I’m not sure how, and I’m also not sure why, but it my post of last night on the latest version of Portable Firefox made it to the Top Stories in the Blogoshpere page on Topix. Due to the constantly changing nature of the page, to the right is a screenshot of the page and below is a screenshot of the “full coverage” page on the topic.
Thanks Steven!
I just received the following e-mail from the conference’s program chair:
Hurray! I was able to include your Integrating RSS workshop into the schedule on Sun afternoon, Oct 22nd.
This is spectacular news. I’m now on the program for a half-session on Flickr, a full session on the Second Life Library, and a three-hour pre-conference on RSS. (This is a repeat of my RSS post-conference at CIL back in March. Updated to the latest tools & resources of course.) As soon as the preliminary program is released I’ll be sure to post all of the official information.
Here’s a great video of Will Ferrell as George W. Bush filming a specail announcement on global warming.
With my previous post on the disabling of USB drives discussion currently happening on Web4Lib, (more of which I’ll probably be blogging about by the end of the week,) I was happy to see the release of the latest version of Portable Firefox just one day after Firefox released its latest update.
For those of you upgrading from a previous version, be sure to read the instructions. Upgrading this time is a bit different from previous incarnations due to some directories being relocated “for easy backups”.
As I’ve traveled around the past nine years I’ve found myself in Target wearing a red polo, in Hastings wearing a green polo, and in Best Buy wearing a blue polo. If you’re not sure the significance of this I’ll tell you that in each instance, wearing just such colors in just such stores will get you mistaken for a store employee, at least once, usually more, every time it happens. So, the question becomes, what if 80 people were to get together and do this on purpose? Well, it happened in New York City recently, set up by the group Improv Everywhere. You can read all about thier
“mission” including photographs and video of the “event”. Here’s my favorite quote from the mission report:
“Agent EMartin’s Xbox video camera rig was discovered when an employee approached him to offer advice on how to return his Xbox. He was asked to leave, and then detained by security at the front door. There a manager claimed it was ‘illegal’ to film in Best Buy and instructed someone to call 911. She informed him that he had violated her ‘civil rights’ by filming in her store. Agent Nicholson, who had been taking photos at the hip to avoid detection was caught as well, but he was able to leave the store freely.”
