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Misleading advertisement

JonLech — Wed, 10 May 2006 03:31:28 +0000

Sunny San Diego? Bah, humbug! Misleading advertisement, I say.

Compare the forecast for La Jolla and San Francisco:

Squirrel

JonLech — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 21:24:26 +0000

A squirrel in Torrey Pines:

Linus on /.

JonLech — Sat, 27 Aug 2005 14:01:41 +0000

Linus Torvalds in a recent LKML posting:

Gaah. I don’t tend to bother about slashdot, because quite frankly, the whole _point_ of slashdot is to have this big public wanking session with people getting together and making their own “insightful” comment on any random topic, whether they know anything about it or not.

Quoted for truth.

Dopi and Monopod

JonLech — Thu, 23 Jun 2005 01:49:16 +0000

Two new Mono/GTK# applications that I’ve started using:

Dopi by James Willcox for iPod syncing. Works great with my 3G iPod.
Monopod by Edd Dumbill for subscribing to podcasts.

Lech beer

JonLech — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 17:12:24 +0000

I’m not too fond of beer, but I had to buy some when I came across this brand in a Polish store in Copenhagen.

Reboot7

JonLech — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 15:20:08 +0000

I had a great time at Reboot7 in Copenhagen last weekend. One of the best conferences I’ve ever attended. I hope there will be better chairs for Reboot8 though. The Mother of All Demos was very impressive. Raymond M. Kristiansen on the demo: “Fantastic movie indeed. I kept asking myself what evil forces have been at play ever since, halting our development.“.

Audio from the second day. Reboot7 at Technorati and Flickr.

Speaking at Reboot7 reminded me that I’m not very good at quickly articulating my thoughts in English. Something tells me that speaking English more often than twice a month would do wonders. To that end, I’ve installed Skype. If you’d like to talk about copyright law, software patents, DRM, life, the universe and everything – Skype Me: jonlech

HiDef Wallpapers

JonLech — Sat, 28 May 2005 17:43:00 +0000

I came across this goldmine of 1920×1200 wallpapers. My favourites: Hawaii stream and Heat II.

Tuning

JonLech — Wed, 25 Aug 2004 20:19:00 +0000

I’m back from Twente where I had a great time at EuroFoo. Thanks to Tim and the gang for having invited me. They’re hoping to host a European OSCon next year. Looking forward to that.

An anonymous developer has released iOpener, an application which integrates DeDRMS and FairKeys with iTunes. From the FAQ:

iOpener is an application that will find all of the “protected” AAC files in your iTunes library (the ones you purchased online) and remove the DRM (encryption) from them “in place”, allowing you to enjoy the music you’ve purchased on any device anywhere that supports the standard AAC format. This means that you will notice no change whatsoever in iTunes except that the “type” of the track will change from “Protected AAC audio file” to “AAC audio file”. Additionally, iOpener can run in the background (in your task tray, actually) and auto-decrypt any “protected” AAC files as they are added to your iTunes library.

Cody Brocious has written up a description of FairPlay and started working on pyTunes.

Young Hacker

JonLech — Wed, 28 Apr 2004 16:00:00 +0000

My father recently bought a Nikon COOLSCAN V ED and has been scanning old pictures. He mailed me this one of me next to our Sinclair ZX Spectrum.

This VLC fortune seems rather appropriate:

you really shouldn’t have touched a computer when you were a little boy
_it_ came to me