Dave Mustaine, lead singer of Megadeth. In a column called My List, artists share what songs mean a lot of them and Mr. Mustaine chose Crowded House’s “Don’t Dream It’s Over” as his #1 pick.
“I hear this wherever I go,” says Mustaine of the melancholy love song off the Aussie’s band’s 1986 debut. “I could be having the absolute worst time, but I hear this and it brightens my day.”
This is Crowded House all over. One listen to Neil Finn and my day gets brighter, too, Dave.
I’ve been dog-fooding (that is, internally testing) Windows LiveWriter – for creating editing and posting to my three Blogs. Install, and it just works.
Tim Heuer’s Flickr4Writer plugin is a must-have. A major time saver.
There are many positive stories about LiveWriter, this however James Clarke’s takes the cake: JetFuel: Silverlight plugin for LiveWriter. Something else to play with!
40+th level. Not World-of-Warcraft level 40, rather in Brisbane. To the left is Chris Saad, middle is Ashley Angell and then myself.
We had just been discussing Particls for The Geek Stories. Hence the smiles all around.
Watch the episode here: Un-jumble the Web with Particls
(Photo: Matt Sherrod, Neil Finn from video clip Don’t Stop Now)
Neil Finn and Crowded House at their best. video: Watch the video now
Guitar weirdness at 2:20 and lyrical changes at 3:00 into the song. Love it.
Microsoft Surface Computing. More than just Windows.
Microsoft PopFly makes your ideas fly, and may not be a strict programming language. But cool.
From the revered MIT Media Lab: Scratch:
Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As they create Scratch projects, young people learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also gaining a deeper understanding of the process of design.
From the Ruby community comes Hackety Hack:
One of Hackety Hack’s sincere pledges is to make the most common code very easy and short. Downloading an MP3 should be one line of code. A blog should be very few.
And finally, if you need a laugh and think coding should only be in uppercase and like Scratch, be related to cats: LOLCODE.
KTHXBYE
After more discussion than content, Wikipedia has sadly removed the Frank Arrigo entry created by delic8genius, and edited (badly) by my good self.
Objective lessons learnt:
I can now clearly see where a couple of strategies undertaken by fans-of-frank may have come unstuck – albeit with good intent.
It would be interesting to watch wikipedia to see if these rules are evenly applied.
I spent an excellent 50 minutes of my weekend listening to this Podcast from Uncle Dave and Uncle Mike: Laurel Papworth, Social Networking Strategist
Laurel and I had breakfast to catch up on similar topics in March this year: http://www.on10.net/Blogs/nhodge/the-geek-stories-online-communities-citizen-journalism/
The podcast is a more insightful conversation with Laurel, an expert in Social networks and more importantly, online communities.
Discussion points from the conversation:
OK, twitter.com is the rage of the first half of 2007. Maybe Facebook.com hits the same growth rate for the second half of 2007. Who knows with this fickle world of social networking.
The “@”-sign is used to respond to people on twitter, and is completely user-invented:
That is, if you write “@nickhodge blah blah blah”, there is a magic URL added to nickhodge.
Now, this message is sent to the public, but only friends of @nickhodge and you see the response. That is, if person-y is your friend and not nickhodge, they will not see your @nickhodge response.
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Demonstrating Australian farmers are innovative. And a bunch of larrakins.