Author: James McNally

Chandler

Chandler is an open-source alternative to Outlook being developed by, among others, Mitch Kapor, the founder of Lotus, and early Apple pioneer Andy Hertzfeld. It looks really promising so far, and best of all, Mitch and Andy will be making a presentation at the Emerging Technology conference next month and will show off version 0.1. Yet another reason I really really want to go. Though I now have no trouble getting the time off <grin>, the money is another issue.

The Day The Earth Stood Still

Yesterday, I bought the DVD of the 1951 sci-fi classic The Day The Earth Stood Still. Hard to believe that this film was directed by the same man (Robert Wise) who directed The Sound of Music.

But that’s not why I used the title for this entry. You see, today I was laid off from my job. It seems to be a trend. This is the second time in three years that I’ve come home from SxSW and lost my job. This wasn’t entirely unexpected, or even unwelcome, but it’s still a little bit traumatic.

As some of you may know, I came back from Austin energized to move on with my life and do something for a living that I actually cared about. Sometimes life has a way of making the hard decisions for you. So, today the earth stood still, for a moment. But just for a moment. It’s up to me now to shape the future, as much as that’s possible.

Huzzah 4 Zilla!

Davezilla was written up in the Detroit News for a story on blogging. Does he really write his blog entries by hand in a notebook at Starbucks? On a side note, I didn’t realize that Ernie was really 12 different people and that one of those people isn’t real (note: I think they confused Ernie’s blog with one of his web games, in this case, PuppetMaster II). Props to Nikolai, too, who gets to talk about the Bloggies!(via natalie)

Spoon In The Internet Live Music Archive

This isn’t exactly breaking news, but Spoon has given permission for people to upload any live shows to the Internet Live Music Archive. There’s just one show there now, but expect this to grow over time. The files are in a lossless audio format (ie. not MP3) and it might take a bit of techie know-how to work with them, but I think that you can make some really great sounding CD-Rs from this stuff.