Archive for May 25th, 2005

Another great lineup at the Vancouver Folk Fest

Published May 25, 2005 Music Leave a Comment

The lineup for this year’s Vancouver Folk Music Festival is out – and it looks like another fabulous year.

Some favorites from last year are back – including my son’s favorites the Wailin’ Jennys and BC fiddler Oliver Schroer.

Some great bluegrass and old time music from Mike Seeger and Jonathan Reischman and the Jaybirds.

Texas singer/songwriter Eliza Gilkyson, who I last saw in the mid-80s in LA opening a show for X when her brother Tony was briefly in the band, will be there, as will the great Iris Dement.

And I’m very excited to hear the The Grande Mothers, a band featuring former Mothers of Invention Napoleon Murphy Brock, Don Preston, and Roy Estrada. If only they had Ruth Underwood.

And of course, the most wonderful parts of the festival will be the unexpected new discoveries of people and sounds previously unimagined.

It’s a great festival, and if you haven’t ever been, I highly recommend it!

Project Aardvark – software built by interns in one summer

Published May 25, 2005 Uncategorized Leave a Comment

I know I’ll be following this.

Joel Spolksy and his Fog Creek Software company have hired four summer interns and are giving them a project to build a new software product from scratch over the summer. Should be interesting!

As I wrote earlier, “This summer, Fog Creek Software has hired four summer interns from Yale, Duke, and Rose-Hulman. Our selection process was extremely competitive, with over 800 kids applying for only four positions.

“Instead of wasting their talents giving them the usual dull and unimportant tasks of a typical summer internship, we decided to let the interns create a complete new software product, from beginning to end, over the course of one summer. With experienced software developers as mentors, the team will design, program, test, and roll out a complete software product over the course of one hectic summer, going from concept to paying customers in about ten weeks.”

Copying image location – Safari vs. Firefox

Published May 25, 2005 Technology Leave a Comment

I was writing my previous post, about the new Nokia 770 Internet Appliance, and I wanted to insert a remotely linked image in the post (from Mobile Gazette).

I was using Safari on my iMac. I ctrl-clicked on the image, selected Copy Image Address and got:

nokia-770-3.jpg

Obviously, pasting that into my post is not very helpful, as the image doesn’t reside on my web server.

So I fired up Firefox, ctrl-clicked on the image, selected Copy Image Location, and got:

http://www.mobilegazette.com/images/nokia/nokia-770-1.jpg

Much more gooder.

New Nokia 770 internet browsing tablet device

Published May 25, 2005 Gadgets & Gear Leave a Comment

Now this looks cool -

4.13 inch diagonal screen, about a half-pound, 802.11b and bluetooth, debian and gnome derived software infrastructure.

More on it here.

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