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Fantastic review of last night’s show. Probably my favorite Rush show ever. Third row was a dream come true.

I’ve listened to many Gillmor Gangs and this is one of the best. Doc Searls brings a lot of experience and thought to the post-analog-TV-shutdown landscape.

I’m a Chris Horner fan. I miss Astana at the TDF this year.

Open-source Twitter clone that is clean and supports OpenID.

Rush will be receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame next year.

Neil Peart is featured in a museum exhibit “Motostars”.

I recommend TrueCrypt.

It’s nice to know I successfully Storage VMotioned over 1TB of VMs to implement thin provisioning on iSCSI-connected NetApp and it wasn’t even supported… sheesh.

Mike, it’s not April 1st.

Classic.

This came through my backyard (Union Deposit Rd) yesterday and I didn’t even know what it was until today. Nice job, local media. I was pissed off in traffic not able to see a thing or know what was going on instead of spectating!

George Carlin is probably my favorite standup comic ever.

Been a fan of Joshua’s since the geoURL days.

Not sure if I understand/like this.

Prediction: MS will allow users to unlock the MSN Music DRM before 2011.

A great tale of unexpected employment.

I agree with Mike. Fair use is fair use.

Just heard about this on the Windows Weekly podcast. I’ve been thinking about off-site backups for both home and Ryan’s school. This might be neat.

I just found out. I was a fan of Tim Russert. I’ve been listening to the MTP podcast pretty regularly lately. I’m going to miss him.

Steve Gillmor Tweeted this Dave Winer story, which first alerted me to Tim Russert’s passing. I would like to see Andrea Mitchell anchor MTP.

$500 for a UTP cable with groovy connectors. Denon won’t ever get any of my money.

“If we want revolutionary change — change where nearly everyone moves to the new platform in short order — that is usually going to require heroic action on the part of government or the occasional mad scientist.”

“We will not take a dime from Washington lobbyists or special interest PACs,” [Obama] said. “They will not fund our campaign, they will not run our party, they will not drown out the voices of the American people.”

“One likes to believe in the freedom of baseball…” Good going, Geddy.

Finally freed up a 4GB USB drive to play with; will be doing this for WS2008.

Cool! Tried to do my part by buying XV it in the first week it was out.

‘[Former Press Secretary Scott] McClellan’s book, “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception,” is the first negative account by a member of the tight circle of Texans around Mr. Bush.’

I’ve neglected to ready Cory’s other books; I’m going to read this one next.

TeamSpeak

One of a number of technologies yet to be deployed by broadcasters and cable operators to help ease the DTV transition next February.

That’s Bethlehem, PA, not Israel. Transformers are made of steel, you know. Good to hear Bethlehem’s getting a shot in the arm.

Interesting.

“Yes they [Gartner and other IT research analysts] wield a lot of power, but it is often the power of discovering the obvious.”

Obama said McCain had a “naive and irresponsible belief that tough talk from Washington will somehow cause Iran to give up its nuclear program and support for terrorism.”

HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 converter, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows.

s/REM/Rush s/Document/Presto s/Accelerate/VaporTrails

Apparently Bernie Grundman Mastering delivered mostly padded 16-bit tracks to NIN for the 24/96 “hi-res” mix of “The Slip”. Were they trying to give Reznor the slip? According to the thread, NIN are aware and are working to fix.

Came across this on a Google Image Search. Hilarious.

At this point the Democrats are trying to reduce John McCain’s news cycles as long as possible. I just heard him in the news today for the first time in weeks.

AMD’s Barcelona surprises me out of the gate. Their quad-socket system bested the fastest tested Intel solution on the VMmark by 26% adjusted for clock speed, and by 8% straight up.

An excellent example of over-reaction. I, too was amazed by the capacity and size of the ferries when I visited Seattle. I’d hate to think that awe and curiousity would cause me to be suspected of wrongdoing.

The Votemaster has a great site.

Playing with Ubuntu JeOS 8.04 (thanks, Scotbuff) at work under VMware ESX to host WPMU/LDAP.

Via Bob Plankers.

I saw ‘Iron Man’ yesterday as well and overall, I loved it. If you see it, definitely stay until the end of the credits. You’ll get another 30 seconds of cool.

I had to turn off Tarski’s update notifications on my corporate WPMU install to get my Dashboard working right. Probably something proxy-related, but I didn’t feel like getting it work. Tarski is a great WP theme.

Here here, Karoli. Great post.

The Canadian dollar finally has some purchasing power!

Been tweaking around with this at work.

Via Scoble: Nice embedded Flash H.264 HD video stuffage.

Two issues I have with this post: WS2008 Server Core doesn’t seem to dramatically reduce the frequency of applicable patches, just the number required. Also, I patch my VMware clusters during prime time, not off-hours.

