by cameron | Aug 28, 2007 | science, Uncategorized
Via Terraminds, here is a random selection of responses to the eclipse from Twitter tonight:
jimmykramer Wondering why i watched the eclipse. less than one minute ago
taterunino @Mercy I’ve never seen an eclipse. less than one minute ago
steakknives Watching the lunar eclipse. less than one minute ago
ihavecooties A lot of stars look red tonight. Is that an eclipse thing, or have I just not been paying attention? 1 minute ago
Peachiemoon watching lunar eclipse! ^_^* 1 minute ago
nungana is observing a lunar eclipse. 1 minute ago
tow314 just looked at the lunar eclipse 1 minute ago
muffuletta Observando el eclipse lunar. 1 minute ago
benbarren more people on mordy pier as i run out day as they look 4 eclipse if the ‘eart 2 minutes ago
melissaox I can see the lunar eclipse on my way to work. 🙂 2 minutes ago
thetappingman Trying to watch moon eclipse http://www.abc.net.au/science/features/lunaeclipse2007/mooncam.html 3 minutes ago
RobinInSeoul Did anyone actually see the eclipse? Too cloudy/smoggy to see anything here. 3 minutes ago
Chuckumentary Too stormy too see the lunar eclipse in MN. 3 minutes ago
starlajo went out to look at the eclipse. it looked rad, but outside was freeeeeeezing and then it clouded over. 4 minutes ago
mjollnir Post eclipse wine at sweet mother’s kitchen…. [tiny twitter] 4 minutes ago
Kitta Telling the clouds to go away so I can see the eclipse. 4 minutes ago
mightymur insomnia again. But if I’d remembered the eclipse, I would have gotten up instead of staying in bed trying in vain to sleep. blast. 4 minutes ago
VBrown Done for the night. Gotta get some sleep for work tomorrow. Was a beautiful lunar eclipse. Just wish the sky was a little less cloudy. 5 minutes ago
skytrystsjoy @jhando what lunar eclipse? I can hardly even see the moon it’s sort of red and blotchy 5 minutes ago
isiscolo Totality, yay, and then a big cloud crept across the sky. So much for the rest of the eclipse. I need to sleep more, anyway. 5 minutes ago
emp Jumping out of bed for a bit to watch the eclipse. Opening a Pellegrino and texting sweet nothings to all my remote honeys. I’m romantic … 7 minutes ago
KenyB Got to see the lunar eclipse and it wasn’t freezing cold out! ^^ 7 minutes ago
orbis_quintus lunar eclipse not the most spectacular i’ve seen, but the sky was exceptionally clear to view stars themselves. Five falling stars too. 8 minutes ago
Jakeness Watching the lunar eclipse! The moon is red! 9 minutes ago
Mercy It’s a beautiful eclipse. Glad you’re all here to share it with me, even those of you who can’t see it. 9 minutes ago
prat The eclipse is now total. The moon is red! 9 minutes ago
Allanahk I posted a better photo with the red colours showing now the eclipse is in full swing. 9 minutes ago
pdow didn’t think i’d be awake, didn’t think the fog would let diana through; total eclipse over san francisco, ruddy moon. 10 minutes ago
karlbright Eclipse ftw! 11 minutes ago
copano Llegue a la radio. Me saludo Filito. Hay Eclipse de luna. Transmiten 3×3 11 minutes ago
silvergull Lunar eclipse = Wow! 12 minutes ago
rberger Total Lunar eclipse over Silicon Valley. The Moon as a smouldering bal of fire 12 minutes ago
R2C13 Taking pics of the eclipse. Hot, muggy and texas sized mosquitos attacking me. Oh, and I suck at night photography. Why am I doing this 12 minutes ago
wildriverblum watching the total eclipse of the moon…spectacular 13 minutes ago
l0k1 watching lunar eclipse 13 minutes ago
onebortup Lunar eclipse is startling … Walked down the street, looked up, gasped. One of the most amazing things I’ve seen. 13 minutes ago
Apollia Ongoing lunar eclipse will be astrologically exact at 6:35 AM EDT, according to freeware Astrolog 5.40. http://astrolog.org/ 13 minutes ago
JVB Me and my wife just saw our first Lunar Eclipse. Pretty flocking awesome. 13 minutes ago
CyprianoHawaii Lunar eclipse! The clouds moved far away-the eclipse is in totality! The stars are really visible now, unlike before the eclipse. Way cool! 14 minutes ago
mollydotcom hope someone eclipse watching has a really good camera. Out of umbra and headed toward totality. Dark, with an amazing orange glow 14 minutes ago
bbqmag full lunar eclipse: a glow-in-the-dark bouncy ball. 14 minutes ago
JaceFuse Why is it that so many came to me this morning to confirm that there is supposed to be an eclipse? Yes, I scheduled it. 15 minutes ago
CyprianoHawaii Lunar eclipse!T he clouds moved far away- the eclipse is in totality! The stars are really visible now, unlike before the eclipse. Way cool! 15 minutes ago
TheCosmicJester Swimming by the light of a total eclipse 15 minutes ago
by cameron | Aug 28, 2007 | Podcast, Uncategorized
Andrew Sayer pointed to this terrific Twitter search engine this morning: Terraminds.
