merlyn - trying to figure out how to upload my 201 GPX tracks from everytrail.com (which I've downloaded) to OpenStreetMap.org easily.
merlyn - Compare Facebook's horrid UI with the relatively sane FriendFeed. There's no way it'll be useful or navigable after Facebook-ized.
merlyn - And now, for the humor impaired.... yes, that was a joke. I'm committed to losing weight, and yet frustrated.
merlyn - Giving up on losing 30 pounds to get proper BMI. New goalgain one foot in height. Just about as likely. :)
merlyn - wow. just finished listening to http://twit.tv/floss81 - OpenStreetMap.org - good stuff
merlyn - Woo hoo! My first OpenStreetMap contribution (that I talked about in FLOSS Weekly 81) is now live on the tiles! http://bit.ly/MlGIS
merlyn - Updated my first local road section on OpenStreetMap.org - I'm a contributor now, not just a user! Yeay!
merlyn - Got a good scare tonight... brother ended up in emergency room. thank goodness friends around to haul him up there while I was busy.
merlyn - todayhacking Perl (and Javascript) code for $client, dreaming of Smalltalk, and singing Karaoke at Jacks (maybe Corine will be there?)
merlyn - Speakervirtualize or containerize - PLUG meeting livestream (Broadcasting live at http://ustre.am/4ROK)
merlyn - AudioBooOpenstreetmap, open password http://boo.fm/b52049
merlyn - My first song coming up shortly... live streaming karaoke at Pyzanos (Broadcasting live at http://ustre.am/p0)
merlyn - Livestreaming karaoke from Pyzanos in about 20 minutes - come chat before that! (Broadcasting live at http://ustre.am/p0)
merlyn - thinking about livestreaming while I'm noodling a bit more with Numerology2... gonna try some pentatonic music compositions
merlyn - I really have to do more panos. Every time I shoot a pano, I get home and go "wow, I should have shot more". PhotoShop CS4 for the win.
merlyn - San Francisco from Twin Peaks Number 4 http://flic.kr/p/6LU65x
merlyn - Place I tried 2 go 4 lunch "closed because slow". Won't closing make it even slower? :)
merlyn - Confirmed for FLOSS Weekly tomorrowSteve Coast - OpenStreetMaps. This should be good!
merlyn - hearing "turn the car around (shattered)" for the fourth time on muzak today at favorite bar. been here too long.
merlyn - Megatouch bootup - looks like it's running Linux! http://flic.kr/p/6LyV4X
merlyn - just for @RalphCarterII, body reportleft wrist
merlyn - todayhack perl code for $client, and run errands
merlyn - Wondering how many times "Cities of Underworld" host has bumped his head while filming an episode.
merlyn - @TodayLinuxFund weekly call, then hacking Perl code for client
merlyn - Heh, yeah right. Don't believe the "RT" @herejawbroken
merlyn - Thanks for stopping by at Karaoke, but I have to get my leg horizontal again, since it's yelling at me! Watch this space for other times!
merlyn - Very soon nowsinging Comfortably Numb, livestreaming karaoke (Broadcasting live at http://ustre.am/p0)
merlyn - Coming up soon... karaoke live at pyzanos... yes, I'll be singing! (Broadcasting live at http://ustre.am/p0)
merlyn - Nowgetting set up; later
merlyn - Finally out of house after three days. Might be streaming karaoke tonightwatch this space. And it's 93 outside.
merlyn - And another FLOSS is flungEugene Sandulenko @(sev) talks about ScummVM at http://twit.tv/floss80 (with @jonobacon and @leolaporte)
merlyn - As if SQL's "NULL is neither TRUE nor FALSE" wasn't confusing enough, a value might be neither NULL nor not NULL. WTF? http://bit.ly/2KtiLC
merlyn - http://twitpic.com/cebkc - The resulting drawing from my golf/trig/math discussion with @rgriff
merlyn - AudioBooThe nights don't say Knee http://boo.fm/b50509
merlyn - Annoying how all the iPhone "password generator" apps out there don't have the 1Passwd-style option of "don't generate confusing characters"
merlyn - todaycontinue nursing inflamed knee (keeping me confined to my second floor of home) while hacking Perl and Smalltalk code
merlyn - Thanks! RT @c141charliehydo @merlyn's DHH interview will go down as one of the all-time great interviews in tech history.
