 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/sutro-tower/ #SutroTower, #SanFrancisco Music: “Feeling Dark (Behind The Mask)” by 7OOP3D (CC-BY-NC) At Instagram. https://maisonbisson.com/post/tree-paso-robles/ Wed, 24 Aug 2016 13:52:53 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/tree-paso-robles/ #Lonely #tree in a #field in #PasoRobles #California Music: “Silence Await” by idk (CC-BY) https://maisonbisson.com/post/at-the-little-aleinn-rachel.../ Tue, 23 Aug 2016 12:36:23 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/at-the-little-aleinn-rachel.../ At the Little A’Le’Inn, Rachel Nevada. Film, light leaks, bikers, and aliens. At Instagram. https://maisonbisson.com/post/following-a-winding-road/ Tue, 16 Aug 2016 13:03:25 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/following-a-winding-road/ #Summer on a #windingRoad in #Cambria #California Music: Shady Grove by Shake That Little Foot (CC-BY-NC-SA) https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-top-of-the-mark/ Wed, 10 Aug 2016 07:23:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-top-of-the-mark/ #sunset at #TopOfTheMark, #SF Video: https://www.instagram.com/p/BGrSnL6heJS/ At Instagram. https://maisonbisson.com/post/hotel-huntington-sign-at-sunset/ Wed, 03 Aug 2016 04:37:49 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/hotel-huntington-sign-at-sunset/ The Hotel Huntington (now @thescarlet_sf) atop #CaliforniaStreet, #SanFrancisco At Instagram. https://maisonbisson.com/post/winding-road-cambria/ Fri, 29 Jul 2016 16:03:16 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/winding-road-cambria/ #Summer on a #windingRoad in #CambriaCalifornia At Instagram. https://maisonbisson.com/post/will-luo/ Fri, 08 Jul 2016 14:23:06 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/will-luo/ Will Luo at @tempestbarsf At Instagram. https://maisonbisson.com/post/get-list-of-functions-in-bash-script-look-for-those-in-argv/ Wed, 20 Apr 2016 03:59:01 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/get-list-of-functions-in-bash-script-look-for-those-in-argv/ # Get function list as array funcs=($(declare -F -p | cut -d &#34; &#34; -f 3)) # parse out functions and non-functions i=1 declare -a cmdargs declare -a otherargs for var in &#34;$@&#34;; do if [[ &#34; ${funcs[@]} &#34; =~ &#34; ${var} &#34; ]]; then cmdargs[i]=${var} else otherargs[i]=${var} fi ((i++)) done echo ${cmdarg[*]} echo ${otherargs[*]} https://maisonbisson.com/post/on-disfluencies/ Thu, 17 Dec 2015 15:56:45 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/on-disfluencies/ Your Speech Is Packed With Misunderstood, Unconscious Messages, by Julie Sedivy: Since disfluencies show that a speaker is thinking carefully about what she is about to say, they provide useful information to listeners, cueing them to focus attention on upcoming content that’s likely to be meaty. https://maisonbisson.com/post/3jaqgbeln/ Fri, 04 Dec 2015 07:33:58 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/3jaqgbeln/ San Francisco’s #MarkHopkins #Hotel at the top of #CaliforniaStreet, on #35mm #KodakFilm. #SanFrancisco #SanFranciscoCA #sfca #sf #OlympusStylus #KodakGold #KodakUltra #KodakUltraGold #analog #film https://maisonbisson.com/post/compact-camera-recommendations/ Mon, 24 Aug 2015 03:55:04 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/compact-camera-recommendations/ A friend asked the internet: Can anyone recommend a mirrorless camera? I have some travel coming up and I’m hesitant to lug my DSLR around. https://maisonbisson.com/post/bring-your-own-big-wheel-brings-smiles/ Fri, 12 Jun 2015 13:55:48 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bring-your-own-big-wheel-brings-smiles/ Only a fool would try covering the #BringYourOwnBigWheel action on #film. I’m that fool. https://maisonbisson.com/post/zach-houstons-poem-store/ Sun, 24 May 2015 16:46:11 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/zach-houstons-poem-store/ #ZachHouston used to be a #Mission regular, peddling his #poetry from a #PoemStore made up of an old #mechanical #typewriter and carefully selected scrap papers. https://maisonbisson.com/post/rewrite-git-repo-urls/ Thu, 21 May 2015 17:17:47 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/rewrite-git-repo-urls/ A question in a mail list I’m on introduced me to a git feature that was very new to me: it’s possible to have git rewrite the repository URLs to always use HTTPS or git+ssh, etc. https://maisonbisson.com/post/tools-on-the-jeremiah-obrien/ Fri, 15 May 2015 14:05:25 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/tools-on-the-jeremiah-obrien/ The tools on the Jeremiah O’Brien are built to work on steam cylinders larger than oil drums. https://maisonbisson.com/post/docker-stories-from-new-relic/ Mon, 13 Apr 2015 16:16:33 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/docker-stories-from-new-relic/ From New Relic’s August 2014 blog post: [W]e didn’t try to create a full PaaS framework all at once. https://maisonbisson.com/post/sinistrality-vs-dextrality-in-design/ Tue, 07 Apr 2015 20:27:27 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/sinistrality-vs-dextrality-in-design/ Photo CC-BY-SA Gerry Dincher This post on why people focus on the right-hand side of a design is an old one, but still valuable today: https://maisonbisson.com/post/hasselblad-dating/ Tue, 17 Mar 2015 08:11:05 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/hasselblad-dating/ Hasselblad Historical and Blue Moon Camera both offer this table to translate Hasselblad serial numbers to year of manufacture: https://maisonbisson.com/post/how-jackie-chan-wins/ Wed, 11 Mar 2015 15:22:48 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/how-jackie-chan-wins/ Tony Zhou’ video is genius, as are the nine principles of action comedy he’s identified: https://maisonbisson.com/post/photo-hipster-playing-with-110-cameras/ Sun, 25 Jan 2015 18:44:07 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/photo-hipster-playing-with-110-cameras/ After playing with Fuji Instax and Polaroid (with The Impossible Project film) cameras, I realized I had to do something with Kodak. https://maisonbisson.com/post/backbone-js-and-wordpress/ Fri, 09 Jan 2015 23:46:51 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/backbone-js-and-wordpress/ The three are from 2013, so details may have changed, but they seemed useful enough that I’ve had them open in my browser for a while: https://maisonbisson.com/post/parable-of-the-polygons-is-the-future-of-journalism/ Fri, 19 Dec 2014 17:35:13 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/parable-of-the-polygons-is-the-future-of-journalism/ Okay, so I’m probably both taking that too far and ignoring the fact that interactive media have been a reality for a long time. https://maisonbisson.com/post/unit-test-wordpress-plugins-like-a-ninja-in-progress/ Fri, 31 Oct 2014 03:53:40 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/unit-test-wordpress-plugins-like-a-ninja-in-progress/ cc-by Zach Dischner Unit testing a plugin can be easy, but if the plugin needs dashboard configuration or has dependencies on other plugins, it can quickly go off the tracks. https://maisonbisson.com/post/unit-testing-wordpress-plugins/ Mon, 27 Oct 2014 22:18:24 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/unit-testing-wordpress-plugins/ We’ve been unit testing some of our plugins using the old WordPress-tests framework and tips from this 2012 blog post. https://maisonbisson.com/post/deliverables-iteration-and-constraints/ Mon, 22 Sep 2014 06:09:59 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/deliverables-iteration-and-constraints/ When asked to give a timeline for project delivery, my first questions, of course, are about the details of the project. https://maisonbisson.com/post/ruins-of-roeblings-works/ Sun, 14 Sep 2014 16:55:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/ruins-of-roeblings-works/ From Flux Machine: a tumbler of Kevin Weir’s creepy gifs. The original is from the Library of Congress. https://maisonbisson.com/post/googles-link-policies-raise-hell-for-simple-bloggers/ Wed, 03 Sep 2014 06:09:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/googles-link-policies-raise-hell-for-simple-bloggers/ I get a bunch of emails like this: We have recently received a notification from Google stating that our website has unnatural links pointing towards it. https://maisonbisson.com/post/ab-split-testing-calculators/ Tue, 26 Aug 2014 22:45:12 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/ab-split-testing-calculators/ Mixpanel’s A/B testing calculator is a competent performer and valuable tool: Thumbtack’s split testing calculator, however, is a surprise standout: https://maisonbisson.com/post/algolia-search/ Mon, 25 Aug 2014 22:43:27 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/algolia-search/ The multi-category autocomplete and autocomplete on filtering operators demos are interesting: https://maisonbisson.com/post/mastery/ Mon, 25 Aug 2014 22:34:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/mastery/ Sarah Lewis on mastery: Mastery is in the reaching, not the arriving. It’s in constantly wanting to close that gap between where you are and where you want to be https://maisonbisson.com/post/rebuild-iphoto-library/ Tue, 05 Aug 2014 01:01:54 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/rebuild-iphoto-library/ Yeah, iPhoto is just about dead, and I’m probably a little crazy to still be using it at all, but I do and now I need to rebuild the library. https://maisonbisson.com/post/x-ray-scanners-vs-film/ Sun, 27 Jul 2014 02:34:14 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/x-ray-scanners-vs-film/ I’ve been enjoying my Fuji Instax 210, but I’m preparing for an upcoming trip and just remembered the challenge of flying with real film. https://maisonbisson.com/post/porn-consumption-by-geography-and-type/ Tue, 15 Jul 2014 21:11:31 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/porn-consumption-by-geography-and-type/ This is shamefully old news, but Pornhub released stats that correlate viewing preferences by geography and pulled out a quote too juicy to ignore: https://maisonbisson.com/post/followup-triggertrap-latency-and-fuji-instax-tips/ Tue, 15 Jul 2014 09:35:13 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/followup-triggertrap-latency-and-fuji-instax-tips/ Short answer: Triggertrap app audio triggering latency is too long to capture a fast moving event. https://maisonbisson.com/post/air-gap-flashes-for-fun-and-more-fun/ Thu, 10 Jul 2014 04:17:49 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/air-gap-flashes-for-fun-and-more-fun/ This 2011 blog post by Maurice Ribble explains the problem with xenon flash tubes such as those typically used in photography: https://maisonbisson.com/post/whats-the-minimum-latency-when-using-triggertrap-audio-triggering/ Tue, 08 Jul 2014 04:05:32 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/whats-the-minimum-latency-when-using-triggertrap-audio-triggering/ CC-BY-NC-ND by airguy1988 The core point of Triggertrap is to release the camera shutter faster and more reliably than can be done by hand, so this is a bit concerning: https://maisonbisson.com/post/fuji-instax-210-tips-and-tricks/ Fri, 04 Jul 2014 06:03:56 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/fuji-instax-210-tips-and-tricks/ CC-BY-NC-SA by Mychkine. On focusing and using the closeup attachment lens: If you want to take portraits, use [the included closeup adapter]. https://maisonbisson.com/post/yeah-hes-probably-right/ Thu, 26 Jun 2014 23:16:24 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/yeah-hes-probably-right/ Apparently Nate Silver’s book on people being wrong is filled with errors: The text and chart are contradictory, and other errors in the comments. https://maisonbisson.com/post/whither-the-independents/ Wed, 28 May 2014 14:30:59 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/whither-the-independents/ On the future of media, at The Awl: Of course a website’s fortunes can change overnight. https://maisonbisson.com/post/ten-years-of-flickr/ Sun, 04 May 2014 20:00:04 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/ten-years-of-flickr/ Big Huge Labs reminded me that my Flickr birthday is in just a few days. My first photo upload was on May 12, 2004. https://maisonbisson.com/post/disclaimer-in-spam-message/ Thu, 20 Mar 2014 17:58:08 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/disclaimer-in-spam-message/ You are receiving this e-mail because we just received a mass e-mail and the sender forgot to blind cc your addresses. https://maisonbisson.com/post/people-pay-for-photos-like-this/ Sat, 01 Mar 2014 19:23:22 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/people-pay-for-photos-like-this/ First there was the bad engagement photos tumblr, but now it’s been one-upped by this crazy Russian wedding photos LiveJournal. https://maisonbisson.com/post/strobist-david-hobby-on-hdr/ Tue, 18 Feb 2014 20:23:32 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/strobist-david-hobby-on-hdr/ I’ve been re-reading David Hobby‘s Lighting 101 tutorial while at the same time exploring HDR (Wikipedia’s HDR article is a good read for those unfamiliar with it). https://maisonbisson.com/post/what-makes-us-special/ Mon, 17 Feb 2014 22:37:05 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/what-makes-us-special/ In Daily Kos this weekend: A Common Thread Among Young-Earth Creationists, Gun Enthusiasts, Marriage Exclusivists, and the 1%. https://maisonbisson.com/post/on-do-what-you-love/ Tue, 11 Feb 2014 02:04:39 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/on-do-what-you-love/ A friend forwarded Miya Tokumitsu’s essay “In the Name of Love” pointing out the Steve Jobs quote and summarizing that it “challenges the notion of work at what you love. https://maisonbisson.com/post/magic-lantern-for-eos-m/ Mon, 10 Feb 2014 04:15:56 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/magic-lantern-for-eos-m/ The EOS M is named as a “beta” supported camera, but you won’t find a download for it in the normal place. https://maisonbisson.com/post/rumors/ Fri, 31 Jan 2014 14:38:42 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/rumors/ Subcomandante Marcos, by Jose Villa, from Wikipedia It started at the coffee shop. Somebody pointed and made the claim, then everybody was laughing. https://maisonbisson.com/post/how-to-identify-context-inside-the-wordpress-dashboard/ Fri, 31 Jan 2014 04:27:43 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/how-to-identify-context-inside-the-wordpress-dashboard/ On wp-hackers, Haluk Karamete asked: on admin pages, how can I detect that the current admin is dealing with a cpt? https://maisonbisson.com/post/mysql-performance-tips-from-around-the-web/ Tue, 28 Jan 2014 14:15:23 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/mysql-performance-tips-from-around-the-web/ Gospel: use InnoDB, never MyISAM It seems everybody on StackExchange is singing from the same gospel: https://maisonbisson.com/post/transcend-wifi-sd-card-hacking-links/ Tue, 28 Jan 2014 04:30:49 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/transcend-wifi-sd-card-hacking-links/ http://www.fernjager.net/post-8/sdcard: As a 400 MHz Linux system with 32 MB of RAM, using only ~100 mA @ 3. https://maisonbisson.com/post/ads-b-adding-aircraft-to-the-internet-of-things/ Mon, 20 Jan 2014 00:35:20 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/ads-b-adding-aircraft-to-the-internet-of-things/ ADS-B is a civil aircraft tracking and telemetry standard that the FAA has ruled will replace transponders by 2020. https://maisonbisson.com/post/need-two-way-encryption-without-mcrypt/ Tue, 14 Jan 2014 17:26:50 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/need-two-way-encryption-without-mcrypt/ In a typical LAMP environment, but don’t have or can’t trust that mcrypt is available in PHP? https://maisonbisson.com/post/where-to-buy-a-submarine/ Tue, 14 Jan 2014 07:18:57 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/where-to-buy-a-submarine/ No need to explain why, I understand: you need a submarine. And you don’t need a bathtub toy (really? https://maisonbisson.com/post/manhattan-project-tours/ Mon, 13 Jan 2014 00:18:25 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/manhattan-project-tours/ The Manhattan Project was among the US government’s’ first big secrets. It’s easy to forget that plutonium, the incredibly radioactive element at the core of the first atomic detonation, was only identified in 1941. https://maisonbisson.com/post/where-on-earth-can-i-get-an-weotype-list/ Thu, 02 Jan 2014 05:12:27 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/where-on-earth-can-i-get-an-weotype-list/ It’s not like these aren’t documented, but I keep forgetting where. WOEID place types: $woetype = array( &#39;7&#39; =&gt; &#39;town&#39;, &#39;8&#39; =&gt; &#39;state-province&#39;, &#39;9&#39; =&gt; &#39;county-parish&#39;, &#39;10&#39; =&gt; &#39;district-ward&#39;, &#39;11&#39; =&gt; &#39;postcode&#39;, &#39;12&#39; =&gt; &#39;country&#39;, &#39;19&#39; =&gt; &#39;region&#39;, &#39;22&#39; =&gt; &#39;neighborhood-suburb&#39;, &#39;24&#39; =&gt; &#39;colloquial&#39;, &#39;29&#39; =&gt; &#39;continent&#39;, &#39;31&#39; =&gt; &#39;timezone&#39;, ); They can be queried via YQL: https://maisonbisson.com/post/when-not-to-use-esc_js/ Mon, 30 Dec 2013 17:46:43 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/when-not-to-use-esc_js/ From the codex for esc_js: If you’re not working with inline JS in HTML event handler attributes, a more suitable function to use is json_encode, which is built-in to PHP. https://maisonbisson.com/post/dynamic-range-vs-price-and-brand/ Sat, 28 Dec 2013 18:22:58 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/dynamic-range-vs-price-and-brand/ Dynamic range is what keeps skies blue while also capturing detail in the foreground. Without enough dynamic range, we’re forced to choose between a blue sky and dark foreground, or properly exposed foreground and white sky. https://maisonbisson.com/post/happy-d-b-cooper-day/ Sat, 30 Nov 2013 13:31:16 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/happy-d-b-cooper-day/ The FBI&rsquo;s wanted poster for D.B. Cooper. D. B. Cooper, the guy who hijacked a plane in 1971 and then — mid-flight — jumped into the darkness with a bundle of cash and disappeared, is celebrated on this day, the Saturday following Thanksgiving. https://maisonbisson.com/post/a-smaller-microcontroller-for-smaller-jobs/ Tue, 12 Nov 2013 04:21:47 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/a-smaller-microcontroller-for-smaller-jobs/ I’ve been thinking a bit about how overkill a full Arduino is for Shutterfingers, and feeling a bit sheepish about how lazy I am about learning to use some other microcontroller. https://maisonbisson.com/post/if-i-did-it-over-again-id-make-shutterfingers-smaller/ Wed, 06 Nov 2013 05:26:20 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/if-i-did-it-over-again-id-make-shutterfingers-smaller/ Shutterfingers is my simple servo controller that presses the shutter on cameras that don’t support remote control. https://maisonbisson.com/post/just-catching-on-mysql-supports-tables-in-plain-csv/ Sat, 26 Oct 2013 23:24:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/just-catching-on-mysql-supports-tables-in-plain-csv/ The storage engine docs are quite clear — “the CSV storage engine stores data in text files using comma-separated values format” — and yet I never realized MySQL supported it. https://maisonbisson.com/post/on-gamification/ Fri, 11 Oct 2013 23:09:51 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/on-gamification/ Stowe Boyd, remarking on the Pew Internet Project report on Gamification in which he was quoted: https://maisonbisson.com/post/shutterfingers-works/ Mon, 23 Sep 2013 18:14:07 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/shutterfingers-works/ I mentioned my plans to make a servo controller to mechanically press the shutter button on a camera when signaled from a motion control timelapse robot. https://maisonbisson.com/post/i-guess-i-missed-the-hand-car-regatta/ Sun, 22 Sep 2013 15:55:53 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/i-guess-i-missed-the-hand-car-regatta/ I followed the Raygun Gothic Rocketship from its former site near the Ferry Building in SF to its new location in Calgary, to the website of the artist collective that made it, to another of their projects: The Lumbering Contraption, to the Internet Archive cache of the website for the event at which the Contraption appeared, the abandoned Facebook page for the event and the April 2012 notice that, after four years, the event was well and truly over. https://maisonbisson.com/post/pcb-prototyping-services/ Sat, 21 Sep 2013 18:31:04 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/pcb-prototyping-services/ ExpressPCB promises For a fixed price of $75, you will receive 3 identical 2 layer, 3. https://maisonbisson.com/post/simple-cameras/ Sun, 15 Sep 2013 03:10:58 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/simple-cameras/ John Gruber links to Mike Johnston’s post asking: I mean, with hundreds of cameras on the market, wouldn’t you think they could make one that was super-simple, just for that segment of the population that wants it? https://maisonbisson.com/post/installing-and-using-mencoder-for-timelapsing/ Sat, 07 Sep 2013 06:16:04 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/installing-and-using-mencoder-for-timelapsing/ I have a new computer, which has me looking up my old documentation on how I encode still photos from a timelapse series into a video file. https://maisonbisson.com/post/of-course-i-want-an-enfojer/ Thu, 05 Sep 2013 18:44:11 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/of-course-i-want-an-enfojer/ Enfojer is an enlarger that uses your smartphone as both light source and negative. It’s on Indigogo now. https://maisonbisson.com/post/fujifilm-x-and-sony-nex-lenses/ Tue, 03 Sep 2013 18:51:23 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/fujifilm-x-and-sony-nex-lenses/ If I get a new camera system I’ll need new lenses. I’m looking carefully at the Sony NEX E-Mount and Fujifilm X-mount because they offer fairly compact cameras with large, APS-C sized sensors. https://maisonbisson.com/post/what-camera-systems-are-worth-it/ Mon, 02 Sep 2013 19:30:42 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/what-camera-systems-are-worth-it/ Given that my feelings for Canon’s lackluster approach to mirrorless cameras, I’m now obligated to look for a new camera system, and that has me looking at cameras I’d previously ignored. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-eos-m-system-might-as-well-be-dead/ Sun, 01 Sep 2013 19:10:36 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-eos-m-system-might-as-well-be-dead/ Amazon is now selling EOS M cameras for $329 with free shipping. At that price you have to think about buying it as a joke, but that’s exactly what it is. https://maisonbisson.com/post/shutterfingers/ Sun, 01 Sep 2013 02:13:58 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/shutterfingers/ I started work on my first Arduino project today, though I have yet to get the hardware. https://maisonbisson.com/post/building-geos-on-centos/ Sun, 25 Aug 2013 05:01:48 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/building-geos-on-centos/ It should be simple, but I ran into a number of errors. First I got stuck on libtool: line 990: g++: command not found. https://maisonbisson.com/post/camera-battery-ratings-explained/ Thu, 22 Aug 2013 04:57:14 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/camera-battery-ratings-explained/ I added battery life as a factor in my recent review of cameras, but what does the reported battery life of a camera mean? https://maisonbisson.com/post/lumix-lx3-sample-photos/ Tue, 20 Aug 2013 07:39:54 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/lumix-lx3-sample-photos/ A friend was asking about the Lumix LX7 I named in my camera roundup the other day and earlier this year. https://maisonbisson.com/post/why-in-camera-gps-matters/ Mon, 19 Aug 2013 19:15:18 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/why-in-camera-gps-matters/ I concluded my review of current camera options with the claim that I’d switch lens systems for a compact interchangeable lens camera that had built-in GPS. https://maisonbisson.com/post/summer-2013-camera-options/ Sun, 18 Aug 2013 23:58:54 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/summer-2013-camera-options/ I reviewed a lineup of cameras I’d consider to replace my aging Canon Rebel XTi and Panasonic Lumix LX3 back in February, but I’m on a roll after collecting some film camera party packs so I decided to update this list as well. https://maisonbisson.com/post/back-to-the-vault-old-vacation-pics-shot-on-film/ Fri, 16 Aug 2013 04:09:02 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/back-to-the-vault-old-vacation-pics-shot-on-film/ My love letter to film cameras as a solution to smartphone addiction at parties had me looking for some old film photos. https://maisonbisson.com/post/film-camera-party-packs/ Mon, 12 Aug 2013 04:12:55 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/film-camera-party-packs/ In the old days, or the 1990s at least, party hosts distributed disposable cameras. Then digital cameras and smartphones after that became common. https://maisonbisson.com/post/detect-mysqls-too-many-connections-error/ Thu, 08 Aug 2013 20:38:22 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/detect-mysqls-too-many-connections-error/ WordPress appears to continue with execution even when MySQL refuses connections/queries after init. Here’s a comment in the MySQL docs suggesting how to detect the condition in raw PHP: https://maisonbisson.com/post/sf-gentrification-debate/ Fri, 26 Jul 2013 21:49:27 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/sf-gentrification-debate/ I wade into this topic wearily, but I do love my new city, even in the moments where it drifts from critically self-aware to navel gazing. https://maisonbisson.com/post/data-sources-for-geographic-boundaries/ Thu, 25 Jul 2013 15:23:32 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/data-sources-for-geographic-boundaries/ world.geo.json To mock something fast and loose with geo-json data for the world, this is your fix. https://maisonbisson.com/post/built-for-a-purpose-geographical-affordances-and-crime/ Sun, 14 Jul 2013 16:45:29 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/built-for-a-purpose-geographical-affordances-and-crime/ In Cabinet spring 2013, Geoff Manaugh investigates the relationship between geography and the crimes that geography affords. https://maisonbisson.com/post/peeking-into-other-peoples-photo-rigs/ Sun, 09 Jun 2013 21:03:28 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/peeking-into-other-peoples-photo-rigs/ This all started because I went looking for a way to remote trigger a Panasonic Lumix LX 3. https://maisonbisson.com/post/speeding-up-mysql-joins/ Thu, 30 May 2013 01:50:57 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/speeding-up-mysql-joins/ The thing about WordPress’ DB schema is that TEXT and VARCHAR content is mixed in the posts table (to say nothing of the frustrations of DATETIME columns). https://maisonbisson.com/post/what-is-the-difference-utf8_unicode_ci-and-utf8_general_ci/ Sat, 23 Mar 2013 04:21:16 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/what-is-the-difference-utf8_unicode_ci-and-utf8_general_ci/ From the MySQL manual: For any Unicode character set, operations performed using the xxx_general_ci collation are faster than those for the xxx_unicode_ci collation. https://maisonbisson.com/post/canon-ios-tethering-solutions/ Mon, 04 Mar 2013 00:09:15 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/canon-ios-tethering-solutions/ There’s magic that happens inside the camera. Yes, magic. Most cameras expose the controls to that magic via some knobs and buttons and a small LCD screen. https://maisonbisson.com/post/testing-apply_filters-times/ Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:27:31 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/testing-apply_filters-times/ Testing how long it takes to assign a variable versus assigning through WordPress’ &lt;a href=&quot;http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/apply_filters&quot;&gt;apply_filters()&lt;/a&gt;. Filters are core to WordPress, but I haven’t yet looked at the total number of apply_filters() calls used throughout the code. https://maisonbisson.com/post/clarity-from-a-distance/ Mon, 11 Feb 2013 04:13:40 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/clarity-from-a-distance/ The sky looks big from earth, but it’s rather different the other way around. I’m not saying it’s not quite an experience, but inspecting the metadata on this photo of New York and surroundings taken on Christmas day, 2000, during the first International Space Station mission surprised me. https://maisonbisson.com/post/3rd-party-js-libraries-cause-downtime/ Fri, 08 Feb 2013 05:13:12 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/3rd-party-js-libraries-cause-downtime/ Facebook Connect went down hard tonight. HuffPo reports that their site was redirecting to a Facebook error page, even when people weren’t attempting to log in. https://maisonbisson.com/post/camera-frustrations-and-other-first-world-problems/ Sat, 02 Feb 2013 19:14:47 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/camera-frustrations-and-other-first-world-problems/ I’m not a camera pro. I have some photos on Flickr, but it’s just for fun, so I don’t really need a new camera. https://maisonbisson.com/post/testing-file-include-times-for-a-file-that-may-or-may-not-exist/ Thu, 31 Jan 2013 18:01:44 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/testing-file-include-times-for-a-file-that-may-or-may-not-exist/ Question: Should you check for a file before attempting to include it, or just suppress errors? https://maisonbisson.com/post/an-american-iphone-in-europe/ Sun, 20 Jan 2013 16:49:14 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/an-american-iphone-in-europe/ By way of update on my earlier post after researching options for AT&amp;T iPhone users in Europe (with an unlocked phone), I ended up not bothering with local SIM cards in either The Netherlands or France. https://maisonbisson.com/post/svn-or-git/ Sat, 19 Jan 2013 19:50:53 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/svn-or-git/ @film_firl poked @WordPressVIP to ask @wordpressvip @mjangda @viper007bond MOOOOVE TO GIT!!! she half-kids. No really, please? https://maisonbisson.com/post/where-did-all-the-votes-go/ Tue, 18 Dec 2012 04:46:22 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/where-did-all-the-votes-go/ What happens to voting data after the election is over? What happens to all those certified results by polling place? https://maisonbisson.com/post/on-wp_enqueue_scripts-and-admin_enqueue_scripts/ Thu, 13 Dec 2012 16:33:31 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/on-wp_enqueue_scripts-and-admin_enqueue_scripts/ An argument has erupted over the WordPress actions wp_enqueue_scripts and admin_enqueue_scripts vs. init. One of the points was about specificity, and how wp_enqueue_scripts and admin_enqueue_scripts can reduce ambiguity. https://maisonbisson.com/post/confirming-that-object-references-in-arrays-are-preserved-while-cloning-the-arrays/ Fri, 23 Nov 2012 18:16:33 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/confirming-that-object-references-in-arrays-are-preserved-while-cloning-the-arrays/ A short test to confirm references are preserved in cloned arrays. // create a stdClass object (using my lazy way of coercing arrays to objects) $object = (object) array( &#39;thing&#39; =&gt; &#39;original&#39; ); // add that object to an array element $array = array( &#39;object_one&#39; =&gt; $object ); // clone the array by assignment to a new variable $array_two = $array; // add a new copy of the original object to a new element in the new array $array_two[&#39;object_two&#39;] = $object; // show what we have so far var_dump( $object , $array , $array_two ); The result is: https://maisonbisson.com/post/ignoring-noise-in-svn-diffs/ Wed, 21 Nov 2012 17:13:01 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/ignoring-noise-in-svn-diffs/ svn diff -x &quot;-bw --ignore-eol-style&quot; is your friend when somebody decides to change the end of line style and strip all trailing whitespace from the files in your repo. https://maisonbisson.com/post/is-perl-the-best-solution-to-write-code-that-needs-setuid/ Wed, 21 Nov 2012 16:18:21 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/is-perl-the-best-solution-to-write-code-that-needs-setuid/ A bunch of searching the web for things related to setuid and shell scripts lead me to this answer in Stack Exchange: https://maisonbisson.com/post/theres-no-git-cp-filename/ Mon, 19 Nov 2012 05:04:48 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/theres-no-git-cp-filename/ Here’s a sequence of unbelievable things: Yes, despite a lifetime in Subversion, I’m really this new to git! https://maisonbisson.com/post/aww-i-got-thanked/ Fri, 16 Nov 2012 04:34:29 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/aww-i-got-thanked/ I recently backed the Syrp Genie, one of a handful of recent motion control timelapse projects on Kickstarter. https://maisonbisson.com/post/greetings-library-scientist/ Tue, 13 Nov 2012 20:02:41 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/greetings-library-scientist/ The California Library Association is pretty much like every other regional library association I’ve seen, not least because their most visible presence is their annual conference. https://maisonbisson.com/post/our-arbitrary-alphabet/ Tue, 06 Nov 2012 15:27:07 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/our-arbitrary-alphabet/ We have been gaslighted by the alphabet and now believe the arbitrary string of letters is actually organized according to some plan. https://maisonbisson.com/post/strange-things-running-on-my-mac/ Sun, 04 Nov 2012 13:17:03 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/strange-things-running-on-my-mac/ My iMac screen is dark and isn’t lighting up like I expect it to when I tap the keyboard. https://maisonbisson.com/post/action-camera-market-not-yet-saturated-according-to-sony/ Mon, 24 Sep 2012 03:12:10 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/action-camera-market-not-yet-saturated-according-to-sony/ I wondered if the GoPro-style action camera market had already become saturated back in January, now I’ve learned that Sony apparently doesn’t think so. https://maisonbisson.com/post/usb-camera-control/ Sun, 23 Sep 2012 16:48:57 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/usb-camera-control/ Problem The Canon EOS M doesn’t include a remote shutter release cable port, and the on-camera controls don’t expose features such as bulb-mode exposures. https://maisonbisson.com/post/geography-vs-stereotypes/ Thu, 13 Sep 2012 19:14:07 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/geography-vs-stereotypes/ Alphadesigner is trying to put a finger on it with his Mapping Stereotypes series. Others, including how Americans see Europe and the world according to America, are not nearly as well designed. https://maisonbisson.com/post/chance-vs-lasers/ Tue, 11 Sep 2012 18:46:12 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/chance-vs-lasers/ Via tweet: claw arcade games are not skill games, rather, the claw strength is randomized and is often only strong enough to successfully grab the prize in one attempt out of 18, or 800. https://maisonbisson.com/post/apigrove-api-management-software/ Mon, 10 Sep 2012 23:16:34 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/apigrove-api-management-software/ apiGrove is an API management tool by Alcatel-Lucent. It proxies APIs (presumably those you built and host, though the example is for Twitter) , supports authenticated access, throttles to help manage demand, usage logging and reporting. https://maisonbisson.com/post/maximize-what-you-measure/ Mon, 10 Sep 2012 18:07:37 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/maximize-what-you-measure/ Seth Godin on what to obsess over: What are you tracking? If you track concepts, your concepts are going to get better. https://maisonbisson.com/post/using-your-iphone-in-europe/ Sun, 09 Sep 2012 16:22:32 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/using-your-iphone-in-europe/ There’s uncertain talk of a European trip coming up, so I’m making nonspecific preparations for it. https://maisonbisson.com/post/higgs-bugson/ Wed, 05 Sep 2012 19:07:36 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/higgs-bugson/ A Higgs-bugson is a hypothetical error whose existence is suggested by log events and vague reports from the users that cannot be reproduced in development conditions. https://maisonbisson.com/post/gopro-hd-hero-2-lens-correction/ Tue, 04 Sep 2012 18:55:53 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/gopro-hd-hero-2-lens-correction/ GoPro’s HD Hero 2 action camera is everywhere, so perhaps we’ll all be used to the fisheye’d images it produces soon. https://maisonbisson.com/post/making-sense-of-atts-shared-data-plans/ Mon, 03 Sep 2012 22:15:18 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/making-sense-of-atts-shared-data-plans/ Kevin’s coverage at GigaOM helped, but what I really needed was a chart that compared the different options. https://maisonbisson.com/post/motion-control-timelapse-projects-on-kickstarter/ Sun, 22 Jul 2012 22:49:19 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/motion-control-timelapse-projects-on-kickstarter/ Some time ago I backed the Syrp Genie (estimated delivery July 2012), but today I learned of the Radian and Astro. https://maisonbisson.com/post/eduard-khil-mr-trololo-dead-at-77/ Tue, 05 Jun 2012 03:12:55 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/eduard-khil-mr-trololo-dead-at-77/ Eduard Khil is dead. The man, whose work and career had earned high praise, including the Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1971), Lenin Komsomol Prize (1976), Order of Friendship of Peoples (1981), Meritorious Artist of the RSFSR (1968), People’s Artist of the RSFSR (1974), Order of Merit for the Fatherland (2009), and international fame with his performance of Trololo. https://maisonbisson.com/post/composited-timelapse-and-real-time-skateboarding-video/ Sat, 19 May 2012 03:54:13 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/composited-timelapse-and-real-time-skateboarding-video/ http://www.vimeo.com/41406753 Russel Houghten‘s Open Horizon is part skate film, part time lapse, and mostly awesome. https://maisonbisson.com/post/find-neighbors-on-the-same-ip/ Tue, 08 May 2012 19:39:03 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/find-neighbors-on-the-same-ip/ What other sites share the same infrastructure with your site, or any other? Bing‘s IP search can answer. https://maisonbisson.com/post/site-load-performance-benchmarks/ Tue, 08 May 2012 13:36:01 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/site-load-performance-benchmarks/ The Loop’s Jim Dalrymple compiled the following numbers for the time it takes various tech sites to load in a browser in late 2011: https://maisonbisson.com/post/is-this-the-best-imdb-api/ Mon, 07 May 2012 19:34:46 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/is-this-the-best-imdb-api/ IMDBAPI.com https://maisonbisson.com/post/css-speech-bubbles/ Mon, 07 May 2012 14:20:49 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/css-speech-bubbles/ Twitter front-end guy Nicolas Gallagher likes both CSS and speech bubbles enough to want them unadulterated by images and non-semantic markup. https://maisonbisson.com/post/semantic-news-markup-and-seo/ Sun, 06 May 2012 19:11:07 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/semantic-news-markup-and-seo/ Schema.org NewsArticle hNews rNews (and the war between rNews and hNews) Google News Technical Requirements https://maisonbisson.com/post/on-the-likelihood-of-unicorns/ Sun, 06 May 2012 01:49:02 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/on-the-likelihood-of-unicorns/ Research by Robert E. Hall and Susan E. Woodward shows that 87% of venture-backed firms exit for less than $10 million (67% exit for less than $1 million). https://maisonbisson.com/post/marathon-spoiler-guides/ Thu, 03 May 2012 18:59:49 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/marathon-spoiler-guides/ Marathon and Marathon 2: Durandal are available as iOS apps. The classic Marathon Spoiler Guides might be good companions. https://maisonbisson.com/post/airparrot-turns-appletv-into-a-secondary-display/ Tue, 01 May 2012 19:49:13 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/airparrot-turns-appletv-into-a-secondary-display/ From the FAQ on the AirParrot site: What does AirParrot do? AirParrot lets you AirPlay your Mac’s screen to a second or third generation AppleTV. https://maisonbisson.com/post/sf-police-fire-ems-and-airport-radio-monitoring/ Tue, 01 May 2012 04:02:11 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/sf-police-fire-ems-and-airport-radio-monitoring/ Listen in with RadioReference.com’s index of live police, fire, EMS, and airport radio feeds in San Francisco. https://maisonbisson.com/post/is-this-the-best-way-to-copy-voicemails-from-an-iphone/ Mon, 30 Apr 2012 19:32:21 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/is-this-the-best-way-to-copy-voicemails-from-an-iphone/ Instructables tells us to get the files from the iPhone backup in ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/, but “iTunes renames all your files xxxxxxx. https://maisonbisson.com/post/html5-form-elements/ Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:37:38 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/html5-form-elements/ Mark Pilgrim’s overview of HTML 5 form elements includes the following: Placeholder Text Autofocus Fields Email Addresses Web Addresses Numbers as Spinboxes Numbers as Sliders Date Pickers Search Boxes Color Pickers Form Validation Required Fields Further Reading https://maisonbisson.com/post/configuring-amazon-linux-for-web-services-spring-2012/ Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:53:39 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/configuring-amazon-linux-for-web-services-spring-2012/ I’ve tested this cookbook against Amazon Linux, but it will probably work just as well with the current version of CentOS. https://maisonbisson.com/post/php-vs-frameworks/ Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:03:15 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/php-vs-frameworks/ Six years ago this month the Zend framework preview was released and Rasmus Lerdorf published a blog post titled “The no-framework PHP MVC framework” (italics added). https://maisonbisson.com/post/scanwiches/ Mon, 19 Mar 2012 18:55:55 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/scanwiches/ Scanwiches: scans of sandwiches for education and delight. Above is Parisi Bakery’s ham, swiss, tomato, lettuce, mustard, mayo, on a hero. https://maisonbisson.com/post/pew-internet-project-19-of-adults-own-a-tablet-computer/ Sun, 18 Mar 2012 22:38:48 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/pew-internet-project-19-of-adults-own-a-tablet-computer/ We’ve heard stories about how significant the growth of Apple’s iPad is, but Pew Internet and American Life Project Director Lee Rainie speaking at the National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) conference on Mobile Devices and the Delivery of Information shared a stat that made me pause: https://maisonbisson.com/post/rob-reids-copyright-math/ Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:53:54 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/rob-reids-copyright-math/ Rob Reid’s Copyright Math at TED2012: the claimed effect of entertainment piracy to US economy is larger than value of most of our agricultural output. https://maisonbisson.com/post/pantone-yummies/ Sun, 11 Mar 2012 17:45:15 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/pantone-yummies/ By Emilie Griottes: https://maisonbisson.com/post/open-access-and-open-data-finally-getting-public-attention/ Sat, 10 Mar 2012 17:32:28 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/open-access-and-open-data-finally-getting-public-attention/ Complaints over the cost of academic journals have long been a trope that repeats at library conferences with no denouement, but there are new signs that might be changing. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-microsoft-store-experience/ Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:17:02 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-microsoft-store-experience/ There’s a Microsoft Store right across from the Apple Store in the Valley Fair Mall. Cliff and I realized this after exiting the Apple Store there with a new keyboard and headphones. https://maisonbisson.com/post/marta-bckets-final-performance-tonight/ Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:40:45 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/marta-bckets-final-performance-tonight/ Legend has it that Marta Becket rolled in to Death Valley Junction in 1967 and has been performing at the Amargosa Opera House since, but tonight is her last performance. https://maisonbisson.com/post/action-cameras/ Tue, 03 Jan 2012 03:32:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/action-cameras/ You know about Countour and GoPro, but you may not have seen Drift and Swann. Is this a market that is getting saturated, or is it about to explode? https://maisonbisson.com/post/happy-new-scriblio/ Sun, 01 Jan 2012 22:26:01 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/happy-new-scriblio/ The most recently released, stable version of Scriblio is marked 2.9-r1 and was last updated in June 2010. https://maisonbisson.com/post/better-taxonomy-query-syntax/ Sat, 31 Dec 2011 08:08:59 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/better-taxonomy-query-syntax/ (Updated, see below) WordPress 3.1 introduced some awesome new taxonomy query features, and the URL parsing allows some rudimentary syntax to query multiple terms and choose if the query is OR’d or AND’d. https://maisonbisson.com/post/ge-factory-flyover-video/ Mon, 26 Dec 2011 19:34:02 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/ge-factory-flyover-video/ The video from General Electric is cool, and shot at least in part with cameras mounted on RC helicopters, but strangely missing is any mention their manufacture of nuclear generation equipment such as the Fukushima plants that melted down earlier this year. https://maisonbisson.com/post/hot-sweet-wings-and-other-wonders-composed-with-the-help-of-songify/ Sat, 24 Dec 2011 19:19:07 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/hot-sweet-wings-and-other-wonders-composed-with-the-help-of-songify/ Cliff introduced me to the wonder of the Songify app. Here are some tips to making the best of it: https://maisonbisson.com/post/wikileaks-embassy-cables/ Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:49:36 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wikileaks-embassy-cables/ First Wikileaks published the collateral murder video, then a massive-but-redacted dump of diplomatic cables, then people figured out how to get the unredacted content. https://maisonbisson.com/post/parallel-flickr-backs-up-your-flickr-library/ Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:17:15 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/parallel-flickr-backs-up-your-flickr-library/ parallel-flickr: a tool for backing up your Flickr photos and generating a database backed website that honours the viewing permissions you’ve chosen on Flickr. https://maisonbisson.com/post/predator-drones-used-in-domestic-police-action/ Tue, 20 Dec 2011 05:51:36 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/predator-drones-used-in-domestic-police-action/ The LA Times on December 10 reported that Predator drones such as those now being used by the Air Force and CIA were used to support police in their investigation of cattle rustling. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-war-on-cameras/ Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:39:34 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-war-on-cameras/ WNYC’s On The Media did a nice piece on it back in September (MP3 download): judging from the arrests and harassment, photographers are part of a terrorist plot. https://maisonbisson.com/post/alterego-democratizing-two-factor-security/ Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:25:58 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/alterego-democratizing-two-factor-security/ AlterEgo promises two-factor authentication security without the silly key-fob. Neat. https://maisonbisson.com/post/electric-chariot/ Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:32:22 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/electric-chariot/ Sure, this electric chariot combines all the inconvenience of a scooter with some of the frustrations of an actual car, but it looks cool. https://maisonbisson.com/post/steadicam-smoothee-for-gopro-hd-hero/ Thu, 15 Dec 2011 05:23:11 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/steadicam-smoothee-for-gopro-hd-hero/ In my earlier post on Steadicams for GoPro HD Hero cameras I incorrectly stated that the Steadicam Smoothee is exclusively for iPhones and iPod Touches. https://maisonbisson.com/post/web-strategy-discussion-starter/ Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:46:47 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/web-strategy-discussion-starter/ What follows is the text of a document I prepared to start and shape discussion about the future of the university website at my former place of work. https://maisonbisson.com/post/which-steadicam-is-best-for-a-gopro-hd-hero/ Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:07:41 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/which-steadicam-is-best-for-a-gopro-hd-hero/ I have a new GoPro HD Hero2, one of the best new video cameras available (if what you like in a video camera is a compact, wide-angle, and waterproof), and I’m looking for a way to steady it for handheld shots. https://maisonbisson.com/post/aoc-usb-monitor/ Tue, 13 Dec 2011 06:41:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/aoc-usb-monitor/ AOC’s new 16″ USB-connected monitor looks like an interesting toy. It draws its power and signal from the USB. https://maisonbisson.com/post/what-content-should-a-university-website-include/ Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:17:59 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/what-content-should-a-university-website-include/ I no longer have a dog in this race, but in cleaning up my hard drive of old files I’ve run across a few items of note. https://maisonbisson.com/post/what-went-wrong/ Thu, 08 Dec 2011 07:45:09 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/what-went-wrong/ If I’m lucky, the only reason I get a phone call before 7am is because somebody on the east coast forgot about the timezones between them and me. https://maisonbisson.com/post/comcasts-folly/ Wed, 31 Aug 2011 19:58:40 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/comcasts-folly/ [Harry Shearer]2, the bassist for Spinal Tap, voice talent for many characters in The Simpsons, and host of Le Show has no difficulty criticizing the unnecessary complexities of modern media technology, but not until his August 14 episode (subscribe to the podcast) has he admitted to the frustrations of modern cable. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-end-of-paper/ Mon, 29 Aug 2011 18:42:10 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-end-of-paper/ Domtar, “the largest integrated manufacturer and marketer of uncoated freesheet paper in North America and the second largest in the world,” launched a campaign to promote paper consumption. https://maisonbisson.com/post/search-the-sears-and-roebuck-catalog/ Sun, 28 Aug 2011 17:34:56 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/search-the-sears-and-roebuck-catalog/ You’d think the Sears Archives would offer an online search of their historical catalogs, but the best you’ll find is a list of libraries holding the microfilms. https://maisonbisson.com/post/ed-rondthalers-spelling-reform-flip-chart/ Sat, 27 Aug 2011 19:49:45 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/ed-rondthalers-spelling-reform-flip-chart/ http://www.vimeo.com/17561068 Ed makes a good argument for spelling reform, but he demonstrates an outstanding flair for presentation, even at the age of 102. https://maisonbisson.com/post/sara-cannon-on-responsive-web-design-at-wcsf/ Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:21:25 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/sara-cannon-on-responsive-web-design-at-wcsf/ Sara Cannon‘s talk on responsive web design (resizing the page to suit different client devices) was spot on. https://maisonbisson.com/post/estelle-weyl-on-css3-at-wcsf/ Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:18:14 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/estelle-weyl-on-css3-at-wcsf/ I’ve long been a fan of CSS3, but Estelle Weyl‘s WordCamp SF talk on it charged me up again. https://maisonbisson.com/post/an-interesting-insight-into-mobile-safari-on-ios/ Mon, 22 Aug 2011 16:16:26 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/an-interesting-insight-into-mobile-safari-on-ios/ A post in a Y Combinator discussion thread: Mobile Safari parses websites as a big canvas and then pretends the screen is a window through which you’re looking at the canvas. https://maisonbisson.com/post/applescript-get-every-movie-in-itunes/ Sun, 21 Aug 2011 22:01:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/applescript-get-every-movie-in-itunes/ AppleScript can be frustrating, but it’s an easy way to get info out of iTunes. The following is a fragment of a script I’m working on, this part simply gets a record list of every video in the current iTunes window that is a “movie” (the alternatives include music videos and TV shows, among others). https://maisonbisson.com/post/civic-comparators/ Sat, 20 Aug 2011 19:49:38 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/civic-comparators/ It’s from early 2007, but Cameron Marlow’s comparison of SF to NYC neighborhoods and Jason Kottke’s comparison of the physical geography are amusing to me as a new San Franciscan. https://maisonbisson.com/post/doublehappy-game-creator/ Tue, 16 Aug 2011 19:48:49 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/doublehappy-game-creator/ DoubleHappy, by Instinct, the same folks who make the GetShopped ecommerce plugin for WordPress, is an interesting game creation tool. https://maisonbisson.com/post/using-keynote-as-a-motion-graphics-tool/ Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:06:47 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/using-keynote-as-a-motion-graphics-tool/ Bill Keaggy just posted on the XPLANE blog about using Apple’s Keynote presentation software to make motion graphics and movies. https://maisonbisson.com/post/notes-to-self-twitters-website-rocks-on-mobile-devices/ Sun, 14 Aug 2011 19:05:08 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/notes-to-self-twitters-website-rocks-on-mobile-devices/ Twitter’s mobile site rocks on my iPhone. Especially worth noting: they’ve figured out how to pin their header to the top while scrolling the content in the middle. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-nocache_headers-vs-nginx/ Fri, 12 Aug 2011 21:47:55 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-nocache_headers-vs-nginx/ Typically, you can call WordPress’ nocache_headers() function when you don’t want content to be cached. Typically, but when you’re serving from behind Nginx as a reverse proxy, consideration must be paid. https://maisonbisson.com/post/phpquery/ Sun, 07 Aug 2011 19:49:42 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/phpquery/ I have Matthew Batchelder to thank for introducing me to PHPQuery. I haven’t used it yet, but someday I’ll have need to select text elements from HTML using the PHP5 PEAR module. https://maisonbisson.com/post/food-tech-societys-food-ingredient-and-food-additive-forum/ Thu, 14 Jul 2011 14:39:26 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/food-tech-societys-food-ingredient-and-food-additive-forum/ The July 28 Food Ingredient and Functional Additive Forum looks to have a great lineup of talks, including Nano Food, Interesting Ingredients in Milk and Dairy Products, Ingredients in Functional Food and Drink, Sea food &amp; Frozen Industry, and 45 minutes (the longest of any of the talks) set aside just for soy sauce. https://maisonbisson.com/post/incoming-support-request/ Tue, 05 Apr 2011 16:15:50 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/incoming-support-request/ You haven’t fixed the BING search page on Cafe World. It comes up when I click on an oven, when I click on a mission and then everything is ruined. https://maisonbisson.com/post/smileys-bar-bolinas-ca/ Sun, 27 Mar 2011 23:51:50 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/smileys-bar-bolinas-ca/ Captain, ship, crew, twelve points, and a shot of whisky at Smiley's I heard a story that the “Bolinas Border Patrol” removes all the signs pointing to town, so Cliffy and I had to go check it out. https://maisonbisson.com/post/social-compass/ Mon, 21 Mar 2011 19:54:39 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/social-compass/ It looks gorgeous, but the points and bearings Brian Solis lays out in his Social Compass seem so obvious to me that I almost dismissed it as meaningless. https://maisonbisson.com/post/radiation-is-all-around-us/ Sun, 20 Mar 2011 19:53:59 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/radiation-is-all-around-us/ The Environmental Protection Agency on radiation and cigarette smoke: Studies show filters on ordinary commercial cigarette remove only a modest amount of radioactivity from the smoke inhaled into the lungs of smokers. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-story-of-nukey-poo/ Sat, 19 Mar 2011 23:16:36 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-story-of-nukey-poo/ The video of Nuclear Boy and his stinky poo that’s supposed to explain Japan’s nuclear crisis isn’t the first time anybody has mixed poo and nuclear reactors. https://maisonbisson.com/post/8-bit-joy-apple-ii-emulators/ Sat, 19 Mar 2011 15:27:45 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/8-bit-joy-apple-ii-emulators/ You can emulate an Apple ][ or Apple IIgs in your browser with a plugin and 32,000 disk images, including Oregon Trail. https://maisonbisson.com/post/what-time-is-it/ Sun, 13 Mar 2011 19:54:25 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/what-time-is-it/ The claim that changing the clocks saves energy is unsupportable by facts. Some say it’s more likely to spur consumption and benefit commercial interests, but I’m curious why the teabaggersparty people haven’t risen up against this alarming government intrusion into our private lives. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wijax-widget-lazy-loader/ Mon, 07 Mar 2011 18:52:20 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wijax-widget-lazy-loader/ Idea: A simple way to improve load-time performance by lazy loading some of the content on the page. https://maisonbisson.com/post/net-render-your-ie-compatibility-tests/ Wed, 02 Mar 2011 18:50:35 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/net-render-your-ie-compatibility-tests/ MaisonBisson in IE7 Geotek‘s NetRenderer makes it possible for me to see how badly old versions of IE are mangling my web pages without actually having to run the malware on a box of my own. https://maisonbisson.com/post/ebook-users-bill-of-rights/ Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:01:55 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/ebook-users-bill-of-rights/ It’s easy to see the eBook User’s Bill of Rights as a sign of the growing rift between libraries and content producers. https://maisonbisson.com/post/van-ness-station-escalator-ambient-video/ Sun, 27 Feb 2011 18:06:31 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/van-ness-station-escalator-ambient-video/ Flickr Video More mesmerizing than a fireplace video? https://maisonbisson.com/post/saving-backup-space-with-time-machine-and-iphoto/ Thu, 24 Feb 2011 19:00:41 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/saving-backup-space-with-time-machine-and-iphoto/ Three things that, when mixed, can consume a surprising amount of disk space: Backup automatically with Time Machine Use iPhoto and take a lot of photos Sync photos to one or more iOS devices like iPhones and iPads I do all three, and on top of that I have three current computers backing up to a 1GB Time Capsule. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-comments_template-performance/ Tue, 22 Feb 2011 18:49:27 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-comments_template-performance/ This thread on memory usage while executing WordPress’s comments_template() raised my awareness of performance issues related to displaying comments on posts in WordPress. https://maisonbisson.com/post/gigaom-mobile-site-launched/ Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:53:35 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/gigaom-mobile-site-launched/ This week we launched a new mobile theme at GigaOM.com. It was out for just a day or two before Dennis Bournique surprised us with a review on WAPReview. https://maisonbisson.com/post/helvetic-neue-on-the-web/ Sat, 19 Feb 2011 01:27:01 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/helvetic-neue-on-the-web/ CSS Tricks tips “better helvetica.” Guillermo Esteves explains that specifying font names in CSS is really about specifying font families: https://maisonbisson.com/post/call-it-rolling-shutter-or-focal-plane-shutter-it-looks-weird-cool/ Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:24:58 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/call-it-rolling-shutter-or-focal-plane-shutter-it-looks-weird-cool/ I’ve been both frustrated by and in love with focal plane shutter distortion (Wikipedia calls it rolling shutter) for a while, now I’ve discovered there’s a group for it. https://maisonbisson.com/post/mpeg-la-forming-vp8-webm-patent-pool/ Mon, 14 Feb 2011 18:06:49 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/mpeg-la-forming-vp8-webm-patent-pool/ The Free Software Foundation tells us the H.264 AVCHD video encoding standard violates the very tenets of freedom, they claim competitors such as VP8/WebM and Ogg Theora are both unencumbered and technically equal to H. https://maisonbisson.com/post/iphone-camera-details/ Sun, 13 Feb 2011 23:08:25 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/iphone-camera-details/ I have to look this stuff up every time I play with Hugin, the open source panorama stitcher. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-mums-empty-header-and-broken-image-bug-fixed/ Sat, 22 Jan 2011 17:37:27 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-mums-empty-header-and-broken-image-bug-fixed/ I just switched to a new server and found myself struggling with empty HTTP headers and broken or partial images. https://maisonbisson.com/post/configuring-amazon-linux-for-web-services/ Fri, 31 Dec 2010 04:01:08 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/configuring-amazon-linux-for-web-services/ UPDATED: an updated installation cookbook is available. Amazon has introduced their own distribution of linux with tweaks to optimize it for their Elastic Compute Cloud platform. https://maisonbisson.com/post/worlds-largest-canned-food-structure/ Mon, 27 Dec 2010 19:00:49 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/worlds-largest-canned-food-structure/ Some records in the Guinness Book reflect outstanding accomplishments in hotly contested fields. Others reflect the imagination it now takes to create a new class of records. https://maisonbisson.com/post/happy-holidays-from-maisonbisson/ Fri, 24 Dec 2010 07:01:21 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/happy-holidays-from-maisonbisson/ Another Cheesy Holiday Card From MaisonBisson And, for those who like cheese as much as us, from left to right: https://maisonbisson.com/post/facebook-iphone-app-is-happy-to-suck-in-your-contacts/ Mon, 20 Dec 2010 22:25:31 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/facebook-iphone-app-is-happy-to-suck-in-your-contacts/ I discovered a Sync button in the Facebook app for iPhone today: Then I read the privacy notice: https://maisonbisson.com/post/clearing-the-browser-cache-on-ipad/ Sun, 19 Dec 2010 00:30:59 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/clearing-the-browser-cache-on-ipad/ Apple’s knowledge base article on it could be as simple as the following screenshot: Instead, the docs say something like: go to Settings, click the Safari tab, click the big clear cache button, duh. https://maisonbisson.com/post/worlds-biggest-snow-blower/ Wed, 15 Dec 2010 16:31:01 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/worlds-biggest-snow-blower/ This probably looks like a snow blower, but the railroads call it a snow plow. A rotary snow plow, yes, but still a snow plow. https://maisonbisson.com/post/where-are-san-franciscos-love-padlocks/ Sun, 12 Dec 2010 16:03:57 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/where-are-san-franciscos-love-padlocks/ I discovered it in the Flickr Blog and followed it up with considerable Googling, but I can’t find any love padlocks in SF, much less a popular location for them. https://maisonbisson.com/post/failed-hard-drive-noises/ Tue, 09 Nov 2010 05:16:08 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/failed-hard-drive-noises/ There’s nothing amusing about this list of failed hard drive noises if you’re looking through it for a sound matching what drive on your desk is making (which I am), but I’m sure there’s some good material for the click-hop crowd. https://maisonbisson.com/post/better-xmljson-display-in-safari/ Mon, 01 Nov 2010 19:47:34 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/better-xmljson-display-in-safari/ I’m one of the few people who loves Safari, but I was happy to admit that it didn’t display XML or JSON very well. https://maisonbisson.com/post/improving-will-norris-open-graph-plugin/ Sat, 23 Oct 2010 23:58:14 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/improving-will-norris-open-graph-plugin/ Will Norris put together a nice WordPress plugin to place Open Graph metadata on the page. https://maisonbisson.com/post/things-learned-about-the-gap-inc-corporate-archives/ Sun, 10 Oct 2010 19:53:55 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/things-learned-about-the-gap-inc-corporate-archives/ If a customer saw it, or if it was shared with employees, I want some version of it in our archive. https://maisonbisson.com/post/things-learned-about-natural-language-processing-at-thatcamp-bay-area/ Sun, 10 Oct 2010 19:35:59 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/things-learned-about-natural-language-processing-at-thatcamp-bay-area/ The first session I joined at THATcamp was Aditi Muralidharan‘s text mining boot camp, and the topic seemed to set my agenda for the rest of the event (though I wish Aditi had also hosted her proposed data visualization session). https://maisonbisson.com/post/becoming-donna-reed/ Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:14:51 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/becoming-donna-reed/ Sandee has just launched her new site, Becoming Donna Reed: Armed with a notepad and pen, my trusty MacBook, and the desire to be the best domestic goddess I can be, I will watch the show from the beginning and find the lesson in each episode. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-critics-are-wrong-about-apples-tv-set-top-box/ Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:11:39 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-critics-are-wrong-about-apples-tv-set-top-box/ It’s not just the critics, nobody seems to get the story on Apple’s new TV-connected device right. https://maisonbisson.com/post/dancing-dog/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:18:23 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/dancing-dog/ I’ve got a dozen top priorities this morning, but this dancing merengue dog just delayed them all. https://maisonbisson.com/post/twitter-is-like-a-conversation-in-a-bar/ Fri, 09 Jul 2010 15:29:57 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/twitter-is-like-a-conversation-in-a-bar/ Mathew Ingram on Twitter, Esquire Magazine, and bars: It’s called social media because it’s social. In other words, it’s a conversation; and yes, sometimes it’s like a conversation in a bar. https://maisonbisson.com/post/install-mod-x-sendfile-apache-wordpress/ Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:12:42 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/install-mod-x-sendfile-apache-wordpress/ Like WordPress MU before, MultiSite implementations of WordPress 3.0 use a script to handle image and other attachment downloads. https://maisonbisson.com/post/post-loop-by-category/ Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:43:46 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/post-loop-by-category/ Alex Bluesummers asked on a WordPress list: How do I order posts in the loop by whether or not it is in a category, then by date? https://maisonbisson.com/post/migrating-from-wordpress-mu-to-wordpress-3-0-multi-site/ Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:20:17 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/migrating-from-wordpress-mu-to-wordpress-3-0-multi-site/ I’ve been running a few instances of WordPress MU for a while now, so I was more than a little anxious about the merge of the MU functionality into the core of WordPress. https://maisonbisson.com/post/donut-tour-2010-the-video/ Fri, 04 Jun 2010 03:42:23 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/donut-tour-2010-the-video/ Please enable Javascript and Flash to view this Viddler video. We planned the donut tour. We did the donut tour. https://maisonbisson.com/post/how-to-plan-a-donut-tour/ Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:17:05 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/how-to-plan-a-donut-tour/ <p>Since 1938, the first Friday of June has been hailed throughout the US as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Doughnut_Day">National Donut Day</a>. It was founded in recognition of the great comfort donuts provide to those who eat them, and to honor those who serve them.</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/museum-of-family-camping-closed/ Sun, 30 May 2010 16:07:07 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/museum-of-family-camping-closed/ Memorial Day weekend is universally recognized as the start of summer. Tradition allows that we can start wearing white, gather family and friends for barbecue, and, for those so inclined, go camping. https://maisonbisson.com/post/sandees-homemade-wrapping-paper/ Sat, 29 May 2010 16:30:50 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/sandees-homemade-wrapping-paper/ Sandee’s been getting into disposable art. First it was her holiday dames on the chalkboard in our kitchen, and more recently she’s been crafting one of a kind wrapping paper. https://maisonbisson.com/post/step-by-step-turn-on-the-iphone-ipads-web-debugging-console/ Thu, 27 May 2010 15:17:24 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/step-by-step-turn-on-the-iphone-ipads-web-debugging-console/ You can’t view a web page’s source, and you can’t Command+F to search for text on the page, but you sure can get a debugging console to see the errors on the page. https://maisonbisson.com/post/ipad-velcro-heart/ Wed, 26 May 2010 20:30:48 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/ipad-velcro-heart/ http://www.vimeo.com/11886557 https://maisonbisson.com/post/huffington-post-rewards-social-news-badges/ Thu, 20 May 2010 17:48:21 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/huffington-post-rewards-social-news-badges/ How do you make news fun? Or, how do you make moderating often fractious comments on news stories fun? https://maisonbisson.com/post/mick-jagger-music-business-profits/ Sun, 16 May 2010 16:59:05 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/mick-jagger-music-business-profits/ Mick Jagger to BBC: [P]eople only made money out of records for a very, very small time […] if you look at the history of recorded music from 1900 to now, there was a 25 year period where artists did very well, but the rest of the time they didn’t. https://maisonbisson.com/post/remixed-my-photo-in-truthout-org/ Tue, 11 May 2010 16:17:58 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/remixed-my-photo-in-truthout-org/ I was happy to see one of my photos used as source material for this illustration in TruthOut. https://maisonbisson.com/post/will-mobile-flash-be-relevant-when-it-finally-works/ Mon, 10 May 2010 15:25:05 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/will-mobile-flash-be-relevant-when-it-finally-works/ John Gruber linked to the sizzle in Jeff Croft’s post: In the [FlashCamp Seattle] opening keynote, Ryan Stewart, a Flash Platform evangelist at Adobe, demoed Flash Player 10. https://maisonbisson.com/post/listening-is-just-the-start/ Mon, 03 May 2010 16:00:15 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/listening-is-just-the-start/ Jeff Howe writes: idea jams “allow people to discover the fringe question (or idea, or solution), then tweak it, discuss it and bring the community’s attention to it. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wisdom-in-mail-lists/ Sat, 01 May 2010 16:11:49 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wisdom-in-mail-lists/ David Cloutman on Code4Lib: Don’t forget to look at trends outside of “Libraryland”. A lot of professional library discussion takes place in an echo chamber, and bad ideas often get repeated and gain credibility as a result. https://maisonbisson.com/post/pro-se-motion-to-quash-subpoena/ Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:03:10 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/pro-se-motion-to-quash-subpoena/ Thanks to Kathleen Seidel, a fellow New Hampshire resident and blogger at &lt;neurodiversity.com&gt;, I now have what appears to be a good example of a motion to quash a subpoena (even cooler, she filed it pro se). https://maisonbisson.com/post/steve-jobs-on-apple-vs-adobe-and-iphone-vs-flash/ Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:07:52 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/steve-jobs-on-apple-vs-adobe-and-iphone-vs-flash/ Steve Jobs’ Thoughts on Flash minces no words in its conclusion: Besides the fact that Flash is closed and proprietary, has major technical drawbacks, and doesn’t support touch based devices, there is an even more important reason we do not allow Flash on iPhones, iPods and iPads. https://maisonbisson.com/post/blogging-in-academia/ Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:53:03 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/blogging-in-academia/ A comment in the University of Lincoln’s Audio Production course blog demonstrates the value of public blogging in academia: https://maisonbisson.com/post/ssd-mysql-performance/ Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:03:38 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/ssd-mysql-performance/ The above graph and this MySQL performance blog story are from last year, but I believe are still relevant and instructive now. https://maisonbisson.com/post/improving-p2-order-posts-by-last-comment-date/ Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:19:43 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/improving-p2-order-posts-by-last-comment-date/ I’m a big fan of the P2 theme for WordPress. It makes it dead easy anybody familiar with WordPress to host a discussion site and improve collaboration across time and distance. https://maisonbisson.com/post/irony-nh-liquor-commissioner-suspected-of-dui/ Sun, 25 Apr 2010 14:53:19 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/irony-nh-liquor-commissioner-suspected-of-dui/ In 2007 it was the deputy chief of liquor enforcement. Last summer it was the Wolfboro police commissioner who was arrested importing 900 pounds of marijuana from Canada. https://maisonbisson.com/post/im-a-carnie-huckster-you-know-it-and-i-know-it-but-thats-ok/ Sat, 24 Apr 2010 15:03:31 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/im-a-carnie-huckster-you-know-it-and-i-know-it-but-thats-ok/ The title is a quote from Seth Stevenson Slate.com piece on pitchman Vince Offer, where he explains that Vince’s “smooth-talking condescension” is the most appropriate sales tactic in today’s cynical world. https://maisonbisson.com/post/three-sweet-globe-images/ Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:08:54 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/three-sweet-globe-images/ [][3] Hey, it’s [Earth Day][4]! [3]: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kumasawa/3027658256/ &ldquo;&ldquo;Wind Andamento&rdquo; by Karen Ami (Cool Globes) by kumasawa, on Flickr&rdquo; [4]: http://en. https://maisonbisson.com/post/auctions-and-negotiations-starting-price-matters/ Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:37:53 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/auctions-and-negotiations-starting-price-matters/ Via Mind Hacks: auctions with a low starting price may result in higher final sale prices than those with a high starting price. https://maisonbisson.com/post/cleaning-up-category-relationships-in-a-wordpress-scriblio-site/ Sun, 18 Apr 2010 18:45:09 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/cleaning-up-category-relationships-in-a-wordpress-scriblio-site/ A few lines of SQL I used to clean up a Scriblio site. It’s probably useless to anybody but me. https://maisonbisson.com/post/loading-global-warming/ Sat, 17 Apr 2010 23:58:23 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/loading-global-warming/ Sure I’m a fan of Marilyn Monroe, but Stéphane Massa-Bidal’s activist illustration is even hotter. https://maisonbisson.com/post/la-times-on-ipad-vs-kindle/ Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:31:56 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/la-times-on-ipad-vs-kindle/ The Kindle feels like an e-reading device, whereas an iPad feels like reading. From latimes. https://maisonbisson.com/post/a-few-lines-of-sql-cloning-blogs-in-mu/ Thu, 15 Apr 2010 10:31:36 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/a-few-lines-of-sql-cloning-blogs-in-mu/ The following SQL is what I used to clone the content from one blog in MU to another for testing. https://maisonbisson.com/post/solving-problems-in-secret/ Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:32:49 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/solving-problems-in-secret/ Matt Blaze computer and information science at University of Pennsylvania and blogs about security at Exhaustive Search. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-reward-for-re-discovering-archive-collections/ Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:27:29 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-reward-for-re-discovering-archive-collections/ Documentarians spend most of their time digging up materials that few people know exist. They frequent basements and dark storage rooms, endure conversations with crazy collectors, and typically develop vitamin-d deficiency and light sensitivity in search of what they need. https://maisonbisson.com/post/iphone-use-heavy-at-7am-bumps-at-lunch-peaks-at-9pm/ Thu, 08 Apr 2010 15:53:27 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/iphone-use-heavy-at-7am-bumps-at-lunch-peaks-at-9pm/ Via Localytics: iPhone users generate 7% more traffic on the weekend than the average weekday. https://maisonbisson.com/post/is-the-filesystem-finally-dead/ Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:24:23 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/is-the-filesystem-finally-dead/ From Rob Foster/Nimble Design: By releasing the iPhone OS, Apple is putting a bullet in the head of a long standing convention that most folks could do without. https://maisonbisson.com/post/why-phps-regex-is-slow-and-what-you-can-do-about-it-if-you-happen-to-be-a-committer-on-the-php-project/ Mon, 05 Apr 2010 15:35:47 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/why-phps-regex-is-slow-and-what-you-can-do-about-it-if-you-happen-to-be-a-committer-on-the-php-project/ Regular Expression Matching Can Be Simple And Fast, by Russ Cox: Perl [and PHP and others] could not now remove backreference support, of course, but they could employ much faster algorithms when presented with regular expressions that don’t have backreferences. https://maisonbisson.com/post/edison-phonograph-eula/ Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:50:53 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/edison-phonograph-eula/ Think end user license agreements (EULAs) are recent inventions? Thomas Edison used them on his phonograph cylinder at the start of the 1900s. https://maisonbisson.com/post/college-students-use-love-are-aware-of-the-limitations-of-wikipedia/ Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:00:39 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/college-students-use-love-are-aware-of-the-limitations-of-wikipedia/ How often do college students use Wikipedia? How Today’s College Students Use Wikipedia For Course-Related Research: https://maisonbisson.com/post/drm-evils-now-comic-fodder/ Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:38:45 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/drm-evils-now-comic-fodder/ Brad Colbow does some good looking design and an occasional comic. He isn’t the first to address DRM woes in comic form, but his comic is one more public cry for rationality. https://maisonbisson.com/post/scott-smitelli-on-hacking-youtubes-content-id-drm-system/ Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:39:25 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/scott-smitelli-on-hacking-youtubes-content-id-drm-system/ Scott Smitelli uploaded a total of 82 test videos and received 35 Content ID emails in the name of science: testing YouTube’s Content ID system. https://maisonbisson.com/post/connect-a-desk-looks-ridiculous-though-i-may-secretly-want-one/ Sun, 28 Mar 2010 16:39:29 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/connect-a-desk-looks-ridiculous-though-i-may-secretly-want-one/ I was about to tell Sandee how foolish these people look with their laptops stuck to their torsos, but she hit me with “that looks like something you’d use. https://maisonbisson.com/post/social-media-usage-stats/ Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:28:06 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/social-media-usage-stats/ Retrevo claims to help electronics shoppers decide what to buy, when to buy, and where to buy it,” so their recent survey on social media addition is probably more significant as link bait than as serious research. https://maisonbisson.com/post/addressing-hateful-and-libelous-internet-speech-in-the-post-juicycampus-era/ Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:11:13 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/addressing-hateful-and-libelous-internet-speech-in-the-post-juicycampus-era/ Juicy Campus is gone, but other sites have taken its place as a hub for anonymous slander around college campuses. https://maisonbisson.com/post/html5media-project-hosting-on-google-code/ Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:27:12 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/html5media-project-hosting-on-google-code/ I was wondering when somebody was going to do what html5media does: HTML5 video tags make embedding videos into documents as easy as embedding an image. https://maisonbisson.com/post/url-path-bug-in-wordpress-com-video-server/ Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:11:40 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/url-path-bug-in-wordpress-com-video-server/ You’ve got to both respect Automattic for releasing their internal code as open source while also giving them a break for not assuring that it works for anybody else. https://maisonbisson.com/post/cardboard-record-player/ Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:38:45 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/cardboard-record-player/ http://www.vimeo.com/10271288 The physical, analog nature of vinyl has long appealed to the DIY crowd. This cardboard record player capitalizes on that to create a direct mail marketing campaign that people appear to actually enjoy receiving. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-cost-of-ies-non-compliance/ Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:17:38 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-cost-of-ies-non-compliance/ Google this month dropped Internet Explorer 6 support in Google Apps and YouTube, and others are lining up at idroppedie6. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wp-memcache-object-cache-breaks-http-head-requests/ Sun, 21 Mar 2010 15:28:54 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wp-memcache-object-cache-breaks-http-head-requests/ I just posted about the following confounding problem to the WP-Hackers list: When running WordPress MU (tested in 2. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-bug-in-setup_postdata/ Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:56:43 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-bug-in-setup_postdata/ WordPress is built around the Loop, and all the cool kids are using multiple loops on the same page to show the main post and feature other posts. https://maisonbisson.com/post/web-vs-native-apps/ Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:03:29 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/web-vs-native-apps/ One lesson here is that a simple but well-done web app […] can be vastly superior to a full-fledged but terrible iPhone application. https://maisonbisson.com/post/consumer-society-and-citizen-networks-logo/ Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:59:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/consumer-society-and-citizen-networks-logo/ Consumer Society and Citizen Networks “aims at promoting access of citizens to information on product safety, consumer rights protection, and to results of independent testing, as well as promoting wide public discussion of challenges facing the consumer society in Ukraine. https://maisonbisson.com/post/christian-madrasas/ Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:48:37 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/christian-madrasas/ From the March 2002 Newsletter of The North Texas Skeptics: In the madrasa, the religious school, I watched and listened as the instructor related his view of the world to the students and the others present. https://maisonbisson.com/post/auto-tune-put-to-better-use-news/ Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:11:28 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/auto-tune-put-to-better-use-news/ Auto-Tune has been prettying up vocal tracks for more than a decade now, but applying it to news is simply brilliant. https://maisonbisson.com/post/sex-acts-described-in-judiciary-committee-hearing/ Tue, 16 Feb 2010 03:59:49 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/sex-acts-described-in-judiciary-committee-hearing/ A NH House Judiciary Committee hearing recently made New Hampshire famous in BoingBoing and The Huffington Post. https://maisonbisson.com/post/ill-stop-the-world-and-melt-with-you/ Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:40:44 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/ill-stop-the-world-and-melt-with-you/ <p><span class="vvqbox vvqflickrvideo" style="width:630px;height:354px;"><span id="vvq-15551-flickrvideo-2"><a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aflickr.com+4356629773">Flickr Video</a></span></span></p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/watching-valentines-rose-fade/ Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:27:25 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/watching-valentines-rose-fade/ The Georgia O’Keefe view, above, or the still life view, below: This isn’t so much about Valentine’s Day as it is about finally getting setup to do time lapse video like this. https://maisonbisson.com/post/valentines-rose-okeefe-view/ Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:55:14 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/valentines-rose-okeefe-view/ <p><span class="vvqbox vvqflickrvideo" style="width:600px;height:450px;"><span id="vvq-15550-flickrvideo-2"><a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aflickr.com+4355882889">Flickr Video</a></span></span></p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/valentines-rose/ Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:54:17 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/valentines-rose/ <p><span class="vvqbox vvqflickrvideo" style="width:480px;height:640px;"><span id="vvq-15549-flickrvideo-2"><a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aflickr.com+4355908853">Flickr Video</a></span></span></p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-ipad-serves-a-new-demographic/ Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:53:41 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-ipad-serves-a-new-demographic/ It’s doubtful that anybody reading this blog missed the news that Apple finally took the wraps off their much rumored tablet: the iPad. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-post-by-email/ Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:45:32 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-post-by-email/ WordPress has some simple built-in support for posting by email, but that didn’t stop a couple people from developing plugins that might do better. https://maisonbisson.com/post/malware-attack-using-google-alerts/ Thu, 14 Jan 2010 12:24:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/malware-attack-using-google-alerts/ As more and more organizations become aware of the need to track their online reputation, more people in those organizations are following Google alerts for their organization’s name. https://maisonbisson.com/post/apple-netbook-newton-emate-300/ Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:27:31 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/apple-netbook-newton-emate-300/ A post on thomas fitzgerald.net serves to remind us that Apple released their first netbook in 1997: the Apple eMate 300: https://maisonbisson.com/post/coda-feature-wishlist/ Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:34:58 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/coda-feature-wishlist/ I’d long been a user of BareBones’ BBEdit, a product that’s served me well for a number of years. https://maisonbisson.com/post/macbook-pro-expresscard-mac-ssd-boot-drive/ Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:50:07 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/macbook-pro-expresscard-mac-ssd-boot-drive/ I spied the Wintec FileMate 48GB Ultra ExpressCard and began to wonder how it works as a boot drive for Mac OS X in a late 2008 MacBook Pro (the model just before Apple replaced the ExpressCard slot with an SD slot). https://maisonbisson.com/post/do-e-books-have-a-future/ Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:00:21 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/do-e-books-have-a-future/ David Weinberger kicked off the latest installment in the ongoing debate about the future of electronic books versus paper books in his Will books survive? https://maisonbisson.com/post/even-if-they-dont-click/ Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:21:01 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/even-if-they-dont-click/ Ethan Zuckerman’s recent post, What if they stop clicking? points out the difficulty of building a business on ad revenue. https://maisonbisson.com/post/my-wordcamp-nyc-talks/ Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:13:44 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/my-wordcamp-nyc-talks/ Authentication Hacks My first talk was on User Authentication with MU in Existing Ecosystems, all about integrating WP with LDAP/AD/CAS and other directory authentication schemes, as well as the hacks I did to make that integration bi-directional and deliver new user features. https://maisonbisson.com/post/spell-checking/ Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:03:37 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/spell-checking/ Matt demanded accent-aware spell checking for the WordPress spell checking plugin his company acquired earlier this year. https://maisonbisson.com/post/backblaze-storage-pod/ Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:53:17 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/backblaze-storage-pod/ Backblaze is a cloud backup service that needs cheap storage. Lots of it. They say a petabyte worth of raw drives runs under $100,000, but buying that much storage in products from major vendors easily costs over $1,000,000. https://maisonbisson.com/post/drobo-sweet-storage-one-big-flaw/ Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:25:13 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/drobo-sweet-storage-one-big-flaw/ I’ve been a fan of Drobo since I got mine over a year ago. The little(-ish, and sweet looking, for stack of disks) device packs as many as four drives and automatically manages them to ensure the reliability of your data and easy expandability of the storage. https://maisonbisson.com/post/bugs-and-hacks/ Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:17:56 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bugs-and-hacks/ A few years ago I found an article pointing out how spammers had figured out how to abuse some code I wrote back in 2001 or so. https://maisonbisson.com/post/ssh-tunneling-example/ Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:46:46 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/ssh-tunneling-example/ Most of my work is available publicly, but some development is hosted on a private SVN that’s hidden behind a firewall. https://maisonbisson.com/post/yelp-a-poster-child-for-semantic-markup/ Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:48:24 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/yelp-a-poster-child-for-semantic-markup/ Search Engine Land.com: Yelp…is…essentially a poster-child for semantic markup. This spring, Google’s introduction of rich snippets has allowed Yelp’s listings in the SERPs to stand out more, attracting consumers to click more due to the “bling” decorating the listings in the form of the star ratings. https://maisonbisson.com/post/iphones-anti-customer-config-file/ Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:06:26 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/iphones-anti-customer-config-file/ In March of this year Apple applied for a patent on technology that enables or disables features of a phone via a config file. https://maisonbisson.com/post/evil-evil-klaomta-com/ Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:48:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/evil-evil-klaomta-com/ A quick Google search of klaomta.com reveals more than a few people wondering why it’s iframed on their websites. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-wordpress-way/ Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:42:18 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-wordpress-way/ Plugin Development Will Norris‘ talk at WordCamp PDX introduces WordPress coding standards, common functions, and constants to would be plugin developers (and smacks those who’ve already done it wrong). https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-user-authentication-hacks/ Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:16:16 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-user-authentication-hacks/ <p>Any university worth the title is likely to have a very mixed identity environment. At <a href="http://www.plymouth.edu/">Plymouth State University</a> we’ve been pursuing a strategy of unifying identity and offering single sign-on to web services, but an inventory last year still revealed a great number of systems not integrated with either our single sign-on (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authentication" title="Authentication - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia">AuthN</a>) or authorization systems (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorization" title="Authorization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia">AuthZ</a>, see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authentication#Authentication_vs._authorization">difference</a>). And in addition to the many application/system specific stores of identity information (even for those systems integrated into our single sign-on environment), we also use both LDAP and AD (which we try to synchronize at the application level). Worst of all, the entire environment is provisioned solely from our <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Management_information_system">MIS database</a>, which is good if you want to make sure that students and faculty get user accounts, but bad if you want to provision an account for somebody who doesn’t fit into one of those roles.</p> <p>The one way relationship between our user accounts and the MIS database also makes it difficult to engage with new users online. If you can’t get an account until you become a student, how do you allow potential students to apply online if all your systems are integrated with single sign-on? And if you can’t authenticate the online identity of your users, how do you set initial passwords into your system? Or allow them to reset a forgotten password online?</p> <p>Internet companies never struggled with this issue, as their customers could only approach them online, but most universities built systems around paper applications and have fond (and relatively recent) memories of offering their students their first internet experience. It’s still not unusual for universities to offer their students their campus computing account with a default password based on supposedly secret data shared between the user and the school. But your SSN, birth date, and mother’s name are no longer secret. A proposed change in FERPA policy (see the <a href="edocket-access-gpo-gov-E8-5790.pdf">the top of page 15586 in the NPRM</a>) would have barred the use of “a common form user name (e.g., last name and first name initial) with date of birth or SSN, or a portion of the SSN, as an initial password to be changed upon first use of the system” in systems that store academic data. The final rule excluded that provision, much to the relief of those schools with more lobbying clout than brains.</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/avian-transfers-show-slow-networks-or-growing-storage-capacity/ Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:24:01 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/avian-transfers-show-slow-networks-or-growing-storage-capacity/ <p>It was a tech story so apparently humorous that <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/10/messenger-pigeon-faster-f_n_282053.html" title="Messenger Pigeon Faster Faster Than SA Internet">the popular media felt compelled to cover it</a>: carrier pigeons delivered 4GBs of data faster than an ADSL line. <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8248056.stm">The BBC story’s subtitle read</a> “broadband promised to unite the world with super-fast data delivery – but in South Africa it seems the web is still no faster than a humble pigeon,” and that’s how most stories played it. Unfortunately, they all got it wrong.</p> <figure><img src="8335_135216455094_129866695094_3041363_5625117_n.jpg" alt="Moving data by homing pigeon requires some planning, and pigeons. Source."/><figcaption> <p>Moving data by homing pigeon requires some planning, and pigeons. <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=3041363&amp;id=129866695094">Source</a>.</p> </figcaption> </figure> <p>The <a href="http://pigeonrace2009.co.za/">race</a> was run by <a href="http://www.theunlimitedgroup.com/flying-in-the-face-of-data">The Unlimited Group</a>, but the clearest telling of it comes from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPoAC#Other_avian_data_transfer_methods">Wikipedia</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Inspired by <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2549">RFC 2549</a>{.external.mw-magiclink-rfc}, on 9 September 2009 the marketing team of The Unlimited, a regional company in South Africa, decided to host a tongue-in-cheek “Pigeon Race” between their pet pigeon “Winston” and local telecom company <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telkom_SA" title="Telkom SA">Telkom SA</a>. The race is to send 4 gigabytes of data from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howick,_KwaZulu-Natal" title="Howick, KwaZulu-Natal">Howick</a> to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillcrest,_KwaZulu-Natal" title="Hillcrest, KwaZulu-Natal">Hillcrest</a>, approximately 60 km apart. The pigeon carrying a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Digital_card" title="Secure Digital card">microSD</a>{.mw-redirect} card (an avian variant of a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet" title="Sneakernet">sneakernet</a>), versus a Telkom <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADSL" title="ADSL">ADSL</a>{.mw-redirect} line. Winston beat the data transfer over Telkom’s ADSL line, with a total time of two hours, six minutes and 57 seconds from uploading data on the microSD card to completion of download from card. At the time of Winston’s victory, the 4GB ADSL transfer was just under 4% complete.</p> </blockquote> https://maisonbisson.com/post/jsnes-javascript-nintendo-emulator/ Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:21:51 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/jsnes-javascript-nintendo-emulator/ Ben Fisherman’s JSNES runs entirely in the browser using nothing more intrusive than JavaScript. It apparently manages real-time performance within Chrome, but it works (if not playably) on an iPhone. https://maisonbisson.com/post/itunes-9-closer-to-an-api/ Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:58:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/itunes-9-closer-to-an-api/ Will Norris has discovered that iTunes 9’s interactions with the Store are more web-happy. I’ve been asking where the iTunes Store API was for some time, now I think I’ve got what I need to build one. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-hacks-nested-paths-for-wpmu-blogs/ Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:23:10 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-hacks-nested-paths-for-wpmu-blogs/ <p><strong><span style="font-weight: normal"></span>Situation:</strong> you’ve got WordPress Multi-User setup to <a href="http://maisonbisson.com/post/14028/wordpress-hacks-managing-multiple-sub-domains/">host one or more domains</a> in sub-directory mode (as in <code>site.org/blogname</code>), but you want a deeper directory structure than WPMU allows…something like the following examples, perhaps:</p> <ul> <li><code>site.org/blogname1</code></li> <li><code>site.org/departments/blogname2</code></li> <li><code>site.org/departments/blogname3</code></li> <li><code>site.org/services/blogname3</code></li> </ul> <p>The association between blog IDs and sub-directory paths is determined in <a href="http://trac.mu.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.8.4a/wpmu-settings.php"><code>wpmu-settings.php</code></a>, but the code there knows nothing about nested paths. So a person planning to use WordPress MU as a CMS must either flatten his/her information architecture, or do some hacking.</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/am-i-supposed-to-feel-bad-for-att-now/ Mon, 07 Sep 2009 16:12:49 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/am-i-supposed-to-feel-bad-for-att-now/ <p><span class="vvqbox vvqyoutube" style="width:600px;height:486px;"><span id="vvq-14049-youtube-2"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5yIVgj0VVA"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/u5yIVgj0VVA/0.jpg" alt="YouTube Preview Image" /></a></span></span></p> <p>With <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10321437-37.html">AT&amp;T facing lawsuits</a> for not delivering MMS features at the iPhone 3GS launch, they kind of had to do something. I’m not sure if I’d be satisfied by this video if I were among the plaintiffs, but I think it does a good enough job. The stat about 300% annual increases in mobile data use is pretty powerful. I’d heard it a dozen times before*, but because I wasn’t in Austin for <a href="http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/03/sxsw-atts-spott/">SXSW iPhone meltdown</a>, I don’t have quite the same appreciation as some do. <a href="http://www.itworld.com/mobile-amp-wireless/64316/att-doubles-sxsw-capacityin-four-hours">AT&amp;T added capacity then</a>, and they seem to have been scrambling elsewhere too.</p> <p>iPhone users are <a href="http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/iphone-users-watch-more-video-and-are-older-than-you-think/">said to be six times as likely as anybody else</a> to watch video on their phones, and if WiFi aggregator JiWire’s report says anything about cell data, the iPhone has certainly changed the game. <a href="www-jiwire-com-JiWire_MobileAudienceInsights_1H09.pdf">JiWire’s Mobile Audience Insights Report</a> shows that over 97% of the devices on their network are either iPhones (about 56% of the total) or iPod Touches! And all the way back in 2007 in Britain, <a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c4af8bd4-b1c3-11dc-9777-0000779fd2ac.html">iPhone users were 33 times as likely as other phone users</a> to send or receive more than 25MB a month.</p> <p>It will be interesting to see what happens to other carriers as they get devices that encourage use as the iPhone has.</p> <p>*Actually, I hadn’t heard the 300% stat specifically, just inspecific reports of increased usage.</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/now-i-want-to-watch-or-re-watch-all-these/ Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:08:11 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/now-i-want-to-watch-or-re-watch-all-these/ <p><span class="vvqbox vvqyoutube" style="width:600px;height:486px;"><span id="vvq-14047-youtube-2"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LP_hAszQPgk"><img src="img-youtube-com-0.jpg" alt="YouTube Preview Image" /></a></span></span></p> <p>Okay, I don’t want to watch all the movies depicted in this 100 year overview of film special effects, but I did just add a few to my Netflix queue.</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-hacks-managing-multiple-sub-domains/ Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:41:57 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-hacks-managing-multiple-sub-domains/ <p><strong>Situation:</strong> using WordPress MU (possibly including BuddyPress) on multiple domains or sub-domains of a large organization with lots of users.</p> <p>WordPress MU is a solid CMS to support a large organization. Each individual blog has its own place in the organization’s URL scheme (<code>www.site.org/blogname</code>), and each blog can have its own administrators and other users. Groups of blogs in WPMU make up a “Site” and one or more Sites can be hosted with a single implementation. (I’m capitalizing Site for the same reason WordPress docs capitalize <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages">Page</a>) Each Site has a defined set of administrators and options controlling various features. You might, for instance, lock down the plugins on your <code>blogs.site.org</code>, while keeping it open on your <code>www.site.org</code>. Or maybe you’d like to let your helpdesk staff create new blogs at <code>blogs.site.org</code>, but not at <code>www.site.org</code>. That’s what WPMU’s notion of Site can help you control.</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/online-advertising-metrics/ Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:16:47 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/online-advertising-metrics/ I don’t know if it’s just the Mother’s day effect, but the top 10 online retailers for May 2009 were dominated by flower shops. https://maisonbisson.com/post/not-my-chair-not-my-problem/ Sat, 15 Aug 2009 14:45:05 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/not-my-chair-not-my-problem/ Liam Lynch explains the origin of the video, but what was Dan Deacon thinking as he [recorded the audio][3]? https://maisonbisson.com/post/who-gets-to-control-the-future-of-libraries/ Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:28:06 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/who-gets-to-control-the-future-of-libraries/ The following was my email response to a thread on the web4lib mail list: Okay, it must be said: you’re all wrong1. https://maisonbisson.com/post/martin-belams-advice-to-hackers-at-the-guardians-july-2009-hack-day/ Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:44:15 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/martin-belams-advice-to-hackers-at-the-guardians-july-2009-hack-day/ An amusing hacks-conference lightning talk-turned-blog post on web development: “Graceful Hacks” – UX, IA and interaction design tips for hack days. https://maisonbisson.com/post/hnews-might-not-be-so-bad/ Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:29:37 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/hnews-might-not-be-so-bad/ The AP’s diagram of their Protect, Point, Pay “news DRM” scheme looked like a joke, then I saw the parody. https://maisonbisson.com/post/get-your-beer-pong-skills-on/ Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:35:15 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/get-your-beer-pong-skills-on/ https://maisonbisson.com/post/do-facebook-ads-work/ Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:46:41 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/do-facebook-ads-work/ All Facebook is happy to share the ten laws of Facebook advertising, but will those rules lead to better results than the . https://maisonbisson.com/post/newspaper-business-news-was-a-loss-leader/ Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:39:11 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/newspaper-business-news-was-a-loss-leader/ Howard Weaver wants newspapers to play offense against Google and others, but Chris Tolles, CEO of news aggregator Topix. https://maisonbisson.com/post/google-recommends-microformats-and-rdfa/ Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:11:24 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/google-recommends-microformats-and-rdfa/ Google’s own webmasters help site recommends microformats and RDFa structured data to improve indexing and usefulness of the data. https://maisonbisson.com/post/do-air-taxis-actually-work/ Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:04:22 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/do-air-taxis-actually-work/ I just thought to follow up on this 2007 story about DayJet, a high-flying air taxi service that planned to operate tiny, three-passenger Eclipse 500 jets. https://maisonbisson.com/post/mozilla-labs-ubiquity/ Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:12:20 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/mozilla-labs-ubiquity/ http://www.vimeo.com/1561578 Mozilla Labs’ Ubiquity has a lot of promise: Ubiquity is an experiment into connecting the Web with language in an attempt to find new user interfaces that make it possible for everyone to do common Web tasks more quickly and easily. https://maisonbisson.com/post/tomas-mankovskys-sorry-im-late/ Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:04:40 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/tomas-mankovskys-sorry-im-late/ http://www.vimeo.com/4862670 I’m simply in love with this video. Watch through the credits to see a bit of how it’s made. https://maisonbisson.com/post/go-blog-small-orgs-or-large/ Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:12:58 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/go-blog-small-orgs-or-large/ Philip Greenspun suggests small organizations use a blog for their website (ironically, not blogged): The Small Business Web circa 1994 https://maisonbisson.com/post/zimbra-isync-connector-download/ Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:36:07 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/zimbra-isync-connector-download/ It can be difficult to get the Zimbra iSync connector, as the company doesn’t offer a simple download from their site. https://maisonbisson.com/post/what-is-david-mcnicols-url-cache-plugin/ Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:13:11 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/what-is-david-mcnicols-url-cache-plugin/ The description to David McNicol’s URL Cache Plugin raises more questions than it answers: Given a URL, the url_cache() function will attempt to download the file it represents and return a URL pointing to this locally cached version. https://maisonbisson.com/post/book-search-results-vs-users/ Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:13:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/book-search-results-vs-users/ Bret Victor offers the above design suggestions (from 2006) to Amazon in the book search results display (he’s comparing to this). https://maisonbisson.com/post/too-bad-the-hanzo-archives-wordpress-plugin-is-caput/ Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:12:46 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/too-bad-the-hanzo-archives-wordpress-plugin-is-caput/ The Hanzo Archives WordPress plugin is something I’d be very excited to use. Ironically, it’s disappeared from the web (though the blog post hasn’t): https://maisonbisson.com/post/customizable-post-listings/ Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:13:13 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/customizable-post-listings/ Lorelle is a big fan of Scott Reilly’s Customizable Post Listings: Display Recent Posts, Recently Commented Posts, Recently Modified Posts, Random Posts, and other post, page, or draft listings using the post information of your choosing in an easily customizable manner. https://maisonbisson.com/post/using-vlc-as-a-live-video-stream-transcoder-for-axis-camera-and-flv/ Sun, 07 Jun 2009 18:13:16 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/using-vlc-as-a-live-video-stream-transcoder-for-axis-camera-and-flv/ [I]n theory, I should be able to issue one command to VLC and have it receive the MPEG4-ES stream from the camera, transcode it to h. https://maisonbisson.com/post/transformers-bumblebee-video-leak/ Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:54:55 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/transformers-bumblebee-video-leak/ <p><span class="vvqbox vvqvimeo" style="width:600px;height:450px;"><iframe id="vvq-13973-vimeo-3" src="//player.vimeo.com/video/3784930?title=1&byline=1&portrait=0&fullscreen=1" width="600" height="450" frameborder="0"><a href="http://www.vimeo.com/3784930"><a href="http://www.vimeo.com/3784930">http://www.vimeo.com/3784930</a></a></iframe></span></p> <p>Well, not ‘leaked,’ but just in time for the new Transformers movie, <a href="http://vimeo.com/user1463264">Patrick Boivin</a> has posted this video of Bumblebee breakdancing.