From a6d29ee2fdedcef3bf388c62c4949252f2b57397 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Boris Mann <boris@bmannconsulting.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2024 11:41:00 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] removed all blogs and archive

---
 .well-known/webfinger                         |  23 +-
 _config.yml                                   |  13 +-
 _pages/archive.html                           |  33 ---
 _pages/blog.html                              |   2 +-
 _pages/journal.html                           |  32 ++
 ...te-revamp.md => 2024-01-01-more-revamp.md} |   0
 ...2002-11-09-welcome-to-b-mann-consulting.md |   6 -
 _posts/archive/2002-11-29-dream-cms.md        |  16 -
 ...2-12-03-50-places-to-see-before-you-die.md | 115 --------
 ...nfiguration-configuration-configuration.md |  19 --
 _posts/archive/2002-12-05-home-server-woes.md |  14 -
 _posts/archive/2002-12-09-no-more-woes.md     |  16 -
 .../2002-12-14-building-1200-pc-vs-2500-pc.md | 111 -------
 .../archive/2002-12-19-bmc-goes-table-less.md |  18 --
 .../archive/2002-12-19-lotr-the-two-towers.md |  20 --
 ...19-peasants-placated-peons-pave-poppies.md |  18 --
 .../2002-12-21-enabling-anonymous-ftp.md      |  22 --
 ...12-21-instructions-for-pre-10-2-systems.md |  22 --
 ...ng-into-same-trap-a-call-for-innovation.md |   9 -
 ...beauty-is-only-screen-deep-sarah-horton.md |  14 -
 ...-mitch-kapor-and-chandler-vs-ms-outlook.md |  14 -
 _posts/archive/2002-12-23-osx-at-freshmeat.md |  12 -
 _posts/archive/2002-12-23-plone.md            |  16 -
 ...egister-microsoft-to-acquire-macromedia.md |  14 -
 .../2003-01-07-macworld-wants-your-ilife.md   |  29 --
 .../2003-01-11-hunting-with-bungalow-bill.md  |  13 -
 _posts/archive/2003-01-11-leftover-turkey.md  |  37 ---
 .../archive/2003-01-17-laser-squad-nemesis.md |  14 -
 _posts/archive/2003-01-19-netnewswire.md      |  31 --
 _posts/archive/2003-01-21-emila.md            |  20 --
 _posts/archive/2003-01-23-helloworld.md       |  14 -
 ...03-01-23-instructions-for-10-2-x-jaguar.md |  20 --
 ...-mitel-sme-server-5-6-developer-release.md |  13 -
 _posts/archive/2003-01-23-php-collab.md       |  19 --
 _posts/archive/2003-01-23-the-inside-mac.md   |   8 -
 _posts/archive/2003-01-26-new-theme.md        |  15 -
 .../archive/2003-01-26-youve-got-desktops.md  |  13 -
 .../2003-01-27-skating-on-the-rideau-canal.md |  12 -
 ...8-dave-hyatts-blog-more-thoughts-on-rss.md |  12 -
 ...ws-media-center-takes-on-xp-counterpart.md |  13 -
 .../2003-01-28-voip-presence-system.md        |  12 -
 .../2003-02-02-entering-my-first-blog.md      |   8 -
 ...05-nokia-intros-phone-game-music-device.md |  14 -
 .../2003-02-05-other-interesting-osx-apps.md  |  26 --
 _posts/archive/2003-02-06-amd-2500.md         |  12 -
 .../2003-02-06-good-deals-of-the-week.md      |  12 -
 ...003-02-10-the-power-of-apple-rendesvous.md |  10 -
 ...03-02-11-iphoto-and-gallery-integration.md |  17 --
 ...-02-11-more-browser-competition-on-os-x.md |  12 -
 ...delongs-notes-on-larry-page-google-talk.md |  13 -
 .../2003-02-16-bloogle-the-end-of-blogging.md |  12 -
 .../archive/2003-02-17-the-ultimate-mmorpg.md |  10 -
 ...003-02-19-first-day-with-a-12-powerbook.md |  24 --
 .../2003-02-19-microsoft-to-buy-connectix.md  |  17 --
 ...-zaphods-get-featured-in-the-ottawa-sun.md |  12 -
 .../2003-02-19-yay-browser-pdf-plug-in.md     |  11 -
 _posts/archive/2003-02-20-6-square-pc-cube.md |  26 --
 _posts/archive/2003-02-20-bios-no-more.md     |   8 -
 .../2003-02-21-jon-udell-on-xdocs-infopath.md |  11 -
 .../archive/2003-02-21-the-state-of-linux.md  |  17 --
 .../2003-02-22-happy-birthday-boris.md        |  12 -
 _posts/archive/2003-02-22-new-cellphone.md    |   8 -
 ...-remote-desktop-connection-for-mac-os-x.md |  14 -
 ...3-02-24-safari-sends-user-info-to-apple.md |  10 -
 .../2003-02-25-boot-and-fix-over-net.md       |  12 -
 ...dobe-uses-qt-to-develop-new-application.md |  11 -
 .../2003-02-26-rebuilding-a-working-imac.md   |  17 --
 ...03-02-27-loosely-joining-across-borders.md |  10 -
 ...02-27-new-details-emerge-on-powerpc-970.md |  15 -
 .../2003-02-28-au-rendezvous-mail-and-more.md |  12 -
 ...me-rssifying-the-mailing-list-an-update.md |  11 -
 .../archive/2003-02-28-smithdm3-is-g-2-g.md   |  16 -
 _posts/archive/2003-03-01-online-recipes.md   |  15 -
 ...04-apple-to-launch-online-music-service.md |  13 -
 _posts/archive/2003-03-05-feedreader.md       |   9 -
 ...ipping-the-relationship-gpu-becomes-cpu.md |  14 -
 _posts/archive/2003-03-08-bingo.md            |  14 -
 .../2003-03-08-in-a-sunburned-country.md      |  22 --
 .../archive/2003-03-08-the-tivo-of-audio.md   |  12 -
 .../2003-03-10-identifying-anonymous-posts.md |  10 -
 ...-wrath-now-for-ruin-and-the-redeye-dawn.md |  18 --
 .../2003-03-10-tux-adventure-and-ribs.md      |  11 -
 ...-11-costik-a-specter-is-haunting-gaming.md |  12 -
 ...03-03-12-osopinion-the-ultimate-lock-in.md |   9 -
 ...3-12-vonage-digital-voice-phone-service.md |  11 -
 .../2003-03-13-sony-wifi-in-a-memorystick.md  |  15 -
 _posts/archive/2003-03-13-weather-block.md    |  16 -
 .../2003-03-14-mini-pc-mini-hi-fi-look.md     |  10 -
 .../archive/2003-03-14-nortel-ians-rejoice.md |   8 -
 _posts/archive/2003-03-16-blog-bundle.md      |  19 --
 ...03-16-critical-section-i-am-an-iterator.md |  14 -
 ...16-rss-aggregator-with-trust-experience.md |  10 -
 _posts/archive/2003-03-16-spaces.md           |  14 -
 _posts/archive/2003-03-17-mipod.md            |  13 -
 .../archive/2003-03-17-that-thing-apple-do.md |   8 -
 ...8-apple-hot-downloads-x11-public-beta-3.md |  13 -
 .../2003-03-18-salon-the-legend-of-m-u-l-e.md |   8 -
 _posts/archive/2003-03-18-snigger.md          |  13 -
 ...-son-of-weather-block-and-personal-page.md |  10 -
 _posts/archive/2003-03-21-get-your-war-on.md  |  10 -
 .../2003-03-21-sonicblue-go-bye-bye.md        |  17 --
 .../2003-03-22-mac-to-pc-filesharing.md       |   9 -
 ...3-03-22-todd-asks-what-pda-should-i-buy.md |  37 ---
 ...003-03-27-simple-clustering-with-xserve.md |  11 -
 _posts/archive/2003-04-02-blogchalking.md     |  15 -
 .../2003-04-02-games-as-collectors-items.md   |  10 -
 ...003-04-03-ars-technica-about-the-finder.md |   8 -
 ...3-04-15-extremetech-linux-media-jukebox.md |  15 -
 .../2003-04-15-safari-beta2-tabs-and-more.md  |  11 -
 ...ambigious-org-sikander-and-wheres-willy.md |  18 --
 ...3-04-20-back-to-building-multimedia-pcs.md |  17 --
 _posts/archive/2003-04-20-scobleizer-yaamr.md |  10 -
 .../2003-04-21-ps3-chip-to-be-1-teraflop.md   |  14 -
 ...-22-russell-beattie-delineating-devices.md |  11 -
 .../2003-04-23-coffee-with-honey-and-snow.md  |  14 -
 ...2003-04-24-finely-interwingled-blogging.md |  10 -
 ...4-28-new-ipods-edit-and-music-downloads.md |  16 -
 _posts/archive/2003-04-29-testing-bloggar.md  |  14 -
 .../2003-04-30-apple-borked-me-again.md       |  11 -
 _posts/archive/2003-05-03-audioscrobbler.md   |  10 -
 .../2003-05-04-now-with-docking-station.md    |  12 -
 ...evorj-annoying-password-prompts-in-os-x.md |  12 -
 ...n-friendster-without-the-gonad-centrism.md |   8 -
 .../2003-05-09-business-2-0-is-tivo-next.md   |  11 -
 .../2003-05-12-powerline-networking.md        |  11 -
 ...-ever-wonder-where-mime-types-come-from.md |  13 -
 .../2003-05-20-finding-andrew-jones.md        |  29 --
 ...3-05-20-le-grande-sucre-a-k-a-big-sugar.md |  40 ---
 ...ast-aka-build-a-wireless-network-stupid.md |  14 -
 .../2003-05-23-i-know-where-you-live.md       |  12 -
 _posts/archive/2003-05-24-camino.md           |   9 -
 ...3-05-24-the-inquirer-why-palm-is-doomed.md |  13 -
 ...003-05-25-federated-identity-management.md |   8 -
 ...og-introducing-chaos-to-social-software.md |   8 -
 ...26-on-the-bursty-evolution-of-blogspace.md |  12 -
 ...ponies-notebook-and-aquaminds-notetaker.md |  15 -
 ...05-28-itunes-is-successful-or-maybe-not.md |  12 -
 .../2003-05-30-social-software-link-fest.md   |  10 -
 _posts/archive/2003-05-30-wifi-plus-phones.md |  18 --
 .../2003-06-01-saving-private-links.md        |  10 -
 ...2003-06-01-steve-jobs-no-tablet-for-you.md |  18 --
 ...003-06-01-what-is-a-person-connected-to.md |  68 -----
 _posts/archive/2003-06-05-how-to-get-rich.md  |  54 ----
 _posts/archive/2003-06-05-xnsorg.md           |  25 --
 .../2003-06-07-what-time-is-it-anyway.md      |  20 --
 .../2003-06-08-welcome-to-the-liquor-store.md |  13 -
 ...tion-concentration-and-becoming-a-place.md |  26 --
 _posts/archive/2003-06-10-my-place.md         |  12 -
 ...-and-why-you-should-smoke-refer-instead.md |  18 --
 _posts/archive/2003-06-20-now-with-jabber.md  |  17 --
 _posts/archive/2003-06-20-rss-weather.md      |  12 -
 ...03-06-20-tim-bray-rss-promise-and-peril.md |  19 --
 ...03-06-22-cruelacid-php-realtime-weather.md |   8 -
 ...003-06-23-apple-debuts-ppc-970-machines.md |  35 ---
 _posts/archive/2003-06-23-everymac.md         |   8 -
 .../archive/2003-06-23-lloyd-wants-to-know.md |  15 -
 .../archive/2003-06-25-working-with-ichat.md  |  23 --
 .../2003-07-02-environment-canada-faq.md      |   8 -
 .../2003-07-03-more-fun-with-rss-weather.md   |  16 -
 ...ss-directory-service-ideas-maybe-a-beer.md |  14 -
 _posts/archive/2003-07-15-rbrowser-lite.md    |  12 -
 _posts/archive/2003-07-15-transmit.md         |  12 -
 ...3-07-22-java-and-handhelds-goodbye-palm.md |  14 -
 ...ed-news-tired-of-the-telly-reprogram-it.md |  14 -
 _posts/archive/2003-07-24-my-blogroll.md      |  21 --
 _posts/archive/2003-07-25-bittorrent.md       |  15 -
 .../2003-07-28-a-polluted-trust-web.md        |  14 -
 ...atent-for-mind-control-via-tv-blipverts.md |  13 -
 .../archive/2003-07-31-tribe-net-feedback.md  |  28 --
 ...is-blogging-breaking-googles-usefulness.md |  15 -
 .../2003-08-01-rss-is-mainly-client-side.md   |  13 -
 _posts/archive/2003-08-04-bankrupt-emi.md     |  15 -
 .../archive/2003-08-04-finally-in-canada.md   |  15 -
 .../archive/2003-08-04-free-world-dialup.md   |  40 ---
 ...2003-08-05-infoworld-sun-tips-apple-hat.md |  17 --
 _posts/archive/2003-08-06-drupal-upgrade.md   |  16 -
 .../archive/2003-08-07-install-completed.md   |  25 --
 .../archive/2003-08-08-arrr-pirate-names.md   |  17 --
 ...3-08-09-congrats-on-the-new-blog-andrew.md |  12 -
 _posts/archive/2003-08-09-coppermine.md       |  11 -
 _posts/archive/2003-08-09-gallery.md          |  23 --
 .../2003-08-09-stylesheet-wrangling.md        |  29 --
 ...-09-wired-news-101-uses-for-apple-ichat.md |  16 -
 ...003-08-10-art-gallery-and-byward-market.md |  12 -
 ...11-extremetech-clash-of-the-tiny-titans.md |  12 -
 ...-wired-news-mr-disruption-strikes-again.md |  17 --
 .../2003-08-12-turning-down-friends.md        |  53 ----
 .../archive/2003-08-13-imaginary-friends.md   |  30 --
 .../2003-08-13-wandering-back-to-victoria.md  |  20 --
 _posts/archive/2003-08-14-drupal.md           |  11 -
 .../archive/2003-08-15-ottawa-power-outage.md |  18 --
 _posts/archive/2003-08-16-p-r-o-f-i-l-e.md    |  15 -
 .../2003-08-16-spaces-is-clever-cactus.md     |  19 --
 _posts/archive/2003-08-17-p-r-o-f-i-l-e.md    |  17 --
 ...3-08-17-steve-gillmor-another-fine-mesh.md |  21 --
 _posts/archive/2003-08-18-ninja-school.md     |  16 -
 _posts/archive/2003-08-18-phpwiki.md          |  11 -
 _posts/archive/2003-08-18-pmachine.md         |  18 --
 _posts/archive/2003-08-18-rodin.md            |  10 -
 ...8-18-soundfeeder-wireless-audio-adapter.md |  22 --
 ...ech-report-the-msi-mega-pc-and-abit-sff.md |  17 --
 ...d-middle-eastern-response-bernard-lewis.md |  10 -
 _posts/archive/2003-08-20-apple-rumours.md    |  23 --
 _posts/archive/2003-08-21-canadian-voip.md    |  19 --
 ...5-image-module-installed-test-yours-now.md |  18 --
 .../2003-08-25-phpcommunitycalendar.md        |   9 -
 .../2003-08-27-9-mac-browser-shootout.md      |  13 -
 _posts/archive/2003-08-28-design-challenge.md |  14 -
 ...8-28-initial-release-of-iphototogallery.md |  11 -
 .../2003-09-02-daring-fireball-vaporoffice.md |  17 --
 ...tream-personal-video-station-3-0-review.md |  13 -
 _posts/archive/2003-09-03-openweather.md      |   8 -
 ...erground-london-world-weather-rss-feeds.md |   8 -
 .../2003-09-04-clearing-your-favicon-cache.md |  12 -
 .../archive/2003-09-06-meta-web-publishing.md |  27 --
 ...09-24-cinemaclock-movie-listings-ottawa.md |  10 -
 ...sdesign-voip-chip-targets-home-gateways.md |  15 -
 _posts/archive/2003-09-24-matchstick-men.md   |  17 --
 ...ng-a-wireless-home-media-network-server.md |  17 --
 ...-09-29-wifi-voip-phone-from-jeff-pulver.md |  15 -
 ...s-media-center-edition-2004-new-version.md |  12 -
 ...0-01-notify-enabled-plus-my-other-sites.md |  21 --
 ...nsider-ibook-upgrade-and-panther-server.md |  22 --
 ...rumba-server-for-server-appliance-space.md |  20 --
 _posts/archive/2003-10-04-rss-data.md         |  17 --
 _posts/archive/2003-10-04-subethaedit.md      |   9 -
 .../2003-10-05-walk-along-the-canal.md        |  16 -
 ...ions-backpack-wireless-workgroup-server.md |  11 -
 _posts/archive/2003-10-07-asus-digimatrix.md  |  28 --
 .../archive/2003-10-07-developers-notebook.md |  12 -
 _posts/archive/2003-10-07-scaleable-mmorpg.md |  29 --
 ...003-10-08-how-does-a-game-company-start.md |  16 -
 .../archive/2003-10-08-windows-rss-readers.md |  13 -
 .../archive/2003-10-09-mmorpg-start-small.md  |  18 --
 ...uickies-its-small-form-factor-craziness.md |  18 --
 ...doubt-review-plus-more-on-douglas-adams.md |  12 -
 ...onverting-ical-calendar-files-into-html.md |  10 -
 ...puterworld-free-hot-spots-pay-dividends.md |  14 -
 .../archive/2003-10-22-itunes-for-windows.md  |  25 --
 .../2003-10-24-three-column-layouts.md        |   8 -
 _posts/archive/2003-10-25-site-re-design.md   |  16 -
 .../archive/2003-10-26-blogs-are-torpedoes.md |  40 ---
 ...-10-26-review-acomdata-multimediaviewer.md |  48 ---
 ...3-10-27-canada-post-postal-code-locator.md |  20 --
 ...a-free-headline-service-but-no-rss-feed.md |  20 --
 ...nt-ask-why-i-need-to-remember-this-page.md |  12 -
 .../2003-10-27-its-just-common-sense.md       |  26 --
 .../2003-10-27-longhorns-special-sauce.md     |  28 --
 _posts/archive/2003-10-28-mailbucket-org.md   |   8 -
 _posts/archive/2003-10-31-ez-ip-update.md     |   9 -
 ...11-01-gourmet-sleuth-roasting-timetable.md |  10 -
 .../archive/2003-11-02-carbon-copy-cloner.md  |   9 -
 ...003-11-03-ibm-to-build-chips-for-xbox-2.md |  19 --
 ...comments-on-xaml-and-the-pdc-experience.md |  14 -
 ...ehomeupgrade-pre-packaged-media-servers.md |  37 ---
 _posts/archive/2003-11-06-panther-bits.md     |  14 -
 ...-08-extremetech-media-front-end-roundup.md |  35 ---
 _posts/archive/2003-11-08-knoppmyth.md        |  17 --
 _posts/archive/2003-11-09-myie2.md            |   9 -
 .../2003-11-09-panther-in-the-house.md        |  18 --
 _posts/archive/2003-11-09-vlc-media-player.md |  11 -
 _posts/archive/2003-11-11-coreblog.md         |   9 -
 ...-11-11-itunes-album-art-and-cell-phones.md |  45 ---
 _posts/archive/2003-11-11-opensourcexperts.md |  12 -
 ...11-what-kind-of-social-software-are-you.md |  12 -
 _posts/archive/2003-11-12-cowiki.md           |  16 -
 _posts/archive/2003-11-12-movabletype.md      |  11 -
 ...gs-and-advisoriesby-state-and-territory.md |  17 --
 _posts/archive/2003-11-12-serendipity.md      |  15 -
 ...sites-offline-plus-my-own-multimedia-pc.md |  34 ---
 ...back-points-to-spoke-serences-klipfolio.md |  46 ---
 _posts/archive/2003-11-17-groupcal.md         |   9 -
 _posts/archive/2003-11-17-spoke.md            |   8 -
 _posts/archive/2003-11-17-theming-drupal.md   |  20 --
 ...unes-and-iphoto-libraries-between-users.md |  44 ---
 _posts/archive/2003-11-18-squeezebox.md       |  16 -
 ...003-11-18-video-monitoring-with-e-smith.md |   9 -
 ...-20-boris-and-bob-is-there-a-connection.md |  14 -
 .../2003-11-20-opensourcexperts-redux.md      |  33 ---
 ...11-21-currency-converter-bank-of-canada.md |   8 -
 _posts/archive/2003-11-21-magnolia.md         |  10 -
 .../2003-11-22-cmsreview-feature-directory.md |  26 --
 .../2003-11-22-ical-birthday-shifter.md       |   9 -
 _posts/archive/2003-11-24-flexible-layout.md  |  26 --
 ...003-11-25-reading-up-on-social-software.md |  22 --
 ...-ford-chief-architect-for-msn-messenger.md |  37 ---
 ...oming-please-give-us-iphoto-for-windows.md |  32 --
 ...3-12-01-unofficial-mozilla-for-mac-os-9.md |   9 -
 _posts/archive/2003-12-01-wamcon.md           |  15 -
 .../2003-12-05-two-wikis-and-a-microphone.md  |  15 -
 _posts/archive/2003-12-08-itunes-catalog.md   |  10 -
 ...-11-classification-for-email-and-images.md |  25 --
 .../2003-12-11-css-maxdesign-com-au.md        |   8 -
 ...03-12-11-david-isenberg-smart-letter-91.md | 274 ------------------
 ...ing-the-planet-the-birth-of-the-metaweb.md |  15 -
 .../2003-12-11-sagetv-frey-technologies.md    |  10 -
 ...rbs-controller-salling-clicker-plug-ins.md |   8 -
 ...w-offering-voip-service-through-mobitus.md |  19 --
 .../2003-12-17-return-of-the-awesome.md       |  32 --
 ...7-ventureblog-conserving-social-capital.md |  16 -
 ...2-18-a-week-with-the-sony-ericsson-t616.md |   9 -
 ...ip-top-priority-for-bell-canada-in-2004.md |  30 --
 ...8-more-instant-messaging-from-acm-queue.md |  12 -
 .../2003-12-19-whohasmybirthday-com.md        |  12 -
 .../2003-12-23-is-the-pstn-more-secure.md     |  12 -
 .../2003-12-23-voip-channels-to-market.md     |  74 -----
 ...-02-macosx-com-apple-ibox-in-production.md |  18 --
 ...04-01-03-sony-ericsson-handsfree-hpr-20.md |   8 -
 ...ole-lotta-nothing-social-software-ideas.md |  41 ---
 ...4-01-04-howardforums-t616-beginner-info.md |   8 -
 _posts/archive/2004-01-04-pluto-home.md       |  23 --
 _posts/archive/2004-01-04-quicksub.md         |   9 -
 ...4-01-04-running-your-own-social-network.md |  12 -
 ...se-of-social-network-sites-accelerating.md |  22 --
 ...-management-community-of-practice-kmcop.md |   9 -
 ...talkbroadband-canadian-voip-with-primus.md |  35 ---
 ...facture-hp-branded-digital-music-player.md |  20 --
 _posts/archive/2004-01-13-ripdigital.md       |  10 -
 .../2004-01-13-trevor-jones-has-a-blog.md     |  12 -
 _posts/archive/2004-01-14-the-corporation.md  |  16 -
 ...slink-to-run-passenger-ferries-to-bowen.md |  16 -
 _posts/archive/2004-01-14-tunesatwork.md      |  18 --
 _posts/archive/2004-01-14-vovida-org.md       |   8 -
 ...n-willison-you-mean-there-is-an-ie-team.md |  12 -
 ...nessweek-technology-special-report-voip.md |  16 -
 .../archive/2004-01-16-favicon-generation.md  |   8 -
 _posts/archive/2004-01-16-new-favicon.md      |  10 -
 _posts/archive/2004-01-16-shopkits.md         |  11 -
 ...dustry-analyzed-via-the-value-framework.md |  16 -
 _posts/archive/2004-01-18-shrook.md           |  11 -
 ...o-integrate-rss-feeds-into-your-website.md |  33 ---
 ...ne-reputation-or-you-will-be-in-trouble.md |  18 --
 ...004-01-21-plastic-bags-make-great-shoes.md |  16 -
 ...e-identity-pollution-is-happening-today.md |  36 ---
 .../2004-01-25-talkbroadband-first-setup.md   |  59 ----
 ...2004-01-28-getting-a-place-in-vancouver.md |  30 --
 ...lkbroadband-some-glitches-and-solutions.md |  30 --
 ...29-darren-barefoot-exciting-news-indeed.md |  19 --
 ...the-digital-hub-powered-by-strangeberry.md |  25 --
 ...004-01-29-sunshine-coast-accommodations.md |  16 -
 ...30-roland-tanglao-vancouver-geek-dinner.md |  24 --
 .../2004-02-01-canadians-are-square.md        |  13 -
 .../2004-02-01-talkbroadband-forum-setup.md   |  16 -
 ...zerendipity-nick-tattersall-vef-meeting.md |  18 --
 ...2004-02-04-globe-and-mail-has-rss-feeds.md |  38 ---
 ...004-02-04-social-networking-vs-blogging.md |  23 --
 .../archive/2004-02-05-dining-out-for-life.md |  19 --
 ...-and-mail-monster-com-to-add-networking.md |  22 --
 _posts/archive/2004-02-05-intravnews.md       |   9 -
 _posts/archive/2004-02-05-mailpictures.md     |  11 -
 ...orld-computers-on-broadway-in-vancouver.md |  31 --
 ...004-02-06-ichat-bluetooth-headset-phone.md |  18 --
 .../2004-02-06-talkbroadband-steady-state.md  |  26 --
 _posts/archive/2004-02-06-wordpress.md        |  12 -
 _posts/archive/2004-02-08-bloglet.md          |  11 -
 ...02-08-vijs-recommended-by-stuart-mclean.md |  35 ---
 .../2004-02-09-just-signed-up-for-spud.md     |  16 -
 ...sumer-electronics-sony-should-buy-apple.md |  17 --
 .../2004-02-11-more-peeps-with-blogs.md       |  16 -
 ...004-02-11-vancouver-geek-dinner-wrap-up.md |  39 ---
 ...-speed-advantage-mean-mac-tipping-point.md |  27 --
 ...2-13-no-tv-watching-the-latest-episodes.md |  27 --
 ...2-13-pictures-of-newfoundland-snowstorm.md |  34 ---
 _posts/archive/2004-02-15-cvsfinder.md        |  13 -
 ...ia-arms-race-for-social-networking-apps.md |  26 --
 ...6-j2ee-consulting-with-eversun-software.md |  16 -
 ...-from-browser-to-platform-mozilla-rises.md |  21 --
 _posts/archive/2004-02-16-netomat.md          |  22 --
 _posts/archive/2004-02-16-reblogging.md       |  33 ---
 _posts/archive/2004-02-16-userplane.md        |  10 -
 ...-storm-damage-in-vancouver-and-victoria.md |  29 --
 ...2004-02-18-ichat-flickr-et-al-and-skype.md |  23 --
 ...tt-allen-newsgroups-blogs-and-magazines.md |  11 -
 .../archive/2004-02-18-karma-mailing-list.md  |  21 --
 _posts/archive/2004-02-18-phpgedview.md       |  12 -
 ...-02-18-yahoo-new-search-engine-does-rss.md |  14 -
 _posts/archive/2004-02-19-flickr-services.md  |  30 --
 ...tworks-offers-voip-licenses-for-e-smith.md |  17 --
 ...cussions-for-increasing-signal-to-noise.md |  19 --
 .../archive/2004-02-20-radio-doesnt-get-it.md |  14 -
 _posts/archive/2004-02-22-10-random-songs.md  |  35 ---
 ...004-02-22-big-time-bellevue-geek-dinner.md |  22 --
 .../2004-02-22-kids-and-social-software.md    |  19 --
 .../2004-02-22-well-designed-weblogs.md       |   8 -
 ...-caterina-net-things-to-do-in-vancouver.md |   8 -
 _posts/archive/2004-02-23-cms-mailing-list.md |  10 -
 ...4-02-23-pseudorandom-vancouver-hilights.md |   8 -
 _posts/archive/2004-02-23-textpattern.md      |  15 -
 .../archive/2004-02-23-validate-your-code.md  |  25 --
 _posts/archive/2004-02-23-zip-ca.md           |   9 -
 .../2004-02-24-boris-big-book-list-oh-boy.md  | 231 ---------------
 _posts/archive/2004-02-24-dot-easy.md         |  13 -
 _posts/archive/2004-02-24-geourl-updated.md   |  14 -
 ...-02-24-kate-and-i-are-oktoberfest-stars.md |  12 -
 _posts/archive/2004-02-25-meyers-briggs.md    |  16 -
 ...scoble-i-still-dont-get-social-software.md |  32 --
 _posts/archive/2004-02-25-the-rs-have-it.md   |  26 --
 ...ms-access-why-the-need-for-visual-basic.md |  12 -
 ...guage-as-metaphor-president-as-magician.md |  14 -
 .../2004-02-27-yet-more-content-from-me.md    |  13 -
 ...2-29-more-xbox-2-and-windows-on-g5-info.md |  22 --
 ...k-the-pattern-of-online-technology-fads.md |  27 --
 _posts/archive/2004-03-01-rolands-big-move.md |  29 --
 _posts/archive/2004-03-01-the-snow-walker.md  |  29 --
 ...-03-aaron-cope-extensions-to-xml-resume.md |  14 -
 _posts/archive/2004-03-03-hr-xml.md           |  10 -
 ...004-03-03-xml-com-xml-power-job-hunting.md |   8 -
 ...4-03-03-xml-resume-and-resume-promotion.md |  20 --
 .../2004-03-03-xml-resume-at-sourceforge.md   |   8 -
 ...4-03-05-consumer-voip-arrives-in-the-us.md |  17 --
 .../2004-03-05-sick-of-social-networks.md     |  46 ---
 ...opinion-about-fahrner-image-replacement.md |  12 -
 ...in-defense-of-fahrner-image-replacement.md |  12 -
 ...4-03-07-image-replacement-decision-grid.md |   8 -
 _posts/archive/2004-03-07-reading-update.md   |  18 --
 .../2004-03-07-seo-use-images-wisely.md       |  37 ---
 ...04-03-07-sites-that-dont-work-reveal-ca.md |  33 ---
 ...-using-background-image-to-replace-text.md |   8 -
 .../2004-03-07-test-postflickr-test-post.md   |  13 -
 ...-of-the-longdesc-attribute-for-img-tags.md |   8 -
 ...004-03-07-w3c-markup-validation-service.md |   8 -
 ...7-why-rss-sucks-but-its-still-fantastic.md |  21 --
 _posts/archive/2004-03-08-rankpulse.md        |  16 -
 .../2004-03-09-asi-exchange-in-vancouver.md   |  28 --
 .../2004-03-09-flickr-buddy-icons-fun.md      |  44 ---
 .../2004-03-09-i-hate-the-term-blog.md        |  27 --
 ...workshop-net-googles-pagerank-explained.md |  13 -
 ...2004-03-11-broadvox-is-coming-to-canada.md |  44 ---
 ...imizing-your-chances-with-accessibility.md |  12 -
 ...r-options-for-not-using-web-based-email.md |  18 --
 ...wired-news-cable-guy-whupping-phone-guy.md |  16 -
 ...5-vancouver-dinner-club-inaugural-event.md |  16 -
 ...ws-blogs-mean-better-listings-on-google.md |  18 --
 .../2004-03-16-what-if-voice-were-free.md     |  18 --
 ...ki-for-my-personal-knowledge-management.md |  20 --
 ...-19-how-to-build-a-business-around-voip.md |  24 --
 ...indows-of-the-personal-publishing-world.md |  68 -----
 _posts/archive/2004-03-21-nimcat-networks.md  |  21 --
 ...-deleting-installed-packages-under-os-x.md |  13 -
 ...3-wired-pay-once-share-often-with-lwdrm.md |  25 --
 .../2004-03-25-open-source-voipworks.md       |  18 --
 _posts/archive/2004-03-25-voodoopad.md        |  10 -
 ...-name-based-virtual-hosting-on-mac-os-x.md |  63 ----
 _posts/archive/2004-03-28-italk2u.md          |  21 --
 ...telephone-company-for-the-entire-planet.md |  11 -
 ...2004-03-28-lunch-with-microsoft-and-sun.md |  43 ---
 ...licle-text-2-html-without-the-lock-down.md |  26 --
 ...malik-on-voip-why-skype-is-no-different.md |   8 -
 .../archive/2004-03-28-presence-blogging.md   |  15 -
 _posts/archive/2004-03-28-tips-for-andy.md    |  17 --
 ...03-29-apple-should-license-fairplay-drm.md |  13 -
 ...004-03-29-asterisk-dont-blame-the-users.md |  10 -
 ...-does-computer-science-in-academia-suck.md |  13 -
 .../2004-03-29-lost-boy-scattered-self.md     |  16 -
 ...everyone-at-wordpress-wants-a-powerbook.md |  11 -
 ...rs-mac-os-x-10-4-and-the-year-of-the-g5.md |  13 -
 .../2004-03-29-microsoft-now-does-search.md   |  14 -
 ...-29-price-hostilities-in-the-voip-space.md |  13 -
 ...29-primus-talkbroadband-expands-service.md |  23 --
 ...g-msn-messenger-for-mac-4-0-with-images.md |  15 -
 ...er-price-index-cpi-inflation-calculator.md |  12 -
 .../archive/2004-03-30-expose-and-windows.md  |  10 -
 ...0-marcosweskamp-a-map-of-the-news-media.md |  10 -
 ...n-for-pulver-com-approved-voip-startups.md |  16 -
 ...cil-regional-consultation-and-reception.md |  16 -
 ...ura-announces-voip-pstn-gateway-adaptor.md |  13 -
 ...0-social-networking-its-the-apps-stupid.md |  15 -
 .../2004-03-30-vonage-sues-at-and-t.md        |  15 -
 ...30-welcome-to-the-new-b-mann-consulting.md |  20 --
 ...-31-asterisk-ideas-for-client-education.md |  13 -
 .../2004-03-31-from-manila-to-drupal.md       |  15 -
 ...inding-the-planet-google-launches-gmail.md |  14 -
 .../2004-03-31-situational-software.md        |  30 --
 ...the-register-circuit-city-buys-intertan.md |  13 -
 .../2004-03-31-vonage-now-live-in-canada.md   |  26 --
 _posts/archive/2004-04-01-im-will-win-voip.md |  24 --
 ...4-04-04-adding-adsense-to-your-rss-feed.md |  14 -
 ...e-another-better-than-skype-application.md |  18 --
 .../2004-04-04-mankind-vs-microsoft.md        |  24 --
 ...-05-asterisk-for-tech-support-voicemail.md |  10 -
 ...-document-management-for-small-business.md |  19 --
 ...and-updates-pricing-features-to-compete.md |  22 --
 ...son-personalisation-weve-already-got-it.md |  12 -
 ...-less-blogging-more-personal-publishing.md |  12 -
 _posts/archive/2004-04-06-near-time-flow.md   |  18 --
 .../archive/2004-04-06-schubert-it-plugins.md |  15 -
 _posts/archive/2004-04-06-test-your-voip.md   |  12 -
 _posts/archive/2004-04-06-voip-testing.md     |  10 -
 .../2004-04-07-blow-to-canadian-voip.md       |  23 --
 .../2004-04-07-pdtp-lets-get-rid-of-ftp.md    |  12 -
 ...07-personal-publishing-is-not-just-tech.md |  14 -
 _posts/archive/2004-04-07-voip-value-adds.md  |  16 -
 ...big-telcos-may-do-better-than-you-think.md |  18 --
 .../2004-04-08-first-mac-os-x-trojan.md       |  17 --
 .../2004-04-08-trademarking-your-key-words.md |  13 -
 ...-blogware-adds-friends-and-address-book.md |  27 --
 .../2004-04-11-darren-tries-adsense.md        |  37 ---
 ...2004-04-12-another-life-log-application.md |  18 --
 ...der-controllers-combined-with-firewalls.md |  15 -
 ...-12-softswitch-projected-growth-numbers.md |  23 --
 ...tems-will-continue-to-crush-closed-ones.md |  18 --
 ...-vocaldata-powers-voip-for-primus-telus.md |  26 --
 ...2004-04-13-a-stew-of-packetized-content.md |  17 --
 ...-whole-lotta-nothing-all-hail-bluetooth.md |  14 -
 ...-04-14-peer1-spawns-symmetric-broadband.md |  17 --
 ...n-blog-or-the-real-problem-with-typekey.md |  17 --
 .../2004-04-15-good-apps-on-mac-os-x.md       |  13 -
 .../archive/2004-04-15-primus-buys-magma.md   |  14 -
 ...the-canadian-ip-communications-industry.md |  12 -
 ...-18-4000us-per-month-for-playing-a-game.md |  18 --
 ...r-meeting-in-seattle-on-wednesday-night.md |  15 -
 ...-18-pulpfiction-new-aggregator-for-os-x.md |  23 --
 ...c-saunders-leaves-versatel-starts-iotum.md |  15 -
 ...004-04-20-at-and-t-voip-marketing-in-ny.md |  15 -
 _posts/archive/2004-04-20-batelle-on-furl.md  |  16 -
 ...-are-not-interested-in-world-domination.md |  22 --
 .../archive/2004-04-20-phonepage-homepage.md  |  15 -
 ...ow-value-in-k-logs-to-senior-management.md |  15 -
 ...-the-googlebot-understand-your-web-site.md |   8 -
 ...04-23-feedback-for-doc-searls-it-garage.md |  34 ---
 ...tart-with-smart-edges-and-a-dumb-center.md |   9 -
 ...net-presence-of-social-networking-sites.md |  21 --
 _posts/archive/2004-04-26-hyperlocal.md       |  13 -
 ...2004-04-26-microsoft-expression-for-mac.md |  18 --
 ...004-04-26-scalix-does-exchange-on-linux.md |  14 -
 .../2004-04-26-stealth-enum-registry.md       |  15 -
 _posts/archive/2004-04-26-tasks-pro-1-1.md    |  14 -
 .../2004-04-26-website-css-circa-2011.md      |  12 -
 ...2004-04-27-at-and-t-callvantage-details.md |  16 -
 _posts/archive/2004-04-27-gush-for-os-x.md    |  21 --
 ...adio-active-r-and-eacutesum-and-eacutes.md |  26 --
 ...ium-and-large-business-voip-has-50-cagr.md |  16 -
 ...-04-27-more-on-project-management-tools.md |  15 -
 _posts/archive/2004-04-27-spike.md            |  12 -
 _posts/archive/2004-04-27-subethatrack.md     |  10 -
 .../2004-04-27-thank-you-moveable-type.md     |  18 --
 .../2004-04-27-this-is-visualstreet-net.md    |  13 -
 ...bout-contact-management-and-calendaring.md |  17 --
 .../archive/2004-04-29-big-fat-dumb-pipes.md  |  10 -
 ...04-04-29-callvantage-service-works-well.md |  13 -
 .../2004-04-29-why-ecademy-will-succeed.md    |  11 -
 .../2004-04-30-deep-enterprise-search.md      |  18 --
 ...nates-access-charges-on-true-voip-calls.md |   9 -
 ...0-skype-to-speak-out-at-von-canada-2004.md |  17 --
 .../archive/2004-05-04-free-enum-efforts.md   |  18 --
 ...-04-next-version-of-wordpress-goes-beta.md |  13 -
 ...05-05-drupal-powers-motime-and-splinder.md |  19 --
 ...4-05-05-sprint-canadas-bad-web-presence.md |  18 --
 ...free-world-dialup-now-supports-asterisk.md |   9 -
 .../2004-05-06-new-bloggers-on-the-block.md   |  22 --
 .../2004-05-06-talkbroadband-vs-telus.md      |  16 -
 ...-08-evans-on-nyt-article-voip-in-canada.md |  10 -
 ...08-price-service-and-port-blocking-wars.md |  12 -
 ...5-08-snapstream-firefly-remote-giveaway.md |  15 -
 ...networking-doesnt-have-a-business-model.md |  22 --
 ...05-08-social-software-ideas-in-practice.md |  19 --
 _posts/archive/2004-05-08-what-is-a-wiki.md   |  21 --
 .../2004-05-08-zoe-and-email-choices.md       |  31 --
 .../2004-05-09-dell-might-buy-palmone.md      |  14 -
 ...9-mt-vs-ee-for-a-corporate-weblogs-farm.md |  17 --
 ...newspapers-see-danger-in-text-messaging.md |  15 -
 .../2004-05-09-that-old-trackback-magic.md    |  16 -
 ...-goes-live-in-the-corporate-data-center.md |  16 -
 ...05-10-web-hosting-server-control-panels.md |  26 --
 .../2004-05-13-iphoto-to-everything.md        |  15 -
 ...-15-do-not-buy-an-inexq-wireless-router.md |  21 --
 .../2004-05-15-palm-gphone-does-sip.md        |  19 --
 _posts/archive/2004-05-15-wifi-box.md         |  10 -
 _posts/archive/2004-05-15-wrt54g-firmware.md  |   8 -
 ...6-a-quick-way-to-generate-obvious-links.md |  12 -
 _posts/archive/2004-05-16-civicspace-labs.md  |  13 -
 _posts/archive/2004-05-16-editthispagephp.md  |  14 -
 ...ion-overload-dissolves-into-nothingness.md |  12 -
 .../2004-05-16-less-typing-more-linking.md    |  10 -
 ...04-05-16-tables-vs-css-in-web-standards.md |  11 -
 ...-3-0-other-than-a-licensing-controversy.md |  11 -
 ...book-and-to-dos-on-your-removable-drive.md |  17 --
 ...us-wifi-foaf-people-in-my-neighbourhood.md |  14 -
 _posts/archive/2004-05-17-robotradio.md       |  13 -
 _posts/archive/2004-05-18-darwinports.md      |  15 -
 _posts/archive/2004-05-18-entellium.md        |  13 -
 _posts/archive/2004-05-18-fast-dsl.md         |  13 -
 _posts/archive/2004-05-18-goodbye-calltrex.md |  17 --
 ...-image-ads-offer-free-brand-advertising.md |  13 -
 .../2004-05-18-meta-data-on-the-mind.md       |  14 -
 _posts/archive/2004-05-18-more-mt-vs-ee.md    |  16 -
 ...hange-direction-until-they-hit-the-wall.md |  11 -
 .../2004-05-18-os-x-on-windows-via-pearpc.md  |  13 -
 ...18-palm-doing-well-in-smartphone-market.md |  17 --
 _posts/archive/2004-05-18-roku-soundbridge.md |  15 -
 ...05-18-search-changes-how-business-works.md |  13 -
 .../2004-05-18-subethaedit-turns-2-0.md       |  16 -
 ...04-05-18-talking-about-drupal-usability.md |  14 -
 ...4-05-18-telus-microcell-an-unholy-union.md |  14 -
 ...4-05-19-lagerway-vs-zennstrom-smackdown.md |  16 -
 ...elton-will-telephony-go-to-zero-dollars.md |  11 -
 ...i-will-likely-delete-my-ecademy-account.md |  22 --
 .../2004-05-25-voxilla-skype-adds-pictures.md |  12 -
 ...lickr-news-cool-stuff-i-want-to-pay-for.md |  33 ---
 ...6-peerio-offically-announces-themselves.md |   9 -
 .../2004-05-27-atom-linkblog-instructions.md  |  16 -
 ...moderated-commments-and-moderated-posts.md |  15 -
 ...-setting-up-an-itunes-server-in-freebsd.md |  10 -
 ...ingly-defined-by-non-network-attributes.md |  13 -
 ...or-on-gates-rss-customer-driven-lock-in.md |  16 -
 ...-05-29-atom-will-create-the-two-way-web.md |  15 -
 .../archive/2004-05-29-oh-crap-marketing.md   |   9 -
 _posts/archive/2004-05-29-pubsub-linkrank.md  |  17 --
 ...k-your-news-feed-to-easily-lose-readers.md |  18 --
 ...es-prefer-authoritarianism-to-democracy.md |  18 --
 ...004-05-31-dave-winer-impressed-me-today.md |  24 --
 ...05-31-km-work-effectiveness-improvement.md |  13 -
 ...t-hyperedit-and-a-rant-on-collaboration.md |  19 --
 ...broadband-is-currently-down-june-1-2004.md |  23 --
 ...atform-rich-text-editor-too-much-to-ask.md |  19 --
 _posts/archive/2004-06-06-p900-manager.md     |  21 --
 .../2004-06-07-apple-airport-express.md       |  22 --
 ...g-special-but-they-are-better-than-cmss.md |  12 -
 ...2004-06-07-don-park-give-rss-2-0-to-w3c.md |  17 --
 ...7-drupal-xtemplate-skins-from-cyberdash.md |  10 -
 .../archive/2004-06-07-dual-wan-nat-router.md |  12 -
 ...g-ie-team-members-a-nugie-for-standards.md |  17 --
 .../2004-06-07-open-standards-skype.md        |  16 -
 ...4-06-07-posting-to-blogware-via-ms-word.md |  14 -
 .../archive/2004-06-07-purple-everywhere.md   |  20 --
 ...06-07-rss-for-downloading-torrent-files.md |  15 -
 ...e-killer-apps-in-drupal-for-david-nunez.md |  18 --
 _posts/archive/2004-06-07-todayspapers-com.md |  12 -
 ...is-the-best-place-for-atom-to-take-root.md |  10 -
 .../2004-06-07-weblogs-do-help-businesses.md  |  13 -
 ...-integrated-cable-modem-and-38-voip-box.md |  19 --
 ...ians-dont-know-nuthin-about-voip-willis.md |  15 -
 ...2004-06-14-2004-canadian-telecom-summit.md |  14 -
 _posts/archive/2004-06-14-being-appled.md     |  16 -
 ...14-brad-gibson-has-entered-the-building.md |  14 -
 _posts/archive/2004-06-14-buttress.md         |  13 -
 ...4-content-separated-from-delivery-media.md |  14 -
 ...rey-veen-on-feedburner-and-ping-o-matic.md |  14 -
 .../2004-06-14-pretty-sticky-things.md        |  23 --
 ...tial-voip-in-canada-not-looking-so-good.md |  34 ---
 .../2004-06-14-scoble-wants-full-text-rss.md  |  19 --
 ...04-06-14-social-networking-is-a-feature.md |  14 -
 ...4-the-big-secret-of-search-optimisation.md |  14 -
 _posts/archive/2004-06-14-tivo-online.md      |  13 -
 _posts/archive/2004-06-14-waml-vs-xaml.md     |  17 --
 _posts/archive/2004-06-14-who-needs-books.md  |  14 -
 ...aybe-my-milk-will-tell-the-fridge-jokes.md |  15 -
 ...m-trying-to-write-the-out-of-this-stuff.md |  25 --
 .../2004-06-17-google-looking-at-texturize.md |  14 -
 ...harges-me-to-call-numbers-10-miles-away.md |  13 -
 ...k-lagerway-wants-to-take-the-gloves-off.md |  13 -
 ...nd-generation-blog-rss-aggregation-site.md |  18 --
 ...2004-06-18-no-more-ca-for-non-canadians.md |  16 -
 .../archive/2004-06-18-subversion-for-os-x.md |  11 -
 .../2004-06-18-sxip-comes-out-of-stealth.md   |  16 -
 ...dge-of-the-web-has-moved-away-from-html.md |  14 -
 .../2004-06-18-x-ten-interface-is-terrible.md |  18 --
 ...04-06-19-social-networking-inaccuracies.md |  13 -
 ...06-23-another-victory-for-hardware-raid.md |  15 -
 ...l-does-5-for-1000-long-distance-minutes.md |  19 --
 ...ers-are-becoming-subject-matter-experts.md |  13 -
 .../archive/2004-07-06-blogging-tools-suck.md |  20 --
 ...ct-a-converged-information-superhighway.md |  20 --
 .../2004-07-06-drm-inhibits-communications.md |  12 -
 _posts/archive/2004-07-06-knopsterisk.md      |  11 -
 ...-you-offer-a-vehicle-for-advertisements.md |  23 --
 ...e-types-of-information-to-be-syndicated.md |  13 -
 ...gs-youre-doing-your-client-a-disservice.md |  10 -
 ...-os-x-tiger-server-does-blogging-and-im.md |  19 --
 ...t-future-shop-best-buy-stores-in-canada.md |  17 --
 ...04-07-06-pubsub-notification-via-jabber.md |  12 -
 .../2004-07-06-rss-is-a-big-blue-icon.md      |  17 --
 ...loper-mindshare-at-the-expense-of-win32.md |  25 --
 ...004-07-07-alec-and-andy-do-voip-futures.md |  34 ---
 _posts/archive/2004-07-07-xoduszero.md        |  10 -
 ...07-08-why-doesnt-apple-want-to-do-xhtml.md |  16 -
 ...yahoo-gets-odd-to-go-beyond-the-browser.md |  16 -
 .../2004-07-10-dashboard-apps-multiplying.md  |  13 -
 .../2004-07-10-more-oddpost-comments.md       |  14 -
 ...-13-common-definition-of-xml-readership.md |  11 -
 ...ing-sold-by-bankruptcy-trustee-for-9500.md |  20 --
 ...urns-off-comment-counters-saves-the-day.md |  10 -
 ...y-deliver-on-the-promise-of-syndication.md |  26 --
 ...-time-to-demonstrate-simpletracks-again.md |  12 -
 _posts/archive/2004-07-17-adiumx-interview.md |  19 --
 _posts/archive/2004-07-18-compete-on-merit.md |  18 --
 .../2004-07-18-off-line-web-applications.md   |  16 -
 ...ing-reports-more-mozilla-visits-than-ie.md |  13 -
 .../2004-07-18-people-rarely-comment.md       |  17 --
 _posts/archive/2004-07-19-asterisk-on-os-x.md |  18 --
 ...-innovation-from-existing-user-behavior.md |  12 -
 ...7-19-new-brunswick-business-blog-survey.md |  14 -
 ...4-07-19-ssh-keys-and-subversion-on-os-x.md |  19 --
 .../archive/2004-07-20-spoke-vs-linkedin.md   |  22 --
 ...4-07-25-sending-free-sms-from-a-website.md |  32 --
 .../2004-08-19-absentee-web-landlord.md       |  14 -
 ...vancouver-ecademy-blogging-for-business.md |  31 --
 ...-the-basecamp-project-management-system.md |  55 ----
 _posts/archive/2004-08-20-cocoalicious.md     |  10 -
 _posts/archive/2004-08-21-fried-potatoes.md   |  22 --
 ...companies-are-now-selling-voip-adapters.md |  16 -
 _posts/archive/2004-08-24-im-a-bryght-guy.md  |  14 -
 ...2004-08-24-windows-is-everyones-problem.md |  15 -
 ...-ca-trying-another-canadian-voip-option.md |  13 -
 ...ows-as-opposed-to-linux-mt-vs-wordpress.md |  13 -
 ...04-08-30-yasn-rankings-arent-newsworthy.md |  12 -
 .../2004-08-31-skype-for-os-x-available.md    |  13 -
 .../2004-09-06-asterisk-for-windows.md        |  10 -
 .../2004-09-06-broadband-telephone-numbers.md |  21 --
 _posts/archive/2004-09-06-google-loves-im.md  |  16 -
 ...9-06-jluster-at-the-social-tools-weblog.md |   8 -
 ...-batelle-searchblogs-new-look-ad-update.md |  20 --
 .../2004-09-10-everyone-loves-flowers.md      |  21 --
 ...ation-applications-benefit-the-internet.md |  22 --
 .../2004-09-12-overview-of-i-neighbors.md     |  11 -
 ...4-09-13-viral-needs-more-than-just-cool.md |  10 -
 ...-13-writing-elsewhere-drupal-commentary.md |  14 -
 ...ns-search-engine-web-app-heres-a9-again.md |  22 --
 ...04-09-16-tiger-ichat-has-jabber-support.md |  16 -
 ...-the-interesting-things-that-can-happen.md |  12 -
 ...ubscribers-in-canadian-voip-marketplace.md |  19 --
 ...04-09-22-google-local-in-canada-so-what.md |  30 --
 ...c-meyers-powerpoint-implemented-in-html.md |  21 --
 ...a-lin-noodle-house-and-kristian-at-kino.md |   9 -
 ...004-09-29-steamworks-invaded-by-germans.md |  15 -
 ...04-10-01-im-is-texting-in-north-america.md |  15 -
 ...never-have-to-throw-anything-away-again.md |  21 --
 ...-remembering-pitcairn-and-easter-island.md |  29 --
 ...the-next-generation-of-web-applications.md |  17 --
 .../2004-10-03-late-blogacatmas-entry.md      |  21 --
 .../2004-10-03-voip-and-social-software.md    |  16 -
 _posts/archive/2004-10-05-pr-isnt-dead.md     |  11 -
 .../2004-10-06-calendaring-in-xhtml.md        |  18 --
 ...-10-06-evan-reviews-the-airport-express.md |  14 -
 _posts/archive/2004-10-07-200-things.md       |  13 -
 ...des-windows-desktops-whats-the-mac-plan.md |  15 -
 .../2004-10-20-to-quote-myself-on-voip.md     |  15 -
 ...10-23-do-we-actually-want-one-super-app.md |  24 --
 ...10-23-not-on-the-web-you-wont-get-hired.md |  27 --
 ...eer-even-the-kind-that-comes-in-a-tower.md |  16 -
 ...04-10-27-zip-ca-finds-my-comment-thread.md |  30 --
 .../archive/2004-10-28-ipod-photo-thoughts.md |  39 ---
 ...04-10-30-greenthing-theme-and-this-week.md |  15 -
 ...004-10-31-what-do-i-expect-from-my-blog.md |  41 ---
 .../2004-11-01-near-time-flow-example.md      |  15 -
 .../2004-11-04-lycoris-takes-over-e-smith.md  |  22 --
 ...2004-11-04-ubiquitous-browser-evolution.md |  38 ---
 _posts/archive/2004-11-04-urls-are-dead.md    |  22 --
 ...04-11-04-voipail-is-voicemail-for-skype.md |  14 -
 ...ck-a-mole-give-us-legal-video-downloads.md |  33 ---
 .../2004-11-07-save-canadas-internets.md      |  12 -
 _posts/archive/2004-11-09-wow-open-beta.md    |  13 -
 ...ent-in-vancouver-and-blogging-for-money.md |  22 --
 .../archive/2004-11-11-bmp-presents-cdx2.md   | 139 ---------
 ...s-search-thinks-google-is-a-good-result.md |  15 -
 .../2004-11-12-panics-story-of-audion.md      |  11 -
 ...ep-web-only-courtesy-of-search-portal-x.md |  20 --
 ...04-11-19-wow-beta-is-over-some-comments.md |  34 ---
 ...axentra-multifunction-server-appliances.md |  22 --
 ...a-deaf-user-that-loves-reading-metadata.md |  27 --
 ...-11-25-massive-traffic-on-wow-still-fun.md |  31 --
 ...d-maffin-great-work-on-covering-mozilla.md |  21 --
 .../2004-11-28-fotobuzz-like-flickr-notes.md  |  17 --
 ...es-for-the-mac-and-gaming-micro-content.md |  31 --
 .../2004-12-01-itunes-canada-finally.md       |  23 --
 ...2-01-zaks-chinese-market-butter-chicken.md |  10 -
 ...-10-cbc-now-has-headline-only-rss-feeds.md |  33 ---
 ...6-apple-and-motorola-are-making-a-phone.md |  16 -
 ...greement-on-rss-usage-my-feedback-email.md |  46 ---
 .../2004-12-17-fortune-500-blogging.md        |  17 --
 ...2-17-links-of-interest-december-12-2004.md |  21 --
 ...e-for-troys-technology-buyers-manifesto.md |  13 -
 ...-macs-rule-rss-custom-rss-apps-are-next.md |  40 ---
 ...11-aggregators-are-tomorrows-newspapers.md |  30 --
 ...1-11-how-the-mac-mini-fits-into-my-life.md |  66 -----
 ...-future-of-online-aggregators-skydasher.md |  29 --
 ...-01-13-syndication-subscription-service.md |  10 -
 .../2005-01-14-lcd-tv-or-lcd-monitor.md       |  28 --
 ...ell-the-imac-buy-the-parents-a-mac-mini.md |  12 -
 ...-plus-question-about-yak-voip-in-canada.md |  30 --
 ...nt-rick-anderson-responds-to-complaints.md |  53 ----
 ...ith-social-networking-features-linkedin.md |  16 -
 _posts/archive/2005-01-19-please-follow.md    |  34 ---
 ...20-2005-will-be-the-year-my-inboxes-die.md |  21 --
 .../2005-01-24-at-the-blog-business-summit.md |  16 -
 ...s-and-itunes-movies-predictions-that-is.md |  36 ---
 ...29-stack-the-mac-mini-with-an-apple-pvr.md |  14 -
 ...oto-management-chain-of-pain-on-windows.md |  24 --
 .../2005-02-03-google-registrar-concepts.md   |  28 --
 ...2-07-daring-fireball-doesnt-hate-canada.md |  17 --
 ...-no-lnp-in-canada-equals-no-competition.md |  37 ---
 ...tvs-and-monitors-there-is-no-difference.md |  63 ----
 ...on-appearance-on-cbc-talking-about-voip.md |  25 --
 .../2005-02-16-the-deal-eo-with-teleo.md      |  23 --
 ...k-like-when-every-router-is-a-sip-proxy.md |  22 --
 .../2005-03-04-new-phone-nokia-6630.md        |  17 --
 .../2005-03-07-not-exactly-a-mac-mini.md      |  26 --
 ...7-the-best-days-of-voip-are-yet-to-come.md |  17 --
 ...usiness-just-went-massively-multiplayer.md |  15 -
 ...ni-rumours-come-on-we-know-its-a-tablet.md |  24 --
 ...-skype-to-offer-real-phone-numbers-soon.md |  21 --
 ...in-live-list-of-us-area-codes-available.md |  61 ----
 ...5-03-20-links-of-interest-march-20-2004.md |  19 --
 .../2005-03-29-massive-and-beercasting.md     |  16 -
 ...erapist-answer-1-aggregating-everything.md |  22 --
 ...herapist-answer-2-no-more-meta-blogging.md |  41 ---
 _posts/archive/2005-04-02-new-header-image.md |  13 -
 ...-meetup-march-31st-next-web-2-0-meetups.md |  23 --
 ...-maps-now-has-keynote-satellite-imagery.md |  20 --
 .../2005-04-11-civilities-and-viewpoints.md   |  27 --
 ...c-os-x-tiger-what-is-the-one-more-thing.md |  15 -
 ...2005-04-18-ext2-filesystem-for-mac-os-x.md | 129 ---------
 ...05-04-18-helping-with-the-gouranga-meme.md |  18 --
 ...ting-ext2-linux-filesystems-on-mac-os-x.md |  35 ---
 ...005-04-20-skype-killing-im-networks-too.md |  26 --
 _posts/archive/2005-04-27-hire-matt-may.md    |  22 --
 _posts/archive/2005-04-27-linkies.md          |  19 --
 _posts/archive/2005-04-29-i-got-bradcasted.md |  11 -
 _posts/archive/2005-04-29-wiki-resume.md      |  30 --
 .../2005-05-01-birth-of-a-baby-gurl.md        |  17 --
 ...2005-05-01-sunday-afternoon-link-o-rama.md |  18 --
 .../2005-05-04-how-i-hate-the-b-word.md       |  19 --
 ...-ad-networks-or-online-content-networks.md |  18 --
 _posts/archive/2005-05-08-tiger-ized.md       |  35 ---
 ...-05-09-here-come-itunes-purchased-video.md |  32 --
 ...05-05-11-my-first-itunes-video-purchase.md |  32 --
 ...y-and-dial-skype-from-your-address-book.md |  28 --
 .../2005-05-19-tiddlywiki-as-note-system.md   |  22 --
 ...canada-yorkdale-in-toronto-opened-today.md |  23 --
 .../2005-06-11-transcending-apple-hardware.md |   9 -
 ...nt-me-in-for-familydimsum-event-formats.md |  19 --
 ...your-series-60-phone-nokia-goes-webcore.md |  15 -
 ...-14-heya-neighblog-check-out-my-blogmap.md |  15 -
 ...6-21-heading-to-gnomedex-5-0-in-seattle.md |  13 -
 ...eally-del-icio-us-easy-shared-bookmarks.md |  29 --
 .../2005-06-22-the-fever-theme-song.md        |   8 -
 .../archive/2005-06-23-start-thinking-opml.md |  20 --
 .../2005-06-25-mojave-and-litefeeds.md        |  14 -
 ...005-06-26-gnomedex-2005-closing-rumours.md |  21 --
 .../2005-06-26-ie7-rss-display-safari.md      |  17 --
 ...05-06-26-my-two-feeds-main-and-complete.md |  17 --
 _posts/archive/2005-06-26-the-dark-web.md     |  16 -
 ...6-27-blackberry-or-treo-rogers-or-telus.md |  27 --
 .../archive/2005-06-27-knowledge-gardening.md |  20 --
 .../2005-06-27-xbox-360-how-microsoft-wins.md |  18 --
 ...unes-4-9-has-podcasting-rss-and-a-phone.md |  27 --
 ...video-blog-the-eric-rice-fanboy-edition.md |  18 --
 ...9-picking-opml-no-use-swimming-upstream.md |  22 --
 ...005-07-03-can-you-say-maps-for-everyone.md |  23 --
 .../2005-07-03-delicious-construction-kit.md  |  24 --
 ...mo-sip-client-hopes-to-break-skype-silo.md |  30 --
 ...-matt-may-standards-evangelist-at-large.md |  15 -
 ...ble-distributed-backups-with-bittorrent.md |  15 -
 ...tag-clouds-are-not-a-replacement-for-ui.md |  27 --
 ...-03-the-b-word-blogrolls-are-bare-links.md |  43 ---
 .../2005-07-07-rss-opml-and-pirate-weather.md |  24 --
 ...and-the-london-bombings-interview-alert.md |  37 ---
 ...-del-icio-us-expands-on-social-software.md |  18 --
 ...nc-update-means-my-nokia-6630-now-syncs.md |  13 -
 .../2005-07-13-scottstuff-is-flickring.md     |  18 --
 ...-thinks-clickstar-is-itunes-movie-store.md |  20 --
 ...-gals-in-their-late-teens-and-early-20s.md |  20 --
 ...pluto-home-plus-squeezebox-sonos-killer.md |  20 --
 ...fasts-more-podcasts-from-the-cbc-please.md |  18 --
 _posts/archive/2005-07-24-idea-farming.md     |  19 --
 ...05-07-25-battle-of-the-widget-platforms.md |  19 --
 ...ith-the-gnomes-in-seattle-dinner-anyone.md |  17 --
 ...-telus-blocking-access-to-union-website.md |  16 -
 .../2005-07-26-dinner-in-seattle-was-great.md |  21 --
 ...-perl-mongers-with-casey-west-july-28th.md |  17 --
 ...9-read-only-calendars-were-nice-in-2002.md |  19 --
 .../2005-07-30-q-why-do-bloggers-sleep.md     |   8 -
 ...6630-bluetooth-powerbook-ethernet-ibook.md |  15 -
 .../2005-07-31-testing-the-opml-editor.md     |  23 --
 .../2005-08-06-rice-photo-by-b-mann.md        |  14 -
 ...ss-smart-stuff-choose-unlocked-and-open.md |  23 --
 ...-request-for-tutorial-using-sshkeychain.md |  14 -
 ...quitous-mac-apps-i-dont-use-quicksilver.md |  16 -
 _posts/archive/2005-08-14-flock-feedback.md   |  29 --
 .../2005-08-14-you-know-youre-busy-when.md    |  15 -
 ...our-pker-and-v14gr4-spam-is-being-nuked.md |  14 -
 ...08-19-test-post-from-flock-blog-manager.md |  35 ---
 ...oing-to-san-fran-attending-burning-geek.md |  20 --
 .../archive/2005-08-23-google-talks-jabber.md |  18 --
 ...ussing-about-formats-micro-or-otherwise.md |  30 --
 ...08-28-fido-yanking-unlimited-data-plans.md |  19 --
 .../archive/2005-08-28-gmail-supports-from.md |  18 --
 .../2005-08-29-microformats-love-vcards.md    |  27 --
 .../2005-09-02-link-farming-the-future.md     |  20 --
 ...5-09-02-tagspaces-blessed-tags-and-more.md |  20 --
 .../2005-09-06-a-microformat-for-music.md     |  11 -
 ...-of-syndicating-beyond-blogging-content.md |   9 -
 ...phone-in-canada-will-we-be-able-to-rokr.md |  23 --
 .../2005-09-14-google-blogsearch-launches.md  |  15 -
 .../2005-09-15-b-mann-in-wired-news.md        |  11 -
 .../2005-09-15-my-first-mobile-purchase.md    |  17 --
 .../2005-09-15-yiibu-crew-back-to-yvr.md      |  13 -
 ...rthern-voice-and-moose-camp-now-in-blue.md |  12 -
 ...the-new-feedback-will-not-be-controlled.md |  10 -
 .../2005-09-18-talk-like-a-pirate-day.md      |  12 -
 ...rcamp-amsterdam-or-oops-we-did-it-again.md |  14 -
 .../archive/2005-09-25-blog-flux-mapstats.md  |  13 -
 ...-uc-berkeley-photon-iphoto-plug-in-test.md |  13 -
 .../archive/2005-09-29-recommended-links.md   |  14 -
 ...ing-from-web-1-0-to-web-2-0-in-18-steps.md |  14 -
 ...2-0-matters-preparing-for-glocalization.md |  16 -
 .../2005-09-30-the-innovation-commons.md      |  10 -
 ...couver-dan-let-the-outliner-games-begin.md |  15 -
 ...-invalid-btree-node-size-and-other-joys.md |  13 -
 ...people-feedback-let-me-cheer-everything.md |  13 -
 ...2-news-from-the-uvic-alumni-association.md |  13 -
 ...-first-meeting-wednesday-october-5-2005.md |  11 -
 ...el-and-making-the-world-a-smaller-place.md |  18 --
 ...-n91-is-delayed-voice-over-wlan-support.md |  20 --
 ...-05-video-ipod-or-airport-express-video.md |  13 -
 ...9-apple-predictions-how-video-is-useful.md |  15 -
 ...eady-for-vancouver-enterprise-forum-2-0.md |  13 -
 ...ont-row-video-ipods-and-video-downloads.md |  13 -
 ...tion-commons-follow-up-snowball-edition.md |  10 -
 ...ooscon-and-barcamp-amsterdam-is-hopping.md |  14 -
 ...r-the-best-php-cms-that-uses-postgresql.md |  18 --
 ...onferences-in-amsterdam-busy-week-ahead.md |  15 -
 ...005-10-24-distributed-social-networking.md |  17 --
 ...mmons-wednesday-october-26th-2005-630pm.md |  11 -
 ...10-26-tivo-in-canada-and-other-pvr-info.md |  15 -
 .../2005-11-01-breaking-the-web-wide-open.md  |  12 -
 ...eview-audio-via-phone-and-video-posting.md |  13 -
 ...ver-com-and-other-video-storage-options.md |  16 -
 ...-11-07-marc-liyanages-php-apache-module.md |  16 -
 .../2005-11-07-mysql-4-1-os-x-installer.md    |  12 -
 ...social-tuesday-nov-8th-anyone-attending.md |  13 -
 ...2005-11-08-speak-at-northern-voice-2006.md |  15 -
 _posts/archive/2005-11-08-vlc-media-player.md |  12 -
 ...05-11-10-opportunities-people-and-tools.md |  11 -
 _posts/archive/2005-11-11-parceltongue.md     |  15 -
 ...-best-panorama-stitch-tool-for-mac-os-x.md |  73 -----
 _posts/archive/2005-11-14-subethaedit.md      |  11 -
 ...novation-commons-please-take-the-survey.md |  11 -
 _posts/archive/2005-11-15-wayfaring.md        |  13 -
 ...5-11-17-yiibu-re-inventing-microcontent.md |  13 -
 _posts/archive/2005-11-18-shozu.md            |  14 -
 ...ools-summit-vancouver-february-7-9-2006.md |  13 -
 ...ost-a-video-on-why-you-want-the-commons.md |  11 -
 ...yncing-itunes-music-folders-using-rsync.md |  26 --
 ...d-providers-blocking-podcasts-in-canada.md |  13 -
 .../2005-11-27-synching-itunes-with-rsync.md  |  14 -
 ...g-rsync-to-sync-itunes-on-two-computers.md |  12 -
 ...cool-people-to-town-geek-dinner-tuesday.md |  22 --
 ...e-tries-to-make-pdf-and-flash-play-nice.md |  15 -
 ...s-of-domains-because-its-cheap-and-easy.md |  12 -
 ...to-make-enhanced-podcasts-without-apple.md |  15 -
 ...ata-in-canada-is-ridiculously-expensive.md |  16 -
 ...el-icio-us-bought-ma-gnolia-being-built.md |  14 -
 ...ith-a-cdma-gsm-phone-at-2-49-per-minute.md |  13 -
 ...-of-the-closet-in-time-for-the-holidays.md |  14 -
 ...005-12-29-2006-will-be-the-year-of-xmpp.md |  11 -
 ...allpeers-puts-bittorrent-in-the-browser.md |  12 -
 ...iance-people-service-webcast-on-january.md |  12 -
 ...006-01-12-oscms-summit-is-go-for-launch.md |  19 --
 _posts/archive/2006-01-25-sameplace.md        |  11 -
 ...6-02-04-free-software-fosdem-attendance.md |  15 -
 .../archive/2006-02-06-cocomment-comments.md  |  13 -
 ...tity-2-0-we-must-federate-and-cooperate.md |  12 -
 ...2006-02-18-skype-benefits-and-drawbacks.md |  17 --
 ...providers-are-stifling-their-own-growth.md |  19 --
 _posts/archive/2006-02-27-meeting-clipperz.md |  17 --
 .../2006-02-27-standards-pingbacking.md       |  11 -
 ...m-attendees-and-european-hacker-culture.md |  12 -
 .../2006-02-28-jabber-at-fosdem-2006.md       |  13 -
 .../archive/2006-03-04-youtube-to-itunes.md   |  13 -
 ...3-08-barcamp-brussels-for-the-impatient.md |  13 -
 ...ncouver-dabbledb-getting-a-ton-of-press.md |  12 -
 ...6-03-16-dugs-drupal-user-groups-that-is.md |  14 -
 ...ence-in-toronto-announced-may-15th-16th.md |  15 -
 ...place-to-start-a-company-or-to-join-one.md |  16 -
 ...8-voicemail-coming-to-google-talk-gmail.md |  13 -
 ...identity-workshop-open-for-registration.md |  17 --
 ...ate-and-the-web-in-canada-listen-to-ben.md |  12 -
 ...-on-a-mac-apple-releases-boot-camp-beta.md |  16 -
 .../2006-04-19-registered-for-iiw-2006.md     |  14 -
 ...-20-stop-with-the-guest-posting-already.md |  13 -
 ...files-and-reputation-federated-networks.md |  16 -
 ...er-dinner-in-san-francisco-at-osha-thai.md |  14 -
 ...amp-barcamp-and-mesh-conference-toronto.md |  14 -
 ...ion-commons-must-get-built-in-vancouver.md |  12 -
 .../2006-05-18-verisign-chooses-openid.md     |  16 -
 ...ning-technology-aka-technology-barriers.md |  15 -
 ...006-05-19-never-miss-google-blog-search.md |  12 -
 ...-every-single-year-for-the-next-5-years.md |  13 -
 ...going-open-source-the-return-of-jluster.md |  16 -
 ...dentity-open-space-in-vancouver-in-july.md |  14 -
 ...chstick-ca-is-buzz-marketing-gone-wrong.md |  14 -
 ...-to-make-money-from-great-video-content.md |  16 -
 ...icroformat-ing-at-barcamp-san-francisco.md |  13 -
 ...on-avi-and-andrews-dabbledb-gets-funded.md |  14 -
 ...oing-startup-blog-in-the-globe-and-mail.md |  30 --
 ...inishes-gnomedex-starts-techmeme-hacked.md |  12 -
 ...permalinks-product-info-and-personality.md |  13 -
 ...y-i-might-have-accidentally-spammed-you.md |  11 -
 ...30-stephanie-rieger-talks-mobile-snacks.md |  12 -
 ...-let-us-buy-smartphones-with-bre-pettis.md |  15 -
 ...p-is-a-machine-ethan-kaplan-at-gnomedex.md |  14 -
 ...er-at-heathrow-tips-dont-forget-ios-van.md |  17 --
 _posts/archive/2006-07-16-bmc-blog-design.md  |  11 -
 ...ber-geeking-merge-jep-0080-and-jep-0112.md |  14 -
 ...oogles-challenge-searching-the-live-web.md |  14 -
 .../2006-07-24-out-with-eba-in-with-nitobi.md |  13 -
 ...6-07-25-matt-everard-entrepreunerial-pm.md |  15 -
 ...penid-bounties-and-identity-convergence.md |  15 -
 ...ncouver-and-more-great-vancouver-people.md |  11 -
 ...ncouver-job-connection-area-here-on-bmc.md |  11 -
 ...-07-apple-notes-after-wwdc-2006-keynote.md |  15 -
 ...paths-java-web-app-experts-in-vancouver.md |  17 --
 ...ember-of-the-jabber-software-foundation.md |  12 -
 ...a-python-based-jabber-server-on-twisted.md |  15 -
 ...2006-08-26-notes-from-barcamp-vancouver.md |  11 -
 .../archive/2006-09-26-back-from-belgium.md   |  15 -
 ...e-face-to-face-with-ton-zijlstra-part-1.md |  11 -
 ...s-face-to-face-with-ton-zijlstra-part-2.md |  14 -
 ...t-roundtable-using-the-tools-of-web-2-0.md |  12 -
 .../2006-10-11-save-us-from-flash-video.md    |  17 --
 ...novation-in-vancouver-funded-by-the-bdc.md |  15 -
 ...rtland-drupal-identity-and-geek-dinners.md |  16 -
 ...oose-on-this-is-your-mothers-conference.md |  15 -
 ...006-10-22-mobile-apps-vs-the-mobile-web.md |  15 -
 .../2006-10-22-nokia-e61-first-impressions.md |  15 -
 ...06-11-06-flickr-patents-interestingness.md |  11 -
 ...rial-brand-creative-blogging-up-a-storm.md |  10 -
 .../2006-11-06-switching-to-google-reader.md  |  14 -
 ...-the-rest-of-the-e-series-with-mac-os-x.md |  14 -
 .../2006-11-13-google-reader-update.md        |  14 -
 ...11-20-flat-rate-mobile-from-3-in-the-uk.md |  14 -
 ...i-learn-eclipse-xcode-or-something-else.md |  21 --
 ...ovators-gathering-tonight-at-steamworks.md |  11 -
 ...cribing-to-people-and-gigaom-re-visited.md |  12 -
 ...ada-panama-search-preview-at-opus-hotel.md |  18 --
 ...rn-voice-2007-final-speaker-submissions.md |  15 -
 .../2006-12-06-social-media-club-vancouver.md |  11 -
 ...-in-vancouver-fon-meraki-something-else.md |  17 --
 ...loglog-is-distributed-social-networking.md |  13 -
 ...ing-up-your-itunes-music-using-mp3tunes.md |  16 -
 ...18-5-things-about-me-you-might-not-know.md |   9 -
 .../archive/2007-01-02-personal-info-cloud.md |  14 -
 ...ture-is-messed-up-and-no-one-is-talking.md |  13 -
 ...2007-01-08-linkedin-answers-getting-hot.md |  13 -
 .../2007-01-08-openid-mashpit-in-vancouver.md |  15 -
 .../archive/2007-01-09-iphone-is-a-tablet.md  |  12 -
 ...is-the-iphone-really-locked-to-cingular.md |  12 -
 .../2007-01-10-linkedin-answers-answers.md    |  15 -
 ...7-01-12-northern-voice-travel-bursaries.md |  12 -
 ...-01-18-openid-mashpit-vancouver-wrap-up.md |  13 -
 ...yblaster-9000-podcast-with-elastic-path.md |  13 -
 ...n-the-role-of-no-in-product-development.md |  13 -
 ...the-place-where-information-goes-to-die.md |  29 --
 ...7-marc-canter-is-building-his-heart-out.md |  15 -
 ...07-02-07-open-source-in-vancouver-panel.md |  13 -
 ...at-yahoo-rolling-call-for-participation.md |  12 -
 ...-02-16-guy-gavriel-kay-talk-at-the-viwf.md |  12 -
 _posts/archive/2007-02-18-wii-report.md       |  11 -
 ...to-the-social-designers-at-common-craft.md |  15 -
 ...access-identity-and-the-google-platform.md |  16 -
 ...cell-phone-rates-are-higher-than-mexico.md |  13 -
 ...2007-03-20-oscms-summit-starts-thursday.md |  13 -
 ...07-03-31-install-profile-api-for-drupal.md |  11 -
 ...-travesty-of-canadian-mobile-data-rates.md |   9 -
 .../archive/2007-04-10-can-the-crtc-help.md   |  10 -
 ...-wong-pushes-sutton-com-out-of-the-nest.md |  16 -
 .../2007-05-02-experimenting-with-freebase.md |  16 -
 ...erhappydevhouse-vancouver-may-11th-2007.md |  12 -
 .../archive/2007-05-12-super-happy-indeed.md  |  15 -
 .../archive/2007-05-14-twitter-is-jabber.md   |  14 -
 ...upal-contrib-modules-and-how-to-get-one.md |  11 -
 .../2007-05-15-twitter-is-jabber-part-ii.md   |  12 -
 ...mpp-for-self-hosted-twitter-esque-nodes.md |  15 -
 ...using-facebook-for-getting-the-word-out.md |  12 -
 .../2007-05-25-facebook-is-mall-of-america.md |  10 -
 ...ting-tech-gadgets-to-my-dad-for-testing.md |  12 -
 ...2-macbook-pro-with-touchscreen-keyboard.md |  14 -
 _posts/archive/2007-06-10-trip-to-galiano.md  |  21 --
 _posts/archive/2007-06-11-drupal-5-upgrade.md |  11 -
 ...r-and-vancouver-php-offer-summer-of-php.md |  11 -
 ...16-on-facebook-apps-and-friend-requests.md |  10 -
 ...007-06-23-buying-an-lcd-monitor-as-a-tv.md |  46 ---
 ...23-democampvancouver-now-with-more-gong.md |  15 -
 ...ads-and-experimenting-with-online-games.md |  19 --
 ...ounge-with-gk-vanpatter-and-silverlight.md |  21 --
 ...erg-iphone-review-no-sim-card-cdma-only.md |  18 --
 _posts/archive/2007-06-30-boris-likes-to.md   |   9 -
 _posts/archive/2007-06-30-iphone-hints.md     |  11 -
 _posts/archive/2007-07-03-testing-purple.md   |  60 ----
 ...ware-dev-center-in-vancouver-commentary.md |  31 --
 ...ith-at-the-stud-in-san-francisco-schmap.md |  13 -
 ...boring-site-note-which-feed-do-you-want.md |  22 --
 .../2007-07-06-feeds-and-subscriptions.md     |  27 --
 _posts/archive/2007-07-06-more-purple.md      |  24 --
 .../2007-07-08-boris-goes-to-washington.md    |  20 --
 .../2007-07-15-watching-the-it-crowd.md       |  13 -
 ...6-vancity-bikeshare-handoff-from-roland.md |  29 --
 _posts/archive/2007-07-18-ipipi.md            |  13 -
 _posts/archive/2007-07-18-media-deck.md       |  11 -
 _posts/archive/2007-07-18-pswincom.md         |  15 -
 .../2007-07-18-sandbox-for-purple-module.md   |  11 -
 _posts/archive/2007-07-18-sweet-crazy-boy.md  |   8 -
 ...ooking-for-photography-related-sponsors.md |  16 -
 ...oking-for-drupal-saml-sp-implementation.md |  19 --
 ...-at-smiths-pub-in-victoria-was-good-fun.md |  19 --
 ...-pipes-on-upcoming-reconfigurable-feeds.md |  16 -
 _posts/archive/2007-07-29-back-from-boston.md |  21 --
 ...nt-taco-tuesday-meetup-at-chill-winston.md |  21 --
 ...8-02-mac-alarm-clock-this-mornings-tune.md |  16 -
 ...-is-portable-social-networking-and-more.md |  30 --
 ...007-08-07-itunes-sleep-timer-itunesshut.md |  14 -
 _posts/archive/2007-08-12-back.md             |  23 --
 ...08-13-new-google-map-stuff-link-roundup.md |  20 --
 ...-08-13-want-to-buy-a-gps-logging-device.md |  60 ----
 _posts/archive/2007-08-14-going-swimming.md   |  20 --
 ...-08-15-pubsub-will-be-something-simpler.md |  22 --
 ...th-gps-receivers-my-first-gps-adventure.md |  37 ---
 ...rcamp-vancouver-2007-kicks-off-this-eve.md |  24 --
 ...007-08-18-barcamp-vancouver-2007-a-wrap.md |  16 -
 ...-08-18-going-disc-golf-and-to-north-van.md |  15 -
 ...from-geo-talk-at-barcamp-vancouver-2007.md |  11 -
 ...tention-to-after-barcamp-vancouver-2007.md |  23 --
 ...esday-attended-yesterday-npost-is-today.md |  41 ---
 _posts/archive/2007-08-29-weewar.md           |  15 -
 ...of-globalsat-dg100-gps-through-expansys.md |  36 ---
 ...lp-commoditize-facebook-app-development.md |  24 --
 .../2007-08-31-vanguardistas-in-barcelona.md  |  22 --
 .../archive/2007-09-02-email-vs-facebook.md   |  17 --
 _posts/archive/2007-09-02-text-one-free.md    |   8 -
 ...sept-2007-touchscreen-ipod-appletv-revs.md |  26 --
 ...ncouver03-september-13th-or-october-4th.md |  15 -
 ...9-06-uncle-fatihs-pizza-to-pigeons-park.md |  23 --
 ...acebook-shutting-down-useful-developers.md |  18 --
 ...-09-09-ringtones-need-separate-licenses.md |  19 --
 ...day-gift-alex-brabant-is-emarketing-101.md |  17 --
 ...ncouver-wireless-cadre-kick-off-meeting.md |  39 ---
 ...powershot-s-series-is-still-my-favorite.md |  44 ---
 ...ommunity-wireless-in-your-neighbourhood.md |  39 ---
 ...t-ca-how-to-buy-your-wireless-mesh-node.md |  31 --
 ...i-am-heading-to-barcelona-for-drupalcon.md |  20 --
 ...007-09-18-barcelona-tapas-are-delicious.md |  19 --
 ...id-ascher-be-headquartered-in-vancouver.md |  16 -
 _posts/archive/2007-09-19-phreaky-phonez.md   |   8 -
 ...na-over-first-drupal-association-report.md |  49 ----
 ...-memories-from-barcelona-september-2007.md |  22 --
 .../2007-09-28-successful-launch-party.md     |  17 --
 ...gers-and-fido-sms-message-center-number.md |   4 -
 ...hristy-clark-show-talking-freethenet-ca.md |  17 --
 ...iteration-of-battle-decks-fun-as-always.md |  24 --
 ...technology-column-more-on-freethenet-ca.md |  19 --
 ...h-08-three-stages-of-content-management.md |  23 --
 ...2007-10-14-colours-of-fall-in-vancouver.md |  20 --
 ...ming-to-town-and-needs-a-cool-apartment.md |  14 -
 ...hnography-information-r-evolution-video.md |  17 --
 ...tion-freethenet-ca-and-ham-in-barcelona.md |  19 --
 ...igor-at-handimobility-livevote-launched.md |  22 --
 ...1-class-afloat-itinerary-on-google-maps.md |  16 -
 ...07-10-21-the-future-of-facebook-q-and-a.md |  27 --
 _posts/archive/2007-10-22-drupal-in-python.md |  19 --
 ...einvent-itself-on-business-news-network.md |  27 --
 ...-dilemma-xbox-360-or-sony-playstation-3.md |  40 ---
 ...open-api-for-connecting-social-networks.md |  26 --
 ...-11-02-movember-has-begun-and-im-behind.md |  22 --
 ...-wrights-ted-talk-toys-that-make-worlds.md |  18 --
 _posts/archive/2007-11-05-xbox-360-ftw.md     |  34 ---
 ...couver04-on-nov-22nd-now-with-more-beer.md |  25 --
 ...-2008-is-up-and-rolling-in-classy-brown.md |  19 --
 ...imap-great-for-mail-app-and-iphones-too.md |  30 --
 .../archive/2007-11-17-alqasim-electronics.md |  12 -
 _posts/archive/2007-11-17-blogroll.md         |  13 -
 ...-bryght-and-raincity-are-joining-forces.md |  21 --
 ...unches-distances-based-billing-in-miles.md |  19 --
 ...0-dries-announces-drupal-startup-acquia.md |  21 --
 ...007-11-30-tool-time-highrise-and-merlin.md |  27 --
 ...007-12-03-my-adhack-for-the-canon-s5-is.md |  17 --
 ...multi-week-summary-of-missed-blog-posts.md |  42 ---
 _posts/archive/2007-12-14-i-have-a-mission.md |  16 -
 _posts/archive/2007-12-18-new-jacket.md       |  17 --
 ...-with-the-facebook-but-strong-on-mobile.md |  24 --
 ...vegetables-and-fruit-are-in-season-when.md |  18 --
 ...mber-the-dg-100-it-works-on-the-mac-now.md |  14 -
 ...drupal-community-and-drupal-association.md |  35 ---
 ...rupal-association-general-assembly-2008.md |  18 --
 ...ink-i-might-become-an-rdf-fan-boy-again.md |  28 --
 ...2008-01-21-rogers-gets-saner-data-plans.md |  23 --
 ...008-01-22-2008-events-are-go-for-launch.md |  33 ---
 ...bove-all-things-enamoured-by-the-future.md |  18 --
 ...he-further-development-of-drupal-itself.md |  25 --
 _posts/archive/2008-01-27-iphone-nano.md      |  24 --
 ...008-3-stages-of-dynamic-systems-wrap-up.md |  35 ---
 ...08-02-03-more-iphone-nokia-etc-thoughts.md |  29 --
 .../2008-02-03-sucking-in-delicious.md        |  16 -
 ...ocial-networks-at-barcamp-amsterdam-iii.md |  24 --
 ...g-to-drupal-6-release-party-at-parisoma.md |  16 -
 .../2008-02-24-northern-voice-2008-wrap.md    |  46 ---
 .../2008-02-25-flock-1-1-beta-tire-kicking.md |  19 --
 _posts/archive/2008-02-27-i-utterz.md         |  20 --
 ...is-on-strutta-super-sekret-alpha-launch.md |  17 --
 ...-jaiku-twemes-utterz-and-at-my-sessions.md |  27 --
 .../2008-03-01-post-leap-day-link-omnibus.md  |  28 --
 ...utterz-leaving-yvr-for-drupalcon-boston.md |  22 --
 ...03-01-utterz-toronto-passing-us-customs.md |  12 -
 .../2008-03-08-dont-follow-a-brief-wrap-up.md |   9 -
 .../2008-03-11-utterz-morning-green-phlegm.md |   9 -
 ...ewhere-attending-cci2008-bnn-appearance.md |  18 --
 ...-utterz-vietnamese-on-broadway-with-opa.md |  11 -
 .../2008-03-13-open-source-stands-together.md |  35 ---
 ...ern-voice-2008-organizers-debrief-lunch.md |  21 --
 .../2008-03-14-cci2008-wrap-going-offline.md  |  19 --
 ...s-on-the-microsoft-vancouver-dev-center.md |  16 -
 _posts/archive/2008-03-24-easter-on-bowen.md  |  34 ---
 ...-events-in-vancouver-april-2008-edition.md |  23 --
 ...ticipation-platform-hackfest-in-seattle.md |  39 ---
 ...ity-platform-thing-might-have-some-legs.md |  16 -
 ...evelopment-venue-for-democampvictoria01.md |  18 --
 ...ons-why-not-for-every-community-website.md |  22 --
 .../2008-04-15-strutta-has-launched.md        |  26 --
 ...08-first-post-acquisition-mysql-release.md |  37 ---
 .../archive/2008-04-19-snow-in-vancouver.md   |  26 --
 ...orking-on-the-canon-s5-is-from-mac-os-x.md |  86 ------
 ...pports-the-globalsat-dg-100-on-mac-os-x.md |  12 -
 ...ng-patent-application-on-peer-to-patent.md |  11 -
 ...he-iphone-to-canada-ctv-newsnet-edition.md |  22 --
 ...thoughts-on-one-calendar-for-techcouver.md |  49 ----
 ...-05-drupalcamp-vancouver-2008-this-week.md |  27 --
 _posts/archive/2008-05-15-http-zizaksy-com.md |   8 -
 ...ting-ad-bard-a-foss-friendly-ad-network.md |  31 --
 ...mann-to-boris-an-evolution-of-usernames.md |  35 ---
 .../2008-06-18-drupy-aka-drupal-in-python.md  |  19 --
 ...7-omnibus-bbq-jungle-disk-wordpress-etc.md |  32 --
 ...ia-podcasting-client-constant-new-music.md |  28 --
 ...-and-telus-incoming-sms-charges-debacle.md |  39 ---
 ...-iphone-in-canada-with-30-6gb-data-plan.md |  24 --
 ...or-rachael-for-the-camp-moomba-yogathon.md |  22 --
 ...ual-hosting-how-to-for-mac-os-x-leopard.md |  15 -
 ...gust-16th-2008-at-ubc-botanical-gardens.md |  34 ---
 ...07-19-site-specific-browsers-for-mobile.md |  44 ---
 ...buzz-bishops-head-in-the-clouds-article.md |  13 -
 _posts/archive/2008-07-30-ibibo.md            |  13 -
 ...bryght-raincity-studios-and-bootup-labs.md |  30 --
 ...res-bc-mentor-panel-makes-my-brain-full.md |  18 --
 ...2008-08-16-at-vinocamp-2008-for-the-day.md |  32 --
 _posts/archive/2008-08-20-sendible.md         |  12 -
 ...l-tv-blackberry-bold-launches-on-rogers.md |  36 ---
 ...-how-drupal-can-help-you-save-the-world.md |  30 --
 ...08-08-30-nokia-n78-first-take-and-setup.md |  46 ---
 _posts/archive/2008-08-31-skype-turns-5.md    |  34 ---
 _posts/archive/2008-09-04-iyouwe-com.md       |   9 -
 ...owpublic-mostpublic-index-for-vancouver.md |  30 --
 _posts/archive/2008-09-27-sugar-on-drupal.md  |  13 -
 ...edia-experiments-to-innovate-journalism.md |  29 --
 ...spanning-sync-for-mac-to-google-syncing.md |  22 --
 ...eresting-vancouver-2008-ticket-giveaway.md |  17 --
 ...8-10-26-look-ma-i-made-it-on-hiyaa-blog.md |  17 --
 .../2008-11-02-vancouver-akoha-decksgiving.md |  23 --
 ...l-company-and-collaboration-rabbit-hole.md |  32 --
 .../2008-11-25-dropbox-vs-jungledisk.md       |  30 --
 ...e-drupal-code-sprint-and-other-projects.md |  43 ---
 ...r-site-and-plonks-down-a-social-network.md |  88 ------
 ...-redanyway-a-distributed-social-network.md |  26 --
 _posts/archive/2008-12-15-redanyway.md        |   8 -
 ...2008-12-15-site-upgrade-acquia-drupal-6.md |  27 --
 ...review-of-upcoming-mobile-related-posts.md |  26 --
 ...2009-01-05-adhack-theming-port-on-odesk.md |  52 ----
 ...-rumours-macbook-ds-and-still-no-tablet.md |  21 --
 ...9-01-08-the-3-stages-of-ecommerce-tools.md | 115 --------
 ...-going-open-source-on-google-app-engine.md |  33 ---
 ...-loading-pre-fetching-and-cloud-storage.md |  33 ---
 .../archive/2009-02-20-northern-voice-2009.md |  28 --
 .../archive/2009-03-08-dc-drupalcon-2009.md   |  37 ---
 ...11-om-thinks-the-mac-tablet-is-imminent.md |  26 --
 ...apps-should-let-me-bring-my-own-storage.md |  49 ----
 ...web-community-barn-raising-in-vancouver.md |  16 -
 .../2009-04-15-site-moved-to-rimu-hosting.md  |  25 --
 ...links-from-people-you-follow-on-twitter.md |  28 --
 ...9-04-19-trying-out-nokia-sports-tracker.md |  28 --
 ...is-the-google-reader-of-twitter-clients.md |  21 --
 ...eb-vancouver-open-restaurants-open-data.md |  37 ---
 ...ckbone-magazine-fixing-a-stale-web-site.md |  67 -----
 ...al-out-of-the-box-lets-make-a-community.md |  31 --
 _posts/archive/2009-06-17-social-media-is.md  |  17 --
 ...-can-grow-an-archive-with-microblogging.md |  61 ----
 .../2009-07-11-from-the-drupal-archives.md    |  17 --
 .../archive/2009-07-28-nameless-homeless.md   |  19 --
 ...logging-for-canadian-startup-networking.md |  26 --
 ...009-08-22-gnomedex-2009-on-first-timers.md |  18 --
 ...every-conference-is-what-you-make-of-it.md |  37 ---
 ...rror-the-growth-of-custom-distributions.md |  20 --
 ...09-10-05-barcamp-vancouver-2009-wrapped.md |  82 ------
 ...02-speaking-acct-canada-2009-conference.md |  24 --
 ...2010-01-01-jolicloud-http-jolicloud-com.md |  14 -
 ...-mobile-content-music-movies-gaming-all.md |  27 --
 ...-regarding-ftc-blogger-disclosure-rules.md |  22 --
 _posts/archive/2010-01-10-associates.md       |   9 -
 .../2010-01-10-travis-smith-hop-studios.md    |  15 -
 ...led-at-making-the-vancouver-2010-olympi.md |  39 ---
 _posts/archive/2010-03-02-jobs.md             |  13 -
 ...ok-printing-bits-come-to-the-real-world.md |  34 ---
 .../2010-03-13-cloud-camp-vancouver.md        |  29 --
 ...bc-apps-for-climate-action-announcement.md |  59 ----
 _posts/archive/2010-03-30-speaking.md         |  25 --
 .../2010-04-15-keep-calm-and-carry-on.md      |  36 ---
 ...a-for-social-change-social-media-primer.md |  33 ---
 _posts/archive/2010-05-03-roller-coaster.md   |  34 ---
 .../archive/2010-05-05-rachael-ashe-artist.md |  13 -
 ...-12-tungle-and-batchbook-now-integrated.md |  40 ---
 ...2010-06-06-first-feature-silent-auction.md |  43 ---
 .../2010-06-06-pei-trip-unconference.md       |  17 --
 ...ook-user-group-and-intro-june-15th-2010.md |  25 --
 ...evolving-drupal-ux-by-building-products.md |  35 ---
 ...ommenting-disqus-echo-and-intensedebate.md |  43 ---
 .../2010-07-02-drupalcon-copenhagen-2010.md   |  13 -
 .../2010-07-02-grow-conference-2010.md        |  12 -
 ...02-pacific-northwest-drupal-summit-2010.md |  13 -
 ...ith-beanstalk-and-repositoryhosting-com.md |  23 --
 ...-gravity-to-post-to-your-flickr-account.md |  16 -
 .../2010-07-14-the-facebook-economy.md        |  15 -
 ...010-07-15-bandcamp-has-a-business-model.md |  13 -
 ...es-and-should-be-licensed-under-the-gpl.md |  39 ---
 ...2010-07-17-contributing-to-drupal-radar.md |  30 --
 ...20-arrived-in-pei-visited-casa-mia-cafe.md |  22 --
 ...tv-watching-vs-time-to-create-wikipedia.md |  17 --
 ...-07-21-pei-visitors-from-silicon-valley.md |  19 --
 ...e-queue-as-a-normal-part-of-development.md |  20 --
 ...t-finding-a-real-web-design-application.md |  29 --
 ...-08-01-elephants-like-community-roi-too.md |  28 --
 ...t-teaching-programming-and-we-should-be.md |  21 --
 ...0-08-05-android-developers-in-vancouver.md |  16 -
 ...s-a-yacht-drupal-is-an-aircraft-carrier.md |  25 --
 ...-some-really-great-engagement-analytics.md |  28 --
 _posts/archive/2010-08-18-joining-iqmetrix.md |  40 ---
 ...omatic-wordpress-backup-using-amazon-s3.md |  18 --
 ...10-09-06-twitter-mentionmap-by-asterisq.md |  15 -
 ...0-09-08-grow-conference-video-interview.md |  19 --
 ...er-2010-and-iqmetrix-moustache-alliance.md |  24 --
 ...8-buying-ponies-from-a-drupal-app-store.md |  67 -----
 _posts/archive/2012-05-21-migration.md        |  42 ---
 .../blog/2011-04-11-how-to-play-instagram.md  |  60 ----
 ...orking-you-cannot-make-a-profit-selling.md |  37 ---
 ...0-11-turning-the-corner-on-ebook-buying.md |  24 --
 .../2011-11-26-we-do-need-another-rss-hero.md |  37 ---
 ...gles-of-an-infovore-that-likes-to-share.md |  65 -----
 ...-on-the-extras-on-your-site-rather-than.md |  44 ---
 ...startups-by-getting-sht-done-or-get-out.md |  56 ----
 ...support-feedback-service-should-you-use.md | 110 -------
 ...nting-the-wheel-one-directory-at-a-time.md |  53 ----
 ...-to-vote-with-my-dollars-that-the-vanco.md |  46 ---
 ...-02-06-build-more-startups-in-vancouver.md |  75 -----
 .../2012-02-12-what-is-an-unconference.md     |  64 ----
 ...oging-city-neighbourhood-assets-love-my.md |  45 ---
 .../2012-03-30-octopress-all-the-things.md    |  33 ---
 ...2-04-20-vancouver-tech-needs-to-wake-up.md |  44 ---
 .../blog/2012-04-25-what-im-obsessed-about.md |  35 ---
 _posts/blog/2012-05-07-services-to-product.md | 106 -------
 _posts/blog/2012-05-27-new-hack-stack.md      |  74 -----
 .../2012-06-02-node-static-site-generators.md | 114 --------
 .../2012-06-19-reactions-microsoft-surface.md |  93 ------
 .../blog/2012-06-29-posts-you-dont-write.md   |  25 --
 ...2-07-01-setting-up-macbook-air-osx-lion.md |  64 ----
 _posts/blog/2012-07-02-nv12-web-literacy.md   |  81 ------
 _posts/blog/2012-07-08-ssg-lightning-talk.md  |  27 --
 _posts/blog/2012-07-27-tracking-qr-codes.md   |  99 -------
 _posts/blog/2012-08-10-calendaring-tools.md   |  39 ---
 .../2012-08-11-startupriot-seattle-2012.md    |  55 ----
 .../blog/2012-09-04-working-contractually.md  |  48 ---
 .../2012-11-09-ship-your-first-version.md     |  58 ----
 _posts/blog/2012-11-24-flickr-question.md     |  73 -----
 _posts/blog/2013-03-17-raw-resources.md       |  50 ----
 .../2014-01-01-you-cant-outsource-product.md  |  95 ------
 ...6-04-early-stage-tech-startup-investing.md |  50 ----
 _posts/blog/2014-08-05-mavericks-brew-cask.md | 143 ---------
 _posts/blog/2014-08-06-30-more-years.md       |  59 ----
 ...08-07-taking-equity-startups-consulting.md | 111 -------
 .../blog/2014-08-15-harvesting-knowledge.md   | 119 --------
 ...014-11-09-vancouver-tech-civic-election.md |  68 -----
 _posts/blog/2016-06-13-personal-crm.md        |  83 ------
 .../blog/2016-06-14-flickr-to-self-hosted.md  |  95 ------
 ...1-self-hosting-doesnt-help-self-publish.md |  49 ----
 ...lanting-tag-flag-vancouver-bowen-canada.md |  11 -
 ...17-02-19-archiving-photos-ios-amazon-s3.md | 128 --------
 ...17-04-09-run-your-own-mastodon-instance.md |  21 --
 ...-04-15-notes-on-running-mastodon-heroku.md |  80 -----
 ...8-19-blockchain-open-source-definitions.md |  55 ----
 .../2017-09-11-firesideconf-barcamp-spirit.md |  14 -
 ...-06-14-algiers-smart-city-leapfrog-tech.md |  36 ---
 _posts/blog/2018-07-01-berlin-observations.md | 138 ---------
 ...7-02-conferences-as-community-gathering.md | 120 --------
 _posts/blog/2018-09-03-hello-spade.md         |  61 ----
 .../blog/2018-09-16-time-crm-tool-update.md   |  30 --
 ...cro-blog-jekyll-micro-pub-and-indie-web.md |  94 ------
 ...18-09-30-blockchain-governance-101-vlad.md |  11 -
 ...2018-10-06-further-thoughts-on-the-fair.md |  39 ---
 ...018-10-11-commons-based-peer-production.md |  34 ---
 .../blog/2019-01-01-flickr-exports-jekyll.md  | 258 -----------------
 ...news-interview-security-token-standards.md |  96 ------
 ...2019-01-06-more-flickr-file-experiments.md | 120 --------
 _posts/blog/2019-03-31-ethereum-governance.md | 214 --------------
 .../2019-05-19-run-your-own-web-mentions.md   |  14 -
 _posts/blog/2019-05-21-model-t-indieweb.md    |  31 --
 .../2019-05-22-drupal-past-predictions.md     |  35 ---
 _posts/blog/2019-06-11-ipad-tools.md          | 153 ----------
 _posts/blog/2020-01-03-cyberboats.md          |  38 ---
 _posts/blog/2020-01-05-mennonites.md          |  41 ---
 .../2020-01-10-founder-notes-tam-kbeili-at.md |  40 ---
 .../2020-01-13-the-midlife-crisis-of-the.md   |  17 --
 ...founder-notes-ehlist-jan-2020-vancouver.md |  73 -----
 ...n-startup-ecosystem-challenges-canadian.md |  22 --
 .../2020-01-27-photo-backup-for-geeks-i-os.md |  58 ----
 .../blog/2020-02-21-tools-for-home-cooking.md |  89 ------
 _posts/blog/2020-02-25-laptop-choices.md      |  94 ------
 .../2020-03-14-on-instagram-off-facebook.md   |  18 --
 _posts/blog/2020-03-15-covid19-personal.md    | 111 -------
 .../blog/2020-03-21-renting-in-pandemics.md   | 125 --------
 .../blog/2020-03-22-oscms-sunnyvale-drupal.md |  55 ----
 .../2020-03-31-onthisday-wa-state-roadtrip.md |  73 -----
 .../blog/2020-04-20-readwriteweb-wayback.md   |  41 ---
 ...10-upgraded-to-indiekit-micropub-server.md |  25 --
 _posts/blog/2020-05-14-so-if-all-goes-well.md |  30 --
 _posts/blog/2020-07-04-new-blog-microblog.md  | 151 ----------
 _posts/blog/2020-10-08-joining-social-coop.md |  63 ----
 _posts/blog/2021-02-13-drop-in-audio.md       |  90 ------
 ...021-02-14-remarkable-tablet-first-usage.md | 112 -------
 _posts/blog/2021-03-07-back-to-indiekit.md    | 105 -------
 _posts/blog/2021-03-14-moa-party.md           |  82 ------
 1425 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 32327 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 _pages/archive.html
 create mode 100644 _pages/journal.html
 rename _posts/{blog/2023-07-29-bmc-notes-site-revamp.md => 2024-01-01-more-revamp.md} (100%)
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2002-11-09-welcome-to-b-mann-consulting.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2002-11-29-dream-cms.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2002-12-03-50-places-to-see-before-you-die.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2002-12-03-configuration-configuration-configuration.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2002-12-05-home-server-woes.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2002-12-09-no-more-woes.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2002-12-14-building-1200-pc-vs-2500-pc.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2002-12-19-bmc-goes-table-less.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2002-12-19-lotr-the-two-towers.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2002-12-19-peasants-placated-peons-pave-poppies.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2002-12-21-enabling-anonymous-ftp.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2002-12-21-instructions-for-pre-10-2-systems.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2002-12-22-linux-falling-into-same-trap-a-call-for-innovation.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2002-12-23-boxes-and-arrows-beauty-is-only-screen-deep-sarah-horton.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2002-12-23-digitalmass-mitch-kapor-and-chandler-vs-ms-outlook.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2002-12-23-osx-at-freshmeat.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2002-12-23-plone.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2002-12-23-the-register-microsoft-to-acquire-macromedia.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-01-07-macworld-wants-your-ilife.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-01-11-hunting-with-bungalow-bill.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-01-11-leftover-turkey.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-01-17-laser-squad-nemesis.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-01-19-netnewswire.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-01-21-emila.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-01-23-helloworld.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-01-23-instructions-for-10-2-x-jaguar.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-01-23-mitel-sme-server-5-6-developer-release.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-01-23-php-collab.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-01-23-the-inside-mac.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-01-26-new-theme.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-01-26-youve-got-desktops.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-01-27-skating-on-the-rideau-canal.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-01-28-dave-hyatts-blog-more-thoughts-on-rss.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-01-28-osopinion-lindows-media-center-takes-on-xp-counterpart.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-01-28-voip-presence-system.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-02-02-entering-my-first-blog.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-02-05-nokia-intros-phone-game-music-device.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-02-05-other-interesting-osx-apps.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-02-06-amd-2500.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-02-06-good-deals-of-the-week.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-02-10-the-power-of-apple-rendesvous.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-02-11-iphoto-and-gallery-integration.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-02-11-more-browser-competition-on-os-x.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-02-15-brad-delongs-notes-on-larry-page-google-talk.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-02-16-bloogle-the-end-of-blogging.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-02-17-the-ultimate-mmorpg.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-02-19-first-day-with-a-12-powerbook.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-02-19-microsoft-to-buy-connectix.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-02-19-picklecatz-play-zaphods-get-featured-in-the-ottawa-sun.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-02-19-yay-browser-pdf-plug-in.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-02-20-6-square-pc-cube.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-02-20-bios-no-more.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-02-21-jon-udell-on-xdocs-infopath.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-02-21-the-state-of-linux.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-02-22-happy-birthday-boris.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-02-22-new-cellphone.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-02-22-remote-desktop-connection-for-mac-os-x.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-02-24-safari-sends-user-info-to-apple.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-02-25-boot-and-fix-over-net.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-02-26-adobe-uses-qt-to-develop-new-application.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-02-26-rebuilding-a-working-imac.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-02-27-loosely-joining-across-borders.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-02-27-new-details-emerge-on-powerpc-970.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-02-28-au-rendezvous-mail-and-more.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-02-28-laughingmeme-rssifying-the-mailing-list-an-update.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-02-28-smithdm3-is-g-2-g.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-03-01-online-recipes.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-03-04-apple-to-launch-online-music-service.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-03-05-feedreader.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-03-06-flipping-the-relationship-gpu-becomes-cpu.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-03-08-bingo.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-03-08-in-a-sunburned-country.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-03-08-the-tivo-of-audio.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-03-10-identifying-anonymous-posts.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-03-10-now-for-wrath-now-for-ruin-and-the-redeye-dawn.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-03-10-tux-adventure-and-ribs.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-03-11-costik-a-specter-is-haunting-gaming.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-03-12-osopinion-the-ultimate-lock-in.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-03-12-vonage-digital-voice-phone-service.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-03-13-sony-wifi-in-a-memorystick.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-03-13-weather-block.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-03-14-mini-pc-mini-hi-fi-look.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-03-14-nortel-ians-rejoice.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-03-16-blog-bundle.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-03-16-critical-section-i-am-an-iterator.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-03-16-rss-aggregator-with-trust-experience.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-03-16-spaces.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-03-17-mipod.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-03-17-that-thing-apple-do.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-03-18-apple-hot-downloads-x11-public-beta-3.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-03-18-salon-the-legend-of-m-u-l-e.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-03-18-snigger.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-03-20-son-of-weather-block-and-personal-page.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-03-21-get-your-war-on.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-03-21-sonicblue-go-bye-bye.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-03-22-mac-to-pc-filesharing.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-03-22-todd-asks-what-pda-should-i-buy.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-03-27-simple-clustering-with-xserve.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-04-02-blogchalking.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-04-02-games-as-collectors-items.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-04-03-ars-technica-about-the-finder.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-04-15-extremetech-linux-media-jukebox.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-04-15-safari-beta2-tabs-and-more.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-04-18-ambigious-org-sikander-and-wheres-willy.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-04-20-back-to-building-multimedia-pcs.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-04-20-scobleizer-yaamr.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-04-21-ps3-chip-to-be-1-teraflop.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-04-22-russell-beattie-delineating-devices.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-04-23-coffee-with-honey-and-snow.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-04-24-finely-interwingled-blogging.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-04-28-new-ipods-edit-and-music-downloads.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-04-29-testing-bloggar.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-04-30-apple-borked-me-again.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-05-03-audioscrobbler.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-05-04-now-with-docking-station.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-05-06-trevorj-annoying-password-prompts-in-os-x.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-05-07-linkedin-friendster-without-the-gonad-centrism.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-05-09-business-2-0-is-tivo-next.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-05-12-powerline-networking.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-05-13-ever-wonder-where-mime-types-come-from.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-05-20-finding-andrew-jones.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-05-20-le-grande-sucre-a-k-a-big-sugar.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-05-20-north-america-is-toast-aka-build-a-wireless-network-stupid.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-05-23-i-know-where-you-live.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-05-24-camino.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-05-24-the-inquirer-why-palm-is-doomed.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-05-25-federated-identity-management.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-05-26-don-parks-blog-introducing-chaos-to-social-software.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-05-26-on-the-bursty-evolution-of-blogspace.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-05-27-circus-ponies-notebook-and-aquaminds-notetaker.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-05-28-itunes-is-successful-or-maybe-not.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-05-30-social-software-link-fest.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-05-30-wifi-plus-phones.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-06-01-saving-private-links.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-06-01-steve-jobs-no-tablet-for-you.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-06-01-what-is-a-person-connected-to.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-06-05-how-to-get-rich.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-06-05-xnsorg.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-06-07-what-time-is-it-anyway.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-06-08-welcome-to-the-liquor-store.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-06-09-joi-ito-attention-concentration-and-becoming-a-place.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-06-10-my-place.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-06-12-on-trackback-and-why-you-should-smoke-refer-instead.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-06-20-now-with-jabber.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-06-20-rss-weather.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-06-20-tim-bray-rss-promise-and-peril.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-06-22-cruelacid-php-realtime-weather.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-06-23-apple-debuts-ppc-970-machines.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-06-23-everymac.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-06-23-lloyd-wants-to-know.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-06-25-working-with-ichat.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-07-02-environment-canada-faq.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-07-03-more-fun-with-rss-weather.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-07-08-small-business-directory-service-ideas-maybe-a-beer.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-07-15-rbrowser-lite.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-07-15-transmit.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-07-22-java-and-handhelds-goodbye-palm.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-07-22-wired-news-tired-of-the-telly-reprogram-it.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-07-24-my-blogroll.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-07-25-bittorrent.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-07-28-a-polluted-trust-web.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-07-28-boing-boing-patent-for-mind-control-via-tv-blipverts.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-07-31-tribe-net-feedback.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-08-01-is-blogging-breaking-googles-usefulness.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-08-01-rss-is-mainly-client-side.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-08-04-bankrupt-emi.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-08-04-finally-in-canada.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-08-04-free-world-dialup.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-08-05-infoworld-sun-tips-apple-hat.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-08-06-drupal-upgrade.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-08-07-install-completed.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-08-08-arrr-pirate-names.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-08-09-congrats-on-the-new-blog-andrew.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-08-09-coppermine.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-08-09-gallery.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-08-09-stylesheet-wrangling.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-08-09-wired-news-101-uses-for-apple-ichat.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-08-10-art-gallery-and-byward-market.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-08-11-extremetech-clash-of-the-tiny-titans.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-08-11-wired-news-mr-disruption-strikes-again.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-08-12-turning-down-friends.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-08-13-imaginary-friends.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-08-13-wandering-back-to-victoria.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-08-14-drupal.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-08-15-ottawa-power-outage.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-08-16-p-r-o-f-i-l-e.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-08-16-spaces-is-clever-cactus.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-08-17-p-r-o-f-i-l-e.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-08-17-steve-gillmor-another-fine-mesh.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-08-18-ninja-school.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-08-18-phpwiki.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-08-18-pmachine.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-08-18-rodin.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-08-18-soundfeeder-wireless-audio-adapter.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-08-18-tech-report-the-msi-mega-pc-and-abit-sff.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-08-19-what-went-wrong-western-impact-and-middle-eastern-response-bernard-lewis.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-08-20-apple-rumours.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-08-21-canadian-voip.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-08-25-image-module-installed-test-yours-now.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-08-25-phpcommunitycalendar.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-08-27-9-mac-browser-shootout.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-08-28-design-challenge.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-08-28-initial-release-of-iphototogallery.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-09-02-daring-fireball-vaporoffice.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-09-02-pvr-blog-snapstream-personal-video-station-3-0-review.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-09-03-openweather.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-09-03-underground-london-world-weather-rss-feeds.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-09-04-clearing-your-favicon-cache.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-09-06-meta-web-publishing.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-09-24-cinemaclock-movie-listings-ottawa.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-09-24-commsdesign-voip-chip-targets-home-gateways.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-09-24-matchstick-men.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-09-25-extremetech-building-a-wireless-home-media-network-server.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-09-29-wifi-voip-phone-from-jeff-pulver.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-09-30-windows-media-center-edition-2004-new-version.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-10-01-notify-enabled-plus-my-other-sites.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-10-04-appleinsider-ibook-upgrade-and-panther-server.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-10-04-oeone-becomes-axentra-announces-axentra-rumba-server-for-server-appliance-space.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-10-04-rss-data.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-10-04-subethaedit.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-10-05-walk-along-the-canal.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-10-06-micro-solutions-backpack-wireless-workgroup-server.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-10-07-asus-digimatrix.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-10-07-developers-notebook.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-10-07-scaleable-mmorpg.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-10-08-how-does-a-game-company-start.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-10-08-windows-rss-readers.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-10-09-mmorpg-start-small.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-10-15-quickies-its-small-form-factor-craziness.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-10-15-salmon-of-doubt-review-plus-more-on-douglas-adams.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-10-21-converting-ical-calendar-files-into-html.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-10-22-computerworld-free-hot-spots-pay-dividends.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-10-22-itunes-for-windows.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-10-24-three-column-layouts.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-10-25-site-re-design.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-10-26-blogs-are-torpedoes.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-10-26-review-acomdata-multimediaviewer.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-10-27-canada-post-postal-code-locator.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-10-27-cbc-has-a-free-headline-service-but-no-rss-feed.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-10-27-dont-ask-why-i-need-to-remember-this-page.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-10-27-its-just-common-sense.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-10-27-longhorns-special-sauce.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-10-28-mailbucket-org.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-10-31-ez-ip-update.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-11-01-gourmet-sleuth-roasting-timetable.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-11-02-carbon-copy-cloner.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-11-03-ibm-to-build-chips-for-xbox-2.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-11-03-ole-eichhorn-comments-on-xaml-and-the-pdc-experience.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-11-04-ehomeupgrade-pre-packaged-media-servers.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-11-06-panther-bits.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-11-08-extremetech-media-front-end-roundup.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-11-08-knoppmyth.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-11-09-myie2.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-11-09-panther-in-the-house.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-11-09-vlc-media-player.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-11-11-coreblog.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-11-11-itunes-album-art-and-cell-phones.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-11-11-opensourcexperts.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-11-11-what-kind-of-social-software-are-you.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-11-12-cowiki.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-11-12-movabletype.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-11-12-noaa-experimental-listings-of-watches-warnings-and-advisoriesby-state-and-territory.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-11-12-serendipity.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-11-13-sites-offline-plus-my-own-multimedia-pc.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-11-17-feedback-points-to-spoke-serences-klipfolio.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-11-17-groupcal.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-11-17-spoke.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-11-17-theming-drupal.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-11-18-sharing-itunes-and-iphoto-libraries-between-users.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-11-18-squeezebox.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-11-18-video-monitoring-with-e-smith.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-11-20-boris-and-bob-is-there-a-connection.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-11-20-opensourcexperts-redux.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-11-21-currency-converter-bank-of-canada.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-11-21-magnolia.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-11-22-cmsreview-feature-directory.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-11-22-ical-birthday-shifter.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-11-24-flexible-layout.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-11-25-reading-up-on-social-software.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-11-27-acm-queue-conversation-with-peter-ford-chief-architect-for-msn-messenger.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-11-27-hints-for-apple-tablet-coming-please-give-us-iphoto-for-windows.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-12-01-unofficial-mozilla-for-mac-os-9.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-12-01-wamcon.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-12-05-two-wikis-and-a-microphone.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-12-08-itunes-catalog.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-12-11-classification-for-email-and-images.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-12-11-css-maxdesign-com-au.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-12-11-david-isenberg-smart-letter-91.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-12-11-minding-the-planet-the-birth-of-the-metaweb.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-12-11-sagetv-frey-technologies.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-12-11-snarbs-controller-salling-clicker-plug-ins.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-12-17-fatport-now-offering-voip-service-through-mobitus.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-12-17-return-of-the-awesome.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-12-17-ventureblog-conserving-social-capital.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-12-18-a-week-with-the-sony-ericsson-t616.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-12-18-cnet-voip-top-priority-for-bell-canada-in-2004.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-12-18-more-instant-messaging-from-acm-queue.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-12-19-whohasmybirthday-com.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-12-23-is-the-pstn-more-secure.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2003-12-23-voip-channels-to-market.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-01-02-macosx-com-apple-ibox-in-production.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-01-03-sony-ericsson-handsfree-hpr-20.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-01-04-a-whole-lotta-nothing-social-software-ideas.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-01-04-howardforums-t616-beginner-info.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-01-04-pluto-home.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-01-04-quicksub.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-01-04-running-your-own-social-network.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-01-04-use-of-social-network-sites-accelerating.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-01-04-vancouver-knowledge-management-community-of-practice-kmcop.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-01-09-talkbroadband-canadian-voip-with-primus.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-01-13-arstechnica-apple-to-manufacture-hp-branded-digital-music-player.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-01-13-ripdigital.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-01-13-trevor-jones-has-a-blog.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-01-14-the-corporation.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-01-14-translink-to-run-passenger-ferries-to-bowen.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-01-14-tunesatwork.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-01-14-vovida-org.