Archive September 2004
Listen Up
Super cool news – we're gonna be streaming some man-on-the-street styled interviews tonight! Just keep an ear on the live stream. Hear attendees, presenters, partners, and maybe even a few Independent candidates. Yep, we've got a few A-list bloggers covering the first debate on our conference floor in a few hours. Awesome!
A Laptop Bee
We're less than a day away from making everything official (you know, ALL of it). A few of us have hijacked the hotel's Starbucks seating area. No T-Mobile access, so we've had to fork over a few bucks to get on the wireless network. Tried a little bit of Wi-Fu at first, but the account [...]
Front Page News
Here's something Des Moines never did for me: front page news a few days before the event. My hat goes off to Susan Wood for her efforts with this. I may not have communicated every detail clearly, but she did a fantastic job at rallying local support for Gnomedex 4. I'm beside myself with elation; [...]
Leaving on a Jet Plane
And in a few short hours, we're flying out of LAX. Instead of getting our beauty rest, we've decided to pull an all-nighter and finish a few last minute chores before blasting off. The flight should be short. I've never ridden on an plane before – only inside one. I don't know which one I'm [...]
The Incredible Shrinking Man
Went shopping this afternoon, gearing up for Lake Tahoe. Turns out, I can fit into boys clothes – large. At least, as far as hoodies are concerned. I got a brown hoodie (with some 'Rusty' logo on the front of it), a blue hoodie (with some random brand name on the front of it), and [...]
Hacker Handle Generator
From one of the Gnomedex participants (Neil Grifter of Defcon), here's a Hacker Handle Generator. Weigh in with your new identity! I'm Daemon Stealer.
Small TechTV Reunion
Don't ask me how it happened, but the Gnomedex schedule capped itself with two more former TechTV show hosts today. Patrick Norton (!) will be sitting with Jim Louderback on the Digital Lifestyle panel, and Chris DiBona is going to be moderating our Security panel. Chris co-hosted TSS a few times, so I'm counting him [...]
Atom Auctions
RSSAuction now outputs in both Atom and Javascript formats. So, if you're an active eBay user, and you have several auctions going on at one time, you can easily create a search (based on Seller ID) and include the generated, dynamic JavaScript code on your blog for your visitors to see. How's that for convenient?!
The Real Star Wars
Star Wars will never be the same again – until Lucas releases the Star Wars Ultra Special Edition DVD pack in a couple of years, complete with reworked footage of Yoda, wherein he replaces the entire character with a Twinkie. Yep, you heard it here first, folks – good ol' George is making our favorite [...]
