//alien

So, off alien toddled to the Grouse & Claret pub to hear Bruce Sterling speak about Web 2.0 and other fine things courtesy of NTK and New Statesman (blog entry).  A very well run event, thanks Dave & Kathryn of newstatesman & the 'others'.

I didn't take notes but Dave Phelan did and it was recorded so go here to get the podcasts. Dave also took much better pictures of Bruce than me.

All in all a fun evening, ran into hatter met Dave Green (and discovered the mutual friend link system worked yet again).
other things of note: met Andy who did audio streaming whilst most other people were bashing wood into rocks trying to get flames...
and Tim of multiple online music company fame, who I hope got home OK after missing the last train home.

//alien

so a night off from swimming to let my body recover a bit, and...

Google notebook

Way kewl - despite the fact they say 'may not work on OS X' I know of at least 2 Mac users that are using the firefox extension with no problems. (ians/barf)

second nice thing :

Google talk has a voice component that only has a windows download.. so....

Tapioca VOIP for Linux that hooks into it :D

With the software revision of the Nokia 770 with Google Talk built in  - this is a *very* nice thing. Oh and with the gizmo project for the 770 on the way it's looking very good indeed...

Macbook launch - very nice - Appleinsider
Nice size, nice specs... except... Intel GMA950 graphics controller..... oops.
Macbook Pro for me then.

//alien

http://www.google.com/trends?q=ubuntu%2C+redhat&ctab=0&date=all&geo=all



Ubuntu = blue
Redhat = red

who'd have thought...

http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm?setview=features&loadFeature=629&gameID=4&page=1&fp=1600,1200,1147263047906,20060510081047

alien wants a ship. oh yes. with guns, boom boom guns and stuff.


//alien

I don't live here, http://alien8.org might have some content.


(or not depending on how I change this round.)