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-01-15-simon-willison-you-mean-there-is-an-ie-team.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-01-16-businessweek-technology-special-report-voip.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-01-16-favicon-generation.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-01-16-new-favicon.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-01-16-shopkits.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-01-16-vms3-info-social-networking-industry-analyzed-via-the-value-framework.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-01-18-shrook.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-01-18-using-php-to-integrate-rss-feeds-into-your-website.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-01-21-loc-le-meur-build-and-check-your-virtual-identity-and-online-reputation-or-you-will-be-in-trouble.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-01-21-plastic-bags-make-great-shoes.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-01-22-online-identity-pollution-is-happening-today.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-01-25-talkbroadband-first-setup.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-01-28-getting-a-place-in-vancouver.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-01-28-talkbroadband-some-glitches-and-solutions.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-01-29-darren-barefoot-exciting-news-indeed.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-01-29-om-malik-tivo-the-digital-hub-powered-by-strangeberry.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-01-29-sunshine-coast-accommodations.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-01-30-roland-tanglao-vancouver-geek-dinner.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-02-01-canadians-are-square.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-02-01-talkbroadband-forum-setup.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-02-02-zerendipity-nick-tattersall-vef-meeting.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-02-04-globe-and-mail-has-rss-feeds.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-02-04-social-networking-vs-blogging.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-02-05-dining-out-for-life.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-02-05-globe-and-mail-monster-com-to-add-networking.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-02-05-intravnews.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-02-05-mailpictures.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-02-05-westworld-computers-on-broadway-in-vancouver.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-02-06-ichat-bluetooth-headset-phone.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-02-06-talkbroadband-steady-state.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-02-06-wordpress.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-02-08-bloglet.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-02-08-vijs-recommended-by-stuart-mclean.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-02-09-just-signed-up-for-spud.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-02-10-media-server-consumer-electronics-sony-should-buy-apple.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-02-11-more-peeps-with-blogs.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-02-11-vancouver-geek-dinner-wrap-up.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-02-13-does-speed-advantage-mean-mac-tipping-point.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-02-13-no-tv-watching-the-latest-episodes.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-02-13-pictures-of-newfoundland-snowstorm.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-02-15-cvsfinder.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-02-16-flickr-kicks-off-rich-media-arms-race-for-social-networking-apps.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-02-16-j2ee-consulting-with-eversun-software.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-02-16-linux-news-from-browser-to-platform-mozilla-rises.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-02-16-netomat.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-02-16-reblogging.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-02-16-userplane.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-02-16-winter-storm-damage-in-vancouver-and-victoria.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-02-18-ichat-flickr-et-al-and-skype.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-02-18-k-scott-allen-newsgroups-blogs-and-magazines.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-02-18-karma-mailing-list.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-02-18-phpgedview.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-02-18-yahoo-new-search-engine-does-rss.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-02-19-flickr-services.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-02-19-mkc-networks-offers-voip-licenses-for-e-smith.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-02-19-side-discussions-for-increasing-signal-to-noise.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-02-20-radio-doesnt-get-it.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-02-22-10-random-songs.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-02-22-big-time-bellevue-geek-dinner.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-02-22-kids-and-social-software.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-02-22-well-designed-weblogs.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-02-23-caterina-net-things-to-do-in-vancouver.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-02-23-cms-mailing-list.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-02-23-pseudorandom-vancouver-hilights.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-02-23-textpattern.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-02-23-validate-your-code.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-02-23-zip-ca.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-02-24-boris-big-book-list-oh-boy.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-02-24-dot-easy.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-02-24-geourl-updated.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-02-24-kate-and-i-are-oktoberfest-stars.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-02-25-meyers-briggs.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-02-25-robert-scoble-i-still-dont-get-social-software.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-02-25-the-rs-have-it.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-02-26-ms-access-why-the-need-for-visual-basic.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-02-26-what-is-the-message-language-as-metaphor-president-as-magician.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-02-27-yet-more-content-from-me.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-02-29-more-xbox-2-and-windows-on-g5-info.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-01-nova-spivack-the-pattern-of-online-technology-fads.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-01-rolands-big-move.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-01-the-snow-walker.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-03-aaron-cope-extensions-to-xml-resume.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-03-hr-xml.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-03-xml-com-xml-power-job-hunting.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-03-xml-resume-and-resume-promotion.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-03-xml-resume-at-sourceforge.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-05-consumer-voip-arrives-in-the-us.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-05-sick-of-social-networks.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-07-a-list-apart-facts-and-opinion-about-fahrner-image-replacement.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-07-digital-web-magazine-in-defense-of-fahrner-image-replacement.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-07-image-replacement-decision-grid.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-07-reading-update.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-07-seo-use-images-wisely.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-07-sites-that-dont-work-reveal-ca.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-07-stop-design-using-background-image-to-replace-text.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-07-test-postflickr-test-post.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-07-use-of-the-longdesc-attribute-for-img-tags.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-07-w3c-markup-validation-service.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-07-why-rss-sucks-but-its-still-fantastic.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-08-rankpulse.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-09-asi-exchange-in-vancouver.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-09-flickr-buddy-icons-fun.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-09-i-hate-the-term-blog.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-10-webworkshop-net-googles-pagerank-explained.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-11-broadvox-is-coming-to-canada.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-11-digital-web-magazine-optimizing-your-chances-with-accessibility.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-11-free-email-and-other-options-for-not-using-web-based-email.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-11-wired-news-cable-guy-whupping-phone-guy.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-15-vancouver-dinner-club-inaugural-event.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-15-webpronews-blogs-mean-better-listings-on-google.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-16-what-if-voice-were-free.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-18-urlgreyhot-its-time-to-start-using-a-wiki-for-my-personal-knowledge-management.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-19-how-to-build-a-business-around-voip.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-19-movabletype-is-the-windows-of-the-personal-publishing-world.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-21-nimcat-networks.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-22-deleting-installed-packages-under-os-x.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-23-wired-pay-once-share-often-with-lwdrm.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-25-open-source-voipworks.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-25-voodoopad.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-28-enabling-dynamically-configured-name-based-virtual-hosting-on-mac-os-x.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-28-italk2u.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-28-jim-kohlenberger-anyone-in-their-garage-can-now-be-a-telephone-company-for-the-entire-planet.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-28-lunch-with-microsoft-and-sun.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-28-ollicle-text-2-html-without-the-lock-down.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-28-om-malik-on-voip-why-skype-is-no-different.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-28-presence-blogging.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-28-tips-for-andy.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-29-apple-should-license-fairplay-drm.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-29-asterisk-dont-blame-the-users.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-29-does-computer-science-in-academia-suck.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-29-lost-boy-scattered-self.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-29-mac-or-pc-everyone-at-wordpress-wants-a-powerbook.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-29-mac-os-rumors-mac-os-x-10-4-and-the-year-of-the-g5.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-29-microsoft-now-does-search.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-29-price-hostilities-in-the-voip-space.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-29-primus-talkbroadband-expands-service.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-29-think-secret-microsoft-developing-msn-messenger-for-mac-4-0-with-images.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-30-consumer-price-index-cpi-inflation-calculator.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-30-expose-and-windows.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-30-marcosweskamp-a-map-of-the-news-media.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-30-peer-1-subsidizes-bandwidth-and-colocation-for-pulver-com-approved-voip-startups.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-30-premiers-technology-council-regional-consultation-and-reception.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-30-sipura-announces-voip-pstn-gateway-adaptor.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-30-social-networking-its-the-apps-stupid.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-30-vonage-sues-at-and-t.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-30-welcome-to-the-new-b-mann-consulting.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-31-asterisk-ideas-for-client-education.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-31-from-manila-to-drupal.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-31-minding-the-planet-google-launches-gmail.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-31-situational-software.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-31-the-register-circuit-city-buys-intertan.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-03-31-vonage-now-live-in-canada.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-01-im-will-win-voip.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-04-adding-adsense-to-your-rss-feed.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-04-fastmobile-another-better-than-skype-application.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-04-mankind-vs-microsoft.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-05-asterisk-for-tech-support-voicemail.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-05-document-management-for-small-business.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-05-primus-talkbroadband-updates-pricing-features-to-compete.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-05-simon-willison-personalisation-weve-already-got-it.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-06-less-blogging-more-personal-publishing.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-06-near-time-flow.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-06-schubert-it-plugins.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-06-test-your-voip.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-06-voip-testing.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-07-blow-to-canadian-voip.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-07-pdtp-lets-get-rid-of-ftp.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-07-personal-publishing-is-not-just-tech.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-07-voip-value-adds.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-08-big-telcos-may-do-better-than-you-think.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-08-first-mac-os-x-trojan.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-08-trademarking-your-key-words.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-11-blogware-adds-friends-and-address-book.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-11-darren-tries-adsense.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-12-another-life-log-application.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-12-session-border-controllers-combined-with-firewalls.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-12-softswitch-projected-growth-numbers.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-12-telepocalypse-open-systems-will-continue-to-crush-closed-ones.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-12-vocaldata-powers-voip-for-primus-telus.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-13-a-stew-of-packetized-content.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-14-a-whole-lotta-nothing-all-hail-bluetooth.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-14-peer1-spawns-symmetric-broadband.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-15-get-your-own-blog-or-the-real-problem-with-typekey.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-15-good-apps-on-mac-os-x.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-15-primus-buys-magma.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-17-disrupting-the-canadian-ip-communications-industry.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-18-4000us-per-month-for-playing-a-game.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-18-blogger-meeting-in-seattle-on-wednesday-night.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-18-pulpfiction-new-aggregator-for-os-x.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-20-alec-saunders-leaves-versatel-starts-iotum.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-20-at-and-t-voip-marketing-in-ny.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-20-batelle-on-furl.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-20-most-of-the-drupal-developers-are-not-interested-in-world-domination.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-20-phonepage-homepage.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-20-show-value-in-k-logs-to-senior-management.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-21-scribbling-net-help-the-googlebot-understand-your-web-site.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-23-feedback-for-doc-searls-it-garage.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-23-start-with-smart-edges-and-a-dumb-center.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-23-trendiq-tracks-internet-presence-of-social-networking-sites.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-26-hyperlocal.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-26-microsoft-expression-for-mac.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-26-scalix-does-exchange-on-linux.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-26-stealth-enum-registry.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-26-tasks-pro-1-1.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-26-website-css-circa-2011.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-27-at-and-t-callvantage-details.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-27-gush-for-os-x.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-27-jons-radio-active-r-and-eacutesum-and-eacutes.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-27-medium-and-large-business-voip-has-50-cagr.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-27-more-on-project-management-tools.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-27-spike.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-27-subethatrack.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-27-thank-you-moveable-type.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-27-this-is-visualstreet-net.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-28-and-what-about-contact-management-and-calendaring.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-29-big-fat-dumb-pipes.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-29-callvantage-service-works-well.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-29-why-ecademy-will-succeed.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-30-deep-enterprise-search.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-30-qwest-eliminates-access-charges-on-true-voip-calls.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-04-30-skype-to-speak-out-at-von-canada-2004.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-04-free-enum-efforts.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-04-next-version-of-wordpress-goes-beta.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-05-drupal-powers-motime-and-splinder.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-05-sprint-canadas-bad-web-presence.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-06-jeff-pulver-blog-free-world-dialup-now-supports-asterisk.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-06-new-bloggers-on-the-block.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-06-talkbroadband-vs-telus.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-08-evans-on-nyt-article-voip-in-canada.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-08-price-service-and-port-blocking-wars.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-08-snapstream-firefly-remote-giveaway.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-08-social-networking-doesnt-have-a-business-model.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-08-social-software-ideas-in-practice.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-08-what-is-a-wiki.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-08-zoe-and-email-choices.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-09-dell-might-buy-palmone.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-09-mt-vs-ee-for-a-corporate-weblogs-farm.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-09-newspapers-see-danger-in-text-messaging.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-09-that-old-trackback-magic.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-09-voice-goes-live-in-the-corporate-data-center.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-10-web-hosting-server-control-panels.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-13-iphoto-to-everything.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-15-do-not-buy-an-inexq-wireless-router.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-15-palm-gphone-does-sip.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-15-wifi-box.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-15-wrt54g-firmware.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-16-a-quick-way-to-generate-obvious-links.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-16-civicspace-labs.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-16-editthispagephp.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-16-information-overload-dissolves-into-nothingness.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-16-less-typing-more-linking.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-16-tables-vs-css-in-web-standards.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-16-whats-new-in-mt-3-0-other-than-a-licensing-controversy.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-17-bitpal-address-book-and-to-dos-on-your-removable-drive.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-17-rendezvous-wifi-foaf-people-in-my-neighbourhood.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-17-robotradio.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-18-darwinports.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-18-entellium.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-18-fast-dsl.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-18-goodbye-calltrex.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-18-google-image-ads-offer-free-brand-advertising.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-18-meta-data-on-the-mind.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-18-more-mt-vs-ee.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-18-most-companies-never-change-direction-until-they-hit-the-wall.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-18-os-x-on-windows-via-pearpc.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-18-palm-doing-well-in-smartphone-market.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-18-roku-soundbridge.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-18-search-changes-how-business-works.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-18-subethaedit-turns-2-0.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-18-talking-about-drupal-usability.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-18-telus-microcell-an-unholy-union.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-19-lagerway-vs-zennstrom-smackdown.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-24-ted-shelton-will-telephony-go-to-zero-dollars.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-24-why-i-will-likely-delete-my-ecademy-account.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-25-voxilla-skype-adds-pictures.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-26-flickr-news-cool-stuff-i-want-to-pay-for.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-26-peerio-offically-announces-themselves.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-27-atom-linkblog-instructions.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-27-drupal-does-this-moderated-commments-and-moderated-posts.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-27-setting-up-an-itunes-server-in-freebsd.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-27-success-in-the-future-is-increasingly-defined-by-non-network-attributes.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-28-steve-gillmor-on-gates-rss-customer-driven-lock-in.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-29-atom-will-create-the-two-way-web.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-29-oh-crap-marketing.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-29-pubsub-linkrank.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-31-break-your-news-feed-to-easily-lose-readers.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-31-companies-prefer-authoritarianism-to-democracy.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-31-dave-winer-impressed-me-today.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-31-km-work-effectiveness-improvement.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-05-31-tumult-hyperedit-and-a-rant-on-collaboration.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-06-01-primus-talkbroadband-is-currently-down-june-1-2004.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-06-02-is-a-collaborative-cross-platform-rich-text-editor-too-much-to-ask.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-06-06-p900-manager.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-06-07-apple-airport-express.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-06-07-blogs-arent-anything-special-but-they-are-better-than-cmss.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-06-07-don-park-give-rss-2-0-to-w3c.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-06-07-drupal-xtemplate-skins-from-cyberdash.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-06-07-dual-wan-nat-router.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-06-07-giving-ie-team-members-a-nugie-for-standards.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-06-07-open-standards-skype.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-06-07-posting-to-blogware-via-ms-word.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-06-07-purple-everywhere.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-06-07-rss-for-downloading-torrent-files.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-06-07-the-killer-apps-in-drupal-for-david-nunez.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-06-07-todayspapers-com.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-06-07-w3c-is-the-best-place-for-atom-to-take-root.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-06-07-weblogs-do-help-businesses.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-06-08-comcast-testing-integrated-cable-modem-and-38-voip-box.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-06-11-canadians-dont-know-nuthin-about-voip-willis.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-06-14-2004-canadian-telecom-summit.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-06-14-being-appled.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-06-14-brad-gibson-has-entered-the-building.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-06-14-buttress.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-06-14-content-separated-from-delivery-media.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-06-14-jeffrey-veen-on-feedburner-and-ping-o-matic.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-06-14-pretty-sticky-things.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-06-14-residential-voip-in-canada-not-looking-so-good.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-06-14-scoble-wants-full-text-rss.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-06-14-social-networking-is-a-feature.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-06-14-the-big-secret-of-search-optimisation.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-06-14-tivo-online.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-06-14-waml-vs-xaml.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-06-14-who-needs-books.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-06-15-maybe-my-milk-will-tell-the-fridge-jokes.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-06-16-john-gruber-i-am-trying-to-write-the-out-of-this-stuff.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-06-17-google-looking-at-texturize.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-06-17-my-ilec-charges-me-to-call-numbers-10-miles-away.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-06-18-erik-lagerway-wants-to-take-the-gloves-off.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-06-18-is-drupal-a-second-generation-blog-rss-aggregation-site.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-06-18-no-more-ca-for-non-canadians.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-06-18-subversion-for-os-x.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-06-18-sxip-comes-out-of-stealth.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-06-18-the-bleeding-edge-of-the-web-has-moved-away-from-html.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-06-18-x-ten-interface-is-terrible.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-06-19-social-networking-inaccuracies.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-06-23-another-victory-for-hardware-raid.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-07-06-bell-does-5-for-1000-long-distance-minutes.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-07-06-bloggers-are-becoming-subject-matter-experts.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-07-06-blogging-tools-suck.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-07-06-dont-expect-a-converged-information-superhighway.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-07-06-drm-inhibits-communications.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-07-06-knopsterisk.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-07-06-make-whatever-you-offer-a-vehicle-for-advertisements.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-07-06-more-types-of-information-to-be-syndicated.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-07-06-not-advertising-via-blogs-youre-doing-your-client-a-disservice.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-07-06-os-x-tiger-server-does-blogging-and-im.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-07-06-primus-talkbroadband-will-be-available-at-future-shop-best-buy-stores-in-canada.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-07-06-pubsub-notification-via-jabber.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-07-06-rss-is-a-big-blue-icon.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-07-06-web-is-still-gaining-developer-mindshare-at-the-expense-of-win32.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-07-07-alec-and-andy-do-voip-futures.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-07-07-xoduszero.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-07-08-why-doesnt-apple-want-to-do-xhtml.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-07-09-yahoo-gets-odd-to-go-beyond-the-browser.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-07-10-dashboard-apps-multiplying.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-07-10-more-oddpost-comments.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-07-13-common-definition-of-xml-readership.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-07-13-nloci-java-based-sip-server-being-sold-by-bankruptcy-trustee-for-9500.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-07-13-seb-turns-off-comment-counters-saves-the-day.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-07-14-feed-splicing-begins-to-really-deliver-on-the-promise-of-syndication.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-07-16-time-to-demonstrate-simpletracks-again.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-07-17-adiumx-interview.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-07-18-compete-on-merit.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-07-18-off-line-web-applications.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-07-18-ongoing-reports-more-mozilla-visits-than-ie.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-07-18-people-rarely-comment.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-07-19-asterisk-on-os-x.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-07-19-innovation-from-existing-user-behavior.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-07-19-new-brunswick-business-blog-survey.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-07-19-ssh-keys-and-subversion-on-os-x.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-07-20-spoke-vs-linkedin.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-07-25-sending-free-sms-from-a-website.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-08-19-absentee-web-landlord.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-08-19-vancouver-ecademy-blogging-for-business.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-08-20-an-overview-of-the-basecamp-project-management-system.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-08-20-cocoalicious.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-08-21-fried-potatoes.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-08-24-cheap-home-networking-companies-are-now-selling-voip-adapters.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-08-24-im-a-bryght-guy.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-08-24-windows-is-everyones-problem.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-08-27-vonage-ca-trying-another-canadian-voip-option.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-08-27-windows-as-opposed-to-linux-mt-vs-wordpress.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-08-30-yasn-rankings-arent-newsworthy.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-08-31-skype-for-os-x-available.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-09-06-asterisk-for-windows.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-09-06-broadband-telephone-numbers.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-09-06-google-loves-im.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-09-06-jluster-at-the-social-tools-weblog.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-09-06-john-batelle-searchblogs-new-look-ad-update.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-09-10-everyone-loves-flowers.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-09-11-daniel-berninger-all-new-communication-applications-benefit-the-internet.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-09-12-overview-of-i-neighbors.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-09-13-viral-needs-more-than-just-cool.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-09-13-writing-elsewhere-drupal-commentary.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-09-14-amazons-search-engine-web-app-heres-a9-again.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-09-16-tiger-ichat-has-jabber-support.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-09-17-open-comments-and-the-interesting-things-that-can-happen.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-09-20-15000-paying-subscribers-in-canadian-voip-marketplace.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-09-22-google-local-in-canada-so-what.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-09-29-eric-meyers-powerpoint-implemented-in-html.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-09-29-sha-lin-noodle-house-and-kristian-at-kino.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-09-29-steamworks-invaded-by-germans.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-10-01-im-is-texting-in-north-america.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-10-01-it-appears-i-never-have-to-throw-anything-away-again.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-10-01-remembering-pitcairn-and-easter-island.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-10-02-p2p-has-provided-the-blueprint-for-the-next-generation-of-web-applications.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-10-03-late-blogacatmas-entry.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-10-03-voip-and-social-software.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-10-05-pr-isnt-dead.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-10-06-calendaring-in-xhtml.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-10-06-evan-reviews-the-airport-express.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-10-07-200-things.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-10-14-google-invades-windows-desktops-whats-the-mac-plan.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-10-20-to-quote-myself-on-voip.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-10-23-do-we-actually-want-one-super-app.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-10-23-not-on-the-web-you-wont-get-hired.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-10-27-how-to-pick-beer-even-the-kind-that-comes-in-a-tower.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-10-27-zip-ca-finds-my-comment-thread.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-10-28-ipod-photo-thoughts.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-10-30-greenthing-theme-and-this-week.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-10-31-what-do-i-expect-from-my-blog.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-11-01-near-time-flow-example.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-11-04-lycoris-takes-over-e-smith.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-11-04-ubiquitous-browser-evolution.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-11-04-urls-are-dead.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-11-04-voipail-is-voicemail-for-skype.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-11-07-bittorrent-whack-a-mole-give-us-legal-video-downloads.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-11-07-save-canadas-internets.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-11-09-wow-open-beta.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-11-10-marqui-content-management-in-vancouver-and-blogging-for-money.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-11-11-bmp-presents-cdx2.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-11-12-msn-now-does-search-thinks-google-is-a-good-result.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-11-12-panics-story-of-audion.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-11-15-the-deep-web-only-courtesy-of-search-portal-x.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-11-19-wow-beta-is-over-some-comments.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-11-21-axentra-multifunction-server-appliances.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-11-23-google-is-a-deaf-user-that-loves-reading-metadata.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-11-25-massive-traffic-on-wow-still-fun.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-11-25-todd-maffin-great-work-on-covering-mozilla.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-11-28-fotobuzz-like-flickr-notes.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-11-28-no-games-for-the-mac-and-gaming-micro-content.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-12-01-itunes-canada-finally.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-12-01-zaks-chinese-market-butter-chicken.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-12-10-cbc-now-has-headline-only-rss-feeds.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-12-16-apple-and-motorola-are-making-a-phone.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-12-16-cbc-removes-agreement-on-rss-usage-my-feedback-email.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-12-17-fortune-500-blogging.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-12-17-links-of-interest-december-12-2004.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2004-12-19-vote-for-troys-technology-buyers-manifesto.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-01-10-macs-rule-rss-custom-rss-apps-are-next.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-01-11-aggregators-are-tomorrows-newspapers.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-01-11-how-the-mac-mini-fits-into-my-life.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-01-12-the-future-of-online-aggregators-skydasher.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-01-13-syndication-subscription-service.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-01-14-lcd-tv-or-lcd-monitor.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-01-16-sell-the-imac-buy-the-parents-a-mac-mini.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-01-17-unlimitel-plus-question-about-yak-voip-in-canada.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-01-17-zip-ca-president-rick-anderson-responds-to-complaints.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-01-18-the-first-business-plan-with-social-networking-features-linkedin.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-01-19-please-follow.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-01-20-2005-will-be-the-year-my-inboxes-die.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-01-24-at-the-blog-business-summit.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-01-27-mac-tablet-media-macs-and-itunes-movies-predictions-that-is.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-01-29-stack-the-mac-mini-with-an-apple-pvr.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-01-31-photo-management-chain-of-pain-on-windows.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-02-03-google-registrar-concepts.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-02-07-daring-fireball-doesnt-hate-canada.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-02-07-no-lnp-in-canada-equals-no-competition.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-02-09-lcd-tvs-and-monitors-there-is-no-difference.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-02-15-my-non-appearance-on-cbc-talking-about-voip.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-02-16-the-deal-eo-with-teleo.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-03-03-what-does-the-world-look-like-when-every-router-is-a-sip-proxy.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-03-04-new-phone-nokia-6630.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-03-07-not-exactly-a-mac-mini.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-03-07-the-best-days-of-voip-are-yet-to-come.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-03-08-another-business-just-went-massively-multiplayer.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-03-08-mac-even-more-mini-rumours-come-on-we-know-its-a-tablet.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-03-10-skype-to-offer-real-phone-numbers-soon.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-03-17-skypein-live-list-of-us-area-codes-available.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-03-20-links-of-interest-march-20-2004.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-03-29-massive-and-beercasting.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-04-02-blog-therapist-answer-1-aggregating-everything.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-04-02-blog-therapist-answer-2-no-more-meta-blogging.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-04-02-new-header-image.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-04-02-vancouver-webloggers-meetup-march-31st-next-web-2-0-meetups.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-04-04-google-maps-now-has-keynote-satellite-imagery.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-04-11-civilities-and-viewpoints.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-04-13-mac-os-x-tiger-what-is-the-one-more-thing.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-04-18-ext2-filesystem-for-mac-os-x.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-04-18-helping-with-the-gouranga-meme.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-04-18-mounting-ext2-linux-filesystems-on-mac-os-x.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-04-20-skype-killing-im-networks-too.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-04-27-hire-matt-may.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-04-27-linkies.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-04-29-i-got-bradcasted.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-04-29-wiki-resume.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-05-01-birth-of-a-baby-gurl.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-05-01-sunday-afternoon-link-o-rama.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-05-04-how-i-hate-the-b-word.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-05-04-online-ad-networks-or-online-content-networks.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-05-08-tiger-ized.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-05-09-here-come-itunes-purchased-video.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-05-11-my-first-itunes-video-purchase.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-05-15-mac-asterisk-community-and-dial-skype-from-your-address-book.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-05-19-tiddlywiki-as-note-system.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-05-21-first-apple-store-in-canada-yorkdale-in-toronto-opened-today.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-06-11-transcending-apple-hardware.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-06-12-count-me-in-for-familydimsum-event-formats.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-06-13-widgets-for-your-series-60-phone-nokia-goes-webcore.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-06-14-heya-neighblog-check-out-my-blogmap.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-06-21-heading-to-gnomedex-5-0-in-seattle.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-06-21-really-del-icio-us-easy-shared-bookmarks.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-06-22-the-fever-theme-song.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-06-23-start-thinking-opml.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-06-25-mojave-and-litefeeds.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-06-26-gnomedex-2005-closing-rumours.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-06-26-ie7-rss-display-safari.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-06-26-my-two-feeds-main-and-complete.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-06-26-the-dark-web.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-06-27-blackberry-or-treo-rogers-or-telus.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-06-27-knowledge-gardening.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-06-27-xbox-360-how-microsoft-wins.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-06-28-itunes-4-9-has-podcasting-rss-and-a-phone.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-06-28-my-first-video-blog-the-eric-rice-fanboy-edition.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-06-29-picking-opml-no-use-swimming-upstream.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-07-03-can-you-say-maps-for-everyone.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-07-03-delicious-construction-kit.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-07-03-gizmo-sip-client-hopes-to-break-skype-silo.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-07-03-matt-may-standards-evangelist-at-large.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-07-03-scalable-distributed-backups-with-bittorrent.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-07-03-tag-clouds-are-not-a-replacement-for-ui.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-07-03-the-b-word-blogrolls-are-bare-links.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-07-07-rss-opml-and-pirate-weather.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-07-08-citizen-journalism-and-the-london-bombings-interview-alert.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-07-10-richard-explains-the-for-tag-in-del-icio-us-expands-on-social-software.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-07-13-isync-update-means-my-nokia-6630-now-syncs.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-07-13-scottstuff-is-flickring.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-07-15-cringely-thinks-clickstar-is-itunes-movie-store.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-07-15-the-work-which-i-admire-is-being-by-guys-and-gals-in-their-late-teens-and-early-20s.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-07-16-pluto-home-plus-squeezebox-sonos-killer.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-07-24-coras-does-have-good-breakfasts-more-podcasts-from-the-cbc-please.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-07-24-idea-farming.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-07-25-battle-of-the-widget-platforms.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-07-25-hanging-with-the-gnomes-in-seattle-dinner-anyone.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-07-25-telus-blocking-access-to-union-website.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-07-26-dinner-in-seattle-was-great.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-07-28-vancouver-perl-mongers-with-casey-west-july-28th.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-07-29-read-only-calendars-were-nice-in-2002.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-07-30-q-why-do-bloggers-sleep.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-07-31-gprs-nokia-6630-bluetooth-powerbook-ethernet-ibook.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-07-31-testing-the-opml-editor.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-08-06-rice-photo-by-b-mann.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-08-08-buying-wireless-smart-stuff-choose-unlocked-and-open.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-08-08-request-for-tutorial-using-sshkeychain.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-08-09-ubiquitous-mac-apps-i-dont-use-quicksilver.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-08-14-flock-feedback.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-08-14-you-know-youre-busy-when.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-08-15-come-get-your-pker-and-v14gr4-spam-is-being-nuked.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-08-19-test-post-from-flock-blog-manager.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-08-23-going-to-san-fran-attending-burning-geek.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-08-23-google-talks-jabber.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-08-25-fussing-about-formats-micro-or-otherwise.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-08-28-fido-yanking-unlimited-data-plans.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-08-28-gmail-supports-from.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-08-29-microformats-love-vcards.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-09-02-link-farming-the-future.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-09-02-tagspaces-blessed-tags-and-more.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-09-06-a-microformat-for-music.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-09-06-three-ways-of-syndicating-beyond-blogging-content.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-09-07-itunes-phone-in-canada-will-we-be-able-to-rokr.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-09-14-google-blogsearch-launches.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-09-15-b-mann-in-wired-news.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-09-15-my-first-mobile-purchase.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-09-15-yiibu-crew-back-to-yvr.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-09-16-northern-voice-and-moose-camp-now-in-blue.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-09-16-the-new-feedback-will-not-be-controlled.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-09-18-talk-like-a-pirate-day.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-09-22-barcamp-amsterdam-or-oops-we-did-it-again.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-09-25-blog-flux-mapstats.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-09-27-uc-berkeley-photon-iphoto-plug-in-test.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-09-29-recommended-links.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-09-29-shifting-paradigms-the-mental-evolutionary-process-of-moving-from-web-1-0-to-web-2-0-in-18-steps.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-09-29-why-web2-0-matters-preparing-for-glocalization.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-09-30-the-innovation-commons.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-09-30-welcome-to-vancouver-dan-let-the-outliner-games-begin.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-10-01-invalid-btree-node-size-and-other-joys.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-10-02-43-people-feedback-let-me-cheer-everything.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-10-02-news-from-the-uvic-alumni-association.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-10-04-innovation-commons-first-meeting-wednesday-october-5-2005.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-10-04-maps-travel-and-making-the-world-a-smaller-place.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-10-04-why-the-nokia-n91-is-delayed-voice-over-wlan-support.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-10-05-video-ipod-or-airport-express-video.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-10-09-apple-predictions-how-video-is-useful.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-10-12-brent-holliday-with-web-2-0-anti-hype-and-get-ready-for-vancouver-enterprise-forum-2-0.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-10-12-mac-as-media-center-with-front-row-video-ipods-and-video-downloads.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-10-14-innovation-commons-follow-up-snowball-edition.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-10-20-drupalcon-eurooscon-and-barcamp-amsterdam-is-hopping.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-10-21-jabber-and-the-search-for-the-best-php-cms-that-uses-postgresql.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-10-23-back-from-3-conferences-in-amsterdam-busy-week-ahead.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-10-24-distributed-social-networking.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-10-26-innovation-commons-wednesday-october-26th-2005-630pm.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-10-26-tivo-in-canada-and-other-pvr-info.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-11-01-breaking-the-web-wide-open.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-11-05-audioblog-com-mini-review-audio-via-phone-and-video-posting.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-11-05-revver-com-and-other-video-storage-options.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-11-07-marc-liyanages-php-apache-module.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-11-07-mysql-4-1-os-x-installer.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-11-08-ietf-64-social-tuesday-nov-8th-anyone-attending.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-11-08-speak-at-northern-voice-2006.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-11-08-vlc-media-player.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-11-10-opportunities-people-and-tools.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-11-11-parceltongue.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-11-14-doubletake-best-panorama-stitch-tool-for-mac-os-x.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-11-14-subethaedit.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-11-15-innovation-commons-please-take-the-survey.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-11-15-wayfaring.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-11-17-yiibu-re-inventing-microcontent.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-11-18-shozu.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-11-22-announcement-open-source-cms-and-blogging-tools-summit-vancouver-february-7-9-2006.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-11-23-innovation-commons-request-post-a-video-on-why-you-want-the-commons.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-11-23-syncing-itunes-music-folders-using-rsync.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-11-27-broadband-providers-blocking-podcasts-in-canada.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-11-27-synching-itunes-with-rsync.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-11-27-using-rsync-to-sync-itunes-on-two-computers.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-11-28-icann-brings-cool-people-to-town-geek-dinner-tuesday.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-12-05-how-to-lose-a-platform-adobe-tries-to-make-pdf-and-flash-play-nice.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-12-05-lots-of-domains-because-its-cheap-and-easy.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-12-06-open-formats-how-to-make-enhanced-podcasts-without-apple.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-12-11-wireless-data-in-canada-is-ridiculously-expensive.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-12-12-del-icio-us-bought-ma-gnolia-being-built.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-12-15-bell-offers-flat-rate-global-roaming-with-a-cdma-gsm-phone-at-2-49-per-minute.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-12-17-jabbers-jingle-comes-out-of-the-closet-in-time-for-the-holidays.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2005-12-29-2006-will-be-the-year-of-xmpp.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-01-03-allpeers-puts-bittorrent-in-the-browser.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-01-06-liberty-alliance-people-service-webcast-on-january.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-01-12-oscms-summit-is-go-for-launch.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-01-25-sameplace.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-02-04-free-software-fosdem-attendance.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-02-06-cocomment-comments.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-02-13-identity-2-0-we-must-federate-and-cooperate.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-02-18-skype-benefits-and-drawbacks.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-02-19-how-canadian-mobile-providers-are-stifling-their-own-growth.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-02-27-meeting-clipperz.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-02-27-standards-pingbacking.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-02-28-fosdem-attendees-and-european-hacker-culture.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-02-28-jabber-at-fosdem-2006.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-03-04-youtube-to-itunes.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-03-08-barcamp-brussels-for-the-impatient.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-03-12-innovation-is-alive-and-well-in-vancouver-dabbledb-getting-a-ton-of-press.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-03-16-dugs-drupal-user-groups-that-is.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-03-23-web-2-0-mesh-conference-in-toronto-announced-may-15th-16th.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-03-28-vancouver-is-a-fine-place-to-start-a-company-or-to-join-one.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-03-28-voicemail-coming-to-google-talk-gmail.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-03-29-internet-identity-workshop-open-for-registration.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-04-05-real-estate-and-the-web-in-canada-listen-to-ben.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-04-05-windows-on-a-mac-apple-releases-boot-camp-beta.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-04-19-registered-for-iiw-2006.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-04-20-stop-with-the-guest-posting-already.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-04-24-identity-profiles-and-reputation-federated-networks.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-05-02-out-of-towner-dinner-in-san-francisco-at-osha-thai.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-05-11-drupalcamp-barcamp-and-mesh-conference-toronto.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-05-14-innovation-commons-must-get-built-in-vancouver.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-05-18-verisign-chooses-openid.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-05-19-cloning-technology-aka-technology-barriers.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-05-19-never-miss-google-blog-search.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-05-19-we-can-give-blogging-101-and-wiki-101-every-single-year-for-the-next-5-years.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-06-11-socialtext-is-going-open-source-the-return-of-jluster.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-06-14-iosvan-identity-open-space-in-vancouver-in-july.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-06-24-matchstick-ca-is-buzz-marketing-gone-wrong.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-06-25-barcamp-sf-the-jive-live-or-how-to-make-money-from-great-video-content.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-06-25-reverse-microformat-ing-at-barcamp-san-francisco.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-06-27-congrats-vancouver-innovation-avi-and-andrews-dabbledb-gets-funded.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-06-30-ambient-vector-doing-startup-blog-in-the-globe-and-mail.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-06-30-drupal-camp-seattle-finishes-gnomedex-starts-techmeme-hacked.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-06-30-interacting-with-bloggers-101-permalinks-product-info-and-personality.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-06-30-notify-i-might-have-accidentally-spammed-you.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-06-30-stephanie-rieger-talks-mobile-snacks.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-07-01-gnomedex-video-let-us-buy-smartphones-with-bre-pettis.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-07-01-pop-is-a-machine-ethan-kaplan-at-gnomedex.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-07-15-heading-to-stuttgart-9-hour-layover-at-heathrow-tips-dont-forget-ios-van.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-07-16-bmc-blog-design.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-07-18-jabber-geeking-merge-jep-0080-and-jep-0112.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-07-23-googles-challenge-searching-the-live-web.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-07-24-out-with-eba-in-with-nitobi.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-07-25-matt-everard-entrepreunerial-pm.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-07-26-openid-bounties-and-identity-convergence.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-07-28-barcamp-vancouver-and-more-great-vancouver-people.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-08-07-a-vancouver-job-connection-area-here-on-bmc.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-08-07-apple-notes-after-wwdc-2006-keynote.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-08-08-2paths-java-web-app-experts-in-vancouver.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-08-16-officially-a-member-of-the-jabber-software-foundation.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-08-17-announcing-pretzel-a-python-based-jabber-server-on-twisted.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-08-26-notes-from-barcamp-vancouver.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-09-26-back-from-belgium.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-09-26-feed-reading-via-people-face-to-face-with-ton-zijlstra-part-1.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-09-27-idea-fragments-face-to-face-with-ton-zijlstra-part-2.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-09-27-presenting-at-bctia-go-2-market-roundtable-using-the-tools-of-web-2-0.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-10-11-save-us-from-flash-video.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-10-13-innovation-in-vancouver-funded-by-the-bdc.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-10-19-going-to-portland-drupal-identity-and-geek-dinners.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-10-20-get-your-moose-on-this-is-your-mothers-conference.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-10-22-mobile-apps-vs-the-mobile-web.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-10-22-nokia-e61-first-impressions.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-11-06-flickr-patents-interestingness.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-11-06-industrial-brand-creative-blogging-up-a-storm.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-11-06-switching-to-google-reader.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-11-09-syncing-the-nokia-e61-and-the-rest-of-the-e-series-with-mac-os-x.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-11-13-google-reader-update.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-11-20-flat-rate-mobile-from-3-in-the-uk.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-11-23-should-i-learn-eclipse-xcode-or-something-else.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-11-29-innovators-gathering-tonight-at-steamworks.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-11-29-subscribing-to-people-and-gigaom-re-visited.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-11-30-yahoo-canada-panama-search-preview-at-opus-hotel.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-12-01-northern-voice-2007-final-speaker-submissions.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-12-06-social-media-club-vancouver.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-12-11-community-wireless-in-vancouver-fon-meraki-something-else.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-12-17-mybloglog-is-distributed-social-networking.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-12-17-synching-and-backing-up-your-itunes-music-using-mp3tunes.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2006-12-18-5-things-about-me-you-might-not-know.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-01-02-personal-info-cloud.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-01-08-googles-identity-infrastructure-is-messed-up-and-no-one-is-talking.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-01-08-linkedin-answers-getting-hot.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-01-08-openid-mashpit-in-vancouver.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-01-09-iphone-is-a-tablet.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-01-10-is-the-iphone-really-locked-to-cingular.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-01-10-linkedin-answers-answers.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-01-12-northern-voice-travel-bursaries.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-01-18-openid-mashpit-vancouver-wrap-up.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-01-23-buy-the-monkeyblaster-9000-podcast-with-elastic-path.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-01-25-susan-mernit-on-the-role-of-no-in-product-development.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-02-07-email-is-the-place-where-information-goes-to-die.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-02-07-marc-canter-is-building-his-heart-out.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-02-07-open-source-in-vancouver-panel.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-02-13-oscms-summit-at-yahoo-rolling-call-for-participation.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-02-16-guy-gavriel-kay-talk-at-the-viwf.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-02-18-wii-report.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-02-20-subscribe-to-the-social-designers-at-common-craft.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-02-22-google-apps-and-sxip-access-identity-and-the-google-platform.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-03-15-canadian-cell-phone-rates-are-higher-than-mexico.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-03-20-oscms-summit-starts-thursday.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-03-31-install-profile-api-for-drupal.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-04-09-the-travesty-of-canadian-mobile-data-rates.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-04-10-can-the-crtc-help.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-04-24-ben-wong-pushes-sutton-com-out-of-the-nest.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-05-02-experimenting-with-freebase.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-05-08-superhappydevhouse-vancouver-may-11th-2007.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-05-12-super-happy-indeed.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-05-14-twitter-is-jabber.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-05-15-gold-stars-for-drupal-contrib-modules-and-how-to-get-one.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-05-15-twitter-is-jabber-part-ii.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-05-16-les-orchard-xmpp-for-self-hosted-twitter-esque-nodes.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-05-24-democampvancouver01-and-on-using-facebook-for-getting-the-word-out.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-05-25-facebook-is-mall-of-america.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-06-03-why-you-should-send-interesting-tech-gadgets-to-my-dad-for-testing.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-06-07-12-macbook-pro-with-touchscreen-keyboard.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-06-10-trip-to-galiano.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-06-11-drupal-5-upgrade.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-06-14-freegeek-vancouver-and-vancouver-php-offer-summer-of-php.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-06-16-on-facebook-apps-and-friend-requests.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-06-23-buying-an-lcd-monitor-as-a-tv.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-06-23-democampvancouver-now-with-more-gong.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-06-23-game-downloads-and-experimenting-with-online-games.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-06-23-microsoft-expression-launch-event-at-canvas-lounge-with-gk-vanpatter-and-silverlight.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-06-26-mossberg-iphone-review-no-sim-card-cdma-only.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-06-30-boris-likes-to.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-06-30-iphone-hints.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-07-03-testing-purple.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-07-05-microsoft-canada-opening-software-dev-center-in-vancouver-commentary.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-07-06-andy-smith-at-the-stud-in-san-francisco-schmap.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-07-06-boring-site-note-which-feed-do-you-want.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-07-06-feeds-and-subscriptions.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-07-06-more-purple.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-07-08-boris-goes-to-washington.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-07-15-watching-the-it-crowd.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-07-16-vancity-bikeshare-handoff-from-roland.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-07-18-ipipi.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-07-18-media-deck.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-07-18-pswincom.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-07-18-sandbox-for-purple-module.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-07-18-sweet-crazy-boy.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-07-19-europe-photobloggers-looking-for-photography-related-sponsors.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-07-19-looking-for-drupal-saml-sp-implementation.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-07-20-drupalish-meetup-at-smiths-pub-in-victoria-was-good-fun.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-07-20-yahoo-pipes-on-upcoming-reconfigurable-feeds.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-07-29-back-from-boston.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-08-01-first-joyent-taco-tuesday-meetup-at-chill-winston.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-08-02-mac-alarm-clock-this-mornings-tune.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-08-03-openid-attribute-exchange-is-portable-social-networking-and-more.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-08-07-itunes-sleep-timer-itunesshut.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-08-12-back.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-08-13-new-google-map-stuff-link-roundup.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-08-13-want-to-buy-a-gps-logging-device.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-08-14-going-swimming.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-08-15-pubsub-will-be-something-simpler.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-08-16-experimenting-with-bluetooth-gps-receivers-my-first-gps-adventure.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-08-17-barcamp-vancouver-2007-kicks-off-this-eve.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-08-18-barcamp-vancouver-2007-a-wrap.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-08-18-going-disc-golf-and-to-north-van.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-08-18-notes-from-geo-talk-at-barcamp-vancouver-2007.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-08-18-what-to-attend-and-pay-attention-to-after-barcamp-vancouver-2007.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-08-22-third-tuesday-attended-yesterday-npost-is-today.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-08-29-weewar.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-08-31-bulk-buy-of-globalsat-dg100-gps-through-expansys.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-08-31-can-drupal-help-commoditize-facebook-app-development.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-08-31-vanguardistas-in-barcelona.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-09-02-email-vs-facebook.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-09-02-text-one-free.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-09-04-apple-rumours-sept-2007-touchscreen-ipod-appletv-revs.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-09-06-democampvancouver03-september-13th-or-october-4th.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-09-06-uncle-fatihs-pizza-to-pigeons-park.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-09-07-facebook-shutting-down-useful-developers.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-09-09-ringtones-need-separate-licenses.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-09-11-vancouver-seo-birthday-gift-alex-brabant-is-emarketing-101.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-09-12-vancouver-wireless-cadre-kick-off-meeting.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-09-13-canon-s5-is-the-canon-powershot-s-series-is-still-my-favorite.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-09-14-vancouver-freethenet-ca-community-wireless-in-your-neighbourhood.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-09-14-vancouver-freethenet-ca-how-to-buy-your-wireless-mesh-node.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-09-15-i-am-heading-to-barcelona-for-drupalcon.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-09-18-barcelona-tapas-are-delicious.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-09-18-will-mailco-mozillas-thunderbird-spin-off-to-be-run-by-david-ascher-be-headquartered-in-vancouver.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-09-19-phreaky-phonez.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-09-23-drupalcon-barcelona-over-first-drupal-association-report.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-09-24-great-memories-from-barcelona-september-2007.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-09-28-successful-launch-party.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-09-30-rogers-and-fido-sms-message-center-number.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-10-02-media-appearance-the-christy-clark-show-talking-freethenet-ca.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-10-05-democampvancouver03-first-iteration-of-battle-decks-fun-as-always.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-10-11-media-appearance-tod-maffins-cbc-technology-column-more-on-freethenet-ca.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-10-11-speaking-web-directions-north-08-three-stages-of-content-management.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-10-14-colours-of-fall-in-vancouver.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-10-15-alex-is-coming-to-town-and-needs-a-cool-apartment.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-10-15-more-digital-ethnography-information-r-evolution-video.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-10-16-dave-olson-interviews-me-about-the-drupal-association-freethenet-ca-and-ham-in-barcelona.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-10-18-congrats-to-john-and-igor-at-handimobility-livevote-launched.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-10-21-class-afloat-itinerary-on-google-maps.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-10-21-the-future-of-facebook-q-and-a.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-10-22-drupal-in-python.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-10-25-media-appearance-is-microsoft-doing-enough-to-reinvent-itself-on-business-news-network.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-10-31-game-console-dilemma-xbox-360-or-sony-playstation-3.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-10-31-google-announces-opensocial-open-api-for-connecting-social-networks.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-11-02-movember-has-begun-and-im-behind.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-11-05-will-wrights-ted-talk-toys-that-make-worlds.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-11-05-xbox-360-ftw.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-11-13-democampvancouver04-on-nov-22nd-now-with-more-beer.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-11-14-northern-voice-2008-is-up-and-rolling-in-classy-brown.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-11-16-switching-to-use-gmail-imap-great-for-mail-app-and-iphones-too.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-11-17-alqasim-electronics.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-11-17-blogroll.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-11-21-bryght-and-raincity-are-joining-forces.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-11-28-bell-launches-distances-based-billing-in-miles.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-11-30-dries-announces-drupal-startup-acquia.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-11-30-tool-time-highrise-and-merlin.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-12-03-my-adhack-for-the-canon-s5-is.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-12-10-the-multi-week-summary-of-missed-blog-posts.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-12-14-i-have-a-mission.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-12-18-new-jacket.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-12-19-not-so-much-with-the-facebook-but-strong-on-mobile.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2007-12-28-help-me-find-out-what-vegetables-and-fruit-are-in-season-when.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-01-07-remember-the-dg-100-it-works-on-the-mac-now.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-01-10-sustainable-community-involvement-on-the-drupal-community-and-drupal-association.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-01-16-drupal-association-general-assembly-2008.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-01-16-i-think-i-might-become-an-rdf-fan-boy-again.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-01-21-rogers-gets-saner-data-plans.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-01-22-2008-events-are-go-for-launch.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-01-22-a-person-who-is-above-all-things-enamoured-by-the-future.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-01-26-fund-dww-and-hunmonk-and-the-further-development-of-drupal-itself.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-01-27-iphone-nano.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-01-31-web-directions-north-2008-3-stages-of-dynamic-systems-wrap-up.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-02-03-more-iphone-nokia-etc-thoughts.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-02-03-sucking-in-delicious.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-02-10-federated-social-networks-at-barcamp-amsterdam-iii.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-02-14-in-san-francisco-going-to-drupal-6-release-party-at-parisoma.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-02-24-northern-voice-2008-wrap.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-02-25-flock-1-1-beta-tire-kicking.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-02-27-i-utterz.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-02-28-utterz-rob-lewis-on-strutta-super-sekret-alpha-launch.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-03-01-off-to-boston-for-drupalcon-see-you-on-jaiku-twemes-utterz-and-at-my-sessions.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-03-01-post-leap-day-link-omnibus.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-03-01-utterz-leaving-yvr-for-drupalcon-boston.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-03-01-utterz-toronto-passing-us-customs.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-03-08-dont-follow-a-brief-wrap-up.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-03-11-utterz-morning-green-phlegm.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-03-12-highlights-elsewhere-attending-cci2008-bnn-appearance.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-03-12-utterz-vietnamese-on-broadway-with-opa.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-03-13-open-source-stands-together.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-03-13-utterz-on-the-way-to-the-northern-voice-2008-organizers-debrief-lunch.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-03-14-cci2008-wrap-going-offline.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-03-14-npr-interview-with-bill-gates-on-the-microsoft-vancouver-dev-center.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-03-24-easter-on-bowen.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-03-24-upcoming-events-in-vancouver-april-2008-edition.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-03-26-chris-pirillo-of-lockergnome-announces-drupal-powered-community-participation-platform-hackfest-in-seattle.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-04-02-this-whole-community-platform-thing-might-have-some-legs.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-04-03-utterz-interview-with-sales-manager-of-juliet-development-venue-for-democampvictoria01.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-04-06-social-graph-applications-why-not-for-every-community-website.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-04-15-strutta-has-launched.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-04-16-sun-labs-open-house-2008-first-post-acquisition-mysql-release.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-04-19-snow-in-vancouver.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-04-20-getting-chdk-working-on-the-canon-s5-is-from-mac-os-x.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-04-22-loadmytracks-now-supports-the-globalsat-dg-100-on-mac-os-x.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-04-24-microsoft-social-networking-patent-application-on-peer-to-patent.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-04-29-rogers-is-bringing-the-iphone-to-canada-ctv-newsnet-edition.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-04-30-more-vancouver-events-thoughts-on-one-calendar-for-techcouver.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-05-05-drupalcamp-vancouver-2008-this-week.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-05-15-http-zizaksy-com.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-05-26-testing-ad-bard-a-foss-friendly-ad-network.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-05-29-from-bmann-to-boris-an-evolution-of-usernames.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-06-18-drupy-aka-drupal-in-python.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-06-27-omnibus-bbq-jungle-disk-wordpress-etc.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-07-07-hypemachine-nokia-podcasting-client-constant-new-music.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-07-09-ctv-newsnet-appearance-bell-and-telus-incoming-sms-charges-debacle.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-07-09-rogers-to-launch-iphone-in-canada-with-30-6gb-data-plan.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-07-09-sponsor-rachael-for-the-camp-moomba-yogathon.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-07-14-updated-mass-virtual-hosting-how-to-for-mac-os-x-leopard.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-07-16-vinocamp-is-open-for-registration-august-16th-2008-at-ubc-botanical-gardens.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-07-19-site-specific-browsers-for-mobile.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-07-23-quoted-in-24-hours-buzz-bishops-head-in-the-clouds-article.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-07-30-ibibo.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-08-08-daveo-does-a-podcast-with-me-on-bryght-raincity-studios-and-bootup-labs.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-08-08-new-ventures-bc-mentor-panel-makes-my-brain-full.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-08-16-at-vinocamp-2008-for-the-day.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-08-20-sendible.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-08-21-global-tv-blackberry-bold-launches-on-rogers.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-08-25-speaking-at-net-tuesday-how-drupal-can-help-you-save-the-world.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-08-30-nokia-n78-first-take-and-setup.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-08-31-skype-turns-5.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-09-04-iyouwe-com.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-09-26-nowpublic-mostpublic-index-for-vancouver.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-09-27-sugar-on-drupal.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-09-30-knight-news-challenge-prep-in-vancouver-digital-media-experiments-to-innovate-journalism.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-10-05-spanning-sync-for-mac-to-google-syncing.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-10-23-interesting-vancouver-2008-ticket-giveaway.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-10-26-look-ma-i-made-it-on-hiyaa-blog.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-11-02-vancouver-akoha-decksgiving.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-11-05-odesk-down-the-virtual-global-company-and-collaboration-rabbit-hole.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-11-25-dropbox-vs-jungledisk.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-12-08-donating-to-the-fields-in-core-drupal-code-sprint-and-other-projects.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-12-15-google-friend-connect-paves-over-your-site-and-plonks-down-a-social-network.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-12-15-redanyway-a-distributed-social-network.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-12-15-redanyway.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2008-12-15-site-upgrade-acquia-drupal-6.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2009-01-03-quick-audio-preview-of-upcoming-mobile-related-posts.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2009-01-05-adhack-theming-port-on-odesk.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2009-01-05-apple-macworld-2009-rumours-macbook-ds-and-still-no-tablet.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2009-01-08-the-3-stages-of-ecommerce-tools.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2009-01-15-jaiku-is-going-open-source-on-google-app-engine.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2009-01-18-side-loading-pre-fetching-and-cloud-storage.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2009-02-20-northern-voice-2009.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2009-03-08-dc-drupalcon-2009.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2009-03-11-om-thinks-the-mac-tablet-is-imminent.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2009-04-04-web-apps-should-let-me-bring-my-own-storage.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2009-04-15-semantic-web-community-barn-raising-in-vancouver.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2009-04-15-site-moved-to-rimu-hosting.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2009-04-19-microplaza-shows-you-links-from-people-you-follow-on-twitter.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2009-04-19-trying-out-nokia-sports-tracker.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2009-04-19-tweetlens-is-the-google-reader-of-twitter-clients.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2009-04-27-open-web-vancouver-open-restaurants-open-data.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2009-06-03-questions-for-backbone-magazine-fixing-a-stale-web-site.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2009-06-12-drupal-out-of-the-box-lets-make-a-community.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2009-06-17-social-media-is.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2009-06-19-flow-based-organizations-can-grow-an-archive-with-microblogging.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2009-07-11-from-the-drupal-archives.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2009-07-28-nameless-homeless.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2009-08-22-federated-micro-blogging-for-canadian-startup-networking.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2009-08-22-gnomedex-2009-on-first-timers.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2009-08-27-barcamp-and-every-conference-is-what-you-make-of-it.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2009-10-01-form-follows-function-the-growth-of-drupal-themes-will-directly-mirror-the-growth-of-custom-distributions.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2009-10-05-barcamp-vancouver-2009-wrapped.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2009-11-02-speaking-acct-canada-2009-conference.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2010-01-01-jolicloud-http-jolicloud-com.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2010-01-06-global-mobile-content-music-movies-gaming-all.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2010-01-06-press-cbc-paid-to-blog-segment-regarding-ftc-blogger-disclosure-rules.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2010-01-10-associates.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2010-01-10-travis-smith-hop-studios.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2010-02-14-we-failed-at-making-the-vancouver-2010-olympi.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2010-03-02-jobs.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2010-03-08-on-demand-book-printing-bits-come-to-the-real-world.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2010-03-13-cloud-camp-vancouver.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2010-03-25-bc-apps-for-climate-action-announcement.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2010-03-30-speaking.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2010-04-15-keep-calm-and-carry-on.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2010-04-24-speaking-social-media-for-social-change-social-media-primer.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2010-05-03-roller-coaster.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2010-05-05-rachael-ashe-artist.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2010-05-12-tungle-and-batchbook-now-integrated.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2010-06-06-first-feature-silent-auction.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2010-06-06-pei-trip-unconference.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2010-06-08-batchbook-user-group-and-intro-june-15th-2010.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2010-06-17-evolving-drupal-ux-by-building-products.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2010-07-02-distributed-commenting-disqus-echo-and-intensedebate.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2010-07-02-drupalcon-copenhagen-2010.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2010-07-02-grow-conference-2010.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2010-07-02-pacific-northwest-drupal-summit-2010.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2010-07-09-private-code-repo-hosting-with-beanstalk-and-repositoryhosting-com.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2010-07-13-how-to-setup-gravity-to-post-to-your-flickr-account.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2010-07-14-the-facebook-economy.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2010-07-15-bandcamp-has-a-business-model.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2010-07-15-themes-and-modules-are-derivatives-and-should-be-licensed-under-the-gpl.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2010-07-17-contributing-to-drupal-radar.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2010-07-20-arrived-in-pei-visited-casa-mia-cafe.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2010-07-20-tv-watching-vs-time-to-create-wikipedia.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2010-07-21-pei-visitors-from-silicon-valley.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2010-07-31-being-involved-in-the-issue-queue-as-a-normal-part-of-development.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2010-08-01-applications-found-while-not-finding-a-real-web-design-application.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2010-08-01-elephants-like-community-roi-too.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2010-08-01-were-not-teaching-programming-and-we-should-be.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2010-08-05-android-developers-in-vancouver.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2010-08-05-wordpress-is-a-yacht-drupal-is-an-aircraft-carrier.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2010-08-12-postrank-has-some-really-great-engagement-analytics.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2010-08-18-joining-iqmetrix.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2010-08-26-automatic-wordpress-backup-using-amazon-s3.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2010-09-06-twitter-mentionmap-by-asterisq.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2010-09-08-grow-conference-video-interview.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2010-11-02-movember-2010-and-iqmetrix-moustache-alliance.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2011-01-28-buying-ponies-from-a-drupal-app-store.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/archive/2012-05-21-migration.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2011-04-11-how-to-play-instagram.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2011-08-06-on-coworking-you-cannot-make-a-profit-selling.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2011-10-11-turning-the-corner-on-ebook-buying.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2011-11-26-we-do-need-another-rss-hero.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2011-12-02-struggles-of-an-infovore-that-likes-to-share.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2011-12-04-focus-on-the-extras-on-your-site-rather-than.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2011-12-04-help-startups-by-getting-sht-done-or-get-out.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2011-12-14-what-support-feedback-service-should-you-use.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2012-02-02-reinventing-the-wheel-one-directory-at-a-time.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2012-02-05-i-want-to-vote-with-my-dollars-that-the-vanco.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2012-02-06-build-more-startups-in-vancouver.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2012-02-12-what-is-an-unconference.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2012-03-15-cataloging-city-neighbourhood-assets-love-my.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2012-03-30-octopress-all-the-things.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2012-04-20-vancouver-tech-needs-to-wake-up.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2012-04-25-what-im-obsessed-about.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2012-05-07-services-to-product.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2012-05-27-new-hack-stack.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2012-06-02-node-static-site-generators.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2012-06-19-reactions-microsoft-surface.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2012-06-29-posts-you-dont-write.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2012-07-01-setting-up-macbook-air-osx-lion.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2012-07-02-nv12-web-literacy.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2012-07-08-ssg-lightning-talk.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2012-07-27-tracking-qr-codes.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2012-08-10-calendaring-tools.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2012-08-11-startupriot-seattle-2012.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2012-09-04-working-contractually.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2012-11-09-ship-your-first-version.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2012-11-24-flickr-question.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2013-03-17-raw-resources.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2014-01-01-you-cant-outsource-product.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2014-06-04-early-stage-tech-startup-investing.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2014-08-05-mavericks-brew-cask.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2014-08-06-30-more-years.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2014-08-07-taking-equity-startups-consulting.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2014-08-15-harvesting-knowledge.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2014-11-09-vancouver-tech-civic-election.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2016-06-13-personal-crm.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2016-06-14-flickr-to-self-hosted.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2016-08-01-self-hosting-doesnt-help-self-publish.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2017-02-13-akasha-cross-post-planting-tag-flag-vancouver-bowen-canada.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2017-02-19-archiving-photos-ios-amazon-s3.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2017-04-09-run-your-own-mastodon-instance.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2017-04-15-notes-on-running-mastodon-heroku.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2017-08-19-blockchain-open-source-definitions.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2017-09-11-firesideconf-barcamp-spirit.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2018-06-14-algiers-smart-city-leapfrog-tech.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2018-07-01-berlin-observations.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2018-07-02-conferences-as-community-gathering.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2018-09-03-hello-spade.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2018-09-16-time-crm-tool-update.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2018-09-29-micro-blog-jekyll-micro-pub-and-indie-web.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2018-09-30-blockchain-governance-101-vlad.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2018-10-06-further-thoughts-on-the-fair.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2018-10-11-commons-based-peer-production.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2019-01-01-flickr-exports-jekyll.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2019-01-06-ethnews-interview-security-token-standards.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2019-01-06-more-flickr-file-experiments.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2019-03-31-ethereum-governance.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2019-05-19-run-your-own-web-mentions.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2019-05-21-model-t-indieweb.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2019-05-22-drupal-past-predictions.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2019-06-11-ipad-tools.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2020-01-03-cyberboats.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2020-01-05-mennonites.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2020-01-10-founder-notes-tam-kbeili-at.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2020-01-13-the-midlife-crisis-of-the.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2020-01-22-founder-notes-ehlist-jan-2020-vancouver.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2020-01-23-german-startup-ecosystem-challenges-canadian.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2020-01-27-photo-backup-for-geeks-i-os.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2020-02-21-tools-for-home-cooking.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2020-02-25-laptop-choices.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2020-03-14-on-instagram-off-facebook.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2020-03-15-covid19-personal.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2020-03-21-renting-in-pandemics.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2020-03-22-oscms-sunnyvale-drupal.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2020-03-31-onthisday-wa-state-roadtrip.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2020-04-20-readwriteweb-wayback.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2020-05-10-upgraded-to-indiekit-micropub-server.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2020-05-14-so-if-all-goes-well.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2020-07-04-new-blog-microblog.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2020-10-08-joining-social-coop.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2021-02-13-drop-in-audio.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2021-02-14-remarkable-tablet-first-usage.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2021-03-07-back-to-indiekit.md
 delete mode 100644 _posts/blog/2021-03-14-moa-party.md

diff --git a/.well-known/webfinger b/.well-known/webfinger
index a6bbd95..333b1cf 100644
--- a/.well-known/webfinger
+++ b/.well-known/webfinger
@@ -15,19 +15,22 @@
         "http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7233": "GET"
       }
     },
+    {
+      "rel": "http://webfinger.net/rel/profile-page",
+      "type":"text/html",
+      "href":"https://cosocial.ca/@boris"},
+    {
+      "rel": "self",
+      "type" :"application/activity+json",
+      "href": "https://cosocial.ca/users/boris"
+    },
+    {
+      "rel": "http://ostatus.org/schema/1.0/subscribe",
+      "template":"https://cosocial.ca/authorize_interaction?uri={uri}"
+    },
     {
       "rel": "http://webfinger.net/rel/profile-page",
       "href": "https://bmann.ca"
     }
-  ],
-
-  "subject":"acct:boris@bmannconsulting.com",
-  "aliases":[
-    "https://cosocial.ca/@boris",
-    "https://cosocial.ca/users/boris"],
-  "links":[
-    {"rel":"http://webfinger.net/rel/profile-page","type":"text/html","href":"https://cosocial.ca/@boris"},
-    {"rel":"self","type":"application/activity+json","href":"https://cosocial.ca/users/boris"},
-    {"rel":"http://ostatus.org/schema/1.0/subscribe","template":"https://cosocial.ca/authorize_interaction?uri={uri}"}
   ]
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/_config.yml b/_config.yml
index 0e9a09a..26ab77a 100644
--- a/_config.yml
+++ b/_config.yml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ open_external_links_in_new_tab: true