</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/video-or-audio-comments-in-wordpress-with-riffly/ Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:56:46 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/video-or-audio-comments-in-wordpress-with-riffly/ In line with yesterday’s discovery of the Viddler WP plugin, Riffly Webcam Video Comments also supports video or audio comments within WordPress: https://maisonbisson.com/post/video-comments-with-viddler-wordpress-plugin/ Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:21:49 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/video-comments-with-viddler-wordpress-plugin/ The Viddler WordPress plugin promises to “Enrich your site’s commenting experience by enabling video comments….” Users can record direcly from a web cam or choose a video they’ve previously uploaded to Viddler. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wolframalphas-missing-feature-libraries/ Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:03:39 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wolframalphas-missing-feature-libraries/ John Timmer brings up my two biggest complaints about Wolfram|Alpha. The first is that it’s even harder to identify the source of information than it is in Wikipedia, the other is what happens when searches fail: https://maisonbisson.com/post/systems-wrangling-session-at-wordcamp-developer-day/ Sun, 31 May 2009 21:13:21 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/systems-wrangling-session-at-wordcamp-developer-day/ What is the current status of web servers…Is Apache 2.x “fast enough?” Automattic uses Lightspeed (for PHP), nginx (for static content), and Apache (for media uploads). https://maisonbisson.com/post/andy-peatling-on-buddypress/ Sun, 31 May 2009 15:25:36 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/andy-peatling-on-buddypress/ Why BuddyPress? “Build passionate users around a specific niche.” Do you have to become a social network? https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-28-script-handling/ Sun, 31 May 2009 15:16:36 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-28-script-handling/ jQuery 1.3.2 is in WordPress 2.8, but the most exciting changes are in the automatic concatenation and compression of scripts via the script loader. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-seo-tips-from-google-matt-cutts/ Sat, 30 May 2009 18:02:51 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-seo-tips-from-google-matt-cutts/ 90% of WordPress blogs he sees are spam. But for those who aren’t spammers and want to do better in Google…. https://maisonbisson.com/post/understanding-leveraging-google-image-search/ Wed, 27 May 2009 16:16:03 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/understanding-leveraging-google-image-search/ Above is [Peter Linsley][1] speaking about Google Image Search at [SMX West][2] in February, 2009. https://maisonbisson.com/post/on-the-one-hand-he-wants-to-catapult-chicken-droppings-on-the-other-hand-he-did-catapult-his-wife-repeatedly/ Fri, 22 May 2009 16:55:20 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/on-the-one-hand-he-wants-to-catapult-chicken-droppings-on-the-other-hand-he-did-catapult-his-wife-repeatedly/ The homeland security press is just getting wind of Joe Weston-Webb’s attempts to deter vandals with nonlethal weapons, but the story became all the rage in Britain when it broke last year. https://maisonbisson.com/post/zen-and-the-art-of-motorcycle-maintenance-is-available-all-over-the-web/ Wed, 20 May 2009 17:48:13 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/zen-and-the-art-of-motorcycle-maintenance-is-available-all-over-the-web/ Robert M. Pirsig‘s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance at Amazon, a used book store, or your parent’s book shelf. https://maisonbisson.com/post/is-mysql-5-1-ready/ Sun, 17 May 2009 02:01:46 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/is-mysql-5-1-ready/ MySQL 5.1 hasn’t gotten a lot of love, but it does introduce support for pluggable storage engines. https://maisonbisson.com/post/extreme-sheep-herding/ Fri, 15 May 2009 17:27:02 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/extreme-sheep-herding/ https://maisonbisson.com/post/iphone-3g-camera-hacks-and-deets/ Thu, 14 May 2009 15:57:50 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/iphone-3g-camera-hacks-and-deets/ Those unwilling to open of their iPhone to adjust the camera focus might take a look at Griffin’s Clarifi, a case with a built-in close-up lens that can slide in our out of place as needed. https://maisonbisson.com/post/will-tuneup-fix-my-collection-of-podcast-music-downloads/ Wed, 13 May 2009 17:55:15 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/will-tuneup-fix-my-collection-of-podcast-music-downloads/ Now that I’ve discovered it, I’m tempted to try TuneUp on my collection of MP3s downloaded as podcasts (and without good ID3 tags) from places like the KCRW’s Today’s Top Tune. https://maisonbisson.com/post/google-street-view-camera-sightings/ Wed, 13 May 2009 15:20:46 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/google-street-view-camera-sightings/ What happens when one of Google’s street view camera vehicles encounters a low bridge or a muddy Australian road? https://maisonbisson.com/post/comparing-panorama-stitching-tools/ Tue, 12 May 2009 17:32:11 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/comparing-panorama-stitching-tools/ The above are the result of PanoLab, Hugin, Calico, and a single shot with a very wide angle lens (Canon’s 10-22mm, effectively 16mm on my Rebel XTi). https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-difference-between-mysqls-utf8_unicode_ci-and-utf8_general_ci-collations/ Mon, 11 May 2009 14:30:57 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-difference-between-mysqls-utf8_unicode_ci-and-utf8_general_ci-collations/ MySQL answer: utf8_unicode_ci vs. utf8_general_ci. Collation controls sorting behavior. Unicode rationalizes the character set, but doesn’t, on it’s own, rationalize sorting behavior for all the various languages it supports. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-many-uses-of-a-pockettorch/ Sat, 09 May 2009 18:02:19 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-many-uses-of-a-pockettorch/ Doesn’t everybody need a PocketTorch? It’s a “safe, practical tool,” they say. More amusingly, the list of suggested uses includes: melting your cache of gold, scaring grandma, lighting illegal fireworks, dental/lab work, and making friends jealous. https://maisonbisson.com/post/fun-threads-for-librarians/ Wed, 06 May 2009 17:41:23 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/fun-threads-for-librarians/ Who doesn’t want to be an anarchist librarian? Or a bibliophian? https://maisonbisson.com/post/photoshop-retouching-magic-vs-disasters/ Wed, 06 May 2009 15:29:15 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/photoshop-retouching-magic-vs-disasters/ Compare the retouching portfolio here against the regular posts at Photoshop Disasters. https://maisonbisson.com/post/lessons-learned-why-its-better-not-to-use-parentheses-when-theyre-optional/ Tue, 05 May 2009 17:07:53 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/lessons-learned-why-its-better-not-to-use-parentheses-when-theyre-optional/ There it is in the PHP manual for return(): Note: since return() is a language construct and not a function, the parentheses surrounding its arguments are not required. https://maisonbisson.com/post/mysql-correlated-subqueries/ Tue, 05 May 2009 12:27:54 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/mysql-correlated-subqueries/ Correlated Subqueries are said to be “inefficient and likely to be slow,” but that doesn’t mean I’m not glad to have learned of them. https://maisonbisson.com/post/what-is-an-archive-in-the-digital-age/ Mon, 04 May 2009 16:41:08 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/what-is-an-archive-in-the-digital-age/ Jessamyn pointed out the dust up over the dissapearing of PaperOfRecord.com, a historical newspaper archive. https://maisonbisson.com/post/most-annoying-song-ever/ Sat, 02 May 2009 21:54:26 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/most-annoying-song-ever/ Is this the most annoying song ever? Independent + catchy and pop gone wrong. https://maisonbisson.com/post/how-much-do-you-want-that-job/ Sat, 02 May 2009 20:11:02 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/how-much-do-you-want-that-job/ One of the many odd questions this prank job application asks is: What Are You Willing To Wear At Work? https://maisonbisson.com/post/sweet-vw-bus-scooter-sidecar/ Fri, 01 May 2009 17:17:53 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/sweet-vw-bus-scooter-sidecar/ I spied this drool-worthy scooter and sidecar combo on Scooter Sidecars. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-action-ticketing-api/ Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:23:47 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-action-ticketing-api/ This plugin is the next step after my proposal for a common invite API. Here’s how I described it when requesting hosting at the plugin directory: https://maisonbisson.com/post/you-think-youre-paying-too-much-for-mobile-data/ Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:07:50 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/you-think-youre-paying-too-much-for-mobile-data/ A caller to Clark Howard’s CNN show complains of being billed $62,000 by his cell phone provider for data usage. https://maisonbisson.com/post/saving-objects-in-wordpress-user-meta/ Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:34:03 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/saving-objects-in-wordpress-user-meta/ There’s a hole in the wall at about head level next to my desk. I’ve spent most of the day trying to track down a bug with some code I’ve been working on to add fields to a user’s profile in WordPress. https://maisonbisson.com/post/expandrive-ftpsftpamazon-s3-client/ Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:21:27 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/expandrive-ftpsftpamazon-s3-client/ ExpanDrive makes FTP, SFTP, and Amazon S3 connectivity dead easy. ExpanDrive acts just like a USB drive plugged into your Mac. https://maisonbisson.com/post/php-magic-constants-__line__-__file__-__dir__-__function__-__class__-__method__-and-__namespace__/ Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:31:17 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/php-magic-constants-__line__-__file__-__dir__-__function__-__class__-__method__-and-__namespace__/ I’ve been using __FILE__ for years, but I never thought to look for its siblings. https://maisonbisson.com/post/down-the-drain-flowers-in-the-in-sink-erator/ Sat, 25 Apr 2009 19:19:37 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/down-the-drain-flowers-in-the-in-sink-erator/ Flickr Video I can’t explain my fascination with putting flowers into the In-Sink-Erator, but the sink does smell like flowers afterwards. https://maisonbisson.com/post/trash-fiction-book-covers/ Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:52:25 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/trash-fiction-book-covers/ A while ago I discovered a great collection of scanned book covers from 1950s-ish pulp fiction in Flickr. https://maisonbisson.com/post/marc-acito-on-strunk-and-whites-elements-of-style/ Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:15:01 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/marc-acito-on-strunk-and-whites-elements-of-style/ When it comes to “shall” and “will,” Strunk and White gives the following example: “A swimmer in distress cries, ‘I shall drown; no one will save me! https://maisonbisson.com/post/yahoo-bids-adieu-to-1997/ Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:12:56 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/yahoo-bids-adieu-to-1997/ Yahoo! has divested itself of Blo.gs and is shuttering GeoCities. Would this have happened in a good economy? https://maisonbisson.com/post/tips-to-publishers-from-google-news/ Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:30:17 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/tips-to-publishers-from-google-news/ It turns out that there are a lot of differences between Google’s regular web crawler and the Google News crawler. https://maisonbisson.com/post/correction-i-do-still-need-the-wufoo-forms-wordpress-embed-shortcode/ Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:43:50 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/correction-i-do-still-need-the-wufoo-forms-wordpress-embed-shortcode/ A few weeks ago I said I no longer needed the Wufoo embedding code that I’d put into bSuite. https://maisonbisson.com/post/whats-the-best-panorama-stitching-app-for-iphone/ Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:52:29 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/whats-the-best-panorama-stitching-app-for-iphone/ I spent some time looking for panorama-related apps for the iPhone and came up with the following: https://maisonbisson.com/post/fixing-batcache-to-send-the-correct-content-type-header/ Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:19:12 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/fixing-batcache-to-send-the-correct-content-type-header/ I’m a fan of Batcache, the Memcached-based WordPress full-page cache solution, but I’ve discovered that it ignores the content-type header set when the page is initially generated and re-sends all content with content-type: text/html. https://maisonbisson.com/post/facebooks-favorite-metadata/ Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:58:03 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/facebooks-favorite-metadata/ [Facebook’s guide to sharing][1] details some meta tags to make that sharing work better: In order to make sure that the preview is always correctly populated, you should add the tags shown below to your html. https://maisonbisson.com/post/google-labs-similar-images-and-news-timeline/ Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:19:31 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/google-labs-similar-images-and-news-timeline/ New releases from Google Labs: Similar Images and News Timeline. I count it as a failure for Google that the news timeline doesn’t show future events. https://maisonbisson.com/post/three-or-more-ways-to-record-or-intercept-voip-calls/ Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:42:50 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/three-or-more-ways-to-record-or-intercept-voip-calls/ VoIP Now offers a few tips, Hackszine discusses VoIPong, and Mac VoIP mentions Cain &amp; Abel and describes ARP poisoning to make a man-in-the-middle intercept. https://maisonbisson.com/post/jeeves-is-back-does-your-organization-need-its-own-avatarpersonality/ Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:11:54 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/jeeves-is-back-does-your-organization-need-its-own-avatarpersonality/ If you remember Ask.com, you probably remember Jeeves. Now he’s back on the UK site. https://maisonbisson.com/post/flight-level-110-pvd/ Sun, 19 Apr 2009 17:22:43 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/flight-level-110-pvd/ Kent Wien‘s photo of Providence, Rhode Island is better than average for the camera out the window genre. https://maisonbisson.com/post/william-shatners-rocketman-still-makes-me-laugh/ Sat, 18 Apr 2009 20:15:07 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/william-shatners-rocketman-still-makes-me-laugh/ <div style="position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden;"> <iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lul-Y8vSr0I" style="position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; border:0;" allowfullscreen title="YouTube Video"></iframe> </div> <p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elton_John">Elton John</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernie_Taupin">Bernie Taupin</a> wrote it, but <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shatner">William Shatner</a> did it best. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN3MGN899yE">Watch the video now</a> and <a href="http://funksion.org/mal/Comedy/WILLIAM%20SHATNER/William%20Shatner%20Rocket%20Man.mp3">download the MP3 for future enjoyment</a>.</p> <p>Thanks to <a href="http://neverblog.net/">Vasken</a> for pointing out the video.</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/do-we-need-a-wordpress-common-invite-or-challenge-response-api/ Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:39:45 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/do-we-need-a-wordpress-common-invite-or-challenge-response-api/ The BuddyPress forums have a number of threads about handling invitations (two worth looking at: one, two), but no real solution has emerged. https://maisonbisson.com/post/fixing-user-meta-to-accept-repeating-fields-just-in-time-for-the-wordpress-has-patch-marathon/ Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:45:24 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/fixing-user-meta-to-accept-repeating-fields-just-in-time-for-the-wordpress-has-patch-marathon/ There’s a WordPress has-patch marathon going on now and I’m hoping one of my recent patches gets some attention. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wifi-is-critical-to-academia-the-wifi-alliance-says/ Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:47:10 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wifi-is-critical-to-academia-the-wifi-alliance-says/ A study sponsored by the WiFi alliance reveals the following: WiFi and college choice 90% of college students say Wi-Fi access is as essential to education as classrooms and computers 57% say they wouldn’t go to a college that doesn’t have free Wi-Fi 79% say that without Wi-Fi access, college would be a lot harder 60% agree that widely available Wi-Fi on campus is an indication that a school cares about its students WiFi and where they use it 55% have connected from coffee shops and restaurants 47% from parks 24% from in their cars WiFi in the classroom 55% have checked Facebook™ or MySpace™ and sent or received e-mail while using their laptop in class 47% have sent instant messages to a friend during class 44% used Wi-Fi to get a head start on an assignment before a class was finished WiFi and linkbaiting statistics If forced to choose, 48% would give up beer before giving up Wi-Fi Survey methodology: “In conjunction with the Wi-Fi Alliance, Wakefield Research surveyed 501 U. https://maisonbisson.com/post/globesurfer-x1-wireless-broadband-router/ Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:15:01 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/globesurfer-x1-wireless-broadband-router/ Option GlobeSurfer X•1 router: “a new product that transforms any USB wireless modem into an instant Internet-connected WiFi network capable of supporting multiple users. https://maisonbisson.com/post/bumptop-taking-the-desktop-metaphor-deeper/ Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:15:03 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bumptop-taking-the-desktop-metaphor-deeper/ BumpTop: a fun, intuitive 3D desktop that keeps you organized and makes you more productive. https://maisonbisson.com/post/extractingdecompressing-rar-files-on-mac-os-x/ Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:07:49 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/extractingdecompressing-rar-files-on-mac-os-x/ Mac OS X doesn’t ship with unrar, the common Linux utility, but you can easily get it bundled in UnRarX, a convenient Mac OS X utility. https://maisonbisson.com/post/not-sure-that-rev-canonical-is-really-the-solution/ Wed, 15 Apr 2009 01:03:02 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/not-sure-that-rev-canonical-is-really-the-solution/ Anything that can help stop this kind of madness is worth a good long look (yes, I don’t like the DiggBar any more than John Gruber, despite Digg’s assurances it’s safe), so I’ve had rev=“canonical” on my mind (yes, that’s rev, not rel). https://maisonbisson.com/post/cas-is-a-standard-protocol-not-a-standard-application/ Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:52:09 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/cas-is-a-standard-protocol-not-a-standard-application/ I’m not really part of the Jasig CAS Community (learn more), but I do maintain the wpCAS WordPress CAS client and I’ve started development of a CAS server component for WordPress. https://maisonbisson.com/post/weird-screw-drive-russian-truck/ Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:21:38 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/weird-screw-drive-russian-truck/ https://maisonbisson.com/post/can-we-stop-complaining-about-taxes-already/ Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:08:18 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/can-we-stop-complaining-about-taxes-already/ Andrew Tobias asks if we can finally put the tax argument to bed: Is the reason you’re not investing in stocks these days (a) the prospect of having to pay 15% capital gains tax? https://maisonbisson.com/post/network-sniffing-in-mac-os-x/ Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:28:56 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/network-sniffing-in-mac-os-x/ Adam had to remind me of this: sudo tcpdump -i en0 -s 0 port 80 https://maisonbisson.com/post/iphone-earbud-business-card-hacks-speakers-and-cord-winder/ Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:32:45 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/iphone-earbud-business-card-hacks-speakers-and-cord-winder/ Two interesting submissions to the Core77 Business Card Hacks Challenge: earbud speakers and a cord winder. https://maisonbisson.com/post/youre-nobody-unless-youre-fake-on-twitter/ Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:19:59 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/youre-nobody-unless-youre-fake-on-twitter/ Here’s a simple way to tell whether the star you’re following is the real thing. https://maisonbisson.com/post/damn-firewallsbut-which-firewall/ Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:48:40 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/damn-firewallsbut-which-firewall/ For some reason two CDNs, BitGravity and Castfire, are being blocked on campus. You might think firewall, but the problem even seems to appear outside the firewall. https://maisonbisson.com/post/international-pillow-fight-day/ Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:55:54 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/international-pillow-fight-day/ World Pillow Fight Day in Boston last Saturday was not only a lot of spring fever fun, it also resulted in a marriage proposal. https://maisonbisson.com/post/adventure-cameras-olympus-vs-panasonic/ Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:25:56 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/adventure-cameras-olympus-vs-panasonic/ I’ve been keeping my eye on the Olympus Stylus Tough-8000. It’s reportedly durable and waterproof to 33 feet. https://maisonbisson.com/post/things-learned-from-the-durex-sexual-wellbeing-survey/ Sun, 05 Apr 2009 01:59:38 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/things-learned-from-the-durex-sexual-wellbeing-survey/ Yes, they did a survey, and the results show the French have plenty of sex, but are among the least satisfied for all that activity. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-current-financial-crisis-was-predicted-15-years-ago/ Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:40:10 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-current-financial-crisis-was-predicted-15-years-ago/ FORTUNE Magazine, March 7, 1994: Like alligators in a swamp, financial derivatives lurk in the global economy. https://maisonbisson.com/post/plymouth-state-university-platypuses-april-fools-joke/ Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:16:47 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/plymouth-state-university-platypuses-april-fools-joke/ Matt worked this up for our university portal today. Plymouth has long been the Panthers, but a little change does the University good. https://maisonbisson.com/post/crime-vs-highways-or-internet-security-is-a-social-not-technical-problem/ Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:27:51 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/crime-vs-highways-or-internet-security-is-a-social-not-technical-problem/ Stefan Savage, speaking in a segment on March 13’s On The Media, asked: The question I like to ask people is, what are you going to do to the highway system to reduce crime. https://maisonbisson.com/post/50mm-f095/ Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:41:11 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/50mm-f095/ The Canon 50mm f0.95 is the stuff of legend. Sure it wasn’t particularly sharp, and depth of field was so short that you’re unlikely to get an entire face in focus, but the notion of a lens that bright is more than a little attractive (even if you’re unlikely to have enough light to focus at all if you’re in a situation where you need the f0. https://maisonbisson.com/post/php-icalendar/ Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:30:18 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/php-icalendar/ PHP iCalendar can parse and render iCal formatted files. Apple’s developer docs, amusingly enough, offer a few more hints along those lines. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wufoo-forms-wordpress-embed-shortcode/ Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:35:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wufoo-forms-wordpress-embed-shortcode/ I tossed this together a while ago, and it even made it in to bSuite for a time, but I don’t have a need for it anymore, and I’m cleaning house. https://maisonbisson.com/post/jellyfish-at-the-monterey-bay-aquarium/ Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:39:13 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/jellyfish-at-the-monterey-bay-aquarium/ Flickr Video https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-38-year-war/ Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:16:46 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-38-year-war/ A 2004 commentary by Doug Bandow of The Future of Freedom Foundation points out how much we love war, well at least politicians love war: https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-economist-on-open-source/ Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:23:41 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-economist-on-open-source/ From The Economist in 2006: Open-source business: Open, but not as usual. https://maisonbisson.com/post/happy-st-patricks-day/ Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:08:51 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/happy-st-patricks-day/ The entire kitchen is Sandee’s playground, and that includes the chalkboard. I’m not sure what holiday she’ll decide to honor next. https://maisonbisson.com/post/mysql-slow-query-log-analysis/ Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:17:24 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/mysql-slow-query-log-analysis/ Peter at MySQL Performance Blog pointed out this sweet perl script to analyze MySQL’s slow query logs. https://maisonbisson.com/post/slideshare-wordpress-embed-shortcode/ Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:30:13 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/slideshare-wordpress-embed-shortcode/ I’m cleaning house in [bSuite][1], and I’ve decided that this shortcode function for embedding Slideshare items in WordPress needs to go. https://maisonbisson.com/post/i-missed-the-nightclub-and-bar-show/ Sat, 14 Mar 2009 22:28:18 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/i-missed-the-nightclub-and-bar-show/ The international nightclub and bar show ran in Las Vegas last week, bringing a bunch of nightclub, bar, tavern, pub, restaurant, and hotel professionals to the city, including my friends at Biba. https://maisonbisson.com/post/volkswagen-ad-claimed-too-violent-for-british-tv/ Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:20:12 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/volkswagen-ad-claimed-too-violent-for-british-tv/ First it was 100, then over 500 complaints about the Matrix-style (that means fake looking) kung foo action in Volkswagen’s new ad. https://maisonbisson.com/post/dual-wan-or-multi-wan-load-balancing-routers/ Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:46:48 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/dual-wan-or-multi-wan-load-balancing-routers/ Bonding and 802.3ad/802.1AX link aggregation it’s not, but dual- or mutil-WAN load balancing seems like a good way to improve overall bandwidth and reliability. https://maisonbisson.com/post/yeah-im-that-guy/ Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:42:37 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/yeah-im-that-guy/ I’m flying Virgin America from BOS to SFO, and apparently all their planes on that route offer in-flight internet via Gogo. https://maisonbisson.com/post/flying-id/ Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:38:07 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/flying-id/ This is an old one, but because I’m in the air again today it’s worth digging up this up. https://maisonbisson.com/post/mmm-bacon/ Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:50:26 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/mmm-bacon/ Who doesn’t like bacon, or little piglets? Or kittens? https://maisonbisson.com/post/juice-your-opac/ Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:27:47 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/juice-your-opac/ Richard Wallace’s Juice project (Javascript User Interface Componentised Extensions) is a “simple componentised framework constructed in Javascript to enable the sharing of Ajax Stye extensions to a web interface. https://maisonbisson.com/post/way-cooler-than-a-catalog/ Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:54:09 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/way-cooler-than-a-catalog/ I got a little excited when Shirley Lincicum wrote to the NGC4Lib mail list: [O]ne of the most frustrating things for me about Next Generation Catalog systems as they currently exist is that they seem wholly focused on the user interface and can, in fact, actually hold libraries back from designing or implementing improved “back end” systems because of the dependencies introduced by the new “discovery layer” applications. https://maisonbisson.com/post/usability-vs-open-source/ Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:43:17 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/usability-vs-open-source/ This article comparing the usability of Joomla vs. WordPress has already been linked by everybody’s uncle, but it’s still worth a look. https://maisonbisson.com/post/tattoo-pantone-475/ Sun, 08 Mar 2009 01:38:44 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/tattoo-pantone-475/ seanbonner‘s photo of Esther’s new tattoo makes me want one. TGFKAE&rsquo;s new tattoo by seanbonner on Flickr https://maisonbisson.com/post/scriblio-theater/ Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:11:24 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/scriblio-theater/ Flickr Video Flickr Video I should have done screencasts like the above long ago. It’s not that they’re great, but they are a wonderful excuse to use the canned lounge music I’ve got. https://maisonbisson.com/post/pedal-powered-hovercraft/ Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:09:42 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/pedal-powered-hovercraft/ <p><span class="vvqbox vvqyoutube" style="width:600px;height:485px;"><span id="vvq-13468-youtube-3"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqG8qObcXKk"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/nqG8qObcXKk/0.jpg" alt="YouTube Preview Image" /></a></span></span></p> <p>I love the engineering of the lift fan on this pedal powered hovercraft. It needs a little more lift to make really work, but wow.</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/scriblio-27-released/ Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:00:15 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/scriblio-27-released/ My slides for my presentation yesterday at code4lib are available both as a 2.7MB QuickTime and a 7. https://maisonbisson.com/post/is-internet-linking-legal/ Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:48:44 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/is-internet-linking-legal/ You’d think the top search results on the matter would be newer than 1999, but that’s where you’ll find this NYT article and PubLaw item story, both from precambrian times. https://maisonbisson.com/post/dont-be-stupid-magenta-is-a-color/ Sun, 22 Feb 2009 19:11:14 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/dont-be-stupid-magenta-is-a-color/ Anybody who claims magenta isn’t a color is stupid, lying, or link-baiting. Take it from a color-blind person: all colors are a matter of perception, and claiming Magenta isn’t a color because it doesn’t fit neatly in the linear spectrum of visible electromagnetic radiation is like saying this isn’t music because the vibrations that tickle our ear aren’t the result of a monotone sinusoidal wave. https://maisonbisson.com/post/make-yours-a-modbook/ Sun, 22 Feb 2009 03:03:28 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/make-yours-a-modbook/ I really don’t know what I’d do with a tablet, but it’s still plenty interesting to see this ModBook come together. https://maisonbisson.com/post/pedal-powered-big-wheel-fun/ Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:06:32 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/pedal-powered-big-wheel-fun/ This big wheel was purported to be the work of Cyclecide, a SF-based bike art collective. https://maisonbisson.com/post/turning-a-podcast-track-into-a-music-track-in-itunes/ Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:29:45 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/turning-a-podcast-track-into-a-music-track-in-itunes/ I subscribe to a few song of the day podcasts, which makes it easy to get the tracks, but difficult to enjoy them as music in iTunes. https://maisonbisson.com/post/5848-max-656-avg-mysql-queries-per-second/ Thu, 19 Feb 2009 05:00:33 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/5848-max-656-avg-mysql-queries-per-second/ The above graph is far from typical, but I love that the box (the top one in this picture) can do the job when it needs to. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-worlds-greenest-roller-coaster/ Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:28:23 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-worlds-greenest-roller-coaster/ This pedal-powered roller coaster is Washuzan Highland Park‘s Skycycle in Okayama prefecture, Japan It appears that the only CO2 emissions are the huffing and puffing of riders peddling to the top. https://maisonbisson.com/post/how-to-ruin-valentines-day-and-a-basketball-game/ Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:55:56 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/how-to-ruin-valentines-day-and-a-basketball-game/ Valentine’s day will never be the same for this dude. Aparently, however, marriage proposal rejections at basketball games are common, though this LOL cats proposal worked out well. https://maisonbisson.com/post/matching-regular-expressions-across-multiple-lines-in-bbedit/ Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:17:57 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/matching-regular-expressions-across-multiple-lines-in-bbedit/ <p>I love <a href="http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/">BBEdit</a> on my Mac, but I was left scratching my head again today when I was trying to remember how to make its regex engine match a pattern across multiple lines. My hope was to extract a list of initial articles from <a href="http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bdapndxf.html">a page that had HTML like this</a>:</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordcamp-higher-ed-northeast/ Mon, 02 Feb 2009 03:38:39 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordcamp-higher-ed-northeast/ It’s not WordCamp Paris (running on 7 February), but WordCamp Edu Northeast is today. I’m there to meet up with fellow WordPressies and talk about extending WordPress with Holladay Penick and Dave Lester. https://maisonbisson.com/post/why-are-these-people-so-happy/ Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:07:35 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/why-are-these-people-so-happy/ The soothing ambient sounds and smiling faces might be enough to have you keep this site open all winter long, but then you’d have to explain it. https://maisonbisson.com/post/13409/ Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:24:48 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/13409/ Darien’s new materials handling is cool, but not world record headspin cool. Actually, that’s probably a false comparison, enjoy them both. https://maisonbisson.com/post/woot-wordpress-mu-27-out/ Thu, 29 Jan 2009 01:37:06 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/woot-wordpress-mu-27-out/ Sure, Matt says it’s Thank a Plugin Developer Day, but let’s hear it for the developers who just tagged WordPress MU 2. https://maisonbisson.com/post/new-hampshire-live-free-or-die-by-firing-squad/ Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:20:15 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/new-hampshire-live-free-or-die-by-firing-squad/ NH State Representative Delmar Burridge recently introduced HB 0037 proscribing death by firing squad: https://maisonbisson.com/post/not-happy/ Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:53:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/not-happy/ It’s called Gigapan, a robotic panorama-maker. David Bergman used one to take the picture above (though his view was much larger) (you can buy your own for about $300 if you get in on the beta). https://maisonbisson.com/post/sitting-in-sin/ Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:21:51 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/sitting-in-sin/ Thomas Von Staffeldt’s remix of Arne Jacobsen‘s “chair no. 7”. Above are gluttony, pride, and lust. https://maisonbisson.com/post/through-the-viewfinder/ Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:01:22 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/through-the-viewfinder/ original_ann‘s hacked-together rig for shooting though the viewfinder of her Kodak Starflex has me wanting one. https://maisonbisson.com/post/respect-vs-the-internet/ Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:15:44 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/respect-vs-the-internet/ “What happens when a group that commands respect meets an audience that doesn’t give it readily? https://maisonbisson.com/post/oh-noes-my-table-is-gone/ Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:45:59 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/oh-noes-my-table-is-gone/ # mysqlcheck -p -A --auto-repair --optimize wp_1_options info : Found block with too small length at 17732; Skipped info : Wrong block with wrong total length starting at 17776 info : Found block with too small length at 28776; Skipped warning : Number of rows changed from 444 to 441 status : OK Cleaning up the mess after a hardware failure can suck. https://maisonbisson.com/post/a-cocktail-i-can-believe-in/ Tue, 20 Jan 2009 02:05:56 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/a-cocktail-i-can-believe-in/ Sandee’s toasting tomorrow’s inauguration with a special “fresh start cocktail.” I’m not usually one for overwrought imagery, but the delicate fruit flavor is quite refreshing change from the dark and stormy winter we’ve been suffering. https://maisonbisson.com/post/everybodys-underwear/ Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:29:58 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/everybodys-underwear/ I was using the dirty laundry metaphor in a previous post and wanted to extend it a bit by saying something like: https://maisonbisson.com/post/gaming-help-bond-007-quantum-of-solace-walkthrough/ Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:28:11 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/gaming-help-bond-007-quantum-of-solace-walkthrough/ shadowzack knows his games a lot better than I do. Even though he says it’s “crap”, I’m enjoying playing Bond 007: Quantum of Solace on my Wii. https://maisonbisson.com/post/hardmuths-diy-ring-flash-is-quite-a-hack/ Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:20:58 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/hardmuths-diy-ring-flash-is-quite-a-hack/ This light-piped ring flash should do the trick. It’s gotta be cheaper than Canon’s offering (though cheap ring lights can be had for under $100), and it seems to work more than well enough. https://maisonbisson.com/post/no-such-thing-as-bad-publicity/ Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:44:21 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/no-such-thing-as-bad-publicity/ Finding a 2007 blog post about a condom and a cheeseburger made a friend ask if student blogs should be moved off-domain. https://maisonbisson.com/post/pac-txt/ Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:22:08 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/pac-txt/ Richard Moore’s Pac-Txt is even more brilliant than his Paper Pong (which, ironically, you can play online). https://maisonbisson.com/post/patrick-mcgoohan-dead-at-80/ Wed, 14 Jan 2009 04:41:20 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/patrick-mcgoohan-dead-at-80/ Patrick McGoohan, creator of The Prisoner, has died. https://maisonbisson.com/post/looking-back-at-mac-hardware-performance/ Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:26:24 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/looking-back-at-mac-hardware-performance/ I recently replaced the Mac Mini I use to host my web development with a PowerMac G4. https://maisonbisson.com/post/firefox-improved-rdf-browsing/ Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:12:35 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/firefox-improved-rdf-browsing/ lbjay uses both the Tabulator and Semantic Radar Firefox plugins to do magic with RDF in his browser. https://maisonbisson.com/post/play-flv-in-quicktime-player-using-perian/ Mon, 12 Jan 2009 03:29:42 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/play-flv-in-quicktime-player-using-perian/ Perian: “The swiss-army knife of QuickTime components” File formats: AVI, DIVX, FLV, MKV, GVI, VP6, and VFW Video types: MS-MPEG4 v1 &amp; v2, DivX, 3ivx, H. https://maisonbisson.com/post/corey-blanchettes-365-song-project/ Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:49:37 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/corey-blanchettes-365-song-project/ The 365 photos meme was quite popular last year (despite the 366 day leap year). https://maisonbisson.com/post/if-i-ever-find-myself-in-prague/ Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:53:04 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/if-i-ever-find-myself-in-prague/ Ilya Schurov thinks this is the time capsule from from Isaak Asimov‘s The End Of Eternity. https://maisonbisson.com/post/diy-fisheye-lens-for-aiptek-go-hd-camera/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:11:25 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/diy-fisheye-lens-for-aiptek-go-hd-camera/ The Aiptek GO-HD isn’t such a bad camera for the money. It does 720p video and 8 megapixel photos, but the lens doesn’t go very wide. https://maisonbisson.com/post/some-predictions-come-true/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:38:24 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/some-predictions-come-true/ Way back in 2002 Dave Winer made a bet: In a Google search of five keywords or phrases representing the top five news stories of 2007, weblogs will rank higher than the New York Times’ Web site. https://maisonbisson.com/post/safe-livestock-transportation-recommendations/ Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:31:02 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/safe-livestock-transportation-recommendations/ You might not have cared to know the recommended trucking practices for pigs or other livestock, but Colorado State University professor Temple Grandin is happy to explain all of that and more. https://maisonbisson.com/post/you-didnt-know-they-were-fighting-the-karen-national-liberation-army-in-myanmar/ Sun, 04 Jan 2009 18:34:32 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/you-didnt-know-they-were-fighting-the-karen-national-liberation-army-in-myanmar/ This news story from 2006 alerted me to a war I didn’t know anybody was fighting: the liberation of Karen State from Myanmar. https://maisonbisson.com/post/super-cheap-aiptek-go-hd-video-camera/ Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:35:45 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/super-cheap-aiptek-go-hd-video-camera/ A while ago now I bought a Aiptek GO-HD 720p from Amazon for cheap. The FotoRamp review was helpful; links to actual raw video convinced me; but this video review was absolutely no help at all. https://maisonbisson.com/post/cure-your-new-years-eve-hangover/ Thu, 01 Jan 2009 16:41:16 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/cure-your-new-years-eve-hangover/ I find a few sausage, egg, and cheese breakfast sandwiches and chocolate milk do the trick, but I’d eat those every day if I could. https://maisonbisson.com/post/will-time-warner-cable-customers-be-able-to-watch-nickelodeon-in-the-morning-or-visit-nickcom/ Thu, 01 Jan 2009 03:41:35 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/will-time-warner-cable-customers-be-able-to-watch-nickelodeon-in-the-morning-or-visit-nickcom/ This dispute is going on now, tonight. There are obviously at least two sides to this story (Viacom &amp;Time Warner Cable). https://maisonbisson.com/post/wired-but-disconnected/ Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:43:06 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wired-but-disconnected/ duckett‘s Wired But Disconnected on ccMixter is actually ironic: the whole song is the result of an online collaboration. https://maisonbisson.com/post/lensbaby-baby/ Sun, 28 Dec 2008 18:30:37 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/lensbaby-baby/ I have an old Lensbaby 2.0 (looks like this) that does a great job of making casual snapshots look like real portraits. https://maisonbisson.com/post/tankmen/ Fri, 26 Dec 2008 22:19:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/tankmen/ Tankmen is funny, no doubt, but I wonder what it means when we’re deeply embroiled in two of the longest running armed conflicts of US history that we find it so easy to make comedy about war. https://maisonbisson.com/post/jappy-jaladays/ Thu, 25 Dec 2008 14:57:45 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/jappy-jaladays/ Jappy Jaladays begets a number of other punny greetings: Merry Mojitos! Merry Margaritas! Tijuana celebrate? https://maisonbisson.com/post/youtomb-tracks-takedowns-on-youtube/ Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:29:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/youtomb-tracks-takedowns-on-youtube/ YouTomb continually monitors the most popular videos on YouTube for copyright-related takedowns. Any information available in the metadata is retained, including who issued the complaint and how long the video was up before takedown. https://maisonbisson.com/post/hacking-cellphones-for-public-health/ Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:36:12 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/hacking-cellphones-for-public-health/ Using only an LED, plastic light filter and some wires, scientists at UCLA have modded a cellphone into a portable blood tester capable of detecting HIV, malaria and other illnesses. https://maisonbisson.com/post/lcsh-linked-data/ Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:27:07 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/lcsh-linked-data/ lcsh.info is gone, but there’s a lot to learn from this paper. I wish I’d seen that earlier. https://maisonbisson.com/post/everybodys-spoon-is-too-big/ Sat, 20 Dec 2008 21:09:08 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/everybodys-spoon-is-too-big/ https://maisonbisson.com/post/best-of-craigslist-manly-bike-for-sale/ Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:10:21 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/best-of-craigslist-manly-bike-for-sale/ From the best-of-Craigslist: Manly Bike for Sale: What kind of bike? I don’t know, I’m not a bike scientist. https://maisonbisson.com/post/making-plugin-options-pages-compatible-with-wordpress-27/ Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:45:07 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/making-plugin-options-pages-compatible-with-wordpress-27/ WordPress 2.7 requires that plugins explicitly white list their options using a couple new functions. WordPress MU has required this security measure for a while, and it’s nice to see an evolved form of it brought to the core code. https://maisonbisson.com/post/quizzes-are-good-link-bait/ Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:22:04 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/quizzes-are-good-link-bait/ Via Information Nation: How Long Could You Survive Chained to a Bunk Bed with a Velociraptor? https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-social-beaver-1960s-campus-life-at-mit/ Fri, 12 Dec 2008 18:29:48 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-social-beaver-1960s-campus-life-at-mit/ Really, it’s titled “The Social Beaver,” though I can’t imagine campus life ever looking like that. https://maisonbisson.com/post/woodman-institute-dover-nh/ Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:54:05 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/woodman-institute-dover-nh/ The Woodman Institute Museum in Dover NH is famous for having a four-legged chicken, but that’s only a small example of the weirdness you’ll find inside. https://maisonbisson.com/post/what-could-have-been-lee-mercers-2008-presidential-campaign/ Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:23:08 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/what-could-have-been-lee-mercers-2008-presidential-campaign/ Former 2008 Presidential Candidate Lee Mercer shares your concern for circumstances and issues. He wants to crack down on treason and recognizes Democratic concerns about expansion of executive power. https://maisonbisson.com/post/mysql-51-released-community-takes-stock/ Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:53:18 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/mysql-51-released-community-takes-stock/ MySQL 5.1 is out as a GA release, but with crashing bugs that should give likely users pause. https://maisonbisson.com/post/simile-timeline-for-um-timelines/ Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:33:20 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/simile-timeline-for-um-timelines/ Timeline is a SIMILE project that uses Exhibit JSON (which you can create with Babel). https://maisonbisson.com/post/longwell-rdf-browser/ Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:18:57 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/longwell-rdf-browser/ Longwell mixes the flexibility of the RDF data model with the effectiveness of the faceted browsing UI paradigm and enables you to visualize and browse any arbitrarely complex RDF dataset, allowing you to build a user-friendly web site out of your data within minutes and without requiring any code at all. https://maisonbisson.com/post/another-approach-to-web-forms/ Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:16:17 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/another-approach-to-web-forms/ Just saw a cool demo of XForms and Orbeon Forms. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-for-zachs-web-programming-class/ Mon, 08 Dec 2008 19:30:34 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-for-zachs-web-programming-class/ Zach is apparently too lazy to prep his own lectures for the last few days of his intro to web programming class. https://maisonbisson.com/post/real-data-architecture-stockholm-data-cave/ Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:33:26 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/real-data-architecture-stockholm-data-cave/ Need a retro-looking bomb shelter for your server, or are you a big fan of the Cheyenne Mountain scenes in WarGames? https://maisonbisson.com/post/lens-lust/ Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:41:51 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/lens-lust/ Digital Photography Review’s look of Sigma’s 50mm f/1.4 has me drooling. I have an el cheapo 50mm f/1. https://maisonbisson.com/post/derailed/ Sun, 07 Dec 2008 00:35:51 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/derailed/ Eu-Jin Ooi‘s picture of rail trucks piled up after a derailment isn’t nearly as scary as this derailment found at Dee’s Inbox: https://maisonbisson.com/post/piano-man/ Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:37:02 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/piano-man/ Light-Paint Piano Player from Ryan Cashman on Vimeo. https://maisonbisson.com/post/mobile-safari-advanced-features/ Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:10:14 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/mobile-safari-advanced-features/ If you’re already building web apps, you might wonder why you should bother to build an iPhone native app. https://maisonbisson.com/post/iphone-dev-camp-nyc/ Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:54:36 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/iphone-dev-camp-nyc/ I’m at Apple’s iPhone Tech Talk in New York today. Info is flowing like water through a firehose, so I’m not going to attempt live blogging, but here are their suggested ingredients for a successful iPhone app: https://maisonbisson.com/post/peephole-diy-fisheye-lens/ Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:46:56 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/peephole-diy-fisheye-lens/ Flickr blog I discovered the Peephole fish eye group. The idea is simple: us a $5 door peephole to give your camera a fisheye lens. https://maisonbisson.com/post/i-am-talking-to-you/ Fri, 28 Nov 2008 16:38:24 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/i-am-talking-to-you/ After stuffing yourself with too much Thanksgiving dinner and the tryptothan kicks in, there’s some time when all conversations seem to work like this one from Martin Wilson. https://maisonbisson.com/post/a-dc-story/ Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:55:20 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/a-dc-story/ One sunny day in January, 2009 an old man approached the White House from across Pennsylvania Avenue, where he’d been sitting on a park bench. https://maisonbisson.com/post/after-the-thanksgiving-feast-answer-who-owns-the-fish/ Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:11:27 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/after-the-thanksgiving-feast-answer-who-owns-the-fish/ <p>You can only eat so much, and though we’ll likely stretch those limits tomorrow, at some point we all have to take a break. The good folks at <a href="http://www.coudal.com/thefish.php" title="Coudal Partners">Coudal Partners</a> have the perfect solution: a simple test (available as a <a href="coudal-com-portablefish.pdf" title="coudal-com-portablefish.pdf">convenient PDF</a>) that Einstein says only a handful of people can actually figure out.</p> <p>The premise is simple: somebody in the neighborhood keeps a fish, but who? Read the clues, work it out, and send your answer to the Coudal folks. If you’re right they might have a prize for you. You can leave your answer in the comments here too, but all I’ll have for you is left over turkey.</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/amazons-content-delivery-network-launches-in-beta/ Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:38:05 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/amazons-content-delivery-network-launches-in-beta/ Amazon calls it CloudFront, and it costs $0.17 – $0.22 per GB at the lowest usage tiers. https://maisonbisson.com/post/web-search-re-imagined-searchme-iphone-app/ Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:17:50 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/web-search-re-imagined-searchme-iphone-app/ Re-imagined a bit, anyway. Why browse a vertical list of results when you can flip through them like pages in a book (or album covers in iTunes). https://maisonbisson.com/post/video-drm-hammering-legal-consumers/ Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:40:18 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/video-drm-hammering-legal-consumers/ Nobody but the studios seem happy about Apple’s implementation of HDCP on its recent laptops. https://maisonbisson.com/post/sco-vs-novell-lawsuit-over-linux-safe/ Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:16:31 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/sco-vs-novell-lawsuit-over-linux-safe/ According to Groklaw, the long running battle between SCO and Novell may finally be over. The Judge ruled that SCO, the company that claimed Linux infringed on it’s IP and sued everybody in sight, never did own any rights to Unix in the first place, and has ordered the company to pay millions. https://maisonbisson.com/post/toshiba-takes-bullet-time-up-a-notch/ Sun, 23 Nov 2008 01:07:17 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/toshiba-takes-bullet-time-up-a-notch/ Supposedly this is more real than it looks. See how it was made. https://maisonbisson.com/post/uss-albacore-submarine-museumportsmouth-nh/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:14:04 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/uss-albacore-submarine-museumportsmouth-nh/ The Albacore is a post World War II experimental submarine now on display in Portsmouth NH. https://maisonbisson.com/post/nest-the-softer-side-of-maisonbisson/ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:38:56 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/nest-the-softer-side-of-maisonbisson/ Sandee’s not such a fan of the new theme here at MaisonBisson. Without really telling me that I should have discussed the new decor with her before making any big decisions, she does say she feels it doesn’t suit her style. https://maisonbisson.com/post/lincoln-obama-paste-up-mashup/ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:28:32 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/lincoln-obama-paste-up-mashup/ enrguerrero‘s photo of a Lincoln/Obama paste up mashup on the corner of Larkin and Myrtle streets in San Francisco. https://maisonbisson.com/post/fiddling-with-oss4lib-theme/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:03:59 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/fiddling-with-oss4lib-theme/ I generally liked CommentPress, but when the Institute for the Future of the Book website went down recently, it started throwing errors in the dashboard. https://maisonbisson.com/post/obamas-use-of-complete-sentences-stirs-controversy/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:21:03 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/obamas-use-of-complete-sentences-stirs-controversy/ From the Borowitz Report: In the first two weeks since the election, President-elect Barack Obama has broken with a tradition established over the past eight years through his controversial use of complete sentences, political observers say. https://maisonbisson.com/post/mcgill-university-powered-by-wordpress/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:52:28 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/mcgill-university-powered-by-wordpress/ Well, not the entire university, I guess, but a number of online publications use it. https://maisonbisson.com/post/abandoned-cars-yes-but-abandoned-jumbo-jets/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:11:47 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/abandoned-cars-yes-but-abandoned-jumbo-jets/ Residents of Mumbai (Bombay) were wondering who was responsible for removing an abandoned 737 in their Chembur neighborhood. https://maisonbisson.com/post/tricky-uses-of-bsuite/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:55:14 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/tricky-uses-of-bsuite/ After writing the project page for wpSMS I didn’t have much more to say in a blog post announcing it. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-uses-oobject/ Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:14:19 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-uses-oobject/ Oobject‘s galleries of abandoned pools, subway architecture, and revolting gold gadgets, among others, are all built in WordPress. https://maisonbisson.com/post/using-wordpress-with-external-smtp-server/ Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:01:45 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/using-wordpress-with-external-smtp-server/ I really don’t like having sendmail running on a webserver, but some features of WordPress just don’t work if it can’t send email (user registration, for example). https://maisonbisson.com/post/a-day-in-the-life/ Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:34:51 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/a-day-in-the-life/ DGENERATE NATION – Skate With Me from DGENETICS on Vimeo. https://maisonbisson.com/post/whisky-and-gin-dispenser/ Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:51:46 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/whisky-and-gin-dispenser/ Gaellery‘s Hotel room whisky and gin dispenser. Push in the drawer, pull out, and find a tiny bottle of booze. https://maisonbisson.com/post/uploading-docx-files-in-wordpress/ Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:55:07 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/uploading-docx-files-in-wordpress/ It may be a sign that none of the core WordPress developers much likes or uses Microsoft Office, but the core code hasn’t been updated to recognize the Office 2007 file extensions like . https://maisonbisson.com/post/world-usability-day-today/ Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:54:37 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/world-usability-day-today/ The Usability Professionals’ Association says “a cell phone should be as easy to access as a doorknob. https://maisonbisson.com/post/google-brings-video-to-gtalk-but-why-no-ichatskype-interoperability/ Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:23:41 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/google-brings-video-to-gtalk-but-why-no-ichatskype-interoperability/ Google yesterday introduced video chat to the web-based version of it’s Google Talk app (think GMail), but doesn’t appear to interoperate with any of the many existing video chat apps, iChat and Skype tops among them. https://maisonbisson.com/post/getting-a-teflon-fix/ Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:29:12 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/getting-a-teflon-fix/ Teflon might be just what I need to get my walking desk treadmill back in working order. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-animated-llama-you-didnt-know-you-needed/ Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:29:59 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-animated-llama-you-didnt-know-you-needed/ click for more. i dare you. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-education-mail-list/ Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:43:44 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-education-mail-list/ wp-edu, the WordPress for education mail list has launched. Join up, catch up on the archives, and set it up at your school. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wpsms-wordpress-plugin-sends-sms-messages/ Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:21:46 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wpsms-wordpress-plugin-sends-sms-messages/ [include post_id=”12897″ field=”post_content”] https://maisonbisson.com/post/poke-a-muffin/ Sun, 09 Nov 2008 00:30:23 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/poke-a-muffin/ click for more. i dare you. https://maisonbisson.com/post/a-bullet-dodged/ Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:13:48 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/a-bullet-dodged/ We all knew the sordid details of Palin’s candidacy would emerge, but who figured they pour out so soon or on Fox News? https://maisonbisson.com/post/declaration-of-metadata-independance/ Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:13:21 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/declaration-of-metadata-independance/ Declaration of Metadata Independance: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that Metadata is essential to all Users, and that the Creation of Metadata endows certain inalienable Rights, that among these are the right to collect, the right to share and the pursuit of Happiness through the reuse of the Metadata… (read more) https://maisonbisson.com/post/svn-repository-hooks-rock/ Thu, 06 Nov 2008 02:55:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/svn-repository-hooks-rock/ I stumbled on them by accident, but once I discovered Subversion supports action hooks that can fire before or after a transaction, I knew exactly what to do with them. https://maisonbisson.com/post/presidents-changepresidential-limousines-change/ Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:47:58 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/presidents-changepresidential-limousines-change/ Presidential Limos are armored, yes, but Gregg Merksamer reveals that George W. Bush’s limos sport five-inch thick glass, more than twice as thick as in Clinton’s limo. https://maisonbisson.com/post/mccain-staffers-more-whisky-stat/ Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:45:17 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/mccain-staffers-more-whisky-stat/ John McCain’s election team apparently told staff at The Phoenix Biltmore to have extra whisky on hand for their election party tonight. https://maisonbisson.com/post/techno-viking-rocks-more-than-other-vikings-and-vikings-generally-rock/ Sun, 02 Nov 2008 01:18:52 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/techno-viking-rocks-more-than-other-vikings-and-vikings-generally-rock/ The TechnoViking will have you scratching your head for the first 90 seconds, then ROFLing for a while. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wikipedia-api-2/ Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:32:07 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wikipedia-api-2/ I’ve wanted a Wikipedia API for a while. Now I might’ve stumbled into one: commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php. It doesn’t do exactly what I want, but it might yet be useful. https://maisonbisson.com/post/engrave-your-tech/ Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:56:02 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/engrave-your-tech/ The image on this moleskine notebook was custom laser engraved by EngraveYourBook.com, a part of EngraveYourTech. https://maisonbisson.com/post/creative-commons-licenses-not-compatible-with-gpl/ Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:51:26 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/creative-commons-licenses-not-compatible-with-gpl/ GPL and CC are incompatible? FSF says so, and the Debian Free Software Guidelines agree. I’m as opposed to ruinous compromises as the next guy, and I feel the GPL fever, but I just want to use Mark James‘ excellent Silk Icons in my GPL’d WordPress plugin. https://maisonbisson.com/post/csshttprequest-cross-domain-javascript-solution/ Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:58:26 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/csshttprequest-cross-domain-javascript-solution/ Who’d a thunk it: CSSHttpRequest is a way of doing cross-domain AJAX by using CSS’ @import method to fetch the data. https://maisonbisson.com/post/super-mario-quilt/ Sun, 26 Oct 2008 19:31:06 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/super-mario-quilt/ Keith Lewis bakes, paints, makes robots with machine guns, and has stitched not one but two Mario quilts (closeup, from back). https://maisonbisson.com/post/diagramed-things-said-during-sex/ Sat, 25 Oct 2008 23:13:51 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/diagramed-things-said-during-sex/ View it large, for all the details. Via anonymous. https://maisonbisson.com/post/asian-robot-olympics/ Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:17:33 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/asian-robot-olympics/ News of BrickCon the web and the Flickr earlier this month, but MSE2006’s photos of robot competition have my attention now. https://maisonbisson.com/post/steve-souders-website-performance-oreilly-webcast/ Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:15:26 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/steve-souders-website-performance-oreilly-webcast/ I’ve linked to Steve Sauders‘ webcasts on website performance optimization before. Here’s another. Turns out that he’s co-chairing the O’Reilly Velocity conference in June. https://maisonbisson.com/post/apache-virtual-hosting-black-magic/ Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:42:55 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/apache-virtual-hosting-black-magic/ I’ve configured Apache for virtual hosting on more sites than I can count, but I’ve always just kind of stumbled through until now. https://maisonbisson.com/post/sarah-palin-is-a-vampire/ Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:56:02 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/sarah-palin-is-a-vampire/ I think this election has designers more involved than most. (Via DottieboBottie.) https://maisonbisson.com/post/determining-paths-and-urls-in-wordpress-26/ Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:28:21 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/determining-paths-and-urls-in-wordpress-26/ WP 2.6 allows sites to move the wp-content directory around, so plugin developers like me can’t depend on them being in a predictable location. https://maisonbisson.com/post/xfruits-compose-your-information-system/ Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:20:50 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/xfruits-compose-your-information-system/ Is xFruits a worthy replacement for Yahoo! Pipes? https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-bug-duplicate-post_meta-entries/ Mon, 20 Oct 2008 04:00:55 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-bug-duplicate-post_meta-entries/ I just submitted a trac ticket about this: The update_post_meta() and delete_post_meta() functions don’t know how to deal with post revision IDs. https://maisonbisson.com/post/are-you-ready-for-the-digital-tv-conversion/ Sat, 18 Oct 2008 21:13:31 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/are-you-ready-for-the-digital-tv-conversion/ This PSA should help you understand the upcoming switch to digital television. (via) https://maisonbisson.com/post/comfort-thy-name-is-sumo/ Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:37:25 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/comfort-thy-name-is-sumo/ I sink into a strange, giant blue marshmallow and sigh contentedly. I balked at this new furniture. https://maisonbisson.com/post/libraries-vs-it-departments/ Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:25:27 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/libraries-vs-it-departments/ The Chronicle‘s Tech Therapy podcast last week featured Libraries vs. IT Departments. (Via.) https://maisonbisson.com/post/xkcd-against-drm/ Thu, 16 Oct 2008 01:30:01 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/xkcd-against-drm/ I think Richard M. Stallman would agree with xkcd: DRM is evil. It’s bad for both customers and content creators — even Hilary Rosen and Steve Jobs have their doubts about it. https://maisonbisson.com/post/got-wood/ Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:29:27 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/got-wood/ You can get a carved wood replica Macintosh 128 or faux-wood vinyl wrap for your Mac Mini, but ASUS is demoing a series of bamboo-covered computers and Fujitsu is showing their Cedar concept. https://maisonbisson.com/post/olde-skool-ipod-cases/ Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:17:53 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/olde-skool-ipod-cases/ Contexture Design‘s iPod classic and nano cases made of reclaimed 45 RPM vinyl or audio cassettes are just fine. https://maisonbisson.com/post/edward-tufte-on-the-iphones-ui-design/ Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:20:52 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/edward-tufte-on-the-iphones-ui-design/ Edward “to clarify add detail” Tufte, who criticizes the PowerPointing of America, earlier this year posted a video on the iPhone’s UI design. https://maisonbisson.com/post/how-wikipedia-works/ Tue, 14 Oct 2008 01:00:31 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/how-wikipedia-works/ When Phoebe Ayers isn’t hanging out at ROFLcon she’s probably doing something related to Wikipedia, so I’m looking forward to reading How Wikipedia Works: And How You Can Be a Part of It. https://maisonbisson.com/post/beat-it-instant-rimshot/ Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:36:46 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/beat-it-instant-rimshot/ Scott Carver has his hand in a number of projects — The Penny Jam is especially outstanding — but his Instant Rimshot is one of those silly infectious sites that’s you can’t help but share. https://maisonbisson.com/post/verizon-sms-price-increases/ Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:12:09 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/verizon-sms-price-increases/ I received the following message from Clickatell, the SMS gateway provider I use to programmatically send text messages to cell phones: https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-event-calendaring-plugins/ Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:31:32 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-event-calendaring-plugins/ I actually use Event Calendar, which has been abandoned for some time. Looking at the alternatives listed in the Plugin Directory, Calendar, Events Calendar, and Gigs Calendar add full calendar management features to WordPress. https://maisonbisson.com/post/converting-mysql-character-sets/ Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:17:51 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/converting-mysql-character-sets/ This Gentoo Wiki page suggests dumping the table and using iconv to convert the characters, then insert the dump into a new table with the new charset. https://maisonbisson.com/post/tracking-aircraft-movements/ Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:53:10 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/tracking-aircraft-movements/ From Justin: real-time flight tracking. You can even overlay it on Google Earth. None of them as pretty as Aaron Koblin’s Flightplan, though. https://maisonbisson.com/post/acronym-overload-iis-isapi-cas/ Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:57:54 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/acronym-overload-iis-isapi-cas/ I’m working to integrate an application on a remote-hosted IIS server into our CAS environment. CASisapi (svn trunk or svn tags/production) may do the trick, though Phil Sladen struggled with it (in 2005). https://maisonbisson.com/post/sarah-palins-debate-strategy-flowchart/ Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:29:55 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/sarah-palins-debate-strategy-flowchart/ Via Jon Link: Sarah Palin’s debate strategy flowchart. Eh. At least she had a strategy. https://maisonbisson.com/post/autoerotica-detailed-photos-of/ Sun, 05 Oct 2008 02:20:26 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/autoerotica-detailed-photos-of/ The silver SUV apparently backed out into the street so fast that it struck and flipped the blue car, then mounted it. https://maisonbisson.com/post/demetri-martin-flips-his-chart/ Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:18:58 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/demetri-martin-flips-his-chart/ You’ll find more than a few of Demetri Martin‘s (his site) videos on the web (one, two, quotes). https://maisonbisson.com/post/solaris-cachefs-could-be-the-space-ship-ive-been-looking-for/ Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:31:53 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/solaris-cachefs-could-be-the-space-ship-ive-been-looking-for/ Joerg Moellenkamp‘s post explaining CacheFS has me excited: Long ago, admins didn’t want to manage dozens of operating system installations. https://maisonbisson.com/post/this-stone-laid-by-lg-bogus/ Sun, 28 Sep 2008 02:18:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/this-stone-laid-by-lg-bogus/ Physically located in Katoomba; found in Seb Chan‘s photo stream. https://maisonbisson.com/post/do-wordpress-pages-better-with-bsuite/ Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:27:14 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/do-wordpress-pages-better-with-bsuite/ WordPress‘ Pages feature makes the popular blogging platform a sophisticated CMS. bSuite adds a few features to make it even better. https://maisonbisson.com/post/what-is-social-media/ Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:04:03 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/what-is-social-media/ <p><a href="http://vimeo.com/1083838?pg=embed&amp;sec=1083838">Social Media in Plain English</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0klgLsSxGsU">RSS In Plain English</a>, among others from <a href="http://www.commoncraft.com/">Common Craft</a> among the best explanations you’ll find.</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/knowledge-distilled-and-sketched-on-index-cards/ Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:19:51 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/knowledge-distilled-and-sketched-on-index-cards/ Maslow without the pyramid, found at Jessica Hagy’s “Indexed”. She posts new explanations of the world daily. https://maisonbisson.com/post/website-performance-vs-crawl-rate/ Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:39:25 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/website-performance-vs-crawl-rate/ Simple fact of The Google Economy: people can’t find stuff if it’s not indexed in major search engines. https://maisonbisson.com/post/beginners-guide-to-dataportability-the-video/ Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:16:25 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/beginners-guide-to-dataportability-the-video/ <p><a href="http://vimeo.com/610179?pg=embed&amp;sec=610179">DataPortability – Connect, Control, Share, Remix</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/smashcut?pg=embed&amp;sec=610179">Smashcut</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com?pg=embed&amp;sec=610179">Vimeo</a>.</p> <p>From <a href="http://dataportability.org/">DataPortability.org</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>The DataPortability Project is a group created to promote the idea that individuals have control over their data by determing how they can use it and who can use it. This includes access to data that is under the control of another entity.</p> <ul> <li>You should be able to decide what you do with that data and how it gets used by others</li> <li>Open Source solutions are preferred to closed source proprietary solutions</li> <li>Bottom-up distributed solutions are preferred to top down centralized solutions</li> </ul> </blockquote> https://maisonbisson.com/post/my-devcamp-lightning-talk/ Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:15:47 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/my-devcamp-lightning-talk/ Hi, I’m Casey. I developed Scriblio, which is really just a faceted search and browse plugin for WordPress that allows you to use it as a library catalog or digital library system (or both). https://maisonbisson.com/post/scaling-php/ Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:28:50 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/scaling-php/ This two year old post about Rasmus Lerdorf’s PHP scaling tips (slides) is interesting in the context of what we’ve learned since then. https://maisonbisson.com/post/scared-of-the-dark/ Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:11:29 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/scared-of-the-dark/ Who knew an ad that targeted our fear of the dark could work so well or playfully? https://maisonbisson.com/post/do-you-still-use-your-walking-desk/ Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:14:40 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/do-you-still-use-your-walking-desk/ Michael Pratt asked me recently: Do you still use your treadmill desk? Do you continue to find it beneficial? https://maisonbisson.com/post/sweet-business-cards/ Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:50:32 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/sweet-business-cards/ This handful of business cards is good for a little design inspiration. And here’s 70 more if you need an extra shot. https://maisonbisson.com/post/amazon-to-offer-content-delivery-services/ Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:55:42 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/amazon-to-offer-content-delivery-services/ Via an email from the Amazon Web Services group today: …we are excited to share some early details with you about a new offering we have under development here at AWS — a content delivery service. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-url-is-the-citation/ Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:08:07 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-url-is-the-citation/ From Jessamyn: “don’t toss up a bunch of bibliographic citations when a decent URL will do. https://maisonbisson.com/post/yet-another-encryption-crack/ Wed, 17 Sep 2008 02:10:07 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/yet-another-encryption-crack/ Those kwazy kids will quack anything now. Stream ciphers may never have been expected to be that secure, but Adi Shamir’s cube attack breaks them like so many, um, bits of data. https://maisonbisson.com/post/michael-pick-screencast-master/ Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:41:20 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/michael-pick-screencast-master/ Professional screencast producer Michael Pick has joined Automattic and shuttered Smashcut, his production company. It’s not all bad, though. https://maisonbisson.com/post/google-minus-google/ Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:06:46 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/google-minus-google/ From The Register: Inspired by a recent New York Times piece that questioned whether the Mountain View search monopoly is morphing into a media company — which it is — Finnish blogger Timo Paloheimo promptly unveiled Google minus Google. https://maisonbisson.com/post/open-source-citation-extractors-for-non-structured-data/ Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:47:57 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/open-source-citation-extractors-for-non-structured-data/ hmm-citation-extractor, ParsCit and FreeCite (not to be confused with FreeCite, the F/OSS EndNote-like app). FreeCite is available as a service and a download. https://maisonbisson.com/post/installing-php-apc-on-rhel-centos/ Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:08:34 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/installing-php-apc-on-rhel-centos/ Yum up some packages: ``` yum install php-pear php-devel httpd-devel &lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/table&gt; &lt;/div&gt; 2. https://maisonbisson.com/post/some-might-suggest-banning-sticky-notes-from-the-office/ Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:28:15 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/some-might-suggest-banning-sticky-notes-from-the-office/ EepyBird’s Sticky Note experiment from Eepybird on Vimeo. I have some experience with Post-It Notes in the office, and though that achieved international recognition, it doesn’t quite compare to what we see in this video. https://maisonbisson.com/post/web-form-validation-with-jquery/ Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:26:19 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/web-form-validation-with-jquery/ Josh Bush’s Masked Input Plugin and Paulo P. Marinas’ AlphaNumeric are both jQuery plugins to prevent input of invalid data in web forms. https://maisonbisson.com/post/greensql-open-source-database-security/ Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:37:41 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/greensql-open-source-database-security/ GreenSQL promises to protect SQL databases against SQL injections. GreenSQL works as a reverse proxy and has built in support for MySQL. https://maisonbisson.com/post/css-transformations-in-safari-webkit/ Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:59:22 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/css-transformations-in-safari-webkit/ The cool browsers support radius corners, but Safari supports CSS transformations that allow developers to scale, skew, and rotate objects on the page like we’re used to doing in PostScript. https://maisonbisson.com/post/browser-based-json-editors/ Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:49:22 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/browser-based-json-editors/ JSONLint, a JSON validator, was the tool I needed a while ago to be able to play with JSON as format for exchanging data in some APIs I was working on a while ago. https://maisonbisson.com/post/nfl-powered-by-wordpress/ Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:01:52 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/nfl-powered-by-wordpress/ WordPress.com VIP hosts some high-traffic sites, including Gizmodo’s live coverage of the iPhone 3g introduction. Now that the NFL has selected the service for their blogging we’ll get a chance to see how they handle the Superbowl rush. https://maisonbisson.com/post/michael-stephens-teaching-on-wordpress-mu/ Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:25:49 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/michael-stephens-teaching-on-wordpress-mu/ Michael Stephens is now using WordPress MU to host his classes online, and that opening page is really sweet. https://maisonbisson.com/post/googles-own-satellite/ Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:04:42 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/googles-own-satellite/ It’s not truly “Google’s own,” but the internet giant will get exclusive use of the images for mapping purposes, according to Reuters: https://maisonbisson.com/post/thesis-and-f8-two-sweet-commercial-wordpress-themes/ Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:12:43 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/thesis-and-f8-two-sweet-commercial-wordpress-themes/ Good work deserves compensation, but commercial themes are still unusual in the world of WordPress. https://maisonbisson.com/post/installing-memcached-on-centos/ Mon, 08 Sep 2008 01:17:15 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/installing-memcached-on-centos/ Using info from CentOS forums, Sunny Walia and Ryan Boren, here’s how I got memcached running on my Dotster VPS: https://maisonbisson.com/post/want-canons-eos-50d/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:58:25 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/want-canons-eos-50d/ News of Canon’s new EOS 50D with ISO sensitivity as high as 12,800 has my mouth watering. https://maisonbisson.com/post/axiotron-modbook-cool-but-bad-timing/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:14:18 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/axiotron-modbook-cool-but-bad-timing/ The Axiotron modbook is cool, I gotta admit, but with so many rumors of a MacBook Touch due this fall, I suspect that potential buyers might be holding their breath. https://maisonbisson.com/post/jon-stewart-vs-gopsarah-palin-media-machine/ Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:53:19 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/jon-stewart-vs-gopsarah-palin-media-machine/ https://maisonbisson.com/post/dragonflyer-x6-uav-remote-control-helicopter-is-sneaky-awesome/ Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:58:31 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/dragonflyer-x6-uav-remote-control-helicopter-is-sneaky-awesome/ I so want one of these sweet Draganflyer X6 helicopters. The two pound powerhouse can carry up to one pound of camera equipment, carrying it smooth enough to get decent video and stills. https://maisonbisson.com/post/automated-website-screen-captures-on-os-x/ Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:52:52 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/automated-website-screen-captures-on-os-x/ I’m not sure exactly what I’ll do with it, but thanks to this tip about webkit2png, I now know how to get screen captures of websites. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-cas-integration-plugin/ Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:25:17 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-cas-integration-plugin/ CAS — Central Authentication Service — has no logo, but it’s still cool. Heterogeneous environments like mine offer hundreds of different online services or applications that each need to authenticate the user. https://maisonbisson.com/post/bush-trying-to-figure-out-how-to-invite-volleyball-team-to-white-house/ Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:35:41 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bush-trying-to-figure-out-how-to-invite-volleyball-team-to-white-house/ Sure, volleyball is the new gymnastics, so much so that the White House posted a picture of Bush with Olympians Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh in their “News &amp; Policy” section. https://maisonbisson.com/post/joshua-longos-longoland-is-full-of-fuzzy-but-not-cuddly-animals/ Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:41:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/joshua-longos-longoland-is-full-of-fuzzy-but-not-cuddly-animals/ Brooklynite Joshua Longo‘s crazy animals are showing at the Shelburne Museum in Vermont through October 26th. https://maisonbisson.com/post/are-rock-operas-too-weird-for-remixing/ Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:57:01 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/are-rock-operas-too-weird-for-remixing/ <p>I love remixes, mashups, and covers. I love it when bad songs get good covers, I love it more when it’s a bad cover. I’m a fan of <a href="http://www.coverville.com/" title="Coverville">Coverville</a> and I get excited every time I find yet another version of Smells Like Teen Spirit (hey, this is just a sampling: <a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=XfFSogqWv7s&amp;offerid=146261&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZStore.woa%252Fwa%252FviewAlbum%253Fi%253D212899789%2526id%253D212899708%2526s%253D143441%2526partnerId%253D30">lullaby version</a>, <a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=XfFSogqWv7s&amp;offerid=146261&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZStore.woa%252Fwa%252FviewAlbum%253Fi%253D220385526%2526id%253D220385119%2526s%253D143441%2526partnerId%253D30">Patti Smith</a>, <a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=XfFSogqWv7s&amp;offerid=146261&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZStore.woa%252Fwa%252FviewAlbum%253Fi%253D193536243%2526id%253D193535775%2526s%253D143441%2526partnerId%253D30">The Bad Plus</a>, <a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=XfFSogqWv7s&amp;offerid=146261&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZStore.woa%252Fwa%252FviewAlbum%253Fi%253D210782990%2526id%253D210782729%2526s%253D143441%2526partnerId%253D30">another jazz version</a>, <a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=XfFSogqWv7s&amp;offerid=146261&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZStore.woa%252Fwa%252FviewAlbum%253Fi%253D271891263%2526id%253D271891256%2526s%253D143441%2526partnerId%253D30">and another jazz version</a>, <a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=XfFSogqWv7s&amp;offerid=146261&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZStore.woa%252Fwa%252FviewAlbum%253Fi%253D254951516%2526id%253D254950355%2526s%253D143441%2526partnerId%253D30">a string version</a>, <a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=XfFSogqWv7s&amp;offerid=146261&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZStore.woa%252Fwa%252FviewAlbum%253Fi%253D253734749%2526id%253D253734659%2526s%253D143441%2526partnerId%253D30">no, two string versions</a>, <a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=XfFSogqWv7s&amp;offerid=146261&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZStore.woa%252Fwa%252FviewAlbum%253Fi%253D128761058%2526id%253D128760875%2526s%253D143441%2526partnerId%253D30">a tango</a>, <a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=XfFSogqWv7s&amp;offerid=146261&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZStore.woa%252Fwa%252FviewAlbum%253Fi%253D272494869%2526id%253D272494847%2526s%253D143441%2526partnerId%253D30">a damn chant version</a>, <a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=XfFSogqWv7s&amp;offerid=146261&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZStore.woa%252Fwa%252FviewAlbum%253Fi%253D259925206%2526id%253D259922971%2526s%253D143441%2526partnerId%253D30">some lounge thing</a>, and one for the <a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=XfFSogqWv7s&amp;offerid=146261&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZStore.woa%252Fwa%252FviewAlbum%253Fi%253D256299966%2526id%253D256299952%2526s%253D143441%2526partnerId%253D30">opium lounge</a>).</p> <p>But I think I have yet to hear a decent cover or remix of a track from a rock opera. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Night_in_Bangkok">Take One Night In Bangkok</a>: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBvgbZFltY4">sexing it up doesn’t help</a>. You just can’t out rock a rock opera. (Really, <a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSearch.woa/wa/search?submit=edit&amp;term=one%20night%20in%20bangkok">look for yourself</a>.) It might help that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_(musical)">Chess</a> featured a character loosely based on <a href="http://maisonbisson.com/post/10146/strange-days/">eccentric chess master Bobby Fischer</a>, but rock operas just might be too weird for remixing.</p> <p>Though…I’d like to be surprised. Perhaps a folk version?</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/can-design-save-democracy/ Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:50:12 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/can-design-save-democracy/ From the New York Times: How Design Can Save Democracy …recently, the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law issued a report outlining the importance of well-designed, easy to understand ballots. https://maisonbisson.com/post/26-million-self-hosted-wordpress-sites-and-counting/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:39:59 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/26-million-self-hosted-wordpress-sites-and-counting/ The huge problem with open source software is that there are no sales numbers to show how many people are using it. https://maisonbisson.com/post/sweet-drobo-home-raid/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:08:39 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/sweet-drobo-home-raid/ I’m not sure who Robin Harris is, but he’s mighty sure home RAID won’t fly. https://maisonbisson.com/post/olpc-origins-us-and-taiwans-hardware-lovechild/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:18:48 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/olpc-origins-us-and-taiwans-hardware-lovechild/ OLPC Origins: US and Taiwan’s Hardware Lovechild A deeper than expected history of the OLPC’s development. https://maisonbisson.com/post/ssd-for-my-bacbook-pro/ Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:41:53 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/ssd-for-my-bacbook-pro/ Sure, we can get a MacBook Air with 64GB solid state disk (SSD), but what about upgrading a MacBook Pro? https://maisonbisson.com/post/more-web-performance-tips-from-steve-souders/ Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:10:28 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/more-web-performance-tips-from-steve-souders/ Hearing Steve Souders at WordCamp last week got me thinking about website performance, so I went looking for more. https://maisonbisson.com/post/commentpress-comments/ Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:07:20 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/commentpress-comments/ The rights to my Library Technology Report on Open-Source Software for Libraries have reverted back to me, so I’m posting the text online under a CC-BY-SA license. https://maisonbisson.com/post/mysql-performance-monitoring-tips-from-the-mysql-newsletter/ Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:57:52 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/mysql-performance-monitoring-tips-from-the-mysql-newsletter/ Google turned this up, but i have no idea how old it is: How to Monitor MySQL’s performance. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-war-on-photography/ Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:20:25 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-war-on-photography/ Amanda Mooney posted a note about being told she needed corporate permission to take a picture in a store. https://maisonbisson.com/post/global-voices-on-wordpress/ Sat, 16 Aug 2008 22:57:31 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/global-voices-on-wordpress/ I hadn’t heard of Global Voices Online, a community generated global group news blog, until Jeremy Clarke spoke of it at WordCamp. https://maisonbisson.com/post/quercus-php-to-java-compiler-vs-wordpress/ Sat, 16 Aug 2008 21:28:43 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/quercus-php-to-java-compiler-vs-wordpress/ Emil Ong is the Chief Evangelist and a lead developer for Caucho Technology, the developers of the Quercus PHP to Java compiler. https://maisonbisson.com/post/chris-lea-on-nginx-and-wordpress/ Sat, 16 Aug 2008 20:37:40 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/chris-lea-on-nginx-and-wordpress/ “Apache is like Microsoft Word, it has a million options but you only need six. Nginx does those six things, and it does five of them 50 times faster than Apache. https://maisonbisson.com/post/mark-jaquith-on-wordpress-security-for-plugin-developers/ Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:15:20 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/mark-jaquith-on-wordpress-security-for-plugin-developers/ I’ve been pretty aware of the risks of SQL injection and am militant about keeping my database interactions clean. https://maisonbisson.com/post/steve-souders-on-website-performance/ Sat, 16 Aug 2008 17:23:56 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/steve-souders-on-website-performance/ Steve Souders: 10% of the problem is server performance, 90% of problem is browser activity after the main html is downloaded. https://maisonbisson.com/post/will-norris-on-oauth-and-diso/ Sat, 16 Aug 2008 16:40:50 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/will-norris-on-oauth-and-diso/ Will Norris talking about things OAuth, OpenID, and Diso at WordCamp. Demonstrates/fakes an OAuth authentication and authorization process with WordPress for iPhone app. https://maisonbisson.com/post/aaron-brazell-on-blog-search-and-findability/ Sat, 16 Aug 2008 16:35:43 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/aaron-brazell-on-blog-search-and-findability/ Aaron Brazell at WordCamp is talking about search and finability “not SEO.” Riffing on Ambient Findability, he asks: https://maisonbisson.com/post/johnny-cash-hurt/ Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:39:07 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/johnny-cash-hurt/ Not every song Johnny Cash has covered turned to gold (see Personal jesus), but Hurt is magic. https://maisonbisson.com/post/copying-mysql-usernames-and-database-priveleges/ Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:51:37 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/copying-mysql-usernames-and-database-priveleges/ Now that I’m the nominal MySQL DBA for PSU, it became my job to jimmy up the MySQL user privileges so that the new web server could connect. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-performance-tips/ Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:21:35 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-performance-tips/ Elliott C. Back points to his use of object caching, WP-Cache, and MySQL query caching among the reasons why his site “is so much faster that yours. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-iphone-apps-ive-kept/ Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:26:36 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-iphone-apps-ive-kept/ Catherine asked me what iPhone apps I recommend, so I went looking. Exposure, WordPress, and Google Mobile App are on the first page of my home screen. https://maisonbisson.com/post/lyceum-vs-wordpress-mu/ Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:20:03 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/lyceum-vs-wordpress-mu/ The news about BuddyPress has fully shifted my attention from single-blog WordPress installs to multi-user, multi-blog installs. https://maisonbisson.com/post/most-expensive-iphone-app-yet/ Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:40:14 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/most-expensive-iphone-app-yet/ Armin Heinrich‘s $999 I Am Rich iPhone app is no longer available on Apple’s app store. https://maisonbisson.com/post/oauth-and-wordpress/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:49:39 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/oauth-and-wordpress/ I just realized OAuth support is slated for inclusion in WordPress 2.7. It’s not in trunk yet, but that’s no reason not to get up to speed. https://maisonbisson.com/post/is-my-php-script-running-out-of-memory/ Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:12:15 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/is-my-php-script-running-out-of-memory/ I’ve got a PHP script that sometimes just dies with no errors to the browser and no messages in the error log. https://maisonbisson.com/post/macintosh-antivirus-software/ Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:31:06 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/macintosh-antivirus-software/ Setting aside questions about the usefulness of antivirus software for Macs, it appears VirusBarrier (commercial) and ClamXav (open source) are the best options. https://maisonbisson.com/post/drill-and-burn-republicans/ Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:14:23 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/drill-and-burn-republicans/ John McCain thinks fuel efficiency is for sissies. I guess he figures our oil supply is infinite, or that fossile fuel consumption has no effect on climate change. https://maisonbisson.com/post/low-tech-hdr-black-card-mask/ Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:56:21 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/low-tech-hdr-black-card-mask/ I’ve been following Ásmundur’s use of multi-exposure HDR for a while, but today I discovered Max Chu’s use of an older, more crafty technique: black card mask. https://maisonbisson.com/post/diy-fig-rig/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:33:42 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/diy-fig-rig/ Mike Figgis‘ Fig Rig works equally well for guys in sneakers and guys in suits, but they’re not free, which is why you have to love Keith Lewis’ DIY version. https://maisonbisson.com/post/displays-go-long-go-wide/ Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:30:16 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/displays-go-long-go-wide/ If you want more monitors than you’ve got DVI or VGA ports, your options include adding a video card, using a USB-based display, or this Matrox hack: a small box plugs into your computer’s monitor port, and two or three monitors plug into the box, no software drivers or additional hardware required. https://maisonbisson.com/post/smart-people-wear-glasses/ Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:02:34 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/smart-people-wear-glasses/ Eyeglasses certainly add something. At least that’s the suggestion of these ads. And, thinking of comparisons: Hitler vs. https://maisonbisson.com/post/im-voting-republican/ Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:44:01 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/im-voting-republican/ No, I’m not likely to vote for any republican candidates, but this is funny. From the producers: https://maisonbisson.com/post/podcamp-boston-is-this-weekend/ Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:35:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/podcamp-boston-is-this-weekend/ Hey, PodCamp Boston is this weekend. I can’t go, but Sean M. Brown will be and he’s looking for librarians to join him. https://maisonbisson.com/post/web-application-design-book-recommendation/ Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:45:15 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/web-application-design-book-recommendation/ I’ve learned to ignore contests on the web. Banner ads that promise prizes if I click the right pixel are the least offensive, but the contests that have me creating content (and then force me to give up my copyright to it) for another person’s gain infuriate me. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-26-notes/ Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:40:20 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-26-notes/ WordPress 2.6 is out. It’s cool. Take a look: I’m most excited about automatic tracking of changes to posts and pages, but I’ll also probably come to like the “Press This” feature: https://maisonbisson.com/post/web-development-languages/ Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:44:04 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/web-development-languages/ David Cloutman pointed to Craiglist’s job ads as an indicator of programming language popularity. Here’s the hit counts for “web design jobs” and “internet engineering jobs” in the Bay Area: https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-26-plugin-and-wp-configphp-path-changes/ Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:29:11 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-26-plugin-and-wp-configphp-path-changes/ Ozh’s tutorial explains the details, but the short story is that we’ll soon get WP_CONTENT_URL and WP_CONTENT_DIR constants. https://maisonbisson.com/post/truth/ Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:15:57 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/truth/ Have you ever argued with a member of the Flat Earth Society? It’s futile, because fundamentally they don’t car if something is true or false. https://maisonbisson.com/post/site-back-online-further-downtime-expected/ Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:07:46 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/site-back-online-further-downtime-expected/ This site and a number of other projects are hosted on a Mac Mini that normally sits on my desk. https://maisonbisson.com/post/video-game-controller-family-tree/ Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:25:35 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/video-game-controller-family-tree/ Sock Master did some outstanding work tracing the lineage of video game controllers from 1977 to now without missing any of the weirdness in between. https://maisonbisson.com/post/search-trends-vs-community-standards/ Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:36:18 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/search-trends-vs-community-standards/ Via MotherJones: Pensacola residents Clinton Raymond McCowen and Kevin Patrick Stevens, producers of a very NSFW website last week faced a judge in an obscenity and racketeering trial for their work. https://maisonbisson.com/post/censorship-unpublishing-and-new-media/ Sun, 06 Jul 2008 04:34:08 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/censorship-unpublishing-and-new-media/ The actual reasons may never be discovered, but Boing Boing, the perennially top ten ranked blog, has “unpublished (NSFW)” stories by, about, or mentioning author and sex columnist Violet Blue (NSFW). https://maisonbisson.com/post/new-theme/ Sat, 05 Jul 2008 03:57:20 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/new-theme/ For the past year or so I’ve been wanting to design a non-bloggy theme for this site — a beautiful theme with a magazine-like front page showing the most recent post in a handful of categories. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-survey-tools/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:27:04 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-survey-tools/ Lorelle and Samir both point to a number of plugins to do surveys within WordPress, but neither of them say any of them are that good. https://maisonbisson.com/post/optimizing-insertsupdates-on-mysql-tables/ Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:32:05 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/optimizing-insertsupdates-on-mysql-tables/ When doing a bulk insert/update/change to a MySQL table you can temporarily disable index updates like this: https://maisonbisson.com/post/truemors-powered-by-wordpress/ Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:57:37 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/truemors-powered-by-wordpress/ In the “They Did This With WordPress” category (though from about a year ago, sorry) comes Truemors, a Digg, del. https://maisonbisson.com/post/kitty-porn/ Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:51:20 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/kitty-porn/ Newton isn’t really a kitten, but he is cute. Anyway, I got a new video camera and all I’ve done with it so far is shoot closeups of a cat. https://maisonbisson.com/post/1975-programming-vs-todays-computer-architecture/ Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:18:20 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/1975-programming-vs-todays-computer-architecture/ Poul-Henning Kamp, the guy behind the Varnish reverse proxy, talks about 1975 programming: It used to be that you had the primary store, and it was anything from acoustic delaylines filled with mercury via small magnetic dougnuts via transistor flip-flops to dynamic RAM. https://maisonbisson.com/post/mysql-bug/ Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:13:49 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/mysql-bug/ After an upgrade to MySQL 5.0.51b on RHEL 5 I started seeing curious results in a fairly common query. https://maisonbisson.com/post/huh-i-wonder-what-he-thinks-about-the-iphone-3g/ Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:27:37 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/huh-i-wonder-what-he-thinks-about-the-iphone-3g/ David Lynch doesn’t like the iPhone. At all. At least not for watching movies. Maybe the guy doesn’t take the subway much. https://maisonbisson.com/post/abandoned-malls/ Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:01:10 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/abandoned-malls/ What is it about abandonment that’s so compelling? From Chernobyl and Pripyat to mental hospitals to lost theme parks from Korea to California, we can’t help but stare at darkly vacant buildings. https://maisonbisson.com/post/shp-to-mysql/ Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:21:51 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/shp-to-mysql/ GIS data seems to come in .shp (shape?) files, but it’s not like MySQL knows what to do with those. https://maisonbisson.com/post/letter-to-steve-jobs/ Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:05:48 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/letter-to-steve-jobs/ I’m really glad to see the news about the iPhone 3g. I’m interested in how the new mobile me service takes a small step toward cloud-based storage services that I’ve wanted for a while. https://maisonbisson.com/post/could-buddypress-go-the-distance/ Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:14:06 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/could-buddypress-go-the-distance/ Facebook and MySpace are trying to turn themselves into application platforms (how else will they monetize their audience? https://maisonbisson.com/post/detecting-broken-images-in-javascript/ Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:45:49 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/detecting-broken-images-in-javascript/ We’ve become accustomed to link rot and broken images in nearly all corners of the web, but is there a way to keep things a bit cleaner? https://maisonbisson.com/post/find-stuff-by-minimum-bounding-rectangle/ Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:34:31 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/find-stuff-by-minimum-bounding-rectangle/ MySQL offers ENVELOPE() to find the minimum bounding rectangle of a geometric object. The result is a polygon with four segments, defined by five points. https://maisonbisson.com/post/working-with-spatial-data-in-mysql/ Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:41:45 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/working-with-spatial-data-in-mysql/ It’s MySQL spatial data week here, though I am spreading out the posts to, um, ease the pain (or boredom). https://maisonbisson.com/post/bsuite-4-beta-2/ Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:19:40 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bsuite-4-beta-2/ I announced the bSuite 4 public beta not long ago, now I’ve just posted a new version to SVN that addresses some of the bugs and fleshes out some of the features. https://maisonbisson.com/post/calculating-distance-between-points-in-mysql/ Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:15:57 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/calculating-distance-between-points-in-mysql/ MySQL has some powerful, and perhaps underused spatial extensions, but the most interesting functions are still unimplemented: “Note: Currently, MySQL does not implement these functions…” https://maisonbisson.com/post/anticipating-steve-jobs-wwdc-keynote/ Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:22:48 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/anticipating-steve-jobs-wwdc-keynote/ Will it be a thinner or fatter iPhone? Will it record live video? Will it have a metal cutting laser? https://maisonbisson.com/post/mysql-documentation/ Mon, 09 Jun 2008 01:44:03 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/mysql-documentation/ Found in the MySQL 5.0 Reference Manual: Related(g1,g2,pattern_matrix) Returns 1 or 0 to indicate whether the spatial relationship specified by pattern_matrix exists between g1 and g2. https://maisonbisson.com/post/converting-a-wporg-site-to-wpmu/ Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:56:13 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/converting-a-wporg-site-to-wpmu/ I have a lot of WordPress sites I manage and I’ve been thinking about converting them to WordPress MU sites to consolidate management. https://maisonbisson.com/post/bsuite-4-public-beta/ Sun, 01 Jun 2008 22:00:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bsuite-4-public-beta/ I’ve had a lot of features on the table for bSuite for a while, but this recently discovered comment from John Pratt (whose Smorgasboard. https://maisonbisson.com/post/json-rhel-centos-php-516/ Wed, 28 May 2008 14:12:28 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/json-rhel-centos-php-516/ Stuck with PHP 5.1.6 on RHEL or even CentOS (and a sysadmin who insists on using packages)? https://maisonbisson.com/post/happy-birthday-wordpress/ Tue, 27 May 2008 12:37:07 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/happy-birthday-wordpress/ WordPress was released to the world five years ago today. Celebrate in SFO, Sydney, or with me at whatever bar I find myself at in New Hampshire tonight. https://maisonbisson.com/post/gun-control-analogy/ Mon, 26 May 2008 20:21:57 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/gun-control-analogy/ “Gun control is like trying to reduce drunk driving by making it tougher for sober people to own cars. https://maisonbisson.com/post/many-eyes-bugs-being-shallow-all-that/ Tue, 20 May 2008 08:45:34 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/many-eyes-bugs-being-shallow-all-that/ WordPress 2.5.1 added a really powerful feature to register_taxonomy(): automatic registration of permalinks and query vars to match the taxonomy. https://maisonbisson.com/post/you-could-have-written-wikipedia-if-you-werent-watching-television/ Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:21:57 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/you-could-have-written-wikipedia-if-you-werent-watching-television/ Clay Shirky recently posted (wayback) a transcript of his Web 2.0 Expo keynote. …If you take Wikipedia as a kind of unit, all of Wikipedia, the whole project — every page, every edit, every talk page, every line of code, in every language that Wikipedia exists in — that represents something like the cumulation of 100 million hours of human thought. https://maisonbisson.com/post/ustream-tv-as-educational-technology-tool/ Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:07:08 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/ustream-tv-as-educational-technology-tool/ I was amused to learn Nathan was officially at ROFLcon on behalf of his library. I wasn’t representing my work and wasn’t on the lookout for work-related tools, but I found some anyway. https://maisonbisson.com/post/anglia-ruskin-university-faces-criticism-20/ Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:17:54 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/anglia-ruskin-university-faces-criticism-20/ Anglia Ruskin University is in Cambridge, but it’s not Cambridge University. It’s likely that none of us would even know of Anglia Ruskin‘s existence if it wasn’t for Naomi Sugai, but she’s not interested in promoting the school. https://maisonbisson.com/post/2002-honda-civic-ipodiphone-install/ Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:30:12 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/2002-honda-civic-ipodiphone-install/ Last weekend, while I was putting an iPod interface into my Scion I did the same thing for my 2002 Honda Civic. https://maisonbisson.com/post/snakes-on-a-plane/ Sat, 26 Apr 2008 03:42:23 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/snakes-on-a-plane/ It was only after I’d taken my seat and David Weinberger began his ROFLcon keynote that I realized there was a box of t-shirts at the side of the room with a sign over them that said something along the lines of “FREE: t-shirts from worn out memes. https://maisonbisson.com/post/retro-atari-2600-video-game-cover-art/ Tue, 22 Apr 2008 02:22:07 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/retro-atari-2600-video-game-cover-art/ Sure you played Asteroids and Defender, but did you play these? https://maisonbisson.com/post/2004-scion-xb-ipod-iphone-install/ Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:55:09 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/2004-scion-xb-ipod-iphone-install/ Based on this story about an iPod interface install I purchased a PIE TOY03-AUX aux input adapter so I could finally listen to my iPhone without using the lousy FM transmitter. https://maisonbisson.com/post/barbed-wire-the-deeper-history-of/ Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:36:49 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/barbed-wire-the-deeper-history-of/ It turns out that, like most everything else, barbed wire shows up at auctions. Not just shiny new stuff, you’ll find used stuff too. https://maisonbisson.com/post/my-flickr-complaint/ Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:24:33 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/my-flickr-complaint/ Some whine about movies on Flickr, others about the switch to Yahoo IDs, I simply want better rendering of transparent PNGs as JPGs. https://maisonbisson.com/post/cats-want-to-eat-your-brains/ Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:44:31 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/cats-want-to-eat-your-brains/ <p>NYT: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/magazine/09_10_catcoat.html?_r=3&amp;oref=slogin&amp;oref=slogin&amp;oref=slogin" title="‘Cat Lady’ Conundrum, The - New York Times">parasites in your brain are driving you to raise cats in hopes that they eat you</a>. <a href="http://spiralbound.net/" title="spiralbound.net">Hat tip to Cliff</a>.</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/flickr-adds-video/ Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:22:55 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/flickr-adds-video/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/flickrideas/discuss/72157600044150730/" title="Flickr: Discussing Video? in Flickr Ideas">I asked for it in 2004</a>, before YouTube, Vimeo, Viddler, or Revver appeared on the scene, and before MySpace and Facebook added video sharing as a feature. Four years later they <a href="http://blog.flickr.net/en/2008/04/09/video-on-flickr-2/" title="Video on Flickr! « Flickr Blog">finally added it</a>. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/flickrideas/discuss/72157600044150730/72157600044150814/">Neil Rickards should get credit</a> for creating the theme of “long photos” (Neil called them “moving photos”). And anybody who was <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/flickrideas/discuss/72157600044150730/72157600044150798/">around then</a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/flickrideas/discuss/72157600044150730/72157600044150824/">isn’t the least surprised</a> at <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/675051@N25/discuss/72157604453503905/">how angry</a> <a href="http://flickr.com/groups/no_video_on_flickr/pool/">some are</a> now about the new feature (<a href="http://flickr.com/photos/diamondjoe/2406708427/in/pool-changeresistance">see sarcastic response to that</a>).</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-internet-according-to-mememolly/ Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:20:09 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-internet-according-to-mememolly/ https://maisonbisson.com/post/identity-management-going-commodity/ Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:56:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/identity-management-going-commodity/ Atlassian’s Crowd SSO and IdM solution has the kind of online pricing you’d expect for word processing software. https://maisonbisson.com/post/why-cant-i-re-check-spam-with-akismet-wordpress-25-workaround/ Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:18:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/why-cant-i-re-check-spam-with-akismet-wordpress-25-workaround/ I recently installed WordPress 2.5 and among the changes I noticed was a loss of Akismet‘s “Recheck Spam” button (or something like that. https://maisonbisson.com/post/christian-nymphos/ Sun, 06 Apr 2008 02:09:32 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/christian-nymphos/ Not that you’d mistake our sites, but Christian Nymphos uses the same theme I use here at MaisonBisson. https://maisonbisson.com/post/ups-and-fedex-cargo-plane-safety/ Fri, 04 Apr 2008 04:02:03 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/ups-and-fedex-cargo-plane-safety/ Who knew FedEx and UPS planes crashed so often? (Blame the intronetz for making this too easy to discover. https://maisonbisson.com/post/swift-another-ham-handed-attempt-at-social-networking/ Thu, 03 Apr 2008 14:11:35 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/swift-another-ham-handed-attempt-at-social-networking/ All yesterday and this morning I’ve been seeing tweets about SWIFT, so I finally googled it to see what it was about. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-25-out-maisonbisson-upgraded/ Sun, 30 Mar 2008 06:38:06 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-25-out-maisonbisson-upgraded/ WordPress 2.5 is out (and the WordPress site got a facelift), and I’ve already upgraded MaisonBisson using SVN. https://maisonbisson.com/post/make-your-own-sign/ Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:04:40 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/make-your-own-sign/ I had fun with the signs in Taiwan (jet powered baby stroller and men’s bathroom signs, for example), but why travel around the world for these things when you can make them at home? https://maisonbisson.com/post/tibet-open-letter-and-other-innovative-uses-of-wordpress/ Fri, 28 Mar 2008 03:13:17 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/tibet-open-letter-and-other-innovative-uses-of-wordpress/ All Things Digital is interesting. Parents would say My Baby Our Baby.com is a little more important. https://maisonbisson.com/post/evil-google/ Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:53:53 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/evil-google/ Aaron Swartz‘s Bubble City, Chapter 8: He sent the report to his superior and wandered off for a bit to dwell on the power he had as a faceless person deep inside an office park in Mountain View to know every detail of another person’s life. https://maisonbisson.com/post/interesting-wordpress-plugins/ Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:45:45 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/interesting-wordpress-plugins/ WP Contact Manager turns WordPress into a contact manager. It’s a combination of theme and plugins (including Custom Write Panel) that allows you to enter and manage contacts as blog posts (familiar, eh? https://maisonbisson.com/post/best-restaurant-in-taipei/ Sun, 23 Mar 2008 05:19:27 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/best-restaurant-in-taipei/ I ate here. It’s every bit as good as the review suggests. Seb’s description and photos tell more, I’ll post my own photos soon. https://maisonbisson.com/post/google-pagerank-isis-notis-all-machine-generated/ Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:49:04 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/google-pagerank-isis-notis-all-machine-generated/ Google’s always been in the awkward position of claiming that PageRank is algorithmic, not editorial, while also explaining that they’re constantly adjusting their algorithms to ensure that PageRank reflects editorial judgments of quality. https://maisonbisson.com/post/zach-houstons-poem-store/ Sat, 15 Mar 2008 10:51:01 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/zach-houstons-poem-store/ Walking north on Valencia I heard the characteristic snap snap snap of an old manual typewriter’s hammers striking paper on the platen. https://maisonbisson.com/post/no-mo-w/ Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:04:11 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/no-mo-w/ Stolen from Jessamyn‘s photostream. https://maisonbisson.com/post/where-the-gbs-previews-are/ Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:11:03 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/where-the-gbs-previews-are/ I announced yesterday Scriblio‘s integration of Google’s new book viewability API that links to full text, previews, or additional book information (depending on copyright status and publisher foresight). https://maisonbisson.com/post/scriblio-integrates-google-book-search-links/ Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:56:39 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/scriblio-integrates-google-book-search-links/ (crossposted at Scriblio.net) Using the newly released book viewability API in Google Book Search, Plymouth State University’s Lamson Library and Learning Commons is one of the first libraries to move beyond simply listing their books online and open them up to reading and searching via the web. https://maisonbisson.com/post/great-name-but-is-it-any-good/ Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:32:41 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/great-name-but-is-it-any-good/ “Spork” is a great name for a restaurant, but is it any good? Yelp says it is, but most of the reviews mention the burger, putting me in the position of having to review the reviewers and wonder if a hamburger person can recommend a restaurant to a vegetarian. https://maisonbisson.com/post/geographic-tweeting/ Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:42:49 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/geographic-tweeting/ twittervision and twittermap show new tweets wherever they appear on the map, TwitterWhere let’s you follow tweets at a specific location, and Ask500People has nothing to do with Twitter but does show you global opinion. https://maisonbisson.com/post/warming/ Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:49:31 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/warming/ If this doesn’t warm your heart, check to see that it’s not made of stone. https://maisonbisson.com/post/netflix-for-audio-books/ Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:23:22 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/netflix-for-audio-books/ Netflix for audio books: Simply Audiobooks. Though it makes me wonder why we don’t say “like a library for audiobooks where they send you the stuff you want. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-25-offers-built-in-gravatar-support/ Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:48:35 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-25-offers-built-in-gravatar-support/ Nobody doubted that full Gravatar support would make it into WordPress eventually. Weblog Tools Collection shows what they look like, how they’re managed, and how theme designers can implement them. https://maisonbisson.com/post/quaint-vs-libraries/ Wed, 05 Mar 2008 22:13:03 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/quaint-vs-libraries/ This Slashdot post asks the same question a lot of people do: “can libraries be saved from the internet? https://maisonbisson.com/post/buddypress-the-wordpress-of-social-networks/ Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:41:42 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/buddypress-the-wordpress-of-social-networks/ Andy Peatling, who developed a WordPress MU-based social network and then released the code as BuddyPress has just joined Automattic, where they seem to have big plans for it. https://maisonbisson.com/post/parse-html-and-traverse-dom-in-php-2/ Wed, 05 Mar 2008 01:22:37 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/parse-html-and-traverse-dom-in-php-2/ <p>I <a href="http://maisonbisson.com/post/11996/parse-html-and-traverse-dom-in-php" title="http://maisonbisson.com/post/11996/parse-html-and-traverse-dom-in-php">spoke of this the other day</a>, but now I’ve learned of <a href="http://us3.php.net/manual/en/ref.dom.php">PHP’s DOM functions</a>, including <a href="http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.dom-domdocument-loadhtml.php" title="PHP: DOMDocument-">loadHTML()</a>. Use it in combination with <a href="http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.simplexml-import-dom.php" title="PHP: simplexml_import_dom - Manual">simplexml_import_dom</a> like this:</p> <div class="wp_syntax"> <table> <tr> <td class="code"> ``` <span style="color: #000088;">$dom</span> <span style="color: #339933;">=</span> <span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">new</span> domDocument<span style="color: #339933;">;</span> <span style="color: #000088;">$dom</span><span style="color: #339933;">-></span><span style="color: #004000;">loadHTML</span><span style="color: #009900;">(</span><span style="color: #0000ff;">' <ul> <li> one </li> <li> two </li> <li> three<ul> <li> sublist item </li> </ul> </li> </ul>'</span> <p><span style="color: #009900;">)</span><span style="color: #339933;">;</span> <span style="color: #b1b100;">if</span><span style="color: #009900;">(</span><span style="color: #000088;">$dom</span><span style="color: #009900;">)</span><span style="color: #009900;">{</span> <span style="color: #000088;">$xml</span> <span style="color: #339933;">=</span> <span style="color: #990000;">simplexml_import_dom</span><span style="color: #009900;">(</span><span style="color: #000088;">$dom</span><span style="color: #009900;">)</span><span style="color: #339933;">;</span> <span style="color: #990000;">print_r</span><span style="color: #009900;">(</span><span style="color: #000088;">$xml</span><span style="color: #009900;">)</span><span style="color: #339933;">;</span> <span style="color: #009900;">}</span></p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/parse-html-and-traverse-dom-in-php/ Tue, 04 Mar 2008 01:11:40 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/parse-html-and-traverse-dom-in-php/ I love how easily I can traverse an HTML document with jQuery, and I’d love to be able to do it in PHP. https://maisonbisson.com/post/movable-type-to-wordpress/ Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:35:13 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/movable-type-to-wordpress/ Scot Hacker (yes, that’s really his name) posted a story about migrating China Digital Times (published by Berkeley School of Journalism) from Movable Type to WordPress: https://maisonbisson.com/post/scriblio-feature-text-this-to-me/ Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:51:31 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/scriblio-feature-text-this-to-me/ Take note of the “New Feature: Text this to your cellphone” line above. Adam Brin of Tricollege Libraries explained that the “text this to me” feature he built to send location information about items in the library catalog as text messages to a user’s cell phone is being used as many as 60 times a day. https://maisonbisson.com/post/web-design-frameworks/ Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:37:29 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/web-design-frameworks/ I’m a fan of the Sandbox WordPress theme because it does so much to separate application logic from design, and a few small changes to the CSS can make huge changes to the look of the site. https://maisonbisson.com/post/give-up-your-civil-rights-and-your-laptop-and-hard-drives-at-the-border/ Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:39:17 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/give-up-your-civil-rights-and-your-laptop-and-hard-drives-at-the-border/ Can the Feds take your laptop? Yep. Be prepared to give up your civil rights and your laptop at the border, says a recent article in the Washington Post. https://maisonbisson.com/post/apache-reverse-proxy/ Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:03:04 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/apache-reverse-proxy/ Apache mod_proxy does most of the work, Nick Kew’s howto on running a reverse proxy with Apache explains it. https://maisonbisson.com/post/moscow-subways-underground-palaces/ Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:55:55 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/moscow-subways-underground-palaces/ Photographer farflungphotos describes: All the stations in Moscow’s metro are completely different from one another. https://maisonbisson.com/post/western-north-carolina-library-networks-classification-outline/ Fri, 08 Feb 2008 13:28:06 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/western-north-carolina-library-networks-classification-outline/ Western North Carolina Library Network‘s LC outline is full of detail. LC outline, classification, Western North Carolina Library Network, libraries https://maisonbisson.com/post/changes-to-wordpress-object-caching-in-25/ Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:20:32 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/changes-to-wordpress-object-caching-in-25/ Jacob Santos‘ FuncDoc notes: The WordPress Object Cache changed in WordPress 2.5 and removed a lot of file support from the code. https://maisonbisson.com/post/iphone-strobe-light/ Thu, 07 Feb 2008 01:37:06 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/iphone-strobe-light/ Strobe Light is clearly the perfect app for your new 16GB iPhone. https://maisonbisson.com/post/mysql-on-multi-core-machines/ Wed, 06 Feb 2008 12:11:17 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/mysql-on-multi-core-machines/ The DevShed technical tour explains that MySQL can spawn new threads, each of which can execute on a different processor/core. https://maisonbisson.com/post/looking-ahead-from-2008-top-tech-trends/ Sat, 02 Feb 2008 13:00:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/looking-ahead-from-2008-top-tech-trends/ I’m excited and honored to be joining Meredith Farkas and David J. Fiander in a roundtable discussion of Top Tech Trends, an OLITA program at Superconference. https://maisonbisson.com/post/ola-superconference-presentation-scriblio/ Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:54:25 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/ola-superconference-presentation-scriblio/ I’m honored to be invited to the Ontario Library Association Superconference to present my work on Scriblio today (session #1329). https://maisonbisson.com/post/microsoft-threatens-to-buy-yahoo/ Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:51:03 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/microsoft-threatens-to-buy-yahoo/ I like Yahoo!. I really hope the shareholders decline Microsoft’s offer. Blech, MS has wanted a piece of Yahoo! https://maisonbisson.com/post/never-forget-1-31-07/ Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:00:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/never-forget-1-31-07/ Paranoia If it’s not an American Flag, it’s probably a bomb. https://maisonbisson.com/post/what-do-coots-eat/ Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:26:25 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/what-do-coots-eat/ Turns out that coots are omnivorous, but prefer plant matter. Why. https://maisonbisson.com/post/forget-time-capsule-i-want-a-space-ship/ Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:30:02 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/forget-time-capsule-i-want-a-space-ship/ Apple’s Time Capsule is great. Seriously. When has backup been easier? But I need more. https://maisonbisson.com/post/camera-found-in-cab-starts-digital-goose-chase/ Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:18:13 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/camera-found-in-cab-starts-digital-goose-chase/ What would you do if you found a camera in a cab? https://maisonbisson.com/post/lcsh-news-mountain-biking-replaces-all-terrain-cycling/ Tue, 29 Jan 2008 06:19:47 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/lcsh-news-mountain-biking-replaces-all-terrain-cycling/ Even though mountain bike sales and participation are down (as a percentage of market share, biking has been declining for ten years), the Library of Congress has just issued a directive to change the subject heading from “All Terrain Cycling” to “Mountain Biking. https://maisonbisson.com/post/stephen-king-doesnt-hate-kindle/ Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:23:52 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/stephen-king-doesnt-hate-kindle/ Stephen King writes at Entertainment Weekly.com that he doesn’t hate the Kindle: Will Kindles replace books? https://maisonbisson.com/post/mcqualifications/ Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:55:27 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/mcqualifications/ Bruce Pechman earned his credentials, but you could get yours at McDonald’s. Yes, the fast food chain is apparently offering diplomas in Britain now. https://maisonbisson.com/post/dangerous-grains-call-for-drastic-measures/ Sun, 27 Jan 2008 15:11:05 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/dangerous-grains-call-for-drastic-measures/ “The Office of Emergency Management, the New York City Fire Department, Department of Buildings, NYPD, Health Department, and Department of Agriculture” all apparently showed up to evict 200 tenants from a building called the “kibbutz” in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. https://maisonbisson.com/post/apache-mysql-and-php-on-macos-x/ Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:07:04 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/apache-mysql-and-php-on-macos-x/ p0ps Harlow tweeted something about trying to get an AMP environment running on his Mac. Conversation followed, and eventually I sent along an email that look sorta like this: https://maisonbisson.com/post/usability-experts-are-from-mars-graphic-designers-are-from-venus/ Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:00:50 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/usability-experts-are-from-mars-graphic-designers-are-from-venus/ This an old one, but it just caught my atention. In A List Apart tells us Usability experts are from Mars, graphic designers are from Venus. https://maisonbisson.com/post/dancing-with-the-nerds/ Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:06:25 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/dancing-with-the-nerds/ Richard Stallman‘s Soulja Boy dance, MIT style (via). https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-to_ping-query-optimization/ Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:34:26 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-to_ping-query-optimization/ The WordPress team has taken up the issue of performance optimization pretty seriously, and I look forward to the fruits of their efforts, but I’m also casting a critical eye on my own code. https://maisonbisson.com/post/this-would-_so_-cramp-my-style/ Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:55:04 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/this-would-_so_-cramp-my-style/ The New Hampshire House is considering a ban on texting while Driving. Please, no. https://maisonbisson.com/post/even-cheetah-moms-have-to-argue-with-kids-about-dinner/ Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:47:20 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/even-cheetah-moms-have-to-argue-with-kids-about-dinner/ Mother cheetah wants kids to learn to hunt gazelle, but cubs want to nuzzle it. https://maisonbisson.com/post/signs-of-user-centric-shift-at-ces/ Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:55:47 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/signs-of-user-centric-shift-at-ces/ Doc Searls in Linux Journal compares previous CES expos to 2008 and finds a shift from talk of “broadcasters and rights-holders extending their franchise” to a Web 2. https://maisonbisson.com/post/introducing-phonepedia-a-voice-activated-wikipedia-mashup/ Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:11:41 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/introducing-phonepedia-a-voice-activated-wikipedia-mashup/ The Phonepedia concept is simple: take Wikipedia’s rich content and add voice recognition. It’s as easy as calling a number and asking your question, the answer will be returned via SMS and email. https://maisonbisson.com/post/like-mr-ranganathong-said/ Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:37:01 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/like-mr-ranganathong-said/ Like Mr. Ranganathong said: “The intellect cannot be tied down with a decimal thong.” (via) https://maisonbisson.com/post/can-i-have-ice-cream-and-booze/ Sun, 20 Jan 2008 23:42:25 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/can-i-have-ice-cream-and-booze/ This thread says you can get booze and ice cream in the same joint! Places to know in NYC: Otto, The Chocolate Room (beer &amp; wine only? https://maisonbisson.com/post/staring-contest/ Sat, 19 Jan 2008 20:04:25 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/staring-contest/ Shirow Masamune himself couldn’t draw Manga Eyes like hers. https://maisonbisson.com/post/google-pumps-openid-too/ Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:21:04 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/google-pumps-openid-too/ Following news that Yahoo! is joining the OpenID fray, it appears Google is dipping a toe in too. https://maisonbisson.com/post/harvard-film-archives-wild-movies-of-1930s/ Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:51:43 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/harvard-film-archives-wild-movies-of-1930s/ Pre-Code films were apparently something of a spectacle. Harvard Film Archive this weekend is exploring their depths in a series titled Vice vs. https://maisonbisson.com/post/just-in-case-anybody-else-wond/ Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:01:21 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/just-in-case-anybody-else-wond/ just in case anybody else wonders why a WordPress 404 initiates extra MySQL activity http://tinyurl.com/2nkplo https://maisonbisson.com/post/balloon-organ-yes-a-balloon-organ/ Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:35:52 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/balloon-organ-yes-a-balloon-organ/ In a piece that will have some people eagerly looking for some Afro Celt Sound System, others singing Where Do They Make Balloons, and some people just shaking their heads, this fellow, apparently standing in his bathroom, introduces us to another guy and his balloon organ. https://maisonbisson.com/post/eccentric-chess-champ-bobby-fischer-dead/ Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:12:09 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/eccentric-chess-champ-bobby-fischer-dead/ Eccentric, perhaps persecuted, Bobby Fischer is dead. News story. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-invalid-urls-extra-database-queries/ Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:38:13 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-invalid-urls-extra-database-queries/ After reporting weirdness last week I finally sat down with a completely clean and virgin install of WordPress 2. https://maisonbisson.com/post/yahoo-pumps-openid/ Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:49:44 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/yahoo-pumps-openid/ Ars notes that Yahoo! supports OpenID. Yeah, that OpenID. https://maisonbisson.com/post/southwest-in-flight-magazine-doesnt-suck-they-say/ Fri, 18 Jan 2008 06:30:50 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/southwest-in-flight-magazine-doesnt-suck-they-say/ Derek Powazek likes it, but is it worth flying SouthWest for? https://maisonbisson.com/post/jblyberg-i-had-to-look-it-up/ Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:17:45 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/jblyberg-i-had-to-look-it-up/ @jblyberg: I had to look it up a while ago too http://tinyurl.com/z87sg https://maisonbisson.com/post/sifting-results-of-error_log/ Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:04:52 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/sifting-results-of-error_log/ sifting results of ``` error_log( $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] ."\n". $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] ."\n". print_r( debug_backtrace(), TRUE ) ); ``` https://maisonbisson.com/post/trying-to-figure-out-why-wp-hi/ Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:52:09 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/trying-to-figure-out-why-wp-hi/ trying to figure out why WP hits DB for all posts query _after_ it determines the URL is a 404 https://maisonbisson.com/post/is-facebook-really-the-point/ Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:55:31 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/is-facebook-really-the-point/ A post to Web4lib alerted me to this U Mich survey about libraries in social networks (blog post) that finds 77% of students don’t care for or want libraries in Facebook or MySpace. https://maisonbisson.com/post/tinfoilraccoon-take-the-pled/ Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:52:46 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/tinfoilraccoon-take-the-pled/ @tinfoilraccoon: take the pledge: http://tinyurl.com/2x8qye https://maisonbisson.com/post/tinfoilraccoon-is-it-really/ Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:23:17 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/tinfoilraccoon-is-it-really/ @tinfoilraccoon: is it really so complex that it requires training? PLS tell them Amazon and iTunes don’t require training, ask why OD does. https://maisonbisson.com/post/fancy-up-your-website-with-web-clip-icons/ Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:29:44 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/fancy-up-your-website-with-web-clip-icons/ Aaron Schmidt alerted me to this how to sweetening up your site with fancy iPhone web clip icons. https://maisonbisson.com/post/impeach-cheney-now/ Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:54:27 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/impeach-cheney-now/ You’ll feel better after signing the petition. https://maisonbisson.com/post/bits-of-mysql-query-syntax-ive-learned-this-week/ Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:23:09 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bits-of-mysql-query-syntax-ive-learned-this-week/ Watching the WordPress hacker list this week, a couple messages related to selecting information about users schooled me on MySQL syntax. https://maisonbisson.com/post/user-posts-antisemitic-content/ Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:06:37 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/user-posts-antisemitic-content/ user posts antisemitic content to wikipedia, then crosses out my comment in the requests for deletion page! https://maisonbisson.com/post/edventures-their-hardware-an/ Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:28:31 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/edventures-their-hardware-an/ @edventures: their hardware and operating system operations are getting squeezed. They’ve gotta look elsewhere. https://maisonbisson.com/post/i-like-mysql-i-like-sun-this/ Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:09:24 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/i-like-mysql-i-like-sun-this/ I like MySQL. I like Sun. This could work well: http://tinyurl.com/yr43rl https://maisonbisson.com/post/tried-sleep-failed-surfing-w/ Wed, 16 Jan 2008 07:27:01 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/tried-sleep-failed-surfing-w/ tried sleep, failed. Surfing web oniohone in bed while Sandee sleeps soundly. https://maisonbisson.com/post/just-a-tiny-example-of-a-commu/ Wed, 16 Jan 2008 04:11:31 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/just-a-tiny-example-of-a-commu/ just a tiny example of a community trying to figure out its boundaries http://tinyurl.com/ytt5zh https://maisonbisson.com/post/drove-home-clicking-iphone-map/ Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:31:19 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/drove-home-clicking-iphone-map/ drove home clicking iphone maps locate button like walt mossberg on meth. works great in cities, crap in woods https://maisonbisson.com/post/new-iphone-maps-locate-circle/ Wed, 16 Jan 2008 01:43:32 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/new-iphone-maps-locate-circle/ New iPhone maps locate circle has yet to locate me https://maisonbisson.com/post/macbook-air-is-sealed-like-ipo/ Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:54:15 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/macbook-air-is-sealed-like-ipo/ MacBook Air is sealed like iPod. Can’t replace battery, no RAM upgrades. https://maisonbisson.com/post/iphone-update-finally-download/ Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:20:29 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/iphone-update-finally-download/ iPhone update finally downloading. Not leaving office until I get a locator button on my maps. https://maisonbisson.com/post/iphone-update-server-overloade/ Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:38:42 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/iphone-update-server-overloade/ iPhone update server overloaded https://maisonbisson.com/post/nh-primary-fraud/ Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:12:33 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/nh-primary-fraud/ Two very important things: I have every confidence that the NH Primary results were correct and accurate, and, most importantly, unmolested. https://maisonbisson.com/post/awd-wasnt-sure-if-there-was/ Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:58:08 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/awd-wasnt-sure-if-there-was/ @awd: wasn’t sure if there was a specific meeting your sarcasm was directed toward, though I’ve been following the drama all along https://maisonbisson.com/post/mstephens7-bring-cigars-and/ Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:17:11 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/mstephens7-bring-cigars-and/ @mstephens7: bring cigars and ask if prez has has scotch in the office? https://maisonbisson.com/post/getting-ready-for-the-stevenote/ Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:06:35 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/getting-ready-for-the-stevenote/ I can’t go to the parties Laughing Squid names, and World of Apple’s live video coverage seems about as likely as a Kucinich becoming president, but The Unofficial Apple Weblog‘s keynote predictions are out, Ars’ keynote bingo is set, and half the blogaverse will likely offer some updates about the action, some of them live. https://maisonbisson.com/post/dead-men-dont-cash-checks/ Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:00:38 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/dead-men-dont-cash-checks/ Virgilio Cintron was the happiest corpse in the city… https://maisonbisson.com/post/chris-long-tail-anderson-on-open-source/ Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:01:06 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/chris-long-tail-anderson-on-open-source/ Open source and the Long Tail: An interview with Chris Anderson The shift of software from the desktop to the Web will really be the making of open-source software. https://maisonbisson.com/post/how-do-i-create-a-semantic-web-site/ Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:13:14 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/how-do-i-create-a-semantic-web-site/ A member of the Web4lib mail list asked: How do I create a semantic web site? https://maisonbisson.com/post/live-in/ Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:03:59 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/live-in/ Mehran Karimi Nasseri, Sanjay Shah and Alex Ervasti all made their names living in airports. Now, comedian Mark Malkoff is hoping his one week stay at the Paramus, NJ Ikea store will do the same. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-state-of-democracy/ Tue, 08 Jan 2008 12:09:31 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-state-of-democracy/ What does it mean about the state of democracy when viral video darling Obama Girl Amber Lee Ettinger shows up in NH? https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-admin-redesign-progress/ Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:45:51 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-admin-redesign-progress/ <p><a href="http://www.happycog.com/">Happy Cog</a>‘s <a href="http://bobulate.com/" title="http://bobulate.com/">Liz Danzico</a> <a href="http://2007.wordcamp.org/schedule/wp-usability/" title="WordCamp 2007 » Usability Analysis of WP">introduced</a> it <a href="http://maisonbisson.com/post/11891/liz-danzico-on-wordpress-usability" title="» Liz Danzico on WordPress Usability">at WordCamp 2007</a> (her <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/edanzico/how-not-to-get-noticed">slides are online</a>), but it’s been only recently that the fruits of the admin control panel re-thinking have started to appear in code. Though there’s much work yet to be done and it’s not uncontroversial, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/maisonbisson/2175992736/">I think I like it</a>.</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/chocolate-martini-with-melted-chocolate-rim/ Mon, 07 Jan 2008 01:17:39 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/chocolate-martini-with-melted-chocolate-rim/ The holidays are past, but we still have a sweet tooth here. chocolate shavings for rimming 1 part crème de cacao 2 parts vodka dark chocolate garnish Warm a martini glass over a small flame, then roll the rim in chocolate shavings. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wiimote-wii-remote-projector-computer-homebrew-multitouch-display/ Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:11:57 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wiimote-wii-remote-projector-computer-homebrew-multitouch-display/ <p>You’ve got the hardware, you’ve got the skills, go build <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s5EvhHy7eQ" title="YouTube - Low-Cost Multi-touch Whiteboard using the Wiimote">a multi-touch electronic whiteboard</a> with your Wiimote and a data projector.</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/building-in-a-big-bubble/ Sun, 30 Dec 2007 17:02:19 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/building-in-a-big-bubble/ dcdead‘s photo of the Central Station of Strasbourg, France reminds me of something I’d long wanted to do in (or around) my old house: put it in a dome. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-24-performance-timeline/ Sat, 29 Dec 2007 17:07:15 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-24-performance-timeline/ The good news is that performance is a big goal for WP 2.4, the bad news is that it’s been delayed to the end of January at the earliest. https://maisonbisson.com/post/gmail-imap-vs-previous-pop3-users/ Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:24:56 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/gmail-imap-vs-previous-pop3-users/ Google Mail now supports IMAP, but what if you’ve been using POP3 all along and have a gajillion messages on the server, all marked unread and waiting in your inbox? https://maisonbisson.com/post/free-report-on-accessible-web-design-from-jakob-nielsen/ Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:46:40 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/free-report-on-accessible-web-design-from-jakob-nielsen/ Free from Nielsen Norman Group: Beyond ALT Text, Making the Web Easy to Use for Users With Disabilities, a report on web design for users with disabilities. https://maisonbisson.com/post/bsuite-machine-tags/ Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:08:29 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bsuite-machine-tags/ There can be no arguments about it, machine tags are cool and they solve problems. https://maisonbisson.com/post/inside-your-head/ Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:12:26 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/inside-your-head/ Video found via a photo in Soffia Gisladóttir‘s photostream. The suggestion that things go rotten inside a person’s head is very sad, but I’ve also suggested it to Zach for Moldy Snack. https://maisonbisson.com/post/css-transparency-settings-for-all-browsers/ Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:01:29 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/css-transparency-settings-for-all-browsers/ ``` .transparent_class { opacity: 0.5; /* the standards compliant attribute that all browsers should recognize, but. https://maisonbisson.com/post/a-boy-and-his-cabbage-of-significant-size/ Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:23:48 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/a-boy-and-his-cabbage-of-significant-size/ From the La Crosse Tribune, A boy and his cabbage of significant size: Wisconsin ten-year-old Douglas Mezera grew a 31-pound cabbage for a competition sponsored by Bonnie Plant. https://maisonbisson.com/post/language-translation-icon/ Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:41:53 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/language-translation-icon/ We all need a recognized icon to represent “translate this.” We’ve got one for feeds and social bookmarking, but where’s our translate icon? https://maisonbisson.com/post/in-flight-wifi-back-in-the-air/ Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:41:07 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/in-flight-wifi-back-in-the-air/ I thought the matter was dead after Boeing shut down their much hyped in-flight WiFi plans (yep), but Engadget got a seat on JetBlue’s private introductory flight for their WiFi service. https://maisonbisson.com/post/scriblio-23-v4-released/ Wed, 12 Dec 2007 02:03:05 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/scriblio-23-v4-released/ Scriblio 2.3 v4 is out. See it. Download it. Install it. Join the mail list. https://maisonbisson.com/post/home-libraries-amateur-libraries/ Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:43:59 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/home-libraries-amateur-libraries/ The Library Problem: In March of 2006 my wife Mary and I owned about 3,500 books. https://maisonbisson.com/post/usb-connected-monitors/ Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:43:04 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/usb-connected-monitors/ DisplayLink is licensing technology that promises to make adding a second (or sixth) monitor as easy as plugging into a spare USB port. https://maisonbisson.com/post/seven-person-bicycle-the-conference-bike/ Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:15:52 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/seven-person-bicycle-the-conference-bike/ I saw this bike here, here, and here on Flickr, but nobody said what it was or where I could learn more. https://maisonbisson.com/post/compress-css-javascript-using-php-minify/ Wed, 05 Dec 2007 12:50:13 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/compress-css-javascript-using-php-minify/ It was part of a long thread among WordPress hackers over the summer and fall, but this post at VulgarisOverIP just reminded of it: minify promises to be an easy way to compress external CSS and JavaScript without adding extra steps to your develop/deploy process. https://maisonbisson.com/post/old-romans-knew-how-to-make-glue/ Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:31:11 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/old-romans-knew-how-to-make-glue/ We’ve known about the birch bark glue Romans used on their clay pots and jars for a while, but now researchers in Germany are calling it “Caesar’s Superglue. https://maisonbisson.com/post/people-make-scriblio-better/ Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:09:45 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/people-make-scriblio-better/ It’s way cool to see Lichen‘s Scriblio installation instructions translated to Hungarian. Even cooler to have Sarah the tagging librarian take hard look at it and give us some criticism (and praise! https://maisonbisson.com/post/roadside-attractions-fading-away/ Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:42:20 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/roadside-attractions-fading-away/ Roadside Attractions Fading from Landscape: A staple of the American road trip could be slowly disappearing from the nation’s interstates and byways. https://maisonbisson.com/post/bsuite-3-released/ Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:45:33 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bsuite-3-released/ [innerindex]I started bStat in 2005 when I ported my blog from pMachine to WordPress and needed to bring over the tools I’d built to identify popular stories and recent comments. https://maisonbisson.com/post/my-iphone-commercial-or-the-night-we-almost-died-on-a-mountain/ Mon, 26 Nov 2007 03:55:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/my-iphone-commercial-or-the-night-we-almost-died-on-a-mountain/ It was cold. The air carried no scent, ice squeaked under our boots, and every little leaf and twig crinkled and snapped as we walked over it. https://maisonbisson.com/post/tabbed-chatting-in-ichat/ Sun, 25 Nov 2007 02:31:29 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/tabbed-chatting-in-ichat/ Among the missing features I hear the most complaints about regarding iChat is the lack of tabbed chatting. https://maisonbisson.com/post/a-nation-marketing-itself/ Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:28:28 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/a-nation-marketing-itself/ Japan‘s The Ministry of Foreign Affairs English-language Web Japan is a bottomless trove of in-flight magazine-quality stories like ANTIBACTERIAL EPIDEMIC and J-culture-hyping love-fests like Honoring The World’s Manga Artists. https://maisonbisson.com/post/is-this-really-worth-protesting/ Fri, 23 Nov 2007 12:25:47 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/is-this-really-worth-protesting/ It can only be taken as evidence of our wealth and privilege that two years after Macy’s bought Marshall Field’s people are planning a Black Friday rally and holiday boycott to protest the name change. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wp-rewrite-instructable/ Thu, 22 Nov 2007 22:31:40 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wp-rewrite-instructable/ Dan’s instructable for custom rewrite rules in WordPress is better than the docs in the codex. https://maisonbisson.com/post/how-expensive-does-commercial-software-need-to-get-before-we-consider-open-source/ Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:17:45 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/how-expensive-does-commercial-software-need-to-get-before-we-consider-open-source/ Open source software of the free as in free beer and free as in free speech variety has matured to the point that there are now strong contenders in nearly every category, though that doesn’t make them easy choices. https://maisonbisson.com/post/themes-i-like/ Wed, 21 Nov 2007 13:07:34 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/themes-i-like/ Matt has updated his site with a less blog-like front page and I just discovered Unsleepable, which is very bloggy, but seems like a good start for what I want to do next. https://maisonbisson.com/post/remix-remix-remix-the-tracey-fragments/ Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:14:01 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/remix-remix-remix-the-tracey-fragments/ <p>I guess the criticism is that it’s one thing for somebody to <a href="http://ccmixter.org/media/files/sunbyrn/209" title="ccMixter Blackout">open up their music for remixing</a>, but an entirely different thing to do the same with <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0jEN2_REy4">a movie</a>. <a href="http://www.radicaltrust.ca/2007/11/11/tracey-re-fragmented/" title="radical trust » Blog Archive » Tracey Re-Fragmented">Or is it</a>? <a href="http://www.thetraceyfragments.com/" title="The Tracey Fragments | Ellen Page | Directed by Bruce McDonald">Is it</a> (click re-fragmented)?</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/insert-word-here-is-hurting-your-network/ Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:24:11 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/insert-word-here-is-hurting-your-network/ Corporate networks are defenseless against the growing threat from instant messaging, and the government warns WiFi is insecure and easily sniffed. https://maisonbisson.com/post/tidens-hotteste-it-trends/ Fri, 16 Nov 2007 06:44:10 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/tidens-hotteste-it-trends/ My presentation for today’s hottest IT trends is nearly completely new, though it draws a number of pieces from my building web 2. https://maisonbisson.com/post/remember-the-good-old-days/ Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:30:43 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/remember-the-good-old-days/ The first article database I remember using was Dialog, sometime in the late 80s or early 90s. https://maisonbisson.com/post/european-internet-usage-statistics/ Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:00:22 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/european-internet-usage-statistics/ Eurostat 2006: Internet usage in the EU25: “Nearly half of individuals in the EU25 used the internet at least once a week in 2006 and a third of households and three-quarters of enterprises had broadband internet access. https://maisonbisson.com/post/going-global-with-my-iphone/ Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:22:50 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/going-global-with-my-iphone/ I can use my iPhone pretty much anywhere, but ATT is going to charge me $1. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-vs-drupal/ Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:25:58 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-vs-drupal/ I’m a WordPress Partisan, so I agree with Mark Ghosh’s criticism of this WordPress vs Drupal Report. https://maisonbisson.com/post/yummy-fish-tacos/ Tue, 13 Nov 2007 04:34:25 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/yummy-fish-tacos/ Oh decadence! Veterans Day provided not only a chance for reflection but also a rare day free from the classroom. https://maisonbisson.com/post/design-matters/ Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:03:52 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/design-matters/ All I know about Denmark is what gets imported: Legos, of course, but also a tradition of exquisitely clean and functional design. https://maisonbisson.com/post/gender-gaps/ Fri, 09 Nov 2007 17:01:11 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/gender-gaps/ Connect the dots: Boys vs. girls in US colleges and too many men in East Germany. https://maisonbisson.com/post/object-based-vs-ego-based-social-networks-vs-wow-and-second-life/ Wed, 07 Nov 2007 15:50:29 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/object-based-vs-ego-based-social-networks-vs-wow-and-second-life/ There are so many cool things in Fred Stutzman’s recent post, but this point rang the bell for me just as I was considering the differences between World of Warcraft and Second Life. https://maisonbisson.com/post/internet-safety/ Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:25:19 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/internet-safety/ NPR : Back to School: Reading, Writing and Internet Safety As students return to school in Virginia, there’s something new in their curriculum. https://maisonbisson.com/post/freaking-mysql-character-set-encodings/ Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:40:28 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/freaking-mysql-character-set-encodings/ Derek Sivers‘ plan, with all it’s bin2hex and regexp and back and forth between MySQL and PHP almost looks good compared to what I’m about to do. https://maisonbisson.com/post/pick-up-lines/ Sat, 03 Nov 2007 22:52:10 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/pick-up-lines/ How to pick up girls in the library. Indeed, it’s Picking Up Girls Made Easy. https://maisonbisson.com/post/internet-librarian-2007-presentation-building-web-20-native-library-services/ Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:48:51 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/internet-librarian-2007-presentation-building-web-20-native-library-services/ The conference program says I’m speaking about designing an OPAC for Web 2.0, and I guess I am, but the approach this time is what have we learned so far? https://maisonbisson.com/post/is-the-answerscom-api-public/ Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:50:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/is-the-answerscom-api-public/ Answers.com is throwing a bone to WordPress users with their new AnswerLinks plugin written by Alex King. https://maisonbisson.com/post/maisonbisson-and-unapi/ Mon, 29 Oct 2007 08:48:09 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/maisonbisson-and-unapi/ Thanks to Mike Giarlo‘s unAPI Server for WordPress. Now if only there were a library catalog built on WordPress, I could probably just drop it in. https://maisonbisson.com/post/panorama-stitchers-calico-vs-doubletake/ Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:21:51 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/panorama-stitchers-calico-vs-doubletake/ I’ve been using DoubleTake to stitch panoramas for a while, but when I discovered p0ps Harlow’s photos and learned he was using Calico Panorama, I figured it was worth taking a look. https://maisonbisson.com/post/mac-os-x-105-comes-with-apache-2-and-php-5/ Sun, 28 Oct 2007 08:19:26 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/mac-os-x-105-comes-with-apache-2-and-php-5/ Yep. Leopard comes with new stuff. Lazeez says it works fine, but commenters here are having trouble. https://maisonbisson.com/post/memory-intimacy-and-the-web/ Fri, 26 Oct 2007 02:28:53 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/memory-intimacy-and-the-web/ I’ve been thinking about it since Troy mentioned to me that he thought Google was ruining his memory. https://maisonbisson.com/post/library-20-subject-guides/ Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:25:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/library-20-subject-guides/ Ellyssa Kroski‘s Librarian’s Guide to Creating 2.0 Subject Guides is good introduction for Librarians who think know “there has to be a better way. https://maisonbisson.com/post/book-autopsies/ Wed, 24 Oct 2007 02:49:26 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/book-autopsies/ Via Ryan: Brian Dettmer: Book Autopsies at Centripetal Notion. https://maisonbisson.com/post/site-crashedrecoveredsort-of/ Sun, 21 Oct 2007 03:41:14 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/site-crashedrecoveredsort-of/ My hosting provider lost a server, and their most recent backup of my database was from Wednesday. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-war-on-zombies/ Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:10:10 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-war-on-zombies/ From Kim to Zach to me to you: Bush Vs. Zombies. Now we know: the guy doesn’t understand the difference between fact and fiction. https://maisonbisson.com/post/gravatar-acquired-more-features-better-reliability-ahead/ Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:42:08 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/gravatar-acquired-more-features-better-reliability-ahead/ Matt pointed out that Automattic has purchased Gravatar, the globally recognizable avatar service. Om speaks of the economics and Matt’s cagy, but it’s hard not to see the possibility of creating a larger identity solution around this. https://maisonbisson.com/post/stupid-trademark-law/ Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:11:29 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/stupid-trademark-law/ Story: Timbuk2 develops a new line of messenger bags that features fabric made of &lt;a href=;http://www. https://maisonbisson.com/post/screencasting-on-mac/ Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:08:01 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/screencasting-on-mac/ I’m as annoyed as the next guy about how hard it is to find a decent screencast app for Mac. https://maisonbisson.com/post/not-just-hip/ Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:15:27 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/not-just-hip/ When a writer goes looking for young Turks (my words, not Scott’s), you should expect the story to include some brash quotes (writers are supposed to have a chip of ice in their hearts, after all). https://maisonbisson.com/post/friends-photos-favors-feeling-ill/ Sat, 13 Oct 2007 16:43:37 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/friends-photos-favors-feeling-ill/ I practically begged Will and Karen to get on a carnival ride with me so I could get portraits with the lights streaking behind them. https://maisonbisson.com/post/corrosion-test-facility-not-as-rusty-as-expected/ Mon, 08 Oct 2007 15:07:13 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/corrosion-test-facility-not-as-rusty-as-expected/ Corey, Will, and Jon were all as excited as I was to see the fabled Point Judith Corrosion Test Site, just south of Narragansett, but we were all surprised at how un-rusty the goods were. https://maisonbisson.com/post/fools-on-the-beach/ Sun, 07 Oct 2007 23:01:21 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/fools-on-the-beach/ [[slideshow|height=375px|farm3-static-flickr-com-1507480544_6070e748c5.jpg farm3-static-flickr-com-1506619571_f36bd9da1b.jpg farm3-static-flickr-com-1507473874_9ea5fede30.jpg farm3-static-flickr-com-1507470768_fb2c7354b7.jpg farm1-static-flickr-com-1506610039_dbaee19d93.jpg]] We were there because of the Point Judith Corrosion Test Facility — the Rust Museum — but who can resist chasing seagulls? https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-cocktail-manifesto/ Sun, 07 Oct 2007 16:28:31 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-cocktail-manifesto/ We’re huge fans of The New Joy of Cooking by Marion Rombauer Becker, Irma S. https://maisonbisson.com/post/who-owns-the-network/ Fri, 05 Oct 2007 09:52:31 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/who-owns-the-network/ Note: this cross-posted item is my contribution to our Banned Books Week recognition. We’ve been pitting books against each other, hoping to illustrate that there are always (at least) two sides to every story. https://maisonbisson.com/post/banned-books-week-dilemma/ Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:33:10 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/banned-books-week-dilemma/ Our intention is to feature “a series of books that challenge our beliefs and test our commitment to free speech,” but on this post about Holocaust denial I found myself unwilling (and unable) to link to the free, online PDF full text of David Irving‘s Hitler’s War. https://maisonbisson.com/post/business-20-too-tired/ Tue, 02 Oct 2007 03:07:23 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/business-20-too-tired/ Magazines fail all the time, but it’s hard not to look at them as signs of something larger. https://maisonbisson.com/post/restaurant-review-cotton/ Sun, 30 Sep 2007 15:11:47 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/restaurant-review-cotton/ First Impressions How much is too much for an entree at a place that plays the kind of anonymous Muzak that Kenny G calls jazz and is decorated like Applebee’s? https://maisonbisson.com/post/smashitup-smashitup-smashitup/ Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:01:46 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/smashitup-smashitup-smashitup/ After all my agitating for small, cheap, fuel efficient cars (and automotive metaphors), I figured I had to post this picture (and a few others) from the demolition derby at the Hopkinton Fair a couple weeks ago. https://maisonbisson.com/post/to-ascertain-if-the-applicant-is-still-living/ Fri, 28 Sep 2007 08:56:04 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/to-ascertain-if-the-applicant-is-still-living/ <p><a href="http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5034/" title="Whose Library Is It Anyway?: A Visit to the Lenox">Whose Library Is It Anyway?: A Visit to the Lenox</a></p> <p>[tags]library, libraries, humor, lennox library[/tags]</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/dont-mistake-me-please/ Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:39:07 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/dont-mistake-me-please/ Over at KLE’s Web 2.0 Challenge I was surprised to learn: Both Bisson and Stephens are so excited about this concept of Web 2. https://maisonbisson.com/post/checkouts-vs-gpa/ Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:53:33 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/checkouts-vs-gpa/ Cindy Harper, Systems Librarian at Colgate University, posted to the IUG list with this notion today: https://maisonbisson.com/post/copyleft-defending-intellectual-property/ Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:53:32 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/copyleft-defending-intellectual-property/ Anybody who thinks Free Software is anti-copyright or disrespectful of intellectual property should take a look at Mark Jaquith’s post, What a GPL’d Movable Type means. https://maisonbisson.com/post/mullenweg-on-wordpress-and-open-source/ Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:49:25 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/mullenweg-on-wordpress-and-open-source/ I wish I’d seen this from WordPress maven Matt Mullenweg before I finished My LTR on open source software for libraries. https://maisonbisson.com/post/its-standard-playtesting-everybody-does-it/ Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:44:22 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/its-standard-playtesting-everybody-does-it/ In another sign that my generation’s culture is gaining dominance, NPR gave video games a bit of coverage this morning. https://maisonbisson.com/post/developing-and-testing-mobile-content/ Fri, 21 Sep 2007 02:31:33 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/developing-and-testing-mobile-content/ Read: A List Apart: Articles: Put Your Content in My Pocket and Part II. Test/simulate: Opera Mini, Lynx, a variety of mobile phones, Internet Explorer (because even with Parallels, who really wants to infect their machine with windows? https://maisonbisson.com/post/a-message-from-the-establishment-to-the-establishment/ Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:35:11 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/a-message-from-the-establishment-to-the-establishment/ We must stop thinking of ourselves as a good-idea factory whose every thought has greater merit than those of our customers. https://maisonbisson.com/post/nhs-virtual-learning-academy/ Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:21:22 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/nhs-virtual-learning-academy/ The CEO of NH’s first online-only, distance education high school expects about 700 students to enroll in its first semester, to start in January. https://maisonbisson.com/post/four-years-of-music-industry-lawsuits-madness/ Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:46:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/four-years-of-music-industry-lawsuits-madness/ Marketplace reminds us the storm of RIAA lawsuits began in September 2003. In that time they’ve sued a thousands of people, and most lawyers apparently advise those caught in the madness to simply roll over and take it. https://maisonbisson.com/post/obligatory-talk-like-a-pirate-day-post/ Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:18:50 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/obligatory-talk-like-a-pirate-day-post/ Perhaps Talk Like A Pirate Day has been too successful when NPR hosts are doing it, but anything that’s so important to our children’s future success is important enough for me. https://maisonbisson.com/post/nyt-the-link-is-the-currency-of-the-web/ Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:15:28 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/nyt-the-link-is-the-currency-of-the-web/ The New York Times has struggled with TimesSelect, now they’re killing it. But the news here isn’t that a media giant is giving up on a much hyped online venture. https://maisonbisson.com/post/closed-formats-are-bad-for-libraries-stop-ooxml-now/ Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:40:36 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/closed-formats-are-bad-for-libraries-stop-ooxml-now/ Microsoft just won’t quit. Now they’re trying to make OOXML an ISO standard. Please help stop this. https://maisonbisson.com/post/nebraska-state-senator-ernie-chambers-sues-god/ Tue, 18 Sep 2007 09:42:46 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/nebraska-state-senator-ernie-chambers-sues-god/ The following, quoted from Daily Kos: Accodring to Chambers, God has caused fearsome floods, egregious earthquakes, horrendous hurricanes, terrifying tornadoes, pestilential plagues, ferocious famines, devastating droughts, genocidal wars, birth defects, calamitous catastrophes resulting in the wide-spread death, destruction and terrorization of millions upon millions of the Earth’s inhabitants including innocent babes, infants, children, the aged and infirm without mercy or distinction. https://maisonbisson.com/post/building-libraries-with-free-software/ Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:03:45 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/building-libraries-with-free-software/ Sarah Houghton-Jan‘s review of my LTR on open source software for libraries reminded me I wanted to blog this related piece I’d written for American Libraries. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-show-of-force-brand/ Mon, 17 Sep 2007 08:10:21 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-show-of-force-brand/ A Pentagon commissioned $400,000 RAND study, Enlisting Madison Avenue: The Marketing Approach to Earning Popular Support in Theaters of Operation, concludes “the ‘force’ brand, which the United States peddled for the first few years of the occupation, was doomed from the start and lost ground to enemies’ competing brands. https://maisonbisson.com/post/small-cars-are-beautiful/ Sun, 16 Sep 2007 15:57:25 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/small-cars-are-beautiful/ Will found this on the side of the road, and after he told me about it I begged him to show me. https://maisonbisson.com/post/a-shadow-lifted-berlins-smokestacks-felled/ Sun, 16 Sep 2007 00:50:32 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/a-shadow-lifted-berlins-smokestacks-felled/ Corey and I went to Berlin to watch the stacks fall today, but bad weather, confusion, and some dud explosives conspired to leave me with no usable pictures of the event. https://maisonbisson.com/post/mildly-funny-scenes-ive-come-across-recently/ Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:46:04 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/mildly-funny-scenes-ive-come-across-recently/ Not LMAO, certainly not ROFLcopter-ingly funny, but funny enough to want to snap a picture, and good enough for casual Friday here. https://maisonbisson.com/post/lessons-in-change-from-ford-motor-company/ Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:49:21 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/lessons-in-change-from-ford-motor-company/ I probably spend too much time considering competition and change management, but just as I figured I was done with it for the week, a comment from Kathryn Greenhill regarding Model Ts got me going again. https://maisonbisson.com/post/onewebday/ Thu, 13 Sep 2007 07:27:57 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/onewebday/ Have You Thanked the Internet Lately? OneWebDay, our opportunity to celebrate “one web, one world, one wish” is just about a week away (though it falls on Yom Kippur). https://maisonbisson.com/post/first-they-ignore-you-then-they-ridicule-you-then-they-fight-you/ Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:30:14 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/first-they-ignore-you-then-they-ridicule-you-then-they-fight-you/ It’s an aside to Kathryn Greenhill’s larger point, that all this 2.0 stuff is about a shifting power to the user, but she places L2 somewhere on Ghandi’s continuum of change between ridicule and fight. https://maisonbisson.com/post/playing-with-food/ Sun, 09 Sep 2007 14:25:05 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/playing-with-food/ Like all well bred women, my mother always told me not to play with my food. https://maisonbisson.com/post/jumping-from-airplanes/ Fri, 07 Sep 2007 15:27:35 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/jumping-from-airplanes/ A guy walked into the student newspaper office and asked “does anybody want to jump out of an airplane? https://maisonbisson.com/post/hawkish/ Fri, 07 Sep 2007 15:12:31 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/hawkish/ Is Bush really so hawkish that he refuses to formally declare an end to the Korean War? https://maisonbisson.com/post/lamson-library-website-based-on-scriblio-launched/ Thu, 06 Sep 2007 18:09:17 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/lamson-library-website-based-on-scriblio-launched/ A little more than two years after I realized how (really) bad the problem was and about 18 months after I &lt;a href=;http://maisonbisson. https://maisonbisson.com/post/cliffys-office-prankd/ Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:50:26 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/cliffys-office-prankd/ Office pranks are a bit of a thing here. Well, at least in IT. Last year Matt took charge and put together a quartet of pranks that got the attention of the London Daily Mirror. https://maisonbisson.com/post/add-tags-to-flickr-photos-while-uploading-via-email/ Mon, 27 Aug 2007 23:26:03 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/add-tags-to-flickr-photos-while-uploading-via-email/ The short story is that you simply put “tags:” in the subject or body and anything that follows becomes a tag. https://maisonbisson.com/post/make-it-official-before-he-forgets/ Mon, 27 Aug 2007 12:33:33 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/make-it-official-before-he-forgets/ In a development that even FOXNews couldn’t ignore, US attorney general Alberto Gonzales has resigned, he thinks. https://maisonbisson.com/post/would-princess-diana-have-been-a-blogger/ Sun, 26 Aug 2007 21:29:16 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/would-princess-diana-have-been-a-blogger/ In an interview on NPR, The Diana Chronicles author Tina Brown says “Diana had represented feeling, and the end of the stiff upper lip,” but the Princess comes off sounding a bit like a harbinger of the Cluetrain. https://maisonbisson.com/post/vicars-delight/ Sun, 26 Aug 2007 14:23:31 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/vicars-delight/ Hot weather demands cool drinks. Lemonade is fine for the kids, but adults need a pitcher of something more entertaining. https://maisonbisson.com/post/iphone-unlocked/ Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:44:57 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/iphone-unlocked/ If the news is to be believed, separate teams have found hardware and software-based solutions to unlock an iPhone. https://maisonbisson.com/post/scratch-n-sniff/ Fri, 24 Aug 2007 08:31:57 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/scratch-n-sniff/ Hey, I’m a fan of that old book smell too, can I get some scratch-n-sniff stickers? https://maisonbisson.com/post/meebome-pidgin-formerly-gaim-a-match-made-in-heaven/ Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:30:36 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/meebome-pidgin-formerly-gaim-a-match-made-in-heaven/ MeeboMe + Pidgin (formerly GAIM) = a match made in heaven. (Via.) https://maisonbisson.com/post/color-blind-safe-web-design-check/ Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:22:37 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/color-blind-safe-web-design-check/ Etre‘s Colour Check. https://maisonbisson.com/post/a-good-day-to-land-the-shuttle/ Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:34:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/a-good-day-to-land-the-shuttle/ A hurricane, high crosswinds at the landing site, a nitrogen leak, and two damaged tiles. Watch the shuttle land live on NASA TV. https://maisonbisson.com/post/allagash-wilderness-maine/ Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:34:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/allagash-wilderness-maine/ Will, Jon, Joe, Ted, and I arrived at Telos Landing with plans to run the Allagash Wilderness Waterway. https://maisonbisson.com/post/73764-structurally-deficient-bridges/ Sun, 19 Aug 2007 08:41:21 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/73764-structurally-deficient-bridges/ About 597,000 vehicular bridges nationwide, and 73,764 are “structurally deficient.” Sources: 2006 National Bridge Inventory compiled by the U. https://maisonbisson.com/post/p0ps-panoramas-shot-with-iphone/ Sat, 18 Aug 2007 15:57:50 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/p0ps-panoramas-shot-with-iphone/ I’m coming to learn that p0ps has a number of interesting things going on, but it was his panoramas stitched from pictures taken by iPhone that caught my attention first. https://maisonbisson.com/post/bad-funny-jokes/ Fri, 17 Aug 2007 14:06:40 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bad-funny-jokes/ [innerindex] Beginning of a bad day… I rear-ended a car this morning. I knew it was going to be a really bad day! https://maisonbisson.com/post/mac-cell-phone-bluetooth-sms/ Fri, 17 Aug 2007 02:44:40 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/mac-cell-phone-bluetooth-sms/ Old instructions that connect the Mac OS X Address Book app to a phone via Bluetooth from O’Reilly and SillyDog. https://maisonbisson.com/post/fuel-economy-is-diesel-an-option/ Thu, 16 Aug 2007 15:12:17 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/fuel-economy-is-diesel-an-option/ In response to my previous kvetching about the scarcity of cheap fuel efficient cars, JWK commented that his 2001 Golf TDI gets 48 MPG (it’s rated for 44). https://maisonbisson.com/post/iphone-newton-emate-pr0n/ Wed, 15 Aug 2007 15:13:19 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/iphone-newton-emate-pr0n/ {#set_thumb_link_815008614.image_link}{#set_thumb_link_814958046.image_link}{#set_thumb_link_813781733.image_link}{#set_thumb_link_813757895.image_link}{#set_thumb_link_814609120.image_link} {#set_thumb_link_773797123.image_link}{#set_thumb_link_773748277.image_link}{#set_thumb_link_773765455.image_link}{#set_thumb_link_774571582.image_link}{#set_thumb_link_774567276.image_link} It’s likely Phil Carrizzi could make a broken tire iron look good, but his series of the iPhone with the Newton Message Pad and eMate is geek-sweet eye candy. https://maisonbisson.com/post/i-want-a-cheap-fuel-efficient-car/ Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:03:46 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/i-want-a-cheap-fuel-efficient-car/ I’m looking for a new car, but I’m finding that the market for cheap and fuel efficient cars is no better now than it was in 2005. https://maisonbisson.com/post/moving-a-subversion-repository/ Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:56:55 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/moving-a-subversion-repository/ I foolishly just moved a Subversion repository by importing the contents of a current checkout into a new repository. https://maisonbisson.com/post/castro-sued-for-wrongful-death-of-cia-operative-guantanamo-bay-prisoners-taking-notes/ Wed, 08 Aug 2007 15:04:57 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/castro-sued-for-wrongful-death-of-cia-operative-guantanamo-bay-prisoners-taking-notes/ The Bangor Daily News is reporting a Maine woman has sued Fidel Castro for her father’s death. https://maisonbisson.com/post/chocolate-chip-cookie-and-ice-cream-sandwiches/ Sun, 05 Aug 2007 15:21:14 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/chocolate-chip-cookie-and-ice-cream-sandwiches/ So once again, my husband called on my assistance with a Friday Food Fiesta challenge. https://maisonbisson.com/post/is-it-that-they-dont-care-or-just-dont-want-it-from-us/ Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:44:31 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/is-it-that-they-dont-care-or-just-dont-want-it-from-us/ &amp;tJessamyn asks “do library users care about our new initiatives?” It comes from a survey done by the Wisconsin Public Library ConsortiumOn one hand, if you interpret the results literally you could make a decision to reject technology and focus on building a collection around personal enjoyment for Wisconsin residents. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-fbi-and-irs-are-a-series-of-accountants/ Tue, 31 Jul 2007 08:33:31 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-fbi-and-irs-are-a-series-of-accountants/ Alaska Senator Ted—The Internet Is A Series Of Tubes—Stevens (mockingly so, listen) returned to find the FBI and IRS searching his Alaska home. https://maisonbisson.com/post/iphone-complaints/ Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:11:18 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/iphone-complaints/ Cliff and Vasken wrote up some link bait complaining about how the iPhone doesn’t meet their expectations or is a lesser competitor to a crackberry. https://maisonbisson.com/post/ingmar-bergman-dead-at-89/ Mon, 30 Jul 2007 09:14:05 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/ingmar-bergman-dead-at-89/ Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman is dead at 89. The Local calls his work immortal, as did many of his colleagues. https://maisonbisson.com/post/sour-cream-berry-bread/ Sun, 29 Jul 2007 13:46:37 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/sour-cream-berry-bread/ My wonderful neighbor, Wendy, went berry picking and dropped me off a large container with luscious, fresh blueberries and raspberries. https://maisonbisson.com/post/what-is-that-thing/ Sat, 28 Jul 2007 17:26:47 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/what-is-that-thing/ Kent Wien posted this photo of the tail of a Boeing 757 showing what looks like the exhaust end of a turbine. https://maisonbisson.com/post/poet-bot/ Fri, 27 Jul 2007 18:43:10 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/poet-bot/ Doug Savage‘s take on Frost. https://maisonbisson.com/post/iphones-around-the-world/ Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:35:32 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/iphones-around-the-world/ A long time ago somebody started the Newtons Around The World gallery, and it came to symbolize the love we Newton users had for the little device as well as our geeky pride. https://maisonbisson.com/post/iphone-troubled-replaced/ Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:32:45 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/iphone-troubled-replaced/ On Thursday I had trouble answering a call. By Friday night it was clear my iPhone was seriously porked. https://maisonbisson.com/post/liz-danzico-on-wordpress-usability/ Sun, 22 Jul 2007 19:23:48 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/liz-danzico-on-wordpress-usability/ Liz Danzico of Happy Cog Studios spoke today about her consulting with Automattic on the design of the WordPress admin interface. https://maisonbisson.com/post/scriblio-goes-to-wordcamp/ Sun, 22 Jul 2007 06:39:06 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/scriblio-goes-to-wordcamp/ Scriblio is based on WordPress, an open source content management system, and the community that uses, supports, and builds it is what makes it great. https://maisonbisson.com/post/designing-the-obvious/ Sat, 21 Jul 2007 19:40:44 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/designing-the-obvious/ Robert Hoekman, Jr is speaking now on Designing the Obvious, his book and philosophy: https://maisonbisson.com/post/calliope-gazetas-design/ Sat, 21 Jul 2007 18:57:10 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/calliope-gazetas-design/ Calliope Gazetas works for The FontShop and freelances under the name 99 Monsters. One of her projects includes skinning the Burning Man environmental blog. https://maisonbisson.com/post/jason-brightman-design-portfolio/ Sat, 21 Jul 2007 18:53:32 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/jason-brightman-design-portfolio/ Jason Brightman’s work includes XXLmag. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordcamp-wordcamp-wordcamp/ Sat, 21 Jul 2007 13:32:56 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordcamp-wordcamp-wordcamp/ I’m at WordCamp again. This time I dragged Matt and Zach with me. Dan Kuykendall, author of PodPress, is first on the schedule, and I’m just now learning how he’s built in support for a variety of media types (more than MP3) and for premium content. https://maisonbisson.com/post/peanut-butter-burger/ Fri, 20 Jul 2007 14:03:37 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/peanut-butter-burger/ Now matter how depressed I got in New Orleans, I still had to eat. A tip from the ladies at Molly’s on Toulouse led me to Yo Moma’s with instructions to try their peanut butter burger. https://maisonbisson.com/post/when-you-cant-say-it-in-english/ Fri, 20 Jul 2007 01:08:25 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/when-you-cant-say-it-in-english/ When you can’t say it in English, say it in German. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-reconstruction-of-new-orleans/ Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:13:40 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-reconstruction-of-new-orleans/ It wasn’t until after my presentation that I had a chance to see the city. https://maisonbisson.com/post/presentation-bringing-the-library-to-the-user/ Sun, 15 Jul 2007 17:42:35 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/presentation-bringing-the-library-to-the-user/ I’m at AALL in New Orleans as part of a program organized by June Liptay and Alan Keely, speaking with U of R’s David Lindahl and NCSU’s Emily Lynema. https://maisonbisson.com/post/yes-its-laughable-but/ Sat, 14 Jul 2007 13:51:24 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/yes-its-laughable-but/ I get as frustrated with airport security as the next guy (and I’m plenty doubtful of its effectiveness), but really, if you don’t yet know liquids aren’t allowed, and you hold up the one security line at a small airport at an ungodly early hour, it’d be nicer if you didn’t laugh like a kid at a theme park about it. https://maisonbisson.com/post/usage-instructions/ Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:10:25 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/usage-instructions/ &lt;img src=&ldquo;http://farm1.static.flickr.com/200/514808113_ce17f81316.jpg&rdquo; width=&ldquo;500&rdquo; height=&ldquo;442&rdquo; alt=&ldquo;&ldquo;tear open packet and use&rdquo;&rdquo; /&gt; What’s really angering about instructions […] is that they imply there’s only one way […] their way. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-rarin-in-librarian/ Fri, 13 Jul 2007 00:37:32 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-rarin-in-librarian/ I’m going to violate my rule against linking to NYT (because) and give a shout out to this article. https://maisonbisson.com/post/essential-iphone-apps-rush-in/ Thu, 12 Jul 2007 15:30:06 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/essential-iphone-apps-rush-in/ [innerindex] Games Tilt, described in programmer Joe Hewitt‘s blog: …Christopher introduced me to a very talented video game designer, Nicole Lazzaro, who had an endless stream of ideas for games that would use the iPhone’s accelerometer. https://maisonbisson.com/post/whose-technology-is-it-anyway/ Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:55:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/whose-technology-is-it-anyway/ I wasn’t planning on posting much about Keen’s Cult of the Amateur, but I did. And now I find myself posting about it again. https://maisonbisson.com/post/ironic-moments-in-law-enforcement/ Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:42:18 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/ironic-moments-in-law-enforcement/ New Hampshire’s deputy chief of liquor enforcement caught drunk driving. https://maisonbisson.com/post/killing-culture-byte-by-byte/ Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:25:21 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/killing-culture-byte-by-byte/ Andrew Keen‘s The Cult of the Amateur__; How Today’s Internet Is Killing Our Culture is getting a lot of attention from usually quiet corners of the web, and I’ve had to quell the urge to write a story under the headline “Andrew Keen Tells YouTubers to Eat Spinach. https://maisonbisson.com/post/why-is-pdf-inferior-to-html/ Mon, 09 Jul 2007 12:38:16 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/why-is-pdf-inferior-to-html/ HTML and PostScript are both page description languages, but one is designed to convey the look of the page, while the other to convey the meaning of its content. https://maisonbisson.com/post/pinch-me/ Thu, 05 Jul 2007 14:31:24 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/pinch-me/ I’ve been away from my computer for a couple days, but very much online with my iPhone. https://maisonbisson.com/post/felonious/ Thu, 05 Jul 2007 12:11:50 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/felonious/ dancing naked == lewd lascivious conduct == felony crime. (Better, however, than riding a gondola naked. https://maisonbisson.com/post/celebrate-independence-day-with-a-drink/ Wed, 04 Jul 2007 04:35:03 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/celebrate-independence-day-with-a-drink/ Ok, the truth is that at MaisonBisson we celebrate all holidays with a drink. Since we take cocktails quite seriously, I wanted something very pretty for the little Fourth of July soiree we were having. https://maisonbisson.com/post/cold-cucumber-soup/ Sun, 01 Jul 2007 15:23:32 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/cold-cucumber-soup/ My beloved husband went off on a Boy’s Adventure Weekend. This left me with the entire house and kitchen to myself. https://maisonbisson.com/post/sweet-bike/ Sun, 01 Jul 2007 00:05:14 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/sweet-bike/ Sweet bike Originally uploaded by misterbisson. Sent from my iPhone https://maisonbisson.com/post/big-accident-on-highway-leaving/ Fri, 29 Jun 2007 21:55:03 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/big-accident-on-highway-leaving/ Big accident on highway leaving mall…was somebody unboxing their iPhone while driving? https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-iphone-rocks/ Fri, 29 Jun 2007 21:50:02 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-iphone-rocks/ zero hour +50 minutes: the iPhone rocks. https://maisonbisson.com/post/15-minutes-to-go-guy/ Fri, 29 Jun 2007 20:50:03 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/15-minutes-to-go-guy/ 15 minutes to go. Guy from store: “being in line doesn’t guarantee you’ll get one.” https://maisonbisson.com/post/two-hours-85-people/ Fri, 29 Jun 2007 18:55:02 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/two-hours-85-people/ Two hours to go, 85 people in line. https://maisonbisson.com/post/blackout/ Fri, 29 Jun 2007 17:27:26 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/blackout/ They just put up black vinyl over the windows and gate. The line has grown to about 50. https://maisonbisson.com/post/retail-status-check/ Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:53:28 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/retail-status-check/ Does your Apple Store have iPhones? https://maisonbisson.com/post/about-30/ Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:53:20 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/about-30/ The rumors are that the AT&amp;T store here has about 30 phones. Nobody is talking about how many our Apple Store has. https://maisonbisson.com/post/26-people-in-line-at/ Fri, 29 Jun 2007 13:55:05 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/26-people-in-line-at/ 26 people in line. At least one is hoping to auction his, three are being paid, and nobody wants the cheap one. https://maisonbisson.com/post/fake-iphone-pic-at-first-believed-then-quickly-called-out-by-the-true-believes-in-line/ Fri, 29 Jun 2007 13:19:02 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/fake-iphone-pic-at-first-believed-then-quickly-called-out-by-the-true-believes-in-line/ This pic elicited gasps, then indignation. https://maisonbisson.com/post/suited-security-guy-with-square/ Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:15:05 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/suited-security-guy-with-square/ Suited security guy with square jaw and angry expression grunts at us as he confirms plans with store manager. https://maisonbisson.com/post/arrived-at-8am-to-find/ Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:00:03 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/arrived-at-8am-to-find/ Arrived at 8am to find four parties ahead of me. The first arrived at 7am, after repeatedly being chased out of the mall parking lot last night. https://maisonbisson.com/post/june-28-tony-day/ Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:35:34 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/june-28-tony-day/ It’s Tony Day, not just because Joe’s book has garnered some good reviews—“the only excuse for the continued existence of boxing is that its battles have occasioned some of the best writing any sport has ever inspired”—or because he likes telling the story. https://maisonbisson.com/post/apple-iphone-vs-internet-tablets/ Wed, 27 Jun 2007 23:35:40 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/apple-iphone-vs-internet-tablets/ Sure, the iPhone is a sweet phone (even at $600), but how does it compare to the less definable internet tablet category? https://maisonbisson.com/post/presentation-faceted-searching-and-browsing-in-scriblio/ Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:01:45 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/presentation-faceted-searching-and-browsing-in-scriblio/ I was honored to be a panelist at the LITA/ALCTS CCS Authority Control in the Online Environment Interest Group presentation of “Authority Control Meets Faceted Browse. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-iphone-haters-swarm/ Wed, 27 Jun 2007 00:27:52 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-iphone-haters-swarm/ Some are calling it the Jesus phone, but Jason Chen calls it a moral quandry, Gartner Group is &lt;a href=&ldquo;http://www. https://maisonbisson.com/post/presentation-transforming-your-library-with-technology/ Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:27:02 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/presentation-transforming-your-library-with-technology/ [innerindex]Part of the Transformation Track, Transforming Your Library, and Your Library’s Future, with Technology, program coordinators Alan Gray and John Blyberg (both of Darien Public Library) described it like this: https://maisonbisson.com/post/iphone-service-plans-and-coverage/ Mon, 25 Jun 2007 21:37:45 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/iphone-service-plans-and-coverage/ AT&amp;T’s current (reasonable) voice and smartphone data plans offer 900 minutes for $60 and unlimited data for an additional $20, but previous reports about the iPhone suggested that consumers should expect to pay $60/month for service, so we’re left to wonder what’s up. https://maisonbisson.com/post/as-dead-as-elvis/ Mon, 25 Jun 2007 13:39:57 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/as-dead-as-elvis/ “The librarian as information priest is as dead as Elvis,” Needham said. The whole “gestalt” of the academic library has been set up like a church, he said, with various parts of a reading room acting like “the stations of the cross,” all leading up to the “alter of the reference desk,” where “you make supplication and if you are found worthy, you will be helped. https://maisonbisson.com/post/running-down-the-up-escalator/ Sun, 24 Jun 2007 02:00:04 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/running-down-the-up-escalator/ Running down the up escalator = fun. Landing upright = difficult. escalator, running, up, down https://maisonbisson.com/post/an-almost-manifesto-masquerading-as-a-presentation/ Sat, 23 Jun 2007 13:43:38 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/an-almost-manifesto-masquerading-as-a-presentation/ Context: Below is the text of my virtual presentation to the LITA BIGWIG (it stands for blogs, wikis, interest group, and stuff) Social Software Showcase. https://maisonbisson.com/post/cider-drinks/ Thu, 21 Jun 2007 22:45:03 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/cider-drinks/ Black Adder = cider + Guinness Snakebite = cider + Harp https://maisonbisson.com/post/20th-century-information-architecture/ Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:12:57 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/20th-century-information-architecture/ One hundred years ago the country was in the middle of a riot of library construction. https://maisonbisson.com/post/trains-vs-seat-belts/ Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:25:04 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/trains-vs-seat-belts/ I’m not saying I want seat belts, but it always takes me a moment to get used to them not being there on a train. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-sky-is-falling/ Thu, 21 Jun 2007 04:35:58 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-sky-is-falling/ MySpace, Second Life, and Twitter Are Doomed. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-rules-2007/ Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:01:19 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-rules-2007/ [innerindex]Web 2.0 has matured to the point where even those who endorse the moniker are beginning to cringe at its use. https://maisonbisson.com/post/google-gears/ Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:54:41 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/google-gears/ Google Gears: create web apps that work offline https://maisonbisson.com/post/two-books-on-a-shelf/ Tue, 19 Jun 2007 02:17:13 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/two-books-on-a-shelf/ Two books that just happened to be sitting next to eachother in the LC files: https://maisonbisson.com/post/cake-robed-in-chocolate-and-strawberries/ Sun, 17 Jun 2007 16:06:37 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/cake-robed-in-chocolate-and-strawberries/ Like so many women, there are days when my desire for chocolate is nearly overwhelming. https://maisonbisson.com/post/arm-wrestling-dung-throwing-lawnmower-racing-and-seed-spitting/ Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:08:21 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/arm-wrestling-dung-throwing-lawnmower-racing-and-seed-spitting/ I don’t know whether to thank the Pheonix or the fair organizers for this great ad copy, but I hope the Washington County Fair is as good in 2007 as it sounded in 2006: https://maisonbisson.com/post/go-together/ Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:27:32 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/go-together/ Just spotted: do hippie skirts and bluetooth headsets go together? https://maisonbisson.com/post/star-wars-stamps-found-at-post-office/ Thu, 14 Jun 2007 20:20:04 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/star-wars-stamps-found-at-post-office/ Star Wars stamps found at post office. Will the merchandizing ever end? https://maisonbisson.com/post/flag-day/ Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:12:08 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/flag-day/ The US flag with all its stripes and a few of its stars was adopted by a resolution of the Second Continental Congress in 1777. https://maisonbisson.com/post/civilian-and-military-death/ Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:10:02 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/civilian-and-military-death/ Report: civilian and military death toll in Iraq is up strongly after US “surge.” https://maisonbisson.com/post/roy-pearson-sues-custom-cleaners/ Wed, 13 Jun 2007 20:55:04 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/roy-pearson-sues-custom-cleaners/ Roy Pearson sues Custom Cleaners for $67 million over lost pants. Millions! Pants! https://maisonbisson.com/post/new-hampshire-ranks/ Wed, 13 Jun 2007 20:40:03 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/new-hampshire-ranks/ Local pride: New Hampshire ranks near the top of the list for quality of healthcare services, according to new report. https://maisonbisson.com/post/climate-change-vs-budget-planning/ Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:27:26 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/climate-change-vs-budget-planning/ Just as climate change makes hurricanes more frequent and dangerous, NOAA says its best tracking satellite is failing and there’s no plan to replace it until 2012. https://maisonbisson.com/post/desoto-report-leaked/ Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:21:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/desoto-report-leaked/ DeSoto report leaked. The highest ranking UN official in Israel has warned that American pressure has “pummelled into submission” the UN’s role as an impartial Middle East negotiator in a damning confidential report. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-neocons-were-right-so-far/ Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:27:28 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-neocons-were-right-so-far/ The neocons were right so far: civil war is erupting throughout the middle east and Iran is feeding the flames. https://maisonbisson.com/post/paralyzed/ Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:27:22 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/paralyzed/ Paralyzed: they can blow our helicopters out of the sky, and now they’re [destroying the roads and bridges][2]. https://maisonbisson.com/post/installing-mysql-with-yum/ Tue, 12 Jun 2007 20:14:52 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/installing-mysql-with-yum/ how to install and configure MySQL database server https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-blogging-by-email/ Tue, 12 Jun 2007 11:30:41 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-blogging-by-email/ The built-in tools don’t support secure POP3, but Gmail requires SSL POP3. The fix? Postie. https://maisonbisson.com/post/carbon-neutral-living/ Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:17:46 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/carbon-neutral-living/ APM Marketplace: news of a British model home. Highly insulated, carbon neutral, just 40% more$. Not just a demo, it’s going to be the law: all new UK buildings to must be carbon neutral by 2016. https://maisonbisson.com/post/down-for-fifteen-years-straight-up-like-a-rocket-now/ Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:08:42 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/down-for-fifteen-years-straight-up-like-a-rocket-now/ After being down for fifteen years straight, milk consumption is up. Up big, and prices are rising to meet it. https://maisonbisson.com/post/stand-alone-appletv/ Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:38:48 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/stand-alone-appletv/ New 160GB AppleTV. How far away are we from a standalone unit that can download from iTunes store directly, sync iPods, and write to USB-attached burners? https://maisonbisson.com/post/iphone-apps-web-ap/ Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:36:21 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/iphone-apps-web-ap/ WWDC: Safari for windows!?!? Leopard looks sweet, but delayed ’till October. iPhone apps = web apps. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-new-plazes/ Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:07:05 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-new-plazes/ Plazes, a kinda-cool, formerly networked-based geolocation tool has just been revamped. They’ve been promoting this change for over a month (I got a cool invite to the launch party, but couldn’t make the flight to Germany), and they’re continuing the push now that it’s live. https://maisonbisson.com/post/presidential-candidates-chasing-rural-votes/ Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:12:46 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/presidential-candidates-chasing-rural-votes/ Presidential candidates chasing rural votes? Worth remembering that 60% of US libraries serve towns of 10,000 or fewer people. https://maisonbisson.com/post/fed-mourns/ Mon, 11 Jun 2007 08:30:50 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/fed-mourns/ R-Fed defeated, K-Fed mourns. https://maisonbisson.com/post/i-missed-the-paper-airplane/ Sun, 10 Jun 2007 18:50:37 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/i-missed-the-paper-airplane/ I missed the paper airplane contest in Concord NH today!?!? https://maisonbisson.com/post/ultimate-frozen-mud-slide-recipe/ Sun, 10 Jun 2007 16:25:43 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/ultimate-frozen-mud-slide-recipe/ Who wouldn’t enjoy a frozen mud slide on a hot summer day? Typical recipes call for crushed ice and cream or ice cream. https://maisonbisson.com/post/11806/ Sat, 09 Jun 2007 18:38:39 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/11806/ 50MPH wheelchair ride in Michigan https://maisonbisson.com/post/people-invent-funny-words-schaedenfatte/ Fri, 08 Jun 2007 15:42:11 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/people-invent-funny-words-schaedenfatte/ Okay, now that we all know what a muffin top is, let’s learn about schaedenfatte: https://maisonbisson.com/post/11809/ Fri, 08 Jun 2007 15:07:14 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/11809/ iblee points out that students want libraries. https://maisonbisson.com/post/asdasd/ Fri, 08 Jun 2007 14:23:16 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/asdasd/ asdasd https://maisonbisson.com/post/11821/ Fri, 08 Jun 2007 13:48:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/11821/ They vaccinate ducks against H5N1 bird flu, but not enough. It’s active again in Vietnam, where the first human case since 2005 has now appeared. https://maisonbisson.com/post/11820/ Fri, 08 Jun 2007 10:47:25 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/11820/ Why isn’t the US supporting regime change and democracy in Packistan? We’ve given General Perv US$10B in aid since 2001! https://maisonbisson.com/post/queasy-stomach/ Fri, 08 Jun 2007 10:46:39 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/queasy-stomach/ Bush gets queasy stomach when facing other world leaders at G8. The poor fellow is being shamed by his peers. https://maisonbisson.com/post/open-source-software-and-libraries-ltr-433-finally/ Thu, 07 Jun 2007 12:01:05 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/open-source-software-and-libraries-ltr-433-finally/ The most selfish thing about submitting a manuscript late is asking “When is it going to be out? https://maisonbisson.com/post/11805/ Thu, 07 Jun 2007 10:31:40 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/11805/ “Prosecuting a woman for ‘staring’ at a police dog is absurd,” said her lawyer. “People are allowed to make faces at police dogs and officers to express their disapproval. https://maisonbisson.com/post/this-is-the-liberal-media/ Wed, 06 Jun 2007 23:43:43 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/this-is-the-liberal-media/ What Liberal Media author Eric Alterman arrested, mocked at GOP debates. https://maisonbisson.com/post/poke-your-tech-staff-with-sticks-and-other-ideas/ Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:39:59 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/poke-your-tech-staff-with-sticks-and-other-ideas/ What a difference a year makes? Jessamyn was among those sharing her stories of how technology and tech staff were often mistreated in libraries, but there’s a lot of technology in this year’s ALA program (including three competing programs on Saturday: The Ultimate Debate: Do Libraries Innovate, Social Software Showcase, and Transforming Your Library With Technology. https://maisonbisson.com/post/11818/ Tue, 05 Jun 2007 23:45:52 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/11818/ Libby to scoot in for 30 months. Is it enough? https://maisonbisson.com/post/11817/ Tue, 05 Jun 2007 19:44:56 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/11817/ “What is an atomic bomb good for?” https://maisonbisson.com/post/easy-mysql-performance-tips/ Tue, 05 Jun 2007 15:19:14 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/easy-mysql-performance-tips/ Yes, I’m still trying to squeeze more performance out of MySQL. And since small changes to a query can make a big difference in performance… https://maisonbisson.com/post/11816/ Tue, 05 Jun 2007 10:42:43 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/11816/ Congressman Sensenbrenner: “what’s so bad about shorter winters and global warming?” https://maisonbisson.com/post/ironic-lightning-strikes-church-steeple/ Sun, 03 Jun 2007 19:41:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/ironic-lightning-strikes-church-steeple/ Lightning struck the steeple of the Saint John the Baptist Church in Allenstown NH Saturday. https://maisonbisson.com/post/11814/ Sun, 03 Jun 2007 15:40:54 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/11814/ Men At Work lead singer has new album: “are you lookin’ at me?” https://maisonbisson.com/post/biofuel-good-idea-bad-practice/ Sun, 03 Jun 2007 15:32:39 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/biofuel-good-idea-bad-practice/ Yes, gas prices are high, and gas doesn’t grow on trees (well, in geologic time it does), but that doesn’t mean that it’s a good idea to run on cars on corn, even if it does grow on, um, trees (yes, alright, cornstalks). https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-lawnmowers-in-ohio/ Sat, 02 Jun 2007 16:12:01 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-lawnmowers-in-ohio/ From Associated Press and WAVY TV: Police said a drunk man drove a lawnmower to a store about a mile from his house. https://maisonbisson.com/post/11813/ Sat, 02 Jun 2007 15:38:56 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/11813/ Thought: industrialized transportation first aggregated passengers onto railroads, the broke up into cars…technology empowered the individual, and they embraced it. