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http://www.ilovefreesoftware.com/
http://www.ilovefreesoftware.com/08/windows/business/draw-anywhere-free-online-diagramming-tool.html

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http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2010/03/does-uruguay-have-two-currencies-hail-heinrich-rittershausen.html http://www.safehaven.com/article-3932.htm http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2007/12/16/218-koreas-dark-half/ http://blogs.worthpublishers.com/seetheinvisiblehand/table-of-contents/ http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/28/how-to-build-engaging-one-of-kind-facebook-fan-pages/ http://taoofmoney.wordpress.com/2009/05/27/latin-americas-quiet-monetary-reform/

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Reading - February 24

Leadership http://blogs.bnet.com/ceo/?p=3892 - 10 mgmt lessons. transferable to a bunch of different situations. Productivity and Office http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2010/02/how-not-to-use-powerpoint/ http://www.equivalence.co.uk/archives/1646 Coding and Ideas

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links

http://www.gizmag.com/neptune-canada-undersea-observatory/13977/

http://neptunecanada.ca/

http://www.gizmag.com/misa-digital-guitar-midi-interface/13955/

http://www.gizmag.com/lockheed-martin-hulc-robotic-exoskeleton/13940/

http://www.gizmag.com/virtual-currency-ruling/13934/

http://www.hughbarnard.org/content/election-season-top-tips

http://chartercities.org/blog/101/greg-lindsay-on-creating-cities-from-scratch

http://chartercities.org/blog/100/enfranchising-the-jamaican-diaspora

[http://chartercities.org/blog/101/greg-lindsay-on-creating-cities-from-scratch] [http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/142/the-new-new-urbanism.html?page=0%252C0] [http://greeneconomics.blogspot.com/2010/01/my-new-nber-paper-on-chinas-green.html]

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from old deputy-dog - can't view so posting here

airports, runways and air traffic control

24Jun07

i used to think that all airports were pretty much the same: main grey terminal, long runway, immense car park, w.h.smith in every available corner. well they’re obviously not. there are, like most things in life, fascinating variations throughout the world. following the positive response to the ‘prisons of the world‘ post i thought i’d put together a collection of the most interesting airport related stuff i could find.

enjoy.

(p.s. please don’t bother attacking the lack of capital letters in my posts, it gets boring quite quickly. i’m just a fan of the lower-case)

1. world’s steepest runway

courchevel airport, courchevel, france

initially i thought this was completely fucking nuts.

“surely a runway that steep is asking for trouble?”, i wondered to myself.

but it actually makes more sense doesn’t it? more speed for take-off (i’m guessing that’s a plus) and a natural braking mechanism when landing (again, i’m assuming that’d be a winning formula. feel free to correct me).

watch the video for a scary take-off and landing…

2. world’s busiest airport (by passenger traffic)

hartsfield-jackson atlanta international airport, georgia, united states

before looking into this i was certain that heathrow would crush all opposition in this category, but apparently the claims i’d heard were all a myth (it turns out that if you discounted domestic flights heathrow would be the daddy).

the airport at atlanta kicks some ass when it comes to number of passengers, 2006’s total being 84,846,639. holy shit.

2nd place is chicago’s o’hare airport at 76,248,911.

3. world’s shortest commercial runway

yrasquin airport, saba

the runway at saba’s airport is an insanely brief 400 metres long. there’s also no room for error when you land there as each end of the runway is met by a drop and then water. for this reason it’s considered by many to be the most dangerous runway on earth and commercial planes need to get special permission to land on the strip.

there’s a video of a landing at the airport below…

4. world’s highest landing fee

toronto’s pearson airport,toronto, canada

according to the ‘air transport research society’ it costs a whopping us$10,986 to land a single boeing 747 at toronto’s pearson airport. like me that’s probably numbers to most of you but bear in mind that the second most expensive landing fees can be found at osaka’s kansai airport and they’re 45% lower than toronto’s. cheeky bastards.

next time you’re flying near canada just head for a field.

5. world’s most challenging runway approach

linzhi airport, tibet

all is explained in the following clip…

6. world’s most expensive airport construction

hong kong international airport, hong kong

the record is currently held by hong kong international airport which cost the government us$20bn back in 1997.

however, this claim is about to be smashed by the big-spending mentalists in dubai, surprise surprise, where they’re building ‘dubai international airport city’ .

“why build an airport when we can spend more money creating a gold-plated city with runways instead of roads?”

to be completed in 2018, the estimated final cost is now standing at us$82bn, so fuck knows what the actual cost of the ‘aerotropolis’ will be in 11 years time.

interesting fact – the airport city will house 750,000 people, making it almost as large as stockholm.

7. world’s best looking airport

suvarnabhumi airport, bangkok, thailand

obviously this is my personal opinion, it was a toss-up between bangkok, above, and incheon, below (which from a distance looks like something designed by h.r. giger).

8. world’s biggest airport (land mass)

king fahd international airport, saudi arabia

this monster sits on top of a piece of land that measures 780 square km.

that’s bigger than singapore and bigger than the airport’s neighbouring country, bahrain. the airport also contains a luxurious ‘royal terminal’ which is strictly reserved for royalty and heads of state visiting the area.

one thing seriously lacking at the airport is passengers. in 2004, 2,782,000 passengers passed through the place, now if you consider that the airport in atlanta is coping with around 84,846,639 per year in a much smaller area you can start to see the difference.

9. world’s most insane runway location

princess juliana international airport, france/netherlands

if you’ve ever been on youtube you’ll probably have watched a clip of a plane approaching a runway right next to a beach. that airport is princess julianna international airport.

here’s the clip that started everyone’s fascination with the airport…

below is a video compilation of some of the closest landings…

extras:

- well worth a watch, this is a 10 minute clip from a documentary about air traffic control, one of the most stressful jobs on earth…

- sticking with air traffic controllers, watch this and be scared. a terrifying clip from the documentary ‘air force, incorporated’ about the ‘disastrous state of civil aviation’ in argentina. it seems that not all controllers are as skilled as you’d imagine…

- finally, here’s a video showing 24 hours of air traffic over europe. terrifying.

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1 Miss Cellania on July 3, 2007 said:

I can well understand why building the new airport in Hong Kong cost so much -there is so little available land in HK, that they had to create a landfill in the sea. But it was very much needed. My first overseas trip landed at the OLD Hong Kong airport. The jumbo jet flew between buildings and landed on a runway built out over the sea… you wanna talk about scary, that was some introduction to Asia!

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2 deputydog on July 4, 2007 said:

jesus!
thank god i’ll never experience that.
it’s actually the take-off that gives me the creeps, when i’m high above land i somehow feel safer.

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3 jeffy-d on July 6, 2007 said:

wow those were great! i love to fly and would think about going to some of those place to have a look see. i wanna do that super short runway first and last would be flying to argentina.

great work!

jeff

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4 Filip, Sweden on July 8, 2007 said:

Ive been to the SaudiArabian one. Its freaking huge!

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5 Henrik on August 30, 2007 said:

like the princess juliana airport this one is also directly next to the beach:

Skiathos Airport in Greece:

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6 Iam Here on August 30, 2007 said:

Have a look at the Madeira Island Airport. A landing is very amazing!

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7 Old Swede 65 on August 30, 2007 said:

Gibraltar Airport is also interesting: The only road from Spain to Gibraltar is crossing the runway. The traffic is stopped each time there is a take off or landing.

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8 texaninhippieland on September 8, 2007 said:

Unknowingly, I went to that beach in St. Maartin. I had no idea what I was in store for. Scared the shit out of me.