 # as their browser will communicate with Twitter's servers.
 embed_tweets: false
 
-exclude: ['_includes/notes_graph.json', '.env', 'gemset.nix', 'fission.yaml', 'blog.code-workspace', 'netlify.toml', '_ignored', '_archive', '.vscode', '.obsidian', '.gitignore', '.github', 'README.md']
+exclude: ['_includes/notes_graph.json', '.env', 'gemset.nix', 'fission.yaml', 'blog.code-workspace', 'netlify.toml', '_ignored', '_archive', '.vscode', '.obsidian', '.gitignore', '.github', 'README.md'. "_template", ".obsidian"]
 
 include: ['.well-known', '_pages', '_redirects']
 
@@ -65,23 +65,16 @@ collections:
     permalink: "/notes/:slug/"
   journals:
     output: true
-    permalink: "/journals/:name/"
+    permalink: "/journals/:year/:month/:day/"
 
 defaults:
   - scope:
-      path: "_posts/blog/*"
+      path: "_posts/*"
       type: posts
     values:
       layout: post
       permalink: /blog/:year/:month/:day/:title/
       section: blog
-  - scope:
-      path: "_posts/archive/*"
-      type: posts
-    values:
-      layout: post
-      permalink: /archive/:year/:month/:day/:title/
-      section: archive
   - scope:
       path: "_notes/*"
     values:
diff --git a/_pages/archive.html b/_pages/archive.html
deleted file mode 100644
index a2d3808..0000000
--- a/_pages/archive.html
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: page
-title: Archive
-permalink: /archive/
----
-
-<p style="padding: 3em 1em; background: #f5f7ff; border-radius: 4px;">
-  The long term archive from Drupal and other systems, May 2012 and previous.
-</p>
-
-<main>
-    {% assign postsByYear = 
-    site.posts | group_by_exp:"post", "post.date | date: '%Y'" %}
-    
-    {% for year in postsByYear %}
-      {% assign yearnumber = year.name | plus: 0 %}
-      {% unless yearnumber > 2012 %}
-      <h3 id="{{ year.name }}">{{ year.name }}</h3>
-          <ul>
-          {% assign migrationdate = "May 21, 2012" | date: "%s" %}
-          {% for post in year.items %}
-            {% assign timestamp = post.date | date: "%s" %}
-            {% unless timestamp > migrationdate %}
-            <li id="date-content" style="padding-bottom: 0.6em; list-style: none;"><a href="{{ post.url }}" class="internal-link">{{ post.title }}</a></li>
-            {% endunless %}
-          {% endfor %}
-          </ul>
-      {% endunless %}
-    {% endfor %}
-    
-        <br/>
-        <br/>
-</main>
diff --git a/_pages/blog.html b/_pages/blog.html
index cc27b52..45637f7 100644
--- a/_pages/blog.html
+++ b/_pages/blog.html
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ permalink: /blog/
 ---
 
 <p style="padding: 3em 1em; background: #f5f7ff; border-radius: 4px;">
-  Blog posts from May 2012 to present day. Visit the <a href="../archive/" class="internal-link">Archive</a> to browse previous posts.
+  Blog posts from 2023 to present day.
 </p>
 
 
diff --git a/_pages/journal.html b/_pages/journal.html
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2f93264
--- /dev/null
+++ b/_pages/journal.html
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+---
+layout: page
+title: Daily Journal
+permalink: /journal/
+---
+
+
+  
+  <main>
+      {% assign postsByYear = 
+      site.posts | group_by_exp:"post", "post.date | date: '%Y'" %}
+      
+      {% for year in postsByYear %}
+        <h3 id="{{ year.name }}">{{ year.name }}</h3>
+            <ul>
+            {% for post in year.items %}
+              {% if post.title == 'Migration' %}
+                {% break %}
+              {% endif %}
+              {% unless post.section == 'journal' %}
+              <li id="date-content" style="padding-bottom: 0.6em; list-style: none;"><a href="{{ post.url }}" class="internal-link">{{ post.title }}</a></li>
+              {% endunless %}
+            {% endfor %}
+            </ul>
+            {% if year.name == '2012' %}
+              {% break %}
+            {% endif %}
+      {% endfor %}
+      
+          <br/>
+          <br/>
+  </main>
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2023-07-29-bmc-notes-site-revamp.md b/_posts/2024-01-01-more-revamp.md
similarity index 100%
rename from _posts/blog/2023-07-29-bmc-notes-site-revamp.md
rename to _posts/2024-01-01-more-revamp.md
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2002-11-09-welcome-to-b-mann-consulting.md b/_posts/archive/2002-11-09-welcome-to-b-mann-consulting.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 8ab1080..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2002-11-09-welcome-to-b-mann-consulting.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
----
-title: "Welcome to B Mann Consulting"
----
-Welcome to <strong>B. Mann Consulting</strong>, a technology consulting firm based in <strong>Ottawa, Canada</strong>.
-
-Boris Mann is the owner/operator. He does stuff.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2002-11-29-dream-cms.md b/_posts/archive/2002-11-29-dream-cms.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a31c7a6..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2002-11-29-dream-cms.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-title: "Dream CMS"
-created: 1038600180
-categories: 
-- BMC
-- Drupal
----
-After what seems like playing with every Content Management System known to personkind, my hopes are shattered.
-
-This site is now using <a href="http://www.drupal.org">Drupal</a>. Not bad, lots of features, relatively easy to set up, relatively easy to administer (there are cryptic sections), etc. etc.
-
-But what I want is a different front end. "Blocks" are a necessary evil to do *some* layout -- chunks of content or code that can be positioned in different areas.
-
-But wouldn't it be great if the layout/presentation could be entirely handled via CSS? It's not that hard! Just have all the different sections of a page use either a class or a unique id (there is probably only one "header" section, same for "footer") assigned to it's own div. Couple this with a template system that consists of exactly two files -- one that is just CSS, and one that is a bare-bones PHP file that lists the API calls to display the different sections (so you can change the ordering or put wrappers around them, or override them all together).
-
-OK. You have your task. Report back to me when done.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2002-12-03-50-places-to-see-before-you-die.md b/_posts/archive/2002-12-03-50-places-to-see-before-you-die.md
deleted file mode 100644
index bc11fdf..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2002-12-03-50-places-to-see-before-you-die.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,115 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: 50 places to see before you die
-created: 1038985920
-categories: 
-- Personal
-tags:
-- BBC
-- Class Afloat
-- travel
----
-<p>
-	Thanks to <a href="http://www.thedalzells.org">emd</a>, I found out about the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/50/">BBC&#39;s list of 50 places to see before you die</a>. Recreated here, along with some comments and/or the year I was there.</p>
-<ol>
-	<li>
-		The Grand Canyon</li>
-	<li>
-		Great Barrier Reef</li>
-	<li>
-		Florida (2001) During a Nortel trip. We flew into Miami then drove through the Everglades to the east coast.</li>
-	<li>
-		South Island</li>
-	<li>
-		Cape Town</li>
-	<li>
-		Golden Temple</li>
-	<li>
-		Las Vegas</li>
-	<li>
-		Sydney</li>
-	<li>
-		New York (2001) Easter - Kate, Alix, Matt, Melisa. Didn&#39;t go up the Twin Towers</li>
-	<li>
-		Taj Mahal</li>
-	<li>
-		Canadian Rockies Numerous times. Most recently, in 2003 when dropping Greg off in Calgary. We went to Banff one evening and swam in the hot springs.</li>
-	<li>
-		Uluru</li>
-	<li>
-		Chichen Itza - Mexico</li>
-	<li>
-		Machu Picchu - Peru</li>
-	<li>
-		Niagara Falls (2001) Thanksgiving - a great wine tour with Kate.</li>
-	<li>
-		Petra - Jordan</li>
-	<li>
-		The Pyramids - Egypt</li>
-	<li>
-		Venice Kate loved Venice when she went in 1999.</li>
-	<li>
-		Maldives First of the South Pacific entries. Supposed to be awesome for sailing adventures.</li>
-	<li>
-		Great Wall of China</li>
-	<li>
-		Victoria Falls - Zimbabwe</li>
-	<li>
-		Hong Kong (1993) Class Afloat. We were docked in Kowloon.</li>
-	<li>
-		Yosemite National Park</li>
-	<li>
-		Hawaii (1993) Class Afloat, once to Hilo, once to Honolulu. Hilo was cool and laid back. Honolulu is way too commercial/American.</li>
-	<li>
-		Auckland - New Zealand (1993) Class Afloat. Almost flew home from here. Don&#39;t really remember much.</li>
-	<li>
-		Iguassu Falls</li>
-	<li>
-		Paris (1991) Stayed with a family that had 10 children.</li>
-	<li>
-		Alaska</li>
-	<li>
-		Angkor Wat - Cambodia</li>
-	<li>
-		Himalayas - Nepal</li>
-	<li>
-		Rio de Janeiro - Brazil</li>
-	<li>
-		Masai Mara - Kenya</li>
-	<li>
-		Galapagos Islands - Ecuador (1993) Class Afloat. It&#39;s all about the wildlife. Even managed to go diving with Hammerhead sharks.</li>
-	<li>
-		Luxor - Egypt</li>
-	<li>
-		Rome</li>
-	<li>
-		San Francisco (1994) Class Afloat. Flew home from here. Also had a quick tour of Napa thanks to the Quanes</li>
-	<li>
-		Barcelona (1991) Slept at the train station. Headed back out of Spain the next day.</li>
-	<li>
-		Dubai</li>
-	<li>
-		Singapore (1993) Class Afloat. Almost went to Malaysia on a bus. Got lost on lots of buses. Soaked in torrential rains. Went to Toys R&#39; Us and Hard Rock Cafe. Little India was cool.</li>
-	<li>
-		La Digue - Seychelles</li>
-	<li>
-		Sri Lanka</li>
-	<li>
-		Bangkok</li>
-	<li>
-		Barbados</li>
-	<li>
-		Iceland</li>
-	<li>
-		Terracotta Army - China</li>
-	<li>
-		Zermatt - Switzerland</li>
-	<li>
-		Angel Falls - Venezuela</li>
-	<li>
-		Abu Simbel - Egypt</li>
-	<li>
-		Bali (1993) Class Afloat. Awesome. Monkey Temple. The Ambassador and drunkenness at the Four Seasons. Waaaay too many street vendors. Indonesian &quot;Bintang&quot; beer at the Swensen&#39;s ice cream parlour.</li>
-	<li>
-		French Polynesia (1993) Class Afloat. Incredible mix of Melanesian and French culture. Baguette, red wine, and palm trees.</li>
-</ol>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2002-12-03-configuration-configuration-configuration.md b/_posts/archive/2002-12-03-configuration-configuration-configuration.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c4519f9..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2002-12-03-configuration-configuration-configuration.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Configuration, configuration, configuration
-created: 1038981480
-categories: 
-- BMC
-- Drupal
----
-Wow -- Drupal is powerful. So many buttons to tweak. I'm only now beginning to appreciate the power....and be wary of it!
-
-First off, let's talk about taxonomy. Big word. Going to add it to the glossary later so that *I* know what it means. Basically, you can set up various levels of what other portal-type systems call categories or topics. The great thing is, you can make it apply to different types of nodes (the base content, whether a blog, a weblink, or even a poll, are all nodes) AND every defined category/topic can generate a separate RSS feed.
-
-Next, there is a little thing called "content filter" -- *don't* enable HTML tags! It screws lots of other things up.
-
-Other interesting things that got added are a glossary module, which puts either a little superscript link or icon next to defined words (plus a cool cursor-turns-to-question mark and tool-tip which gives you the definition) and the weblinks module.
-
-What else? Moderation -- turn this off, it's annoying unless you are running a khur05hin (sp?) clone. Authentication -- Jabber and Drupal come bundled out-of-the-box, you can add Blogger, Yahoo, Manila, and Delphi. Cool! What about hooks for "intranet"? LDAP?
-
-I'm sure there will be lots more things. I'm working on a no-tables, CSS-only theme -- should be interesting to see how that breaks everything, especially since I haven't looked at what the "block" format is like.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2002-12-05-home-server-woes.md b/_posts/archive/2002-12-05-home-server-woes.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 8b23d06..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2002-12-05-home-server-woes.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Home Server Woes
-created: 1039123920
-categories: 
-- E-smith
-- "*nix"
-- Home Server
----
-In the last 24 hours, I have downloaded 3 different distributions that I hoped would serve as an easy to use, easy to configure, home server.
-
-But, at the end of the day, I'm back at <a href="http://www.e-smith.org">E-smith</a>. It's got some annoying bits to it, a certain lack of flexibility in some respects, but that is also its strength: it just works.
-
-I'm going to start small, get a few things working, surf the forums, check out the how-tos. First order of business will be to see if I can get the BIOS on the machine I'm using to recognize the 80GB drive that we bought to store MP3s. Maybe just jumper settings on the *first* drive???
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2002-12-09-no-more-woes.md b/_posts/archive/2002-12-09-no-more-woes.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 0d87f29..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2002-12-09-no-more-woes.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: No More Woes
-created: 1039500900
-categories: 
-- E-smith
-- Home Server
----
-I was <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node.php?id=22">quite frustrated</a> with the server box that I have.
-
-First, installing an 80GB drive to hold our MP3s was a trial:
-<ul><li>Fiddle with jumpers on hard drives</li><li>Motherboard BIOS doesn't recognize 80GB</li><li>Figure out MB brand and current BIOS version</li><li>Download flash updater and new BIOS</li><li>Find floppy drive to install with</li><li>Find OS to make <a href="http://www.bootdisk.com/">bootable floppy</a> (that link was a lifesaver)</li><li>Flash BIOS</li><li><strong>Drive recognized!</strong></li></ul>After that, and finally settling back on <a href="http://www.e-smith.org">e-smith</a> as my Linux distro of choice (it seems like I mention it almost every post...it really is that good), it was just a matter of loading files.
-
-I'm using <a href="http://netjuke.sourceforge.net">NetJuke</a> to manage the MP3s. Basically, all files are on disc, but the data is stored in a database. Tools included for scanning various file directories. If you want access, email me and I'll send you a password.
-
-The only bad thing is that the fan on the server currently sounds like a jet turbine, which may be a problem seeing as how this will be Kate and mine's temporary bedroom while her mom visits.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2002-12-14-building-1200-pc-vs-2500-pc.md b/_posts/archive/2002-12-14-building-1200-pc-vs-2500-pc.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 4292ea6..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2002-12-14-building-1200-pc-vs-2500-pc.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,111 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Building $1200 PC vs. $2500 PC
-created: 1039917060
-categories: 
-- PC
-tags:
-- Microsoft
-- OEM Express
-- Multimedia PC
----
-<p>
-	My friend Graham was recently talking to me about his plans for putting together a fire-breathing, Quake-stomping, do-it-yourself gaming PC. He mentioned that his budget was around $2500CDN. I started thinking about this, and about how it would likely be possible to build a $1200 PC that wasn&#39;t optimized for gaming, but that could run all of todays games well. Plus, a year later, you could put together <strong>another</strong> $1200 PC, taking advantage of a year&#39;s worth of technology advances and price drops. So, here is my guide to putting together a $1200 PC. All prices (in fact, all the components) were ones that I could buy from my local low-price store, <a href="http://www.oemexpress.com">OEM Express</a>. All prices are, of course, in Canadian dollars. I&#39;m also going to steal Apple&#39;s concept of &quot;Good, Better, Best&quot;, with separate totals for each at the end.</p>
-<h2>
-	Motherboard</h2>
-<p>
-	For all intents and purposes, this <strong>is</strong> your PC. Although the graphics cards in systems have become increasingly more powerful/more important, all the technology of a system will ultimately be traced back to the motherboard. I&#39;m only going to be dealing with boards that support AMD processors -- in my opinion, they still give you the best bang for your buck.</p>
-<ul>
-	<li>
-		Good: <a href="http://www1.oemexpress.com/Itemdesc.asp?CartId={EB72AB7A-1A4D-4230-A333-CB8B2F012588}&amp;ic=MBDMSI%2D6712020&amp;Tp=">MSI KT4V-L KT400</a> ($149) KT400 chipset AC&#39;97 5.1 sound on-board Ethernet</li>
-	<li>
-		Better: <a href="http://www1.oemexpress.com/Itemdesc.asp?CartId={EB72AB7A-1A4D-4230-A333-CB8B2F012588}&amp;ic=MBDMSI%2D6590010&amp;Tp=">MSI KT4 Ultra</a> ($189) C-Media 8738MX 5.1 sound</li>
-	<li>
-		Best: <a href="http://www1.oemexpress.com/Itemdesc.asp?CartId={EB72AB7A-1A4D-4230-A333-CB8B2F012588}&amp;ic=MBDMSI%2D6590020&amp;Tp=">MSI KT4 Ultra KT400 w/RAID and SATA</a> ($219) C-Media 8738MX 5.1 sound Promise 20376 with 2 serial ATA ports</li>
-</ul>
-<h2>
-	Processors</h2>
-<p>
-	Whatever. Choose as fast as you can afford. Since we aren&#39;t shooting for the sky (is that a real saying?), we won&#39;t be recommending the very latest, fastest processors (actually, this is made easily, since OEM only carries three Athlon XP processors right now). Mmmm...the &quot;best&quot; is still pretty pricey.</p>
-<ul>
-	<li>
-		Good: <a href="http://www1.oemexpress.com/Itemdesc.asp?CartId={EB72AB7A-1A4D-4230-A333-CB8B2F012588}&amp;ic=CPUAMD%2DAX1700CR&amp;Tp=">Athlon XP 1700+ (1.47Ghz)</a> ($99)</li>
-	<li>
-		Better: <a href="http://www1.oemexpress.com/Itemdesc.asp?CartId={EB72AB7A-1A4D-4230-A333-CB8B2F012588}&amp;ic=CPUAMD%2DAX2100CR&amp;Tp=">Athlon XP 2100+ (1.73Ghz)</a> ($149)</li>
-	<li>
-		Best: <a href="http://www1.oemexpress.com/Itemdesc.asp?CartId={EB72AB7A-1A4D-4230-A333-CB8B2F012588}&amp;ic=CPUAMD%2DAX2200CR&amp;Tp=">Athlon XP 2200+ (1.80Ghz)</a> ($259)</li>
-</ul>
-<h2>
-	Memory</h2>
-<p>
-	This section is boring as well. I&#39;ll go out on a limb and spec out only DDR333 memory.</p>
-<ul>
-	<li>
-		Good: <a href="http://www1.oemexpress.com/Itemdesc.asp?CartId={EB72AB7A-1A4D-4230-A333-CB8B2F012588}&amp;ic=MEMAZE%2D333512&amp;Tp=">256MB</a> ($99)</li>
-	<li>
-		Better: <a href="http://www1.oemexpress.com/Itemdesc.asp?CartId={EB72AB7A-1A4D-4230-A333-CB8B2F012588}&amp;ic=MEMAZE%2D333512&amp;Tp=">512MB</a> ($199)</li>
-	<li>
-		Best: 2x512MB ($398)</li>
-</ul>
-<h2>
-	Video Card</h2>
-<p>
-	This is the part that&#39;s hard. You want something with pretty good performance, which today means at least 64MB of memory. Next, there are all sorts of options -- firewire, tv-out, TV tuner, etc. etc. Since we&#39;re not building this PC for any special purpose, but a mix of home uses, we&#39;ll want a little bit of everything. This is a section that&#39;s going to be easy to argue with. I&#39;m going to say that $100, $200, and $300+ are the three levels to aim for. I would probably choose the AIW 7500 card because of all the bundled features -- RF remote, TV tuner, etc. etc.</p>
-<ul>
-	<li>
-		Good: <a href="http://www1.oemexpress.com/Itemdesc.asp?CartId={EB72AB7A-1A4D-4230-A333-CB8B2F012588}&amp;ic=VIDATI%2DR7564O&amp;Tp=">ATI Radeon 7500 DDR 64M</a> ($109)</li>
-	<li>
-		Better: <a href="http://www1.oemexpress.com/Itemdesc.asp?CartId={EB72AB7A-1A4D-4230-A333-CB8B2F012588}&amp;ic=VIDATI%2DAIW7500R&amp;Tp=">ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon 7500 64M</a> ($209)</li>
-	<li>
-		Best: <a href="http://www1.oemexpress.com/Itemdesc.asp?CartId={EB72AB7A-1A4D-4230-A333-CB8B2F012588}&amp;ic=VIDATI%2DAIW8500R&amp;Tp=">ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon 8500DV</a> ($299)</li>
-</ul>
-<h2>
-	Optical Drive</h2>
-<p>
-	Let&#39;s not mess around: just pick a combo (CD-RW/DVD) drive and be done with it... <a href="http://www1.oemexpress.com/Itemdesc.asp?CartId={EB72AB7A-1A4D-4230-A333-CB8B2F012588}&amp;ic=OPTLGE%2DGCC4320B&amp;Tp=">LG 32X10X40X16 CDRW/DVD</a> ($139)</p>
-<h2>
-	Hard Drive</h2>
-<p>
-	How many MP3s do you really want to store? How many multi-GB games are you going to install? Before you know it, your hard drive is full and you&#39;re scrambling to add another one.</p>
-<ul>
-	<li>
-		Good: <a href="http://www1.oemexpress.com/Itemdesc.asp?CartId={EB72AB7A-1A4D-4230-A333-CB8B2F012588}&amp;ic=HDDMAX%2D6Y060L0O&amp;Tp=">60GB</a> ($139)</li>
-	<li>
-		Better: <a href="http://www1.oemexpress.com/Itemdesc.asp?CartId={EB72AB7A-1A4D-4230-A333-CB8B2F012588}&amp;ic=HDDMAX%2D6L080J4O&amp;Tp=">80GB</a> ($179)</li>
-	<li>
-		Best: <a href="http://www1.oemexpress.com/Itemdesc.asp?CartId={EB72AB7A-1A4D-4230-A333-CB8B2F012588}&amp;ic=HDDWDC%2DWD1200JB&amp;Tp=">120GB</a> ($299)</li>
-</ul>
-<h2>
-	Case plus</h2>
-<p>
-	You&#39;ll still need a few other bits and pieces before you&#39;ve got a full computer. Case and power supply, $50 - $150 Keyboard and mouse, $50 - $150 Fans, assembly, misc, $50 - $100</p>
-<h2>
-	Totals</h2>
-<p>
-	Good: $884 Better: $1339 Best: $2013</p>
-<h2>
-	Summary</h2>
-<p>
-	There you have it -- three machines, all with good components, ranging in price from $900 to $2000. The &quot;better&quot; box comes pretty close to $1200, but I&#39;d be happy with even the &quot;good&quot; box. So...what&#39;s the point? Well, let&#39;s just use a specific example. I bought a PC box that I spec&#39;ed out myself almost exactly a year ago. After taxes (which aren&#39;t included in the prices above), I paid pretty close to $1100. Even the &quot;good&quot; box is much better than what I bought a year ago. For example, my board has USB2.0, and I didn&#39;t have WinXP drivers for the first 4 months!</p>
-<h2>
-	Current PC</h2>
-<p>
-	(note -- this has weird mix of features, mainly because I wasn&#39;t sure whether I would be turning it into a server or not, so I skimped in some areas, splurged in others)</p>
-<ul>
-	<li>
-		Motherboard: MSI MS-6380 USB2, AC97, RAID</li>
-	<li>
-		Processor: AMD Duron 1GHz</li>
-	<li>
-		Memory: 256MB PC133</li>
-	<li>
-		Video Card: GeForce2 32MB w/TV out</li>
-	<li>
-		Optical Drive: CD-RW 16x/10x/40x</li>
-	<li>
-		Hard Drive: 40GB</li>
-	<li>
-		Case plus: generic keyboard and scroll mouse, generic case w/ front USB and p/s, assembly was $30 including a 1 year warranty</li>
-</ul>
-<p>
-	I&#39;ve never used the RAID on this board, and I&#39;m starting to feel the pain of both the slow processor and the minimal memory. The system has had everything from Win98 to WinXP installed on it, with Win2K Advanced Server thrown in for good measure. Quite a few games played, and while some of the intense 3D ones (Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, Dungeon Siege, Neverwinter Nights -- ya, I like RPGs) can&#39;t be run at highest resolution, it hasn&#39;t detracted from my enjoyment of them, and, more importantly, they haven&#39;t played slowly.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2002-12-19-bmc-goes-table-less.md b/_posts/archive/2002-12-19-bmc-goes-table-less.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 01c304f..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2002-12-19-bmc-goes-table-less.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: BMC goes table-less!
-created: 1040343720
-categories: 
-- BMC
----
-I have been doing lots of work lately on table-less layouts, and finally found a little time to come back and finish implementing it here. The default theme (if you haven't selected one in your (<a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/module.php?mod=user">user account</a>) is now one of my own making, as opposed to a slightly adapted one that I got <a href="http://www.trip.ee">elsewhere</a>.
-
-This theme is called "notable" -- get it, get it?!?
-
-Hopefully it isn't horribly broken in strange and unnamed browsers. I started off with some CSS <a href="http://www.glish.com/css/7.asp">from Glish.com</a> that is supposed to contain all the "cross browser hacks", but I ended up taking them out.
-
-So far, looks nice in IE6/Win32 and Chimera/OSX. Since most of the visitors here won't deviate too widely from those two, it should be OK. Except if there are still some pesky IE5/Win32 users out there...
-
-And, if you are submitting/commenting, the extra stuff on the left overlaps with the right column. Haven't found what knobs to tweak to affect those sections yet.
-
-If you're interested in CSS and table-less layouts, check out the Web Tools section in links.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2002-12-19-lotr-the-two-towers.md b/_posts/archive/2002-12-19-lotr-the-two-towers.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e5fd70e..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2002-12-19-lotr-the-two-towers.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: LOTR - The Two Towers
-created: 1040332920
-categories: 
-- Review
----
-I went and saw it yesterday, at a 4pm matinee showing.
-
-It was good. It was very good. I was amazed at how well Gollum/Smeagol was done. There were very few instances where I thought "Oh right, it is a CG-character" -- very lifelike.
-
-Heck, the Ents were well done too. Only a few of the "close up on hobbits being carried" did I "notice" that it wasn't real.
-
-But enough with the CG comments...well, maybe a couple more. The AI used to make the battle scenes is called "Massive", and <a href="http://www.arstechnica.com/archive/news/1039832250.html">Ars Technica has a good article about it</a>. The battle scenes were parts where I definitely couldn't tell the difference between actors and CG. First there were close-ups, orcs roaring and showing their teeth, and the next minute a couple dozen orcs are falling off a ladder and landing with a sickening squish/crunch sound on hundreds of others.
-
-Was a little disappointed that they shortened the battle of Helmsdeep -- i.e. it doesn't last 5 days. But, it was a <b>very</b> intense battle scene. There were some humourous interludes put in just to lighten the mood from the pure intensity of the fighting. My favourite is probably "dwarf tossing". Only movie other than "Jackass" where I have actually seen dwarf tossing...
-
-So, go see it. Definitely a worth sequel. My friend Trevor is already rejoicing over the fact that, in approximately 2 years from now, he will be able to get the Uber-Special-Extra Edition with all three movies in one box, and then watch all of them, in a row.
-
-Of course, Trevor had a few other things to say as well, like "as major, archetypical characters, first comes Frodo, second comes Jesus". From his wife (actually, commenting on the first movie) comes the comment "Too much sword-fighting, not enough talking". If that was your view on the first movie, you probably won't like the second...
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2002-12-19-peasants-placated-peons-pave-poppies.md b/_posts/archive/2002-12-19-peasants-placated-peons-pave-poppies.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 17eefdd..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2002-12-19-peasants-placated-peons-pave-poppies.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Peasants Placated, Peons Pave Poppies
-created: 1040344740
-categories: 
-- BMC
----
-That's right. The general outcry against comment mischief with the Drupal engine and this website has been <em>solved</em>! No thanks to me, in general.
-
-<a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/module.php?mod=user&op=view&id=5">Evan</a> was the first to raise the alarm, rallying the troops to storm the firewalls and load balancers that protected this last outpost of journalistic fascism.
-
-He brought in rhymes, dead South American freedom fights, and even tossed a dwarf or two.
-
-Luckily, after a thorough search of the options available in the bowels of the administrative interface, and a short lull in work projects, the proper knobs were found and promptly tweaked.
-
-Fear no more. Comment away. Dance, sing, and be merry!
-
-(and perhaps get some sleep...)
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2002-12-21-enabling-anonymous-ftp.md b/_posts/archive/2002-12-21-enabling-anonymous-ftp.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 4c7bb18..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2002-12-21-enabling-anonymous-ftp.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Enabling Anonymous FTP
-created: 1040517000
-categories:
-- How To
-tags:
-- OS X
-- FTP
-- Mac
-
-
----
-There are two versions of this. One is valid only for pre-10.2 systems, and there is actually no complete solution yet for 10.2.x systems.
-
-First, a little background. FTP stands for "File Transfer Protocol". As opposed to HTTP (Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol), FTP is optimized for transmitting files. Better FTP servers and clients have support for things like resumable downloads, a key factor if you're downloading very large files and/or have a slow or unstable Internet connection.
-
-Through the Sharing panel in System Preferences, you can enable/disable FTP access to your system. By default, Mac OS X does not allow "anonymous" FTP. That is, every user who connects to your system using FTP must sign in with a user name and password. Anonymous FTP allows anyone to log on to your system, although generally with very restrictive permissions as to what they can do.
-
-There are two solutions to allowing people without accounts on your system. One is to create a regular user account that is used only to offer FTP access, and distribute the user name and password. This has the drawback of being a fairly high security risk, since this is a fully privileged account on the system.
-
-The other solution is to enable anonymous FTP, which is what (hopefully) this set of instructions will help you do. Anonymous FTP has its own set of security problems, but careful use of permissions and a <code>chroot</code> environment can minimize this.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2002-12-21-instructions-for-pre-10-2-systems.md b/_posts/archive/2002-12-21-instructions-for-pre-10-2-systems.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 42fad82..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2002-12-21-instructions-for-pre-10-2-systems.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Instructions for pre 10.2 systems
-created: 1040519760
-categories:
-- How To
-tags:
-- Mac
-- OS X
-- FTP
-
----
-Anonymous FTP allows users without an account on your system to connect to your machine using FTP. Depending on the permissions you set, you can enable only downloads, or uploads and downloads, on a per folder basis. Enabling anonymous FTP means that anything you make accessible to the ftp user can be downloaded by anyone that finds your machine (i.e. knows your IP or domain name and types it into their ftp client).</p>		<p class="note">This was done once on a &quot;vanilla&quot; install of Mac OS X 10.1, and not tested by me on any other machine. I plan on maintaining this document and noting changes and updates as I go. The most recent document will always be available at <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/macosx/tipsntricks/">http://www.bmannconsulting.com/macosx/tipsntricks/</a>. I am <b>not</b> responsible if you screw up your machine or someone downloads your secret files after you follow these instructions -- they are for informative purposes only.</p>		<h2>Table of Contents</h2>		<ul>			<li><a href="#before_starting">Before Starting</a></li>			<li><a href="#setup">Setup</a></li>			<li><a href="#sources">Sources</a></li>			<li><a href="#acknowledgements">Acknowledgements</a></li>		</ul>		<h2><a name="before_starting"></a>Before Starting</h2>		
-You'll need to be logged in as a user with administrative privileges. You'll also need to be somewhat comfortable with entering commands into the Terminal commandline.</p>		<h2><a name="setup"></a>Setup</h2>		<ol>			<li>Go to &quot;System Preferences&quot; and select the &quot;Users&quot; control panel.			<ol type="a">				<li>Hit the &quot;New User...&quot; button</li>				<li>On the next screen, type in <span class="code">Anonymous FTP</span> (or anything you'd like) for the 'Full Name' field. For the 'Short Name' field, type in <span class="code">ftp</span>.</li>				<li>Just hit &quot;OK&quot; at this point -- don't fill out anything on the Password tab.</li>			</ol>			</li>			<li>Next, open the &quot;NetInfo Manager&quot; application (should be in the Utilities folder of your Applications folder).			<ol type="a">				<li type="a">In the middle column, there should be a directory named &quot;users&quot; at the very bottom (you'll need to scroll down); highlight this directory.</li>				<li type="a">The third column should now display the list of users (short names) on your system; hilight the &quot;ftp&quot; user.</li>				<li type="a">The field at the bottom of the window should have a label that says &quot;Directory: ftp&quot;. The list of Properties and Values should look just like the screen shot below. Double-click on the &quot;Value(s)&quot; field to edit them, and delete (select the entire row then hit the 'Delete' key) any properties not listed below. The only thing which may differ is the uid value -- this value is automatically incremented and will be different if you have more or less users.<br>					<a href="/images/netinfo_ftp_user.jpg" border="0" target="_new"><img src="/images/netinfo_ftp_user_sml.jpg" vspace="10" alt="NetInfo Manager" border="0"><br>Click for a larger version.</a>					<br><br></li>				<li type="a">Quit NetInfo. You'll be prompted if you really, really want to save the changes, so select &quot;OK&quot; both times.<br><br></li>			</ol>			</li>			<li>Now we get to go play in the Terminal! Open the &quot;Terminal&quot; application, also in your &quot;Utilities&quot; folder by default. The first sudo command will list a warning and prompt you for your password -- you will need to be a user with administrative privileges.			<p class="code">Welcome to Darwin!</p>			<p class="code">[localhost:~] yourusername%</p>			The above is what it should say in your Terminal window, where &quot;yourusername&quot; is what the Short Name for your user account is.			<ol type="a">				<li>Go to the ftp users home directory:				<p class="code">cd /Users/ftp</p>				<p class="code">[localhost:/Users/ftp] yourusername%</p></li>				<li>Delete all the folders in the directory -- be incredibly careful with this command, and make sure that you've typed the path correctly!				<p class="code">sudo rm -rf /Users/ftp/*</p></li>				<li>Create necessary folders:				<p class="code">[localhost:/Users/ftp] yourusername%</p>				<p class="code">sudo mkdir pub</p></li>				<li>Restrict the anonymous ftp users to only the local ftp user folder:				<p class="code">[localhost:/Users/ftp] yourusername%</p>				<p class="code">sudo chroot -u ftp /Users/ftp</p>				<p class="note">You may get an error message after running this command, but ignore it, it did what it was supposed to.</p></li>				<li>Set the ownership &amp; permissions on the folders:				<p class="code">[localhost:/Users/ftp] yourusername%</p>				<p class="code">sudo chown -R root.nobody /Users/ftp</p>				<p class="code">sudo chown -R root.staff pub</p>				<p class="code">sudo chmod 555 /Users/ftp</p>				<p class="code"><a name="permissions"></a>sudo chmod 755 pub</p></li>			</ol>			</li>			<li>You're done! Now all you need to do is test it.			<ol type="a">				<li>Open Internet Explorer, any other of your favourite browsers, or an FTP client you are comfortable with.</li>				<li>Enter in the address <span class="code">ftp://localhost</span> (alternately, enter your hostname or your IP address if you know it). You should see a directory listing with a folder icon labelled <span class="code">pub</span>, which is the initial folder you created.				<p class="note">Put things in the pub directory to allow people to start downloading them. Remember, anything you put in the pub directory will be available to anyone.</p></li>			</ol>			</li>		</ol>		<h2><a name="sources"></a>Sources</h2><dl><dt>X Appeal.org:</dt><dd>
-<a href="http://www.xappeal.org/archive/anon_FTP.shtml" target="_blank">Setting Up Your Own Anonymous FTP Server</a></p><dd>
-These instructions were for Mac OS X Server. I used them as a guide when setting it up under Mac OS 10.1.</p><dt>man ftpd:</dt><dd>
-Output from the Mac OS X 10.1.1 &quot;<span class="code">man ftpd</span>&quot; command. I've recreated it <a href="/man_ftpd.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</p></dl>		<h2><a name="acknowledgements"></a>Acknowledgements</h2>				<dl>		<dt>Testing and Feedback</dt>		<dd>
-Karl Timmerman</p>		</dl>				</td></tr><tr><td class="type5" width="90%" valign="top"><b>FAQ</b>
-	
-Please check the <a href="/mod.php?mod=questions&id_cat=1">current FAQs</a>. If you have any questions, you can also submit them directly.</p>
-</p></td></tr><tr><td class="type5" width="90%" valign="top"><b>Changelog</b>
-		<dl><dt>Version 1.2a, February 23, 2002</dt><dd><ul><li>Moved page to phpWebSite system</li><li>Moved FAQ to Questions plug-in for phpWebSite</li></ul>		<dt>Version 1.2, January 21, 2002</dt>		<dd><ul><li>Removed red herring about copying commands in to ftp user directory</li>		<li>Made changes to pub permissions to allow downloads only</li>		<li>Moved FAQ to faqengine</li>		</ul>		<dt>Version 1.1, November 17, 2001</dt>		<dd><ul><li>First feed back</li>		<li>Added sudo in front of copy commands</li>		<li>Added FAQ with instructions for welcome message and upload/download permissions</li>		</ul>		<dt>Version 1.0,  November 9, 2001</dt>		<dd><ul><li>Initial write up</li></ul>		</dl>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2002-12-22-linux-falling-into-same-trap-a-call-for-innovation.md b/_posts/archive/2002-12-22-linux-falling-into-same-trap-a-call-for-innovation.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 20173d5..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2002-12-22-linux-falling-into-same-trap-a-call-for-innovation.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Linux Falling Into Same Trap?  A Call for Innovation?
-created: 1040585940
-categories: 
-- "*nix"
-- Open Source
----
-An <A Href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,768274,00.asp"> article</a> I saw referenced on <a href="http://slashdot.org/articles/02/12/22/1617210.shtml?tid=106">/.</a>.  It's an interesting take on the innovation problem... especially with regards to software and in particular an OS.  How does one encourage innovation?  I mean, it is extremely tough to get someone to commit something new and most people inherently resist change.  Will the tablet PC cause changes?  Is there another form factor that might?  It's all about use in my opinion... how do you use your PC? How would it be better used...  I don't think I like much of the ole'<a href="http://www.wearcomp.org/defs/">wearable computer</a> stuff... but what's a better form factor and UI?
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2002-12-23-boxes-and-arrows-beauty-is-only-screen-deep-sarah-horton.md b/_posts/archive/2002-12-23-boxes-and-arrows-beauty-is-only-screen-deep-sarah-horton.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 4f69778..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2002-12-23-boxes-and-arrows-beauty-is-only-screen-deep-sarah-horton.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Boxes and Arrows - Beauty is Only Screen Deep (Sarah Horton)
-created: 1040661420
-link: http://boxesandarrows.com/beauty-is-only-screen-deep/
-categories: 
-- Web Development
-tags:
-- quote
-- usability
----
-<blockquote>
-It used to be that we thought we needed to pretty up the web so people would use it. Those days are long gone. Today's web user is after a meaningful experience, not just a good time, and has little need for adornments. Maybe it's because we've grown up some: the technology, and those who use it. I can now see that the beauty of the web lies in its function, not its form, and I would rather that my sites attract attention because they are widely useful and usable than because they are pretty.
-</blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2002-12-23-digitalmass-mitch-kapor-and-chandler-vs-ms-outlook.md b/_posts/archive/2002-12-23-digitalmass-mitch-kapor-and-chandler-vs-ms-outlook.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 34b6a27..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2002-12-23-digitalmass-mitch-kapor-and-chandler-vs-ms-outlook.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: digitalMASS - Mitch Kapor and "Chandler" vs. MS Outlook
-created: 1040683320
-categories: 
-- Open Source
-tags:
-- Chandler
-- OSAF
-- Mitch Kapor
----
-This has been in the news a bit lately. Mitch Kapor, creator of Lotus 1-2-3, is attempting to build an open source Outlook competitor, currently named "Chandler". He founded and runs the <a href="http://www.osafoundation.org/">OSAF - Open Source Applications Foundation</a>.
-
-The <a href="http://www.osafoundation.org/technology.htm">technology page about Chandler</a> is also interesting -- combining Python, Jabber, Zope, RDF, and Mozilla.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2002-12-23-osx-at-freshmeat.md b/_posts/archive/2002-12-23-osx-at-freshmeat.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 80c651c..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2002-12-23-osx-at-freshmeat.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: OSX at Freshmeat
-created: 1040683140
-categories: 
-- "*nix"
-- Mac
----
-Freshmeat now has a dedicated section for Mac OS X. Truly a sign of how many *NIX geeks are getting OS X.
-<blockquote>
-We've had trove nodes for the Mac OS X operating system and the Mac OS X Carbon and Cocoa frameworks for ages. We've had an OS X package download link for ages. Now we officially have a whole freshmeat section devoted to the next generation of Apple's operating system.
-</blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2002-12-23-plone.md b/_posts/archive/2002-12-23-plone.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 311692b..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2002-12-23-plone.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Plone
-created: 1040682000
-categories: 
-- Web 2.0
-tags:
-- Plone
-- Zope
-- Python
----
-Lloyd had <a href="/archive/dream-cms/" title="/node.php?id=2&cid=16&pid=0#16">posted a comment</a> asking what I knew of/thought of this Zope-based CMS system -- Plone.
-
-I went and had a quick look today. As I mentioned, it is built on top of Zope, which is itself a server/development environment/lots of other things that is written in Python.
-
-I imagine Plone has lots of the same benefits as Zope -- object-oriented, built-in management of permissions/roles for users and groups, etc., as well as the same drawbacks -- must be run on top of Zope, steep learning curve, low availability of skilled Python/Zope developers.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2002-12-23-the-register-microsoft-to-acquire-macromedia.md b/_posts/archive/2002-12-23-the-register-microsoft-to-acquire-macromedia.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 5c9b063..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2002-12-23-the-register-microsoft-to-acquire-macromedia.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: The Register - Microsoft to Acquire Macromedia?
-created: 1040680260
-categories: 
-- Microsoft
----
-According to <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk">The Register</a>, Microsoft may be <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/28667.html">considering purchasing Macromedia</a>.
-
-This would be horrible! Macromedia has done a fantastic job of advancing their products to be very standards compliant and cross-platform. The Register points out:
-<blockquote cite="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/28667.html" title="Microsoft plots Macromedia coup against Java">An acquisition, though, would be seen as a hostile move deliberately designed to thwart J2EE uptake. Flash is a powerful and rich development environment, which - through Macromedia's changes this year - took a step closer to J2EE.</blockquote>Flash, Coldfusion (by deploying on J2EE app servers) and Dreamweaver are all cross-platform, both on the client and the server side.
-
-Again from The Register:
-<blockquote>A Microsoft acquisition of Macromedia would inevitably see Flash, and Macromedia's other cross-platform tools, tailored purely for Windows and .NET.</blockquote>Aaaaaahhhh!!! (Sounds of Boris running screaming around and around, tearing at his hair). I really, really, REALLY hope this doesn't happen. Perhaps I should call Lloyd and get him to see if IBM will buy Macromedia instead...
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-01-07-macworld-wants-your-ilife.md b/_posts/archive/2003-01-07-macworld-wants-your-ilife.md
deleted file mode 100644
index ca0665e..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-01-07-macworld-wants-your-ilife.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
----
-title: Macworld wants your (i)Life
-date: 2003-01-07
-modified: 2020-05-18T16:58:26.504Z
-tags: mac, archive
----
-I spent 2 hours this afternoon watching the live webcast of Steve Jobs giving the Macworld San Francisco 2003 keynote.
-
-Lots of people were hoping for an iPhone or a video iPod (whatever the heck that was supposed to look like), but there was nary a funky piece of hardware to be seen. Lots and lots of cool software, though!
-
-Well, almost no hardware. There is a new, 17" widescreen PowerBook as well as a tiny, 12" PowerBook. Since they are now made of anodized Aluminum (or Al-u-minium if you're Jonathan Ives), I'm going to call them BigAl and LittleAl -- remember, you heard it here first! Integrated 802.11g, Bluetooth, and back-lit keyboards are some other features.
-
-So, on to software. <a href="http://www.apple.com/ilife/">iLife</a> is the phrase of the week. Basically, iTunes, iMovie, iPhoto, and iDVD have all been given steriods, and even though they remain separate applications, there is a very high degree of integration between them. Some of the features I thought really useful were archiving of iPhoto directly to CD or DVD, including slide shows with background music from iTunes if you like.
-
-New versions of iMovie and iPhoto will be available for free download on January 25th. iDVD will not be available for free, "because it's too big" (says Steve Jobs). A boxed version of all 4 applications will be $49US.
-
-A new super-browser, named <a href="http://www.apple.com/safari/">Safari</a>, direct from Apple. Based on KDE's <a href="http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/kdeqt/kde3arch/khtml/">KHTML</a> library, Apple will be releasing their open source improvements back to the community today. I've already got it running as my main browser, and the only thing I miss from Chimera is tabs. Fast. FAST! Some other innovative features, like "snapback", which takes you back to the top of a website, or to the start of your Google search results (Google is the integrated search).
-
-<a href="http://www.apple.com/keynote/">Keynote</a> was the only fully for-pay application -- a presentation application that kicks PowerPoint up and down the street, as well allowing for import of existing PowerPoint documents.
-
-Something that didn't come up in Jobs' speech was <a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/x11/">X11</a>. Apple released a beta version of their own distribution of <a href="http://www.xfree86.org">Xfree86</a>, including a Quartz-compatible window manager that is OpenGL accelerated. Just like everything else from Apple, it's a one-click install that....just works.
-
-Finally, Jobs publicly announced that 802.11a, the higher-speed/incompatible wireless standard, would fail. Apple is backing 802.11g, calling it "Airport Extreme". The new basestations support bridging and USB printer sharing, and work with both 802.11b/g clients. And, of course, the new PowerBooks both have built-in Bluetooth.
-
-<hr />
-
-More of a summary than tons of thoughts and opinions. The 12" PowerBook is the first "affordable" PowerBook for me -- I would definitely take a PB-class notebook over an iBook. Before, I couldn't consider a PowerBook because it was simply way out of my price range. Not only does LittleAl meet a better price point, it also fulfills the main purpose of a notebook -- portability!
-
-Of course, I did keep expecting Steve Jobs to fold over the screens of the two PowerBooks and show us that they were actually tablets...
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-01-11-hunting-with-bungalow-bill.md b/_posts/archive/2003-01-11-hunting-with-bungalow-bill.md
deleted file mode 100644
index fbf80a7..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-01-11-hunting-with-bungalow-bill.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Hunting with Bungalow Bill
-created: 1042329300
-categories: 
-- Application
-- Mac
----
-posting with Safari on 10.2.3. This is much faster that 10.1.5 ever was. Wow.
-
-I like Safari. I will post lots more about this on my webspace later.
-Right now, what I want to know is how do I make Safari save my login and password for various sites I use?? So far it seems to not have a password management system?!? Aren't these things pretty much required these days??
-Post followups if you know what ta do!
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-01-11-leftover-turkey.md b/_posts/archive/2003-01-11-leftover-turkey.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 6da827b..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-01-11-leftover-turkey.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Leftover Turkey
-created: 1042295700
-categories:
-- Personal
-tags:
-- Ottawa
-- recipe
-- turkey
-
----
-At Christmas time, we had bought a turkey, but ended up getting invited over to Troy and Tan's place for Christmas day. So -- leftover turkey in the freezer that never got cooked.
-
-We decided to invite a whole bunch of people over to help devour said bird, along with some other stuff I made.
-
-We ended up with over a dozen people. I had also mentioned that folks should bring a bottle of wine or two, preferably ones they hadn't tried before.
-
-Since the turkey was quite small (it was meant to feed Kate, her mom, and me), I had to get some more main course. At the store, it turned out that some nice pork roasts were on sale. Well..."roast" is perhaps a bit of an overstatement -- these things were giant hunks of pork.
-
-<hr>
-Perhaps it doesn't sound that appetizing, but it was really tasty. I got out the knife and did some work on the hunks, cutting off most of the big layer of fat. Then, I seasoned with black pepper, coriander, paprika, and garlic powder, placed the oven on broil and placed the pork (fat side down) in a roasting pan.
-
-After browning on both sides (about 10 - 15min per side), I took it out of the oven and added a can each of pears, pineapple rings, and peaches, reserving the juice separately. I stirred a couple of tablespoons of Patak's "Hot" curry paste (brandname -- just make sure you use past instead of powder) into the juices, then poured those over top as well.
-
-Back in the oven it went, where it cooked at 375 for about 2 hours. If you have thick pieces of meat or just want it to cook faster, cut the pork into 2 - 3" pieces. Easy and tasty, with <strong>lots</strong> of yummy sauce to put over rice, potatoes, or pasta.
-<hr>
-
-That was our "recipe interlude". In case you're interested, the rest of the meal consisted of the turkey, garlic mashed potatoes, honey dilled carrots, and vegetarian stuffing, plus an assortment of breads and buns.
-
-For dessert, Tanya brought apple pie and ice cream, Jody donated some of her world famous rum balls, and we made coffee. As well, I opened up a really nice bottle of 25 year old port I had sitting around.
-
-Then it was on to the festivities. We divided into four teams and played <a href="http://www.playcranium.com/">Cranium</a>  -- a great game for larger groups of people.
-
-By this time it was around 11pm, and people started wandering off. A few stayed behind to play a couple of hands of Euchre. Full of food and wine, we closed up shop shortly before 1am. Next time -- seafood!
-
-You can <a href="http://gallery.bmannconsulting.com/jan11dinner">check out the pictures</a> if you want.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-01-17-laser-squad-nemesis.md b/_posts/archive/2003-01-17-laser-squad-nemesis.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c6e5b42..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-01-17-laser-squad-nemesis.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Laser Squad Nemesis
-created: 1042833300
-categories: 
-- Application
-- Game
-- Microsoft
----
-Apparently, this game has been getting very good reviews. It is a two player, play-by-email game that is currently only available for Windows. Its creators are also the designers of the X-COM series.
-
-You can download the game and play 3 games for free, as well as play "hotseat" games where you switch seats with a 2nd player. Subscriptions are $25 for 6 months.
-
-Anyone know of other play-by-email games?
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-01-19-netnewswire.md b/_posts/archive/2003-01-19-netnewswire.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 7e41da6..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-01-19-netnewswire.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: NetNewsWire
-created: 1043033820
-categories: 
-- Application
-- Mac
----
-An RSS-newsreader that has become indispensible for me -- I use it to read all my "daily" websites, and managed to discover more in the process.
-<blockquote>
-NetNewsWire is an easy-to-use RSS news reader for web sites. It presents a familiar three-paned interface?like that of Outlook Express or Mailsmith?to display websites and their news.
-
-And as a Cocoa application it?s a completely native OS X app.
-
-Features
-- Remembers which items you?ve read, and lets you know when there are new items, so you spend less time surfing.
-
-- Reads RSS news files from thousands of different websites.
-
-- No up-front configuration required: getting started is just a matter of launching the application.
-
-- Familiar interface means there isn?t a bunch to learn.
-
-- Subscriptions can be grouped via drag-and-drop, so you can organize your news your way.
-
-- Comes with hundreds of sites you can subscribe to with one click.
-
-- Customizable appearance, including colors and window transparency.
-
-- Imports and exports subscriptions files compatible with other RSS readers.
-</blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-01-21-emila.md b/_posts/archive/2003-01-21-emila.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 1fb6272..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-01-21-emila.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Emila
-created: 1043218620
-categories: 
-- Application
-- Mac
----
-Finally! An easier, friendlier version of <a href="http://guests.evectors.it/zoe/">Zoe</a>.
-<blockquote>
-<strong>What is Emila?</strong>
-Emila is an indexing and search tool for your email. It creates a master database of your existing email, and lets you perform various kinds of searching and filtering on that database.
-
-<strong>What's the deal with the name?</strong>
-Emila is a different way to look at email. Get it? Get it? Ha! 
-</blockquote>
-
-Basically, think of cross-referencing every single email that you have, using every single piece of information attached to the email -- sender, domain, date, subject, etc. etc.
-
-Definitely a fine example of intertwingling. Am going off to install it now (and then I'm going to bed...no, really, I am).
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-01-23-helloworld.md b/_posts/archive/2003-01-23-helloworld.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 8ac7b06..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-01-23-helloworld.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: HelloWorld
-created: 1043355900
-categories: 
-- Application
-- Mac
-- Microsoft
----
-This is a new application with all the buzzwords -- p2p file sharing, instant messaging, search agents, web serving.
-
-The site says that a "preview release" will be available, free of charge, initially for Win32, with Mac OS X version "scheduled for 2003".
-
-Sounds like a bunch of interesting components, almost like what <a href="http://www.groove.net/">Groove</a> was hoping to be.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-01-23-instructions-for-10-2-x-jaguar.md b/_posts/archive/2003-01-23-instructions-for-10-2-x-jaguar.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 5f4bf0f..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-01-23-instructions-for-10-2-x-jaguar.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Instructions for 10.2.x (Jaguar)
-created: 1043343840
-categories:
-- Mac
-- How To
-- OS X
-- FTP
-
----
-Sorry folks -- I wish I had a good answer here, but I've spent a couple of hours fiddling with trying to get this working, with no success so far.
-
-There are essentially two workarounds:
-<ol>
-<li><strong>Create a user account to be used only for FTP</strong><br />
-Need to lock down account so it can't see the rest of the system, can't logon to the command line, etc.</li>
-<li><strong>Use a different FTP server</strong><br />
-This means installing a separate FTP server to be used for anonymous FTP. It would have its own permissions system, and would have to run on a custom port (unless you disabled Apple's built-in FTP, which is already using the standard FTP port).</li>
-</ol>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-01-23-mitel-sme-server-5-6-developer-release.md b/_posts/archive/2003-01-23-mitel-sme-server-5-6-developer-release.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 1608915..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-01-23-mitel-sme-server-5-6-developer-release.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Mitel SME Server 5.6 Developer Release
-created: 1043355540
-categories: 
-- E-smith
----
-If you haven't yet tried the <a href="http://www.e-smith.org">E-smith</a> server for your home server box, perhaps now is the time to try this developer release.
-<blockquote>
-Mitel Networks is pleased to announce the availability of the unsupported developer release of version 5.6 of the SME Server. We strongly recommend all users upgrade to this release.
-
-This release is based on the Linux 2.4 kernel, uses the "ext3" journalling filesystem, has enhanced Windows and Macintosh client support and the packet filtering code has been upgraded to include stateful packet inspection.
-</blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-01-23-php-collab.md b/_posts/archive/2003-01-23-php-collab.md
deleted file mode 100644
index ca8d79f..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-01-23-php-collab.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: PHP Collab
-created: 1043336040
-categories: 
-- PHP
-- Web 2.0
----
-<strong>Fantastic</strong> web-based project management tool (a tip of the fur-lined toque to <a href="http://home.justwerks.com">Evan</a> for pointing me in this direction).
-
-I cannot stress enough how good this application is. Don't be put off by the bad webpage that it is hosted at (it basically just uses phpBB forum software for the entire site) -- if you are looking for a web-based project management tool, this is it.
-
-It's a PHP application that runs on Apache or IIS plus a database -- currently your choice of MySQL, PostgresSQL, or MS SQL Server. It is designed for a single company to manage multiple projects and clients, even including the ability to assign tasks to clients.
-
-Email notifications keep everyone up to date, project managers will drool over automatic generation of Gantt charts, and innovative features like exporting projects to CSV files, exporting contacts to vCard, and calendar items as vCal -- the feature list keeps going and going.
-
-And -- it even looks nice. You've got a "home" page where sections such as "My Projects", "My Tasks", etc. gather all the information specific to you in one place. A bookmarks section allows you to share URLs, or mark them as private and only share them with a select view.
-
-For programming applications, it integrates with the <a href="http://mantisbt.sourceforge.net">Mantis</a> bug-tracking tool.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-01-23-the-inside-mac.md b/_posts/archive/2003-01-23-the-inside-mac.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 3a95c7b..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-01-23-the-inside-mac.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: The inside Mac
-created: 1043342580
-categories: 
-- Mac
----
-Ok sports fans, some insider info from the world of Mac - iPod and iMac have been declared EOL, IBM has delivered a reference design for a PowerPC PDA, and there's a rumor going round that Apple and IBM are slated to make an announcement on the same day in a couple months.  Apple rarely makes announcements that are not part of its MacWorld or ADC or Seybold lineup, so this is something that deserves special attention, more so than even a keynote.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-01-26-new-theme.md b/_posts/archive/2003-01-26-new-theme.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c55ed86..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-01-26-new-theme.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: New theme
-created: 1043636760
-categories: 
-- BMC
-- Drupal
-- CSS
-- themes
----
-<p>I imagine that most of you see the default theme for this site -- the "notables" one that I created.</p>
-<p>I try and wander through the forums and bug reports at <a href="http://www.drupal.org">Drupal.org</a> (the code that runs this site) every so often, because I'm still excited about where it's headed.</p>
-<p>I've given lots of feedback about removing hard-coded tables and just using CSS for presentation, instead of a complicated "theme-ing" system. Recently, somebody went to a lot of work and put together a tableless theme that uses CSS for presentation, all nicely documented. You can grab it from the <a href="http://drupal.org/project">Drupal downloads page</a> if you run your own Drupal-powered site.</p>
-<p>Yes -- I <a href="http://drupal.org/node/1082">complained about the downloads page</a>, but (frighteningly enough) it's still better than what was there before.</p>
-<p><strong>Update:</strong> I'm mucking with the themes as we speak, so changing your theme could be hazardous to your health... If you want to try out the tableless theme (Evan -- it's got lots of <strong>::</strong>'s, so you'll like it...), you can click on <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/module.php?mod=user&amp;op=edit">edit account</a> and choose it from the drop down menu.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-01-26-youve-got-desktops.md b/_posts/archive/2003-01-26-youve-got-desktops.md
deleted file mode 100644
index eb81c21..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-01-26-youve-got-desktops.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: You've got Desktops!
-created: 1043647080
-categories: 
-- Application
-- Mac
----
-Unix GUIs have long had "virtual desktops", where you can switch between multiple screens on one monitor. I've used this, but never found it that useful, mainly because you've just got a bunch of different Terminal windows open, not full-blown graphical apps.
-
-<a href="http://www.codetek.com/">Codetek</a> makes a product for the Mac that is simple and actually usable/useful: <a href="http://www.codetek.com/php/virtual.php">Codetek Virtual Desktop</a>.
-
-Basically, you can easily drag the windows of an application off one side of the screen or the other, and they pop into the other desktop. I keep a bunch of browser windows and my IM app open in one desktop, and whatever I'm working on in the other.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-01-27-skating-on-the-rideau-canal.md b/_posts/archive/2003-01-27-skating-on-the-rideau-canal.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 16a0b99..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-01-27-skating-on-the-rideau-canal.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Skating on the Rideau Canal
-created: 1043678940
-categories: 
-- Ottawa
----
-<a href="http://gallery.bmannconsulting.com/jan19skating/DSCN9402"><img class="inline" src="http://gallery.bmannconsulting.com/albums/jan19skating/DSCN9402.thumb.jpg" width="200" height="150"  border="0" align="right"></a>Kate and I went skating with Anna on the canal yesterday afternoon. This was actually our second time on the ice -- we went out with Terrence and Lisa last weekend. These pictures are from last week.
-<a href="http://gallery.bmannconsulting.com/jan19skating/DSCN9399"><img class="inline" src="http://gallery.bmannconsulting.com/albums/jan19skating/DSCN9399.thumb.jpg" width="150" height="200"  border="0" align="left"></a>
-You can check out all the pictures <a href="http://gallery.bmannconsulting.com/jan19skating">in the gallery</a>.
-
-The temperature was really cold last week -- between -20 and -30 -- but the weekend was a bit warmer -- around -10. We were over at <a href="http://homepage.mac.com/rhodgson/">Ron and Jocelyn's</a> house for dinner on Saturday night. The food and drink were fantastic. They're going to Mexico in April, and talked about a little resort run by a Canadian woman close to the border with Belize. Apparently, you can stay for $380 per week, <strong>including</strong> food! Perhaps the Vegas trip will turn into a Mexico trip...
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-01-28-dave-hyatts-blog-more-thoughts-on-rss.md b/_posts/archive/2003-01-28-dave-hyatts-blog-more-thoughts-on-rss.md
deleted file mode 100644
index ac10be5..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-01-28-dave-hyatts-blog-more-thoughts-on-rss.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Dave Hyatt's Blog: More Thoughts on RSS"
-created: 1043774820
-categories: 
-- Web Development
----
-It seems that Dave Hyatt, one of the Safari developers, has also recently started using NetNewsWire to read his news. His two most recent posts talk about his thoughts:
-<blockquote><a href="http://www.mozillazine.org/weblogs/hyatt/archives/2003_01.html#002414">More Thoughts on RSS</a>
-Then the RSS aggregator becomes useful as a filtering mechanism, with the Web browser being used only to view the articles that you ultimately decide to read.  In this mode it seems like HTML display is hardly even a requirement for the aggregator application, since you basically just want to speed-read the excerpts from the RSS file and only go into the full blog if you decide that it's worth following up on.</blockquote>His other comment about having RSS feeds automatically handled by apps using some sort of protocol signifier is a really good idea, and takes care of Graham's comments on "how to get started with RSS":
-<blockquote><a href="http://www.mozillazine.org/weblogs/hyatt/archives/2003_01.html#002403">Rise of the Uber-browser</a>
-I'd like to be able to click on an RSS file link in a browser and have it automatically pass that off to my news application.  One click should be all it takes to get me subscribed, whether that click happens in a mail app, a Web page, or inside NetNewsWire itself.  A protocol handler would work for this.  I think of this as being somewhat similar to the "view-source:" protocol supported in many browsers, i.e., you could just say "rss:original-url" or "feed:original-url" and have the appropriate application configured to handle feed subscriptions.</blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-01-28-osopinion-lindows-media-center-takes-on-xp-counterpart.md b/_posts/archive/2003-01-28-osopinion-lindows-media-center-takes-on-xp-counterpart.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 819c9bc..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-01-28-osopinion-lindows-media-center-takes-on-xp-counterpart.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "osOpinion: Lindows Media Center Takes on XP Counterpart"
-created: 1043775840
-categories: 
-- "*nix"
-- Multimedia PC
-- Open Source
-- Small Form Factor
----
-osOpinion has an article that <a href="http://www.lindows.com">Lindows</a> is releasing their own software/hardware bundle targetted at being used as a multimedia PC, much like WinXP Media Center Edition:
-<blockquote>For its part, the Lindows Media Center combines the functionality of  a standard PC with that of a DVD and CD player, and is compatible with MP3  and VCD formats. Lindows said the device boots in less than 10 seconds. 
-<a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/20591.html">Full article on osOpinion</a></blockquote>It's not that interesting of a device, but it is interesting that there is a commercial company now selling a multimedia PC based on Linux. Apparently only being sold online at <a href="http://www.idot.com/">iDotpc.com</a> (which looks to have all sorts of small form factor stuff as well) for $350US. It's called the <a href="http://info.lindows.com/lmc/">Lindows Media Computer</a> on the Lindows site.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-01-28-voip-presence-system.md b/_posts/archive/2003-01-28-voip-presence-system.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 15fbf76..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-01-28-voip-presence-system.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: VoIP Presence System
-created: 1043785440
-categories: 
-- VoIP
-- IMPP
----
-<p>
-	This idea came about from thinking about the uses of a voice over IP (VoIP) system at university campuses, especially when married to instant message and presence features. Basically, your &quot;identity&quot; is matched to your &quot;phone number&quot;. By default, your identity resides on your phone, in your dorm room. Might even have the situation where multiple &quot;identities&quot; are mapped to the same phone -- perhaps the shared phone in the common area (where 4 students share housing -- not for an entire dorm). Even a dorm room with 2 students could share one phone, but have 2 identities. You might even need to authenticate yourself to use (or answer) calls, although some dorm roomies might say &quot;let identity B [my roommate] answer calls for me&quot;. Now, that&#39;s just the extrapolation.</p>
-<p>
-	My main idea was that you could logon to the presence/voice/multimedia system with a soft client from elsewhere, say from your laptop in the library. Your identity would actually be &quot;logged off&quot; your main phone in your room. Like a regular phone, you could choose to accept calls, or send them to voice mail -- or in the ideal SIP world, accept the call, but try and negotiate an IM session instead (because you&#39;re in the library, and can&#39;t talk). This functionality is already present in today&#39;s IM sessions -- if you log into your account from a 2nd device when you&#39;re already logged in elsewhere, the 1st device is kicked off (there is only one &quot;you&quot; at any one time). I haven&#39;t read over the relevant RFC&#39;s in a while, but the <a href="http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/impp-charter.html">Instant Messaging and Presence Protocol (IMPP)</a> working group is the place to look.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-02-02-entering-my-first-blog.md b/_posts/archive/2003-02-02-entering-my-first-blog.md
deleted file mode 100644
index ee8df90..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-02-02-entering-my-first-blog.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Entering my first "blog"
-created: 1044236633
-categories: 
-- "*nix"
----
-As a new user, and new to using this kind of communication, I am saying "hello", hoping my words won't disappear somewhere! Bear with me in trying to catch on to the 20th century (never mind the 21st!). Your techno-talk helps me somewhat in at least being exposed to some current language, and I am looking forward to Graham's contributions about things other than technical.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-02-05-nokia-intros-phone-game-music-device.md b/_posts/archive/2003-02-05-nokia-intros-phone-game-music-device.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 3657f70..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-02-05-nokia-intros-phone-game-music-device.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Nokia intros Phone/Game/Music device.
-created: 1044507531
-categories: 
-- Game
----
-Hitting the news as we breath, Nokia has entered into the handheld gaming market with the n-Gage:
-
-<a href="http://www.n-gage.com/n-gage/home.html">n-Gage Homepage</a>
-
-It is a tri-band phone, networked game player capable of 3D rendering, and a music device.  You can send screen shots by MMS.  It is about the size of a thicker GBA itself, digging up memories of the utter mess that was the Motorola V-Box, the text messager/phone device that did neither well, nor elegantly.  Holding a GBA to your ear will look and feel very awkward.
-
-But as far as Nokia's screen shots are concerned, we will all soon be leaping and diving around underground parking lots, ducking and grunting, screaming and using the popular triumphant slogans of our generations.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-02-05-other-interesting-osx-apps.md b/_posts/archive/2003-02-05-other-interesting-osx-apps.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a8cff40..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-02-05-other-interesting-osx-apps.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Other interesting OSX apps
-created: 1044470977
-categories: 
-- "*nix"
----
-I'm guessing that Boris has already come across these products, but they are very interesting:
-
-<a href="http://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/">http://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/</a>
-
-"Tinderbox is a personal content management assistant. It stores your notes, ideas, and plans. It can help you organize and understand them. And Tinderbox helps you share ideas through Web journals and web logs."
-
-<a href="http://www.usercreations.com/spring/">http://www.usercreations.com/spring/</a>
-
-Imagine that you don't have to go to five different applications to communicate with the same person. Imagine that booking a flight or train is as simple as opening a canvas with a map and dragging between the two cities. Imagine inviting someone to a favorite place is as simple dragging a line between the person and place.
-
-Spring Desktop Innovations
- 
-*	Concept-Centric Desktop 
-*	1-Drag Actions 
-*	Drag and Drop Icon Management 
-*	Folderless Groups 
-*	Drag. Drop. Act Web Integration 
-*	Desktop Web Personalization 
-*	Web Refresh
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-02-06-amd-2500.md b/_posts/archive/2003-02-06-amd-2500.md
deleted file mode 100644
index dabfc80..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-02-06-amd-2500.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: AMD 2500+?
-created: 1044570965
-categories: 
-- Multimedia PC
----
-A listing at NCIX shows a new AMD processor model - the Athlon XP 2500+ Barton, a 333FSB CPU based on AMD's brand-spanking-new chip.
-
-My own effort to assemble the Multimedia PC of the West was previously including a 333FSB 2600+, listed at $500 Canadian at NCIX.com.  If this 2500+ chip is not a ghost, it is listed at $200 less, a massive savings for a PC, yet somehow to critics only a "meager" cut to the new iMacs.
-
-This would definitely allow me to increase the multimedia factor in Multimedia-PC
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-02-06-good-deals-of-the-week.md b/_posts/archive/2003-02-06-good-deals-of-the-week.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a66bcf0..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-02-06-good-deals-of-the-week.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Good deals of the week.
-created: 1044581681
-categories: 
-- "*nix"
----
-This week, I've discovered what a lot of other people know - the <a href="http://www.samsung.ca:3304/cgi-bin/nasecabc/en/b2c/product/product_detail.jsp?LoginFlag=NO&prod_id=GH19ASCS">Samsung 191n 19" LCD</a> is an incredible deal.  Analog VGA input only, no DVI or ADC, but we have it for $1300.  Its colour quality is very good, and it can rotate on its stand, letting you do portrait view, just like in the good ole days with the Radius Portrait Display.
-
-$1300 is also amazingly cheap - that's $200 more than the Apple 17", or $100 per inch.  Compare to the Apple 20" which is $2050, or around $313 per inch difference to the 17".