merlyn - Ahh yes, mailman day, where I'm reminded that I'm subscribed to far too many mailing lists. Curse you, Python mailman.
merlyn - nudging @linuxfund to look at CentOS situation
merlyn - did I miss the memo on why people are using !tags instead of #tags ?
merlyn - ugh. no caffiene in house, can't bend left knee to go downstairs, enough pain that thoughts are distracted. this is not looking good.
merlyn - Todaydeal with increasingly failing body parts, finish booking travel for PDX-ATL-LAX-PDX, and hack Perl for LA-ish client.
merlyn - Just shooting the breeze, random topics, come watch me put foot in mouth (Broadcasting live at http://ustre.am/p0)
merlyn - Noodling around with Numerology 2 to see if I can make some pleasant jingles for podcasting (Broadcasting live at http://ustre.am/p0)
merlyn - I think I'm gonna noodle a bit with http://www.five12.com/n2.html Numerology... anyone wanna watch me do it live via stream?
merlyn - http://bit.ly/BUZLz AOL Newsroom has 1500 writers? What, 1 guy to write, 1499 to go "ME TOO!" </geezer-joke>
merlyn - My first Mosaic with Mosaica on the iPhone - http://msca.me/ke
merlyn - Love it when I reply to spam with "I don't do biz with spammers", and they reply "but we're not!" U wrote me unsolicited... that's spam QED.
merlyn - Dreading the fact that I didn't get my Dragon*Con hotel reservations made yet, and it looks like I might have to be far away.
merlyn - AudioBooNot much going on, and yet... http://boo.fm/b49831
merlyn - Win a Nikon D5000 (or 5,000 photo scans) from @ScanCafe and Scott Bourne. Pls RT. Details herehttp://bit.ly/4mJGr
merlyn - todaynursing my left ankle back to health, hacking Perl and Template Toolkit code for $client, wishing it was in Smalltalk :)
merlyn - FLOSS Weekly fans... thanks for nudging @kentbeck... we're exchanging notes now about having him on an upcoming show. Hell, yeah.
merlyn - OK, didn't *totally* suck singing Fire at Karaoke, but glad I wasn't streaming it. But my ankle is too sore to stand, heading home. :(
merlyn - Debating whether to stay for karaoke or not. looks very dead here. Also realized haven't had an audioboo in a few days.
merlyn - If I can put up with the 106 degree heat for another 3 hours, I'll be doing Karaoke at Pyzano's tonight, live streaming at the usual place.
merlyn - 106 in beaverton. if only all those air conditioners weren't heating up the air even more. :)
merlyn - A John "Faraday" Cage would provide 4 minutes and 33 seconds of radio silence.
merlyn - Perlmonks stores passwords in clear and gets hacked? Good thing I was using 1passwd. Sigh.
merlyn - I've just unsubscribed from @russellharrowerI for SPAMMING me withjust took "What color M&Ms are you?" and got
merlyn - 103 in PDX. air quality alert. please don't drive alert. medical caution alert. "saw a dog chasing a cat, and they were both walking"
merlyn - I spoke too soon. It's now 102 here in beaverton (oregon). aiming for another hot day tomorrow too.
merlyn - Todayhacking Perl code for $client, catching up on things left aside while at OSCON last week.
merlyn - http://bit.ly/GwZDq Sent this off to Allison Smith @ theivrvoice.com - perfect for her, and she's admitted to doing same.
merlyn - damn, I hate it when jilted ex-lovers take blog potshots at me. note to selfno matter how good the sex, whacky women are *not* worth it.