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9 mglcsw on September 19, 2007 said:

The airport in San Diego, Calfornia, USA, is a bit scary. It is practically in the downtown area.

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10 Avi on October 7, 2007 said:

The images don’t work!

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11 Dave on October 9, 2007 said:

Wow, amazing videos on air traffic control. Makes you think of 9/11. Imagine having to land every single plane is US and Canadian airspace virtually at one. Yikes!

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12 Marc on October 15, 2007 said:

Beleve me, it’s all about the money.

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13 Kim on October 24, 2007 said:

What? NO Gibralar?

Short runway, and traffic has to be stopped to permit panes to land an take off

Its a real bastard when you’e running ate for work!

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Querkus ? Zagfab (live)

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http://www.gizmag.com/xcel-smart-grid-city-online/12851/

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BuildingBlocks for kids.

http://www.automoblox.com/

Ramagon (one set with directions)
Zome (2 sets gently used in box)
Exin Castello (nifty castle building!)
FisherTechnic (one vintage set)

Lego Forge

http://brickarms.com/

http://www.littlearmory.com/

Oxford K-1 force set
Oxford Ancient Korea or Temple set
Enlighten pirate ship set (there are 3 different ones out there)
Large Enlighten or kazi police station

Tyco Superblocks

http://mescalero.tripod.com/tyco.html

http://www.pebe-archiv.de/sets_main.htm

"Built To Rule is clear proof that an established toy manufacturing pedigree isn't enough to guarantee success in the construction brick toy market. This brand seemed like a great idea and a natural winner, piggy-backing on three perennially popular toy lines: GI Joe, Transformers, and Tonka. Nevertheless Built To Rule languished on the shelves, suffering from a weak (that is, nearly nonexistent} marketing campaign and curiously limited in-store visibility. Before long, sets originally priced at $29.99 were sold at remarkable discounts (up to 95% off), and even then they sold very slowly.

The GI Joe and Tonka sets included 1/18 scale action figures similar to conventional GI Joe soldiers but with stud attachment points on the forearms and boots. The Transformer sets could, within certain limits, morph into cars, trucks, or aircraft, much like conventional Transformers.

All three lines made extensive use of locking joints and embossed or engraved elements, adding a level of texture seldom seen in brick toys. The quality of the plastic was quite good, and the colors were rich and consistent, certainly on par with LEGO standards.

It's not clear whether the entirety of the 2004 lines was released. I own several of the 2004 sets and have seen one or two more, but that leaves half a dozen or so unverified. It's possible that the line was scrapped and the sets stowed in a warehouse somewhere.

The most distinctive identifying characteristic of a Built To Rule brick is the BTR logo printed on each stud. "

Best-Lock (Classic)

C3 by Art Asylum: 2004 through 2005

"The only series released under the Intelli-blox name was a line of licensed sets produced for Peter Jackson's film The Fellowship of the Ring. The license was held by Playmates (curiously titilating name for a manufacturer of children's action figures), and the blocks themselves were produced by Tandem bricks, a brand seldom seen and little available in North America. The Intelli-blox line therefore represents an oddly concentric product: a property licensed to a brand owned by a company that contracts brick production through a separate manufacturer!"

http://stason.org/TULARC/games/mindstorms-lego/16-Substitutes-compatibles-clones-Lego.html

Clones

Clone or compatible or look like Lego bricks. For those few who like to mix.

Mega Bloks
Block and roll

- Duplo compatible maze blocks

Best-Lock

- Army Construction Toy

Minitalia Reference

Bricks not with ABS done by license of LEGO group

Legioblock

- A clone for strong men (German)

Compatible
Best-Lock [2006-]	Current British clone maker. Merged with Cobi in 2006.
Cobi	Current Polish clone maker.
MegaBloks	Current Canadian clone bricks.
C3 [Wikipedia]	2004-2005 clone bricks by Art Asylum; DC Superheroes only. Set list.
Built To Rule! BTR [Wikipedia]	2003-2004 Hasbro line of clone bricks - GI Joe, Tonka, and Transformers only. Set list.
COKO [Wikipedia]	?-2002 Chinese clone bricks.
Intelli-Blox	2001(only) Lord of the Rings sets licensed to Tandem Toys (HK). Set List.
Byggis [non-official]	1990s Swedish. Clone bricks of licensed lines like Mario, TMNT & Jurassic Park
Partially compatible
Best-Lock [-2006]	British clone maker; block was cubical; plates were 1/2 height. (via BrickWiki)
Tyco [Wikipedia]	1980s-1990s American copy. Plates were 1/2 height. Set list.
Possibly compatible
Atco	Current Chinese. Seems to have taller studs.
Tatco	Current Chinese. Made by Atco; advertised as "compatible".
Diablock	1960s-current Japanese. Seems to have taller studs. [Japanese only site]
PEBE [Wikipedia]	1950s-1990s East German sets. [German only main site] Set list.
Rasti [Wikipedia]	1960s-1970s Argentinian brand with hollow studs. [Portuguese only main site]
Incompatible
Formo [Wikipedia]	1960s-current East German blocks; half-height plates [German only main site]
Tente	1972-1993 Spanish. Same size blocks; larger studs.

http://www.atcotoys.com

http://www.rokenbok.com

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http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/08/04/the-future-of-fabrication-is-here-shapeways-announces-stainless-steel-printing/

http://www.shapeways.com/

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Robot Links

http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2008/09/7-cool-robots-f/

http://homeschooling.gomilpitas.com/explore/robots.htm

http://www.kidsolr.com/science/page1c.html

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TED on creativity

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"Have never tried GTD. I work on the 4 D principle Do, Diary, Delegate,Destroy - my preference being for Destroy."

(someone on Inbox processing)

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Songwriting Videos

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after twitter - answering tyler's question

The next layer on the stack... from Social Media on Vimeo.

ok. I have my final answer, well not really my answer - I cheated, but I still agree.

If you open the answer back up, I'll post there. Really you should have your friends call me out.

http://vimeo.com/4806725?pg=embed&sec=

next wave - feed aggregation/filtering.
(I feel a little silly making such a broad, obvious suggestion - but really that is your answer.)

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thinking aloud.

Answering the question - what is the next Twitter?

Trust based alternative currencies. (w/ true micro-commerce)
Pervasive, right sized web service talking computing devices (think Bug Labs)
Social Action directed through mobile technology. (currently manifested as Performance Art and digital graffiti)
Ocean Cities.
Reputation Systems.
Crowd Clout. (crowd purchasing - ie user/purchasing bases connecting before purchase.)
On Demand, Online Radio - PAYING royalties through loyalty programs and advertising.
Dark Nets. Honest CEOs. Electric Cars.
Global Insourcing (bastardized term meaning opposite of global outsourcing.)

But to keep in the theme, you're looking for an APP you can build proof of concept in an afternoon right?

http://academicearth.org/lectures/the-world-is-flat

Neural Network - data points - health care.

...Trying (hard) to keep on track to the theme of the question rather spouting nonsense like:

What do we need?

What is cool about Twitter? hyper-viral. broadcast to many/rebroadcast to many.

Social Network vs Twitter - real time? free of social network noise? Note: Social networks are now becoming real time. Maybe I should broaden the category of Social Network - to be Social Network AND feed aggregation and summary.

Twitter is a way to create and interact with feeds. And visualize these ideas.

What am I looking for? Meme tracking. ie Yahoo Buzz, HypeM, Real time Google. related aggregation and summary. killer app like twitter? not really. 2 million user potential? as Mel points out: 2 million isn't that crazy.

