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O'Reilly has a big conference on emerging technology going on now. As has become standard with these events, 802.11b wifi connections are everywhere, and many of those attending have laptops from which they blog the various meetings in real time. This is where a lot of the business world will be in a few years I think. Anyway, Rob Flickenger set up a program called EtherPEG that sniffs the local network for .gif and .jpeg images. He then collaged them for some very interesting results.
If you've never heard of EtherPEG, its a Mac hack that's been around for a while that combines all of the modern conveniences of a packet sniffer with the good old-fashioned friendliness of a graphics rendering library, to show you whatever GIFs and JPEGs are flying around on your network. It's sort of a real-time meta browser that dynamically builds a view of other people's browsers, built up as other people look around online.Check out the results here. Very cool.
MB went to Bentonville Arkansas yesterday. If you're in the retail world you know there is only one reason to go to Bentonville. She sure has a weird collection of jobs being part restauranteur, part graphic designer, and part local political figure. She used to be just a graphic designer. I can barely remember those days though. Neither of us worked at all the first year we were together. Now we eat dinner together but do almost nothing else.
Sleeping alone is really something if you're not used to it. I'd almost say I liked it, except I know what I really like is sleeping alone occasionally. I didn't wake up until after 11:00! That's something I haven't done in years. I think I needed a long sleep.
David McCusker worked out his problems with Lisa. This makes me happy. Although only hearing from one side (his) has made me suspicious of her. Like I'm protective of him, which is weird since I don't know him personally. I guess because I don't know him, and because he writes clearly about relationship issues in a way I don't do in public, there is a lot of transference that can happen from just reading the words. If I actually knew them I wouldn't be surprised to feel less engaged by the whole episode. Anyway, I hope it continues to go well. For all of us.
The CEO as well as the founder of Napster have both resigned. I'm confused as to why this is being so widely reported. You'd almost think this was important in some way. But Napster has been dead for a long time. Once they shut down the free trading it was obvious they could never transition to a pay service.
There are still file trading networks. And they have more users, trading more files (including copyrighted music files,) then Napster ever had. And they continue to grow. I believe the RIAA will eventually be crushed by these networks. But all this has absolutely nothing to do with Napster.