RasterWeb!Those crazy guys a Fireseed are trying to build a supercomputer. It’ll be called the Fireseed Streaming Supercomputer aka “FS3”
The FS3 project is a recently launched ad hoc tech project to design, build and program a GPU-cluster supercomputer, rather than the traditional CPU-cluster.
Join them at Bucketworks on Sunday March 18th, 2007 at 2:30PM if you wanna get involved…
Does Lightning have a Daylight Saving Time problem?
I don’t know when to go to the Apple Store! (18:00 is not equal to 5PM…)
Ah, I just checked for updates and a new version of Lightning was installed. Looks like they had a DST fix about a month ago. There’s also a Calendar blog which I might actually try to follow in the future.
It’s obvious that Twitter is cool, but honestly, it takes too much work. I mean, sure, I can try to answer the question “What are you doing?” in 140 characters, but why bother? That’s a lot of effort!
My new service will be named tw which is shorter than “Twitter” and has no uppercase letters, so you don’t even have to hit the shift key. And that “140 characters”? Forget it! We will be using two. Yes, two. Here are some examples.
I think tw will be able to convey all human emotions with just two characters.
(If you’re interested in funding this thing, I’ll need about 2 million. Leave a comment.)
Recently I mentioned how the old Epson 777 was having some printing problems. Sadly, it’s only gotten worse.
The printer often doesn’t even print a page with ink on it, so it’s becoming somewhat useless. (It is fun to hear the loud grinding noise it makes, I really should record that!) My handwriting is terrible, and using a pen makes my hand hurt. (Who was it that said the “Pen is mightier!” anyway?) Do you know how hard it is for me to write things down because I can’t print them? And don’t get me started on maps! Sheesh, I have to hand draw maps while looking at the monitor. (If I don’t make it to tonight’s meeting, that’s why…)
I’m this close to getting a new printer. Actually, since I have about 6 unused ink cartridges, I really should just get another Epson 777.
This will be the first in a series of posts about BarCampMadison (now that it’s over.)
People who know me probably know about my skepticism/enthusiasm issues. I spend a lot of time worrying about how things will turn out, and the same time I get very excited about how they could turn out. I don’t know if this is wasted energy, or they balance each other out, but it’s how I am. That said, I think BarCampMadison was a great success. Could it have turned out better? Definitely! As for the numbers, I’ve heard estimates that we had 175 people participating throughout the event. We did not hit the 400-500 Ken had been hoping for. Honestly, I think this is a good thing. There were a bunch of people I wanted to talk to, but never got a chance. More people probably would have made this worse. Though maybe more free-time (as someone suggested) would have helped. More people also would have meant more sessions, and that would have meant missing more sessions that I wanted to participate in. Damn…
The good thing is, as we do these, we get better at them. We’ll take all the feedback, and do it better next time. I’m starting to wonder if we have too much going on at once. Perhaps there should only be 3 sessions going on at any one time. There were some scheduling issues again, but where it’s free-form and people come and go as they need to, that’s a tough one. I was there the entire time, so I could have done my session at 4AM if I wanted to.
I suppose in the long-run, it’s better to have too much interesting stuff going on at once instead of not enough. I think we succeeded in helping people teach, learn, and connect with others. I even ended up seeing people I haven’t seen in more than 10 years… Crazy!
I’m strongly considering trying to throw some smaller one-day *Camp events, like DesignCamp, MarCamp, and even DrupalCamp this year. If these sound interesting to you, let me know.