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wish-alanis-a-happy-birthday/ Fri, 01 Jun 2007 15:46:44 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wish-alanis-a-happy-birthday/ I’m wishing Alanis Morissette a happy birthday not just because we share a birth month and year, but because it’s a good reason to look back at her cover of My Humps and get another smile. https://maisonbisson.com/post/11812/ Fri, 01 Jun 2007 12:37:49 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/11812/ “YouNiversity” https://maisonbisson.com/post/11811/ Thu, 31 May 2007 22:36:32 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/11811/ Huh, the NASA Administrator doesn’t think global warming is big issue. What’s his stance on evolution? https://maisonbisson.com/post/speedy-php-intermediate-code-caching/ Thu, 31 May 2007 15:10:08 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/speedy-php-intermediate-code-caching/ I’ve been working on MySQL optimization for a while, and though there’s still more to done on that front, I’ve gotten to the point where the the cumulative query times make up less than half of the page generation time. https://maisonbisson.com/post/bragging-about-my-new-office/ Wed, 30 May 2007 14:56:54 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bragging-about-my-new-office/ It’s taken a while (we moved in two months ago), but my new home office is finally usable. https://maisonbisson.com/post/books-i-now-want-to-read/ Tue, 29 May 2007 22:27:32 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/books-i-now-want-to-read/ The problem with working on Scriblio is that I end up running into so many interesting looking books. https://maisonbisson.com/post/street-level-photos-in-google-maps/ Tue, 29 May 2007 15:12:48 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/street-level-photos-in-google-maps/ Thanks to Ryan Eby for tipping me to this. Go try it out. Whatever you think of them, they do keep delivering. https://maisonbisson.com/post/burninator-kinetic-sculpture-never-looked-so-hot/ Sat, 26 May 2007 16:16:08 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/burninator-kinetic-sculpture-never-looked-so-hot/ This is what I get for not following Gizmodo faithfully: flaming industrial art. They introduced it saying “Do you enjoy fire? https://maisonbisson.com/post/kids-need-bowling-coaches-desperately/ Fri, 25 May 2007 15:17:23 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/kids-need-bowling-coaches-desperately/ There is little doubt that the great diversity of styles and techniques of bowlers from countries enjoying test match status has helped to shape the history of [the sport]. https://maisonbisson.com/post/11810/ Fri, 25 May 2007 12:35:58 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/11810/ Harry Potter finale out soon, does Book Embargo have details? https://maisonbisson.com/post/student-gets-restraining-order-over-facebook-photo/ Thu, 24 May 2007 23:57:43 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/student-gets-restraining-order-over-facebook-photo/ The Associated Press reports a composite nude posted to facebook has earned a UNH student a restraining order: https://maisonbisson.com/post/a-fairy-use-tale/ Wed, 23 May 2007 02:01:35 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/a-fairy-use-tale/ From The Chronicle: Copyright law, a constant thorn in the sides of scholars and researchers, is generating a lot of public discussion this week, thanks in part to a new 10-minute video that parodies the law. https://maisonbisson.com/post/google-to-psyc-profile-users/ Tue, 22 May 2007 16:31:51 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/google-to-psyc-profile-users/ There it is in The Guardian: Internet giant Google has drawn up plans to compile psychological profiles of millions of web users by covertly monitoring the way they play online games. https://maisonbisson.com/post/redhat-5-selinux-gets-in-my-way/ Mon, 21 May 2007 16:43:13 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/redhat-5-selinux-gets-in-my-way/ Ack, my WordPress suffers connectile dysfunction on a fresh install of RedHat 5! Not only did I get the above message, but dmesg was filling up with errors like this: https://maisonbisson.com/post/surf-n-turf-salad/ Sun, 20 May 2007 16:54:52 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/surf-n-turf-salad/ My computer geek husband, who I do adore, joined a Flickr photo group called Friday Food Fiesta. https://maisonbisson.com/post/bringing-up-the-cute-quotient-of-this-blog/ Sat, 19 May 2007 16:54:44 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bringing-up-the-cute-quotient-of-this-blog/ If you ever tire of the kittens on Flickr, it turns out there’s no shortage of bunnies on YouTube. https://maisonbisson.com/post/are-you-a-certified-asshole/ Fri, 18 May 2007 15:25:48 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/are-you-a-certified-asshole/ Sure it’s a promo for his new book, but Bob Sutton is offering us all a chance to see if we’re assholes with the Asshole Rating Self-Exam (ARSE). https://maisonbisson.com/post/customer-relations-done-right/ Thu, 17 May 2007 21:38:58 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/customer-relations-done-right/ Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir is one of my favorite photographers on Flickr. Her photos are amazing, and it’s clear a lot of people agree. https://maisonbisson.com/post/increased-fuel-economy-easy/ Thu, 17 May 2007 16:16:15 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/increased-fuel-economy-easy/ Here’s an irony: I used to live in the country, a small town with fewer than 900 residents, and I used to speed. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-22-out/ Wed, 16 May 2007 20:17:34 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-22-out/ WordPress 2.2 is out and available for download now! I’m excited because this version includes widgets (by default), some XML-RPC hooks to edit pages (so you don’t need my hacks), a switch to jQuery from Scriptaculous (Matty got me excited about this), full Atom support (enough of the different versions of RSS! https://maisonbisson.com/post/plasticlogics-flexible-e-paper-display/ Wed, 16 May 2007 16:20:10 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/plasticlogics-flexible-e-paper-display/ Plastic Logic is a developer of plastic electronics – a new technology for manufacturing (or printing) electronics. https://maisonbisson.com/post/people-ask-me-questions-web-design-software-or-is-it-website-management-software/ Tue, 15 May 2007 23:44:20 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/people-ask-me-questions-web-design-software-or-is-it-website-management-software/ The question: What’s a good user-friendly Macintosh web development program? A friend called. She’s thinking of buying Dreamweaver, but is afraid it will be overkill. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-strips-classnames-and-how-to-fix-it/ Tue, 15 May 2007 16:29:29 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-strips-classnames-and-how-to-fix-it/ WordPress 2.0 introduced some sophisticated HTML inspecting and de-linting courtesy of kses. kses is an HTML/XHTML filter written in PHP. https://maisonbisson.com/post/its-not-about-technology-stupid/ Mon, 14 May 2007 15:27:25 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/its-not-about-technology-stupid/ Inside Higher Ed asks Are College Students Techno Idiots? Slashdot summarized it this way: Are college students techno idiots? https://maisonbisson.com/post/la-burdicks-cafe-and-chocolate/ Sun, 13 May 2007 16:06:40 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/la-burdicks-cafe-and-chocolate/ My favorite place to eat in all of New Hampshire is LA Burdick’s in Walpole. https://maisonbisson.com/post/sausage-the-other-ground-hog/ Sat, 12 May 2007 16:13:43 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/sausage-the-other-ground-hog/ The photo is from Jessamyn, who declared it Groan-worthy. I’m still grinning about it. Reminds me of the time Homer said “Yeah, right Lisa. https://maisonbisson.com/post/sweet-meatcake/ Fri, 11 May 2007 23:16:04 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/sweet-meatcake/ First it was meat hats, then SuperModelMeat. Now it’s meat cakes. Yes. Three layers of meat, with ketchup and potato frosting. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wikipedia-the-wonder/ Fri, 11 May 2007 16:24:31 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wikipedia-the-wonder/ Middlebury College banned it, but 46% of college students and 50% of college grads use it. https://maisonbisson.com/post/is-automated-metadata-production-really-the-answer/ Thu, 10 May 2007 16:16:45 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/is-automated-metadata-production-really-the-answer/ (It’s old, but I just stumbled into it again…) Karen Calhoun’s report, The Changing Nature of the Catalog and its Integration with Other Discovery Tools, included a lot of things I agree with, but it also touched something I’m a bit skeptical about: automated metadata production. https://maisonbisson.com/post/centos-5-released/ Wed, 09 May 2007 16:12:46 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/centos-5-released/ At work I use Red Hat Enterprise Linux, but my personal stuff is served from machines running CentOS. https://maisonbisson.com/post/leopard-beta-to-be-released-at-wwdc/ Tue, 08 May 2007 16:31:32 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/leopard-beta-to-be-released-at-wwdc/ Those of us hoping for an early release of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard might be disappointed to learn that Apple will just be getting around to giving out a “feature complete” beta at WWDC in mid-June. https://maisonbisson.com/post/worlds-hottest-peppers/ Sat, 05 May 2007 04:00:50 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/worlds-hottest-peppers/ Tabasco thinks their peppers and eponymous sauce are hot. Anybody who’s just ate a habanero thinks that’s a hot pepper. https://maisonbisson.com/post/dewitt-clinton-on-the-birth-of-opensearch/ Thu, 03 May 2007 16:04:21 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/dewitt-clinton-on-the-birth-of-opensearch/ OpenSearch is a common way of querying a database for content and returning the results. The idea is that it brings sanity to the proliferation of search APIs, but a realistic view would have to admit that we’ve been trying to do that since before the development of z39. https://maisonbisson.com/post/awkward-moments-in-social-software/ Wed, 02 May 2007 21:17:50 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/awkward-moments-in-social-software/ We all know social networking may be a feature, not an application, but one person’s feature can become another’s bane. https://maisonbisson.com/post/david-halberstam-on-competition/ Wed, 02 May 2007 16:02:34 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/david-halberstam-on-competition/ Speaking at UC Berkeley’s School of Journalism last month, David Halberstam struck the chord of competition journalists must struggle with. https://maisonbisson.com/post/mysql-error-28-temp-tables-and-running-out-of-disk-space/ Tue, 01 May 2007 23:32:33 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/mysql-error-28-temp-tables-and-running-out-of-disk-space/ Bam: MySQL error 28, and suddenly my queries came to a stop. Error 28 is about disk space, usually the disk space for temp tables. https://maisonbisson.com/post/miles-hilton-barber-flies-blind-from-britain-to-oz/ Tue, 01 May 2007 11:01:21 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/miles-hilton-barber-flies-blind-from-britain-to-oz/ I learned of it last night on The CBC’s As It Happens: Miles Hilton-Barber, blind since age 30, has flown from Biggen Hill, south of London, to Gosford, outside Sydney, by ultralight in a journey that took almost two months. https://maisonbisson.com/post/php-libraries-for-collaborative-filtering-and-recommendations/ Mon, 30 Apr 2007 23:20:25 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/php-libraries-for-collaborative-filtering-and-recommendations/ Daniel Lemire and Sean McGrath note that “User personalization and profiling is key to many succesful Web sites. https://maisonbisson.com/post/remixability-vs-business-self-interest-vs-libraries-and-the-public-good/ Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:29:07 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/remixability-vs-business-self-interest-vs-libraries-and-the-public-good/ I’ve been talking a lot about remixability lately, but Nat Torkington just pointed out that the web services and APIs from commercial organizations aren’t as infrastructural as we might think. https://maisonbisson.com/post/boris-yeltsin-the-most-colorful-drunk-politician-since-winston-churchill/ Mon, 30 Apr 2007 01:07:21 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/boris-yeltsin-the-most-colorful-drunk-politician-since-winston-churchill/ Sure, Clinton played his sax on TV, Bush groped Angela Merkel, but Boris Yeltsin gave speeches drunk, tossed women into the water, danced on stage, and generally did all manner of laughable things. https://maisonbisson.com/post/blast-photos/ Sat, 28 Apr 2007 16:45:06 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/blast-photos/ This renewed talk of building nuclear weapons here in the US reminded me of an old report of photos of the sky glow from nuclear tests done in Nevada seen over Los Angeles. https://maisonbisson.com/post/nukerator-were-nukrawavable/ Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:35:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/nukerator-were-nukrawavable/ Will, Cliff (both above), and I recorded this song in one take in late 1999. https://maisonbisson.com/post/csi-jumped-the-shark/ Thu, 26 Apr 2007 23:13:54 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/csi-jumped-the-shark/ I’m a newcomer CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, I started watching it with season six while suffering a flu that immobilized me for what seemed like a week or more. https://maisonbisson.com/post/how-to-zip-files-on-mac-os-x/ Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:48:39 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/how-to-zip-files-on-mac-os-x/ It couldn’t be much easier. I’d previously posted command line instructions, but it turns out that there’s a huge number of people who don’t know the easy way: just CTRL-click on the file and select “Create Archive…” You’ll also find the option in the File menu. https://maisonbisson.com/post/ncaa-set-to-ban-text-messaging-between-recruiters-and-high-school-students/ Thu, 26 Apr 2007 11:16:06 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/ncaa-set-to-ban-text-messaging-between-recruiters-and-high-school-students/ College sports are big business, so recruiting student athletes is big business. The NCAA limits the times coaches and recruiters can call or visit athletes, but text messages are all fair game. https://maisonbisson.com/post/still-waiting-for-good-ipod-car-integration/ Wed, 25 Apr 2007 16:22:49 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/still-waiting-for-good-ipod-car-integration/ Even Bob Borchers, Apple’s senior director of iPod worldwide product marketing, calls most iPod car setups an “inelegant mess of cassette adaptors and wires. https://maisonbisson.com/post/blogs-vs-wikis/ Tue, 24 Apr 2007 16:02:18 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/blogs-vs-wikis/ Ironic secret: I don’t really like most wikis, though that’s probably putting it too strongly. Ironic because I love both Wikipedia (and, especially, collabularies), but I grit my teeth pretty much every time I hear somebody suggest we need another wiki. https://maisonbisson.com/post/claims-of-prior-art-in-verizonvonage-patent-infringement-case/ Mon, 23 Apr 2007 21:25:29 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/claims-of-prior-art-in-verizonvonage-patent-infringement-case/ Vonage has been saying Verizon’s patent claims are overly broad for some time, but now people have dug up some prior art. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-high-cost-of-innovation-vonages-patent-woes/ Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:02:33 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-high-cost-of-innovation-vonages-patent-woes/ Vonage will be in court again tomorrow defending itself against Verizon’s claims of patent infringement. https://maisonbisson.com/post/eco-friendly-web-design-for-earth-day/ Sun, 22 Apr 2007 04:02:24 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/eco-friendly-web-design-for-earth-day/ Mark Ontkush at ecoIron did some math starting with the Department of Energy data that showed CRT monitors consume less power displaying dark colors than light and determined that redesigning Google’s site in black would save 750 megawatt-hours per year (assuming that 25% of computer users still haven’t upgraded to LCDs and are using power-hungry CRTs). https://maisonbisson.com/post/i-want-my-money/ Sun, 22 Apr 2007 02:13:53 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/i-want-my-money/ My nephew checked his email while he was here this morning and this was the first thing in his inbox. https://maisonbisson.com/post/reminder-paris-hilton-to-retire-in-60-days/ Sat, 21 Apr 2007 16:39:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/reminder-paris-hilton-to-retire-in-60-days/ Amid all the “ZOMG Paris Hilton is pregnant!” rumors, it’s worth remembering that the girl famous for doing nothing (except repeatedly having her racy photos and video leaked) is retiring in two months. https://maisonbisson.com/post/deloreans-are-back-in-this-future/ Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:05:36 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/deloreans-are-back-in-this-future/ If the DeLorean looks at all like a Lotus Esprit, it should. Both of them were designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro, and much of the engineering work was done by Lotus founder Colin—to add speed, add lightness—Chapman. https://maisonbisson.com/post/moveon-we-cant-afford-bad-song-parodies/ Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:48:39 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/moveon-we-cant-afford-bad-song-parodies/ In yet another lesson about how a bad joke in front of one audience can trouble a larger public, MoveOn wants McCain to know bombing Iran is no laughing matter. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-permalinks-mod_rewrite-and-avoiding-404s/ Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:31:59 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-permalinks-mod_rewrite-and-avoiding-404s/ I made a mistake in changing my WordPress permalinks, but by the time I’d discovered it my blog had already been indexed. https://maisonbisson.com/post/some-needs-some-of-the-time/ Thu, 19 Apr 2007 07:32:43 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/some-needs-some-of-the-time/ I don’t know why I love this quote from a post in panlibus: serve some needs of some parts of the population, some of the time https://maisonbisson.com/post/joost-brings-television-to-the-internet-age/ Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:19:26 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/joost-brings-television-to-the-internet-age/ On demand internet TV has been just around the corner since the dawn of the popular internet, but like flying cars, it’s still not here. https://maisonbisson.com/post/usability-findability-and-remixability-especially-remixability/ Tue, 17 Apr 2007 16:06:51 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/usability-findability-and-remixability-especially-remixability/ It’s been more than a year since I first demonstrated Scriblio (was WPopac) at ALA Midwinter in San Antonio. https://maisonbisson.com/post/my-boston-library-consortium-presentation/ Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:27:47 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/my-boston-library-consortium-presentation/ Speaking Thursday at the Boston Library Consortium‘s annual meeting in the beautiful Boston Public Library, my focus was on the status of our library systems and the importance of remixability. https://maisonbisson.com/post/bsuite-bug-fixes-release-b2v7/ Mon, 16 Apr 2007 13:14:17 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bsuite-bug-fixes-release-b2v7/ <p>[innerindex]Work on bsuite3 is progressing well, thanks to help from <a href="http://nosheep.net/">Zach</a> and <a href="http://borkweb.com/">Matt</a>, who are collaborating with me on completely rearchitecting how stats are collected and reported. This, however, is not bs3. It’s a transitional release intended to fix some bugs in b2 and make upgrading easier. This upgrade is recommended for all current bsuite users and new users.</p> <h1 id="11613_bsuite-features_1">bsuite Features</h1> <ul> <li>Tracks page loads (hits)</li> <li>Tracks search terms used by visitors ariving at your site via search engines</li> <li>Reports top-performing stories via a function that can be included in the sidebar</li> <li>Reports recent comments via a function that can be included in the sidebar</li> <li>Reports top search terms via a function that can be included in the sidebar</li> <li>Outputs a pulse graph of activity on your site or specific stories</li> <li>Lists related posts at the bottom of the current post’s content</li> <li>Suggests posts that closely match the search criteria for visitors who arrive via search engines</li> <li>Integrates <a href="http://maisonbisson.com/post/10861/">bsuite_speedcache</a></li> <li>Does some <a href="http://maisonbisson.com/post/10922/">stuff with tags</a></li> </ul> <h1 id="11613_fixedchangedadded_1">Fixed/Changed/Added</h1> <ul> <li>As mentioned above, a huge-but-invisible feature here is that this version includes some pieces that will make it easy to transition to the new plugin.</li> <li>MySQL errors while creating the tables should now be fixed. It’s my shame that these have persisted so long.</li> <li>The plugin now “rebuilds the tags table” as soon as you activate it. This is a good thing, but if you’ve got a huge number of posts (or a really short max execution time) it might cause a problem (please leave a comment if it does).</li> <li>The related posts feature now works even if you aren’t tagging your posts. If there are no tags, the post’s title is used as a search string.</li> <li>This list is probably incomplete and in some other way inaccurate. It’s not intentional, I’m just sloppy. Please leave comments with bug reports or corrections, I’ll do what I can to fix them.</li> <li>Finally, I’m now hosting the download on a new server, so it won’t be subject to .Mac’s bandwidth consumption limits.</li> </ul> https://maisonbisson.com/post/skycar-fraud-will-i-ever-get-my-flying-car/ Sun, 15 Apr 2007 16:23:10 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/skycar-fraud-will-i-ever-get-my-flying-car/ A recent comment here reminded me to check in on our options for flying cars, now at least seven years overdue. https://maisonbisson.com/post/skulls-are-office-products-brains-not-included/ Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:03:29 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/skulls-are-office-products-brains-not-included/ I don’t know what’s funnier, that Amazon sells skulls (just $132, get one now!), or that they’re classified as “office products. https://maisonbisson.com/post/i-am-a-fonero-are-you-a-fonero-too/ Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:29:14 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/i-am-a-fonero-are-you-a-fonero-too/ Now that I’ve moved I’ve finally set up my Fonera. I had hoped to offer a story about the process, but it was so simple I can’t really say much more than “I plugged it in, I registered it, it worked. https://maisonbisson.com/post/google-mymaps-and-georss/ Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:08:46 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/google-mymaps-and-georss/ O’Reilly’s Where 2.0 Conference isn’t until the end of May, but Google just released two sweet new map-related features: GeoRSS support and MyMaps. https://maisonbisson.com/post/anti-twitter/ Wed, 11 Apr 2007 04:17:34 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/anti-twitter/ My own feelings about Twitter have gone back and forth across indecision street for a while, and despite a moment of excitement it’s still not part of my life-kit. https://maisonbisson.com/post/dawn-of-the-citizen-professor/ Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:06:31 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/dawn-of-the-citizen-professor/ It should be no surprise that journalists are talking about citizen journalism, but what of the disintermediation of other industries? https://maisonbisson.com/post/pranks-international/ Tue, 10 Apr 2007 03:15:41 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/pranks-international/ Matt tells us the office pranks he masterminded a couple weeks ago got reported in Saturday’s Daily Mirror (scan above): https://maisonbisson.com/post/cut-and-paste-is-a-skill-too/ Mon, 09 Apr 2007 16:38:47 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/cut-and-paste-is-a-skill-too/ [Update: Keith pointed out that my small disclaimer at the end isn’t clear enough. This post is copied, stolen, cut and pasted in its entirety from Keith’s blog, ISTP Dad. https://maisonbisson.com/post/moving-and-shaking-and-shimmy-ing/ Sun, 08 Apr 2007 13:37:50 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/moving-and-shaking-and-shimmy-ing/ It’s sort of late by now, and others have been offering their congratulations to me for a while (thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you), but I only just got the paper copy myself and this morning had a chance to browse the list. https://maisonbisson.com/post/goodbad-covers-my-humps-interpreted-by-alanis-morissette/ Fri, 06 Apr 2007 16:12:17 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/goodbad-covers-my-humps-interpreted-by-alanis-morissette/ I’m one of those guys who almost never actually hears the lyrics to the music that’s playing constantly. https://maisonbisson.com/post/economics-of-open-source/ Thu, 05 Apr 2007 11:33:21 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/economics-of-open-source/ Two fairly old papers on the economics of open source. The news recently has been that open source allows companies to bring in better, more innovative talent and saves marketing costs, but these papers are interesting nonetheless. https://maisonbisson.com/post/smart-networks-are-a-stupid-bad-idea/ Wed, 04 Apr 2007 16:27:57 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/smart-networks-are-a-stupid-bad-idea/ This story in MIT Technology Review scares me. Instead of letting all computers within the network communicate freely, Ethane is designed so that communication privileges within the network have to be explicitly set; that way, only those activities deemed safe are permitted. https://maisonbisson.com/post/sweet-vespa-scooter-with-sidecar-on-ebay/ Tue, 03 Apr 2007 23:12:06 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/sweet-vespa-scooter-with-sidecar-on-ebay/ Greenstemstudios is selling a sweet-looking 1980 Vespa with sidecar. In gleaming Cinder Red and House of Kolar Black, riding on white wall Continentals, “the scooter gets 60 to 70 miles to the gallon and can easily maintain 60 mph even with the sidecar attached. https://maisonbisson.com/post/drm-free/ Tue, 03 Apr 2007 16:25:08 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/drm-free/ Following Steve Jobs’ ant-DRM post, people began to wonder if Apple was just pointing fingers or really willing to distribute DRM-free music via their online store. https://maisonbisson.com/post/bisson-tower-siezed/ Tue, 03 Apr 2007 11:45:17 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bisson-tower-siezed/ With plenty of moving help from Zack, Matt, Cliff, Justin, Jon, Will, and Karen, Bisson Tower went from empty to full quickly enough that we all had plenty of time to sit around and enjoy the lunch Sandee cooked up, then retire to the roof with cocktails. https://maisonbisson.com/post/web-based-genealogy-software/ Mon, 02 Apr 2007 23:58:24 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/web-based-genealogy-software/ Interesting, a LAMP solution that promises “the next generation of genealogy sitebuilding.” it does pretty charts and pages, and as any web app should, makes it easy to edit or add information. https://maisonbisson.com/post/for-april-fools/ Sun, 01 Apr 2007 14:38:16 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/for-april-fools/ Those looking for this year’s April Fools gags should look at the office pranking from last week (pictured above). https://maisonbisson.com/post/dance-around-the-world/ Sat, 31 Mar 2007 23:39:41 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/dance-around-the-world/ Among the pop-culture viral videos I apparently missed is Matt Harding‘s dancing. I had to turn to Wikipedia for an explanation: https://maisonbisson.com/post/whoosh-boom-splat/ Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:05:06 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/whoosh-boom-splat/ Bill Gurstelle thought the exploding balloons were as funny as I did, and now I understand why: the contributing editor of Make magazine knows his way around improvised munitions. https://maisonbisson.com/post/who-will-be-first-to-put-a-metronaps-pod-in-their-library/ Thu, 29 Mar 2007 19:25:33 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/who-will-be-first-to-put-a-metronaps-pod-in-their-library/ MetroNaps started business in 2004 with a boutique in NYC’s Empire State Building, selling 20 minute naps for $14 bucks. https://maisonbisson.com/post/apis-are-big-business/ Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:22:31 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/apis-are-big-business/ ProgrammableWeb pointed out an InformationWeek story that claimed 28% of Amazon’s sales in early 2005 were attributable to Amazon affiliates. https://maisonbisson.com/post/office-prankd/ Wed, 28 Mar 2007 03:51:41 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/office-prankd/ When Ken, Zach, Dan, and Dee all went off to a conference without Matt, Al, Cliff, Tim, Laurianne, and me (but especially Matt), they had to assume something would happen in their absence. https://maisonbisson.com/post/openid-authentication-attribute-exchange/ Sun, 25 Mar 2007 16:32:21 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/openid-authentication-attribute-exchange/ The conversation on Code4Lib about OpenID reminded me to finish a draft I’d started at Identity Future on the topic. https://maisonbisson.com/post/japanese-lessons/ Sun, 25 Mar 2007 03:06:19 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/japanese-lessons/ From William Rowe: zetcho = the apex of the mountain tonsei = to shave one’s head and forsake the world I learned the literal meaning of “karaoke” early last year. https://maisonbisson.com/post/heavy-skies/ Sun, 25 Mar 2007 00:45:29 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/heavy-skies/ Newley Purnell pointed me at this astronomy picture of the day by Antti Kemppainen: https://maisonbisson.com/post/worlds-smallest-horse/ Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:16:35 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/worlds-smallest-horse/ Thumbelina is smaller than a decent dog. So small, in fact, that the Guinness folks — no, not those Guinness folks — recognize her as the smallest. https://maisonbisson.com/post/spring/ Thu, 22 Mar 2007 16:12:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/spring/ Uploaded from before the days when Flickr would keep the original size photos, this is one of my favorite, most spring-y shots. https://maisonbisson.com/post/my-personal-crisis-of-digital-preservation/ Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:20:16 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/my-personal-crisis-of-digital-preservation/ For a long time I was a big fan of Dantz Retrospect Backup. For while I was so committed that I would do an incremental backup of my laptop and most every other computer in my house every day, but I’ve been using it one way or another since 1999 or 2000 or so. https://maisonbisson.com/post/uc-berkeley-proud-of-powerpoint/ Tue, 20 Mar 2007 16:41:13 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/uc-berkeley-proud-of-powerpoint/ Bob Gaskins, a former Berkeley Ph.D. student, conceived PowerPoint originally as an easy-to-use presentation program. https://maisonbisson.com/post/nyt-struggles-to-find-young-audience-online-audience-audience/ Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:07:41 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/nyt-struggles-to-find-young-audience-online-audience-audience/ The New York Times last week announced that it’s giving away TimesSelect to students and faculty that hold a . https://maisonbisson.com/post/snow-spider/ Sun, 18 Mar 2007 15:22:44 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/snow-spider/ Karen found this spider in the snow yesterday when she wasn’t running for the camera. https://maisonbisson.com/post/charlie-the-unicorn/ Sun, 18 Mar 2007 03:49:35 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/charlie-the-unicorn/ Meg was never shy about asking me what rock I was found under when I stunned her with my complete ignorance of major pop culture touchstones, so I put my mind to it and after significant remedial work I thought I’d caught up. https://maisonbisson.com/post/snow-thrower/ Sun, 18 Mar 2007 02:08:23 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/snow-thrower/ In my favorite action photo since Will cut a woody, Karen hit the snow with fury. https://maisonbisson.com/post/i-missed-lebowski-fest/ Sat, 17 Mar 2007 02:11:28 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/i-missed-lebowski-fest/ As usual, beatnikside had to tell me what I missed: Lebowski Fest. It looks like everybody was there. https://maisonbisson.com/post/twittter-twittter-twittter/ Fri, 16 Mar 2007 13:08:22 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/twittter-twittter-twittter/ Ryan tried to tell me about it a month ago, Jessamyn gets the idea but uses Facebook instead, DeWitt fell for it, Ross said it tipped the tuna, and now I’m finally checking Twitter out. https://maisonbisson.com/post/oss-cuts-marketing-costs-protects-business/ Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:49:36 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/oss-cuts-marketing-costs-protects-business/ VA Linux founder Larry Augustin on OSS In Augustin’s view open source development became a necessity in the 1990s when the cost of marketing a program came to exceed the cost of creating it. https://maisonbisson.com/post/not-appropriate-for-librarians/ Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:00:37 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/not-appropriate-for-librarians/ My ALA email newsletter arrived today with this story: Sports Illustrated decides libraries don’t need swimsuit issue https://maisonbisson.com/post/linux-leads-on-top-supercomputers/ Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:52:22 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/linux-leads-on-top-supercomputers/ The real map of the world’s top 100 supercomputers isn’t nearly as US-centric as my screenshot suggests, but the operating system stats are seriously tilted toward Linux. https://maisonbisson.com/post/spam-getting-more-personal/ Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:07:25 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/spam-getting-more-personal/ The Viagra and Cialis knock-offs being pushed in so much of the spam I get may be directed at things the recipients feel very personally about, but the message itself has never been personal. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-future-of-library-technology-is-free-cheap-and-social/ Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:14:28 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-future-of-library-technology-is-free-cheap-and-social/ delicious = Endoeavor’s course content integrator OpenSearch = metasearch Flickr = digital collections management https://maisonbisson.com/post/damn-daylight-saving-doesnt-save/ Mon, 12 Mar 2007 17:29:53 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/damn-daylight-saving-doesnt-save/ NPR covered it like an eclipse or astronomic curiosity, and did little to question the claimed energy saving benefits. https://maisonbisson.com/post/firecrackers-for-troops/ Mon, 12 Mar 2007 15:50:47 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/firecrackers-for-troops/ Via NPR this morning: A Michigan man strapped more than 13,000 firecrackers onto himself, and lit the fuse. https://maisonbisson.com/post/300-a-torrent-of-awesomeness-or-just-too-much/ Sun, 11 Mar 2007 06:30:52 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/300-a-torrent-of-awesomeness-or-just-too-much/ So, is 300 really the “torrent of blood and awesomeness” that Matt says it is (and the preview supports), or does it run out of steam as NPR’s film critic, Kenneth Turan, suggests? https://maisonbisson.com/post/and-he-man-screams-from-the-top-of-his-lungs-whats-goin-on/ Fri, 09 Mar 2007 17:27:17 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/and-he-man-screams-from-the-top-of-his-lungs-whats-goin-on/ The What’s Up? cover would be funny enough on its own, with the He-Man video it’s golden. https://maisonbisson.com/post/charges-put-internet-radio-on-pause/ Fri, 09 Mar 2007 11:12:55 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/charges-put-internet-radio-on-pause/ In early 2002 the Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel (CARP) set royalty rates for webcasters that were twice as high as for regular radio broadcasts. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-true-spirit-of-copyright/ Wed, 07 Mar 2007 17:15:01 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-true-spirit-of-copyright/ I wrote to C|Net, owner of TechRepublic and Builder.com, asking if I could quote their Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming in an issue of Library Technology Reports journal on open source software for libraries and got the following canned response: https://maisonbisson.com/post/ingenious-and-almost-unusably-different/ Wed, 07 Mar 2007 01:30:46 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/ingenious-and-almost-unusably-different/ Lars Wirzenius’ Linux Anecdotes: In January, Linus bought a PC. He’d been using a Sinclair QL before that, which, like much British computer stuff, was ingenious and almost unusably different from everything else. https://maisonbisson.com/post/dell-tells-linux-users-where-to-put-it/ Tue, 06 Mar 2007 21:59:48 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/dell-tells-linux-users-where-to-put-it/ Holy smokes. As Dell’s sales slump and stock remains flat, the famously unimaginative company is trying to tap into the Mob for ideas about what new shade of grey to deliver its hardware in next. https://maisonbisson.com/post/waiting-for-mac-os-x-105-leopard/ Mon, 05 Mar 2007 17:20:02 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/waiting-for-mac-os-x-105-leopard/ With rumors of a March release of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, swirling, Zach asked what was promised that he should be excited about, so I went looking to jog my memory. https://maisonbisson.com/post/internet-awesomeness-diagram-by-matthew-batchelder/ Sun, 04 Mar 2007 05:00:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/internet-awesomeness-diagram-by-matthew-batchelder/ Above, Matthew Batchelder’s diagram showing the correct relationship of the internet, awesomeness, ninjas, pirates, dinosaurs, zombies, robots, and Gummi Bears (though, where are the superheros you might ask). https://maisonbisson.com/post/this-guy-can-draw-circles-around-you-and-me/ Fri, 02 Mar 2007 17:17:39 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/this-guy-can-draw-circles-around-you-and-me/ Found at Baekdal.com, where the author expresses some amount of whiteboard-skills envy. The video shows Alex Overwijk, head of Glebe Collegiate high school‘s math department (more trivia: Alanis Morrisette went there) drawing what appears to be a perfect circle. https://maisonbisson.com/post/google-apps-and-roadshow/ Thu, 01 Mar 2007 17:06:23 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/google-apps-and-roadshow/ I was supposed to go to the what I think is a Google Apps roadshow this morning, but I was also supposed to be at code4lib this weeks and be doing a dozen other things that didn’t happen. https://maisonbisson.com/post/links-from-ryan-eby/ Thu, 01 Mar 2007 04:26:58 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/links-from-ryan-eby/ Encyclopodia – the encyclopedia on your iPod GeoCool! – Rasmus’ Toys Page IE7 and OpenSearch Autodiscovery https://maisonbisson.com/post/let-me-show-you-my-credentials/ Sun, 25 Feb 2007 04:27:03 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/let-me-show-you-my-credentials/ “I’m Bruce Pechman, the muscleman of technology, let me show you my credentials.” This is the instructional video that comes with the DynaFlex Powerball Gyro. https://maisonbisson.com/post/middlebury-college-vs-wikipedia/ Thu, 22 Feb 2007 04:05:12 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/middlebury-college-vs-wikipedia/ Middlebury College is proud to have taken a stand against Wikipedia this year: Members of the Vermont institution’s history department voted unanimously in January to adopt the statement, which bans students from citing the open-source encyclopedia in essays and examinations. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wwan-update-brings-higher-speed-mobile-connectivity/ Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:21:45 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wwan-update-brings-higher-speed-mobile-connectivity/ Apple’s WWAN Support Update 1.0 brings support for the following new cell carrier-based based networking cards (WWAN = wireless wide-area networking): https://maisonbisson.com/post/top-ten-times-two-for-students/ Sun, 18 Feb 2007 17:38:15 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/top-ten-times-two-for-students/ Back in August Educated Nation offered the following top ten list of web tools for college students: https://maisonbisson.com/post/quiet-comfort/ Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:46:09 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/quiet-comfort/ That’s me on JetBlue Flight 481 to Long Beach, wearing my noise canceling headphones. Sandee saw me wanting them, so she was especially happy to make them a Christmas present to me. https://maisonbisson.com/post/let-it-snow/ Thu, 15 Feb 2007 01:20:58 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/let-it-snow/ With over a foot on the ground already, and more falling now the through the night, we’re crossing our fingers for another snow day tomorrow. https://maisonbisson.com/post/foods-i-want-to-try/ Sat, 10 Feb 2007 15:06:59 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/foods-i-want-to-try/ Despite the mystery, porklets are quite yummy, at least according to Sandee‘s recipe. What I want to try next is bacon cheesecake or chili powder on french toast or maraschino cherries mixed with jalapeños. https://maisonbisson.com/post/just-pretend-its-all-okay/ Fri, 09 Feb 2007 17:39:51 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/just-pretend-its-all-okay/ Ryan IM’d this to me, and it was pretty easy to find that Northern Sun sells them for $4 a pop. https://maisonbisson.com/post/this-blog-is-for-academic-and-research-purposes-only/ Fri, 09 Feb 2007 01:59:21 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/this-blog-is-for-academic-and-research-purposes-only/ This sign on a computer in the Paul A. Elsner Library at Mesa Community College caught Beth‘s eye and garnered a number of comments, including one from theangelremiel that seems to mark one of the most elusive aspects of Library 2. https://maisonbisson.com/post/treo-firmware-and-more/ Thu, 08 Feb 2007 17:23:11 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/treo-firmware-and-more/ John commented to say he’s been using his 650 for DUN over bluetooth for a long time now, and that all it takes is the latest firmware. https://maisonbisson.com/post/a-visual-explanation-of-web-20/ Wed, 07 Feb 2007 17:23:36 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/a-visual-explanation-of-web-20/ Kansas State University‘s Digital Ethnography group — “a working group of Kansas State University students and faculty dedicated to exploring and extending the possibilities of digital ethnography” — posted this visual explanation of Web 2. https://maisonbisson.com/post/steve-jobs-thoughts-on-music-online-music-stores-and-drm/ Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:16:37 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/steve-jobs-thoughts-on-music-online-music-stores-and-drm/ <p><a href="http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughtsonmusic/" title="Apple - Thoughts on Music">Steve Jobs’ Thoughts On Music</a> is surprisingly open and frank, almost blog-like, for the man and the company especially know for keeping secrets.</p> <p>Jobs is addressing complaints about Apple’s “<a href="http://maisonbisson.com/post/10055/">proprietary</a>” <a href="http://maisonbisson.com/post/10733/">DRM</a> used in the iTunes Music Store.</p> <blockquote> <p>There is no theory of protecting content other than keeping secrets. In other words, even if one uses the most sophisticated cryptographic locks to protect the actual music, one must still “hide” the keys which unlock the music on the user’s computer or portable music player. No one has ever implemented a DRM system that does not depend on such secrets for its operation.</p> </blockquote> <p>And after offering his view of the situation, he offers three possible futures.</p> <blockquote> <p>The first alternative is to continue on the current course, with each manufacturer competing freely with their own “top to bottom” proprietary systems for selling, playing and protecting music.</p> </blockquote> <p>And the case for doing more of the same is pretty clear. Apple’s iPod and iTunes Music Store are successful, and though there are competitors, they’ll have to convince would be buyers to give up their iPods.</p> <blockquote> <p>The second alternative is for Apple to license its FairPlay DRM technology to current and future competitors with the goal of achieving interoperability between different company’s players and music stores.</p> </blockquote> <p>And that’s exactly what people have been asking for. It’s hard to know who wants to use a player that’s not an iPod, but there are some things that <a href="http://www.overdrive.com/DeviceResourceCenter/faqs.asp#3">don’t play on iPods</a>. But…</p> <blockquote> <p>Apple has concluded that if it licenses FairPlay to others, it can no longer guarantee to protect the music it licenses from the big four music companies. Perhaps this same conclusion contributed to Microsoft’s recent decision to switch their emphasis from an “open” model of licensing their DRM to others to a “closed” model of offering a proprietary music store, proprietary jukebox software and proprietary players.</p> </blockquote> <p>And finally…</p> <blockquote> <p>The third alternative is to abolish DRMs entirely.</p> </blockquote> <p>And how does that work?</p> <blockquote> <p>In 2006, under 2 billion DRM-protected songs were sold worldwide by online stores, while over 20 billion songs were sold completely DRM-free and unprotected on CDs by the music companies themselves. The music companies sell the vast majority of their music DRM-free, and show no signs of changing this behavior, since the overwhelming majority of their revenues depend on selling CDs which must play in CD players that support no DRM system.</p> <p>So if the music companies are selling over 90 percent of their music DRM-free, what benefits do they get from selling the remaining small percentage of their music encumbered with a DRM system? There appear to be none. If anything, the technical expertise and overhead required to create, operate and update a DRM system has limited the number of participants selling DRM protected music. If such requirements were removed, the music industry might experience an influx of new companies willing to invest in innovative new stores and players. This can only be seen as a positive by the music companies.</p> </blockquote> https://maisonbisson.com/post/connectile-dysfunction/ Tue, 06 Feb 2007 04:28:38 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/connectile-dysfunction/ No sooner do I lay down a rant about how bad Sprint WiFi is than do they run an ad telling us how great their service is. https://maisonbisson.com/post/1984/ Sun, 04 Feb 2007 17:04:38 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/1984/ For those who watch the ads as intently as the game, it’s hard not to think of Apple’s 1984 commercial. https://maisonbisson.com/post/sprint-wifi-sucks/ Sun, 04 Feb 2007 04:01:24 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/sprint-wifi-sucks/ I’m back in Oakland Airport, but this time I’m bringing my own network and I don’t have to deal with Sprint’s WIFI mess. https://maisonbisson.com/post/social-internet-sharing/ Sat, 03 Feb 2007 07:02:59 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/social-internet-sharing/ It all started as a simple idea. Why should you pay for Internet access on the go when you have already paid for it at home? https://maisonbisson.com/post/making-ecto-work-with-wp-simple-tags/ Thu, 01 Feb 2007 20:05:56 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/making-ecto-work-with-wp-simple-tags/ Ecto is finally available in Intel optimized form, but WP 2.1‘s XMLRPC breaks it. Cliffy, of all people, tells us how to fix it. https://maisonbisson.com/post/open-source-shifts-costs/ Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:53:58 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/open-source-shifts-costs/ Does open source free your budget up for the best talent? I asked her if the choice to go with open source is helping her to keep costs in check, here’s what [Dabble CEO Mary Hodder] said: https://maisonbisson.com/post/negs-urban-sprinting/ Tue, 30 Jan 2007 03:06:25 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/negs-urban-sprinting/ I might watch more TV if I didn’t live in the US. Well, I used to like watching World’s Wildest Police Chases on Spike while knocking back a few at the bar after work, but they re-arranged the schedule a while back and it’s just not the same. https://maisonbisson.com/post/sealand-for-sale-2/ Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:23:09 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/sealand-for-sale-2/ Principality of Sealand, a WWII-era gunnery platform called Roughs Tower, in the North Sea outside Britain’s pre-1968 three nautical mile claim of sovereign waters, is for sale. https://maisonbisson.com/post/communities-are-as-communities-do/ Sun, 28 Jan 2007 17:41:13 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/communities-are-as-communities-do/ Right there are the beginning of Esther Dyson‘s ten-year-old book, Release 2.1, she alerts us to the Web 2. https://maisonbisson.com/post/presentation-collaboration-not-competition/ Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:26:50 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/presentation-collaboration-not-competition/ ALA Midwinter 2007, ALCTS Future of Cataloging presentation: Collaboration, Not Competition. (slides: QuickTime &amp; PDF.) https://maisonbisson.com/post/presentation-faceted-searching-and-our-cataloging-norms/ Wed, 24 Jan 2007 17:31:49 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/presentation-faceted-searching-and-our-cataloging-norms/ ALA Midwinter 2007, ALCTS Cataloging Norms Discussion Group presentation: Metadata and faceted searching: an implementation report based on WPopac. https://maisonbisson.com/post/casual-friday-the-ala-midwinter-music-video-edition/ Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:37:50 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/casual-friday-the-ala-midwinter-music-video-edition/ The above circulated a while ago, but I post it today to recognize this special ALA Midwinter edition of Casual Fridays. https://maisonbisson.com/post/let-the-silence-roar/ Wed, 17 Jan 2007 16:08:32 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/let-the-silence-roar/ Okay, before anybody inquires if I’ve gone into boat sales or brings up the BisonBoom story again, I need to ask for your understanding. https://maisonbisson.com/post/sweet-jquery/ Tue, 16 Jan 2007 17:00:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/sweet-jquery/ Matty discovered jQuery at The Ajax Experience, and his enthusiasm has rubbed off on me. https://maisonbisson.com/post/pes-films/ Fri, 12 Jan 2007 17:51:02 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/pes-films/ I’ve been loving the PES films I found via this Design Observer post, and despite featuring his films for Christmas day and new year’s eve, there’s still a lot to see. https://maisonbisson.com/post/apache-22x-on-mac-os-x/ Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:39:45 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/apache-22x-on-mac-os-x/ I’m lazy, that’s all I can say to explain why I hadn’t put any serious thought into upgrading from the 1. https://maisonbisson.com/post/rusty-nail-the-maison-bisson-winter-drink/ Sat, 06 Jan 2007 20:14:02 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/rusty-nail-the-maison-bisson-winter-drink/ The holidays are long since past, here’s a drink to carry you through ’till Spring. https://maisonbisson.com/post/lies-damn-lies-and-statistics/ Mon, 01 Jan 2007 17:11:35 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/lies-damn-lies-and-statistics/ Thanks to MetaFilter for pointing this out, and Matty, for putting it to good use. https://maisonbisson.com/post/new-years-fireworks/ Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/new-years-fireworks/ PES offers these fireworks for any occasion, but when better to celebrate than the new year? https://maisonbisson.com/post/holiday-violence/ Mon, 25 Dec 2006 20:57:47 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/holiday-violence/ By the end of it, all the wrapping paper and other material affects of the holidays really do take on air of violence. https://maisonbisson.com/post/happy-holidays/ Mon, 25 Dec 2006 05:00:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/happy-holidays/ https://maisonbisson.com/post/one-goat-down-one-goat-to-go/ Sun, 24 Dec 2006 12:02:52 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/one-goat-down-one-goat-to-go/ Cliffy got excited about the Gävle Goat when his pal Derek emailed him about it all. https://maisonbisson.com/post/great-white-solstice/ Fri, 22 Dec 2006 17:47:01 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/great-white-solstice/ While northern-hemisphere inhabitants are enjoying their first day of winter, our cousins in the southern hemisphere are just beginning summer. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wrong-metrics/ Tue, 19 Dec 2006 17:42:10 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wrong-metrics/ Watch this video a few times. It’s funny. It’s catchy. It’s kitsch. Now watch it a few times more. https://maisonbisson.com/post/welcome-to-your-world/ Mon, 18 Dec 2006 17:22:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/welcome-to-your-world/ In pointing this out to me, Lichen noted “if this isn’t evidence that Web2.0 is an undeniable force, I don’t know what is. https://maisonbisson.com/post/helsinki-complaints-choir/ Sun, 17 Dec 2006 17:46:49 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/helsinki-complaints-choir/ Though some people prefer the Birmingham choir to Helsinki’s, there’s certainly something to be said about complaining in song, and something more when it’s in a language I can’t begin to understand. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wish-i-could-be-there/ Thu, 14 Dec 2006 17:53:51 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wish-i-could-be-there/ Harry Shearer and Judith Owen are performing their holiday sing-a-long at the concert hall at the Society for Ethical Culture in NYC with guests TMBG and others. https://maisonbisson.com/post/memcached-and-wordpress/ Wed, 13 Dec 2006 17:17:04 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/memcached-and-wordpress/ Ryan Boren wrote about using memcached with WordPress almost a year ago: Memcached is a distributed memory object caching system. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-21-wpopac/ Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:58:24 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-21-wpopac/ I’ve been following WP2.1 development, but Aaron Brazell’s post in the development blog wrapped up a lot of questions all at once. https://maisonbisson.com/post/woot-woot/ Mon, 04 Dec 2006 19:00:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/woot-woot/ The press release: Making Libraries Relevant in an Internet-Based Society PSU’s Casey Bisson wins Mellon Award for innovative search software for libraries PLYMOUTH, N. https://maisonbisson.com/post/flightplan/ Sun, 03 Dec 2006 14:39:13 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/flightplan/ Perhaps it’s just because I’m in the air again today, but I’m fascinated by Aaron Koblin‘s animation of aircraft activity, illustrating the pulsing, throbbing movements of aircraft over North America. https://maisonbisson.com/post/flickr-interstingness-patent/ Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:53:12 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/flickr-interstingness-patent/ It’s old news (Boing Boing and Slashdot covered it a month ago), but Flickr’s patent application is a bit troublesome. https://maisonbisson.com/post/lemurs-movin-it/ Fri, 24 Nov 2006 12:14:27 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/lemurs-movin-it/ Thank Jon for pointing out the above. Actually, you should go read his post on the matter because, well, it gave me a chuckle and it’s certainly better than going shopping today. https://maisonbisson.com/post/and-then-the-feds-blocked-me/ Tue, 21 Nov 2006 00:02:14 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/and-then-the-feds-blocked-me/ Via a friend who coordinated a program I presented at not long ago I received this message about difficulty accessing my blog post with notes from the presentation: https://maisonbisson.com/post/will-it-blend/ Fri, 17 Nov 2006 16:58:35 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/will-it-blend/ Go now to willitblend.com and offer your suggestion for something new. Want to see a bacon cheeseburger with pickles and grilled onions? https://maisonbisson.com/post/parsing-marc-directory-info-is-easy/ Thu, 16 Nov 2006 17:35:11 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/parsing-marc-directory-info-is-easy/ I expected a record that looked like this: LEADER 00000nas 2200000Ia 4500 001 18971047 008 890105c19079999mau u p 0uuua0eng 010 07023955 /rev 040 DLC|cAUG 049 PSMM 050 F41. https://maisonbisson.com/post/second-school/ Wed, 15 Nov 2006 19:14:12 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/second-school/ Rebecca Nesson, speaking via Skype and appearing before us as her avatar in Second Life, offered her experiences as a co-instructor of Harvard Law School‘s CyberOne, a course being held jointly in a meatspace classroom and in Second Life, and open to students via Harvard Law, the Harvard Extension School, and to the public that shows up in Second Life. https://maisonbisson.com/post/social-learning-on-the-cluetrain/ Tue, 14 Nov 2006 16:43:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/social-learning-on-the-cluetrain/ They don’t want to engage in chat with their professors in the classroom space, they want to chat with other students in their own space. https://maisonbisson.com/post/social-software-in-learning-environments/ Tue, 14 Nov 2006 13:49:37 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/social-software-in-learning-environments/ It’s really titled Social Software for Teaching &amp; Learning, and I’m here with John Martin, who’s deeply involved with our learning management system and portfolio efforts (especially as both of these are subject to change real soon now). https://maisonbisson.com/post/displaying-google-calendars-in-php-ical/ Mon, 13 Nov 2006 17:50:25 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/displaying-google-calendars-in-php-ical/ PHP iCalendar solves a couple problems I’m working on, but I needed a solution to fix the duration display for Gcal-managed ICS calendars. https://maisonbisson.com/post/rock-paper-scissors-3/ Mon, 13 Nov 2006 02:05:54 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/rock-paper-scissors-3/ This weekend’s Fifth Annual Rock Paper Scissors World Championships have ended, and Brit Bob Cooper has come out a winner. https://maisonbisson.com/post/mushaboom-remix/ Sat, 11 Nov 2006 02:28:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/mushaboom-remix/ Props to Tim for offering linking me to a remix of Feist’s Mushaboom. I like the original better, but, well, I’m also a fan of remixes. https://maisonbisson.com/post/i-feel-great/ Fri, 10 Nov 2006 17:58:28 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/i-feel-great/ Transcipt: What? Oh, yeah. I feel great. Larry, I’m quittin’ the company and startin’ my own. https://maisonbisson.com/post/and-fell-the-wall/ Thu, 09 Nov 2006 12:00:06 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/and-fell-the-wall/ It’s worth taking a moment to remember that the Berlin Wall fell this day in 1989. https://maisonbisson.com/post/art-vs-the-google-economy/ Wed, 08 Nov 2006 17:09:12 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/art-vs-the-google-economy/ In an anomaly that we would eventually recognize as commonplace on the internet, Touching the Void, a book that had gone out of print, remaindered before it hit paperback, was all but forgotten, started selling again in 1998. https://maisonbisson.com/post/ministry-of-truth-george-bushs-whitehouse/ Wed, 08 Nov 2006 03:53:58 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/ministry-of-truth-george-bushs-whitehouse/ The Huffington Post pointed out how the White House is doctoring video of Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” speech from May 2003. https://maisonbisson.com/post/i-hope-youre-all-voting-today/ Tue, 07 Nov 2006 20:30:06 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/i-hope-youre-all-voting-today/ Okay, even if this Diesel Sweeties cartoon is a little disheartening, please vote. The fact is, vote suppression is probably more likely than vote fraud. https://maisonbisson.com/post/arlington-east/ Tue, 07 Nov 2006 17:43:35 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/arlington-east/ The above photo and some others were forwarded to me by a friend. The body of the email included: https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-political-parties-in-vermont/ Tue, 07 Nov 2006 11:32:04 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-political-parties-in-vermont/ Cliff took a picture of his absentee ballot because the new parties were just too good: Dennis Morriseau is the Impeach Bush Now candidate for Congress and Peter Moss is the Anti-Bushist Candidate for Senate. https://maisonbisson.com/post/midterms/ Tue, 07 Nov 2006 01:20:35 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/midterms/ Mentioned earlier, but worth mentioning again: TrueMajorityACTION’s Take It Back campaign. Among the videos and political graffiti of the moment, don’t miss Freedom, Beat Box Bush, and &lt;a href=&ldquo;http://video. https://maisonbisson.com/post/network-enabled-snooping-in-the-physical-world/ Mon, 06 Nov 2006 18:36:38 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/network-enabled-snooping-in-the-physical-world/ We’ve got OCR. We’ve got cameraphones. We’ve got web-based license plate lookup services. Amazon Japan has a fancy cameraphone-based product search feature. https://maisonbisson.com/post/political-graffiti-2/ Sun, 05 Nov 2006 23:37:35 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/political-graffiti-2/ found by lorelei in Copenhagen. discovered by Kieran’sPhoto’s’ in Cork. https://maisonbisson.com/post/freedom-video/ Sun, 05 Nov 2006 20:17:20 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/freedom-video/ Karen forwarded mgarthoff‘s Freedom, tagged: bush war election midterm iraq katrina on YouTube. https://maisonbisson.com/post/presentation-designing-an-opac-for-web-20-3/ Fri, 27 Oct 2006 20:17:19 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/presentation-designing-an-opac-for-web-20-3/ MAIUG 2006 Philadelphia: Designing an OPAC for Web 2.0 (interactive QuickTime with links or static PDF) https://maisonbisson.com/post/advice-you-didnt-ask-for/ Sun, 22 Oct 2006 02:30:49 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/advice-you-didnt-ask-for/ On writing: First figure out your story, then tell it. Anything else is masturbatory. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-solution-is-in-your-hands/ Sat, 21 Oct 2006 04:17:38 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-solution-is-in-your-hands/ currugated_film‘s photo of graffitti in Oaxaca. The caption at Flickr notes that the text to the right says “the solution is in your hands, the rocks are on the ground. https://maisonbisson.com/post/two-ton-one-night-one-fight/ Fri, 20 Oct 2006 14:19:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/two-ton-one-night-one-fight/ Tony Day is June 28th, but today is the day I received my copy of Joe Monninger’s latest work, Two Ton: One Night, One Fight — Tony Galento v. https://maisonbisson.com/post/all-about-atlatls/ Thu, 19 Oct 2006 23:22:06 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/all-about-atlatls/ In classic Wikipedia-voice, an atlatl is… An atlatl (from Nahuatl ahtlatl [?ah.t?at?]; in English pronounced [? https://maisonbisson.com/post/damn-thats-big/ Wed, 18 Oct 2006 19:14:47 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/damn-thats-big/ The Switzerland‘s Verzasca Dam is now added to the list of places I’d like to visit. https://maisonbisson.com/post/linkability-fertilizes-online-communities-redux/ Tue, 17 Oct 2006 16:46:38 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/linkability-fertilizes-online-communities-redux/ I certainly don’t mean this to be as snarky as it’s about to come out, but I love the fact that Isaak questions my claim that linkability is essential to online discussions (and thus, communities) with a link: https://maisonbisson.com/post/googlesmacked/ Mon, 16 Oct 2006 16:06:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/googlesmacked/ At a time when people are still wowing over the Google-YouTube deal (and wondering why their 2. https://maisonbisson.com/post/cheap-and-broken/ Sun, 15 Oct 2006 16:19:02 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/cheap-and-broken/ Above, one of Sandge‘s contributions to the The Toy Cameras Pool reminds us that good photography is something that often happens despite the equipment, not because of it. https://maisonbisson.com/post/youtubes/ Fri, 13 Oct 2006 18:12:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/youtubes/ I love this flipbook animation on YouTube (jump ahead to about 3:05 for it), even if the live-action preface is somewhat tiresome. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wpopac-not-affected-by-cataloging-errors/ Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:01:05 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wpopac-not-affected-by-cataloging-errors/ A bibliographic instruction quiz we used to use asked students how many of Dan Brown’s books could be found in our catalog. https://maisonbisson.com/post/what-do-you-call-a-group-of-ninjas/ Wed, 11 Oct 2006 02:32:05 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/what-do-you-call-a-group-of-ninjas/ From AskMeFi: “You know, like gaggle of geese, murder of crows, school of fish, all that. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-candy-bar-metaphor/ Tue, 10 Oct 2006 16:33:43 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-candy-bar-metaphor/ Eleta explained it this way, and credited it to R. David Lankes: Your data: Your _meta_data: https://maisonbisson.com/post/butane-handwarmer/ Mon, 09 Oct 2006 22:38:22 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/butane-handwarmer/ Mt. Moriah, this time better than last time. https://maisonbisson.com/post/eat-rite-diner-st-louis-mo/ Sat, 07 Oct 2006 04:29:39 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/eat-rite-diner-st-louis-mo/ Some time ago in St Louis, I stumbled upon Eat-Rite Diner. Aparently I wasn’t the first to be taken in by its charms. https://maisonbisson.com/post/teddy-bear-kills-2500-fish/ Fri, 06 Oct 2006 16:18:28 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/teddy-bear-kills-2500-fish/ From Associate Press: CONCORD, N.H. — A teddy bear dropped into a pool at a hatchery in Milford, N. https://maisonbisson.com/post/adium/ Thu, 05 Oct 2006 16:12:09 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/adium/ Brian Mann calls Adium “one of the best multi-network [IM] clients ever.” Tim Bray says it has a “wonderful user interface,” while also naming IM generally “an essential business tool. https://maisonbisson.com/post/isbn1013-api-followup/ Thu, 05 Oct 2006 03:01:55 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/isbn1013-api-followup/ A couple questions about my API to convert 10 digit ISBNs to 13 digits pointed out somethings I failed to mention earlier. https://maisonbisson.com/post/community-is-seductive/ Wed, 04 Oct 2006 16:10:19 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/community-is-seductive/ Lichen, who’s had a great string of posts lately, pointed out Amy Campbell‘s website, which opens with the following: https://maisonbisson.com/post/my-own-garlitz/ Wed, 04 Oct 2006 00:31:55 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/my-own-garlitz/ Bob Garlitz dropped by with a couple canvases yesterday — untitled and teng. It’s an honor I’d appreciate even if I wasn’t looking for something to cover my bare office walls. https://maisonbisson.com/post/converting-between-isbn-10-and-isbn-13/ Mon, 02 Oct 2006 18:21:58 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/converting-between-isbn-10-and-isbn-13/ David Kane asked the web4libbers: Can anyone tell me what the conversion between ISBN-10 and ISBN-13 is, please. https://maisonbisson.com/post/i-am-not-a-terrorist/ Sun, 01 Oct 2006 16:35:12 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/i-am-not-a-terrorist/ I Am Not A Terrorist. I AM NOT A TERRORIST. I am not a terrorist. https://maisonbisson.com/post/beat-box-bush-and-dj-cheney/ Sat, 30 Sep 2006 16:34:32 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/beat-box-bush-and-dj-cheney/ Bush speech mashups rock. From Google Video: So, you wanna learn how to beatbox? GWB is back with another amazing performance. https://maisonbisson.com/post/teddy-bear-cries-red-tears/ Sat, 30 Sep 2006 01:33:54 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/teddy-bear-cries-red-tears/ southtyrolean, who seems to take an interest in found graffiti posted this one (from Graz)to his Flickr stream, describing it: https://maisonbisson.com/post/this-would-make-a-really-great-blog-post/ Fri, 29 Sep 2006 16:27:45 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/this-would-make-a-really-great-blog-post/ Another great comic from XKCD: “I feel like I’m wasting my life on the internet. Let’s walk around the world. https://maisonbisson.com/post/rocking-wirelessly-verizons-v640-evdo-card/ Thu, 28 Sep 2006 16:47:46 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/rocking-wirelessly-verizons-v640-evdo-card/ After vacillating for a while (and waiting for it to become available), I finally purchased one of the Verizon / Novatel V640 Express Card EVDO adapters that everybody’s talking about for my MacBook Pro. https://maisonbisson.com/post/whitcher-sawmill-burned/ Thu, 28 Sep 2006 11:58:55 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/whitcher-sawmill-burned/ I described it to Jessamyn in an IM last night: lights flickering here, sirened vehicles passing frequently, https://maisonbisson.com/post/should-universities-host-faculty-or-student-blogs/ Wed, 27 Sep 2006 16:36:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/should-universities-host-faculty-or-student-blogs/ Our CIO is asking whether or not Plymouth should get involved with blogs. Not to be overly academic, but I think we should define our terms. https://maisonbisson.com/post/library-camp-east-2006/ Tue, 26 Sep 2006 17:17:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/library-camp-east-2006/ LCE2006 was a success. Let me quickly join with the other participants to offer my appreciation to John Blyberg and Alan Grey for all their work planning the event, as well as Darien Public Library director Louise Berry and the rest of the library for hosting the event. https://maisonbisson.com/post/scotchtober-fest/ Sun, 24 Sep 2006 16:05:22 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/scotchtober-fest/ New Hampshire’s Highland Games are back where they belong in Lincoln NH. Fittingly for the Highlands theme, the weather Saturday was cold and misty, with fogs rolling over the hills. https://maisonbisson.com/post/with-all-voices-now/ Sat, 23 Sep 2006 16:05:14 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/with-all-voices-now/ Preaching to the choir, or encouraging them to sing louder? TrueMajorityACTION‘s Take It Back campaign amuses, but will it motivate the middle? https://maisonbisson.com/post/kid-koalas-fender-bender/ Fri, 22 Sep 2006 16:09:05 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/kid-koalas-fender-bender/ While looking up Bonobo — who is soon to have a new album out — I discovered not only some videos of his tunes, but also a path leading to videos from other Nijna Tune artists, including this goodie from Kid Koala. https://maisonbisson.com/post/namiacs/ Thu, 21 Sep 2006 23:18:08 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/namiacs/ mr. pro-life and his wife, kirsten faith pro-life https://maisonbisson.com/post/why-not/ Thu, 21 Sep 2006 15:20:06 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/why-not/ does anybody know a way make a reverse-ordered — think countdown — ordered list without resorting to non-semantic (though ingenious) css tricks? https://maisonbisson.com/post/wp-ssl/ Tue, 19 Sep 2006 19:12:42 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wp-ssl/ one wonders why ssl support isn’t built-in to wp. until then, this noctis.de post offers some tips. https://maisonbisson.com/post/it-be-talk-like-a-pirate-day-matey/ Tue, 19 Sep 2006 04:23:23 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/it-be-talk-like-a-pirate-day-matey/ Hop to it, dogs. Peer an eye at thar video and argue not w’the cap’n: https://maisonbisson.com/post/our-responsibility-teach-our-children-how-to-talk-like-a-pirate-early-for-future-success/ Tue, 19 Sep 2006 04:03:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/our-responsibility-teach-our-children-how-to-talk-like-a-pirate-early-for-future-success/ <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tamworthlibrary/179777342/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/62/179777342_5300f601e6.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="Amy the pirate reading tales of the high seas" /></a></p> <p>There’s no question that the <a href="http://media.revver.com/broadcast/62077/video.mov" title="thar video">video</a> <a href="http://maisonbisson.com/post/11455/" title="It Be Talk Like A Pirate Day, Matey">mentioned this morning</a> is valuable resource for all of us, but our responsibility to our nation’s future demands more. The good folks at <a href="http://www.tamworth.lib.nh.us/">Cook Memorial Library</a> in <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Tamworth,+NH&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;z=13&amp;ll=43.858544,-71.263847&amp;spn=0.071543,0.228481&amp;om=1">Tamworth NH</a> are <a href="http://www.remainingrelevant.net/remaining/134">an example</a> to us all with their series of <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tamworthlibrary/179777342/">instructional sessions</a> in preparation for <a href="http://www.talklikeapirateday.com/">Talk Like A Pirate Day</a>.</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/microsoft-vs-bloggers-in-accusations-of-msn-spaces-censorship/ Tue, 19 Sep 2006 02:51:05 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/microsoft-vs-bloggers-in-accusations-of-msn-spaces-censorship/ <p style="border-bottom:dotted 1px 333333; padding-bottom: 1em;"> I’ve been citing pieces of <a href="http://www.everyhuman.com/work/">branding consultant james Torio</a>‘s <a href="www-everyhuman-com-theses8.12.low.pdf">master’s thesis</a> for some time now. But because the thesis is long, and I want to cite a few small pieces, and those pieces aren’t directly URL addressable, I’m quoting them here. Clickable URLs are added, but everything else should be <a href="www-everyhuman-com-theses8.12.low.pdf">exactly as Torio wrote it</a>. (Also related: <a href="http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/001219.html">Why There’s No Escaping The Blog</a> and <a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2004/12/02.html#a8788">MSN Spaces Isn’t The Blogging Service For Me</a>.) </p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/geo-tags-in-the-wp-codex/ Mon, 18 Sep 2006 19:11:10 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/geo-tags-in-the-wp-codex/ does this mean that geo stuff is built-in to wp? https://maisonbisson.com/post/php-array-to-xml/ Mon, 18 Sep 2006 16:12:22 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/php-array-to-xml/ I needed a quick, perhaps even sloppy way to output an array as XML. Some Googling turned up a few tools, including Simon Willison’s XmlWriter, Johnny Brochard’s Array 2 XML, Roger Veciana Associative array to XML, and Gijs van Tulder’s Array to XML. https://maisonbisson.com/post/mysql-fulltext-tips/ Sun, 17 Sep 2006 16:09:29 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/mysql-fulltext-tips/ Peter Gulutzan, author of SQL Performance Tuning, writes in The Full-Text Stuff That We Didn’t Put In The Manual about the particulars of word boundaries, index structure, boolean searching, exact phrase searching, and stopwords, as well as offering a few articles for further reading (Ian Gilfillan’s “Using Fulltext Index in MySQL”, Sergei Golubchik’s “MySQL Fulltext Search”, Joe Stump’s “MySQL FULLTEXT Searching”). https://maisonbisson.com/post/sysop-humor/ Fri, 15 Sep 2006 16:21:56 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/sysop-humor/ I got tipped to this geeky-funny comic that deserves reposting here for casual friday: https://maisonbisson.com/post/always-san-fran/ Thu, 14 Sep 2006 21:07:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/always-san-fran/ From the West Coast comes this tale– A friend of mine is part of Maxine Hong Kingston’s Veterans Writing group. https://maisonbisson.com/post/sweet-beanbag-chair/ Thu, 14 Sep 2006 16:07:02 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/sweet-beanbag-chair/ A Sumolounge beanbag chair is a beanbag like a Maserati is a car. But even that doesn’t properly characterize the difference. https://maisonbisson.com/post/making-plans-for-library-camp-east/ Wed, 13 Sep 2006 16:49:39 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/making-plans-for-library-camp-east/ In the list of things I should have done a month ago is an item about making my hotel reservations for Library Camp East 2006. https://maisonbisson.com/post/apples-itv-from-1995/ Tue, 12 Sep 2006 21:06:50 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/apples-itv-from-1995/ The original Apple press release is gone (and gone from the Wayback Machine too), but back in 1995 Apple announced a different set-top box, also called the iTV, for a six-state trial of interactive television services. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-church-of-september-11th/ Sun, 10 Sep 2006 16:22:46 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-church-of-september-11th/ David Moats did some hard thinking on Oliver Stone‘s World Trade Center. “[I]t occurred to me that the problem with the movie is that five years later we remain stuck in the moment. https://maisonbisson.com/post/top-gun-a-requiem-for-goose/ Fri, 08 Sep 2006 16:26:53 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/top-gun-a-requiem-for-goose/ TeamTigerAwesome‘s Top Gun: A Requiem For Goose is more than funny, it’s the sort of thing a person should mine for insults and one-liners to use later. https://maisonbisson.com/post/laura-veirs/ Thu, 07 Sep 2006 23:40:25 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/laura-veirs/ Hey folks! Good news. The Young Rapture Choir CD is now available from Raven Marching Band Records. https://maisonbisson.com/post/newertech-firewire-2-go-pcmciacardbus-card-target-disk-mode/ Thu, 07 Sep 2006 05:31:35 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/newertech-firewire-2-go-pcmciacardbus-card-target-disk-mode/ All my searching seems to confirm my hazy memory that my olf NewerTech FireWire 2 Go card does indeed support target disk mode, but the old “hold T while booting” trick doesn’t seem to be working. https://maisonbisson.com/post/mac-os-x-vnc/ Wed, 06 Sep 2006 21:55:55 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/mac-os-x-vnc/ Sure it’s old news, but I am pretty happy that Mac OS X 10.4 has a built-in VNC server. https://maisonbisson.com/post/crocodile-hunter-steve-irwin-dead/ Mon, 04 Sep 2006 11:30:32 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/crocodile-hunter-steve-irwin-dead/ TV star and crocodile hunter Steve Irwin is dead after being &lt;a href=&ldquo;http://www.injurywatch.co.uk/news-and-groups/news/marine-incidents/australia-s-crocodile-hunter-steve-irwin-killed-by-a-stingray-496621&quot; title=&ldquo;Australia&rsquo;s &ldquo;Crocodile Hunter&rdquo; Steve Irwin killed by a stingray — injurywatch&rdquo;&gt;stung by a stingray on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. https://maisonbisson.com/post/blue-marlin-spears-fisherman/ Sat, 02 Sep 2006 04:24:19 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/blue-marlin-spears-fisherman/ From the Royal Gazette: An angler was almost killed when a giant bill fish leapt from the sea, speared his chest and knocked him off his boat in a freak accident at the weekend. https://maisonbisson.com/post/remember-hes-really-big-in-germany/ Fri, 01 Sep 2006 16:29:21 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/remember-hes-really-big-in-germany/ Blame Bentley for this. And, as noted in a comment there, “it’s so amazing how [David] Hasselhoff has this entire other career that doesn’t exist in the US, except for mocking purposes. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-competitive-advantage-of-easing-upgrades/ Fri, 01 Sep 2006 01:09:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-competitive-advantage-of-easing-upgrades/ ZDnet’s David Berlind complains that upgrades are painful: Upgrading to new systems is one of the most painful things you can possibly do. https://maisonbisson.com/post/things-i-need-to-incorporate-into-various-projects/ Thu, 31 Aug 2006 00:57:07 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/things-i-need-to-incorporate-into-various-projects/ memcached, a “highly effective caching daemon, …designed to decrease database load in dynamic web applications,” and the related PHP functions pspell PHP functions related to aspell and this pspell overview from Zend http_build_query, duh? https://maisonbisson.com/post/new-russian-missile/ Tue, 29 Aug 2006 16:46:08 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/new-russian-missile/ I’m not going to make this point well, but let me try. Now that we’ve recognized the long tail of violence and the “open source insurgency” and seen the Hezbollah missile threat, it’s hard not to imagine a growing threat from enemy or terrorist missiles. https://maisonbisson.com/post/flickr-to-get-all-geotaggylicious/ Mon, 28 Aug 2006 16:22:09 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/flickr-to-get-all-geotaggylicious/ When Dan Cat gets cagey, and people are talking about mysterious map buttons in Flickr a guy has to wonder…is this why the lines between Dan’s hobby and day job are so blurry? https://maisonbisson.com/post/lurk-cut-paste-and/ Mon, 28 Aug 2006 02:05:54 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/lurk-cut-paste-and/ It is cutting and pasting but what other names are there now for it?? For looking at other websites, following the site and lifting off passages and putting them onto your own site– https://maisonbisson.com/post/seegers-springsteen/ Mon, 28 Aug 2006 02:04:07 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/seegers-springsteen/ Made the mistake of complaining about Bruce’s new album. I knew I was risking the age thing, and sure enough– https://maisonbisson.com/post/stranger-than-crazy/ Mon, 28 Aug 2006 02:03:44 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/stranger-than-crazy/ Every so often you want to know more about real gypsies. This film is where to start when that time comes round again. https://maisonbisson.com/post/we-just-have-to-go-do-the-work/ Sun, 27 Aug 2006 17:28:39 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/we-just-have-to-go-do-the-work/ Nicholas Lemann, in a story on blogging and citizen journalism in the August 7 issue of The New Yorker: https://maisonbisson.com/post/spam-spam-spam-but-good-support/ Sun, 27 Aug 2006 17:02:42 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/spam-spam-spam-but-good-support/ I awoke this morning to a bit of a mess. After enjoying months of spam-free bliss thanks to Akismet, I found over a hundred spam comments for pills and free pictures to suit most any need or desire. https://maisonbisson.com/post/reality-tv-infects-print-media/ Sat, 26 Aug 2006 04:10:31 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/reality-tv-infects-print-media/ Now that we’ve forgotten how deep the collected sludge on the bottom of our cultural barrel is since Fox appears to have given up dredging it for entertainment like Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire? https://maisonbisson.com/post/eaten-alive-books/ Sat, 26 Aug 2006 02:21:14 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/eaten-alive-books/ Eaten Alive Books https://maisonbisson.com/post/its-a-piece-of-cake-to-bake-a-pretty-cake/ Fri, 25 Aug 2006 16:47:21 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/its-a-piece-of-cake-to-bake-a-pretty-cake/ Don’t hate me for this, it was MattyB who showed it to me and then setup the domain itsapieceofcaketobakeaprettycake. https://maisonbisson.com/post/darwin-schmarwin/ Thu, 24 Aug 2006 22:55:52 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/darwin-schmarwin/ Are we ahead of Turkey? Yes. https://maisonbisson.com/post/library-camp-east-2006-cooler-than-the-other-library-convos/ Thu, 24 Aug 2006 16:44:31 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/library-camp-east-2006-cooler-than-the-other-library-convos/ Library Camp East 2006 is set for September 25 at Darien Public Library in Darien CT. https://maisonbisson.com/post/catching-bugs-before-they-catch-you/ Thu, 24 Aug 2006 00:47:29 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/catching-bugs-before-they-catch-you/ I got itchy about magic quotes the other day because it’s the cause (through a fairly long cascade of errors) of some performance problems and runaways I’ve been seeing lately (pictured above). https://maisonbisson.com/post/false/ Wed, 23 Aug 2006 20:21:15 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/false/ I had no words for it Now wri- ting I am temp ted to say https://maisonbisson.com/post/treo-dun/ Wed, 23 Aug 2006 16:47:48 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/treo-dun/ Sometime ago I started work on figuring out how to get dial up networking (DUN) access via my Treo 650. https://maisonbisson.com/post/dang-addslashes-and-gpc-magic-quotes/ Wed, 23 Aug 2006 00:20:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/dang-addslashes-and-gpc-magic-quotes/ Somewhere in the WordPress code extra slashes are being added to my query terms. I’ve turned GPC magic quotes off via a php_value magic_quotes_gpc 0 directive in the . https://maisonbisson.com/post/knockbox/ Tue, 22 Aug 2006 16:53:05 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/knockbox/ In another sign of the arrival of the stupendous, i.e. that the internet is changing our world, Engadget some time ago reported on the SellSmart Knockbox real estate selling dohicky. https://maisonbisson.com/post/are-you-with-me/ Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:33:13 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/are-you-with-me/ This weeks free i-tunes down load is the song ” Are You With Me?” released by the band Vaux. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wpopac-reloaded/ Mon, 21 Aug 2006 16:42:37 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wpopac-reloaded/ I’ve re-thought the contents of the record and summary displays in WPopac. After some experimentation and a lot of listening, it became clear that people needed specific information when looking at a search result or a catalog record. https://maisonbisson.com/post/longest-book-title-ever/ Mon, 21 Aug 2006 02:48:20 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/longest-book-title-ever/ Geography Made Easy : Being An Abridgement Of The American Universal Geography, Containing Astronomical Geography, Discovery And General Description Of America, General View Of The United States, Particular Accounts Of The United States Of America, And Of All The Kingdoms, States And Republics In The Known World, In Regard To Their Boundaries, Extent, Rivers, Lakes, Mountains, Productions, Population, Character, Government, Trade, Manufactures, Curiosities, History, &amp;c. https://maisonbisson.com/post/snakes-on-boards/ Sun, 20 Aug 2006 22:00:39 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/snakes-on-boards/ Snakes on skateboards would not wear helmets nor would they swing hatchets, but snakes on https://maisonbisson.com/post/verizon-evdo-service-and-the-mobile-office/ Sun, 20 Aug 2006 16:59:21 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/verizon-evdo-service-and-the-mobile-office/ The much anticipated Novatel V640 Express Card EVDO adapter is out. Verizon is pimping them for $180 with 2 year contract and GearLog says it’s “almost too easy” to use these goodies with the MacBook Pros. https://maisonbisson.com/post/sweet-bluetooth-graphire-tablet-bad-portraits/ Sat, 19 Aug 2006 14:43:34 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/sweet-bluetooth-graphire-tablet-bad-portraits/ My Graphire Bluetooth tablet arrived last week as a bundled treat with some Adobe software I needed. https://maisonbisson.com/post/carry-on-restrictions-to-carry-on/ Fri, 18 Aug 2006 16:08:33 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/carry-on-restrictions-to-carry-on/ The Mercury News’ QA on carry-on restrictions answered a big question I had: Q Can I still carry my laptop, cell phone and iPod on board? https://maisonbisson.com/post/all-about-non-profits/ Tue, 15 Aug 2006 00:34:18 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/all-about-non-profits/ I’ve been looking up information on non-profits, specifically 501c3 corporations. There’s this sales-pitch filled FAQ; The Company Corporation makes it sound easy, but this how to guide from the National Mental Health Association (of all places) seems to offer the…um…most honest info I’ve seen yet. https://maisonbisson.com/post/dancing-upstream/ Mon, 14 Aug 2006 01:02:28 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/dancing-upstream/ You might argue with Kevin Lim‘s suggestion that terrorism depends on our emotional and psychological insecurity, but can you really argue with the notion that more happy people is a bad thing? https://maisonbisson.com/post/sxsw-2007-program-proposals/ Sun, 13 Aug 2006 15:47:05 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/sxsw-2007-program-proposals/ There’s 173 programs proposed for SXSW Interactive, March 9-13 2007. Go vote for the ones you most want to see at Lindsey Simon’s super cool picker. https://maisonbisson.com/post/longhand-math/ Sat, 12 Aug 2006 16:13:09 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/longhand-math/ I found this at joe-ks.com. The title there is “Mennonite longhand math,” but can anybody identify the source or context? https://maisonbisson.com/post/lawn-mower-speed-record/ Fri, 11 Aug 2006 16:33:53 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/lawn-mower-speed-record/ It’s late summer and the heat wave killed the grass on your lawn, so what better to do than challenge Bob Cleveland’s record for the fastest lawn mower yet? https://maisonbisson.com/post/shakespeare-motivation-war-what-are-we-doing-here/ Tue, 08 Aug 2006 16:44:32 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/shakespeare-motivation-war-what-are-we-doing-here/ I’m a sap. I can’t help but get choked up when I read or hear Shakespeare’s St. https://maisonbisson.com/post/flight-hotel-spa/ Mon, 07 Aug 2006 16:42:26 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/flight-hotel-spa/ “Take a deep breath.” I did, and with it Lisa Souza, my massage practitioner at San Francisco’s International Orange, pressed into a knot just below my shoulder blade, deep in the latissimus dorsi. https://maisonbisson.com/post/workflow-goes-social/ Sun, 06 Aug 2006 21:02:08 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/workflow-goes-social/ I was amused this week to see two examples of workflow getting sexy. That’s not how the developers describe their efforts, but the departure from old groupware notions is clear. https://maisonbisson.com/post/sweet-coffee-shop-logo/ Sun, 06 Aug 2006 18:16:07 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/sweet-coffee-shop-logo/ How can a person not like Ritual Coffee Roasters [logo][2]? The [Laughing Squid][3] folks [apparently like the place][4]. https://maisonbisson.com/post/dr-frankensteins-stress-o-meter/ Sun, 06 Aug 2006 14:01:06 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/dr-frankensteins-stress-o-meter/ The Scientologists regularly have a table on Powell St., somewhere near Union Square. The game here, if it’s not obvious, is to invite people to take a free stress test, then sit them down and twiddle those unlabeled dials until the needle starts twitching. https://maisonbisson.com/post/a-technology-for-every-niche/ Sat, 05 Aug 2006 20:44:35 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/a-technology-for-every-niche/ Way too many people are processing grant applications on paper. They spend a lot of time moving paper around and they don’t know much about who’s applying until after the deadline. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordcamp-kickoff/ Sat, 05 Aug 2006 02:02:20 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordcamp-kickoff/ Woot! WordCamp kickoff party at Taylor’s Automatic Refresher (no doubt selected in part because homophone to Automattic), at the ferry Building. https://maisonbisson.com/post/go-air-scooter-go/ Fri, 04 Aug 2006 16:39:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/go-air-scooter-go/ While we’re still waiting for flying cars (or even just fuel efficient cars) I’m keeping track of tiny helicopters like the GEN H-4 and this one, the AirScooter II, pictured above. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-onion-greets-wikimania/ Fri, 04 Aug 2006 06:02:17 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-onion-greets-wikimania/ Wikimania is about to start, but here, the ever-topical Onion folk are poking fun at Wikipedia. https://maisonbisson.com/post/joes-favorite-novels/ Wed, 02 Aug 2006 16:15:16 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/joes-favorite-novels/ Will pressed Joe, asking him to name his top ten favorite books. Joe pressed back, saying such lists were ridiculous, but still, sometime later he emailed with the following: https://maisonbisson.com/post/opensearch-progress/ Wed, 02 Aug 2006 00:18:27 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/opensearch-progress/ I really need to keep better tabs on Michael Fagan, as his June 11 OpenSearch Update is full of goodies. https://maisonbisson.com/post/flickr-censorship-argument/ Tue, 01 Aug 2006 16:52:21 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/flickr-censorship-argument/ Quite a while ago now, stepinrazor asked people to do some self-censorhip in a post in the Flickr Ideas forum. https://maisonbisson.com/post/and-now-this-is-happening/ Tue, 01 Aug 2006 01:41:28 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/and-now-this-is-happening/ When a gossip site has a picture of Mel Gibson that looks more like Ted Kaczynski, and a story about drunken, anti-semitic ravings, I think “eh. https://maisonbisson.com/post/dooce-and-blogher/ Mon, 31 Jul 2006 16:42:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/dooce-and-blogher/ Bob, the occasional cultural affairs correspondent here, took me to task: how could you not? https://maisonbisson.com/post/wal-mart-trying-to-ape-myspace-seriously/ Sun, 30 Jul 2006 19:08:50 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wal-mart-trying-to-ape-myspace-seriously/ I just got a heads up on an Advertising Age story that Wal-Mart is trying to be MySpace (and, yeah, I aped their headline, too). https://maisonbisson.com/post/stage-two-truth/ Sun, 30 Jul 2006 12:48:47 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/stage-two-truth/ Arthur Schopenhauer is suggested to have said: Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. https://maisonbisson.com/post/richard-cheese/ Sat, 29 Jul 2006 19:55:50 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/richard-cheese/ Richard Cheese‘s lounge-core renditions of pop favorites (and some not-so-favorites) have been cracking me up every time they chime into the mix on random, but I didn’t know what the guy looked like until I spied Beatnikside‘s photo of the man in among his Vegas people set. https://maisonbisson.com/post/two-events-two-coasts/ Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:05:13 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/two-events-two-coasts/ Matt Mullenweg announced WordCamp in San Francisco, then ten days later Abby announced the LibraryThing cookout in Portland (Maine). https://maisonbisson.com/post/be-romantic-and-smoke-his-brains-out/ Fri, 28 Jul 2006 03:25:16 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/be-romantic-and-smoke-his-brains-out/ This photo from Tsunaminotes appeared in Ende’s photo stream and reminded me instantly of all the cool things I’d never done because I was born too late and cool stuff is what I saw in black and white photos from years past. https://maisonbisson.com/post/pretty-little-thing/ Fri, 28 Jul 2006 00:50:59 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/pretty-little-thing/ Fink‘s Pretty Little Thing is this week’s free download at iTunes, and I have to say I like it. https://maisonbisson.com/post/tags-folksonomies-and-whose-library-is-it-anyway/ Thu, 27 Jul 2006 20:33:24 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/tags-folksonomies-and-whose-library-is-it-anyway/ I was honored to join the conversation yesterday for the latest Talis Library 2.0 Gang podcast, this one on folksonomies and tags. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordcamp/ Wed, 26 Jul 2006 03:13:12 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordcamp/ As noted here, I’m going to WordCamp in SFO in early August. Matt describes it as a BarCamp-style event (where “’BarCamp-style’ is a code phrase for ‘last minute’”) with “a full day of both user and developer discussion. https://maisonbisson.com/post/its-how-you-use-it/ Tue, 25 Jul 2006 16:46:51 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/its-how-you-use-it/ Not A Pretty Librarian has kicked things off well with a first post titled “It Is Not A Tool,” covering an argument about which has more value to a teenager: a car or a computer. https://maisonbisson.com/post/bsuite-bug-fixes-release-b2v6/ Mon, 24 Jul 2006 16:39:28 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bsuite-bug-fixes-release-b2v6/ [innerindex]Update: bugfix release b2v7 available. It’s been a while since I released a new version of bsuite, my multi-purpose WordPress plugin. https://maisonbisson.com/post/its-official/ Sun, 23 Jul 2006 19:56:47 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/its-official/ WPopac, a project I started on my nights and weekends, is now officially one of my day-job projects too. https://maisonbisson.com/post/333/ Sat, 22 Jul 2006 23:06:18 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/333/ The music has been on random for weeks now, but 33.3‘s “Joanne Will,” from Plays Music played this afternoon as soundtrack to the summer rains. https://maisonbisson.com/post/beermapping/ Fri, 21 Jul 2006 15:04:47 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/beermapping/ In yet more geolocation news, beermapping.com‘s maps to breweries will make my travel planning easier, and my travels boozier. https://maisonbisson.com/post/plazes-updated/ Thu, 20 Jul 2006 16:51:13 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/plazes-updated/ Wearing the badge “still beta,” Plazes, the free, network-based geolocation service, now sports a new coat of paint. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-flickr-is-a-series-of-tubes/ Thu, 20 Jul 2006 13:37:12 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-flickr-is-a-series-of-tubes/ It’s hard to be angry with Flickr about unexpected downtime when they post funny things like this. https://maisonbisson.com/post/opensearch-in-a-nutshell/ Wed, 19 Jul 2006 16:19:04 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/opensearch-in-a-nutshell/ OpenSearch is a standard way of querying a database for content and returning the results. https://maisonbisson.com/post/arctic-monkeys/ Tue, 18 Jul 2006 00:51:54 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/arctic-monkeys/ While listening to my favorite radio station 92.1 FNX, I discovered my new favorite band. https://maisonbisson.com/post/nelinet-2006-it-conference-proposal/ Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:40:11 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/nelinet-2006-it-conference-proposal/ I recently submitted my proposal for the 2006 NELINET Information Technology Conference. It’s about WPopac, of course, but the excitement now is that the presentation would be the story of the first library outside PSU to implement it. https://maisonbisson.com/post/less-than-a-year-left-before-paris-retirement/ Fri, 14 Jul 2006 15:25:43 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/less-than-a-year-left-before-paris-retirement/ Yup, Tom reminded me recently that there’s less than a year left on the Official Paris Hilton Retirement Countdown. https://maisonbisson.com/post/technology-scouts-at-aall/ Tue, 11 Jul 2006 16:59:35 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/technology-scouts-at-aall/ I’m honored to join Katie Bauer, of Yale University Library, in a program coordinated by Mary Jane Kelsey, of Yale Law’s Lillian Goldman Library. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-social-software-over-there/ Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:01:04 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-social-software-over-there/ Amusing. One one side of the world is Jenny Levine, the original library RSS bigot, pushing libraries to adopt new technologies from the bottom up, and here on the other side of the world is NewsGator offering their products for top-down adoption. https://maisonbisson.com/post/inclusion-or-exclusion-by-language/ Fri, 07 Jul 2006 04:39:39 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/inclusion-or-exclusion-by-language/ …The time for pedantic purism is past; if we wish to communicate with the larger audience, we must use language they understand. https://maisonbisson.com/post/education-america/ Wed, 05 Jul 2006 20:23:01 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/education-america/ Today I discovered (thank you Ryan) Kareem Elnahal’s speech as valedictorian of Mainland Regional High School and I discovered new hope, new faith in our country’s future. https://maisonbisson.com/post/rocket-cars-make-better-fireworks/ Tue, 04 Jul 2006 22:34:26 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/rocket-cars-make-better-fireworks/ I pointed out this Jet Turbine Powered Toyota MR2 a year ago, but now I’ve discovered Ron Patrick’s Jet Powered VW Beatle. https://maisonbisson.com/post/antstepology/ Tue, 04 Jul 2006 21:06:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/antstepology/ French vexillographers circulate the national library, protesting flag desecration, too many windows, and cardboard sunscreens. Fireworks on the Fourth of July promise. https://maisonbisson.com/post/celebrate-independence-day-with-breakfast/ Tue, 04 Jul 2006 13:02:03 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/celebrate-independence-day-with-breakfast/ Let the vexillographers cringe, flag desecration never tasted so good. Sure, it’s barbecue season, but that’s no reason not to enjoy breakfast. https://maisonbisson.com/post/todays-termstags-concert-music-political-cr/ Mon, 03 Jul 2006 15:51:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/todays-termstags-concert-music-political-cr/ Today’s terms tags: , concert, music, political criticism, politics, show, the sun, they might be giants, tmbg https://maisonbisson.com/post/they-might-be-giants/ Sun, 02 Jul 2006 05:15:27 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/they-might-be-giants/ They Might Be Giants, playing at Mohegan Sun, drew roars of approval from the crowd when John Flansburgh went off-lyric sheet during The Sun (which they amusingly described as part of their Venue Songs series): https://maisonbisson.com/post/saturday-july-1-2006-201-pm/ Sat, 01 Jul 2006 22:04:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/saturday-july-1-2006-201-pm/ Is there a term already for what I am about to do? OK, here goes: https://maisonbisson.com/post/oops-i-covered-it-again/ Fri, 30 Jun 2006 04:43:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/oops-i-covered-it-again/ I don’t know why it is that I love bad knockoffs of cheap pop, but I do. https://maisonbisson.com/post/tony-galento/ Wed, 28 Jun 2006 04:37:12 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/tony-galento/ In the two years Joe spent researching and writing Two Ton: One Night, One Fight — Tony Galento v. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-pages-without-all-those-rewrite-rules/ Wed, 28 Jun 2006 00:45:29 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-pages-without-all-those-rewrite-rules/ My feelings on the Flag Burning Desecration Amendment should have been clear from my Flag Day story. https://maisonbisson.com/post/sealand-burning/ Sun, 25 Jun 2006 16:33:23 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/sealand-burning/ A comment from TroublePup alerted me that the Principality of Sealand burned Friday. The Evening Star explained: https://maisonbisson.com/post/american-diplomacy/ Sun, 25 Jun 2006 03:43:21 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/american-diplomacy/ I don’t collect stamps, but this set caught my eye. First there’s the irony that the USPS is celebrating American diplomacy at a time when, well, there’s not much to celebrate. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-twig-grand-opening/ Fri, 23 Jun 2006 04:18:27 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-twig-grand-opening/ Wendy sent out this invite last week: Last month the Monningers quite suddenly became restauranteurs. https://maisonbisson.com/post/context-language-systems/ Wed, 21 Jun 2006 16:17:03 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/context-language-systems/ “Bagged products” is little better than “cookery.” I’m gonna bet that no customer has ever asked the sales people for “bagged products,” that nobody’s ever checked the yellow pages for “bagged products,” and without context, nobody would come close to answering a question on what the heck “bagged products” are all about. https://maisonbisson.com/post/free-markets/ Tue, 20 Jun 2006 16:19:41 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/free-markets/ Point A: John Blyberg’s ILS Customer Bill-of-Rights. Point B: Dan Chudnov’s The problem with the “ILS Bill of Rights” https://maisonbisson.com/post/scooter-by-sunset/ Tue, 20 Jun 2006 03:31:29 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/scooter-by-sunset/ The light Sunday evening was golden, so I stopped to take way too many photos of the meadow in the sunset. https://maisonbisson.com/post/spark-funs-gps-data-logger/ Sun, 18 Jun 2006 16:23:55 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/spark-funs-gps-data-logger/ Engadget alerted me to this GPS data logger from Spark Fun Electronics. The device records up to 440 hours of data to a 256MB SD card in either a simple text file or KML-compatible format that you can display in Google Earth. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-pope-vs-the-da-vinci-code/ Sat, 17 Jun 2006 15:41:25 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-pope-vs-the-da-vinci-code/ The above image and following text are circulating the web, tickling funny bones. This man (on the left wearing a fabulous vintage chiffon-lined Dior gold lamé gown over a silk Vera Wang empire waist tulle cocktail dress, accessorized with a three-foot beaded peaked House of Whoville hat, and the ruby slippers Judy Garland wore in the Wizard of Oz) is worried that The Da Vinci Code might make the Roman Catholic Church look foolish. https://maisonbisson.com/post/from-the-memepool/ Sat, 17 Jun 2006 00:09:09 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/from-the-memepool/ Memepool has more than earned its place in my aggregator. Where else would I learn of The Monkey Chow Diaries (and blog), or the plot structure of Fight Club in Legos, or this flying dude? https://maisonbisson.com/post/happy-bloomsday/ Fri, 16 Jun 2006 16:35:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/happy-bloomsday/ Thanks to an aside in a sad/angering story at Copyfight, I’m now up on Bloomsday. Here it is, as explained by Wikipedia: https://maisonbisson.com/post/google-geo-news/ Fri, 16 Jun 2006 15:07:57 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/google-geo-news/ This post started with Ryan sending me this link demonstrating a KML overlay of county borders of his bifurcated state in Google Maps. https://maisonbisson.com/post/donal-norman-everyday-things/ Fri, 16 Jun 2006 04:11:54 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/donal-norman-everyday-things/ I was especially young and impressionable when I discovered Don Norman‘s The Design of Everyday Things, but I still claim it’s required reading for anybody who’s read more than one post here at MaisonBisson. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-alano-events-id-like-to-see/ Thu, 15 Jun 2006 16:35:34 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-alano-events-id-like-to-see/ I’m not going to ALA/NO so I’m hoping those who are will blog it. Two events I’m especially interested in: https://maisonbisson.com/post/biblioblogger-at-the-branch-library/ Wed, 14 Jun 2006 23:48:36 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/biblioblogger-at-the-branch-library/ Steve Lawson‘s A biblioblogger visits the local branch library is worth a look and quite a hoot. https://maisonbisson.com/post/squashing-criticism-vs-improving-products/ Wed, 14 Jun 2006 19:04:08 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/squashing-criticism-vs-improving-products/ I wrote yesterday of Nicole Engard’s comment that the ILS was about as open and flexible as a brick wall. https://maisonbisson.com/post/seven-deadly-sins/ Tue, 13 Jun 2006 23:44:34 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/seven-deadly-sins/ Seven Deadly Sins, The some people think seven is too many, others think it’s not enough https://maisonbisson.com/post/dopa-social-software-and-libraries/ Tue, 13 Jun 2006 23:43:33 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/dopa-social-software-and-libraries/ I’m more than a month late to this bandwagon, but whatever. Jessamyn alerted me to DOPA, the proposed Deleting Online Predators Act. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-ils-brick-wall/ Tue, 13 Jun 2006 16:57:22 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-ils-brick-wall/ &lt;img src=&ldquo;static-flickr-com-103031816_f396e4b726.jpg&rdquo; width=&ldquo;500&rdquo; height=&ldquo;375&rdquo; alt=&ldquo;The great wall of &ldquo;standards&rdquo;&rdquo; /&gt; Nicole Engard last month posted about The State of our ILS, describing the systems as: https://maisonbisson.com/post/darn-dns/ Tue, 13 Jun 2006 00:52:10 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/darn-dns/ So, you should expect problems when you move your server to a new IP and don’t bother to update the InterNIC registration for your nameservers. https://maisonbisson.com/post/did-adam-and-eve-have-navels/ Mon, 12 Jun 2006 23:42:36 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/did-adam-and-eve-have-navels/ Did Adam And Eve Have Navels? : Discourses On Reflexology, Numerology, Urine Therapy, And Other Dubious Subjects https://maisonbisson.com/post/ugh-save-npr-and-pbs-again/ Mon, 12 Jun 2006 15:08:13 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/ugh-save-npr-and-pbs-again/ My dad just forwarded the following message to me: Hi, Everyone expected House Republicans to give up efforts to kill NPR and PBS after a massive public outcry stopped them last year. https://maisonbisson.com/post/t2000-unboxed-and-online/ Sun, 11 Jun 2006 16:51:16 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/t2000-unboxed-and-online/ My Sun T2000 is here, and with Cliff‘s help it’s now patched, configured, and online. https://maisonbisson.com/post/ego-soars/ Sat, 10 Jun 2006 23:15:43 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/ego-soars/ because sometimes i feel i’m just moving my lips to the sound of babble, it’s a great delight to find a blog post that suggests i said something coherent. https://maisonbisson.com/post/nina-katchadourians-sorted-books/ Sat, 10 Jun 2006 19:34:02 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/nina-katchadourians-sorted-books/ It seems common among contemporary artists that a web search might turn up a few pictures of their works, but not much about them or their works. https://maisonbisson.com/post/trading-cards-and-horror-movie-brides/ Fri, 09 Jun 2006 05:49:50 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/trading-cards-and-horror-movie-brides/ How can I not appreciate thenonist‘s link dumps and other posts when they’re illustrated with works like those above? https://maisonbisson.com/post/url-addressable-spreadsheet-cells-and-cell-ranges/ Thu, 08 Jun 2006 16:36:29 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/url-addressable-spreadsheet-cells-and-cell-ranges/ When I heard news that Google was to release a spreadsheet companion to their freshly bought Writely web-based word processing app, I got excited about all the things they could do to make it more than just a copy of Numsum. https://maisonbisson.com/post/solaris-amp-asap/ Thu, 08 Jun 2006 01:02:04 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/solaris-amp-asap/ A Solaris sysadmin I’m not. But now that I’ve finally got the Sun T2000 server I begged for a while back, I’ve got to ramp it up right quick. https://maisonbisson.com/post/circle-of-gorillas/ Wed, 07 Jun 2006 22:58:08 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/circle-of-gorillas/ Thenonist brings the story of Buddy/Gargantua The Great back with better pictures in a post subtitled “Buddy, the gorilla who was scared of lightning” https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-urls-from-my-portland-talk/ Tue, 06 Jun 2006 15:53:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-urls-from-my-portland-talk/ Following Edward Tufte’s advice, I’ve been wanting to offer a presentation without slides for a long time now; I finally got my chance in Portland. https://maisonbisson.com/post/prime/ Fri, 02 Jun 2006 13:28:46 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/prime/ As it turns out, +2,147,483,647 is not just the largest 32 bit signed integer you’ll find most anyplace, it’s also a prime number. https://maisonbisson.com/post/asian-scooter-gangs/ Wed, 31 May 2006 22:21:39 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/asian-scooter-gangs/ The members of this Taiwanese scooter gang might really be cooler than me. Well, they would be cooler if the scooter gangs weren’t also known to be violent: https://maisonbisson.com/post/car-lust/ Wed, 31 May 2006 03:34:36 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/car-lust/ I told Vincent that I didn’t really care much for cars. It was my sister, I explained, that wanted to look. https://maisonbisson.com/post/will-google-eat-itself/ Mon, 29 May 2006 15:06:34 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/will-google-eat-itself/ Once upon a time Microsoft was the gorilla to beat. Once upon a time we thought Google could do it. https://maisonbisson.com/post/sweet-portland/ Sun, 28 May 2006 19:28:19 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/sweet-portland/ Central Library in Portland wasn’t open when I returned the next morning to get some snapshots, but you’ll have to take my word that they did a great job renovating it ten years ago. https://maisonbisson.com/post/colorado-stuff/ Tue, 23 May 2006 02:06:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/colorado-stuff/ There’s plenty of public art in Denver, including a blue bear and this horse in a red chair (here and here, respectively). https://maisonbisson.com/post/denver-nights/ Mon, 22 May 2006 11:36:21 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/denver-nights/ El Chapultepec is a little jazz club on Market St in LoDo. The Walnut Room just north of everything offers live music and a sweet mile high club pizza made “kitchen sink style. https://maisonbisson.com/post/presentation-designing-an-opac-for-web-20-2/ Sun, 21 May 2006 14:38:25 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/presentation-designing-an-opac-for-web-20-2/ IUG 2006 presentation: Designing an OPAC for Web 2.0 (also available as a PDF with space for notes) https://maisonbisson.com/post/and-were-discarding-this/ Sat, 20 May 2006 18:41:19 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/and-were-discarding-this/ I read enough of this to get a good laugh, but not enough to understand if it was serious or not. https://maisonbisson.com/post/scooter/ Fri, 19 May 2006 18:34:10 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/scooter/ My new scooter. It’s not much of a picture, but we’ve had two weeks of rain and this is what I could get. https://maisonbisson.com/post/whiskey-blanket/ Thu, 18 May 2006 01:45:42 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/whiskey-blanket/ I just bought Whiskey Blanket‘s It’s Warmer Down Here (2004) on the basis of a few tracks they offered on MySpace. https://maisonbisson.com/post/flickr-goes-gamma/ Tue, 16 May 2006 20:52:06 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/flickr-goes-gamma/ Just when we started wondering how much longer flickr would be beta, they announced gamma. https://maisonbisson.com/post/better-business-bureau-pulls-one-out/ Tue, 16 May 2006 02:17:12 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/better-business-bureau-pulls-one-out/ I gave up on Hostgator a while ago, and I thought I’d cancelled my account until I noticed they were still charging me monthly (yeah, I should pay more attention to what’s on my CC bill). https://maisonbisson.com/post/linkability-is-community/ Mon, 15 May 2006 14:58:32 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/linkability-is-community/ It’s hard to know how Fuzzyfruit found the WPopac catalog page for A Baby Sister for Frances (though it is ranked fifth in a Google search for the title), but what matters is that she did find it, and she was able to link to it by simply copying the URL from her browser’s location bar. https://maisonbisson.com/post/stonehill-industrial-history-center-aka-the-shovel-museum/ Mon, 15 May 2006 03:26:29 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/stonehill-industrial-history-center-aka-the-shovel-museum/ Most travel guides simply call it the “shovel museum,” but it’s really the Stonehill Industrial History Center. https://maisonbisson.com/post/blogging-from-basements/ Fri, 12 May 2006 19:17:05 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/blogging-from-basements/ My buddy Cliff emailed me excited about the following quote he found on the Yahoo Finance message boards: https://maisonbisson.com/post/autistic/ Thu, 11 May 2006 01:41:24 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/autistic/ This isn’t as funny as it used to be. Every time I read about or hear of somebody talking about autism, I recognize some many of the behaviors as my own. https://maisonbisson.com/post/s3/ Tue, 09 May 2006 16:08:14 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/s3/ Ryan Eby got me excited about S3 a while ago when he pointed out this post on the Amazon web services blog and started talking up the notion of building library-style digital repositories. https://maisonbisson.com/post/reputation-management-at-applied-dreams-22/ Mon, 08 May 2006 15:28:35 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/reputation-management-at-applied-dreams-22/ Ryan gave me the drop on this presentation by Dave Chiu and Didier Hilhorst where they do an amusingly effective job of explaining the concept of reputation management. https://maisonbisson.com/post/betty-bowers/ Sun, 07 May 2006 23:39:37 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/betty-bowers/ First I found her Harry Potter review, then I found the God Told Me To Hate You buttons and other stuff. https://maisonbisson.com/post/who-makes-these-decisions-anyway/ Sun, 07 May 2006 16:54:02 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/who-makes-these-decisions-anyway/ Brian’s comment at RemainingRelevant should resonate with many of us: Something to consider about why libraries end up with bad interfaces (at least as far as catalogs go) is that it might be that the people who use the interface (and help the public use it) are not the people who decide which interface to use. https://maisonbisson.com/post/george-bush-and-cognitive-dissonance-evolution-is-a-lie-and-bird-flu-will-evolve-to-threaten-humans/ Sun, 07 May 2006 02:09:52 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/george-bush-and-cognitive-dissonance-evolution-is-a-lie-and-bird-flu-will-evolve-to-threaten-humans/ Alpha Liberal reminds me that Bush somehow gets his head around the following: “the jury is still out on evolution” https://maisonbisson.com/post/used-brains-and-black-plague-on-ebay/ Sat, 06 May 2006 01:01:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/used-brains-and-black-plague-on-ebay/ He he. Chuckle, chuckle. Thanks to Kris and Brett for these pics. They ads are still there now when I search Google for used brain or black plague. https://maisonbisson.com/post/authority-and-base-jumping/ Fri, 05 May 2006 16:24:34 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/authority-and-base-jumping/ Authority has varied meanings in every context. This piece on iFilm has Iiro Seppanen explaining his view of the matter as it relates to jumping off the Stratosphere in Las Vegas. https://maisonbisson.com/post/i-dont-need-an-excuse-to-drink-tequila-but-ill-eagerly-take-one/ Fri, 05 May 2006 04:01:01 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/i-dont-need-an-excuse-to-drink-tequila-but-ill-eagerly-take-one/ Ian Chadwick’s In Search of the Blue Agave begins: “Tequila is Mexico,” said Carmelita Roman, widow of the late tequila producer Jesus Lopez Roman in an interview after her husband’s murder. https://maisonbisson.com/post/q-why-do-some-things-suck/ Thu, 04 May 2006 20:54:48 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/q-why-do-some-things-suck/ A: Because we compare them to the wrong things. I’m in training today for a piece of software used in libraries. https://maisonbisson.com/post/a-barn-in-new-england/ Thu, 04 May 2006 15:50:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/a-barn-in-new-england/ A discussion on Web4Lib last month raised the issue of Google indexing our library catalogs. My answer spoke of the huge number of searches being done in search engines every day and the way that people increasingly expect that anything worth finding can be found in Google. https://maisonbisson.com/post/higher-ed-blog-con-and-other-things-i-should-have-posted-about-last-month/ Wed, 03 May 2006 02:41:14 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/higher-ed-blog-con-and-other-things-i-should-have-posted-about-last-month/ I meant to post about this weeks ago, but HigherEd BlogCon has now come and gone. https://maisonbisson.com/post/linkrot-we-dont-have-any-steenking-linkrot/ Tue, 02 May 2006 18:42:17 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/linkrot-we-dont-have-any-steenking-linkrot/ Allen asked, via the web4lib list: I’m interested in how others handle linkrot in library blogs. https://maisonbisson.com/post/frank-rich-on-bushs-last-1000-days/ Mon, 01 May 2006 00:09:38 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/frank-rich-on-bushs-last-1000-days/ Frank Rich’s New York Times op-ed column today was full of the kind of easy one-liners that repressives conservatives usually like to use against honest people progressives. https://maisonbisson.com/post/kobb-labs/ Sun, 30 Apr 2006 02:13:02 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/kobb-labs/ Joe forwarded me a link to Kobb Labs the other day, and I’ve got to admit that the guy has a much better introduction than anything I could have written for my site: https://maisonbisson.com/post/moba-revisited/ Fri, 28 Apr 2006 23:29:43 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/moba-revisited/ I had a good opportunity to revisit the Museum of Bad Art in Dedham Mass earlier this week. https://maisonbisson.com/post/cupcakes/ Fri, 28 Apr 2006 16:16:24 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/cupcakes/ “I’ve never seen the inside of a rabbit’s brain before. What’s in there anyway?” https://maisonbisson.com/post/twenty-years-and-a-day/ Fri, 28 Apr 2006 03:49:34 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/twenty-years-and-a-day/ Mark Nelson’s Pripyat series on flickr is full of the pictures of desolation that people seem to be looking for as we solemnly honor the twentieth anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. https://maisonbisson.com/post/chernobyl-and-pripyat-satellite-photos/ Thu, 27 Apr 2006 03:25:07 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/chernobyl-and-pripyat-satellite-photos/ Today, on the twentieth anniversary of the disaster, Google has added high-resolution satellite photos of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and the abandoned town of Pripyat. https://maisonbisson.com/post/twenty-years-ago-today/ Wed, 26 Apr 2006 04:00:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/twenty-years-ago-today/ Twenty years ago today at 1:23:44, the Chernobyl NPP reactor number four exploded. Five thousand tons of lead, sand, and other materials were dropped on the resulting fire in an attempt to stop the spread of the radioactive cloud. https://maisonbisson.com/post/boolean-searching-in-wpopac/ Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:35:58 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/boolean-searching-in-wpopac/ WPopac takes advantage of MySQL’s indexing and relevance-ranked searching (go ahead, try it), including boolean searching (on MySQL versions &gt; 4. https://maisonbisson.com/post/shifting-borders/ Mon, 24 Apr 2006 16:01:28 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/shifting-borders/ My first reaction to the notion of librarians running reading groups in Second Life was a question of whether this was akin to putting a reference desk in a bar. https://maisonbisson.com/post/living-the-life-embarrassing-stupid-online/ Sun, 23 Apr 2006 21:49:44 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/living-the-life-embarrassing-stupid-online/ Without contradicting the moral weight of social software post from last week, let’s take a moment to look at three stories from Arstechnica about MySpace and others: online video leads to teen arrests, shooting rampage avoided due to MySpace posting, and Google + Facebook + alcohol = trouble. https://maisonbisson.com/post/gnarls-barkley-crazy/ Sat, 22 Apr 2006 16:49:07 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/gnarls-barkley-crazy/ Other than the notion that I heard it on a KCRW music show, I couldn’t put my finger on the tune weaving through my head. https://maisonbisson.com/post/airport/ Fri, 21 Apr 2006 16:29:11 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/airport/ Iain Anderson‘s animated film, Aiport, shows even the most pedestrian of designs come to life with a bit of creativity. https://maisonbisson.com/post/bush-i-invented-the-ipod/ Fri, 21 Apr 2006 02:26:19 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bush-i-invented-the-ipod/ President Bush, speaking in Alabama at the American Competitiveness Initiative, made a claim that would make Al Gore blush: he claimed to have invented the iPod. https://maisonbisson.com/post/bibliochaise/ Thu, 20 Apr 2006 20:43:35 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bibliochaise/ What book lover doesn’t look twice at this bibliochaise from nobody&amp;co? https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-wealth-of-networks/ Thu, 20 Apr 2006 19:44:46 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-wealth-of-networks/ Wendy Seltzer gave a shout-out for Yochai Nenkler‘s The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom, describing it as… https://maisonbisson.com/post/danah-boyd-on-the-moral-weight-of-social-software/ Tue, 18 Apr 2006 16:29:57 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/danah-boyd-on-the-moral-weight-of-social-software/ Danah Boyd posted recently at Many-to-Many about the future of social software. I’ve been more than a little bit gung ho on web 2. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-baseline-changes-to-support-wpopac/ Mon, 17 Apr 2006 13:01:57 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-baseline-changes-to-support-wpopac/ <p>I’ve whittled things down to the point where the only baseline change from WordPress 2.0.2 is in the <a href="http://cenamayo.com/wpxref/nav.html?_functions/index.html#next_posts_link">next_posts_link</a> function of the <code>wp-includes/template-functions-links.php</code> file. The change is necessary because <a href="http://maisonbisson.com/post/11133/">WPopac</a> rewrites the SQL search queries in a way that’s incompatible with a piece of this function, but necessary for performance reasons.</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/whered-all-my-rewrite-rules-go/ Sun, 16 Apr 2006 23:11:57 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/whered-all-my-rewrite-rules-go/ Between WordPress 1.x and 2.x there was a big change to the way rewrite rules are handled. https://maisonbisson.com/post/bloody-tax-day/ Sat, 15 Apr 2006 15:39:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bloody-tax-day/ April 15 has been tax day in the US for as long as anybody can remember, but with the weekend and all, most of us have ’til Monday to file and some of us in the Northeast have ’til Tuesday. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-crucible/ Fri, 14 Apr 2006 15:57:54 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-crucible/ Who wouldn’t like to play with The Crucible‘s “fire truck”? What’s “The Crucible”? [it’s] an arts education center that fosters a collaboration of arts, industry and community. https://maisonbisson.com/post/movie-combos/ Fri, 14 Apr 2006 06:15:53 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/movie-combos/ This is strange enough on its own, but I dare you to use it as a soundtrack to this one. https://maisonbisson.com/post/printer-fingerprinting/ Fri, 14 Apr 2006 02:05:14 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/printer-fingerprinting/ News came out a while ago that many of our laser printers were embedding “fingerprints” that allowed folks who knew how (like, say, the feds) to trace a printed page back to the day and time it was printed, and the serial number of the printer. https://maisonbisson.com/post/php5s-simplexml-now-passes-cdata-content/ Wed, 12 Apr 2006 16:03:09 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/php5s-simplexml-now-passes-cdata-content/ I didn’t hear big announcement of it, but [deep in the docs][1] (? PHP 5.1.0) you’ll find a note about [additional Libxml parameters][2]. https://maisonbisson.com/post/reboot-your-pod/ Tue, 11 Apr 2006 16:52:01 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/reboot-your-pod/ Colin has a nifty guide to your iPod’s hidden commands, like those for rebooting or getting into the diagnostics. https://maisonbisson.com/post/good-headline/ Tue, 11 Apr 2006 02:22:19 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/good-headline/ Don’t these Mainich Daily News editors think they’re the shit when they get to combine “bondage” and “rope” in the same headline. https://maisonbisson.com/post/i-will-trademark-your-every-word/ Mon, 10 Apr 2006 19:47:44 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/i-will-trademark-your-every-word/ Yes, as it turns out, “freedom of expression®” is a trademarked term. And, yes, as it turns out, somebody’s been cease and desisted for using it. https://maisonbisson.com/post/teens-lead/ Mon, 10 Apr 2006 16:12:58 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/teens-lead/ I happened to stumble back onto the Pew Internet Report on teens and technology from July 2005 that report that told us “87% of [US children] between the ages of 12 and 17 are online. https://maisonbisson.com/post/i-m-12/ Sun, 09 Apr 2006 17:17:22 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/i-m-12/ Super heros gotta go too, ya know? https://maisonbisson.com/post/regret-the-error/ Sun, 09 Apr 2006 11:48:21 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/regret-the-error/ Not all errors in news reporting are as trivial as this one: THE COST of beer kegs has risen by about 30% since the end of 2003. https://maisonbisson.com/post/and-he-did-it-in-a-tie/ Sat, 08 Apr 2006 21:05:56 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/and-he-did-it-in-a-tie/ Steve Jobs Demos NeXTSTEP https://maisonbisson.com/post/macs-vs-pcs/ Sat, 08 Apr 2006 16:25:47 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/macs-vs-pcs/ Vista delayed The delay is the latest problem for the software giant’s flagship operating system. Microsoft had originally slated the software for release in late 2005, but pushed back its target date to summer 2006 and dropped several planned features to try to guarantee delivery. https://maisonbisson.com/post/bad-quality/ Sat, 08 Apr 2006 01:34:13 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bad-quality/ I should be all down on this sneaky way of advertising Nokia’s N90, but…eh, they’re funny. https://maisonbisson.com/post/zhang-huans-my-boston/ Fri, 07 Apr 2006 16:09:51 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/zhang-huans-my-boston/ Most people may recognize Zhang Huan from his “My New York” work that had him dressed in a beefy muscle suit. https://maisonbisson.com/post/drive-thru/ Fri, 07 Apr 2006 15:02:52 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/drive-thru/ crucifixion https://maisonbisson.com/post/titles-and-typefaces/ Fri, 07 Apr 2006 13:20:29 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/titles-and-typefaces/ Ryan pointed out that the titles for Thank You For Smoking are pretty interesting, then he followed up with a pointer to some font spotting at Typographica. https://maisonbisson.com/post/dns-problems/ Fri, 07 Apr 2006 02:39:50 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/dns-problems/ Things went whacky with Dotster‘s hosted DNS services last night. Though the problem now appears to be fixed on their end (and I’ve actually move elsewhere in my attempts to get back online), it could be a while before the bad data is flushed from caches around the world. https://maisonbisson.com/post/interesting-scary/ Thu, 06 Apr 2006 21:01:54 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/interesting-scary/ Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s 4. more. https://maisonbisson.com/post/identity-management-in-social-spaces/ Thu, 06 Apr 2006 16:47:53 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/identity-management-in-social-spaces/ (note: the following is cross-posted at Identity Future.) Being that good software — the social software that’s nearly synonymous with Web 2. https://maisonbisson.com/post/big-iron-wont-win-wars-anymore/ Thu, 06 Apr 2006 00:01:49 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/big-iron-wont-win-wars-anymore/ Technology changes things, sure. The question is, how do you recognize the early signs of change before they become catastrophic? https://maisonbisson.com/post/sparkline-php/ Wed, 05 Apr 2006 20:57:54 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/sparkline-php/ Sparklines are “intense, simple, wordlike graphics? so named by Edward Tufte. In lieu of a more detailed introduction, Professor Tufte’s site has an early release of a chapter on sparklines. https://maisonbisson.com/post/more-bsuite-hacking/ Wed, 05 Apr 2006 16:41:13 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/more-bsuite-hacking/ Update: bugfix release b2v6 available. Some conversations with Chow Kah Soon, who’s site is full of diversions from work , finally convinced encouraged me to solve some small problems that were giving him big trouble. https://maisonbisson.com/post/winters-last-breath/ Wed, 05 Apr 2006 13:35:18 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/winters-last-breath/ Snow and rain mixed throughout the day Tuesday, but we awoke to glistening white fields and trees. https://maisonbisson.com/post/dont-think-you-use-web-20-think-again/ Wed, 05 Apr 2006 03:59:08 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/dont-think-you-use-web-20-think-again/ It can be hard for library folk to imagine that the web development world might be as divided about the meaning and value of “Web 2. https://maisonbisson.com/post/i-hate-drm-and-other-projects-to-preserve-the-digital-artistic-commons/ Wed, 05 Apr 2006 01:53:36 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/i-hate-drm-and-other-projects-to-preserve-the-digital-artistic-commons/ People hate DRM. It prevents law abiding folks from enjoying the music and movies they’ve purchased, and it does little to prevent crackers from making illegal copies. https://maisonbisson.com/post/number-sequences/ Wed, 05 Apr 2006 01:02:03 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/number-sequences/ Think about it, at the moment this post went live, it was one hour, two minutes, and three seconds past midnight Greenwich Mean Time. https://maisonbisson.com/post/richard-sambrook-talks-citizen-journalism/ Tue, 04 Apr 2006 17:04:06 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/richard-sambrook-talks-citizen-journalism/ I’m not sure what to think of Richard Sambrook appearing to struggle to find a place for traditional journalism in the age of the internet, but the story’s worth a read. https://maisonbisson.com/post/getting-things-done-and-feeling-okay-about-it/ Tue, 04 Apr 2006 01:03:33 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/getting-things-done-and-feeling-okay-about-it/ How’s a guy supposed to feel when his manager gives him a copy of David Allen’s Getting Things Done? https://maisonbisson.com/post/go-get-yer-podcast-on/ Mon, 03 Apr 2006 17:23:32 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/go-get-yer-podcast-on/ Gizmodo pointed out these USB and FireWire podcasting kits from Alesis. The package gets you a (hopefully not sucky) microphone with desktop stand, headphones, a carrying case, podcast production software, Cubase LE recording and editing software, and a digital mixer that plugs directly into the computer via USB or FireWire (duh). https://maisonbisson.com/post/information-behavior/ Mon, 03 Apr 2006 00:16:08 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/information-behavior/ It was more than a year ago that Lorcan Dempsey pointed out this bit from The Chronicle: https://maisonbisson.com/post/atlanta-art-scene-spring-2006/ Sun, 02 Apr 2006 23:02:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/atlanta-art-scene-spring-2006/ Atlanta was a bit of a lark. I hadn’t seen my friends for a while, and they were telling me that the weather was beautiful. https://maisonbisson.com/post/water-feature/ Sun, 02 Apr 2006 05:48:34 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/water-feature/ We were excited in New Hampshire to have the first week of weather warm enough to go out without our coats at midday, but Atlanta was warm enough to hop in the pool and hot tub after midnight. https://maisonbisson.com/post/abductions/ Fri, 31 Mar 2006 17:07:51 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/abductions/ I don’t know how I feel about shilling for the california dairy industry, but this cow abduction site is pretty funny. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-aural-times/ Fri, 31 Mar 2006 15:14:43 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-aural-times/ Thanks again to a good tip from Ryan, I’ve get something new to laugh at: The Aural Times. https://maisonbisson.com/post/did-i-really-just-put-this-together/ Fri, 31 Mar 2006 05:11:57 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/did-i-really-just-put-this-together/ Huh. Noah Shachtman tells us that even with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan raging, our military forces are spending $70 Billion to arm up for a new enemy. https://maisonbisson.com/post/facts-of-life/ Fri, 31 Mar 2006 03:17:22 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/facts-of-life/ A person will do certain things for money. https://maisonbisson.com/post/idm-takes-lessons-from-the-microformats-crowd/ Fri, 31 Mar 2006 02:46:07 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/idm-takes-lessons-from-the-microformats-crowd/ A tip from [Ryan][1] sent me [looking][2] at [MicroID][3]: a new Identity layer to the web and [Microformats][4] that allows anyone to simply claim verifiable ownership over their own pages and content hosted anywhere. https://maisonbisson.com/post/and-a-mechanical-turk-to-rule-them-all/ Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:04:05 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/and-a-mechanical-turk-to-rule-them-all/ Paul Bausch has concerns about Amazon’s Mechanical Turk: I can imagine a world where my computer can organize my time in front of the screen better than I can. https://maisonbisson.com/post/involvement-inclusion-collaboration/ Mon, 27 Mar 2006 17:12:31 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/involvement-inclusion-collaboration/ Peter Caputa dropped a comment on Jeff Nolan‘s post about Zvents. The discussion was about how online event/calendar aggregators did business in a world where everything is rather thinly distributed. https://maisonbisson.com/post/chernobyl-disaster-20-years-later/ Mon, 27 Mar 2006 03:24:31 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/chernobyl-disaster-20-years-later/ Nearly 20 years after the initial events of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of April 26 1986, the story is still unfolding. https://maisonbisson.com/post/germaine/ Sun, 26 Mar 2006 15:17:15 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/germaine/ I found Germaine across from the Prudential Center Friday. His sound was good and I especially liked his snare drum. https://maisonbisson.com/post/door-of-mystery/ Sun, 26 Mar 2006 03:02:58 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/door-of-mystery/ I found myself wandering about Boston Public Library for longer than I expected Friday. Part of it was the map exhibit and part of it was the architecture (and simply a place to relax for a bit). https://maisonbisson.com/post/questions-are-all-around-us/ Sat, 25 Mar 2006 21:58:20 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/questions-are-all-around-us/ These pictures are mostly foolish, but here’s a small point: none of us had ever seen a cop pull over a cab — certainly not a cab with passengers — before this, so we were all rather curious about why. https://maisonbisson.com/post/poke/ Fri, 24 Mar 2006 17:03:02 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/poke/ I won’t say why I went looking for pictures of people getting poked with sticks (but you’ll figure it out in a later post). https://maisonbisson.com/post/business-marketing-babble-makes-me-laugh/ Fri, 24 Mar 2006 13:42:35 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/business-marketing-babble-makes-me-laugh/ Found on Jeff Nolan’s blog: Competitive Intelligence: “a large fuzzy animal may be a bear.” https://maisonbisson.com/post/future-of-human-computer-interaction/ Fri, 24 Mar 2006 00:56:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/future-of-human-computer-interaction/ My Dutch skills are weak to non-existant, and without a Google translator for MacArena.be, I’m pretty much stuck with staring at the above video and contemplating the short description provided: https://maisonbisson.com/post/facial-recognitition-spytech-goes-social/ Thu, 23 Mar 2006 02:47:13 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/facial-recognitition-spytech-goes-social/ Troy expressed both great amusement and trepidation in his message alerting me to Riya, a new photo sharing site: https://maisonbisson.com/post/speaking-my-language/ Wed, 22 Mar 2006 02:28:19 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/speaking-my-language/ I loved this quote from Dave Young when I first found it, and I love it more now: https://maisonbisson.com/post/wyoming-libraries-marketing-campaign/ Mon, 20 Mar 2006 21:45:10 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wyoming-libraries-marketing-campaign/ I have mixed feelings about the value of advertising — it’s worth pointing out that according to John Battelle, Google never ran an ad anywhere prior to going public — but I still enjoy seeing things like this Wyoming Libraries campaign. https://maisonbisson.com/post/gates-harshes-poor-tells-them-to-buy-windows/ Mon, 20 Mar 2006 04:58:16 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/gates-harshes-poor-tells-them-to-buy-windows/ What’s sadder than people in Burundi earning an average of only $90 a year? It might be Bill Gates‘ criticism of MIT’s efforts to bring affordable, networked computers to the poorest countries of the world in hopes of improving education (and communication and healthcare and more). https://maisonbisson.com/post/can-actors-sell-their-digital-clones/ Sun, 19 Mar 2006 03:35:34 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/can-actors-sell-their-digital-clones/ Alan Wexelblat in Copyfight poses a question from a reader about the future of entertainment: https://maisonbisson.com/post/pravda-march-18-2006-headline-us-to-collapse-on-feb-5-2006/ Sat, 18 Mar 2006 21:59:36 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/pravda-march-18-2006-headline-us-to-collapse-on-feb-5-2006/ I regularly check the English language online edition of Pravda for laughs and sometimes for their take on US domestic affairs. https://maisonbisson.com/post/flight-of-the-conchords/ Sat, 18 Mar 2006 01:11:45 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/flight-of-the-conchords/ Ryan sent along a link to Flight of the Concords‘ Business Time last week and I’m still laughing over it. https://maisonbisson.com/post/maisonbisson-cultural-reporter-at-swsw-cant-get-tickets-brushes-with-owen-wilson-instead/ Fri, 17 Mar 2006 17:24:38 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/maisonbisson-cultural-reporter-at-swsw-cant-get-tickets-brushes-with-owen-wilson-instead/ SXSW passes have apparently been sold out for weeks now. So what’s Bob Garlitz, the MaisonBisson cultural affairs reporter, to do? https://maisonbisson.com/post/everybodys-irish-with-a-quart-o-whisky-in-em/ Fri, 17 Mar 2006 13:25:39 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/everybodys-irish-with-a-quart-o-whisky-in-em/ Modern Drunkard Magazine suggests we chase the snakes out of our minds, for as Yeats reminds us: https://maisonbisson.com/post/native-to-web-the-future-of-web-apps/ Thu, 16 Mar 2006 22:20:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/native-to-web-the-future-of-web-apps/ Yahoo’s Tom Coats was of seven star speakers at Carson Workshops‘ Future of Web Apps Summit last month. https://maisonbisson.com/post/office-cocktails/ Wed, 15 Mar 2006 22:08:02 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/office-cocktails/ I like pretty much everything Paula Wirth puts up on Flickr, but this afternoon I could do well with a dive like Scolari’s Office in San Diego. https://maisonbisson.com/post/homeland-security/ Wed, 15 Mar 2006 04:44:49 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/homeland-security/ The Washington Post reports two men in uniforms bearing “Homeland Security” insignia walked into a Bethesda library in early February, announced that viewing of internet pornography was forbidden, and began questioning patrons. https://maisonbisson.com/post/blank/ Wed, 15 Mar 2006 01:56:29 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/blank/ code4lib was less than a month ago, but already I’ve forgotten some details. That’s why I’m glad to have notes from Ed Summers (day one, two, and three), Art Rhyno, Tom Hickey, Karen Coombs, and Ryan Eby. https://maisonbisson.com/post/struggle-2/ Mon, 13 Mar 2006 21:07:39 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/struggle-2/ Just when you thought I was done talking about how the internet really does touch everything, Lichen posts some details from the most recent University of New Hampshire Res Life student survey and it gets me going again. https://maisonbisson.com/post/this-is-what-social-software-can-do/ Mon, 13 Mar 2006 17:41:25 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/this-is-what-social-software-can-do/ The FlickrBlog reports this message from Gale: People have been submitting good humpback whale fluke shots to a group called Humpback whale flukes. https://maisonbisson.com/post/willie-mae-rock-camp-for-girls/ Mon, 13 Mar 2006 02:47:01 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/willie-mae-rock-camp-for-girls/ The Willie Mae Rock Camp For Girls: just another example of why New York is cooler than New Hampshire. https://maisonbisson.com/post/blank-2/ Mon, 13 Mar 2006 00:44:18 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/blank-2/ Ross Singer gets the prize for submitting the first reader contributed tag, the latest feature in bsuite. https://maisonbisson.com/post/user-experience/ Sun, 12 Mar 2006 17:58:03 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/user-experience/ I was this close to posting soldierant‘s Gobbledy Gook map, but, well… I guess I wanted to make a point with his user experience map, done in collaboration with the smart folks at Experience Dynamics. https://maisonbisson.com/post/whisky-essential-to-writing/ Sun, 12 Mar 2006 16:03:15 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/whisky-essential-to-writing/ God bless William Faulkner for pointing it out: My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky. https://maisonbisson.com/post/nash-edgertons-lucky/ Sun, 12 Mar 2006 01:23:45 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/nash-edgertons-lucky/ Scott Smith’s Imperfect Ten too slow for you? Take a look at Nash Edgerton‘s Lucky over at Blue Tongue Films. https://maisonbisson.com/post/zorb/ Sat, 11 Mar 2006 16:16:35 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/zorb/ Who of us didn’t want to try it when we saw Jackie Chan bounce down a mountainside in one in Operation Condor (well, who of us who saw Operation Condor didn’t want to try it)? https://maisonbisson.com/post/nuns-vs-librarians-in-spelling-bee/ Sat, 11 Mar 2006 00:59:41 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/nuns-vs-librarians-in-spelling-bee/ From Yahoo! News and Ryan Eby, there’s a funny spelling bee planned in Erlanger Kentucky: https://maisonbisson.com/post/movie-10/ Fri, 10 Mar 2006 20:35:15 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/movie-10/ The nice folks at Coudal Partners are hosting Scott Smith’s Imperfect Ten, “wherein one man breaks all ten commandments before breakfast. https://maisonbisson.com/post/crisp-green-shirt/ Fri, 10 Mar 2006 17:00:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/crisp-green-shirt/ Between the MIT show and Microsoft’s vaporware, origami is back in a big way. Here’s drumsnwhistles answer: a very crisp green shirt. https://maisonbisson.com/post/all-about-opensearch-and-autodiscover-from-davey-p/ Thu, 09 Mar 2006 21:06:11 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/all-about-opensearch-and-autodiscover-from-davey-p/ I’ve been meaning to point out (and steal from) Dave Pattern’s post on tipping off IE7 (and other browsers soon too, hopefully) to available OpenSearch targets for some time now. https://maisonbisson.com/post/visual-complexity/ Thu, 09 Mar 2006 17:10:52 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/visual-complexity/ I found the above image of a yFiles-generated site map at visualcomplexity.com. We’ve seen a lot of internet diagrams, including this one from 1977, but what about mapping food? https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-ignorant-perfection-of-ordinary-people/ Thu, 09 Mar 2006 16:21:49 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-ignorant-perfection-of-ordinary-people/ Bob Garlitz, who’s trying to decide between blogging at Typepad and Blogspot, wrote to offer a somewhat older phrase for the success of social software as described in The Wisdom of Crowds and in the definition of collabulary: “the ignorant perfection of ordinary people. https://maisonbisson.com/post/mit-origami-competition/ Thu, 09 Mar 2006 00:39:47 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/mit-origami-competition/ Ryan Eby and MAKE magazine alerted me to MIT’s student origami exhibit, in which Jason Ku’s ringwraith won the Best Original Model prize, and Brian Chan’s beaver — the MIT mascot — got special attention from the MIT News Office. https://maisonbisson.com/post/collabulary/ Wed, 08 Mar 2006 17:26:42 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/collabulary/ I found this a few days ago and realized that it embodied the difference between how I understand tag folksonomies and how others (with whom I’ve argued) may see them. https://maisonbisson.com/post/talking-bout-library-20/ Tue, 07 Mar 2006 17:36:36 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/talking-bout-library-20/ Users want a rich pool from which to search, simplicity, and satisfaction. One does not have to take a 50-minute instruction session to order from Amazon. https://maisonbisson.com/post/robins-at-bath/ Tue, 07 Mar 2006 13:39:28 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/robins-at-bath/ I heard birds chirping yesterday morning for the first time in a while, and from my office window I could see robins returned from the south. https://maisonbisson.com/post/tags-done-right/ Mon, 06 Mar 2006 17:43:48 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/tags-done-right/ Flickr does tags better than any other, so far as I can tell. We love tag folksonomies for way they allow us all to organize our world, for the way they allow patterns to emerge from chaos, and for their easy flexibility. https://maisonbisson.com/post/macbook-pro/ Mon, 06 Mar 2006 15:13:20 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/macbook-pro/ Jacqui Cheng likes her new MacBook Pro and loves the performance, but gives the MagSafe power adapter mixed reviews. https://maisonbisson.com/post/troy-bennett-at-ben-show/ Sun, 05 Mar 2006 19:07:38 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/troy-bennett-at-ben-show/ Ben Apfelbaum died before having the chance to see it all come together, but his quirky idea seems to be a hit. https://maisonbisson.com/post/podbop/ Sun, 05 Mar 2006 18:16:54 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/podbop/ Ryan Eby pointed out PodBop, a site that podcasts sample tracks from bands coming to your area (or any other area you select), and we both wished we’d thought of it ourselves. https://maisonbisson.com/post/oddest-title-of-the-year-winner-and-also-rans/ Sun, 05 Mar 2006 14:11:59 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/oddest-title-of-the-year-winner-and-also-rans/ The Bookseller magazine Friday announced the winner of the 28th annual Diagram Prize for Oddest Title. https://maisonbisson.com/post/rock-paper-scissors-2/ Sat, 04 Mar 2006 17:52:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/rock-paper-scissors-2/ Posted on the wall in Tom’s Peacock Bar in Corvallis was a mystery: a notice of a rock paper scissors tournament. https://maisonbisson.com/post/peanutty-peanut-butter/ Sat, 04 Mar 2006 05:17:55 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/peanutty-peanut-butter/ Treehugger pointed out these P.B. Slices as an example of excessive packaging. What they didn’t mention was the ingredients or processing used to make a non-sticky, peanut flavored “food product. https://maisonbisson.com/post/fun-with-balloons/ Fri, 03 Mar 2006 17:52:39 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/fun-with-balloons/ Okay, so this is certainly in the “don’t try this at home, kids” category, but we can all laugh and point at other’s stupidity. https://maisonbisson.com/post/can-anybody-explain-this/ Fri, 03 Mar 2006 15:22:23 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/can-anybody-explain-this/ ???????????????? https://maisonbisson.com/post/morbidly-curiouser/ Thu, 02 Mar 2006 03:01:01 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/morbidly-curiouser/ Zach saw my story about plane crashes and forwarded me a link to this video of an early parachutist he found on Damn Interesting. https://maisonbisson.com/post/morbidly-curious/ Tue, 28 Feb 2006 17:21:03 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/morbidly-curious/ A friend pointed me to PlaneCrashInfo.com and I can’t help but explore. I was told to start with the pictures (which end in late 2001, and so don’t include recent incidents like the flaming nose-wheel at LAX or the overshot runway in Chicago), but it was the collection of “last words” transcripts from the cockpit voice recorder (audio is available for many of them) that really trapped me. https://maisonbisson.com/post/oregon-attractions/ Tue, 28 Feb 2006 03:50:17 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/oregon-attractions/ I’ve been back from Oregon for about a week and a day now, and it’s really time to clear out my files. https://maisonbisson.com/post/is-suns-t2000-up-to-it/ Mon, 27 Feb 2006 01:28:57 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/is-suns-t2000-up-to-it/ Jonathan Schwartz made the kind of news that makes Slash Dotters happy: he announced Sun is (sort of) giving away free servers. https://maisonbisson.com/post/lego-architecture/ Sun, 26 Feb 2006 05:33:14 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/lego-architecture/ The Millyard Museum was hosting the New England Lego Users’ Group Saturday, building LEGO replica’s of Manchester NH‘s old victorian-era houses. https://maisonbisson.com/post/love-letters-from-your-isp/ Fri, 24 Feb 2006 17:34:37 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/love-letters-from-your-isp/ A friend got his own cease and desist letter the other day. His ISP forwarded the notice from a copyright enforcement agency along with five pages of content intended both to stop those that know they’re sharing and help out parents (or others) who may not be aware of what all is going on with the computers attached to their cable modem. https://maisonbisson.com/post/worse-things/ Fri, 24 Feb 2006 09:55:47 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/worse-things/ A friend forwarded this, from Fleur Adcock: Things There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public. https://maisonbisson.com/post/as-the-useful-becomes-useless-it-becomes-art/ Thu, 23 Feb 2006 23:51:58 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/as-the-useful-becomes-useless-it-becomes-art/ The story here isn’t about why I’m on the Kate Spade mailing list. The story is about their new line of “paper. https://maisonbisson.com/post/standards-cage-match/ Thu, 23 Feb 2006 15:14:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/standards-cage-match/ I prefaced my point about how the standards we choose in libraries isolate us from the larger stream of progress driving development outside libraries with the note that I was sure to get hanged for it. https://maisonbisson.com/post/evergreen-aviation-museum/ Thu, 23 Feb 2006 00:27:31 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/evergreen-aviation-museum/ Howard Hughes‘ Spruce Goose now rests in McMinnville, at the Evergreen Aviation Museum. The Goose is as long as a 747 with a wingspan a third again as broad, and for a short few seconds in 1947, it flew. https://maisonbisson.com/post/diy-hoverboard/ Wed, 22 Feb 2006 17:17:22 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/diy-hoverboard/ My friend Troy sent along a pointer to The Gadget Show‘s feature on DIY hoverboards. https://maisonbisson.com/post/about-my-code4lib-presentation/ Wed, 22 Feb 2006 15:21:51 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/about-my-code4lib-presentation/ As with all my other presentations, the my slides tell less than half the story, but I’ve posted them anyway. https://maisonbisson.com/post/brick/ Wed, 22 Feb 2006 03:59:47 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/brick/ I just popped in The Constant Gardener (trailer) and discovered the preview for Brick. And even though I want to see almost every movie previewed for me, I really want to see this movie. https://maisonbisson.com/post/velveteria/ Tue, 21 Feb 2006 17:46:09 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/velveteria/ I wasn’t just surprised to find a gallery of velvet paintings, I was further surprised to learn they were hosting a show of Valentines velvet works by local artist Juanita and had cards advertising a show of LA artist Arnold Pander’s oil on velvet works at the local Vault Martini Lounge. https://maisonbisson.com/post/worlds-tallest-barber-shop-pole/ Tue, 21 Feb 2006 03:07:31 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/worlds-tallest-barber-shop-pole/ Forest Grove, Oregon claims to have the world’s tallest barber pole, apparently presented by the Portland Area Barbershoppers in recognition “Ballad Town USA’s” role in promoting and encouraging barbershop quartet singing. https://maisonbisson.com/post/librarians-of-springfield/ Mon, 20 Feb 2006 23:06:53 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/librarians-of-springfield/ That’s my contribution to the Springfield Public Library meme that Michael Casey and Laura Savastinuk started over the weekend. https://maisonbisson.com/post/oregon-city-municipal-elevator/ Sun, 19 Feb 2006 20:55:44 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/oregon-city-municipal-elevator/ Oregon City apparently boasts one of only four municipal elevators worldwide. One hundred thirty feet tall, with an observation deck at the top, it seemed to be worth stopping for. https://maisonbisson.com/post/pdxs-free-wifi-rocks/ Sun, 19 Feb 2006 08:31:39 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/pdxs-free-wifi-rocks/ Here’s a lesson the rest of the world’s airports could take from PDX: free WiFi. https://maisonbisson.com/post/mt-hood-from-mt-tabor/ Sun, 19 Feb 2006 06:01:08 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/mt-hood-from-mt-tabor/ Above: tonight’s sunset view of Mt. Hood from atop Mt. Tabor, an ancient volcano. Roadside America claims: https://maisonbisson.com/post/sprayfoam-art-in-millersburg/ Sat, 18 Feb 2006 16:23:44 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/sprayfoam-art-in-millersburg/ What you can’t tell about the photo above is that the eagle is huge, and made of spray foam. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-chuck-norris-meme/ Sat, 18 Feb 2006 05:40:12 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-chuck-norris-meme/ I first caught up with all this at Matt‘s blog, but on the radio out here in Oregon today they kept inserting Chuck Norris legends between songs. https://maisonbisson.com/post/lessons-from-the-microformat-world/ Fri, 17 Feb 2006 16:30:36 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/lessons-from-the-microformat-world/ I can’t help but like microformats, and part of that comes from the dogmatic principles that drive them. https://maisonbisson.com/post/things-i-learned-at-lunch-today/ Thu, 16 Feb 2006 23:34:36 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/things-i-learned-at-lunch-today/ Karaoke means “empty orchestra” in about the same way that karate means “empty hand.” The “oke” piece is actually a shortened form of “orchestra,” borrowed from western languages. https://maisonbisson.com/post/you-mean-other-businesses-handle-acquisitions-too/ Wed, 15 Feb 2006 19:14:28 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/you-mean-other-businesses-handle-acquisitions-too/ Art Rhyno confused my by calling it ERP, but he just rocked his code4lib presentation and I realized he’s talking about the same thing that’s been itching me: libraries are not unique, but our software and standards are unnecessarily so. https://maisonbisson.com/post/tillamook-oregons-pig-n-ford-races/ Wed, 15 Feb 2006 17:23:37 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/tillamook-oregons-pig-n-ford-races/ So here I am looking up things to do in Oregon and I come across the Tillamook Chamber of Commerce‘s guide to local attractions and its note about the Pig-n-Ford races: https://maisonbisson.com/post/on-flying/ Wed, 15 Feb 2006 02:24:59 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/on-flying/ If I didn’t like flying, or at least if I couldn’t tolerate it, I wouldn’t making my third distant trip in as many months. https://maisonbisson.com/post/instant-messenger-or-virtual-reference/ Tue, 14 Feb 2006 17:15:22 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/instant-messenger-or-virtual-reference/ I noted Aaron Schmidt‘s points on IM in libraries previously, but what I didn’t say then was how certain I was that popular instant messaging clients like AOL Instant Messenger or Yahoo! https://maisonbisson.com/post/choose-your-disaster/ Tue, 14 Feb 2006 01:20:58 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/choose-your-disaster/ The good people at Keep the Faye gave me a chuckle with their series of choose you daily disaster magnets, like the hillbillies and volcano series pictures above. https://maisonbisson.com/post/mysqls-slow-query-log/ Mon, 13 Feb 2006 17:01:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/mysqls-slow-query-log/ Zach suggested it last week, but it’s only now that I’ve gotten around to setting up MySQL’s slow query log. https://maisonbisson.com/post/2006-horizon-report/ Sun, 12 Feb 2006 20:02:57 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/2006-horizon-report/ I’d never heard of the New Media Consortium before, but they claim a mission to “advocate and stimulate the use of new learning and creative technologies in higher education. https://maisonbisson.com/post/roadside-attractions/ Sun, 12 Feb 2006 16:24:20 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/roadside-attractions/ Perhaps it’s just because I’m now scouring Roadside America for tips on what to do in the 35 hours after the end of code4lib and my flight home, but I got a hoot out of this AP story about “Roadside Giants”: https://maisonbisson.com/post/high-speed-photography/ Sun, 12 Feb 2006 04:12:01 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/high-speed-photography/ The gallery at Pulse Photonics has more than a few images that seem to pause time in impossible moments. https://maisonbisson.com/post/snow-plow-bicycle/ Fri, 10 Feb 2006 17:13:04 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/snow-plow-bicycle/ To go along with summer’s bicycle riding mower is this “Vancouver Snowplow” from Joe-ks.com (yes, I feel appropriately stupid for linking to a site with an animated gif splash page). https://maisonbisson.com/post/on-being-busy/ Fri, 10 Feb 2006 14:40:01 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/on-being-busy/ I should be thankful to have friends who get worried about me when I don’t blog for a couple days (or at least make up stories), but let me take this moment to make it clear that I haven’t gone into boat sales. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wpopac-an-opac-20-testbed/ Fri, 10 Feb 2006 04:54:46 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wpopac-an-opac-20-testbed/ First things first, this thing probably needs a better name, but I’m not up to the task. https://maisonbisson.com/post/performance-optimization/ Tue, 07 Feb 2006 14:21:07 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/performance-optimization/ A couple notes from the past few days of tweaks and fixes: Hyper-threading has a huge effect on LAMP performance. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-web-is-not-a-one-way-medium/ Sun, 05 Feb 2006 16:28:39 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-web-is-not-a-one-way-medium/ Anybody who questioned the Pew Internet and American Life report about how teens use the internet and how they expect conversations and interactivity from the online services they use might do well to take a look at this comment on my Chernobyl Tour story: https://maisonbisson.com/post/faq-about-those-three-wishes/ Sat, 04 Feb 2006 16:51:56 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/faq-about-those-three-wishes/ I ran across David Owen’s Three Wishes FAQ in a month-old New Yorker on my friend’s coffee table last night. https://maisonbisson.com/post/libraries-vs-drm/ Fri, 03 Feb 2006 20:15:55 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/libraries-vs-drm/ Within minutes of each other, two friends from separate corners of the world sent me a tip about the following: https://maisonbisson.com/post/exxpose-exxon/ Fri, 03 Feb 2006 12:57:52 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/exxpose-exxon/ ExxonMobil’s 2005 profits of $36.13 billion are apparently the largest ever recorded by any corporation in America. https://maisonbisson.com/post/j-k-rowling-a-hoax/ Fri, 03 Feb 2006 06:30:33 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/j-k-rowling-a-hoax/ I said previously that I drop my journalistic standards on Fridays. Today is no exception. https://maisonbisson.com/post/classic-appliances/ Fri, 03 Feb 2006 01:04:17 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/classic-appliances/ I guess I can see why people might be willing to throw down $4000 or more for these fancy Northstar refrigerators, I mean, they remind rich young people of their grandma’s house, with fresh-baked cookies and a big glass of milk to dunk them in. https://maisonbisson.com/post/onion-story-predicted-five-blade-razors-in-2004/ Thu, 02 Feb 2006 23:57:48 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/onion-story-predicted-five-blade-razors-in-2004/ Gillette’s Fusion five-blade razor is hitting the shelves now, but The Onion predicted it in February 2004. https://maisonbisson.com/post/worried-about-aim/ Thu, 02 Feb 2006 17:48:10 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/worried-about-aim/ There’s a bit of discussion of AIM‘s role in personal communications over at Remaining Relevant. I mention it here because I’ve been thinking about this lately. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-arrival-of-the-stupendous/ Wed, 01 Feb 2006 17:23:44 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-arrival-of-the-stupendous/ Ryan Eby speaks with tongue firmly in cheek in this blog post, but his point is well taken. https://maisonbisson.com/post/zachs-couch-camouflage/ Wed, 01 Feb 2006 04:31:40 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/zachs-couch-camouflage/ Here’s Zach hidden in plain sight on a couch at a friend’s house the other day. https://maisonbisson.com/post/whered-my-151-go/ Wed, 01 Feb 2006 01:18:37 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/whered-my-151-go/ Nobody remembers how, but the 151 bottle is empty again. We’re beginning to blame it on bandits. https://maisonbisson.com/post/warren-and-dog-sledding-on-tv-tonight/ Tue, 31 Jan 2006 17:53:18 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/warren-and-dog-sledding-on-tv-tonight/ The folks at WMUR‘s Chronicle are featuring my friends Joe and Wendy and their dog sledding tonight. https://maisonbisson.com/post/large-format-scanners-for-document-imaging/ Mon, 30 Jan 2006 23:50:05 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/large-format-scanners-for-document-imaging/ The market for large-format flatbed scanners is shrinking, so products turn over slowly and development is far behind my expectations. https://maisonbisson.com/post/what-does-facebook-matter-to-libraries/ Mon, 30 Jan 2006 20:03:41 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/what-does-facebook-matter-to-libraries/ Lichen pointed me to this Librarian’s Guide to Etiquette post about new technologies: Keep up to date with new technologies that you can co-opt for library use. https://maisonbisson.com/post/treadmill-desk/ Mon, 30 Jan 2006 17:17:15 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/treadmill-desk/ I used to have a stand-up desk at work. Then that got replaced by a pair of standup workstations above a more normal desk. https://maisonbisson.com/post/not-invented-here/ Mon, 30 Jan 2006 02:07:33 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/not-invented-here/ I couldn’t say it, but Alexander Johannesen could: libraries are the last bastions of the “not invented here syndrome” (scroll down just a bit, you’ll find it). https://maisonbisson.com/post/reviews-you-can-trust/ Sun, 29 Jan 2006 17:20:38 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/reviews-you-can-trust/ Cameron Moll (via Ryan Eby) wants “weight” customer ratings to reflect how two products of the same rating might have wildly different numbers of reviews. https://maisonbisson.com/post/indian-frankie/ Sun, 29 Jan 2006 16:41:54 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/indian-frankie/ The plan was to meet Jessamyn and Greg at the India Queen last night, so discovering this note yesterday on Slashfood about “frankies” had the added excitement of both discovering a new food I wanted to eat, and being in a position to get it that day — the sort of instant satisfaction one doesn’t expect in these parts. https://maisonbisson.com/post/conceding-defeat/ Sat, 28 Jan 2006 22:54:05 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/conceding-defeat/ I wasn’t really in the game, but when samb posted the above picture of David Brown’s typical meal, I couldn’t help but take it as a challenge. https://maisonbisson.com/post/to-blog-or-not-to-blog/ Sat, 28 Jan 2006 16:56:27 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/to-blog-or-not-to-blog/ A friend revealed his reticence to blogging recently by explaining that he didn’t want to create a trail of work and opinions that could limit his future career choices. https://maisonbisson.com/post/to-blog-or-not-to-blog-2/ Sat, 28 Jan 2006 16:38:25 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/to-blog-or-not-to-blog-2/ A friend decided the old pornstar name formula was good enough to use to name her blog, as she explains in her launch story. https://maisonbisson.com/post/when-you-need-to-talk-to-customer-support/ Fri, 27 Jan 2006 17:22:01 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/when-you-need-to-talk-to-customer-support/ It’s good to know Hard to Find 800 Numbers.com is there when you need it. Here are the top five: https://maisonbisson.com/post/dawg/ Fri, 27 Jan 2006 12:46:52 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/dawg/ It’s Friday, a day when I drop my journalistic standards and usually publish whatever video or joke somebody forwarded me during the week. https://maisonbisson.com/post/plesk-bites/ Fri, 27 Jan 2006 00:50:18 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/plesk-bites/ I picked Plesk over CPanel as my server control panel because it was cheaper, looked better, and seemed to have all the features I wanted. https://maisonbisson.com/post/mooflex-cms/ Thu, 26 Jan 2006 20:15:14 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/mooflex-cms/ New AJAX-happy CMS: MooFlex, more info at Ajaxian (and in their podcast). https://maisonbisson.com/post/about-sherpa/ Thu, 26 Jan 2006 17:14:13 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/about-sherpa/ I mentioned SHERPA a while ago: SHERPA is a large consortial UK project that’s attempting to build an academic archive/repository for 20 institutions, including the British Library and Cambridge University. https://maisonbisson.com/post/users-vs-network-printers-in-winxp/ Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:00:52 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/users-vs-network-printers-in-winxp/ It’s been a problem we’ve struggled with here for much longer than we should have, and it took a hotshot new guy in desktop support to show us the answer. https://maisonbisson.com/post/jenny-levines-online-library-user-manifesto/ Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:42:21 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/jenny-levines-online-library-user-manifesto/ Drawing from John Blyberg‘s ILS Customer’s Bill of Rights and The Social Customer Manifesto, Jenny Levine offers this Online Library User Manifesto: https://maisonbisson.com/post/cios-message-to-faculty-the-internet-is-here/ Tue, 24 Jan 2006 17:20:03 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/cios-message-to-faculty-the-internet-is-here/ As part of a larger message to faculty returning from winter break, our CIO offered this summary of how he sees advancing internet use affecting higher education: https://maisonbisson.com/post/privacy-and-libraries/ Tue, 24 Jan 2006 03:02:49 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/privacy-and-libraries/ We can be forgiven for not noticing, but the world changed not long ago. Sometime after the academics gave up complaining about the apparent commercialization of the internet, and while Wall Street was licking it’s wounds after the first internet boom went bust, the world changed. https://maisonbisson.com/post/goodbye-san-antonio/ Sun, 22 Jan 2006 10:53:24 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/goodbye-san-antonio/ You won’t get your salad dressing on the side in San Antonio. I don’t know what it says about a place, but in New England it’s so common I never learned to ask for it on the side, it just happens. https://maisonbisson.com/post/ryan-eby-on-data-visualization-and-the-opac/ Sat, 21 Jan 2006 13:06:49 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/ryan-eby-on-data-visualization-and-the-opac/ A chat with Ryan Eby, also an Edward Tufte fan, elicited this line about another reason we continue to struggle with the design of our catalogs: https://maisonbisson.com/post/presentation-designing-an-opac-for-web-20/ Fri, 20 Jan 2006 18:30:11 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/presentation-designing-an-opac-for-web-20/ ALA Midwinter IUG SIG Presentation: Designing an OPAC for Web 2.0 update: PDF version with space for notes https://maisonbisson.com/post/fully-wired-and-mobile-in-san-antonio/ Thu, 19 Jan 2006 03:19:12 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/fully-wired-and-mobile-in-san-antonio/ I’m in San Antonio for ALA Midwinter and enjoying the benefits of wide-area mobile internet access via my Treo and and the power of local search. https://maisonbisson.com/post/educause-on-future-of-libraries/ Wed, 18 Jan 2006 13:01:29 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/educause-on-future-of-libraries/ Take a look at this editorial by Jerry D. Campbell, CIO and Dean of University Libraries at the University of Southern California: https://maisonbisson.com/post/goodbye-x0/ Wed, 18 Jan 2006 02:59:16 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/goodbye-x0/ In recognition of the divisive and increasingly meaningless nature of x.0 monikers — think library 2. https://maisonbisson.com/post/learning-mysql-optimization/ Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:31:56 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/learning-mysql-optimization/ I have over 1000 posts here at MaisonBisson, but even so, the table with all those posts is under 3MB. https://maisonbisson.com/post/radical-militant-librarian/ Tue, 17 Jan 2006 03:14:23 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/radical-militant-librarian/ The ALA’s Intellectual Freedom folks came up with this Radical, Militant Librarian button (which I found in Library Mistress’ photostream): https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-plugin-add-to-delicious/ Tue, 17 Jan 2006 02:27:37 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-plugin-add-to-delicious/ I’m not running it here (only because I’m too lazy), but I was happy to find Arne Brachold’s Del. https://maisonbisson.com/post/us-census-on-internet-access-and-computing/ Mon, 16 Jan 2006 22:27:16 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/us-census-on-internet-access-and-computing/ Rebecca Lieb reports for ClickZ Stats that, based on US Census data (report), most Americans have PCs and web access: https://maisonbisson.com/post/how-i-broke-my-clie/ Sat, 14 Jan 2006 19:00:55 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/how-i-broke-my-clie/ It’s an unseasonably warm and rainy January here in Warren, where warm actually means daytime highs of about 30 degrees and ‘seasonable weather’ would be closer to zero. https://maisonbisson.com/post/field-of-trains/ Sat, 14 Jan 2006 13:16:33 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/field-of-trains/ fishfin50 has an interesting collection of photos from the American plains. That old train car caught my eye and fishfin50 replied to my comment with more detail: https://maisonbisson.com/post/highways/ Sat, 14 Jan 2006 01:38:58 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/highways/ Think now of the US interstate highway system. Like the internet that followed, the highway system was the subject of much hype and conjecture. https://maisonbisson.com/post/pew-project-controversy/ Sun, 08 Jan 2006 17:14:46 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/pew-project-controversy/ A while ago I reported on the Pew Internet Project‘s November 2005 report on increased use of search engines. https://maisonbisson.com/post/pip-trends/ Sun, 08 Jan 2006 15:18:58 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/pip-trends/ It turns out that the Pew Internet and American Life Project sort of keeps a blog. https://maisonbisson.com/post/winters-day/ Sat, 07 Jan 2006 21:22:33 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/winters-day/ Winter in Warren can be rather picturesque. https://maisonbisson.com/post/poets-justice-scotch/ Fri, 06 Jan 2006 18:36:22 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/poets-justice-scotch/ Unattributable: “Poetic justice is a lie. It’s no more real than military inteligence. The entire motivation for poetry is the unjust pain of life. https://maisonbisson.com/post/date-me-graph/ Fri, 06 Jan 2006 17:21:56 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/date-me-graph/ Joel Friesen‘s PowerPoint-esque presentation on why his girlfriend should continue to date him didn’t win her back, but it entertained folks. https://maisonbisson.com/post/presentation-advice-from-an-apple-insider/ Fri, 06 Jan 2006 15:56:27 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/presentation-advice-from-an-apple-insider/ Mike Evangelist’s look behind the magic curtain of Apple Keynotes during his time with the company. https://maisonbisson.com/post/code4lib-program-proposal/ Fri, 06 Jan 2006 12:42:01 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/code4lib-program-proposal/ I’d be excited just to be a fly on the wall at code4lib, but I’m on a bit of a mission to change the architecture of our library software — to make it more hackable, and make those hacks more sharable — so I had to propose a talk. https://maisonbisson.com/post/cold-fusion-controversy/ Thu, 05 Jan 2006 22:07:51 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/cold-fusion-controversy/ The argument about Wikipedia versus Britannica continues to rage in libraryland. The questions are about authority and the likelihood of outright deception, of course, and a recent round brought up the limitations of peer review as exemplified in the 1989 cold fusion controversy, where two scientists claimed to have achieved a nuclear fusion reaction at room temperature. https://maisonbisson.com/post/boat-full-of-toilets/ Thu, 05 Jan 2006 14:23:18 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/boat-full-of-toilets/ My inner 13-year-old is cracking up over the notion of a shipwrecked load of toilets in the Mediterranean. https://maisonbisson.com/post/magnetic-fields-earworms-fido/ Thu, 05 Jan 2006 12:57:31 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/magnetic-fields-earworms-fido/ I can’t get Fido, Your Leash Is Too Long, from The Magnetic Fields‘ 69 Love Songs, out of my head. https://maisonbisson.com/post/tag-clouds/ Thu, 05 Jan 2006 03:09:09 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/tag-clouds/ “The tag cloud is the mullet of the internet.” Found at phpFlickr. Look closely. https://maisonbisson.com/post/gallery-to-flickr-migration-tool/ Thu, 05 Jan 2006 02:43:40 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/gallery-to-flickr-migration-tool/ For those people still using Gallery, here’s the last straw: Rasmus Lerdorf got to playing with the Flickr API and quickly wrote up a script to migrate his photos from Gallery to Flickr. https://maisonbisson.com/post/ddosd/ Wed, 04 Jan 2006 23:25:26 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/ddosd/ My hosting provider sent along the following message: We have experienced a DDOS attack today January 4th, which resulted in latency across the entire network. https://maisonbisson.com/post/blogging-is-increasingly-political/ Tue, 03 Jan 2006 15:16:13 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/blogging-is-increasingly-political/ Way back near the end of 2005, Lot 49 reported that the Federal Election Commission had basically ruled that bloggers are journalists: https://maisonbisson.com/post/social-software-works-for-organizations-too/ Mon, 02 Jan 2006 23:02:20 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/social-software-works-for-organizations-too/ Ignore the politics for a moment. MoveOn‘s CTO, Patrick Michael Kane, remarked that the organization’s membership to Flickr, the photo sharing site, has paid off: “Flickr has got to be the best $24. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-20-bsuite/ Sat, 31 Dec 2005 15:24:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-20-bsuite/ Update: bugfix release b2v6 available. WordPress 2.0 is out and available for download now. I don’t know how the development team did it — I mean with the holidays and all — but here it is. https://maisonbisson.com/post/avenue-q/ Sat, 31 Dec 2005 01:42:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/avenue-q/ Steve Wynn could probably have had any show he wanted, but he chose Avenue Q, the Sesame Street and Muppets-inspired show that has to include a disclaimer denying its roots in the program and advertising. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-eating-drinking-and-dancing-in-vegas/ Fri, 30 Dec 2005 21:11:59 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-eating-drinking-and-dancing-in-vegas/ Vegas knows liquor. Vegas knows drinks. They go well with cards and dice and slot machines and such. https://maisonbisson.com/post/nevada-considers-atomic-testing-license-plate-again/ Thu, 29 Dec 2005 22:12:06 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/nevada-considers-atomic-testing-license-plate-again/ The first license plate to remember Nevada’s history as the host of the US’s nuclear testing grounds drew criticism for featuring a mushroom cloud (see the plate on the right, above). https://maisonbisson.com/post/nevada-desert/ Thu, 29 Dec 2005 19:21:25 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/nevada-desert/ We didn’t get to go to Barstow as planned, but I couldn’t leave Las Vegas without a peak at the desert. https://maisonbisson.com/post/font-friends/ Wed, 28 Dec 2005 18:02:37 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/font-friends/ You’ve got to love a friend who emails you when she finds fonts like Orange Whip and Comic Strip Exclaim and say they remind her of you. https://maisonbisson.com/post/on-censorship/ Wed, 28 Dec 2005 17:50:22 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/on-censorship/ Regarding nudity in photographs posted to Flickr, dancharvey says: Honestly, I’m more concerned about all the cats and flowers. https://maisonbisson.com/post/barstow-ca/ Wed, 28 Dec 2005 12:16:24 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/barstow-ca/ What didn’t work out because of our problems with the hotel was our drive to Barstow to see Sandee’s friend Joanne. https://maisonbisson.com/post/atomic-liquors/ Tue, 27 Dec 2005 23:36:40 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/atomic-liquors/ I convinced Sandee to join me at Atomic Liquors on Fremont Street, just beyond the Western Hotel Casino in what the Las Vegas Sun calls the “gritty underbelly of Las Vegas. https://maisonbisson.com/post/welcome-to-fabulous-las-vegaswith-your-host-casey/ Tue, 27 Dec 2005 13:26:57 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/welcome-to-fabulous-las-vegaswith-your-host-casey/ The wind along Las Vegas Boulevard was blowing hard, so it hides the fact that I’m currently sporting one of the worst haircuts of all time. https://maisonbisson.com/post/what-you-lose-in-the-whirligig/ Tue, 27 Dec 2005 00:19:04 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/what-you-lose-in-the-whirligig/ Nobody’s saying what caused it, but things didn’t go as planned at the MGM Grand Sunday night. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-real-king-kong/ Mon, 26 Dec 2005 13:21:06 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-real-king-kong/ Here’s another story from my friend Joe Monninger. This time it’s a piece he cut from a book he’s working on, but I’m happy to take his tailings. https://maisonbisson.com/post/happy-holidays-from-las-vegas/ Mon, 26 Dec 2005 12:38:29 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/happy-holidays-from-las-vegas/ The Bellagio is all done up for the holidays, Vegas-style (which means it’ll give you a headache). https://maisonbisson.com/post/happy-holidays-from-warren/ Sun, 25 Dec 2005 13:00:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/happy-holidays-from-warren/ Snow, thick and heavy because of the thaw these past few days, covers Warren. Our rocket stands tall for all seasons. https://maisonbisson.com/post/shuffling-ipods/ Sun, 25 Dec 2005 04:39:13 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/shuffling-ipods/ I couldn’t help but want one when they were released. I still wanted one after reading the reviews. https://maisonbisson.com/post/last-minute-gift-idea/ Sat, 24 Dec 2005 22:34:53 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/last-minute-gift-idea/ My friend Joe loved his chickens, though a fox did them in this last fall. https://maisonbisson.com/post/santa-cops-2/ Sat, 24 Dec 2005 14:15:51 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/santa-cops-2/ I always get a laugh out of Cops, and an even bigger laugh out parodies of the show. https://maisonbisson.com/post/war-on-christmas/ Sat, 24 Dec 2005 04:06:31 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/war-on-christmas/ I like Christmas as much as anybody (well, anybody who likes Christmas), but I’m a “happy holidays” guy. https://maisonbisson.com/post/blogging-the-office-party-mostly-because-they-suggested-it/ Thu, 22 Dec 2005 03:55:01 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/blogging-the-office-party-mostly-because-they-suggested-it/ I don’t work for central IT anymore, but they still invite me to their holiday party. https://maisonbisson.com/post/serena-collage-customer-sites/ Wed, 21 Dec 2005 21:03:26 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/serena-collage-customer-sites/ Zach got a call from the Serena Collage rep who rattled off this list of customers in New England: https://maisonbisson.com/post/notes-on-lcms-demo/ Wed, 21 Dec 2005 14:34:33 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/notes-on-lcms-demo/ We got the demo yesterday of Sungard/SCT‘s Luminis Content Management Suite (sales video). I mentioned previously that the sales rep thinks Pima Community College and Edison College show it off well. https://maisonbisson.com/post/electric-aerobic/ Wed, 21 Dec 2005 03:02:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/electric-aerobic/ Color me amused to learn that somebody (don’t worry, Amazon will never tell me who) bought Carmen Electra’s Aerobic Striptease after following one of my Amazon affiliate links. https://maisonbisson.com/post/book-flower/ Wed, 21 Dec 2005 02:05:16 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/book-flower/ https://maisonbisson.com/post/institutional-repositories/ Tue, 20 Dec 2005 16:14:15 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/institutional-repositories/ MIT has DSpace, their solution to save, share, and search the collected work of their faculty and students (in use by 115 public sites). https://maisonbisson.com/post/cms/ Mon, 19 Dec 2005 15:00:54 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/cms/ With 1,800 CMS vendors in the marketplace, we’re mining what we know or know-of as a way to shorten the list. https://maisonbisson.com/post/three-links-from-ryan-eby/ Sun, 18 Dec 2005 23:34:55 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/three-links-from-ryan-eby/ Ryan Eby gets excited over LiveSearch. And who can blame him? I mention the preceding because it explains the following: two links leading to some good examples of livesearch in the wild. https://maisonbisson.com/post/simon-mahler-audioproduktion/ Sun, 18 Dec 2005 15:09:40 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/simon-mahler-audioproduktion/ Simon Mahler did the audio for Benjamin Stephan and Lutz Vogel‘s Trusted Computing movie. The movie is good, but I realized I was letting it play in the background just to hear the soundtrack, so I finally looked up Mahler’s fotone. https://maisonbisson.com/post/cop-tasers-cop/ Sat, 17 Dec 2005 22:45:46 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/cop-tasers-cop/ Two cops: he wanted a soda, she didn’t. She had the wheel, he had a Taser. https://maisonbisson.com/post/tmbg-podcast/ Fri, 16 Dec 2005 19:08:18 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/tmbg-podcast/ Thanks go to Jenny for the link to the They Might Be Giants podcast! And all that brings up something I was too lazy to figure out before. https://maisonbisson.com/post/palmtreo-aim-client/ Fri, 16 Dec 2005 12:55:09 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/palmtreo-aim-client/ My Treo rocks. Part of my love for the new gadget is how I can now AIM on the run without SMS. https://maisonbisson.com/post/two-things-to-know-about-library-20/ Thu, 15 Dec 2005 12:45:06 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/two-things-to-know-about-library-20/ You don’t like the “2.0” moniker? So what. John Blyberg reminds us that “if we’re arguing over semantics, we’ve been derailed. https://maisonbisson.com/post/bsuite-bug-fixes-release-b2v3/ Thu, 15 Dec 2005 01:56:13 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bsuite-bug-fixes-release-b2v3/ [innerindex]I’ve fixed another bug in bsuite b2, my multi-purpose plugin. This update is recommended for all bsuite users. https://maisonbisson.com/post/improving-wordpress-search-results/ Wed, 14 Dec 2005 22:45:08 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/improving-wordpress-search-results/ SimpleSearch – a Full-Text solution | Beau Collins https://maisonbisson.com/post/nature-concludes-wikipedia-not-bad/ Wed, 14 Dec 2005 21:38:46 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/nature-concludes-wikipedia-not-bad/ Fresh from Nature: a peer reveiw comparison of Wikipedia’s science coverage against Encyclopaedia Britannica: One of the extraordinary stories of the Internet age is that of Wikipedia, a free online encyclopaedia that anyone can edit. https://maisonbisson.com/post/yahoo-rocks-the-web/ Wed, 14 Dec 2005 15:34:32 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/yahoo-rocks-the-web/ No, I don’t mean that they’re disrupting it, I mean they’re getting it. And in saying that, I don’t mean they’re figured it our first, but they they’re making some damn good acquisitions to get it right. https://maisonbisson.com/post/yahoo-buys-delicious/ Wed, 14 Dec 2005 03:07:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/yahoo-buys-delicious/ Nial Kennedy threw down some of the first coverage of Yahoo!’s acquisition of del.icio.us last week. https://maisonbisson.com/post/opensearch-spec-updated/ Tue, 13 Dec 2005 18:39:49 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/opensearch-spec-updated/ I just received this email from the A9 OpenSearch team: We have just released OpenSearch 1. https://maisonbisson.com/post/a-patrons-perspective-on-library-20/ Tue, 13 Dec 2005 17:04:26 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/a-patrons-perspective-on-library-20/ My friend Joe Monninger is perhaps a library’s favorite patron. He’s an avid reader who depends on his public library for books and audiobooks and DVDs, and as a writer and professor he depends on the services of the university library. https://maisonbisson.com/post/bush-joke/ Tue, 13 Dec 2005 03:58:25 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bush-joke/ I wish I could admit the provenance of the following, but I’ve been sworn to secrecy. https://maisonbisson.com/post/identity-management-podcast/ Mon, 12 Dec 2005 17:18:24 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/identity-management-podcast/ Josh Porter and Alex Barnett got Dick Hardt and Kim Cameron on the line to talk about Identity Management. https://maisonbisson.com/post/sungardsct-luminis-content-management-suite/ Mon, 12 Dec 2005 10:40:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/sungardsct-luminis-content-management-suite/ We’re looking at the Sungard/SCT Luminis Content Management Suite (sales video). The real demo comes later, but the sales rep thinks Pima Community College and Edison College show it off well. https://maisonbisson.com/post/four-million-dominos-a-sparrow-an-exterminator/ Mon, 12 Dec 2005 02:50:28 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/four-million-dominos-a-sparrow-an-exterminator/ People like to topple dominos, and some people like to topple great long snaking lines of them. https://maisonbisson.com/post/fonts/ Mon, 12 Dec 2005 01:49:54 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/fonts/ Zone Erogene has ten fonts available for free download, including Migraine Serif and the faux-cyrillic Perestroika. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-dial-up-isp-wasteland/ Sun, 11 Dec 2005 23:27:47 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-dial-up-isp-wasteland/ Yes, there are some parts of the continental US not yet served by DSL or cable modems. https://maisonbisson.com/post/treo-650-for-me/ Sun, 11 Dec 2005 04:20:07 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/treo-650-for-me/ I’ve been talking up the Pepper Pad and Nokia 770 a lot, and I’ve mentioned a moment of lust for the LifeDrive (despite my complaints against PDAs), but today I bought a Treo 650 (even though I had doubts). https://maisonbisson.com/post/bathroom-technology/ Sat, 10 Dec 2005 17:44:20 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bathroom-technology/ Somebody at Gizmodo found this Agence France-Presse story about the intersection of American surfing and bathroom habits in The Hindustan Times. https://maisonbisson.com/post/election-fraud/ Sat, 10 Dec 2005 04:12:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/election-fraud/ This should be no surprise — especially to those who’ve been appropriately concerned about electronic voting machines: Lyn Davis Lear is reporting on a GAO report that concluded the 2004 election was fraudulent and a Diebold insider is blowing the whistle (via Engadget). https://maisonbisson.com/post/supamonks/ Fri, 09 Dec 2005 22:04:16 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/supamonks/ Al sent this video along via email, and it seems perfect for Friday afternoon. It’s all about super-monks (supramoine in French? https://maisonbisson.com/post/warning-label/ Fri, 09 Dec 2005 17:56:40 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/warning-label/ Amadana‘s new headphones come with an amusing warning label: Can’t climb wall. Can’t listen to the voice in your heart. https://maisonbisson.com/post/astro-dog-press/ Fri, 09 Dec 2005 17:30:42 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/astro-dog-press/ Jon Link is among the smartest and coolest people I know, so when he decides to start up a press, and then decides to fund his startup with t-shirt sales, I get in line. https://maisonbisson.com/post/nokia-770-2/ Fri, 09 Dec 2005 04:02:47 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/nokia-770-2/ Gizmodo‘s reporting the Nokia 770 is in customer’s hands and getting some buttons pushed. Now we’ve got Nokia and Pepper exploring this space. https://maisonbisson.com/post/frontrow/ Fri, 09 Dec 2005 03:22:01 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/frontrow/ Via an IM from Ryan Eby: a pointer to Andrew Escobar‘s directions on how to install Apple’s Front Row. https://maisonbisson.com/post/digitize-vinyl-easy/ Thu, 08 Dec 2005 21:36:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/digitize-vinyl-easy/ Engadget and Gizmodo both have the skinny on a USB turntable. https://maisonbisson.com/post/microformats/ Thu, 08 Dec 2005 15:14:24 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/microformats/ Oliver Brown introduced me to microformats a while ago, the Ryan Eby got excited about them, then COinS-PMH showed how useful they could be for libraries, but I still haven’t done anything with them myself (other than beg Peter Binkley to release his COinS-PMH WordPress Plugin). https://maisonbisson.com/post/macos-x-104-built-in-vnc-server/ Wed, 07 Dec 2005 21:35:25 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/macos-x-104-built-in-vnc-server/ macminicolo.net explains how to use it. https://maisonbisson.com/post/queen-mashups-are-all-the-rage/ Wed, 07 Dec 2005 17:15:02 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/queen-mashups-are-all-the-rage/ Michael Sauers pointed out Q-Unit, a mashup of Queen and 50 Cent. They’re sure to have Disney (the rights owner for Queen’s catalog) on their back soon. https://maisonbisson.com/post/oclc-report-libraries-vs-search-engines/ Wed, 07 Dec 2005 05:33:08 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/oclc-report-libraries-vs-search-engines/ So, the report was released Monday, and it’s actually titled Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources (2005), but the part I’m highlighting here is the results of the question that asked users to compare their experiences with search engines against their experiences with libraries. https://maisonbisson.com/post/all-conversations-in-warren-revolve-around-heat-3/ Wed, 07 Dec 2005 02:26:03 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/all-conversations-in-warren-revolve-around-heat-3/ A friend of mine jokes that every conversation in Warren revolves around heat. But, it wouldn’t be funny if it wasn’t at least a little bit true. https://maisonbisson.com/post/jabber-as-inter-process-communication-standard/ Tue, 06 Dec 2005 21:55:10 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/jabber-as-inter-process-communication-standard/ open-ils blog » Blog Archive » OpenSRF Jabber: A Technical Review https://maisonbisson.com/post/oss-in-lib/ Tue, 06 Dec 2005 21:38:50 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/oss-in-lib/ Ryan Eby tells me that the current issue of Library Hi Tech includes some discussion of open source software’s uses in libraries. https://maisonbisson.com/post/cultural-go-to-guy/ Tue, 06 Dec 2005 19:50:51 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/cultural-go-to-guy/ Most of my reading is non-fiction, so I depend on Bob Garlitz to keep me current with the rest of the literary world and a bit of the art world. https://maisonbisson.com/post/raging-arguments-about-the-future-of-the-ils-2/ Tue, 06 Dec 2005 14:54:40 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/raging-arguments-about-the-future-of-the-ils-2/ I feel a little misrepresented by a post from Talis’ Richard Wallis claiming you don’t need technology for Library 2. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wikipedia-hater/ Mon, 05 Dec 2005 19:52:42 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wikipedia-hater/ Arguments about Wikipedia‘s value and authority will rage for quite a while, but it’s interesting to see where the lines are being drawn. https://maisonbisson.com/post/understanding-airport-codes/ Mon, 05 Dec 2005 02:37:34 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/understanding-airport-codes/ Dave English explains why airport codes can be so darn confusing (even while some of them are stupid obvious). https://maisonbisson.com/post/library-coders-wanted/ Mon, 05 Dec 2005 02:07:09 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/library-coders-wanted/ We’ve all heard it before, but we just can’t get it out of our heads. Today’s movies make us feel dumb. https://maisonbisson.com/post/100-laptop/ Sun, 04 Dec 2005 19:22:12 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/100-laptop/ I’ve been doing a lot of talking about the coming information age and how it depends on access technology that is as cheap and easy to use as our cell phones (and applications of it that are as appealing as people find their cell phones). https://maisonbisson.com/post/robots-get-eerie/ Sun, 04 Dec 2005 03:36:37 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/robots-get-eerie/ My friend Troy pointed out a while ago that the more “realistic” our 3-d models of humans get, the scarier they look. https://maisonbisson.com/post/understanding-wp_rewrite-and-related-hooks/ Sat, 03 Dec 2005 20:59:43 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/understanding-wp_rewrite-and-related-hooks/ The docs are in the codex, this tag plugin offers quite a few examples, as does Jerome’s Keywords plugin. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wp-geo-mashup-plugin/ Sat, 03 Dec 2005 20:01:05 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wp-geo-mashup-plugin/ I don’t know how I missed cyberhobo‘s geo-mashup-plugin (also at wp-plugins.org) until now. https://maisonbisson.com/post/its-been-ahah-all-this-time/ Sat, 03 Dec 2005 18:59:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/its-been-ahah-all-this-time/ I might be reading this wrong, but it looks like I’ve been using AHAH when I’ve thought I was using AJAX. https://maisonbisson.com/post/bsuite-b2-bug-fixes/ Sat, 03 Dec 2005 16:17:38 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bsuite-b2-bug-fixes/ [innerindex]I’ve fixed a couple bugs in bsuite b2, released last week. Fixes A bug with search word highlighting that caused it to litter the display in some cases. https://maisonbisson.com/post/semantic-studios-on-authority-and-wikipedia/ Fri, 02 Dec 2005 19:01:46 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/semantic-studios-on-authority-and-wikipedia/ I’ve been sitting on this story since October, hoping I’d be able to get to the show, but It’s increasingly clear that I’m not getting to NYC for a while. https://maisonbisson.com/post/library-20/ Fri, 02 Dec 2005 17:05:10 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/library-20/ Rochelle worries that all this Library 2.0 talk is lost on her library. Ross tells us why he hates the Library 2. https://maisonbisson.com/post/bar-hosts-81-burglaries-in-12-years/ Fri, 02 Dec 2005 16:39:17 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bar-hosts-81-burglaries-in-12-years/ Yahoo! News tells me that Brigitte Hoffmann’s Tages-Bar in Berlin gets robbed a lot. https://maisonbisson.com/post/gorey-house/ Fri, 02 Dec 2005 12:20:15 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/gorey-house/ Edward Gorey is known for having created the Gashlycrumb Tinies, an alphabet of ways young children can meet an early end. https://maisonbisson.com/post/1800-cms-vendors/ Thu, 01 Dec 2005 20:40:17 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/1800-cms-vendors/ CMS Market Watch tells us that there are 1,800 CMS vendors, and some of them are getting a little feisty. https://maisonbisson.com/post/a-library-for-all-peoples/ Thu, 01 Dec 2005 17:03:01 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/a-library-for-all-peoples/ In a Washington Post column last week, Librarian of Congress James H. Billington proposed A Library for The New World: https://maisonbisson.com/post/bsuite-features-the-photo-spread/ Thu, 01 Dec 2005 10:49:34 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bsuite-features-the-photo-spread/ bsuite highlights the search words used to find blog posts in Google and other search engines, and uses those search terms to recommend other related posts at your WordPress site. https://maisonbisson.com/post/opportunity-knocks/ Thu, 01 Dec 2005 03:31:45 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/opportunity-knocks/ Message from Jenny Levine: opportunity knocks. Some people hear it, others claim it’s just squirrels on the roof. https://maisonbisson.com/post/opac-web-services-should-be-like-amazon-web-services/ Wed, 30 Nov 2005 19:25:48 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/opac-web-services-should-be-like-amazon-web-services/ No, I’m not talking about the interface our users see in the web browser — there’s enough argument about that — I’m talking about web services, the technologies that form much of the infrastructure for Web 2. https://maisonbisson.com/post/talk-big/ Wed, 30 Nov 2005 01:56:10 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/talk-big/ If I lived in Seattle, I’d look to Beatnickside’s photos for clues about where the fun is. https://maisonbisson.com/post/dance-dance-revolution/ Tue, 29 Nov 2005 17:05:41 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/dance-dance-revolution/ I caught the following story on NPR’s All Things Considered (RealAudio stream) last night: New York is known for its vibrant nightlife, yet in many bars and restaurants it’s illegal to dance. https://maisonbisson.com/post/bsuite-wordpress-plugin-b2-release/ Tue, 29 Nov 2005 01:52:05 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bsuite-wordpress-plugin-b2-release/ [innerindex]The first thing we all have to agree on is that bsuite is the replacement for bstat. https://maisonbisson.com/post/cms-pitfalls/ Mon, 28 Nov 2005 17:45:20 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/cms-pitfalls/ Everybody wants a content management system, but there’s little agreement about what a CMS is or what it should do. https://maisonbisson.com/post/theories-of-information-behavior/ Mon, 28 Nov 2005 12:49:16 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/theories-of-information-behavior/ Via Librarian Way I found the LiS Radio webcast of a conversation between Sandra Erdelez and Karen Fischer, two of three editors of Theories of Information Behavior from ASIS&amp;T and Information Today. https://maisonbisson.com/post/video-wall/ Mon, 28 Nov 2005 00:45:02 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/video-wall/ bsuite, the follow-up to bstat, now includes a module called “bsuggestive” that recommends related posts based on the current post’s tags or alternate posts based on your search words when you arrive from a recognized search engine. https://maisonbisson.com/post/bsuite-is-coming/ Sun, 27 Nov 2005 21:23:34 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bsuite-is-coming/ I’m about to release a public beta of my WordPress plugin over at MaisonBisson. Information about my favorite new feature, bsuggestive, online now. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wayfaringcom/ Sun, 27 Nov 2005 17:13:41 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wayfaringcom/ Wayfaring: With Wayfaring.com you can explore maps created by others, or create your own personalized map. https://maisonbisson.com/post/raging-arguments-about-the-future-of-the-ils/ Sun, 27 Nov 2005 14:29:48 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/raging-arguments-about-the-future-of-the-ils/ I hadn’t seen Ryan Eby’s post at LibDev that connected ILSs with WordPress before I posted that library catalogs should be like WordPress here. https://maisonbisson.com/post/rollyo-metasearch/ Sat, 26 Nov 2005 17:12:41 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/rollyo-metasearch/ Rollyo: Roll your own search engine. Create personal search engines using only the sources you trust. https://maisonbisson.com/post/library-catalogs-should-be-like-wordpress/ Sat, 26 Nov 2005 14:32:58 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/library-catalogs-should-be-like-wordpress/ Library catalogs should be be like WordPress. That is, every entry should support comments, trackbacks, and pingbacks. https://maisonbisson.com/post/infrared-photos/ Fri, 25 Nov 2005 17:27:20 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/infrared-photos/ Among the infrared photos at PBase.com is this plantation infrared collection by Joseph Levy. Above: part of the collection by Richard Higgs. https://maisonbisson.com/post/blog-value/ Fri, 25 Nov 2005 17:11:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/blog-value/ The sale of Weblogs Inc. to AOL last month for $25+ million got a lot of bloggers excited. https://maisonbisson.com/post/karting/ Fri, 25 Nov 2005 13:52:23 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/karting/ Karen has the smart-sexy-funny thing going on, but that doesn’t stop her from eating donut after donut or beating Will and me in every white-knuckled kart race we ran last weekend. https://maisonbisson.com/post/thanksgiving/ Thu, 24 Nov 2005 16:36:14 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/thanksgiving/ There is, supposedly, some historical meaning to our Thanksgiving holiday, but all I can figure out is that I wasn’t there and it probably didn’t go as I’ve been told. https://maisonbisson.com/post/my-wife-the-technology-dependent-anti-geek/ Wed, 23 Nov 2005 17:52:36 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/my-wife-the-technology-dependent-anti-geek/ My wife Sandee cringes at the suggestion that she’s a geek. She writes poetry and teaches English, she cooks fabulous meals and dances all night long. https://maisonbisson.com/post/pew-internet-report-search-engines-gain-ground/ Wed, 23 Nov 2005 16:53:24 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/pew-internet-report-search-engines-gain-ground/ According to the recently released Pew Internet report on online activities: On an average day, about 94 million American adults use the internet; 77% will use email, 63% will use a search engine. https://maisonbisson.com/post/november-snow/ Wed, 23 Nov 2005 15:45:29 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/november-snow/ We’ve had snow on the mountains for a while now, but this is the first accumulation in my yard. https://maisonbisson.com/post/stock-photos-and-design-inspiration/ Wed, 23 Nov 2005 12:52:56 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/stock-photos-and-design-inspiration/ stock.xchng has nothing on Flickr for searching, finding, sharing photos, except that they’re uploaded with the express intention of offering them for re-use. https://maisonbisson.com/post/php5-xml/ Tue, 22 Nov 2005 17:42:09 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/php5-xml/ Everybody likes documentation. The Zend folks posted this overview and SimpleXML introduction The O’Reilly folks at ONLamp offered this guide to using SimpleXML. https://maisonbisson.com/post/akismet-spam-catcher/ Tue, 22 Nov 2005 11:07:58 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/akismet-spam-catcher/ I’ve been getting spam, a lot of spam; 3400 spam comments and trackbacks in the last two months or so. https://maisonbisson.com/post/im-in-libraries/ Mon, 21 Nov 2005 22:36:55 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/im-in-libraries/ Aaron Schmidt’s 10 points about IM in libraries include: Instant Messaging is free (minus staff time) Millions of our patrons use IM every day. https://maisonbisson.com/post/retro-gaming-for-the-holidays/ Mon, 21 Nov 2005 16:10:12 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/retro-gaming-for-the-holidays/ It’s amusing how retailers will try to capture a trend. So retro gaming fans have been building their own arcade cabinets for years now, but I just saw that Target is offering a Midway Arcade Machine for the holidays. https://maisonbisson.com/post/thermometer-museum/ Sun, 20 Nov 2005 23:05:35 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/thermometer-museum/ Dick Porter, of Onset MA, has been building his collection of over 5000 thermometers since the mid-80s, though the collection has nearly doubled since 1998 when it was just over 3000. https://maisonbisson.com/post/harmons-lunch/ Sun, 20 Nov 2005 14:08:14 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/harmons-lunch/ I learned of Harmon’s Lunch from a mention on The Splendid Table a few weeks ago. https://maisonbisson.com/post/collective-intelligence-wisdom-of-the-crowds/ Sat, 19 Nov 2005 00:07:05 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/collective-intelligence-wisdom-of-the-crowds/ I’m here at NEASIS&amp;T’s “Social Software, Libraries, and the Communities that (could) Sustain Them” event, presented by Steven Cohen. https://maisonbisson.com/post/more-neasist-buy-hack-or-build-followup/ Fri, 18 Nov 2005 22:20:01 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/more-neasist-buy-hack-or-build-followup/ First, Josh Porter, the first speaker of the day has a blog where he’s posted his presentation notes and some key points. https://maisonbisson.com/post/nelinet-bibliographic-services-conference/ Fri, 18 Nov 2005 14:25:55 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/nelinet-bibliographic-services-conference/ I’m here at the NELINET Bibliographic Services Conference at the College of the Holy Cross today. https://maisonbisson.com/post/neasist-buy-hack-or-build-followup/ Wed, 16 Nov 2005 22:06:45 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/neasist-buy-hack-or-build-followup/ I was tempted to speak without slides yesterday, and I must offer my apologies to anybody trying to read them now, as I’m not sure how the slides make sense without the context of my speech. https://maisonbisson.com/post/neasist-buy-hack-or-build/ Tue, 15 Nov 2005 17:28:25 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/neasist-buy-hack-or-build/ I’m here at the NEASIS&amp;T Buy, Hack or Build event today at MIT’s Media Lab. On the list are Joshua Porter, Director of Web Development for User Interface Engineering, Pete Bell [corrected], co-founder of Endeca Solutions, and me. https://maisonbisson.com/post/zimbra-rocks/ Mon, 14 Nov 2005 16:07:26 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/zimbra-rocks/ Zach made me take another look at Zimbra, the web-based, web 2.0-smart, very social and AJAXed up collaboration, email, and calendar suite (plus some other goodies). https://maisonbisson.com/post/ars-on-video-ipod/ Mon, 14 Nov 2005 11:07:07 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/ars-on-video-ipod/ It’s old news now, but ArsTechnica did a really thorough review of the video iPod. https://maisonbisson.com/post/virtual-economies/ Mon, 14 Nov 2005 01:07:33 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/virtual-economies/ I’m not much of a gamer, but Matt got me following video game law with curious interest. https://maisonbisson.com/post/second-annual-west-texas-beautiful-burro-and-mule-contest-held-today/ Sat, 12 Nov 2005 16:20:13 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/second-annual-west-texas-beautiful-burro-and-mule-contest-held-today/ The text of what appears to be the press release (online at Alpine Avalanche): https://maisonbisson.com/post/slot-car-camera/ Sat, 12 Nov 2005 15:10:11 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/slot-car-camera/ I got a slot car set for Christmas when I was about eight years old. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wolfram-tones/ Fri, 11 Nov 2005 16:14:45 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wolfram-tones/ WolframTones mixes hard science with social software in the form of a ringtone generator. https://maisonbisson.com/post/tech-tuesdays-late-spam-management/ Thu, 10 Nov 2005 20:09:55 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/tech-tuesdays-late-spam-management/ John Martin was kind enough to lead a session on spam management Tuesday (November 8th). https://maisonbisson.com/post/six-weapons-of-influence/ Thu, 10 Nov 2005 19:52:52 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/six-weapons-of-influence/ Ken forwarded me this podcast of Robert Cialdini speaking on his Six Weapons of Influence, which he lists as https://maisonbisson.com/post/library-integration-stuff/ Thu, 10 Nov 2005 15:52:54 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/library-integration-stuff/ I’d meant to point out these two articles from Library Journal ages ago, but now that I’m putting together my presentations for next week (NEASIS&amp;T &amp; NELINET), I realized I hadn’t. https://maisonbisson.com/post/how-to-survive-a-robot-uprising/ Thu, 10 Nov 2005 12:29:56 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/how-to-survive-a-robot-uprising/ So there I am trying to read things I can’t possible read and I stumble across a link to Daniel H. https://maisonbisson.com/post/digital-library-systems-group/ Thu, 10 Nov 2005 03:34:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/digital-library-systems-group/ I was in Cambridge today attending the Digital Library Systems Group presentation on their fancy scanners and imaging workflow software. https://maisonbisson.com/post/ikea-comes-to-new-england/ Wed, 09 Nov 2005 10:22:13 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/ikea-comes-to-new-england/ Hey, doesn’t the IKEA near Boston open today? Sure does. The company has 226 stores worldwide. https://maisonbisson.com/post/internet-interactivity-youth/ Tue, 08 Nov 2005 17:40:47 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/internet-interactivity-youth/ Jenny Levine alerted me to the Pew Internet &amp; American Life Project report on teens as both content creators and consumers. https://maisonbisson.com/post/reva-electricity-car/ Tue, 08 Nov 2005 12:38:10 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/reva-electricity-car/ How crazy is it that we can get neither flying cars nor (affordable) fuel efficient cars today? https://maisonbisson.com/post/pen-based-computing-loses-the-tablet/ Mon, 07 Nov 2005 11:32:11 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/pen-based-computing-loses-the-tablet/ Via Engadget I found mention of the LeapFrog FLY, a pen with embedded computer that reads your handwriting. https://maisonbisson.com/post/this-car-climbed-hubbert-peak-2/ Mon, 07 Nov 2005 01:24:31 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/this-car-climbed-hubbert-peak-2/ This Car Climbed Hubbert Peak bumper stickers from HubbertPeak.net. https://maisonbisson.com/post/devils-horn/ Sun, 06 Nov 2005 17:20:16 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/devils-horn/ On NPR’s Weekend Edition today: an interview with Michael Segel, author of The Devil’s Horn, subtitled “The Story of the Saxophone, from Noisy Novelty to King of Cool. https://maisonbisson.com/post/love-letters/ Sun, 06 Nov 2005 12:30:23 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/love-letters/ “John B,” from Omaha, NE writes regarding my post about conservatives, Freakonomics, and Bill Bennett’s racism: https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-codex-series/ Sat, 05 Nov 2005 16:12:13 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-codex-series/ This, from Chris Anderson: The Codex is a 20 episode series of machinimas made on Xboxes running Halo 2. https://maisonbisson.com/post/gnarly-trees/ Sat, 05 Nov 2005 14:06:38 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/gnarly-trees/ Gnarly Trees: “this group is for trees with oddly-formed limbs, strange bulges or growths, braided roots, or otherwise abnormal looking parts. https://maisonbisson.com/post/this-car-climbed-hubbert-peak/ Sat, 05 Nov 2005 05:27:20 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/this-car-climbed-hubbert-peak/ This is probably the perfect bumper sticker for your neighbor’s SUV, at least until your neighbor comes over with the perfect chainsaw for your front door (yeah, try to run from that in Birkenstocks). https://maisonbisson.com/post/venkman-javascript-debugger/ Fri, 04 Nov 2005 21:04:56 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/venkman-javascript-debugger/ How did I miss this before? The Venkman JavaScript Debugger; available here, with user’s guide and FAQ. https://maisonbisson.com/post/world-federation-of-great-towers/ Fri, 04 Nov 2005 17:21:32 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/world-federation-of-great-towers/ I don’t remember exactly why I found myself looking up Moscow‘s Ostankino Tower, a 1772 ft (540 m) tall radio-television tower. https://maisonbisson.com/post/death-spiral/ Fri, 04 Nov 2005 14:51:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/death-spiral/ Scott Berkun, the author of The Art of Project Management just blogged about the data death spiral: https://maisonbisson.com/post/centennial-bulb/ Fri, 04 Nov 2005 12:24:08 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/centennial-bulb/ Treehugger alerted me to the rather surprising story of this light bulb, burning continuously since 1901. https://maisonbisson.com/post/russian-navy-likes-it-big-and-heavy/ Fri, 04 Nov 2005 08:25:42 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/russian-navy-likes-it-big-and-heavy/ Maybe the meaning is simply lost in translation, but take a look at the captions for this photo essay of the Russian Navy titled “BALTOPS military exercise: Russia is showing its muscles. https://maisonbisson.com/post/does-the-administration-vet-potential-nominees-with-web-searches/ Fri, 04 Nov 2005 01:31:47 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/does-the-administration-vet-potential-nominees-with-web-searches/ Sometimes the answer isn’t as interesting as the question. Consider this note from Yahoo Buzz: https://maisonbisson.com/post/seattle911/ Thu, 03 Nov 2005 22:44:27 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/seattle911/ Via the ProgrammableWeb: Seattle911.com. It’s another mashup with Google Maps, but who knew anybody could get 911 data in real time? https://maisonbisson.com/post/uc-irvines-hiperwall/ Thu, 03 Nov 2005 14:30:27 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/uc-irvines-hiperwall/ Putting together 50 30″ Apple Cinema HD Displays with 25 Power Mac G5s gets you 200 million pixels of screen real estate spread over 23 x 9 feet. https://maisonbisson.com/post/paper-house/ Thu, 03 Nov 2005 12:49:31 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/paper-house/ A visit to The Paper House will run $1.50 and takes you out to a beautiful corner of the Massachusetts coast, 52 Pigeon Hill Street Rockport, MA 01966, just up the hill from Pigeon Cove. https://maisonbisson.com/post/missiles-explode-in-south-korea/ Wed, 02 Nov 2005 21:23:37 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/missiles-explode-in-south-korea/ One or more trucks carrying disassembled Nike-Hercules missiles exploded in a tunnel near the cities of Taegu and Masan in South Korea today. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-new-imacs/ Wed, 02 Nov 2005 12:17:39 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-new-imacs/ I live quite a distance from any Apple Stores, so it’s only now that I’ve been able to see the new stuff. https://maisonbisson.com/post/i-will-crush-you/ Wed, 02 Nov 2005 04:54:16 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/i-will-crush-you/ Or, er, my server will be crushed. I guess I should admit that my stuff could do with some optimization, maybe. https://maisonbisson.com/post/long-tail/ Tue, 01 Nov 2005 16:22:10 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/long-tail/ Way back in April 1997, Jakob Nielsen tried to educate us on Zipf Distributions and the power law, and their relationship to the web. https://maisonbisson.com/post/50-ways-good-html-can-go-bad/ Tue, 01 Nov 2005 13:00:02 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/50-ways-good-html-can-go-bad/ Via Brad Neuberg: RSnake’s XSS (Cross Site Scripting) Cheatsheet: Esp: for filter evasion. Limitations on cross site scripting (XSS hereafter) have been troubling me as I try to write enhancements to our library catalog, but the reasons for the prohibition are sound. https://maisonbisson.com/post/ipod-linux-tutorial/ Mon, 31 Oct 2005 20:47:04 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/ipod-linux-tutorial/ How to Install iPod Linux on 1 &amp; 2G mini, 4G, Photo https://maisonbisson.com/post/attack-of-the-blogs-yeah/ Mon, 31 Oct 2005 16:02:38 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/attack-of-the-blogs-yeah/ Online reaction to the Forbes cover story Attack of the Blogs has been quick and strong, and given the doom and gloom language, it’s not surprising: https://maisonbisson.com/post/swarmsketch/ Mon, 31 Oct 2005 11:28:25 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/swarmsketch/ Via Information Nation, I found SwarmSketch. Here’s the description: SwarmSketch: Collective sketching of the collective consciousness. https://maisonbisson.com/post/learn-japanese/ Mon, 31 Oct 2005 05:56:52 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/learn-japanese/ Online tutoring in Japanese at udanstraight.com. Here, have some trial lessons. https://maisonbisson.com/post/new-social-web-apps/ Sun, 30 Oct 2005 17:55:31 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/new-social-web-apps/ Ross Mayfield’s new social software list discusses Ning, Flock, Wink, Memeorandum, Sphere, and Rollyo. https://maisonbisson.com/post/massport-wifi/ Sun, 30 Oct 2005 14:04:31 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/massport-wifi/ I do a lot of flying in and out of Boston’s Logan Airport, so I’ve been following the controversy about WiFi there with some interest. https://maisonbisson.com/post/public-broadcasting/ Sat, 29 Oct 2005 17:48:22 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/public-broadcasting/ SMS to construction sign (at Engadget and Textually), and SMS to megaphone — for the armchair protester (at Textually and Engadget). https://maisonbisson.com/post/personal-helicopter/ Sat, 29 Oct 2005 14:40:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/personal-helicopter/ It’s nearing the end of 2005 and we still don’t have any flying cars like we were promised, but the GEN H-4 personal helicopter looks promising (and dangerous). https://maisonbisson.com/post/goats-show/ Sat, 29 Oct 2005 05:21:32 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/goats-show/ I can’t really pass as an undergrad anymore, but they still let me in to Friday Night Rock to see The Mountain Goats. https://maisonbisson.com/post/homer-simpson-nuclear-safety-simulator/ Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:10:57 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/homer-simpson-nuclear-safety-simulator/ Here: have at it with a Swedish nuclear power plant simulator. Raise and lower the control rods, turn pumps on and off, open and close valves, just make sure you don’t blowup anything. https://maisonbisson.com/post/11-minutes-of-attention/ Thu, 27 Oct 2005 16:11:57 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/11-minutes-of-attention/ I won’t link to The New York Times anymore, but when Ross Mayfield quotes them, I don’t have to. https://maisonbisson.com/post/ubicomp-goes-spray-on/ Thu, 27 Oct 2005 11:20:52 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/ubicomp-goes-spray-on/ Via Gizmodo, we make money not art, and The Engineer: spray-on computers. The idea is to develop computers about the size of a grain of sand (though they say a cubic millimeter here), give them sensors and networking capabilities, and completely change our notion of “computer. https://maisonbisson.com/post/dick-hardt-s-identity-20-presentation/ Wed, 26 Oct 2005 16:19:55 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/dick-hardt-s-identity-20-presentation/ I said “identity management is the next big thing” back in September. That was before I’d seen Sxip founder Dick Hardt’s presentation on Identity 2. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-language-of-your-website/ Wed, 26 Oct 2005 11:42:49 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-language-of-your-website/ Lynne Puckett on the Web4Lib list pointed me to Web Pages That Suck and highlighted this quote from the site: https://maisonbisson.com/post/what-are-blogs/ Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:13:40 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/what-are-blogs/ Tech Tuesdays: Blogs and Blogging https://maisonbisson.com/post/blogs-and-blogging/ Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:30:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/blogs-and-blogging/ Note: these are my presentation notes for a brown bag discussion with library faculty and university IT staff today. https://maisonbisson.com/post/homeworj-10-15-2005/ Tue, 25 Oct 2005 11:20:16 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/homeworj-10-15-2005/ Before gadgeteers could get affordable (or any) electronics for polyphonic sound synthesis or sample playback, they dallied with tape playback devices that would link each key to its own tape mechanism that played a pre-recorded tape loop at the keyed pitch. https://maisonbisson.com/post/flock-is-out/ Tue, 25 Oct 2005 00:06:43 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/flock-is-out/ The Flock preview is out and I love it. The good folks at WordPress.com are saying “it’s like Firefox with goodies. https://maisonbisson.com/post/somewhere-somebody-is-starting-the-gamers-rights-movement/ Mon, 24 Oct 2005 16:49:34 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/somewhere-somebody-is-starting-the-gamers-rights-movement/ Annalee Newitz tells me that video game developers are looking for cheaters by installing spyware with their games. https://maisonbisson.com/post/engadget-caption-contest/ Mon, 24 Oct 2005 15:34:50 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/engadget-caption-contest/ Caption Contest: what large honkers you have! https://maisonbisson.com/post/genuine-fractals-resolution-on-demand/ Mon, 24 Oct 2005 15:31:52 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/genuine-fractals-resolution-on-demand/ onOne Software‘s Genuine Fractals https://maisonbisson.com/post/putting-your-video-on-a-new-ipod-2/ Mon, 24 Oct 2005 15:30:02 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/putting-your-video-on-a-new-ipod-2/ [How-To: Automatically download and convert TV for your iPod – hackaday.com ]1 https://maisonbisson.com/post/web-20/ Mon, 24 Oct 2005 11:35:05 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/web-20/ Ross Mayfield says Web 2.0 is “made of people.” Tim O’Reilly tells us it’s about participation. https://maisonbisson.com/post/mmm-spelunking-in-sewers/ Mon, 24 Oct 2005 02:15:51 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/mmm-spelunking-in-sewers/ International Urban Glow – Europe Underground https://maisonbisson.com/post/mt-moriah-summit-denied/ Sun, 23 Oct 2005 13:33:24 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/mt-moriah-summit-denied/ Will and I didn’t summit Mt. Moriah yesterday. We’d started late and the weather was turning against us, but I did get this shot of Mt. https://maisonbisson.com/post/email-20/ Sun, 23 Oct 2005 10:40:20 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/email-20/ From Ross Mayfield in Many2Many: this email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private https://maisonbisson.com/post/whale-watching-on-lake-michigan/ Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:22:16 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/whale-watching-on-lake-michigan/ Whale Watching On Lake Michigan? https://maisonbisson.com/post/false-whale-watching-on-lake-michigan/ Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:04:21 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/false-whale-watching-on-lake-michigan/ Way back in 2003, ClassroomHelp.com published a story on whale watching in Lake Michigan. As it turns out, the info was based on content on a Geocities. https://maisonbisson.com/post/web-pages-that-suck/ Fri, 21 Oct 2005 17:31:55 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/web-pages-that-suck/ “Web Pages That Suck: learn usability and good Web design by looking at bad Web design. https://maisonbisson.com/post/where-are-the-mit-weblog-survey-results/ Fri, 21 Oct 2005 17:30:53 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/where-are-the-mit-weblog-survey-results/ Where are the MIT Weblog Survey Results? They were supposed to be out September first, but they’re still missing… All I can find is this older page from Fernanda Viegas. https://maisonbisson.com/post/bad-covers-oops-i-did-it-again/ Fri, 21 Oct 2005 16:07:13 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bad-covers-oops-i-did-it-again/ Memepool.com points out that the folks at Supermasterpiece are claiming priority over Britney Spears’ Oops ! https://maisonbisson.com/post/now-search-lamson-library-at-a9com/ Fri, 21 Oct 2005 12:50:10 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/now-search-lamson-library-at-a9com/ A9, the search engine from Amazon.com, does some pretty interesting things that libraries should be aware of. https://maisonbisson.com/post/empty-8/ Fri, 21 Oct 2005 10:04:47 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/empty-8/ Memepool introduced me to camera tossing at Flickr, where there’s even a group for those who are willing to risk their camera for a chance at a shot of streaky lights. https://maisonbisson.com/post/php5-xml-love/ Fri, 21 Oct 2005 09:11:55 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/php5-xml-love/ The Zend overview of the new XML features in PHP 5 has re-energized me for building XML Server Applications at my library. https://maisonbisson.com/post/hello-wordpresscom/ Thu, 20 Oct 2005 22:42:50 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/hello-wordpresscom/ Cliff invited me to WordPress.com earlier this week and I’ve just gotten a chance to get things up and running over there. https://maisonbisson.com/post/dan-grossmans-list-of-top-ten-ajax-apps/ Thu, 20 Oct 2005 20:47:26 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/dan-grossmans-list-of-top-ten-ajax-apps/ Top 10 Ajax Applications at A Venture Forth. https://maisonbisson.com/post/fuel-efficient-vehicles-2/ Thu, 20 Oct 2005 12:05:54 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/fuel-efficient-vehicles-2/ People looking for oversized pickups, ridiculously large Russian Army trucks, even jet powered speedsters have it easy. https://maisonbisson.com/post/fuel-efficient-vehicles/ Thu, 20 Oct 2005 11:48:03 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/fuel-efficient-vehicles/ I’m a fan of the Smart, the fuel efficient European roadster that’s smaller than a Mini (see above). https://maisonbisson.com/post/manhattan-users-guide/ Thu, 20 Oct 2005 05:31:37 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/manhattan-users-guide/ Manhattan User’s Guide caught my attention when I followed a link to their Hump Day list of funnies. https://maisonbisson.com/post/common-census/ Wed, 19 Oct 2005 11:23:45 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/common-census/ CommonCensus Map Project: The CommonCensus Map Project is redrawing the map of the United States based on your voting, to show how the country is organized culturally, as opposed to traditional political boundaries. https://maisonbisson.com/post/movie-save-the-green-planet/ Wed, 19 Oct 2005 02:06:49 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/movie-save-the-green-planet/ I’m at a loss for words of my own to describe Save The Green Planet (IMDb page), so I’ll have to crib from others. https://maisonbisson.com/post/freakonomics/ Tue, 18 Oct 2005 16:49:25 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/freakonomics/ Conservatives hate Freakonomics, that book by economist Steven D. Levitt and journalist Stephen J. Dubner that takes on more than a few sticky issues that most people don’t normally consider to be within the purview of economics. https://maisonbisson.com/post/weird-travel/ Mon, 17 Oct 2005 16:33:50 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/weird-travel/ It started with The Plastics Museum and Museum of Bad Art, progressed with a visit to the International Bowling Museum and Hall of Fame and continued with a tour of Donut shops in Lowell, MA. https://maisonbisson.com/post/cubesat/ Mon, 17 Oct 2005 11:49:05 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/cubesat/ CubeSat is Cal Poly’s plan to make space accessible to the rest of us. That is, they want to make it easy and cheap enough to launch satellites that even high schools can get a chance at it. https://maisonbisson.com/post/group-portrait-at-pigeon-cove/ Mon, 17 Oct 2005 03:34:37 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/group-portrait-at-pigeon-cove/ An unconventional panorama in Rockport‘s Pigeon Cove. From left to right stand Will and Corey. https://maisonbisson.com/post/empty-7/ Sun, 16 Oct 2005 03:47:28 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/empty-7/ It was raining today in Rockport, but that didn’t stop Corey (top) or Will (bottom) from doing a little jumping on the seawall. https://maisonbisson.com/post/getting-a-passport/ Sat, 15 Oct 2005 14:32:32 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/getting-a-passport/ My old passport is expired and my wife has never had a passport, so I had to look this up. https://maisonbisson.com/post/balloon-museum/ Fri, 14 Oct 2005 16:18:57 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/balloon-museum/ I was browsing the NPR archives the other day and found this report on the International Balloon Museum in Albuquerque, N. https://maisonbisson.com/post/pepper-pad-as-multipurpose-voip-device/ Fri, 14 Oct 2005 11:08:35 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/pepper-pad-as-multipurpose-voip-device/ I’m quite taken with my new Bluetooth headset, despite the little hiccup I encountered. So, naturally, I’m thinking about how it would work with the VoIP softphone that’s promised for the Pepper Pad soon. https://maisonbisson.com/post/monkey-business/ Fri, 14 Oct 2005 02:17:01 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/monkey-business/ If that proverbial room full of monkeys at typewriters ever really did randomly pound out the complete works of Shakespeare, would they be as good? https://maisonbisson.com/post/james-torios-blogging-thesis/ Thu, 13 Oct 2005 16:31:53 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/james-torios-blogging-thesis/ James Torio has been working on his masters in marketing and took a strong look at blogs for his thesis. https://maisonbisson.com/post/pravda-and-mccarthyism/ Thu, 13 Oct 2005 06:38:50 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/pravda-and-mccarthyism/ Don’t worry. I’m right on top of whatever happens in Pravda, the leading newspaper of the Russian Federation. https://maisonbisson.com/post/findability-the-google-economy-and-libraries/ Thu, 13 Oct 2005 02:06:54 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/findability-the-google-economy-and-libraries/ Peter Morville, author of Ambient Findability, stirred up the web4lib email list with a message about Authority and Findability. https://maisonbisson.com/post/delaware-ruling/ Wed, 12 Oct 2005 16:04:10 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/delaware-ruling/ Wendy Seltzer alerts us to the Delaware Supreme Court’s ruling last week in Cahill v. Doe, a case that tested our rights to anonymity online, as well as the standard for judging defamation. https://maisonbisson.com/post/bluetooth-headset-problems/ Wed, 12 Oct 2005 11:11:51 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bluetooth-headset-problems/ I’m still excited about that Bluetooth headset I got last week, but I did encounter a little problem with it. https://maisonbisson.com/post/fried-ravioli/ Wed, 12 Oct 2005 02:56:18 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/fried-ravioli/ Of course I like my new camera. If you don’t think these fried ravioli have enough detail, take a look at the full-size version (3264 x 2448). https://maisonbisson.com/post/priorities/ Tue, 11 Oct 2005 04:54:01 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/priorities/ So long as I’m talking about change I want to bring attention to some commentaries by Chris Farrell in Marketplace Money. https://maisonbisson.com/post/change-this/ Mon, 10 Oct 2005 16:35:22 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/change-this/ Worth looking at: ChangeThis, started by Seth Godin and “a sharp team of change agents.” The quote comes from Ben McConnell at Church of the Customer, who also reminds us of the ways that conservatives in every field favor traditional views and values and oppose change: https://maisonbisson.com/post/and-the-floods-moved-north/ Mon, 10 Oct 2005 14:28:25 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/and-the-floods-moved-north/ The rains this weekend swelled the rivers to flood stage in south-western New Hampshire. As much as half of Keene is said to be under water. https://maisonbisson.com/post/switched-servers/ Mon, 10 Oct 2005 03:14:33 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/switched-servers/ I switched to Lunarpages last week after the fiasco with my old hosting provider. Now, because of bandwidth and CPU usage, I’m moving to a new server at Lunarpages. https://maisonbisson.com/post/bluetooth-headset/ Sun, 09 Oct 2005 06:00:11 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bluetooth-headset/ As I was contemplating making angry calls to my hosting provider last week when they shut down MaisonBisson for a couple days, it occurred to me that I would rather make those calls via SkypeOut or some similar service that didn’t reveal my home phone number. https://maisonbisson.com/post/ear-shrapnel-noise-grenade/ Fri, 07 Oct 2005 16:42:01 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/ear-shrapnel-noise-grenade/ Engadget calls it “skull-shattering fun” and Gizmodo labeled it “ear shrapnel.” It’s available at Paladone. https://maisonbisson.com/post/library-feel-good/ Fri, 07 Oct 2005 12:45:09 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/library-feel-good/ A Flash animation about why libraries matter. https://maisonbisson.com/post/bad-poetry/ Fri, 07 Oct 2005 05:46:57 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bad-poetry/ Tips from a friend: Center justify the text and write things like “kill me daddy, the robins chirped. https://maisonbisson.com/post/compact-housing/ Thu, 06 Oct 2005 16:57:02 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/compact-housing/ Compact, modular, and Lego-like housing is nothing new. Buckminster Fuller‘s Dymaxion House (now at the Henry Ford Museum), designed in the 1940s, was probably the first. https://maisonbisson.com/post/cladonia-exchanger-xml-editor/ Thu, 06 Oct 2005 13:11:15 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/cladonia-exchanger-xml-editor/ Interesting: Cladonia Exchanger XML Editor, a Java-based app that makes reading raw XML easy. Much easier than in a regular text editor, even with syntax highlighting. https://maisonbisson.com/post/stone-face-fables/ Thu, 06 Oct 2005 05:29:46 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/stone-face-fables/ Note: The following comes without attribution from an acquaintance of my father’s. Once upon a time there were people who lived in a valley near a mountain. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-pepper-pad-at-work/ Wed, 05 Oct 2005 21:33:01 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-pepper-pad-at-work/ My week with the Pepper Pad is over, and the UPS van just drove off with it, but I’ve still got a lot to report. https://maisonbisson.com/post/who-knew-subway-maps-were-copyrighted/ Wed, 05 Oct 2005 16:40:52 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/who-knew-subway-maps-were-copyrighted/ The MTA, the folks who run New York’s subways and busses and such, weren’t the only ones to smack a cease and desist down on iPod Subway Maps last week, but they’re the first to tell they can pay $500 for the privilege of distributing those maps in an iPod-readable format — but only for non-commercial distribution. https://maisonbisson.com/post/chivas/ Wed, 05 Oct 2005 05:31:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/chivas/ Chivas, the folks who bring us Chivas Regal scotch whisky and virtual tours of the Playboy Mansion, is looking for a pair of ambassador editors for ThisIsTheLife. https://maisonbisson.com/post/ockham-network-web-services/ Tue, 04 Oct 2005 17:16:07 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/ockham-network-web-services/ Ryan beat me to reporting on the interesting new services at the Ockham Network (noted in this Web4lib post). https://maisonbisson.com/post/distracted-by-my-shiny-new-camera-2/ Tue, 04 Oct 2005 10:02:26 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/distracted-by-my-shiny-new-camera-2/ The Olympus C8080, one of the best digital cameras ever, can be had for under $500, refurbished, from some sellers on Amazon. https://maisonbisson.com/post/open-content-alliance/ Mon, 03 Oct 2005 22:55:18 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/open-content-alliance/ The news is that Yahoo! announced they’ve formed the Open Content Alliance. Though that certainly fits the Google versus Yahoo! https://maisonbisson.com/post/mac-pci-wireless-cards/ Mon, 03 Oct 2005 16:14:03 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/mac-pci-wireless-cards/ In case you’re looking: Metaphyzx’s Mac OS Wireless Adapter Compatibility List. https://maisonbisson.com/post/introducing-bsuite_speedcache/ Mon, 03 Oct 2005 05:06:11 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/introducing-bsuite_speedcache/ I wrote bsuite_speedcache to reduce the number of database queries I was executing per page load. https://maisonbisson.com/post/meltdown/ Mon, 03 Oct 2005 03:24:55 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/meltdown/ Sometime around 10 PM Friday the MySQL server at my hosting provider took a walk. The hosting sysop blamed it on my site and disabled the database that serves it by making the directory the MySQL files are in unreadable. https://maisonbisson.com/post/pepper-links/ Sun, 02 Oct 2005 15:56:33 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/pepper-links/ Pepper Computer Buying a Pepper Pad at Amazon Pepper Hacks Victor Rehorst has been blogging about his Pepper since he got it (a few days ago) Pepper Pad stories at TeleRead Other Pepper Pad stories here at MaisonBisson https://maisonbisson.com/post/test-site/ Sat, 01 Oct 2005 09:30:35 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/test-site/ I guess not everybody in Nevada loves the Test Site as much as this postcard might suggest, but hey, what do tourists know? https://maisonbisson.com/post/pepper-pad-first-impressions/ Fri, 30 Sep 2005 16:25:49 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/pepper-pad-first-impressions/ The Pepper Pad (available at Amazon) has a very clean out of box experience. There’s nothing to assemble and no questions about what order to do things in. https://maisonbisson.com/post/those-crazy-k-fee-ads/ Fri, 30 Sep 2005 11:53:25 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/those-crazy-k-fee-ads/ It turns out that K-Fee, the company that pushes its energy drink with the scary TV ads, has a English-language website. https://maisonbisson.com/post/pepper-pad-day-1/ Thu, 29 Sep 2005 22:25:45 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/pepper-pad-day-1/ The Pepper Pad‘s technical details — a lightweight Linux powered device with an 8.4-inch SVGA touchscreen, Wi-Fi auto-configuration, Bluetooth device support, multi-gigabyte disk, full QWERTY thumb-keypad, stereo speakers, and more — are already well reported. https://maisonbisson.com/post/must-read-ambient-findability/ Thu, 29 Sep 2005 19:19:58 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/must-read-ambient-findability/ Peter Morville‘s Ambient Findability sold out at Amazon today on the first day of release. There’s a reason: it’s good. https://maisonbisson.com/post/mt-mousilauke/ Thu, 29 Sep 2005 16:17:12 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/mt-mousilauke/ Will and I climbed Moosilauke in early August, but it was only now that I got around to stitching the panorama. https://maisonbisson.com/post/bsuite_innerindex-wordpress-plugin/ Thu, 29 Sep 2005 11:10:39 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bsuite_innerindex-wordpress-plugin/ [[pageindex]] About “Blogging” typically connotes short-form writing that needs little internal structure, but that’s no reason to cramp your style. https://maisonbisson.com/post/game-law/ Wed, 28 Sep 2005 16:43:31 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/game-law/ Matt says my attempts to analogize online roleplaying games to more familiar contests like chess or automobile racing are “just silly. https://maisonbisson.com/post/teachers-get-paid-crap/ Wed, 28 Sep 2005 10:43:19 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/teachers-get-paid-crap/ From AlterNet: Teaching In America: The Impossible Dream. Tagline: Many public school teachers today must work two jobs to survive, and can’t afford to buy homes or raise families. https://maisonbisson.com/post/open-source-gis/ Tue, 27 Sep 2005 16:50:06 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/open-source-gis/ Here’s an interesting GeoPlace.com article on open source GIS tools, including GIS extensions to PosgreSQL and MySQL. https://maisonbisson.com/post/distracted-by-my-shiny-new-camera/ Tue, 27 Sep 2005 07:44:38 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/distracted-by-my-shiny-new-camera/ My Olympus C4000 is hard to beat. Steve’s Digicams reviewed it well, and many friends with newer cameras find features or capabilities in it they miss on theirs. https://maisonbisson.com/post/bsuite_geocode-plugin-for-wordpress/ Mon, 26 Sep 2005 21:57:21 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bsuite_geocode-plugin-for-wordpress/ I’m a big fan of the WP Geo plugin, but I want more. My biggest complaint is that I want to insert coordinates using Google Maps or MultiMap URLs, rather than insert them in the modified story editor. https://maisonbisson.com/post/remote/ Mon, 26 Sep 2005 11:24:01 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/remote/ I have a sort of guilt complex about looking at home theater issues. Nonetheless, I’ve been building one piecemeal ever since I found an incredible deal on a video projector. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-codex/ Mon, 26 Sep 2005 00:18:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-codex/ The following pages from the WordPress Codex were surprisingly helpful recently: Creating a Static Front Page « WordPress Codex Creating Tables with Plugins « WordPress Codex Alphabetizing Posts « WordPress Codex https://maisonbisson.com/post/political-campaigning-in-games/ Sun, 25 Sep 2005 16:35:29 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/political-campaigning-in-games/ Matt and I have been talking about online role playing games lately. He’s more than interested in the new challenges they pose to our legal system, the new media opportunities they offer, the ways they’re altering culture. https://maisonbisson.com/post/whats-zimbra/ Sun, 25 Sep 2005 11:00:43 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/whats-zimbra/ They say “Zimbra is a community for building and maintaining next generation collaboration technology.” What I’d like to know, however, is whether Zmbra is a community driven, social software answer to the problems of groupware — typically driven by management’s needs. https://maisonbisson.com/post/a-motivated-team-member-is-a-productive-team-member/ Sat, 24 Sep 2005 15:49:17 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/a-motivated-team-member-is-a-productive-team-member/ I think this is Dave. Apparently they keep him in a cell at the server farm. https://maisonbisson.com/post/panorama-stitch/ Fri, 23 Sep 2005 16:56:36 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/panorama-stitch/ I actually like the look of a broken panorama, where the borders of each photo are clearly visible — even emphasized. https://maisonbisson.com/post/empty-6/ Fri, 23 Sep 2005 12:08:02 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/empty-6/ I’m only just getting into Peter Morville‘s Ambient Findability, but I’m eating it up. In trying to prep the reader to understand his thesis — summed up on the front cover as “what we find changes who we become” — Morville relates his difficulty in finding authoritative, non-marketing information about his daughter’s newly diagnosed peanut allergy: https://maisonbisson.com/post/editing-wordpress-pages-via-xml-rpc/ Thu, 22 Sep 2005 15:51:44 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/editing-wordpress-pages-via-xml-rpc/ WordPress‘s Pages open the door to using WP as a content management system. Unfortunately, Pages can’t be edited via XML-RPC blogging apps like Ecto. https://maisonbisson.com/post/recycling-tips-from-our-physical-plant/ Thu, 22 Sep 2005 07:22:44 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/recycling-tips-from-our-physical-plant/ Along with the energy saving and water saving tips previously, our physical plant folks have sent out these recycling tips: https://maisonbisson.com/post/suvs-slump/ Wed, 21 Sep 2005 16:47:43 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/suvs-slump/ Earnings reports from car makers seemed to suggest SUV sales were down last spring, and with gas prices near $3 per gallon in some parts of the country still, nobody should be surprised that Yahoo! https://maisonbisson.com/post/satellite-broadband/ Wed, 21 Sep 2005 11:17:08 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/satellite-broadband/ Macsimum News did a story on satellite internet options a few weeks ago, but reader reports focused on fixed base station solutions for domestic use. https://maisonbisson.com/post/signed-javascripts/ Tue, 20 Sep 2005 16:17:09 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/signed-javascripts/ The Mozilla docs on JavaScript security give a hint of hope that signed scripts will work around the cross-domain script exclusions that all good browsers enforce. https://maisonbisson.com/post/pc-world-pepper-pad-review-doesnt-get-it/ Tue, 20 Sep 2005 11:58:39 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/pc-world-pepper-pad-review-doesnt-get-it/ David Rothman pointed me to Michael Lasky’s PC World review of the Pepper Pad. Lasky bangs on Pepper, saying he can’t recommend it. https://maisonbisson.com/post/bstat-japan/ Mon, 19 Sep 2005 22:08:22 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bstat-japan/ It looks like bstat has been localized for Japan! With that in mind, I’d love to hear from international users about what I can do to make localization easier. https://maisonbisson.com/post/working-around-cross-domain-xmlhttprequest-limitations/ Mon, 19 Sep 2005 16:13:46 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/working-around-cross-domain-xmlhttprequest-limitations/ I have plans to apply AJAX to our library catalog but I’m running into a problem where I can’t do XMLHttpRequest events to servers other than the one I loaded the main webpage from. https://maisonbisson.com/post/water-saving-tips/ Mon, 19 Sep 2005 11:49:34 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/water-saving-tips/ Our physical plant folks sent out this list of water saving tips to followup on the energy savings tips they sent previously. https://maisonbisson.com/post/salt-works/ Mon, 19 Sep 2005 02:29:12 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/salt-works/ My friend Troy keeps a studio at Saltworks, a combined gallery and studio space in Atlanta where Prema Murthy just opened her deStructures show. https://maisonbisson.com/post/empty-5/ Sun, 18 Sep 2005 14:59:57 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/empty-5/ I might be overstating it, but Identity Management is the next big thing for the open source community to tackle. https://maisonbisson.com/post/linotype-fontexplorer/ Sun, 18 Sep 2005 13:48:34 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/linotype-fontexplorer/ I was never a very good graphic designer, but the part of me that thought I was still pays attention when I see software like Linotype’s free FontExplorer, described somewhere as “the iTunes for fonts. https://maisonbisson.com/post/thats-excitement/ Sat, 17 Sep 2005 06:53:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/thats-excitement/ “Oooh… I want a number ten.” — a man stepping into line at the airport McDonalds. https://maisonbisson.com/post/absinthe/ Fri, 16 Sep 2005 16:01:08 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/absinthe/ Roderick sent me a link to this Reason article on Absinthe that claims: the U. https://maisonbisson.com/post/telecrapper-2000/ Fri, 16 Sep 2005 11:29:25 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/telecrapper-2000/ The Telecrapper 2000 is an improvised, homemade system that identifies telemarketing calls and leads the marketer through an artificial conversation that wastes the company’s time and money. https://maisonbisson.com/post/fixing-position-fixed-in-ie/ Thu, 15 Sep 2005 16:26:14 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/fixing-position-fixed-in-ie/ It turns out the Internet Explorer doesn’t properly support CSS’s position: fixed. Google led me to the following: https://maisonbisson.com/post/powerpoint/ Thu, 15 Sep 2005 11:17:54 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/powerpoint/ Ruth Marcus at the Washington Post wonders if PowerPoint is a killing app. She’s not the first to note that NASA administrators make decisions — sometimes fatal decisions — on the basis of PowerPoint presentations that mask or misrepresent details. https://maisonbisson.com/post/fwd-eyewitness-katrina-report/ Thu, 15 Sep 2005 02:25:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/fwd-eyewitness-katrina-report/ (about the photo) The following report comes from CosmoBaker.com, which includes this preamble: EDIT: The following is an email that was sent to my mother from one of her colleagues. https://maisonbisson.com/post/visitor-based-networking/ Wed, 14 Sep 2005 16:20:20 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/visitor-based-networking/ A message came acrross the web4lib list a few weeks ago with the following request: https://maisonbisson.com/post/google-economy/ Wed, 14 Sep 2005 11:40:40 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/google-economy/ Just when I was beginning to feel a little on my own with my talk about the Google Economy here, I see two related new books are coming out. https://maisonbisson.com/post/trusted-computing-the-movie/ Tue, 13 Sep 2005 16:37:53 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/trusted-computing-the-movie/ Benjamin Stephan and Lutz Vogel at Lafkon bring us this wonderfully engaging animated story of Trusted Computing. https://maisonbisson.com/post/video-games/ Tue, 13 Sep 2005 11:23:32 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/video-games/ Matt started talking up the weird issues developing around multiplayer online games a few weeks ago. https://maisonbisson.com/post/energy-saving-tips/ Tue, 13 Sep 2005 00:40:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/energy-saving-tips/ Our physical plant folks sent out a message with tips on how to conserve energy. Perhaps they oughtta blog this stuff? https://maisonbisson.com/post/osceola-weekend/ Mon, 12 Sep 2005 10:30:47 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/osceola-weekend/ I climbed the Osceolas with Will and Adam this weekend. It was my first overnight in a long, long time, and their first mountaintop sunrise. https://maisonbisson.com/post/what-counts/ Sun, 11 Sep 2005 23:07:51 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/what-counts/ Will reminds us: “Flasks are like people, it’s what’s on the inside that counts.” https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-quotable-john-scott/ Sat, 10 Sep 2005 13:51:13 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-quotable-john-scott/ John Scott reminds the naive: “Don’t believe everything you find in Google.” https://maisonbisson.com/post/be-a-leader-manage-your-staff-with-ralph-wiggum-quotes/ Fri, 09 Sep 2005 08:52:29 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/be-a-leader-manage-your-staff-with-ralph-wiggum-quotes/ “I eated the purpleberries” (groaning). “How are they Ralph…. Good?” “They taste like…burning.” More goodness at the Ralph Wiggum Soundboard, via InformationNation. https://maisonbisson.com/post/bush-up-and-censors-that-stuff/ Fri, 09 Sep 2005 06:50:02 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bush-up-and-censors-that-stuff/ Reuters: FEMA accused of censorship: “It’s impossible for me to imagine how you report a story whose subject is death without allowing the public to see images of the subject of the story,” said Larry Siems of the PEN American Center, an authors’ group that defends free expression. https://maisonbisson.com/post/axe-gang-security-bumbles-again/ Thu, 08 Sep 2005 16:34:27 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/axe-gang-security-bumbles-again/ We laugh at the single minded foolishness of the Axe Gang in Kung Fu Hustle Jackie Chan’s The Legend of Drunken Master, but do we laugh when we see it in our own security policies? https://maisonbisson.com/post/seo/ Thu, 08 Sep 2005 11:02:39 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/seo/ I don’t want to admit to being interested in marketing, but I am. Here’s a few links… https://maisonbisson.com/post/simple-bookmarklet-demo/ Wed, 07 Sep 2005 19:28:21 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/simple-bookmarklet-demo/ Bookmarklets are interesting little bits of JavaScript stored as bookmarks. They’ve been around since about 1998 (earlier? https://maisonbisson.com/post/poison/ Wed, 07 Sep 2005 06:56:58 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/poison/ Browsing Flickr the other day I found la_femme‘s poison. Other good photos in her photostream. https://maisonbisson.com/post/energy-crisis/ Tue, 06 Sep 2005 16:36:13 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/energy-crisis/ Mike Whelan posted the above photo to his Flickr photostream recently. Back in April, when gas prices were still well below the $3-per-gallon mark, it looked like sales of SUVs were starting to slow. https://maisonbisson.com/post/making-mysql-do-relevance-ranked-full-text-searches/ Tue, 06 Sep 2005 11:56:33 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/making-mysql-do-relevance-ranked-full-text-searches/ I’m going out on a limb to say MySQL’s full-text indexing and searching features are underused. https://maisonbisson.com/post/la-tomatina/ Mon, 05 Sep 2005 19:48:10 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/la-tomatina/ From a Reuters story in ChinaDaily: At noon [Wednesday], municipal trucks dumped about 130 tons of ripe, juicy plum tomatoes at the feet of adrenaline-charged crowds in town’s main square. https://maisonbisson.com/post/37signals-tells-google-a-thing-or-two/ Mon, 05 Sep 2005 15:39:57 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/37signals-tells-google-a-thing-or-two/ 37signals takes on Google and suggests some improvements. https://maisonbisson.com/post/ucla-takes-on-google-scholar/ Mon, 05 Sep 2005 11:54:29 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/ucla-takes-on-google-scholar/ Via Jay Bhatt at LISNews: UCLA Libraries‘ discussion of Google Scholar, Search Engines, Databases, and the Research Process. https://maisonbisson.com/post/time-picayune-in-exile/ Sun, 04 Sep 2005 17:58:56 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/time-picayune-in-exile/ Times-Picayune editor Jim Amoss answered questions for On The Media‘s Brooke Gladstone. Amoss and his staff have been covering the catastrophe in New Orleans as only locals can. https://maisonbisson.com/post/sneaky/ Sun, 04 Sep 2005 14:23:03 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/sneaky/ Is there a sneaky surprise hidden in your hotel room? See if you can recognize anything in these photos (tip: mouse-over them). https://maisonbisson.com/post/back-to-school-video/ Sat, 03 Sep 2005 15:52:31 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/back-to-school-video/ Kate says: “Life is good. And I’ve got a sleeping bag from the future.” Tim explains, a bit. https://maisonbisson.com/post/things-go-to-hell/ Fri, 02 Sep 2005 16:55:26 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/things-go-to-hell/ DefenseTech’s Noah Shachtman writes: Organizing thousands and thousands of people, in hellish conditions and in a hurry, is tough work. https://maisonbisson.com/post/rollerblading/ Fri, 02 Sep 2005 04:44:19 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/rollerblading/ Via Pya{#16437}. https://maisonbisson.com/post/policing-by-cellphone/ Thu, 01 Sep 2005 21:29:32 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/policing-by-cellphone/ Though we imagine the Dutch to be a rather unexcitable lot, I did anyway, it turns out they have a history of getting rowdy at football games (yes, if this all happened back in the States I be calling it “soccer”). https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-water-down-there/ Wed, 31 Aug 2005 21:51:13 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-water-down-there/ I don’t watch TV, so I haven’t seen many images of the flooding in New Orleans until I found these. https://maisonbisson.com/post/empty-2/ Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:11:56 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/empty-2/ Call it a law, or dictum, or just a big stick, but it goes like this: https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-sun/ Wed, 31 Aug 2005 05:19:43 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-sun/ From the NASA website: EIT (Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope) images the solar atmosphere at several wavelengths, and therefore, shows solar material at different temperatures. https://maisonbisson.com/post/enabling-htaccess-on-mac-os-x/ Tue, 30 Aug 2005 23:39:16 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/enabling-htaccess-on-mac-os-x/ I do a lot of web development on my laptop. I’ve got Apache and PHP there, so it’s really convenient, but I usually move projects off to other server before I get around to wanting to mess with mod_rewrite. https://maisonbisson.com/post/coconut-battery/ Tue, 30 Aug 2005 11:50:14 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/coconut-battery/ coconutBattery: coconutBattery is a tool that reads out the data of your notebook-battery (iBook/Powerbook). It shows the current charge of your battery as well as the current maximum capacity related to its original. https://maisonbisson.com/post/awstats/ Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:12:22 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/awstats/ As much as I like the bstat functionality of bsuite, I never intended it to be a replacement for a full server log-based stats application. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wikipedia-the-google-economy/ Mon, 29 Aug 2005 11:13:21 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wikipedia-the-google-economy/ I’m rather passionate about the Google Economy, so it shouldn’t be too much of a surprise to learn that I just wrote about it in my first ever Wikipedia entry. https://maisonbisson.com/post/bsuite-development/ Sun, 28 Aug 2005 15:44:27 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bsuite-development/ bstat has become bsuite. The name change reflects the fact that I want the plugin to do a lot more than track usage stats. https://maisonbisson.com/post/beloit-colleges-list-of-things-that-make-us-look-old-to-incoming-students/ Sat, 27 Aug 2005 14:01:17 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/beloit-colleges-list-of-things-that-make-us-look-old-to-incoming-students/ <p>We’ve seen lists like this before. <a href="http://www.beloit.edu/">Beloit College</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beloit,_Wisconsin">Beloit Wisconsin</a> releases their “<a href="http://www.beloit.edu/~pubaff/releases/mindset_2009.htm">Mindeset List</a>” for their incoming class every year around now. The point is to remind us how cultural touchstones change over time. It does that, but it also give us (me, anyway) a good chuckle.</p> <p>It’s worth reading all the way down to number 49, at least, where libraries get a good mention.</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/video-bulb-and-zakka-shop-nyc/ Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:48:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/video-bulb-and-zakka-shop-nyc/ The Video Bulb is a “lipstick-sized tube” that plugs in to your TV’s RCA jack and plays Bitman videos. https://maisonbisson.com/post/changing-modes-of-communication/ Thu, 25 Aug 2005 21:46:06 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/changing-modes-of-communication/ I talk a lot about the Google Economy here, and how that and other ideas are driving changing modes of communication. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-as-cms/ Thu, 25 Aug 2005 16:43:57 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-as-cms/ A friend and I have been talking about what it would take to turn WordPress into a CMS. https://maisonbisson.com/post/kingcosmonaut-wp-themes/ Thu, 25 Aug 2005 07:43:10 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/kingcosmonaut-wp-themes/ I stumbled across the sometimes funny How To Live Your Life and got curious about the theme. https://maisonbisson.com/post/flock/ Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:12:56 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/flock/ The developers describe Flock as [T]he world’s most innovative social browsing experience. We call it the two-way web. https://maisonbisson.com/post/itunes-music-store-api/ Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:12:16 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/itunes-music-store-api/ I can’t explain why, at least not yet, but I’m looking for a way to search the iTunes Music Store{#XfFSogqWv7s&amp;offerid=78941. https://maisonbisson.com/post/a-list-apart-updated/ Tue, 23 Aug 2005 16:35:31 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/a-list-apart-updated/ A List Apart, has been revamped and they’re proud of it. They should be, it’s beautiful and functional. https://maisonbisson.com/post/copyright-reserves/ Tue, 23 Aug 2005 11:25:23 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/copyright-reserves/ Back when I was looking things up for my Digital Preservation and Copyright story I found a bunch of info the University of Texas System had gathered on issues related to copyright, libraries, and education. https://maisonbisson.com/post/reshelving/ Mon, 22 Aug 2005 16:15:37 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/reshelving/ Via Jon Gordon‘s Future Tense: Re-shelving George Orwell. Smart people everywhere are taking it upon themselves to re-shelve George Orwell’s 1984 from fiction to more appropriate sections in non-fiction, like “Current Events”, “Politics”, “History”, “True Crime”, or “New Non-Fiction. https://maisonbisson.com/post/google-at-lquilter/ Mon, 22 Aug 2005 11:21:20 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/google-at-lquilter/ With all the talk about Google scanning or not scanning copyrighted books, I was happy to see Laura Quilter talking about Google as a library. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wikipedia-api/ Mon, 22 Aug 2005 03:39:35 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wikipedia-api/ I want Wikipedia to have an API, but it doesn’t. Some web searching turned up Gina Trapani’s WikipedizeText, but that still wasn’t exactly what I wanted. https://maisonbisson.com/post/drug-side-effects-drive-patients-to-gamble-eat-drink-and/ Sat, 20 Aug 2005 04:39:22 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/drug-side-effects-drive-patients-to-gamble-eat-drink-and/ …people with Parkinson’s disease temporarily became compulsive gamblers after taking […] drugs designed to control movement problems caused by the illness… https://maisonbisson.com/post/segway-easy-rider-movie-trailer/ Fri, 19 Aug 2005 07:28:26 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/segway-easy-rider-movie-trailer/ Remember those guys who rode a Segway cross-country last year? Well, they’ve got a movie coming out. https://maisonbisson.com/post/pittsburgh-steelers-fan/ Fri, 19 Aug 2005 04:21:08 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/pittsburgh-steelers-fan/ In remembering James Henry Smith, a zealous Pittsburgh Steelers fan who died of prostate cancer in early July, his family asked the Samuel E. https://maisonbisson.com/post/alt-browser/ Thu, 18 Aug 2005 23:39:16 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/alt-browser/ Shiira Project, an Apple WebKit-based browser with some interesting features. Sadly, it also brings page transitions to the Mac. https://maisonbisson.com/post/chasing-clicks/ Thu, 18 Aug 2005 11:26:08 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/chasing-clicks/ Al asked how low I will go to chase traffic. Truth is, I can’t answer. Maisonbisson has had moments of popularity, but it’s hard to know why. https://maisonbisson.com/post/neutron-bomb/ Wed, 17 Aug 2005 16:45:32 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/neutron-bomb/ Boing Boing has an exclusive profile of neutron bomb inventor Samuel T. Cohen by Charles Platt. https://maisonbisson.com/post/another-limitation-of-lc-classification/ Wed, 17 Aug 2005 11:06:24 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/another-limitation-of-lc-classification/ Right up front in the prologue of Ruth Wajnryb’s Expletive Deleted she quotes the following from Richard Dooling on the difficulty in researching “bad language”: https://maisonbisson.com/post/network/ Wed, 17 Aug 2005 07:34:20 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/network/ Some time ago I pointed to John Robb’s discussion of the potential for the network to amplify the threat of violence from otherwise un-connected and un-organized individuals. https://maisonbisson.com/post/grizzly-man/ Tue, 16 Aug 2005 11:28:13 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/grizzly-man/ David Edelstein’s review of Werner Herzog’s documentary, Grizzly Man, describes Timothy Treadwell as …a manic but lovable whack-job who doggedly filmed and obsessively idealized the bears that would ultimately eat him… https://maisonbisson.com/post/extra-links/ Tue, 16 Aug 2005 10:39:03 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/extra-links/ Somebody asked for some links to get started with PHP. Of course I lead them to the PHP. https://maisonbisson.com/post/drm-customer-lock-in/ Mon, 15 Aug 2005 11:25:16 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/drm-customer-lock-in/ Donna Wentworth is now saying what I’ve been saying for over a year now. Digital Rights Management (DRM) isn’t about preventing copyright violations by ne’er-do-wells, it’s about eliminating legal me2me fair use and locking in customers. https://maisonbisson.com/post/digital-preservation-and-copyright/ Sun, 14 Aug 2005 12:30:15 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/digital-preservation-and-copyright/ We’re struggling with the question of what to do with our collection of vinyl recordings. They’re deteriorating, and we’re finding it increasingly difficult to keep the playback equipment in working order — the record needles seem to disappear. https://maisonbisson.com/post/speed-test/ Sat, 13 Aug 2005 11:51:03 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/speed-test/ The Speakeasy Speed Test is an okay way to waste some time, but the most amusing thing is how easy they make it to promote them. https://maisonbisson.com/post/maisonbisson-top-seven/ Fri, 12 Aug 2005 04:44:31 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/maisonbisson-top-seven/ The most recent version of my WordPress stats tracking plugin makes it very easy to see and track my top stories. https://maisonbisson.com/post/atomic/ Thu, 11 Aug 2005 10:04:15 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/atomic/ While looking for a picture for my memorial to the bomb, I found a number of related links. https://maisonbisson.com/post/linking-bias/ Wed, 10 Aug 2005 11:57:09 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/linking-bias/ Danah Boyd posted about the biases of links over at Many2Many the other day. She looked for patterns in a random set of 500 blogs tracked by Technorati as well as the 100 top blogs tracked by Technorati. https://maisonbisson.com/post/annoises/ Wed, 10 Aug 2005 11:55:57 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/annoises/ Via Gizmodo: a CD of annoying sounds at Gadgets.co.uk. Twenty “ear splitting” sound effects and a pair of earplugs “for your sanity and protection” for £14. https://maisonbisson.com/post/grizzly-man-2/ Tue, 09 Aug 2005 16:04:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/grizzly-man-2/ Within the last wild lands of North America dwells an animal that inspires respect and fear around the world. https://maisonbisson.com/post/point-n-shoot/ Tue, 09 Aug 2005 11:12:09 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/point-n-shoot/ DefenseTech reported on the FireFly, a disposable camera that can be shot from the M203 grenade launchers used by US land forces. https://maisonbisson.com/post/movie-night-open-water/ Tue, 09 Aug 2005 00:42:51 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/movie-night-open-water/ Joe recommended Open Water whole heartedly, but others, like some of these one-star reviewers at Amazon, had equally strong reactions against it. https://maisonbisson.com/post/jimmy-wales-free-culture-manifesto/ Mon, 08 Aug 2005 11:31:18 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/jimmy-wales-free-culture-manifesto/ Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia and director of the Wikimedia Foundation, is working on his keynote for the Wikimania conference in Frankfurt. https://maisonbisson.com/post/60-years-later/ Sun, 07 Aug 2005 12:00:14 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/60-years-later/ In what was to be the final act of World War II in the Pacific, the United States made the first and only use of nuclear power as a weapon in the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6th and 9th (US dates), 1945. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-old-days-first-ebook/ Sat, 06 Aug 2005 08:03:42 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-old-days-first-ebook/ The first ebook I ever read was Bruce Sterling’s Hacker Crackdown on my Newton Message Pad 2000. https://maisonbisson.com/post/information-is-sexy/ Sat, 06 Aug 2005 07:13:57 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/information-is-sexy/ It used to be you could identify the librarian by the sensible shoes, but times they are a changing. https://maisonbisson.com/post/drm/ Fri, 05 Aug 2005 09:22:23 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/drm/ The news came out last week that the biggest music consumers — the ones throwing down cash for music — are also the biggest music sharers. https://maisonbisson.com/post/gizmos-for-geeks/ Fri, 05 Aug 2005 05:25:45 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/gizmos-for-geeks/ Colin pointed out Spark Fun Electronics as a source for all manner of geeky components, like component level GPSs and accelerometers. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-coming-information-age/ Thu, 04 Aug 2005 10:34:24 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-coming-information-age/ That headline might seem a little late among the folks reading this. But we’re all geeks, and if not geeks, then at least regular computer users. https://maisonbisson.com/post/faces-2/ Thu, 04 Aug 2005 09:15:04 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/faces-2/ I stumbled upon captnkurt’s Information Nation where he popped a link over to Eric Myer’s Stereotypes. https://maisonbisson.com/post/nokia-770/ Wed, 03 Aug 2005 11:03:09 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/nokia-770/ I’ve been babbling like a stoolie for Pepper here for the past couple weeks, but after some prodding by Roger Sperberg I’ve started to take a serious look at the Nokia 770 linux-based internet tablet. https://maisonbisson.com/post/bluetooth/ Wed, 03 Aug 2005 05:53:39 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bluetooth/ As if bluejacking wasn’t fun enough, now a few folks have now taken it a little further and figured out how to connect to the growing number of Bluetooth handsfree sets all around us. https://maisonbisson.com/post/movie-night-house-of-flying-daggers/ Wed, 03 Aug 2005 01:23:04 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/movie-night-house-of-flying-daggers/ I’ve been a fan of Zhang Yimou’s1 films since, well, for a while now. But I’m also a huge kung fu fan — Jackie Chan especially — so House of Flying Daggers was quite a treat. https://maisonbisson.com/post/sweet-cheat-sheets/ Tue, 02 Aug 2005 16:25:24 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/sweet-cheat-sheets/ Colin over at Command-Tab alerted me to some great cheat sheets, including this one for JavaScript at ILoveJackDaniels. https://maisonbisson.com/post/apple-releases-multi-button-mouse/ Tue, 02 Aug 2005 09:33:41 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/apple-releases-multi-button-mouse/ Apple this morning released the Mighty Mouse. With a scrollball, left and right click, and side buttons, it’s a big departure from Apple’s old opposition to multi-button mice. https://maisonbisson.com/post/pepper-hardware/ Mon, 01 Aug 2005 10:47:52 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/pepper-hardware/ The most amazing thing about the Pepper Pad is how easy it is to pick up and use, how easy it is to walk around with, and how it’s available when you want it and gone when you don’t. https://maisonbisson.com/post/netflix-expands-queues/ Mon, 01 Aug 2005 06:28:05 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/netflix-expands-queues/ This is old news, but Netflix{#XfFSogqWv7s&amp;offerid=78684.10000076&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0} now offers multiple queues for each account. Queues, of course, are the movie wish lists each Netflix customer keeps; when you return a movie, they send out the next movie in your queue. https://maisonbisson.com/post/movie-night-the-underneath/ Sun, 31 Jul 2005 22:28:06 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/movie-night-the-underneath/ Steven Soderbergh has done a number of good films, but The Underneath isn’t among them. It’s interesting to see the director working out his moves, but more entertaining to see them in a more mature form, as in Out of Site. https://maisonbisson.com/post/space-shuttle-tracking-and-other-good-uses-of-the-google-maps-api/ Sun, 31 Jul 2005 17:35:17 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/space-shuttle-tracking-and-other-good-uses-of-the-google-maps-api/ Tom Mangan has put the Google Maps API to interesting use with his space shuttle tracking page. https://maisonbisson.com/post/politics-and-the-google-economy/ Sun, 31 Jul 2005 07:19:51 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/politics-and-the-google-economy/ While I’m anxiously working to better fit libraries into the Google Economy, a few paragraphs of Barry Glassner’s The Culture of Fear, got me thinking about its role in politics. https://maisonbisson.com/post/japanoid-k-cars/ Sat, 30 Jul 2005 13:01:03 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/japanoid-k-cars/ Gizmodo reported it a while ago, but a Canadian company called Japanoid is importing these and other tiny Japanese cars. https://maisonbisson.com/post/movie-night-entropy/ Fri, 29 Jul 2005 21:31:06 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/movie-night-entropy/ Phil Joanou’s Entropy isn’t available in the US on DVD, but I found it at Amazon UK. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-problem-with-pdas-today/ Fri, 29 Jul 2005 20:07:35 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-problem-with-pdas-today/ When I finally get around to writing up my impressions of the Pepper Pad, I’ll be pointing to Roger Sperberg’s recent posts at TeleRead about non-PDA handhelds and computers for stand up use. https://maisonbisson.com/post/gizmo-project-voip-asterisk/ Wed, 27 Jul 2005 11:12:06 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/gizmo-project-voip-asterisk/ Jason O’Grady{#14763} introduced me to the Skype-like Gizmo Project by the folks over at SIPphone. https://maisonbisson.com/post/marriage/ Wed, 27 Jul 2005 02:25:10 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/marriage/ Alternet has a story by Monica Mehta titled The Myth of Marriage with this synopsis: https://maisonbisson.com/post/put-a-pepper-in-your-library/ Tue, 26 Jul 2005 11:41:37 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/put-a-pepper-in-your-library/ Libraries are known for books. And despite the constant march of technology, despite the fact that we can put a bazillion songs in our pocket, despite the availability of the New York Times and so many other newspapers and thousands of journals online, books are a big part of what libraries are. https://maisonbisson.com/post/elements-of-murder/ Tue, 26 Jul 2005 01:27:25 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/elements-of-murder/ John Emsley, author of Elements Of Murder: a history of poisons appeared in an interview on NPR’s Fresh Air’{#4769877} earlier today. https://maisonbisson.com/post/ils-inventory-or-search-and-retrieval-system/ Mon, 25 Jul 2005 11:07:22 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/ils-inventory-or-search-and-retrieval-system/ There’s an interesting discussion going at LibDev about what our ILSs are. It all started with a discussion of what role XML and webservices could/should play with ILS/catalogs, but a comment reminded us that Vendor’s decisions about adding new features to products that have been around for 20 or 30 years sometimes edge towards lock-in. https://maisonbisson.com/post/nuclear-family-vacation/ Sun, 24 Jul 2005 09:12:02 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/nuclear-family-vacation/ Via Defense Tech: Slate did a series last week titled A Nuclear Family Vacation that visited the Nevada Test Site; Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore, and Sandia National Labs; and Trinity. https://maisonbisson.com/post/karl-roves-leak-and-covergate/ Sun, 24 Jul 2005 08:25:15 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/karl-roves-leak-and-covergate/ Two items from the blogosphere about Rove’s Leak-and-Covergate at Tikun Olam and AlterNet. https://maisonbisson.com/post/life-magazine-covers/ Sun, 24 Jul 2005 04:51:08 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/life-magazine-covers/ <p>I get a kick out of these <a href="http://www.2neatmagazines.com/life/1948cover.html" title="1948 LIFE Magazine Covers at 2neat Magazines">1948</a> and <a href="http://www.2neatmagazines.com/life/1950cover.html" title="1950 LIFE Magazine Covers at 2neat Magazines">1950</a> Life magazine covers. <a href="http://maisonbisson.com/post/10696/">Take a look</a> and I think you’ll agree that no magazine puts photos like this on their covers today.</p> <p><img src="http://www.2neatmagazines.com/covers/1948cover/1948-Jan-5.jpg" width="175" height="233" /> <img src="www-2neatmagazines-com-1948-Jan-26.jpg" width="175" height="233" /><img src="www-2neatmagazines-com-1948-Dec-13.jpg" width="175" height="233" /></p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/making-zip-files-on-mac-os-x/ Sat, 23 Jul 2005 11:56:23 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/making-zip-files-on-mac-os-x/ At 2560 x 1600 pixels, Apple’s Cinema HD display{#XfFSogqWv7s&amp;offerid=77305.10000038&amp;type=2&amp;subid=0} is big enough for three people’s egos. https://maisonbisson.com/post/xmlphpswf-charts/ Sat, 23 Jul 2005 06:05:22 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/xmlphpswf-charts/ Flash app dynamically generates charts based on XML formated data or values in a PHP array. https://maisonbisson.com/post/pepper/ Fri, 22 Jul 2005 11:00:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/pepper/ I’m off visiting the good folks at Pepper today. I’ll update this post with photos as soon as they’re available, then look for a pair of posts about how the hardware/software works and what I’d like to do with it later. https://maisonbisson.com/post/tags-tags-tags/ Fri, 22 Jul 2005 10:37:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/tags-tags-tags/ David Weinberger at Many-to-Many pointed me to Tom Coates’ post about different schools of thought regarding tags. https://maisonbisson.com/post/whats-a-mirt/ Fri, 22 Jul 2005 07:01:13 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/whats-a-mirt/ MIRTs turn red lights green, but merely having one will probably get you in a pile of trouble. https://maisonbisson.com/post/peerflix/ Fri, 22 Jul 2005 05:51:20 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/peerflix/ Ross Rubin at Engadget just alerted me to Peerflix …which can be described on a basic level as eBay meets Netflix. https://maisonbisson.com/post/john-barlycorn-must-die/ Thu, 21 Jul 2005 16:36:07 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/john-barlycorn-must-die/ In a popular antebellum Arkansas story, a backwoodsman bought a 5-gallon barrel of whiskey, only to return a week later for another. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-failures-of-permission-culture/ Thu, 21 Jul 2005 11:12:39 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-failures-of-permission-culture/ Donna Wentworth, over at Copyfight pointed out a JD Lasica piece detailing the responses from seven studios to his requests to use short (10-30 seconds) clips of their films in a non-commercial project he was working on with his child. https://maisonbisson.com/post/google-moon-rocks/ Wed, 20 Jul 2005 16:27:36 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/google-moon-rocks/ Google engineers have got the moon on their minds lately. We all got a laugh at their April Fools Day lunar hosting and research center job opening, but they’ve done themselves one better and several points more serious with Google Moon. https://maisonbisson.com/post/google-maps-gets-all-the-attention/ Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:29:16 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/google-maps-gets-all-the-attention/ It would reasonably appear that here in the US, there’s only one map site: good ol’ Google. https://maisonbisson.com/post/jennys-drm-scourge/ Tue, 19 Jul 2005 23:20:44 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/jennys-drm-scourge/ Jenny Levine, over at The Shifted Librarian, is telling the latest chapter in her long-running struggle with DRM. https://maisonbisson.com/post/bstat-beta-4-release/ Tue, 19 Jul 2005 05:58:21 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bstat-beta-4-release/ <p>[[pageindex]]<strong>UPDATE:</strong> shout outs to <a href="http://nosheep.net/">Zach</a>, <a href="http://spiralbound.net/">Cliff</a>, <a href="http://www.callblog.net/">Justin</a>, and <a href="http://mediumbagel.org/">Thomas</a> who’ve submitted bug reports. Their feedback has been rolled in to the B4 July 20 release, available now (look for the link below).</p> <p>This is likely the last release before the code gets bundled into <strong>bsuite</strong> (more details on that later).</p> <p><strong>Changes</strong></p> <p>This documentation supersedes any previous documentation.</p> <p>More changes to the bstat_pulse() function; bstat_pulse_style() is no longer used. It’s been replaced by a flag in the call. See the usage example to understand. Want to customize the style? Start with that example, look at the XHTML it outputs, work from there. <strong>UPDATE</strong> thanks to <a href="http://nosheep.net/">Zach</a>, these parameters are all optional. You can call it with nothing more than <strong>“bstat_pulse()”</strong>, if that’s your thing. Still, I’d recommend using the full example below.</p> <p>There are a lot of improvements to the management console. The number of lines to display for each category and the date range (past day, week, month, etc.) are now configurable.</p> <p><strong>Quick Start Installation</strong></p> <ul> <li>Download and unzip <a href="homepage-mac-com-bstat.zip">bstat.zip</a><br>  </li> <li>Place bstat.php in you wp-content/plugins directory<br>  </li> <li>Place spacer.gif in your wp-content directory<br>  </li> <li>Log in to your WordPress <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Administration_Panels">admin panel</a> and <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Managing_Plugins#Plugin_management">activate the plugin</a>, then visit the new bstat submenu of the <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Administration_Panels#Options_-_Configuration_Settings">options tab</a>. This will allow bstat to create its database tables.<br>  </li> <li>Add the <span style="font-family:monospace;">bstat_hitit</span> function to the <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development#Basic_Templates">footer.php</a> of your theme (or in some other place where it will be called once for each page load). This starts the counting; you can see the results in the bstat submenu of the <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Administration_Panels#Manage_-_Change_your_content">manage tab</a> of the WordPress admin panel.</li> </ul> <p>In order to view the bstat results on your public pages, you’ll need to the bstat display functions to your pages.</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/its-funny-cause-its-true/ Mon, 18 Jul 2005 16:01:02 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/its-funny-cause-its-true/ First Lady Laura Bush speaking at the White House Correspondents Association gala noted: George’s answer to any problem at the ranch is to cut it down with a chain saw. https://maisonbisson.com/post/australias-rum-jungle/ Mon, 18 Jul 2005 04:21:37 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/australias-rum-jungle/ Alan Moorhead, in his 1952 Rum Jungle — a sort of casual ethnography or serious travelogue — explains the uses and attitudes towards alcohol in his native Australia: https://maisonbisson.com/post/full-text-searching-inside-books/ Sun, 17 Jul 2005 23:40:14 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/full-text-searching-inside-books/ Search Engine Watch did a story about how to use Google and Amazon’s tools to search full-text content inside books. https://maisonbisson.com/post/organizationalinstitutional-blogging-done-right/ Sun, 17 Jul 2005 17:27:57 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/organizationalinstitutional-blogging-done-right/ Jenny Levine is talking about an example of The Perfect Library Blog over at The Shifted Librarian. https://maisonbisson.com/post/hackable-snackable-gumstix/ Sun, 17 Jul 2005 16:47:57 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/hackable-snackable-gumstix/ The MAKE: podcast pointed me to gumstix — really small computers built for hacking. Cool. https://maisonbisson.com/post/google-hacks/ Sun, 17 Jul 2005 13:23:15 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/google-hacks/ From O’Grady’s PowerPage{#14723}: I have no interest in true hacking (i.e. rummaging through people’s private junk) although viewing random unprotected IP cameras around the world in public places and controlling their panning and zoom functions is kind of mind-blowing. https://maisonbisson.com/post/more-wifi-geolocation-goodies/ Sun, 17 Jul 2005 07:59:11 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/more-wifi-geolocation-goodies/ Old news from Gizmodo and Wi-Fi Networking News (quoting WiFi NN): Skyhook has assembled a database of information about 1. https://maisonbisson.com/post/coolest-watch-ever-today/ Sun, 17 Jul 2005 04:36:48 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/coolest-watch-ever-today/ The Nixon Rotolog{#1124&amp;MENU_ID=1}. https://maisonbisson.com/post/ike/ Sat, 16 Jul 2005 11:17:44 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/ike/ Dwight Eisenhower’s eight years as president were about a lot more than I Like Ike buttons and interstate highways. https://maisonbisson.com/post/jet-turbine-powered-toyota-mr2-on-ebay/ Fri, 15 Jul 2005 11:10:25 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/jet-turbine-powered-toyota-mr2-on-ebay/ Yup, it’s up on eBay now (closing in a day or so) with the following description: https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-google-economy/ Fri, 15 Jul 2005 04:23:49 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-google-economy/ I’ve been talking about it a lot lately, most recently in a comment at LibDev. https://maisonbisson.com/post/whats-a-blink/ Fri, 15 Jul 2005 02:47:16 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/whats-a-blink/ Stealing from Corante/Copyfight: It’s a short, one-sentence blog post + a link, à la Kottke remainders. https://maisonbisson.com/post/solar-backpacks/ Thu, 14 Jul 2005 19:37:33 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/solar-backpacks/ Solar charging backpacks: Juice Bags (news), Voltaic Solar Backpack (news). And, solar iPod charger: Solio (news, news). https://maisonbisson.com/post/preservation-is-my-issue-now/ Thu, 14 Jul 2005 08:38:52 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/preservation-is-my-issue-now/ I went looking for an old file the other day. As it turns out, the file was from 12 years ago, but that doesn’t seem so long ago now. https://maisonbisson.com/post/is-blogging-career-suicide/ Wed, 13 Jul 2005 08:06:02 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/is-blogging-career-suicide/ Ken (I wish he had a blog to link to) pointed out Bloggers Need Not Apply in the Chronicle Of Higher Ed over the weekend. https://maisonbisson.com/post/apple-intel/ Wed, 13 Jul 2005 04:39:05 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/apple-intel/ Other than a bit of head scratching after the announcement in June, I’ve been quiet about Apple’s switch to Intel processors. https://maisonbisson.com/post/napsters-hard-road/ Tue, 12 Jul 2005 11:29:55 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/napsters-hard-road/ Napster — the legal, reincarnated music download site — essentially invented the concept of incumbent campus download services. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-high-cost-of-metasearch-for-libraries/ Sun, 10 Jul 2005 06:13:20 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-high-cost-of-metasearch-for-libraries/ I’ve been looking seriously at metasearch/federated search products for libraries recently. After a lot of reading and a few demos I’ve got some complaints. https://maisonbisson.com/post/bstat-features/ Sat, 09 Jul 2005 09:37:12 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bstat-features/ UPDATE: bstat has been updated. bStat is a hit and search term stats tracking plugin for WordPress. https://maisonbisson.com/post/make-my-xb-a-low-rider/ Fri, 08 Jul 2005 08:14:59 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/make-my-xb-a-low-rider/ Team Pneumatik’s FAQ addresses the question “why do I need air suspension” simply: “Because you wanna be cool! https://maisonbisson.com/post/braving-home/ Thu, 07 Jul 2005 08:51:17 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/braving-home/ Jake Halpern’s Braving Home (also in softcover) easily took my interest. Here’s how John Moe described it for Amazon. https://maisonbisson.com/post/bstat-beta-3-release/ Wed, 06 Jul 2005 07:33:43 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bstat-beta-3-release/ UPDATE: bstat has been updated. Beta 2 never went public. This is beta 3. Changes https://maisonbisson.com/post/libdev-launched/ Tue, 05 Jul 2005 09:43:11 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/libdev-launched/ LibDev launched today. From the Welcome message there: LibDev is a site for those interested in libraries and networked information. https://maisonbisson.com/post/idaho-politics/ Tue, 05 Jul 2005 07:33:41 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/idaho-politics/ Earlier this year the Idaho legislature passed a bill recognizing the success of Napoleon Dynamite, a film about Idaho life by Idahoan native sons. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-struggle-to-protect-democracy-in-florida/ Mon, 04 Jul 2005 09:52:02 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-struggle-to-protect-democracy-in-florida/ My dad, who’s called Florida home for quite a while now, emailed me the following about goings on there: https://maisonbisson.com/post/happy-birthday-popsicle/ Mon, 04 Jul 2005 06:44:45 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/happy-birthday-popsicle/ NPR’s food essayist Bonny Wolf reported yesterday on the 100th birthday of the popsicle{#4727935} for Weekend Edition Sunday{#10} (listen in RealAudio). https://maisonbisson.com/post/when-is-principality-of-sealands-independence-day/ Sun, 03 Jul 2005 05:31:38 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/when-is-principality-of-sealands-independence-day/ Principality of Sealand is a WWII-era gunnery platform — called Roughs Tower — in the North Sea, outside Britain’s pre-1968 three nautical mile claim of sovereign waters. https://maisonbisson.com/post/making-zip-files-on-mac-os-x-2/ Sat, 02 Jul 2005 08:56:23 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/making-zip-files-on-mac-os-x-2/ It’s hot in New Hampshire, but on top of Cannon Mountain, 4146 feet about sea level, it’s a little cooler. https://maisonbisson.com/post/least-wanted-2/ Sat, 02 Jul 2005 00:26:18 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/least-wanted-2/ We don’t need to hack Google Maps anymore. Now that Google has released a public maps API, we can make more reliable map-dependent apps (which will now have better browser compatibility, thank you). https://maisonbisson.com/post/photron-makes-my-favorite-video-camera/ Fri, 01 Jul 2005 06:49:56 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/photron-makes-my-favorite-video-camera/ <p><a href="http://photron.com/products.cfm?id=KingOfHighSpeedVideo">Photron’s APX-RS video camera</a>{#KingOfHighSpeedVideo} can capture 250,000 frames per second at top speed, and it can get megapixel+ resolution at 3,000 frames per second. It’s one of a dozen or so cameras in <a href="http://photron.com/">Photron</a>‘s lineup that can shoot very, very fast video. How fast is a thousand frames a second? How fast is several thousand frames a second? Numbers alone do a bad job of telling that story. That’s why they did up this set of <a href="http://photron.com/gallery/gallery.cfm">sample vids</a>…</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/color-picking/ Thu, 30 Jun 2005 21:12:18 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/color-picking/ I needed to pick some colors for a new website recently. I’m color blind, so that complicates things. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-is_x-function/ Thu, 30 Jun 2005 04:07:58 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-is_x-function/ An entry at the WordPress support forums{#13505} gave me the list I needed. How do they work? https://maisonbisson.com/post/freight-elevator-quartet/ Wed, 29 Jun 2005 09:36:03 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/freight-elevator-quartet/ JazzMusique (RSS, stream) treated me to Freight Elevator Quartet‘s So Fragile (from their Becoming Transparent album) not long ago and I liked it enough to take a note to look them up later. https://maisonbisson.com/post/alcohol-knowledge-test/ Wed, 29 Jun 2005 04:01:32 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/alcohol-knowledge-test/ I just love tests (previously: psychotic, leadership style in movies and famous people in history, and eccentric or autistic), so I was quick to try myself at this one when Al emailed me. https://maisonbisson.com/post/sending-sms-messages/ Tue, 28 Jun 2005 07:53:37 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/sending-sms-messages/ My friend Will was in meetings all day Friday, and there are few better times to have SMS messaging than in meetings. https://maisonbisson.com/post/regex-reference/ Tue, 28 Jun 2005 04:53:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/regex-reference/ Regular expressions are a pain. Jan Goyvaerts’ RegEx Reference helps. In a related tip, the following will eliminate any non-numeric components in a string: ereg_replace(“[^0-9]”, “”, $string) . https://maisonbisson.com/post/geotagging-gets-a-new-meaning/ Mon, 27 Jun 2005 05:58:01 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/geotagging-gets-a-new-meaning/ Who doesn’t love tagging? No, tagging as in annotating, not graffiti. Anyway, Rixome is the latest among a bunch of plans/projects to enable tagging of geographic spaces/real-life environments. https://maisonbisson.com/post/art-deco-hair/ Sat, 25 Jun 2005 05:33:03 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/art-deco-hair/ Daniela Turudich knows vintage fashion. Her books include not only hair, but how to recreate a vintage wedding, vintage recipes and candy making, and Beauty Secrets of History’s Most Notorious Courtesans. https://maisonbisson.com/post/oooms-design-ist-sehr-gut/ Fri, 24 Jun 2005 05:46:53 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/oooms-design-ist-sehr-gut/ Guido Ooms has some pretty neat ideas. Engadget got high on his Anti Gravity Machine (you must watch the video), but there’s a lot more to see. https://maisonbisson.com/post/how-to-measure-the-tallest-building/ Thu, 23 Jun 2005 05:04:12 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/how-to-measure-the-tallest-building/ Zach likes tall buildings. Perhaps it relates to his superhero obsession (leap giant buildings in a single bound and all), but it’s undeniable that he likes them. https://maisonbisson.com/post/culture-of-entertainment/ Thu, 23 Jun 2005 05:02:13 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/culture-of-entertainment/ I don’t remember how I found this tip to BaitCar.com‘s collection of police videos of car thefts. https://maisonbisson.com/post/least-wanted/ Wed, 22 Jun 2005 09:49:24 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/least-wanted/ I’m entirely captivated by Mark Michaelson‘s collection of mug shots on Flickr. It’s titled “Least Wanted” and he notes with little fanfare that they’re “Nobody famous. https://maisonbisson.com/post/overheard-in-the-library/ Wed, 22 Jun 2005 05:33:41 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/overheard-in-the-library/ “I want all the books that I’m interested in on one shelf.” https://maisonbisson.com/post/making-zip-files-on-mac-os-x/ Wed, 22 Jun 2005 04:56:23 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/making-zip-files-on-mac-os-x/ Everybody else may know this, but MacOS X includes the command-line utility to make Windows-compatible ZIP files. https://maisonbisson.com/post/big-brother-gets-more-eyes/ Tue, 21 Jun 2005 06:32:54 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/big-brother-gets-more-eyes/ Engadget yesterday had a story about the Mobile Plate Hunter 900, a device that mounts on police cars and scans 500 to 800 license plates an hour. https://maisonbisson.com/post/switching-hosting-providers/ Tue, 21 Jun 2005 01:43:07 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/switching-hosting-providers/ I’ll be switching hosting providers this week. At some point I’ll have to turn off the comments here so that I can synchronize the database and prevent loss of comments as the DNS changes propagate. https://maisonbisson.com/post/bstat-beta-1-release/ Mon, 20 Jun 2005 04:40:24 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bstat-beta-1-release/ UPDATE: bstat has been updated. I’ve finally added a clean admin interface to my bstat WordPress stats tracking plugin and cleaned up the code for release as a public beta. https://maisonbisson.com/post/what-makes-ohio-red/ Sun, 19 Jun 2005 05:55:15 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/what-makes-ohio-red/ It’s a story that won’t die, and yet it can’t get any attention. Since November 3rd, reasonable people have been wondering what happened. https://maisonbisson.com/post/north-country-drive-ins/ Sun, 19 Jun 2005 03:40:05 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/north-country-drive-ins/ The Fairlee Drive-In Theatre is open with double features on weekends Details: 1809 Route 5, Fairlee VT 05045 (one mile north of town) https://maisonbisson.com/post/squirrel-decanter-and-other-dead-animal-art/ Sat, 18 Jun 2005 04:27:28 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/squirrel-decanter-and-other-dead-animal-art/ The strange folks over at Custom Creature Taxidermy Arts have come out with a Squirrel Liquor Decanter that’s making the rounds. https://maisonbisson.com/post/american-reporters-nagasaki-story-emerges-after-60-years-of-censorship/ Fri, 17 Jun 2005 11:55:55 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/american-reporters-nagasaki-story-emerges-after-60-years-of-censorship/ George Weller won a Pulitzer Prize, a Polk Award, and was named a Neimann Fellow during his fifty-some-odd year career during which he covered much of Europe and Asia for the New York Times and Chicago Daily News. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-difference-between-progressive-and-conservative-bloggers/ Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:16:07 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-difference-between-progressive-and-conservative-bloggers/ David Rothman points to a Daily KOS story that points to a MyDD story titled “Aristocratic Right Wing Blogosphere Stagnating. https://maisonbisson.com/post/google-print-reports-from-michigan-oxford/ Wed, 15 Jun 2005 17:01:06 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/google-print-reports-from-michigan-oxford/ I’m listening and watching along with the EDUCAUSE online presentation from the Universities of Michigan and Oxford and their participation in Google Print. https://maisonbisson.com/post/geolocating-the-news/ Wed, 15 Jun 2005 05:07:22 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/geolocating-the-news/ Last week I got excited about the as-yet unreleased geolocation API for BBC Backstage. Now Larry D. https://maisonbisson.com/post/bloggers-legal-guide/ Tue, 14 Jun 2005 06:05:07 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bloggers-legal-guide/ Copyfight is pointing to the EFF‘s new Legal Guide for Bloggers. Most of the content is about liability, but it also addresses issues of access and privilege that are generally granted to journalists, election law, and labor law. https://maisonbisson.com/post/when-you-dont-have-a-gps/ Mon, 13 Jun 2005 09:46:24 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/when-you-dont-have-a-gps/ Geolocation by GPS my be the most straightforward approach, but we mustn’t forget the other ways to get lat/lon coordinates. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-mystifying-aroma-of-rot/ Sun, 12 Jun 2005 05:34:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-mystifying-aroma-of-rot/ I love libraries, and I love books, but there the needs of our students and limitations of our budgets have no room for misplaced romantic attachments. https://maisonbisson.com/post/pinball-wizard-gets-his-due/ Sat, 11 Jun 2005 05:35:42 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/pinball-wizard-gets-his-due/ The Laconia Citizen{#/20050608/CITIZEN0104/106080096/-1/CITIZEN} reported today that Ron Mowry’s 31 year quest for recognition as the real pinball wizard of 1974 has finally achieved some success. https://maisonbisson.com/post/bstat-pulse/ Fri, 10 Jun 2005 11:32:05 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bstat-pulse/ I imported the content of my old referrer tracking database as hits in my new bstat stats datatabase so I could have more data to work with. https://maisonbisson.com/post/bstats-progress/ Fri, 10 Jun 2005 05:28:16 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bstats-progress/ I’ve been hard at work on my bstat stats tracking plugin for WordPress and you can see the results in the sidebar and in the story views here. https://maisonbisson.com/post/professionals-dont-use-ofoto-or-wal-mart-photo-services/ Thu, 09 Jun 2005 05:15:50 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/professionals-dont-use-ofoto-or-wal-mart-photo-services/ At least that’s the only thing a person can conclude from the stories at Copyfight earlier this week. https://maisonbisson.com/post/bbc-backstage-is-gonna-rock-once-they-release-the-apis/ Wed, 08 Jun 2005 05:32:06 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bbc-backstage-is-gonna-rock-once-they-release-the-apis/ The APIs aren’t yet out, but the BBC has already won me over with their Backstage BBC concept. https://maisonbisson.com/post/damn-pngs-in-internet-explorer/ Wed, 08 Jun 2005 04:25:22 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/damn-pngs-in-internet-explorer/ I don’t know why IE has never displayed my transparent PNGs correctly, but I know now that I’m not the only one with this complaint. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-google-economy-vs-libraries/ Tue, 07 Jun 2005 05:10:21 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-google-economy-vs-libraries/ Roger over at Electric Forest is making some arguments about the value of open access to information. https://maisonbisson.com/post/what/ Tue, 07 Jun 2005 00:03:24 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/what/ I’m not sure what to think about Steve J’s WWDC announcement (video stream) of Apple’s switch to x86 processors. https://maisonbisson.com/post/on-the-media-does-copyright-issue/ Mon, 06 Jun 2005 05:40:51 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/on-the-media-does-copyright-issue/ I had just sat down to post a note about an interview with J.D. Lasica in On The Media (listen to MP3) this week when I found David Rothman beat me to it. https://maisonbisson.com/post/doggy-and-you-mark-schuttes-dog-powered-scooter/ Mon, 06 Jun 2005 00:04:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/doggy-and-you-mark-schuttes-dog-powered-scooter/ Engadget has a link to Mark Schutte’s dog powered scooter. This catches my eye because my friend Joe is always looking for ways to exercise his sled dogs in the summer. https://maisonbisson.com/post/remixing-reality-good-or-bad/ Sun, 05 Jun 2005 05:47:07 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/remixing-reality-good-or-bad/ We’ve all seen the ads they digitally insert on the field during football games and we’ve heard talk about inserting new product placements as old TV shows play in syndication. https://maisonbisson.com/post/ohara-fireflies/ Sat, 04 Jun 2005 05:12:06 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/ohara-fireflies/ I don’t consider myself a Japonophile, but I do find myself reading Mainichi Daily News each day, and when they put up a picture like this, of fireflies near the Yamada River in Ohara, (Chiba Prefecture) I can’t help but notice. https://maisonbisson.com/post/teleread-spends-morning-on-portable-computing-stories/ Fri, 03 Jun 2005 16:13:40 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/teleread-spends-morning-on-portable-computing-stories/ …Well, not entirely, but I couldn’t help but read the posts on the PepperPad and history of the Newton. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wikipedia-and-libraries/ Fri, 03 Jun 2005 09:28:09 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wikipedia-and-libraries/ Wikipedia seems to get mixed reviews in the academic world, but I don’t fully understand why. https://maisonbisson.com/post/disobey/ Thu, 02 Jun 2005 07:19:23 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/disobey/ Gary Wolf wrote in the June issue of Wired about how smart mobs in New York’s World Trade Center outbrained the “authorities” and enjoyed higher survival rates because of it. https://maisonbisson.com/post/japanese-government-employees-extremely-troubled-by-summer-casual-dress-code/ Wed, 01 Jun 2005 16:37:32 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/japanese-government-employees-extremely-troubled-by-summer-casual-dress-code/ Today is the first day of summer, according to Japan’s Environmental Ministry, and that means it’s time to take off the ties and suit jackets and put on “casual” clothes. https://maisonbisson.com/post/take-a-picture-get-hassled-by-the-man/ Wed, 01 Jun 2005 07:46:35 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/take-a-picture-get-hassled-by-the-man/ Alan Wexelblat at Copyfight pointed out this story that talks about increasing limits on public photography. https://maisonbisson.com/post/theme-change/ Wed, 01 Jun 2005 03:47:54 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/theme-change/ Theme change not yet complete, but looking good. It’s a widened version of Clemens Orth’s Relaxation_3column, itself a derivitive of John Wrana‘s two columned Relaxation theme. https://maisonbisson.com/post/bad-movie-verboten-subject/ Wed, 01 Jun 2005 02:35:38 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bad-movie-verboten-subject/ I’m embarrassed to be in the middle of Fantasy Mission Force, a kung fu movie that demonstrates a brand of Asian humor that I haven’t yet learned to appreciate. https://maisonbisson.com/post/global-threats-as-seen-through-eyes-of-movie-producers-and-insurers/ Tue, 31 May 2005 08:16:06 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/global-threats-as-seen-through-eyes-of-movie-producers-and-insurers/ Jonathan Crowe points out this Risks In Global Filmmaking Map by Aon, the entertainment industry insurance company. https://maisonbisson.com/post/lunch-at-burdicks/ Tue, 31 May 2005 02:29:49 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/lunch-at-burdicks/ Treated Mom to lunch at L.A. Burdick’s in Walpole today. The food at Burdick’s is always remarkable, but this time I got a decent photo of it. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-stats-goodness/ Mon, 30 May 2005 01:35:29 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wordpress-stats-goodness/ Work on my bstats plugin continues. I’ve added recently commented posts tracking, begun work on a usage graph, as requested by Richard Akerman, and put together an interesting way to track usage of the Google ads. https://maisonbisson.com/post/of-wordpress-tags-keywords-xml-rpc-and-the-movabletype-api/ Sun, 29 May 2005 03:58:09 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/of-wordpress-tags-keywords-xml-rpc-and-the-movabletype-api/ WordPress’s XML-RPC support looks pretty good. Heck, it supports a half dozen APIs and works well with ecto … except for tag support, which is my only complaint with it so far. https://maisonbisson.com/post/bstats-plugin/ Fri, 27 May 2005 20:32:49 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bstats-plugin/ I’m more than surprised that there’s no (decent) stats plugin for WordPress, but that hasn’t stopped me from writing me own. https://maisonbisson.com/post/one-step-forward/ Wed, 25 May 2005 11:30:31 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/one-step-forward/ I thought I was real smart when I modified the tags plugin to support integration with Technorati. https://maisonbisson.com/post/test-site-tour/ Wed, 25 May 2005 08:53:20 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/test-site-tour/ The above image is my followup to my Nevada Test Site Tour post from last month and comes courtesy of Adam Schneider’s very useful GPS Visualizer (you really need to see it full-sized{#15521015&amp;size=o}, though). https://maisonbisson.com/post/and-then-you-realize-you-wasted-your-life/ Tue, 24 May 2005 09:32:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/and-then-you-realize-you-wasted-your-life/ I think I’ve been avoiding commenting on this issue for weeks because it hits so close to home. https://maisonbisson.com/post/vonage-ceo-interview-gives-peak-into-telecomm-world/ Mon, 23 May 2005 08:23:02 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/vonage-ceo-interview-gives-peak-into-telecomm-world/ Engadget’s interview with Jeffrey Citron, chairman and CEO of Vonage gives an interesting peak into the world of the baby bells, through the eyes of an upstart. https://maisonbisson.com/post/blog-software-switched/ Sun, 22 May 2005 22:10:59 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/blog-software-switched/ I’m almost ready to call the first stage of my WordPress migration done, except it looks like the comment submission forms aren’t working. https://maisonbisson.com/post/switching-blog-software/ Sat, 21 May 2005 00:39:48 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/switching-blog-software/ I think I’ve finally decided to go to WordPress after all. I tried doing it too quickly last time and it almost worked, but I switched back when I realized I might need more than 15 minutes to figure out how to use WordPress in production. https://maisonbisson.com/post/crime-and-privacy-on-google-maps/ Fri, 20 May 2005 07:38:09 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/crime-and-privacy-on-google-maps/ Annalee Newitz last week posted a column on people’s fear of privacy loss as a result of Google Maps. https://maisonbisson.com/post/eating-my-way-through-san-francisco/ Thu, 19 May 2005 08:27:09 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/eating-my-way-through-san-francisco/ San Francisco is a great city for a conference. It’s also a pretty good place to get lunch. https://maisonbisson.com/post/146-wasted-minutes/ Thu, 19 May 2005 06:43:33 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/146-wasted-minutes/ I can now say with the authority of experience that Star Wars Episode III sucked. https://maisonbisson.com/post/un-food-survey/ Wed, 18 May 2005 05:38:10 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/un-food-survey/ The proceeding was forwarded to me by my dad, who included a note suggesting that jokes may embody the only real truths we can know. https://maisonbisson.com/post/cool-stuff-made-easy-rss-3d-graphics-screensaver-app/ Wed, 18 May 2005 01:42:18 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/cool-stuff-made-easy-rss-3d-graphics-screensaver-app/ I have an appropriate fondness for Engadget‘s How-To features, like today’s “Make a customized RSS screensaver in Tiger. https://maisonbisson.com/post/geolocating-everything-2/ Tue, 17 May 2005 07:57:35 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/geolocating-everything-2/ I’ve been excited about geolocating photos, blog posts, etc for a while. So this past month or so has been quite exciting. https://maisonbisson.com/post/about-that-bookless-ut-austin-library/ Mon, 16 May 2005 15:26:53 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/about-that-bookless-ut-austin-library/ There’s a lot of talk about the New York Times story about UT Austin’s undergrad library throwing out its books. https://maisonbisson.com/post/flickr-api/ Mon, 16 May 2005 09:18:49 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/flickr-api/ The Flickr API rocks. It helps that the developers are really excited about web services (PDFs converted from their original PPTs). https://maisonbisson.com/post/do-i-want-a-lifedrive/ Sun, 15 May 2005 09:50:21 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/do-i-want-a-lifedrive/ After months of no news or no good news, and just as I’m about to knock Palm news site 1src off my feeder, palmOne starts leaking details of their LifeDrive “mediacentric handheld. https://maisonbisson.com/post/markoff-i-wish-i-could-trust-thee/ Sat, 14 May 2005 10:51:48 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/markoff-i-wish-i-could-trust-thee/ Trouble: John Markoff has been doing tech stories for the New York Times since the beginning of days, so it’s likely he’s written something you’ve read and enjoyed. https://maisonbisson.com/post/googles-war-on-hierarchy-alert-the-librarians/ Fri, 13 May 2005 15:41:58 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/googles-war-on-hierarchy-alert-the-librarians/ Via Ernie Miller I saw a link to John Hiller‘s story about Google’s War on Hierarchy, and the Death of Hierarchical Folders. https://maisonbisson.com/post/sunrise-on-mount-monadnock/ Fri, 13 May 2005 10:20:07 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/sunrise-on-mount-monadnock/ I’ve loaded some more of my old photography, inlcuding this shot of sunrise on Mount Monadnock (info) from the spring of 1992 or 1993. https://maisonbisson.com/post/library-portal-integration/ Thu, 12 May 2005 10:30:04 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/library-portal-integration/ I’ve been back at work less than a week now, and I’m already behind. I’ve finally posted the handout and slides (as a QuickTime movie, PDF here) from our IUG presentation. https://maisonbisson.com/post/kwajalein-atoll/ Thu, 12 May 2005 06:28:57 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/kwajalein-atoll/ Kwajalein Atoll is a part of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, lost in the Pacific Ocean (MapTech makes it easier to find) along with more recognizable locations like Bikini and Enewetak atolls. https://maisonbisson.com/post/hilary-rosen-sock-puppet/ Wed, 11 May 2005 15:18:29 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/hilary-rosen-sock-puppet/ We’re all talking about Hilary Rosen‘s apparent about face, apparently pro-customer, anti-DRM essay now (props to David Rothman for taking the high road on this). https://maisonbisson.com/post/delicious-refreshing-old-liquor-bottles/ Wed, 11 May 2005 08:49:20 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/delicious-refreshing-old-liquor-bottles/ So grenadine isn’t officially a liquor, but it gets kept behind the bar and this one has a great label. https://maisonbisson.com/post/pointless-crude-badly-drawn-unintelligent-offensive/ Wed, 11 May 2005 07:53:59 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/pointless-crude-badly-drawn-unintelligent-offensive/ It’s a book review. It goes like this: Pointless, crude, badly drawn, unintelligent, offensive. Life-threateningly funny. https://maisonbisson.com/post/when-we-cant-all-just-get-along-the-failure-of-logical-centrism/ Tue, 10 May 2005 06:51:28 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/when-we-cant-all-just-get-along-the-failure-of-logical-centrism/ I love the following quote from Copyfight: Frank Field, responding to James Boyle’s much–discussed FT column, Deconstructing Stupidity: “Flat-earthers are harmless — until they start forcing you to write the specifications for your GPS system in accordance with their views. https://maisonbisson.com/post/former-riaa-head-hates-drm/ Mon, 09 May 2005 15:07:26 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/former-riaa-head-hates-drm/ Today is sort of an anti-DRM day here, so it was some pleasure that I just saw Ernie Miller’s post at Copyfight regarding Hilary Rosen, the former head of the RIAA. https://maisonbisson.com/post/give-orphaned-works-a-home/ Mon, 09 May 2005 13:24:45 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/give-orphaned-works-a-home/ David Rothman at TeleRead is alerting us to something we should have done a long time ago, but, hey look, a caterpillar…. https://maisonbisson.com/post/broadcast-flag-smackdown/ Mon, 09 May 2005 03:35:12 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/broadcast-flag-smackdown/ The only thing that could have made Friday’s news sweeter would be to have received the DC Circuit Court of Appeals’ deciscion against the broadcast flag from the US Supreme Court instead. https://maisonbisson.com/post/t-mobile-does-coverage-maps-verizon-wireless-baffled/ Mon, 09 May 2005 02:46:56 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/t-mobile-does-coverage-maps-verizon-wireless-baffled/ I’d like to make more of this, but it’s old news. We’re all sick of the “can you hear me now” ads, but that doesn’t stop Verizon from talking up their network testing efforts. https://maisonbisson.com/post/time-to-change-time-to-rearrange-time-to-restore-from-backup/ Sun, 08 May 2005 01:23:54 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/time-to-change-time-to-rearrange-time-to-restore-from-backup/ I’ve given up on my poorly timed and completely unplanned try at switching to WordPress. I started out thinking I’d experiment with it, then things got out of hand. https://maisonbisson.com/post/what-are-you-doing-to-shape-the-future-of-libraries/ Thu, 05 May 2005 05:25:27 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/what-are-you-doing-to-shape-the-future-of-libraries/ Jenny Levine recently posted a note about OPACs and XML and Maps wherein she makes two points: first, Mike Copley at North Shore Libraries in New Zealand has been doing some exciting stuff to help patrons find books (go ahead, go there and click a “view map” link), then expands her post to address the struggles that folks like Mike face to do some of these things. https://maisonbisson.com/post/xml-server-applications/ Wed, 04 May 2005 02:45:02 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/xml-server-applications/ Well, it’s done. The [handout][1] and [slides][2] as presented are posted here, and I’ll add them to our [portal integration][3] page (yeah, they’re sort of connected) when I return to [Plymouth][4]. https://maisonbisson.com/post/iii-introduces-web-works/ Wed, 04 May 2005 02:03:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/iii-introduces-web-works/ Where did this come from? Innovative calls it “Web Works,” and describes them as “HTML-based interfaces for light-weight system access. https://maisonbisson.com/post/citing-library-collections-on-the-web/ Tue, 03 May 2005 18:48:34 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/citing-library-collections-on-the-web/ The example below uses a JavaScript to display bibliographic details about an item in Plymouth State University’s library catalog. https://maisonbisson.com/post/iug2005-ldap-is-not-single-sign-on/ Mon, 02 May 2005 18:42:37 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/iug2005-ldap-is-not-single-sign-on/ At Innovative Users Group 2005 Conference now. The most exciting thing today was Using LDAP Authentication by John Culshaw of University of Colorado at Boulder, and Richard Paladino of Innovative Interfaces. https://maisonbisson.com/post/prisoners-of-age-at-alcatraz/ Sun, 01 May 2005 19:13:14 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/prisoners-of-age-at-alcatraz/ Found Ron Levine’s Prisoners of Age exhibit at Alcatraz today. Sadly, the website doesn’t appear give the prisoner’s stories, and, though the photos are well done, it’s the stories that hold our attention. https://maisonbisson.com/post/leaving-las-vegas/ Sat, 30 Apr 2005 13:18:38 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/leaving-las-vegas/ Morning’s cold light shines harshly even on the strip, but this Saturday morning on Fremont Street looks especially forlorn. https://maisonbisson.com/post/golden-gate-hotel-and-casino/ Sat, 30 Apr 2005 02:24:58 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/golden-gate-hotel-and-casino/ According to the history printed on their diner placemats, the Golden Gate has been standing at the corner of Fremont and Main streets for 100 years. https://maisonbisson.com/post/fatburger-and-henderson-nv/ Thu, 28 Apr 2005 15:50:53 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/fatburger-and-henderson-nv/ My trip to Henderson was a bust. I’ll eventually make a story about what I’d planned to do, but the only thing that worked out was a visit to Fatburger in the Sunset Station Casino. https://maisonbisson.com/post/nevada-test-site-tour/ Wed, 27 Apr 2005 20:25:53 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/nevada-test-site-tour/ Toured the Nevada Test Site today. No cameras allowed, but I did take along a GPS and marked points of interest along the way. https://maisonbisson.com/post/waiting-in-long-beach/ Tue, 26 Apr 2005 13:35:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/waiting-in-long-beach/ Long Beach airport is a small affair, seemingly more fitting for Dubuque Iowa than the south Los Angeles sprawl. https://maisonbisson.com/post/beatniksides-vegas-photo-gallery/ Tue, 26 Apr 2005 06:07:38 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/beatniksides-vegas-photo-gallery/ I can’t help but like beatnickside‘s Las Vegas Flickr photo set. It’s one of the most photographed of cities, but these photos are fresher than that. https://maisonbisson.com/post/smart-high-efficiency-car-coming-to-us/ Mon, 25 Apr 2005 08:17:39 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/smart-high-efficiency-car-coming-to-us/ I got excited a while ago when I learned that Daimler Chrysler was bringing their little SMART car to Canada, and I’m even more excited now that I learn that it’s coming to the US via ZAP, a company originally formed to make and sell electric cars (ZAP stands for zero air pollution). https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-long-tail-of-violence/ Mon, 25 Apr 2005 05:08:09 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-long-tail-of-violence/ It’s been a few days of “long tail” talk here at MaisonBisson. Stories about popularity vs. https://maisonbisson.com/post/national-weather-service-adds-xml-and-rss-feeds/ Sun, 24 Apr 2005 10:47:51 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/national-weather-service-adds-xml-and-rss-feeds/ The US National Weather Service just updated the SOAP/XML interface to their National Digital Forecast Database (NDFD) and RSS feeds from their Storm Prediction Center. https://maisonbisson.com/post/tetris-shelves/ Sun, 24 Apr 2005 06:45:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/tetris-shelves/ Gizmodo posted a picture and a little text about BraveSpaceDesign‘s Tetris Shelves. More from BraveSpaceDesign can be seen in this post at Land+Living. https://maisonbisson.com/post/liblimekoha-ils/ Sun, 24 Apr 2005 03:10:16 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/liblimekoha-ils/ A comment to a post on The Shifted Librarian pointed me to the LibLime collection of open source library applications including the Koha ILS. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-dark-side-of-networked-information/ Sat, 23 Apr 2005 10:38:20 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-dark-side-of-networked-information/ According to the website, MITRE is: a not-for-profit company that provides systems engineering, research and development, and information technology support to the government. https://maisonbisson.com/post/short-head-vulgarity-and-prurience/ Sat, 23 Apr 2005 06:49:18 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/short-head-vulgarity-and-prurience/ Chris Anderson at the Long Tail Blog quotes a passage from David Foster Wallace’s A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again: https://maisonbisson.com/post/what-is-networked-information/ Fri, 22 Apr 2005 15:36:44 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/what-is-networked-information/ There’s data, then there’s information. Information is meaningful and self explanatory, data need to be aggregated and analyzed before they become information. https://maisonbisson.com/post/credit-where-credit-is-due/ Fri, 22 Apr 2005 09:40:07 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/credit-where-credit-is-due/ Jenny Levine’s mention of my work with Innovative’s XML Server Wednesday drew a lot of attention, but there’s little online public discussion of Innovative to give some of my comments context. https://maisonbisson.com/post/stanford-librarys-tech-history-collection/ Fri, 22 Apr 2005 03:07:43 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/stanford-librarys-tech-history-collection/ I just discovered Standford Library’s collection of documents relating to the technology and culture in Silicon Valley and the development of the Mac thanks to a link from Gizmodo. https://maisonbisson.com/post/xml-isnt-enough/ Thu, 21 Apr 2005 15:50:34 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/xml-isnt-enough/ A lot of this is in my XML Server presentation at the Innovative Users Group conference in a couple weeks… https://maisonbisson.com/post/new-catagory-libraries-networked-information/ Thu, 21 Apr 2005 10:48:02 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/new-catagory-libraries-networked-information/ Thank or blame Jenny Levine of TheShiftedLibrarian for this: I’ve just created a “Libraries and Networked Information” category here. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-long-tail-at-maisonbisson/ Thu, 21 Apr 2005 09:29:59 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-long-tail-at-maisonbisson/ Content here at MaisonBisson isn’t well focused, but a few stories have come out winners in the Google sweepstakes of passing popular fancy. https://maisonbisson.com/post/safari-13-supports-for-contenteditable-wysiwyg/ Thu, 21 Apr 2005 04:44:32 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/safari-13-supports-for-contenteditable-wysiwyg/ Melvin Rivera reports on &lt;a href=&ldquo;http://allforces.com/2005/04/19/wysiwyg-comes-to-safari-13/&quot; title=&ldquo;Safari 1.3&rsquo;s support for contentEditable“&gt;Safari 1.3’s support for contentEditable. https://maisonbisson.com/post/when-decorum-is-entirely-innapropriate/ Thu, 21 Apr 2005 03:54:23 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/when-decorum-is-entirely-innapropriate/ It’s hard to find the words to introduce Eric Berndt‘s open letter to his NYU Law School classmates. https://maisonbisson.com/post/copyright-and-the-internet/ Wed, 20 Apr 2005 20:43:23 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/copyright-and-the-internet/ David Rothman at TeleRead linked to Franklin Pierce Law Center professor Thomas G. Field’s guide to copyright on the internet. https://maisonbisson.com/post/satelite-imagery/ Wed, 20 Apr 2005 06:04:02 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/satelite-imagery/ There appear to be two non-government-owned companies providing satelite imagery: Space Imaging and upstart DigitalGlobe (yeah, like they’re not both upstarts). https://maisonbisson.com/post/focal-plane-shutter-distortion/ Tue, 19 Apr 2005 05:55:41 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/focal-plane-shutter-distortion/ Henri Lartigue’s photo of a race car shows one of the wonderful ways in which the camera records its own reality. https://maisonbisson.com/post/jeffrey-veen-gives-presentation-advice/ Mon, 18 Apr 2005 09:15:48 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/jeffrey-veen-gives-presentation-advice/ In Seven Steps to Better Presentations, Jeffrey Veen acknowledges the complaints against PowerPoint, but explains that the real problem is “bad content delivered poorly. https://maisonbisson.com/post/tips-to-flag-designers-vexillographers/ Sun, 17 Apr 2005 10:59:25 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/tips-to-flag-designers-vexillographers/ The folks at the North American Vexillological Association get excited about flags. Yeah, I had to look up Vexillology too. https://maisonbisson.com/post/cat-and-girl-makes-me-laugh/ Sat, 16 Apr 2005 06:41:54 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/cat-and-girl-makes-me-laugh/ I can’t get enough of Cat and Girl and this one just hit my funny bone. https://maisonbisson.com/post/geolocating-everything/ Fri, 15 Apr 2005 05:10:22 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/geolocating-everything/ I just added Jonathan Crowe’s The Map Room to my daily read. It was there that I learned that GeoURL is back, and that’s got me thinking about geocoding things again. https://maisonbisson.com/post/urls-i-need-to-bookmark-on-my-clie-and-phone/ Fri, 15 Apr 2005 01:08:16 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/urls-i-need-to-bookmark-on-my-clie-and-phone/ Google Local for mobile devices may be the most useful thing yet. But then, I’ve been slow to get even the regular Google Search for mobile devices bookmarked. https://maisonbisson.com/post/see-when-the-president-does-it-its-different-somehow/ Thu, 14 Apr 2005 03:04:48 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/see-when-the-president-does-it-its-different-somehow/ It’s a reasonable story: guy gets iPod, buddy puts a few favorite tracks on it, everybody jams happily because they can share their little bits of culture. https://maisonbisson.com/post/modern-day-opium-craze/ Wed, 13 Apr 2005 10:16:22 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/modern-day-opium-craze/ In a story in the Sacramento News and Review, Peter Thompson writes about his drug use. https://maisonbisson.com/post/apple-finally-unleashes-tiger/ Wed, 13 Apr 2005 01:24:23 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/apple-finally-unleashes-tiger/ Apple announced the availability of Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger Tuesday and is now accepting pre-orders. https://maisonbisson.com/post/our-underequipped-military-forces/ Tue, 12 Apr 2005 05:16:48 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/our-underequipped-military-forces/ A story over at DefenseTech is reporting that four years after the September 11th attacks and during a time when US personnel are involved in armed action on the ground in Arabic speaking states, the military still doesn’t have a plan to train their soldiers in the language. https://maisonbisson.com/post/most-cmss-suck/ Mon, 11 Apr 2005 07:30:07 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/most-cmss-suck/ I’ve been slowly struggling with the question of how to replace pMachine, my CMS engine here. https://maisonbisson.com/post/who-doesnt-want-a-caboose/ Sat, 09 Apr 2005 07:48:33 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/who-doesnt-want-a-caboose/ Perhaps it’s the lasting effects of watching The Station Agent too many times, but I went looking for a place to buy a caboose. https://maisonbisson.com/post/molecular-visualization-in-mac-os-x/ Fri, 08 Apr 2005 06:39:49 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/molecular-visualization-in-mac-os-x/ A while ago I went looking for alternatives to MDL Chime on Mac OS X, as MDL is still choosing not to support OS X. https://maisonbisson.com/post/declaring-bankruptcy-on-old-stories/ Thu, 07 Apr 2005 05:55:50 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/declaring-bankruptcy-on-old-stories/ I often use the MaisonBisson blog as a sort of annotated bookmark list, keeping track of the things that catch my interest for one reason or another, things that I’d like to return to or share. https://maisonbisson.com/post/does-size-matter/ Wed, 06 Apr 2005 06:41:02 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/does-size-matter/ A while ago I asked a friend why short sentences were so pleasing to read and write. https://maisonbisson.com/post/verizon-wireless-wardriving-rig-can-you-hear-me-now/ Tue, 05 Apr 2005 09:48:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/verizon-wireless-wardriving-rig-can-you-hear-me-now/ It turns out that Verizon (and all the other carriers, presumably) really do go around asking “can you hear me now? https://maisonbisson.com/post/of-bricks-and-progress/ Tue, 05 Apr 2005 05:53:34 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/of-bricks-and-progress/ This post is about a couple of things. First, it seems Cory Doctorow has issued DMCA takedown notice to the folks at BoringBoring. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-riaas-logic-and-declining-music-sales/ Mon, 04 Apr 2005 06:34:24 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-riaas-logic-and-declining-music-sales/ Blogger Mark Cuban listened politely to RIAA chief Mitch Bainwol stumble into the logically fallacious argument that: https://maisonbisson.com/post/archiving-realaudio-streams-on-mac-os-x/ Sun, 03 Apr 2005 16:36:01 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/archiving-realaudio-streams-on-mac-os-x/ Standard players for RTSP streams like those for RealAudio don’t cache the files they download, meaning they require a net connection to operate. https://maisonbisson.com/post/gas-prices-finally-affecting-car-sales/ Sun, 03 Apr 2005 02:26:32 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/gas-prices-finally-affecting-car-sales/ A Mainichi Daily Times story announced today sales of energy-efficient Japanese cars soar in U.S. Toyota and Nissan both saw 12% sales growth, with Toyota’s Prius sales jumping to 260% their numbers from a year ago. https://maisonbisson.com/post/tator-tot-pizza/ Sun, 03 Apr 2005 02:13:13 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/tator-tot-pizza/ So my challenge is to prove that I can be both trite and serious in the same day. https://maisonbisson.com/post/serious-saturday/ Sat, 02 Apr 2005 12:30:50 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/serious-saturday/ I’ve lost my way a bit and been posting a bunch of trite stories here lately about my kitchen and in my photoblog. https://maisonbisson.com/post/can-you-eat-it/ Fri, 01 Apr 2005 07:40:08 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/can-you-eat-it/ Food bets seem harmless, but they look funny. Everybody likes the old “can’t eat four saltines in 60 seconds” bet, and it’s likely that many of these foods would never get eaten except on a bet. https://maisonbisson.com/post/its-friday/ Fri, 01 Apr 2005 05:39:11 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/its-friday/ Over at Caravie: Peace, Nonviolence And Conflict Resolution I found the Lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies,lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies music video. https://maisonbisson.com/post/new-us-passports-will-serve-as-terrorist-beacons/ Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:35:13 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/new-us-passports-will-serve-as-terrorist-beacons/ I cannot say it any better than it was said in today’s issue of EFFector: https://maisonbisson.com/post/reporting-late-on-grokster/ Thu, 31 Mar 2005 06:26:58 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/reporting-late-on-grokster/ These things take time and can often be hard to read, so while we all wanted the high court to look at the entertainment industry lawyers and tell them to take a hike Tuesday, we’ll have to wait until summer to know what actually went down. https://maisonbisson.com/post/life-of-a-kitchen/ Thu, 31 Mar 2005 03:54:32 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/life-of-a-kitchen/ Blueskygirl alerted me to the Life Of A Kitchen group at Flickr in a comment on a photo of my remodeled kitchen. https://maisonbisson.com/post/cheap-lcds-for-in-car-computers/ Wed, 30 Mar 2005 22:53:37 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/cheap-lcds-for-in-car-computers/ A PowerPage story alerted me to a couple of inexpensive touch-screen LCDs: Innovatek and Lilliput. https://maisonbisson.com/post/kitchen/ Wed, 30 Mar 2005 10:39:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/kitchen/ It was done in quite a rush and there’s some touchup to do yet, but our kitchen is now more complete than it’s been in six years. https://maisonbisson.com/post/late-notes-from-october-library-conference/ Tue, 29 Mar 2005 06:04:15 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/late-notes-from-october-library-conference/ I just re-discovered my notes from Dartmouth Biomedical Libraries’ October Conference for 2004 and found a number of things I wish I’d remembered earlier. https://maisonbisson.com/post/considering-the-death-penalty/ Mon, 28 Mar 2005 10:31:28 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/considering-the-death-penalty/ Texas executes a lot of people. During the years 1995 through 2000, Texas executed 152 inmates, making then governor Georg W. https://maisonbisson.com/post/choppin-ice/ Sun, 27 Mar 2005 23:51:44 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/choppin-ice/ Corey chops ice from my walkway on Sunday afternoon. Dinner went well, despite worries that our new kitchen wouldn’t be completed in time. https://maisonbisson.com/post/crunch-three-more-days/ Thu, 24 Mar 2005 16:55:16 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/crunch-three-more-days/ There are at least two ways to appreciate Easter: To some it’s the most important religious event of the year, while, to others — your hosts here at MaisonBisson, for instance — it’s yet another good reason to gather friends and family ’round a table and celebrate good food, good wine, and all that makes us human. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-risks-of-googling-ones-self/ Tue, 22 Mar 2005 05:51:37 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-risks-of-googling-ones-self/ Well, actually it was A9, but the results are just as scary. There’s a fellow named Gerald Dewight Casey on deathrow in Texas and an Asian language site has a picture of the Bisson Battlesuit. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wifi-my-world/ Mon, 21 Mar 2005 13:47:02 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wifi-my-world/ I’m in Hooksett today waiting for the my kitchen cabinets to be delivered. Why Hooksett? Because Ikea won’t deliver to Warren and I’ve got in-laws in Hooksett where Ikea will deliver. https://maisonbisson.com/post/of-life-death/ Mon, 21 Mar 2005 08:57:21 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/of-life-death/ I’m not sure I could say it any better than David Rothman did when he went off topic over at TeleRead to make note of some important issues related to the Terri Schiavo matter. https://maisonbisson.com/post/dis-intermediating-pop-culture/ Sun, 20 Mar 2005 11:28:06 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/dis-intermediating-pop-culture/ Via Copyfight via Deep Links: Fiona Apple, that Grammy award winning gal you remember from the Criminal video, apparently put together a third album a couple years back only to have Sony music shelve the thing. https://maisonbisson.com/post/sunshine-week/ Sat, 19 Mar 2005 05:20:07 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/sunshine-week/ I’ve failed to live up to my potential this week. I’ve wasted a lot of time on stories about useless video cameras, home theater, whining about my kitchen remodeling, and lamenting some lost stories when I should have been paying attention to SXSW, ETech, copyright issues, and Sunshine Week. https://maisonbisson.com/post/shuffleboard-fridays/ Sat, 19 Mar 2005 01:39:29 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/shuffleboard-fridays/ Joe, Tami, Sandee, and John throwing weights on the shuffleboard table Friday night. Extra: shufflboard rules at MastersGames, suffleboard rules at shuffleboard. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wish-i-was-there-etech-2005/ Fri, 18 Mar 2005 08:56:56 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wish-i-was-there-etech-2005/ Just as I was about to cut the Future Tense blog (from the Public Radio show of the same name) from my list, Jon Gordon steps up with a few good stories. https://maisonbisson.com/post/your-eff-needs-you/ Fri, 18 Mar 2005 07:53:58 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/your-eff-needs-you/ A couple stories in the Electronic Frontier Foundation‘s email newsletter need our attention and support. Well, they all do, but here’s the most important: https://maisonbisson.com/post/maisonbisson-the-lost-tapes/ Thu, 17 Mar 2005 16:48:14 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/maisonbisson-the-lost-tapes/ I discovered recently that my content database is [missing a bunch of stories][1] from the first weeks of 2005. https://maisonbisson.com/post/small-video-cameras/ Thu, 17 Mar 2005 09:05:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/small-video-cameras/ This fiddling with video has me looking for small cheap video cameras. 123 Security Products has some, but Pine Computer has them cheaper. https://maisonbisson.com/post/home-theater/ Wed, 16 Mar 2005 06:43:24 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/home-theater/ There are bigger problems in the world than my home theater, but that’s not what this entry is about. https://maisonbisson.com/post/liability-license/ Tue, 15 Mar 2005 16:20:22 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/liability-license/ It turns out that the Quicken website is full of legal tips and advice. What caught my eye was a description of implied warranties. https://maisonbisson.com/post/loss/ Tue, 15 Mar 2005 03:25:15 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/loss/ I discovered today that my content database is missing about 20 entries from the first weeks of 2005. https://maisonbisson.com/post/too-exhausted-busy-to-blog/ Sun, 13 Mar 2005 16:41:51 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/too-exhausted-busy-to-blog/ I’ve got to tear down the last cabinet, get all the junk to the dump, clean, spot-sand and clearcoat the floors, and…. https://maisonbisson.com/post/kitchen-destruction-time-lapse-movie/ Sun, 13 Mar 2005 03:48:26 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/kitchen-destruction-time-lapse-movie/ It’s all part of the plan, but this is a bigger mix effort and uncertainty than expected. https://maisonbisson.com/post/shred-it/ Fri, 11 Mar 2005 04:16:49 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/shred-it/ Engadget‘s got a story about SSI Shredding Systems and their action videos of their equipment doing the job on refrigerators, medical waste, steel drums, couches, concrete, boats…. https://maisonbisson.com/post/best-new-music/ Thu, 10 Mar 2005 07:16:17 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/best-new-music/ Trilok Gurtu and Robert Miles on miles_gurtu Listen in at iTunes or Amazon. Bonobo’s Dial M For Monkey Listen in at iTunes or Amazon. https://maisonbisson.com/post/virtual-kvm-solutions/ Thu, 10 Mar 2005 04:02:09 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/virtual-kvm-solutions/ Folks are increasingly aware of screen sharing apps like VNC, but what about solutions that allow you to control multiple computers with a single keyboard and mouse? https://maisonbisson.com/post/and-copyright-law-is-broken-too-duh/ Wed, 09 Mar 2005 10:42:52 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/and-copyright-law-is-broken-too-duh/ I was looking for a way to includes these in my story about the brokeness of patent law, but they just wouldn’t fit. https://maisonbisson.com/post/cliff-likes-the-works/ Wed, 09 Mar 2005 05:18:40 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/cliff-likes-the-works/ A flash and long manual exposure caught Cliff and me setting up the ‘works, then their launch and aerial explosion on a cold night in January. https://maisonbisson.com/post/today-is-warrens-town-meeting-day/ Tue, 08 Mar 2005 04:45:23 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/today-is-warrens-town-meeting-day/ Meeting has come and gone. The issue in the selectmen’s letter was postponed indefinitely and the meeting adjourned around 3:30 PM. https://maisonbisson.com/post/on-rss-taxonomies-and-folksonomies/ Mon, 07 Mar 2005 08:15:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/on-rss-taxonomies-and-folksonomies/ Copyfight went somewhat off topic to point out Joshua Porter’s paper on How Content Aggregators Change Navigation and Control of Content at User Interface Engineering. https://maisonbisson.com/post/so-computers-were-worthless-ten-years-ago/ Mon, 07 Mar 2005 04:01:37 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/so-computers-were-worthless-ten-years-ago/ Jenny, The Shifted Librarian, related a story that show’s her son’s innate understanding of Metcalfe’s Law. https://maisonbisson.com/post/all-conversations-in-warren-revolve-around-heat-2/ Sun, 06 Mar 2005 06:54:05 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/all-conversations-in-warren-revolve-around-heat-2/ On Jan 30th I noted that I’d burned through half my wood pellets for the season. https://maisonbisson.com/post/whats-your-nerd-score/ Sat, 05 Mar 2005 05:03:28 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/whats-your-nerd-score/ There in my referrer tags was planetilug.draiocht.net (though I can’t figure out why), where I found a link to the nerd test. https://maisonbisson.com/post/cuttin-it-up/ Fri, 04 Mar 2005 07:12:23 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/cuttin-it-up/ Will cuts stuff up like…well, like a guy who cuts stuff. True to form, Cliff points. https://maisonbisson.com/post/vacation-in-the-luxury-of-my-own-home/ Thu, 03 Mar 2005 15:46:38 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/vacation-in-the-luxury-of-my-own-home/ I’m taking a spot of vacation here. Expect nothing more from me today, and not much more in the days to come. https://maisonbisson.com/post/sweet-deal-on-home-theater-projector/ Wed, 02 Mar 2005 10:49:42 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/sweet-deal-on-home-theater-projector/ The Sharp PG-B10S projector isn’t the best out there, but it rates pretty well according to ProjectorCentral. https://maisonbisson.com/post/stay-free-copyright-activists/ Tue, 01 Mar 2005 06:31:45 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/stay-free-copyright-activists/ The are few things as joyus as the excitement of discovery, so it was a great pleasure to learn that Stay Free! https://maisonbisson.com/post/beware-the-cheap-pc-beware-the-company-that-advertises-them/ Mon, 28 Feb 2005 06:25:28 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/beware-the-cheap-pc-beware-the-company-that-advertises-them/ I’ve been saying for years that there’s no such thing as a cheap PC, but now a class action lawsuit against Dell is claiming the same. https://maisonbisson.com/post/food-and-kitchen-gadgets/ Sat, 26 Feb 2005 06:35:24 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/food-and-kitchen-gadgets/ Gizmodo just popped two stories about kitchen or food related gadgets that I love: a knife block worth having and a banana wrapper you didn’t know you needed. https://maisonbisson.com/post/picture-phone-threats-theyre-not-what-you-think/ Fri, 25 Feb 2005 06:16:38 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/picture-phone-threats-theyre-not-what-you-think/ In a story that couldn’t have been much better timed, ArsTechnica is reporting on a camera system from that reads license plates and automatically looks up vehicle registration details. https://maisonbisson.com/post/re-programming-the-sony-rm-v60-multifunction-remote-control/ Thu, 24 Feb 2005 09:49:17 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/re-programming-the-sony-rm-v60-multifunction-remote-control/ In case you find the batteries dead, and the programming lost, Sony’s instructions for configuring the RM-V60 multifunction remote control are online. https://maisonbisson.com/post/macs-vs-pcs-tables-turned/ Thu, 24 Feb 2005 05:05:47 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/macs-vs-pcs-tables-turned/ Yale Daily News reports on how Windows is increasingly being pushed aside by MacOS X and Linux. https://maisonbisson.com/post/iug-2005-library-portal-integration-xml-server-applications/ Wed, 23 Feb 2005 10:49:34 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/iug-2005-library-portal-integration-xml-server-applications/ Elaine Allard and I will be presenting on Library Portal Integration at the IUG 2005 in San Francisco, CA. https://maisonbisson.com/post/extra-quotes/ Wed, 23 Feb 2005 02:59:11 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/extra-quotes/ Most of these are a rehash, but I like them…. — – — A ZDNet News article from December 2003 remarks: “Apple buyers tend to have higher incomes and greater technological sophistication than the PC audience as a whole. https://maisonbisson.com/post/international-symbols/ Tue, 22 Feb 2005 08:41:57 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/international-symbols/ Enterprise Language Solutions has an interesting brief by Yves Lang on how to use symbols and icons in localization. https://maisonbisson.com/post/feature-privacy-in-the-21st-century/ Mon, 21 Feb 2005 16:30:49 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/feature-privacy-in-the-21st-century/ This is the story that gives me an excuse to name Paris Hilton here at MaisonBisson. https://maisonbisson.com/post/feeling-very-sleepy/ Sun, 20 Feb 2005 14:29:26 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/feeling-very-sleepy/ Around noon Saturday Sandee asked “why don’t we go to Ikea?” The closest one is in New Haven, Connecticut, and we got there around 4 PM. https://maisonbisson.com/post/today-in-sports-le-parkour/ Sat, 19 Feb 2005 05:51:14 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/today-in-sports-le-parkour/ Troy pointed wildly and excitedly at a video showing his new favorite sport: Le Parkour. https://maisonbisson.com/post/retro-handsets-for-mobile-phones/ Fri, 18 Feb 2005 07:50:50 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/retro-handsets-for-mobile-phones/ Pokia is setting the world on fire with their retro phone handsets. They’re taking apart phones from the 60s 70s and 80s and rewiring the handsets to plug into today’s mobile phones. https://maisonbisson.com/post/feature-patent-law-is-broken/ Thu, 17 Feb 2005 08:25:39 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/feature-patent-law-is-broken/ US patent laws are broken. Adam B. Jaffe and Josh Lerner say so. Their IEEE article is filled with equal measures of anecdotes and facts about why patent law is doing more to limit advancement in the arts and science than to support it. https://maisonbisson.com/post/shameless-commerce/ Wed, 16 Feb 2005 22:36:43 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/shameless-commerce/ My Beef T-Shirts aren’t exactly mass market, so it’s a pleasure to see sales to California (2), Florida (1), Illinois (2), Kansas (1), New York (3), Ohio (3), Oklahoma (1), Pennsylvania (1), and Washington (2). https://maisonbisson.com/post/unusual-hotels/ Wed, 16 Feb 2005 07:44:21 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/unusual-hotels/ I recently discovered Unusual Hotels of the World, “the online guide for travelers interestedinstaying somewhere truly different,” and was pleasantly surprised to find a few hotels in North America I’d like to check in to some day. https://maisonbisson.com/post/google-maps-rock-hacking-them-rocks-more/ Tue, 15 Feb 2005 04:38:56 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/google-maps-rock-hacking-them-rocks-more/ People are going wild{#14204} over Google Maps, but I honestly didn’t get too excited about it until I saw Glen Murphy’s Movin Gmap project. https://maisonbisson.com/post/students-take-academic-technology-into-their-own-hands/ Mon, 14 Feb 2005 11:34:28 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/students-take-academic-technology-into-their-own-hands/ Jenny Levine, The Shifted Librarian, points out a recent survey that finds 90% of US college students own a cell phone. https://maisonbisson.com/post/all-about-stainless-steel/ Sun, 13 Feb 2005 08:13:16 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/all-about-stainless-steel/ I’ve been contemplating the idea of welding/fabricating a stainless steel counter top, but I’ve never attempted any welding before, and most people say stainless steel is difficult to work with. https://maisonbisson.com/post/inflate-collapse/ Sat, 12 Feb 2005 06:49:25 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/inflate-collapse/ Two perfectly paired books: Blow-Up by Sean Topham and Collapsible by Per Mollerup. One explores inflatable forms in art, architecture, and science. https://maisonbisson.com/post/one-wheel-two-wheel-three-wheeled-vehicles/ Fri, 11 Feb 2005 09:01:12 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/one-wheel-two-wheel-three-wheeled-vehicles/ We’ve come to expect certain things. Cars have four wheels, for instance. And we expect two-wheeled vehicles look like bikes or motorcycles or scooters. https://maisonbisson.com/post/snow-day/ Thu, 10 Feb 2005 15:21:41 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/snow-day/ As Cliff likes to say, “cur-tailed, the sweetest two words in the English language.” The snow started falling Wednesday night and didn’t stop. https://maisonbisson.com/post/geolocation-tagging-photos/ Wed, 09 Feb 2005 09:35:07 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/geolocation-tagging-photos/ There’s a new version of Jeff Early’s GPS Photo Linker, which allows you to combine tracks from your GPS (time and position data) with your photos (time and image data), so you end up with a bunch of photos with embeded GPS coordinates. https://maisonbisson.com/post/conspicuous-consumption-the-plan/ Tue, 08 Feb 2005 06:59:38 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/conspicuous-consumption-the-plan/ After some scraping and saving, and our refinancing, we’re remodeling our kitchen. Our first attempt at doing this failed when I realized — too late — that I’m not actually capable of making cabinets. https://maisonbisson.com/post/marmite/ Mon, 07 Feb 2005 08:53:47 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/marmite/ Today I give props to bunchofpants‘s Flickr photoset on Marmite. I don’t really know what Marmite is, but the Marmite FAQ claims: https://maisonbisson.com/post/fast-sofaimac-g5-fast/ Sun, 06 Feb 2005 08:12:49 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/fast-sofaimac-g5-fast/ There are a lot of folks who will tell you how “wrong” it is that Apple integrates the monitor and computer in so many models, so I guess there’s a bunch of them that will tell you the same thing about how Bluebroc is integrating the a sweet-looking couch and an iMac G5. https://maisonbisson.com/post/ipod-giggles/ Sat, 05 Feb 2005 07:53:47 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/ipod-giggles/ iPod Giggles » Paul Bourke, of the Astronomy department at Swinburne University of Technology, has developed an iPod stereoscope. https://maisonbisson.com/post/standing-up-for-clam-juice/ Fri, 04 Feb 2005 11:57:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/standing-up-for-clam-juice/ Okay, so I’ve been doing at least a post a day since about September 2004 and a few people got concerned when I missed a couple days{#33}, but I am alive. https://maisonbisson.com/post/folksonomy-is-my-new-love/ Tue, 01 Feb 2005 09:55:46 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/folksonomy-is-my-new-love/ Okay, I’m excited about folksonomies. My introduction to tags was at Flickr, where I’ve been amused at how they help connect people, photos, and concepts. https://maisonbisson.com/post/copyright-terrorism/ Mon, 31 Jan 2005 07:01:23 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/copyright-terrorism/ The Dunhuang Grottoes are one of China’s richest archaeological treasures. Built during the 4th through 14th centuries, they are a 1,000-year-old ancient art gallery of cave architecture, sculptures and murals. https://maisonbisson.com/post/looking-for-the-energy-drink-tv-ad/ Mon, 31 Jan 2005 05:23:46 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/looking-for-the-energy-drink-tv-ad/ Based on the search terms people come to this site with, I know that there’s a bunch of folks looking for the “energy drink ad,” or “K-fee TV commercial,” or “scary German,” or some such. https://maisonbisson.com/post/all-conversations-in-warren-revolve-around-heat/ Mon, 31 Jan 2005 01:55:46 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/all-conversations-in-warren-revolve-around-heat/ I have burned 1.6 tons of wood pellets so far this winter. The significance of the number isn’t its size, though 1. https://maisonbisson.com/post/big-bear-photos-circulating/ Sun, 30 Jan 2005 06:22:33 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/big-bear-photos-circulating/ My dad forwarded me the following pictures and story: These pictures are of a guy who works for the US Forest Service in Alaska and his trophy bear. https://maisonbisson.com/post/language-is-of-the-people/ Sat, 29 Jan 2005 05:39:26 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/language-is-of-the-people/ I am always amazed at the lengths we’ll go through to communicate or express or simply transliterate an idea, and further amazed at how we represent the result. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wikipedia-vs-brittannica-folksonomy-vs-taxonomy/ Fri, 28 Jan 2005 06:03:14 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wikipedia-vs-brittannica-folksonomy-vs-taxonomy/ A post on Techdirt notes: You may recall that we somehow got involved in a bizarre battle over Wikipedia, when I got into a discussion with a reporter who told me that Wikipedia was “outrageous,” “repugnant” and “dangerous,” mainly because it’s not reviewed by “professionals. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-tyranny-of-copyright/ Thu, 27 Jan 2005 11:48:16 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-tyranny-of-copyright/ Last week I pointed to Will Shetterly’s “The People Who Owned the Bible” as an example of what might happen if copyright/intellectual property law continues to favor short term commercial interests over long term public interests. https://maisonbisson.com/post/cold-weather-operations-force-powerbook-pmu-reset/ Thu, 27 Jan 2005 01:57:50 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/cold-weather-operations-force-powerbook-pmu-reset/ Batteries don’t work well in the cold, and with the -20°F nights we’ve had, I think I can say it’s been cold here lately. https://maisonbisson.com/post/using-your-mobile-phone-as-modem/ Wed, 26 Jan 2005 08:38:42 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/using-your-mobile-phone-as-modem/ I’ve been following cell-carrier wireless data options here at MaisonBisson (here and here), but I have to admit that I don’t actually use any such solutions. https://maisonbisson.com/post/edward-tufte-gives-presentation-advice/ Tue, 25 Jan 2005 08:36:55 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/edward-tufte-gives-presentation-advice/ Edward Tufte‘s passion is the graphical display of information. But his nemsis the visual lie. So naturally, he has a special dislike for PowerPoint. https://maisonbisson.com/post/palm-travel-guides/ Tue, 25 Jan 2005 06:19:48 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/palm-travel-guides/ MyPalmLife is running a story about some new travel guides that run on your Palm-powered device. https://maisonbisson.com/post/feds-go-beyond-carnivore-artists-embrace-carnivore/ Mon, 24 Jan 2005 08:35:22 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/feds-go-beyond-carnivore-artists-embrace-carnivore/ DefenseTech reports that the FBI has given up on Carnivore, the electronic snooping application that it used to force on ISPs serving suspects. https://maisonbisson.com/post/microsoft-bad-for-browsers-bad-for-air-travel/ Mon, 24 Jan 2005 06:04:49 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/microsoft-bad-for-browsers-bad-for-air-travel/ I just discovered This Is Broken and couldn’t help but explore the archives. First I discovered Brill. https://maisonbisson.com/post/browse-happy/ Sun, 23 Jan 2005 08:36:44 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/browse-happy/ Browse happy, by the The Web Standards Project is urging people to give up on Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. https://maisonbisson.com/post/mac-os-x-performance-questions/ Sat, 22 Jan 2005 07:36:47 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/mac-os-x-performance-questions/ I was a little bummed to find my CPU busy all morning yesterday. And though I still don’t understand exactly what was causing it, it seems no longer to be a problem. https://maisonbisson.com/post/problems-and-pre-dated-stories/ Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:21:08 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/problems-and-pre-dated-stories/ Due to problems with the site all this week, a couple of time-sensitive stories that I wrote but coudn’t post have now been posted with pre-dated timestamps. https://maisonbisson.com/post/candy/ Fri, 21 Jan 2005 11:14:34 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/candy/ Karen forwarded me a link to Juicy Panic‘s “you drive me oh oh oh” video by torisukoshiro + autophene. https://maisonbisson.com/post/palm-news-goodies/ Fri, 21 Jan 2005 08:11:15 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/palm-news-goodies/ Gizmodo mentioned the new Garmin iQue 3600a GPS Palm for Pilots this morning. There’s a long write up about it at MyPalmLife, but the Gizmodo story linked to Palm247. https://maisonbisson.com/post/problems-happen/ Fri, 21 Jan 2005 03:57:36 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/problems-happen/ My hosting provider has a US-based datacenter and UK-based staff. It’s an odd mix that may or may not be helpful when things go all to heck, like they did on Saturday and again on Tuesday. https://maisonbisson.com/post/mac-mini-vs-cheapo-pcs/ Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:07:18 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/mac-mini-vs-cheapo-pcs/ Charles Jade at ArsTechnica has written both a Mac mini preview and a MacWorld Expo show walkthrough. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-mac-mini-is-small/ Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:01:39 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-mac-mini-is-small/ I said the Mac mini was the reincarnation of the Cube last week, but Gizmodo has posted a picture of the two, um, together. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wheres-my-video-jukebox/ Tue, 18 Jan 2005 11:33:24 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wheres-my-video-jukebox/ Yesterday I posted a story about using a Mac mini in my home entertainment center. I noted that I’d already replaced my CD player with iTunes on an old iMac and I wondered if I could do the same for DVDs. https://maisonbisson.com/post/bill-g-just-wants-to-be-cool/ Tue, 18 Jan 2005 04:09:14 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bill-g-just-wants-to-be-cool/ Gizmodo has two pictures of a young Bill Gates vogueing on a desk with 5.25-inch floppies and a circa-1986 PC monitor. https://maisonbisson.com/post/mac-mini-as-media-player/ Mon, 17 Jan 2005 10:29:58 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/mac-mini-as-media-player/ More than a few people are looking at the Mac mini as a new component in their home entertainment center. https://maisonbisson.com/post/michale-stephens-twelve-techie-things/ Mon, 17 Jan 2005 04:53:20 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/michale-stephens-twelve-techie-things/ Michael Stephens’ Twelve Techie Things for Librarians 2005 deserves a look. User-centered technology planning, RSS, acnd convergence lead his list, but other items speak directly to the role of the library in the internet age. https://maisonbisson.com/post/pmachine-discontinued-where-to-next/ Mon, 17 Jan 2005 01:50:37 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/pmachine-discontinued-where-to-next/ I learned today that pMachine Pro — the software behind this site — has been discontinued. https://maisonbisson.com/post/oil-star/ Fri, 14 Jan 2005 09:40:43 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/oil-star/ This super-cool 70s-styled logo adorns the side of a trailer in the backwoods of New Hampshire. https://maisonbisson.com/post/jailed-for-a-song/ Thu, 13 Jan 2005 10:43:54 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/jailed-for-a-song/ trying to quote lyrics for his book, Planet Simpson to understand how current copyright law is already limiting legitimate work. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-tyranny-of-copyright-2/ Wed, 12 Jan 2005 10:54:37 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-tyranny-of-copyright-2/ <p>If you read nothing else all year, <a href="http://shetterly.blogspot.com/2005/01/people-who-owned-bible-story.html" title="read this">read this</a>.</p> <p>Will Shetterly’s “<a href="http://shetterly.blogspot.com/2005/01/people-who-owned-bible-story.html" title="The People Who Owned the Bible">The People Who Owned the Bible</a>” is a tale of copyright gone amok. It’s the clearest, plainest, and funniest of all such works I’ve seen.</p> <p><em>Note: My title is based on a New York Times story about copyright from a while back. Am I in trouble?</em></p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/steve-jobs-introduces-ipod-shuffle/ Tue, 11 Jan 2005 16:58:29 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/steve-jobs-introduces-ipod-shuffle/ In his MacWorld Expo keynote today, Steve Jobs introduced the iPod shuffle. From MacNN: Apple introduces iPod Shuffle…flash based player. https://maisonbisson.com/post/steve-jobs-introduces-mac-mini/ Tue, 11 Jan 2005 16:39:56 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/steve-jobs-introduces-mac-mini/ Steve Jobs, in his keynote at MacWorld Expo today reintroduced a redesigned Mac Cube as the Mac mini. https://maisonbisson.com/post/vonage-wifi-voip-handset-is-real/ Tue, 04 Jan 2005 15:22:42 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/vonage-wifi-voip-handset-is-real/ All the world is atwitter about Vonage’s new WiFi VoIP phone today. WiFiNetNews got the hint from Engadget, who appears to have broken the story today, and links to a USA Today story that says: https://maisonbisson.com/post/video-fix/ Tue, 04 Jan 2005 10:48:31 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/video-fix/ Today might be [wierd|strange|funny|scary] video day. Or something. These are probably not safe for work, though your mileage may vary. https://maisonbisson.com/post/classic-and-independent-movie-theaters/ Mon, 03 Jan 2005 12:29:19 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/classic-and-independent-movie-theaters/ A story in the December 2004/January 2005 issue of Arthur Frommer’s Budget Travel Magazine alerted me to Ross Melnick and Andreas Fuchs’s Cinema Treasures. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-future-of-libraries/ Mon, 03 Jan 2005 09:25:06 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-future-of-libraries/ Roderick (also, check out Roderick’s new blog) forwarded me a story about the challenges facing academic libraries from The Chronicle of Higher Education. https://maisonbisson.com/post/backfill/ Mon, 03 Jan 2005 02:55:05 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/backfill/ I should admit to it now before it becomes a scandal. I backfilled some content this weekend. https://maisonbisson.com/post/a-decadent-and-debauched-slave-of-foreign-culture/ Sun, 02 Jan 2005 20:55:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/a-decadent-and-debauched-slave-of-foreign-culture/ I first learned of Wei Hui and her first book Shanghai Baby on NPR a few years ago. https://maisonbisson.com/post/2004-tech-roundup/ Sat, 01 Jan 2005 16:09:45 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/2004-tech-roundup/ It’s getting a little late for these roundup things, but I’m too tired with post-New Year’s party haze to come up with much of anything better right now. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wrapping-up-a-year-of-controversy/ Fri, 31 Dec 2004 11:23:27 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wrapping-up-a-year-of-controversy/ AlterNet had a good line of stories this weekend to round up the old year and ring in the new. https://maisonbisson.com/post/slacking-is-universal/ Fri, 31 Dec 2004 01:20:15 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/slacking-is-universal/ In yet another reminder from Mainichi Daily News that American’s and Japanese aren’t so different, now they’re reporting: coeds say college guys ‘childish, irresponsible, stupid. https://maisonbisson.com/post/ipod-hacks/ Fri, 31 Dec 2004 01:06:59 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/ipod-hacks/ Hack-a-Day has just given me the best reason I’ve seen yet to take a closer look at iPod Linux: audio input without the cheap dohicky accessories and at up to 96KHz x 16bit. https://maisonbisson.com/post/terminal-holiday-for-30k/ Fri, 31 Dec 2004 00:57:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/terminal-holiday-for-30k/ I got to spend the holidays near home this year, and with everything else going on I didn’t really pay much attention to the Comair/Delta problem that stranded over 30,000 passengers last weekend. https://maisonbisson.com/post/let-fly-the-macworld-rumors/ Wed, 29 Dec 2004 11:27:50 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/let-fly-the-macworld-rumors/ Everybody is gaga (links: one — two — three — four) over the ThinkSecret story: Apple to drop sub-$500 Mac bomb at Expo. https://maisonbisson.com/post/national-geographic-society-not-so-environmentally-conscious/ Wed, 29 Dec 2004 10:36:12 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/national-geographic-society-not-so-environmentally-conscious/ I know I’m complaining here, but National Geographic seems to have done this wrong. I purchased The Complete National Geographic — 110 Years of National Geographic on CD-ROM a few years ago. https://maisonbisson.com/post/google-101/ Tue, 28 Dec 2004 09:40:51 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/google-101/ The Economist has a very concise explanation of how Google works, and how it became today’s dominant search engine. https://maisonbisson.com/post/high-speed-wireless/ Mon, 27 Dec 2004 11:02:10 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/high-speed-wireless/ Michael Sciannamea at WirelessWeblog noted that: BMW, Audi, Daimler Chrysler, Volkswagen, Renault, and Fiat have all received grants from the German government to develop a car-to-car wireless data network using 802. https://maisonbisson.com/post/chernobyl-followup/ Mon, 27 Dec 2004 08:58:19 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/chernobyl-followup/ I posted a story about a tour through Chernobyl a few weeks ago. The story still gets a lot of hits, and somebody pointed out a few related Wikipedia links about the accident, the ghost town, and the controversy about Elena Filatova, the author of everybody’s favorite online Chernobyl tour story. https://maisonbisson.com/post/free-palm-apps-now-easier-to-find/ Sun, 26 Dec 2004 11:39:42 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/free-palm-apps-now-easier-to-find/ Jon Aquino‘s holiday gift to us is to make FreewarePalm useful: Why this work was necessary: FreewarePalm contains a goldmine of ratings of Palm freeware. https://maisonbisson.com/post/heart-warming-holiday-tale-for-hackers/ Sun, 26 Dec 2004 10:55:11 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/heart-warming-holiday-tale-for-hackers/ I recently stumbled across Ron Avitzur’s story of the the development of Graphing Calculator, the little application that makes complex math easy to visualize. https://maisonbisson.com/post/requisite-holiday-email-forward/ Sun, 26 Dec 2004 03:16:02 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/requisite-holiday-email-forward/ Mark Turski‘s holiday message: Avoid carrot sticks. Anyone who puts carrots on a holiday buffet table knows nothing of the Christmas spirit. https://maisonbisson.com/post/happy-holidays-2004/ Sat, 25 Dec 2004 03:01:15 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/happy-holidays-2004/ The Warren Rocket stands in the the snow on December 4, 2004. https://maisonbisson.com/post/happy-holidays-2004/ Thu, 23 Dec 2004 03:01:31 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/happy-holidays-2004/ Photo taken December 5, 2004, just north of Warren on NH Route 25C. The snow is real (and much deeper now), but I added the lights for the holidays. https://maisonbisson.com/post/coincidence-is-too-general-a-term/ Wed, 22 Dec 2004 18:57:18 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/coincidence-is-too-general-a-term/ Engadget had a laugh over a story in the Keene Sentinel: So the other day a UPS driver in New Hampshire was on his way to the Cheshire Medical Center in Keene to deliver some much-needed parts for a piece of medical equipment when he got into acrash. https://maisonbisson.com/post/apple-fans-mod-macs/ Wed, 22 Dec 2004 08:27:04 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/apple-fans-mod-macs/ Joseph DeRuvo Jr.’s i-Tablet is this year’s Mac Mod. Wired’s Leander Kahneyusually covers the story, but DeRuvo published this one himself at MacMod. https://maisonbisson.com/post/cross-country-journeys-in-time-lapse/ Wed, 22 Dec 2004 06:11:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/cross-country-journeys-in-time-lapse/ I feel a tinge of jealousy every time I see something like this: Lacquer Sound’s Road Trip. https://maisonbisson.com/post/gary-webb-a-journalist-who-dared/ Tue, 21 Dec 2004 09:29:32 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/gary-webb-a-journalist-who-dared/ AlterNet ran an interesting story about Gary Webb‘s recent suicide and the events that may have led to it. https://maisonbisson.com/post/fccs-complaint-system-gamed/ Tue, 21 Dec 2004 08:01:59 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/fccs-complaint-system-gamed/ I’ve got a backlog o stories to post here, including this old one about broadcast programming complaints to the FCC. https://maisonbisson.com/post/gps-happy/ Tue, 21 Dec 2004 03:59:21 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/gps-happy/ My brother and his wife surprised me with a Rayming TN-200 GPS this holiday season. What’s so great about it? https://maisonbisson.com/post/seacoast-industry/ Tue, 21 Dec 2004 01:37:59 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/seacoast-industry/ <p>Sometimes a story will popup as a clear reminder that the world is not always as it seems. I will admit both surprise and amusement when I found that Foster’s Daily Democrat reported Saturday on the content of a <a href="http://www.fosters.com/December_2004/12.18.04/news/mn_k1218a.asp" title="federal indictment">federal indictment</a> of a Kittery, Maine, health club. Geography lesson: Foster’s covers New Hampshire’s seacoast — all 18 miles of it — and Kittery is a shopping destination squished into the southernmost corner of Maine. The indictment accuses Gary H. Reiner of running “an interstate prostitution ring.” Foster’s reports that the club has operated under various names, most recently the “<a href="http://yp.yahoo.com/py/ypMap.py?tuid=21605792&amp;ck=2517697531" title="Danish Health Club">Danish Health Club</a>,” owned by “Kittery Health Club Inc.” Reiner was apparently both the owner of the club and the former town council chairman and had a role in shaping the local regulations of spas and health clubs.</p> <p>The story clearly had some history, and I’m fortunate the web, and Foster’s archives, can educate me.</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/displaying-word-docs-and-pdfs-in-safari/ Mon, 20 Dec 2004 06:25:57 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/displaying-word-docs-and-pdfs-in-safari/ Royce asked: How can I disable or tweak Download Manager so that files can be read in line with the download and manually launch through the Download Manager? https://maisonbisson.com/post/fun-with-license-plates/ Sun, 19 Dec 2004 08:07:12 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/fun-with-license-plates/ Jameson wrote me today to point out that he can get a New Hampshire Moose license plate with the text “-BRK4M” https://maisonbisson.com/post/isight-accessories-and-beauty-tips/ Sun, 19 Dec 2004 03:43:21 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/isight-accessories-and-beauty-tips/ MacDevCenter published a guide on How to Look Great on iChat AV back in March. The point? https://maisonbisson.com/post/weird-palm-apps/ Sat, 18 Dec 2004 10:07:47 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/weird-palm-apps/ CanalPDA, a Spanish-language PDA info site has released an English version of their story about the weirdest Palm OS programs. https://maisonbisson.com/post/darn-comment-spam/ Fri, 17 Dec 2004 10:46:48 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/darn-comment-spam/ &lt;a href=&ldquo;http://flickr.com/photos/maisonbisson/sets/15240/&quot; title=&ldquo;Canned Meats at Flickr&rdquo;&quot;&gt;Now that most email clients have reasonable spam filtering capabilities, spammers are targeting comments systems on blogs, guestbooks (I thought those had disappeared, but I saw one yesterday) and other open submission forms that post to the web. https://maisonbisson.com/post/beware-the-cheap-pc/ Fri, 17 Dec 2004 08:09:47 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/beware-the-cheap-pc/ The public radio show Future Tense did a story Monday that asks “Will you regret buying a cheapie PC? https://maisonbisson.com/post/more-about-google-print/ Fri, 17 Dec 2004 05:01:31 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/more-about-google-print/ Prediction: we’ll talk about Google Print until they debut the beta, then we’ll talk about it more. https://maisonbisson.com/post/ipod-supplies-tight-holiday-sales-to-exceed-four-million/ Thu, 16 Dec 2004 13:07:57 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/ipod-supplies-tight-holiday-sales-to-exceed-four-million/ Summary: four million to be sold this holiday season; adoption rate higher than for Sony’s Walkman. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wireless-security-wep-dead/ Thu, 16 Dec 2004 08:05:40 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wireless-security-wep-dead/ WiFi Net News is saying R.I.P. W.E.P. after news of a new version of Aircrack was released that can break WEP in seconds after passively sniffing only a small number of packets. https://maisonbisson.com/post/usb-headset-microphone/ Thu, 16 Dec 2004 07:19:06 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/usb-headset-microphone/ I went looking for a USB headset microphone, and the Telex H-841 USB Digital Computer Headset seems to be the cheapest one that doesn’t suck. https://maisonbisson.com/post/serious-question-about-funny-picture/ Wed, 15 Dec 2004 10:03:10 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/serious-question-about-funny-picture/ Sometime ago I saw this picture among a bunch that were circulating in those emails that get forwarded all over the place. https://maisonbisson.com/post/im-now-an-expert-on-kabbalah/ Wed, 15 Dec 2004 06:59:21 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/im-now-an-expert-on-kabbalah/ Okay, that’s a lie, and it’s probably a little insensitive. Sorry. What I really mean is that the Monday edition of Fresh Air — that NPR talk show with Terry Gross — was all about Kabbalah. https://maisonbisson.com/post/google-stuns-libraries-again/ Tue, 14 Dec 2004 20:36:55 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/google-stuns-libraries-again/ ArsTechnica seemed to sum it up best: Today, it is expected that Google will announce an agreement to scan and create databases of works from five major libraries. https://maisonbisson.com/post/exploring-coudal/ Tue, 14 Dec 2004 08:50:41 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/exploring-coudal/ Last week I noted the SHHH project to hush noisy cell phone users by Draplin and Coudal. https://maisonbisson.com/post/new-hampshires-teen-drug-use-high-teen-crime-rate-low/ Tue, 14 Dec 2004 05:14:22 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/new-hampshires-teen-drug-use-high-teen-crime-rate-low/ Katherine Merrow, Senior Research Associate at the New Hampshire Center for Public Policy Studies recently released a study on Teen Drug Use and Juvenile Crime in NH. https://maisonbisson.com/post/laughing-at-your-idol/ Mon, 13 Dec 2004 09:30:59 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/laughing-at-your-idol/ While following the story about bad teachers, found the Mathcaddy blog. The only relation Mathcaddy has to the other story is that Steve, the unfortunate student runs his blog on a subdomain there. https://maisonbisson.com/post/holiday-deals-on-macs/ Mon, 13 Dec 2004 09:03:31 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/holiday-deals-on-macs/ MacNN gave me the heads up that Apple had reshuffled its refurb and discount shelves late last week. https://maisonbisson.com/post/teacher-proves-once-again-that-schools-are-averse-to-free-thought/ Sun, 12 Dec 2004 16:54:42 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/teacher-proves-once-again-that-schools-are-averse-to-free-thought/ Copyfight‘s Donna Wentworth passed along this “sad and perverse story of a teenager who was given an “F” for writing a paper attempting to distinguish between piracy and stealing. https://maisonbisson.com/post/cult-of-mac-cult-of-newton-cult-of-ipod/ Sat, 11 Dec 2004 08:49:56 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/cult-of-mac-cult-of-newton-cult-of-ipod/ No Starch Press recently released Leander Kahney’s The Cult of Mac. BookBlog notes: Are there trade shows for toasters? https://maisonbisson.com/post/gear-and-gadget-reviews/ Fri, 10 Dec 2004 10:38:47 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/gear-and-gadget-reviews/ Gizmodo popped a link over Dan Washburn’s gadget round up. Dan had been on a four month road trip through China, and has now posted the results of how his gear stood up to the trek. https://maisonbisson.com/post/writer-goes-solar-for-electric-hot-water-and-heat/ Fri, 10 Dec 2004 09:17:22 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/writer-goes-solar-for-electric-hot-water-and-heat/ O’Reilly author Brian McConnell hasn’t gone off the grid, but he’s reduced his dependance on it and in so doing, lessened his footprint on the environment. https://maisonbisson.com/post/saab-is-latest-car-maker-to-get-excited-about-ipods/ Thu, 09 Dec 2004 10:12:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/saab-is-latest-car-maker-to-get-excited-about-ipods/ MacNN reports that Saab has released an iPod integration kit: Saab has quietly introduced its own iPod/MP3 Player audio integration system. https://maisonbisson.com/post/smack-the-shhh-down-on-noisy-cell-users/ Thu, 09 Dec 2004 03:01:29 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/smack-the-shhh-down-on-noisy-cell-users/ Gizmodo was excited enough about the Draplin and Coudal SHHH cards: Two designers have made these warning cards for obnoxious cell phone users, available in convenient PDF download-and-cut-out form. https://maisonbisson.com/post/missile-week-at-maisonbisson/ Wed, 08 Dec 2004 10:49:04 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/missile-week-at-maisonbisson/ It’s missile and space weapons week at MaisonBisson. One item, the increasing pace of missile development in hostile and semi-hostile countries as a reaction to the US missile shield, is real news. https://maisonbisson.com/post/copyright-lessons-from-waffle-house/ Wed, 08 Dec 2004 08:15:25 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/copyright-lessons-from-waffle-house/ To round out my week of quoting stories from lquilter.net, today I’m putting forward this one about intellectual property (originally from Critical Montages): https://maisonbisson.com/post/mobile-carrier-wireless-networking-take-2/ Tue, 07 Dec 2004 10:57:14 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/mobile-carrier-wireless-networking-take-2/ I took a long look at mobile wireless data service back in September. Now, Engadget says: https://maisonbisson.com/post/reader-report-pie-ipod-input-adapter/ Tue, 07 Dec 2004 10:31:26 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/reader-report-pie-ipod-input-adapter/ A reader, Mike, wrote in to reccomend the Precision Interface Electronics aux input adapter to connect the audio from my iPod to my Scion’s factory head unit. https://maisonbisson.com/post/pictures-of-the-warren-rocket/ Tue, 07 Dec 2004 05:37:07 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/pictures-of-the-warren-rocket/ Warren is blessed with a rocket. It was once an intermediate range ballistic missile, but it’s basically the same rocket that launched America’s first astronauts Allen B. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-christian-right-and-the-sanctity-of-marriage/ Tue, 07 Dec 2004 05:33:53 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-christian-right-and-the-sanctity-of-marriage/ lquilter.net pointed me to an interesting entry at NewDonkey: The Christian Right and the Sanctity of Marriage https://maisonbisson.com/post/missiles-are-the-new-fashion/ Mon, 06 Dec 2004 23:20:38 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/missiles-are-the-new-fashion/ DefenseTech reported today that “Russia is leaning more and more on its nuclear weapons, as its conventional military falls into the toilet. https://maisonbisson.com/post/russian-battle-station-polyus/ Mon, 06 Dec 2004 06:33:32 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/russian-battle-station-polyus/ DefenseTech reported, some time ago, on the old USSR’s Space Battle Station (or, communist Russia’s answer to Reagan’s star wars program). https://maisonbisson.com/post/us-senate-on-porn/ Mon, 06 Dec 2004 04:57:16 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/us-senate-on-porn/ I’ve been reading the archives at lquilter.net, where I stumbled across this amusing yet scary entry: https://maisonbisson.com/post/shock-tanks/ Sun, 05 Dec 2004 06:09:19 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/shock-tanks/ Gizmodo alerted me to these shocking remote control tanks. For 50 bucks you get two remote control tanks with which you and a pal will do battle. https://maisonbisson.com/post/dog-sled-racing/ Sat, 04 Dec 2004 11:28:11 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/dog-sled-racing/ Justin at the start of his four-dog sled race in Meredith, New Hampshire. The video of Justin’s finish is also online. https://maisonbisson.com/post/cool-tvs-and-rc-aerial-photos/ Fri, 03 Dec 2004 09:24:24 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/cool-tvs-and-rc-aerial-photos/ Gizmodo went gaga for Plus Minus Zero, a little electronics shop in Japan where “they hand-design a selection of products, then contract the production of the units out for a limited run. https://maisonbisson.com/post/bush-on-tape/ Fri, 03 Dec 2004 08:50:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bush-on-tape/ Cliff over at Spiralbound.net posted the video of Bush flipping the bird. It’s not as exciting as I’d hoped, but it’s on video. https://maisonbisson.com/post/a-night-at-the-hip-hopera/ Fri, 03 Dec 2004 04:42:53 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/a-night-at-the-hip-hopera/ I’m not really sure how to describe The Kleptones and their album A Night At The Hip Hopera, but I can tell you how I found it. https://maisonbisson.com/post/states-rights/ Thu, 02 Dec 2004 10:39:40 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/states-rights/ <p>LQ wrote at lquilter.net about <a href="http://lquilter.net/blog/archives/2004/11/26/looming-challenges-to-federalism" title="looming challenges to federalism">looming challenges to federalism</a></p> <blockquote> <p>i’ll be interested to see how the conservative, pro-federalism, pro-states’ rights, GOP-run government (and the conservative intelligentsia which carries their theoretical water) handles some of the upcoming challenges to federalism:</p> <ul compact type="square"> <li> medical marijuana laws </li> <li> state & regional initiatives on global warming: for isntance, California’s mandatory cap on greenhouse-gas emissions will have to be signed off on by the EPA before it goes into effect </li></blockquote> <p> I tried to comment, but WordPress kept ignoring me. Instead, I’ll post here and trackback. </p> <p> James Loewen writes, in his book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684870673/maisonbisson-20/" title="Lies Across America">Lies Across America</a>, that “states rights” is the call of whatever party doesn’t control the presidency. The Republicans made a lot of noise about it during the Clinton years, but will likely have to adjust their position now. Some readers will likely point out, however, that the unspoken Republican tenet (at least since the early 1900s) is “might makes right.” Sadly, the Bush administration has already supported challenges to local environmental regulations. I can’t remember the specifics, but a federal court struck down a California law that required clean-burning busses and trucks in the state. </p> <p> Maybe Republicans are more tolerant of cognitive dissonance than liberals. Maybe they don’t care. </blockquote> https://maisonbisson.com/post/flickr-random-selection/ Thu, 02 Dec 2004 10:16:03 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/flickr-random-selection/ https://maisonbisson.com/post/email-is-for-dinosaurs-in-south-korea/ Wed, 01 Dec 2004 08:54:37 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/email-is-for-dinosaurs-in-south-korea/ A South Korean newspaper is predicting the death of email. A poll conducted […] on over 2,000 middle, high school and college students in Gyeonggi and Chungcheong provinces in October revealed that more than two-thirds of the respondents said, “I rarely use or don’t use e-mail at all. https://maisonbisson.com/post/lycos-europes-spam-plan/ Wed, 01 Dec 2004 06:01:16 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/lycos-europes-spam-plan/ SmartMobs reports that Lycos is planning to raise the cost of spam with a gentle DDOS attack. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wifi-seeker-finder-detector-roundup/ Tue, 30 Nov 2004 05:20:14 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wifi-seeker-finder-detector-roundup/ Handtops.com has published a WiFi Seeker, Finder, Detector Roundup. The five models they reviewed include: https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-war-on-fair-use/ Tue, 30 Nov 2004 04:26:58 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-war-on-fair-use/ Somebody somewhere, probably a lawyer in the entertainment industry, has a list titled “rabid fair use advocates” and David Rothman is near or at the top. https://maisonbisson.com/post/encompass-for-digital-collections-and-resource-access/ Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:58:45 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/encompass-for-digital-collections-and-resource-access/ We’re looking at ENCompass for Digital Collections and Resource Access here. It’s an expensive product, but has a lot of interesting and useful features. https://maisonbisson.com/post/bloody-saturday-in-the-soviet-union-novocherkassk-1962/ Mon, 29 Nov 2004 08:01:25 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bloody-saturday-in-the-soviet-union-novocherkassk-1962/ I had a long conversation with my brother about communist Russia last night. It’s not really an area I can talk about, execpt that I’d recently read enough to make me look semi-smart. https://maisonbisson.com/post/robert-bergers-wifi-will-beat-up-your-wimax/ Sun, 28 Nov 2004 08:45:08 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/robert-bergers-wifi-will-beat-up-your-wimax/ <p>From WiFi Networking News: <a href="http://wifinetnews.com/archives/004479.html" title="WiMax Hype, 802.11 Reality">WiMax Hype, 802.11 Reality</a></p> <blockquote> <p>Wi-Fi will out evolve and deliver connectivity at costs dramatically lower than WiMax. WiMax / 802.16 is just starting on its path to evolution, has a much smaller base of innovators and chipset growth volume. Wi-Fi is already far along on its core learning curve, has an easy order of magnitude larger base of innovators / investors and chipset growth volume. WiMax hype will sputter out to reality of a niche backhaul and rural marketplace, Wi-Fi/802.11 will evolve and grow into many more realms and dominate the Local Area Network (LAN) / Neighborhood Area Network (NAN) / Metro Area Network (MAN).</p> </blockquote> <p>Berger’s conclusion is based on the history and development of earlier, wired networking technologies, where Ethernet is the clear winner. He reminds us that “Token Ring, then 802.12 AnyLAN VG, then ATM” were all once considered leading technologies that would replace lowly Ethernet, but didn’t. Today, 802.11 products are shunned by wireless carriers, but their spread and market dominance will be hard to beat by WiMax and 802.16.</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/ipod-integration-kits-proliferate-for-home-and-car/ Sat, 27 Nov 2004 06:21:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/ipod-integration-kits-proliferate-for-home-and-car/ MacNN reports the Sonance iPort will ship later this month, which must mean next week. Anyway, the iPort is a wall mounted dock that hides all the cables — audio, firewire, dock, others — in the wall. https://maisonbisson.com/post/falljuahinpictures/ Sat, 27 Nov 2004 06:19:09 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/falljuahinpictures/ fallujapictures (soon to be at falljuahinpictures.com) posts pictures too sad or scary to appear in most newspapers or even on this site. https://maisonbisson.com/post/geolocation-stumbling-block-geourl-host-down/ Fri, 26 Nov 2004 13:41:02 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/geolocation-stumbling-block-geourl-host-down/ A an old John Udell piece at InfoWorld hints at GeoURLs, but the GoeURL site is down, and has been for a while. https://maisonbisson.com/post/copyright-czar-cometh/ Fri, 26 Nov 2004 13:33:38 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/copyright-czar-cometh/ David Rothman at TeleRead echoed the following: “Buried inside the massive $388 billion spending bill Congress approved last weekend is a program that creates a federal copyright enforcement czar. https://maisonbisson.com/post/sealing-history/ Thu, 25 Nov 2004 06:30:04 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/sealing-history/ <p>Democratic Underground published a May 5 2004 story about <a href="http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/04/05/05_secrecy.html" title="Bush administration efforts to replace the national archivist">Bush administration efforts to replace the national archivist</a>.</p> <blockquote> <p>the national archivist is the keeper of the nation’s records – the archives. The National Archives control what information gets released to the public – and what does not.</p> </blockquote> <p>With so much power over how what history we see, the independence of the archivist’s position is paramount, lest one political party usurp that power. People who know these things were afraid when the previous archivist announced his intention to resign early, despite previous signals he intended to complete his full term. These people were doubly surprised when they learned</p> <blockquote> <p>the Bush White House has […] nominated Allen Weinstein for the position, one who is held in dubious esteem at best, who has been criticized for having a penchant for privacy not becoming a National Archivist and, to the surprise of many, was nominated without any consultation with outside experts – the first such time ever since 1984, and in direct contravention with the wishes of Congress as expressed in the House report accompanying the law that made the Archives independent.</p> </blockquote> <p>Had the previous archivist fulfilled his term, he would have presided over the release of George H. W. Bush’s records. The new archivist will be able to lock up those records and along with the “W” files for the next ten years. With a straw man in place, the Bushs can rest comfortably, but can we?</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/liberty-vampire/ Wed, 24 Nov 2004 10:03:50 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/liberty-vampire/ jokir Flickr’d this, writing: “GREAT work — Alex Ross is one of my favorite artists…Plus – it pretty much nails what’s up in the world, right? https://maisonbisson.com/post/wb-says-youll-pay/ Wed, 24 Nov 2004 05:49:31 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wb-says-youll-pay/ Here’s the irony: an academic writes a paper that references and quotes relevant prior work, and is commended for the work. https://maisonbisson.com/post/u2-cozies-to-apple/ Tue, 23 Nov 2004 22:00:11 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/u2-cozies-to-apple/ I’ve been warm and lukewarm on U2 for a while. I can’t deny that they’ve done some great stuff, but I’ve failed to appreciate some of it. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-kinkos-conspiracy/ Tue, 23 Nov 2004 10:24:26 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-kinkos-conspiracy/ Engadget raised my fears a bit when they announced your laser printer will give you away: https://maisonbisson.com/post/click-fraud/ Tue, 23 Nov 2004 10:21:13 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/click-fraud/ ArsTechnica has a story about new Google lawsuits. The company is getting sued by a porn purveyor for copyright infringement and is suing another company for “click fraud” — fraudulent clicks to Google’s Adsense advertising links. https://maisonbisson.com/post/predicting-the-computer-of-2004-in-1954-fake/ Mon, 22 Nov 2004 12:25:22 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/predicting-the-computer-of-2004-in-1954-fake/ Steffan O’Sullivan writes: “This is from a 1954 edition of Modern Mechanics Magazine, predicting what the home computer will look like in 2004. https://maisonbisson.com/post/chernobyl-tour/ Sun, 21 Nov 2004 23:30:14 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/chernobyl-tour/ update: there’s more pictures, even some video, and a bundle more nuclear and Chernobyl-related stories. https://maisonbisson.com/post/google-scholar/ Sat, 20 Nov 2004 16:30:38 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/google-scholar/ ArsTechnica and bookofjoe both heralded the beta release of Google Scholar. My questions: “is it accessible via the Google API,” and, “what does this mean for academic libraries? https://maisonbisson.com/post/how-blue-is-my-country/ Fri, 19 Nov 2004 08:45:21 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/how-blue-is-my-country/ My father sent along a link with the following annotation: We all know the expression that “one picture is worth a thousand words. https://maisonbisson.com/post/science-of-coercion/ Thu, 18 Nov 2004 10:16:28 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/science-of-coercion/ Roderick sent me a link to a story at Common Dreams: Killing the Political Animal: CIA Psychological Operations and Us, by Heather Wokusch. https://maisonbisson.com/post/coldplay/ Thu, 18 Nov 2004 03:01:16 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/coldplay/ I didn’t think I’d become a Coldplay fan, but then I heard Don’t Panic in the Garden State soundtrack and I couldn’t help myself. https://maisonbisson.com/post/reviewing-fcc-rules-on-wifi-use/ Wed, 17 Nov 2004 08:27:11 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/reviewing-fcc-rules-on-wifi-use/ I wasn’t really paying attention in June when WiFi Net News reported on a FCC decision regarding control of WiFi: https://maisonbisson.com/post/why-we-fear-the-fcc/ Tue, 16 Nov 2004 09:02:17 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/why-we-fear-the-fcc/ The Engadget headline on Monday appeared at first exaggerated: the FCC says it has power over anything that can receive and play a digital file. https://maisonbisson.com/post/ken-nordines-word-jazz/ Tue, 16 Nov 2004 02:13:01 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/ken-nordines-word-jazz/ Ken Nordine may have the best voice ever. In the pantheon of deep soothing voices, Ken Nordine’s stands above The Magnetic Fields and MC Honky, and about on par with Barry White. https://maisonbisson.com/post/content-management/ Mon, 15 Nov 2004 17:30:23 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/content-management/ Below are loosely organized speaking notes for Zach’s Essentials of Web Development class that I guest-lectured/substituted on Monday, November 17th. https://maisonbisson.com/post/whats-up-with-lowell-and-donuts/ Mon, 15 Nov 2004 10:02:50 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/whats-up-with-lowell-and-donuts/ See the full What’s Up With Lowell And Donuts Flickr photoset with slideshow. Follow that with the Post-Donut Tour photo set. https://maisonbisson.com/post/defensetech-compares-book-to-practice-in-fallujah/ Mon, 15 Nov 2004 08:49:06 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/defensetech-compares-book-to-practice-in-fallujah/ The news from Fallujah is grim. Casualties are heavy on all sides, the city is being bombed to ruin, and those few civilians that remain are without water or power while bodies rot in the streets. https://maisonbisson.com/post/dangit-freefonts/ Sun, 14 Nov 2004 13:47:03 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/dangit-freefonts/ A part of me hates 1001freefonts.com. It’s the part that has too often found just the right font, only to discover that the free or cheap knock-off version that I had didn’t have all the characters, like quote-marks and other punctuation. https://maisonbisson.com/post/shatners-return-has-been/ Sun, 14 Nov 2004 01:50:43 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/shatners-return-has-been/ William Shatner has a new album out. Most people receive this news with a smirk, or a chuckle, or a dumbfounded look. https://maisonbisson.com/post/ludicorp-will-be-flooded-with-under-qualified-applicants/ Sat, 13 Nov 2004 08:27:47 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/ludicorp-will-be-flooded-with-under-qualified-applicants/ Job ads reveal a lot about a company, what technology they use, what they’re developing, and what sort of culture they have. https://maisonbisson.com/post/fish-tacos/ Fri, 12 Nov 2004 23:37:08 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/fish-tacos/ Oh decadence! Veterans Day provided not only a chance for reflection but also a rare Thursday free from the classroom. https://maisonbisson.com/post/high-tech-styles/ Fri, 12 Nov 2004 10:34:32 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/high-tech-styles/ Foof started out by making some interesting iPod sleves. Now they’re offering Foofbags for your iBook and PowerBook. https://maisonbisson.com/post/delicious-library-earthcomber-what/ Fri, 12 Nov 2004 08:31:19 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/delicious-library-earthcomber-what/ I’ll be saving my pennies, because Delicious Library may be the coolest new app in a while. https://maisonbisson.com/post/money-grubbing/ Fri, 12 Nov 2004 00:16:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/money-grubbing/ You’ll notice there are more ads on the site recently. It’s not because I need to recoup my investment in the site and need the pennies I get for these ads; it’s just because I’m a money grubbing bastard. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-campaign-for-klem-the-killer-klown/ Wed, 10 Nov 2004 12:25:44 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-campaign-for-klem-the-killer-klown/ Jones Soda, the folks who make the extra-flavored pop with the intersting photos on the label have an online gallery where you can submit works to appear on future labels and vote on works already submitted. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wpa-cracked/ Wed, 10 Nov 2004 00:52:45 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wpa-cracked/ Yesterday’s story about wired and wireless network security, and policy-based networking (sort of) was really just preparation for WiFi Net News’ WPA Cracking story. https://maisonbisson.com/post/better-networks-through-policy/ Mon, 08 Nov 2004 09:07:13 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/better-networks-through-policy/ <p>Back in the Fall of 2003, PSU was still considering its wireless plans. Things were moving slowly, and the decision makers seemed to be looking for answers in the wrong places. I’d been agitating for better answers, a simpler solution, lower costs, and more progress. My criticism landed me on the hot seat, and I was soon asked to be more constructive. My answers are in this <a href="homepage-mac-com-Presentation-SecureNetworks.pdf" title="presentation">presentation</a>, the <a href="http://homepage.mac.com/misterbisson/SecureNetworks/Handout-SecureNetworks.pdf" title="accompanying handout">accompanying handout</a>, and a <a href="homepage-mac-com-Handout-PresentationFollowup.pdf" title="handout for a followup meeting">handout for a followup meeting</a>.</p> <p>At the time, the networking staff was leaning towards a proprietary 802.1x-based authentication scheme that required specific client software and had limited hardware support. The package was rather pricey, would have required additional client software and hardware purchases, and was restrictive in its support of student computers. At an institution that supports over 7000 users, most of whom purchase and maintain their own equipment, the plan seemed to have a lot of shortcomings. I wanted the school to look at the Wireless ISP model, and consider the options used there. I also wanted the networking folks to explore network security over-all, rather than just wireless security, as most network threats affect wired and wireless networks in similar ways.</p> <p>I no longer work in the IT shop, where I was a sys admin at the time, but this presentation and my arguments may have been successful. The school selected a commercial captive portal authentication system, just like the WISPs. A lot has changed in the wireless market over the intervening year, but I’m offering the presentation here anyway.</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/getting-schooled-on-trademark-law/ Thu, 04 Nov 2004 13:00:59 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/getting-schooled-on-trademark-law/ Krispy Kream, the donut folks, are itching to get Krispy Kream Drive In on Route 422 in Belsano to change their name. https://maisonbisson.com/post/ipod-news-galore/ Thu, 04 Nov 2004 10:48:08 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/ipod-news-galore/ iPodLounge has posted a lengthy buyers guide for the iPod and accessories. It’s a whopping PDF — they call it retro because it’s in magazine format. https://maisonbisson.com/post/recovery/ Wed, 03 Nov 2004 17:11:06 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/recovery/ Lawrence Lessig picked out a comment by adamsj that resonated with him: “I’m going to spend time these next few days looking for the America in my heart. https://maisonbisson.com/post/stealing-from-the-bookofjoe/ Mon, 01 Nov 2004 15:04:56 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/stealing-from-the-bookofjoe/ Once again, I’m echoing a lot of content from bookofjoe. I just can’t help myself. https://maisonbisson.com/post/bookofjoe-says-cia-nsa-defense-and-others-will-make-kerry-president/ Mon, 01 Nov 2004 10:47:39 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bookofjoe-says-cia-nsa-defense-and-others-will-make-kerry-president/ “The old guard of the CIA, threatened and beleaguered as they haven’t been since the disclosure of ‘the family jewels’ by the Rockefeller Commission in 1975, is striking back. https://maisonbisson.com/post/fear-the-takedown-part-ii-homeland-security/ Mon, 01 Nov 2004 02:25:42 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/fear-the-takedown-part-ii-homeland-security/ Copyfight and Teleread both picked up on an AP story about Homeland Security Agents Enforcing Trademark Law. https://maisonbisson.com/post/halloween-2004-the-movie/ Mon, 01 Nov 2004 00:41:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/halloween-2004-the-movie/ Food, booze, fire: Halloween 2004. https://maisonbisson.com/post/links-picoserver-and-ivideo/ Sat, 30 Oct 2004 09:53:37 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/links-picoserver-and-ivideo/ Picoserver: Japanese firm Package Technology is coming out with a 42 x 23.5 x 61 mm box called the PicoServer that’s essentially a web/mail server with an Ethernet port and three sockets for sensors (one out, two in). https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-october-surprise/ Fri, 29 Oct 2004 10:05:23 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-october-surprise/ NPR’s senior news analyst, Daniel Schorr, reported Wednesday that the Bush administration has been busy keeping the bad news it has known about for months out of the press and away from the public scrutiny. https://maisonbisson.com/post/what-have-you-done-for-me-lately-dubbya/ Fri, 29 Oct 2004 09:51:44 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/what-have-you-done-for-me-lately-dubbya/ UnionVoice.org asks Are you better off now than you were four years go? In his four years, George W. https://maisonbisson.com/post/grandma-had-more-sex/ Fri, 29 Oct 2004 07:36:45 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/grandma-had-more-sex/ FleshBot pointed to a story in The Guardian that reports on a study by Prima Magazine that suggests married women of today have less sex than married women of the 1950s. https://maisonbisson.com/post/warmonger-support-our-troops/ Thu, 28 Oct 2004 22:43:05 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/warmonger-support-our-troops/ On the heels of “&lt;a href=&quot;/post/10260&quot; title=&ldquo;There _were no international terrorists in Iraq until we went in“&gt;There were no international terrorists in Iraq until we went in” comes a story from Alternet: “Bush has failed the military on almost every level — marking the difference between being militaristic and pro-military. https://maisonbisson.com/post/fictional-story-asks-is-there-a-right-to-life-after-death/ Thu, 28 Oct 2004 10:43:49 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/fictional-story-asks-is-there-a-right-to-life-after-death/ The story focuses on the brain as an organ, in this case, an organ donated for medical research after the death of the host. https://maisonbisson.com/post/cd-takedown-chill-limited-creativity-limited-speech/ Wed, 27 Oct 2004 22:38:10 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/cd-takedown-chill-limited-creativity-limited-speech/ Ericka Jacobs at Copyfutures found my Fear the Takedown story about Bits of Freedom’s takedown study. https://maisonbisson.com/post/prepare-to-get-screwed-by-drm/ Wed, 27 Oct 2004 09:30:40 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/prepare-to-get-screwed-by-drm/ Copyfight is picking up on something I started talking about a while ago: content owners want to re-sell you the things you already own. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-sweet-taste-of-lead/ Wed, 27 Oct 2004 05:40:50 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-sweet-taste-of-lead/ bookofjoe reports on a October 5 Washington Post story titled: Lead Levels in Water Misrepresented Across US. https://maisonbisson.com/post/serene-calming-video/ Tue, 26 Oct 2004 11:32:11 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/serene-calming-video/ Turn up your speakers to enjoy the serene music and pastoral scenes in this relaxing video of a car ad. https://maisonbisson.com/post/malware-osx-on-old-macs-brass-knuckles/ Tue, 26 Oct 2004 09:19:15 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/malware-osx-on-old-macs-brass-knuckles/ ArsTechnica reports Linux and Mac OS X get some love (?) from malware writers: Some of you may have seen e-mails purporting to be from the Red Hat Security Team. https://maisonbisson.com/post/there-iwere-noi-international-terrorists-in-iraq-iuntil-we-went-ini/ Mon, 25 Oct 2004 20:22:35 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/there-iwere-noi-international-terrorists-in-iraq-iuntil-we-went-ini/ It made some news when former British foreign secretary Robin Cook, who resigned from the Cabinet over the Iraq war, said: “There were no international terrorists in Iraq until we went in. https://maisonbisson.com/post/ribbons/ Mon, 25 Oct 2004 09:22:47 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/ribbons/ A story on NPR’s Morning Edition this morning declares: yellow-ribbon magnets carry complex meaning. The Library of Congress’s American Folklife Center tells the history of the yellow ribbon. https://maisonbisson.com/post/duties-and-responsibilities/ Sun, 24 Oct 2004 10:34:09 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/duties-and-responsibilities/ “I really don’t know what he did for us.” — said recently about me by my old manager to a former co-worker. https://maisonbisson.com/post/cliff-points-at-stuff/ Sat, 23 Oct 2004 14:37:20 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/cliff-points-at-stuff/ So, Cliff points at stuff a lot. It turns out that he’s pointing in every picture in my photoblog that he appears in. https://maisonbisson.com/post/in-car-ipod-take-2/ Fri, 22 Oct 2004 10:26:53 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/in-car-ipod-take-2/ Engadget echoed a story from AutoBlog (duh, I just noticed that they’re both from Weblogs Inc. https://maisonbisson.com/post/digital-camera-reccomendations/ Fri, 22 Oct 2004 06:42:40 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/digital-camera-reccomendations/ A friend asked me what digital camera she should buy. Her criteria were that it be small and inexpensive. https://maisonbisson.com/post/red-sox/ Thu, 21 Oct 2004 13:57:38 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/red-sox/ The Red Sox did an amazing thing last night: they won. There’s a lot of talk about how historic the four wins in a row come from behind victory is, but for most people, it’s enough simply that they won, and they beat the Yankees. https://maisonbisson.com/post/im-no-economist-but/ Thu, 21 Oct 2004 06:21:59 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/im-no-economist-but/ It’s an old story, the growing gap between rich and poor, and it’s probably booring as hell to most. https://maisonbisson.com/post/fear-the-takedown/ Wed, 20 Oct 2004 18:08:25 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/fear-the-takedown/ Copyfight points me to Doom9 which reports on Bits of Freedom‘s recent project: Dutch civil rights organization Bits of Freedom has run an interesting experiment: They put up a text by a famous Dutch author, written in 1871 to accounts with 10 different ISPs. https://maisonbisson.com/post/try-a-florsheim-maneuver/ Wed, 20 Oct 2004 15:55:50 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/try-a-florsheim-maneuver/ Quotes from the bookofjoe: “The bleeding always stops.” …my favorite of the zillions of wonderful, pithy, often-harsh apothegms I’ve heard in my years in medicine. https://maisonbisson.com/post/tv-b-gone/ Wed, 20 Oct 2004 01:04:31 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/tv-b-gone/ Wired News ran a two page profile of the inventor and his creation. Just two weeks before the US Presidential election, NPR found time run an interview with the inventor. https://maisonbisson.com/post/monday-politics/ Mon, 18 Oct 2004 12:30:36 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/monday-politics/ Sex and politics, voter registration at strip clubs “Ashcroft used to care more about pornography than terrorism,” says Scot Powe, professor of law at the University of Texas. https://maisonbisson.com/post/monday-copyfight/ Mon, 18 Oct 2004 12:28:52 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/monday-copyfight/ Disney thieves Peter Pan from copyright-holding childrens’ hospital charity Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson and published by Disney’s Hyperion Books is billed as a prequel to the children’s classic, Peter Pan. https://maisonbisson.com/post/monday-tech/ Mon, 18 Oct 2004 12:24:04 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/monday-tech/ Now that WiFi access is common, WiFi-dependant applications are starting to appear. providers are finding out that the key to encouraging usage of hotspots and the key to leveraging hotspots to boost business is by offering applications that customers can use. https://maisonbisson.com/post/sunday-links/ Sun, 17 Oct 2004 20:25:10 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/sunday-links/ Links: starting with politics, going to copyfight, ending nowhere. On The Mediathis week is reporting on the controversies about Sinclair TV and Bush’s wiring, looks at why there’s a dearth of local real local news, and, most interestingly, compares Bush’s lies to Kerry’s exaggerations. https://maisonbisson.com/post/football-injuries/ Sun, 17 Oct 2004 01:09:36 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/football-injuries/ Joe was telling his son, Justin, about his college football days. It was mostly a tale of his injuries, including one that required he have fluid drained from his knees daily before practice. https://maisonbisson.com/post/local-cinemas/ Fri, 15 Oct 2004 17:14:35 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/local-cinemas/ While Yahoo Movies is okay, it doesn’t track all the local theaters. Fortunately, many of them are online: https://maisonbisson.com/post/st-louis/ Fri, 15 Oct 2004 08:53:17 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/st-louis/ I’m ashamed to say that St. Louis, Missouri, wasn’t on my list of must-see-cities™. It’s not that I thought I wouldn’t like St. https://maisonbisson.com/post/veicon-thin-client-solutions/ Thu, 14 Oct 2004 16:28:05 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/veicon-thin-client-solutions/ The theory is that thin clients save money over the long-haul because they require less maintenance and management, have longer useful lives, and can be purchased for about the same or less money than the PC you might have otherwise used. https://maisonbisson.com/post/qr-codes/ Thu, 14 Oct 2004 05:28:58 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/qr-codes/ QR Codes are starting to appear everywhere. I’m intrigued and I want to know more about them. https://maisonbisson.com/post/winging-into-cleveland/ Wed, 13 Oct 2004 06:11:36 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/winging-into-cleveland/ The wing dips toward the ground while turning for the Cleveland airport. Lake Erie is visible underneath the clouds at the top of the frame. https://maisonbisson.com/post/what-liberal-media/ Tue, 12 Oct 2004 15:23:14 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/what-liberal-media/ Now on CNN.com: Sinclair Broadcast Group, owner of the largest group of television stations in the nation, plans to air a documentary that accuses Sen. https://maisonbisson.com/post/libraries-under-fire/ Tue, 12 Oct 2004 11:15:05 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/libraries-under-fire/ KOMO TV 4 is reporting Big Brother™ is watching, even in small communities off the beaten path. https://maisonbisson.com/post/redlightgreen/ Mon, 11 Oct 2004 23:55:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/redlightgreen/ Teleread reports: RedLightGreen.com, a creation of RLG, searches through 120 million books based on such criteria as author’s name, title, and subject matter. https://maisonbisson.com/post/foggy-st-louis-from-the-top-of-the-arch/ Mon, 11 Oct 2004 02:22:05 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/foggy-st-louis-from-the-top-of-the-arch/ This is my second try at stitching these photos together. I decided to give up the illusion of the single shot, and added the white borders to make clear that this image is a composite. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-rumble-in-st-louis/ Sun, 10 Oct 2004 22:13:21 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-rumble-in-st-louis/ This text has been moved from the Scenes From St. Louis story so that it can be filed, more correctly, in politics &amp; controversy. https://maisonbisson.com/post/bowling-museum-and-hall-of-fame/ Sat, 09 Oct 2004 19:17:26 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bowling-museum-and-hall-of-fame/ Things Learned at the International Bowling Museum and Hall of Fame (and easily repeated as quotes from their online history page): https://maisonbisson.com/post/copyfight-friday/ Fri, 08 Oct 2004 23:13:55 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/copyfight-friday/ <p><a href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20041004-4266.html" title="Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer">Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer</a> did another one of his monkey acts when he went ape about music and DRM.</p> <blockquote> <p>Most people still steal music…We can build the technology but there are still ways for people to steal music.</p> <p>The most common format of music on an iPod is ‘stolen’.</p> </blockquote> <p>It could just be a picture of what happens when Microsoft wakes up and realizes it doesn’t own and can’t control everything, but it also reveals a lot about where the company is going. Ballmer could have said that the shifting of purchased music from one device or format to another is <a href="http://www.savebetamax.org/" title="a legally protected form of fair use">a legally protected form of fair use</a> (at least for now). Instead, he argued something like “Microsoft’s DRM is the only solution to piracy.” Anyway, it’s a crock of shite. <a href="http://www.teleread.org/blog/2004_10_03_archive.html#109697776182348015" title="Teleread (always an anti-DRM advocate) has picked up on it">Teleread (always an anti-DRM advocate) has picked up on it</a>.</p> <p>— And —</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/riding-mower/ Fri, 08 Oct 2004 06:40:35 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/riding-mower/ Gizmodo has this picture of what they describe simply as a “Homebrew Riding Mower.” I can’t help but like it, and I have a feeling my friend Joe will be trying to make one of his own soon. https://maisonbisson.com/post/stealing-from-the-bookofjoe/ Fri, 08 Oct 2004 04:39:04 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/stealing-from-the-bookofjoe/ As long as I’m quoting content from bookofjoe, I might as well post these two other links I got from there this week: Douwe Osinga’s Visited States Dynamic Map Dohicky and AwfulPlasticSurgery. https://maisonbisson.com/post/fox-news-just-makes-stuff-up/ Thu, 07 Oct 2004 22:29:47 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/fox-news-just-makes-stuff-up/ Most people know I’m not a huge fan of Fox News, at least in part because Fox News is no great fan of mine. https://maisonbisson.com/post/st-louis-wifi/ Thu, 07 Oct 2004 13:04:57 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/st-louis-wifi/ Panera offers free WiFi in about 400 locations. The odd thing is that even though their listings didn’t name a location near my hotel, a proximity search found one in my hotel: https://maisonbisson.com/post/eccentric-or-autistic-you-decide/ Thu, 07 Oct 2004 05:37:16 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/eccentric-or-autistic-you-decide/ bookofjoe ran a story about Eccentrics by David Weeks. His story is really just a listing of the 15 characteristics of eccentrics as quote from the book, but it makes a good game to calculate how eccentric a person is. https://maisonbisson.com/post/feel-safer-now/ Wed, 06 Oct 2004 22:52:23 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/feel-safer-now/ I guess somebody will sleep better at night knowing our Department of Homeland Security is shaking down music and video pirates. https://maisonbisson.com/post/weird-museum-tour-september-2004/ Wed, 06 Oct 2004 07:07:31 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/weird-museum-tour-september-2004/ Travelling buddies, Willberry & Cliff I should thank RoadSideAmerica.com for making a rainy day a _fun day_™. https://maisonbisson.com/post/tales-of-woe/ Tue, 05 Oct 2004 11:20:43 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/tales-of-woe/ I just got IM’d by my friend Karen. Her sister got married this past weekend and they were all in New Hampshire for the event. https://maisonbisson.com/post/cocktail-manifesto/ Tue, 05 Oct 2004 03:46:18 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/cocktail-manifesto/ We’re huge fans of The New Joy of Cooking by Marion Rombauer Becker, Irma S. https://maisonbisson.com/post/canned-meats-monday/ Mon, 04 Oct 2004 07:50:45 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/canned-meats-monday/ Some time ago, a box with the above pictured contents went to Chuck Robidoux. He wrote back: https://maisonbisson.com/post/politics-terror-sexual-identity/ Sun, 03 Oct 2004 22:03:29 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/politics-terror-sexual-identity/ I hadn’t given it the slightest thought, but then I read TinyNibbles.com’s travel advisory (this site has been referenced previously at MaisonBisson). https://maisonbisson.com/post/nixichron-techno-retro-lust/ Sun, 03 Oct 2004 07:03:11 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/nixichron-techno-retro-lust/ Decades ago, Nixie Tubes were used as indicating devices in many different types of instrumentation, and ultimately replaced by the cheaper – and unattractive -LED display. https://maisonbisson.com/post/feeling-the-web-pulse-buzz-zeitgeist/ Sat, 02 Oct 2004 09:05:54 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/feeling-the-web-pulse-buzz-zeitgeist/ <ul compact type="square"> <li> <a href="http://flickr.com/fun/zeitgeist/" title="Flickr Zeitgeist">Flickr Zeitgeist</a><br />  </li> <li> <a href="http://www.blogpulse.com/" title="BlogPulse">BlogPulse</a><br />  </li> <li> <a href="http://buzz.yahoo.com/" title="Yahoo! Buzz">Yahoo! Buzz</a><br />  </li> <li> <a href="http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html" title="Google Zeitgeist">Google Zeitgeist</a><br />  </li> </ul> https://maisonbisson.com/post/round-one-kerry-1-bush-0/ Fri, 01 Oct 2004 09:48:55 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/round-one-kerry-1-bush-0/ Thank NPR for putting audio of Thursday’s presidential debate on their site. Spin-masters will be working this one over for a while, but the original is the most important. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-mac-vs-pc-debate/ Fri, 01 Oct 2004 07:10:54 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-mac-vs-pc-debate/ I generally don’t get into this, but a series of columns by Paul Murphy at LinuxInsider (LinuxInsider! https://maisonbisson.com/post/film-performance-licensing/ Thu, 30 Sep 2004 21:51:49 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/film-performance-licensing/ In case the notion strikes me again, I’m putting these links here so I can find them in case the notion strikes me again. https://maisonbisson.com/post/cultural-revolution-era-clip-art-book/ Thu, 30 Sep 2004 06:50:32 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/cultural-revolution-era-clip-art-book/ Oldtasty has posted a collection of pictures scanned from the pages of a clip art book of the Cultural Revolution. https://maisonbisson.com/post/things-you-can-do-with-isbns/ Wed, 29 Sep 2004 16:46:39 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/things-you-can-do-with-isbns/ Jon Udell has been working on LibraryLookup and other mechanisms for finding library content on the web. https://maisonbisson.com/post/a-day-in-the-life-of-joe/ Wed, 29 Sep 2004 07:04:53 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/a-day-in-the-life-of-joe/ <p>I’m not sure of the origins of the following text. There’s nothing patently false in it, so I’m posting it here for all to ponder.</p> <blockquote> <p>Joe gets up at 6 a.m. and fills his coffeepot with water to prepare his morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards.</p> <p>With his first swallow of coffee, he takes his daily medication. His medications are safe to take because some stupid commie liberal fought to insure their safety and that they work as advertised. All but $10 of his medications are paid for by his employer’s medical plan because some liberal union workers fought their employers for paid medical insurance – now Joe gets it too.</p> </blockquote> https://maisonbisson.com/post/korean-thanksgiving/ Tue, 28 Sep 2004 11:23:57 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/korean-thanksgiving/ Jong-Yoon Kim emailed to tell me today is Chusok, the traditional Korean thanksgiving day, when families gather and give thanks to their forebears. https://maisonbisson.com/post/google-news-gamed/ Mon, 27 Sep 2004 13:38:46 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/google-news-gamed/ What happens when machines edit our news? What happens when news sources game Google News to raise their ranking? https://maisonbisson.com/post/ultra-portable/ Mon, 27 Sep 2004 11:33:52 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/ultra-portable/ I’ve been interested in ultra-portable computers for some time. My first such computer was a Newton Message Pad 2000, which remains useful despite its age. https://maisonbisson.com/post/home-made-arcade/ Sun, 26 Sep 2004 22:18:22 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/home-made-arcade/ I found Retro Gamer magazine on the rack last week and couldn’t hep but pick it up. https://maisonbisson.com/post/throwing-google-a-bone-for-cliff/ Thu, 23 Sep 2004 12:54:15 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/throwing-google-a-bone-for-cliff/ Cliff worries that his website, Spiralbound.net, doesn’t get indexed by Google often enough. He’s a good guy, so I figure I’ll prime the pump for him. https://maisonbisson.com/post/techlinks/ Thu, 23 Sep 2004 09:28:59 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/techlinks/ Dartmouth College in the WiFi limelight, again as they replace their 1500 802.11b APs with A+B+G APs. https://maisonbisson.com/post/its-automotive-week-in-the-blogs/ Wed, 22 Sep 2004 23:13:42 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/its-automotive-week-in-the-blogs/ First Gizmodo published a feature on in-car computers. ArsTechnica got into the automotive theme by reporting the International CXT story. https://maisonbisson.com/post/rodericks-sites/ Wed, 22 Sep 2004 23:01:44 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/rodericks-sites/ Roderick has been sending me links and I’ve been lax about posting them. Some of these links are NSFW, and one of them is a present back to Roderick. https://maisonbisson.com/post/kite-aerial-photography/ Wed, 22 Sep 2004 22:45:08 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/kite-aerial-photography/ I got sort of excited about kite aerial photography a couple of weeks ago in a post about photoblogging. https://maisonbisson.com/post/scenes-from-the-museum-of-bad-art/ Wed, 22 Sep 2004 01:22:29 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/scenes-from-the-museum-of-bad-art/ The Museum of Bad Art (MoBA) in the Dedham Community Theater. It’s in the basement outside the men’s bathroom, illuminated by a single fluorescent light hanging from the ceiling https://maisonbisson.com/post/sandees-clothing-donations/ Wed, 22 Sep 2004 01:15:09 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/sandees-clothing-donations/ It’s 132 photos, but I think there’s actually only 128 items. No, I’m not sure why I photo’d each one. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-plastics-museum/ Mon, 20 Sep 2004 05:53:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-plastics-museum/ The Plastics Museum is in Leominster, MA, and online at plasticsmuseum.org. The National Plastics Center and Museum is a non-profit institution dedicated to preserving the past, addressing the present and promoting the future of plastics through public education and awareness. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-bellingham-accident/ Sun, 19 Sep 2004 03:22:19 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-bellingham-accident/ I pulled up to the stop sign at the end of North St., looking to turn left onto Route 126 in Bellingham, MA, at about 3:40 PM on Saturday 18 September when I saw a red Dodge Neon coming down the hill towards me with its brakes locked up. https://maisonbisson.com/post/funky-time/ Fri, 17 Sep 2004 00:23:08 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/funky-time/ Gizmodo pointed out this fancy clock by Kikkerland. Being the clock-fiend I am, I had trouble not looking for more. https://maisonbisson.com/post/i-wanted-a-tatra-so-i-got-a-tatra/ Thu, 16 Sep 2004 23:39:03 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/i-wanted-a-tatra-so-i-got-a-tatra/ Engadget picked up on the story about the Tatra with a Mac in it. I couldn’t help checking for changes since I first saw the story. https://maisonbisson.com/post/5-megapixels-cheap/ Thu, 16 Sep 2004 23:01:56 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/5-megapixels-cheap/ Engadget was quite excited about the Gateway DC-T50 5 megapixel camera, now selling for $150 at various retailers. https://maisonbisson.com/post/mobile-carrier-wireless-networking/ Thu, 16 Sep 2004 09:16:29 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/mobile-carrier-wireless-networking/ I put together a list of wide area wireless networking options in semi-rural areas for a friend recently. https://maisonbisson.com/post/these-arent-campaign-commercials/ Wed, 15 Sep 2004 11:21:36 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/these-arent-campaign-commercials/ eBaum’s World added a couple of funny Bush videos recently. What is soveriegnty? Bumble mumble. Two things: if he was a lot smarter, he would have known the meaning of “sovereignty,” but if we was just a little bit smarter, he would have known that the question was about how his government would treat Native Americans and answered that. https://maisonbisson.com/post/techlinks/ Wed, 15 Sep 2004 09:13:55 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/techlinks/ The Save Betamax campaign has nothing to do with videotape and everything to do with the fair-use rights that allow us to legally convert CDs to MP3s or legally use Tivo to keep up with our favorite shows. https://maisonbisson.com/post/be-better-dork-command-line-stuff/ Wed, 15 Sep 2004 00:09:15 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/be-better-dork-command-line-stuff/ Be geeky and look at the Apache modules: ``` /usr/sbin/httpd -l Compiled in modules: core.c prefork. https://maisonbisson.com/post/project-censoreds-annual-roundup/ Tue, 14 Sep 2004 10:21:35 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/project-censoreds-annual-roundup/ Project Censored has released their list of the most censored stories of 2003-2004: #1: Wealth Inequality in 21st Century Threatens Economy and Democracy #2: Ashcroft vs. https://maisonbisson.com/post/high-and-mighty/ Tue, 14 Sep 2004 09:44:09 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/high-and-mighty/ <p><img src="http://www.internationaldelivers.com/assets/severe/7300cxt-header.jpg" width="308.5" height="100" alt="What a Grill." style="border: solid 2px #000000; margin: 4px 4px 4px 4px;" align="right" />I can’t help but steal the title to <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/1586482033/maisonbisson-20/" title="Keith Bradsher's excellent book about the titanic rise of SUVs on our highways">Keith Bradsher’s excellent book about the titanic rise of SUVs on our highways</a>. Bradsher, in his 2002 book, makes note of efforts at Freightliner and <a href="http://www.mercedes-benz.com/com/e/home/products/unimog/extremeoffroader/index.html" title="Mercedes">Mercedes</a> to release uber-SUVs based on the companies’ commercial truck bodies but weighing in at just under the limit at which commercial drivers’ licenses would be required to operate them. Both companies eventually decided against it, but now International is going forward with similar plans.</p> <p>The <a href="http://www.internationaldelivers.com/site_layout/severe/cxt.asp" title="International CXT">International CXT</a> is the latest entry in the super SUV market. At nine feet tall, over 21 feet long, and cruising at six to ten miles per gallon (diesel), it’s the kind of vehicle <a href="https://maisonbisson.com/post/10176" title="any Texan could love">any Texan could love</a>.</p> <p><a href="http://arstechnica.com/news/posts/20040913-4181.html" title="Ars Technica">Ars Technica</a> went off-topic to give me the heads up. Along the way, Caesar got <a href="http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/hmett.htm" title="all excited about the HEMTT">all excited about the HEMTT</a>.