As my last foray into Apple rumour land states: I've been "predicting" a Mac Tablet for 4 years now. Today, it would be more like a super iPhone or iPod Touch, with a 7" screen. Now Om has been reading the tea leaves and finally thinks that a Mac Tablet / Netbook / Super iPhone is som...

I'm just wrapping up 4 days of this year's North American Drupalcon in Washington, DC - http://dc2009.drupalcon.org. First off, the the DCDC team led by the folks at Development Seed have done a fantastic job. Everything from the venue to the identity design of the whole conference have been most ex...

Here's a quick audio preview of content for upcoming posts, that I recorded on a brand new Nokia E71. I'm OK with 3 year cell phone contracts here in Canada (this is going to be a post) I like the E71 (this will be another post) Rogers is the devil, Fido is the anti christ (and for hipsters) &q...

Since my post on Redanyway, I've gone a few steps further into experimenting with Google Friend Connect. Basically, it allows you to drop in a members system / social network onto any site. It doesn't need to be a CMS or a dynamic system at all, since it consists of just some Javascript that gets in...

I just created an account on oDesk and, frankly, have fallen down a rabbit hole. Of course, Drupal was the vector once again: I had Daryl leave a comment, with his username linking to a trends page showing Drupal jobs on oDesk. This intrigued me, so I dug into the system a little more. For starters,...

Have you seen the new OnSugar.com hosted blogging platform? It's Drupal powered, built by the fashion / pop culture publishing empire that is Sugar, Inc. (CrunchBase link for background info). In many ways, it is what I have often been waiting for. Drupal is a very good multi user system. This i...

NowPublic just released a MostPublic Index for Vancouver that lists 20 people ... and I come in at #3. The background for how the list is calculated is here, with the rough text below: NowPublic’s formula gauges influence and “publicness� across four categories, including: Online Visibility Pr...

bmann posted a photo: This is an acoustic Yamaha that needs a good home. Along with that little stand that it's on, it has a hard case. Want it?...

First up, I'm going to do the call out of upcoming Vancouver events: Wednesday, April 30th (tonight!) is WordPress Camp, put on by the folks at Tazzu - I've got Dad night every other Wednesday so I won't be making it this time. Maybe someone should set up a Vancouver WordPress Users Group and do thi...

I just got contacted by ComputerWorld Canada, asking for my reaction to the new MySQL release: I came across your blog and was wondering if you wanted to share thoughts on Sun Microsystems’ announcement that it will release the next version of MySQL (v. 5.1) in Q2 of this year? Do you see the new ...