-
-And the Samsung 19" with a DVI port is $2300 US, way more expensive than the 191n
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-02-10-the-power-of-apple-rendesvous.md b/_posts/archive/2003-02-10-the-power-of-apple-rendesvous.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 3143078..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-02-10-the-power-of-apple-rendesvous.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: The power of Apple Rendesvous
-created: 1044902673
-categories: 
-- Mac
----
-<a href="http://www.businessweek.com/print/technology/content/feb2003/tc2003025_0198_tc056.htm?tc">This article</a> at Business Week talks about Rendesvous, and some of the absolutely astounding things you can do with it, like auto-configure printers on a network without having to sort through IP addresses, or how some 3D software vendor built it into their products, and now the software can wirelessly locate available machines and distribute the workload to them.  That is not only a case for Rendesvous, but 802.11g in the workplace of some graphics and 3D workgroups, too.
-
-Definitely a must-read for people interested in elegant, simple technology that could make the Windows platform a lot more painless to enterprise/office workers, or make the Mac a far more appealing platform for that environment.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-02-11-iphoto-and-gallery-integration.md b/_posts/archive/2003-02-11-iphoto-and-gallery-integration.md
deleted file mode 100644
index bc95a14..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-02-11-iphoto-and-gallery-integration.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: iPhoto and Gallery integration
-created: 1045021140
-categories: 
-- Web 2.0
-- Mac
----
-As I've <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node.php?id=23">said elsewhere</a>, <a href="http://gallery.sf.net">Gallery</a> is still the best web-based photo gallery app.
-
-Now I'd like to shortcut my two-step process of using <a href="http://www.apple.com/iphoto/">iPhoto</a> plus <a href="http://gallery.menalto.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=phpWiki&file=index&pagename=Gallery%20Remote">Gallery Remote</a> (make sure you add the <a href="http://jpmullan.com/galleryupdates/">beta stuff</a> if you want everything working nicely).
-<!--break-->
-Ideally, the <a href="http://www.lazyweb.org">LazyWeb</a> will conjure up someone who knows the inner workings of iPhoto and can make a plug-in that adds a "Gallery" tab to the Export function. Select photos, choose whether to resize locally, connect to your Gallery and select/create an album, press export -- voila!
-
-The new(est) versions of Gallery allow for WinXP users to install a DLL/registry hack that adds their Gallery as an option for the "publish to web" button that appears in folders filled with images, so I know it's doable. The <a href="http://www.markspace.com/missingsync.html">Missing Sync</a> even adds an Export tab to get iPhoto pics into my Sony Clie!
-
-<strong>Update Aug. 28, 2003:</strong> An <a href="http://zwily.com/iphoto/">iPhotoToGallery</a> exporter <a href="/node/view/533">now exists</a>.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-02-11-more-browser-competition-on-os-x.md b/_posts/archive/2003-02-11-more-browser-competition-on-os-x.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 9eef696..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-02-11-more-browser-competition-on-os-x.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: More browser competition on OS X?
-created: 1045015980
-categories: 
-- Mac
----
-Greg sent me a note pointing to a <a href="http://thinksecret.com/news/internetexplorer6.html">Think Secret article</a> that suggests two things -- that IE6 for the Mac has been delayed on purpose, and it has been delayed in order to ship MSN Explorer (is that the proper name?) instead.
-<blockquote>Sources say IE 6's rendering engine was finished months ago. According to one source, the MacBU has been working on the browser for some time, and was able to develop a quality, Mac OS X-only browser. In beta versions, performance was acceptable and IE 6 took advantage of OS X technology like customizable toolbars, sheets, anti-aliasing, and even some Quartz effects like those in Office v.X.</blockquote>My view: now that IE no longer automatically gets placed on Macs as the default browser, they actually have to compete to get people to pick it on the Mac, over other choices such as Mozilla/Chimera or Safari.
-
-This is the same thing that the people at Opera are complaining over -- their argument being that since Apple has their own, high-quality browser, it's unfair. <a href="http://www.mozillazine.org/weblogs/hyatt/">Dave Hyatt's blog</a> pointed me towards <a href="http://daringfireball.net/2003/02/operatic.html">John Gruber's thoughts on Opera</a>:
-<blockquote>Is it any wonder why Opera for Mac isn?t popular, and Safari is? The Wintel technology press might think it is normal for Mac software to be a second thought, but Mac users have every right to be turned off by companies with Windows-first development priorities.</blockquote>Every platform ships with a default browser. Apple, like all other companies, has the right (the need?) to make sure it's a good one.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-02-15-brad-delongs-notes-on-larry-page-google-talk.md b/_posts/archive/2003-02-15-brad-delongs-notes-on-larry-page-google-talk.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 74f08b6..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-02-15-brad-delongs-notes-on-larry-page-google-talk.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Brad Delong's Notes on Larry Page Google Talk
-created: 1045321680
-categories: 
-- Web 2.0
----
-From <a href="http://www.arstechnica.com">Ars Technica</a>, I saw a link to <a href="http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/2003_archives/000032.html#000032">Brad Delong's notes on a talk with Google founder Larry Page</a>.
-
-I'll use the same quote that Ars used, because it's the interesting one:
-<blockquote>Larry Page: "It wasn't that we intended to build a search engine. We built a ranking system to deal with annotations. We wanted to annotate the web--build a system so that after you'd viewed a page you could click and see what smart comments other people had about it. But how do you decide who gets to annotate Yahoo? We needed to figure out how to choose which annotations people should look at, which meant that we needed to figure out which other sites contained comments we should classify as authoritative. Hence PageRank. 
-
-"Only later did we realize that PageRank was much more useful for search than for annotation..."</blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-02-16-bloogle-the-end-of-blogging.md b/_posts/archive/2003-02-16-bloogle-the-end-of-blogging.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 449b2f1..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-02-16-bloogle-the-end-of-blogging.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "\"Blo(o)gle\" The End of Blogging"
-created: 1045398720
-categories: 
-- Web 2.0
----
-Ten years after the <A HREF=http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,57661,00.html>graphical browser</A>, <A HREF=http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/000802.shtml#000802>Google Buys Pyra</A> and <A HREF=http://www.tbtf.com/jargon-scout.html#blog>Blogging</A> Goes Big-Time.
-<A HREF=http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/jenkins0302.asp>Weblogs</A> are going <A HREF=http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=pyra>Googling</A>. <A HREF=http://evhead.com/archives/2003_02_01_archive_default.asp#104537225413624191>Last night</A>, <A HREF=http://slashdot.org/articles/03/02/16/0728230.shtml?tid=187>Google</A> acquired <A HREF=http://www.pyra.com/>Pyra Labs</A>, the San Francisco company which created some of the earliest tools (<A HREF=http://www.blogger.com/>Blogger</A> & <A HREF=http://www.blogspot.com/>Blogspot</A>) for publishing weblogs, the <A HREF=http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,884658,00.html>increasingly popular</A> personal and opinion <A HREF=http://www.nickdenton.org/archives/004479.html#004479>journals</A>.
-- MSFT, IBM & SUNW will <A HREF=http://www.metafilter.com/comments.mefi/23612>follow suit</A>. <A HREF=http://www.technorati.com/cosmos/top100.html>Targets</A> include <A HREF=http://www.userland.com/>Radio Userland</A> and <A HREF=http://www.sixapart.com/>Movable Type</A>. <A HREF=http://www.scripting.com/>Dave Winer</A> is hoping for Bill's call right now, but <A HREF=http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,4248,852932,00.asp>they</A> may build not buy.
-- Words from <A HREF=http://www.evhead.com/archives/2003_02_01_archive_default.asp#104545291840524070>Evan Williams</A>, <A HREF=http://www.wackywacky.blogspot.com/2003_02_09_wackywacky_archive.html#89171274>Ev speaks</A>, <A HREF=http://www.rushkoff.com/2003_02_01_archive.php#90338696>Doug Rushkoff</A>, <A HREF=http://www.tonypierce.com/blog/2003_02_16_blogarc.htm#90331511>Tony Pierce</A>, <A HREF=http://www.buzzmachine.com/archives/2003_02.html#003020>Jeff Jarvis</A>, <A HREF=http://www.dashes.com/anil/index.php?archives/005129.php>Anil Dash</A>, <A HREF=http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/mtarchive/001210.html>Joho</A>, <A HREF=http://weblog.burningbird.net/fires/000909.htm>Shelley Powers</A>, <A HREF=http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/17/technology/17GOOG.html?ex=1046149200&en=699908bfc840ed66&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE>New York Times</A>, <A HREF=http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/business/5195814.htm>Gillmor's Sunday column</A>, <A HREF=http://blogs.salon.com/0001437/2003/02/17.html>Reverse Cowgirl</A>, <A HREF=http://www.nickdenton.org/archives/004482.html#004482>Nick Denton</A>, <A HREF=http://boingboing.net/2003_02_01_archive.html#90341072>Cory Doctorow</A>, <A HREF=http://interconnected.org/home/2003_02_16_archive.shtml#90330001>Matt Webb</A>, <A HREF=http://danbricklin.com/log/>Dan Bricklin</A>, <A HREF=http://www.forbes.com/2003/02/18/cx_ah_0218google.html>Forbes</A>, and <A HREF=http://searchenginewatch.com/sereport/03/02-blogger.html>SearchEngineWatch</A>.
-- People seem to overlook Google's <A HREF=http://glennf.weblogs.com/2001/02/18>first content acquisition</A>.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-02-17-the-ultimate-mmorpg.md b/_posts/archive/2003-02-17-the-ultimate-mmorpg.md
deleted file mode 100644
index bdbdbd8..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-02-17-the-ultimate-mmorpg.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: The Ultimate MMORPG
-created: 1045514700
-categories: 
-- Game
----
-I was just thinking of what would make the best MMORPG, and came to a conclusion - the most popular MMORPG of all time will be real life.  Not our daily reality, but a computer game of Earth.  Not Middle Earth, just Earth.  People could interact, have skills, and do all sorts of things. But ultimately, it would be exactly modeled after real life, and people could get to be someone else.  They would go to work, surf the Internet all day, perform brain surgery without all the details, and it would potentially be a valuable medium for showing people the horrors of real life - car crashes, cancer, AIDS, and others.  By being someone else, you have the chance of seeing life through their eyes and instead of being healthy you might stand the chance of getting an incurable ailment and seeing the impact of it.
-
-Any thoughts on what would be your ultimate idea of an MMORPG?
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-02-19-first-day-with-a-12-powerbook.md b/_posts/archive/2003-02-19-first-day-with-a-12-powerbook.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 13af24b..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-02-19-first-day-with-a-12-powerbook.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: First day with a 12" PowerBook
-created: 1045703503
-categories: 
-- Mac
----
-Well our very first PowerBook 12" models arrived today.  They come in an all-black box with the picture of the silver PBooks.  It is a nice colour design, noticeably lighter than the 12" iBook.
-
-Some interesting features:
-
-- the speakers do not project vertically, they point out away from the user, on the far back.  So if the screen is at a wide open angle, the speaker sound bounces off it and the User can hear it.  When at a shallow open angle the speakers project out, producing a much quieter experience for the user, and a noisier one for the person in the seat in front of you.
-
-- The keys are remarkably high up on the keyboard.  It will be easy for all sorts of matter, from food to business cards and loose watch straps to get under them and possibly do some damage.
-
-- The keys are a nicer fit than on the 15" PowerBook
-
-- The screen is much brighter and has far more saturation than on the drained 12" PowerBook
-
-- Getting a Nokia T68i up and running via bluetooth, and surfing the net through the phone, was easy as pie.
-
-- I want one.
-
-Overall, it is a nice machine.  I have a customer who has a custom machine with the full 640 MB Ram and 60 GB Drive here and waiting to go.  However, it is expensive, and it remains to be seen if there are any major design flaws or issues with them.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-02-19-microsoft-to-buy-connectix.md b/_posts/archive/2003-02-19-microsoft-to-buy-connectix.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 25b1b04..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-02-19-microsoft-to-buy-connectix.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Microsoft to buy Connectix
-created: 1045692420
-categories: 
-- Mac
-- Microsoft
----
-Saw an article today that on Thursday, Microsoft will formally announce that they are buying Connectix, probably best known for making VirtualPC. It sounds like MS is most interested in their new, as-yet-unreleased product that enables "server virtualization" -- i.e. running multiple OS's on one server. This is already common in the mainframe world, most notably IBMs stuff, which is well-known for the "running 1,000,000 instances of Linux".
-
-From <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-985149.html?tag=fd_top">News.com</a>:
-<blockquote>Microsoft is acquiring some assets of Connectix, including software that permits Windows to run on a Macintosh and an unreleased server program. 
-
-Connectix is best known for its 14-year-old Virtual PC software, but has been trying to recast itself as a maker of server virtualization software, which lets a single machine perform like several independent machines running their own operating systems. </blockquote>From <a href="http://www.crn.com/sections/BreakingNews/breakingnews.asp?ArticleID=40038">CRN</a>:
-<blockquote>Connectix, which is privately held and was founded in 1988, provides virtualization software for Windows-based computing. Last fall, it launched a product called Virtual Server that offers an enterprise-class virtualization solution for Windows-based servers. The technology has been in beta testing, and Microsoft is expected to productize it and ship it later this year after rigorous testing.  
-
-Virtual Server is a native Windows-based server application that enables customers to run a wide range of server operating systems including Windows, Linux, Unix, OS/2 and DOS, concurrently on a single physical server, within isolated virtual machines.  </blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-02-19-picklecatz-play-zaphods-get-featured-in-the-ottawa-sun.md b/_posts/archive/2003-02-19-picklecatz-play-zaphods-get-featured-in-the-ottawa-sun.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 8b29978..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-02-19-picklecatz-play-zaphods-get-featured-in-the-ottawa-sun.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Picklecatz play Zaphod's, get featured in the Ottawa Sun
-created: 1045716840
-categories: 
-- Ottawa
----
-My band (long story -- I don't play an instrument, I help out in various ways, and am known as the "6th Picklecat"), the <a href="http://www.picklecatz.com">Picklecatz</a>, played at Zaphod Beeblebrox's in Ottawa's Byward Market tonight.
-
-They were sounding good, and me and a bunch of the "Picklecatz Ladies" (girlfriends of band members) danced to a couple of songs. 
-<img src="http://www.picklecatz.com/albums/band/PKZ_bandshot_02_001.thumb.jpg" align="left">
-Somehow we even managed to get an article in today's Ottawa Sun. You can <strike><a href="http://www.canoe.ca/OttawaToday/os.os-02-19-0056.html">read the article online</a></strike> (turns out the post gets pulled very soon). Unfortunately, the online version is missing the terrible picture.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-02-19-yay-browser-pdf-plug-in.md b/_posts/archive/2003-02-19-yay-browser-pdf-plug-in.md
deleted file mode 100644
index ac120f4..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-02-19-yay-browser-pdf-plug-in.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Yay! Browser PDF Plug-in!
-created: 1045719360
-categories: 
-- Application
-- Mac
----
-In OS X, an annoying thing when looking at PDFs in a browser is that they get downloaded/open an external PDF viewer (either Acrobat, or by default the generic Preview app -- which is much faster than Acrobat, but is still an external app).
-
-<strong>But</strong>....I came across a <a href="http://www.schubert-it.com/plugin/">PDF Browser Plug-in</a>. That page even has a funky <em>embedded</em> pdf that you will be able to view once you install the plug-in and restart your browser. And yes, it works with Safari.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-02-20-6-square-pc-cube.md b/_posts/archive/2003-02-20-6-square-pc-cube.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 13507cf..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-02-20-6-square-pc-cube.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: 6" Square PC Cube
-created: 1045764237
-categories: 
-- Home Server
----
-Since there seems to be interest in small form-factor PCs, I came across this one at ThinkGeek:
-
-<a href="http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/handhelds/5a98/">Saintsong Cappuccino TX-3</a>
-
-Here are the specs:
-
-*	Intel 815 motherboard 
-*	1.2 Ghz Intel Pentium III processor 
-*	512MB 144-pin PC133 RAM 
-*	30 GB internal hard drive 
-*	Your choice of 24x CD-ROM, 8x DVD-ROM, or 8x/8x/24x/8x DVD/CD-RW combo drive 
-*	Built-in 10/100 base-T ethernet (RJ45) 
-*	Internal 56K V.90 modem 
-*	Four USB ports (USB 1.1) 
-*	Two FireWire ports (IEEE 1394) 
-*	No operating system installed. 
-*	All standard I/O ports built-in
-*	Dimensions: 6" x 5.75" x 2.25"
-*	Manufacturer Warranty: 1 year
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-02-20-bios-no-more.md b/_posts/archive/2003-02-20-bios-no-more.md
deleted file mode 100644
index b0d205c..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-02-20-bios-no-more.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: BIOS No More!
-created: 1045791445
-categories: 
-- Application
----
-Woo hoo... This <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2130826,00.html"> article </a> goes into how Intel is trying to replace the ages old BIOS in your machine to something they call Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI).  This would allow component/board manufacturers to program extensions not in assembly... but rather in C... excellent.  The coolest part in my mind (at least from reading the article) is the "afterlife" ability it could provide!  Neato!
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-02-21-jon-udell-on-xdocs-infopath.md b/_posts/archive/2003-02-21-jon-udell-on-xdocs-infopath.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c3e6ace..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-02-21-jon-udell-on-xdocs-infopath.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Jon Udell on XDocs / InfoPath
-created: 1045854480
-categories: 
-- Microsoft
----
-Jon Udell talks with the Microsoft architect in charge of Office's XML capabilities:
-<blockquote>Word 11 can save formatted documents in an XML format called WordML, or it can save schematized data without formatting as generic XML. Although these two modes are both standard in their use                                  of XML, they are nevertheless quite distinct from one another. In the latter case you use XSLT to apply the WordML styling to a core of pure structured data, but it's optional.                               </blockquote>If this is accurate, it is *huge*. If MS is indeed going to standardize Word's file format, and use XML no less, it means we no longer need Word. Yes, that's right folks - Word-formatted documents for everyone. Of course, it remains to be seen if MS will open the schema...I'm kind of thinking that they <em>have to</em>, that is, at least have a copy on the local machine. But who knows? They could wrap some nasty licensing around it :(
-
-Read the <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/02/20/08stratdev_1.html">full article</a> for more tidbits about the InfoPath application, which is where most of the XML-ey stuff will live.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-02-21-the-state-of-linux.md b/_posts/archive/2003-02-21-the-state-of-linux.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 0268ae3..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-02-21-the-state-of-linux.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: the state of Linux
-created: 1045840742
-categories: 
-- "*nix"
----
-<B>BusinessWeek Special Report - The Linux Uprising</B>  <A href="http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_09/b3822601_tc102.htm">MARCH 3 2003</A><UL>
-&nbsp;<A href="http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_09/b3822601_tc102.htm">The Linux Uprising</A>
-&nbsp;<A href="http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_09/b3822610_tc102.htm">Pecked by Penguins</A>
-&nbsp;<A href="http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_09/b3822613_tc102.htm">Commentary: Tech Outfits Should Take Notes</A>
-&nbsp;<A href="http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_09/b3822615_tc102.htm">Red Flags for Red Hat</A>
-&nbsp;<A href="http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_09/b3822614_tc102.htm">Online Extra: Sun: It's Not "Linux or Nothing"</A>
-&nbsp;<A href="http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_09/b3822616_tc102.htm">Online Extra: The Big Guys Latch Onto Linux</A>
-&nbsp;<A href="http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_09/b3822617_tc102.htm">Online Extra: Next from Open Source: Killer Apps?</A>
-&nbsp;<A href="http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_09/b3822618_tc102.htm">Online Extra: Before Linux Is on Every Desktop...</A>
-&nbsp;<A href="http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_09/b3822619_tc102.htm">Online Extra: "Programmers Are Like Artists"</A></UL>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-02-22-happy-birthday-boris.md b/_posts/archive/2003-02-22-happy-birthday-boris.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 7047d23..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-02-22-happy-birthday-boris.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Happy Birthday Boris!!
-created: 1045969533
-categories: 
-- BMC
----
-Today is Boris's birthday! Let's post things we like about Boris:
-- he has good friends
-- he has a cute kitten
-- he has a nice girlfriend
-- he has an iMac (well, can't win them all)
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-02-22-new-cellphone.md b/_posts/archive/2003-02-22-new-cellphone.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 5fe8c51..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-02-22-new-cellphone.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: New cellphone
-created: 1045922760
-categories: 
-- Personal
----
-<p>We finally got our new (business) cellphones yesterday. We all have <a href="http://www.nokia.ca/english/products/3590.asp">Nokia 3590s</a>. So far, all the ring tones are intensely annoying. Apparently one can send MMS (Multimedia Messaging Services) -- a.k.a. messages with pictures and/or sound attached. So, have to find some non-annoying ringtones and figure out how to mail them to the phone. Voice-dialing is kind of cool -- you just hit a button and speak a name that you've previously associated with a number, and it will dial. Since I have a cold right now, it will be interesting to see if these "voice tags" still work when my cold is gone. I accidentally started the browser (the phone uses GPRS) -- it is brutally slow, I can't see how anyone uses the Internet on their phones... The phone has Java support, too. I'm going to look into that, see if I can get some of my own apps on there. My business partners and I have long talked about running an app on our PDAs or cell phones that would let us track our activities. Here's the <a href="http://www.nokia.ca/english/products/user_manuals/3590.pdf">online version of the 3590 user guide</a>. The dead tree version is hard to find stuff in. Cool -- <a href="http://www.myphonegames.co.uk/">the Brits are selling games for phones</a>. Hmmm...looking for some free ringtones. Still don't quite know how to get them into the phone. <a href="http://www.gomobile.ca/index.htm">These guys</a> are Canadian and say they'll give me one free tone. Enough for now -- off for breakfast at the El Morocco.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-02-22-remote-desktop-connection-for-mac-os-x.md b/_posts/archive/2003-02-22-remote-desktop-connection-for-mac-os-x.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 11126f3..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-02-22-remote-desktop-connection-for-mac-os-x.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Remote Desktop Connection for Mac OS X
-created: 1045932900
-categories: 
-- Application
-- Mac
-- Microsoft
----
-If you want to connect to a Windows machine (XP Professional or any of the "Server" products), you can actually use <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/rdc/default.asp?navindex=s9b">Microsoft's own remote desktop connection</a>.
-
-OS X only, but great if you don't want to clutter your machine with Office, etc. -- just use your local network to have a window open to your Windows box.
-
-Lloyd originally pointed this out to me, and they had pulled the download at some point, but it's up now.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-02-24-safari-sends-user-info-to-apple.md b/_posts/archive/2003-02-24-safari-sends-user-info-to-apple.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f688877..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-02-24-safari-sends-user-info-to-apple.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Safari sends user info to Apple.
-created: 1046109804
-categories: 
-- Mac
----
-There was some discussion this morning in the office about funny behaviour in Safari, and a report from a website administrator who has apparently tracked packets and discovered that Safari is likely sending information on the software you have on your computer, as well as other information, to Apple.
-
-Apple was starting to get kudos here and there for opposing intrusions into computers and supporting open standards, but if what I've heard is true, then they are not as innocent and angelic as they try so hard to make people believe. Well.... I knew that anyway with many of their dealer policies, pricing policies, and other assorted rubbish.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-02-25-boot-and-fix-over-net.md b/_posts/archive/2003-02-25-boot-and-fix-over-net.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 9f7c3e8..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-02-25-boot-and-fix-over-net.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Boot & Fix over Net?
-created: 1046234379
-categories: 
-- Mac
----
-As I write this, I'm in a comp lab at BCIT.  My iMac's hard drive has gone down and TechTool Pro cannot fix or even discover the problem.  I will have to bring home a technician's disk with DiskWarrior after work tomorrow and solve the problem.
-
-Even in MacOS 9 the Mac could remote boot over the net, as can many other OSes.  Could it be possible for Apple to setup a remote-boot service via Akamai that would allow boot-over-net and disk diagnostic support?  After all, if a Linux implementation can fit onto a floppy disk, surely a simple boot and diagnostic could be easy to download and run over broadband?  It could be a .Mac service... might even make .Mac slightly valuable to people.
-
-Will only get to read the responses to this thread tomorrow at work. :(
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-02-26-adobe-uses-qt-to-develop-new-application.md b/_posts/archive/2003-02-26-adobe-uses-qt-to-develop-new-application.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 1632caa..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-02-26-adobe-uses-qt-to-develop-new-application.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Adobe uses Qt to develop new application
-created: 1046312040
-categories: 
-- Microsoft
-- Mac
-- Application
----
-Phil W said:
-<blockquote><a href="http://www.trolltech.com/newsroom/announcements/00000120.html">http://www.trolltech.com/newsroom/announcements/00000120.html</a>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-02-26-rebuilding-a-working-imac.md b/_posts/archive/2003-02-26-rebuilding-a-working-imac.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 2feed86..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-02-26-rebuilding-a-working-imac.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Rebuilding a working iMac
-created: 1046325555
-categories: 
-- Game
-- Mac
----
-Ok, perhaps a few of you may have caught my mentioning my iMac was corrupt.  One of the directory files was corrupted beyond recovery.  DiskWarrior was able to fix what it could, but there was damage beyond its capability.  I now face a daunting task - thousands upon thousands of files are on my Macintosh HD in the main directory.  It is impossible to view these files because there are so many that the Finder bogs down after around 5000, going up slowly by one file at a time, and a Search counted over 8000 of one type of file alone.
-
-What the fricken frick was I to do? Abandon any idea of searching, select all, drag files into separate folders - Sherlock does not have the ability to search a specific directory, it either searches the entire HD or nothing.
-
-Need Internet access - a MacHome CD from 1999 has self-extracting copies of Internet Explorer 4.5 and Netscape - good, because Stuffit Expander on my machine is not working, and I would not archive it.  Software Update returns a very simple error "Software Update cannot run."  Thanks.
-
-So I write this as an interesting, ongoing tale from hell.  Thank whoever for Boris' blog site and hands that seem to write essays so my brain doesn't have to.  First thing - get updated version of Netscape.  Fortunately, Preferences are intact, but some Control Panels and Extensions seem to be missing.  I have a boot CD of MacOS 9.2.2 made from my original system folder from approximately a year ago - nothing has changed since then.  I'll remove all extensions and control panels and replace them with copies from the CD.  Macintosh HD now has a Folder with the Quicktime Icon - when DiskWarrior repaired the hard drive, the System Folder was not "blessed" so aparently it gave the Hard Drive a new icon, unless that was part of the corruption, or fixing the corruption.
-
-What a nightmare.  I'm just thankful this all works, though.  More later... hopefully from IE 5.0.6!
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-02-27-loosely-joining-across-borders.md b/_posts/archive/2003-02-27-loosely-joining-across-borders.md
deleted file mode 100644
index b3dd262..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-02-27-loosely-joining-across-borders.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Loosely joining, across borders
-created: 1046366630
-categories: 
-- Open Source
----
-"<A HREF=http://v-2.org/displayArticle.php?article_num=339>The minimal compact: An open-source constitution for post-national states</A>"
-by Adam Greenfield, February 26 2003
-"What sorts of arrangements of power between humans can account for the deep variation in beliefs and assumptions among the six billion of us who share this planet, while still providing for a common jurisprudence? What measures can be taken that enhance the common security without unduly infringing on the sovereignty of the individual? I believe that a useful model for the desired structure can be found in the open-source or "free" software movement."
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-02-27-new-details-emerge-on-powerpc-970.md b/_posts/archive/2003-02-27-new-details-emerge-on-powerpc-970.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 6b2db70..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-02-27-new-details-emerge-on-powerpc-970.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: New details emerge on PowerPC 970
-created: 1046374931
-categories: 
-- Mac
-- "*nix"
----
-A new article discussing a PowerPC Blade product from IBM has revealed new information on the PowerPC 970 chip.  Originally said to be released with a clock range of 1.4 to 1.8 GHz, <a href="http://www-5.ibm.com/de/pressroom/cebit2003/en/highlights/powerpcblade.html">this document</a> now shows that the range may be 1.8 to 2.5 GHz, in addition to revealing IBM's fab process and other processor details previously revealed.
-
-The article also mentions AltiVec, the trademarked name for Motorola's PowerPC SIMD unit, for the first time in an official IBM document.
-
-In related news, IBM has an article on the 970 in their monthly <a href="http://www-3.ibm.com/chips/products/powerpc/newsletter/dec2002/newproductfocus2.html">PowerPC News ezine</a>.
-
-And in further, interesting related news, Architosh is hosting an article discussing the consequences of <a href="http://www.architosh.com/features/2003/2003-apple-intel-devtalk1.phtml">Apple moving to a new CPU architecture</a>.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-02-28-au-rendezvous-mail-and-more.md b/_posts/archive/2003-02-28-au-rendezvous-mail-and-more.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 8073d7b..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-02-28-au-rendezvous-mail-and-more.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "au: Rendezvous mail and more"
-created: 1046475600
-categories: 
-- Application
-- Mac
----
-Evan had been asking the other day about tools or setups for OS X to send mail while wandering around various networks. Mac OS X has sendmail built in, of course, but there are some niceties about configuring it, especially on a laptop where you are connecting to different networks.
-
-<a href="http://au.gu.st/">au</a> seems to do a number of interesting things that might fit the bill:
-<blockquote>au is a packaging of SMALL BEAUTIFUL tools that allow you to be more autonomous on a network.  This version includes a number of Daniel J. Bernstein's utilities including djbdns, qmail, and daemontools.  The effect of this combination provides you with a DNS cache and Rendezvous-based email.</blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-02-28-laughingmeme-rssifying-the-mailing-list-an-update.md b/_posts/archive/2003-02-28-laughingmeme-rssifying-the-mailing-list-an-update.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 6cdef16..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-02-28-laughingmeme-rssifying-the-mailing-list-an-update.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "LaughingMeme: RSSifying the Mailing List, an update"
-created: 1046448060
-categories: 
-- Web 2.0
----
-Now this is a good idea, and another good example of intertwingling:
-<blockquote>Dan Brickley just mentioned a patch to Mailman for producing RSS feeds for a list.</blockquote>Check out <a href="http://laughingmeme.org/archives/000450.html">this blurb</a>, as well as the other interesting items that LaughingMeme has to offer (including the much longer, <a href="http://laughingmeme.org/archives/000234.html">original post about this</a>, back in Nov. '02).
-
-RSS, RSS aggregators -- these seem to be turning into <em>the</em> common format for pushing/mixing data all over the web. With blogs, increasingly, being on the "input" side of the stream.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-02-28-smithdm3-is-g-2-g.md b/_posts/archive/2003-02-28-smithdm3-is-g-2-g.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 5558d06..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-02-28-smithdm3-is-g-2-g.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: SmithDM3 is G-2-G
-created: 1046475060
-categories: 
-- Web Development
----
-Dave called me from the road to let me know that <a href="http://www.smithdm3.com">SmithDM3</a> is live, running <a href="http://www.movabletype.org">MovableType</a> with MySQL.
-
-As I said to Dave, I'm not a <em>huge</em> fan of MT, mainly because it is based on Perl, and my Perl hax0r skills are quite rusty -- I really only ever used it in university. Well, plus some CGI.pm programming for generating some web pages that managed the testing lab I worked at at Newbridge Networks. Interesting...hadn't thought about that in some time, way back in early 1999, my last co-op term.
-
-That, and I guess that PHP is just so much more suited as a web language. The very fact that you can mix PHP code and HTML is fantastic -- it's great to be able to design an entire page using a nice, visual HTML editor, then just go in and insert a couple of PHP tags to add some dynamic data.
-
-As I was wandering around Dave's site (well, the front page -- there isn't much else, yet), I added his RDF feed to this site. I don't have any of the feeds displaying in little boxes or anything, and I haven't done a good job of going out and finding more (mainly because I don't have cron access, so I have to remember to refresh them all manually). Check out the news feeds link at the top of every page, or just <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/module.php?mod=import&op=feeds">follow this link</a> for a view of all the individual feeds. The "blog it" links will dump you int a new blog entry page, where you can then comment about that particular item.
-
-If I get really ambitious one day, I might try to have feeds running down the left hand side, but this tableless design was hard enough without modifying it like that. We'll see....
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-03-01-online-recipes.md b/_posts/archive/2003-03-01-online-recipes.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 792bb1a..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-03-01-online-recipes.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Online recipes
-created: 1046564220
-categories: 
-- Web 2.0
-- PHP
----
-After a couple of aborted attempts at keeping track of recipes in my blog (well, I did have some good ones in its previous incarnation, using <a href="http://www.pmachine.com">pMachine</a>), I found a good, stand-alone web app that handles recipes well.
-
-It's called <a href="http://phprecipebook.sourceforge.net">phprecipebook</a> and requires PHP (surprise!) and your choice of database (postgresql and mysql are currently supported).
-
-You can check out my installation at <a href="http://recipes.bmannconsulting.com">recipes.bmannconsulting.com</a>. Not much there right now. By the way, if you see the source as "Dr. Bernstein", it's from a special diet that Kate is on. My cooking usually has more olive oil :)
-
-P.S. Not all of my recipes are rushing online. I got a great homemade recipe book (with my picture on the front, no less) that sits in our kitchen for me to scribble in...at least until we get a computer in there.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-03-04-apple-to-launch-online-music-service.md b/_posts/archive/2003-03-04-apple-to-launch-online-music-service.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 0448a3c..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-03-04-apple-to-launch-online-music-service.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Apple to launch online music service
-created: 1046818260
-categories: 
-- Mac
----
-I first got wind of this from <strong>Andy</strong>, who's just reaching his 1 year anniversary as a Mac user:
-<blockquote>Hmmm... new on-line music service from the mother ship?
-
-<a href="http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5311076.htm">http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5311076.htm</a></blockquote>The Register also <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/29577.html">has the story</a>, and basically figures that if Apple doesn't build their own system, that Mac users will be screwed, since most existing online music purchase systems require Windows.
-
-I think that if Apple does a good job, and actually sells, that they will once again drag along the rest of the industry.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-03-05-feedreader.md b/_posts/archive/2003-03-05-feedreader.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 19a2080..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-03-05-feedreader.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Feedreader
-created: 1046891040
-categories: 
-- Web 2.0
-- Microsoft
----
-<a href="http://www.feedreader.com">Feedreader</a> is an RSS news reader that <strong>Phil</strong> and <strong>Greg</strong> have been raving about. Apparently you'll want to get the latest version from <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=70179">Sourceforge</a>.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-03-06-flipping-the-relationship-gpu-becomes-cpu.md b/_posts/archive/2003-03-06-flipping-the-relationship-gpu-becomes-cpu.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 9abf1a4..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-03-06-flipping-the-relationship-gpu-becomes-cpu.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Flipping the relationship: GPU becomes CPU"
-created: 1046971623
-categories: 
-- Multimedia PC
----
-The fact that gaming performance is largely dependent on GPU performance today is not surprising.  But with graphics processors seemingly set to outpace the CPU in transistor count with the next few iterations (logic, not cache), does this call for a new relationship between the GPU and CPU?
-
-It seems to me that with such great importance placed on the GPU, that the GPU should become the central focus of the PC world, and make the CPU an important, but slightly-secondary concern.
-
-And just imagine the inevitable - the economics of the GPU industry will likely lead to some sort of merger/buyout of one of the firms.  What if it were to be Intel or Microsoft doing the buying?  Microsoft might do it as a strategic move to counter Intel's own move to corner the mobo chip market.  Intel might do it to secure that tack they seem to be taking.
-
-Your thoughts, y'all? Obviously, with so much more dependent on the CPU, I don't see it ever being anything less than a very close second, but it just seems that the GPU will soon require faster resources, and more cooling than even the hottest CPUs, due to the fact that CPUs are (to use the Fast/Wide SCSI analogy for core clock / transistor count) Fast, and GPUs are going Fast and Wide.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-03-08-bingo.md b/_posts/archive/2003-03-08-bingo.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 749b6c1..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-03-08-bingo.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Bingo?!
-created: 1047178020
-categories: 
-- Ottawa
----
-I played bingo tonight for the first time ever. I had some vague concept of what bingo was about, but I was pretty much completely unprepared for the reality.
-
-We went to a place called the <a href="http://www.ottawakiosk.com/ent3.html">Side Door</a>, on Wellington. Since you can't smoke in Ottawa anymore, and you can't drink while you gamble, it was a bit like sitting in a high school cafeteria while a person called out numbers.
-
-The thing is, it actually got pretty stressful. Your adrenaline is going, because <em>you</em> could be the next one to get a bingo...which, tonight, could have been $1000, $2000, or $3000. No, we didn't win any of these, and actually, only the $1000 was given away. But, Kate won $120 on her very first game. I think that was the part that kept us there for the whole thing.
-
-Rob and I might try "Bingo and Breakfast" at some point. 10:15am, and who knows? They might be the next El Morocco...
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-03-08-in-a-sunburned-country.md b/_posts/archive/2003-03-08-in-a-sunburned-country.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 36c5052..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-03-08-in-a-sunburned-country.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: In a Sunburned Country
-created: 1047148440
-categories: 
-- Review
----
-<a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0767903862/bmannconsul-20" ><img src="/images/0767903862.01.TZZZZZZZ.jpg" border="0" alt="cover" hspace="3" vspace="3" align="left"></a>I just finished reading Bill Bryson's <em>In a Sunburned Country</em>. It's a travel story about his explorations of Australia. I highly, highly recommend it.
-
-The author pokes into many different areas of Australia, from cities to the outback, covering topics like biology, politics, and history. He also seems to do a lot of drinking in pubs. I really like his light, funny writing. At the same time, I love how he interjects little factoids, like <em>"from 1950 to 1960, Australia's estimated iron ore reserves went from close to nothing to 20 billion tons"</em>.
-
-Did you know, that on the verge of becoming a nation, Australia had also invited New Zealand to be a part of it, but they backed out at the last minute?
-
-I am a self-confessed infovore -- someone that devours information -- and Bill Bryson caters nicely to this. Apparently he takes copious notes while he travels, then compiles the whole thing into a book, having the opportunity to do research and add all sorts of facts in.
-
-I enjoyed this book so much, and this travelogue/factoid mix, that I think that an online/multimedia version would be really interesting. As I was reading, I often got the sense that Bryson was hyperlinking in these factoids. He'd be going along, explaining his travels, then he'd go off on a tangent that seemed to be added later, with all sorts of background info. The flow was fantastic, in that there wasn't the "if you want to know more, click here" feeling -- everything just fitted together. But, it seems also to be just scraping the surface -- what if there <strong>was</strong> a hyperlink or call out box or image that could be viewed? I'm going to attempt to get in contact with Bill Bryson and pitch my idea to him. I think a website, perhaps even an interactive one, would do nicely.
-
-Hmmm...that gets me to thinking. Maybe even a dynamically-annotated version of the entire book. You could choose to view pages / sections with annotations turned on or off, or just the annotations of certain people (like comments on Slashdot).
-
-There could be "official" annotations, from the site's annotaters.
-
-Hmmm...now it almost sounds like a blog, as well. Definitely something to follow up on. I will report back.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-03-08-the-tivo-of-audio.md b/_posts/archive/2003-03-08-the-tivo-of-audio.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 53730da..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-03-08-the-tivo-of-audio.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: The Tivo of Audio?
-created: 1047162730
-categories: 
-- Mac
----
-I was on my way to work this morning and hopped out the last bus, when an idea came to me.  A while back, I had a customer come in and place an order for a $400 Samsung Yepp digital music player and recorder.  He wanted to be able to record voice and telephone conversations.
-
-So the idea was - what is the audio equivalent of the Tivo? My dad, for years, has recorded radio shows on his way to work, or at home, for listening on drives or at the office.  He does this all the time.
-
-The further idea was - what about the iPod?  Add an FM radio and an external port or two for mono or stereo microphones, and turn it into a mobile equivalent to Tivo for audio.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-03-10-identifying-anonymous-posts.md b/_posts/archive/2003-03-10-identifying-anonymous-posts.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 96d2a83..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-03-10-identifying-anonymous-posts.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Identifying anonymous posts.
-created: 1047343008
-categories: 
-- "*nix"
----
-Hey folks running Bloggen Sites.  I recently encountered a situation where the admin of a bulletin board identified an anonymous post I had made, sending me a message.
-
-How easy is it to do this?  Is it a simple matter of comparing IP addresses?  So anon to the public, and revealed to the admins, is that what the average site is?
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-03-10-now-for-wrath-now-for-ruin-and-the-redeye-dawn.md b/_posts/archive/2003-03-10-now-for-wrath-now-for-ruin-and-the-redeye-dawn.md
deleted file mode 100644
index ea4569f..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-03-10-now-for-wrath-now-for-ruin-and-the-redeye-dawn.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Now for wrath, now for ruin, and the redeye dawn.
-created: 1047320505
-categories: 
-- Microsoft
----
-I'm attending night courses at BCIT right now, and my MS Project term project is due this evening.  So yesterday afternoon I head over to finish up the project and get it into workable shape.  Towards the end of the changes asked of me by the term project, reverting to a previous version for the purpose of doing a "Save as" of the current version results in a crashed program.  Open the file again, crash.  Open the save as program, revert changes again, crash.  Ok, computer needs a reboot.
-
-Reboot produces error "We were unable to load your desktop", and the Windows desktop shows none of my files.  I lose 90% of a 5 hour effort thanks to a Microsoft program that is so screwed up that it is capable of producing a file with features that can crash itself.
-
-And that isn't my only run-in with the crapware Microsoft sells.  I now have the Zip disk Grim Reaper that will crash and mangle any Windows computer I put it in and click on the drive.  Windows simply does not have the capacity to do "Ok, this isn't working.  Stop, give the user options to recover files or install a new boot sector."
-
-Very ticked.  This is the glory of using the Mac.  And being in a Mac retail environment is a big eye opener.  Ask any of the salesmen and they can recall two or three distinct stories of PC users coming into the store, with tales of woe.  It happens all the time.  There's a reason why commercials and comics can feature people taking a hammer to their computer - they're usually always Windows computers, except for the one instance in Fight Club, where the wannabe social revolutionaries decide to blow up a computer display,  which was more a social statement than frustration after a crash.
-
-Windows sucks.  I can't imagine how many billions upon billions of dollars are wasted by Windows users on virus software, re-doing projects that they lost in a crash, and the other general meyhem Windows can set upon people.  I know a guy who only works with Windows and Unix, and it took him 4 days to get sound up and running on his custom PC.  Absolute lunacy.
-
-End of anti-winblows rant.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-03-10-tux-adventure-and-ribs.md b/_posts/archive/2003-03-10-tux-adventure-and-ribs.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 2b3bb72..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-03-10-tux-adventure-and-ribs.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Tux Adventure and Ribs
-created: 1047315780
-categories: 
-- Ottawa
----
-<a href="http://gallery.bmannconsulting.com/march82003_tuxandribs/DSCN9783"><img src="http://gallery.bmannconsulting.com/albums/march82003_tuxandribs/DSCN9783.thumb.jpg"    align="left" vspace="5" hspace="5" /></a>Saturday, way before the whole <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node.php?id=185">Bingo</a> incident, we spent the afternoon getting fitted for tuxes.
-That's Troy at Tip Top (they are an outlet for <a href="http://www.sydsilver.com/">Syd Silver Formalwear</a>). He's getting married this October, in Fredericton, and I'm the best man. This whole experience is quite new to me. It actually took a while to get everyone measured and all the paperwork filled out. Now all I have to do is pick up the tuxes in Fredericton.
-<a href="http://gallery.bmannconsulting.com/march82003_tuxandribs/DSCN9815"><img src="http://gallery.bmannconsulting.com/albums/march82003_tuxandribs/DSCN9815.thumb.jpg"  align="right" vspace="5" hspace="5" /></a>
-For dinner, we went to Rob, Anna, and Adam's house and had ribs that had been slow-cooking all day, courtesy of Adam and Rob. Delicious! Then, of course, the bingo interlude, and back to their house to watch <a href="http://www.rulesofattraction.com/">Rules of Attraction</a>, an incredibly messed-up film that is interestingly shot, with lots of strange camera angles.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-03-11-costik-a-specter-is-haunting-gaming.md b/_posts/archive/2003-03-11-costik-a-specter-is-haunting-gaming.md
deleted file mode 100644
index fd33e45..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-03-11-costik-a-specter-is-haunting-gaming.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Costik: A Specter is Haunting Gaming"
-created: 1047408600
-categories: 
-- Game
----
-<blockquote>The mood at the Game Designers Conference this year was, fundamentally, one of despair. To even the blindest apologist for the silly, if monstrous, construct the game industry has become, the handwriting on the wall was clear. Ten years ago, you could find a dozen publishers to pitch to; today, perhaps five.
-...
-The industry is f*cked . It's less imaginative, more risk averse, than the f*cking music business. It makes Hollywood look happy to take a flyer on talent. </blockquote>A massive rant on the state of the gaming industry today. He's right. Independents have nowhere to go. I'm still waiting for a really good online title.
-
-<a href="http://www.costik.com/weblog/2003_03_01_blogchive.html#90490621">Full Article</a>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-03-12-osopinion-the-ultimate-lock-in.md b/_posts/archive/2003-03-12-osopinion-the-ultimate-lock-in.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 2237a7d..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-03-12-osopinion-the-ultimate-lock-in.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "osOpinion: The Ultimate Lock-In"
-created: 1047533220
-categories: 
-- Microsoft
----
-I said some nice/hopeful things about the next version of <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node.php?id=151">MS Office and XML formats</a>. Well, I might be completely wrong, according to an osOpinion article entitled <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/20982.html">The Ultimate Lock-In</a>.
-<blockquote>The first is the possible DMCA implications of trying to open Office 2003 documents without Microsoft's blessing. Just as Dmitri Sklyarov found himself in a world of trouble for writing software to break Adobe's encryption for its E-Book format, developers who write software that will  open "protected" Office 2003 documents may find themselves facing criminal  charges under the DMCA.</blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-03-12-vonage-digital-voice-phone-service.md b/_posts/archive/2003-03-12-vonage-digital-voice-phone-service.md
deleted file mode 100644
index d11278f..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-03-12-vonage-digital-voice-phone-service.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Vonage Digital Voice Phone Service
-created: 1047533520
-categories: 
-- Review
----
-Wow. VoIP. Five years ago, I first dug into the deep and dirty world of "voice over IP". I thought it might take off really soon. I'm still waiting. So, this <a href="http://www.mindjack.com/gear/vonage.html">short review of Vonage's service</a> looked interesting.
-<blockquote>Vonage is attempting to bring a new value to the phone network -- with their service you can check your voice mail from the web and also have very accurate phone accounting of your last few phone calls and exactly how long they lasted.</blockquote>They use a <a href="http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/pcat/ata186.htm">Cisco  ATA 186</a>, which doesn't seem very interesting -- Ethernet on one-side, analog on the other. What is interesting, that searches for the ATA 186 return "end of life" announcements as the best results.
-
-What is this <a href="http://www.vonage.com/">Vonage</a> company? Can we get it in Canada? Hey, if you get broadband through something other than your phone line, you could ditch the phone company all together. Unfortunately, no Canadian service. Hey <a href="http://www.nortel.com">Nortel people</a> -- it is rather disturbing that when <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=canada+voip&btnG=Google+Search">typing in <em>canada voip</em> into Google</a>, the top hit is Cisco...
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-03-13-sony-wifi-in-a-memorystick.md b/_posts/archive/2003-03-13-sony-wifi-in-a-memorystick.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e59cb91..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-03-13-sony-wifi-in-a-memorystick.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Sony WiFI in a MemoryStick
-created: 1047594000
-categories: 
-- Palm
-- Handheld
----
-<a href="http://brighthand.com/article/Wi-Fi_MemoryStick_Coming_This_Summer">BrightHand reports</a> that Sony is preparing WiFi adapters in MemoryStick format. They already produced some CF adapters for their really high-end series, but this means that all the (recent) Clies should be able to do WiFi.
-
-Yes, please. Ship it right over when you've got it finished.
-
-Of course, I wouldn't mind the Bluetooth version either, but last I heard, they were selling for something like $400CDN. Plus, I would still need a Bluetooth adapter for my computer, which is another $100 or so.
-
-And Bluetooth is going to get blown away by UWB, according to many.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-03-13-weather-block.md b/_posts/archive/2003-03-13-weather-block.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 8aac1f7..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-03-13-weather-block.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Weather Block
-created: 1047572160
-categories: 
-- BMC
-- Ottawa
-- PHP
----
-As you can see, I've added a weather block, showing everyone how cold it really is here in Ottawa. It's actually written from scratch by me, which I'm rather proud of.
-
-Basically, it checks a local cache to see if the weather has been updated in the last hour. If not, it downloads the appropriate Environment Canada webpage and parses it for information (right now, just the current conditions).
-
-These items are wrapped in just two functions -- getWeather and displayWeather. I really should have written it in <a href="http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop.php">OO PHP</a>, as I've been doing for lots of stuff lately, but it started as just a quick hack.
-
-If you want a little PHP function to display weather on your site, <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/module.php?mod=user&op=view&id=1">contact me</a> and I can send you a copy of the source.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-03-14-mini-pc-mini-hi-fi-look.md b/_posts/archive/2003-03-14-mini-pc-mini-hi-fi-look.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 3330b5a..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-03-14-mini-pc-mini-hi-fi-look.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Mini PC, Mini Hi-Fi look.
-created: 1047666060
-categories: 
-- Small Form Factor
-- Multimedia PC
-- Home Server
----
-Somewhere on <a href="http://www.tomshardware.com/business/20030314/cebit2003_2-06.html">this page</a> (just below the mobo picture) is a picture of a new computer from MSI done up to look almost exactly like a mini-Hi-Fi system receiver.  Very interesting.  A shame to see Apple missing this boat, when it should have been remarkably obvious for them when they came up with the digital Hub concept to take it one step further.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-03-14-nortel-ians-rejoice.md b/_posts/archive/2003-03-14-nortel-ians-rejoice.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 08dbba6..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-03-14-nortel-ians-rejoice.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Nortel-ian's rejoice!
-created: 1047669923
-categories: 
-- Ottawa
----
-<a href="http://www.siliconstrategies.com/story/OEG20030314S0020">This article</a> has a quote from a Probe analyst that says there are now signs of a slow return to spending in the Internet hardware market.  I'm applying for my old job again. :)
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-03-16-blog-bundle.md b/_posts/archive/2003-03-16-blog-bundle.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 80ad886..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-03-16-blog-bundle.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Blog bundle
-created: 1047872700
-categories: 
-- Drupal
-- BMC
-- drupal
-- BMC
-- Drupal
----
-<p>
-	I&#39;ve said it once, and I&#39;m going to say it again: <a href="http://www.drupal.org">Drupal</a> is fantastic.</p>
-<p>
-	May I direct your attention to the right, to the box entitled &quot;Interesting Blogs&quot;: that is a bundle of RSS feeds, grouped by the term &quot;blog&quot;.</p>
-<p>
-	Right now, the items are a little scrambled, because I manually updated them, and updated Dave&#39;s SmithDM3 blog last, so all his items appear first. As the RSS feeds get refreshed, the items will be from all over the place. Visit the <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/module.php?mod=import&amp;op=bundles">bundles section</a> of newsfeeds to see the ones I&#39;ve defined.</p>
-<p>
-	Again, if anyone has feeds to suggest, just leave a comment on this item.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-03-16-critical-section-i-am-an-iterator.md b/_posts/archive/2003-03-16-critical-section-i-am-an-iterator.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e787150..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-03-16-critical-section-i-am-an-iterator.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Critical Section: I am an Iterator"
-created: 1047871740
-categories: 
-- BMC
----
-I'm going to try and start blogging interesting items completely from within Drupal. You can do the same if you're logged in and check the <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/module.php?mod=import&op=feeds">feeds section</a>. The little notepad item indicates that you can click on it and create a blog entry. If anyone has suggestions for feeds that they would like to see, <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/module.php?mod=user&op=view">contact me</a> (or just add comments to this item).
-
-You should already be seeing an example of this with the SmithDM3 feed on the front page. Hmmm...perhaps it's not fair that Dave gets his own, featured feed. More iterating to do...
-
-Like Critical Section, I think I'm an "iterator", too.
-
-<a href="http://w-uh.com/index.cgi/posts/030315a-iterator.html">I am an Iterator</a><blockquote>When I make something, I don't just make it and go on.  I make it, then I remake it, then I remake it again, and iteratively improve it until I'm happy.  Later I might come back to it and iterate again.  I annoy myself sometimes, I am so unwilling or unable to leave something as it is...</blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-03-16-rss-aggregator-with-trust-experience.md b/_posts/archive/2003-03-16-rss-aggregator-with-trust-experience.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 223e6fe..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-03-16-rss-aggregator-with-trust-experience.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: RSS Aggregator with Trust Experience
-created: 1047870420
-categories: 
-- RSS
-- trust
----
-<p>
-	OK, the title is a bit contrived, just so I could get a cool acronym (<strong>RATE</strong> -- it will all make sense in a minute). So, I just added a particular blog/site to my &quot;daily news&quot;. What about Phil? Or Greg? Or Graham? etc. etc. All these people that are somewhat interested in the same thing should be able to be fed news that their friends are also interested in/found interesting.OK, the title is a bit contrived, just so I could get a cool acronym (<strong>RATE</strong> -- it will all make sense in a minute). I was reading <a href="http://w-uh.com/">Critical Section</a> after surfing my referrer logs (does <a href="http://www.drupal.org">Drupal</a> have TrackBack? I don&#39;t know...) and added their RSS feed to my daily list. I could add them to the <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/module.php?mod=import&amp;op=feeds">feeds here</a>, and I should probably get in the habit of doing that -- makes it easier to link to, rather than cutting and pasting a bunch of URLs. So, I just added a particular blog/site to my &quot;daily news&quot;. What about Phil? Or Greg? Or Graham? etc. etc. All these people that are somewhat interested in the same thing should be able to be fed news that their friends are also interested in/found interesting. But maybe this doesn&#39;t need another mechanism. Perhaps the intertwingling of blogs, trackbacks, comments, etc. are already creating it naturally. And perhaps this is what Google is going to try and surf, to try and using human experience to do this RATE with, so that people <em>outside</em> the trust web can use the collective experience of people to find information. Wow. I think I just blew my own brain. Too much coffee.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-03-16-spaces.md b/_posts/archive/2003-03-16-spaces.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 09f4959..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-03-16-spaces.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Spaces
-created: 1047867360
-categories: 
-- Application
----
-What an incredible application. OK, it's in alpha right now, but its promise is, well, promising.
-
-I think it embodies parts of what I think of with the term <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node.php?id=206">intertwingling</a>. At its most basic, it is a Personal Information Manager (PIM) that strives to be an Outlook clone. But that's just the beginning. It's also kind of like <a href="http://guests.evectors.it/zoe/">Zoe</a>, in that you can look at different slices/views/spaces of information.
-
-Check it out at <a href="http://www.dynamicobjects.com/index.html">Dynamic Objects</a>.
-
-And where did I magically find this? Intertwingling...check my <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node.php?id=205">latest blog entry</a>.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-03-17-mipod.md b/_posts/archive/2003-03-17-mipod.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e6aebcc..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-03-17-mipod.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: MiPod?
-created: 1047933789
-categories: 
-- Handheld
-- Mac
----
-<a href="http://www17.tomshardware.com/business/20030317/cebit_day3-14.html">Recent evidence</a> has come to my attention about developments in 1.8" hard drive capacities.  These are the drives used in the iPod, certainly a standard-bearer in the handheld jukebox market, but also quite pricey.  This article reveals that emerging out of the IBM drive group shell is two new 1.8" drives with capacities of up to 40 GB.  Apple is rumored to be in the final stages of updating the iPod, this 40 GB drive and competition in the sector may be the ticket it needs to lower prices and hike capacities.
-
-One wonders, though, what Apple has in mind for such products - 10 and 20 GB is plenty for MP3s of even the highest quality, and the new standard Apple looks to be encouraging is AAC, which boasts awesome quality at even lower encoding rates, so unless Apple has some other content/video device in mind, 40 GB seems excessive.  Give me a big price cut on the 5 rather than keep the price points.
-
-Also, this article shows that there are now 4 GB 1" drives, making me wonder if we might see some 4GB MiPod that is much smaller and lighter to appeal to those that don't like the existing iPod's size, small though it may be.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-03-17-that-thing-apple-do.md b/_posts/archive/2003-03-17-that-thing-apple-do.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 680ac06..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-03-17-that-thing-apple-do.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: That thing Apple do.
-created: 1047923483
-categories: 
-- Mac
----
-<a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11curve_1.html?s=tc">An interesting article</a> about what Apple does right and wrong.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-03-18-apple-hot-downloads-x11-public-beta-3.md b/_posts/archive/2003-03-18-apple-hot-downloads-x11-public-beta-3.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 50c44dd..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-03-18-apple-hot-downloads-x11-public-beta-3.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Apple Hot Downloads: X11 Public Beta 3"
-created: 1047994020
-categories: 
-- Application
-- Mac
----
-Head on out there and <a href="http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/x11formacosx.html">start downloading</a>.
-
-I just started using the <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/">Open Office Final Public Beta</a> on OS X (works on Windows, tool you'll hate it if you've spent any time with Office, but it is free and lets you remove one more piece of <strike>pirated</strike> MS software off your Windows machine). It works great with Apple's X11, although what I did end up doing is typing the whole string of commands into the X11 shortcuts menu.
-
-I think one of the main things that X11 needs is a progress indicator somewhere -- it takes 15 - 30sec for the splash screen of OOO to come up, and before that time, there is no way of knowing if something is actually launching in the background.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-03-18-salon-the-legend-of-m-u-l-e.md b/_posts/archive/2003-03-18-salon-the-legend-of-m-u-l-e.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 144f89c..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-03-18-salon-the-legend-of-m-u-l-e.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Salon: The legend of M.U.L.E."
-created: 1047993840
-categories: 
-- Game
----
-What a classic game. I think I played it on the Commodore in high school. I  found it through <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1047968519.html">Ars Technica</a>, but the whole article is <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/03/18/bunten/index.html">at Salon</a>. It's now being noted as one of the first games that explored social interaction -- the environment changed on the actions of all players, so there was a certain level of co-optition that had to take place.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-03-18-snigger.md b/_posts/archive/2003-03-18-snigger.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 38c6a7e..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-03-18-snigger.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Snigger....
-created: 1048014527
-categories: 
-- "*nix"
----
-+4 and - 11 heh
-hehehehehehehe
-hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
-
-The budding trees look lovely out here right now ;0)
-E/.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-03-20-son-of-weather-block-and-personal-page.md b/_posts/archive/2003-03-20-son-of-weather-block-and-personal-page.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 7feaa58..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-03-20-son-of-weather-block-and-personal-page.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Son of Weather Block and Personal Page
-created: 1048199640
-categories: 
-- BMC
----
-Dave pointed me to <a href="">interceptvector's XML weather</a>, and then I found <a href="http://www.cruelacid.com/?page=weather">some code</a> that will parse it for me, so the weather block is back, in a smaller, more compact form.
-
-Also, I found <a href="http://www.mouken.com/rss/">a good PHP RSS parser</a>, so I have now again split out <a href="/~boris/">my personal blog</a>, for those that are avidly following my life only...
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-03-21-get-your-war-on.md b/_posts/archive/2003-03-21-get-your-war-on.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 04d978d..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-03-21-get-your-war-on.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Get Your War On
-created: 1048261860
-categories: 
-- BMC
----
-I just added <a href="http://www.mnftiu.cc/">Get Your War On</a> to the site cloud -- these are sites without RSS feeds that get updated on a semi-regular basis.
-
-The newest comic is <a href="http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/war22.html">number 22</a>.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-03-21-sonicblue-go-bye-bye.md b/_posts/archive/2003-03-21-sonicblue-go-bye-bye.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 824b9c9..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-03-21-sonicblue-go-bye-bye.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Sonicblue go bye bye
-created: 1048269164
-categories: 
-- Home Server
-- Multimedia PC
----
-Ah, at long last, one of the silly companies that began to merge the computer with the home A/V system is now pushing up the daisies.
-
-Sonicblue has filed for Chapter 11, in which Gandalf innovator fights the Balrog credit lenders and thinks he is safe, but never does see that they always had the chain round his leg.  Can you say "LOTR delusional"?
-
-Actually, this company has some funny stuff.  They claim to have the first networked DVD player.  Sorry, that claim was invalidated the instant they made it - the computer was the first networked DVD player, all these guys did was add streaming.
-
-But their efforts were commendable - DVD/VCR combo that could skip commercials, ReplayTV Tivo clone, and that networked DVD player.  As Jobs said about Xerox, Sonicblue "had the germ of the idea", but never had the cojones to take the Apple-sized step to building the whole bridge.
-
-I doubt they would be a good acquisition for Apple, but certainly parts of their company would be valuable for Apple to acquire for the larger digital home A/V hub that Apple is either ignoring, or working on in secret.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-03-22-mac-to-pc-filesharing.md b/_posts/archive/2003-03-22-mac-to-pc-filesharing.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 18cb598..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-03-22-mac-to-pc-filesharing.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Mac to PC Filesharing
-created: 1048347840
-categories: 
-- Mac
-- Microsoft
----
-A good step-by-step article on file sharing between OS X and Windows XP.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-03-22-todd-asks-what-pda-should-i-buy.md b/_posts/archive/2003-03-22-todd-asks-what-pda-should-i-buy.md
deleted file mode 100644
index ced31d5..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-03-22-todd-asks-what-pda-should-i-buy.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Todd Asks: What PDA Should I buy?"
-created: 1048354380
-categories: 
-- Palm
-- Handheld
----
-Todd Bailey emailed me asking for my recommendations on what PDA to buy. I thought it might be interesting for others to chime in as well, plus I'd have my thoughts on it here for posterity.
-
-Todd's initial email:<blockquote>I'm looking for many basic functions:<ul><li>spreadsheets to compile lists</li><li>large address book</li><li>basic word processor</li><li>(preferably) colour display</li></ul>I don't need any flashy modem or camera.
- 
-What is the advantage of bluetooth?
- 
-What would you recommend? I've mainly been looking at the Palm and Sony Clie; some of the Compaq.
- 
-No desire to deal with Futureshop.
- 
-Would be willing to spend up to $350-400.
- 
-Best place to buy?</blockquote>I've found the Sony Clie's to be great. Sony seems to be doing a better job than Palm at putting together really nice, solid feeling products that have lots of integrated functionality.
-
-You really only have basic needs, so I would stick with the Palm platform. Once you start looking at the PocketPCs, the price goes up, the battery life goes down, and it doesn't really give you that much more (until you start spending serious coin, at which point you may as well buy a TabletPC or a laptop!)
-
-There are freeware apps to do lists and word processing, but many of the Clies come with <a href="http://www.dataviz.com/products/documentstogo/">Documents To Go</a>, which integrates with Excel and Word.
-
-From the list of stuff you mentioned, I don't see any need for colour. The new Clies all feature black text on a white background, which is much easier to read than the green/gray background. However, colour doesn't cost that much more these days.
-
-Bluetooth is a short-range wireless protocol. However, pretty pricey these days, and an upcoming wireless standard called UWB looks like it will be faster, longer-range, and consume less power, so Bluetooth's days may be numbered. The adapters, for both handhelds and PCs, tend to cost almost as much as a handheld. Hold off -- you don't need it right now, and will be able to get an adapter after the fact.
-
-If you don't want to go to Future Shop, the Compucentre in Rideau Mall is really good, especially for handhelds. The guys know their stuff without being pushy.
-
-I have the <a href="http://www.sonystyle.ca/webapp/commerce/servlet/ProductDisplay?merchant_rn=1&prrfnbr=62462&cgrfnbr=15521&catLandNum=15520&parent=CLIE_PDA">PEG-SJ20</a>, which looks to be around $230CDN right now (black and white). There is an <a href="http://www.sonystyle.ca/webapp/commerce/servlet/ProductDisplay?merchant_rn=1&prrfnbr=67924&cgrfnbr=15521&catLandNum=15520&parent=CLIE_PDA">SJ22</a>, where the only difference is colour, that is ~$300.
-
-The next jump up has more features (the SJ3xx series), and is ~$400+. If I wanted one with an included MP3 player, I might go for the <a href="http://www.sonystyle.ca/webapp/commerce/servlet/ProductDisplay?parent=CLIE_PDA&prrfnbr=66267&istart=0&cgrfnbr=15521&catLandNum=15520&display=overview&merchant_rn=1&page=1">SJ33</a>, which is colour and has MP3 playback at ~$500, but that is definitely going beyond basic functionality.
-
-So, in summary, I think the PEG-SJ20 or -SJ22 would be the best choices for you. They both come with 16MB of space built in. Mine is only half full, and I have a couple of dozen pictures on it. You can add MemoryStick media in 16MB, 32MB, 64MB, or 128MB sizes, but that is easy to add down the line.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-03-27-simple-clustering-with-xserve.md b/_posts/archive/2003-03-27-simple-clustering-with-xserve.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 89a366a..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-03-27-simple-clustering-with-xserve.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Simple clustering with XServe
-created: 1048793867
-categories: 
-- "*nix"
-- Mac
----
-<a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/03/27/xserveipod/">Here is a really interesting article</a> on how a group in the BioTech field can setup an entire XServe cluster by using a 20 GB iPod and a Perl script that auto-configures and installs all software on the Cluster.  Talk about your easy install!
-
-Could this be Apple's ticket to ride in the Enterprise field?  Drastically simplified auto-configuration and installation of Enterprise systems?
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-04-02-blogchalking.md b/_posts/archive/2003-04-02-blogchalking.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 96eb2a1..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-04-02-blogchalking.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Blogchalking
-created: 1049308440
-categories: 
-- BMC
-- Web 2.0
----
-Since I'm at my parents' place on Bowen Island right now, I started looking for some blogs about the island (mainly because the <a href="http://www.bowenisland.com">island websites suck</a>).
-
-I found <a href="http://www.chriscorrigan.com/miscellany/bijournal/blogger.html">Chris Corrigan's blog</a>, where I also found out about <a href="http://www.blogchalking.tk/">Blogchalking</a>. The concept is much like <a href="http://www.geourl.org">GeoURL</a>, but uses Google to do the heavy lifting. Ideally, putting in descriptive info about location/geography will allow regular Google searches to be able to find people that are online, near you.
-
-My chalk is down at the bottom of the right-hand column, below the GeoURL link.
-
-Next step: put up a drupal install somewhere so that Bowen Island folks can blog.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-04-02-games-as-collectors-items.md b/_posts/archive/2003-04-02-games-as-collectors-items.md
deleted file mode 100644
index da8ad80..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-04-02-games-as-collectors-items.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Games as collectors items?
-created: 1049315223
-categories: 
-- Game
----
-Working in a Mac retail store, we have a shelf of retro games that haven't been sold but are kept in inventory.  There are a dozen copies of Master of Orion 2 alone, as well as Hexen, Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior and more.
-
-Do you think that these games will hold any value as collectors items some day?
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-04-03-ars-technica-about-the-finder.md b/_posts/archive/2003-04-03-ars-technica-about-the-finder.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 604782b..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-04-03-ars-technica-about-the-finder.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Ars Technica: About the Finder"
-created: 1049397600
-categories: 
-- Mac
----
-John Siracusa finally distills alls his thoughts on the current OS X Finder into one article, <a href="http://arstechnica.com/paedia/f/finder/finder-1.html">About the Finder</a>.<blockquote>In the past, my thoughts on the Finder have been scattered throughout several articles. The topic has never been given the thorough treatment that I believe it deserves. In this article, I will attempt to rectify the situation. In the process, I will try to answer one of the most common Finder-related questions asked by readers: "Okay Mister Smartypants, how should the Mac OS X Finder work?"</blockquote>If nothing else, John's articles are always very thought-provoking. He dissects all the bits and pieces that make up the Mac GUI, and thinks up ways that it could be better. I believe that some of his best points are around the use of meta-data. iTunes and iPhoto already interact with files and metadata, and there has been much talk of turning filesystems into databases, such as the one used by BeOS (and that developer now works at Apple, I believe). If the rumours are true, the next versions of Windows are also built on top of a database-like file system.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-04-15-extremetech-linux-media-jukebox.md b/_posts/archive/2003-04-15-extremetech-linux-media-jukebox.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 8ef3aa7..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-04-15-extremetech-linux-media-jukebox.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "ExtremeTech: Linux Media Jukebox"
-created: 1050442440
-categories: 
-- "*nix"
-- Home Server
-- Multimedia PC
-- Small Form Factor
----
-The <a href="http://www.extremetech.com/print_article/0,3998,a=39991,00.asp">full article</a> has a nice run down of everything you need, including a components list and step by step instructions. This is for making that box that is connected to your TV and runs all your multimedia systems.
-
-From the article, it sounds like the <a href="http://freevo.sourceforge.net/">Freevo</a> project has come a long way.
-
-I still don't know that I'd want to run all my web-based, server-type items on the same box -- it's just such a pain versus <a href="http://www.e-smith.org">e-smith</a>. Speaking of which, I've got a server upgrade to v5.6 somewhen in my future.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-04-15-safari-beta2-tabs-and-more.md b/_posts/archive/2003-04-15-safari-beta2-tabs-and-more.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 86b2db8..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-04-15-safari-beta2-tabs-and-more.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Safari beta2 - Tabs and more
-created: 1050393720
-categories: 
-- Application
-- Mac
----
-No comments from Lloyd about <a href="http://www.apple.com/safari">Safari beta 2</a> which now has tabs (which means he can start using it).
-
-<a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3059">Mac Dev Center</a> talks about the tab features, as well as "Privacy Reset", which wipes all the stuff that browsers generally store. Cool. Lots of stuff to tinker with (and <a href="http://www.shadowbane.com">play</a>) when I get back to Ottawa.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-04-18-ambigious-org-sikander-and-wheres-willy.md b/_posts/archive/2003-04-18-ambigious-org-sikander-and-wheres-willy.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a784726..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-04-18-ambigious-org-sikander-and-wheres-willy.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Ambigious.org, Sikander, and Where's Willy
-created: 1050722700
-categories: 
-- BMC
----
-<a href="http://www.ambigious.org">Ambigious.org</a> got added to the <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/module.php?mod=import&op=bundle&id=11">Interesting Blogs</a> feed. They use <a href="http://www.bloxsom.org">Bloxsom</a> to write their blog, and created a hack that allows readers to annotate postings (or rather, individual words) with links. Cool.
-
-Next, I was surfing the referrer listings and saw something that came in through <a href="http://geourl.org/near/?p=http://www.bmannconsulting.com">my GeoURL link</a>. It's a personal blog here in Ottawa called <a href="http://www.sikander.org">Sikander.org</a>. Ugh. Redirect to Rogers member webspace. Web hosting is cheap! $15 per month, 500MB, all the goodies. Contact me if you want.
-
-That, in turn, had a link to <a href="http://www.whereswilly.com">Where's Willy</a>, a site dedicated to tracking where Canadian $5 bills go.
-
-OK. Back to work. Need to burn some CDs and pack stuff for the trip back to Ottawa tomorrow.
-
-Crazy! My mom just called. She and my Dad walked my niece and nephew, Kati and Sebastian, to the ferry. Only it's going to be running a little late. The Queen of Surrey (the boat that goes to Langdale, on the Sunshine Coast, which is where Kate lived after she moved down from Smithers) had a fire. The Bowen ferry, the Queen of Capilano, stopped to take on passengers, then carried on to Bowen and unloaded Bowen passengers. Then, no passengers were allowed on, but instead it went over to Langdale.
-
-Now, the water taxi is coming to take passengers from Bowen to Horseshoe Bay. Craziness. Welcome to the new and improved <a href="http://www.bcferries.ca">BC Ferries</a>, recently privatized by the BC government -- they have no spare ferries.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-04-20-back-to-building-multimedia-pcs.md b/_posts/archive/2003-04-20-back-to-building-multimedia-pcs.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 19bf89d..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-04-20-back-to-building-multimedia-pcs.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Back to building multimedia PCs
-created: 1050899940
-categories: 
-- Multimedia PC
-- Microsoft
----
-This time with Windows. First off, go and read <a href="http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,10314,00.asp">Part I</a> and <a href="http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,19713,00.asp">Part II</a> of "Building a Home Theater PC" at ExtremeTech.
-
-So, we're done, right? Well, I had some interesting ideas while talking to Dave about this. What about making this your one and only PC? Well, the resolution of a TV isn't good enough to really work with the Windows desktop, and using just a large-ish flat panel screen (say a $1200 19" one) is still lots smaller than a 32" TV for watching movies.
-
-How about 2 monitors? This is my big idea. Attach the TV out to your TV. Now, get a long VGA cable, potentially with booster or some such to prevent signal degradation (I don't know enough about this right now to speak to this -- I'll do <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=vga+extension+cable&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8">some research</a>). Connect that to wherever your "desk" is going to be. You did get a wireless, RF keyboard and mouse, right? Carry those between your "desk" and your living room, and you've got the best of both worlds. Might take a hefty CPU to be able to handle MS Word on the desk and "Attack of the Clones" in the living room....
-
-I might just be able to do this with my current PC. The motherboard can handle Athlons, and it definitely needs an upgrade from the current 1GHz Duron. Also, it has a GeForce2MX that would get replaced with an AIW card. Well...I don't have cable right now, and the GeForce does have TV out, so I could even stick with that. Hmmm.
-
-What about the other way? i.e. desktop with cables to TV? I think more cables over more distance. This bears thinking about!
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-04-20-scobleizer-yaamr.md b/_posts/archive/2003-04-20-scobleizer-yaamr.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a4ec3a4..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-04-20-scobleizer-yaamr.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Scobleizer: YAAMR"
-created: 1050896040
-categories: 
-- Microsoft
----
-<a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2003/04/18.html#a2796">The Scobleizer points out</a> <a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0103807/2003/04/16.html#a1576">YAAMR </a>(Yet Another Anti Microsoft Rant).
-
-I thought the really cool thing was actually <a href="http://www.haloscan.com/comments.php?user=scoble&comment=2796#1348">a well-reasoned, very descriptive comment</a> to Scoble's blog item. For me, that's what intertwingling is all about -- this interconnectedness of comments and meta-comments, with blogs pointing every which way, and tangental thought streams being sparked off by the community gathered around any particular firepit that is a single blog. Heh. I guess those would be called "smoke signals" if you want to continue the metaphor...
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-04-21-ps3-chip-to-be-1-teraflop.md b/_posts/archive/2003-04-21-ps3-chip-to-be-1-teraflop.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 43bed04..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-04-21-ps3-chip-to-be-1-teraflop.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: PS3 chip to be 1 TeraFLOP.
-created: 1050954883
-categories: 
-- Game
----
-I came across an <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/21/HNsonytoshiba_1.html">interesting article</a> about the fab for the next-gen Sony Playstation chip.  I wonder if this fab will exclusively produce Sony PS3 chips, or the support and related chips as well.
-
-Interesting to note - the team plans on making the PS3 chip the first 1 teraflop chip for a consumer product.  That's a lot of power.  I wonder if Apple may some day look at this as the future of Apple's own CPU line, minus the ability to emulate the PS3 system.
-
-Whatever the case, the console gaming world is beginning to look a lot more exciting than the computer world in terms of how radically it advances the performance curve.
-
-But will game development and <a href="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.05/doom.html">graphics</a> be able to catch up and utilize all that extra performance?
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-04-22-russell-beattie-delineating-devices.md b/_posts/archive/2003-04-22-russell-beattie-delineating-devices.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 2a62f99..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-04-22-russell-beattie-delineating-devices.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Russell Beattie: Delineating Devices"
-created: 1051047840
-categories: 
-- Handheld
-- Palm
----
-Russell Beattie sits down and sketches out a categorization of different types of smartphones. I always find this incredibly useful for both explaining to myself and others different concepts that have a spectrum of capabilities.
-<blockquote><a href="http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/20030422.html#174620">Delineating Devices: Current Generation, Multimedia Mobiles and Intelliphones</a>
-I was struggling to explain to my wife recently what I was working on and the devices I was targeting. In that discussion, I ended up coming up with a sort of categorization that I'll talk about here. It's really helped me understand what I'm working on and for who.</blockquote>The other interesting thing about this post was that it was also pointed to by <a href="http://blogs.it/0100198/">Marc Canter</a>, who is also on my "feed list", and his comment in turn about Russell:<blockquote>I now think of Russ as our 'mobile guy.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-04-23-coffee-with-honey-and-snow.md b/_posts/archive/2003-04-23-coffee-with-honey-and-snow.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f7044ae..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-04-23-coffee-with-honey-and-snow.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Coffee with Honey, and Snow
-created: 1051111080
-categories: 
-- Ottawa
----
-I drank my coffee with honey this morning. Weird tasting. That is, honey and sugar, although both being "sweeteners", definitely taste different. Also, a teaspoon of honey seems to be much sweeter than the equivalent amount of sugar.
-
-(yes, we ran out of sugar)
-
-Also, our apartment is cold, and it started snowing again in Ottawa last night (that weather doo-hickey in the upper right hand corner is correct - below zero once again). On <a href="http://gallery.bmannconsulting.com/april20_bywardmarket" title="April 20, Byward Market with Troy and Tanya">Sunday</a>, Kate and I walked around everywhere and had to carry our jackets because it was over 20 degrees! When we got home, we spent the rest of the day in shorts.
-
-I just went to put on thicker socks, and debate putting on a sweater instead of just this hoody. Yes, the rads are off for the season, and Mark and were just discussing yesterday our plans to buy air conditioners for this summer...
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-04-24-finely-interwingled-blogging.md b/_posts/archive/2003-04-24-finely-interwingled-blogging.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 23347b9..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-04-24-finely-interwingled-blogging.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Finely-interwingled Blogging
-created: 1051222711
-categories: 
-- Application
----
-I am curious about this blogging thing, but there is one big drawack:
-
-I can't be bothered spending so much time searching on the net for related URLs to refer to in the entry.  Is there anything like a contextual browser history checker that can go through the URLs I've visited, and quickly refer to them?
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-04-28-new-ipods-edit-and-music-downloads.md b/_posts/archive/2003-04-28-new-ipods-edit-and-music-downloads.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 695f095..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-04-28-new-ipods-edit-and-music-downloads.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "New iPods [edit: and Music Downloads]"
-created: 1051558620
-categories: 
-- Mac
----
-Apple introduced its <a href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/2003/04/28/musicstore">anticipated, downloadable music service</a>, under development for over a year, and new iPods today.  The music service has a library of 200K, USD $1 per song.
-
-<a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/04/28/ipods/">The new iPods</a> - 10GB, 15GB, 30GB, same high prices starting at CDN $460. Slightly re-designed layout, now has four buttons in horizontal row, and still the scroll disc and central button.  New audio format, AAC, is now a capability of the iPod.  It also comes with three games - Brick, Solitare, and Parachute. USB2.0 capability added, dock comes standard on 15GB and 30GB models.  All models are thinner and lighter, I think around 1 Ounce ligher per iPod.  The 30GB is now $50 lower and the 15GB model is $40 less CDN. These lower prices are likely only due to the higher CDN exchange rate, for the US prices are identical to previous models.
-
-Unfortunately for the more economically starved Apple fans, this still means the iPod is too high in price.  There are three possibilities Apple has available for a smaller iPod - the IBM 1" 4GB micro-drive and a miniature iPod design for a premium price, the 5GB Toshiba/IBM 1.8" drive in the same iPod size for a reduced price, a 5 or 10 GB 2.5" drive in a larger and heavier iPod at a substantially reduced price.
-
-Personally, I'd love to see Apple go to the IBM Micro-Drive, and I have to believe that this form factor has some appeal to Steve Jobs, being a lover of small things that he is.
-
-Apple also updated iTunes to version 4, QuickTime to 6.2 and other software to utilize the new services, available on OSX only.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-04-29-testing-bloggar.md b/_posts/archive/2003-04-29-testing-bloggar.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 448679d..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-04-29-testing-bloggar.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Testing bloggar
-created: 1051618800
-categories: 
-- Application
-- Drupal
-- Microsoft
----
-Greg wants to use <a href="http://wbloggar.com/">w.bloggar</a> to post to this site. So, I installed it on my PC machine (using RDC, of course) and am typing this entry.
-
-Of course, no topic support, and I guess default posts go to your personal blog.
-
-So, the instructions. Download and install w.bloggar. Run it and fill in your BMC username and password. w.bloggar will prompt you if you want to "create" this account. Change the blog type to Drupal, change the path to "xmlrpc.php", and set the host to www.bmannconsulting.com. If you've done it correctly, a "Post" window should appear.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-04-30-apple-borked-me-again.md b/_posts/archive/2003-04-30-apple-borked-me-again.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 3c59098..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-04-30-apple-borked-me-again.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Apple Borked Me Again
-created: 1051732080
-categories: 
-- Mac
----
-So the new power supply I bought, it's borked. The glow ring that says "you are charging/ your battery is full" is always glowing green; well, unless I unplug the thing.
-Is this covered by warranty <s>Greg</s> Graham?
-
-( breaking B's rules of continuity by posting here but <s>Greg</s> Graham prolly reads this site more than mine )
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-05-03-audioscrobbler.md b/_posts/archive/2003-05-03-audioscrobbler.md
deleted file mode 100644
index d4e0e88..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-05-03-audioscrobbler.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Audioscrobbler
-created: 1051982880
-categories: 
-- Web 2.0
----
-So cool. A <a href="http://www.pmbrowser.info/audioscrobbler.html">node - graph browser</a> that describes itself as <em>"A visualisation tool for finding new music by exploring        links between related artists"</em>.
-
-The <a href="http://www.audioscrobbler.com/">Audioscrobbler Project</a> is also very interesting:<blockquote>n a nutshell,  Audioscrobbler endeavours to be your personal music advisor. It grows to know  what music you like by monitoring what songs you play on your computer. From  this information you can discover other users that share some or all of your  taste in music. You can also view data showing what your most-played artists  are, and find out who likes a particular artist the most.   Audioscrobbler makes it easy to find people with similar musical tastes, and allows you to browse their profiles. Automatic suggestion generation is currently under development.</blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-05-04-now-with-docking-station.md b/_posts/archive/2003-05-04-now-with-docking-station.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 4987f8f..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-05-04-now-with-docking-station.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Now with docking station
-created: 1052109120
-categories: 
-- Mac
----
-OK, it's late, and I should just go straight to bed, but reading some <a href="http://www.appleturns.com/">crazy Apple rumour sites</a> has got me thinking, so I'll post this first.
-
-So, there is a long <a href="http://www.fortune.com/fortune/technology/articles/0,15114,447333-1,00.html">FORTUNE article</a> about the new <a href="http://www.apple.com/music/store">iTunes Music Store</a>. Theoretically there is going to be a Windows version by the end of the year, maybe even integrated with AOL.<blockquote>In fact, Warner's Roger Ames is trying to broker a deal in which AOL would adopt iTunes as its music-management software. "Steve was resistant at first," Ames says. "But now I understand that he's decided to go that way."</blockquote>The top two models of iPod have docking stations. What if there were kiosks that you could plunk your iPod into and buy directly -- with no computer at all?! Lots of Apple Retails stores to host such kiosks...
-
-That rumour site I linked to at the top also does some fancy math numbers -- <a href="http://www.appleturns.com/">As the Apple Turns</a>:<blockquote>Figure first of all that the iTunes Music Store was maybe ten times more active at its launch than it will be on an average day once the hype starts to die down.  That's 27,500 songs sold in 18 hours, or 36,667 a day, just among Mac users.  Now, let's conservatively estimate that Windows support will increase Apple's customer base, say, eightfold, and international support will double it.  That comes out to roughly 586,000 songs sold per day, even ignoring any boost that might come as Apple extends the store's catalog beyond the stuff offered by the major labels.  Word on the street is that Apple gets about 35 cents per song it sells; even after siphoning off bandwidth and support costs, we're talking about probably at least a cool million bucks in pure profit for Apple each and every week.  Yowza!</blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-05-06-trevorj-annoying-password-prompts-in-os-x.md b/_posts/archive/2003-05-06-trevorj-annoying-password-prompts-in-os-x.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 9a37258..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-05-06-trevorj-annoying-password-prompts-in-os-x.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "TrevorJ: Annoying Password Prompts in OS X"
-created: 1052222460
-categories: 
-- Mac
----
-Trevor sent me a short note with some questions/rants about Mac OS X's multi-user system. If you want to install an application which ties into the system, you need to give the root password, so the installer can authenticate itself with the system:<blockquote>Okay - an annoying Mac problem. When installing an application, I'm always prompted to type in my password. Or sometimes the installation will stall, there will be a little lock icon at the bottom of the installation screen, I will click it, it will prompt me to enter my password, and installation will proceed.