</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/sewer-in-the-woods-unknown-flower/ Sun, 12 Sep 2004 23:43:49 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/sewer-in-the-woods-unknown-flower/ Found the left image in the woods near Warren NH this weekend. Photo is composite of four smaller pictures taken with my Clie TH55, but the scene is entirely real. https://maisonbisson.com/post/pepper-pad-2/ Fri, 10 Sep 2004 17:02:05 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/pepper-pad-2/ I can’t help but want one of Pepper Computer’s Pepper Pad 2 hand-held computer thingies. It’s available for pre-order now at only $800. https://maisonbisson.com/post/in-car-computers/ Fri, 10 Sep 2004 16:43:24 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/in-car-computers/ The age of the in-car computer has come. One vendor calls them “carputers,” and Gizmodo lays it out for those who want an Intel-based CPU in their trunk/under the seat/in the dash. https://maisonbisson.com/post/claim-beverage-choice-politics/ Fri, 10 Sep 2004 12:49:27 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/claim-beverage-choice-politics/ <p>I’ve been a little slow to blog these things lately, but this comes from <a href="http://www.beverageworld.com/" title="BeverageWorld">BeverageWorld</a> magazine. They published the results of <a href="http://search.epnet.com/login.aspx?direct=true&amp;AuthType=cookie,ip,url,uid&amp;db=buh&amp;an=13947848" title="a poll connects beverage choices to political affiliation">a poll connects beverage choices to political affiliation</a>. They break the politics down into six choices: Democrat, Republican, independent, independent liberal, independent conservative, and none of these, then they compared booze and soda-pop choices for each.</p> <p>Of booze, Democrats and “none of these” drink the least. The three varieties of independents seem to drink the most. Conservative independents are 42% more likely than the national average to tipple some variety of whisky, while liberal independents are 47% more likely to drink imported beer. Overall, the liberals are more likely to drink than the conservatives, but Republicans are more likely to drink than Democrats.</p> <p>The implication, of course, is that candidates can woo swing drinkers by offering the right drink to the right person. Which, as my wife would say, is just good manners.</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/claim-sleep-position-personality/ Tue, 07 Sep 2004 06:29:52 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/claim-sleep-position-personality/ About a year ago, Reuters reported on the results of some sleep research from Professor Chris Idzikowski, director of the Sleep Assessment and Advisory Service and a visiting professor at the University of Surrey in southern England. https://maisonbisson.com/post/nh-license-plates/ Tue, 07 Sep 2004 03:40:22 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/nh-license-plates/ For a variety of reasons, I was happy to discover that NH allows drivers to check the availability of vanity plates online (though, somewhat nervous find that the state uses Microsoft servers). https://maisonbisson.com/post/in-car-ipod/ Mon, 06 Sep 2004 00:47:54 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/in-car-ipod/ Without wanting to get into the rest of the story, I’m now trying to figure out how to plug an iPod into a Scion xB. https://maisonbisson.com/post/photoblogging-etc/ Sun, 05 Sep 2004 00:42:11 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/photoblogging-etc/ I think I’m a fan of Flickr. It makes photoblogging easy and fun. Easier, anyway, than setting up an email to blog solution on my own, and the community features are more fun than I’d expected them to be at the outset. https://maisonbisson.com/post/mini-golf/ Sun, 05 Sep 2004 00:35:08 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/mini-golf/ Minigolf is very serious business. Very serious. More photos from MaisonBisson https://maisonbisson.com/post/texas-crony-politics-and-the-presidency/ Wed, 01 Sep 2004 23:02:19 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/texas-crony-politics-and-the-presidency/ I finished Cronies by Robert Bryce recently and I can’t help but tell people about it. https://maisonbisson.com/post/co-worker/ Mon, 30 Aug 2004 12:55:04 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/co-worker/ It turns out that one of my co-workers is blogging over at Live Journal. https://maisonbisson.com/post/rnc-eve/ Mon, 30 Aug 2004 00:01:51 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/rnc-eve/ NYC’s sex workers expect to be extra busy while the Republicans are in town. There’s been talk of terror alerts. https://maisonbisson.com/post/muppin-tongue/ Sun, 29 Aug 2004 19:46:42 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/muppin-tongue/ Muppin wags his tongue, leaves slobbery mess on lens. More photos from MaisonBisson https://maisonbisson.com/post/republican-national-convention-to-be-windfall-for-nycs-sex-workers/ Sun, 29 Aug 2004 01:07:12 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/republican-national-convention-to-be-windfall-for-nycs-sex-workers/ The New York Metro reports that the sex industry is expecting a 20 to 50 percent uptick in business while the Republicans are in town for the Republican National Convention this week. https://maisonbisson.com/post/heat-dell-server-thermal-load-btuhour/ Wed, 25 Aug 2004 16:26:25 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/heat-dell-server-thermal-load-btuhour/ It’s a shame that Dell doesn’t list the thermal loads of their products in the datasheets at the online store. https://maisonbisson.com/post/camera-goes-all-to-hell-bits-recovered-from-memory-card/ Tue, 24 Aug 2004 13:09:38 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/camera-goes-all-to-hell-bits-recovered-from-memory-card/ SanDisk is playing this as the coolest thing that ever happened. Some photographer planted a couple cameras to photo the demolition of a bridge over the Mississippi, the explosion was bigger than he expected, he lost one of the cameras, but the CF card survived in working order. https://maisonbisson.com/post/oreilly-mac-os-x-conference/ Mon, 23 Aug 2004 17:12:01 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/oreilly-mac-os-x-conference/ I trust O’Reilly’s books, so when I see they’re running a conference about something I’m interested, i get excited. https://maisonbisson.com/post/clie-annoyances-part-1/ Sat, 21 Aug 2004 14:39:36 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/clie-annoyances-part-1/ The Clie TH55 stylus is one of the most annoying parts of the Palm OS-based handheld. https://maisonbisson.com/post/making-a-datdds-tape-drive-work-on-red-hat-enterprise-linux/ Fri, 20 Aug 2004 17:28:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/making-a-datdds-tape-drive-work-on-red-hat-enterprise-linux/ We could see messages about the tape drive in dmesg, but it wasn’t giving the device name. https://maisonbisson.com/post/itunes-vs-firewalls/ Fri, 20 Aug 2004 17:08:02 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/itunes-vs-firewalls/ iTunes on the PC on my desk (notice I feel more possessive of the desk than the PC) hasn’t been able to share music to or from iTunes on my PowerBook. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-conservatives-vs-the-academy/ Thu, 19 Aug 2004 13:49:12 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-conservatives-vs-the-academy/ AlterNet has a story by Joshua Holland about the Right’s crusade against lefties on campus. As I saw with my experience with the conservative sniper that was trolling here not long ago, the conservative mission is to criticize everything that’s off their message. https://maisonbisson.com/post/configuring-sun-t3-storage-arrays/ Thu, 19 Aug 2004 13:15:42 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/configuring-sun-t3-storage-arrays/ Sun’s T3 documentation is available online: The Sun StorEdge T3 and T3+ Array Configuration Guide explains physical configuration. https://maisonbisson.com/post/faith-based-missile-defense/ Thu, 19 Aug 2004 13:09:19 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/faith-based-missile-defense/ Defense Tech is reporting on the progress and prospects of missile defense (and their title is too good to pass up). https://maisonbisson.com/post/fbi-investigates/ Tue, 17 Aug 2004 14:22:18 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/fbi-investigates/ A friend sent this along yesterday: I was visited, a couple of weeks ago by an FBI agent investigating whether or not I was involved in terrorist activities. https://maisonbisson.com/post/galleries-of-oddness/ Mon, 16 Aug 2004 22:00:07 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/galleries-of-oddness/ I ran across Darren Barefoot‘s Hall of Technical Documentation Weirdness, where he catalogues “wacky, bizarre, surreal and otherwise strange examples of technical documentation. https://maisonbisson.com/post/mac-consulting/ Fri, 13 Aug 2004 14:02:47 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/mac-consulting/ I get a number of requests for help with people’s Macs. They’re are often willing to pay, but the truth is that computer support (on any platform) is one of the things I least like to do. https://maisonbisson.com/post/extra-links/ Thu, 12 Aug 2004 17:54:16 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/extra-links/ Swim-up, floating blackjack tables for your pool. Yes, the Hard Rock Las Vegas has similar stuff, but their minimum bet is too high for my game. https://maisonbisson.com/post/flying-car-options/ Wed, 11 Aug 2004 18:35:34 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/flying-car-options/ In commenting on the Space Race story, Zach pointed out that the Moller Skycar is still under development (which is better than going bankrupt or just disappearing — like so many other good ideas have). https://maisonbisson.com/post/oreilly-covers-rss/ Wed, 11 Aug 2004 17:01:33 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/oreilly-covers-rss/ Ben Hammersley’s Content Syndication With RSS has got me back on the RSS wagon. Hammersley covers the history and context of RSS’s development in more detail than many other tech books have given their subject. https://maisonbisson.com/post/randomcolor-lightballoon-lamp/ Wed, 11 Aug 2004 16:27:49 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/randomcolor-lightballoon-lamp/ Im jealous I didn’t think of these things before Kyouei Ltd. released them as a product. https://maisonbisson.com/post/rnc-anarchy/ Tue, 10 Aug 2004 18:50:38 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/rnc-anarchy/ Writer Paul Schmelzer has a list of (civil disobedience?) actions against the RNC in NYC. Among the actions planned: Bikes Against Bush, radio jacking, backback broadcasts, WiFi on wheels, and accurate crowd counts. https://maisonbisson.com/post/we-the-media/ Tue, 10 Aug 2004 08:55:57 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/we-the-media/ Dan Gillmor’s We The Media caught my attention. From the Publisher’s description: For the first time, bloggers have been awarded press credentials to cover the national political conventions. https://maisonbisson.com/post/look-ma-no-fire-protection/ Mon, 09 Aug 2004 13:03:31 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/look-ma-no-fire-protection/ Alternet is featuring a story about the Bush administration’s attempts to reduce nuclear power plant safety requirements. https://maisonbisson.com/post/space-race-heats-up/ Mon, 09 Aug 2004 12:26:06 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/space-race-heats-up/ It’s been almost 47 years since Sputnik began the space race and 35 years since a few men hobbled about on the moon, but I don’t yet have a flying car and I can’t take an orbiting vacation. https://maisonbisson.com/post/strange-days/ Mon, 09 Aug 2004 08:15:47 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/strange-days/ This story is too complex for me to do it justice, but too interesting to ignore: the Mainichi Daily News is reporting chess champion Bobby Fischer has been jailed in Japan. https://maisonbisson.com/post/juliusblog-on-coincidence-bush-ratings-vs-terror-alerts/ Sun, 08 Aug 2004 13:25:46 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/juliusblog-on-coincidence-bush-ratings-vs-terror-alerts/ Juliusblog has a chart comparing approval ratings on a timeline with terror alerts. Guess what? Juliusblog makes the following observations: https://maisonbisson.com/post/now-listed-in-blogshares/ Fri, 06 Aug 2004 05:50:36 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/now-listed-in-blogshares/ I moment or two of ego-Googling lead me to Blogshares, where MaisonBisson is trading me as a penny stock. https://maisonbisson.com/post/cronies/ Tue, 03 Aug 2004 11:59:15 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/cronies/ A co-worker just handed me Robert Bryce’s Cronies. From the Publisher’s description: Texans are running the country — maybe the world. https://maisonbisson.com/post/fear-aint-the-word-for-it/ Mon, 02 Aug 2004 19:18:52 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/fear-aint-the-word-for-it/ Mix a born again Christian who confuses Christ and God (yup, check Molly Ivins for the quote), clinical and medicated depression, several million believers and call it the Church of Bush! https://maisonbisson.com/post/village-voice-church-of-bush/ Mon, 02 Aug 2004 18:50:44 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/village-voice-church-of-bush/ I started to make noise about this a few weeks ago in my story about Fahrenheit 9/11: https://maisonbisson.com/post/mysilo/ Fri, 30 Jul 2004 17:22:56 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/mysilo/ Knowing that everybody wants a missile silo, bari1001 has posted his for sale on eBay (thanks to DefenseTech for the pointer). https://maisonbisson.com/post/news-bush-bushed/ Fri, 30 Jul 2004 16:27:27 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/news-bush-bushed/ I hadn’t heard of Capitol Hill Blue until a friend forwarded this story about Bush’s paranoid isolation. https://maisonbisson.com/post/pod-happy/ Wed, 28 Jul 2004 16:23:12 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/pod-happy/ The new iPod came Monday. Stepping up to it from the second generation iPod I had is amazing. https://maisonbisson.com/post/things-you-have-to-believe-to-be-a-republican-today/ Wed, 28 Jul 2004 10:35:33 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/things-you-have-to-believe-to-be-a-republican-today/ My father forwarded this to me this morning: Saddam was a good guy when Reagan armed him, a bad guy when Bush’s daddy made war on him, a good guy when Cheney did business with him and a bad guy when Bush needed a “we can’t find Bin Laden” diversion. https://maisonbisson.com/post/woody-guthrie-on-copright/ Tue, 27 Jul 2004 12:40:08 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/woody-guthrie-on-copright/ Copyfight is reporting on the infringement lawsuit threatening the creators of the 2004 presidential election parody animation that’s getting all the laughs. https://maisonbisson.com/post/apple-fusses-over-fuse/ Mon, 26 Jul 2004 10:25:07 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/apple-fusses-over-fuse/ Fuse, a music TV network trying to compete with MTV by actually playing music videos done some bilboards in NYC that look a lot like Apple’s silhouette ads, but with people pole dancing and masturbating and stuff. https://maisonbisson.com/post/these-arent-cubes/ Mon, 26 Jul 2004 09:42:49 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/these-arent-cubes/ Also at Gizmodo: the Volume Macropod. They’re like cubicles, but cooler. They’re mobile, but useful. Ad agency Chiat-Day made big news about giving up structured offices and such back around 1995 [CNN Story &amp; Supervert. https://maisonbisson.com/post/this-land/ Sat, 24 Jul 2004 00:10:07 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/this-land/ Greg &amp; Evan Spiridellis oever at Jib Jab have put together a damn funny flash movie about the presidential race. https://maisonbisson.com/post/life-goes-on/ Thu, 22 Jul 2004 01:41:48 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/life-goes-on/ Sandee called me from home Friday to say she was having trouble playing music from our primary music server. https://maisonbisson.com/post/mapparium-boston/ Thu, 15 Jul 2004 00:58:20 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/mapparium-boston/ Religious landmarks usually don’t interest me, but the Mapparium really is a sight to see. https://maisonbisson.com/post/you-can-take-it-with-you-dvds-on-palmclie/ Wed, 14 Jul 2004 10:52:27 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/you-can-take-it-with-you-dvds-on-palmclie/ Junglemike has an interesting post on compressing video for Palm playback at the 1src Forums (n the ClieSource Forums): https://maisonbisson.com/post/fox-and-conservative-pals-out-spreading-more-slander-and-libel/ Tue, 13 Jul 2004 14:24:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/fox-and-conservative-pals-out-spreading-more-slander-and-libel/ Welcome the flacks. I don’t get many comments on stories here at MaisonBisson, so I was interested when I found a comment to my story about the Outfoxed documentary just an hour after I’d posted it. https://maisonbisson.com/post/outfoxed/ Tue, 13 Jul 2004 12:23:42 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/outfoxed/ OUTFOXED: Rupert Murdoch’s War On Journalism is out on DVD and VHS now. Outfoxed examines how media empires, led by Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News, have been running a “race to the bottom” in television news. https://maisonbisson.com/post/another-military-family-against-bush/ Sun, 11 Jul 2004 01:24:15 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/another-military-family-against-bush/ Another Military Family Against Bush bumper stickers and other products available. Another Military Family Against Bush Value T-Shirt https://maisonbisson.com/post/cheap-food-cheap-labor/ Thu, 08 Jul 2004 02:32:47 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/cheap-food-cheap-labor/ I’ve found myself in a number of conversations about food safety lately. Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal comes up regularly, but I keep wanting to mention Bushwhacked: Life in George W. https://maisonbisson.com/post/old-news-big-story/ Mon, 05 Jul 2004 01:35:05 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/old-news-big-story/ Google just lead me to Wage Slave Journal where I found an August 2003 story about American casualties in Iraqi. https://maisonbisson.com/post/drm-snuffs-the-constitution/ Sun, 04 Jul 2004 17:22:27 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/drm-snuffs-the-constitution/ TeleRead brought me this story about a copy protected version of the US Constitution that’s now selling on Amazon. https://maisonbisson.com/post/fahrenheit-911/ Sat, 03 Jul 2004 00:56:18 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/fahrenheit-911/ We expect Fox News And the Washington Times to hate it, but the reaction from the left seems to prove the old adage that a liberal wouldn’t join his or her own side in an argument. https://maisonbisson.com/post/more-japanese-ice-cream/ Wed, 30 Jun 2004 13:24:01 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/more-japanese-ice-cream/ I got all excited about some unappealing Japanese ice cream flavors when I found the story in Mainichi Daily News a while ago. https://maisonbisson.com/post/more-about-clie-th55/ Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:04:09 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/more-about-clie-th55/ PalmZone has a nice story about the TH55 with a number of links to software, updates and more information. https://maisonbisson.com/post/beef-t-shirts-rock/ Thu, 24 Jun 2004 09:43:57 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/beef-t-shirts-rock/ Beef t-shirts coming back: it was quite a while ago now that my Cafe Press shop was the top Google result for beef t-shirt. https://maisonbisson.com/post/this-is-copyrighted/ Wed, 23 Jun 2004 11:03:42 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/this-is-copyrighted/ Defense Tech is reporting that the Warner/Electric/Atlantic conglomerate of music labels gave up its defense in a copyright case against their artist Wilco. https://maisonbisson.com/post/nauset-beach-panoramas/ Mon, 21 Jun 2004 23:54:20 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/nauset-beach-panoramas/ More photos from MaisonBisson Taken Monday morning, around 5:30, before getting on the road to return to New Hampshire. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-letter-not-sent-re-lpfm-npr-nhpr-complaint/ Wed, 16 Jun 2004 03:05:48 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-letter-not-sent-re-lpfm-npr-nhpr-complaint/ <p>I was going through my files and found this unfinished letter to NHPR, my local National Public Radio affiliate, regarding the FCC’s proposed licensing of community-based low-power FM radio stations (LPFM). My point was (or it was going to be) that NPR was afraid to compete against other non-profit stations. NPR paints itself as an alternative to commercial radio (and it does a pretty good job most of the time), but it’s also a business. So NPR joined with commercial broadcasters to kill LPFM before it could get off the ground.</p> <p>The fight included big broadcasting’s techs playing faked interference to scare lawmakers, but then they had to backtrack and call it “simulated” when somebody blew the whistle. Sadly, it really didn’t matter what the played; they brought the money and the pols gave a bullet to LPFM.</p> <blockquote> <p>April 2, 2001</p> <p>Mr. Sean T. Gillery</p> </blockquote> <blockquote> <p>Director of Development</p> </blockquote> <blockquote> <p>New Hampshire Public Radio</p> </blockquote> <blockquote> <p>207 North Main Street</p> </blockquote> <blockquote> <p>Concord, NH 03301-5003</p> <p>Mr. Gillery</p> <p>I recently received a letter from you regarding renewals to our NHPR membership and I wanted to take a moment to express to you my concerns over National Public Radio’s opposition to community-based low power FM radio. As you know, NPR joined with the National Association of Broadcasters to lobby for legislation that has blocked the FCC from licensing LPFM stations.</p> <p>I believe that NPR’s position on LPFM betrays the beliefs and philosophy that had once drawn me to public radio. Can NPR or NHPR be trusted to put its listeners’ needs first and its commercial interests last? Not anymore.</p> <p>I am growing increasingly concerned that the recent and ongoing consolidation of the radio marketplace will further limit and degrade coverage of news, culture, and local events. NPR has covered the consolidation and aired concerns about its negative effects:</p> <p>Morning Edition, “Radio Merger Explosion” December 1, 1997</p> </blockquote> <blockquote> <p>Weekend All Things Considered, “Black Radio” August 9, 1998</p> </blockquote> <blockquote> <p>All Things Considered, “Radio Consolidation” January 9, 1999.</p> </blockquote> <blockquote> <p>All Things Considered, “Radio Merger” October 4, 1999.</p> <p>Unfortunately, coverage of the mergers ended when the FCC began considering LPFM in 1999. Since then, NPR has run a handful of LPFM stories. Each one focused on the potential for technical problems the LPFM law might create and the battle in Washington to prevent the licensing of LPFM stations. But none of the coverage discussed the reasons why the FCC was proposing LPFM. None of this coverage put LPFM in the context of the earlier commercial radio consolidations.</p> </blockquote> <p>NPR, of course, had to issue a very carefully crafted press release to explain their position. I can’t imagine what the response, if any, from NHPR would have been had I sent the letter.</p> <p>In the time that’s past, the republican controlled FCC has proposed measures that would lead to further market consolidation. Ironically, an NHPR sponsored station is one of the few LPFM licenses granted by the FCC before the law ended further licensing. The station, which plays classical music in the Concord area, went on the air just this year.</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/comment-spam/ Tue, 15 Jun 2004 02:32:29 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/comment-spam/ First I was amused to see comments, then somewhat angered to discover they were spam, then amused again to find that comment spam etiquette requires that it be gratuitously patronizing. https://maisonbisson.com/post/foiled/ Thu, 10 Jun 2004 01:06:08 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/foiled/ Troy has this image of a tin-foiled cubical on his blog. It comes from Servers Under the Sun and is interesting enough. https://maisonbisson.com/post/six-months-of-2004/ Thu, 10 Jun 2004 00:48:09 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/six-months-of-2004/ Books: The Art of Deception Asmara Bloody Saturday in the Soviet Union The Cockpit Dangerous Waters https://maisonbisson.com/post/allconsumingnet/ Mon, 07 Jun 2004 10:59:11 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/allconsumingnet/ <p><a href="http://allconsuming.net/" title="AllConsuming.net">AllConsuming.net</a> aggregates book mentions on the web, mostly in blogs. Assuming bloggers can be trusted, the AllConsuming stats can show a lot about what people are reading and talking about. David Sedaris’ new book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/0316143464/maisonbisson-20/" title="Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim">Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim</a> is ranking with 22 mentions today and 15 the day before (or, that’s what it was when I checked it last night). Dan Brown’s <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/0385504209/maisonbisson-20/" title="The Davinci Code">The Davinci Code</a> consistently ranks near the top of each day, and both these books will get bosted a notch when AllConsuming trolls me again today.</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://allconsuming.net/#whatisthis" title="All Consuming is a website">All Consuming is a website</a> that visits recently updated weblogs every hour, checking them for links to books on Amazon, Barnes &amp; Noble, Book Sense, and other book sites. Every book on this site has a list of all the weblogs that have mentioned it, and every weblog that has mentioned books in the past also has a page here listing which books it has mentioned.</p> </blockquote> <p>It’s more than a website, it’s also <a href="http://www.xml.com/pub/a/ws/2003/05/27/allconsuming.html" title="a set of web services">a set of web services</a> by a guy who seems to know his way around XML, SOAP, RSS and other incredibly useful acronyms. He even authored some chapters in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/0596005423/maisonbisson-20/" title="Amazon Hacks">Amazon Hacks</a> from O’Reilly press. Anyway, call me a fan.</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/faces/ Sun, 06 Jun 2004 19:59:04 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/faces/ Richard Coniff writes in the January 2004 Smithsonian magazine about the work of UC San Fran prof Paul Ekman and his study of faces. https://maisonbisson.com/post/suns-little-marketing-problem/ Fri, 04 Jun 2004 10:38:50 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/suns-little-marketing-problem/ <p><img align="right" alt="Sun Logo." width="250" height="153" border="0" padding="10" src="http://www.seattlerobotics.org/Robothon2002/images/sun-logo.gif" />Sun had to make changes. They’re (or were) getting their butts handed to them in the mid-range and entry level server markets, so those changes had to come fast.</p> <p>There was a time when the top of their <a href="http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/" title="low-end server lineup">low-end server lineup</a> was the <a href="http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/v480/" title="V480">V480</a> with four UltraSparc III CPUs in a 4U rack enclosure. Trouble is, it lists way over $30,000. They can’t cut the price on it without bleeding money, and worse, they can’t scrap their old models because their inventory of pieces and parts is too much to swallow if they did.</p> <p>So what they did do is release <a href="http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2003Sep/bch20030918021831.htm" title="a new line of low-end servers at half the price">a new line of low-end servers at half the price</a>, but with some slightly different specs (and, I’d imagine, cheaper manufacturing processes) while preserving their older, more expensive servers in the line as the “better” machines. Example: the <a href="http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/v440/" title="V440 is similar to the V480">V440 is similar to the V480</a> but has fewer DIMM slots and sports UltraSparc IIIi CPUs. The USIIIi doesn’t have the brains to do more than four-way multi-processing, but the designers used the chip real estate that freed up to put one MB of on-chip L2 cache. The USIII usually comes in machines with 8 MB of external L2 cache, but it runs far slower than the CPU’s clock rate. Eight MBs of cache is a lot, but arguments seem to favor a much faster one MB internal cache when performance is on the line.</p> <p>Beyond the cache issue, the <a href="http://www.midrangeserver.com/breaking/bn040803-story01.html" title="IIIi sports a faster interconnect bus called JBus">IIIi sports a faster interconnect bus called JBus</a> which further decreases the value of an off-chip L2 cache. Access to main RAM at almost the same speed as the L2 cache in previous CPUs, and greater over-all throughput combined with the integrated L2 cache, how can Sun argue that the IIIi is slower than the old III?</p> <p>But that’s exactly what Sun is doing. Their old manufacturing processes left them sitting on huge inventories for all manner of machines, and until they can clear those out, <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/hardware/server/story/0,10801,85045,00.html" title="they'll be sending some difficult marketing messages">they’ll be sending some difficult marketing messages</a>. The basics of it are like this: if you’re a regular Sun customer and can afford it, then continue to buy the really expensive boxes. If you can’t afford it and might otherwise buy servers from our competitors, then take a look at these newer, cheaper models. And if you’ve never bought Sun before, take a look at <a href="http://www.hpcwire.com/dsstar/breaking/1318.html" title="the speedy performance and low-cost of this V440">the speedy performance and low-cost of this V440</a>.</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/how-copyright-law-changed-hip-hop/ Wed, 02 Jun 2004 17:25:57 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/how-copyright-law-changed-hip-hop/ Kembrew McLeod’s story about How Copyright Law Changed Hip Hop in Stay Free! Magazine is an interesting tale of how copyright kills culture. https://maisonbisson.com/post/jfk-and-mr-rogers-look-the-same/ Tue, 01 Jun 2004 00:07:45 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/jfk-and-mr-rogers-look-the-same/ Well, they sorta’ look the same. Sorta. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-real-florida-gators/ Sun, 30 May 2004 19:17:38 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-real-florida-gators/ From an email from my Dad: Florida allows those who win permits to take three alligators. https://maisonbisson.com/post/leadership/ Thu, 27 May 2004 10:46:57 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/leadership/ Who can complain about being compared favorably to ol’ JFK? (Yes, in a really vain way, I was happy about it. https://maisonbisson.com/post/extra-stories/ Mon, 24 May 2004 05:36:49 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/extra-stories/ A friend of a friend says his life is made up of places he can no longer go (or is no longer invited). https://maisonbisson.com/post/top-google/ Fri, 21 May 2004 19:45:19 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/top-google/ Lamson Library’s portal integration project tops Google’s search hits for “library portal integration.” I’ve been crowing about it all over campus for a week now, and while you can argue about what real value it has, it’s still exciting. https://maisonbisson.com/post/worldcat-now-available-to-world-via-google/ Thu, 20 May 2004 23:33:12 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/worldcat-now-available-to-world-via-google/ I’d heard that that OCLC was opening up WorldCat, their huge bibliographic database, to Google. It seems to be online now. https://maisonbisson.com/post/cliffs-piranha/ Thu, 20 May 2004 11:23:29 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/cliffs-piranha/ He’s named it Officer Angry, and it eats like a monster. It looks like a monster too, so that’s not so bad. https://maisonbisson.com/post/re-gasoline-blackout-day-wednesday-may-19-2004/ Tue, 18 May 2004 21:53:53 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/re-gasoline-blackout-day-wednesday-may-19-2004/ From Jon Link, who can also be seen at thenumbskull.com: I hate expensive gas as much as anyone BUT, this is a problem of our own design. https://maisonbisson.com/post/jon-link-goes-online-with-thenumbskullcom/ Mon, 17 May 2004 23:48:40 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/jon-link-goes-online-with-thenumbskullcom/ Okay, his self portrait on my white board has nothing to do with his recent website launch, but…well…. https://maisonbisson.com/post/japanese-ice-creamnovelties/ Sun, 16 May 2004 23:35:07 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/japanese-ice-creamnovelties/ Fish, octopus, squid, ox tongue, sweet potato, fried eggplant, crab, corn, rice, wasabi, shrimp, eel, noodle, chicken wing, miso, and cactus. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-secret-poetry-of-donald-rumsfeld/ Fri, 14 May 2004 12:57:44 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-secret-poetry-of-donald-rumsfeld/ Pieces of Intelligence : The Existential Poetry of Donald H. Rumsfeld From Amazon’s Description: “Until now, the poetry of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has been hidden, ’embedded’ within comments made at press briefings and in interviews. https://maisonbisson.com/post/dmcra-vs-dmca/ Wed, 12 May 2004 23:23:15 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/dmcra-vs-dmca/ Get the word out. The fight is on to create sensible limits to the DMCA. Read ArsTechnica’s DMCRA argument. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-twig/ Wed, 12 May 2004 16:18:26 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-twig/ It’s actually called The Garlic Clove, but for a variety of reasons, we just call it The Twig. https://maisonbisson.com/post/how-do-you-sell-a-castle/ Wed, 12 May 2004 16:03:02 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/how-do-you-sell-a-castle/ When you call around for realtors to sell your ‘house,’ how do you tell them it’s a castle? https://maisonbisson.com/post/in-the-window/ Wed, 05 May 2004 16:07:06 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/in-the-window/ Sarah left these as a gift for Wendy in the window of her new toy. https://maisonbisson.com/post/teslas-history-in-colorado-springs-colorado/ Mon, 03 May 2004 16:23:43 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/teslas-history-in-colorado-springs-colorado/ Nikola Tesla arrived in Colorado Springs on May 17, 1899. He was met at the train by patent lawyer Leonard Curtis, and was taken by horse and carriage to the Alta Vista Hotel, where he would reside while in Colorado. https://maisonbisson.com/post/joes-chickens-and-turkeys/ Wed, 28 Apr 2004 16:20:29 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/joes-chickens-and-turkeys/ Joe’s prized chickens and turkeys. In the brooders now. They’ll be in their coops by May. https://maisonbisson.com/post/restaurant-insider/ Thu, 22 Apr 2004 15:42:19 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/restaurant-insider/ A link from WiFi Networking News points to QSR Magazine, the trade mag for the quick service restaurant industry (think McDonalds and Taco Bell). https://maisonbisson.com/post/music-biz-sales-up/ Mon, 12 Apr 2004 22:15:20 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/music-biz-sales-up/ UK markets first reported it, then Australia’s record industry tried to suppress it, now US sales figures suggest the trend has spread here: record sales are up. https://maisonbisson.com/post/bringing-digital-video-back-to-the-living-room/ Sat, 10 Apr 2004 22:31:46 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bringing-digital-video-back-to-the-living-room/ You can burn DVDs of your home movies (and you probably ought to, just for backups), but what if you want to make a movie library to match your computer-based music library? https://maisonbisson.com/post/exploring-the-news/ Fri, 09 Apr 2004 22:44:22 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/exploring-the-news/ NewsMap displays current news in an explorable two dimensional space. Headline sizes appear to be weighted based on the number of related stories. https://maisonbisson.com/post/jacques-cabaret/ Sun, 04 Apr 2004 06:17:05 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/jacques-cabaret/ BostonNoise.org says “Jacques’ Cabaret is Boston’s oldest gay bar. The upstairs features live female impersonator shows five nights per week, including weekends. https://maisonbisson.com/post/voip-links/ Wed, 31 Mar 2004 16:59:05 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/voip-links/ Vonage is starting to look like the ma-bell of VoIP. It’s not that there isn’t competition — there is, but they just don’t have the profile that Vonage has. https://maisonbisson.com/post/richard-clarkes-insider-tell-all/ Wed, 31 Mar 2004 14:24:28 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/richard-clarkes-insider-tell-all/ <p>Tom Maertens Speaks on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0743260244/maisonbisson-20/" title="Richard Clarke's insider story">Richard Clarke’s insider story</a> in a Star Tribune article dated Sunday 28 March 2004.</p> <blockquote> <p>The troops who could have been used in Afghanistan to capture Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaida were instead held back for the planned invasion of Iraq. In contrast to the 150,000 men sent to Iraq, only about 11,500 troops were sent to Afghanistan, a force smaller than the New York City police. The result is that Bin Laden and his followers escaped across the border into Pakistan.</p> <p>…</p> <p>Clarke’s gutsy insider recounting of events related to 9/11 is an important public service. From my perspective, the Bush administration has practiced the most cynical, opportunistic form of politics I witnessed in my 28 years in government: hijacking legitimate American outrage and patriotism over 9/11 to conduct a pre-ordained war against Saddam Hussein.</p> </blockquote> https://maisonbisson.com/post/copyright-war/ Wed, 31 Mar 2004 06:43:26 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/copyright-war/ Something doesn’t add up. ARIA, Australia’s version of our RIAA recently announced that sales continued to slide there this past year, while critics pointed out that they really had a record-breaking year with 50 million album sales. https://maisonbisson.com/post/why-music-biz-loves-p2p/ Tue, 30 Mar 2004 16:34:51 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/why-music-biz-loves-p2p/ Jason Shultz over at CopyFight just posted this story about The Mercury News’ story about how record labels use P2P stats to boost sales. https://maisonbisson.com/post/political-diagramming/ Tue, 30 Mar 2004 01:19:05 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/political-diagramming/ A graph from Orgnet plots book purchasing patterns by politics.There’s not much middle ground there. “These political books are preaching to the converted. https://maisonbisson.com/post/what-is-the-simputer/ Tue, 30 Mar 2004 00:58:52 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/what-is-the-simputer/ I just saw a pointer to the Amida Simputer, an Indian designed and manufactured PDA. The review at Engadget sounds sort of down, but it comes from a company on a mission. https://maisonbisson.com/post/hmmm-boats/ Mon, 29 Mar 2004 17:06:54 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/hmmm-boats/ <p><img align="right" alt="Is it a tug boat?" width="150" height="104" border="0" src="http://www.mirage-mfg.com/assets/images/GH37_Port_Close.jpg" />It looks like a tug boat, but the <a href="http://www.mirage-mfg.com/html/gh37b.html" title="Great Harbour 37">Great Harbour 37</a> could be a lot of fun.</p> <p>A magazine article talks about <a href="http://www.nauticblue.com/" title="bareboat charters in the British Virgin Islands">bareboat charters in the British Virgin Islands</a> and the pleasures quietly exploring the coves and uninhabited areas on your own.</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/nasas-x43-flies/ Sun, 28 Mar 2004 02:42:44 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/nasas-x43-flies/ NASA’s X43 scramjet test plane flew at speeds exceeding mach 7 and altitudes of 100,000 feet today. https://maisonbisson.com/post/american-proprietary-eponyms/ Sat, 27 Mar 2004 14:34:11 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/american-proprietary-eponyms/ <p>There I was Googling “proprietary” for <a href="https://maisonbisson.com/post/10055" title="a story about misuse of the word">a story about misuse of the word</a> when I came across this gem from R.Krause:</p> <blockquote> <p>An eponym is a general term used to describe from what or whom something derived its name. Therefore, a proprietary eponym could be considered a brand name (product or service mark) which has fallen into general use.</p> </blockquote> <p>Yes, R. has a bunch of them listed, Xerox, Jell-O, Velcro, and more. Too bad it was last updated in 1997. I wonder when “Google” turned from brand name to verb.</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/what-does-proprietary-mean-anyway/ Fri, 26 Mar 2004 00:05:47 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/what-does-proprietary-mean-anyway/ Googling “proprietary” results in lots of hits, but very few of them use the word in a positive sense. https://maisonbisson.com/post/thank-chank/ Thu, 25 Mar 2004 16:49:38 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/thank-chank/ The font designing folks at Chank have a nice list of free fonts to pick from. https://maisonbisson.com/post/integrating-library-systems-in-campus-portals/ Tue, 23 Mar 2004 16:26:56 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/integrating-library-systems-in-campus-portals/ Information about Lamson Library’s portal integration at Plymouth State University. I’ll expand this story later, but I want to put the link here now to get it in Google’s index. https://maisonbisson.com/post/update-on-pen-twirling/ Mon, 22 Mar 2004 22:43:23 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/update-on-pen-twirling/ I did a story on the practice of pen twirling in Japan a couple years ago. https://maisonbisson.com/post/schlossberg-quote/ Mon, 22 Mar 2004 11:10:07 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/schlossberg-quote/ “The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.” –Edwin Schlossberg https://maisonbisson.com/post/squirm-squirm-little-man/ Mon, 22 Mar 2004 11:03:56 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/squirm-squirm-little-man/ Far too often the mainstream press lets politicians get away with revising or misrepresenting their previous positions. https://maisonbisson.com/post/ny-times-on-netflix/ Sun, 21 Mar 2004 22:47:06 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/ny-times-on-netflix/ <p>The New York Times did a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/19/movies/19NETF.html" title="NetFlix story">Netflix story</a>. The Author, William Grimes, seemed to like it, but…</p> <blockquote> <p>[My wife and I] each judge the other’s selections harshly. I scored a major victory with “Mon Oncle” by Jacques Tati, a director I once dismissed as tedious, annoying and far too French. He is now a god in our house. But I have had my back against the wall after “L’Atalante,” a film I had never seen but knew to be, by expert consensus, a towering masterpiece. Less than 10 minutes after the opening credits rolled, the atmosphere in the living room grew frosty. I lost control of the mouse for a week. At least I had the foresight to sneak off and watch “Russian Ark” on my own.</p> <p>That’s the fun of Netflix. Along with savage recriminations, my home now resonates with high-toned animated discussion of directors, cinematographers and camera angles. Once again I’m the moviegoer I was in college, when Bergman, Fellini and Truffaut were in full stride, and adventure was in the air, and bright-eyed cinéastes could sit through a film like “El Topo” and not demand their money back. It’s not available on Netflix, alas, but the Web site does propose an alternative, a compilation of “Ed Sullivan” shows featuring Topo Gigio. Close enough.</p> </blockquote> <p>Interesting enough, but <img border=0 width=1 height=1 src="http://ad.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/show?id=XfFSogqWv7s&bids=78684.10000076&type=3&subid=0" /><a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=XfFSogqWv7s&amp;offerid=78684.10000076&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0">Netflix</a> — and services yet to appear — are a sign of things to come: a world of entertainment shaped by the consumer, not by marketers.</p> <blockquote> <p>Netflix executives say their edge over the competition is not their library but the way the library is presented to users, who are asked to rate the films they have seen. By sifting through the ratings, about 400 million of them at present, and analyzing buying patterns, a company program called CineMatch generates rental suggestions specific to each user.</p> <p>“<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005JMJ4/maisonbisson-20/" title="Lost in Translation">Lost in Translation</a> will outperform most $300 million films for us, and that’s because of our ratings and recommendations,” said Ted Sarandos, the chief content officer for Netflix. “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005JMUK/maisonbisson-20/" title="Monster">Monster</a> will be huge for us, and that’s not because our subscribers are more sophisticated than the general moviegoing public, but because our merchandising system is much more specific.”</p> </blockquote> <p>It will be a world of what you want, and only what you want, as clearly marked by your previous purchases and selections. You’ll never be upset by products that you don’t want, even if you didn’t know you didn’t want them, nor will you have to tolerate contrary opinions or debate.</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/dr-seuss-was-so-political/ Thu, 18 Mar 2004 22:52:25 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/dr-seuss-was-so-political/ Who would have figured old Dr. Seuss was so political? Rick Minear at UCSD has collected a number of the good doctor’s works as chief editorial cartoonist for the New York newspaper PM. https://maisonbisson.com/post/turkeys-on-the-lot/ Thu, 18 Mar 2004 02:06:03 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/turkeys-on-the-lot/ Turkeys aren’t small birds. Along the commute from home to work, they’re as common as pigeons in a city park, but it’s still odd to see a turkey in the parking lot (video link). https://maisonbisson.com/post/wireless-voip/ Wed, 17 Mar 2004 14:00:32 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wireless-voip/ <p><a href="https://maisonbisson.com/post/10046" title="GPhone is a bust for me">GPhone is a bust for me</a>, at least for now, but other solutions are available. <a href="http://arstechnica.com/news/posts/1079129190.html" title="Ars Technica">Ars Technica</a> pointed out an <a href="http://www.zyxel.com/product/P2000W.html" title="802.11b wireless VoIP phone">802.11b wireless VoIP phone</a> from Zyxel. Then there’s the <a href="http://www.vocera.com/products/products.shtm" title=" Vocera VoIP communicator badge">Vocera VoIP communicator badge</a> that everybody at Dartmouth College uses. They were happy to show it off during the <a href="http://unleashed.dartmouth.edu/" title="Unleashed Wireless Conference">Unleashed Wireless Conference</a> they hosted last Fall.</p> <p><strong>[<span style="color:red">UPDATED</span>]:</strong> The VoIP market is heating up. <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-7351_3-5181617.html" title="Vonage is set to offer a wireless phone">Vonage is set to offer a wireless phone</a> soon to help compete against <a href="http://www.usa.att.com/callvantage/action/smp" title="AT&amp;T's new entry into the VoIP market">AT&amp;T’s new entry into the VoIP market</a>. Then there’s <a href="http://www.voicepulse.com/" title="VoicePulse">VoicePulse</a> and <a href="http://www.packet8.net/" title="Packet8">Packet8</a> also making a play in the full-service residential/small business VoIP market.</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/gamers-delight-palm-emulates-gameboy-atari-st-and-apple-e/ Wed, 17 Mar 2004 13:24:25 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/gamers-delight-palm-emulates-gameboy-atari-st-and-apple-e/ I saw a link for a Palm-based GameBoy emulator, then was stunned to read about an Atari ST emulator for Palm. https://maisonbisson.com/post/gphone-doesnt-work-on-clie-th55/ Wed, 17 Mar 2004 10:39:04 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/gphone-doesnt-work-on-clie-th55/ <p>I’ve given up on VLI’s tech support for GPhone, the VoIP software for Palm. The download page said it was compatible with Palm OS 5.x devices, but was only tested on the Palm Tungsten C. I contacted support after trying it on my Clie TH55, but fell into a loop where they kept recommending I try the same simple things and telling me that Clies use non-standard audio hardware. I’d, in turn, tell them the results of those simple tests and explain that the TH55 uses standard Palm audio APIs.</p> <p>Hopefully they’ll find a solution, but I think the hangup with the GPhone software is a network problem.</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/recording-video-on-clie-peg-th55/ Tue, 16 Mar 2004 04:15:22 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/recording-video-on-clie-peg-th55/ The ClieSource Forums are an excellent source of info. It turns out that installing the movierecorder. https://maisonbisson.com/post/scrabble/ Mon, 15 Mar 2004 23:11:03 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/scrabble/ Aside from all the other online dictionaries, Scrabble players may be interested in the following sites: https://maisonbisson.com/post/wireless-links/ Mon, 15 Mar 2004 10:45:33 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wireless-links/ The PublicIP ZoneCD is a bootable CD implementation of NoCat’s NoCatAuth. NoCatAuth configuration help is available from AmsterNet and Blyx. https://maisonbisson.com/post/murphys-junk/ Sun, 14 Mar 2004 20:58:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/murphys-junk/ On the list of places to visit next time I go out west: Murphys Surplus Warehouse: https://maisonbisson.com/post/sandees-favorite-bad-songs/ Sun, 14 Mar 2004 14:01:07 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/sandees-favorite-bad-songs/ 80s revivals may be played out and we’re not yet ready for 90s nostalgia. Nonetheless, there are a number of songs of the time period that we’re a little ashamed to admit we love. https://maisonbisson.com/post/mildly-psychotic/ Wed, 10 Mar 2004 16:31:55 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/mildly-psychotic/ Eysenck’s Test Results Extraversion (68%) moderately high which suggests you are talkative, optimistic, and sociable but possibly not very reflective. https://maisonbisson.com/post/clie-memory-stick-playing-videos-and-more/ Wed, 10 Mar 2004 00:30:57 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/clie-memory-stick-playing-videos-and-more/ The Lexar 256MB Memory Stick arrived. It sucks. It’s not really a 256 MB stick, it’s 2 x 128MB, and you have to flick a little switch to choose which 128MB you want to use at any moment. https://maisonbisson.com/post/interesting-site-design/ Tue, 09 Mar 2004 00:45:35 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/interesting-site-design/ Just ran across 24-7media.de. It’s a cool site. Their Flash design is top notch and I really like the metaphor. https://maisonbisson.com/post/mac-palmclie-gps-maybe/ Mon, 08 Mar 2004 00:48:42 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/mac-palmclie-gps-maybe/ <p>Just learned of the <a href="http://www.gpsonsale.com/vehiclenavigation/products/TripNavTN-200.htm" title="Rayming TripNav TN-200 GPS receiver">Rayming TripNav TN-200 GPS receiver</a>. It’s the type that has no display or UI and must connect to a computer (via USB) to be useful. It’s Mac compatible and it appears there’s a slight variation (the <a href="http://www.gpszone.ca/accessories/receivers/tn204.php" title="TN-204">TN-204</a>) that works with Sony Clie Palm compatible handhelds. The problem is, the company website is down now and I can’t get detailed information from the other sites. Yes, Google Cache has info, but that’s more frustrating than helpful. Of course, Amazon doesn’t carry it, so I can’t view the reader reviews there.</p> <p>What I really want is a receiver that will work with both. But perhaps I’m just dreaming. Then there’s also the question of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000AZK18/maisonbisson-20/" title="what happened to Sony's Clie GPS cradle">what happened to Sony’s Clie GPS cradle</a>?</p> <p>Finally, none of this would be an issue if I hadn’t also just read about <a href="http://www.tomtom.com/products/products.php?ID=213&amp;Language=4" title="TomTom GPS navigation software for Palm">TomTom GPS navigation software for Palm</a>.</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/return-of-dirigibles-delayed-or-dead/ Sun, 07 Mar 2004 01:00:33 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/return-of-dirigibles-delayed-or-dead/ The 90s saw a resurgence of interest in dirigible airships. People believed their time had come again, but few are flying today. https://maisonbisson.com/post/going-to-see-the-goats/ Sat, 06 Mar 2004 09:34:03 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/going-to-see-the-goats/ Went with Will to see the Mountain Goats, Will’s favorite band ever. Plans included reliving the beef tatar at the Korea Garden. https://maisonbisson.com/post/what-for-wireless/ Fri, 05 Mar 2004 19:09:25 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/what-for-wireless/ Planning for wireless deployments differs from wired network planning in many ways. Unlike wired networks, the primary question isn’t bandwidth or reliability, but availability. https://maisonbisson.com/post/bushs-fiscal-felony/ Thu, 04 Mar 2004 11:30:11 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bushs-fiscal-felony/ Matt Miller’s NPR commentary about the Bush budget includes the following details: A deficit of 521 billion means borrowing almost 1 out of 4 dollars in the budget. https://maisonbisson.com/post/flight-planning-software-for-mac/ Wed, 03 Mar 2004 00:35:21 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/flight-planning-software-for-mac/ I hope someday to have a need for flight planning software, so I’ll keep these URLs around for a while: Mac Flight Planner and Flight Math. https://maisonbisson.com/post/vegas-links-2004/ Sun, 29 Feb 2004 18:00:52 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/vegas-links-2004/ Now that the Nevada Test Site Historical Foundation’s Atomic Testing Museum. is open, you don’t have to wait for the DOE’s occaisional tours of the test site to get your radiation fix. https://maisonbisson.com/post/shopping-in-new-york-ny/ Sun, 29 Feb 2004 00:47:21 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/shopping-in-new-york-ny/ <p>We watch <a href="http://www.bravotv.com/Queer_Eye_for_the_Straight_Guy/" title="Queer Eye for the Straight Guy">Queer Eye for the Straight Guy</a> a lot over here. It seems we can make time for about one hour of TV per week, and Sandee’s decided we’ll spend it with the Fab Five.</p> <p>I’m sure the New York merchants featured in the show are expecting this, but we’ve started to keep a list of places we have to visit when we next go to the city. I’m posting it here for my use as much as anybody else’s.</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/vegas/ Thu, 26 Feb 2004 05:20:45 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/vegas/ I might get around to telling the story later, but for now all I have is a couple movies and a few pictures. https://maisonbisson.com/post/getting-to-vegas/ Mon, 23 Feb 2004 01:05:55 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/getting-to-vegas/ I blame Missouri. Kansas City in particular. I’m sure there’s probably another airport like this somewhere, but I don’t know about it. https://maisonbisson.com/post/dreaming-of-a-sony-clie-peg-th55/ Fri, 20 Feb 2004 23:41:29 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/dreaming-of-a-sony-clie-peg-th55/ I’ve pre-ordered the just-released Sony Clie PEG TH55 and am anxiously awaiting its arrival. Brighthand has a nice review that speaks (mostly) highly of the new Palm OS compatible handheld. https://maisonbisson.com/post/land-of-the-loops/ Fri, 20 Feb 2004 00:48:45 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/land-of-the-loops/ Was listening to Land of the Loops’ Bundle of Joy on the way home from work tonight. https://maisonbisson.com/post/things-to-remember-while-doing-upgrades-on-mission-critical-sun-equipment/ Wed, 18 Feb 2004 05:10:11 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/things-to-remember-while-doing-upgrades-on-mission-critical-sun-equipment/ 1a: Sending Stop-A with non-Sun keyboards or over a telnet connection With a terminal server, the terminal is hardcoded to a “cli” interface which, in turn, telnets to the console port on the destination host. https://maisonbisson.com/post/newbury-open-net/ Mon, 16 Feb 2004 11:09:53 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/newbury-open-net/ Just saw a link to Newbury Open Net, a community wireless project in Boston. Newbury Open Net describes itself: https://maisonbisson.com/post/macdevcenter-on-home-automation/ Mon, 16 Feb 2004 00:18:55 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/macdevcenter-on-home-automation/ <p>First, I found this story at <a href="http://www.macdevcenter.com" title="MacDevCenter">MacDevCenter</a> rather interesting:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/02/13/home_automation.html" title="Home Automation with Mac OS X, Part 1">Home Automation with Mac OS X, Part 1</a> by Alan Graham — Having more control over how your home operates isn’t just a geek fantasy. You can lower energy costs, improve security, and enhance the overall ambiance of your humble abode. Alan Graham shows you how to leverage your Mac OS X computer and get started.</p> </blockquote> <p>Home automation is, of course, something I’ve wanted to play with ever since I heard about it. Sure, <a href="www-danslagle-com-iTunesVis.mov" title="iTunes visuals">iTunes visuals</a> are great, but what about programming all the lights in your house to work like a huge <a href="http://www.hobbytron.net/9922.html?AID=10289758&amp;PID=1395180" title="color organ">color organ</a> to pulse with the music?</p> <p>But I was also amused by the O’Reilly/MacDevCenter website. Along with the usual <a href="http://www.macdevcenter.com/lpt/a/4620" title="print">print</a> and [email][6] buttons they had a [blog this][7] button. While they clearly wanted visitors to see the website as something more substantial than a weblog, they also wanted to cash in on the blogging public’s ability to create buzz and swing Google rankings.</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/we-like-the-moon-biscuits-and-more-flash-animation/ Sun, 15 Feb 2004 15:41:16 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/we-like-the-moon-biscuits-and-more-flash-animation/ The folks at RatherGood.com have no end of Flash animations to entertain and delight. May I suggest starting off with Moon Song, and Biscuits? https://maisonbisson.com/post/zygo-the-last-energy-drink/ Sat, 14 Feb 2004 07:10:05 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/zygo-the-last-energy-drink/ Cola wars are one thing, but “altbev” sure has come a long way since soft drink makers identified the market segment in the 90s. https://maisonbisson.com/post/useful-dohickeys/ Fri, 13 Feb 2004 15:35:13 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/useful-dohickeys/ Why can’t I find the Sumajin Smartwrap, a small cable management device that looks perfect for headphones and other small cables, locally? https://maisonbisson.com/post/etchosts-in-macos-x-103/ Thu, 12 Feb 2004 14:16:10 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/etchosts-in-macos-x-103/ I’ve run into a situation things would work better with a static host mapping, but my first thought/fear was that MacOS X’s NetInfo would get in my way. https://maisonbisson.com/post/what-is-ibiblio/ Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:56:07 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/what-is-ibiblio/ If 14-year-olds were old enough to remember Bush Sr., they’d think this Bush monologue was the funniest thing all day. https://maisonbisson.com/post/deep-thoughts-timewasters/ Sat, 07 Feb 2004 03:10:50 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/deep-thoughts-timewasters/ Here’s a graph to get you thinking about politics: job growth per president. Who knows if the numbers are real, but it jives with my memory of the past 20 years. https://maisonbisson.com/post/peer-to-peer-dmca-riaa-lawsuits/ Thu, 05 Feb 2004 22:13:13 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/peer-to-peer-dmca-riaa-lawsuits/ After six months of RIAA lawsuits, you’d think this would be old news, but…. It’s been a while since I’ve reported on the music industry’s attempts to control online music distribution, but Ars Technica has been following that and the larger issues all along. https://maisonbisson.com/post/tivo-getting-close-to-home-too-close/ Tue, 03 Feb 2004 23:05:32 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/tivo-getting-close-to-home-too-close/ The folks at Ars Technica are asking question that I first started wondering about during the Patriot’s 2002 Superbowl win. https://maisonbisson.com/post/mit-tech-reviews-ten-technologies-that-refuse-to-die/ Tue, 03 Feb 2004 23:02:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/mit-tech-reviews-ten-technologies-that-refuse-to-die/ The folks at Ars also pointed out an interesting story by the MIT Tech Review. It’s all about things that were expected to have been passed by, but weren’t. https://maisonbisson.com/post/microsoft-in-its-biggest-act-of-irony-ever-issues-security-education-posters/ Mon, 02 Feb 2004 11:58:05 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/microsoft-in-its-biggest-act-of-irony-ever-issues-security-education-posters/ Microsoft Corp, the software company responsible for producing some of the most notoriously (and dangerously) insecure software ever has issued a collection of posters aimed at, start your irony engine, computer security education. https://maisonbisson.com/post/site-updated/ Sun, 01 Feb 2004 03:00:30 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/site-updated/ Um, not many people noticed, but this site was offline for a few months because the hosting company I was using shut down operations. https://maisonbisson.com/post/how-to-get-off-an-rbl/ Sat, 31 Jan 2004 00:27:43 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/how-to-get-off-an-rbl/ <p>It sucks to get on a email blackhole list. Click “more” to find out how we got PSU off ATT.net’s proprietary RBL.</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/entertainment-value/ Thu, 29 Jan 2004 06:16:48 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/entertainment-value/ First, take a look at &lt; bushin30seconds.org &gt; . It will do more to make you mad than entertain you, but take a look and channel that anger into something meaningful. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-unwired-world-is-growing/ Thu, 29 Jan 2004 06:08:04 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-unwired-world-is-growing/ <p>First, look at some numbers:</p> <p>“‘Last year under 20 percent of the laptops have Wi-Fi built in, this year it’s 40 percent.’ Says Brain Grimm, communications director for the Wi-Fi Alliance”</p> <p>Now consider that the quote appeared in a <a href="http://aaaworld.com/pages/articles.asp?id=154" title="story in AAAWorld">story in AAAWorld</a> (yes, the American Auto Association). Their demographic is generally older and non-technical, so either their demographic is changing or “non-technical” is being redefined. I’m going to bet that the water is rising and, just as the world now accepts email, it now seems to expect some understanding of networking.</p> <p>Hmmm.</p> <p><span style="color:red"><b>[UPDATE]</b></span> And now the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank is <a href="http://minneapolisfed.org/pubs/fedgaz/04-01/wireless.cfm" title="reporting on growing WiFi use in the Mid-West">reporting on growing WiFi use in the Mid-West</a>! Oh my.</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/why-superbowl-ads-matter/ Wed, 28 Jan 2004 07:36:14 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/why-superbowl-ads-matter/ Last Saturday was the 20th anniversary of the Macintosh. Apple announced the Macintosh to about 90 million households in a 60 second ad during the superbowl. https://maisonbisson.com/post/okay-now-i-want-one/ Wed, 28 Jan 2004 06:21:01 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/okay-now-i-want-one/ <p>There are two things you need to know about the <a href="http://www.tatra.demon.nl/" title="The International Streamlined Tatra Site">The International Streamlined Tatra Site</a>: It’s cool, and they’re cool.</p> <p>I happen to love art deco advertising, and it seems Tatra has some of the best. Of course, I wouldn’t know anything about Tatra (it’s a car company, or it was, they now only make trucks) except I stumbled across <a href="https://maisonbisson.com/post/10003" title="this story">this story</a> elsewhere.</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/warren-republicans-vote-democrat/ Tue, 27 Jan 2004 23:09:10 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/warren-republicans-vote-democrat/ Former Vermont governor Howard Dean carried the polls in Warren this primary night. The numbers for the rest of the state are still being counted, but what’s more impressive to me is the number of voters who went to the polls and the number of registered republicans who wrote in Democrats on their ballots. https://maisonbisson.com/post/czech-it-out/ Fri, 23 Jan 2004 02:05:06 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/czech-it-out/ Bad headline, yes, but what this guy has done with his car is pretty cool. https://maisonbisson.com/post/antarctica-in-my-name/ Tue, 20 Jan 2004 17:14:48 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/antarctica-in-my-name/ It’s good to know that there’s an Antarctic outpost in my namesake. Good ol’ Casey Station even has a webcam. https://maisonbisson.com/post/ethels-holiday-fashion/ Wed, 17 Dec 2003 01:04:26 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/ethels-holiday-fashion/ Nothing says holidays like leopard print. More photos from MaisonBisson https://maisonbisson.com/post/how-to-have-fun-like-i-just-did/ Tue, 09 Dec 2003 01:04:28 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/how-to-have-fun-like-i-just-did/ Start with approx 1 cup of bacon grease collected over time just like Jon’s mom said to do. https://maisonbisson.com/post/more-complaining-and-whining/ Wed, 29 Oct 2003 16:17:44 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/more-complaining-and-whining/ The lousy Red Cross can’t get its act together well enough to schedule blood drives in Plymouth (where I work each day) well enough so regular donors can go to all of them. https://maisonbisson.com/post/oreillys-wireless-hacks/ Wed, 15 Oct 2003 23:57:56 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/oreillys-wireless-hacks/ The question here is between 802.1x authentication and web-based, captive portal authentication. The former has high client requirements, the later seems too simple. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wireless-vulnerabilities/ Thu, 02 Oct 2003 19:16:20 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wireless-vulnerabilities/ Related to my review of wireless security landscape is this review of threats to wireless security. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-wireless-security-landscape/ Thu, 02 Oct 2003 17:51:13 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-wireless-security-landscape/ The view from the trenches Fall 2002 Below is an email I sent to MacLabManagers mail list in late September 2002. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wired-mags-12-commandments-of-programming/ Fri, 22 Aug 2003 17:04:41 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wired-mags-12-commandments-of-programming/ <p>Wired Magazine has an interesting article on “<a href="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/xmen_pr.html" title="Extreme Programming">Extreme Programming</a>.” Supposedly, the solo programmer pulling all-nighters on excessive caffein is out. In are 40 hour work weeks, group coordination, and two people per computer. But what about productivity cry the managers. According to the article, coders do more, do it faster, and do it with fewer bugs this way.</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/summary-page-for-music-industry-wackiness/ Sun, 10 Aug 2003 12:17:59 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/summary-page-for-music-industry-wackiness/ I’ve posted a number of stories and links related to the music industry and P2P and such. https://maisonbisson.com/post/perfect-for-the-church-social/ Sun, 10 Aug 2003 02:16:22 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/perfect-for-the-church-social/ Hey, so what about the local sports team and their player that’s excelling with that thing that he does? https://maisonbisson.com/post/street-lightsand-other-things-that-dont-work-the-way-they-should/ Fri, 08 Aug 2003 21:26:20 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/street-lightsand-other-things-that-dont-work-the-way-they-should/ It’s probably due to my color blindness, but I have the darndest time seeing streetlights (the red/yellow/green things at controlled intersections) at night. https://maisonbisson.com/post/time-wasters/ Fri, 08 Aug 2003 03:37:41 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/time-wasters/ <p>I found myself waiting. A CD quietly burned in the combo-drive, a computer slowly reboot after a system update, and a large file was drifting across the ether[net] between my laptop and sever. Clearly this was the time to surf over to <a href="http://ilovebacon.com/" title="ilovebacon.com">ilovebacon.com</a> and waste some time.</p> <p>I was in luck right away. <a href="http://asksnoop.com/" title="Ask Snoop">Ask Snoop</a> isn’t quite as funny as old <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/misc/jive/pkg-descr" title="unix jive">unix jive</a>, but it’s good for some quick laughs.</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/music-this-music-that/ Mon, 04 Aug 2003 23:53:43 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/music-this-music-that/ Continuing the recent music and copyright theme…. It turns out that I wasn’t the only one who thought the BuyMusic. https://maisonbisson.com/post/website-spotlight/ Thu, 31 Jul 2003 16:10:57 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/website-spotlight/ I just added ArsTechnica to the list of websites I check daily. I’ve been reading technical articles there for years, but two articles today clinched it: “the social complexities of the f-word” and “your cheating heart’s been clickin’ her buttons. https://maisonbisson.com/post/copying-is-theft-and-other-legal-myths/ Wed, 30 Jul 2003 00:15:24 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/copying-is-theft-and-other-legal-myths/ Music has been an issue for me lately. What with my previous stories about the “decline of the album format” (and why I think it’s a good thing) and how music swappers apparently buy more music, you’d think I’d gotten the matter out of my system. https://maisonbisson.com/post/usb-hacking/ Wed, 16 Jul 2003 23:33:34 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/usb-hacking/ So I’d like to get this old USB video capture device working in OS X, but the vendor has quit the business and no OS X drivers are around for it. https://maisonbisson.com/post/whiney-sell-outs/ Wed, 16 Jul 2003 20:34:06 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/whiney-sell-outs/ <p>Charles Haddad writes in <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jul2003/tc20030715_6812_tc056.htm" title="Business Week Online">Business Week Online</a> about musicians making a stand for the “integrity of the album format.” Fortunately, he gets it right: this isn’t about artists looking after their art, this is about the end of a business strategy where a few good tracks are mingled with a pile of chaff and called an ‘album.’</p> <blockquote> <p>What’s really important here is that you can buy what you want, rather than just what labels and the bands have decided you should have. No longer do you have take the fat with the meat — and pay $15 or more for a CD that has only three songs you like. …This doesn’t necessarily mean the death of album rock, just bad album rock. A package of great songs that work together will still sell. Just look at the evergreen appeal of the Who’s Tommy or Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue .</p> <p>The labels may be forced to change. If filler no longer sells, will the music industry continue to compel bands to produce it? Maybe, just maybe, bands and labels will start improving the overall quality of pop music.</p> </blockquote> https://maisonbisson.com/post/music-labels-have-heads-up-asses/ Wed, 09 Jul 2003 22:41:44 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/music-labels-have-heads-up-asses/ <p>A story on BBC News (<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/3052145.stm" title="File Swappers 'Buy More Music'">File Swappers ‘Buy More Music’</a>) reports on a study that claims those who download music using P2P services (old Napster, Gnutella, etc) actually buy more music. It should make sense to anybody with a hair of marketing experience: <strong>try before you buy</strong>.</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/yummy-shit/ Wed, 09 Jul 2003 16:52:42 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/yummy-shit/ <p>Karen pointed out an article about <a href="http://www.fortune.com/fortune/thisjustin/0,15704,462520,00.html" title="scary-but-common food ingredients">scary-but-common food ingredients</a> at Fortune.com</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/stupid-os-x-server-hint/ Wed, 09 Jul 2003 13:26:13 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/stupid-os-x-server-hint/ OS X Server is great, but it doesn’t respond well when you change its IP number. https://maisonbisson.com/post/dvrs-are-cool/ Sun, 08 Jun 2003 01:32:09 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/dvrs-are-cool/ I don’t watch much TV and I don’t own a TiVo, but I love the idea. https://maisonbisson.com/post/apollo-archive/ Sun, 25 May 2003 15:21:24 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/apollo-archive/ The Apollo Archive boasts a wealth of content covering the moon landing. Good stuff. https://maisonbisson.com/post/google-watch/ Mon, 12 May 2003 19:34:36 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/google-watch/ Google has been raved about since it first appeared on the search engine scene four years ago. https://maisonbisson.com/post/you-are-being-lied-to/ Sat, 26 Apr 2003 18:35:14 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/you-are-being-lied-to/ I found a collection of three books by The Disinformation Company on a shelf in City Lights. https://maisonbisson.com/post/good-liberal-rabble-rousing/ Sat, 19 Apr 2003 03:42:56 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/good-liberal-rabble-rousing/ It’s a pleasure to read the many pages of Molotov Cocktail for the Soul. https://maisonbisson.com/post/iug-2003-library-portal-integration/ Tue, 15 Apr 2003 15:35:20 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/iug-2003-library-portal-integration/ Elaine Allard and I will be presenting on Library Portal Integration at the IUG 2003 in San Jose, CA. https://maisonbisson.com/post/tinkerers-joy/ Sun, 13 Apr 2003 12:59:42 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/tinkerers-joy/ While reading up on the SLiMP3 network MP3 player I came across some mention of Dallas Semiconductor and their line of wonderfully hackable TINI ICs. https://maisonbisson.com/post/ohh-film-music/ Fri, 11 Apr 2003 01:28:32 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/ohh-film-music/ Pornorchestra: The PornOrchestra is an attempt to radically reinterpret the soundtrack to pornographic film. This complicated genre has taken its share of scorn: from adult film producers who refuse to pay it any mind to legions of consumers who instinctively snap the sound off after pressing Play. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-promise-of-wireless/ Thu, 10 Apr 2003 14:30:43 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-promise-of-wireless/ <p>Wired has a story about <a href="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.05/unwired/work_pr.html" title="the effect of wireless">the effect of wireless</a> on agriculture, theme parks, health care, and conferences.</p> <p>So speaketh O’Reilly’s Rael Dornfest about a recent conference with ubiquitous WiFi access:</p> <blockquote> <p>“people weren’t disappearing back to their rooms to check email between sessions. They’d just sit down in one of the common areas and log on. Because everyone was gathering in the same place, there was a lot more spontaneous discussion. Also, the sessions themselves became more interactive.”</p> </blockquote> https://maisonbisson.com/post/cool-fonts/ Thu, 10 Apr 2003 12:49:21 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/cool-fonts/ Font Diner offers some darn cool fonts. Go visit their site for freebies too. https://maisonbisson.com/post/a-farmers-job/ Wed, 09 Apr 2003 00:52:08 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/a-farmers-job/ I don’t know who gets the worse end of this stick, but it’s really sad that chemists can’t tell the difference between banned nerve agents and agricultural pesticides. https://maisonbisson.com/post/conflict-management/ Tue, 08 Apr 2003 14:27:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/conflict-management/ <p>How to talk down your adversary: “There is no reproach between me and you except the stabbing of kidneys and the chopping of heads.”</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/damn-cool-site/ Sat, 05 Apr 2003 21:56:07 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/damn-cool-site/ <p><a href="http://www.plumbdesign.com/" title="Plumb Design's">Plumb Design’s</a> <a href="http://www.visualthesaurus.com/" title="Visual Thesaurus">Visual Thesaurus</a> may be the coolest thing ever.</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/psychoanalysis-word-of-the-day/ Sun, 30 Mar 2003 20:03:20 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/psychoanalysis-word-of-the-day/ Ego Dystonic https://maisonbisson.com/post/elvis-vs-nixon/ Tue, 25 Mar 2003 20:54:53 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/elvis-vs-nixon/ A friend forwarded a link that reveals the following story (as quoted from the website): https://maisonbisson.com/post/tom-bihn-bags/ Fri, 21 Mar 2003 00:43:07 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/tom-bihn-bags/ The story is that Tom Bihn designs and makes bags for laptops and other stuff. Or, at least that’s what Tom says at his site. https://maisonbisson.com/post/conferencing-in-dc/ Fri, 14 Mar 2003 14:37:38 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/conferencing-in-dc/ I’m in Washington D.C. at the Computers in Libraries conference. It’s a good lineup of presenters and good programs, but I’m sad to know that I’ll be missing a peace rally this Saturday. https://maisonbisson.com/post/short-quiz/ Sat, 08 Mar 2003 23:56:42 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/short-quiz/ For discussion: WORLD HISTORY 101 MID-TERM EXAM This test consists of one (1) multiple-choice question (so you better get it right! https://maisonbisson.com/post/bi-bam-bab-in-cambridge/ Sat, 08 Mar 2003 21:55:57 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bi-bam-bab-in-cambridge/ The Korea Garden is on 20 Pearl Street somewhere behind the Middle East in Cambridge, Mass. https://maisonbisson.com/post/counterscript/ Thu, 06 Mar 2003 14:10:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/counterscript/ Telemarketers may be people too, but this script will ease the pain of their next call. https://maisonbisson.com/post/warren-redstone-brochure-available/ Wed, 05 Mar 2003 18:24:19 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/warren-redstone-brochure-available/ I found a brochure about the Warren Redstone and present it here for your enjoyment in PDF form. https://maisonbisson.com/post/yum/ Mon, 03 Mar 2003 17:35:38 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/yum/ Email received today: Nothing starts a Monday off like Kippered Seafood Snacks, Deviled Ham, with a side of Spam, Potted Meat Food Product, followed by Vienna Sausage, all washed down with some Icey cold Clam Juice. https://maisonbisson.com/post/justin-and-the-sled-dogs/ Sun, 02 Mar 2003 03:48:59 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/justin-and-the-sled-dogs/ The season for running sled dogs is almost at its end. Here’s a short video of Justin racing for the finish of one of his last races of 2003. https://maisonbisson.com/post/ashcrofts-biggest-boob/ Wed, 19 Feb 2003 17:07:47 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/ashcrofts-biggest-boob/ In the way emails thread their way from one person to another I came across the text of a speech about antics in the US Justice Department. https://maisonbisson.com/post/marketing-artifacts/ Mon, 17 Feb 2003 13:18:29 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/marketing-artifacts/ Each of us deals with a lot of stuff unique to our jobs or life context, stuff that outsiders never see. https://maisonbisson.com/post/more-commercialism/ Mon, 17 Feb 2003 13:03:33 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/more-commercialism/ People have asked about this whole t-shirt thing. Click the banner to see how it works. https://maisonbisson.com/post/state-of-the-union/ Mon, 17 Feb 2003 12:53:36 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/state-of-the-union/ It’s not real, but it may be more accurate. Watch the State of the Union speech here. https://maisonbisson.com/post/where-have-all-the-updates-gone-long-time-passing/ Mon, 17 Feb 2003 12:00:19 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/where-have-all-the-updates-gone-long-time-passing/ Since this website is such an important and valued news source for so many people, I’ve received many dire complaints about the scarcity of updates over the past month. https://maisonbisson.com/post/common-sense-revisited/ Sun, 02 Feb 2003 23:21:47 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/common-sense-revisited/ This may not be news to somebody who hadn’t swallowed the school approved version of American history whole, but there are a few important things to note: https://maisonbisson.com/post/bryson-on-language/ Tue, 28 Jan 2003 23:07:08 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/bryson-on-language/ Speaking on language patterns around the time of the American Civil War, Bill Bryson states: …no nineteenth century journalist with any self-respect would ever write that a house had burned down, but must instead say that a great conflagration consumed the edifice. https://maisonbisson.com/post/mitnick-off-parole/ Thu, 23 Jan 2003 20:04:17 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/mitnick-off-parole/ He’ll be on parole of a long time, and he’s facing a number of additional restrictions, but Kevin Mitnick is finally free! https://maisonbisson.com/post/maison-bissons-winter-drink/ Thu, 16 Jan 2003 18:00:25 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/maison-bissons-winter-drink/ The holidays are long since past, here’s a drink to carry you through ’till Spring. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-light/ Tue, 14 Jan 2003 20:24:21 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-light/ I’ve found it. It’s here! https://maisonbisson.com/post/newswatch-foreign-secrets-bad-domestic-secrets-good/ Fri, 03 Jan 2003 09:44:43 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/newswatch-foreign-secrets-bad-domestic-secrets-good/ The news of the day is government secrecy. NPR’s All Things Considered ran two stories about the matter today. https://maisonbisson.com/post/trickle-down-voodoo/ Thu, 26 Dec 2002 16:53:24 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/trickle-down-voodoo/ <p>It seems clear that Trickle Down Economics is back with new tax breaks for the rich, new spending on the <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2002/37/ma_106_01.html" title="security-industrial complex">security-industrial complex</a>, and our first dip into deficit spending in years. While some call it it Voodo Economics, faith in Trickle Down Economics seems to be based upon the oft repeated line that anytime you put money into the economy, it benefits everybody. When pressed about rising executive salaries, believers embrace that too as eventually benefitting the economy.</p> <p>I found myself in an argument about these matters recently, and had to take a moment to assemble my thoughts about it.</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/new-books/ Thu, 26 Dec 2002 13:30:56 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/new-books/ I used to read magazines — I find it difficult to commit to things and magazines let me off easy, but I’ve been feeling unfulfilled by magazines lately (those who know me might also point out that I was somehow able to commit to marriage, and I’m still married over four years now). https://maisonbisson.com/post/ibowling-for-columbinei-highlights-meaningless-ideology/ Tue, 24 Dec 2002 17:36:49 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/ibowling-for-columbinei-highlights-meaningless-ideology/ There’s a small battle being fought in the comments of my previous entry about Bowling for Columbine. https://maisonbisson.com/post/road-rage/ Mon, 16 Dec 2002 13:21:21 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/road-rage/ While the state argues with environmentalists about needed environmental abatement in the project to widen I93, we should all take a moment to consider the social implications of the plan. https://maisonbisson.com/post/ipod/ Thu, 12 Dec 2002 20:13:55 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/ipod/ Links: iPod iPodHacks.com iPods Around The World Newtons Around The World iPoding.com PodNews Wired News’ Cult of Mac https://maisonbisson.com/post/water-world/ Thu, 12 Dec 2002 13:19:45 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/water-world/ Water is the primary ingredient in every liquid soap, body wash, shampoo, and conditioner product in my bathroom. https://maisonbisson.com/post/ebn-videos-online/ Tue, 10 Dec 2002 13:19:28 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/ebn-videos-online/ EBN, Emergency Broadcast Network, was a band of media jammers from the days of the Gulf War (the one back in 1990). https://maisonbisson.com/post/movie-ibowling-for-columbinei/ Fri, 06 Dec 2002 01:51:24 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/movie-ibowling-for-columbinei/ A friend of mine recently pointed out what I should have seen for myself: conservatives won’t change. https://maisonbisson.com/post/turn-of-century-bridge-jumpers-had-wide-field-of-opportunity/ Wed, 04 Dec 2002 00:22:55 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/turn-of-century-bridge-jumpers-had-wide-field-of-opportunity/ The opening of a new bridge in the early 20th century attracted a lot of attention. https://maisonbisson.com/post/wnyc-on-the-media-does-sex-show/ Tue, 03 Dec 2002 15:52:11 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/wnyc-on-the-media-does-sex-show/ On the Media’s recent show on November 29th and a piece in All Things Considered explored the relationship between technology and pornography. https://maisonbisson.com/post/booklist-inickel-and-dimedi/ Wed, 27 Nov 2002 01:01:19 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/booklist-inickel-and-dimedi/ When I first found Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed while waiting for someone or something, I picked it up and started reading in the middle. https://maisonbisson.com/post/apple-and-the-future-of-intelectual-property/ Thu, 21 Nov 2002 20:21:42 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/apple-and-the-future-of-intelectual-property/ Macintouch pointed me to a blog entry at PlasticBag.org related to the role of computers in the war over digital intellectual property rights. https://maisonbisson.com/post/marching-toward-privatization/ Tue, 19 Nov 2002 14:54:14 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/marching-toward-privatization/ <p>Republicans and business leaders have been pushing privatization (and deregulation) for decades. Now, the results of this effort are becoming clear.</p> <p>Even as the Bush administration announces <a href="http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/local/4531730.htm" title="plans">plans</a> to privatize nearly a million federal jobs, reports of the costs and failures of such privatization roll in. <em><a href="http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2002/45/ma_144_01.html" title="Mother Jones">Mother Jones</a></em> reports this month on the growth in privatization of <a href="http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/release.cfm?ID=1187" title="municipal water systems">municipal water systems</a>. The result in cities like Atlanta has been water boiling alerts do to dangerous bacteria levels, and poor service do to a workforce slashed by cost cutting.</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/activist-art/ Thu, 14 Nov 2002 14:43:44 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/activist-art/ <p>Art is not, or does not have to be, cheery. It turns out that people become troubled and conflicted when they see pictures of the hungry and the homeless just weeks before Thanksgiving and the start of the holidays.</p> <p>The <em><a href="http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/Main.asp?SectionID=25&amp;SubSectionID=354&amp;ArticleID=67627" title="Nashua Telegraph">Nashua Telegraph</a></em> takes up the story here: A new exhibit in the Town Hall Gallery, designed to raise awareness of and funds for the Open Cupboard Food Pantry, has gathered some complaints from residents and prompted the Board of Selectmen to suggest that it be removed. The exhibit consists of a selection of black- and-white photographs taken by resident Preston Heller of urban street scenes and various people he describes as being at the bottom of the social ladder.’</p> <p><strong>UPDATE Nov-18-2002</strong>: <a href="http://www.nhpr.org/content/fullmonty_view/4130/" title="NHPR">NHPR</a> reported on this story today, and linked to the photographer’s <a href="http://www.prestonheller.com/" title="online gallery">online gallery</a>.</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/in-imother-jonesi-a-confederacy-of-cronies/ Thu, 14 Nov 2002 14:31:40 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/in-imother-jonesi-a-confederacy-of-cronies/ Readers can trust Mother Jones to shine liberal light on conservatives. In A Confederacy of Cronies George Packer tells us how difficult it can be to play America’s CEO, where regular Americans really stand. https://maisonbisson.com/post/great-movie-criticism/ Thu, 14 Nov 2002 12:05:52 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/great-movie-criticism/ <p>It’s hard to explain why or how I just stumbled across a 15 year old <a href="http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/ebert_reviews/1987/06/237493.html" title="Roger Ebert movie review">Roger Ebert movie review</a>, so I won’t. I will try to explain why I found the review so real.</p> <ol> <li> <p>I actually saw <a href="http://us.imdb.com/Details?0092632" title="this movie">this movie</a>, and it’s really every bit as bad as the review suggests.</p> </li> <li> <p>Ebert questions how movies stereotype baddies. Ebert doesn’t get too controversial, so this is as much as we’ll get out of him.</p> </li> </ol> https://maisonbisson.com/post/mac-geeks-have-more-fun/ Tue, 12 Nov 2002 21:11:59 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/mac-geeks-have-more-fun/ Thanks to the folks at MacOS X Hints, I’ve been pointed to the most useless thing ever: a tool that allows you to view any QuickTime file in your terminal window as ASCII text. https://maisonbisson.com/post/understanding-marijuana/ Tue, 12 Nov 2002 20:58:14 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/understanding-marijuana/ Liane Hansen of NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday interviewed Dr. Mitch Earleywine about his recent book, Understanding Marijuana: A New Look at the Scientific Evidence this weekend. https://maisonbisson.com/post/framethief-animation-toolbox/ Thu, 07 Nov 2002 13:07:15 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/framethief-animation-toolbox/ FrameThief is a toolbox for capturing hand-drawn frames and assembling them as animation. Image sources can include video camera — the old standby, and digital still camera — a new twist that allows animators to work in HDTV resolutions. https://maisonbisson.com/post/political-economic-conspiracy/ Wed, 06 Nov 2002 09:17:48 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/political-economic-conspiracy/ Marektplace comentator James Galbraith explains in Tuesday’s show how this will be a longer and deeper recession than previously thought and many economic indicators may have been manipulated to hide the recession’s true nature prior to November 5. https://maisonbisson.com/post/mile-markers/ Tue, 29 Oct 2002 15:15:35 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/mile-markers/ Matt Frondorf’s American Mile Markers takes us on a tour from New York to San Francisco, one photo per mile. https://maisonbisson.com/post/yahoo-pen-twirling/ Thu, 24 Oct 2002 12:36:20 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/yahoo-pen-twirling/ Pen twirling takes great skill that can be achieved only by hard practice and determination. https://maisonbisson.com/post/hops-n-things/ Tue, 22 Oct 2002 16:22:19 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/hops-n-things/ It was a few years ago now that Jon at Hops n’ Things put us on track to brew our first big batch of cider. https://maisonbisson.com/post/redstonebrewerycom-online/ Tue, 15 Oct 2002 16:50:32 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/redstonebrewerycom-online/ After months of lost time, RedstoneBrewery.com is finally online. There’s not much there, but you wait baby. https://maisonbisson.com/post/raspberry-jelly/ Tue, 08 Oct 2002 15:45:05 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/raspberry-jelly/ I usually try to keep this blog above trivial things like this, but not today. I enjoy penut butter and jelly sandwiches, but usually with raspberry preserves — the stuff with fruit chunks a seeds in it. https://maisonbisson.com/post/modern-drunkard-magazine/ Tue, 01 Oct 2002 16:54:45 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/modern-drunkard-magazine/ This little ‘zine just scored distribution with Borders book stores. But if you can’t find it there, take a look at Modern Drunkard Magazine online. https://maisonbisson.com/post/megahertz-gap/ Fri, 27 Sep 2002 01:43:26 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/megahertz-gap/ So the project to crack a 64-bit RC5 encryption key is over. Some computer in Japan figured it out in July, but everybody was too busy to notice until last week. https://maisonbisson.com/post/was-capitalism-the-only-difference/ Fri, 27 Sep 2002 00:35:04 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/was-capitalism-the-only-difference/ &lt;a href=&ldquo;http://www.cera.com/commandingheights/&quot; title=&quot;Commanding Heights“&gt;Commanding Heights authors Daniel Yergen and Joseph Stanislaw tell us that workers in communist Russia were not motivated to work simply because the government controlled economy offered no rewards for innovation. https://maisonbisson.com/post/mc-hawking-drops-some-science-you/ Wed, 25 Sep 2002 01:59:36 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/mc-hawking-drops-some-science-you/ <p><img align="right" alt="Busta Hawking, himself!" width="87" height="100" border="0" src="www-mchawking-com-hawkingmugshot_2.jpg" />The opening to <a href="http://www.mchawking.com/" title="this site">this site</a> announces “Yo! This site is your ultimate resource for information about Stephen Hawking the gangsta rapper.” And if that isn’t enough to make you go look there right now, then I suppose you feel bad for the poor guy and don’t like jerks who wish to make fun of him.</p> <p>Anyway.</p> <p>Just now he’s got a link up that points out one more sport I’ve never heard of or imagined: <a href="http://www.speedstacks.com/videos.htm" title="cup stacking">cup stacking</a>.</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-first-law-of-assignation/ Thu, 19 Sep 2002 19:16:57 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-first-law-of-assignation/ The person [closest to the act/holding the instrument of the act], no matter how qualified or culpable is first to be assigned [credit/blame] for the act. https://maisonbisson.com/post/natalie-jeremijenko-and-the-interaction-between-humans-and-technology/ Tue, 17 Sep 2002 19:27:21 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/natalie-jeremijenko-and-the-interaction-between-humans-and-technology/ It’s not for nothing that the MIT Technology Review named Natalie Jeremijenko “one of the top one hundred young innovators. https://maisonbisson.com/post/weeds-and-flowers/ Fri, 13 Sep 2002 01:19:42 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/weeds-and-flowers/ Weeds and flowers alike seek the sunlight — nobody can fault them for that — but some of them learn do it with beauty and grace. https://maisonbisson.com/post/human-intoface-faceidentity/ Fri, 06 Sep 2002 11:28:36 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/human-intoface-faceidentity/ From the artist’s statement: “Images of faces hold little ability to communicate the totality of a personality. https://maisonbisson.com/post/hungry-man-xxl/ Mon, 26 Aug 2002 15:57:08 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/hungry-man-xxl/ The marketers and designers for this product found their audience, and know how to speak to them. https://maisonbisson.com/post/book-list-iflight-of-passagei/ Mon, 26 Aug 2002 14:37:44 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/book-list-iflight-of-passagei/ I’m all wrapped up by Flight of Passage, Rinker Buck’s tale of his 1966 journey cross country with his brother in an old Piper Cub. https://maisonbisson.com/post/american-tyranny/ Wed, 21 Aug 2002 14:34:44 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/american-tyranny/ The worst forms of tyranny are those so subtle, so deeply ingrained, so thoroughly controlling as not even to be consciously experienced. https://maisonbisson.com/post/corn-flakes-mccarthy-and-flag-wavers/ Tue, 20 Aug 2002 01:15:24 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/corn-flakes-mccarthy-and-flag-wavers/ This story would be more appropriate for early July — that’s probably when this flag-printed box of Kellogg’s Corn Flakes was put on the shelf — but it was just last weekend when I came across it at our Warren Village Market. https://maisonbisson.com/post/dreams-what-do-they-mean/ Mon, 12 Aug 2002 11:00:22 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/dreams-what-do-they-mean/ Years ago, I used to wake up with a start. I’d be trying to sit up with my hands outstretched in front of me. https://maisonbisson.com/post/caseys-sky-diving-adventure/ Wed, 07 Aug 2002 17:16:15 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/caseys-sky-diving-adventure/ I made my one and only parachute jump back in the Fall of 1997. About a year ago I re-edited the video of that event. https://maisonbisson.com/post/oreilly-offers-macos-x-conference/ Tue, 30 Jul 2002 23:35:45 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/oreilly-offers-macos-x-conference/ The O’Reilly folks aren’t the only old Unix geeks who’ve been looking at Mac OS X with hungry eyes. https://maisonbisson.com/post/vegas-guide-part-1-introduction/ Sun, 28 Jul 2002 02:59:02 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/vegas-guide-part-1-introduction/ Las Vegas may be the most thoroughly American city. No other town has been so shaped by the singular desire to make a buck. https://maisonbisson.com/post/vegas-guide-part-2-peyote/ Sun, 28 Jul 2002 02:58:17 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/vegas-guide-part-2-peyote/ Most of Nevada’s land is under federal control. The Pentagon, Department of Energy, and Bureau of Land Management claim a total area of about 80% of the state. https://maisonbisson.com/post/vegas-guide-part-3-nukes-and-moon-hoaxes/ Sun, 28 Jul 2002 02:58:11 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/vegas-guide-part-3-nukes-and-moon-hoaxes/ On a map, Mercury sits a little northwest of Las Vegas. There is nothing to suggest that the town is inaccessible to the average tourist, but it is in fact a part of the Nevada Test Site — a nuclear bomb testing facility. https://maisonbisson.com/post/vegas-guide-part-4-flesh/ Sun, 28 Jul 2002 02:47:42 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/vegas-guide-part-4-flesh/ Prostitution in Vegas is illegal, but that’s okay. For a little jiggle, you can check out the innumerable gentlemen’s clubs and strip shows. https://maisonbisson.com/post/morse-museum-mummy-unmasked/ Tue, 23 Jul 2002 00:10:54 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/morse-museum-mummy-unmasked/ This isn’t current news by any stretch. The story was reported in the Boston Globe when it happened in 1997, and can be found on the web at Maine Antique Digest. https://maisonbisson.com/post/redstone-brewerys-product-labels/ Fri, 19 Jul 2002 01:02:44 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/redstone-brewerys-product-labels/ <p><img align="right" alt="Label: WARNING: Hazerdous alcohol inside. Can intoxicate, disorientate, or cause hangover." width="160" height="51" border="0" src="http://homepage.mac.com/misterbisson/RedstoneBrewery/Warning_s.jpg" />Brewing cider takes a long time.</p> <p>…and most of it is just waiting.</p> <p>So while we wait, I draw up new labels. Click for</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/maison-bissons-summer-drink/ Sat, 13 Jul 2002 17:00:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/maison-bissons-summer-drink/ Hot weather demands cool drinks. Lemonade is fine for the kids, but adults need a pitcher of something more entertaining. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-old-scooter/ Wed, 10 Jul 2002 13:32:53 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-old-scooter/ Yes. The scooter was a thing of ridicule for most people, but I loved it. Riding the scooter was like ‘playing bikes’ when I was ten. https://maisonbisson.com/post/airplane-safety/ Fri, 05 Jul 2002 14:25:25 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/airplane-safety/ <p><img align="right" alt="Assist Children Later." width="160" height="95" border="0" src="http://homepage.mac.com/misterbisson/AirplaneSafety/Mask.jpg" />It may be a little bit cliche after being ridiculed in <a href="http://us.imdb.com/Details?0137523" title="Fight Club">Fight Club</a> (The line was “Look at their faces, as calm as Hindu cows.”), but I’ve always loved airplane safety guides.</p> <p>Click for</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/warrens-morse-museum/ Tue, 02 Jul 2002 00:38:18 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/warrens-morse-museum/ <p><img align="right" alt="Warren's Morse Museum, viewed in an old postcard." width="160" height="102" border="0" src="http://homepage.mac.com/misterbisson/MorseMuseum/OldPostcard_s.jpg" />It’s hard to say which is more memorable: Warren’s <a href="https://maisonbisson.com/post/5" title="rocket">rocket</a> or our Morse Museum.</p> <p>For larger picture, click</p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/who-are-these-dorks/ Tue, 25 Jun 2002 11:33:17 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/who-are-these-dorks/ What a motley crew who work for ITS. Click for pictures. https://maisonbisson.com/post/newton-best-pda-ever/ Mon, 24 Jun 2002 16:29:59 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/newton-best-pda-ever/ Just as I’m about to retire my old Newton, just as I’m exporting the contacts and calendar entries, I rediscovered why the Newton was — and still is — the best PDA ever. https://maisonbisson.com/post/now-even-the-conservatives-agree-supporting-the-drug-war-supports-terrorists/ Sat, 22 Jun 2002 23:41:23 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/now-even-the-conservatives-agree-supporting-the-drug-war-supports-terrorists/ This may be old news (it was published on May 20th, 2002) but, David R. Henderson’s essay on how the drug war effects the war against terrorism is a must read for everybody. https://maisonbisson.com/post/cape-cod-dining-ay-caramba-cafe/ Fri, 21 Jun 2002 16:36:57 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/cape-cod-dining-ay-caramba-cafe/ Sandee and I stumbled into the Ay Caramba Cafe on Main Street in Harwich at just the right time. https://maisonbisson.com/post/cape-cod/ Thu, 20 Jun 2002 17:03:15 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/cape-cod/ Our Friends Troy and Karen were kind enough to invite us to Cape Cod to visit them. https://maisonbisson.com/post/doonesburys-middle-age-slump/ Wed, 19 Jun 2002 23:59:46 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/doonesburys-middle-age-slump/ A feature story by Jesse Walker in Reason Magazine’s July 2002 issue confirms something I’ve been worried about for a while: Doonesbury isn’t what it used to be. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-incident/ Wed, 19 Jun 2002 13:58:58 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-incident/ The front the shocks and coil springs slowed the downward thrust of the front suspension as inertia, stable just moments before, pitches the vehicle forward. https://maisonbisson.com/post/now-playing-at-maison-bisson/ Mon, 17 Jun 2002 12:20:38 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/now-playing-at-maison-bisson/ While mainstream (commercial) pop music producers are anxiously introducing ever younger children to ever more sexualised music, They Might Be Giants are busy making music for kids of all ages. https://maisonbisson.com/post/lustworthy-honda-silver-wing-and-reflex/ Sat, 15 Jun 2002 13:42:43 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/lustworthy-honda-silver-wing-and-reflex/ Sure, Italian scooters look great, but where do you get them serviced? Motostrada in Maryland has a great selection of new and vintage European scooters, but that’s the nearest dealership and service center. https://maisonbisson.com/post/learning-unix/ Sat, 15 Jun 2002 12:28:47 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/learning-unix/ MacOS X’s unix underpinnings have had Mac users asking the same question for a while now: “how can I learn Unix? https://maisonbisson.com/post/frozen-mud-slides-from-scratch/ Thu, 13 Jun 2002 17:38:47 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/frozen-mud-slides-from-scratch/ Who wouldn’t enjoy a frozen mud slide on a hot summer day? Typical recipes call for crushed ice and cream or ice cream. https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-plan/ Tue, 11 Jun 2002 18:21:51 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/the-plan/ What we need is a van. A black van with red alloy wheels and a diamond bubble window. https://maisonbisson.com/post/streamripper-saves-mp3-radio-to-disk/ Tue, 11 Jun 2002 17:02:16 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/streamripper-saves-mp3-radio-to-disk/ I must be an idiot not to have found Streamripper sooner. In the days before Walkmans I used to record radio broadcasts on an early portable cassette recorder so I could listen later. https://maisonbisson.com/post/story-review-derryl-murphys-ilast-calli/ Tue, 11 Jun 2002 08:10:54 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/story-review-derryl-murphys-ilast-calli/ One: I discovered Fictionwise.com, a source all types of fiction in eBook formats. Two: Here’s the assignment that lead me to look for Fictionwise in the first place. https://maisonbisson.com/post/my-new-favorite-pop/ Sun, 09 Jun 2002 19:52:50 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/my-new-favorite-pop/ I found a bottle of IBC Cream Soda at our famous Warren Village Market and it quickly reminded me of why I love cream soda. https://maisonbisson.com/post/pictures-of-the-warren-rocket-2/ Sat, 08 Jun 2002 04:51:01 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/pictures-of-the-warren-rocket-2/ Warren is blessed with a rocket. It was once a intermediate range ballistic missile, but it’s basically the same rocket that launched America’s first astronauts Allen B. https://maisonbisson.com/post/redstone-brewerys-first-steps/ Thu, 06 Jun 2002 05:49:24 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/redstone-brewerys-first-steps/ In the fall of 2000 Cliff convinced me that I needed to brew hard cider. In turn, I convinced him that we needed to brew lots of it. https://maisonbisson.com/post/color-theory/ Tue, 04 Jun 2002 06:07:20 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/color-theory/ My overwhelming interest in earth-tones and browns leads me to look for them and define them numerically. https://maisonbisson.com/post/tempo/ Tue, 04 Jun 2002 02:19:29 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/tempo/ Cameras need regular testing. Don’t they? View Tempo at .mac Theater. Originally put together to demonstrate synchronization of music and images. https://maisonbisson.com/post/hammernode-dynodns-services/ Thu, 30 May 2002 05:44:57 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/hammernode-dynodns-services/ Hammernode dynamic DNS services couldn’t be better. Well, what could be better than a free, high quality service? https://maisonbisson.com/post/headshots/ Mon, 06 May 2002 01:47:29 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/headshots/ Our new camera equipment arrived one day in August 2000. Obviously, it needed testing. This is the result. https://maisonbisson.com/post/iug-10-houston/ Sun, 05 May 2002 17:20:05 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/iug-10-houston/ Officially I’m here to attend the Innovative Users’ Group conference, but there’s a lot more to do in Texas and I took a few extra days to do it. https://maisonbisson.com/post/looking-at-waco/ Sun, 05 May 2002 14:45:38 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/looking-at-waco/ <div style="float: left; border: solid 2px #000000; margin: 4px 4px 4px 4px; padding: 4px 4px 4px 4px;" align="right" /> <p><strong><a href="https://maisonbisson.com/post/10153" title="Texas 2002 Stories">Texas 2002 Stories</a></strong></div></p> <p><img align="right" alt="Waco's Postcard." width="122" height="98" border="0" src="http://homepage.mac.com/misterbisson/Texas2002/waco.jpg" />I had a chance to visit Waco in April 2002. Here are some links that I gathered from that time. Eventually I’ll post a story to go with them.</p> <p><a href="http://www.drpeppermuseum.com/" title="Dr. Pepper Museum">Dr. Pepper Museum</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.wacocvb.com/" title="Waco Visitor Bureau">Waco Visitor Bureau</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.redmen.org/" title="Red Men Museum">Red Men Museum</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.texasranger.org/" title="Texas Ranger Museum">Texas Ranger Museum</a></p> <p><a href="http://dan.tobias.name/controversies/davidian/" title="Branch Davidians">Branch Davidians</a></p> https://maisonbisson.com/post/contrasting-houston/ Wed, 01 May 2002 06:00:44 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/contrasting-houston/ Texas 2002 Stories The Beer Can House on the northwest side of town was built by John Milkovisch starting in 1968. https://maisonbisson.com/post/galvestons-seawolf-park/ Tue, 30 Apr 2002 06:19:51 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/galvestons-seawolf-park/ Texas 2002 Stories While in Texas I had an oportunity to see Galveston and visit Seawolf Park. https://maisonbisson.com/post/visiting-the-branch-davidian-compund/ Sun, 28 Apr 2002 01:52:31 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/visiting-the-branch-davidian-compund/ Texas 2002 Stories Work brought me to Texas in April 2002, but morbid curiosity brought me to Waco. https://maisonbisson.com/post/quicktime-embed-tags/ Sun, 21 Apr 2002 06:21:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/quicktime-embed-tags/ Apple’s docs on embedding QT media in web pages. It’s here mostly as a bookmark for me. https://maisonbisson.com/search/ Mon, 01 Jan 2001 00:00:01 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/search/ From https://gist.github.com/eddiewebb/735feb48f50f0ddd65ae5606a1cb41ae, which continues: This file exists solely to respond to /search URL with the related search layout template.