Gaim 2.0.0Beta3, and April 11: Switch to Firefox Day

Microsoft losing the EOLAS patent case makes April 11 a great day for alternative browser growth.

And while we are on the topic: Gaim 2.0.0Beta3 sees a release.

Annotations

Open source annotation code - annotate webpages. Pretty neat.

Now if only I could figure out how to add an annotation.

All this Month: Stanislaw Lem / Solaris

Create a bookcast of Stanislaw Lem's Solaris and find out why it's such a damned shame this man is gone from our lives...

http://bobo.link.cs.cmu.edu/link/dict/introduction.html

I Want My Javascript Net_URL

window.location has to be one of the poorest documented things in javascript I can think of.

I want to make a new Generic URL object of some kind - ala PHP's Net_URL. It just so happens I can do a lot with window.location - but if I want to change the querystring in a neat fashion (which, I DO), I'm stuffed: window.location.search gives me the query string, and I have to do my own explode, find, replace, back to string.

Where's my associative arrays when I want them :(

Who Wants a Job?

• Adelaide.
• PHP development.
• Working with SOAP
• Very interesting coworkers (like... say... me)
• Must know your OOP inside out!
• Familiarity with CVS, contributions to open source projects, etc highly favourable.

Email me for more information if this sounds appealing.

World Premerie: Faces in the Dark by Matthew Salleh

Faces in the Dark premeries next Wednesday - come along and check it out, it's Movie Night Matt's latest and greatest indie production from his company, Urtext Film Productions.

Check out the trailer (WMV).

Full disclosure: Movie Night Matt is a friend of mine and has fed me beer on past occasions...

Deskbar Applet Screencast

Deskbar is a hotkey launcher meets GDS.

Neat!

SDO in PHP

IBM has a decent article on SDO in PHP - creating a harmony between varied data sources, whether it be an RDBMS, XML, SOAP, REST, whatever...

SDO in PHP

IBM has a decent article on SDO in PHP - creating a harmony between varied data sources, whether it be an RDBMS, XML, SOAP, REST, whatever...

MetaWeb is Hiring a Sem Webber

There's a position for a hardcore Semantic Web guru.

I begin to get curious about what metaweb will be - last I looked, it was a wiki for a Neal Stephenson book.

Winamp Alarm Clock

Winamp alarm clock plugin Malicious, poorly made software to turn your winamp into an alarm clock - I'm always falling asleep to music on the laptop, I need something to kill it off after a certain time period. It would simply rock if I could wake up to my music.

Update: Forget I just mentioned that. The author, Dirk has thought it a fantastic idea to bundle his piece of shit toolbar with what would have been an otherwise good idea.
Even worse: the plugin is rubbish! It's a standalone program and it's the worst piece of software I've seen all year.

My Best Ideas Occur in the Shower

... but Jon Anquino has truely hit on something brilliant.

Automated Trust & Web Safety - SiteAdvisor

SiteAdvisor looks like a brilliant idea - take a look at their ratings for sf.net for instance.

Unfortunately, WAYN isn't listed as "spammy evil", which I am of the belief that it is.

Open Web Design

AH HAH! I knew this had to exist.

QOTD: On The RIAA's Push for an Audio Broadcast Flag vs Morality

What a load. Immoral? Prove it using any established moral code. Is it in the Bible? How about the Q'uran? Or the Torah? The Baghavad-Gita? Egyptian mythology? Zoroastrianism? In the precolonial social mores and religious traditions of any of the five hundred various Indian nations native to the American continent? Does Ralph Waldo Emerson or Henry David Thoreau come out against it? Does the Buddha once speak of it? Is it mentioned anywhere in thousands of Zen Koans? Are there any tribal religions in Africa that cast aspersion on copying stories, songs, and artwork? Did the Inca and Maya curse the names of those who infringed copyright? Did Plato or Socrates or Pythagoras or Aristotle teach at length about this subject? Well? Huh?

Fact is, the very notion that songs, stories, ideas, images, and all the other ephemeralities restricted by "copyright" were for the bulk of human history passed along and shared only by active infringement by those who carried these works along for us later. Without copying we would have no folk songs, no scriptures, a great deal fewer plays, stories, paintings, buildings, inventions. Our cultural traditions would have lasted only as long as the material on which the first author ever fixed them-- in most cases less than 100 years.

Do you anti-copiers ever decry the vast body of commerce that exists in making copies of "public domain" works? Of course not. Ripping off the past is a hobby for the media cartel. Look at Disney with "The Little Mermaid", "Cinderella", "Snow White", "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", "Fantasia", etc. Look at movie releases like "Troy" and "Romeo & Juliet". Look at how often Beethoven, Bach, Tchaikovsky, and countless others have their works "stolen" and reused in contexts they could never have dreamed of. The same for Michelangelo, DaVinci, Monet, Manet. Where is your outrage at this?

via Slashdot.

OpenOffice Request

Dear Lazyweb, please fix Bug #62729 and Bug #54761 for me in OpenOffice; it should be Very Easy to fix but it is Very Annoying.