-<snip>
-Any thoughts? I hate this multiple user/password thing. It's the only geeky feature that actually gets in the way of casual computer users.</blockquote>There is no way around this. OS X is now inherently a multi-user system. You can choose an option, in System Preferences -> Login, that by default always logs in a particular user, but you'll still need to enter the password of an account with admin privileges to install some applications.
-
-The "snip" part describes Trevor's efforts to install a freeware version of <a href="http://www.pgp.com">PGP</a>. I'll give it a shot myself and report back.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-05-07-linkedin-friendster-without-the-gonad-centrism.md b/_posts/archive/2003-05-07-linkedin-friendster-without-the-gonad-centrism.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 34b11fa..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-05-07-linkedin-friendster-without-the-gonad-centrism.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "LinkedIn: Friendster without the gonad-centrism"
-created: 1052328000
-categories: 
-- Web 2.0
----
-Via Boing Boing -- <a href="http://boingboing.net/#200255454">LinkedIn: Friendster without the gonad-centrism</a><blockquote>LinkedIn is a new, SixDegrees-style app from Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of PayPal. It's aimed at helping people get work and do deals (a kind of techie bizdev version of the gonad-centric Friendster). I'm still not 100 percent comfortable with explictly affirming (or worse, rejecting) my friendship with others, but these things are irresistable. The interesting thing for me about this is the stats on the geographic and industry dispersion of the sign-ups -- Joi Ito has apparently brought in enough Japanese members to account for 12% of all the members.</blockquote>I've invited a couple of you in. I'll send out some more invites and try and grow this network. This more business-oriented network seems to make sense -- keep tabs on your contacts, what they're up to, and hopefully pass each other work and/or good people to get in touch with. Check out the <a href="http://www.linkedin.com">LinkedIn website</a>.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-05-09-business-2-0-is-tivo-next.md b/_posts/archive/2003-05-09-business-2-0-is-tivo-next.md
deleted file mode 100644
index b74ae0b..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-05-09-business-2-0-is-tivo-next.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Business 2.0: Is TiVo NeXT?"
-created: 1052523360
-categories: 
-- Mac
-- Multimedia PC
----
-I'm all in favour of Steve Jobs going on a shopping trip and picking up TiVo.<blockquote>So it's time for Apple to step in. Steve Jobs is the only man in techland who can stand up to the content companies on his own terms. Not only does he understand the entertainment industry -- his other company, Pixar, is a Hollywood hit machine -- but he also deeply understands the consumer. Apple's "Rip. Mix. Burn." approach has captured the essence of how consumers feel about music: It's theirs.</blockquote><a href="http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,48682,00.html">Full article at Business 2.0</a>
-
-I've always lusted after a TiVo device. I keep thinking I'll build some sort of multimedia-PC that will do everything when hooked up to the TV, but in reality I'd rather just pay $500 and get an appliance that does it, and does it right. All I ask is a network connection so that I can share content -- and storage -- around the house.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-05-12-powerline-networking.md b/_posts/archive/2003-05-12-powerline-networking.md
deleted file mode 100644
index b342a91..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-05-12-powerline-networking.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Powerline Networking
-created: 1052775789
-categories: 
-- Home Server
----
-K all you ex-Nortel elites; my friend Jeff wants to get some deep knowledge on Powerline Networking. Is it good? Is it bad? etc, etc, etc.
-
-Feel free to dump links and rants here now.
-E/.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-05-13-ever-wonder-where-mime-types-come-from.md b/_posts/archive/2003-05-13-ever-wonder-where-mime-types-come-from.md
deleted file mode 100644
index bbe9d47..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-05-13-ever-wonder-where-mime-types-come-from.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Ever wonder where MIME types come from?
-created: 1052872860
-categories: 
-- Web Development
-- PHP
----
-It turns out that <a href="http://www.iana.org/">IANA</a> (the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) is also responsible for <a href="http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/">registering MIME types</a>.
-
-You can also go to IANA to find out who/what owns various top-level domains (TLDs) and the various ccTLDs (country code TLDs). My dreams of registering <strong>canada.eh</strong> were dashed when I found out that <a href="http://www.iana.org/root-whois/eh.htm">Western Sahara owns .eh</a>. And they don't have a registry.
-
-What was I doing? I was working on a PHP script that will set a file for download, setting the header "Content-Type" to the specific type of file. In my case, a comma-separated value (CSV) file. Closest thing is application/vnd.ms-excel, which is probably where I want it to end up anyways.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-05-20-finding-andrew-jones.md b/_posts/archive/2003-05-20-finding-andrew-jones.md
deleted file mode 100644
index add5eb9..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-05-20-finding-andrew-jones.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Finding Andrew Jones
-created: 1053466620
-categories: 
-- Web 2.0
----
-Hi. My name is Boris Mann. You're in my "network chain" at <a href="http://www.linkedin.com">LinkedIn</a>, which passes somewhere through <a href="http://home.justwerks.com">Evan Wise</a> and <a href="http://www.brendonwilson.com">Brendon Wilson</a> (as far as I can tell).
-
-I sent off a "request" through the network, mainly to test it. I had seen your name and was intrigued by your profile enough to do some Google searches for your company, Concursion. Typing in "<a href="http://www.concursion.com">concursion.com</a>" worked...albeit the page forwarded to a 404 error when I last looked (it's fixed now).
-
-So, I guess LinkedIn failed (someone somewhere along the chain didn't pass on the message? you didn't feel like responding?) although it did prompt me to do some more digging...
-
-<a href="http://www.concursion.com/timeonline.shtml">Zerendipity</a> seems remarkably similar to some of the design goals of LinkedIn. It's great to see a "grown in BC" web application like this. I wonder if you've considered some sort of open federation/trustweb/API with other systems? A lot of the initial discussion in the blogging community about LinkedIn mused about the possibilities of info being locked into "islands", with various social networks encouraging people to invite only into their closed playground.
-
-I would suggest this has some parallels with current instant messaging systems -- people are trapped on different systems, and only projects like <a href="http://www.jabber.org">Jabber</a> seek to provide bridges or gateways between them. I believe that it is in the best interest of these social networks to be open, to interoperate, to facilitate the flow of information and connections.
-
-Some resources and concepts I find interesting:
-<ul><li><a href="http://joi.ito.com/archives/2003/05/07/linkedin_launches.html">Comments on LinkedIn launch</a>  (lots of good ideas and links in the comments)</li><li><a href="http://blogs.it/0100198/">Marc Canter's blog in general</a>, plus a <a href="http://blogs.it/0100198/2003/05/09.html">particular post</a></li><li><a href="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/">FOAF</a></li></ul>In any case, good luck with the project. You look to be doing some interesting work. Perhaps we'll bump into each other again some time, across networks.
-
-P.S. This is how I found your email address: <a href="http://www.easywhois.com">http://www.easywhois.com/</a>
-Check out the <a href="http://www.myprivacy.ca">MyPrivacy</a> link if you want to make it harder for people like me to look up your email.
-<blockquote>This is an email that I never sent. Call it an experiment in social connections. What do you all think about social networks? Trust? Making connections?
-
-This makes me think about blogs and the self-publishing phenomenon on the web. The links and inter-links here are old hat, but kind of boring, too, because it is an elite group linking amongst each other.
-
-Many small businesses could benefit from a web presence, but an entire website is overkill. BUT, having a website means they are more likely to be found by people like me who type in "knife sharpening ottawa".
-
-That's the end of that thought for now. It needs more percolating.</blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-05-20-le-grande-sucre-a-k-a-big-sugar.md b/_posts/archive/2003-05-20-le-grande-sucre-a-k-a-big-sugar.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 21a62c7..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-05-20-le-grande-sucre-a-k-a-big-sugar.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Le Grande Sucre (a.k.a. Big Sugar)
-created: 1053434400
-categories: 
-- Ottawa
----
-I went to the <a href="http://www.bigsugar.ca/">Big Sugar</a> concert last night that closed out <a href="http://www.tulipfestival.ca">Tulip Festival</a>. Kate went to a few things, but this year, we seem to have skipped most of it. When it started, it certainly wasn't very spring-like -- hardly any tulips out.
-
-Yesterday, there was no doubt that summer had arrived. Well, spring, since in Ottawa, summer is unbearably hot, and spring is merely hot.
-
-Our new air conditioner (<a href="http://www.edenair.biz">rented it</a> -- and yes, they have been contacted about having a new site designed) managed to blow our apartment fuse for the first time. The maintenance guy in charge of our building, Dan, came by fairly quickly (about 45 minutes after my phone call, on a holiday) and handed me a key -- we get to flip our own breaker this summer.
-
-Shorts and sunglasses all day, and I was foolish enough to take my "Sears" jacket that makes a brief appearance in the spring here -- basically, I just carried it everywhere, since it was too hot to wear.
-
-I actually ended up having free tickets to the show. Thanks Adam! (he had bought a pass and went to some other shows, but wasn't coming out last night) And I actually debated not going for a while -- I was sitting on the porch at 317 Lyon, and generally just relaxing after a hectic weekend (blog entry to come...).
-
-I thought to myself at the concert to remember myself at this moment, at the concert, enjoying myself, and to reach back to that other person, that person who almost didn't go, and smack him upside the head.
-
-I've been going to Big Sugar concerts since 1995, back in Victoria when I was going to university. I guess I was introduced to them by Matt, Jamie, and Gresham, who are self-avowed Big Sugar fanatics. And I have to admit, I've become one as well. My friend Louis, as well, who I went with last night. Patrick....you so should have dropped everything to come to the show.
-
-Their early music (yes, I pretty much have every single one of their CDs) started off more blue-sy, but also more raw (self-titled release, <em>Big Sugar</em>). Classics like "Sleep in Late" are slow and (for Big Sugar) peaceful, with awesome little guitar licks and Gordie's voice clearly playing with the lyrics.
-
-Then, more distortion crept into their guitars, and the settings on all their amps permanently climbed to "11" -- the album <em>500 Pounds</em>, with "Ride Like Hell" still being one of my favourites, especially the revving engine noise that still often starts of their shows (it was also the encore song -- Gordie being "polite" to the neighbours).
-
-<em>Hemi-vision</em> seems to be an album in the middle. The edges start getting a little smoother as the boys figure out which knobs to twiddle without going overboard, but still quite raw.
-
-Then came <em>Heated</em>, and tons more radio play. I think because of a more polished, pop-y sound, but they are still definitely all rock. Well, except for the reggae influence which really began to wind itself into many of the songs, especially with this album. "Diggin' a Hole" is another classic, although I can easily say that about almost every Big Sugar song...
-
-Finally, the last album, <em>Brothers and Sisters Are You Ready?</em>, released in English and French, including an intense version of "Oh Canada". Big Sugar played the Tulip Festival days before the release of the album, and played almost all the new songs, so we got a chance to preview them before anyone else. They played a handful of "new" songs last night, which hopefully means another album is on the way.
-
-The new music is another switch. More reggae (and there were lots of traditional reggae tunes being sung, as attested to by a Jamaican friend that was seeing Big Sugar for the first time) and more Gordie doing interesting things with his voice -- he seemed to be singing higher and clearer, and at times I got an almost blue-grass feel from it. So, the new Big Sugar is blue-grass-meets-reggae-based-on-rock-turned-to-11. Is that a new musical genre?
-
-Stage left the Peace Tower's lighted clock loomed over the event, the show started with a tribute to the Ottawa Senators, who beat the NJ Devils (they started playing the "Hockey Night in Canada" theme, then it morphed into "Red Rover" with some lyrics changed, talking about sending those Devils home....absolutely great).
-
-As good as listening to any of the Big Sugar CDs is...the live show is 1000% better. Songs morph one into the other, Kelly "Mr. Chill" Hoppe decides to throw in some more harmonica or do some saxophone riffs. Gordie decides that a particular song needs an intense, double-necked guitar solo, his fingers pounding the strings and working the distortion so it sounds like three people are playing, but you look, and it's just Gordie doing his guitar magic again.
-
-The bass is always present, usually just pounding you in the gut, sometimes floating to the top with nothing but bass being heard, knowing that some screaming guitar work is going to come crashing down again.
-
-If you value your hearing, bring ear plugs. But with music like this, who ever needs to listen to something else?
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-05-20-north-america-is-toast-aka-build-a-wireless-network-stupid.md b/_posts/archive/2003-05-20-north-america-is-toast-aka-build-a-wireless-network-stupid.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f60974a..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-05-20-north-america-is-toast-aka-build-a-wireless-network-stupid.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: North America is Toast (aka Build a Wireless Network, Stupid!)
-created: 1053444300
-categories: 
-- Palm
----
-I've been talking about how North America is going to be toast if they don't hurry up and settle on a wireless standard. Europe is light years farther ahead, and it is becoming more and more obvious that both the post-PC era and networking in general are going to depend on ubiquitous wireless coverage.
-
-Philip Greenspun's <a href="http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2003/05/20#a425" title="Wireless Internet in the US = Neo-Feudalism?">latest posting</a> covers it a bit, with some history about the advantages that the US has had in the past versus Europe, and how it's Europe that's ahead with wireless:<blockquote>After two days of touring Wales, a country that apparently has yet to discover the mixing faucet, it has become apparent that there is better mobile phone coverage in the remotest sheep pasture or coastal outcrop than in downtown Boston.  How can such an otherwise backward place be so far ahead of the U.S. technologically?</blockquote>I don't necessarily think that 802.11xxx will be <strong>the</strong> wireless network, but there needs to be one standard that you can access anywhere -- I'll take a pass on technology choices for now.
-
-I still have to send <a href="http://www.mxresearch.ca">Steve Forgeron</a> a note explaining how he won our long-ago discussion about the evolution of PDAs vs. cell phones. At the time, I was a Palm champion, convinced that PDAs would morph into multi-function devices, adding phone connectivity, and that the lumbering behemoths at telcos wouldn't advance phones nearly as fast. I admit it. I was wrong. My North America viewpoint blinded me to happenings in Europe. Palm is sliding away, although OS6 might be interesting (I said the same, hopeful thing about OS5 -- I was wrong). Don't worry -- I think the PocketPC OS sucks, too.
-
-Tablets is where interesting things are going to happen as well. Now that we are at a point where it is realistic to think that there can be a full-power computing device that is just...smaller, and more portable.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-05-23-i-know-where-you-live.md b/_posts/archive/2003-05-23-i-know-where-you-live.md
deleted file mode 100644
index bcd90b3..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-05-23-i-know-where-you-live.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: I Know Where You Live
-created: 1053698040
-categories: 
-- Web 2.0
----
-The <a href="http://lists.evolt.org/">web developer's list</a> I'm on had an interesting thread this morning about detecting where people are geographically when they come to your website.
-
-First, there is <a href="http://www.networldmap.com/">Networldmap</a>, where you can visit and let them know what city you are coming from to help them update their database.
-
-But, it all seems to be run by <a href="http://www.geobytes.com/">GeoBytes</a>, which is commercial. They do have some <a href="http://www.geobytes.com/GeoPhrase.htm">cool free services</a>, although their advanced stuff requires you to register. The fact that it is Javascript-only is kind of annoying -- I'd love to be able to call it in PHP scripts. I'm sure there are some more free location-based databases, but I haven't had the need to search for them yet.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-05-24-camino.md b/_posts/archive/2003-05-24-camino.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a508e7c..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-05-24-camino.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Camino
-created: 1053803760
-categories: 
-- Application
-- Mac
----
-Directly from the front page:<blockquote>Camino? (formerly known as Chimera) is a web browser for Mac OS X that has a Cocoa user interface, and embeds the Gecko layout engine. It is intended to be a simple, small and fast browser for Mac OS X.</blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-05-24-the-inquirer-why-palm-is-doomed.md b/_posts/archive/2003-05-24-the-inquirer-why-palm-is-doomed.md
deleted file mode 100644
index ca573ea..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-05-24-the-inquirer-why-palm-is-doomed.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "The Inquirer: Why Palm is Doomed"
-created: 1053824220
-categories: 
-- Handheld
-- Palm
----
-In my <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node.php?id=290">recent post about North America's need to build a wireless network</a>, I admitted that I had been wrong about Palm. That they really were doomed. Turns out, <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9637">The Inquirer has an article that agrees.</a>
-
-My view is that the rise of smartphones, with Symbian as the likeliest OS, is going to make Palm's market disappear. Those who need digital organizers will carry phones that include those features. The higher end is being staked out by much more capable devices, especially as computers become smaller and more portable while retaining their range of features and power (here's where tablets come in).
-
-The Inquirer article actually looks at the situation from a completely different premise. Their argument is that Palm has shot themselves in the foot by making sure that their software and devices work perfectly well with their greatest enemy -- Microsoft:<blockquote>The problem is that Palm has taken aim at its own foot, shot with deadly accuracy, and is in the process of handing the entire sector to Microsoft. In one seemingly simple step, it has given control of the core functionality to Microsoft.</blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-05-25-federated-identity-management.md b/_posts/archive/2003-05-25-federated-identity-management.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 503a74d..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-05-25-federated-identity-management.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Federated identity management...
-created: 1053918335
-categories: 
-- "*nix"
----
-I am only here (to be frank) because (through the magic of Drupal), I was essentially a member of this site before I ever arrived (how cool is that?)
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-05-26-don-parks-blog-introducing-chaos-to-social-software.md b/_posts/archive/2003-05-26-don-parks-blog-introducing-chaos-to-social-software.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a220e0b..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-05-26-don-parks-blog-introducing-chaos-to-social-software.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Don Park's blog: Introducing Chaos to Social Software"
-created: 1053999360
-categories: 
-- Social Media
----
-<blockquote>While the idea of random LinkedIn connections is interesting, I am more excited about other uses of chaos in social software.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-05-26-on-the-bursty-evolution-of-blogspace.md b/_posts/archive/2003-05-26-on-the-bursty-evolution-of-blogspace.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 04746bb..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-05-26-on-the-bursty-evolution-of-blogspace.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: On the bursty evolution of blogspace
-created: 1054000560
-categories: 
-- Social Media
----
-Writing about blogs in a blog is a bit too much like navel-gazing. But, this is an interesting academic paper.
-
-<blockquote>We propose two new tools to address the evolution of hyperlinked corpora. First, we define time graphs to extend the traditional notion of an evolving directed graph, capturing link creation as a point phenomenon in time. Second, we develop definitions and algorithms for time-dense community tracking, to crystallize the notion of community evolution. We develop these tools in the context of Blogspace , the space of weblogs (or blogs). Our study involves approximately 750K links among 25K blogs. We create a time graph on these blogs by an automatic analysis of their internal time stamps. We then study the evolution of connected component structure and microscopic community structure in this time graph. We show that Blogspace underwent a transition behavior around the end of 2001, and has been rapidly expanding over the past year, not just in metrics of scale, but also in metrics of community structure and connectedness. This expansion shows no sign of abating, although measures of connectedness must plateau within two years. By randomizing link destinations in Blogspace, but retaining sources and timestamps, we introduce a concept of randomized Blogspace . Herein, we observe similar evolution of a giant component, but no corresponding increase in community structure. Having demonstrated the formation of micro-communities over time, we then turn to the ongoing activity within active communities. We extend recent work of Kleinberg [11] to discover dense periods of "bursty" intra-community link creation.</blockquote>For the <a href="http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/775152.775233">full article</a>, you need to sign up for a (free) membership to the <a href="http://www.acm.org/">Association for Computing Machinery</a>.
-
-Random links still show a growing Blogspace, but meshes among related blogs create community structures. And if stuff is happening, everyone will talk about it.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-05-27-circus-ponies-notebook-and-aquaminds-notetaker.md b/_posts/archive/2003-05-27-circus-ponies-notebook-and-aquaminds-notetaker.md
deleted file mode 100644
index fe8b914..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-05-27-circus-ponies-notebook-and-aquaminds-notetaker.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Circus Ponies NoteBook and Aquaminds NoteTaker
-created: 1054042620
-categories: 
-- Mac
-- Application
----
-These are both outliner apps for OS X. I keep thinking that perhaps something like this will help me stay/get organized. Pour my brain into one of these neat little notebooks. Both of them are 30-day free trials, so I'm afraid to commit. Whichever I chose, I would have to really use, and then what if I chose the wrong one? There are a bunch of threads going through blogland about <em>How to Pay for Software</em>. 30 day trials suck -- give me 30 days of full usage, then revert to a "lite" version.
-
-The rise of applications like this make me think that an Apple-tablet can't be far away.
-
-<blockquote><img src="http://www.circusponies.com/Images/screenshot_2.jpg" alt="Circus Ponies Notebook" align="left" hspace="5" vspace="5" />Flexible notebook metaphor gives you a powerful way to organize information. Use outlines and cells to arrange information hierarchically in ways that make sense to you. Collapse or expand cell hierarchies for convenient viewing. Display any cell's full text or hide all but the first line.
-<a href="http://www.circusponies.com/pages.aspx?page=products">Circus Ponies Notebook</a></blockquote><blockquote><img src="http://www.aquaminds.com/images/use_ink.gif" alt="NoteTaker with Ink" align="left" hspace="5" vspace="5" />At its most basic level, NoteTaker is a personal note and idea organizer. With NoteTaker, you can make a list, organize an outline or jot down an idea. It's that basic. But with everyday work and lifestyle demands, our information needs are far more complex and diverse. And NoteTaker reflects this reality so that users can add and change the content and use of their information as needed.
-<a href="http://www.aquaminds.com/product.jsp">Aquaminds NoteTaker</a></blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-05-28-itunes-is-successful-or-maybe-not.md b/_posts/archive/2003-05-28-itunes-is-successful-or-maybe-not.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 33b6407..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-05-28-itunes-is-successful-or-maybe-not.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: iTunes is successful...or maybe not
-created: 1054125300
-categories: 
-- Mac
----
-There have been some interesting deconstructions of Apple's iTunes Music Store business. There has also been a 25% increase in Apple's share price.
-
-<a href="http://www.zerendipity.com/profile.aspx?id=112">Greg</a> sent me a story from Business 2.0 entitled <a href="http://www.business2.com/articles/web/0,1653,49692,00.html">Giving iTunes a Careful Listen</a>:<blockquote>One million downloads per week sounds nice, but a closer look at the numbers shows that the service isn't the boffo success it's made out to be. And it doesn't justify the 25 percent run-up it's created for Apple stock.</blockquote>I think that Greg doesn't like iTunes because the sound quality is "inferior". Here's the principle of "good enough" at work again -- to people with regular ears, the music sounds great.
-
-Then, <a href="http://www.docuverse.com/blog/donpark/2003/05/28.html#a534">Don Park</a> links an article called <a href="http://www.glenbrook.com/opinions/apple-itunes.html">Micropayments Redux at the iTunes Music Store</a>:<blockquote>Has Apple broken the code on micropayments? Yes and no. The success of the Store demonstrates that there is a broad market for premium content?sold ala Carte, immediately accessible, and fairly priced. In this sense, the Apple iTunes Music Store is the best micropayments proof point to date. Its success should encourage others to pursue similar models or to provide a cross-merchant micropayments infrastructure.</blockquote>Don himself says of iTunes "it's not just a hit, but a homerun of the decade".
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-05-30-social-software-link-fest.md b/_posts/archive/2003-05-30-social-software-link-fest.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 2a01eca..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-05-30-social-software-link-fest.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Social Software Link-fest
-created: 1054297320
-categories: 
-- Social Media
----
-Don Park, <a href="http://www.docuverse.com/blog/donpark/2003/05/30.html#a540">Chaotic Automagic</a> - quotes yet-another-blog-post from <a href="http://www.nonliteral.com/archives/2003/05/30/wheres_the_love_baby.html">Chuck Lawson</a>, whose contention it is that many of today's networking sites require too much effort. I can see this myself from the number of people in my network with 1 connection. Anyone that I've spent 30min or an hour with, explaining the concept and its benefits, will actively go out and add more to their network.
-
-Don had another cool entry, riffing on the idea of <a href="http://www.docuverse.com/blog/donpark/2003/05/29.html#a536">posting multiple types of media to a post</a> -- as comments, as annotations, etc.<blockquote>When I read a blog post that I like, I don't always have something to say.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-05-30-wifi-plus-phones.md b/_posts/archive/2003-05-30-wifi-plus-phones.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 77d0679..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-05-30-wifi-plus-phones.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: WiFi Plus Phones
-created: 1054296180
-categories: 
-- Palm
----
-Through <a href="http://gizmodo.net">Gizmodo</a> comes this <a href="http://news.designtechnica.com/article475.html">DesignTechnica article</a>, announcing VoIP for the Palm Tungsten C, using WiFi:<blockquote><A href="http://www.vliusa.com/">VLI</a> is introducing Gphone for Palm handhelds to enable VoIP for Palm Tungsten C handheld users. Gphone is a VoIP (Voice-over-IP) application available for several platforms that will allow users to place phone calls to any other Gphone-using Tungsten C, Pocket PC, or desktop system, or even over the public telephone network. Gphone also integrates into existing infrastructures to allow for automatic call forwarding to the handheld, and lets users within the same company call each other over the company network without any telephone costs at all.</blockquote>The Gphone software is of course PC-only. Blecch! My PC doesn't have a mic, but maybe I could just turn on the "answering machine" function and you all could fill it with messages. The <a href="http://www.vliusa.com/prof_personal/pcgphone.php">download is here</a>, for free no less.
-
-Or here's another idea -- just use standards! Note to self: go look up SIP-compatible soft phone apps, and see if there are free versions for different platforms.
-
-Next up is The Register, which brings us news of <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/69/30949.html">GSM sign-on for wireless LANs</a>.<blockquote>The demonstration showed a WLAN connected laptop authenticated by a GSM network with the same ease as a regular mobile phone call over GSM. Anyone who's signed up his or her laptop to use any current WLAN hotspot will know just how different the experience is to using a mobile phone. 
- 
-Ericsson provides a single sign-on for both GSM and Public WLAN, so not only a simpler logon, but also one bill. It forms part of Ericsson's Mobile Operator Wireless LAN (MO-WLAN) solution. This is a Wi-Fi, Wireless Internet Service Provisioning system, targeted at mobile operators. In addition to the existing components for service provisioning, user authentication, billing and network management, Ericsson has added a new piece with the Ericsson WLAN Authentication Server.</blockquote>A long quote, but worthwhile to read through. This fits squarely into the "how to make it easier to make money and use the damn stuff" category. This absolutely - <strong>absolutely</strong> - makes sense. If I had a WiFi-capable device, I would definitely love to have the ability to pay for service in various places by just having the price added to my cell bill.
-
-Of course, free service with everyone spitting out bandwidth is good, too.
-
-Note: I don't have a wireless category, nor a VoIP category, nor a smartphone category. Any more votes on what types of categories need to get added? I was also thinking about something for iTunes stuff, but I don't know what that would be called. Media? Multimedia? Music?
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-06-01-saving-private-links.md b/_posts/archive/2003-06-01-saving-private-links.md
deleted file mode 100644
index ce0411d..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-06-01-saving-private-links.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Saving Private Links
-created: 1054513800
-categories: 
-- Social Media
----
-Really just a placeholder to hold a bunch of links that I might write about at a later time. I just don't have time right now...
-
-<ul><li><a href="http://snipsnap.org/space/start">SnipSnap</a>: The easy Weblog and Wiki Software</li><li><a href="http://www.blaserco.com/blogs/2003/03/26.html">Digital ID thoughts at Escapable Logic</a></li><li><a href="http://www.henshall.com/blog/archives/000182.html">Identity Circles</a></li><li>Yes, it's true -- there's a new search engine on the block, <a href="http://turbo10.com/">Turbo10</a></li></ul>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-06-01-steve-jobs-no-tablet-for-you.md b/_posts/archive/2003-06-01-steve-jobs-no-tablet-for-you.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 73ac024..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-06-01-steve-jobs-no-tablet-for-you.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Steve Jobs: No Tablet for You!"
-created: 1054510680
-categories: 
-- Mac
----
-I thought of posting this in comments somewhere else associated with this story, but I selfishly want it here, since everyone is essentially quoting the same couple of lines of Steve Jobs saying that Apple is not building a tablet.
-
-I tried to analyze the quote, looking for inconsistencies...I've had more than a handful of people tell me, "I'm waiting for Apple to build a tablet, then I'm going to buy one." My one thought (although perhaps over-analyzing Jobs' craftiness) was that by focusing on the fact that "people want keyboards" (what about a large portion of the world where typing is a pain...like China?!), Jobs was pointing towards a "tablet" with keyboard attached?
-
-Or, it is even more of a branding thing. Perhaps Jobs hopes to associate "Tablet PC" with the MS version, and come up with a different term -- essentially, a different category, so no head to head competition -- for the Apple version?
-
-Many people nodded wisely, waggling their eyebrows, nudging each other, when Apple produced <a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/jaguar/inkwell.html">Inkwell</a> as part of OS X 10.2. "Aahhh!" they exclaimed, "old Jobsie is building us a Tablet! Or maybe a PDA! A cellphone?"
-
-I try not to get too excited one way or the other by Apple rumours anymore. I've got <a href="http://www.macosrumors.com/">Mac OS Rumors</a> on the site cloud now, so I check them every so often.
-
-By the way, the <a href="http://bgbg.blogspot.com/2003_05_25_bgbg_archive.html#200366681">full transcription of the Jobs interview is here</a>.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-06-01-what-is-a-person-connected-to.md b/_posts/archive/2003-06-01-what-is-a-person-connected-to.md
deleted file mode 100644
index d808962..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-06-01-what-is-a-person-connected-to.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,68 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: What is a person connected to?
-created: 1054532100
-categories: 
-- Social Media
----
-I've still got Don's command to "start rocking" ringing in my ears.
-
-I was going to call it a night, when a little voice said: Self, you have this interesting collection of pictures that you have cycling on your desktop -- why not implement a little "picture of the day" function and start displaying them?
-
-From there, I had the idea for FOTD -- Friend/Face of the Day, a.k.a. an alternative to Blogrolls. Basically, a picture that links to a bunch of information about this face. Remember this part, it will come back again.
-
-In this first iteration, the information is put into a standardized format (such as the sample, XML-ish one I've put together at the end of this post). Sure, it could be FOAF. Or maybe not... This info is hosted by the friend themselves -- it is up to the local site to decide how/what to display.
-
-In the second iteration, we have tools (like <a href="http://www.drupal.org">Drupal</a>, which runs this site, or MovableType, or whatever...) which allow us to post our "face" onto comments, stories, or maybe even just the front page. It says "Hi, I stopped by and had a look around". Because these sites are virtual gathering places, watering holes, places where everyone knows your name...up until now, not your face, though...
-
-So, a two way connection is formed: readers stop by, show their face. A crowd gathers, a crowd of faces. Maybe there is a "Who's New" section, maybe there is a "Stopped by Today" section. Wow -- a crowd is gathering!
-
-And then, maybe, we want to randomly select someone as a FOTD of the day. So, what do we want to know about this person? First of all, it is up to the person themselves to decide what to let others know. They host their own, um, friend descriptor (it's not a profile, it's more like an email sig).
-
-So let's walk through my little description, very specifically NBAF (Not Based on Any other Format).
-
-Well, my name and any nicknames, etc. are probably best to get out of the way first.
-
-<pre>	< name >
-		< first >Boris< /first >
-		< middle >Frederik< /middle >
-		< last >Mann< /last >
-	< /name ></pre>Now some dates that are important to me
-
-<pre>	< dates >
-		< date type="birthday" year="1975" month="02" day="22" alt="Born in Vancouver" / >
-		< date type="misc" year="1979" title="Moved to Bowen Island" / >
-< date type="misc" year="1995" month=12" alt="My anniversary with Kate" / >
-	< /dates ></pre>A whole bunch of resources, which I've labeled as 'personal'
-
-<pre>	< resources label="personal" >
-		< link type="website" href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com" title="B. Mann Consulting" alt="My personal home page" / >
-		< link type="website" href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/module.php?mod=blog&id=1&all=1" title="Personal Blog" / >
-		< link type="image" href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/images/boris.jpg" / >
-		< link type="misc" href="http://www.homestarrunnner.com/sbemail58.html" alt="Favourite Strongbad Episode" / >
-		< link type="misc" href="http://gallery.bmannconsulting.com" title="Personal Photo Gallery" / >
-	< /resources ></pre>Some other resources that I want to label as 'work'
-<pre>	< resources label="work" >
-		< link type="website" href="http://www.phenomenalsolutions.com" alt="Phenomenal Solutions" / >
-		< link type="profile" href="http://www.zerendipity.com/profile.aspx?id=111" alt="Zerendipity Profile" / >
-	< /resources ></pre>Of course, with both 'personal' and 'work', I could list other resources that in fact model relationships. Perhaps a link type of "relationship" (contact? associate? connection? not sure what would make people most comfortable...) with which I could point to profiles...
-
-<pre>	< link type="relationship" href="http://www.zerendipity.com/profile.aspx?id=59" title="Andrew Jones" / ></pre>...or maybe indicate my approval of other people and/or their work (or disapproval, like my recent dislike of <a href="http://www.canadiantire.ca">Canadian Liar</a>, who will invariably send you to another store to buy a fishing license, even though they have no idea if the other store actually sells them or not...and their specials are always sold out):
-
-<pre>	< link type="recommend" href="http://www.docuverse.com/blog/donpark/" title="Don Park's Blog" / ></pre>Chris Corrigan talked about <a href="http://www.chriscorrigan.com/miscellany/bijournal/blogger.html">'People Blogging Places'</a> -- very specifically talking about their environment, their community. He does it too, and it's kind of how I found him -- he lives where I grew up, on Bowen Island. I'm proud of it, and I think it is part of what makes me what I am, so I want that in my description.
-
-<pre>	< location label="hometown" >
-		< neighbourhood >Millers Landing Road - Seven Hills< /neighbourhood >
-		< city >Bowen Island< /city >
-		< province >British Columbia< /province >
-		< country >Canada< /canada >
-		< link type="map" href="http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?X=-13737500&Y=6300000&scale=500000&coordsys=mercator" alt="Multi Map" / >
-	< /location ></pre>Now I live in Ottawa, in a neighbourhood called Centretown. It's a funky little area, with lots going on. It's in.
-
-<pre>	< location label="home" >
-		< neighbourhood >Centretown< /neighbourhood >
-		< city >Ottawa < /city >
-		< province >Ontario< /province >
-		< country >Canada< /country >
-		< link type="map" href="http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?X=-8426250&Y=5656250&scale=50000&coordsys=mercator" >
-	< /location ></pre>I hope that gets some ideas rockin'.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-06-05-how-to-get-rich.md b/_posts/archive/2003-06-05-how-to-get-rich.md
deleted file mode 100644
index fb57899..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-06-05-how-to-get-rich.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,54 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: How to get rich
-created: 1054814940
-categories: 
-- Home Server
----
-Okay, not being a technogeek (please keep reading!) this article came as a suprise to me. 
-
-My first thought - Boris could make a ton, a ton I say, of money building and installing these open source digital video recorders for people. Everything's not as open-standardsy as they suggest here - XMLTV my ass. Not something the average person would have the patience to fool with, but boy would they (I) enjoy a cheap DVR customized for my digital system (LOOK TV in my case). Of course, my 15 year old, 13" TV set would probably need to be upgraded. Enough blather - read on...
-
-<a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,59088,00.html/wn_ascii"> wired article </a>
-
-Thanks to several open-source projects, you can build your own digital video
-recorder that will blow boxes from TiVo and ReplayTV right off the shelf.
-
-About a dozen collaborative software projects are in the works that will
-transform a spare computer, or one built from off-the-shelf parts, into a
-homemade digital video recorder, or DVR. They also can record multiple shows
-simultaneously, archive shows to video CD, play digital music and computer
-games and display photographs and local weather forecasts.
-
-Thanks to the combined expertise of about half a dozen hackers from all over
-the world, the project is close to assembling a complete software package for
-homemade DVRs. Version 0.9 of the MythTV software is due out next week.
-
-Based on Linux, the free software features an easy-to-use graphical interface,
-which can be navigated with a standard remote.
-
-The MythTV software offers all the basic DVR features -- it can pause and
-rewind live TV, and fast-forward through shows and ads. It supports multiple
-tuner cards (and multiple simultaneous recordings) and boasts
-picture-in-picture capability if there's more than one tuner card installed. It
-also offers basic video-editing capabilities and allows shows to be archived to
-video CD.
-
-MythTV grabs programming information from the Net using XMLTV, an open-source
-project that scrapes television listings off the TV Guide website.
-
-For example, Raffi Krikorian, author of a forthcoming book called TiVo Hacks,
-is planning to build a MythTV DVR from scratch that will record two shows at
-the same time, store about 250 hours of programming, play DivX movies
-downloaded from the Net and archive shows to video CD. The DVR also will record
-radio and play MP3, Ogg Vorbis and other audio formats, while grabbing free
-programming information from the Web.
-
-MythTV has a nifty distributed architecture that allows multiple machines to
-work in concert, recording and streaming shows to each other over a network.
-
-There are about a dozen home-brew DVR projects, all based on Linux. Others
-include Freevo, eBox and the Dave/Dina Project. Krikorian said MythTV was
-probably the most complete and up-to-date. A list of the projects can be found
-at the Linux PVR Depot, which also maintains a database of the hardware used by
-various people.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-06-05-xnsorg.md b/_posts/archive/2003-06-05-xnsorg.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e00dc9c..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-06-05-xnsorg.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: XNSORG
-created: 1054815420
-categories: 
-- Social Media
----
-I forgot about <a href="http://www.xns.org">XNSORG</a>...I had looked at it several years ago, and they, or rather their parent? <a href="http://www.onename.com/pages/news_pr_071002.html">OneName</a> had a service where you could "reserve" your name. Their hope was to build it into browsers, much like some of the other keyword or for-pay naming systems that didn't use DNS. They had a plug-in that you could download, and when you typed in an id that was in their system -- like BorisMann -- it would return a "profile" page with as much or as little public info as you wanted. I can't find the service anymore. I will have to email PhilW and ask him -- I think he was the only other person that I persuaded to set up an account.
-
-I have talked at length in the past about how URLs and domain names don't matter -- with the size of the web now, searching/requesting info is the way that connections are made. Not to say that a good, clean URL isn't good -- it will help you in branding efforts in print and other media (it has to be easy to say as well).
-
-Which brings me to an excellent post -- <a href="http://collaboratory.planetwork.net/wiki/DrummondOnTheThreeGenerationsOfTheNet">Drummond on the Three Generations of the 'Net</a>:
-<blockquote>What we are trying to do, Bruce, is create a "common identity infrastructure" - the third major layer in the evolution of the net. The first layer - the Internet itself - is a "common networking infrastructure", a way of linking any two devices on any two networks so that they could exchange packets with each other. The second layer - the Web - is a "common document infrastructure", a way of linking any two documents on any two websites so they can exchange pointers with each other.
-
-The third layer is not about machines and packets or documents and websites but people and organizations. That's why it fits so neatly under the rubric of "social protocols". A common identity infrastructure is a way of linking any two people or organizations in any two communities so they can share data with each other. </blockquote>Go read the whole thing. Again, I think the term "identity" is a bit too big-brother-ish. Call it a common naming infrastructure, or...something. Also as mentioned in the article, first person to get code up and running wins. Of course, competition is good as well, so I would love to see two equally well-constructed APIs.
-
-Two protocols are mentioned:
-
-<strong>XDI:</strong> I'm going to guess this is an "eXtensible Digital Identity", but some Google searches aren't turning up anything...OK, found it. It's part of the XNS spec, being an XNS Resource Identifier. Basically, this would mean it is the "URL" format for XRI.
-
-<strong>XRI:</strong> Aahh...this turned up more hits: an "eXtensible Resource Identifier":
-<blockquote>The purpose of this TC is to define a URI scheme and a corresponding URN namespace for distributed directory services that enable the identification of resources (including people and organizations) and the sharing of data across domains, enterprises, and applications.</blockquote>This from the <a href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=xri">XRI Technical Committee</a>, which apparently got <a href="http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2003-01-08-a.html">formed in January</a>.
-
-Hmmm...it's now all coming back to me. I was (well, still <em>am</em>) very interested in agents -- basically mobile code that can travel through systems. <a href="http://www.derwent.com/ipmatters/caught_in_a_web/interview_reed.html">This interview with Drummond Reed</a> speaks more about web agents, although in context, I think that profiles would be the accepted term today. His ideas on revenue are revealing:
-<blockquote>We will provide services. This will include various web agent-based          services for individuals and businesses. Essentially it is a White Pages/Yellow Pages model: largely free to individuals, but businesses pay for these services. </blockquote>OK. Off to read some <a href="http://www.xns.org/pages/XNS_Technical_Specs.pdf">XNS technical specs</a>.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-06-07-what-time-is-it-anyway.md b/_posts/archive/2003-06-07-what-time-is-it-anyway.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 517eb2f..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-06-07-what-time-is-it-anyway.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: What time is it, anyway?
-created: 1055030880
-categories: 
-- Ottawa
----
-It's 8pm on Saturday night and I've just woken up.
-
-Kate and I and a bunch of other people participated in the <a href="http://www.cancer.ca/ccs/internet/standard/0,3182,3543_355232_33168771_langId-en,00.html">Cancer Relay for Life</a> here in Ottawa. It was great fun.
-
-It all started at 8pm yesterday, and went until 8am this morning. And now it's 8pm again, after we managed to sleep all day. I had been suffering from a lack of sleep over the last little while due to some late nights working, and this was the thing that put me over the top.
-
-Actually, during the event, I didn't have much trouble staying awake. We had 11 people on the team ("The Flying Monkeys"), so we scheduled ourselves to run for 10 minutes every 2 hours. I think this worked really well, and other people agreed. For some teams, they would run for 30 minutes every 5 hours, which meant they would almost certainly get tired in between runs, and also tired after running for 30 minutes.
-
-Our monkey theme was much appreciated. Kate bought a bunch of stuffed monkeys of various sizes, plus we had some masks, some hats, and lots of bananas that we gave away to everyone. Our sign was cool, with logo designed by Erick and then painted up by Troy and Tanya. I really like the way the font turned out on the sign that Troy did -- I told him I thought he should make a font.
-
-(aside: <a href="http://chris.pirillo.com">Chris Pirillo</a> uses handwriting fonts for his page. Apparently some tricks getting it to display. I have downloaded it, because it looks neat, but it seems a bit overdone to me on his page.)
-
-So, I will likely go and make some bacon & eggs for dinner. Kate was delighted -- a reverse day!
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-06-08-welcome-to-the-liquor-store.md b/_posts/archive/2003-06-08-welcome-to-the-liquor-store.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 54a9217..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-06-08-welcome-to-the-liquor-store.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Welcome to the liquor store
-created: 1055093760
-categories: 
-- Ottawa
----
-<a href="http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/06/07/Privatization">Tim Bray</a> writes about the re-vamping that the liquore stores in BC are going through.
-<blockquote>Here in BC, at around the same time, presumably feeling threatened by the chill wind of threatened privatization, our government liquor stores decided to try to pull up their socks and get customer-oriented: more locations, longer opening hours, a bit more fun. By and large, they've done a pretty good job.</blockquote>We've been here in Ottawa for over 3 1/2 years now. When people come and visit us who have never been to Ontario, we always take them to the big <a href="http://www.lcbo.com/">LCBO</a> store on Rideau Street. It's got books, music, gifts, leather armchairs, gift baskets, cooking classes, etc. etc.
-
-It also has Vintages, a whole area downstairs dedicated to premium liqeurs of various kinds. We don't usually buy much stuff down there, but I did pick up a couple of bottles of port that were usually $70 for only $20 a piece.
-
-Anyway, hopefully the stores in BC follow the same model. It seems to work really well here in Ontario.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-06-09-joi-ito-attention-concentration-and-becoming-a-place.md b/_posts/archive/2003-06-09-joi-ito-attention-concentration-and-becoming-a-place.md
deleted file mode 100644
index fef831b..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-06-09-joi-ito-attention-concentration-and-becoming-a-place.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Joi Ito: Attention Concentration and becoming a place"
-created: 1055210220
-categories: 
-- Social Media
----
-<a href="http://joi.ito.com/archives/2003/06/09/attention_concentration_and_becoming_a_place.html">Joi Ito</a> talks about running something in public versus running something personally:
-<blockquote>In the past, I have run mailing lists with names like "netsurf" which I put a lot of energy into setting up and running. At some point, these "places" became public places and I ended up becoming a custodian. It's like having people come over to your place to party leaving you to clean up the mess. I lost control of the community, but not the responsibility. If it was called "Joi Ito's list"  I think people wouldn't have come into the discussion thinking that it was a public place.
-
-Also, I think that putting my name on the blog makes it clear that it's my personal perspective and point of view -- nothing more, nothing less.</blockquote>Yup. Of course, both <a href="http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/">Sam Ruby</a> and <a href="http://www.diveintomark.org">Mark Pilgrim</a> have put their comment-ers on notice -- they can and will delete or otherwise mark-up comments.
-
-Also, I can't help but notice the parallelism between blogs and profiles -- no matter your "other" affiliations, they are very much "you". This other bit from Joi Ito seems to point in the same direction:
-<blockquote>I don't know what the wiki equivalent of that would be. I have a sense that wikis and irc channels work better with multiple contributors and are inherently places, compared to blogs which could turn into identities and voices that participate in places that are conversations across blogs.</blockquote><a href="http://home.justwerks.com">Evan</a> and I had talked about this before, especially when we weren't both running Drupal which easily lets you post using your "home" identity.
-
-My rules went something like this:
-
-Write about / comment on an idea at the original poster's home, <strong>unless</strong> the other person doesn't have comments (no longer true for <a href="http://www.brendonwilson.com">Brendon</a>) <strong>or</strong> you are inspired by the idea and are taking it in another direction <strong>and</strong> always link to / give credit.
-
-With TrackBack (which I don't have here on Drupal -- I think there might be a module somewhere...), everywhere can keep "their" thoughts / conversation / opinion at their own home. It definitely keeps things more intertwingled. And ever more critical that you keep your current system up and running, at the same address, and using the same links. Just think of the holes that could be created...
-
-Makes me shudder about the prospect of migrating this here Drupal system. I'll wait until 4.2 is final AND debugged for a bit before I make the leap...
-
-Final thought: blog == identity / identity == blog
-
-(so what does this say about me? I keep this front page -- the main RSS feed -- separate from my <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/module.php?mod=blog&id=1&all=1">personal blog</a>; it has it's <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/module.php?mod=blog&op=feed&id=1">own feed</a>, but likely only my parents and friends would be interested in it)
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-06-10-my-place.md b/_posts/archive/2003-06-10-my-place.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c649e69..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-06-10-my-place.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: My place
-created: 1055299080
-categories: 
-- Social Media
----
-I just checked out the <a href="http://georgiabasin.info/localstories/main_localstories.html">Georgia Basin Explorer</a> again, as pointed out by <a href="http://www.chriscorrigan.com/miscellany/bijournal/blogger.html">Chris Corrigan</a> (no permalinks, so I can only point to his front page). It uses Flash, and seems to work intermittently in my Safari browser on OS X. Basically, you can zoom in on satellite images of a region, then place icons that link to stories about the place that you are pointing to. I just posted a short blurb about my parents' house there.
-
-It has limitations, like you can't bookmark / send a URL to a particular place. Which is kind of a big limitation. The thought popped into mind that <a href="http://www.terraserver.com">Terraserver</a> was one of those map places. I clicked around for a bit, and came up with <a href="http://www.terraserver.com/image.asp?ulx=474085.3352&uly=5472280.5724&lrx=476523.7352&lry=5469842.1724&file_name=apu_vancouver&provider_id=105">this picture of Bowen</a>.
-
-What you see is Snug Cove (where the ferry docks), with the marina clearly visible. The next bay to the north is called Deep Bay locally, although I believe it is officially Mannion Bay on charts. You can see the deep green of the Lagoon, which is separated from the bay by a causeway. If you go slightly inland from the main curve of Deep Bay, that's where my parents' house is.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-06-12-on-trackback-and-why-you-should-smoke-refer-instead.md b/_posts/archive/2003-06-12-on-trackback-and-why-you-should-smoke-refer-instead.md
deleted file mode 100644
index afa1737..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-06-12-on-trackback-and-why-you-should-smoke-refer-instead.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: On TrackBack, and Why You Should Smoke Refer Instead
-created: 1055459220
-categories: 
-- Web Development
----
-I read <a href="http://daringfireball.net/2003/06/take_your_trackbacks_and_dangle.html">this article at Daring Fireball</a> and was convinced that TrackBack is the devil's spawn. Thinking about it more, I'm not so sure.
-
-There were a couple of tools mentioned that let you do TrackBack-like functions using referrer information, such as <a href="http://www.textism.com/tools/refer/">Refer</a>, or <a href="http://ranchero.com/php/rollingreferers/">Rolling Referer</a> from the creator of NetNewsWire.
-
-In the meantime, <a href="http://daringfireball.net/2003/06/trackback_addenda.html">John Gruber</a> posted an "addenda" which goes into more detail about good/bad uses for TrackBack.
-
-Referrer logs seem to be the better choice. They don't rely on changing the behaviour or installations of people at disparate remote sites, and they are there for you to use already. A referrer-based system will catch people that link as well as people that are purposefully trying to comment/TrackBack.
-
-Of course, it's interesting to note that Drupal/this site automatically show up in the referrer logs for everyone that I have subscribed to. Which means that I often see links in <strong>my</strong> referrer logs from what are obviously people scanning through their logs (because the source URL has something like <a href="http://awstats.sourceforge.net">awstats</a> in it).
-
-In closing, don't let <a href="http://diveintomark.org/public/2003/06/matrix-prank.html">the platypus get you</a>.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-06-20-now-with-jabber.md b/_posts/archive/2003-06-20-now-with-jabber.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f7eabff..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-06-20-now-with-jabber.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Now with Jabber
-created: 1056123960
-categories: 
-- E-smith
-- Home Server
----
-I've got my <a href="http://midgard.bmannconsulting.com">home server</a> all tricked-out with various things now.
-
-It used to only have a 2GB hard drive, which I knew I was going to migrate at some point, so I just stopped fiddling with it. As it was, it stayed up for 200 days straight, and the beginning of that 200 was a power outage. So, it was up for probably about a year or so.
-
-It is, of course, running <a href="http://www.e-smith.org">E-Smith</a>. Now the latest version, 5.6. Or it was, until the 6.0beta which literally just got released...think I'll pass on that in favour of stability for now.
-
-So, <strong>odin</strong> (as the system is affectionately known -- my Windows PC is <strong>loki</strong>) now has an 80GB hard drive just waiting to get filled with stuff. It will continue to house my <a href="http://gallery.bmannconsulting.com">gallery</a>, but I'm starting to add other things.
-
-A prime example being a jabber server -- jabber.bmannconsulting.com. If you would like an account on the system, jabber or otherwise, give me a shout. I now have the space available to offer system accounts to any that want them. The only caveat is that the system is on a plain old DSL line, so bandwidth is limited.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-06-20-rss-weather.md b/_posts/archive/2003-06-20-rss-weather.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f679075..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-06-20-rss-weather.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: RSS Weather
-created: 1056124920
-categories: 
-- Environment Canada
-- RSS
-- Trackbacks
-- weather
----
-<p>
-	Wouldn&#39;t it be great to be able to subscribe to an RSS feed of weather readings? Ideally, there would be several different feeds, from a light, text-only version with just latest temperature and conditions, to a full blown current plus forecast plus humidity plus icons etc. etc. Perhaps even a listing of &quot;local&quot; webcams with pictures of current conditions. Hmmm...I&#39;m going to do some work on figuring out RSS and what kind of information could/should be included. As I had mentioned when I tried to get Environment Canada to offer such a service, an extra-cool feature would be supporting TrackBacks/referrers so that you could see the comments/blog entries that people were making about the weather -- certainly something that people in Canada are likely to do. This would require a centralized server to host the RSS feeds and the comments around them.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-06-20-tim-bray-rss-promise-and-peril.md b/_posts/archive/2003-06-20-tim-bray-rss-promise-and-peril.md
deleted file mode 100644
index b70e6bb..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-06-20-tim-bray-rss-promise-and-peril.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Tim Bray: RSS: Promise and Peril"
-created: 1056124440
-categories: 
-- Web Development
-- Social Media
----
-I've been really enjoying reading what <a href="http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/06/19/RSS4All">Tim Bray has to say</a>.
-
-He has some more ideas on uses for RSS. I actually pitched Environment Canada on making RSS feeds of their weather available, with some neat ideas around track-back, where they could aggregate comments made about the weather in Canada -- I thought a great service for Canadians. Their answer basically was "We have a Flash app. We're not interested. What's blogging?"
-
-The "problems" that Tim points out are very specific to the financial industry -- i.e. they aren't risk takers or market leaders. RSS is in its infancy, which just points to opportunity for people that are willing to be first at bat with some new services.
-
-Mentioning my weather app, I should probably just disable the block. I did a few bits of investigation, and it seems as if the <a href="http://www.interceptvector.com">source XML feeds</a> are broken somehow.
-
-So, you will perhaps see me developing an RSS feed of weather info. I can go revisit my screen-scraping code from Environment Canada, plus have an excuse to learn RSS syntax. I'm spoiled, because Drupal generates everything for me, so I haven't delved into it yet.
-
-Update: I created a book page called <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node.php?id=333">RSS Weather</a> to hold info about this project.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-06-22-cruelacid-php-realtime-weather.md b/_posts/archive/2003-06-22-cruelacid-php-realtime-weather.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 29738c5..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-06-22-cruelacid-php-realtime-weather.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Cruelacid PHP Realtime Weather
-created: 1056337740
-categories: 
-- PHP
----
-PHP Realtime Weather (current v0.6) is a PHP script that fetches international               real time weather information from a server in XML and displays it               to the user in HTML.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-06-23-apple-debuts-ppc-970-machines.md b/_posts/archive/2003-06-23-apple-debuts-ppc-970-machines.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 59dc3b6..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-06-23-apple-debuts-ppc-970-machines.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Apple debuts PPC 970 machines
-created: 1056413802
-categories: 
-- "*nix"
-- Mac
----
-Ahh, it's a beautiful day.  Apple introduced new PowerMac systems based on the IBM PowerPC 970 chip.  The leaked specifications were true, but not without a lot of surprises.
-
-The machines now start at 1.6 GHz and the high end system is a dual 2.0 GHz system.  The Front-side Bus is the new story - it's a quad-pumped bus with effective speeds of 800, 900 and 1GHz.  This is the most impressive engineering piece, considering it's the fastest on a desktop PC.
-
-The new main memory is DDR 400 on the midrange and high-end systems, DDR333 on the low-end system.  However, Apple's one major failing is to go with single-channel main memory.  One of the key features of the famous Asus A7N8X Deluxe Mobo is that it has two DDR channels, effectively doubling bandwidth.  So Apple has essentially introduced a key bottleneck in these new systems, and it's a big one - Maximum memory bandwidth is effectively halved, and latency is 10% slower.
-
-However, that one flaw aside, today Apple has closed the performance gap with Intel and AMD - important mindshare to a lot of people.  And relative to the previous models, these machines are a huge leap in performance.
-
-Also, Apple of course had to introduce a new case for this drastically new machine - personally, this time I say that the case is unimportant.  Lots of people think it's ugly, I like the clean look and departure of see-through plastic, and also love that there are USB and FireWire ports in front.  Other than that, the important breakthrough today is that Apple has closed the performance gap with Intel, they are officially "good enough" now.
-
-Lastly, on the hardware front, Ars Technica is reporting that Steve Jobs claims Apple and IBM will be going to 3 GHz some time within 12 months, so that's encouraging.  That, combined with dual-channel DDR RAM, on second-gen hardware, will make a formidable platform.
-
-A couple other interesting tidbits - these new machines ship with up to 9 fans in them, yet Apple claims they run quieter than previous machines which probably had 6 fans or fewer.
-
-The other interesting tidbit - Apple beefed up the <b>real</b> digital hub on these machines by adding Optical Audio I/O ports.  Let's hope the next iteration has Optical Digital I/O as well.
-
-Apple also previewed Panther, the next version of OSX that will ship standard on these new PowerMacs in August - aparently it has the brushed-metal interface all around.  One other interesting feature - FileVault, standard hard-drive encryption at 128-bit AES.  It isn't surprising, but it is nice to have.
-
-Apple also introduced iSight, an extremely high quality video camera/speaker solution for videoconferencing that works in conjunction with iChatAV, a new chat app that uses the AIM and ICQ protocols and can now videoconference.
-
-Apple introduced a new Video codec developed in conjunction with Pixar, called "Pixlet", which features 48 bits per pixel, a maximum resolution of 960x540, and cinema frame rate of 24 frames/second.
-
-And lastly, Safari officially released version 1.0 status today and is available for download.
-
-Some day - other facts:  Apple store has now sold 5 million songs, one million iPods have been sold to date.
-
-Overall - it's a great day.  Great to see Apple regain the performance lead.  SPECint and fp show these new systems are on par with Pentium Xeon performance.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-06-23-everymac.md b/_posts/archive/2003-06-23-everymac.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 4b1015d..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-06-23-everymac.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: EveryMac
-created: 1056376860
-categories: 
-- Mac
----
-EveryMac.com is the complete guide to every Macintosh, Mac Compatible, and upgrade card in the world, with technical, configuration, and pricing details.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-06-23-lloyd-wants-to-know.md b/_posts/archive/2003-06-23-lloyd-wants-to-know.md
deleted file mode 100644
index fea38bd..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-06-23-lloyd-wants-to-know.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Lloyd Wants to Know
-created: 1056377220
-categories: 
-- BMC
-- Mac
----
-<blockquote>Whatever happened to your link directory of Mac stuff?</blockquote>Well, it's still around. The <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/module.php?mod=weblink#view%20the%20weblinks%20directory">weblinks module</a> is a little bit crazy mainly because I'm using a multiple-hierarchy taxonomy. But, there are a few things in the <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/module.php?mod=weblink&op=view&tid=24&vid=3#All%20things%20Apple%20Macintosh">Mac category</a>.
-
-Also, the <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node.php?id=56">Mac OS X book</a> has some stuff. Technically, everything in the Mac category of weblinks should be added to the book outline as well. It's on the to-do list.
-
-Finally, you can of course just sort by the <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/index.php?or=24">Mac category</a>, but this will retrieve articles, opinions, and everything (including this post).
-
-Oh, and the link that Lloyd was looking for was <a href="http://www.everymac.com">EveryMac</a> -- the place to look for specs and pricing of virtually all Mac-stuff, ever.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-06-25-working-with-ichat.md b/_posts/archive/2003-06-25-working-with-ichat.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e761c85..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-06-25-working-with-ichat.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Working with iChat
-created: 1056598920
-categories: 
-- Application
-- Mac
----
-I just had my first "iChat experience". I downloaded iChat AV the other day, but I a) don't have an AIM or .Mac account and b) didn't know anyone else who did either.
-
-Ian Wyatt sent out a note tonight wanting to test it and mentioning his .mac account. So, I went ahead and signed up for an account again. No, I'm not paying (although you do get a 60-day free trial), it was just to get an account to work with iChat (it's boris_mann@mac.com).
-
-We typed a bit, then I found out how to press the "talk" button. Very, very cool. Ian has an iBook and I have a flat-panel iMac, and we were both just using the built-in microphone. Excellent audio quality. If both people talked, you heard a bit of an echo as the mic picked up the sound coming from the speakers. I had my headphones on, so that didn't happen for Ian.
-
-My main disappointment with iChat is why Apple picked AIM to interoperate with. In Canada, hardly anyone has an AOL account, and I imagine outside the US it's the same. So, why not pick something like Jabber, which is an open source protocol and likely to be anointed by the IETF as the messaging and presence protocol of choice?
-
-And, since I have about 4 other IM accounts (all of which work with <a href="http://fire.sourceforge.net">Fire</a>), it's annoying to have to run iChat as well.
-
-Of course, with the audio quality I experienced, I can definitely imagine people going out and getting access to a Mac on either end of a connection.
-
-From the menu items I was looking at, it <em>seems</em> like you can do a multi-person audio chat. Have to wait until some more Mac people are online at the same time.
-
-BTW -- Yahoo Messenger is the only cross-platform IM client I know of that supports audio and video.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-07-02-environment-canada-faq.md b/_posts/archive/2003-07-02-environment-canada-faq.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 0a5a967..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-07-02-environment-canada-faq.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Environment Canada FAQ
-created: 1057194600
-categories: 
-- Canada
----
-Covers various weather factors and links to more information.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-07-03-more-fun-with-rss-weather.md b/_posts/archive/2003-07-03-more-fun-with-rss-weather.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 0779e48..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-07-03-more-fun-with-rss-weather.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: More fun with RSS Weather
-created: 1057275180
-categories: 
-- Application
----
-I've started tossing some ideas back and forth with <a href="http://laughingmeme.org/archives/000947.html#000947">kellan of Laughing Meme</a> and <a href="http://www.manero.org/weblog/">Tony Collen</a> about RSS feeds for weather information.
-
-The first hurdle seems to be that there is no open XML-based format for weather information. There is one for <a href="http://zowie.metnet.navy.mil/~spawar/JMV-TNG/XML/OMF.html">weather observation</a>, but it's not exactly suited for the consumer end of things -- just basic stuff like city, temperature, conditions, etc. (but of course it gets more complicated than that...).
-
-So, the first goal now has to be to create the XML, then get the data to make the XML (which at this point seems to be screen-scraping one of several government services....my <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node.php?id=200#379">previous attempt</a> was not looked on kindly by Environment Canada -- hence the Flash monstrosity).
-
-From that XML info, it is relatively simple to transform into whatever you need, including of course an RSS feed. I have a few bits and pieces stored here at my <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node.php?id=333">RSS Weather</a> node, but if you want to join the conversation, best to head over to the <a href="http://www.quicktopic.com/share?s=DbLb">QuickTopic forum</a>.
-
-<strong>Update</strong>: just changed the QT URL to point to a "shared topics" space instead of the forum.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-07-08-small-business-directory-service-ideas-maybe-a-beer.md b/_posts/archive/2003-07-08-small-business-directory-service-ideas-maybe-a-beer.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 2af389b..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-07-08-small-business-directory-service-ideas-maybe-a-beer.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Small Business Directory Service Ideas? Maybe a beer?
-created: 1057689256
-categories: 
-- Application
----
-I need your input for this:
-
-Say a Network Marketing company needs to provide a directory service for all its agents. This directory would be accessible by calling a toll free number. On calling this number, the end user would punch in the agents name such as MANN by pressing 6626.
-
-Now this service is provided by PBXes, but if you could not afford a PBX, what off the shelf software could you use.
-
-A beer keg for the best recommended workable solution!
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-07-15-rbrowser-lite.md b/_posts/archive/2003-07-15-rbrowser-lite.md
deleted file mode 100644
index ba0f2db..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-07-15-rbrowser-lite.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: RBrowser Lite
-created: 1058282100
-categories: 
-- Application
-- Mac
----
-The free version of <a href="http://www.rbrowser.com">RBrowser</a>. It's been around since the Mac OS X Public Beta.
-
-<blockquote>
-RBrowserLite
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-07-15-transmit.md b/_posts/archive/2003-07-15-transmit.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 436dabc..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-07-15-transmit.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Transmit
-created: 1058281920
-categories: 
-- Application
-- Mac
----
-Panic's GUI FTP client for Mac OS X. Powered by libncftp
-<blockquote>
-Take the most Mac OS X-like FTP client available, and make it about a zillion times faster. The result? The new Transmit 2.5, Panic's powerful, flexible, and actually-almost-fun FTP client!
-</blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-07-22-java-and-handhelds-goodbye-palm.md b/_posts/archive/2003-07-22-java-and-handhelds-goodbye-palm.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 829ba60..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-07-22-java-and-handhelds-goodbye-palm.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Java and Handhelds, Goodbye Palm
-created: 1058918640
-categories: 
-- Handheld
-- Palm
----
-So Java is pretty far from its "write once, run anywhere" promise, especially when it comes to handhelds/phones. <strong>But</strong>, it is the only viable "platform" versus the MS/VBScript/.NET juggernaut.
-
-<a href="http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/20030722.html#235000">Russell Beattie</a> seems to agree while responding to an <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/filters/printerfriendly/0,6061,2914264-92,00.html">interview with David Nagle of PalmSource</a>:
-<blockquote> So that shows you where Palm is when it comes to Java: PDA Profile didn't turn out like they wanted it to and so now they're passing on J2ME. Oof. J2ME's not my favorite, but to pass on it (and Java) wholesale is a real loss. Nagle talks about competing with M$ but then blows off the primary weapon when it comes to Enterprise customers. What does he think, some corporate code jockey is going to write all of their custom code in non-portable C for the PalmOS?</blockquote>Yep. See ya later Palm. Handhelds will gain the full power of a computer at some point, so the organizer/PIM role that most handhelds are used for today will migrate to phones.
-
-An editor's note at the bottom is particularly interesting -- "until last year, there were no PalmOS-based offerings based on GSM or GPRS technologies"....and all of Europe uses <em>only</em> those technologies.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-07-22-wired-news-tired-of-the-telly-reprogram-it.md b/_posts/archive/2003-07-22-wired-news-tired-of-the-telly-reprogram-it.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 9b3419a..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-07-22-wired-news-tired-of-the-telly-reprogram-it.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Wired News: Tired of the Telly? Reprogram It"
-created: 1058877600
-categories: 
-- Home Server
-- Multimedia PC
----
-Over at <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,59690,00.html">Wired News</a> is this story about what some are calling an "open-source PVR":
-<blockquote>A Colorado startup, Interact-TV, has released a hacker-friendly digital entertainment center that plays, records and archives TV shows, DVDs, music and even digital photo albums.  
-
-The Telly MC1000 Digital Entertainment Center, available now from the company's <a href="http://www.interact-tv.com/">website</a> for $900, can also surf the Web and act as a home media server.</blockquote>via <a href="http://boingboing.net/#200443735">Boing Boing</a>
-
-Looks like a great, Linux-based device. Looking at all the different options for video capture, photo storage, etc. etc. I was already getting a headache at the thought of putting one of these things together and supporting it long term. I don't mind paying a reasonable price and having access to a community which is working on advancing the platform.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-07-24-my-blogroll.md b/_posts/archive/2003-07-24-my-blogroll.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 5a925e9..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-07-24-my-blogroll.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: My Blogroll
-created: 1059077458
-categories: 
-- Drupal
-- BMC
-- Drupal
-- Drupal
----
-
-Wow. I keep finding <strong>more</strong> stuff that <a href="http://www.drupal.org">Drupal</a> does.
-
-<a href="/aggregator/sources">My blogroll</a> can also be <a href="/aggregator/opml">syndicated via OPML</a>. That is, all the sites that I have subscribed to. You can read all the individual sources in the <a href="/aggregator">news feeds section</a>.
-
-Man, I love Drupal. I need to install the new version. Mmm...that is going to have to go on my <a href="http://www.alexking.org/index.php?content=software/tasks/content.php">tasks</a> list...
-
-I never connected the term &quot;blogroll&quot; with this capability, but that's what it is, even though it's not called that by Drupal. And no one is going to understand it either, unless I put a button somewhere on my front page that is labelled &quot;my blogroll&quot;.
-
-<strong>Update:</strong> I looked for a &quot;blogroll&quot; icon, but I couldn't find one. So, I made my own. Feel free to steal it.
-<img alt="Blogroll Icon" src="/images/blogroll.png" />
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-07-25-bittorrent.md b/_posts/archive/2003-07-25-bittorrent.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 5c6ce2c..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-07-25-bittorrent.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: BitTorrent
-created: 1059165660
-categories: 
-- "*nix"
-- Application
-- Mac
-- Microsoft
----
-I'm completing my first <a href="http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/">BitTorrent</a> download<a href="#btdownload">*</a>
-
-BitTorrent is one of those geeky things that's been floating around for quite some time, but I just hadn't had the opportunity/inclination to try out yet. Since all the mirrors were in Europe, I thought I would give it a shot. Apparently I'm connected to 6 peers, and am downloading at roughly 155kbps (pretty close to the max on my DSL line, which magically got upgraded from 1Mbps to 1.5Mbps recently). There are clients for all the OSs, and it seems to work pretty well, so no reason not to try it.
-
-<a name="btdownload">*</a>it's an ISO of <a href="http://www.opengroupware.org">OpenGroupware</a> compiled into a <a href="http://www.opengroupware.org/en/knoppix/index.html#download">Knoppix CD</a> -- a Linux-based Exchange replacement demo that you can boot off a CD!
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-07-28-a-polluted-trust-web.md b/_posts/archive/2003-07-28-a-polluted-trust-web.md
deleted file mode 100644
index edc7198..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-07-28-a-polluted-trust-web.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: A polluted trust web
-created: 1059398700
-categories: 
-- Social Media
----
-Back when I was heavily experimenting with <a href="http://www.linkedin.com">LinkedIn</a>, I was somewhat frustrated about how slowly my network was growing. That is, people that I linked weren't linking in people that they knew, so it was mainly filled with people that I already knew.
-
-One of the great things that came about from that spate of experimentation was a connection with <a href="http://andrewjones.zerendipity.com">Andrew Jones</a>. I hesitated about asking him to connect with me directly, since we had only communicated via email, and he was (quick calculation...<a href="http://home.justwerks.com">Evan</a> -> <a href="http://brendonwilson.zerendipity.com">Brendon</a> -> Andrew) 3 degrees away from me. But in the end, I was "linked" to Andrew.
-
-I just recently went back to my LinkedIn page, and found it polluted! Filled with page after page of people that were so far removed, with so many other links, that I would never think of contacting them. So, I think I'm in favour of short-chain links -- they are more valuable. You <strong>can</strong> search by "degrees away", but that is also only useful if all the links are actually strong links. That is, I would never link in someone that I didn't really know or had some direct interaction with.
-
-What actually prompted me to write was Dan York's <a href="http://www.advogato.org/person/dyork/diary.html">most recent (27 Jul 2003) diary entry</a>, where he talks about similar issues with key signing.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-07-28-boing-boing-patent-for-mind-control-via-tv-blipverts.md b/_posts/archive/2003-07-28-boing-boing-patent-for-mind-control-via-tv-blipverts.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a0db3c2..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-07-28-boing-boing-patent-for-mind-control-via-tv-blipverts.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Boing Boing: Patent for mind control via TV? (Blipverts!)"
-created: 1059442860
-categories: 
-- Game
----
-This is just like Max Headroom, isn't it? <strong>Update:</strong> Greg remembered -- they're called "blipverts". In case people don't get the reference, they're the ads that make couch potatoes spontaneously combust.
-
-<a href="http://boingboing.net/#200443799">Patent for mind control via TV?</a> Here's a recent patent on a method to affect a human's nervous system through the electromagnetic field emitted by a TV set:
-<blockquote>"Physiological effects have been observed in a human subject in response to stimulation of the skin with weak electromagnetic fields that are pulsed with certain frequencies near 1/2 Hz or 2.4 Hz, such as to excite a sensory resonance. Many computer monitors and TV tubes, when displaying pulsed images, emit pulsed electromagnetic fields of sufficient amplitudes to cause such excitation. It is therefore possible to manipulate the nervous system of a subject by pulsing images displayed on a nearby computer monitor or TV set." </blockquote>As Doug Rushkoff says about television, "they don't call it programming for nothing!"
-<a href="http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6506148.WKU.&OS=PN/6506148&RS=PN/6506148">Link</a>
-<a href="http://www.quicktopic.com/22/H/AbLxzwtY7pH8F" >Discuss</a> [<a href="http://boingboing.net/">Boing Boing</a>]
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-07-31-tribe-net-feedback.md b/_posts/archive/2003-07-31-tribe-net-feedback.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 31dc6c4..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-07-31-tribe-net-feedback.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Tribe.net Feedback
-created: 1059656220
-categories: 
-- Social Media
----
-I'm still playing with <a href="http://www.tribe.net">Tribe.net</a>. So far, definitely the most fun. And I actually see it being useful, because it adds so much, but in a structured way. But a structured way that is very loose at the same time.<br>
-<br>
-I sent in one piece of feedback, and I've just finished typing up another. This is via email, but since this <strong>is</strong> a commercial company, I'm also going to post the feedback here.<br>
-<br>
-<strong>Feedback #1: Reject button should lead to message form</strong><br>
-<br>
-Current functionality: When pressing reject on a "friend request", the person is immediately rejected!<br>
-<br>
-Desired functionality: Pressing reject should lead to an (optional) screen that allows for feedback to be sent to the person along with the rejection notice (use send message procedure, but mark as "rejection feedback")<br>
-<br>
-Also, perhaps it should be called "decline" instead of "reject"? The term "reject" and "friends" seems rather harsh...<br>
-<br>
-<strong>Feedback #2: Notification for discussion board replies + photo captions</strong><br>
-<br>
-Absolutely need to have notification of replies to a discussion -- if I don't remember to go back and visit every single Tribe where I posted to a discussion forum, I'll never know that someone responded to me...<br>
-<br>
-Two ways of accomplishing this, potentially make both optional:
-<ul><li>have a checkmark when you post that says "Notify me by email when someone responds"</li><li>have an option to automatically display discussions that you are a part of on your home page</li></ul>Actually, with the second option, it might be better to just expand it to a bookmark/subscribe to this discussion feature. Even if I "lurk" and don't participate, I might still want to follow the discussion. You could then add notification options that are configurable on a per-discussion/Tribe basis -- notify by email, display on home page, display last X posts, etc.
-<br>
-Hmmm...I just uploaded a second picture to the "Ottawa" tribe. Some suggested changes/fixes:
-<ul><li>need to be able to edit the caption afterwards</li><li>if there is no "next" picture, don't just remove the link from the next text, don't show next at all</li><li>each picture should have a discussion/comments attached to it</li><li>when looking at photos, there is no obvious way to get back to the TribeCard (I know that "back" in the upper right is linked, but there are three "back" on that page, each of which link to different places!)</li><li>feature: wouldn't it be cool if you could set the main photo to "random"?</li></ul>Continuing the thought on notification, the photos should be treated like another discussion forum -- you could get notified of new pictures and/or new comments on a picture (a picture is a new topic, comments are replies/posts).
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-08-01-is-blogging-breaking-googles-usefulness.md b/_posts/archive/2003-08-01-is-blogging-breaking-googles-usefulness.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c25dd95..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-08-01-is-blogging-breaking-googles-usefulness.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Is blogging breaking Google's usefulness?
-created: 1059752700
-categories: 
-- Web 2.0
----
-<a href="http://laughingmeme.org/archives/001037.html">LaughingMeme thinks so</a>:
-<blockquote>Yup, it is the end of Google's usefulness, us bloggers have horribly polluted the results until its nothing but a sick popularity contest, played out across the entire world, that treats the web as our plaything, at the expense of the silent majority of web searchers.  You see, this post is the currently the number one result for who shot JR.  All those poor Dallas fans, forced to read my weblog.  Its all downhill from here. </blockquote>Go read the the comments, because otherwise this next bit won't make as much sense (although, the <a href="http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/07/11/Stopwords">Tim Bray Stopwords article would probably help</a>).
-
-So maybe Google needs to re-work stop words a litte. Like, "if there are several words, and some of them are stop words, return search results for both the individual words and the words-as-phrase".
-
-But is it bloggers, or the ease with which new content can be added to the Interweb? In the past, tinkering with web sitest, etc., new content would be infrequent. Now, a post per day is perhaps a low average. That's a lot of new content!
-
-And of course, all these nifty comment boxes, RSS feeds, and auto-trackback-thingies make sure that everything is interconnected, instantly infused with Googlejuice.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-08-01-rss-is-mainly-client-side.md b/_posts/archive/2003-08-01-rss-is-mainly-client-side.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 2ccf537..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-08-01-rss-is-mainly-client-side.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: RSS is mainly client-side?
-created: 1059764220
-categories: 
-- Web Development
----
-Steve Gillmor describes <a href="http://www.crn.com/weblogs/stevegillmor/2003/07/28/28.asp#43577">Jonathan Angel's thoughts about the evolution of client applications that use the Internet</a>:
-<blockquote>In short, RSS can make plenty of use, ultimately, of the fat clients that Microsoft and Intel want to sell us anyway, and it probably argues for the acquisition of a pretty capable PC, not an information appliance.</blockquote>Goes on to say that powerful PCs are needed to consume/run these client-side RSS apps.
-
-I don't agree that RSS is client-side. I started out by using NetNewsWire -- and it is a great app -- but found that Drupal met my needs better. So, all the aggregation is done on the server, and the browser is my client. I don't need a fat client. Sure, Drupal is probably too difficult for the average end-user to set up, but this very thing is being mitigated by TypePad et al. And blogging from your smartphone/handheld (a.k.a. "moblogging") is going to argue even more for moving all those RSS aggregation etc. abilities onto a server.
-
-Having all the stuff that gets aggregated cached/stored locally just doesn't seem like a good idea. Ultimately, that information lives out on the Internet -- it changes, it grows, it gets comment'ed and trackback'ed.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-08-04-bankrupt-emi.md b/_posts/archive/2003-08-04-bankrupt-emi.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 43486ed..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-08-04-bankrupt-emi.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Bankrupt EMI
-created: 1060054200
-categories: 
-- Music
-- Copyright
----
-Evan explains how to stick it to EMI's copy-control antics:
-<blockquote><a href="http://home.justwerks.com/node.php?id=42">Replacements Or How to Get a REAL Radiohead CD</a>
-I <a href="http://home.justwerks.com/node.php?id=33">recently complained</a> to EMI music and got a replacement CD (Radiohead's Hail To The Thief) mailed to me. I would transpose the letter they included in that package but the gist of it is that EMI is going to releasing all their new albums in Copy Controlled format (ie. sounds sucks when played through a computer) which is not a CD; its a CCD. Look for the triangle and say good bye to fair use!
-
-I think everyone should follow this model and force EMI to replace every single copy of this album.</blockquote>I'm in. Haven't bought a lot of CDs recently, but I should probably make a point of doing it with this Radiohead one.
-
-You might also want to check out <a href="http://www.kelprecords.com/">Kelp Records</a>, mainly because I just spent a weekend with TRE ("The Rolf Experience") and will be listening/buying much of that music...
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-08-04-finally-in-canada.md b/_posts/archive/2003-08-04-finally-in-canada.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 36f3661..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-08-04-finally-in-canada.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Finally in Canada!!
-created: 1060049340
-categories: 
-- Small Form Factor
----
-I have finally found a supplier of mini-itx things in Canada. In Kingston!
-
-<a href="http://kingstoncomputerplanet.com/">http://kingstoncomputerplanet.com/</a>
-
-They have mini-itx, they have slim cdrw drives (that fit in the Casetronic cases), they have it all at comparable prices to what I paid from <a href="http://big008.com">big008.com</a> in the States.
-
-Wooot!
-[Ed: Made links live]
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-08-04-free-world-dialup.md b/_posts/archive/2003-08-04-free-world-dialup.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 8de8742..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-08-04-free-world-dialup.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Free World Dialup
-created: 1060056660
-categories: 
-- VoIP
----
-<a href="http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/001254.shtml">Dan Gillmor raves about the goodness that is VoIP</a>:
-<blockquote>In the past month, I've done my part to undermine a monopoly. How? By making phone calls.</blockquote><a href="http://www.corante.com/mooreslore/">Dana Blankenhorn doesn't think VoIP is all that great</a>, specifically in response to Dan (link points to front page -- permalinks are broken...).
-
-Whatever. I want VoIP at home. Can't get it. Or, at least, can't get it at a reasonable price in Canada. But, I do now have a <a href="http://www.fwdnet.net/">Free World Dialup</a> account. My number is <strong>48340</strong>. Feels like the early days of ICQ -- sign up now to get a low number that shows you're cool!
-
-Of course, now I'm going to have to track down software that will let me work with it on my Mac...no MSN Messenger for me, thanks.
-
-There is <a href="http://www.mac2phone.com/">Mac2Phone</a>, but it seems tied to a particular service (and is a crappily-written Java program). Hmmm...a Google search leads me to believe that <a href="http://www.newtelephony.com/news/638.html">iChat is in fact a SIP client</a>, except it can't really talk to other SIP clients. Double hmmm.
-
-Here are some more likely candidates -- <a href="http://xmeeting.sourceforge.net/">Xmeeting</a> (H.323 only), <a href="http://www.gnomemeeting.org/">GnomeMeeting</a> (need to run it under X11, can be installed via Fink). Put links in comments if you find others...
-
-Here's the welcome message:
-<blockquote>Welcome to the Free World!
-
-Thanks for signing up for Free World Dialup (FWD). We hope you
-enjoy taking advantage of what FWD has to offer and that
-you can help us to continue to spread the word-of-mouth awareness
-that FWD exists.
-
-Today, with Free World Dialup, as a user you get for free:
-
- - FWD number
- - CallerID
- - Call Waiting
- - Call Forwarding
- - Call Transfer
- - Multiple Presence - meaning you can have the same
-   FWD Number appear on multiple SIP phones.
- - access to our free conference bridge
- - Free Voice Mail is scheduled to become available by September, 2003.
-
-We launched FWD in November, 2002  with a small group of friends.
-And as of August 04, the FWD service has over 42597 users from over 170 countries.</blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-08-05-infoworld-sun-tips-apple-hat.md b/_posts/archive/2003-08-05-infoworld-sun-tips-apple-hat.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 514df90..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-08-05-infoworld-sun-tips-apple-hat.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "InfoWorld: Sun tips Apple Hat"
-created: 1060141800
-categories: 
-- "*nix"
-- Mac
-- Open Source
----
-Phil sent me <a href="http://weblog.infoworld.com/techwatch/archives/000016.html">this InfoWorld article</a>:
-<blockquote>Is Sun working on a desktop partnership with Apple? The question surfaced during the media Q&A session and Schwartz looked to his execs for backup. "We don't comment on partnerships," responded Sun CTO of Software John Fowler.
-
-Implicitly acknowledging the demo had that certain OS X-like sheen, Schwartz went on. "I don't think there is a Sun employee that doesn't love Apple. We would love to partner with Apple, they are everyone's favorite company. Stay tuned."</blockquote>Verrrrryy interesting, grasshopper.
-
-The press conference was actually demoing "Project Mad Hatter" -- a Sun bundle of Linux-based desktop apps (a little more info <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/it_management/2003073001426NWDTSW">here</a> and <a href="http://www.crn.com/sections/BreakingNews/dailyarchives.asp?ArticleID=43727">here</a> -- post in comments if you find more).
-
-I'm still looking for a server OSS stack. Wanted: shared calendaring and contacts on an OSS server that lets people use Windows/Outlook on the client side. There are a bunch that are close, but they mainly don't seem to scale down very well (OpenGroupware and Bynari are the leading contenders, FWIW).
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-08-06-drupal-upgrade.md b/_posts/archive/2003-08-06-drupal-upgrade.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 694be80..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-08-06-drupal-upgrade.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Drupal Upgrade
-created: 1060217220
-categories: 
-- BMC
----
-I just went ahead and did it. It was actually fairly painless. I have to re-do my theme, but everything should be working.
-
-Please post if you see something that's hideously broken.
-
-The Drupal release of <a href="http://drupal.org/node/view/2407">4.20</a> has all the details of what has changed. It should be much easier to do a full CSS theme, plus -- friendly URLs!
