A Day in Paradise

My Second audio blogpost… This one doesn’t have much interest to non technical people. Just me going on about a new description for podcasting. Because of popluar demand I don’t have any music this time.
FYI last week it was Mary Schnieder

Hey Adam, I love the show. I’ll keep this short since I know you’re busy.
The main problem that I see with the bandwidth issue is the format of the shows.
I’ll use the fantastic “I heard it on a Podcast” song which you’ve played twice:
4mb x 20,000 listeners (conservative number) x 2 = 160 gigs […]

BBC NEWS | UK | Family condemns police shooting
What more could a terrorist organisation want than to provoke a western government into killing their own people without the fear of recompense.
Anyone who reads this and thinks (or worse yet comments) that the extenuating circumstances made this case regrettable but an exceptable loss, is no better […]

This is just experimental, I don’t plan to start “podcasting” but was just fooling around… yes, I am a self important moron.
Listen here if you have the time and 9mb of extra bandwidth. I don’t know how this will work with RSS feeds, I added the enclosure tag to the WP “custom feilds” I’m not […]

BetaNews | Longhorn Gets a Name: Windows Vista
So right now we’re all chuckling, but we’re going to hear about this for the next few months, and it’ll sound perfectly normal and we won’t be able to imagine how it could have ever been called anything else.
Who hear didn’t gag when they first heard XP?

BBC NEWS | UK | Man shot by armed police on Tube
What ever happened to those good old batons which the bobbies have used to keep the peace in London for the last couple centuries? What about a taser?
The only logical reason why it MIGHT be nessesary to shoot someone is if they WERE […]

Why Frameworks Suck | devdev2040
Here’s an interesting blog entry which I picked up off John Herren’s 360 Blast.
It is a bit of a rant, but offers good defense of the humble library vs. the Enterprise frameworks.
I’m a library guy, I like a big set of tools available to call upon at need, I […]

Wired News: Blog Bares Sex Offender’s Demons
Why is it that these articles always put the scariest things at the very end. This is a story about the blog of some psycho. I assume it was headline news in the US, but I have no idea what he’s done.
The blog (as these blogs do) got attention […]

Software patent directive REJECTED - Tobias Schlitt - Weblog
Time to celebrate people! Software Patents have been rejected in Europe.

The European Parliament today decided by a large majority of 648 votes to reject the directive “on the patentability of computer implemented inventions”, also known as the software patent directive. This rejection was the logical answer to […]

EarthCore: A Podcast Novel
EarthCore was initially published as an ebook in 2001, in 2002 it was slated for a Nationwide paperback release, but the imprint was closed four months before the book was published. Riding the Podcasting wave Scott Sigler decided to pull “a cheap publicity stunt second only to a nude, ball-flapping, Secret Service […]

We developed project X but “We were ahead of the times and our customers weren’t ready for it”.
Nice way of saying project X tanked. Must remember for the next meeting I go to.

Two female teachers have been suspended for allegedly having a threesome with a 16-year-old male pupil.
The Evening Standard said staff and students had been to the Harrow pub to celebrate the end of lessons before going back to a member of staff’s house.
It was there the teachers and the boy were alleged to have had […]

Enterprise Open Source Roadshow

Frankfurt PHP Usergroup will be hosting Sandro Groganz and the 2005 “Enterprise Open Source Roadshow” in their September 20th Usergroup meeting. This is part of the Enterprise Open Source Roadshow which will be stopping at 5 cities in Germany and Austria.
There is a lot of planning to be done, the usergroup with […]