Category: work

09/26/07 10:42 - 66ºF - ID#41347

Adobe AIR Bus Tour

Conference venue and event photos:

Purple lights everywhere:

Presentations (and brown shirt)

Guitar Hero:

Akamai CDN and Flash Video:

Crazy ship

And mill across the street from event.

Post-conference Toronto shoe shopping and sushi expedition photos:

This was supposed to be a photo of butts:

Glass at night, the city is huge and new:

80's colored shoes? Or was anything ever these colors:

Elephant and Krusty pipes:

Scientologists are everywhere:

Angry red pumpkins:

Lonely flower box:

Censored mannequins:

Sushi!

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: estrip

09/25/07 12:30 - 84ºF - ID#41317

Today Might be the Day!

I hear that (e:enknot) + megan may have their baby today. They are at the hospital now! Keep them in your thoughts!

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: work

09/24/07 12:13 - 54ºF - ID#41287

Jobs, Jobs, Jobs

Lots of lots of jobs...

Yikes!

I am getting called like crazy today.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: estrip

09/23/07 10:43 - 75ºF - ID#41278

E:Strip Organizer Meeting / Buffet Night

So, Paul and I were talking earlier today about ways to advertise the site and let people know we're here. Showing up to Blogtoberfest en masse helped... but there's plenty more to do.

I suggested to Paul that everyone who is interested meet in person and try to figure out a plan. Paul - can we set something up at your place in the next couple weeks?

Who is up for such a thing?

BUFFET NIGHT

Also, the Buffet night will probably Wed October 10th, around 7pm. Details to follow, save the date.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: buffalo

09/23/07 02:01 - 67ºF - ID#41267

Blogtoberfest 2007

~~Blogtoberfest~~ Octoberfest

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: quiz

09/23/07 11:26 - 67ºF - ID#41261

Favorite Five Albums of All Times?

Post your list of your favorite five albums/cds/etc of all time. Either as a comment here or in your own journal. You don't need to add links to your list like I did.

Massive Attack, Mezzanine
Pixies, Doolittle
Violent Femmes, Violent Femmes
Jane's Addiction, Ritual de lo Habitual
Towa Tei, Best

I completely skipped all my favorite D&B albums and a few other categories too... a more accurate list wouldn't be quite this rock and roll.

So, what's your all time favorite music? We just did this list sharing thing on my photo group, and it's interesting to see what everyone's personal soundtrack is.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: buffalo

09/21/07 08:40 - 83ºF - ID#41243

Dog Park

It was a lot of fun, and so many dogs! You can't tell from the photos but there were about 100 or so of them.

And the march of the seasons:

I need to remember to wipe the fingerprints off my lens before I take photos, everything looks like it's underwater.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: internet

09/21/07 08:04 - 83ºF - ID#41242

Social Graph Part 2

Google to take on Facebook:

by opening up their social graph? That is my dream come true! xfn and openid, distributed digital social networks not under anyone's thumbs.

That's all you need. Push and pull from Google, and Six Apart (LJ, etc). Autodiscovery of social networks. Smugmug just did it

and now all I really need is for Flickr to jump in, or maybe I can fake it through their API.

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Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: internet

09/21/07 12:52 - 76ºF - ID#41230

$1000 a Month

Carrier short codes for SMS messages are $1000 a month. (That's the way you can text to or from a really short number, like 22345). I didn't think it would be that expensive. And that's just the cost for the CSC number, there are addiitional higher charges for receiving and sending messages from CSC's as opposed to normal numbers.

Guess I'll need a long number! 716-998-1987 is harder to remember then 23560, though.

paul writes at 08:17:17 09/21/07 - Comment #24978: You can definitely use a GSM modem with sim card attached to a server to send out the messages. Then you just buy an unlimited messaging account from tmobile for that sim card.

I think that SMS is in its death throws. Honestly, after years of closely following mobile telfony I am sure that it is yesterday;'s technology and that most cell phones are going to go in the direction of email very soon. Many, many of them already have.

james writes at 02:35:20 09/21/07 - Comment #24932: Hey Jim, someone smeared geek all over your journal.

jim writes at 02:05:00 09/21/07 - Comment #24926: I mostly need to send outgoing SMS's at this point, so doing without a short code isn't that big a deal for my project.

I think the better browsers and get (mobile safari for example), and mobile email too), the less relevant the SMS racket will be.

jim writes at 02:02:56 09/21/07 - Comment #24925: Yeah, Paul was telling me that I should just tether a cell phone to a server and send them out that way, but my server is in a rack in San Diego, and so...

zobar writes at 02:01:26 09/21/07 - Comment #24924: So you pay per month for your short code, and then you pay per-message for using the API. GOD THIS INDUSTRY IS SO SHADY. Network providers screw service providers and service providers screw content providers and everyone screws the end user. How many people could you possibly bill for sending one 160-byte packet over the network? Let's find out ...

Now that I think about it, my previous phone [Sony Ericsson T616] could operate over Bluetooth as a Hayes-compatible modem. There were special AT commands you could issue to it; there was probably one for sending SMS.

- Z

jim writes at 01:57:27 09/21/07 - Comment #24923: Well you don't need a short code, but whether or not you have a shortcode you need either a web gateway API to call or a cell system interface terminal. The costs for sending a message seem to be around $0.05 per text, and you have to buy at least $25 worth at a time.

jim writes at 01:44:29 09/21/07 - Comment #24922: It's an API call, usually just in an encoded url like this describes: :::link:::

But some of the you have to submit XML packets with the message info. You need to pay for a short code, and then pay a gateway service for an API connection, and your site can send SMS messages directly.

Alternatively there are actual cell devices that you'd hook up to your server and send messages with over the regular cell networks, but I am not too clear on what's involved with that route.

zobar writes at 01:40:50 09/21/07 - Comment #24921: Funny, we were just solicited by a mobile service provider. Question: once you have a short-code, how do you submit SMSes to the network?

- Z

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Category: work

09/20/07 08:27 - 80ºF - ID#41221

Roswell Park Memorial Mace

The Roswell Park Cancer Institute Memorial Mace

Yes, an honored stick with which to beat people, in a glass class by Human Resources.

And even better, an illustrated history of the evolution of medicine:

(view large here)

Including these highlights:

Centaurs curse humankind with illness, including cancer.

Greeks like to have sex with other men and also fail to cure cancer.

An old Jew wears pointy shoes and withholds secret knowledge of how to fight cancer.

Some guy invented very small drippy zeppelins that fail to cure cancer.

Madam Curie returns from the dead in radiant form, but no one can see her cure for cancer.

There is another secret ghost hiding behind the ghost of Madam Curie. We do not know his story.

Scientists are too poor to own chairs, so you should donate money to RPCI. To help them cure cancer.

Cacti are taking over the world, a new form of mega-cancer.

An African looking mask likes to leer at reclining nude women. Something something cancer.