-<!--break-->
-Should increase the Googlejuice. I have to add some lines to the .htaccess file to get <a href="/node/view/58/">my most popular item</a> working. Or rather, it's old url.
-
-I guess the other steps will include looking what sort of modules have been updated, and perhaps install some new ones -- like smilies :p
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-08-07-install-completed.md b/_posts/archive/2003-08-07-install-completed.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 1c0dfc7..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-08-07-install-completed.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Install completed
-created: 1060311240
-categories: 
-- Drupal
-- BMC
-- drupal
-- BMC
-- Drupal
----
-<p>
-	Yes, logins are still broken, but the look and feel is pretty much stable. OK. The layout is pretty much done. Let me know what you think. I think I&#39;ll keep the nav on the left for now.</p>
-<p>
-	I&#39;m not quite finished hacking, but when I am, I&#39;ll clone this theme, switch the nav to the right, and make it available as a separate theme for you to choose as your default.</p>
-<p>
-	More good and bad news in the full read...<!--break-->As mentioned in <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/375#885">my previous comment</a>, the login/user functions are being redirected by my host.</p>
-<p>
-	So, I&#39;ve put in a temporary user login form while I try and figure out the correct htaccess/mod_rewrite voodoo -- which might not even work. Other than that, I&#39;m going to dig around the <a href="http://www.drupal.org">Drupal site</a> and see if anyone has any bright ideas. :sad:</p>
-<p>
-	In happier :smile: news, <a href="/recipe">recipes</a> are here! This and your personal blog are the two areas that authenticated users can create and will be published immediately. By default, these are not promoted to the front page -- myself as benevolent dictator :evil: can do this.</p>
-<p>
-	On the backend, lots of little changes. For instance, caching is now enabled for anonymous users. If you&#39;re not logged in, you may have to refresh a couple of times to see all the newest stuff. On all &quot;read more&quot; -- i.e. full versions of articles, etc. -- I&#39;ve added some <a href="https://www.google.com/adsense/">Google AdSense</a> code. Looks like I&#39;ve been targetted as &quot;blogging related&quot;. Google will likely spend some time crawling my new clean URLs. Be interesting to see if some different pages get different ads. Also, I emailed <a href="http://www.macosxhints.com">MacOSXHints</a> to update a listing about <a href="/node/view/58">anonymous FTP</a> and to add my name to the description -- it was done and fixed in something like 5 minutes, including an email response to me. Wow!</p>
-<p>
-	Oh, yes. If you had subscribed via RSS, the feed URL has changed to <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/feed">http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/feed</a>. The various blog ones have changed as well (note to self -- go fix your user blog feed).</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-08-08-arrr-pirate-names.md b/_posts/archive/2003-08-08-arrr-pirate-names.md
deleted file mode 100644
index dfe336f..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-08-08-arrr-pirate-names.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Arrr...Pirate Names!
-created: 1060359061
-categories: 
-- Personal
----
-This one is for Andy: <a href="http://www.fidius.org/quiz/pirate.php">What's your pirate name?</a>
-
-Me, I'm Captain Tom Kidd:
-<blockquote>
-Even though there's no legal rank on a pirate ship, everyone recognizes you're the one in charge. Even though you're not always the traditional swaggering gallant, your steadiness and planning make you a fine, reliable pirate. Arr! 
-</blockquote>
-
-Boring. I'm doing it again...
-
-<strong>Update:</strong> if you like <a href="http://www.pirate-monkey-ninja.org">Pirates, Monkeys, and Ninjas</a>, try <a href="http://www.pirate-monkey-ninja.org">http://www.pirate-monkey-ninja.org</a>.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-08-09-congrats-on-the-new-blog-andrew.md b/_posts/archive/2003-08-09-congrats-on-the-new-blog-andrew.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 5102f43..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-08-09-congrats-on-the-new-blog-andrew.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Congrats on the new blog Andrew
-created: 1060493100
-categories: 
-- Social Media
----
-Hey <a href="http://andrewjones.zerendipity.com" title="Andrew Jones Zerendipity Profile">Andrew</a>, you started <a title="Andrew Jones Blog" href="http://www.andrewnoeljones.com">writing a blog</a>, but didn't tell anyone!
-
-I only found out because I was doing some <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=zerendipity&btnG=Google+Search">Google searches</a> and your site came up.
-
-Well, I added you to my local <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/import/bundle/29" title="Boris Mann Consulting - Friends Blog Bundle">Friends bundle</a>, so I'll be keeping an eye on you. My only comment so far: more posting, less pontificating. Here's a smiley to take the sting out of that :wink:
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-08-09-coppermine.md b/_posts/archive/2003-08-09-coppermine.md
deleted file mode 100644
index d8a3de1..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-08-09-coppermine.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Coppermine
-created: 1060494480
-categories: 
-- Web 2.0
-- PHP
----
-Whenever anyone has asked me for an image gallery, my answer has always been <a href="/node/view/23">Gallery</a>. However, it's HTML is pretty crufty. Lately, several people have told me to check out Coppermine. Including a lengthy discussion on the <a href="http://drupal.org/node/view/1009">Drupal site</a>.
-
-Now I just have to try it out myself.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-08-09-gallery.md b/_posts/archive/2003-08-09-gallery.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 45fcfcf..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-08-09-gallery.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Gallery
-created: 1060495320
-categories: 
-- PHP
-- Web 2.0
----
-Gallery has long been my only answer if someone asked for an image gallery. It has pretty much all the features you could ask for:
-<ul>
-<li>doesn't need a database (makes it very easy to backup as well -- just tar the entire directory)</li>
-<li>makes nice URLs using mod_rewrite</li>
-<li>generates thumbnails in multiple sizes</li>
-<li>has a built-in permissions system for protecting albums</li>
-<li>slide show mode, which goes throw all the photos in an album, cross-fading the images</li>
-<li>easy, web-based install</li>
-<li>supports commenting of images</li>
-<li>Windows XP web-publishing wizard or stand-alone Java-based, cross-platform Gallery Remote app</li>
-</ul>
-
-Pretty much the only downsides to Gallery are that the HTML is a little crufty and hard-coded into the app, making it a little harder to customize. As well, not being based on a database, some more advanced display/sorting features aren't available. One gotcha with the install is that Gallery cannot run with PHP safe mode turned on, which is a problem with some shared hosting environments.
-
-Gallery 2.0 is going to use a database and be re-written to separate content from presentation.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-08-09-stylesheet-wrangling.md b/_posts/archive/2003-08-09-stylesheet-wrangling.md
deleted file mode 100644
index efa04b7..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-08-09-stylesheet-wrangling.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Stylesheet Wrangling
-created: 1060458720
-categories: 
-- Web Development
-- BMC
----
-OK. Last post to talk about the changes I've made to the site. Everything should be working and look decent on all browsers, except for IE5/Mac.
-
-The final big change was the addition of JavaScript stylesheet-switchers in the upper right hand corner. It uses cookies to store your preferences. The JavaScript code and description of the method is from an <a href="http://www.alistapart.com/stories/alternate/">ALA article</a>.
-<!--break-->
-<strong>Default</strong> is Palatino/Georgia, <strong>lucida</strong> is Lucida Grande/Trebuchet MS, and <strong>rightnav</strong> is with blocks on the right but same look as the default.
-
-The beauty of it is that the alternate stylesheets are so easy. Here's the rightnav stylesheet:
-<code>@import url("base.css");
-
-#blocks {
-  position: absolute;
-  right: 10px;
-  width: 175px;
-  padding-right: 1px;
-}
-
-#main {
-        margin-left: 0px;
-	margin-right: 185px;
-}</code>
-So, the base stylesheet contains the main look and feel, and then anything can be overridden in the alternate sheet. For the style switching, I could have a completely different look just by not importing the base stylesheet -- this is likely what I will do for IE5/Mac, so that my parents can actually read this thing.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-08-09-wired-news-101-uses-for-apple-ichat.md b/_posts/archive/2003-08-09-wired-news-101-uses-for-apple-ichat.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f509577..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-08-09-wired-news-101-uses-for-apple-ichat.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Wired News: 101 Uses for Apple iChat"
-created: 1060442160
-categories: 
-- Social Media
-- Mac
-- Application
----
-Wired News writes about <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,59931,00.html">iChat uses</a>:
-<blockquote>
-Zeedar, a designer, programmer and writer from Santa Cruz, California, discovered he can use his camcorder to connect his TiVo digital video recorder to his Mac.
-</blockquote>
-This is cool. I could do this as well with my Canon DV camcorder. But, as the article goes on to point out, there really aren't that many people with the setup, so it is hard to find someone to connect to.
-<!--break-->
-As they discuss the various registries available, I got to thinking about the social software stuff again. The registries described talk about organizing around regions or interest groups and such (and of course, video dating). Integrating this with your profile for these social software systems might provide the right level of "serendipity" or "randomness" (<a href="http://www.docuverse.com/blog/donpark/2003/05/26.html#a530">Don Park  talked about this</a>, discussion about it <a href="/node/view/306">on this site</a>) -- people could instantly connect without having to go through whatever system these groups had in place. And yes, not just iChat A/V, but also any of the many kind of IM networks. Ideally, like Jabber, there should just be one icon for all IM systems -- the group site could run a Jabber gateway to translate between the systems (thus protecting the use of their network -- you still wouldn't know how to contact the person directly unless they told you). An icon would indicate whether the person is online or not, and potentially a couple more icons to indicate audio and/or video capability.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-08-10-art-gallery-and-byward-market.md b/_posts/archive/2003-08-10-art-gallery-and-byward-market.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f9d6cbe..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-08-10-art-gallery-and-byward-market.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Art Gallery and Byward Market
-created: 1060551300
-categories: 
-- Ottawa
----
-<p><img src="/images/paper_papier.jpg" alt="Paper Papier Business Card" align="left" hspace="5" vspace="5">Kate and I went for a nice walk around the city. We stopped in at Perfect Books to buy some poems by Colin Vincent (brother to <a href="http://www.kelprecords.com/bands/av/">Andrew</a>) and also ended up getting some Celtic rubber stamps. The lady there told use we could get cool inks at a new shop, <a href="http://www.paperpapier.com/">Paper-Papier</a>. Well, new at that location -- looks like they have been here since 1982.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p><img src="/images/nag_receipts.jpg" alt="NAG Receipts" align="right" hspace="5" vspace="5">Next we were off to the <a href="http://national.gallery.ca">National Art Gallery</a>. We saw the exhibition called "The Art of Watteau, Chardin, Fragonard". Plus some Dutch and Flemish Drawings. That's my Friend of the Gallery card -- Kate got us a family membership for this year, and we've made good use of it.</p>
-
-<p>Also, I asked about the photos I saw last time, of industrial landscapes and the shipbreaking. They are by <a href="http://www.edwardburtynsky.com/">Edward Burtynsky</a>. The gift shop didn't have any art cards left, just a giant/expensive catalog book. That link has some good images, though, plus some more <a href="http://www.godardgallery.com/burt.htm">here</a>. Turns out it was <em>not</em> Port Blair as I <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/355">was thinking</a> -- it's Chittagong, Bangladesh.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-08-11-extremetech-clash-of-the-tiny-titans.md b/_posts/archive/2003-08-11-extremetech-clash-of-the-tiny-titans.md
deleted file mode 100644
index fb9c5c0..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-08-11-extremetech-clash-of-the-tiny-titans.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "ExtremeTech: Clash of the Tiny Titans"
-created: 1060632960
-categories: 
-- Review
-- Small Form Factor
----
-ExtremeTech <a href="http://www.extremetech.com/print_article/0,3998,a=46006,00.asp">reviews the two newest Shuttle offerings</a>. <a href="http://www.shuttle.com/">Shuttle</a> is now offering both P4- as well as AMD/NForce2-based systems, although as mentioned at the end of the article, choosing a P4 system means at least a $280US price differential.
-<blockquote>
-You can think of the Shuttle XPC line as the Mini Cooper of the PC universe. Yes, there are other small form factor PCs out there, some even appearing to be near-clones of the XPC line, but none have achieved quite the cachet of Shuttle's cute aluminum cubes. While there have been other compact PC's in the past, Shuttle pioneered the idea of small form factor PCs with large PC performance.</blockquote>
-I think it's great that Shuttle is continuing to come out with these powerful little boxes -- it means the less-powerful, slightly older barebones systems will continue to get cheaper.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-08-11-wired-news-mr-disruption-strikes-again.md b/_posts/archive/2003-08-11-wired-news-mr-disruption-strikes-again.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 223fdd8..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-08-11-wired-news-mr-disruption-strikes-again.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Wired News: Mr. Disruption Strikes Again"
-created: 1060622340
-categories: 
-- VoIP
----
-<a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,59953,00.html">Wired news is talking</a>, of course, about Michael Robertson:
-<blockquote>
-<p>By offering low-cost SIP phones -- $129.99 per pair, with plans to reduce the price to $40 per phone within a year and $20 within two -- Robertson hopes to tap into SIP's early momentum, just as he did with his Linux and MP3 ventures.</p>
-
-<p>"There's no per-minute cost for the phone company to zap electrons from one set of copper wires to another, so why do we pay per minute?" he says, "If you intersect with the (regular phone) system, you inherit their cost structure. With SIP to SIP, it can all be free."</p>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>His new company (along with MP3.com and Lindows) is <a href="http://www.sipphone.com/">SIPphone</a>. The article mentions the "danger" that customer growth is required -- both people have to be on the system in order to communicate. I don't see this as a problem. Even better if you can buy "2 packs", with two different shipping addresses.</p>
-
-<p>We keep talking about getting Kate's dad set up with a webcam. Once he retires and the lease on his business Dell is up, we'll get him to get an iMac and be all set.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-08-12-turning-down-friends.md b/_posts/archive/2003-08-12-turning-down-friends.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 3c80a47..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-08-12-turning-down-friends.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,53 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Turning down friends
-created: 1060696620
-categories: 
-- Social Media
----
-<p>In the immortal words of Britney Spears, "Oops...I did it again". Yesterday, I turned down another <a href="http://www.tribe.net">Tribe.net</a> friendship link. I had <a href="/node/view/363#843">previously rejected Marc Canter</a>, but I didn't feel so bad about that one. I know <em>of</em> Marc Canter, as does likely anyone interested in social software, but it is more of a knowing in the sense of a planetary body moving between the stars.</p>
-
-<p>I really didn't want to turn Liz down. In exploring Tribe.net, I had seen her "around" -- in a couple of the tribes I either surfed or joined, I saw her as a member, saw some postings, surfed her profile, testimonials, and friends list. "Cool", I thought to myself, "Looks like an interesting person". She seems funny and smart, has written some articles for <a href="http://developer.apple.com/internet/macosx/">Apple's "Web Development and Mac OS X" section</a>....I <strong>really</strong> didn't want to turn this link down.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>But, I'm sticking to my guns. Only people I actually know, or know of through a chain of people I know. Here's the conversation that bounced back and forth between Liz and I after I declined her invitation:</p>
-<blockquote>
-Hey Liz -- thanks for the invite. I am one of those strange people that is experimenting with these social networks, and one of the things that I'm trying to stick to is only adding people that I actually "know". I have a whole <a href="/node/view/363">rant about it</a> if you're interested.<br />
-<br /> 
-In some ways, that's why I like the "tribes" concept here -- I had actually noticed *your* profile in several areas, surfed some of your friends and testimonials, and thought to myself "Sounds like a cool, interesting person".<br />  
-<br /> 
-So, tribe-mates for now. Stop in if you're passing through Ottawa.
-</blockquote>
-<br />
-To which Liz replied:
-<blockquote>
-No problem - I completely understand. My network is made up of a bunch of people I know in real life, and a bunch who I think I would like. A few have even accidentally turned out to be people I knew years ago but lost touch with.<br />  
-<br /> 
-It looks like tribe.net might tighten the rules soon. If so, then people like me (semi-casual connectors, prolific tribe creators) will move on. It's a trade-off.  
- </blockquote>
-<br />
-And my response:
-<blockquote>
-Mmm...interesting. Where did you see this comment about tightening up?<br />
-<br />
-I was just saying the other day that the very fact that you can, potentially, connect with anyone is a very good feature. Especially this message passing as well, since you don't have to sacrifice a "real" email/IM/other address. Of course, anonymous IM with tribe acting as a proxy would be excellent, too. Probably faster than using this sucky "compose" box...
-</blockquote>
-<br />
-And then Liz something that really piqued my interest:
-<blockquote>
-Marc Canter (the guy with about 150 friends) posted something that implied that. When I asked him in a private message, he just said they were working on a policy of some kind. So it was in no way a for-sure thing.<br />
-<br /> 
-I was thinking about your rant on my way to run an errand just now. I've got a counter-argument, of sorts. I've got friends in real life, lots of whom I've known for years, if not decades. Lots of their interests have diverged wildly with mine. I went for being an urban geek, some others did too, Some had kids and moved to the 'burbs, some went full-on burning-man slacker loadie, some stayed in crispy world-traveler-academic mode, etc.<br />
-<br /> 
-So I wonder. On friendster, my list is only real-life friends. And I see lots of friend-posts I don't care about. On tribe.net, my list also includes strangers who I've selected, and who share many of my current interests. Which group will have information that is more relevant to my life right now?
-</blockquote>
-<br />
-That last sentence -- <strong>Which group will have information that is more relevant to my life right now?</strong> -- is the kicker. That is why the groups/tribes concept works well. People like me can join tribes and interact with people with similar interests while at the same time only forming, umm, direct links (I was going to call them "strong" vs. "weak", but that doesn't seem right). Liz uses the same method -- joining tribes -- to identify people, and can freely mix direct and casual linking.<br />
-<br />
-So, the experiment continues. I've started inviting people to tribes if I think they might be interested in similar topics. I will also freely accept any tribe invitations -- it's much less of a commitment (in my view), and is a way of testing the waters.<br />
-<br />
-The one other item that I wanted to mention was Tribe.net's concept of "bookmarks". You can bookmark a person, whether or not you are linked to them as a friend. I suspect this is there to help people with very large networks, but I am using it to keep track of people that I don't necessarily know, but suspect I might get along with them if we were to ever meet in real life. So, for me, I would love it if Tribe.net showed me listings etc. that are currently only associated with friends for "bookmarked" people as well.<br />
-<br />
-When not hanging out in a social network somewhere, Liz can be found at <a href="http://www.crackingfoxy.com/" title="Liz's Blog - Cracking Foxy">her co-authored blog, Cracking Foxy</a>.<br />
-<br />
---<br />
-<strong>Addendum:</strong> So I go to Liz's blog, look at a couple of back entries, and notice that she not only <a href="http://www.crackingfoxy.com/archives/000167.html">posted about a live Bjork concert</a>, she went and <a href="http://bjork.tribe.net" title="Bjork on Tribe.net">created the tribe about her</a>! Tell me again why I turned down her invite?
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-08-13-imaginary-friends.md b/_posts/archive/2003-08-13-imaginary-friends.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c475227..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-08-13-imaginary-friends.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Imaginary Friends
-created: 1060833780
-categories: 
-- Social Media
----
-<a href="http://www.tribe.net/tribe/servlet/template/pub%2Cpcard%2CPeopleCard.vm?personid=8eeea1cf-5090-4694-9955-7f02a516c492">Walter</a> posted this to the <a href="http://www.tribe.net/tribe/servlet/template/pub%2CTribeCard.vm">Social software intellectuals tribe</a> (hey, I didn't make up the name...):
-<blockquote>
-<strong>"Fraudsters:" pro, con, indifferent?</strong><br/>
-I'd be curious to hear what you all think about individuals with profiles that aren't pegged to their actual persona.  If someone creates a "Cheez Whiz" or "George Washington" identity, what do they bring to the party?  Do they reduce the value/utility of the network as a whole?  Discuss.                                                                                                                                                          
-</blockquote>
-<!--break-->
-To which I replied:
-<blockquote>
-Can you imagine LinkedIn with Jesus?<br/>
-<br/>
-Friendster always seemed more light-hearted, so why not leave the Fraudsters.<br/>
-<br/>
-Also, kind of depends on how you link. If you link often/casually, then "fake" profiles are no big deal. If you tend to link sparsley/deeply, you'll skip over those.<br/>
-<br/>
-I can't, at the moment, think of how Fraudsters might harm a network, other than by consuming some infinitesmal bit of resources.<br/>
-</blockquote>
-<br/>
-And then there was <a href="http://www.sfweekly.com/issues/2003-08-13/feature.html">this article</a> from <a href="http://www.sfweekly.com">SFWeekly</a>. It's a long discussion of fraudsters/fakesters, including talking with the creator of Friendster, Jonathan Abrams. Friendster is taking a very hard-line stance:
-<blockquote>
-Friendster aims to take down not only fakesters' phony pictures but also those of "realsters" who post images other than of their own faces. That means users who prefer visual anonymity are out of luck -- like a friend of mine who pictures his cat on Friendster because he'd once been recognized on the street from his original Friendster profile and didn't like it.
-</blockquote>
-<br/>
-Ridiculous. Sounds like a company whose business plan got screwed up, and doesn't know what to do about it. I have a picture of some monkeys in my photo album on Tribe...I <em>could</em> make that my image. And what about people that like having a quirky Photoshop face?
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-08-13-wandering-back-to-victoria.md b/_posts/archive/2003-08-13-wandering-back-to-victoria.md
deleted file mode 100644
index b574fac..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-08-13-wandering-back-to-victoria.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Wandering back to Victoria
-created: 1060837260
-categories: 
-- Social Media
----
-So Graham signed up for Tribes and created a UVic tribe. I thought about it, but I already started the Ottawa one, and didn't want to be "responsible" for another one. There are actually quite a few people that went to UVic online there. I never felt a strong affiliation for the school itself.
-
-But, I wandered over to <a href="http://www.uvic.ca">UVic</a> see if anyone there is doing something with blogging. I did <a href="http://www.google.com/u/uvic?q=blog&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&domains=uvic.ca&sitesearch=uvic.ca&start=0&sa=N">this search</a> (UVic uses Google -- good on them!) and got a bunch of hits.
-
-For one, the <a href="http://chisel.cs.uvic.ca/">Computer Human Interaction and Software Engineering Lab (CHISEL)</a> is <a href="http://chiselog.chisel.cs.uvic.ca/">running Drupal</a>. Likely because of the taxonomy module, which maps nicely with ontologies and other high-falutin' words that get tossed around.
-
-CHISEL has also built some cool tools, like <a href="http://shrimp.cs.uvic.ca/index.htm">SHRIMP</a> -- for "visualizing and exploring software architecture and                       any other information space".
-
-All that stuff just got me thinking about <a href="http://web.uvic.ca/calendar2003/GRAD/GPROGS/CoSc/GPinCS.html">getting a Master's in CS</a>. They even have co-op...
-
-Kate would love that. Actually, Kate would love it if I was a perfessor.
-
-I didn't do enough searching to see if anyone is doing stuff with the use of blogs and education. Collaborative course-ware, discussion forums, RSS feeds, etc. If only we had more time in the day. And on that note, to bed.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-08-14-drupal.md b/_posts/archive/2003-08-14-drupal.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 91d7374..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-08-14-drupal.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Drupal
-created: 1060891620
-categories: 
-- drupal
-- CVS
-- Open Source
----
-<p>
-	I now have a CVS account with write access to the Drupal tree. I&#39;m going to be making some changes, starting by going through modules and ripping out any hard-coded styles and moving them into a separate stylesheet.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-08-15-ottawa-power-outage.md b/_posts/archive/2003-08-15-ottawa-power-outage.md
deleted file mode 100644
index be689b6..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-08-15-ottawa-power-outage.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Ottawa Power Outage
-created: 1061001960
-categories: 
-- Ottawa
----
-Craziness! Shortly after 4pm yesterday, August 14th, 2003, the power went out for pretty much all of Ontario and what they call the "eastern seaboard" of the US -- including such major cities as New York, Boston, Cleveland, and Detroit.
-
-So, as our apartment heated up (it only remains cold because our air conditioner runs 24/7...well, and it was 32&deg;C plus humidex), Kate and I decided to go over to Anna, Rob, and Adam's place. They have a barbecue on their front porch, and it was actually a rather enjoyable evening. We had sausages and spinach salad (it was kind of a crazy dressing I made, with wasabi and ginger, but not tested enough to go in the recipes) and sat on the front porch drinking beer and listening to the wind up radio. CBC was doing a great job of dolling out reports, with some interesting "man-in-the-street" interviews thrown in.
-<!--break-->
-It was hard to sleep at our place, being the first night sleeping in the full heat of an Ottawa summer. We woke up early, since all the windows were open and the noises of the street starting coming in. I checked in with Terrence, who was making sure our customers were OK (we probably won't know until Monday, and Terrence is going on vacation....). Anna was still on vacation, Rob didn't have to go to work, Kate got the day off, and there wasn't much I could do without power (I'm pretty much just working on web stuff), so we went to the beach.
-
-The beach being in Gatineau. Quebec/Gatineau is just over the bridge (maybe a kilometer and a half from our house to the other side) and their electrical grid didn't go down. So, first stop was at a restaurant at the end of Highway 5. Really good coffee, which we decided was because of the water, which was really smooth/salty tasting. I know the salty sounds strange, but it was good. Then a quick stop at a depeneur for some provisions, and on to the beach at Lac La Peche.
-
-A nice day spent there, hanging out in the sun, doing some reading, doing some fishing (nothing caught, not even log fish), and doing some swimming. I had picked up a copy of <a href="http://www.gamers.com/xbn/index.jsp">XBN - XBOX Nation</a>. I don't have an Xbox, and I won't likely get one (I'm going to wait <strong>at least</strong> until the next generation of consoles comes out -- PS3, Xbox 2, etc.). But, I was very impressed by the level of writing, and it seemed like a really useful, informative magazine. More on that later.
-
-Unfortunately (and I feel really bad about this) I made it back too late to catch a ride to ultimate. And it was probably a hard game. And we probably lost. And people are probably mad at me. Oh well, I'll try and make it up to folks on Sunday, our playoffs....
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-08-16-p-r-o-f-i-l-e.md b/_posts/archive/2003-08-16-p-r-o-f-i-l-e.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 0a05ff3..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-08-16-p-r-o-f-i-l-e.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: P.R.O.F.I.L.E.
-created: 1061098980
-categories: 
-- Social Media
----
-A great long rant against FOAF on Tribe made me put my 2¢ in:
-<blockquote>
-Of course, let's spin it around and say, well, FOAF is/can be/should be a profile API. I actually hate the RDF format of FOAF, and have been playing around with a more human-readable, more web-friendly format. So perhaps FOAF is just a data storage/interchange format?<br>
-This "profile API" has the concept of relationships, resources, information, etc. etc. -- certain information is requested, and some other permission system/context determines what information is returned. So, we don't care about the underlying storage format.<br>
-A parting jab at FOAF: why are there different elements for every single IM system?! What's wrong with this:
-[im system = "msn"]myid@msn.com[/im]
-</blockquote>
-Yes, I'm playing with a format. It's plain-jane XML that mirrors a lot of existing HTML syntax. I think I'll call it...<!--break--> <strong>P</strong>rofile <strong>R</strong>eveals <strong>O</strong>rigins, <strong>F</strong>riends, <strong>I</strong>nterests, <strong>L</strong>ikes/Dislikes, <strong>E</strong>tc.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-08-16-spaces-is-clever-cactus.md b/_posts/archive/2003-08-16-spaces-is-clever-cactus.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f0f65a8..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-08-16-spaces-is-clever-cactus.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Spaces is Clever Cactus
-created: 1061102400
-categories: 
-- Application
----
-I talked quite some time ago about <a href="/node/view/207">Spaces</a>. A blog entry over at <a href="http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/1562.html">Sam Ruby</a> bumped me on over to <a href="http://www.dynamicobjects.com/d2r/archives/002261.html">another entry</a>. I was reading it, and it was interesting, but I was getting a strange deja-vu feeling.<br>
-<br>
-So, <em>Spaces</em> has become <a href="http://www.clevercactus.com">Clever Cactus</a>, and is now at beta2. Which, in turn, is still kind of like <a href="http://guests.evectors.it/zoe/">Zoe</a>. Which I ran again for a while the other day, but too many rough edges. Or rather, the non-permanence of running something that is a server on what is a client machine.<br>
-<br>
-I've downloaded Clever Cactus and will be giving it a whirl. 
-<!--break-->From the front page:
-<blockquote>
-We live in a connected, mobile world where we want to share information easily with people and groups             who cross many boundaries and domains: colleagues, family and friends. We use many devices (work and home PCs, laptops, PDAs and cell phones) and applications (email, IM, and weblogs) to achieve this.<br> 
-<br>
-clevercactus connects people and information directly across multiple devices and environments. It runs on all major operating systems including Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, OS/2, and others.             
-</blockquote>
-It's Java, and the UI is, um <em>"not complete for the Macintosh version"</em>.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-08-17-p-r-o-f-i-l-e.md b/_posts/archive/2003-08-17-p-r-o-f-i-l-e.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 62bca9e..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-08-17-p-r-o-f-i-l-e.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: P.R.O.F.I.L.E.
-created: 1061175420
-categories: 
-- FOAF
----
-<p>
-	Collected info about PROFILE (<strong>P</strong>rofile <strong>R</strong>eveals <strong>O</strong> rigin <strong>F</strong>riends <strong>I</strong>nterests <strong>L</strong>ikes/dislikes <strong>E</strong>tc.) Basically, a replacement/alternative to FOAF. Some of it&#39;s design goals:</p>
-<ol>
-	<li>
-		<strong>Human-readable:</strong> easy to both parse and create with nothing more complicated than a text-editor or &quot;view source&quot;</li>
-	<li>
-		<strong>Web friendly:</strong> re-use existing elements of (X)HTML</li>
-</ol>
-<p>
-	Ideally, placing the source of a PROFILE between pre tags on a web page should make all important information readable.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-08-17-steve-gillmor-another-fine-mesh.md b/_posts/archive/2003-08-17-steve-gillmor-another-fine-mesh.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e487b8a..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-08-17-steve-gillmor-another-fine-mesh.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Steve Gillmor: Another Fine Mesh"
-created: 1061180640
-categories: 
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
-- Microsoft
----
-The <a href="http://www.crn.com/weblogs/stevegillmor/2003/06/01/01.asp#42320">entire post from Steve Gillmor</a>:
-<blockquote>
-Bill Gates finally takes this public, courtesy of the Wall Street Journal's D conference and <a href="http://www.ventureblog.com/articles/indiv/2003/000114.html">leaked blogging</a>.
-<em>"Microsoft is also betting on mesh networks -- Gates believes that by spreading WiFi backhall among large numbers of clients, WiFi will facilitate broadband for everyone that may <strong>serve to replace cellular networks under many circumstances</strong>. Gates predicts mesh networks will be mainstream in the next 5 years and he's presumably already looking to build software to address the problems associated with the multiplicity of base stations."</em><br>
-<br>
-Now we'll wait for the other part of this shoe to drop.
-</blockquote>
-The bolded section is my emphasis. OK, so MS plans to build wireless/mesh networking into every product. This suggests a couple of things.<!--break-->
-<ol>
-<li>MS is going to go up against service providers and/or vendors like NT, Cisco, etc.</li>
-<li>Two -- you think the recent Blaster worm was bad?!?</li>
-</ol>
-I don't even want to imagine how bad it could be if all Windows machines were automatically part of a mesh, through which a worm could spread unchecked...
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-08-18-ninja-school.md b/_posts/archive/2003-08-18-ninja-school.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f218545..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-08-18-ninja-school.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Ninja school!
-created: 1061257587
-categories: 
-- Game
-- are you a reall ninja or wana be?
----
-
-You know you've always wanted to be a ninja. So why not attend <a href="http://www.entertheninja.com/ninja_school/index.html">Ninja School</a>? Very, very, very funny. Here's a line from the <strong>Ninja Etiquette</strong> section:
-<blockquote>
-Never show your real face. If you must show a face, it should be a very shiny mask. This is the only possible substitute.
-</blockquote>
-<p>Of course, once you are a ninja, you will need a proper <a href="http://www.houseofninja.com/wuname.php">ninja name</a>. Mine is &quot;<em>Pissed Tiger</em>&quot;.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Update:</strong> If you're interested in all sorts of Ninja stuff, check out <a href="http://www.pirate-monkey-ninja.org" title="Pirates, Monkeys, and Ninjas">Pirate Monkey Ninja</a>.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-08-18-phpwiki.md b/_posts/archive/2003-08-18-phpwiki.md
deleted file mode 100644
index d78cb3c..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-08-18-phpwiki.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: PHPWiki
-created: 1061253240
-categories: 
-- Web 2.0
-- PHP
----
-<blockquote>
-Installation of PhpWiki is as simple as untarring the source distribution. PhpWiki works right out of the box. You will want to make configuration changes later for better performance and permanence, or to run PhpWiki off a relational database like MySQL, mSQL or Postgresql.
-</blockquote>       
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-08-18-pmachine.md b/_posts/archive/2003-08-18-pmachine.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 8ccd169..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-08-18-pmachine.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: pMachine
-created: 1061243100
-categories: 
-- PHP
-- Web 2.0
----
-From the front page:
-<blockquote>
-pMachine is online publishing's most flexible and creative software.  With pMachine, you can publish virtually any kind of web content - from a basic weblog,  to an advanced interactive magazine.  pMachine gives you complete control over the presentation  and the interactivity of your site.
-</blockquote>
-<br>
-pMachine was my first blog. I was running phpwebsite as my "main" website, but found myself posting to pMachine all the time. It's very flexible, meaning that the code is all worked down into function calls, making it easy to design your HTML page and then add in a few PHP tags here and there to display the blog/category/etc. content.<br>
-<br>
-It's downsides are that it's not free. Non-commercial users can use the "Free" version, but must pay for the Pro version (which includes forums). Commercial users must always pay. Also, not being open source, it doesn't seem to develop as quickly, nor does it sprout a lot of add-ons and plug-ins.<br>
-<br>
-Fine if all you want to run is a basic blog.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-08-18-rodin.md b/_posts/archive/2003-08-18-rodin.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 7c35dc5..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-08-18-rodin.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Rodin
-created: 1061242980
-categories: 
-- "*nix"
-- PHP
-- Web 2.0
----
-Rodin is a delightfully simple content management system. Requires PHP and MySQL.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-08-18-soundfeeder-wireless-audio-adapter.md b/_posts/archive/2003-08-18-soundfeeder-wireless-audio-adapter.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 4f665b7..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-08-18-soundfeeder-wireless-audio-adapter.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Soundfeeder Wireless Audio Adapter
-created: 1061259780
-categories: 
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
-- Music
----
-<a href="/images/soundfeeder.jpg" title="Full size scan of Sound Feeder Manual" target="_blank"><img src="/images/soundfeeder.thumb.jpg" alt="Sound Feeder Wireless Audio Adapter - Model SF120" border="0" align="left"></a>
-I bought this a little while back, made by <a href="http://www.arkon.com">Arkon Resources</a>. It's not very good (analog tuning, not even an LED to show you whether it's on or off), but it was very cheap.<br>
-<br>
-I wanted it so that we could play our MP3s in the living room, for which it works fairly well. Also, I wanted Rob to hack it and up the power so I could run my own pirate radio. Another downside is that there is no audio pass-through. Since it plugs into the headphone jack of my Mac, it mutes the local audio.<br>
-<!--break--><br>
-I also took it to our ultimate game the other day, combined with a portable CD player and Kate's <a href="http://www.freeplay.net/website/product/radios.php">wind-up radio</a> (it's an earlier model which isn't made anymore). The wind-up radio also has only analog tuning, so it's hard to get it right. And since I was using the very low end of the band -- 88MHz -- Dave pointed out to me on the digital tuner in his car, that apparently they "skip over" 88Mhz.<br>
-<br>
-I'm still looking for a "good" version of this, ideally with:
-<ul>
-<li>Digital frequency selection</li>
-<li>Audio pass-through (although this could be accomplished with a male-to-2-female y-connector)</li>
-<li>Longer range</li>
-<li>Less distortion (it only sounds clear when I set the radio to mono FM)</li>
-</ul>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-08-18-tech-report-the-msi-mega-pc-and-abit-sff.md b/_posts/archive/2003-08-18-tech-report-the-msi-mega-pc-and-abit-sff.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 468c6ff..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-08-18-tech-report-the-msi-mega-pc-and-abit-sff.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Tech Report: The MSI MEGA PC and Abit SFF"
-created: 1061241060
-categories: 
-- Small Form Factor
-- Multimedia PC
----
-<a href="http://tech-report.com/onearticle.x/5524">Tech Report has a quick blurb on the new MSI MEGA PC</a>:
-<blockquote>
-The MSI MEGA PC train is gathering steam.  We liked the MEGA PC when we <a href="http://tech-report.com/reviews/2003q2/msi-mega651/index.x?pg=1">reviewed the first model</a>, but we wished for a less dated chipset.  Looks like we'll get our wish in late September, when the MEGA 180 debuts.  Based on the nForce2 with the IGP northbridge, this box will have one each of AGP and PCI slots.  What's more, with a new black finish, it looks even better than its predecessor.
-</blockquote>
-Be sure to check out the <a href="http://tech-report.com/etc/2003q3/quakecon/msi-mega-nf2.jpg">picture</a>.<br>
-<br>
-Dave -- I think we should base your multimedia PC on this. <!--break-->Of course, <a href="http://tech-report.com/onearticle.x/5522">Tech Report has the scoop on an Abit SFF</a> that looks really cool as well, this one based on a P4 motherboard.<br>
-<br>
-With both of these systems, I still kind of despair that you could run Linux on them and still have everything work. And since you can't buy Windows XP Media Center separately, this means cobbling together a system on top of Windows XP, with (potentially) lots of third-party apps to get all the functionality you want. 
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-08-19-what-went-wrong-western-impact-and-middle-eastern-response-bernard-lewis.md b/_posts/archive/2003-08-19-what-went-wrong-western-impact-and-middle-eastern-response-bernard-lewis.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 734bc3f..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-08-19-what-went-wrong-western-impact-and-middle-eastern-response-bernard-lewis.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: What Went Wrong? Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response (Bernard Lewis)
-created: 1061335200
-categories: 
-- Review
----
-This book was written prior to Sept 11 2003 but is still a fantastic read.  It talks about the slow gradual decline (relative) of the Islamic world, where once it was the centre of human achievement - the foremost military and economic power in the world.  Where (Christian) Europe was seen as a remote land filled barbarians.  Everything changed over time however, and soon the Islamic world turned to the West for military equipment (when Europe wasn't beating upon them that is), and scientific knowledge.  
-
-Most Islamic modernizers - Bernard argues - concentrated their efforts on three main categories: military, economic and political with very little success.  It will be interesting to see what happens in the near future (Iraq for example).
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-08-20-apple-rumours.md b/_posts/archive/2003-08-20-apple-rumours.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 193ef74..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-08-20-apple-rumours.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Apple Rumours
-created: 1061390880
-categories: 
-- Mac
-- VoIP
----
-I've been thinking about what Apple might be up to next. This is, of course, a time honoured tradition. Here are my predictions:
-<ol><li>iTunes for Windows will ship at the same time as international user support</li><li>iChat AV will be turned into a soft client for VoIP; .Mac will add mac-to-phone gateways and voicemail</li></ol>
-Don't agree? Have some other ideas? Tell me what you think...
-<!--break-->
-<strong>iTunes for Win plus international support</strong>
-
-Doing it all in one go will ensure a massive launch. My question is whether Apple's servers are going to be able to hold out on "opening day". Akamai already does a bunch of caching for them...do they help out with music streaming as well?
-
-<strong>iChat AV does VoIP</strong>
-
-This one might be a little farther out, but it just kind of makes sense to me. Also, this is <em>definitely</em> something that I would pay for a .Mac account for. Any decent geek can get webmail and online storage space going, but a VoIP gateway is orders of magnitude trickier -- and therefore worthwhile. If the service is built well, and people really like it, it can be a massive lock-in. It will ensure that people don't move off the Mac platform, and new converts are likelier to stick around.
-
-Of course, they won't have Canadian area codes available until 2010...
-
-By the way, check <a href="http://www.macosrumors.com/">Mac OS Rumors</a> for your freshest Apple/Mac related rumours. They seem to think that iChat will at the least go multi-platform (MSN, Yahoo, etc.), and that apparently some ICQ accounts may already be accessible. I tried to add my ICQ account (20554868), but it didn't show up.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-08-21-canadian-voip.md b/_posts/archive/2003-08-21-canadian-voip.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 644d759..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-08-21-canadian-voip.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Canadian VoIP
-created: 1061522100
-categories: 
-- VoIP
----
-This post will also be known as "I can get VoIP if I want to".
-
-The <a href="/node/view/464#comment">list of comments on the Apple Rumours article</a> pretty much veered completely to VoIP stuff, and the legal ramifications and regulatory pain-in-the-butts, especially here in Canada -- e.g. there is no residential VoIP service available in Canada.
-
-It still seems absolutely crazy to me that I can cancel my phone service -- but then I am "not allowed" to get a VoIP line? What if I just use some PC-to-phone software?
-<!--break-->
-Dave made <a href="/node/view/464#994">this comment</a>:<blockquote>Legal loopholes can be big problems... unless you don't mind the fact that terrorists could plug in their VoIP phones anywhere without the cops being able to trace them... (oh... unless you can figure out some way to filter out some ethernet MAC address in the middle of the web... )</blockquote>
-Umm, Dave, what makes you think terrorists aren't already doing this!? My example of using PC-to-phone software would accomplish just that! Add public wireless access and a laptop, and  calls can be made from anywhere.
-
-I think I might just trial the <a href="http://www.iconnecthere.com">iConnectHere</a> service, although without the gateway. I guess that means running something "compatible" on my computer, but there isn't anything listed on the site (that I can see) that mentions what the soft client is. Gaurav, do you know what they use? And is it PC-only?
-
-Aside: I was looking for Mac SIP software and didn't find any, just <a href="http://xmeeting.sourceforge.net/">Xmeeting</a> (H.323) and <a href="http://www.ventrilo.com/">Ventrilo</a> (proprietary? the Mac port is "in progress"). <a href="http://www.thekompany.com/products/tkphone/">tkPhone</a> looks promising, but Win/OSX is also "coming soon".
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-08-25-image-module-installed-test-yours-now.md b/_posts/archive/2003-08-25-image-module-installed-test-yours-now.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 7ba9f44..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-08-25-image-module-installed-test-yours-now.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Image Module Installed -- Test yours now!
-created: 1061856240
-categories: 
-- Drupal
-- BMC
----
-[image:469,left,5]I've installed the Drupal image module. It enables personal galleries (<a href="/image/uid/1">here's mine</a>). There is an option when adding an image asking whether or not to restrict it to your personal gallery. If enabled, the iamge is only visible there. As well, uploaded images can be used in posts using a special syntax.
-
-For example, a thumbnail of <a href="/node/view/469">this picture</a> can be inserted directly into this blog post by entering something like [ image : node_id ] (where node_id is the id of the image node).
-<!--break-->
-The complete list of options are this:
-[&nbsp;image&nbsp;:&nbsp;node_id,(left|right|top|middle|bottom|absmiddle|texttop|baseline),hspace,vspace,border ]
-
-Everything is optional except for node_id.
-
-To upload your own image(s), hit the <a href="/node/add">create link</a> and select image. There are only two categories defined right now -- Misc and <a href="/image/tid/99">People</a>. People is where I just uploaded all my "profile" pics -- pictures that I have in my address book for people. If you don't want your picture there, let me know, and I'll delete it.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-08-25-phpcommunitycalendar.md b/_posts/archive/2003-08-25-phpcommunitycalendar.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 0007ee7..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-08-25-phpcommunitycalendar.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: phpCommunityCalendar
-created: 1061815860
-categories: 
-- PHP
-- Web 2.0
----
-Very nice looking calendar/events app. Uses MySQL.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-08-27-9-mac-browser-shootout.md b/_posts/archive/2003-08-27-9-mac-browser-shootout.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a92d7f3..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-08-27-9-mac-browser-shootout.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: 9 Mac Browser Shootout
-created: 1061999640
-categories: 
-- Mac
-- Application
----
-I didn't know there were precisely 9 browsers available for the Mac, but I did know there were probably 7 or more.  Ars Technica does a <a href="http://arstechnica.com/reviews/003/software/mac/browser/mac-browsers-1.html">9 Mac Browser Shootout</a> comparing all nine in speed, rendering quality, features, and how well they fit as Mac browsers, or horrible indy ports (like Mozilla, Firebird ;).  Naturally, Safari ranks high, but there is still plenty of room between version 1.0 and 2.0, with speed tweaks, revised features, increasing standards compliance, and the opening up of its WebCore code to the FSF-compliant APSL 2.0 license.
-
-On the topic of FSF-compliant but not GPL-compliance, the FSF has given Apple the FSF seal of approval, but still insists that APSL 2.0 is not GPL compatible, and insists a company should not be judged by part of its software portfolio, but all.  Do you agree?  Disagee?  Why?
-
-I wonder if Apple is actually moving to full GPL certification, and will open up OSX.  How about tossing out Darwin in favour of the Linux kernel, good idea?
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-08-28-design-challenge.md b/_posts/archive/2003-08-28-design-challenge.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c1c0e4f..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-08-28-design-challenge.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Design challenge
-created: 1062132900
-categories: 
-- Web Development
----
-I checked out this <a href="http://www.intersmash.com/challenge/">design challenge</a> -- to have an image inside two columns of text, with the text wrapping around the image.
-
-I spent about 5 minutes or so on it, but I kind of cheated -- <a href="http://midgard.bmannconsulting.com/concepts/2colcenterimg.html">check it</a>. Not only does it use a table (gasp!) but David Hasselhof got cut in half...
-
-My brain is too fuzzy right now to think how to get the image in the middle of the text. This seems like the right track, but it also seems very wrong...
-
-Off to bed. I also have a <a href="http://www.smithdm3.com/archives/000168.html">river to ride</a>.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-08-28-initial-release-of-iphototogallery.md b/_posts/archive/2003-08-28-initial-release-of-iphototogallery.md
deleted file mode 100644
index ce14f81..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-08-28-initial-release-of-iphototogallery.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
----
-title: Initial release of iPhotoToGallery
-modified: 2020-05-18T16:57:01.255Z
-date: 2003-08-28T11:44:00+00:00
-tags: app, mac, archive
----
-Zach Wily has come out of hiding and and publicly released <a href="http://zwily.com/iphoto/">iPhotoToGallery 0.2 Beta</a>.
-
-The plugin for iPhoto adds a tab to the export screen that allows you to upload your pictures from iPhoto directly into Gallery.
-
-I've been beta testing it, and have had exactly zero problems with it. Note to Zach: make the front/news page an RSS feed! Also: nice screenshot of the Panther version of iPhoto...
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-09-02-daring-fireball-vaporoffice.md b/_posts/archive/2003-09-02-daring-fireball-vaporoffice.md
deleted file mode 100644
index b4bb1b5..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-09-02-daring-fireball-vaporoffice.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Daring Fireball: VaporOffice"
-created: 1062541740
-categories: 
-- Application
-- Mac
-- Open Source
----
-John Gruber <a href="http://daringfireball.net/2003/09/vaporoffice.html" title="Daring Fireball - VaporOffice">is doubtful that an aqua-native version of OpenOffice will ever ship</a>.
-
-I think he's right. I've used it, but I still have to run it through a "real" copy of Office to make sure it's working correctly (it's close, but some graphics/formatting go screwy). With the overhead of doing that, plus running X11 as well, it's easier to use Remote Desktop to control my PC machine.
-<blockquote>Surely Apple is not satisfied with the current state of office software for Mac OS X (which is to say, dominated by Microsoft). Quite the contrary. But if they respond by assigning Apple developers to write office software, it’s going to be Mac software, designed and owned by Apple. E.g. Keynote.</blockquote><!--break-->Yup. I've used Keynote, and it's fantastic. It's a PowerPoint killer. And this is a 1.0 version. Exporting back to PowerPoint isn't perfect, but if your goal is to create really nice looking presentations -- Keynote it is. Oh, and of course it does export to PDF and Quicktime movie as well.
-
-OpenOffice, on the other hand, does certainly look and feel like "crap" a.k.a. Windows 95 as John points out. The valuable part really isn't the interface (it's likely the biggest <em>problem</em>) but rather the "Office compatibility". If you could split out the "translation" libraries for the various formats...
-
-I wonder if Apple reverse-engineered the PowerPoint format from scratch, or if they got a head start somewhere? Will their "open format" (<a href="http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2067.html">Keynote XML</a>) be used elsewhere? Could Apple be the company to push open file formats, all XML-based?
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-09-02-pvr-blog-snapstream-personal-video-station-3-0-review.md b/_posts/archive/2003-09-02-pvr-blog-snapstream-personal-video-station-3-0-review.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f786fe6..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-09-02-pvr-blog-snapstream-personal-video-station-3-0-review.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "PVR Blog: SnapStream Personal Video Station 3.0 review"
-created: 1062507840
-categories: 
-- Application
-- Microsoft
-- Multimedia PC
-- Review
----
-<a href="http://pvr.blogs.com/pvr/2003/09/snapstream_pers.html">PVR Blog reviews the SnapStream Personal Video Station</a>. I looked at this program a while back. I still don't have a spare PC to install it on to (well, plus I don't have cable, so it would be a little useless...). <a href="http://www.snapstream.com/">SnapStream</a> is essentially a software-only TiVo replacement. You can buy it just as the software package, or bundled with a TV Tuner card that is guaranteed to work with the software.
-<!--break-->
-As noted in the article, I'm up in the air about whether I would go the Linux route and attempt <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/modules.php?name=MythFeatures">MythTV</a>, or just get this simple,  "just works" package on a generic Windows PC. The only downside seems to be some issues with browser control/streaming from non-Microsoft platforms:<blockquote>If my reviews carried ratings, SnapStream's software would get nearly a 100% score for the low cost, loads of features, and easy video sharing, with the non-PC platform sharing being my only criticism.</blockquote>You would have to do more work to secure the Windows platform if you also wanted to use it as a server platform, plus some server-type software (e.g. Apache, MySQL, PHP, etc.) tends to be a bit trickier to setup. All in all, probably worth a shot, especially if you have a supported TV Tuner card.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-09-03-openweather.md b/_posts/archive/2003-09-03-openweather.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 821d8c7..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-09-03-openweather.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: OpenWeather
-created: 1062602100
-categories: 
-- Web 2.0
----
-Produces RSS feeds and raw XML of weather data for a handful of US cities.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-09-03-underground-london-world-weather-rss-feeds.md b/_posts/archive/2003-09-03-underground-london-world-weather-rss-feeds.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f2897f1..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-09-03-underground-london-world-weather-rss-feeds.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Underground London World Weather RSS Feeds
-created: 1062601200
-categories: 
-- Web 2.0
----
-<a href="http://www.undergroundlondon.com/antimega/">Chris Heathcote</a> has created a screen scraper for <a href="http://www.worldweather.org">worldweather.org</a> that emits RSS feeds of weather information.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-09-04-clearing-your-favicon-cache.md b/_posts/archive/2003-09-04-clearing-your-favicon-cache.md
deleted file mode 100644
index b60decf..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-09-04-clearing-your-favicon-cache.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Clearing your favicon cache
-created: 1062680520
-categories: 
-- Application
-- BMC
-- Mac
----
-[image:544,left,10]Likely no one noticed, but I finally replaced the default Drupal favicon. Hmmm...I don't actually remember where I got it -- it was at some free site somewhere.
-
-But, I couldn't get it to show up in Safari. Clearing the cache, restarting the machine, restarting Safari -- none of that worked. So I found <a href="http://www.ircandy.com/openmac/sim/">Safari Icon Manager</a>, which will let you delete individual favicons as well as empty your cache. <a href="http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/mandias/tips/favorg.html">FavOrg</a> looks like it does the same thing for IE/Win.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-09-06-meta-web-publishing.md b/_posts/archive/2003-09-06-meta-web-publishing.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 05dc572..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-09-06-meta-web-publishing.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Meta-Web Publishing
-created: 1062888840
-categories: 
-- Web Development
----
-Greg sent me a pointer to a long article at <a href="http://www.ftrain.com"> called <a href="http://www.ftrain.com/ProcessingProcessing.html">Processing Processing</a>. It talks about <a href="http://proce55ing.net/">Processing</a>, a "small computer language layered above Java. Processing makes it possible to quickly create hopefully interesting images and animations".
-
-The article goes on to talk about some other interesting languages that are kind of at the intersection of programming and content. That is, the goal of these special-purpose languages is to create, to facilitate the creation of specific kinds of content. The very process of learning these languages makes the content more understandable, more explicit.
-
-But it gets better...
-<!--break-->
-At the very end of the article, the author talks about wishing the web were like that:<blockquote>I wish that people would take a step back and look at everything we've done and "elegantize" the Web as a construct, define a set of core goals that web developers want to solve and create as small as possible a language, based on the smallest possible set of principles, that will help them meet those goals. At this point in my life as a web                developer, I don't want tutorials on hacking my CSS so it looks good in IE5.2 for the Macintosh (I'm about to give up on that very thing, in fact, after dozens of hours); rather, I want an answer to the question "what is a link?" I don't want someone to make it easier, another Dreamweaver or FrontPage, I want it to be elegant, like the computer language Scheme is elegant.</blockquote>
-<em>Aside: <a href="http://www.schemers.org/">Scheme</a> was my favourite language that I learned in university.</em>
-
-What follows this paragraph is a discussion of 7 questions about the nature of the web, about why some things are the way they are today. One of my favourites is #5, the one about re-using content, "<em>taking individual                   sentences and phrases and flowing them into timelines, automatically extracting plays from short stories</em>".
-
-I think the answer to some of these might very well be something a little like a wiki. Lately, there have been some really interesting developments in Wiki-land. See Don Park's post on <a href="http://www.docuverse.com/blog/donpark/2003/09/05.html#a859">Wiki-based Websites</a>. In particular, he points to <a href="http://haughey.com/matt/about">Matt Haughey's website</a>...which is actually a wiki, with some interesting plug-ins, and it's, umm, <a href="http://www.corante.com/many/20030901.shtml#51129">not ugly</a> (of course, there was a <a href="http://www.corante.com/many/20030401.shtml#32247">post earlier in the year</a> that agreed that wikis were ugly, but beauty wasn't their purpose, or somehow orthogonal to their usefulness).
-
-So, I think a wiki might be the "small language layered above XHTML/CSS/etc.". Why?
-<ol><li>It's the writable web</li>
-<li>Linking, creating new pages -- what the web is/should be -- is really, really, really easy; intertwingling at it's best</li>
-<li>It has a syntax that is simpler than -- yet can still leverage -- the underlying layers</li></ol>
-Perhaps this has a lot to do with complexity migrating ever farther from the end-user as the technology becomes more well understood -- you keep abstracting away the layers until anybody (i.e. the mass market?) can use it.
-
-No, this does not mean I'll be ditching Drupal any time soon. But, the web as giant wiki, everybody with their own little corner of it, reaching out into other's spaces, collaboratively editing parts of it, re-using bits of others.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-09-24-cinemaclock-movie-listings-ottawa.md b/_posts/archive/2003-09-24-cinemaclock-movie-listings-ottawa.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 1c6f574..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-09-24-cinemaclock-movie-listings-ottawa.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: CinemaClock Movie Listings - Ottawa
-created: 1064407260
-categories: 
-- Movie
-- Ottawa
-- Review
----
-Kate introduced me to this site, which seems to have a cleaner design than FilmCan, which is what I always used before. Even has the prices listed for some theaters, and an interesting comment score by gender- and age- grouping -- easy to tell if it's a "chick flick" that way :p
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-09-24-commsdesign-voip-chip-targets-home-gateways.md b/_posts/archive/2003-09-24-commsdesign-voip-chip-targets-home-gateways.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 40776f7..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-09-24-commsdesign-voip-chip-targets-home-gateways.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "CommsDesign: VoIP chip targets home gateways"
-created: 1064406240
-categories: 
-- Home Server
-- VoIP
----
-How many years will it be? I still believe in a "home gateway" that will serve as both a central hub for in-home communications and applications as well as the gatekeeper to external networks -- be they the current, data-only broadband connection, or tomorrow's voice/video/data streams.
-
-Greg sent me an article about <a href="http://www.commsdesign.com/story/OEG20030923S0010">Texas Instruments' new VoIP gateway chip, the TNETV1060</a>. So "how long?" is the first question that springs to mind. (yes, I'm a bit jaded from my time at <a href="http://www.nortelnetworks.com">NT</a> -- caught in the dot-bomb bubble, I had visions of some this cool/useful stuff actually coming to fruition <em>soon</em>).
-<!--break-->
-The price is given as <em>"$15[US] each in lots of 10,000 for a chip supporting four channels of voice"</em>. I admit to not really knowing what that works out to in terms of what kind of prices (increases) we would see for gateways. Say a full-featured, non-wireless gateway costs $100CDN today. These would maybe start shipping at $200CDN, then?
-
-But of course, then there's the ongoing subscription and potential mail-in/subsidy angle. I would think that these voice gateways would ship with activation or actual tie-ins to somebody like Vonage. Or maybe cheap-o vendors like LinkSys might actually piggy back on some free services, like <a href="http://www.skype.com" title="Peer to Peer VoIP from the creators of KaZaa">Skype</a> or <a href="http://www.pulver.com/fwd/" title="Free World Dialup">FWD</a>. They did this with <a href="http://www.dyndns.org">dynamic DNS services from DynDNS</a>.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-09-24-matchstick-men.md b/_posts/archive/2003-09-24-matchstick-men.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 1740c05..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-09-24-matchstick-men.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Matchstick Men
-created: 1064404140
-categories: 
-- Review
-- Movie
----
-[image:555,left,5,5,0]Kate and I went to the <a href="http://www.cinemaclock.ca/aw/ctha.aw/p.clock/r.ont/m.Ottawa/j.e/k.Rideau_Centre.html">Famous Players at Rideau Centre</a> and saw <a href="http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0325805/">Matchstick Men</a>.
-<!--break-->
-A good movie. I had been looking forward to it (I saw a preview for it at some other movie). Funny what happens when you don't get bombarded by TV commercials. Of course, when I went to the theater showtime site looking for what was playing, I ended up clicking through various other trailers. <a href="http://www.entertheunderworld.com">Underworld</a> looks cool, cool in a style-over-substance way: vampires vs. werewolves with lots of Hong Kong wire work and tight leather outfits.
-
-But I digress. Matchstick Men is (mainly) about a couple of con men, played by Nicolas Cage and Sam Rockwell. Both really good actors that I always enjoy watching. Nicolas Cage seems to be going into all sorts of roles, and I've been liking him more and more.
-
-This is very much a "people" movie -- dialog, interplay between characters, subtle glances from Cage to the female grocery cashier from whom he buys canned tuna and packs of cigarettes. Oh ya -- Cage is basically a bit out of his tree, taking pills to stop his various ticks and suppress his fears (dirt and the outdoors).
-
-I give it 8 out of 10. OK, if you're still with me, you can go read my <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/557">Big Sugar review</a>.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-09-25-extremetech-building-a-wireless-home-media-network-server.md b/_posts/archive/2003-09-25-extremetech-building-a-wireless-home-media-network-server.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 83c4d3c..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-09-25-extremetech-building-a-wireless-home-media-network-server.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Extremetech: Building a Wireless Home Media Network Server"
-created: 1064510040
-categories: 
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
-- Multimedia PC
-- Home Server
----
-The <a href="http://www.pvrblog.com/pvr/2003/09/building_a_wire.html">PVRBlog</a> pointed to <a href="http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1276366,00.asp">Extremetech's article</a>:
-<blockquote>They picked SnapStream as their PVR software after reaching many of the same conclusions I did. In the end, the systems come to around $1400, but if you are using parts from old computers, it's possible to cut that down quite a bit.</blockquote>
-Ouch..the pricing is a bit high, but they really do throw everything in.<!--break--> Check the <a href="http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1276435,00.asp">parts list</a>. Mine would be a little different (mainly dropping stuff you don't need, like monitor, keyboard, etc. etc. -- that's what VNC or Remote Desktop are for; this is a server, after all):
-<ul>
-<li><strong>Case/Motherboard:</strong> Shuttle $320</li><li><strong>Processor:</strong> Intel P4 2.8Ghz $175</li><li><strong>Graphics:</strong> ATI All-in-Wonder R9000 $130</li><li><strong>Memory:</strong> 512MB $90</li><li><strong>Hard Drive:</strong> 120GB $100</li><li><strong>Sound Card:</strong> Audigy $55</li><li><strong>Optical:</strong> DVD-CD/RW $40</li><li><strong>PVR Software:</strong> Snapstream $80</li></ul>
-<strong>Total:</strong> $990USD
-
-You could go even cheaper by using a less expensive case and processor combo -- like a $50 case, $100 motherboard, and $100 processor...bringing the price down to $745USD. Oh, right -- this also doesn't include the cost of Windows. OEM price on WinXP is around $150 or more. Ouch.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-09-29-wifi-voip-phone-from-jeff-pulver.md b/_posts/archive/2003-09-29-wifi-voip-phone-from-jeff-pulver.md
deleted file mode 100644
index ae69f86..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-09-29-wifi-voip-phone-from-jeff-pulver.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: WiFI VoIP Phone from Jeff Pulver
-created: 1064854200
-categories: 
-- VoIP
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-The VON conference just finished, so there should be lots of little interesting VoIP tidbits like this one trickling in. <a href="http://www.forbes.com/2003/09/25/cx_dl_0925tentech.html">Forbes.com</a> talks a bit about the Pulver/Free World Dialup phone that uses WiFi:<blockquote>The wireless phone costs $250 and only works when you're in a Wi-Fi hotspot, which means it's even less reliable than your present mobile phone--which you're already constantly cursing at as it goes in and out of coverage. Sure, if you have a Wi-Fi network in your home and you're a FWD user, you can make free calls from home. Also, you can whip out your Wi-Fi phone and makes calls in a cafe that has Wi-Fi coverage--a move that is sure to impress the ladies, at least if they're ladies who think it's cool to carry multiple phones and PDAs on your belt. "OK, it's aimed at geeks and early adopters, people who want to play," Pulver concedes.</blockquote>
-Wonder of wonders, <a href="http://www.nortelnetworks.com">Nortel</a> actually gets quoted in the article. More specifically, Al Safarikas.
-<!--break-->
-I'm not too impressed:<blockquote>"This 'free' stuff isn't really free, first of all. And you're talking about hobbyists making person-to-person calls over the Internet. It's not a big deal," he says.</blockquote>
-Yes, for Nortel, a couple of people making free calls is no big deal. And yes, deploying it in enterprises where they eliminate all their toll calls makes for a great business case.
-
-But I worry for Nortel's customers. These kind of quotes again make me think that there are very few people at Nortel that are actively looking ahead, thinking of what the consequences of these things are. Enterprises are a drop in the bucket compared to mass-market applications. Yesterday the Internet was just "hobbyists"...what will today's VoIP hobbyists turn into?
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-09-30-windows-media-center-edition-2004-new-version.md b/_posts/archive/2003-09-30-windows-media-center-edition-2004-new-version.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 55fbe76..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-09-30-windows-media-center-edition-2004-new-version.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Windows Media Center Edition 2004 - New Version
-created: 1064990220
-categories: 
-- Home Server
-- Microsoft
-- Multimedia PC
----
-The <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/mediacenter/">new release</a> is out, as mentioned on <a href="http://www.pvrblog.com/pvr/2003/09/windows_xp_medi.html">PVRBlog</a>. He's particularly excited by the "TiVo for Radio" function, which allows for recording/pausing/rewinding of live FM radio (as mentioned in the comments there, there is also <a href="http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/radioshark/index.html">Griffin Technology's RadioShark</a> and <a href="http://www.replay-radio.com/">Replay Radio</a>).
-
-Hmm. It still sucks that it can only be gotten directly bundled with a new PC. I can understand why, but I think that Microsoft would actually <strong>sell</strong> a lot of copies. As per Trevor's <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/322">"How to get rich"</a> post, I think it would open up a lot of revenue for VARs: basically small computer shops or individuals that specialize in setting up media PCs. And this is how MS could sell it: no end-user purchases, only through these VARs. Those who had the know-how could still get it "directly" by going to their local <a href="http://www.oemexpress.com">OEM Express</a> type store, which is basically a DIY parts shop.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-10-01-notify-enabled-plus-my-other-sites.md b/_posts/archive/2003-10-01-notify-enabled-plus-my-other-sites.md
deleted file mode 100644
index bec5560..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-10-01-notify-enabled-plus-my-other-sites.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Notify enabled plus my other site(s)
-created: 1065031140
-categories: 
-- Drupal
-- BMC
----
-I've now installed a notification module for this website. While logged in, you can go to <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/notify">the notify section</a> and enable it. It's currently set to send notifications once per day <strong>if</strong> there's new content. There's a new "notification" tab at the upper left.
-
-Hopefully Evan is reading this and will go <a href="http://drupal.org/project/notify">install the notify.module</a> as well. The feature I like is comments. New items are handled great by RSS, but since they don't include comments, I always have to remember to go back and check items to see if someone posts a reply to my comments.
-
-Now for the plus...<!--break-->
-
-I have a second Drupal site. Actually, I have a bunch more. For starters, there's <a href="http://rpg.bmannconsulting.com" title="RPG -- Now even geekier">RPG</a> -- role playing games, video games, etc. As if there wasn't enough geek-technical stuff, now you can go check out geek-gaming stuff too (yes, I'm trying to separate worlds a little bit). See, Lloyd, I didn't even post <strong>this</strong> item to the front page!
-
-As for other Drupal sites...well, did I mention that Kate and I are getting married? Yup, we basically "decided" it was time. And yes, <a href="http://wedding.bmannconsulting.com" title="Boris and Kate's Wedding Site">there is a wedding site</a>. The date is August 1, 2004.
-
-Once that news has sunk in, you can also go visit my <a href="http://drupal-cvs.bmannconsulting.com" title="Boris' Drupal Development Site">Drupal CVS site</a>. Basically I'm doing all my development there, and have test pages, and live development going on there.
-
-And I should probably mention that I switched our <a href="http://www.phenomenalsolutions.com" title="Phenomenal Solutions - IT, Web Development, and Business Consulting">work site</a> over to Drupal as well. Commenting is turned off on most things except for some of the how-tos and the news items, so it's much more like a static site. Except of course that we can add/edit things to our hearts content. Not quite finished yet -- the design/layout needs a bit of a face lift -- but I'm much happier with this one than any of the other ones (v3, if you're keeping track).
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-10-04-appleinsider-ibook-upgrade-and-panther-server.md b/_posts/archive/2003-10-04-appleinsider-ibook-upgrade-and-panther-server.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 4ebb4fe..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-10-04-appleinsider-ibook-upgrade-and-panther-server.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "AppleInsider: iBook Upgrade and Panther Server"
-created: 1065330780
-categories: 
-- Mac
----
-A bunch of quick stuff that's new from several Apple sites -- iBooks and the new, Panther version of OS X Server.
-
-Apparently, the <a href="http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=212">iBooks are getting an upgrade</a>. It is about time, and it might just be the right time to get one. The <a href="http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=170">new Panther Server has a boatload of features</a> and sounds amazing. I still haven't played with an install of OS X Server...
-<!--break-->
-I've been thinking seriously about a laptop again. It would likely become my main machine, with my current iMac going into rotation as Kate's main machine, and the PC getting shuffled somewhere in "headless" mode -- possibly hooked into sharing a keyboard/mouse/monitor with the iBook. But, I have a few other things that need dollars thrown at them for the moment...
-
-Anyway, looks like the iBooks are getting all the extras -- faster DDR RAM, USB 2.0, Bluetooth, Airport Extreme, etc. A little slower and with a slightly less powerful graphics card than their PowerBook big brothers.
-
-Panther Server is actually scheduled to ship next month. The directory services look to be getting even more open -- there is support for sticking everything in OpenLDAP instead of Apple's NetInfo. It seems that the more standard/open that Apple gets, the more popular it gets.
-
-The news that Cyrus is the mail server rings a few bells with me. Whenever I hear "Cyrus", I think two things: <a href-"http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2086.html" title="RFC2086 - IMAP4 Access Control List Extension">ACLs</a> and <a href="http://www.bynari.net" title="Bynari">Bynari</a>. Bynari makes a <a href="http://www.bynari.net/index.php?id=500" title="Bynari InSight Connector">plugin for Outlook</a> called InSight Connector that allows for Exchange-like functionality. Using the plugin, you can sync all Outlook items to any IMAP server, and share items if the server supports ACLs. In practice, this means the Cyrus IMAP server, since it has the best-developed ACL features.
-
-So, along with rumours that the version of Mail.app that ships with Panther will support Exchange capabilities (yup, so rumoured that I don't even have a link handy at the moment), this leads me to believe that Apple will ship full support for Exchange functionality to both Mac and Windows clients. Oh? Did I mention that Panther can function as a PDC, and that there is some sort of Active Directory integration without schema modifications?
-
-I think I get to add OS X 10.3 Server as a viable option for both Mac <strong>and</strong> Windows networks...
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-10-04-oeone-becomes-axentra-announces-axentra-rumba-server-for-server-appliance-space.md b/_posts/archive/2003-10-04-oeone-becomes-axentra-announces-axentra-rumba-server-for-server-appliance-space.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a983a7f..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-10-04-oeone-becomes-axentra-announces-axentra-rumba-server-for-server-appliance-space.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: OEOne becomes Axentra, announces Axentra Rumba Server for server appliance space
-created: 1065304800
-categories: 
-- Home Server
-- "*nix"
----
-<p>Greg tipped me off to the <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=4730" title="OSNews: Axentra Rumba Server to be Launched Soon">OSNews article</a>:</p>
-<blockquote>
-The device has a mini ITX mobo, VIA C3 800 MHz CPU, 256 MB RAM, 40 GB hdd, USB 1.1, 2 LAN ports and in 1 WAN port (extra Wi-Fi USB device required). The device is useful as an Internet Gateway (DNS, IP filtering, Port forwarding, NAT firewall) and as a network service (web server, file server, WebDAV, IMAP/SMTP, Samba, Content/Spam Filtering, photo album). All its administration is done by web pages directly from your computer.
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Apparently, $500US retail price. Looks like a good option for those that can't install their own <a href="http://www.e-smith.org" title="E-smith">home Linux distribution</a>.
-<!--break-->
-<p><a href="http://www.axentra.com">Axentra</a> used to be OEOne. They're based just over the bridge in Gatineau. I think I was the first or second person (literally) to buy their <a href="http://www.oeone.com/products/suite.html">HomeBase Suite</a> product. They tried a bunch of other things, including a desktop that installed on top of other Linux distributions, and HomeBase Anywhere, which essentially gave you access to a lot of the same features, only in a hosted environment.</p>
-
-<p>The really innovative feature that they focused on was writing a lot of applications with <a href="http://www.oeone.com/developers/joy_of_xul.html">XUL</a> -- Mozilla's XML-based user interface language, allowing for applications that "run" inside of Mozilla.</p>
-
-<p>I guess they gave up on what was essentially the consumer space. Their current product doesn't look targeted at businesses, but that appears to be where they're heading. Well, maybe combined with the all-in-one home server market. Although, since it doesn't have PVR functionality, I don't expect it to be a huge winner there.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-10-04-rss-data.md b/_posts/archive/2003-10-04-rss-data.md
deleted file mode 100644
index fb7919f..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-10-04-rss-data.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: RSS-Data
-created: 1065284640
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
----
-<p>So the current meme in blogland is "RSS-Data". Basically, cramming a bunch of other stuff into RSS feeds so that it can be usefully used/consumed/displayed on the receiving end: everything from weather information to event/calendar information.</p>
-
-<p>Sounds like a good idea. Except, as I watched all these ideas roll past, that it didn't sound like such a great idea. And then I found that <a href="http://laughingmeme.org/archives/001278.html">LaughingMeme pretty much agrees</a>:</p>
-<blockquote>
-<p>Jeremey Allaire has proposed RSS-Data, an attempt to wedge XML-RPC serialization into RSS, an idea which is so phenomenally bad, and wrong headed, I'm momentarily speechless. (At least of anything I would say in public)</p>
-
-<p>The joy, however, of being behind the curve is someone else has already said it for you.</p>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Go read the full article for pointers to lots of other people that aren't that thrilled by RSS-Data. It can be basically summarized by saying "We've already got this, it's called RDF, and it works".</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-10-04-subethaedit.md b/_posts/archive/2003-10-04-subethaedit.md
deleted file mode 100644
index ab90f5c..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-10-04-subethaedit.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: SubEthaEdit
-created: 1065292980
-categories: 
-- Application
-- Mac
----
-SubEthaEdit is a text-editor whose major featureis collaborative editing based on Rendezvous. You can invite other users to collaboratively edit a document. It also features syntax highlighting for many languages (PHP, HTML, etc. etc.) and a live preview of HTML code using Apple's WebCore.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-10-05-walk-along-the-canal.md b/_posts/archive/2003-10-05-walk-along-the-canal.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 5a97d59..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-10-05-walk-along-the-canal.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Walk along the canal
-created: 1065365760
-categories: 
-- Ottawa
----
-[image:583,left,5,5]<p>This is how I got woken up this morning. Karma was sleeping on my shoulder (which didn't wake me up) so Kate went and got the camera and took a picture...with the flash on. That did wake me up. Seeing as how I was up anyway, Kate kicked me out of bed (well, I got up to go to the bathroom, but by the time I got back, the bed was made, so that was pretty much it for sleeping). Then we went for a walk along the canal.</p>
-<!--break-->
-[image:584,right,5,5]<p>This dog was looking out an apartment window on the corner of Gladstone and Elgin. He looked a bit tired, just like me. It was a bit chilly, but I was bundled up in a big hoodie plus a baseball cap (it's a bit weird that there isn't another name for that; I mean, I've never played baseball, and it's not a sports team hat; sports cap sounds kind of weird).</p>
-
-<p>Anyway, we walked along the canal and made it all the way down to Lansdowne Park, where we headed back to backstreet and stopped in to Kettleman's Bagels for some breakfast bagels (egg, cheese, and bacon). A quick walk up Bank through the Glebe and we're home again. This afternoon we're going to go <a href="http://www.jonnyolsen.com">look at some art</a>, plus go shopping for Troy and Tanya's wedding gift with Anna.</p>
-
-<p align="center">[image:585,middle,5,5]<br>Fall colours along the canal</p>
-
-<p align="center">[image:586,middle,5,5]<br>Closeup of rosehips</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-10-06-micro-solutions-backpack-wireless-workgroup-server.md b/_posts/archive/2003-10-06-micro-solutions-backpack-wireless-workgroup-server.md
deleted file mode 100644
index ab62ab1..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-10-06-micro-solutions-backpack-wireless-workgroup-server.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Micro Solutions Backpack Wireless Workgroup Server
-created: 1065461580
-categories: 
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
-- Home Server
----
-[image:588,left,5,5]I just saw a link to the <a href="http://www.micro-solutions.com/product_info/wws/lit-301xxx.html">Micro Solutions Backpack Wireless Workgroup Server</a>. Basically acts as a standard wireless router plus throws in an 80GB or 120GB hard drive with file sharing. It's configurable without a computer, too.
-
-$699 (80GB version) seems a bit pricey, especially since an entire server from Axentra is listing at $499, but it's the small, fairly rugged form factor that you're paying for. I remember using the Backpack CD drives when I was supporting lots of older machines that didn't have CD drives installed. The drive got jostled around a lot and survived it all.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-10-07-asus-digimatrix.md b/_posts/archive/2003-10-07-asus-digimatrix.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a0d7728..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-10-07-asus-digimatrix.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: ASUS DiGiMatrix
-created: 1065535860
-categories: 
-- Home Server
-- Multimedia PC
----
-[image:590,left,5,5]<p>I got wind of this barebones/media center box from Asus through <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/33262.html" title="Asus unveils DiGiMatrix hi-fi styled home PC">The Register</a>, but a quick Google search come up with a much better story by <a href="http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/mmedia/display/20030909020224.html" title="ASUS DiGiMatrix: a Barebone or an Ultimate Media Center?">X-Bit Labs</a>.</p>
-
-<p>Some of the best features: 5-in-1 card reader, built in 802.11b wireless access point, dual Ethernet (10/100 and Gigabit), listen to audio (incl. radio, CD, and MP3-CD) without turning the computer on. Read more for labelled pics of the front and back plus some musings.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>It's amazing how many features are packed into this. I think that manufacturers are reallizing that small operators simply don't have the resources to re-purpose a more standard barebones box into one customized for multimedia. Hence the decision to drop a bunch of PCI or AGP expansion slots and build it in from the start.</p>
-
-<p align="center">[image:592,middle,5,5]</p>
-
-<p>Software is the second issue. From the X-bit Labs article:</p>
-<blockquote>
-Maybe ASUS will provide a special version of Windows XP for this kind of personal computers, but since Windows XP costs an extra $75 ~ $100[US], ASUS may supply only its own software with the DiGiMatrix.
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>XP Media Center is a) unlikely to be certified for use by ASUS (they're too friendly with DIY'ers) and b) I imagine the licensing cost is even higher than for "regular" XP Home. If ASUS <strong>is</strong> working on its own software, that would be amazing. Basically, your choices are to run Windows XP plus a bunch of third-party software (software isn't designed to work together, full-blown GUI system when all you need is a bunch of on-screen menus, potential driver isssues, expensive) or struggle to get drivers working for a multimedia PC Linux distribution (difficult, if not impossible, especially for such integrated/customized hardware).</p>
-
-<p>Hmmm...makes me think of some sort of <a href="http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/index.html">QT</a>- or <a href="http://www.wxwindows.org/" title="wxWindows cross-platform GUI framework">wxWindows</a>-based GUI front-end that implements all the standard multimedia PC functions: TV, photo albums, MP3s, etc. etc. With the cross platform frameworks I mentioned, it has the potential to work on multiple hardware/OS platforms.</p>
-
-<p align="center">[image:591,middle,5,5]</p>
-
-<p>The only down sides that I could see pointed out were part of the strength here, too -- lack of expandability. But, this is not a gaming machine -- it's a multimedia PC/server, and it seems to have everything required. The one bone-headed move: placing the S/PDIF output on the <em>front</em> panel. This means you need to have the front panel permanently flipped down, with a cable coming out the front and (presumably) going into the back of your receiver.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-10-07-developers-notebook.md b/_posts/archive/2003-10-07-developers-notebook.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 9d54e8e..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-10-07-developers-notebook.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Developer's notebook
-created: 1065547140
-categories: 
-- Drupal
----
-Dave was getting mad that <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/image">images</a> were being included in the <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/tracker">recent items</a> page -- since I was often posting multiple images to go with one story, it was hard to see where the actual story was.
-
-The tracker.module doesn't have configuration options for this (yet -- I've added a <a href="http://drupal.org/node/view/3532">feature request</a>), so I just added a quick hack which skips adding the item if it is of type "Image".
-<!--break-->
-I actually had to implement this <a href="http://www.phenomenalsolutions.com">for work</a> -- we're going to experiment with using our blogs (the ones that are part of <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/add/blog" title="Create your own blog entry">every user account on Drupal</a>) as a type of internal log. We already have a couple of different ways of sharing information, including email and <a href="http://www.phpcollab.com">PHPCollab</a>, but it seems like there is a need for the kind of transient stuff that blogs seem to be good at: snippets of text, interesting web sites, applications, statistics, etc. Of course, this is private stuff, so we don't want it out in the open...hence, filtering new blog items from the tracker page.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-10-07-scaleable-mmorpg.md b/_posts/archive/2003-10-07-scaleable-mmorpg.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e94b08c..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-10-07-scaleable-mmorpg.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Scaleable MMORPG
-created: 1065565947
-categories: 
-- Game
----
-An MMORPG with a scaleable graphical interface that can be run on multiple classes of computer, from an old 486 running Win 3.1 to a high end machine with the Radeon 9800 XT and an Athlon 64 processor, maybe even a text interface like a Mud as well.
-
-This is an idea for the client-side interface to an MMORPG I've had for quite some time, and have probably brought it up before.
-
-I do not have current statistics, but believe that there are enough people still running MacOS (not OSX), Windows 3.1, 95, and 98, or using old hardware to create a viable sub-set of the market.  There are countless people I encounter with computers that can't handle the latest graphics engines, but can handle older engines like the original Doom interface, telnet, and other light interfaces.
-
-An MMORPG could be made available on the client side through any of those interfaces, from telnet a-la MUDs, to Doom/Ultima Online class, to Everquest, Asheron's Call, and the state-of-the-art.
-
-So why not develop a graphics interface that, throughout the development process, produces milestones that are complete interfaces of increasing complexity and system requirements, and evolve perpetually?
-
-That's the idea, I think it would be cool.  The interfaces would be made available as GPL free source, so they could be refined, de-bugged, and ported easier, and so the game could reach all markets, from Windows, to OSX/MacOS, to Linux and the BSDs, maybe even to other Unixen.  There is also the console market that could be tapped and could be set up to allow people with PCs and consoles to use just one account regardless of their platform, allowing friends to play together.
-
-The revenue for the game would be made from a subscription service to the online network, and with a much broader market having access to a useable graphics engine, lighter graphics engines that require less bandwidth, the revenue streams have greater upward potential.  That, too, is just an idea based on what I know of game networks.  A dynamic net caching service like Akamai could be employed.  Perhaps even Google, with its huge network around the world, could offer the service.
-
-The game content would come from some pre-existing source, because the level of creativity coming from unique content games these days is producing carbon copy MMORPGs that are getting boring.  Content like Rifts from Palladium Books, or Robotech from Harmony Gold.
-
-
-Questions for you:
-
--  Is this idea of multiple graphics engines for a broader market viable?
--  Does anyone have current stats of the % breakdown of Windows editions in use on the net?
--  Any other content come to mind?
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-10-08-how-does-a-game-company-start.md b/_posts/archive/2003-10-08-how-does-a-game-company-start.md
deleted file mode 100644
index b124c04..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-10-08-how-does-a-game-company-start.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: How does a game company start?
-created: 1065665094
-categories: 
-- Game
----
-How does a gaming company start?
-
-A friend of mine was talking today about his desire to start a company, and we got onto the topic of starting a gaming company.  What I didn't tell him at the time is that this idea resurfaced recently in my mind as well.
-
-But I have no idea how a game company starts.  Where does the money come from?  How do you get the talented staff to join?
-
-The game ideas are pretty much contained in the Scaleable MMORPG article, and I've got two game producer contacts at Electronic Arts right here in BC, plus plenty of programmer friends known to me and my friends.
-
-Your thoughts on how to start a gaming company?
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-10-08-windows-rss-readers.md b/_posts/archive/2003-10-08-windows-rss-readers.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 264f29c..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-10-08-windows-rss-readers.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Windows RSS Readers?
-created: 1065671400
-categories: 
-- Application
-- Microsoft
----
-<a href="http://www.smithdm3.com">Dave</a> recently said that he is no longer happy with <a href="http://www.feedreader.com/">Feed Reader</a>. Since I walk on the Mac side of life, I didn't have an answer as to what other Windows RSS readers are out there, except for <a href="http://www.newsgator.com/">Newsgator</a>, which is a plugin for Outlook.
-
-Somewhere I was surfing ended me up at <a href="http://www.bradsoft.com/feeddemon/index.asp">Feed Demon</a>. The other product that Bradbury Software sells is <a href="http://www.bradsoft.com/topstyle/index.asp">TopStyle</a>, an absolutely amazing CSS/HTML editor.
-
-Anyone have other Windows-based RSS reader suggestions?
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-10-09-mmorpg-start-small.md b/_posts/archive/2003-10-09-mmorpg-start-small.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 7100b8a..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-10-09-mmorpg-start-small.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "MMORPG: Start small?"
-created: 1065737148
-categories: 
-- Game
----
-Being serious about this idea, I've gone and contacted my guys at EA.  It turns out one is now at Microsoft and the other is doing his MBA.