The Delphi Oracle.

Context - how/when/if we view these feeds - is a killer application. But for what purpose?

http://academicearth.org/lectures/the-world-is-flat

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PUMP-TECHCRUNCH-USA-15000

download code: http://www.vipeers.com/

compare:

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A Pocket-Size Leveler in an Outsize Land

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cellphone/democracy in India

http://www.sobees.com/bdule

http://www.dieoff.org/

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Russia to build floating Arctic nuclear stations
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/03/russia-arctic-nuclear-power-stations

70-megawatt plants
self-propelled vessels
store their own waste
serviced only once every 12 to 14 years
Russia is considering other nuclear plants for power-hungry settlements - 33 in far north and far east

Generating Energy From the Deep
(read at NY Times)

Music/Twitter/Live (HD) Audio
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tumblr
fire eagle
yahoo feed aggregation

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http://www.reservoir-fp7.eu/
http://www.opennebula.org/doku.php

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http://www.nin.com/
http://ghosts.nin.com/main/order_options

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words

SQL Scrabbler
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Scool using like
http://funsheet.com/scool/

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music player test

Audio Files	VBR MP3
Peaceful Valley->	10.5M
Beautiful Sorta	3.1M
Shakedown On 9th Street	4.2M
Bartering Lines	7.0M
A Kiss Before I Go	5.8M
Cold Roses	5.5M
Freeway To The Canyon	7.9M
Wildflowers	5.7M
Mockingbird->	10.2M
Off Broadway	8.3M
Why Do They Leave	6.1M
Everybody Knows	8.1M
I See Monsters	8.6M
The End	5.2M
Please Do Not Let Me Go	5.8M
Goodnight Rose	9.4M
Casserole and meatloaf"	5.5M
Easy Plateau	22.6M
Magnolia Mountain	5.9M
Blue Hotel	7.7M

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Drag to order for my schedule divisions.

http://www.walterzorn.com/dragdrop/demos/demos.htm

http://tool-man.org/examples/sorting.html
http://tool-man.org/examples/edit-in-place.html

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CloudAI

www.cloudAI.com is taken, but the rest (net,org,ca) are available.
borrowed idea, but one with merit.
Access AI in the cloud as a service.
I should read about neural networks and AI.

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Wine and Social Networks

Backburner - I may flush out some day.
Deluca
http://www.winnipegwine.com/
Social Networking application for wines.
http://www.snooth.com/
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/28/wine-20-site-snooth-raises-1-million-angel-round/
http://blog.snooth.com/2007/11/28/snooth-announces-1-million-in-angel-funding/

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Guitar Player

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Companies on facebook.

Some should do it immediately.
Some should think about it, understand it, and then do it.

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OpenTax.ca

OpenTax.ca

brainstorm.

I want to make a list of FUNCTIONS/TASKS/PEOPLE required for opentax.ca

Vision

create an open source application for calculating income tax. the engine should be abstracted from design so that the engine could be skinned to meet the needs of a variety of groups. ie branded for accountants. integration of social software. outside of revenue canada acceptance. as a product.

This will also help drive the revenue stream for the project - ie Download H&R branded OpenTax Canada software.

Types of Contributors
- TESTING/CERTIFICATION
use case based - people will test only a few use cases similiar to their needs, and it would be nice to have a test team of 50+ people providing a comprehensive TEST base for Revenue Canada certification.
- DEVELOPERS
- DISTRIBUTION PARTNERS
* content / companies that pay to package

Revenue
- Corporate licensing for branding
- corporate sponsorship
- private sponsorship
- private/corporate voluntary license
- support stipend (3rd part support program)

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Open Source Accounting

http://www.gnucash.org/
TinyERP
Bamboo Invoice http://www.bambooinvoice.org/
http://www.codeigniter.com/

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Installing and Configuring Bind

Installation

sudo apt-get install bind9

Configuration

/etc/bind/named.conf.local

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Ticket Chimp

backburner notes

I couldn't help thinking when someone came around with Grey Cup pool tickets - this needs to go online.

TicketChimp.com
- we can create (for now) an application which will let you run simple pools/raffles and crap.

This needs some sort of micropayment engine - or social presentment tool.
meaning - I can buy a ticket, socially connected to a person - as a promissory to be confirmed. there is really a list of things that need to be enabled.
- payment
- promissory

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Need to add Blog Track Back caching

title says it all

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Del.Icio.us, blogs and bookmarks

trying to figure out what to do with my URLs that are saved within blog entries and things.

Do I add to Social Bookmarking sites? Optionally allow addition to bookmarking sites?

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pulse feedback

Thoughts pulse_support [at] plaxo.com
- multiple work records (I need two), but it might be neat to maintain a work history as well. Many implications - maybe connections could be linked to certain work profiles. and in the case of an old job - contacts are linked to my old contact details. ie My Online Business Card (plaxo) matches the context of my connection.

- I want to populate multiple IM, Social Network addresses for people, and their feeds.

- more granular permissions - I want to share individual databits. Individual data items could be socially organized into Permission Profiles that I can adopt.
(ie I control per data item, how I want to share the information. How I share my data could be saved as a "Permission Profile" - to allow me to quickly apply permissions to my account.

My Social Network - I need:
(1) Build my social network from my address book.
- Question for myself - isn't this the same as address book? ie I can add every real world contact into my address book. (a big void in current social networking site imho). - yes and no.

after thinking for a bit - I need to be able to populate my address book records w/ multiple IM, Feeds, Social Network and Online Identities.

I think there should be a passive layer to social networking. Allowing me to "subscribe" to public feeds without "friending" - i do not mind publishing

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real estate notes

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Social Network notes

from a blog

"Here are seven major aspects of Facebook you can use to increase the visibility of your startup, business, product or service:

1. Set Up Your Graph: Profiles & Privacy
2. Make Connections: Networks, Groups & Events
3. The Need for Feed: Your [Shared] Social Activity Stream
4. Share Your Content: Share & People-Tag Your Stories & Media
5. App to the Future: The Facebook Platform, APIs, & Applications
6. Pay to Play: Ad Networks, Sponsored Stories, & Paid Distribution
7. Show Me The Bunny: Gifts, Points, & Virtual Currency"

I usually don't like this crap, but it highlights a couple things. 1) you need to think about how you want to approach social networks, and I want to make some notes on this/

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President of Iran

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social speed limits

we need a system that can poll and assess what people think speed limits should be.

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Local Ad Sales

http://blog.insiderchatter.com/2007/09/19/google-yahoo-cant-crack-local-ad-sales-code/

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Web Service for Archival Storage

i want
Web Service for Archival Storage

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NFL Football Pool notes

The Experts
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/features/talent
Sports Select
http://205.200.120.98/sport_select/pro_line_over_under_game_list.html

the Pool
http://3dnflx2.brinkster.net/10.html

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Online - Realtime Backups

I am a fan of the online real time backup. Ideally I want to scan my folders and automatically synchronize to an S3 bucket. Still looking for the tool to help me out. Gotta be RSYNC or like carbonite.

One thing that I am excited about is the future standardization of web services to allow us to easily configure our client agents to communicate with multiple web services with different providers. or internal servers depending on our needs.

The ruby project "Park Place" already allows us to simulate the S3 web service.

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(parent) Testing ChiliSpot

How do we know it is working?

