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And yet another program to keep running. One nice thing about this is it might give Skype a kick in the pants to start supporting more standards compliant stuff.
Like always, I’m awormus. Gimmie a call!
Update: Hey, now I’ve got a US phone number: 1-561-228-8008, you get to choose your own number… I picked that one because 8008 looks like BOOB 
I don’t have time to rant, but I just installed iTunes for the sole purpose of managing my podcasts. I download the initial Podshow and after downloading I go to play it and am faced with a “You are not authorized to play this file on this computer”.
Also how can I move all my stuff over from iPodder? iTunes has some REALLY nice features, specifically being able to mark shows as “listened to” and show description, but there must be a way to import your old files into it.
Anyway, after giving me the error message iTunes froze up, and I think it’ll take Windows Explorer with it… reboot, reboot.
Hardened-PHP Project forum / PHP XMLRPC Bug in numerous applications
No word yet as to whether or not Wordpress is effected by this yet. I just saw Mike’s blog drop off the radar, and since I’m not using the xmlrpc, I’ll settle with removing the interface until I get more details.
Note: According to this post the most recent release fixes this issue. Deleting xmlrpc.php is recommended if you can’t upgrade now.
50 Coolest Websites 2005 – TIME.com
Some pretty cool websites for anyone looking to expand their blogroll or favorites list. While they have some interesting sites in the list you wonder how others made it on the list.
choo choo | HackTrain 2005 | choo choo
If I had all the time|money in the world I’d be on the hacktrain. Pretty awesome, hitting Mannheim, Mainz, Frankfurt, Kassel, Hannover, Bielefeld, Essen, Dusseldorf, etc. Ends at What the Hack.
Round trip from Frankfurt from EU 100.
CBC Radio | Quirks & Quarks | Past Shows
Now that is just weird!
Maydianne Andrade has discovered, the redback spider has added a rather brutal twist to the cannibalistic mating ritual. Like most spiders, the female redback has two separate sperm storage organs. That means the male needs to mate with her twice to maximize his reproductive success. The catch is that the female redback likes to start eating the male while she’s mating with him. To get to the second mating, the male redback has developed a trick where he sucks in his belly, as it were, to protect his vital organs from the female’s attack. This allows him to survive long enough to mate once, court her again, and mate with her a second and last time before she finally does him in.
The short blurb doesn’t talk about the male redback has 2 “copulatory organs” and breaks them off to use as a “plug” to ensure no other spider mates.
Listen to the mp3 for the gory details.
So instead of stressing over some code issues I’m going to take a couple minutes out to reflect on life, love, the pursuit of happiness, and what the guy in front of me is so busy doing on his laptop. This guy seriously needs a life, sitting on the train, could be reading a good book or enjoying the scenery wooosh by, but instead he’s busily tapping away on his laptop, like the world depends on whatever drivel he’s typing so earnestly. I be he’s one of those “self-important-moron” bloggers.
He could be podcasting, which I guess would be worse. Unless he was Father Roderick, who I believe would make and awesome traveling companion. I just listened to his first sound-seeing tour in Rome today, my only complaint about his podcasts are that they make me so damn hungry. The bit when he was in turbulence was also pretty funny. Don’t they make you turn off your electronic devices while the seatbelt signs are on?
While we’re on podcasts, I’ll throw my two cents into the mix. I think the podcast counterpart to link-blogs are a total waste of time, as are the braindumps. I was just listening to a Don and Drew show and they were talking about “that movie they talked about in that one episode” they had no idea where it was… what is the point about talking about random things when there is no easy way to search through the data for things you are looking for? Now with the Catholic Insider, each podcast has a VERY clear theme, and further “indexing” is not nessesary. So it would be conceivable that someone would be looking for data on a subject through google, find the page using a text search, and then get the information they want by listening to the podcast which is entirely on the subject that they are interested in. Of course it won’t be long until google indexes audio files as well, then you can find results like “The word Wormus is used in the 23rd minute of this podcast, click hear to open this file in Google Media Player”. Anyway, with podcasts, it’s a hit and miss game… but the problem with the length, is that I can forsee it being quite difficult for quality podcasts to float to the top of the heap… I guess that’s where the link-blog podcasts and the promos come in handy.
I am on my way to LinuxTag… I missed a couple trains due to some last minute work that came up, but am finally on my way. First I RUN to the S-Bahn only to realize that the S-bahn I wanted to take doesn’t go on that hour, so I wait for the next one. Stella calls and she says she’ll drive me to the next stop, which has a lot more trains coming through it. After meeting up we decide that it doesn’t make sense to leave this station when the train is coming in 5 minutes… there was a very real chance of me missing this train at the next station as well.
This S-bahn would give me 3 minutes to find the ICE train at the main Frankfurt station and I’m pretty sure I can make it. So all is well, until the S-bahn stops in the tunnel for about 2 minutes… during which time I’m thinking about how I’m going to miss the last tram to the hotel in Karlsruhe and have to do the 15km walk in the middle of the night (strangely the trams stop at 10pm). I had to consolation that Lukas would be whizzing down that road at midnight on his bike, so if worst comes to worst I could always hitch a ride Finally the train moves again, and surprisingly makes up the time that we lost, giving me 2 whole minutes to find my train.
In one of those cruel twists of fate, I make it on time, but the train is delayed 5 minutes. Anyway, that pretty much brings us up to date. I’ve still got my programming problem to sort out and I think I’ll get on with it.
Heh, that guy in front of me is still typing away… probably writing his longest blog post ever. It’s pretty weird, we must be going through a thunder storm as ther eis a lot of lightning outside, but we can’t hear a thing… That is pretty awesome, silent thunder… the name of my new rock band… I really should shut up. Or start a podcast…
First slashdot comment in YEARS! Tooting my own horn and pointing to my Custom Keyword page. If anyone wants to take over that project, I would be very interested in seeing it take off again. It is pretty cool.
I’m pulling in to Karlsruhe around 19:00 and will be in town the night of the 21st and in or around LT for most of Wednesday (PEAR booth or OSCOM day talks). If anyone wants to hook up for dinner and/or drinks on the 21st, just give me a call/sms at: +49 (0) 163 803 6798.
MasterCard Says 40 Million Files Put at Risk – New York Times
OMG!!! Someone just bought a brand new laptop using my credit card, oh wait… that was me!
Anyway, it is scary if you have a mastercard, especially the line that said “The accounts affected included credit cards and certain kinds of debit cards.” Very disturbing.
“She would not elaborate on how long the breach might have lasted” probably means that they don’t have a farking clue, “the investigation is just beginning.” means that they probably never will.
BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | US officers ‘murdered by soldier’
Not an unusual story, but the last sentance was the one that caught my eye…
In April, a US military court sentenced another sergeant, Hasan Akbar, to death for killing two US officers in a grenade attack in Kuwait at the beginning of the war in Iraq.
In short “Kill someone who’s job it is to kill for killing someone whose job it is to teach people to kill, to show that killing people is wrong.”
Amazon.com: Books: Leaving the Saints : How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith
This is funny… I found this book from an Amazon Affilate banner on a Mormon site.
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