-
-The two pointed out the obvious difficulty in starting an MMORPG from scratch.
-
-That brought up the obvious - why not start a Mud, and grow it into an MMORPG over time?
-
-We get the software infrastructure up and running as a Mud, and gradually roll out the features and innovations that depart from a Mud and turn into a real MMORPG game engine (not graphics engine).  It could even depart from a Telnet interface, and replaced with something akin to a really Spartan 2D interface, something sufficient to make it an MMORPG and demonstrate it to potential investors.
-
-At that point we begin the fundraising drive, incorporate, print stock on toilet paper leafs and pay people in shares. ;)
-
-Thoughts? Sorry for using so much blog space Boris. Is this OK?
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-10-15-quickies-its-small-form-factor-craziness.md b/_posts/archive/2003-10-15-quickies-its-small-form-factor-craziness.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 501d8da..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-10-15-quickies-its-small-form-factor-craziness.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Quickies: It's Small Form Factor Craziness!"
-created: 1066218840
-categories: 
-- Small Form Factor
-- Multimedia PC
----
-<p>I want to keep some sort of track of the tiny boxes that are floating around out there, but apparently somebody has decided that this is the way of the future (actually, I agree). So, a bunch of links to reviews about various small form factor (a.k.a. SFF) PCs. Some are nothing more than small cubes, while others are leaning more to the "stereo component" look.</p>
-
-<p>After reading through the articles and the specs, my 1Ghz Duron seems pretty low-powered. Well, it <em>is</em> low-powered! I'll get a new PC for testing in 2006, when Longhorn ships. Now click the read more link for the article URLs.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<ul>
-<li><a href="http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/mobile/display/cubes.html">X-bit Labs: Three Small Form-Factor Barebone Systems for Pentium 4 from Shuttle, Soltek and FIC</a>: three cube systems, which make nice gaming systems when paired with a decent graphics card</li>
-<li><a href="http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/mobile/display/msi-mega.html">X-bit Labs: MSI MEGA: Mini-System with Maxi-Features</a>: I <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/444">talked about the MEGA already</a>, this is a full review. Conclusion seems to be that you can get a lot of the components for cheaper, but the look/style may very well count for a lot. Are the companies that make these boxes running the same equation and reallizing that "style" has higher margins?</li>
-<li><a href="http://www.ocworkbench.com/2003/abit/digidice-ab2003/ab2003-1.htm">OCWorkbench: ABIT  DiGiDice AB-2003 i865G SFF Barebone Review</a>: features a giant front-panel LCD screen that can display all sorts of information. And a giant "volume knob". And Serial ATA?! I gues it shouldn't be surprising that this box is high-performance, since it is being reviewed by an over-clocking site...</li>
-<li><a href="http://www.gamersdepot.com/hardware/cases/fic/icvl67/001.htm">Gamer's Depot: FIC IC-VL67</a>: they especially mention that the power supply has enough juice to handle a 3.2Ghz P4 plus a Radeon 9800 Pro graphics card...</li>
-</ul>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-10-15-salmon-of-doubt-review-plus-more-on-douglas-adams.md b/_posts/archive/2003-10-15-salmon-of-doubt-review-plus-more-on-douglas-adams.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 594906d..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-10-15-salmon-of-doubt-review-plus-more-on-douglas-adams.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Salmon of Doubt Review, plus more on Douglas Adams
-created: 1066224960
-categories: 
-- Review
----
-I've just <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/609">put up a post reviewing the Salmon of Doubt</a>, by Douglas Adams. I'm not totally happy with the method I use now, which is to create a "catalog" item which grabs all the info from <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/amazon">Amazon</a>, and then I (or anyone else) can post reviews as comments. But, it is easy, since all the author, title, image, etc. etc. don't need to be manually entered by me -- I just have to find the right ID number, and this works for CDs as well.
-<!--break-->
-After reading the book, I checked out <a href="http://www.h2g2.com" title="Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy">h2g2</a> -- it was Adams' idea to create a community where people could put together ideas, reviews, etc. etc. Like many things that Adams thought of, I think this was ahead of its time. It's unfortunate that the BBC hasn't done a great job of running it. I didn't spend much time there, mainly because it was hard to navigate, the layout was confusing, and it seemed slow. Perhaps <a href="http://www.everything2.net">Everything2</a> is more what Adams had in mind? Although it's layout could do with a refresh as well.
-
-Or maybe this mesh of blogs and comments and trackbacks would very much have appealled to Adams. This mesh (along with new search tools, profiles, trust-webs, automatic topics, etc. etc.) seem to be heading towards turning the Internet into a Hitchhiker's Guide. As long as spammers and viagra salesmen don't get there first.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-10-21-converting-ical-calendar-files-into-html.md b/_posts/archive/2003-10-21-converting-ical-calendar-files-into-html.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c5f91dd..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-10-21-converting-ical-calendar-files-into-html.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Converting iCal Calendar files into HTML?
-created: 1066728422
-categories: 
-- "*nix"
----
-Does anyone know how I can create an HTML page from an iCal calendar? 
-
-Thanks
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-10-22-computerworld-free-hot-spots-pay-dividends.md b/_posts/archive/2003-10-22-computerworld-free-hot-spots-pay-dividends.md
deleted file mode 100644
index d9b76b5..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-10-22-computerworld-free-hot-spots-pay-dividends.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Computerworld: Free Hot Spots Pay Dividends"
-created: 1066881600
-categories: 
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-As pointed out by <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1066874728.html">ArsTechnica</a>, this <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/printthis/2003/0,4814,86149,00.html" title="Free Hot Spots Pay Dividends">ComputerWorld article</a> shows that free WiFi actually makes money.
-
-The details are from Schlotzky's Deli, a chain in the US that has WiFi at 30 of its 600 locations:<blockquote>Wooley says he figures that the free Wi-Fi results in an additional 15,000 visits per restaurant per year by customers who spend an average of $7 per visit.
-
-That means Wi-Fi service brings in more than $100,000 per year per outlet in return for an investment of about $8,000 per restaurant for wireless infrastructure, Wooley says.</blockquote>The speculation now is that once everyone offers free WiFi, the ROI will go down. Just at the very end of the article it goes on to say that the prediction is that for-pay models will win out (10 years from now!), with cellular operators dominating the market.
-<!--break-->
-Hmmm...and Schlotzky's is using T1s for Internet backhaul -- DSL is even cheaper. Unless they are using the connections for other things, like VoIP or something. I noticed hotspots at all the places we stopped on the way back from Kitchener last weekend: the Tim Horton's/Wendy's places along the 401.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-10-22-itunes-for-windows.md b/_posts/archive/2003-10-22-itunes-for-windows.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 7cfae94..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-10-22-itunes-for-windows.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: iTunes for Windows
-created: 1066807560
-categories: 
-- Application
-- Microsoft
-- Music
----
-I wasn't going to post anything about this, but Greg sent links to a couple of "Rants & Raves" at Wired News (both should be on <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/rants/0,2350,60897,00.html">this page</a>). Since I wrote up a long-ish email in response anyway, I might as well post it here as well.
-
-The first one concerns problems connecting to the <a href="http://www.apple.com/itunes/store/" title="iTunes Music Store">iTMS</a>, the second is a complaint that iTunes for Windows can't transfer music to anything other than an iPod.
-
-I'll address these two issues separately.
-<!--break-->
-<blockquote>I sent an e-mail through the Apple website describing the trouble, and got two responses back. Both said that if I was running an Internet security program, firewall or proxy connection, I wouldn't be able to connect to the store. I would have to shut down the firewall.</blockquote>
-Don't know what the guy is talking about. I have it installed on my WinXP box, and it connects to iTMS no problem (through both a Linux box running a firewall as well as a 3Com broadband router). Of course, it wouldn't surprise me if something like Norton blocked it...
-
-Not supporting other players: chicken and egg; Apple wants to stick with AAC -- iPods are the only device that support AAC. Be interesting to see what makes Apple blink -- support for stuff other than AAC, or non-iPod devices. Since their DRM solution seems to be pretty much entwined with AAC, I don't think that will change. I'm sure that Apple is out there beating the bushes, trying to make it attractive for companies to add AAC into their next round of products...
-
-And of course, this "problem" only exists for music downloaded from iTMS. I bet that music-service-X and their DRM solution don't allow transferring to <strong>all</strong> MP3 playing devices...
-
-It would be interesting to see how many people actually have MP3 players, as opposed to burning Audio CDs and/or MP3 CDs. I don't have anything that can play MP3s except for my computers (well, I did just get <a href="http://www.acomdata.com/scripts/products-showdetails.asp?id=65" title="Acom Data Multi Media Viewer">one of these</a>, but I didn't exactly buy it as an MP3 player).
-
-By the way -- iTunes Win works great on my network. All my music stored on my Mac (actually on an external firewire hard drive connected to it) shows up as a shared library, and everything streams across the network auto-magically. I see no massive CPU usage or other problems that have been reported.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-10-24-three-column-layouts.md b/_posts/archive/2003-10-24-three-column-layouts.md
deleted file mode 100644
index da146bf..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-10-24-three-column-layouts.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Three Column Layouts
-created: 1067016900
-categories: 
-- Web Development
----
-A collection of links to all the available 3 column tableless CSS layouts, and the support each has for various browsers and layouts.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-10-25-site-re-design.md b/_posts/archive/2003-10-25-site-re-design.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 981ab77..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-10-25-site-re-design.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Site re-design
-created: 1067147760
-categories: 
-- BMC
----
-Well, not really a complete re-design. Just moving things around a bit, plus turning into a 3-column style. With tables, no less :shocked:
-
-If you go into your <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/usr/edit">user account</a>, you can switch to the "xtemplate" theme to see what I'm working on.
-<!--break-->
-I'm currently losing my mind over some weird stuff where lists aren't displaying properly, but I can't actually tell if it's caching somewhere or what.
-
-<strong>Update:</strong>Yup, it's a caching issue. I've been using my Linux box for routing, since it seems my router has died. It still functions as a switch, but routing functions...borked.
-
-[image:633,left,5,5]So here's a preview of what things are going to look like. Right now, too many dotted lines. I didn't want to have a lots of little boxes feel, don't know if this achieves it. I think I'm going to ditch dotted lines around blockquotes -- the indenting and italicizing are probably already enough. Or perhaps not italicize, just use a different font?
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-10-26-blogs-are-torpedoes.md b/_posts/archive/2003-10-26-blogs-are-torpedoes.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 2221b1a..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-10-26-blogs-are-torpedoes.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Blogs are Torpedoes
-created: 1067231400
-categories: 
-- Social Media
----
-<p>There was a recent tech conference in PEI -- <a href="http://ZapYourPRAM.org/">Zap Your PRAM</a> that I wish I could have gone to. I sort of heard about it in passing from the usual bloggerati. This feeling of wistfulness comes almost exclusively from this "live blogging" of a talk by <a href="http://smartpei.typepad.com/robert_patersons_weblog/">Robert Paterson</a> transcribed by <a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0110772/2003/10/25.html#a1198">Seb Paquet</a>.</p>
-
-<p>All sorts of concepts are covered, from my title for this post, likening blogs to the invention of torpedoes, which completely changed naval warfare, to education, and how our current system is broken:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-How can you call yourself a professor and teach from textbooks? University students are treated like 12-year olds; it gets them worthless jobs and student debts.
- </blockquote>
-<!--break-->
-
-<p>I don't necessarily subscribe to the concept that "blogs will save the world"...but they can't hurt. I had a good back and forth email exchange with a client at work. I had explained at a recent meeting that my personal site (this one) and our <a href="http://www.phenomenalsolutions.com">business site</a> were getting really good results in search engines because of the nature of blogging. Their marketing department was of course interested in driving more traffic, so this discussion came about.</p>
-
-<p>Her first kick at the can for defining a blog was calling it a personal diary (the blog part) crossed with a chat room (comments). Not bad, but pretty far off at the same time. She did, however, mention <a href="http://www.cluetrain.com">Cluetrain</a>, and how it is coming true. The central tenet, I guess, really is "markets are conversations". So in this sense, yes -- blogs are conversations. And markets. And they're people, too, which is why I keep coming back to profiles and identity.</p>
-
-<p>When pushed for a definition, I'm now going to use this:<br>
-<em>"A weblog, or *blog, is a frequently updated website consisting of  dated entries arranged in reverse chronological order so the most recent post appears first"</em><br>
-(from a <a href="http://huminf.uib.no/~jill/archives/blog_theorising/ 
-final_version_of_weblog_definition.html)">much longer definition</a>)</p>
-
-<p>But that doesn't really help, does it? It's a pretty good technical description, but it doesn't explain what a blog, blogging <strong>does</strong>. So ask yourself about your corporate website. Why do people want to come back there? How do people that are interested keep up to date with what's happening? How do you connect the subject matter experts inside your company with the market -- your (potential) customers? How do you show (potential) investors that you know your stuff, that your products are sound? By participating in conversations.</p>
-
-<p>Of course, if you say something wishy-washy like that, people will laugh at you. But it's true.</p>
-
-<p>Back to Robert Paterson. He sees reputation, and aggregators/providers of reputation (such as eBay) as being the new foundation. His example was time spent in Saudi Arabia -- it took a year to gain a proper reputation so that he could actually do business there.</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-<p>We're through the efficiency-based methodology. We need to unlock the humans.</p>
- 
-<p>This is not consultant psychobabble. It's a new Renaissance. In the renaissance people living in a dogma-dominated era started looking at classics with fresh eyes.</p>
- </blockquote>
-
-<p>Sure, we look bright-eyed and bushy tailed to the dinosaurs whose feet are coming down -- as evidenced by some wicked pessimism attached to <a href="http://www.brendonwilson.com/profile/000125.shtml">Brendon's rant on syndication in BC</a>.</p>
-
-<p>Who, what, where, when, how. People, places, and things. These are the things that the world is composed of. Between them flow ideas, concepts, and opinions. Good reviews, bad reviews. Retellings of first-hand, personal experiences. Connections between these things, and what these connections mean -- human values.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-10-26-review-acomdata-multimediaviewer.md b/_posts/archive/2003-10-26-review-acomdata-multimediaviewer.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 7249753..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-10-26-review-acomdata-multimediaviewer.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,48 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Review: AcomData MultiMediaViewer"
-created: 1067219760
-categories: 
-- Review
----
-<p>I mentioned this device in passing a little while ago, now here is the full review. Kate and I lent our digital camera out after we went to <a href="http://tntjones.bmannconsulting.com">Troy and Tanya's</a> wedding. We kept the full compact flash card, and then decided to get a card reader so we wouldn't have to wait until we got the camera back to see the pictures.</p>
-
-<p>The choice was between a basic Compact Flash card reader and the <a href="http://www.acomdata.com/scripts/products-showdetails.asp?id=65">AcomData MultiMediaViewer</a> (or MMV for short). Read on for the whole story.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>$30 will buy you a basic card reader -- a slot for the memory card and a USB cable to plug into your computer. $50 - $60 will buy you a 6-in-1 reader, and perhaps USB 2.0. Or, for about $95, you can get the AcomData MMV.</p>
-
-[image:629,right,5,5]
-
-<p>At it's most basic, it's a card reader that supports reading and writing Compact Flash and Smart Media cards using a USB cable. Most newer operating systems will mount such a card directly on your desktop and treat it like a removable hard drive, without having to install any drivers. This makes it useful for transferring any sort of data, and Compact Flash cards are large enough/cheap enough that you could keep quite a few odds and ends of documents on there.</p>
-
-<p>When we plugged it in to my iMac (it does have a DC power adapter included, but it will draw its power from USB when it's plugged into a computer), the card mounted...and iPhoto recognized it. It never ceases to amaze me what sort of stuff "just works".</p>
-
-<p>Well, it did do some funny stuff when I "ejected" it from the desktop -- the lights (there is a green and red LED on the front) flashed, and then the green went steady and it mounted on the desktop again. This is I expect because it has a mechanical eject button. I guess Mac OS X actually expects stuff to get ejected. I know that when I tried it on Windows XP, you have to do the "stop device" button, and the OS will ignore it until you eject and re-insert the memory card. My "solution" is to hit the manual eject button as soon as the memory card disappears from the desktop.</p>
-
-<p>But what else does it do? Well, thanks to the afore-mentioned DC power adapter (it can also run on four AA batteries) you can listen to MP3s from it. The MMV has an audio-out port that will accept a headphone jack, plus it comes with a cable that splits out into regular RCA jacks for connecting it to your stereo. Evan's consensus was that the sound was a little bass-y, but that may also have been my JVC "Super Bass" headphones.</p>
-
-<p>MP3 playing does have it's drawbacks. When we connected it to Jessie's stereo, it seemed like we had to manually press "next" to listen to the next song -- it wouldn't play them all. I saw some references to playlists being supported, which might fix this, but I haven't tested this yet. Which comes to another downside. The files are played/organized alphabetically by their filename and, since there is no screen or other feedback, your only controls are next, previous, and play/pause/stop.</p>
-
-<p>To get the songs onto the MMV, I copied them over manually from iTunes. I didn't know where to put them, so I just created a folder called "MP3" and dragged them in there. Whatever the "proper" method is, it appears that the MMV scans folders to find MP3 files -- everything just worked.</p>
-
-<p>The second function puts the multi in the MMV's media. It has a video-out port and comes with a standard RCA-style video connector (you know, the yellow kind) so you can plug it into your TV. Yes, you could plug the audio into the TV at the same time.</p>
-
-<p>Using a TV interface (and the included slim IR remote) you can browse through the files on the card. Folders with images can be viewed on screen, where you can press next/previous, or press play to enable a slideshow. Larger images (in this case, the full 1.4MB pictures from our camera at "fine" JPEG quality) took some time to display, first showing a pixelated view, then clearing to show the final images. Also, if images were not oriented correctly, they couldn't be rotated.</p>
-
-<p>Many digital cameras actually have this functionality built-in -- a video out port so that you can do slide shows on a TV. Ours doesn't, so that makes the device even more useful for us: we could take it plus a selection of pictures and show them to people. Kind of the digital equivalent of bringing a photo album over...</p>
-
-<p>Music could also be played using this interface by selecting MP3 files. I didn't have any to test, but movies are also supported, although currently only AVIs using a Motion-JPEG codec. I haven't really looked to see whether there is an easy way for me to create this type of file/codec on my Mac. The box prominently featured notices that downloadable firmware would be made available that enabled MP4 video support. Cool! Nothing on the website yet...</p>
-
-<p>All in all, I would recommend this device. It comes with an amazing amount of accessories and abilities, and seems sturdy enough (or rather, it's a plastic shell and a circuit board, and the shell doesn't seem flimsy). If you don't <em>need</em> anything more than a card reader, then this is overkill, but we have nothing other than the computer that will display digital pictures <strong>and</strong> play MP3s. I'll post in comments here when/if firmware gets updated and any other discoveries I make.</p>
-
-<p>Contents</p>
-<ul>
-<li>AcomData MMV unit</li>
-<li>USB cable</li>
-<li>audio-out to RCA audio</li>
-<li>video-out to standard video (you know, the yellow kind)</li>
-<li>DC adapter (not a brick -- cable plus a thin "wall wart"</li>
-<li>carrying case (with belt loop, clear front)</li>
-<li>credit-card sized IR remote</li>
-<li>Short manual plus CD with drivers (for Windows 2000 and 98)
-</ul>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-10-27-canada-post-postal-code-locator.md b/_posts/archive/2003-10-27-canada-post-postal-code-locator.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 2247eca..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-10-27-canada-post-postal-code-locator.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Canada Post Postal Code Locator
-created: 1067265120
-categories: 
-- Canada
-- Canada Post
-- postal code
-- Canada
-- Canada Post
-- postal code
-- Canada
-- Canada Post
-- postal code
-- Canada
----
-<p>
-	This is the fastest way to look up a Canadian postal code. You can search by address, as well as do a reverse lookup.</p>
-<p>
-	http://www.canadapost.ca/cpotools/apps/fpc/personal/findByCity</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-10-27-cbc-has-a-free-headline-service-but-no-rss-feed.md b/_posts/archive/2003-10-27-cbc-has-a-free-headline-service-but-no-rss-feed.md
deleted file mode 100644
index b745cce..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-10-27-cbc-has-a-free-headline-service-but-no-rss-feed.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: CBC Has a Free Headline Service...but no RSS Feed
-created: 1067316899
-categories: 
-- Social Media
----
-
-<p>Of course they have a <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/freeheadlines/index.html">headline service</a>. Of course they <a href="http://www.reinvented.net/article/1600">don't have RSS feeds</a>:</p>
-<blockquote>
-Following your request, it is impossible to send you any RSS feed due to our strict policy. We understand your point, but we do not send it to particulars. We hope this will answer your questions.
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>I went ahead and <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/freeheadlines/contact.html">emailed the service</a> and asked for an RSS feed. If enough people email, they might start to implement.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Update:</strong> CBC now has a <a href="/node/1401" title="CBC RSS feeds">basic headline-only RSS feed</a>.</p>
-
-<!--break-->
-<p>This is what I sent. Feel free to copy this and send to them as well. Add your blog entry to it:</p>
-<pre>Hi:<br /><br />I'm interested in your free headline service. Do you have them available as an RSS feed?<br /><br />You might be interested in these two blog stories:<br />	http://scriptingnews.userland.com/2003/10/27#When:9:41:06AM<br />	http://www.reinvented.net/article/1600<br />	http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/638</pre>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-10-27-dont-ask-why-i-need-to-remember-this-page.md b/_posts/archive/2003-10-27-dont-ask-why-i-need-to-remember-this-page.md
deleted file mode 100644
index fc3f6bd..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-10-27-dont-ask-why-i-need-to-remember-this-page.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Don't ask why I need to remember this page...
-created: 1067323440
-categories: 
-- "*nix"
----
-<p>Searching for this string in Google:</p>
-<pre>
-[crit] (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to port 443
-</pre>
-<p><a href="http://talk.eryxma.com/showthread/t-3923.html">This page</a> has the answer you're looking for. Check to make sure all the processes are killed, otherwise you'll just keep getting the same error.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-10-27-its-just-common-sense.md b/_posts/archive/2003-10-27-its-just-common-sense.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 058a035..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-10-27-its-just-common-sense.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: It's Just Common Sense
-created: 1067313900
-categories: 
-- Social Media
----
-I was talking with my friend <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/517" title="Picture of Jamie">Jamie</a> on the phone this evening. He had emailed earlier in the week, saying that he had some ideas that he wanted to run past me.
-
-It turns out that a lot of his thoughts mesh perfectly with current developments in social software. One was a reminder/scheduling service for salons and other appointment-based businesses, the other was a weather aggregator for flying conditions.
-
-The interesting part to me is that both of these ideas, right down to his general description of how they would work, is very much how these services are being built. Read on for pointers to some similar services.
-<!--break-->
-When common sense descriptions collide with how technology is actually enabling the implementation of services...isn't that something? 
-
-I pointed him at <a href="http://www.upcoming.org">Upcoming.org</a> -- which does events, not reminders, but it's close -- which can perhaps serve as a model for how businesses could run reminder-type services. Both RSS feeds and email would be nice.
-
-By the way -- I've created an account for Upcoming. You can see my <a href="http://www.upcoming.org/user/2204/">user page</a>, plus there are pages for <a href="http://www.upcoming.org/metro/ca/on/ot/">Ottawa</a> and <a href="http://www.upcoming.org/metro/ca/bc/van/">Vancouver</a>. I'll be adding a link somewhere that points to the <a href="http://www.upcoming.org/syndicate/my_events/2204" title="Boris Mann's Upcoming.org Event Feed">RSS feed of my events</a>. <a href="http://www.andrewnoeljones.com">Andrew</a> has an account -- you should go sign up for one.
-
-I've just added an <a href="http://www.upcoming.org/event/1527/">event listing</a> for <a href="http://www.lonesomestudios.com/animal_noises/an2-show.html">Animal Noises II</a>, which will be the scene of the last <a href="http://www.picklecatz.com">Picklecatz</a> show.
-
-For weather, I told Jamie about <a href="http://www.rssweather.com">RSSWeather</a>. It definitely isn't all there, but until we have a common XML/RDF format for weather AND good providers of that info, that's the best there is.
-
-Jamie described how the pilots at <a href="http://www.harbour-air.com">work</a> spend perhaps 15 - 30 minutes quickly going through maybe a dozen sites to get a complete picture of the weather -- satellite images, radar, local reports, different reporting stations, etc. For the novice (perhaps someone at the local <a href="http://www.ofc.ca" title="Ottawa Flying Club">flying club</a> this task would take considerably longer or perhaps even be impossible (they wouldn't necessarily know about the sites or how to interpret/combine all the data).
-
-Lastly, I brought up social networking sites, and told Jamie that I would send him an invitation to <a href="http://www.tribe.net">Tribe</a>. I'm comfortable enough inviting people now, mainly because there are some good tribes like the Vancouver that are interesting enough that I check in about once or twice a week. If Tribes had RSS feeds to notify of new posts...that's it, they win.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-10-27-longhorns-special-sauce.md b/_posts/archive/2003-10-27-longhorns-special-sauce.md
deleted file mode 100644
index eaa28f6..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-10-27-longhorns-special-sauce.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Longhorn's Special Sauce
-created: 1067306640
-categories: 
-- Microsoft
----
-So the <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/events/pdc/">Microsoft PDC</a> is now in full swing. Reports are starting to filter back from the mothership, like <a href="http://blogs.it/0100198/2003/10/27.html#a1909">this one from Marc Canter</a>. He seems quite impressed, especially given some <a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2003/10/26.html#a5170">earlier posts</a>.
-
-There are lots of technical bits flying around all over the place that will probably be better summarized a week or so from now. I see <acronym title="XML application markup language">XAML</acronym> as the special sauce, the most important thing that was announced. What is XAML? It's <em>XML Application Markup Language</em>. Or at least, that's what it is now -- <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=XAML&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8">according to Google</a>, it used to be <a href="http://xml.coverpages.org/xaml.html">Transactional Authority Markup Language</a>. But on to Microsoft's XAML: it is XML markup that can define everything from UI to applications.
-
-So, now that this has been revealed, everyone has to ask themselves: what does this mean for [insert-favourite-operating-system]? Read on...
-<!--break-->
-First of all, it's not like Microsoft has come out with a completely new animal. This is much like <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xul/" title="XML User Interface Language">Mozilla's XUL</a> -- a markup language that goes beyond HTML to create applications indistinguishable from desktop applications.
-
-Much like Windows-only code in IE (and access to the IE dlls running on Windows), XAML will enable many types of rich media apps...on a Windows desktop. Goodbye, Flash. So now what? What about other platforms? The way I see it, there are a couple of options.
-
-<strong>Write XAML-compatible engines:</strong> basically, applications/extensions/plug-ins/whatever that enable non-Microsoft clients to run XAML code. I imagine that a lot of XAML will have hooks directly into Longhorn, so it may not be possible to duplicate a lot of the functionality. But, if Microsoft has to add XAML support to <a href="http://www.myelin.co.nz/post/2003/10/28/#200310281">older versions of Windows</a>, it might still be feasible.
-
-<strong>Develop a compelling alternative platform:</strong> I really do think this <strong>is</strong> XUL -- albeit with 2 years of development behind it. There may be different types of "XUL containers" (that is, apps that can run/display/interact with XUL code on the desktop), but the most likely candidate is the browser on non-MS platforms...especially since Mozilla can do this today.
-
-Actually, I think both options will go ahead. Just like .NET has <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/">Mono</a> (although neither seem to have gotten very far), there will be a rush to reverse-engineer XAML on alternate platforms. At the same time, XUL development will get a kick in the pants.
-
-I think, perhaps, that someone knew. How else to explain that the <a href="http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/hyatt/archives/2003_10.html#004249">newest version of Safari supports XUL</a>? (just a tiny part, but it's a start). So I think we see that Apple has firmly cast it's vote into support XUL as it's answer. This may very well go back into the Linux/open source world with WebCore (based off of <a href="http://dot.kde.org/1041971213/">Konqueror's KHTML library</a>).
-
-Time to start learning XUL...
-
-Note to Colin: I bet your market value as a coder just shot up at least 50%! (Colin did extensive XUL development at <a href="http://www.oeone.com/">OEOne</a> (now <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/579">Axentra</a>)).
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-10-28-mailbucket-org.md b/_posts/archive/2003-10-28-mailbucket-org.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 4552769..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-10-28-mailbucket-org.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Mailbucket.org
-created: 1067350740
-categories: 
-- Web 2.0
----
-Generates RSS feeds from email. Any email sent to <em>slurp</em>@mailbucket.org will generate an RSS feed at mailbucket.org/<em>slurp</em>.xml. Feeds are "public and impermanent", but it certainly would be a quick way to have transient RSS feeds.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-10-31-ez-ip-update.md b/_posts/archive/2003-10-31-ez-ip-update.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f1c0581..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-10-31-ez-ip-update.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: EZ IP Update
-created: 1067618280
-categories: 
-- "*nix"
-- E-smith
----
-This is the script I use to keep my domains pointed at my home server box. The <a href="http://www.gusnet.cx:8080/proj/ez-ipupdate/userdoc.php">user docs</a> page may also prove useful, plus you can get an RPM for E-smith <a href="http://www.contribs.com/contribs/dmay/mitel/contrib/ez-ipupdate/">here</a>.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-11-01-gourmet-sleuth-roasting-timetable.md b/_posts/archive/2003-11-01-gourmet-sleuth-roasting-timetable.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 1b3a876..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-11-01-gourmet-sleuth-roasting-timetable.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Gourmet Sleuth - Roasting Timetable
-created: 1067728320
-categories: 
-- cooking
-- roasting
-- meat
----
-A useful resource for cooking times per pound for various different cuts and kinds of meat.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-11-02-carbon-copy-cloner.md b/_posts/archive/2003-11-02-carbon-copy-cloner.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 32686b6..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-11-02-carbon-copy-cloner.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Carbon Copy Cloner
-created: 1067838960
-categories: 
-- Application
-- Mac
----
-<strong>The</strong> tool for making bootable backups of your Mac OS X system. Includes the ability to sync source and destination, as well as schedule backups.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-11-03-ibm-to-build-chips-for-xbox-2.md b/_posts/archive/2003-11-03-ibm-to-build-chips-for-xbox-2.md
deleted file mode 100644
index cb5c9c4..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-11-03-ibm-to-build-chips-for-xbox-2.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: IBM to build chips for XBox 2
-created: 1067897040
-categories: 
-- Microsoft
-- Game
----
-<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2003/nov03/11-03XboxIBMPR.asp">Straight from Microsoft</a> comes the news that IBM has been awarded the contract to build the chips for the XBox 2. This, of course, has gotten all sorts of rumour mills flowing.
-
-What if XBox 2 gets built on IBM's <em>"state-of-the-art processors"</em> (which at this time would be the PowerPC 970 a.k.a. G5)? Read on for some rumours that are wilder than Apple on Intel...
-
-<strong>Update:</strong> no longer a rumour - see <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/games/0,2101,61065,00.html">this Wired story</a>
-
-<strong>Update 2:</strong> And they're going to support backwards-compatibility through <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/games/0,2101,61065,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1">emulation from their Connectix purchase</a>
-<!--break-->
-Of course, IBM <strong>is</strong> already involved with building the next Nintendo and Sony platforms as well. But still, I can only imagine the PR storm if MS is really going to go with a PPC-powered platform. Nevermind the fact that it would be completely incompatible with the current platform. Hmmm...last rumour speculation: Microsoft is so afraid of G5 performance that they're hedging their bets by <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1067887366.html">investing in Virtual PC technology</a>.
-
-More snippets of info from <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1067892500.html">ArsTechnica</a>.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-11-03-ole-eichhorn-comments-on-xaml-and-the-pdc-experience.md b/_posts/archive/2003-11-03-ole-eichhorn-comments-on-xaml-and-the-pdc-experience.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 3c4f95d..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-11-03-ole-eichhorn-comments-on-xaml-and-the-pdc-experience.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Ole Eichhorn: Comments on XAML and the PDC Experience"
-created: 1067912880
-categories: 
-- Microsoft
----
-<p>I held off on posting this for a while, mainly because I was thinking of ways to say more about it. Then, when great people like <a href="http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/11/03/OleOnLonghorn">Tim Bray</a> just say "Go read it", I figure I can pretty much do the same.
-
-<blockquote>
-If you're still reading and haven't clicked your back button in disgust, let me explain.  <strong>The most important thing is not how easy it is to build code, the most important thing is how well the code runs once it is built.</strong>  This concept seems to have escaped the Longhorn developers, and from this viewpoint Longhorn and its underlying technologies are pretty unexciting.
-</blockquote>
-
-Ole's post is called <a href="http://w-uh.com/index.cgi/articles/031102-emperors_new_code.html">The Emperor's New Code</a> -- he figures for the most part that a lot of stuff that Microsoft announced is re-inventing the wheel. A chance to throw in whiz-bang without having to address any current problems.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-11-04-ehomeupgrade-pre-packaged-media-servers.md b/_posts/archive/2003-11-04-ehomeupgrade-pre-packaged-media-servers.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 37d1c5c..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-11-04-ehomeupgrade-pre-packaged-media-servers.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "eHomeUpgrade: Pre-Packaged Media Servers"
-created: 1068012420
-categories: 
-- Home Server
-- Multimedia PC
----
-eHomeUpgrade gets a question about <a href="http://www.ehomeupgrade.com/archives/article161.php">non-do-it-yourself media servers</a>. They only point to two, the <a href="http://www.interact-tv.com/products.php">Telly MC1000</a> and the <a href="http://www.oneboxmc.com/">ONEbox</a>.
-
-What's interesting is the differences and similarities between these two products. The Telly is based on Linux, and the ONEbox runs <strike>Windows XP Media Center</strike> Windows XP Home plus the ONEbox Media Center. Both are $899US and are shipping today.
-
-So which one to get?
-<!--break-->
-Both are built on the <a href="http://www.via.com.tw/en/viac3/c3.jsp">VIA C3 platform</a>, the Telly running at 933Mhz, the ONEbox at 1Ghz. Windows XP by itself would suck a lot of oomph! out of anything. This seems to be the processor of choice for these types of devices -- likely because of its low power/heat requirements as well as its low cost.
-
-The ONEbox adds in a Radeon 7500 with 64MB of memory, while the Telly uses on-board video. In all likelihood, the ONEbox is going to have a big edge here.
-
-The Telly has an <acronym title="Infra Red">IR</acronym> trackball plus optional remote and keyboard, while the ONEbox includes an <acronym title="Radio Frequency">RF</acronym> remote. This means you can use the remote out of site of the ONEbox, controlling it from another room.
-
-Now on to some of the more fundamental differences.
-
-The Telly is billed as completely <a href="http://www.interact-tv.com/expand.php">expandable</a> -- they encourage people to add a second internal hard drive, or to plug-in an external FireWire one. As well, new features are downloaded as they are developed, and a small notice says the software is open, although they may just mean "easily extensible". Interact-TV calls the media platform <a href="http://www.interact-tv.com/EOS.php">EOS</a>. Interestingly, given the recent XAML/XUL hype, the GUI apps are written in what they call ItvXUL (probably just XUL with some extensions).
-
-Continuing with open-ness, the Telly uses a webserver portal to give you access to material on it remotely -- everything from scheduling shows to accessing media. The ONEbox uses VNC for remote access, typically the Java-based browser applet
-
-The ONEbox is a closed application on top of Windows XP Home. A page on their site notes a rather <a href="http://oneboxmc.com/3rdparty.htm">small list of compatible hardware</a>, but does note that anything which is compatible with Windows XP should work. There is some other strangeness, like recording media files in a proprietary "SSF" format. They do support "re-compressing" to Windows media formats.
-
-They certainly have a much better selection of connections (below, left) than the very basic Telly (below, right).
-
-[image:657,left,10,10][image:656,right,5,5]
-
-As well, the ONEbox's 6-in-1 memory card reader is something else that every media PC should have. The cost is low, and it guarantees that end users will be able to stick their particular digital camera or MP3 player memory card into their media center.
-
-In the end, the website of both companies screams "small-time". Interact-TV might become successful if they manage to expand their EOS platform, licensing it out to other media PC players (most notably, the hardware manufacturers like MSI or Shuttle) that are creating interesting barebones media PCs. I don't see how ONEbox differs substantially from Windows XP Media Center (in fact, I'm still not sure that it <em>isn't</em> the same...).
-
-And $899US? This market isn't going to take off until that price-point hits $499US.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-11-06-panther-bits.md b/_posts/archive/2003-11-06-panther-bits.md
deleted file mode 100644
index d7f8398..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-11-06-panther-bits.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Panther bits
-created: 1068137520
-categories: 
-- Mac
----
-Through <a href="http://joi.ito.com/archives/2003/11/04/new_design.html">Joi Ito</a>, I found another Boris. I read his item about <a href="http://bopuc.levendis.com/RowBoat/archives/-2003/11/02/crippled_ftp_in_panther.php">Crippled FTP in Panther</a>. Basically, you can now (reliably -- it was there in earlier versions, just didn't work that great) mount FTP sites on the desktop. BUT...it's read-only.
-
-Yes, that's pretty dumb. Speculation ranges from "write-access FTP is a security risk" to "Apple wants iDisk to look more attractive". I would agree with both.
-
-<a href="http://www.codepoetry.net/archives/2003/10/24/panthers_major_text_services_upgrade.php">Text services</a> seem to have gotten a major overhaul in Panther. I now understand why Adobe considers Apple a threat. I mean, scriptable/programmable <a href="http://www.apple.com/applescript/imageevents/">image processing at the OS level</a>?! And, of course, Text Edit reads/writes Word .doc files as well...
-
-<a href="http://www.appleinsider.com/news.php?id=235">Mac OS 10.3.1</a> already appears to be on its way.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-11-08-extremetech-media-front-end-roundup.md b/_posts/archive/2003-11-08-extremetech-media-front-end-roundup.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 164b951..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-11-08-extremetech-media-front-end-roundup.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "ExtremeTech: Media Front-End Roundup"
-created: 1068306180
-categories: 
-- Microsoft
-- Multimedia PC
-- Review
----
-<p><a href="http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1376545,00.asp?kc=ETRSS02129TX1K0000532">ExtremeTech reviews media front ends</a> -- applications that have a "ten foot interface" suitable for running on a TV.</p>
-
-<p>ExtremeTech considers the following to be the "must have" features, and that is what they used to evaluate the programs:</p>
-<ul>
-<li>Play back stored video (WMV, AVI)</li>
-<li>Play back stored music (WMA, MP3, WAV)</li>
-<li>Display digital photos</li>
-<li>Show and time-shift Live TV</li>
-<li>Be programmed to record live TV</li>
-</ul>
-<p>Read on for links to the four applications tested and some thoughts on this segment.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>It seemed a bit crazy to me that in addition to the programs tested, you also needed to be running Windows XP plus 5 other external applications. They used an ATI Remote Wonder that comes bundled with their graphic card to control the apps (with varying degrees of success).</p>
-
-<p>While there is, as <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/658#1193">Greg mentions</a>, a "gold rush" going on in this segment, I don't think it will take off until there are more fully integrated applications that do everything. In my opinion, Linux is still a much better choice here, because of everything from stability to low-cost. The only thing holding it back is lack of driver support for specialized hardware (like remotes).</p>
-
-<p>The reviewed applications were:</p>
-
-<ul>
-<li><a href="http://myhtpc.net/" >myHTPC</a>: free!</li>
-<li><a href="http://www.snapstream.com/" >SnapStream</a>: looked at <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/539">before</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://www.showshifter.com/" >ShowShifter</a>: got good marks except for the fact that it uses <a href="http://www.titantv.com/">TitanTV</a> in a browser for its <acronym title="Electronic Programming Guide">EPG</acronym></li>
-<li><a href="http://www.sage.tv/" >SageTV</a>: Java-based client/server, but it only supports a very small number of hardware tuner cards</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>The <a href="http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1376553,00.asp">final thoughts</a> don't really pick one stand-out winner, but I think "free" definitely makes myHTPC the most attractive. Round two is going to look at apps which depend on specific hardware configs.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-11-08-knoppmyth.md b/_posts/archive/2003-11-08-knoppmyth.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a5bd3d1..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-11-08-knoppmyth.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: KnoppMyth
-created: 1068346440
-categories: 
-- "*nix"
-- Multimedia PC
----
-<a href="http://www.mysettopbox.tv">MySettopBox.tv</a> has made it really, really simple to get <a href="http://www.mythtv.org">MythTV</a> running. They've created <a href="http://mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html">KnoppMyth</a>, a distribution that combines <a href="http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/" title="Knoppix -- full Linux distribution that boots off a CD">Knoppix</a> with MythTV so that a MythTV install can run directly off a CD.
-
-Read on for the scoop why this is <strong>very</strong> useful.
-<!--break-->
-This does increase both the processing and RAM needed if you want to use it seriously, but it is a dead-easy way to "temporarily" setup a PVR, or to test hardware to see if it works. KnoppMyth can then be <a href="http://mysettopbox.tv/doc.html#autoinstall">installed directly to the hard drive</a>.
-
-MythTV would still be my choice today for building a Linux-based media PC -- it is the most complete and the most feature-rich.
-
-The other leading project is <a href="http://freevo.sourceforge.net/">Freevo</a>. The nice part is that it is not an entire distribution, and the binary is self-contained with no external dependencies, meaning you could install it on a "regular" Linux machine and <em>boom!</em> you've got full-fledged PVR functionality as well.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-11-09-myie2.md b/_posts/archive/2003-11-09-myie2.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 5053ab9..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-11-09-myie2.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: MyIE2
-created: 1068438360
-categories: 
-- Microsoft
-- Application
----
-Pointed out to me by Greg. Adds tabs, skinning, and other cool features to a "standard" IE6 install. It's free.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-11-09-panther-in-the-house.md b/_posts/archive/2003-11-09-panther-in-the-house.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 2d4fa25..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-11-09-panther-in-the-house.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Panther in the house
-created: 1068446820
-categories: 
-- Mac
----
-Spent day doing backups. Well, a few backups to DVD and CD, then copied <em>Applications</em> and <em>Users</em> folders over to external FireWire hard drive. Unplugged drive while installing.
-
-Formatted drive and did clean install (scary! I debated "Archive and Install", but wanted a clean slate...).
-<!--break-->
-Swaps through three discs. Takes slightly more than 30 minutes to install. De-select any languages you don't plan on using to save space. Same goes for printer drivers.
-
-System is zippier (of course, without any extra cruft installed yet). Font anti-aliasing seems smoother -- sites now look even better in Safari. Expose is awesome -- I'm using it with mouse gestures (you set corners of the screen). Can also be set to use different buttons on a multi-button mouse.
-
-Finder is good. Mainly single window, quickly skip between shortcuts. Means I won't add folder shortcuts to the dock.
-
-Single word to describe everything: smoooooth
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-11-09-vlc-media-player.md b/_posts/archive/2003-11-09-vlc-media-player.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 03f0563..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-11-09-vlc-media-player.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: VLC Media Player
-created: 1068423840
-categories: 
-- "*nix"
-- Application
-- Mac
-- Microsoft
----
-VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, ...) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-11-11-coreblog.md b/_posts/archive/2003-11-11-coreblog.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a769e0a..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-11-11-coreblog.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: COREblog
-created: 1068568140
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
-- Web Development
----
-Zope-based blogging tool.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-11-11-itunes-album-art-and-cell-phones.md b/_posts/archive/2003-11-11-itunes-album-art-and-cell-phones.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 139bc94..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-11-11-itunes-album-art-and-cell-phones.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,45 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: iTunes Album Art and Cell Phones
-created: 1068617700
-categories: 
-- Application
-- Mac
-- Multimedia PC
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-I spent a bunch of time talking to <a href="http://home.justwerks.com" title="Evan Wise">Evan</a> and <a href="http://www.foolswisdom.com" title="Lloyd Budd">Lloyd</a> tonight.
-
-This post is also subtitled "the blog entry with one thousand topics covered".
-<!--break-->
-Evan made me go research the best way to get album cover art into iTunes. We mucked with a couple of different ways. Pretty much all the tools grab info from Amazon using their web services. Results are all dependant on the quality of the cover art that Amazon has.
-
-<a href="http://www.dizzypenguin.com/automac-it/">Export Artwork</a> is probably the best way to really automate the process. It's a shareware AppleScript that lets you look up 100 tracks per launch, or you can pay $8US to not get nagged. But, it kind of left Evan and me vaguely unsatisfied.
-
-The second selection was <a href="http://www.sprote.com/clutter/">Clutter</a>. Holy smokes! This is an awesome, awesome app. It's one of the things that I'm going to take screenshots of and say: see? this is why I own a Mac. Basically, it hooks into your iTunes library and presents you with a browse-by-artist listing, with their albums in the middle pane, and the album cover on the right.
-
-Once you select a song to play, a second window shows a "Now Playing" window, and displays the album art if available. If it's not available, it will try and grab it from Amazon. Failing that, a menu item lets you do a Google search on the album, and you can drag and drop images on the window to set the album art. And then you can select another menu item which copies the album art into iTunes. The Dock icon of Clutter changes to display the album you are currently playing.
-
-Oh, right. And the reason it's called Clutter? You can drag-and-drop these album images onto your desktop. And they'll stick there. Each of them has a nice little drop shadow, and they're each in their own layer, so you can overlap them, drag them wherever you want on the screen, etc. So it's like having your desktop "cluttered" with a bunch of CD cases laying around. Click on an album cover to start playing it. Or right-click to select a specific song. Coupled with Expose, I can switch from whatever app I'm in, click on an album to start playing it, then Command-Tab or Expose back to whatever I was working on. Slick. In the meantime, iTunes just gets hidden in the background and never used.
-
-I think I'll start listening to more music again. Shuffle on a 9K song library is a bit intimidating, especially when a large proportion of the library is classical/country/opera. I've made it as far as "C" in the artist listing ("Crash Test Dummies" -- I made it a practice to memorize and sing the intensely bass-y "Superman Song" while on watch during my <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/80" title="Class Afloat">ship voyage</a>).
-
-Note: both these methods get iTunes to add an uncompressed image into the ID3 tags of <em>each song</em> in an album. For 9,200 songs (which is how many Kate and I have) that's a significant amount of extra space used up.
-
-Whew! Next up cell phone talk with Lloyd. He cracked the screen on his cell phone, and quickly found that there is basically nowhere in Canada to buy reasonably priced cell phones <em>if you buy them separately from activation/a contract</em>. Yup. We talked a bit about the sucky-ness of various providers, concluding that Rogers Wireless are the biggest evil. Don't worry -- me and Lloyd both use them, and we both reminisced about the good old days with <a href="http://www.fido.ca">Fido</a>. They get a link, because their website is good, and they suck less.
-
-So, what phone to get? May as well get a kick ass smartphone of some kind, since it'll be costing you a fortune either way.
-
-I postulated that I would be working backwards and forwards. Backwards meaning that I make sure that the phone is compatible with apps like <a href="http://homepage.mac.com/jonassalling/Shareware/Clicker/">Clicker</a> -- lets you control all sorts of cool stuff on your Mac using the built-in Bluetooth. Oh ya. I want Bluetooth (yes, I'll need the <a href="http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore?productLearnMore=T6295ZM/A" title="D-Link DBT-120 USB Bluetooth Adapter - Apple Store">adapter</a>).
-
-Of course, contacts and calendaring get synced across to your phone. And I seem to remember something cool like being able to answer phone calls coming in on your cell phone on-screen. Maybe that's a third party app, I can't find anything about it right now.
-
-Forwards meaning I have to look at what phones are available from which providers. Again, looks like only <a href="http://www.fido.ca/portal/en/product/handset.shtml">Fido has cool phones</a>.
-
-I think I want the <a href="http://reviews.cnet.com/Sony_Ericsson_T616/4505-6454_7-30538750.html?tag=subnav">Sony Ericsson T616</a>. Seems to meet both requirements. I look at it this way: it's not like it's $300. It's like it's $650 cheaper than the P800 :o
-
-Oh yes, and this would be in BC of course. So maybe, just maybe, I get to try the no landline option. I figure I could get a second handset for Kate, and Fido has unlimited local calling between Fido subscribers. Then, I would get Shaw cable for highspeed access (although I actually wish I could get it <em>without</em> getting cable...on the other hand, maybe finally give me a chance to grab a TV tuner and do some multimedia PC testing, though).
-
-Actually, thinking about Telus again reminded me about a home networking presentation I gave to them back when I was with Nortel. My predictions were...<ahem>...a little optimistic. But I still blame the service providers for not even trialing anything. The difficulty comes down to in-home distribution. But I'm not going to go down this ranting road right now.
-
-Reminds me: Rob and I saw a <a href="http://www.prismiq.com/products/index.asp">Prismiq</a> at Future Shop. Pretty amazed that the company managed to get distribution through Future Shop -- it's a media player product that hooks up to your TV and streams content from your PC. The sucky part is that it requires a Windows-only app. Reading the FAQ and the <a href="http://www.prismiq.org">developer's forum</a> it looks like Mac- and Linux-support may eventually come around (there is already a  "preview release" for Linux). Looks like a pretty good solution.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-11-11-opensourcexperts.md b/_posts/archive/2003-11-11-opensourcexperts.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a4b31e5..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-11-11-opensourcexperts.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Opensourcexperts
-created: 1068569400
-categories: 
-- Open Source
----
-An interesting site that allows users to post questions and feature requests about a variety of open source technologies. Solution providers in the form of independent consults as well as companies bid on answering the questions or developing features.
-
-Users can band together to fund a feature request, although the lead requester has control over who gets chosen, as well as when the feature is deemed "complete".
-
-Developed by a company in Germany. Similar to ExpertsExchange, but extended to include funding for feature requests.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-11-11-what-kind-of-social-software-are-you.md b/_posts/archive/2003-11-11-what-kind-of-social-software-are-you.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 718bb37..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-11-11-what-kind-of-social-software-are-you.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: What kind of Social Software are you?
-created: 1068621600
-categories: 
-- Social Media
----
-Apparently...
-
-<a href="http://undergroundlondon.com/social/ss_gne.html"><img src="http://undergroundlondon.com/social/ss_gne.gif" alt="what kind of social software are you?" width="141" height="121" border="0" /></a>
-
-Uh huh. Note: this will not make sense unless a) you are a geek and b) you are a geek that is into social software. You may <a href="http://www.undergroundlondon.com/social/">run the quiz</a> if you qualify.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-11-12-cowiki.md b/_posts/archive/2003-11-12-cowiki.md
deleted file mode 100644
index b63b007..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-11-12-cowiki.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: coWiki
-created: 1068654660
-categories: 
-- Web 2.0
-- PHP
----
-<p>From the front page:</p>
-<blockquote>
-<p>coWiki is a free (GPL) tool written in PHP 5 which creates a collaborative website that gathers, organizes and extends knowledge. It can manage text documents and binaries, act like a weblog or organize knowledge bases such as FAQs.</p>
-
-<p>coWiki provides an easy way to maintain and discuss its documents. It also provides a fast way for qualified contributors to create content online, using a simple and easy to apply markup language without needing HTML editing skills.</p>
-
-<p>coWiki is template based, multilingual and modular.</p>
-</blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-11-12-movabletype.md b/_posts/archive/2003-11-12-movabletype.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 91c662e..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-11-12-movabletype.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: MovableType
-created: 1068653940
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
-- Web 2.0
----
-Perl-based system that generates flat files on publishing. Info is stored in a database or in DBM files.
-
-Free for non-commercial use, else a fee applies.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-11-12-noaa-experimental-listings-of-watches-warnings-and-advisoriesby-state-and-territory.md b/_posts/archive/2003-11-12-noaa-experimental-listings-of-watches-warnings-and-advisoriesby-state-and-territory.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 9546045..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-11-12-noaa-experimental-listings-of-watches-warnings-and-advisoriesby-state-and-territory.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: NOAA - Experimental Listings of Watches, Warnings, and Advisoriesby State and Territory
-created: 1068674160
-categories: 
-- RSS Weather
-- NOAA
-- CAP
----
-<p>
-	The NOAA have started experimenting with an <a href="http://weather.gov/alerts/">alerts page</a> offering both RSS and XML feeds. The XML feed is <acronym title="Common Alerting Protocol">CAP</acronym>, or Common Alerting Protocol. There is a <a href="http://www.incident.com/cap/what-why-how.html">mini-FAQ</a> explaining CAP. It is briefly described on the NOAA page:</p>
-<blockquote>
-	Common Alertings Protocol (CAP) is an non-proprietary standard data format for the interchange of hazard warning and reports.</blockquote>
-<p>
-	This is an experimental service, and any comments should be submitted to the <a href="http://weather.gov/survey/nws-survey.php?code=rss-cap-wwa">feedback page</a> by December 30, 2003. Submitted comments will &quot;help determine the future of the product&quot;.</p>
-<p>
-	News of this was posted to the <a href="http://www.quicktopic.com/em/H/aZRarGycKBuyE/" title="RSS Weather QuickTopic">RSS Weather</a> mailing list. You can view (and respond) using the web forum, as well as subscribe to the list.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-11-12-serendipity.md b/_posts/archive/2003-11-12-serendipity.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c63cb9d..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-11-12-serendipity.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Serendipity
-created: 1068654240
-categories: 
-- Web 2.0
-- PHP
----
-<p>Standards-compliant weblog tool written in PHP. First two items from the feature list:</p>
-<blockquote>
-<ul>
-<li>Simple. Designed for users of all technical levels.</li>
-<li>Robust Editing Interface. Featuring an (optional) WSYISWG editor, image manager, extended entry support and a host of other features.</li>
-</ul>
-</blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-11-13-sites-offline-plus-my-own-multimedia-pc.md b/_posts/archive/2003-11-13-sites-offline-plus-my-own-multimedia-pc.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 89de571..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-11-13-sites-offline-plus-my-own-multimedia-pc.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Sites offline, plus my own multimedia PC
-created: 1068750780
-categories: 
-- Home Server
-- Multimedia PC
-- Small Form Factor
----
-Well, it happened. My thrown-together home server had a hardware failure last night. I have no idea what time it was, but I woke up to a high-pitched squealing noise.
-
-The first result of this is that all of my "other" *.bmannconsulting.com sites are currently offline. Plus the <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/660">new domains</a> as well.
-<!--break-->
-After I woke up a little more, realized it wasn't a fire alarm or anything like that, I noticed it was coming from the office. It really was the middle of the night, so I wasn't awake enough to deal with it, so I just turned it off.
-
-I dealt with it this morning and was more than a little nervous. Lots of stuff on there I don't want to lose. I unplugged the hard drive and powered the machine up -- same high-pitched squealing sound. Big relief! Whatever's going on, it's not affecting the hard drive.
-
-It's not the CPU fan, so it looks like something in the power supply is blown. Or something else on the motherboard has given up the ghost.
-
-Well, it's not exactly great timing, but I also don't want to haul a busted machine across the country to BC. I had always planned to migrate that server to some different hardware. I think, rather than buying a new machine for it, I'm going to do a shuffle.
-
-My current PC has a pretty decent <a href="http://www.cpu3d.com/review/k7t266pro2/" title="MSI K7T266 Pro 2">motherboard</a>, including on-board IDE RAID. So, I think it will become the basis for the new server (including the fairly large case it's in now). The two <acronym title="Network Interface Cards">NICs</acronym> will also be moved over, as well as the 80GB drive and the CD-ROM.
-
-Do I still <em>need</em> a second machine? Well, I spend a fair bit of time on the computer, and getting rid of the PC would mean that Kate wouldn't be able to web browse or check her email while I'm on the machine. We did share my Mac for quite some time, but it has been nice having the two stations to work at. Especially now that iTunes for Windows means we can listen to all the music we have at either machine.
-
-My other rational is that perhaps this is the excuse I need to build a multimeda PC. My home server box will remain a second machine, but if I build a PC to replace the DVD player, receiver, and speakers (and potentially even the TV), that's a lot of stuff that doesn't need to get moved...
-
-I don't think I'll buy all the components I would want in a final multimedia PC solution. However, <a href="http://www.oemexpress.com">OEMExpress</a> has the <a href="http://us.shuttle.com/specs_access.asp?pro_id=279">Shuttle SN45G</a>, and with an AMD 2500+ processor and 256MB of RAM, that comes to $590 plus taxes.
-
-Parts that will get shuffled include the hard drive, CD burner, and graphics card from the current PC. The card is some sort of low-end 32MB NVidia, but it <strong>does</strong> have video out, so I can hook it up to the TV.
-
-The only piece that I would really need to add in after the fact would be a TV tuner card. Actually, I'd probably get some sort of all-in-one card that replaced the low end card. A sound card is also a possibility.
-
-For now...it's going to run Windows. I'll need to do a re-install in any case, and I can do some experimentation with <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/662">KnoppMyth</a>.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-11-17-feedback-points-to-spoke-serences-klipfolio.md b/_posts/archive/2003-11-17-feedback-points-to-spoke-serences-klipfolio.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 4a4fac6..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-11-17-feedback-points-to-spoke-serences-klipfolio.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,46 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Feedback points to Spoke, Serence's KlipFolio
-created: 1069139640
-categories: 
-- Social Media
----
-<p>I received some <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/feedback">feedback</a> from <a href="http://www.peelwireless.com/" title="PeelWireless - Nick McGregor">Nick McGregor</a> which prompted me to make a post about social software again.</p>
-
-<p>Read more for a longer discussion on <a href="http://www.spoke.com">Spoke</a> and <a href="http://www.serence.com/site.php?action=ser_products,prod_klipfolio">KlipFolio</a>.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>First up is <a href="http://www.spoke.com">Spoke</a>, one of the few social networking sites that launched simultaneously with an enterprise component as well. Its FAQ states that its revenues are entirely from sales of its enterprise applications, and so it promises never to charge for any components of its public network.</p>
-
-<p>Also different from other social networking sites, Spoke requires the use of a client-side application, and ties into your email:</p>
-<blockquote>
-To use Spoke's automatic discovery tool you must use either:
-<ul>
-<li>Outlook, Eudora or Lotus on Windows 2000 or XP; or,</li>
-<li>Hotmail, Yahoo! or a POP3 server for email on any platform (Mac included)</li>
-</ul>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Unfortunately, this doesn't help me -- I'm on a Mac, and I don't use a POP3 server, I use <acronym title="Internet Message Access Protocol">IMAP</acronym>. I also got an error when I tried to verify my registration, both in Safari and Mozilla -- I'll try again and see how it goes.</p>
-
-<p>Gaining network information from your email is quite clever, and is the basis for that much-talked about app (well, around here, anyway), <a href="http://www.zoe.nu/">Zoe</a>. Any further analysis of the service will have to wait until I actually try the system.</p>
-
-<p><a href="http://www.serence.com/site.php?action=ser_products,prod_klipfolio">Serence's KlipFolio</a> seems to be following the old push model of content. Of course, they bill it as being most useful for tracking breaking information within enterprises.</p>
-
-<p>To me, this is a perfect example of a piece of software that is going to get completely blown away by RSS. This little quote for <a href="http://www.klipfarm.com/farm.php?page=info&klip=916" title="Feed Viewer Klip">one of the "klips"</a> you can download from the <a href="http://www.klipfarm.com">KlipFarm</a> is a good example:</p>
-<blockquote>
-This Klip will display any RSS or RDF feed you have a URL for. Perfect if <strong>your favourite syndicating sites don't offer Klips yet</strong>.
-</blockquote>
-
-<p><em>(Emphasis mine)</em></p>
-
-<p>Let's see...I run a large website and want to provide some sort of push feature for visitors. Do I make a "klip" or do I go with a completely open standard that has many client implementations on all platforms? Seems obvious which will win.</p>
-
-<p>My advice to Serence: somebody just <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/amazon/asin/0399144463">moved your cheese</a> -- the sooner you reallize this, the better shape you'll be in. Provide backwards compatibility for your proprietary klips system, but focus all your energies on developing RSS-based technologies. Call me if you need any help.</p>
-
-<p>Lastly, Nick also asked what other social network sites I use. He actually found me through <a href="http://www.ecademy.com">Ecademy</a>, which I don't really "use" at all anymore (it's <a href="http://www.drupal.org">Drupal-powered</a> -- can you tell?)</p>
-
-<p>So, the three sites where I maintain active profiles are <a href="http://www.tribe.net">Tribe.net</a>, <a href="http://www.zerendipity.com">Zerendipity</a>, and <a href="http://www.linkedin.com">LinkedIn</a>. I do have a <a href="http://www.ryze.com">Ryze</a> profile, but I was totally turned off by the interface/usability.</p>
-
-<p>But, Tribe is the only one that I actually <strong>use</strong>. It has content that I go back for, and I usually check it several times a day (it could definitely use RSS feeds). Both LinkedIn and Zerendipity suffer from the fact that there is no content (apart from profiles) that keeps me coming back.</p>
-
-<p>Any social networking site that is going to rely on business-focused traffic better have some innovative ideas to get people coming back. Much of the buzz around current sites (like $10M for Friendster) seems to be focused on the sizzle that comes from the social aspects rather than any business taking place.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-11-17-groupcal.md b/_posts/archive/2003-11-17-groupcal.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c6f3dbc..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-11-17-groupcal.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: GroupCal
-created: 1069095180
-categories: 
-- Application
-- Mac
----
-An application currently in beta that allows you to publish and subscribe to Exchange calendars using iCal. This allows you to more easily integrate a Mac into a Microsoft environment.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-11-17-spoke.md b/_posts/archive/2003-11-17-spoke.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 7e5b2f4..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-11-17-spoke.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Spoke
-created: 1069138560
-categories: 
-- Social Media
----
-A social networking site whose business model is focused on selling an enterprise-focused version of its application. Also includes the need for an application that integrates into your email for auto-discovery of your network.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-11-17-theming-drupal.md b/_posts/archive/2003-11-17-theming-drupal.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 6e7e6bb..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-11-17-theming-drupal.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Theming Drupal
-created: 1069109462
-categories: 
-- Drupal
----
-<p>Woah.  Very cool that I can log into anyone's Drupal site using my very own Drupal account.</p>
-<p>
-Community building at it's best.
-</p>
-<p>
-In regards to our <a href="http://shard.servebeer.com/?q=node/view/10#comment">comments</a> on my site...
-</p>
-<p>
-I was playing with the Site Cloud and you were right - damn it's useless.  I figured it could display RSS feeds, but the News Feed mod apparently is what I was looking for.
-</p>
-<p>
-As for theming - the crappy start I have on my site is actually a modification of an existing theme.  I used it as a starting point but I think I'll take a look at the Xtemplate instead.  I found an interesting theme called tableless (actually I found it by searching for themes on your site) but I think I'll look at XTemplate first and see what interesting things I can do with it.  
-</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-11-18-sharing-itunes-and-iphoto-libraries-between-users.md b/_posts/archive/2003-11-18-sharing-itunes-and-iphoto-libraries-between-users.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 9b21882..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-11-18-sharing-itunes-and-iphoto-libraries-between-users.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,44 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Sharing iTunes and iPhoto libraries between users
-created: 1069209960
-categories: 
-- iTunes
-- iPhoto
-- sharing
-- Mac
-- iPhoto
-- iTunes
-- sharing
-- file upload
-- YouSendIt
-- Mac
-- file upload
-- iPhoto
-- iTunes
-- sharing
-- YouSendIt
-- Mac
-- file upload
-- iPhoto
-- iTunes
-- sharing
-- YouSendIt
-- Mac
----
-<p><strong>Problem: <em>You want all users on your machine to share an iTunes and iPhoto library</em></strong></p>
-<p>Using just the Finder and some aliases, this is fairly easily accomplished.</p>
-<p><!--break--></p>
-<p><strong>Sharing iTunes</strong></p>
-<p>For iTunes, this is relatively simple. Make sure iTunes is closed. Now, move your existing iTunes folder (the one you want to share -- located at <code>/Users/[username]/Music/iTunes</code>) to <code>/Users/Shared</code>.</p>
-<p>Select the iTunes folder that is in the Shared location and Get Info (Command-I) on it. In the Ownership &amp; Permissions section, change everything to Read &amp; Write, and click "Apply to enclosed items".</p>
-<p>Next, make an alias of the folder, move it back to your <code>~/Music</code> folder, and remove the "alias" string from the name. Repeat this step for all users that you want to have access to this shared library. You will need to delete their existing iTunes folder (which should be empty -- move or do a <a href="https://www.yousendit.com/">file upload</a>&nbsp;of any music to the Shared folder).</p>
-<p><strong>Sharing iPhoto</strong></p>
-<p>You can follow the same process as for the iTunes library, only the folder is called <code>iPhoto Library</code> and is located in the <code>~/Pictures</code> folder.</p>
-<p>However, this does not completely work. The link listed under resources describes modifying iPhoto to change permission settings, but it does not work completely either: both users may view all the photos, but there are permission errors related to importing images.</p>
-<p><a href="http://www.macosxhints.com/comment.php?mode=display&amp;sid=20030925091034677&amp;title=Sorry%2C+doesn%27t+%28completely%29+work%21&amp;type=article&amp;order=&amp;pid=30078">A comment on the Mac OS X Hints article</a> suggests running a cron job to reset permissions. This would work, but isn't a very elegant solution.</p>
-<p><strong>Resources</strong></p>
-<ul>
-	<li><a href="http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20030925091034677&amp;query=share+iphoto">Share iPhoto Libraries</a>: MacOSXHints</li>
-	<li><a href="http://www.malcolmadams.com/itunes/itinfo/sharedlib.shtml">How to share… (Doug's AppleScripts, Paul Withey)</a>: This is a much longer, more detailed description of essentially the same thing -- it seems to work perfectly under 10.2, but for Panther (as I mention above) importing by both users has permissions problems</li>
-</ul>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-11-18-squeezebox.md b/_posts/archive/2003-11-18-squeezebox.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 2308b73..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-11-18-squeezebox.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Squeezebox
-created: 1069224420
-categories: 
-- Multimedia PC
----
-[image:702,left,5,5]Greg first pointed out the release of <a href="http://www.slimdevices.com/pi_overview.html">Squeezebox</a> to me.
-
-The company, <a href="http://www.slimdevices.com/index.html">Slim Devices</a>, originally developed the SLIMP3, a very bare-bones device. This current version looks much more retail. The cost is $299US, which seems a bit high for a single-function device.
-<!--break-->
-The server software, <a href="http://www.slimdevices.com/pi_features.html">SlimServer</a>, works on all platforms (it's written in Perl) and even integrates with iTunes on both Mac and Windows, including Smart Playlist support.
-
-[image:703,left,5,5]Its main advantages seem to be that it is a very simple device, and that it has all required audio outputs, including a digital audio out.
-
-For the money, I would probably choose a <a href="http://www.prismiq.com">Prismiq</a> which also does photos and video. The Prismiq is $349CDN, and is actually available at FutureShop in Canada. At first glance it looks Windows-only, but the <a href="http://www.prismiq.org">associated open-source site</a> has the Linux server available.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-11-18-video-monitoring-with-e-smith.md b/_posts/archive/2003-11-18-video-monitoring-with-e-smith.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 0504233..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-11-18-video-monitoring-with-e-smith.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Video monitoring with E-smith
-created: 1069171860
-categories: 
-- E-smith
-- Home Server
----
-A HowTo guide on connecting a webcam to do video monitoring and motion detecting using your E-smith server.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-11-20-boris-and-bob-is-there-a-connection.md b/_posts/archive/2003-11-20-boris-and-bob-is-there-a-connection.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 90885c7..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-11-20-boris-and-bob-is-there-a-connection.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Boris and Bob, is there a connection?
-created: 1069375604
-categories: 
-- Web Development
----
-Bob Cringely updates his site with more colours and a bigger, more personal picture.
-
-Boris updates his own website, adding more colours and a picture that doesn't include industry figureheads beside it, although it does look a lot like something Tom Cruise might look like.
-
-Is there a connection?  Is Boris turning into a mad prophet of the web?
-
-Speaking of mad prophets of information mediums, I came across the movie Network recently, and absolutely loved it.  It's a 10 out of 10 for renting, absolutely hilarious and scathing criticism of news media back in the 70s, and things have only gotten worse in the news media since.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-11-20-opensourcexperts-redux.md b/_posts/archive/2003-11-20-opensourcexperts-redux.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 0d45a45..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-11-20-opensourcexperts-redux.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: OpenSourceXperts Redux
-created: 1069369860
-categories: 
-- Open Source
-- Social Media
----
-<p>I posted a link to <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/672">OpenSourceXperts</a> a couple of days ago. Working on my guide to installing the e-smith server, it occurred to me that the great <a href="http://www.e-smith.org">e-smith community</a> could benefit from their service.</p>
-
-<p>Now I've just gotten off an hour-long phone call to Berlin, where I spoke with Mark Pratt of <a href="http://www.beehive-eu.com/">beehive</a> (the company that is running OSX -- yes, it's unfortunate that the acronym looks like everyone's favourite operating system). No, I didn't call him -- he called me in response to my request to add <a href="http://www.opensourcexperts.com/Index/index_html/e-smith/index.html">e-smith</a> and <a href="http://www.opensourcexperts.com/Index/index_html/phpcollab/index.html">phpcollab</a>.</p>
-
-<p>Read on for details of the discussion and some thoughts on how this is actually another example of social software.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>A very long intense discussion, which ranged from "What is e-smith?" (kind of a sub-category of Linux, but also a one-of-a-kind, all-in-one server for businesses and home use) to discussing different consultant business models.</p>
-
-<p><acronym title="OpenSourceXperts">OSX</acronym> plans to add many other features. Matt was always at pains to point out that the <em>technical</em> work that they've done is nothing too mind-blowing -- it is the work they have put into the finance and legal aspects that is different, and important.</p>
-
-<p>So, as part of that goal, to also support the business aspects of open source and people that make their livelihood off it, various back-office-type features are eventually going to find their way into the system. Everything from service-contract generation (include boilerplate templates for OpenOffice, of course) to more advanced project management.</p>
-
-<p>I can honestly say that this is very interesting stuff. And it all seems to be a good thing. I seem to remember talking at length in university about having a loose confederation of "consultants", who could call on each others' skills in different engagements, and perhaps jointly fund various back-office services. OSX has the potential to become this for open source developers.</p>
-
-<p>Being in Europe may be a bit of a barrier for adoption here in North America. But, people everywhere are becoming used to the fact of business taking place online. The success (I don't have any numbers, but there seem to be a lot of people on the system) of <a href="http://www.experts-exchange.com/">Experts Exchange</a> should indicate that there is a market for this.</p>
-
-<p><em>(Matt -- I just had another idea: forums (hooked to an RSS feed and a mailing list, of course) where consultants and companies can talk about best-practices, swap tips on good service companies, etc.)</em></p>
-
-<p>On to the social software angle. Ultimately,  OSX is about people and projects. I didn't think of it when I was talking to Mark, but the system reminds me a bit of <a href="http://www.advogato.org/">Advogato</a> -- which also focuses on people and projects. Some of their learnings around trust metrics will likely be very useful for the future growth of OSX.</p>
-
-<p>Both in the case of OSX and Advogato, there are two types of objects: people and projects (although OSX does have companies as well, to which people may be attached). I would argue that both of these have "reputations" or "trust" attached to them. Some open source projects have very good reputations -- good code, good features, good community. And people and companies of course do too.</p>
-
-<p>So this is again driving towards the notion of profiles attached to people. Each person will want to describe their relationship to various open source projects. But then that's only their view -- other people may not agree, or may support the person.</p>
-
-<p>With real money (hopefully, once the system really gets going) in play, all of these fuzzy trust issues suddenly become serious. OSX serves as a type of escrow, but they will ultimately also have to act as moderators and dispute arbiters as well. All I can say is, it's going to be interesting. In the meantime, I've sent a long email off to Matt with some feedback on the current site.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-11-21-currency-converter-bank-of-canada.md b/_posts/archive/2003-11-21-currency-converter-bank-of-canada.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f70d95a..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-11-21-currency-converter-bank-of-canada.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Currency Converter - Bank of Canada
-created: 1069430460
-categories: 
-- Canada
----
-The Bank of Canada's online currency converter allows you to convert from/to virtually any currency. As well, you can get conversion rates for a specific date, useful for invoices or other financial transactions between countries where you can agree on a conversion rate when the invoice is issued.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-11-21-magnolia.md b/_posts/archive/2003-11-21-magnolia.md
deleted file mode 100644
index ea7bd16..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-11-21-magnolia.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Magnolia
-created: 1069429620
-categories: 
-- Web 2.0
----
-Magnolia is written in Java and uses the upcoming standard API for Java-based content repositories [JCR] to access its content. It has an easy to use WebBrowser Interface, a clear API and a useful custom tag library for easy templating in JSP and Servlets.
-
-Magnolia is actively been developed by obinary ltd. and is available free of charge as an open source product. We provide a binary download based on tomcat for easy deployment on Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, Solaris. 
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-11-22-cmsreview-feature-directory.md b/_posts/archive/2003-11-22-cmsreview-feature-directory.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 1dc3750..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-11-22-cmsreview-feature-directory.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: CMSReview Feature Directory
-created: 1069518660
-categories: 
-- CMS
----
-[image:717,left,5,5]<p>I wandered into weird corners of the web last night and came across the <a href="http://www.cmsreview.com/timeLines/ShopFeatureDirectory.html">CMSReview Feature Directory</a>. Apparently, it's an example of using "faceted classification" to make a decision.</p>
-
-<p>I found the link through <a href="http://poorbuthappy.com/ease/">Peter Van Dijck's blog</a> -- <a href="http://poorbuthappy.com/ease/archives/002332.html">this other story</a> gives a good example of faceted classification.</p>
-
-<p>Read on to see the choices I made to get those 5 choices listed.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>As you can see from the screenshot, the decision is over what <acronym title="Content Management System">CMS</acronym> to use. The choices I made were:</p>
-
-<ol>
-<li><strong>Platform:</strong> runs on Linux</li>
-<li><strong>Programming Language:</strong> PHP</li>
-<li><strong>Database:</strong> MySQL</li>
-<li><strong>License:</strong> GPL</li>
-<li><strong>Type of CMS:</strong> General</li>
-</ol>
-
-<p>(in case you can't read the apps, they are <a href="http://www.ariadne-cms.net/">Ariadne</a>, <a href="http://www.bitflux.ch/developer/cms/">Bitflux</a>, <a href="http://www.drupal.org">Drupal</a>, <a href="http://www.ez.no/">eZ Publish</a>, and <a href="http://tikiwiki.org/tiki-view_articles.php">Tiki</a>)</p>
-
-<p>I have installed all of the apps listed except for Bitflux. And I'll probably go back and do test installs of all them to remember what they're like. I used the same process (essentially) to pick Drupal for use here, only I did it unconsciously: installing and working with numerous CMS. I instinctively knew what my requirements were</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-11-22-ical-birthday-shifter.md b/_posts/archive/2003-11-22-ical-birthday-shifter.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c70e661..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-11-22-ical-birthday-shifter.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: iCal Birthday Shifter
-created: 1069562820
-categories: 
-- Application
-- Mac
----
-For no good reason, iCal 1.0 can't automatically grab birthdays from your Address Book. iCal Birthday Shifter "addresses" this problem! You can choose which calendar to add the birthday events to, and if you have a Birthdays calendar, it will be preselected automatically.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-11-24-flexible-layout.md b/_posts/archive/2003-11-24-flexible-layout.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 8ba0e04..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-11-24-flexible-layout.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Flexible Layout
-created: 1069702740
-categories: 
-- Web Development
----
-<p>Seen on <a href="http://archivist.incutio.com/viewlist/css-discuss/34401">css-discuss</a>, from Tonico Strasser:</p>
-<pre>
-here comes a new CSS layout.
-The techniques aren't really new, but maybe the combination of them ;)
-My motivation was to create a robust flexible layout for portal software like Plone.
-
-Check it out:
-  http://www.webproducer.at/flexible-layout/
-  http://www.webproducer.at/flexible-layout/layout.css
-
-Some highlights:
-
-* Min-max width for IE
-* Everything in EM (change your browser font size to see the effect)
-* Source ordered
-* Full height columns
-* Switch between one two or three columns
-* Fixed width side-columns
-</pre>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-11-25-reading-up-on-social-software.md b/_posts/archive/2003-11-25-reading-up-on-social-software.md
deleted file mode 100644
index bcd27e5..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-11-25-reading-up-on-social-software.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Reading up on Social Software
-created: 1069797060
-categories: 
-- Social Media
----
-<p>The other day Lloyd was asking me whether I had a definition handy for Social Software. I started searching the site here (social software category <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/taxonomy/page/or/47">here</a>) and realized that while I had talked about various aspects at length, I never put a definition down. Blame it on me having internalized the meaning without actually bothering to come up with a succinct definition.</p>
-
-<p>So, appropriately enough, <a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0110772/2003/11/25.html#a1265">Seb's Open Research</a> points me to <a href="http://ross.typepad.com/blog/2003/11/social_software.html">Ross Mayfield's Social Software Reader</a> -- a collection of links to stories and articles describing and analyzing social software.</p>
-
-<p>Read on for my pick of a definition.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>I think I like the <a href="http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?SocialSoftware">Meatball Wiki</a> description the best and most readable, although many of the other articles are worthwhile to get a sense of the space. Here's a quoted quote from the Meatball Wiki:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-<p>However, many have realized that in fact these definitions aren't the right answer, weighting the "software" part more than the "social." MattJones? observed that:</p>
-
-<p><em>Usenet and groupware apps were designed to scale from a technical and business point of view, not from a social point of view. That's why they sucked, because they didn't look at how humans work on social scale. That's what's new now I think, is that we're looking much more to the real world being helped by software than software simulating a perfect system that we adapt to.</em></p>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>So that's my definition: software that focuses and tries to assist the way people work, as opposed to the other way around. It's nicely broad, and encompasses the theory or goal. Whether this is really implemented in practice is another question. Perhaps "More Social" is a better term, at least until we get smarter chips that are better at dealing with the vagaries inherent in human interaction.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-11-27-acm-queue-conversation-with-peter-ford-chief-architect-for-msn-messenger.md b/_posts/archive/2003-11-27-acm-queue-conversation-with-peter-ford-chief-architect-for-msn-messenger.md
deleted file mode 100644
index ca8dbe9..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-11-27-acm-queue-conversation-with-peter-ford-chief-architect-for-msn-messenger.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "ACM Queue: Conversation with Peter Ford (Chief Architect for MSN Messenger)"
-created: 1069943340
-categories: 
-- IM
-- VoIP
----
-<p>Greg brought this article to my attention, which is an <a href="http://www.acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=89&page=1">interview with Peter Ford</a>, the chief architect for MSN Messenger. The interview questions are asked by Eric Allman, chief technology officer and founder of <a href="http://www.sendmail.com/">Sendmail</a>.</p>
-
-<p>I learned a few interesting tid-bits from the article, such as the fact that the newest versions of MSN Messenger are actually based around <acronym title="Session Initiation Protocol">SIP</acronym>, which is the standard that all newer VoIP implementations are based on as well.</p>
-
-<p>Read on for the protocol battle and some quotes.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>So SIP is supported by Microsoft, Lotus, Sun, and Novell (in IM -- as I said, telecommunications companies are going to be using SIP as well, just not for IM at this point). I'll have to ask Dave and Trevor what Nortel is using for presence/IM. Also, although it wasn't mentioned, iChat AV is based on SIP. There still really don't seem to be any technical details on this, and does this mean that <acronym title="AOL Instant Messaging">AIM</acronym> (since it can talk to iChat users) is also based on SIP?</p>
-
-<p>Here's the relevant information <a href="http://www.instantmessagingplanet.com/public/article.php/2226921">Instant Messaging Planet</a>, found at <a href="http://forums.osxfaq.com/viewtopic.php?t=6842">OSXFAQ</a>:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-While it uses SIP to launch a multimedia session, iChat AV doesn't seem to function as a full-featured SIP client, however. Aside from receiving initiation requests in conjunction with AIM, the client can't initiate Voice-over-IP sessions using standard SIP INVITE messages -- for instance, those originating from a SIP phone.
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>So AIM is AIM, and SIP is handled separately for the voice and/or video.</p>
-
-<p>On the other side of the fence, <acronym title="eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol">XMPP</acronym> (which is really just a standardized version of <a href="http://www.jabber.org">Jabber</a>) is being used by Intel, HP, Hitachi, Sony, and "more or less the entire open source world".</p>
-
-<p>The trick between these two protocols is one of intended purpose. XMPP was designed from the ground up to support presence and other IM features. SIP, on the other hand, was actually designed to connect two end-points (hence "Session Initiation Protocol") -- passing media (eg. audio) is actually handled by <acronym title="Real Time Protocol">RTP</acronym> or <acronym title="Real Time Streaming Protocol">RTSP</acronym>.</p>
-
-<p>In this case I'm (gasp!) actually going to side with Microsoft: I think SIP should be the basis for further development in the IM world, as it will also support voice and eventually video. But, instead of cloodging on presence onto the SIP spec, why not use XMPP alongside/encapsulated with SIP? Heck, this even leaves the door open for cool stuff like text-to-speech and speech-to-text: IM someone on their phone, and it could speak it to them. Call a deaf person and it gets translated to text.</p>
-
-<p>A discussion about what happens to IM messages when you are offline was interesting -- mainly because <a href="http://www.icq.com">ICQ</a> (the first big IM network) has always supported this.</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-The current IM clouds really aren't built for that. By building smarter endpoints, it's pretty easy to get that kind of functionality. Then, also, in the MSN messenger network, we don't actually go peer to peer with text messaging. We always go through an intermediate system we call a switchboard. You could put something like a queuing mechanism there. We don't do queuing today.
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Lots of good stuff in the article, although it seemed to me that Eric Allman could have challenged Peter Ford a lot more -- there wasn't a lot of confrontation on any of Ford's points.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-11-27-hints-for-apple-tablet-coming-please-give-us-iphoto-for-windows.md b/_posts/archive/2003-11-27-hints-for-apple-tablet-coming-please-give-us-iphoto-for-windows.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a3d21ec..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-11-27-hints-for-apple-tablet-coming-please-give-us-iphoto-for-windows.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Hints for Apple: Tablet coming, please give us iPhoto for Windows"
-created: 1069939140
-categories: 
-- Mac
-- Multimedia PC
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<p>I love it when the Apple rumour mill starts whirring! <a href="http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20031127.html">Cringely figures</a> that the Apple Tablet will be the link between your PC and the TV, using a pre-standard version of <acronym title="Ultra-Wide Band">UWB</acronym> -- a very high speed Personal Area Network (PAN) wireless spec that will be capable of streaming video.</p>
-
-<p>Next up, <a href="http://yahoo.businessweek.com/technology/content/nov2003/tc20031126_2159_tc056.htm">BusinessWeek Online</a> pleads with Jobs to come out with a version of iPhoto for Windows.</p>
-
-<p>Read on for some article quotes and my take.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>So Cringely figures that the tablet should have digital hub applications as their killer app to drive sales beyond just the "comfortable" market of graphics professionals.</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-The tablet PC killer app for the mass market is functioning as a digital hub, a general concept both Apple and Microsoft have been pushing for a couple years. It's the idea that your computer ought to control your TV and your stereo and your VCR. The only problem has been that there isn't a good way to link these things all together, and even if we do, that digital hub isn't anywhere near your TV, at least not yet.
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>I just don't see it. A dedicated multimedia PC or home server driving the TV through a 10ft interface seems much better than a tablet -- the tablet can be just another client. His thoughts on UWB and Apple are interesting to speculate about, though.</p>
-
-<p>Just like everyone loves iTunes and the iPod, it seems like everyone loves iPhoto, too. BusinessWeek figures there's a fair bit of money in it for Apple:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-So how big a market could this create for Apple? That's hard to tell. If Apple could convince even 3% of all digital-camera buyers to purchase iPhoto software next year -- say, for $30 -- then it would grab revenues of $45 million. That could conceivably climb to $100 million or more within a few years if Apple manages to merely maintain that market share.