Current Config
[GARAGE] => [LINKSYS] => [NIC1] => [PHOBOS]
[PHOBOS] => [NIC2] {INTERNET}

TEST1
(1) Bring up the Capture Web page from [GARAGE]
(2) Login using web authentication
(3) Able to view Internet

TEST2
(1) FREE RADIUS AUTHENTICATION
(2) Able view internet

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facebook application

?openid
public certificate sharing for email

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Web 3.0

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Retail 2.0 marikaya.com

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Zettabyte

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2006/10/zettabyte_stora.html

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online backup

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Notes -

Global Competitiveness Report
http://www.weforum.org/en/initiatives/gcp/Global%20Competitiveness%20Report/index.htm

http://blogs.motorola.com/author/padmasree-warrior/default.asp?item=669893
"Singapore is ranked 5th (and ahead of the US) in the global competitive index report from the World Economic Forum. In my view, Singapore is one of the most business friendly economies in the world.

for Singapore to lead in such as biotech, media apps etc"

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Old News now - but JamStix 2 is out.

www.rayzoon.com

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Facebook IM

The world does not need another IM. But do need to be building tools to better take advantage of the world around us.

Jabber - is going to rise significantly as the IM platform. Jabber clients will be able to traverse (for messaging) all networks, and clients can be built to offer specific functionality and interoperability across specific networks. Example: Google Talk. (I am assuming Google Talk has features specific to just google talk in terms of network features and client capabilities).

Facebook. How do we build a facebook IM?

(1) Allow users to profile their networks, and select preferences for services for messaging. ie MSN. or Jabber.
(2) Facebook Users synchronize their IM clients with facebook (social network et al) w/ their online rosters - adding their friends according to their transport preferences.
(3) This will require a server component, facebook application and client plugin.

Facebook application will organize roster and IM preferences.
IM Client Plugin, will retrieve the facebook roster and update roster list as appropriate - adding and deleting as appropriate.

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Voicemail to Blog Engine

looking for a voicemail for (micro)blog engine.

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(parent) Installing FreeRadius

FreeRadius Installation

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=151781

sudo apt-get install freeradius freeradius-mysql freeradius-dialupadmin

Basic Configuration

nano /etc/raddb/clients.conf

It's best to start with a simple config using the standard text files, if only to test that FreeRADIUS is correctly installed and works.

Edit /etc/raddb/clients.conf and enter the details of your NAS unit(s). There are examples here, so it should be easy. There should already be a 'localhost' NAS preconfigured here for testing purposes (i.e. so you can use radtest).

Edit /etc/raddb/users and create an example user account. The file is commented on how to do this.

Edit /etc/raddb/radiusd.conf and change as needed. You may wish to change the default port to run on 1645 (old port) if you are replacing a legacy RADIUS server.

At this point you should be able to manually fire up /usr/sbin/radiusd. You should do this with the debug turned on so you can see what happens:

     /usr/sbin/radiusd -X

Lots of stuff will scroll to the screen, and it should tell you it's ready to accept requests. If you get an error, READ THE DEBUG, then check the docs, check the above and try again.

You should now be able to use FreeRadius. You can use radtest to test an account from the command line:

     radtest username password servername port secret

So, if your example user is 'fred' with password 'wilma', your server is called 'radius.domain.com', is using port 1645, and you put localhost (or your localhost's IP) in clients.conf with a secret of 'mysecret', you should use:

     radtest fred wilma radius.domain.com 1645 mysecret

And you should get back something like:

     Sending Access-Request of id 226 to 127.0.0.1:1645
           User-Name = 'fred'
           User-Password = '\304\2323\326B\017\376\322?K\332\350Z;}'
           NAS-IP-Address = radius.domain.com
           NAS-Port = 1645

     rad_recv : Access-Accept packet from host 127.0.0.1:1645,id=226, length=56
           Framed-IP-Address = 80.84.161.1
           Framed-Protocol = PPP
           Service-Type = Framed-User
           Framed-Compression = Van-Jacobson-TCP-IP
           Framed-IP- Netmask = 255.255.255.255

You should get an 'Access Accept' response. If you don't, do not pass Go, do not collect £200. Go back and check everything. Read the docs, READ THE DEBUG!!

If you have a Windows PC handy you may also wish to use NTradPing (downloadable from MasterSoft) to send test packets instead of radtest. If you do this, or test from any other machine, remember your PC (or other machine) needs to be in your NAS list in clients.conf too! OK, so at this point you should have text-file authentication working in FreeRadius...

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(parent) Installing Ubuntu Server

Here are my notes:

Links
www.ubuntu.com
http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_ubuntu704

Procedure
install ubuntu 7.04
install SSH

sudo apt-get install openssh-server

update applications

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

NOT SURE ABOUT

apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client libmysqlclient15-dev

Synchonize the System Clock

sudo apt-get install ntp ntpdate

Installing the server applications

https://help.ubuntu.com/7.04/server/C/

MySQL

sudo apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client

Once the installation is complete, the MySQL server should be started automatically. You can run the following command from a terminal prompt to check whether the MySQL server is running:

sudo netstat -tap | grep mysql

When you run this command, you should see the following line or something similar:

tcp 0 0 localhost.localdomain:mysql *:* LISTEN -

If the server is not running correctly, you can type the following command to start it:

sudo /etc/init.d/mysql restart

Configuration

By default, the administrator password is not set. Once you install MySQL, the first thing you must do is to configure the MySQL administrator password. To do this, run the following commands:

sudo mysqladmin -u root password newrootsqlpassword

sudo mysqladmin -p -u root -h localhost password newrootsqlpassword

*** Need instructions on how to change admin password ***

You can edit the /etc/mysql/my.cnf file to configure the basic settings -- log file, port number, etc. Refer to /etc/mysql/my.cnf file for more details.

Installing SAMBA

Not sure why we want SAMBA.
At the prompt enter the following command to install the SAMBA server applications:

sudo apt-get install samba

To mount Windows filesystems using SMB, you will also need smbfs. Enter the command:

sudo apt-get install smbfs

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(parent) Installing Chillispot

ChilliSpot

sudo apt-get install chillispot

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(parent) Installing Webmin

Notes for installing webmin

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(parent) Configuring FTP

FTP Services

Links
https://help.ubuntu.com/7.04/server/C/ftp-server.html

vsftpd - FTP Server Installation

vsftpd is an FTP daemon available in Ubuntu. It is easy to install, set up, and maintain. To install vsftpd you can run the following command:

sudo apt-get install vsftpd

vsftpd - FTP Server Configuration
You can edit the vsftpd configuration file, /etc/vsftpd.conf, to change the default settings.

nano /etc/vsftpd.conf

By default only anonymous FTP is allowed. If you wish to disable this option, you should change the following line:

anonymous_enable=YES
to
anonymous_enable=NO

By default, local system users are not allowed to login to FTP server. To change this setting, you should uncomment the following line:

#local_enable=YES

By default, users are allowed to download files from FTP server. They are not allowed to upload files to FTP server. To change this setting, you should uncomment the following line:

#write_enable=YES

Similarly, by default, the anonymous users are not allowed to upload files to FTP server. To change this setting, you should uncomment the following line:

#anon_upload_enable=YES The configuration file consists of many configuration parameters. The information about each parameter is available in the configuration file. Alternatively, you can refer to the man page, man 5 vsftpd.conf for details of each parameter. Once you configure vsftpd you can start the daemon. You can run following command to run the vsftpd daemon:

sudo /etc/init.d/vsftpd start

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(parent) Configuring Apache

Links
https://help.ubuntu.com/7.04/server/C/httpd.html

Apache

Editing the default website

nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/default.