merlyn - unix tip of day"killall" is dangerously different depending on platform
merlyn - http://bit.ly/1uNq78 OSCON 2009 pix, including LinuxFund/Stonehenge party
merlyn - http://bit.ly/1uNq78 OSCON 2009 pix, including LinuxFund/Stonehenge party
merlyn - http://bit.ly/3x93j my Colton High School 30-ish Reunion pictures are now posted!
merlyn - Coming up soon at livestreaming karaoke - me singing The Rainbow Connection as Kermit (Broadcasting live at http://ustre.am/p0)
merlyn - Live streaming from Porterhouse Bar - up next, "Comfortably Numb" (Broadcasting live at http://ustre.am/p0)
merlyn - Karaoke live from the Porterhouse with some of my Colton High School alumns (Broadcasting live at http://ustre.am/p0)
merlyn - surveywould FLOSS Weekly audience mind if Drobo sponsored the show? Remember "droboapps" are open source, and sponsors are good.
merlyn - FLOSS Weekly 79 is @outdhh talks about Ruby on Rails, and other things. This version has been Vanerchucked.
merlyn - Saw three girls at reunion that I wanted to date thirty years ago and couldn't. Two of them still looked darn good. {sigh}
merlyn - AudioBooHigh school crushes, crushed http://boo.fm/b47841
merlyn - Hanging out at Colton High 30-ish year reunion. http://twitpic.com/bm2cd
merlyn - AudioBooWhere Dad Worked 30 years ago http://boo.fm/b47796
merlyn - Heading off to 30-year Colton High School reunion. Graduating class size was under 30, so it won't be a big meetup. :)
merlyn - "apt" had somehow gotten uninstalled. I found an old "apt", which I could get to the phone and use "dpkg" to... http://ff.im/5HHjl
merlyn - Today30th year Colton High School mega-reunions (not one, but two!), interrupted by working on Perl and Smalltalk code for clients
merlyn - iphone jailbreakersany way to just reinstall Cydia when it's broken, without going through full jailbreak again?
merlyn - iphone jailbreakersany way to just reinstall Cydia when it's broken, without going through full jailbreak again?
merlyn - Safely back in Portland, but stuck on the Tarmac for a bit. Figures. :)
merlyn - Yup flight was boarding, but I got a free upgrade. #FTW. Heading home SLC to PDX.
merlyn - Landed in SLC and my outbound full flight will be boarding before I get there even if I run. Ugh.
merlyn - OSCON is wrapping up... just borrowing the high bandwidth a bit before I rush off to the airport to head home.
merlyn - Gordon Biersch Dunkewleisen http://twitpic.com/bf5ao
merlyn - Hanging out at O'Reilly party for OSCON. http://twitpic.com/bew85
merlyn - At the SourceForge party at Agenda Lounge (nextdoor to where LinuxFund party was last night) http://twitpic.com/beaja
merlyn - OSCON expo hall now closed, can't help with LinuxFund teardown because of back, now watching what FLOSS needs to know about press.
merlyn - Gave my LinuxFund 5-minute talk at OSCON, didn't go over time! Talked about we do besides parties.
merlyn - Stonehenge/LinuxFund party - 90 minutes left - still having great time! (audio mostly) (Broadcasting live at http://ustre.am/p0)
merlyn - Stonehenge/LinuxFund Party is almost halfway done! (mostly audio livestream) (Broadcasting live at http://ustre.am/p0)
merlyn - AudioBooBig OSCON Day http://boo.fm/b46364
merlyn - Wow, two of the OSCON award winners are past FLOSS Weekly guestsBrian Aker, and Evan Prodromou!
merlyn - Pictures from my @chrismarquardt photo workshop are now up (except for panos) http://bit.ly/5KMaV
merlyn - For @rafael_luque @spiffytechmy OSCON Smalltalk talks are at http://drop.io/RandalOSCON (thursday's talk will go up soon).
merlyn - Hitting 4000 users just now, I'm 15808 in the most followed users list at TwitterCounterhttp://twittercounter.com/merlyn