BarCampMilwaukee.com is up and running. If you are interested in BarCampMilwaukee, please go there for details, and to sign-up.

Now that we’ve got a date (Sat. Sept. 30 & Sun. Oct. 1, 2006) and a place to have BarCamp (Bucketworks) we are working on things like getting participants (campers) and sponsors, and promoting it. Are you involved in a technology-related group in the Milwaukee area? Tell the people in your group about it.

We’ve set up a Yahoo! Group for BarCampMilwaukee where we are currently discussing all the details for the event. I think we’ll also be meeting at Bucketworks on Sunday, August 20th, 2006 to do some in-person discussion and planning (waiting for confirmation on that meeting…)

I’m also hoping to design & print up some flyers in the next few days… And, you know, if I’m posting too much about BarCampMilwaukee, just let me know. ;)

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I do love my Nokia 7610, but recently had a bit of trouble with it, which involved not being able to actually answer calls…

At first it was somewhat random, I’d get a call and answer the phone, and all was well. I would then get another call, and it would ring once (or just a half a ring) and then no matter what button I pushed I could not answer the call. After the call was over, things went back to normal. I was also using my ringtone for the alarm, which would only play the half-ring, and then stop.

I ended up debugging the problem by changing profiles and selected ringtones, and finally realized that the MP3 I had created and used for a ringtone was causing the problem.

I’d been using an MP3 of a phone ringing for nearly a year now, and never had a problem. Did it become corrupt? It was stored in the phone’s memory, and I’m guessing it was written to memory once when I loaded it onto the phone, and read from memory each time the phone played the sound.

I’m using a different ringtone right now, but I’m going to load a new copy of the MP3 I created to see if a fresh copy fixes the problem.

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I’ve seen a number of blog designs that display the comments made by readers at a much smaller font size than those of the author. I’m trying to determine if this is an attempt at lowering the value of the comments. I’d guess in most cases it is used as a visual differentiator to separate the post from the comments. I’m sure at least some people want to see what they’ve written stand out in size against other’s reactions to it. Is this good for conversation?

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