Default Directives

sample config data here

Creating a new website

sudo cp /etc/apache2/sites-available/default /etc/apache2/sites-available/mynewsite

Enable Site

sudo a2ensite mynewsite

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(parent) Contract Development Notes

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EC2 image directory

Amazon has a suite of web services.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=3435361

I haven't taken the time to absorb all of them, but two are significant. EC2 and S3

EC2 (Elastic Cloud)
- you can create a scaleable abstract image of a server. This image can be immediately duplicated to scale to match demands on your services.
- you can create many different images that talk in their abstract environment - ie a server farm.
- very inexpensive.
- very scaleable.

S3 - blob storage
- incremental, inexpensive scaleable storage. great for backups, online datastores etc.
- fees based on streams (traffic) and storage

I am interested because -
I was installing Twitter, since it is all the rage - but since my IM is on my server in Dallas, running privately on a VPN, I am worried if I make my IM server public to interface with public services - I may have load issues on my server - so I thought...

hmmm I wonder if there is an EC2 image available for OpenFire IM Server. Really I know that there isn't, but there should be - and I imagine a download repository of Amazon EC2 images - very similar to the VMWare appliances that are available for download. Have you seen the VMWare appliance directory?).

VMWare link for reference.
http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/

I also imagine, small technical entrepreneurs could offer services helping people establish/develop/maintain their EC2 image farms.

These guys (random link)
http://info.rightscale.com/
look like they are marketing themselves as EC2/S3 experts

An Example here:
http://pauldowman.com/projects/ruby-on-rails-ec2/

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RSS Aggregation (rambling)

I have been spending some time lately thinking about Dave Whiners comments on RSS Aggregation and what is wrong with facebook...
[link here]

RSS Aggregation - I'll throw some links here. mugg I think is one site. there are many.

Social Dashboard
- receive selected RSS feeds from my social network.
- allow me to package my feeds
- openid
- profile
- foaf

My complaint with FACEBOOK (social networks et al) is that they are not representative of my real life social network. I think I will try and make this site, my real life social dashboard.

In order of priority
- openid
- my profile
- my friends
- my feeds
- feeds I read

Hmmm - has anyone created a FACEBOOK RSS application? that packages the news feed(s) from FACEBOOK as an RSS feed?

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image stuff

http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menu/imap.html

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Time to rethink and rebuild

I am going to quickly rethink and repackage this application. Make it much simpler. with a few customization options. probably improve the layout/stylesheets too.

music a few tracks - been awhile since I posted music.

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Big Game

I think I would like to plan a "Big Game". Starting from degrees of separation. culminating at an unrelated event.

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Facebook. Social Networking.

I have been reading a little about facebook authentication models and openid. Ultimately, time the bear, I will try and play with both for web authentication.

Having said that - I really should build a facebook application. I have been evangelizing social networks - or rather the applications that will spring from them for quite a while. So time to put or shut up to demonstrate them.

Applications...
freecycle, sharing and garage sale applications
sports matching/challenges and scheduling
sports/game pickup
social lending (immediate transfer, social terms)
pull ads (ie as a person I subscribe to ad feeds to pay for services I want).
- the distinction really needs to be clear. IE I AM LOOKING FOR NEW CAR (filter: Toyota)
...Diapers coupons, used table hockey game
and allow the ads to become more focused as we mature within our buying cycles.
I'll post more...

farming? cooperative purchasing?

What is the advantage of an online social network.
awareness?
community?
communication?
w/in social circles.

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Amazon S3 - online/real time

I have been thinking of spending some time to build an S3 front end real time / online backup tool. So I did a search first... and have installed Jungle Disk. so far... I am quite impressed.

I do imagine a little more from a tool, so maybe there is still some value in cloning the S3 pieces and adding on the stuff that I think should be added. Steep curve at the bottom of the hill for me right now. But I'll think about it anyway, and maybe share my thoughts.

What I like:
S3
Mapped Drive to S3
Selected folders for backup.
=====================
Additional?
I might want to share my collection

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Recording Project

We are going to record some tunes for, I guess, archival purposes. I have organized our songs into "projects" that loosely reflect the time lines they represent, but also into smaller projects to make the overall project easier.

We will - 1 record a very basic frame of each song - this will be a more robust "click track" if you will. But help us clearly establish the boundaries of each track, give something to practice with and record an analog version of the song with.

Once we complete the analog recording for the complete project (or partial), we'll pass it to Duncan that will help us rejig and digitally record the song. Should be a fun process, but possibly quite time consuming as well.

These collections are, c/w project code names:

The First Six Minutes (live)
==============
Brush Without Fear
Bars
Silent
Cancer
Paul

Space Ladder
==========
Taxes
Superbabe (knows the score)
Decided
Stories
First Armed Mission to Mars
Corner Store
Death to Algae
Gospel According to Mark

The Night Watchman
==============
Angry at Sunrise (instrumental)
Slow Death to Algae
Who're You
The Artist and the Salesman (Line Up!)
Bite Your Tongue
I don't wanna go to work
She (is very hot)
Fiction Flu
Katrina (is a hurricane)

Overlooking the river
================
Erotomania
Fat, Neurotic, Homosexual
FUH2
Where are we going
Saint Barry
Middle-Aged Man

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Place and Time

I am thinking about twitter.
Twitter has managed to steal a very simple notion about micro-blogging.
But certainly a powerful notion - to capture instantial moments.

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The Myth - Last.fm Widget

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Trouser and Systems Analyst

I was doing some house cleaning and came across, the very first time Brush without fear was ever played - I thought I would send G and D so I posted here. I also posted a version of Taxes from the same time frame.

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The Myth - Dream Harbour

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Buying New Pickups.

Buying New Pickups for a 40+ year old no name Les Paul copy. Let's see what I can find.

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Linus Distribution Timeline

http://kde-files.org/CONTENT/content-files/44218-linuxdistrotimeline-7.2.png

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Writing a book... in three days.

I really think we should do it.

We would need to do a trial run first. and I want to build a section of this site to support the effort.

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Folklorama Lunches

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2007/04/the_dabbawallas.html

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VSTi Drum Links

You could try Erratic http://www.delamancha.co.uk/erratic.htm - it has a good few presets.

Also Cubix http://www.psychicmodulation.com/Cubixv1.0.1.zip or Drumatic http://www.e-phonic.com/plugins/drumatic3.php

http://www.delamancha.co.uk/erratic.htm

Threads
http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.asp?m=482025&mpage=1&key=
http://www.vdrums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=29556

samples
http://www.autodafe.net/samples.asp

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VSTi Synth Links

http://synthmaker.co.uk/index.html
http://www.autodafe.net/VSTi.asp

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Fantasy Baseball

http://www.itasoftware.com/careers/jlisting.html?jid=6

For kicks I might try this challenge. A little short in what I need to know, but that is the fun part.

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Software Versioning

Things to consider.

END RESULTS
TESTS to PROVE RESULTS
DEFINITION OF FEATURES
VERSIONS
- mapping features to TESTS

Write tests.
define as components.
define as features
map features to versions

MAJOR RELEASE
MINOR RELEASE
BUILDS / BUG FIXES
VERSION MATURITY | Initial, BETA, FINAL, BUG FIX

BUGS and SUGGESTIONS are defined by reproducing them. the TEST.
and get mapped to FEATURES.

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A bunch of links

Debating whether I should parse journal entries for URLs and create the URL Children.