Let’s say you wanted to know what people on Twitter had been saying about… Telstra, for example.
tehdeejay Ok twitteroos, answer me this: is it negligence for an IT company to recommend Telstra retail products for all their business clients? 12 hours ago
jordanbrock day wasted in a fog of telstra and vista. grrrrr. 18 hours ago
CathyE @zzap who will you pay out about Telstra broadband now?! 😛 19 hours ago
harrisonx @andrewbarnett my sister moved to three from telstra last month because telstra’s cap plans are a waste of time. go with three, better value 1 day ago
andrewbarnett Does Telstra 3G offer any cap plans comparable to Three, etc.? Paid $80 for calls last month on Telstra, would have been $20 elsewhere. 1 day ago
jjprojects @NickHodge So the N95 / Telstra NextG combo is a good one then? 1 day ago
NickHodge Dear Telstra NextG. I Love u. Nick 1 day ago
…. or about TPN:
ssharwood @joshglid. crikey. ninemsn. mooter? dark horizons , tpn? 13 minutes ago
NickHodge @joshglid ++TPN http://tinyurl.com/2asyvk 15 minutes ago
britcaster TPN :: The Edinburgh Fringe Show The Edinburgh Fringe 2007 Show #21 – And Now, The End Is Near 22 minutes ago
cameronreilly watching geeks talking a language I don’t understand in a TPN IT skype conf chat 27 minutes ago
cameronreilly TPN really needs help from a server guru http://tinyurl.com/ytszbv 2 hours ago
andrewbarnett Loading iPod Shuffle for the day TPN G’Day World podcast, Bloc Party, Thom Yorke, some DJ Slater mixes 4 hours ago
cameronreilly no sleep last night, kept getting Alertsite phone calls saying TPN’s servers are down… WTF? Trying to get my IT guys on the phone.. 5 hours ago
The_Rooster TPN aint back… 11 hours ago
cameronreilly TPN is back 11 hours ago
cameronreilly @metarand Tpn has an entire podcast on education 2.0 http://educationtransformation.thepodcastnetwork.com/ 1 day ago
cameronreilly TPN launches “The Connections Show”, all about social networking tools. http://connections.thepodcastnetwork.com/ 2 days ago
And you can subscribe to these searches via RSS as well. I haven’t seen anything else that does this on Twitter yet. Very cool.
by cameron | Aug 28, 2007 | technology, TPN
The TPN servers crashed 15 times in the last 24 hours and we don’t know why. I really need a server admin guru to help us get to the bottom of it. Anyone out there a jedi in Apache, etc, and want to help a brother out? I’ll make it worth your while. If you run or work for an IT shop and are willing to help out, I’ll give you free advertising on TPN. Get your brand out to 500,000 people a month.
by cameron | Aug 27, 2007 | Australian politics, Podcast
Richard, Ian and Garth joined me last night to discuss porn filters, Australian values, strip clubs and other rubbish. If you think you can sense heavy editing in this show… you are right. I won’t say why.
Become part of the G’Day World conversation.
I’ve created a couple of groups inside Second Life. You can now add yourself to the following groups:
Friends Of G’Day World
MODM
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If I knew how to link directly to those groups from here, I would. But I don’t. So for now you just need to search for them in-world. Or you can add “Cameron Switchblade” to your friends and check out the groups I belong to.
If you’re a member of Facebook, you can ADD ME AS A FRIEND and then ADD YOURSELF TO THE G’DAY WORLD GROUP.
You can show your love by buying me stuff from my Amazon wish list.
Add me to your Twitter account.
You might DIGG the show.
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by cameron | Aug 27, 2007 | Uncategorized
Anyone out there know (and I mean REALLY know, not just “let me in and I’ll have a play around”) how we configure PHP adserver so we can tell how many times a banner or link gets clicked?
by cameron | Aug 27, 2007 | Australian media
The news that Ray Martin is leaving Channel Nine is all over the news today… unless you look at Channel Nine’s website, Ninemsn. There is nothing to be seen on their frontpage. You can find the story if you search their website, but it’s buried deep. So… who makes the decision at Ninemsn what is and isn’t news? Are they biased in what they give coverage to? You decide.
by cameron | Aug 26, 2007 | Podcast, science
Hunter and Taylor, my 6 year-old twin boys, join me tonight for what might become the pilot edition of their own podcast. It’s something we’ve been talking about for ages and, based on their excitement tonight after we wrapped, I think they are about ready. This is a show designed for kids aged 5 – 8. So if you aren’t one of those and don’t have one of those – you might want to give it a miss.
