Done yesterday (20091231 Th)

[mdlbear]

1231 Th
  * Up 7:40ish; W=200; drugs, nose; coffee
  @ Tim Hart, a Founding Member of the Group Steeleye Span, Dies at 61
  @ How to Destroy the Book, by Cory Doctorow | theVARSITY.ca
    (from gmcdavid  - An e-book is not a book)
  % a lot of my "down" feeling last night must have been due to various bad
    things happening to friends; the rest was the gateway work taking the
    place of what could have been some good conversations.
  . get back to the list of affirmations, pleasant things to do, etc.
    * some work on the affirmations list: pulled out affirmations from to.do
  % encouraging, slightly silly IM
    ! contented, happy
  : the house is getting a thorough cleaning by Kash, Andrew, and Selkit.
    They're making headway on the kitchen.
  @ Pogoplug - Linux Developers - very encouraging
  @ If mobile-to-cloud sync is big in 2010, it's game over for Microsoft
  @ Google Android: on Inevitability, the Dawn of Mobile, and the Missing Leg
    - O'Reilly Radar "Inevitability: Just around the Corner?"
  @ 27Mpix Saturn Panoramic Image Makes Perfect Widescreen Desktop Bkgnd.
  @ Socially-Acceptable Geek Subgenre Scale Gallery (rather offensive)
  @ Author Robin Sloan Offers Up Money To Fans For Good Remix Ideas
  @ Ten gadgets that defined the decade -- Engadget
  @ Cop Tasers Unconscious Diabetic 11 Times - Gizmodo
  @ Calculating The DRM Tax On A Kindle | Techdirt
  @ Post
    TSA's New Security Rules And Get A Visit And Subpoena From Homeland
    Security | Techdirt
  @ TSA drops subpoenas issued to bloggers who published security directive
    (UPDATED) Boing Boing
  * walk: extra hill + 4x around pond
  ~ nb: current gateway probably not running dhcp server!
  * Made guacamole (at Colleen's request).  Yum.
  * Thankful Thursday
  * "low res" resolutions
  * use dantooine as new sg: fanless, with SATA.  Needs ethernet board.
    * install 500GB IDE drive, Lenny on new stargate (old dantooine)
  * bed ~00:06; S=9575

A pretty good day. Lots of great links, under the cut as usual. A good walk: 4 times around the pond, with an extra hill going in. And I got a start on configuring the new silent router/gateway machine.

But mostly, it was the end of 2009 and the noughties. Some good things happened -- some very good things -- but on the whole... I'm glad it's another decade. Already it's so much better than last year's start.

I'm feeling happy and hopeful.

Comments

[madtom-o-bedlam.livejournal.com]

weird side note, if you click on the location Grand Central Starport LR it shows a google map of Hong Kong. Well it did for me.

[montemplar.livejournal.com]

Some great links - thanks Steve! *Diggs, Stumbles*

I really need to find out more about Cory Doctorow's writings. Heard Spider reading one of his short stories on the 'Spider On The Web' podcast recently. :) Got any recommendations on where to start?

I made the mistake of reading the comments on the BetaNews article you linked to - some of the people there have drunk waaay too much Cool-Aid! :| Even worse than the stuff on ZDNet, as if that were possible.

[mdlbear]

I'm not all that familiar with Cory myself, but he generally uses a CC license, so it's all on the web.