Regardless here are a pile of links.
blogsearch.google.com

Tech Crunch http://www.techcrunch.com/2005/12/02/oboes-web-music-locker/
http://www.mp3tunes.com/cb/free
Unlimited Online Media storage.
Oboe Jukebox integration (Greg's Jukebox Model)
Social Network Integrated Jukeboxes
Developer Program http://www.mp3tunes.com/partner/

MediaMaster
http://mediamaster.com/

Social Network notes
http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/08/30/facescom-could-shake-up-social-networking/
http://www.faces.com
http://profilelinker.com/socialNetworks.php
OpenID https://www.myopenid.com/directory
Loopster
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/07/loopster-makes-friends-of-social-networks/
http://loopster.com/

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Social Network IM Integration

When I log in to my Jabber Server, do I want to also register with all of my other IMs and Social Networks?

Is anyone doing this?

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Email Alerts...

When I post new content to the blog, I often want to say something to specific people. I should use this blog to capture these types of posts, and automatically generate the email to the people I want to send to.

It is easy enough to add a:
Email to:
CC, BCC
form fields (textarea)

But what else should I do? Track who I like to send to, whether they read online? etc?

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Digital Tracks - 10 cents

Lefsetz says it. I believe, and have been thinking that way for a while. Cheap online music! Add Value.
http://encore.celebrityaccess.com/index.php?encoreId=70&articleId=20988

People will spend to their budgets.

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More Web Dev notes

http://sourceforge.net/projects/sarissa/
http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/
http://script.aculo.us/
http://www.prototypejs.org

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UI notes

DOMcollapse
http://www.onlinetools.org/tools/domcollapse/index.html

DHTML Expand and Collapse
http://www.dustindiaz.com/dhtml-expand-and-collapse-div-menu/

Calendar Widget
http://calendar.swazz.org/

Created by: alive88 05:48 PM March 31 2007
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Apollo - web/desktop integration

Pricing and Availability

The alpha version of the Apollo application runtime, required to run Apollo applications, and the Apollo SDK are available immediately as free downloads from Adobe Labs at www.adobe.com/go/apollo . The Apollo SDK is available in English. The Apollo runtime and SDK are offered for both Windows and Macintosh operating systems, and future versions will be available for Linux. To learn more about Apollo and system requirements, please visit www.adobe.com/go/apollo .

Created by: alive88 11:37 AM March 20 2007
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The Garage - soon to be opening.

I am actually getting excited - the garage will be opening soon.
http://garage.vxn.ca/
I also opening a studio at Net Music Makers (netmusicmakers.com I think) - just to play around. I'll share some song ideas there. I am intending to either track (using the revisit tracking VSTi) or program (drummer.cfm) framing drums in MIDI, and then recording a guitar track with hand written notes to explain what's going on.

Created by: alive88 09:09 AM March 13 2007
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Music Organization

I just downloaded, on recommendation, Advanced MP3 Catalog. It has a nice simple interface and seems to organize files well.

Within my community of friends, George Taylor, has been developing a media organizer/player
http://exactosoft.com/mmp/index.html
I haven't become a fan of the software, but I will license (pay) it next time I cross real world paths with George, and install the latest versions when I have time and offer my feedback.

Software to watch: SONGBIRD.
http://www.songbirdnest.com/

It has a feature I have been thinking about learning XUL to build as a firefox plugin - receive and synchonize to an RSS feed.

Maybe where it fails today - is SIMPLICITY. I want simple, modular and extensible.

The music player I have been using is Foobar 2000
http://www.foobar2000.com/

Some of the things - with no real thought or direction in this list - I am looking for featurewise include:
simple.
extensible.
plug in player. (modular)
view other people's collections.
synchronize their collections (ie backup!)
- selected downloads from other collections.
integrated (modular) P2P, RSS, WEB GRABBER (ie type in URL - get list of media available for download)
Collector view (not file - view a complete discography - and see what you are missing).
I'lll try to craft a clear view. and publish here.

Created by: alive88 01:44 PM March 11 2007
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Music Formats

This will become an open letter stating my intentions.

Given all the hubbubaloo about MP3s lately - why not switch the industry to OGG and FLAC formats for music? From this day forward I will only create MP3s where I am forced, and express my dismay as I do it.
This means emusic, myspace, last.fm et al will receive emails from me - pointing to my open letter, and requesting they support open standards.

Created by: alive88 01:33 PM March 11 2007
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Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech

Created by: alive88 09:05 PM March 8 2007
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Playing Around a little

some ideas for songs.
pi
Saint Barry

Created by: alive88 12:48 AM March 8 2007
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Tab Mashable

A simple web application that will allow me to create a TAB MASHABLE websiite.

[tab][tab][tab][tab]
EACH TAB could contain mashable content from a different source.

MASHABLE WEB DOCUMENTS
MAPS
PHOTO GALLERIES

COMPONENTS
- SITE or ROOT PAGE
- LAYOUT
- STYLE
- TABS

The tabs would be simple HTML that could contain mashable components.

The TAB Mashable itself could be embedded in a website.

Thought I was on a roll - not sure I am getting it now.

Created by: alive88 05:14 PM March 7 2007
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Looking for the Wilco turnon

I have been looking for the track(s) that will turn me on to Wilco. Here are 4 new tracks gathered from the Blogosphere. (A VC - blog I read).

Make that 5 - I added one more.

Created by: alive88 12:24 AM March 4 2007
Last Modified: 03:00 PM March 5 2007

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VXN Media

I am sending an email to a friend soliciting a live recording to produce a sample CD, and am throwing down some notes to talk about what I want to do.

VXN
- help me collect the music I want. I may be discriminating, so I am not collecting anything and everything - I am building out from my interest.
- Once I have collected media - I want other people to be able to build the same collection. This means I have to talk to the artists, and see what they want to do with their content. They may not want to share with anyone - odds are they want to share with someone.
- I will build the tools I need to manage this exchange - including ecommerce, if required.

WHAT DO I WANT?
- Connect to the Artist I like. Social Network - I probably want a richer connection that talks about the role I play, and be able to view (and interact) the people that also share roles with the artist. Connection, Quality and Role
- Connection means I know about new material, access to exclusive material, gigs, radio play, interviews, media watch
- Where can I get media and material.
- MEDIA! I want JAMS, DEMO, IDEAS, LIVE SHOWS, STUDIO RELEASES
- Artists to tell me how they feel about sharing. and recording.

WHAT AM I GOING TO DO?
- ask artists for content - JAMS, DEMO, IDEAS, LIVE SHOWS, STUDIO RELEASES
- in exchange for the content, I will help them share it - if they need help.
- I have access to
"Microboards Dx-2 with modification to allow lamination to surface for enhanced durability."
so I will produce a low run exclusive CD/DVD Series with the content I collect. This will be under the auspices of the VXN label. I will sell and distribute on behalf of the artists if they want, digitally and on physical MEDIA (branded USB sticks - and CD/DVDs).
- Post content to LAST.FM
- create a website highlighting content and tools
ARTIST, CATALOG, LABEL - vxn.ca
CONTENT, RSS, ARTIST - indycity.ca (unless you think of something better)

Created by: alive88 08:56 AM March 5 2007
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Instant Messaging

I am running a Wildfire server (IM) and have the transports to MSN, ICQ, Yahoo and AIM running. I had it on my list of things to do to configure my server to access these networks, but I guess it has been working all along! I installed the SPARK client and was impressed for the first time and easily added connections to each of these IM networks.

Check out
http://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/index.jsp

Created by: alive88 07:46 AM March 5 2007
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Ambitious Web/Desktop Player

http://www.songbirdnest.com/

It is worth the download. Much improved since my last evaluation.
It also allows you to automatically download an RSS feed or webpage of music.

