Long Weekend

So Monday is a holiday, not soon enough, this is finally the time to relax, go to the beach and Disney. Looking forward to it. I see 30c on my thermometer pretty much every day now, I should enjoy it while it lasts, soon it will be cold again and the beach needs to be visited.

Charles was trying to get me to use Twitter, but I think I will follow Leo LaPorte to Jaiku . So much you can do on the internet to let others know what you are up too. I have had looks at Friendster, Hi5, SMS.ac(really bad site, they spam your friends in your name), MySpace, enough, I am sticking with Jaiku, not even looking at Twitter.

Dawn

It is the dawn of a new day here in my lair, a great time of the day, a time when you hope this day will be better then the rest. Markets hopefully will go up again and besides, we have a 3 day weekend to look forward too. I was just chatting with the 'rents, seems they use MSN rather then Skype which is what I am normally logged into. Odly I usually login MSN from Linux with Gaim, cant stand all the ads on the Live messanger on XP so I do not run it. Of course we all know that soon there will probably be an ad supported gPhone, but then that will be that way from day one I guess. The rumor is that for $100 you can get a pretty neat phone with what I hope are very relavent ads, that always makes it easier to swallow them. Some advertizing is not intrusive and not boring. On TV there are some ads that are better then the programming I hope the same can be done on the gPhone, but Google has a good track record, I guess if anyone can pull an ad supported phone off, it is them.

I have to work on a shopping cart, Katmandu wants a web store and I might just make it for them. Don't blame me for the current website, but given what they gave me to work with mine wouldn't be any better either. It is time I build up that site, it is probably pulling down my PageRank by linking to a crappy site.

Skype at UUASC

I better put a plug in here for my Skype talk at UUASC since it seems like I am getting way more page views per day then I used too.

I am thinking that doing a SkypeCast would be an interesting idea for those of you who don't live in the area and can't attend, but are interested in Skype and other VoIP solutions. I will be talking about how I got my communication problems solved using free and inexpensive long distance provisioned over the internet. One hour talk on Sept. 6 @ 7PM, but the real Skype content will about 20 min later, meanwhile you can listen the UnixRabbi our fearless leader talk about the group and introduce newbies.

If you are interested, send me an email to bobo92 at hotmail dot com to express intereste with the subject: SkypeCast, important as this email address is very spam intensive. I will try to answer you with the details of how to join.

justin.tv

OK so this 24/7 camera on your life site got to get a plug for the biggest time waister since I got on IRC so many years ago, but I can't take my eyes off it. Now it is IRC with live video and sound, you get to see many people in live video, it is kind of silly, but wow what numbers of viewers they are getting. Watch the AlphaGeek on justin.tv
I wonder where is the business model, since they seem to be only playing right now it is worth checking out before it is littered with advertising, like my blog.

So I tonight I found a new cast member on there, crazy dude with his belt around his neck, must be hot in Detroit, anyhow after calling it turns out that he is a Linux user as well and tech geek, probably the case with many of the Justin.tv people. Was a good phone call. But the biggest draw is still iJustine, she has the best looks and I am sure that attracts an audience, she is also very web savy and probably has a group of people drooling after her. I had the feeling that justing.tv was more wild tonight, but then maybe it is just the time of day, after midnight. It would be great if I could get iJustine to record some of our LUG meetings here, or for that matter any of them. I bet live video would increase our audience and spread the word further about all the great FOSS apps out there.

I am going to have to revise this post in the morning, who knows what junk I wrote. I am past sleepy now so maybe not that bad.

Dive

This week my portfolio went down 3.35% this week, scary. Like the bottom is going to fall out. Meanwhile this whole investing idea seems stupid when you can come up with a very silly product like the Pet Rock and make millions, I can't believe what good marketing can do, why would 5 million people buy a rock for 3.95 back in 1975, are they nuts, I got to find the commercial somewhere, because it must be some great commercial.

Lunar Eclipse

I actually woke up at 3AM and took a look at the eclipse. My pictures of the total eclipse didn't work, then later I grabbed the old Sony Mavica and snapped this picture, it has higher quality then the new Cybershot, go figure. Would have been nice to have a telescope and more darkness, but I didn't go down to the beach either.

Calling Skype from a phone

Mobivox lets you call Skype users from a cellphone or land line. Ask me for an invite, you need a Skype account, then you call one of the local access numbers and it asks for your contact with a voice menu. You can also get presence information from the voice menu for your contacts. Below is an offer from them for long distance. This is the first service I have used to call a Skype user from a regular telephone, I have it on my cellphone in case I don't have access to Skype.