Category: Geekery

  • BarCamp LA, The Weblog

    The BarCamp wiki is great for coordinating planning and all, but I’ve got a theory that we can spread the word on BarCamp LA related events (monthly dinners, future BarCamps, etc.) better with a proper weblog. Check it out if you’ve got a second!

    P.S. If you’re free the weekend of November 11th & 12th, swing on by the Little Radio Warehouse. The price (free) is right if nothing else… ;)

  • Just Browsing

    So I’ve been using the Firefox 2.0 betas (as well as the release candidates) for the past couple months as my primary browser at work and I have to say that I’ve really come to like it quite a bit. So much so that I’m actually considering getting rid of my beloved pimped out version of Safari.

    Since I spend a lot of time in a browser, switching over can be a pretty monumental task — but at this point the built in spell-check and crash recovery as well as all the freaking extensions out there are really starting to make the hassle worth it.

    Then again, I loved Flock too — but a built-in weblog editor and Flickr client, while quite novel, still weren’t enough to get me to switch. *shrug* Get back to me in a couple months and we’ll see where I stand, I guess…

  • Cracked Eggs

    Songbird DJ

    While Songbird is straight up crashtastic on both my Dual G5 at work and my Powerbook at home, it really shows a lot of promise as far as media players go. Do yourself a favor and check out the screencast if you have a few minutes.

    I’m looking forward to seeing this mature and not be so crashy. Hopefully that day will come sooner rather than later…

  • The Upcoming A.V. Club

    Leonard just tipped me off to a couple of really awesome new features on Upcoming:

    • Any link to an mp3 now embeds an audio player — the nifty, lightweight 1 Pixel Out Flash player — into the page. [example]
    • Links to YouTube videos embed the video into the page. The site does all the heavy lifting for you. [example]

    Great work guys! I hope I didn’t steal anyone’s thunder by posting this here tho…

  • Last Minute Social Calendar Reminder

    Another month, another LA BarCamp Dinner. Tomorrow’s is at the venerable Canter’s Deli.

    If you’re in Los Angeles and not doing anything, why don’t you come join us? We’d be happy to have you!

  • Feed Swapping

    Realizing that I really don’t give that much of a shit about what Lindsay Lohan/Jeremy Piven/Paris Hilton/Andy Dick is up to now, I’ve dropped my old guilty pleasure Defamer from my feed reader and replaced it with Gawker’s new music blog Idolator.

    After reading their manifesto it seems like a pretty fair trade to me.

  • Now Hiring

    Hey there all you crazy Bay Area kids!

    My work is looking for a programmer for our fledgling satellite office up North. So if you’ve got what we’re looking for, you should totally go apply.

  • Road To Zune

    Instead of trying to build an iPod killer, why don’t companies try to build something that defines a new space for a change?

  • Mighty Crappy

    Mighty Mouse

    If the scroll ball on my Mighty Mouse at work didn’t give up the ghost this afternoon, I don’t think I might have found Dave Shea’s musings as funny as I do right now.

    P.S. Anyone have a recommendation for a decent (inexpensive to moderately priced) mouse that I can requisition at work tomorrow morning?

  • Spaces + Expose = Wet Dream

    Oh. Holy. Shit.

    I really need to install that copy of Leopard that found its way into my hands onto my old iBook before I send my PowerBook into the shop.