Created by: alive88 03:15 PM February 22 2007
Last Modified: 03:15 PM February 22 2007

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Running XP litely

Checking this link.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/autoruns.mspx

Created by: alive88 11:34 AM February 22 2007
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Barry has a THINGER now too

Just turned live.
l3av1tt0.vxn.ca

Created by: alive88 09:57 AM February 22 2007
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Language taught by an autistic savant

http://www.optimnem.co.uk/tutorials.php

Is it effective spin or a miraculous insight to learning language taught by an autistic savant?

Created by: alive88 12:18 AM February 1 2007
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Flash Player

Another Flash Player to play with.
http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=Flash_MP3_Player

Free for commercial.

Created by: alive88 10:17 AM January 1 2007
Last Modified: 10:17 AM January 1 2007

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Photo Gallery Widget

This is pretty cool, I want to use this for the photo widget here.
http://smoothgallery.jondesign.net/showcase/gallery/

Created by: alive88 02:07 PM December 28 2006
Last Modified: 10:09 PM December 28 2006

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Rating Widgets

http://www.masugadesign.com/the-lab/scripts/unobtrusive-ajax-star-rating-bar/
http://www.duarte.com/starry/

Created by: alive88 02:06 PM December 28 2006
Last Modified: 02:06 PM December 28 2006

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Merry Chistmas

Merry Christmas

Created by: alive88 11:45 AM December 25 2006
Last Modified: 11:45 AM December 25 2006

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SPAM HALTER notes

SPAMHalter is up and working. I have turned on server side filtered for selected email aliases and domains.

The following is for MEMBERS of this site only, and are instructions for handling SPAM and FALSE POSITIVES.

(1) Receive SPAM
send spam (using REDIRECT or SEND AGAIN) to:
spam+wall@vxn.ca

This updates the SPAM database with the message.

(2) FALSE POSITIVES
send message (using REDIRECT or SEND AGAIN) to:
nospam+wall@vxn.ca

This updates the SPAM database increasing the nospam rating for the words in the message and whitelisting sender.

(3) WHITELISTING
send an email to:
nospam+wall@vxn.ca

This will whitelist email addresses in the body of the message.

(4) Client Side Filtering

Setup your filter to look for a head called X-SPAMHALTER
with contents ""

(5) Server Side filtering

These filters can be applied on the server, redirecting suspected SPAM to another mailbox.
My convention is
SPAMmailbox / password same as mailbox.

(6) I am developing some reports and a web application for SPAM mgmt.

Created by: alive88 11:05 AM November 29 2006
Last Modified: 11:03 AM December 17 2006

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TagAgent.CA

I am really suprised there isn't more tag aggregation going on. and some sort of tag uuid capability.

Created by: alive88 08:53 AM December 5 2006
Last Modified: 08:53 AM December 5 2006

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RummageSale.ca

Chad has some ideas for selling items as an alternative to ebay.

I want to combine some VoIP ideas, Chad's ideas with a practical application.

http://www.collegeclassifieds.com/ has a great simple layout.

I want
- RSS
- Web Service integration
- VoIP Web Services

simple and easy to use.

Mind Map to follow.

Created by: alive88 10:51 AM November 28 2006
Last Modified: 10:51 AM November 28 2006

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New Server - nebraska.vxn.ca

Commissioned a new server (virtual)
New Server - nebraska.vxn.ca

Will move/mirror Devlander to it.

Created by: alive88 09:45 AM November 28 2006
Last Modified: 09:45 AM November 28 2006

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Challenge: VoIP Applications

Here is a challenge from Les.

LES.NET Growth

--------------

Briefly.. Growth has been exponential or near exponential each and 

every month over the past 6 months.  November has been the best month 

ever!!!  Thanks for supporting LES.NET.  



That being said, LES.NET is looking for more VoIP related ventures to 

purchase or partner with!



Yes, you heard it right.  If you have a VoIP venture, no matter how 

small, profitable or not, LES.NET would like to hear from you.



Or, if you have some kind of product/service that could benefit from 

VoIP, and are interested in contra/advertising for services, please let 

LES.NET know.

Created by: alive88 08:44 AM November 28 2006
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Challenge: Business Card Games

- Create game that will have everything it needs on a 2.5 x 3 (?) business card. or a double face card.

This is akin to the beer label challenge from 16 years ago. I think Barry and I did a beer bottle hockey game.

Created by: alive88 07:45 AM November 28 2006
Last Modified: 07:45 AM November 28 2006

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Notebook, Thinkspace, Playground or Blog?

What is this thing? A Notebook, Thinkspace, Playground or Blog?

All of the above.

I want a new skin, probably use
http://www.openwebdesign.org/viewdesign.phtml?id=1165&referer=%2Fuserinfo.phtml%3Fuser%3Dharan

These also have some good elements http://www.openwebdesign.org/viewdesign.phtml?id=3444&referer=%2Flatest_designs.php

The latest MULTI-FLEX - I really like the full documentation of the template

Quick and Dirty Christmas

Na - mo updates, just changes the h1 header format and add a site header

Created by: alive88 07:42 AM November 28 2006
Last Modified: 07:44 AM November 28 2006

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CSS for a menu

Working on www.FiveSpice.ca

and I need to quickly publish their menu... a quick search for CSS Menus (restaurant that is)
http://www.tbrown.org/ideas/tabularlist/
dotted menu is what I am looking for
http://www.tantek.com/CSS/Examples/dotleaders.html
http://web-graphics.com/mtarchive/001622.php

Created by: alive88 11:50 PM November 21 2006
Last Modified: 11:50 PM November 21 2006

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Testing some hot links to wolfgang

David Bowie
link:
http://concerts.wolfgangsvault.com/Concerts.aspx?stype=artist&id=1647

image:

Created by: alive88 11:32 PM November 21 2006
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Midi Drummer

To me it seems like this should be a simple thing, but it still eludes me.

Today's iteration is:
Read this article:
http://tnikolai.nm.ru/df-loopback.html

Install
http://tnikolai.nm.ru/drumflow.html
www.midiox.com - install Midi Yoke

and configure
www.reaper.fm

to receive the MIDI output from Drum Flow in REAPER. pretty slick actually. But I still need a good VSTi drum kit.

Created by: alive88 11:09 PM November 20 2006
Last Modified: 11:09 PM November 20 2006

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Real - Real jobs in Second Life

Real Jobs in Second Life
and yes there will be real real jobs in second life too.

Artist in Residency.
http://arsvirtua.com/residence.html

Is anyone on Second Life?

What jobs will there be? virtual car salesmen?

Created by: alive88 02:42 PM November 19 2006
Last Modified: 12:49 AM November 20 2006

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Google Adsense.

Just opened a Google AdSense account. I probably already had one. But I'll add to a site or two to see what the results are like.

Created by: alive88 12:08 PM October 31 2006
Last Modified: 01:56 PM November 14 2006

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Algorithmic Music

For the Systems Analysts track pi, I uploaded ealier. I used pi.mid unaltered downloaded from
http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/9349/
created using this method
http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/9349/summary.html

I used a couple VSTi instruments to render the file as Systems Analyst - pi

The notion of hearing "pi", makes me grin, in a tongue in cheeky sort of way.