On tonight’s show, the boys talk about Age Of Empires, their favourite XBOX games, what they are watching, reading, playing, toys they want, as well as their thoughts on AFL, religion, business, and science.
Become part of the G’Day World conversation.
I’ve created a couple of groups inside Second Life. You can now add yourself to the following groups:
Friends Of G’Day World
MODM
The Podcast Network
If I knew how to link directly to those groups from here, I would. But I don’t. So for now you just need to search for them in-world. Or you can add “Cameron Switchblade” to your friends and check out the groups I belong to.
If you’re a member of Facebook, you can ADD ME AS A FRIEND and then ADD YOURSELF TO THE G’DAY WORLD GROUP.
You can show your love by buying me stuff from my Amazon wish list.
Add me to your Twitter account.
You might DIGG the show.
Get the TPN version of Particls.
Don’t forget to make use of my new comments line – +613 9016 9699.
You can now buy transcripts of this podcast from Pods In Print.
If you enjoyed this podcast, make sure you don’t miss future episodes by subscribing to our feed and leave us a voice comment!
The G’Day World Theme Song is “Save Me†by The Napoleon Blown Aparts.
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by cameron | Aug 26, 2007 | TPN
I’m very pleased today to launch The Connections Show with Stan Relihan. This is going to be a show dedicated to the power of Social Networking. Stan, who is a LinkedIn Power User, with something like 7000+ connections, is going to be exploring how we can all make the most of the tools we now have available to us.
Check out his first episode:
by cameron | Aug 25, 2007 | Uncategorized
After a week of mucking about, I seem to have finally found a semi-friendly way to synchronize my Google Calendar with my Dopod 810 Windows Mobile 6 device.
First – the background.
As regular readers will know, I have been trying to transfer my “productivity” applications (which seem to take up more time fixing stuff than actually making me more productive, but that’s another story) from a Microsoft-desktop-hellishly-expensive-hard-to-backup-full-of-bugs world to a Google-stored-in-the-cloud-nothing-to-install-free-and-open world.
And it ain’t easy. But it can be done. Almost.
On the desktop, I’m currently running a Windows Vista PC with Office 2007.
My phone is a Dopod 810 running Windows Mobile 6.
My preferred email service is Gmail and my preferred Calendar is Google Calendar for the reasons hinted at above: you don’t need to install anything (except a browser), and they are backed up in the cloud, so you don’t have to worry about losing important data when your hard drive crashes. Oh and did I mention they are free?
Now – email is pretty easy. On the desktop I’m running Gmail through the Thunderbird client for reasons explained here.
The bigger challenge is the calendar. When Google came out with Google Calendar I was very excited and wanted to use it straight away. The big challenge is how I access it on my mobile device. I live in my PDA and want to always have my appointments ready to access while I’m out. I also want to be able to schedule meetings straight into the device. When Google came out with the mobile version of GCal, I switched my appointments over from my previous system which involved synchronizing Microsoft Outlook on the desktop with Pocket Outlook on the PDA.
The only problem, however, with the mobile version of GCal is that…. it sucks. When you open it up in the browser on your PDA, you can see today’s appointments and it’s even easy to tab to tomorrow’s appointments. But you can’t move stuff around. You can’t see what you are doing a week from now without tabbing through a bunch of screens. It’s VERY limited.
The other major problem I have with Gcal is that when I set up my calendar I imported a bunch of recurring appointments from Outlook. When they import into Gcal they are no longer linked as recurring appointments but instead show up as individual daily appointments. If you want to delete them, you have to delete them individually…. and when they appear every day for a YEAR, that’s a pain in the ass.
So recently I decided that I needed to synch Pocket Outlook with Gcal, allowing me to take advantage of Pocket Outlook’s superior client-side functionality until Gcal improves (which I’m sure will happen).
I’ve spent the last couple of days testing apps which are supposed to synch your mobile device with Gcal:
OggSync
SyncMyCal
Unfortunately, despite several hours of playing around with each app, I couldn’t get either of them to work as advertised. After I sent an error message to the SyncMyCal people, they informed me that the mobile version of their app doesn’t currently work on Windows Mobile 6 (my bad – I obviously didn’t read the fine print).
The OggSync app just looks like it’s working… but doesn’t seem to pull anything down from Gcal to my device.
So what I’ve gone with, which seems to work but unfortunately adds a nasty step, is to use the SyncMyCal Desktop version to synch Gcal with Microsoft Outlook on the desktop and then using Windows Mobile Device Center to synch Outlook on the desktop with Pocket Outlook on the PDA.
SyncMyCal is available as a free trial which will only synchronize 3 days of future appointments. The full version costs US$25.00.
When the SyncMyCal mobile version is ready for WM6, they say they will let me know and I”ll pass the news along folks.
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by cameron | Aug 24, 2007 | Uncategorized
I swear to God, if you guys don’t start digging every episode I do, I’m going to quit. I’ve got money riding on it.
