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Cory Doctorow Presentation Talk at Emerging Technologies Conference, 2004 – Ebooks: Neither E, Nor Books
Cory just finished his presentation at the Emerging Technologies conference (which I didn’t go to, though would like to next time…) and gave a presentation on the state of ebooks. I’ve read both of his released novels on-screen, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom just on HTML web pages and his latest, Eastern Standard…
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Welcome to X5 Industries International Party Agenda
“Welcome to X5 Industries International Party Agenda” “Worldwide Party People Manifesto “Our emotional state of choice is ecstasy. Our nourishment of choice is Love. Our addiction of choice is technology. Our religion of choice is music. Our currency of choice is knowledge. Our politics of choice is none. Our society of choice is utopian though…
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WordPress Style Sheet CSS Comptition Closed
The winners have been announced. I particularly liked the Mars-Spirit theme. 🙂 All styles: http://www.alexking.org/index.php?content=software/wordpress/styles.php It will be exciting to see some of these hopefully be included in a default install of WordPress. Link to share this: https://gabrielserafini.com/blog/2004/02/10/wordpress-style-sheet-css-comptition-closed/
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More updates to the WordPress installation
Working on the template for the blog some more. New background, removed the calendar on the side menu for now, rearranged the links, added the footer <div>, etc… Link to share this: https://gabrielserafini.com/blog/2004/02/10/more-updates-to-the-wordpress-installation/
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VistaPrint Business Cards Arrived
The order of cards from VistaPrint arrived today. They look pretty nice, and came about a week earlier than they were initially scheduled to arrive. The color is a little darker than from my inkjet (Epson C80) but overally the quality is pretty good. I ordered the premium cards with my own design rather than…
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Googling for the Juicy Stuff
Check out Google a Dream come true (otherwise known as WATCH WHAT YOU PUBLISH ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB!!!) Got to the honey page that linked to the paper above via search: intitle: “Index+of..etc” + passwd from http://johnny.ihackstuff.com/index.php?module=prodreviews via Google search for: googledorks via MSNBC via Slashdot. I’ve seen this before (Google does, after all,…
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The Opte Project
The Opte Project Pretty cool project — the programmer maps the entire Internet in 1 day. You can buy the t-shirt at Think Geek. Link to share this: https://gabrielserafini.com/blog/2004/02/09/the-opte-project/
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Done with EST
Very good book, not too long, not too short. I continue to be impressed with Cory’s work and attitude. I think we’re both on the same wavelength. Time for some work. Laptop -> Winamp -> Been Playing 553 Minutes -> Turn up volume on stereo to hear music -> Time to switch music -> D…
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I’m in the PST Tribe, I think…
My internal clock seems to be set at somewhere a couple hundred miles off the Pacific coast (towards Hawaii) as far as awake / sleep cycles go. But I’m in St. Louis. Cory’s new book really gets it right. I really like his work. 🙂 Over halfway through the book, reading it on my phone.…
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Cory Doctorow’s new book is now available!
Cory Doctorow just released his newest novel, Eastern Standard Tribe. He’s made it available again as a free download (already got mine in Plucker format for my Samsung i330 Palm/phone.) I read Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom when it came out and enjoyed it quite a bit. I think Cory continues to set…