Breakfast
My friend Mike and I made it to Sandusky, OH for CodeMash 2008 this afternoon. The only event scheduled for today was a panel discussion in the evening on “Talking Technology to Humans.” It was alright, if not exactly a topic that held my interest too much.
Mike and I decided to try making some quick and dirty podcasts of each day using a new microphone that he obtained. The result of our first attempt for Day 0 is linked below. The quality isn’t great, but it was our first attempt and done with nothing more than Audacity, a Macbook, and a microphone.
The real events start tomorrow. I’m not sure if I will live blog like last year. That’s pretty hard and my battery is unlikely to last the entire day, but I will at least take some notes and post when I can.
I have friends who love Obama. Heck, I like the guy. He certainly gives eloquent speeches, but as this fantastic essay points out, his stump speech strategy is exactly the opposite of what we need in this country.
Patrick Smith, of Salon’s Ask the Pilot fame, has posted an eloquent essay on the New York Times Jet Lagged blog about the inanity of airport “security”. It sounds like he has been reading Bruce Schneier. Refuse to be Terrorized!
While working on an implemention of the iTunes U. authentication algorithm in C#, I came upon a few major gotchas that I thought would be useful to share. I ported the Java implementation that is a part of the example code(zip) package downloadable from the iTunes U. support site.
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