I may do my own algorithmic (or more simply numbers to tones) MIDI files -
things like website traffic profiles - "24 hours on a dot com"
"exponentially degrading website performance from an increase in site visitors"

Some other real life "numbers" might be... (bad pun sorry)
"Probabilities and Chip Counts at the poker table"
"temperature dropping from a day's high to a night's low in Winnipeg in October with a full moon on a clear night"

Created by: alive88 03:15 PM November 4 2006
Last Modified: 01:47 AM November 8 2006

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Testing YouTube embed: Arctic Monkeys

Arctic Monkeys - only because I talk about them

Created by: alive88 03:11 PM November 4 2006
Last Modified: 03:13 PM November 4 2006

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Blogging

I do intend to create some blog aggregation tools. Not only do I want to share what I think and work on, but I also want to share what and who I read in blogland - the blogi.ca if you will.

David Galbraith
http://www.davidgalbraith.org/archives/001196.html

I find him insightful and interesting.

A VC - Fred Wilson
(link to come)

He writes about things I am interested in. He doesn't always say the things I think.

Created by: alive88 01:57 AM November 3 2006
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Prince opening club in Vegas

Prince opening 3121

http://3121.com/

From: http://encore.celebrityaccess.com/index.php?encoreId=46&articleId=19081

"Prince is opening a new nightclub at the Rio (Las Vegas), ...
charge $31.21 admission to his new space, an homage to his most recent album, 3121.
...he plans to perform on occasion, and use (the club) to showcase artists signed to his label."

Created by: alive88 12:53 AM November 3 2006
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XTC - Fuzzy Warbles Done Dirt Cheap

Pop Matters PodCast
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/features/article/6925/the-man-who-sailed-around-his-soularound-his-soul

Direct to PodCast
http://www.popmatters.com/podcasts/andy_partridge061027.mp3

Direct Music Download
http://www.toolshed-media.com/ts/andy-partridge-sonic-boom.mp3

Created by: alive88 10:49 PM November 2 2006
Last Modified: 10:59 PM November 2 2006

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Faxline 800-594-9870 from LES.NET

just bought a fax line from les.net 800-594-9870. It delivers via email, and is intended to provide a community scoreboard application inbound fax capability.

Created by: alive88 06:24 PM October 29 2006
Last Modified: 06:24 PM October 29 2006

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Story Time

Stories - how should we use this thing to develop stories? Do I need to create an application for stories? just another THING site with some extra features? hmmm what to do....

Created by: alive88 02:01 PM October 28 2006
Last Modified: 05:26 PM October 28 2006

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Open Source Projects

Sourceforge Open Source ProjectsJust taking a look at what's "noted" at SourceForge.

Pentoho: Business Intelligence
http://www.pentaho.com
I am actually a little excited to take a look at this. I haven't checked it out yet.

AJAX - No Javascript
http://www.zkoss.org/
Looks cool.

Miscellaneous - I may sort later
http://gallery.menalto.com/
http://keepass.sourceforge.net/
http://www.team-mediaportal.com/
http://english.covide.net/template.php?lang=uk&id=2
http://www.inkscape.org/

Created by: alive88 10:44 AM October 27 2006
Last Modified: 10:44 AM October 27 2006

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Expedia SPAM...

Expedia doesn't tailor its emails to me
So I have opted in to receive Expedia spam. and I have to admit I am disappointed every time. I create preferences online for my departure airport, and I don't want to see deals departing Seattle (without considering I have to get there first). Some empty arguments on my part, but at the end of the day, if I got an occassional email telling me about a smoking deal departing Winnipeg, I'd read those emails, and occassionally (maybe VERY occassionally) action them

Created by: alive88 08:26 AM October 27 2006
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Looking for Web Templates

Web Templates
I am looking for some new web templates for:

Thing Log (this site)
http://www.nikhedonia.com/uploads/free_templates/didactic/
http://www.nikhedonia.com/uploads/free_templates/fivestar/
http://www.openwebdesign.org/viewdesign.phtml?id=3076&referer=%2Fbrowse.php%3Fpage%3D15
http://www.openwebdesign.org/viewdesign.phtml?id=3140&referer=%2Fbrowse.php%3Fpage%3D11
http://www.opensourcetemplates.org/templates/view.cfm?nautica05b
http://www.openwebdesign.org/viewdesign.phtml?id=3031&referer=%2Fbrowse.php%3Fpage%3D17

Ironman Outdoor Curling Bonspiel
www.ironmanoutdoorcurling.com

http://www.openwebdesign.org/viewdesign.phtml?id=3311&referer=%2Fbrowse.php%3Fpage%3D2

Created by: alive88 09:52 PM October 26 2006
Last Modified: 10:05 PM October 26 2006

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Cold Water Carrot Soup for Kids

1/2 cup of cold water
4 carrots cut up
let sit for 30 seconds
eat with spoon

Created by: alive88 10:07 AM October 26 2006
Last Modified: 10:07 AM October 26 2006

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Audacity next version - MEZZO

The next version of Audacity is going to feature MEZZO at its core.
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Mezzo

Download at
http://audacityteam.org/mezzo/

Created by: alive88 10:36 PM October 24 2006
Last Modified: 10:36 PM October 24 2006

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a new thing site

I have created a new thing site - VPN based, so you will need to login to the VPN to view. If you want access to the VPN talk to me.

http://www.innovation.vxn

Also - I think I want a new TLD - ideas? 3 or 4 chars.

Created by: alive88 01:46 PM October 23 2006
Last Modified: 01:46 PM October 23 2006

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(parent) Embedded Music Player

XSPF Flash Component
How to load to Firefox sidebar.
http://www.ic.sunysb.edu/stu/ahanley/music/help.htm#Firefox

Created by: alive88 04:18 PM October 22 2006
Last Modified: 04:18 PM October 22 2006

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Registered sportmail.ca

What do I need a new domain for?

Good question, one has to wonder. Certainly I could have repurposed one of my older domains, but it would have been a little clumsy. So a clean start for this project.

My intention has always been to, number 1, use the Internet to create the best experience possible to meet my needs, and then number 2, develop and share the tools for other people to use. I am primarily developing within Sports and Community frameworks.

I have a web application for managing sports leagues, communication is a necessary component for any league or team. The sportmail.ca domain is to simply allow users of my web applications to create mailing lists for team and league communication. I have a dedicated mail server, and should be able to automate all mailing list processes within the web application.

Created by: alive88 12:44 AM October 22 2006
Last Modified: 12:47 AM October 22 2006

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Starting my customized blog.

Prompted by Greg, and his need to Blog, I decided to try to fulfill my personal blogging needs, and then offer my tool to Greg to use. So far, I am pretty happy I have taken the time to piece it together. I think it is going to be fricken amazing to journal with.

More my speed than other applications, pandering to the specific element I want to post whether it is a one liner, a little more verbose or even an application.

I have another 65 emusic downloads to get started in the next few days... I think I'll listen to some music. Any recommendations for October's downloads?

Created by: alive88 12:25 AM October 22 2006
Last Modified: 12:27 AM October 22 2006

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204-272-2064 - my new phone number

well it is a VoIP line that I got to experiment with a little.
204-272-2064 (www.les.net)
$3.50 per month w/ VoiceMail ($0.016 per minute)

I am setting up the inbound DID to my GizmoAccount. I have VoiceMail configured for gizmo as well.
www.gizmoproject.com

Created by: alive88 01:36 PM October 18 2006
Last Modified: 12:20 AM October 22 2006

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This is Great Eric!

However, have I now posted on your blog?

Can I get tools for background coulor , layout ect ect?

Oh, and a spell checker.

Created by: solomonde 04:13 PM October 18 2006
Last Modified: 04:13 PM October 18 2006

Tags

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FreeRadius Installation

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Installing SAMBA

ChilliSpot

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