Archive for June, 2005

So, now that the iTunes Podcast Directory is out, it seems like there are waaaay too many podcast directories out there (iPodder.org, Podcasting.com, Podcast.net, PodcastDirectory.com, PodcastAlley.com, Podcasting News Directory, iPodderX, Podcast411 Directory, and many, many, many more). The only one I'm likely to use is the iTunes podcast directory, so I'm wondering (out loud) about... »

I'd seen Autostitch when it was first announced - as a research project by a couple of students at UBC. It's a really cool app that takes in an arbitrary set of photos that were taken of the same scene, and stitches them together automagically without user intervention. Very cool software, and it does an... »

Just a quick podcast to say Howdy (or is that Aloha?) after returning to Calgary. This was supposed to be a very brief Hello podcast, but turned into a 14-minute ramble about the 3 weeks away from the office. Trying out the new "Podcast" AAC export in iTunes (actually, I tweaked it a bit to... »

The Norman family got back into town yesterday afternoon, after what felt like a 24-hour journey home. Checked out of the hotel at 10am Sunday, returned home 3pm Monday... It was sunny and warm in Honolulu, cold and shitty and rainy in Calgary. I want to go back... :-) There's a whole bunch I want... »

Apple and the NECC are doing some serious podcasting from this year's NECC conference. I'm blissfully unaware of details, being stranded in Honolulu for another week ;-) but I'm sure I'll have a lot of podcasty goodness to catch up on when I get back into town next week... PS. I know this breaks my... »

Josh, King and myself put on a session this morning called "Creative Action at a Distance" - where we outlined the tools that we use to collaborate while building the Pachyderm 2.0 software.King iChatAVed in after 28 hours of sleep deprivation, shortly after landing at the Calgary International Airport - apparently there's wireless in... »

Thanks to a pointer from Sameer D'Costa, I just used a handy shell script to export all of my Safari RSS subscriptions to an OPML file that can be imported into Wordpress to update my links/blogroll. Easy peasy. I hadn't realized how much my subscription list had grown... It's now up to 469 feeds, and... »

The opening reception last night was pretty cool. Got to touch base with a bunch of folks that I hadn't seen since last year's conference, and got to meet a whole bunch of new folks. I didn't win the iPod Shuffle, but that's OK... :-) I had one of the coolest experiences though. I just... »

Evan was absofreaking amazing on the flights from Calgary --> Phoenix --> Honolulu. Wow. I mean, I would have bet a million bajillion dollars against the poor lad. And I would have lost. He was the Perfect Child. Amazing. Honolulu is pretty nice. Awfully busy, and quite touristy. But, what did I expect? I've... »

I intentionally refuse to set an email autoreply (those annoying "I'm out of the office, but your email is very important to me" messages that get spewed onto mailing lists). Autorepliers are too dump to not spam lists, and I generally check email regardless of where I am, so it's not like important messages get... »