nobody reads this …
I have had a mixed experience of pain, joy, confusion and wonder, but best of all is CARTOONS. Channel Frederator, from the people who brought us Cow and Chicken and The Fairly Odd Parents, etc put together a great video podcast of animations they get sent from people. Easy to forget how atomfilms used to be the only place you could get this kind of fix, in one place. No more. Love it.
I just had a look to see how I can assign my WP categories to posts made via the OPML Editor – right click on the title outline in the WP Workspace – imagine my surprise when I saw now my lost of Categories – but (a shortened version of) Daves!!
Nice to see Yahoo! further enhancing their Flash based YahooMaps Beta with satellite imagery, extending the Yahooniverse! [only 56 hits on Google so far – 21 hits on Yahoo! 🙂 ]
Testing a crosspost to this blog using the OPML Editor and wordpress.root Tool.
Will test insertion of media types which native WP does not support – ie: Flash.
Trying my Flash OPML Blogroll from my old OPML blog:
Hmmm… it should be there above this. it isn’t. I imagine they must be stripping out the OBJECT and EMBED tags using the PHP strip_tags function – where it’s easy to strip out tags you don’t want from a post – and allow those you do.
Oh well.
Originally uploaded by kosso.
yes… the Kool-Aid!!!
And then guess what happened???
I bought TWO iPods!!!! (I feel so dirty)
I decided I have to know the 'dark side' at first hand, if I am going to require universal justification of opinion 😉
[weird: wordpress says I dont have permission to categorize this post as I'd like??]
It was great to meet up with Steve Garfield and Carol the other evening, here in Boston. We went for dinner then off out to see Monty Python's Spamalot at the Colonial Theatre, which was a hilarious musical based around the story of the 'Holy Grail' movie. [The Colonial Theatre might be having a bit of disruption now, since being situated right next to where the crane accident happened the other day]
I was telling Steve how his video podcasting /citizen journalist efforts remind me of Max Headroom. For those of you that have never seen the movie, I suggest you do. The character played by Matt Frewer was a video/tv journalist, operating as a one man band, in constant direct-feed contact with his producers, roaming around investigating stories with just him and his camera. The character was investigating 'blipverts' and the explosive effects they had on viewers when he had an accident and hit a Max Headroom sign in a car park. It was the last thing he could remember. In the film, they managed to communicate with a catatonic Frewer by plumbing his psyche into a computer. Hence the animated character was born.
Is was told to expect changeable wetaher here in Boston. Last week was like a UK summer!! Now it's snowing!!! Madness!
Originally uploaded by kosso.
Just earlier, up the road from the office here in Boston, a large piece of crane holding up a construction gantry on the front of Emmerson College, facing Boston Common came away from the building and fell on top of a car killing all three people inside. A pedestrian was also killed in this tragic accident.
UPDATE: It turns out that the victim count was three. One man in a car and two construction workers. Two shocked survivors, who were friends, were in driving together through Boston in two seperate cars and one car had pulled between them. This was the car which was crushed.
Another man who managed to walk from the accident, after having his car severely damaged from above is the grandson of former Boston mayor, John Hynes.
The were two more people injured in this tragic accident, which could be heard around the area as the lift supports of the construction gantry came crashing down this afternoon.
I was just in Shaws supermarket, here in Boston, USA buying some snacks and beers for yet another night in the hotel, with my head under the bonnet of podcast.com, playing with OPML and RSS (to the POWER of USERS) (ahh yes – thrills on a Friday night, eh?) and I was actually asked for ID to prove I was old enough to buy alcohol!!!
I have not been asked for ID since well before i was 18 (which is the age of ‘alconsent’ in the UK). I was regularly the one who had to go into the Off Licence to buy the booze when we were at school. Even then I was rarely checked, even though I was well underage at the time.
FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!!! Is my ever greying hair and grey-flecked beard not proof enough that I’m over 21??? Jeeeezuuuuuzz!!!!!!
Off back to Boston tomorrow to see the gang. Also for some more
important meetings which I hope can help us gain a bit more traction
here (and over there —mm.. transatlantic…). Still finalising
things. Need to sign things. Show me the money! Heh.
Hope fully
we'll also get a chance to pop down to New York to see someone there
who has been interested in what's brewing over at podcast.com 😉
