Well, greetings from Whistler, BC! It’s raining, but sessions have started so we don’t really hang out too much outside at the moment anyway. And while meals are outside, they are luckily in a tent. Phew.

Of course at lunch, I was stirring the salad dressing and promptly a round piece of glass at the bottom of the jar broke out and decided to flood my pants with what I believe was yummy while still in the jar. Always good to have a pair of spare pants.

I added some pictures to ipernity already, so go over there if you’d like to see what I took pictures of. I also wrote some code to import ipernity into summit.mozilla.org, where I hope it’ll show up soon.

Enjoy!

Yay, I am out and about for the Mozilla Summit 2008 in the beautiful Whistler, British Columbia, Canada.

It’s going to be an exciting week with a lot of people I know and haven’t seen in a long time, and there will be many new people to meet as well. I am looking forward to it!

Whistler itself is a breathtaking place, they say, so I am particularly thrilled that such a great place was picked for the event. I know at least one of my friends is jealous because he’d love to go mountain-biking there!

If you want to see what’s going on at the Mozilla Summit, hop on over to summit.mozilla.org, a new mash-up site showing tons of media related to the summit. Soon it’ll look much fuller than this:

I’ll write again when I’m there

Gotta love Yahoo Answers:

Q: (Does) coke go good with gin?

A: Anything goes good with gin (except chocolate milk)

Just recently I ranted about how bad it is that GMail auto-adds every possible email address it can get its hands on to your contacts, making them utterly cluttered with the most random people on the planet, including “remove me from this mailinglist” addresses and others you never want to see again.

It seems as if Google heard me (and many others): They now introduced a new section “suggested contacts” that they dump everybody and their brother’s email address into, but the people you actually want to have as contacts stay in an also newly created “My Contacts” folder.

This gives you the convenience of still adding people you email to the auto-complete feature (which, in and by itself is not so bad), while not hopelessly cluttering your contacts. Exactly what I want!

Well, thank you, Google. Read more about it on the GMail blog.

CMU professor Randy Pausch died last night from pancreatic cancer. Even beyond academia, his inspiring “last lecture” made him famous worldwide.

So, Wordpress on the iPhone is pretty cool. Obviously, typing an entire blog post on there can become tedious, but if you just want to tell the world about something that happened to you five seconds ago, it’s definitely a must-have.

On the iPod, sadly, you don’t have a camera, so you’re stuck with text-only posts (unless you want to spend an hour typing HTML code). But who cares: aren’t these things supposed to be nothing more than a music player anyway?

(thank you, auto-correction, for fixing my typo: I really did mean “things”, not “thongs”…)

Unter dem Titel “Aufruhr im Bloggerland” stolperte ich bei Rouven über die Reaktion der deutschen “Blogosphäre” auf einen umstrittenen Artikel bei Spiegel Online namens “Die Beta-Blogger”.

Von einer Reaktion wie Rumpelstielzchen will ich einmal absehen, nicht nur weil mir das viele andere bereits abgenommen haben, sondern vor allem, weil ich weniger verärgert als amüsiert bin.

Ausgerechnet Spiegel Online, der, was die sprachliche wie inhaltliche Qualität betrifft, neben seinem namengebenden Mutterblatt immer ein bisschen blass aussieht, beklagt sich über den mangelhaften politischen Einfluss der deutschen Bloggerszene, sie seien “selbstbezogen und unprofessionell”?
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