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The Thirsty Developer Podcast

I got an email from Larry Clarkin a while back asking if he and Dave Bost could use some of my music for a podcast they were working on. Larry’s a nice guy, I mean, he didn’t even have to ask, since the music I’ve recorded this year has all been released under a Creative Commons license, but he did, and that’s cool, and now the first episode of The Thirsty Developer is out.

The funny part about it is, if you would have told me a few years ago that two guys from Microsoft wanted to use some of my songs in a show they were doing, I probably would have laughed out loud. Larry and Dave are both good guys though (they’ve sponsored BarCampMilwaukee both times) so they’re ok in my book. They’re just starting, so I’m going to cut them some slack on the attribution part, but I’m sure they’ll get it in there somewhere. :)

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Asus Eee PC (Next Week!)

I did it, I actually ordered an Asus Eee PC. It’s the tiny little laptop that runs Linux (and supposedly Mac OS X!)

Asus Eee PC I’m hyped. I can’t wait to be mobile again. Despite the fact that Gabe gave me a very nice G4 this week, I do miss a machine that’s not stuck on a desk. I’m pretty confident I can toss this in my backpack and not even notice it’s there until I need it. I couldn’t do that with the Wallstreet, or even the smaller G4 iBook. The Eee PC fills a niche, for sure. In fact, some believe Apple will come out with a tiny laptop like this (well, except it’ll cost $1000+ but it comes with a free spinning beachball!)

I’m sure you’ll see more posts once I get this thing. And yes, the waiting is the hardest part! In the meantime, checkout the eeeuser.com forums, to see what Eee PC owners are saying.

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OconomoPhotoWalk

I’ve been using Flickr for a few years now, as well as publishing ocono.com but a loose binding occurred in January 2007 when the Oconomowoc Group on Flickr was born.

It took quite some time, but it looks like we’ll actually have a real life event. We’ve scheduled a photowalk for Sunday, November 18th, 2007. We plan to meet at 10AM at the gazebo on Fowler Lake, and then do a walk around the lake, taking many photos. Join us, it’ll be a fun time, and you’ll get to walk past my house. I might even tell you which one it is.

River West #1

Maybe we’ll see some photos of Oconomowoc that aren’t taken by myself or the few other members who regularly post. I’m even bringing the kids along, and each will have a camera with them to capture things from the “kid point of view.”

Gabe Wollenburg (friend of ocono.com) managed to get some press in the local papers about the event, so who knows? We might have some newcomers show up. If all goes well, we can try to do this more often, maybe every month or so, until we run out of cool places in Oconomowoc to walk around and snap pictures of. (Like that will happen!)





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DrupalCampWisconsin

Well, it’s as official as it’s gonna get… Or maybe we’ll officially announce it at this week’s Web414 Meeting, but DrupalCampWisconsin is scheduled.

DrupalCampWisconsin
Saturday, January 19th, 2008
10AM – 10PM
Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE)

DrupalCampWisconsin

There’s a page on BarCamp.org with more info: http://barcamp.org/DrupalCampWI and we’ll be adding it to a number of other sites in the coming weeks.

This is going to be much smaller than an event like BarCampMilwaukee2, since it is a 1-day event, with a specific focus, which is of course, Drupal.

If you are interested in attending, please add your name to the wiki page. If you are interested in sponsoring this event, please get in touch with me.

(Oh, the above image is only the “official” logo if no one else bothers to create one, or I get a bit more feedback on it.)




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Radio BarCamp

At BarCampMilwaukee2 we had FRS radios, and I fear we had way too much fun with them, I mean, in addition to actually using them for their intended purpose, to communicate effectively within the space we had available to us.

Last year I had thought that FRS radios would come in handy as an ad-hoc public address system. Well, we had a real PA this year, so we used the radios as needed, and for finding each other, and for screwing around. Actually, they were quite useful, as we were in a building with doors that were occasionally locked and you often needed someone to let you in, or when you just had to know where Ashe was.

Come In BarCamp

While out on the Photo Walk session (aka mil[photo]waukee) and scaling the roof of a certain fortress, we were able to alert Gabe that he should come outside and wave to us.

Hey Gabe!

Yay for radios and geeks who are nerds when it comes to using them. I even hear that Gabe plans to return my radio at the next Web414 Meeting…