I deployed iSCSI for VMware shared storage about 1.5 years ago and I’m still learning…

Now that I have a cell phone that can record images, video, and audio and email them, thinking about moblogging opportunies. How about an AMR-to-podcast solution?

Voting in tomorrow’s primary, even though PA has e-voting issues. Will Clinton call for an impossible audit if Obama gets the delegates he needs?

ASU takes two steps forward, one step back.

Last night’s Asia show in Harrisburg was great. I haven’t listened to some of that stuff in 15 years and I was singing along like when I was a teenager. Go see these guys if you want to hear their classics. Their new stuff is good, too.

What he said! Watch out, a full setlist is included.

I agree with the author’s sentiment, but think my oldest will be older than 9 before he gets to bike across town by himself.

“In chasing the consumer surplus by performing a limited modularization of Windows Vista, Microsoft has kneecapped what should have been its flagship product, limiting killer features in the name of market segmentation.”

Verizon is attempting to highlight the fact that many cable operators perform additional processing on digital video signals—a process called transcoding or rate shaping—before distributing them to subscribers’ homes, in order to save space.

The Bills begin their over-the-border shenanigans.

[Via Scotbuff] I can’t figure out whether this is sinister or genius.

It’s refreshing to see Comcast’s HD offerings compared objectively with Verizon’s FIOS. Excellent analysis.

“…the executives rejected claims that their companies’ earnings are out of step with other industries and said that while they earn tens of billions of dollars, they also invest tens of billions in exploration and oil production activities.” They said it, so it must be true.

Vote Obama, Pennsylvania!

Ged and Alex warmed up for their upcoming tour Saturday night in Toronto with Taylor Hawkins at the Foo Fighters concert.

Watch Lessig’s slide show, help Change Congress!

[via Steve Gillmor]

Change Congress.

I knew enough to uncheck “Safari” when ASU offered it, but I agree that offering it disguised as an update to something already installed when it isn’t is bad practice.

I can uncheck “Safari” and so can Tom Krazit. Anyone running Apple Software Update could. However, passing off a full app install through a utility designated for updating installed apps is duplicitous.

“It’s an update mechanism!” “No, it’s a software distribution platform!”

Barcelona is extremely late. Intel may have already caught up in the four-socket space. I’m waiting to see some VMmarks or other proc/mem benchmarks.

[via Bob Plankers] RIP Mr. Clarke. I’ve only read 2001 and 2010. I need to read more of this gentle man’s books.

Great summary of the questions that need answers on Lost. I have some theories I’ll blog once they’re a bit more developed.

RIAA = Racketeers, don’tcha know.

Anyone who didn’t already think Laura DiDio of the Yankee Group was a Microsoft shill should read this factcheck of her latest “research”.

Google scratches an itch I’ve had for years. Synching my work calendar up with my personal one.

Check out NIN’s Ghosts. $5 for 100+ minutes of instrumental FLAC goodness is quite a deal.

Brett Favre is one of my favorite NFL players - ever.

Via Bob Plankers: Obama vs. Hillary on Civil Rights issues.

Even CEOs can hold grudges. I can only surmise that Google and Schmidt were prepared for (or didn’t care about) negative coverage.

I fail to see how $1.8B per year in additional taxes will hurt (or sway) oil companies that made $123B last year. $100/barrel is a red herring when you’re talking about profits already so enormous.

Catching up on the cycling world and what’s up with the former DSC team members and Zabriskie. Slipstream made a great showing at TOC ‘08, and Leipheimer won it again.

Former DSC team manager Johann Bruyneel and teammates Leipheimer and Contador are now on Team Astana, which has been barred from competing on the ‘08 TDF because of past doping by former members.

Tigers/Vols tickets are hot. My cousin was featured on local TV with the news that he was reselling his tickets.

Jorge Garcia’s blog.

Larry Lessig is considering running for Congress.

The shoe drops.

Head, meet sand. The DTV transition is almost a year away and I haven’t seen mention of it on TV at all. Isn’t that ironic?

A Pythonese way to Scrobble. I’m thinking of rigging up a Python script that keeps a random (but parameterized) stream of music flowing using Justeport to my Airport Express, and it would be nice to have it update last.fm.

I was a big BeOS fan. My dual-P166 and dual-P2-300 machines loved it.

A.O. Scott: “The first time I saw “Juno,” I was shocked to find myself tearing up at the end”. So did I. This movie is that good. Go see it.

Via Slashdot. The RIAA and digital music publishers’ greed will bite them back as the producers of music distribute their wares by themselves.

Uncertain of whether to vote for Obama or Clinton? Larry Lessig makes a compelling argument for Obama.

He’s IN!!