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>With the only real contender against iPhoto that I've seen being the <a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshopalbum/main.html">Adobe Photoshop Album</a>, this could definitely work.</p>
-
-<p>The article also covers some of the potential downsides of releasing more programs for Windows -- such as a decrease in demand for Mac hardware -- but the fact that all these programs come bundled for "free" with every Mac means that sales won't be negatively affected. And perhaps, as Windows users see more of the cool apps on the Mac side, there might be more switchers.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-12-01-unofficial-mozilla-for-mac-os-9.md b/_posts/archive/2003-12-01-unofficial-mozilla-for-mac-os-9.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 8392730..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-12-01-unofficial-mozilla-for-mac-os-9.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Unofficial Mozilla for Mac OS 9
-created: 1070307060
-categories: 
-- Application
-- Mac
----
-Provides binaries of Mozilla for OS 9.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-12-01-wamcon.md b/_posts/archive/2003-12-01-wamcon.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 0614a94..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-12-01-wamcon.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: WaMCon
-created: 1070306940
-categories: 
-- "*nix"
-- Application
-- Mac
-- Microsoft
----
-End users are looking for stable software. But the Mozilla organization makes it clear to say: "We make binary versions of Mozilla available for testing purposes only!" 
-
-The intention of WaMCom.org is to produce web browser and mail client software that is more stable and more correct than the test releases produced by the Mozilla.org organization, in the hope it is suitable for end users. In order to achieve that, stable Mozilla releases are extended with correctness fixes.
-
-In addition it contains some security and cryptography enhancements.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-12-05-two-wikis-and-a-microphone.md b/_posts/archive/2003-12-05-two-wikis-and-a-microphone.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 2729956..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-12-05-two-wikis-and-a-microphone.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Two wikis and a microphone
-created: 1070646480
-categories: 
-- CMS
-- Web Development
----
-<p>Since <a href="http://www.foolswisdom.com">Lloyd</a> shared his desire to implement his site/blog/knowledge-store as a wiki, I've been keeping an eye out for good wiki implementations.</p>
-
-<p><a href="http://simon.incutio.com/archive/2003/12/05/simple">Simon Willison</a> writes about an unusual way of using a wiki to maintain a site without the typical (ugly) wiki look-and-feel:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-[The CMS] was based on <a href="http://tavi.sourceforge.net/">Tavi Wiki</a>, and consisted of a password protected Tavi install for the back end and a slightly modified separate install for the front end. Both installs pointed to the same database, but the front end was altered to disable all editing features and make the site look less like a Wiki. You can see the end result <a href="http://simon.incutio.com/uni/scheme/">here</a>.
-</blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-12-08-itunes-catalog.md b/_posts/archive/2003-12-08-itunes-catalog.md
deleted file mode 100644
index af4cf83..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-12-08-itunes-catalog.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: iTunes Catalog
-created: 1070915880
-categories: 
-- Application
-- Mac
-- Music
----
-Makes catalogs out of your iTunes Library. Also will download album artwork and copy it into iTunes. Outputs to HTML, PDF, plain text, and XML.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-12-11-classification-for-email-and-images.md b/_posts/archive/2003-12-11-classification-for-email-and-images.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 6d89f54..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-12-11-classification-for-email-and-images.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Classification for email and images
-created: 1071206220
-categories: 
-- Knowledge Management
----
-<p>The post at <a href="http://www.giantant.com/antenna/archive/2003_12.php3#000748">a n t e n n a</a> made me think how I recently started dealing with email.</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-Search (across and within mail folders) is a major improvement, but it sure would be helpful to assign keywords to individual messages and then be able to filter by keyword or date or author etc (and the distinction between filter and sort is an important one).
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>An addendum points to <a href="http://www.research.ibm.com/remail/index.html">ReMail</a>, an IBM research project. Much of this stuff continues to seem a lot like <a href="http://www.zoe.nu/">Zoe</a>. I just wish that I could install it on my server without difficulties.</p>
-
-<!--break-->
-<p>I use IMAP, but actually moved away from keeping all my email online. Just too hard to back up, and too much of a calamity if I somehow can't get access. So, only my Inbox is perpetually online. But even it has grown too large. So, I now have a rule that moves everything older than 30 days into a local Archives folder.</p>
-
-<p><a href="http://www.orangecone.com/archives/000074.html">Orange Cone</a> talks about the proliferation of images, and also the images we find interesting.</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-I definitely agree that there's a value in technologies that forget for us, that filter for us, that make some things more important.
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>I continue to happily tip my hat to <a href="http://poorbuthappy.com/ease/archives/002439.html">Guide to Ease</a> for the pointers.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-12-11-css-maxdesign-com-au.md b/_posts/archive/2003-12-11-css-maxdesign-com-au.md
deleted file mode 100644
index d226d0d..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-12-11-css-maxdesign-com-au.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: css.maxdesign.com.au
-created: 1071208560
-categories: 
-- Web Development
----
-Home of Listamatic, Floatutorial, and Selectutorial -- all great CSS resources.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-12-11-david-isenberg-smart-letter-91.md b/_posts/archive/2003-12-11-david-isenberg-smart-letter-91.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a4a1fd0..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-12-11-david-isenberg-smart-letter-91.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,274 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "David Isenberg: SMART Letter #91"
-created: 1071193740
-categories: 
-- VoIP
-- Personal Publishing
----
-<p>Greg sent me this newsletter by <a href="http://www.isen.com/">David Isenberg</a>.</p>
-
-<p>The newsletter is reprinted in full below. I'm going to sign up to the <a href="http://www.isen.com/SMARTreqScript.html">mailing list</a>. Isenberg's original claim-to-fame is because of writing <a href="http://www.hyperorg.com/misc/stupidnet.html">The Rise of the Stupid Network</a>. In short, to nicely go along with this newsletter, the network is dumb transport with smart(er) endpoints, and telcos are likely going to be going away.</p>
-<p>Isenberg also talks about RSS -- it's not a fad, it's not going away, start using it now. He's got a <a href="http://www.isen.com/blog"">blog</a> too, <strike>but no RSS feed (he's using Blogger). Hopefully that will change soon</strike>. Big blue <a href="http://isen.com/blog/index.rdf">RSS</a> icon. Can't miss it unless you are looking for a small orange XML icon.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<pre>
-CONTENTS
- The Story Under the VoIP Story
- Destroy My Business Model?  Yawn.
- isen.blog and The SMART Letter
- Conferences on my Calendar
- Copyright Notice, Administrivia
----
-
-The Story Under the VoIP Story
-by David S. Isenberg
-
-These days there's a flurry of newspaper stories about VoIP 
-(Voice over Internet Protocol) every few days, as if VoIP 
-is going to save the telecommunications industry -- or 
-maybe the entire tech investment sector.  The stocks of 
-Net2Phone and VocalTec and DeltaThree are surging.  Today 
-Verizon's going to do it.  Yesterday, Time Warner telecom 
-announced expansion of recent VoIP trials to all 18 million 
-customers.  Last week Qwest announced VoIP in Minnesota.  
-
-But the larger story is not "new life for the telecom 
-sector."  Quite the opposite.  Because while VoIP will 
-probably be good in the long run for the tech sector as a 
-whole, VoIP will hasten the end of telephony-classic.
-
-The mainstream press gets the "VoIP cheaper" angle.  Many 
-stories note that a VoIP package at $39.95 a month is 
-cheaper than the ILEC's comparable $59.95 plan.  They 
-report correctly that this is due to the unregulated nature 
-of the Internet (escape from universal service 
-contributions, etc.) and to competitive pricing on bundles 
-of feature like caller ID, call waiting, et cetera, with 
-formerly fat margins.  They often cite the greater 
-efficiency of IP over circuit-oriented protocols (but tend 
-to overblow the technology advantage).
-
-Sometimes the mainstream press gets little pieces of the 
-"VoIP better" angle, too.  Recent VoIP stories acknowledge 
-that enterprises can consolidate voice and data on one 
-network, and that moves, adds and changes can be done more 
-easily under VoIP.  A recent Wall Street Journal story 
-(December 9, 2003) even suggested a future Time Warner 
-integration of VoIP with Instant Messaging, but it failed 
-to follow with what that's good for, and what it replaces.  
-Further, most stories don't mention that VoIP over cable or 
-DSL can support multiple "lines", multiple numbers, and 
-multiple simultaneous calls per household with no new 
-wiring.  Nor do they explore the implications of plugging 
-your U.S. landline number into a DSL or Cable connection 
-Japan or Mexico.  
-
-These little blind spots are symptoms of not grasping the 
-larger story -- the destruction of the telcos.  Sometimes 
-the mainstream press pays lip service to "the potential 
-threat to local phone companies," but usually this is cast 
-as a battle of telco versus cableco.  The biggest story 
-still eludes the media:  The telco business model -- that 
-is, the delivery of my app (voice) over my net (switched 
-circuits) for one integrated monthly price -- is going 
-away.  
-
-The reason is that VoIP makes voice just another 
-application on the Internet.  VoIP stories that focus on 
-the clash between telcos and cablecos fail to grasp the 
-importance of Vonage, Packet8, Galaxy Internet Services, 
-MyBroadLine, VoicePulse and Addaline, VoIP services -- 
-applications, really, because they work just fine, no 
-matter whose connection service they use.  And even as 
-these are halfway steps because they interface with the 
-switched telephone network via gateways, so do they provide 
-the means for pure Internet calling that bypasses the old 
-network -- and the old business model -- altogether.  
-
-Meanwhile in Estonia, Ross Mayfield reports 
-http://tinyurl.com/ynwt that Skype, an Internet telephony 
-application that doesn't even share a numbering plan with 
-conventional telephony has hit the tipping point.  Even 
-doctors are using it to communicate with patients (while 
-U.S. doctors don't even use email).  Ross reports that 
-because Skype's "mode of use differs it is gaining a 
-different culture of use."  The future is not evenly 
-distributed.
-
-Nor is mobile service sacred.  Today it is based on a 
-conventional, vertically integrated, circuit-switched 
-model.  Tomorrow it will go the way of the wireless 
-Internet.
-
-If the telcos are to survive, they will have to choose 
-whether they're going to sell "my app over anybody's net," 
-or "anybody's app over my net."  That is, in the age of the 
-Internet, a company can be an application provider or a 
-connectivity provider.  One company will not want to do 
-both.  An app provider will want to use anybody's network.  
-Imagine, for example, VoIP that works on DSL but not WiFi.  
-Apps want to treat all networks the same.  Conversely, a 
-connectivity provider will want to carry everybody's 
-traffic.  Customers will not want to access some Internet 
-apps over one ISP's connection and other apps over 
-another's.  I suppose that it is *possible* for one company 
-to do both apps and connections, but if so, one half will 
-need to treat the other half's competitors as customers.  
-What clear-thinking company would want to do that?
-
-Telcos are already in trouble.  Voice revenues are the 
-lifeblood of a telco.  In 2002, telcos lost about 4% of 
-voice-grade lines every year.  The shift to VoIP, 
-especially to Vonage-type services, that is, services that 
-can connect to the Internet via any connection, will reduce 
-the need for conventional lines further.  The telcos could 
-switch to data, but even as their data service sales grow, 
-they're finding it hard to make a profit on data.  In 
-mature mobile markets, every user who wants service has it 
-and revenues per user are flattening out; the shift to VoIP 
-is only a matter of time.
-
-Martin Geddes examines the shift from a different angle in 
-his aptly named blog, Telepocalypse 
-http://tinyurl.com/yne4.  Geddes figures that if a 
-hypothetical telephone company with revenues of US$25 
-billion per year is to survive a Gartner Group prediction 
-that the last circuit-switched call will be made in year 
-2020, then this hypothetical telco would have to find (and 
-sustain) US$600 million in new business for 17 years, 
-through 2020.  Total U.S. telecom revenues are about US$300 
-billion per year, so using Geddes' calculation the U.S. 
-telecom sector would need to find US$7 billion in new 
-business every year.  This is only plausible under the most 
-extreme of scenarios.  More likely, the U.S. telecom sector 
-will shrink by US$7 billion each year.  Other mature 
-markets will shrink accordingly.
-
-This, then, is the story under the VoIP story that the 
-mainstream press is missing -- the telephone companies as 
-we know them are, barring some extremely regressive 
-shenannigans, on their way out.  This departure will not be 
-linear or smooth -- nothing that big and well established 
-disappears without a struggle, or without unintended 
-consequences.  But the telcos won't cross this chasm by 
-sauntering out over the edge at their accustomed pace, and 
-they don't have the innovative muscle to make the jump.
--------
-
-Destroy my Business Model?  Yawn.
-by David S. Isenberg
-
-Back in 1998, Tom Petzinger's Wall Street Journal write-up 
-of my attempts to convince AT&T to change her obsolete ways 
-http://tinyurl.com/yf3r set my phone a ringing for weeks.  
-In contrast, an October 9, 2003 Wall Street Journal front 
-page story on VoIP http://tinyurl.com/yf6p, which quoted me 
-saying that VoIP, "destroys the incumbent telephone-company 
-business model," created no detectable inbound activity on 
-1-888-isen-com.
-
-I wonder why I'm not besieged by worried telco execs trying 
-to understand why I said that.  Maybe they already know the 
-problem and they're evolving as fast as they can.  Or maybe 
-I'm obviously wrong, or obviously uninsightful.  
-
-Maybe.  But I have an alternative interpretation.  I think 
-that telco corporate culture doesn't value discussing 
-business models.  That was my experience at AT&T anyway.  I 
-have two guesses about why:
-
-Guess #1: Maybe telco execs don't talk about business 
-models for the same reason that fish don't talk about 
-water. They were handed an established business model at 
-the beginning of their career. It was, literally, a given. 
-
-Guess #2: Maybe, like sex, talking about business models is 
-just not a polite thing to do in certain circles.  If so, 
-we'd expect telco execs to talk about it in private, with 
-anxiety-releasing humor and myth in lieu of fact.
-
-In either case, there is something deeply unsettling about 
-discussing anything identified with you that's about to 
-fail. However, telco execs who can learn new job skills 
-(Guess #1) or overcome cultural shibboleths (Guess #2) -- 
-who can muster what it takes to examine their business 
-model and its alternatives squarely -- are more likely to 
-survive. Those who don't won't.
--------
-
-isen.blog and The SMART Letter
-by David S. Isenberg
-
-I've started a weblog.  It is called isen.blog.  It lives 
-at http://isen.com/blog.  Many of the readers of The SMART 
-Letter have found isen.blog.  But there are still people, 
-telecom-literate people, who don't know what a weblog 
-(blog) is yet.  
-
-Blogs are a winner app, not a fad.  By analogy, at a recent 
-FCC event, Kevin Werbach showed 3 Venn diagrams depicting 
-data, telephony, wireless, broadcast, etc.  In diagram #1 
-data was shown as a little circle inside a bigger circle 
-called "telecom."  In diagram #2 the data circle was 
-outside the telecom circle, showing the results of the 
-FCC's Computer Inquiry, which decided that data was an 
-"enhanced service."  In diagram #3 the data circle was so 
-big that the circles for broadcast, cable and wireless were 
-inside it.  As late as 2001 an ILEC exec was marveling at 
-how long the data "fad" had lasted. Blogs will do that too.
-
-Start reading the blogs.  Read isen.blog.  But don't stop 
-there.  Follow some links.  One of the best collections of 
-other people's blogs is David Weinberger's "Joho the Blog" 
-at http://hyperorg.com/blogger.  Another fabulous blog, by 
-a woman who writes like she's sitting in your living room 
-looking into your eyes, is http://riverbendblog.com.
-
-RSS makes blogging even more powerful.  What's that?  
-Here's a really simple summary; RSS is a way to track 
-changes on a website without going there and saying, "Oh, 
-yeah, seen all this before," or, conversely, "Gosh, that 
-looks new."  I won't explain anymore; you don't need to 
-know.  But you should experience RSS.  
-
-My RSS experience comes from the FeedDemon RSS reader.  It 
-is a little program that runs inside my PC.  You can 
-download and install it at http://feeddemon.com.  There are 
-other RSS readers besides FeedDemon, but I found FeedDemon 
-fall-off-a-log easy to install and use.  No instructions 
-necessary.  Do it now.  But please remember to come back 
-and read the rest of this SMART Letter.  
-
-And the future of The SMART Letter?  It provides a less 
-instant, perhaps more thoughtful, more permanent venue for 
-my writing than isen.blog.  I'd like to keep doing it.  
-Despite the write-now tug of the blog.  If I write them 
-both, will readers read both?
--------
-
-CONFERENCES ON MY CALENDAR
-
-January 27-28, 2004, Bedfont Lakes, Middlesex, UK.  Access 
-to Broadband Campaign: Revolution at the Edge.  Second 
-annual meeting.  I'll be the first keynote speaker.  My 
-friends and colleagues Peter Cochrane and Dewayne Hendricks 
-will participate too.  http://www.abcampaign.org.uk/
-
-March 12-16, 2004, Austin TX.  Wireless Futures (A 
-conference within the South by SouthWest multi-palooza).  
-Don't know much about this yet, but from the list of 
-invitees, it's going to be good.  http://wirelessfuture.org
--------
-
-COPYRIGHT NOTICE: Redistribution of this document, or any 
-part of it, is permitted for non-commercial purposes, 
-provided that the two lines below are reproduced with it: 
-Copyright 2003 by David S. Isenberg 
-isen@isen.com -- http://isen.com/ -- 1-888-isen-com 
--------
-
-[To join the SMART List, click on
-http://isen.com/SMARTreqScript.html and fill in the form.
-The goal is to create a relationship, so I know something
-about why you're reading the SMART List.]
-</pre>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-12-11-minding-the-planet-the-birth-of-the-metaweb.md b/_posts/archive/2003-12-11-minding-the-planet-the-birth-of-the-metaweb.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 5fbeba2..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-12-11-minding-the-planet-the-birth-of-the-metaweb.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Minding the Planet: The Birth of the Metaweb"
-created: 1071214080
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
-- Social Media
----
-<p>Is it hype? I'm too far gone drinking the Kool-Aid to tell. Go read <a href="http://novaspivack.typepad.com/nova_spivacks_weblog/2003/12/the_birth_of_th.html">Nova Spivack</a> and make up your own mind. In short, RSS supplanting email, becoming the primary transport used on the web.</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-My projections indicate that within 5 years almost every Weblog will provide an RSS channel of its content. In coming years a large percentage of consumers and professionals are expected to begin blogging -- Weblogs are the new homepages; everyone should have one.
-</blockquote>
-<!--break-->
-<p>There is more to this than meets the eye -- when people == weblog, this means that a person's profile is their weblog. Or could their profile actually be their weblog?</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-12-11-sagetv-frey-technologies.md b/_posts/archive/2003-12-11-sagetv-frey-technologies.md
deleted file mode 100644
index fa11fae..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-12-11-sagetv-frey-technologies.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: SageTV (Frey Technologies)
-created: 1071200940
-categories: 
-- Application
-- Microsoft
-- Multimedia PC
----
-A software PVR package. One of its main differentiators is "<a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/539#1269">network capture and multiple card capture capabilites</a>", according to David. S.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-12-11-snarbs-controller-salling-clicker-plug-ins.md b/_posts/archive/2003-12-11-snarbs-controller-salling-clicker-plug-ins.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e87aee6..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-12-11-snarbs-controller-salling-clicker-plug-ins.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Snarb's Controller - Salling Clicker Plug-Ins
-created: 1071205620
-categories: 
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-Salling Clicker plug-ins that provide controls for VLC and MPlayer. Control these apps using Bluetooth from your cellphone or PDA.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-12-17-fatport-now-offering-voip-service-through-mobitus.md b/_posts/archive/2003-12-17-fatport-now-offering-voip-service-through-mobitus.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 880ffa1..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-12-17-fatport-now-offering-voip-service-through-mobitus.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Fatport now offering VoIP service through mobitus
-created: 1071708240
-categories: 
-- VoIP
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<p><a href="http://wifinetnews.com/archives/002693.html">According to Wi-Fi Networking News</a>, FatPort is offering VoIP service through a division called <a href="http://www.mobitus.com/">mobitus</a>.</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-Users must get the mobitus software phone for their laptops and a headset. The service costs $16.95 (CDN) a month which includes unlimited calls to other mobitus customers. Long distance rates apply to long-distance calls to non-mobitus users.
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>This is very cool, because it shows that FatPort understands one of the hurdles of their service: what do you do with a wireless Internet connection? They are attacking this by developing the services themselves.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>The service includes voicemail, call display, call waiting, and 3-way calling. You get email when you have voicemail. You can even get a toll-free number so that anyone in North America can call you for free. Currently, no support for a "real" phone number, but this is planned to be offered for US, Canadian, and UK phone numbers for an additional charge.</p>
-
-<p>The system requirements list Windows-only options, but the <a href="http://www.mobitus.com/support/faq/">FAQ</a> lists all the details you need to set up any software or hardware SIP clients. Which means Mac users could use the softphone from <a href="http://www.xten.com/">Xten</a>. Hmmm...seeing as how I haven't really gotten around to using the <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/373">Free World Dialup</a> number I have, I don't know if I would use this, yet. The choice of broadband connections is still in my future here in Vancouver, so something else that can perhaps help me avoid getting a landline.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-12-17-return-of-the-awesome.md b/_posts/archive/2003-12-17-return-of-the-awesome.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c1cff6a..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-12-17-return-of-the-awesome.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Return of the Awesome.
-created: 1071693247
-categories: 
-- Movie
----
-Warning:  Some spoilers.
-
-The Lord of the Rings trilogy - awesome, even better, and truly epic and spectacular.  I saw all three movies up on the big screen one last time yesterday, an event that started at 9:30 AM and went until 1:18 AM the next day.  There is nothing available for one's home that can match a theatre in terms of quality of screen size, though Sound can be matched  to the thundering, seat-vibrating bass pumped out by some of these movies.
-
-This three movie showing used the extended footage editions of Fellowship and Two Towers, I have the FOTR extended version on DVD, but the TTT extended scenes I'd only read about.  Both movies were wondrous on the big screen again, every time I watch them I sense increasingly more subtleties in the sound and scenes, and still wonder where I was when some of those scenes flashed by me.  Paying adult price to see them both again was well worth it, for the TTT extended footage, and seeing both in a theatre in what might be the last time ever.
-
-Then came Return of the King, and all of a sudden Peter Jackson revealed an entirely different nuance to his movies - a slightly depraved side of life in Middle Earth.  We see the story of Deagol and Smeagol when Deagol finds the ring, and it drives Smeagol to strangle him.  Fortunately, Andy Serkis played Smeagol and finally gets his face on screen, but a short while later I realized - Smeagol's face is modeled after Serkis' own, only the eyes and perhaps the upper skull don't precisely match.  A nice but disturbing piece, it looked horribly out of place and was perhaps over-done in terms of the introductory scene set decor.  But Serkis had to be put on screen, his contribution and committment to the role of Gollum was extreme, and the drain of having to do "the voice" to thousands of different reporters and PR shows can drive an actor to fear about getting future roles in anything other than that typecast.
-
-Over the rest of the Return of the King show, I got a deep chill after some of the epic scenes.  The battle of the Pelennor fields and defense of Minas Tirith was unbelievably well done, with scenes of the Rohirrim wading deep into the enemy, fey as they were.  The challenge of Dernhelm (Eowyn) and Merry Brandybuck versus the Witch King of Angband was also something unbelievably good.  The tense scenes when the Captains of the West go out to challenge the Black Gates and when Sam and Frodo are making their way across the plains of Mordor was also extremely well done - the Eye of Sauron actually pauses on Sam and Frodo for a few moments just as the Captains are waiting outside the gates.  
-
-The heroism of both Pippin and Merry, and their use as comedy relief is very refreshing, as is a spectacularly funny exchange between Eowyn and Eomer.  Eomer notices Merry suited in the gear of the Rohirrim and overhears Eowyn telling Merry to go to the grinding tent to get his sword sharpened.  
-
-Eomer: You shouldn't lead him on like that.
-Eowyn: Do you doubt his courage?
-Eomer: I doubt not his courage.  Only the length of his arm.
-
-The audience roared on several occasions in ROTK, on many occasions in FOTR and TTT.  The ending scenes were heartfelt and wondrous, with reunions, but there was a moment when the scene went dark just as the battle in front of the Black Gates and I burst out laughing - PJ sending the audience into plunging fear, thinking there may be nothing afterwards but end credits.  The movie went on for another 20 minutes after that, at least.  The Grey Havens scene was beautiful, with a short glimpse of the sea.  I think the four hobbit actors were told then that they would never be together again, because they were all bawling their eyes out in the scene as Frodo left for the ship.
-
-There was another very interesting moment - an exchange between Gandalf and Pippin.  They were trapped in an area of Minas Tirith, with soldiers barring the gates while a troll thundered away at it with a massive metal hammer.  Pippin begins to contemplate his mortality, thinking he is very close to his end, but Gandalf in a completely utter departure from Tolkien begins to describe what lies after death, describing the journey to the undying lands over the seas, and then the first sight of the wondrous lands where all races live together...
-
-There is probably one day in your life worth spending in a theatre watching good movies - this was it for me.  But like Tolkien points out throughout his books, all things end and wain, life is very short-lived, and all that matters is what you do in every "today" in your life.  The Lord of the Rings trilogy of movies will now live on only as DVDs, console and computer games.  It should produce sufficient interest for the remaining Tolkien family to give rights to PJ to shoot The Hobbit, which I would dearly like to see, but ten years from now all this will be forgotten.  And there are a good many lessons in Lord of the Rings worth remembering throughout all the ages of this world, lessons on the value and necessity of massive expanses of forest and field and rich earth, lessons on the appreciation of wildlife, lessons on why the "Wonders of the world" are worthwhile and that we should continue building them as appropriate, with perhaps a focus more on worldly issues and not an Egyptian King's ego, though beyond questioning that might be.
-
-I only got into Tolkien two or three years ago but it has latched on to me, I love the fiction, love how groundbreaking Tolkien's ideas were in his day, and love his zest for life evidenced in the books.  It is far more than a story for nerds, or science fiction not worth taking more seriously than other sci-fi.  The Trilogy day was worth it, ROTK is a 10 out of 10 recommendation.
-
-What do you think?
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-12-17-ventureblog-conserving-social-capital.md b/_posts/archive/2003-12-17-ventureblog-conserving-social-capital.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 9e21edc..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-12-17-ventureblog-conserving-social-capital.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "VentureBlog: Conserving Social Capital"
-created: 1071710700
-categories: 
-- Social Media
----
-<p><a href="http://www.ventureblog.com/articles/indiv/2003/000214.html">The article</a> talks about guarding our time and relationships as social networking sites grow.</p>
-
-<p>This neatly parallels some recent experiences of mine with LinkedIn. <a href="http://www.sjl.us/main/2003/12/social_networki.html">Scott Loftesness</a> (which is where I saw the pointer to the article) echoes thoughts I had on LinkedIn a while back:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-I'm finding there's just not much of a "there there" for me. Nothing that draws me back to regular usage. Somehow expanding LinkedIn's view of my network just doesn't get me excited -- like they think it should! There's certainly nothing there I'd be willing to actually pay LinkedIn for!
-</blockquote>
-<!--break-->
-<p><a href="http://www.tribe.net">Tribe.net</a> and the Vancouver-based <a href="http://www.zerendipity.com">Zerendipity</a> are much more interesting to spend time at. Perhaps in part because I've limited connections there to "people I've met in person"?</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-12-18-a-week-with-the-sony-ericsson-t616.md b/_posts/archive/2003-12-18-a-week-with-the-sony-ericsson-t616.md
deleted file mode 100644
index ad9ead6..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-12-18-a-week-with-the-sony-ericsson-t616.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: A Week with the Sony Ericsson T616
-created: 1071816180
-categories: 
-- Review
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-Good review, including lots of pictures, of the T616. The writer was upgrading from the T68i, which supposedly has very bad reception.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-12-18-cnet-voip-top-priority-for-bell-canada-in-2004.md b/_posts/archive/2003-12-18-cnet-voip-top-priority-for-bell-canada-in-2004.md
deleted file mode 100644
index abd2e59..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-12-18-cnet-voip-top-priority-for-bell-canada-in-2004.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "CNET: VoIP top priority for Bell Canada in 2004"
-created: 1071735540
-categories: 
-- VoIP
----
-<p>Another <a href="http://rss.com.com/2100-7352_3-5127044.html">VoIP article</a> to fan the flames. The chosen quote shows how this is actually mis-titled:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-Michael Sabia, chief executive officer of the Canadian Baby Bell, outlined his company's strategy for moving all of its communications services onto an IP-based communications network.
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>The distinction here being that they are moving their core network to IP. Well duh! This does not mean VoIP -- it means that inside the core, all the traffic (even if it starts life as analog) gets shunted over IP, instead of continuing to use analog connections.</p>
-
-<p>But it seems like there are some end-user plans as well. Read on.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<blockquote>
-Bell Canada plans to launch a consumer VoIP trial in early 2004, and it will also progress with IP TV trials. The company plans to more aggressively market VoIP services to small and midsize businesses.
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>I think "aggressively market" is code for "make prices less ridiculous". The IP TV fits with Bell's goals of being a converged communications carrier. They already offer Bell ExpressVu satellite services today.</p>
-
-<p>I continue to say that getting video to the home isn't the tricky part -- it gets hard when you want to start pushing some fairly large video streams around the home to multiple devices: I did a study on in-home distribution methods, and there are cost and/or bandwidth issues with every technology in use today (e.g. what significant other is going to allow Ethernet cables tacked along walls throughout the house? Never mind the cost of installing those cables...).</p>
-
-<p>The other issue <strong>used</strong> to be the backplane capacity of the <acronym title="Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer">DSLAMs</acronym> being used -- the switch that connected DSL customers to the larger network didn't have a large enough upstream connection to support the required number of video streams. I'm assuming that's been solved.</p>
-
-<p>Basically, once you start pushing converged services into a home, the need for a home server, home gateway, multimedia PC, etc. etc. becomes greater. Something "smart" that sits at the edge of the service provider network and the home network.</p>
-
-<p>And yes, <a href="http://www.vonage.com/corporate/press_news.php?PR=2003_12_10_1">Rogers is doing the VoIP thing too</a>, although they've specifically said it won't be here until 2005.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-12-18-more-instant-messaging-from-acm-queue.md b/_posts/archive/2003-12-18-more-instant-messaging-from-acm-queue.md
deleted file mode 100644
index ce121b6..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-12-18-more-instant-messaging-from-acm-queue.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: More instant messaging from ACM Queue
-created: 1071819360
-categories: 
-- IM
----
-<p>Looks like I am going to have to start following the <a href="http://acmqueue.com/">ACM Queue</a> more closely -- here's a great piece on <a href="http://www.acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=87&page=1">SIP/IM</a>. Read it and tell me that SIP married with IM is still a good idea.</p>
-
-<p><a href="http://acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=93">This other article</a> talks up the benefits of <acronym title="Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol">XMPP</acronym>. Yes, it is written by someone from Jabber, so read it with a grain of salt. Of course, the only remaining opposition is from the SIP/IM folks, and the former article pretty nicely pokes holes in that.</p>
-
-<p>I guess to round out this discussion, something from the SIP/IM camp that picks apart XMPP would be good. Anyone have some pointers?</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-12-19-whohasmybirthday-com.md b/_posts/archive/2003-12-19-whohasmybirthday-com.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 59d8cf1..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-12-19-whohasmybirthday-com.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: WhoHasMyBirthday.com
-created: 1071904385
-categories: 
-- WhoHasMyBirthday
-- birthday
-- ideas
-- Musings
----
-<p>
-	<a href="http://www.whohasmybirthday.com">WhoHasMyBirthday.com</a> is a project to list birthdays. You can anonymously browse the site to check out who has a birthday on the same day, even born on the exact same day. See famous events that happened on your birthday, see what notable figures share the same birthday. Get info on your western and chinese zodiac signs. Create a user account to get access to buddylists, private messages, and reminders of when your friends&#39; birthdays are. Even better, every member gets their own blog and a photo gallery that they can use for whatever they like.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-12-23-is-the-pstn-more-secure.md b/_posts/archive/2003-12-23-is-the-pstn-more-secure.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 7c54e0f..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-12-23-is-the-pstn-more-secure.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Is the PSTN more secure?
-created: 1072239064
-categories: 
-- VoIP
----
-I was just thinking,  that perhaps one of the most advantageous features of the PSTN  is it's security :-). It is not possible to do a DOS attack (or other malicious activities) on a POTS line, unlike a IPPhone. (Or are all these issues resolved.)
-
-For example is it possible for me to disrupt an existing conversation, but flooding an existing IP phone with requests? Ow! :-(. Or is this and others trivial scenarios?
-
-Comments?
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2003-12-23-voip-channels-to-market.md b/_posts/archive/2003-12-23-voip-channels-to-market.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f177d4c..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2003-12-23-voip-channels-to-market.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,74 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: VoIP Channels to Market
-created: 1072169520
-categories: 
-- VoIP
----
-<p>I've been thinking about <acronym title="Voice over IP">VoIP</acronym> a fair bit lately. I don't often post "pure" opinion pieces on the front page, but I need to dangle some ideas out and see which of them stick.</p>
-
-<p>In a nutshell: current (analog) phone channels-to-market don't seem to be working. What are the current channels to market? What is wrong with these channels? What is the best way to sell/market/implement VoIP to <acronym title="Small and Medium Businesses">SMBs</acronym>? <acronym title="Small Office, Home Office">SOHO</acronym>? consumers?</p>
-
-<p>Read on, and tell me what you think.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p><strong>What are the current channels to market?</strong></p>
-
-<p>Let's look at the current channels for tradtional <acronym title="Plain Old Telephone System">POTS</acronym> services and equipment. There are of course vendors such as Nortel and Avaya (nee Lucent), Mitel and Cisco. Nortel and Avaya I think of as the old guard, with roots firmly in the beginnings of telephony. Of course, they do have new products as well.</p>
-
-<p>Mitel sort of straddles both worlds, having lots of pre-IP telephony experience, but pursuing some really interesting VoIP strategies. Cisco is the new kid on the block, with IP being really their only strength and entry into the world of voice.</p>
-
-<p>None of these vendors sell directly to any but the very largest of clients. Local resellers/distributors will source and implement solutions and equipment for local customers.</p>
-
-<p><strong>What's wrong with these channels?</strong></p>
-
-<p>Who are these resellers that sell telephony solutions? They are PBX experiments, know about T1s being used for voice, splicing together phone cords, and understand phones on desktops. So where does VoIP fit in? Uggh -- that requires Ethernet cabling, computers, networks, switches, servers. How many of these "phone" resellers have staff or expertise in the network fundamentals required to implement VoIP solutions?</p>
-
-<p>The same can be applied to IT or "network" resellers. A business may have some in-house IT expertise or use an outside firm for support. They know networks, they know computers, they know Ethernet. Phones? They make a dial-tone, right? What's a voice codec? What do web pages care about network latency or QoS issues?</p>
-
-<p>So, you typically have a business being serviced by at least two sets of technology providers -- telephony and IT. And then there are still the service providers, typically a local telco for the phone lines, and either the same telco for an Internet connection or a local ISP or cable provider.</p>
-
-<p>The phone guys are too scared of networks to implement VoIP. The IT guys don't understand phones (or even the opportunity, in some cases) and also leave it alone. The telco's solutions typically don't scale down to businesses below 25 people, and are often more expensive and/or some kind of mixed centralized model where there are continuing high monthly charges (what?! get rid of those monthly line charges?!)</p>
-
-<p><strong>Who does a business turn to for VoIP solutions?</strong></p>
-
-<p>Enter the VoIP consultant. These are phone-guys or IT-guys that have gained the necessary skills and are squarely facing the future.</p>
-
-<p>Allthough it can offer significant (enormous!) cost savings today, as well as more features, VoIP doesn't seem to have a single clear champion that is local to businesses. Today, VoIP is very much a sell-job, allthough in many instances (e.g. multi-site long distance toll bypass) the business case is as simple as comparing the before-and-after monthly costs, often an order of magnitude less expensive in the case of VoIP.</p>
-
-<p>The VoIP consultant needs to understand the real benefits of VoIP over traditional, analog telephony. They can certainly resell or source equipment from vendors. They will likely want to be familiar with the solutions from all major vendors, picking a best-fit solution for each scenario. With complete interoperability still a ways off, each solution will be mostly composed of a single vendor's equipment. Note: I don't believe that any single vendor adequately addresses each scenario/market -- the consultant will either focus on a specific market and vendor, or have multiple vendor relationships for different markets.</p>
-
-<p><strong>What about consumer interest in VoIP?</strong></p>
-
-<p>Again, toll bypass is a pretty strong incentive to try VoIP, especiall when solutions like <a href="http://www.skype.com">Skype</a> or <a href="http://www.apple.com/ichat">iChat</a> make it so easy. I specifically keep coming back to iChat and other IM apps because I think consumer VoIP has more to do with instant messaging than it does with traditional voice applications. It will be interesting to see what effect recent announcements from <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/764#1331">Vonage about softphone support</a> will have.</p>
-
-<p>Then there is my <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/751" title="Boris' T616">new cellphone</a>, a GSM/GPRS phone with many advanced, digital features: kind of what I wish my "regular" phone would be like. As consumers get more socialized to the features found in cell phones, they will start demanding the same features in their "landlines". Or, perhaps ditching their landlines, going to cable providers for high speed access, and making a cell phone their <a href="http://www.cityfido.ca" title="Fido offers number portability and unlimited local service in Vancouver">main line</a>.</p>
-
-<p>There are lots of other interesting models for consumer VoIP, but that's a whole article in itself, including my old favourite topic, in-home distribution.</p>
-
-<p><strong>The future of VoIP</strong></p>
-
-<p>This is the part where I get to make all sorts of wild predictions and suggestions.</p>
-
-<ul>
-<li><strong>Vendors:</strong><p>Focus all efforts on IP-based solutions. Yes, that means IP wireless as well. You're lucky that existing investments in old infrastructure create large switching costs, but what about the next time that large enterprise moves offices? Empower small(er) resellers and developers. I can probably think of a few good solutions here as well: hire me.</p></li>
-<li><strong>Resellers:</strong><p>Phone-guys, your days are numbered. Start looking for good IT companies to partner/merge with. IT-guys -- wake up! Think of VoIP and VoIP solutions as another area to expand your influence over a company. Do well with a VoIP migration plan, and you'll likely end up supporting a business's entire communications infrastructure. Note: don't skimp on this -- businesses still typically rely a lot more on voice communications than they do on their computers. You will likely also need a good upstream provider of VoIP gateway services.</p>
-<li><strong>Service Providers:</strong><p>Telcos -- you have too much money and too many bell-heads: hire me to help you figure out some solutions that benefit you <em>and</em> your customers. Cable providers -- you're going to need good partnerships with local implementors/resellers to succeed. Local ISPs -- gain experience yourself or make partnerships. Consider running your own VoIP gateway infrastructure or outsource this to an upstream provider (see: web hosting).</p></li>
-</ul>
-
-<p><strong>VoIP in the Middle</strong></p>
-
-<p>As referenced briefly, web hosting today is what VoIP is going to evolve into. Service providers will run their own VoIP infrastructure, or outsource it completely to VoIP specialists. These VoIP specialists may very well follow the path of the first ISPs: lots of smaller ones that grow/consolidate. Note to self: start or invest in VoIP specialist today.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Update:</strong> if only I had waited one more day to post...Here are some very good VoIP-related articles that came through on my aggregator this morning.</p>
-
-<p>Tim Bray, <a href="http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/12/23/Videophone">Telephony R.I.P.?</a>:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-Let’s see; free telephone with video, or pay-for-it telephone with no picture. Costly and voice-only, or free with a picture. I think this is what an inflexion point smells like.
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>John Perry Barlow, <a href="http://barlow.typepad.com/barlowfriendz/2003/12/entering_casual.html">Entering CasualSpace…</a>:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-To create shared spaces that span the planet, and to do so whenever you feel like it, and to leave them unpurposefully in place for hours, is not something people have done very often before.
-</blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-01-02-macosx-com-apple-ibox-in-production.md b/_posts/archive/2004-01-02-macosx-com-apple-ibox-in-production.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 6f2534d..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-01-02-macosx-com-apple-ibox-in-production.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "MacOSX.com: Apple iBox in production"
-created: 1073091000
-categories: 
-- Mac
-- Small Form Factor
----
-<p>Yes, this is very much an "Apple rumour", just ahead of <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/031218/185136_1.html">Steve Jobs' keynote address to MacWorld on January 6th</a>:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-<p>The iBox plugs into your TV and acts as a hub for your digital devices and computers. Unlike the EyeTV from Elgato, the iBox is a standalone machine, not something to plug into an existing computer. The iBox can be scheduled to record TV, but unlike TiVos it does not serve as a "what's on and when" service rather a hard drive / media based recording device (new aged VCR). With its built in 802.11b & 802.11g from its AirPort Extreme card, one can access the home folders of any user on any wirelessly networked Mac or PC. The iBox has its own version of the popular iPhoto and iTunes software which is a welcoming plus to Mac OS 10 veterans and easy for Windows users to adopt as well.</p>
-<p><a href="http://www.macosx.com/content/article.php?cid=53">MacOSX.com, "Exclusive Insider Information: Apple iBox in production"</a></p>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>I see this as being a very plausible device, although it's not clear to me how the OS would differ. I would expect the same BSD-base to be used, and then (I guess) a slightly modified version of Quartz, optimized for a "10 foot interface" of being displayed on a TV.</p>
-
-<p>Whatever the truth, I'm definitely going to be watching the keynote broadcast at 9am Tuesday morning.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-01-03-sony-ericsson-handsfree-hpr-20.md b/_posts/archive/2004-01-03-sony-ericsson-handsfree-hpr-20.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c21e171..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-01-03-sony-ericsson-handsfree-hpr-20.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Sony Ericsson Handsfree HPR-20
-created: 1073202180
-categories: 
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-From WirelessPhoneGallery, they ship to the US and Canada. Listed at $52US. This is the corded handsfree with the AM/FM tuner. Officially on my wish list.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-01-04-a-whole-lotta-nothing-social-software-ideas.md b/_posts/archive/2004-01-04-a-whole-lotta-nothing-social-software-ideas.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c67f33b..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-01-04-a-whole-lotta-nothing-social-software-ideas.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,41 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "A Whole Lotta Nothing: Social Software ideas"
-created: 1073259660
-categories: 
-- Social Media
----
-<p>Matt Haughey writes down a <a href="http://a.wholelottanothing.org/features.blah/entry/007633" title="Social Software ideas">bunch of ideas for social software</a>:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-While social software may be the internet revolution du jour among venture capitalists, as a user I'm still waiting for the killer social software app that lives up to all the market hype.
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Read on for the list of ideas and how I think they might work.</p>
-<!--break-->
-
-<ol>
-<li><strong>Colloquial mapping:</strong> combine mapping with personal directions on how to get places.</li>
-<li><strong>Geographical opinion systems:</strong> information about local "best of's".</li>
-<li><strong>Collaborative consumed media:</strong> gather information about your friends' music, movies, etc.</li>
-<li><strong>Reputation management ideas:</strong> an acknowledgment that current reputation systems need an upgrade, and can't just rely on one variable.</li>
-<li><strong>Address book that can be shared with friends:</strong> an update links to <a href="http://www.jayallen.org/journey/2003/12/social_software_ideas">Jay Allen's</a> idea for this.</li>
-</ol>
-
-<p>I had the idea for #1 when I was driving to Boston with Kate. Often times, looking at the turn-by-turn maps for something, it is still hard to see the actual, physical turn-offs you have to take. My idea was to have users submit their own directions between destinations, including pictures they take of the turn-offs and signs along the way. This is becoming increasingly easy to accomplish, what with digital cameras and smartphones that take pictures. Now someone just has to build the infrastructure to store those directions and pictures in.</p>
-
-<p>#2 is exactly what I want <a href="http://www.visualstreet.net">VisualStreet.NET</a> to be. I'm writing more about it <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/773" title="Development Blog for VisualStreet.NET">here locally</a>.</p>
-
-<p>I think #3 is one of the coolest ideas that isn't anywhere close to being done. As others have written about, perhaps the largest category of individually created content is reviews. Now the trick is to launch a service that makes it very easy to write about and share your reviews, including feeds and a web services API so that this content can be included elsewhere. I try and keep up with this stuff in my blog, but it isn't as easy as it could be.</p>
-
-<p>For #4, what else can I add? Reputation systems are hard, and touch on all sorts of thorny issues like privacy, security, etc. etc.</p>
-
-<p>There are lots of address book updating schemes. I think I mentioned <a href="http://www.kunekt.com/nie/index.php">Kunekt</a> before, which can create an RSS feed of your contact info, so people that subscribe to your card will get updated when you change it (here's the link to <a href="http://www.kunekt.com/myrdf/b/m/bmann.xml">my Kunekt feed</a>).</p>
-
-<p><a href="http://andrewjones.zerendipity.com">Andrew Jones</a> just recently sent me a <a href="http://www.plaxo.com/">Plaxo</a> email, which apparently just broke the 1M mark of contacts. It integrates into Outlook, <acronym title="Outlook Express">OE</acronym>, or has you use the web-based address book.</p>
-
-<p>I don't see contact/address management as an application in its own right -- it is a very basic function that I can see being added to all sorts of applications. For one, it seems to really make sense as part of a person's profile, so social networks (especially the business ones) should be integrating this functionality.</p>
-
-<p>This is a feature that I will likely be adding to <a href="http://www.whohasmybirthday.com">WhoHasMyBirthday.com</a> as part of the member profiles -- as well as notifying about upcoming birthdays on your buddy list, it would be trivial to add address change notification as well.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Update:</strong> the <a href="http://www.jayallen.org/journey/2003/12/social_software_ideas#comment-2970">comment by Peter</a> on the Jay Allen post has the best idea -- make such a shared address book feature visible via LDAP, then it can be accessed directly from within most email/contact programs.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-01-04-howardforums-t616-beginner-info.md b/_posts/archive/2004-01-04-howardforums-t616-beginner-info.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f8a0c59..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-01-04-howardforums-t616-beginner-info.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: HowardForums - T616 Beginner Info
-created: 1073270460
-categories: 
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-Sticky thread with lots of good basic info about using the T616.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-01-04-pluto-home.md b/_posts/archive/2004-01-04-pluto-home.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c7bac1d..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-01-04-pluto-home.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Pluto Home
-created: 1073248860
-categories: 
-- Home Server
-- Multimedia PC
----
-<a href="http://www.plutohome.com/html/">Pluto</a> sells a Linux-based system that enables whole-home automation, with everything from telecommunications to security features.
-
-It's annoying that most of the information about the system is "hidden" in the <a href="http://www.plutohome.com/flash/">Flash version</a> of the site.
-
-There are also little details on the specs of this system. I really wish that there was more standards work in this home gateway/server/automation area. Well, I guess it actually needs more publicity -- <a href="http://www.osgi.org/">OSGi</a> still looks to be moving along, and is even being used as an automotive platform as well.
-
-But read on for a brief run-down on the Pluto system.
-<!--break-->
-The system's main server component is called the <em>Core</em>. It sits next to your wiring closet and includes PBX functionality, media storage, as well as all the standard server systems of web serving, email, etc.
-
-The <em>Media Director</em> plugs into a TV and/or stereo and serves media from the Core. It also serves as a fully functional PC if you add a keyboard, using your TV as the monitor.
-
-Lastly, the <em>Orbiter</em> modules are the control devices, coming in either tablet-like form or the "mobile orbiter", which is like a cordless phone.
-
-These types of solutions are fine for the well-to-do that are looking for systems to power their homes, but they simply aren't suitable for mass deployment. Apparently, a typical whole-home system will run you around $15K! Standards that can be used by device manufacturers as well as service providers is what will truly drive adoption.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-01-04-quicksub.md b/_posts/archive/2004-01-04-quicksub.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 4a1a7cb..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-01-04-quicksub.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: quickSub
-created: 1073243040
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
-- Web Development
----
-quickSub is a Javascript function that adds intelligence to the  feed button on your web page. Just roll your mouse over a quickSub-enabled link, and you'll be instantly greeted by one-click subscription links to the most popular aggregators.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-01-04-running-your-own-social-network.md b/_posts/archive/2004-01-04-running-your-own-social-network.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c18a73f..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-01-04-running-your-own-social-network.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Running your own social network
-created: 1073243340
-categories: 
-- Social Media
----
-<p><a href="http://doc.weblogs.com/2003/12/31#socialNotworking">Doc Searls</a> pointed out a nice rant from <a href="http://gigaom.com/archives/2003/12/my_network_my_way.html">Om Malik</a>: he wants to manage hisw <em>own</em> social network, not rely on trapping his information in Tribe.net or LinkedIn or whatever.</p>
-
-<p>Here's Om's idea for this application:</p>
-<blockquote>
-A special application, which allows me to set up my own private Tribe.net. As these “private
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-01-04-use-of-social-network-sites-accelerating.md b/_posts/archive/2004-01-04-use-of-social-network-sites-accelerating.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c262312..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-01-04-use-of-social-network-sites-accelerating.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Use of social network sites accelerating?
-created: 1073253780
-categories: 
-- Social Media
----
-<p>It seems to me that the use of social network sites is accelerating. It's now moving beyond the first circle of early adopters who are specifically interested in the social software meme. An example, I just recently received a LinkedIn invite from <a href="http://www.r937.com" title="Rudy Limeback">Rudy Limeback</a>.</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-I'm registered at LinkedIn and have noticed that activity seems to be taking off. You might want to get in as it seems to be nearing "critical mass"... 
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Read on for more thoughts on this out-of-the-blue invite</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>The interesting thing is, I don't really "know" Rudy. He was one of the very knowledgeable posters on <a href="http://www.evolt.org">Evolt</a>, a web development and design list, of which I was also a part.</p>
-
-<p>In some ways, I consider this spam. I don't recall having had personal contact with Rudy on anything that wasn't list related. On the other hand, I always really respected his answers and definitely acknowledge him as a master of his craft (SQL wizardry and <acronym title="database">DB</acronym> design in general). Since LinkedIn is my "connect to everyone" social network site (as opposed to Tribe.net, where I only link to people I've met), I did link to Rudy.</p>
-
-<p>So is being part of one social networking site or another becoming a pre-requisite for anyone who is an Internet professional? <a href="http://simon.incutio.com/archive/2003/12/31/proSocialSoftware">Simon Willison</a> is someone else that I recently noticed commenting that he had joined LinkedIn (and who I also become aware of through Evolt).</p>
-
-<p>If you are a professional in any industry (consultant, lawyer, accountant, etc.) it's probably a good idea to start a blog or at least a <a href="http://borismann.zerendipity.com">profile that people can link to</a>. This is a good way of ensuring that any searches on your name actually come up with good, relevant links to <strong>you</strong> at the top. Putting your own content on the web is the best way to solidify your (digital) identity.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-01-04-vancouver-knowledge-management-community-of-practice-kmcop.md b/_posts/archive/2004-01-04-vancouver-knowledge-management-community-of-practice-kmcop.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 30db2fa..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-01-04-vancouver-knowledge-management-community-of-practice-kmcop.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Vancouver Knowledge Management Community of Practice (KMCOP)
-created: 1073255580
-categories: 
-- Knowledge Management
-- Vancouver
----
-The Knowledge Management Community of Practice (KMC) began in March 2001 as a "grass roots" organization that came together to learn about knowledge management (KM). KMC transitioned to a registered society that provides a forum in which we can participate in learning and developing KM business and learning solutions. It officially became a registered not-for-profit society on November 22, 2002, an achievement that we heartily celebrated at KMC's 2003 Spring Event.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-01-09-talkbroadband-canadian-voip-with-primus.md b/_posts/archive/2004-01-09-talkbroadband-canadian-voip-with-primus.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e21d66c..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-01-09-talkbroadband-canadian-voip-with-primus.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: TalkBroadband - Canadian VoIP with Primus
-created: 1073672940
-categories: 
-- VoIP
----
-<p>Andy LaCroix just alerted me to the fact that Primus is offering VoIP, in Canada, with Canadian area codes. The service is called "TalkBroadband".</p>
-
-<p>I'm currently walking through the <a href="http://www.primus.ca/en/residential/talkbroadband/index.html">sign-up form</a>, and it all looks very good. The basic service, at $20/month, includes <em>"a phone line, Touch Tone Service, Call Hold, Caller ID Block"</em>.</p>
-
-<p>Read on for more details (yes, I've already signed up).</p>
-<!--break-->
-
-<p>The following area codes are available (as of Jan. 2004):</p>
-
-<pre>
-416, 647 - Toronto
-403 - Calgary
-514 - Montreal
-613 - Ottawa
-604 - Vancouver
-780 - Edmonton
-905 – Hamilton numbers only. 
-</pre>
-
-<p>You can choose a number from any area, it doesn't have to be the one you're actually in. As well, I noticed that as an additional feature, and at a charge of $4 per month, you can purchase a second number. So, you could have one number in Vancouver and one number in Ottawa (which is probably what I'll do, but I'll try it out first).</p>
-
-<p>What about power failures? Well, there is this: <em>For the rare occasions of power failure, Primus provides a free Backup Call Forward service</em></p>
-
-<p>It's your choice to either forward the call to a backup call answer service <strong>or</strong> to another phone number. I'm opting to have it forward to my cell phone number.</p>
-
-<p>Well, we'll see how it goes. I'm all signed up and should be getting my package in the mail!</p>
-
-<p><strong>Update:</strong> was doing some conjecturing about the hardware used for this. The picture on the front page of the <a href="http://www.primus.ca/en/residential/talkbroadband/index.html">Primus site</a> looks like a D-Link. Here's a link to the <a href="http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=169" title="D-Link VoIP Gateway">DVG-1120</a>, plus a <a href="http://www.bigbruin.com/html/dlinkdvg1120.htm">review from BigBruin</a>. The review is quite positive, although the way it was setup, being on the phone completely nuked the broadband connection for other traffic. I will have to experiment with how I install, especially as I am using my e-smith server as my router.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-01-13-arstechnica-apple-to-manufacture-hp-branded-digital-music-player.md b/_posts/archive/2004-01-13-arstechnica-apple-to-manufacture-hp-branded-digital-music-player.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 7122227..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-01-13-arstechnica-apple-to-manufacture-hp-branded-digital-music-player.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "ArsTechnica: Apple to manufacture HP-branded digital music player"
-created: 1074027300
-categories: 
-- Music
-- Mac
----
-<p><a href="http://arstechnica.com/news/posts/1073592893.html">ArsTechnica</a> writes:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-HP will get an HP-branded digital music player based on the iPod, while Apple will have iTunes and a desktop icon pointing to iTunes Music Store preinstalled on all HP consumer laptops and desktops. The new HP music player will be available this summer and will be "competitively priced to other digital music players current available."
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Also very interesting, <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,61897,00.html">Wired.com reports</a> that there will be no support for <acronym title="Windows Media Audio">WMA</acronym>-formatted music. Apple and their <a href="http://www.apple.com/mpeg4/aac/" title="Advanced Audio Coding">AAC</a>-encoded (and <acronym title="Digital Rights Management">DRM</acronym> protected) music are quickly becoming the "Microsoft" of music. Haven't seen any really nasty tactics from Apple, except that they are of course working quite closely with the recording industry.</p>
-<p><strong>Update 2</strong> Steve Gillmor does a <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1441419,00.asp">good job of analysis as well</a>, calling the deal a <em>"a route around the Macs 5% market share"</em> for Apple and for HP, allowing it to <em>"[vault] from No. 2 in the PC market to co-leader in the mobile music space, tying the two platforms together in the process"</em>.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p><strong>Update:</strong> go read <a href="http://daringfireball.net/2004/01/the_hbomb">Daring Fireball</a> -- he does an excellent job pontificating about this deal, the main take away point being is that Apple has actually created a platform for digital media, with the three-way combo of software, player, and store...and it's one less thing that HP has to go to Microsoft for.</p>
-
-<p>Still no affordable iPod for me, but it will eventually trend downward enough (or trend upwards in importance for me) that we'll get one.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-01-13-ripdigital.md b/_posts/archive/2004-01-13-ripdigital.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e40a70d..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-01-13-ripdigital.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: RipDigital
-created: 1074051060
-categories: 
-- Music
----
-A service for converting your own, purchased CDs into high-quality MP3s. Send them your CDs, they'll send you MP3s.
-
-I heard about this from <a href="http://novaspivack.typepad.com/nova_spivacks_weblog/2004/01/check_out_ripdi.html">Nova Spivack</a>.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-01-13-trevor-jones-has-a-blog.md b/_posts/archive/2004-01-13-trevor-jones-has-a-blog.md
deleted file mode 100644
index b9ee4ae..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-01-13-trevor-jones-has-a-blog.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Trevor Jones has a blog
-created: 1074053640
-categories: 
-- Ottawa
----
-My good friend (and former manager at Nortel) <a href="http://www.360wiz.com/blog/">Trevor Jones has a blog</a>.
-
-I've also added him to my <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/import/bundle/29">friends bundle</a>, so you'll see items from him pop into the sidebar on the right from time to time. He's decided to start with <a href="http://www.360wiz.com/blog/item/3">music, and Rush</a>.
-
-I actually gained somewhat of an appreciation for Rush from a bunch of friends/roommates from Sechelt, where the spirit of Rush is apparently still strong. Just checking our music library, it does however appear that I have no Rush songs! Not even on the Bob & Doug Mckenzie album ("take off, to the Great White North, take off!"). Classic...
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-01-14-the-corporation.md b/_posts/archive/2004-01-14-the-corporation.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 541e57e..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-01-14-the-corporation.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: The Corporation
-created: 1074138060
-categories: 
-- Movie
----
-<p><a href="http://smartpei.typepad.com/robert_patersons_weblog/2004/01/the_corporation.html">Robert Paterson</a> pointed out <em>The Corporation</em>, a documentary about the effect that corporations -- as an institution much like "the Church, the Monarchy, and the Communist Party, in other times and places" -- has had and is having on society today. Part of his review:</p>
-<!--break-->
-<blockquote>
-Normal documentaries don't have that kind of an effect on an audience. Normal documentaries don't give you enough to get truly fucked off at what is being done to us. The Corporation, to be sure, is far from a 'normal' documentary. This is the kind fo filmmaking that could, if seen on a large scale, change the society we live in.
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>The <a href="http://www.thecorporation.tv/mediarelations.html">media relations page</a> has show times for Toronto and Vancouver, and it will be playing at the ByTowne Cinema in Ottawa as well.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Update:</strong>Robert Paterson also added a link to a <a href="http://smartpei.typepad.com/robert_patersons_weblog/2004/01/the_corporation_1.html">clip from the movie</a>.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-01-14-translink-to-run-passenger-ferries-to-bowen.md b/_posts/archive/2004-01-14-translink-to-run-passenger-ferries-to-bowen.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a593fe9..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-01-14-translink-to-run-passenger-ferries-to-bowen.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Translink to run passenger ferries to Bowen?
-created: 1074145440
-categories: 
-- Bowen Island
----
-<a href="http://gfair.blogspot.com/" title="Graham Fair">Graham</a> mentioned to me the other day that <a href="http://www.translink.bc.ca/" title="Translink - Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority">Translink</a> might start running more passenger ferries.
-
-I then heard the same thing on CBC, which talked about ferries being used (among other things) to take the pressure of roadways, especially the bridge. The proposed Bowen Island route would go from Bowen to Water Street Station, with a stop at Ambleside.
-<!--break-->
-This is of course quite far away, with dates like 2008 being bandied about, but this is likely all to do with improving Vancouver's transportation infrastructure before the Olympics.
-
-I still can't believe why one wouldn't improve the rail lines to Whistler and run high(er)-speed trains. No, instead we are getting an increased highway which should prove of nice benefit to all the SUV-driving condo owners in Whistlers, without doing a thing for anyone else. And get this, the highway still won't be big enough to handle the expected traffic during the Olympics, so they'll be closing it to most traffic and running buses instead!
-
-Don't even get my started on the SkyTrain/RAV line that is going along Cambie instead of Arbutus <strong>and</strong> won't actually connect to the other two SkyTrain lines...
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-01-14-tunesatwork.md b/_posts/archive/2004-01-14-tunesatwork.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 4d090e5..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-01-14-tunesatwork.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: TunesAtWork
-created: 1074136200
-categories: 
-- Application
-- Mac
-- Music
----
-<p>Requires Java 1.4. Is installed on your Mac at home, which then runs a web server on a specified port (so you need to port-forward if you have a router, firewall, or other NAT device in between your broadband connection and your Mac).</p>
-<!--break-->
-<blockquote>
-<p>TunesAtWork lets you listen to your personal iTunes music collection while at your office or lab, even though your iTunes collection resides at home.</p>
-
-<p>TunesAtWork is a specialized web server that runs on your home Macintosh and serves web pages that present your music collection (including playlists) organized visually much the same as in iTunes itself. This makes it easy to find what you're looking for.</p>
-
-<p>Clicking the various links in the web page will cause MP3 files to be streamed from your home Mac to the computer where your browser is running. As long as that computer (where the browser is running) has a helper application that can play streamed MP3 files (e.g., WinAmp on Windows, MacAmp or iTunes itself on Macintosh), you will hear your music on that computer.</p>
-</blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-01-14-vovida-org.md b/_posts/archive/2004-01-14-vovida-org.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 5b41997..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-01-14-vovida-org.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Vovida.org
-created: 1074142740
-categories: 
-- VoIP
----
-A communications community site dedicated to providing a forum for open source software used in datacom and telecom environments. While we have predominantly included software to date that we have created, we are looking forward to adding more software from all of you as it is submitted to us for inclusion.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-01-15-simon-willison-you-mean-there-is-an-ie-team.md b/_posts/archive/2004-01-15-simon-willison-you-mean-there-is-an-ie-team.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 35f1288..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-01-15-simon-willison-you-mean-there-is-an-ie-team.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Simon Willison: You mean there IS an IE team?"
-created: 1074157980
-categories: 
-- Web Development
----
-<p><a href="http://simon.incutio.com/archive/2004/01/15/ieTeam">Simon</a> has a few things to say about <a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2004/01/14.html#a6183">Robert Scoble's meeting with the <acronym title="Internet Explorer">IE</acronym> team</a>. Funniest is his comment on how it really would be nice if IE could start supporting CSS and PNG fully one of these days:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-…we want these issues to be fixed as soon as possible - so we can deploy sites that take advantages of these standards before the oil runs out and human civilisation disintegrates in to a mass of warring tribes more interested in cannibalism than visually appealing web sites.
-</blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-01-16-businessweek-technology-special-report-voip.md b/_posts/archive/2004-01-16-businessweek-technology-special-report-voip.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 4b34720..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-01-16-businessweek-technology-special-report-voip.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "BusinessWeek: Technology Special Report - VoIP"
-created: 1074288180
-categories: 
-- VoIP
----
-Greg pointed me at this <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/tc_special/04voip.htm">collection of VoIP articles</a>.
-
-It really seems like the hype-machine is in full swing, predicting the end of incumbent telcos, lots of startups and peer-to-peer services digging into the billions left on the table. With, of course, lots of VC investment/activity in this space as well.
-
-I'm actually going to step back a bit and take all this with a grain of salt. While I absolutely believe that there is no longer (necessarily) the need for a company that is dedicated to providing only one type of service (i.e. telephony services), these same telcos still own the last mile and provide around 50%* of the broadband access to residential customers.
-
-It's going to be a long and bumpy ride, and things continue to get interesting.
-
-<em>*I actually have no idea of the relative numbers of who provides high-speed access. Anyone have pointers to good, current numbers around this?</em>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-01-16-favicon-generation.md b/_posts/archive/2004-01-16-favicon-generation.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c3a7270..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-01-16-favicon-generation.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: FavIcon Generation
-created: 1074290040
-categories: 
-- Web 2.0
----
-Greg sent me a link to this great service which will automatically create FavIcons from regular images.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-01-16-new-favicon.md b/_posts/archive/2004-01-16-new-favicon.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a4613fb..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-01-16-new-favicon.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: New FavIcon
-created: 1074290100
-categories: 
-- BMC
----
-Greg pointed me to <a href="http://www.chami.com/html-kit/services/favicon/">a FavIcon generator</a>. So I took my mugshot picture and used it to generate a new favicon for the BMC site.
-
-The usual caveats about having to do a variety of distortions to <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/545">clear your cache</a> and see the new icon.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-01-16-shopkits.md b/_posts/archive/2004-01-16-shopkits.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 54fc170..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-01-16-shopkits.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: ShopKits
-created: 1074296760
-categories: 
-- Vancouver
-- Canada
----
-Lists Kitsilano businesses, with pictures, address, phone number, etc.
-
-This is exactly what I want to do with VisualStreet.net, except, of course for everywhere, and it's not necessarily the business owner that would be adding items (and definitely not only businesses).
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-01-16-vms3-info-social-networking-industry-analyzed-via-the-value-framework.md b/_posts/archive/2004-01-16-vms3-info-social-networking-industry-analyzed-via-the-value-framework.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 4fd096f..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-01-16-vms3-info-social-networking-industry-analyzed-via-the-value-framework.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "VMS3.info: Social Networking Industry Analyzed via the Value Framework"
-created: 1074306480
-categories: 
-- Social Media
----
-<p>VMS3.info looks at the <a href="http://vms3.info/Jan2004/feature.article.htm">major social networking sites via the Value Framework</a>.</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-This analysis examines nine firms in the industry, exploring their similarities and differences. Each firm brings a new perspective or feature to the mix. The users, members, and customers decide which are valuable and which are not.
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>The actual analysis is quite "light", but it was interesting to see 22 different companies identified as "social networking sites". I never really considered Classmates.com to be one, but really it is -- it doesn't matter that I don't like their business model and haven't found any useful features...</p>
-
-<p><a href="http://www.zerendipity.com">Zerendipity</a> wasn't included, but that's likely because of its (to date) exclusivity and geographic base/bias in Vancouver.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-01-18-shrook.md b/_posts/archive/2004-01-18-shrook.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 49f2202..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-01-18-shrook.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Shrook
-created: 1074496980
-categories: 
-- Application
-- Mac
----
-Shrook is a desktop RSS aggregator for Mac OS X. As opposed to NetNewsWire, it allows you to keep an online version of your subscriptions available to you through any browser at <a href="http://www.shrook.com">Shrook.com</a>. Your subscriptions are also shareable.
-
-It is shareware that costs $19.95. Something I might consider investing in. Ideally, I would like to synchronize my Drupal and local subscriptions, perhaps by sharing an <a href="http://www.opml.org">OPML</a> file online.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-01-18-using-php-to-integrate-rss-feeds-into-your-website.md b/_posts/archive/2004-01-18-using-php-to-integrate-rss-feeds-into-your-website.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 46d97eb..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-01-18-using-php-to-integrate-rss-feeds-into-your-website.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Using PHP to integrate RSS feeds into your website
-created: 1074470820
-categories: 
-- RSS
-- MagpieRSS
-- PHP
----
-<p>
-	PHP can be used to easily include feeds from other sites. The main advantage over a JavaScript solution is that everything can be run from your own site and you can take advantage of caching. The PHP can output straight HTML, which is fully searchable by search engines. As well, since all the files are &quot;local&quot; (except for updates to the included feeds), display tends to be faster, not relying on a JavaScript call to an external site for every page view.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>
-	I&#39;ve chosen to use <a href="http://magpierss.sourceforge.net/">MagpieRSS</a> for my example, mainly because it is very, very easy to use while at the same time being quite feature rich. It is of course GPL, so you can use and extend it to your heart&#39;s content.</p>
-<p>
-	It should work &quot;out of the box&quot;. Download the <code>magpierss</code> archive to your server space and decompress it. Now, go to the <code>magpie_simple.php</code> file (which should be at <code>http://www.example.com/magpierss-0.5.2/scripts/magpie_simple.php</code>) and enter in the URL of a feed. Ta-da! You&#39;ve got a feed displayed.</p>
-<p>
-	You&#39;ll want to add all the settings and includes in one file, so that your feed can easily be included in any page by just using a simple line or two of PHP. From the Magpie site, here is a really simple example of all the code you need:</p>
-<pre>
-require_once &#39;rss_fetch.inc&#39;;
-
-$url = &#39;http://magpie.sf.net/samples/imc.1-0.rdf&#39;;
-$rss = fetch_rss($url);
-
-echo &quot;Site: &quot;, $rss-&gt;channel[&#39;title&#39;], &quot;&lt;br&gt;\n&quot;;
-foreach ($rss-&gt;items as $item ) {
-	$title = $item[title];
-	$url   = $item[link];
-	echo &quot;&lt;a href=$url&gt;$title&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br&gt;\n&quot;;
-}
-</pre>
-<p>
-	For the complete example, including the walk-through of uploading files and setting permissions, see the specific example for OpenSourceXperts.com.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-01-21-loc-le-meur-build-and-check-your-virtual-identity-and-online-reputation-or-you-will-be-in-trouble.md b/_posts/archive/2004-01-21-loc-le-meur-build-and-check-your-virtual-identity-and-online-reputation-or-you-will-be-in-trouble.md
deleted file mode 100644
index d70bee0..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-01-21-loc-le-meur-build-and-check-your-virtual-identity-and-online-reputation-or-you-will-be-in-trouble.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Lo\xC3\xAFc Le Meur: Build and check your virtual identity and online reputation or you will be in trouble"
-created: 1074675060
-categories: 
-- Social Media
----
-<p>The warning may seem dire, but it's the truth: own your identity online...or else:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-<p>The two main trends of the Internet 2.0 are blogging and social software. Beware, in this Internet everybody knows more and more about you. There is less and less privacy.</p>
-<p>…</p>
-<p>Don't want a virtual identity ? It is going to be difficult to hide... What is also interesting is the online reputation of products, services and companies starts to appear as well.</p>
-<p>I actually like this transparency very much. It will be easier to know who is a trustable person and ban from your business relations any company or person that you heard way faster than before that you should not trust.</p>
-<p><a href="http://www.u-blog.net/loic/note/57163">Loïc Le Meur: Build and check your virtual identity and online reputation or you will be in trouble</a></p>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>The rest of Loïc's article is about <em>why</em> to blog, and some tips on getting good search results that you want to be associated with.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-01-21-plastic-bags-make-great-shoes.md b/_posts/archive/2004-01-21-plastic-bags-make-great-shoes.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 10ff0fc..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-01-21-plastic-bags-make-great-shoes.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Plastic bags make great shoes
-created: 1074673200
-categories: 
-- Vancouver
----
-<p>This morning I woke up at <a href="http://jamie.bmannconsulting.com" title="Jamie Molloy and Allison Mitchell Photo Gallery">Jamie and Allison's</a>. We had seen <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/802">The Corporation</a> last night, with <a href="http://home.justwerks.com" title="Evan Wise">Evan</a> (see my <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/802#1422" title="Review of 'The Corporation'">review in this comment</a>.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>So, I've woken up. I had decided the night before to make a big breakfast for J and A. Hashbrowns (onion, yellow pepper, pickled hot peppers, and fresh cilantro) with eggs over-easy and some ready-bake croissants. Then J and A went their separate ways, leaving me to do my morning email remotely. Then the doorbell rings.</p>
-
-<p>I go out into the front entryway and see it's Joe. I open the door for him, turn around, and realize...I'm screwed. The front door to J and A's apartment is closed. And it locks automatically, of course. And my spare set of keys is inside, of course. And I'm wearing socks, of course (interestingly, several people asked me if I was dressed at this point in the story; apparently I have a reputation for not wearing a lot of clothes in the morning).</p>
-
-<p>Joe and I tried several creative ways to try and get back in, but were unsuccessful. Except, Joe gave me two clear plastic bags to put on my feet. Instead of shoes, you know. So I tucked them into the tops of my socks, and they worked great. I mean, I wouldn't want to walk over gravel with them, and maybe rain or puddles wouldn't be that great, but I did walk over a lawn and along a sidewalk, and it was fine. It was weird walking across a lawn, only a millimeter or two removed from having squishy soaking wet socks (I <em>hate</em> wet socks!), and it was fine. The texture felt weird. But fun.</p>
-
-<p>We eventually drove down to see Jamie and borrow his keys and we got in no problem. The plastic-bags-on-the-feet thing was just a bonus. Thanks, Joe.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-01-22-online-identity-pollution-is-happening-today.md b/_posts/archive/2004-01-22-online-identity-pollution-is-happening-today.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 6bd0010..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-01-22-online-identity-pollution-is-happening-today.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Online identity pollution is happening today
-created: 1074787320
-categories: 
-- Social Media
----
-<p>Much as <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/819">Loïc Le Meur warned</a>, identity theft is already happening:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-This blog posting is actually a Web page that I have created to help my good friend Aina Gerner-Mathisen dig out from a major identity-theft problem she recently experienced. It seems that some evil comment-spammer has posted spam comments onto a number of weblogs in her name. Now these comments appear higher in Google search results than legitimate pages about/by Aina.
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Read on for more on comment spam, and a link to help Aina.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>I don't think much of his other post where he talks about a <a href="http://novaspivack.typepad.com/nova_spivacks_weblog/2004/01/comment_spam_a_.html">comment spam solution</a> that "<em>Google should provide</em>". He's right that it is the content providers (i.e. bloggers, online forum providers, software tool makers, etc. etc.) that should try to stop this comment spam. But the natural conclusion doesn't have to be requiring authentication.</p>
-
-<p>For instance, I have seen very little automated spam on Drupal sites. I have had 3 postings in 2 years that I consider spam -- and those were hand-entered. Every person I know (me included) that has had <acronym title="Movable Type">MT</acronym> installed somewhere has had comment spam.</p>
-
-<p>Nova also wants help for non-technical people:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-Aina is actually a leading writer and journalist in Norway -- yet due to the comment spam problem if you search her name on Google you get links that do not accurately represent her views. This is a real problem for her -- and she is not technical enough to solve it herself. Her professional reputation, and personal reputation, could be harmed by this. So for people like Aina, there is a need for a system to "dig out" from under comment spam in their name.
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Unfortunately, I don't think this is attainable. The web, like in any other medium, has many different people in it. There are very few (none?) other "Boris Mann" people out there. And with Aina's unique name, there are likely few others of her as well. If you want to promote yourself in a medium, you need to have your own views available in that medium. Aina needs to establish at least a small web presence, and ask other people to link to it. What Nova has done (see below) is a start.</p>
-
-<p>What Aina can perhaps do is maintain an online profile. The social networking sites (if they were open to Google) would be good for this, having a very low barrier to entry. The second hit for my name on Google after this website is my <a href="http://borismann.zerendipity.com/" title="Boris Mann's Zerendipity Profile">Zerendipity profile</a>.*</p>
-
-<p>Nova: some feedback. If you really want that page to come up in search results, make the title (and the URL) contain Aina's name. Also, suggest to other people that they link to the page with "Aina Gerner-Mathisen" as the link text, like so:</p>
-
-<p>Page about <a href="http://novaspivack.typepad.com/nova_spivacks_weblog/2004/01/noble_techies_h.html" title="Nova Spivack's Page for Aina Gerner-Mathisen">Aina Gerner-Mathisen</a>.</p>
-
-<p>Hope that helps. If you want an invite to <a href="http://www.zerendipity.com">Zerendipity</a>, I would be happy to provide that as well.</p>
-
-<p>*<strong>Disclaimer:</strong> I'm doing some work with Zerendipity right now, so I might be a little biased. Still, it is the only site that I know of that provides a custom URL for your profile that can be linked to directly.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-01-25-talkbroadband-first-setup.md b/_posts/archive/2004-01-25-talkbroadband-first-setup.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 14eae10..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-01-25-talkbroadband-first-setup.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,59 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: TalkBroadband - First setup
-created: 1075103880
-categories: 
-- VoIP
----
-<p>This is my first post about using the service after I <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/795">described it and signed up</a>. I couldn't wait until tomorrow morning, so I got it all setup and working tonight.</p>
-
-<p>Read on for this initial setup, with a couple of details on port-forwarding.</p>
-
-<!--break-->
-
-<p>Since I'm trying to set things up in a non-standard way (because of the server that I use as a router) I <strong>don't</strong> want to put the gateway where it will be NAT'ing the rest of my network.</p>
-
-<pre>
-Cable Modem -- Server -- Switch -- DVG, other computers
-</pre>
-
-<p>From the <a href="http://support.dlink.com/faq/view.asp?prod_id=1416&question=DVG-1120M%20/%20DVG-1120S">D-Link tech support page</a>, the DVG is definitely web-accessible.</p>
-
-<p>Later…</p>
-
-<p>Well, that was pretty easy. It looked at first as if the red status light was flashing, and that the DVG wasn't going to work behind my e-smith server. I just left it alone for a while since I needed to do some research and was busy with some other stuff. When I went back to check, the green light was on, and I could receive calls no problem.</p>
-
-<p>I never did manage to get into the web interface. Apparently the default address is <code>192.168.15.1</code>. Hmm. This doesn't make a whole lot of sense, since <code>.2.1</code> or <code>.1.1</code> would be the standard ones, especially for a <acronym title="Network Address Translation">NAT</acronym> router. I set my computer to be in the proper subnet, but the page never came up.</p>
-
-<p>Then I had the brain flash that the site is probably only visible from the internal port (labeled "Ethernet"). I only have the WAN connector plugged in, since the DVG is behind my switch and server with nothing else attached to it. I'll test this hypothesis later.</p>
-
-<p>So, outgoing calls work great -- made a call to my cellphone (the call display appended a "1" to the beginning of the number) and to my parents' land line. An incoming call test to my number bounced me to call answer box (a generic message -- I don't remember what it said) but I <em>thought</em> I had it set to forward to my cellphone.</p>
-
-<p>I figured as much, since my server would be the publicly visible IP address. I looked up the <a href="http://wlanresearch.com/VoIPTCPUDPPorts.htm">ports used for VoIP</a> and found that <acronym title="Session Initiation Protocol">SIP</acronym> uses the following:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-<ul>
-<li>Either the UDP or TCP port for the signaling to port 5060.</li>
-<li>RTP audio stream to UDP port 16384 through 32767.</li>
-</ul>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>I set my server to forward the appropriate port ranges, and everything worked great. It should be relatively easy to do the port-forwarding on most home routers. If you're not running a server behind your router, you could also choose to put the DVG into the DMZ or virtual server position -- all ports that are not specifically forwarded are then forwarded to it by default.</p>
-
-<p>More feedback about voice quality and other issues as I do some testing over the next few days.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Update:</strong> apparently, Primus TalkBroadband uses MGCP, <em>not</em> SIP. My setup worked because SIP and MGCP use the same ports for RTP streaming. I don't have the signaling ports explicitly forwarded, but it seems to work without it.</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-For MGCP version 1.0
-<ul>
-<li>MG and CA signaling to MG through UDP port 2427 and CA through UDP port 2727.<br>
-<em>Note: This is because some CAs have the MG functionality built in them.</em></li>
-
-<li>RTP audio stream to UDP port 16384 through 32767.</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>Note: RTP port selection is MG specific. Depending on the number of voice ports on the MG, the RTP port range is selected. It does not go as high as 32767 and the range can be as small as 256.</p>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>When <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/827">talking with Andy from TalkBroadband tech support</a>, he did say that the configuration web page is not currently locked. I mentioned my suspicions that it can only be accessed from the internal Ethernet port, and he noted that down. Apparently there are internal discussions going on about whether or not to lock down that page. I passed on the feedback that it is likely that many early-adopters like myself wouldn't use the service if it couldn't be setup in a non-standard way, which might in some cases require access to that page.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-01-28-getting-a-place-in-vancouver.md b/_posts/archive/2004-01-28-getting-a-place-in-vancouver.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 6fe50b5..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-01-28-getting-a-place-in-vancouver.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Getting a place in Vancouver
-created: 1075311540
-categories: 
-- Vancouver
----
-<p>Kate and I spent most of the day yesterday looking for a place in Vancouver. It seems that rent is about $200 per month more than Ottawa (at least in the hip, downtown areas we are looking).</p>
-
-<p>We had 4 appointments set up, plus I had a meeting to go to in the morning. We had done our searching online, mainly using the <a href="http://homes.canada.com">Vancouver classified listings</a>. All the CanWest Global newspapers mirror their classifieds at that Canada.com address, and it's a pretty good system, except that it is limited to the same, abbreviated "paper" concept, so you can't see pictures, there is no links to maps, etc.</p>
-
-<!--break-->
-
-<p>We limited our search to the areas known as Westend/Downtown (basically the main "downtown" area of Vancouver, which stretches from Stanley Park to BC Place) and VanWest (which is on the south side of the Granville/Burrard bridges, across from downtown). Actually, the VanWest part we wanted is even more limited -- South Granville, which comprises the "tree streets" east and west of Granville, and from 4th to 14th north-south.</p>
-
-<p>The downtown appointments we had weren't that promising. Either the places were small and dingy, or were executive condos (miniature instead of small) and way expensive (but included all sorts of fancy stuff in the building).</p>
-
-<p>South Granville was much more fruitful hunting grounds. It still seems impossible to find a 2 bedroom under $1200, so we switched to looking for a large 1 bedroom. A 10th floor corner apartment, with a view to the north-west (over Point Grey, towards the mountains and Bowen Island) was really nice -- the whole building had recently been re-done, with new paint, floors, etc. The main downside was that they were putting in new carpet. Kate and I are kind of addicted to hardwood.</p>
-
-<p>I finally convinced Kate that a stop for lunch was in order, so we went to the Cafe Crepe on Granville. These cafes all serve <a href="http://www.illy.com/">illy</a> coffee from Italy. They are so intense, they don't serve "regular" coffee, only espresso. An "americano" (espresso thinned with boiling water) is your only option if you want something closer to regular coffee. Very, very good.</p>
-
-<p>Then we spent the next 3 and a half hours criss-crossing the avenues around Granville. Lots of places aren't listed at all, but just have signs outside the building. It was drizzling and quite cold for Vancouver (you know, a damp cold) and I was starting to get pretty miserable. There was a very nice ground floor that was built in the 1920s with dark hardwood floors that was great, if a little small. But, ground floor attracts thieves (pronounced "thevs").</p>
-
-<p>When all seemed lost (literally, it was the last place we were going to look at), we found something really great. It's on 10th at Birch, in an old brick building (quite uncommon in Vancouver). We rang the manager, Rose, and she came down to meet us in the lobby. It looked a bit sketchy, since everything was being torn up and refinished in the halls. We took some winding stairs and hallways to the first 1 bedroom on the second floor. Hardwood floors, big windows, a gas stove, and all these built in storage places. Why built in storage? For the <a href="http://www.murphybedcompany.com/home.php?section=history" title="Murphy Bed Company - History">Murphy beds</a>, of course!</p>
-
-<p>So, on to the 4th floor apartment. This is actually the top floor, and it was currently vacant because they were refinishing the clawfoot tub and putting in a shower head. You know, one of those ones where you attach a ring that curtains hang down from all around the tub? Very cool. This one actually had two functioning Murphy beds, one in the bedroom and one in the living room. And a pantry, with cupboards up to the high ceilings.</p>
-
-<p>Kate and I kind of looked at each and casually asked to fill out an application form. I filled it out while Kate chatted with Rose. A few cell phone calls to find out some details about references and <a href="http://www.zerendipity.com" title="I'm doing some consulting work for Zerendipity">work details</a>. So, we'll find out in a couple of days.</p>
-
-<p>Then we wandered over to <a href="http://jamie.bmannconsulting.com">Jamie and Allison's</a>, which is only a block away. Rebecca is only a few blocks away in the other direction. We feasted on some celebratory pizza and wine (<a href="http://www.lindemans.com/">Lindemans Bin 45</a>) and off to the last ferry to Bowen.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-01-28-talkbroadband-some-glitches-and-solutions.md b/_posts/archive/2004-01-28-talkbroadband-some-glitches-and-solutions.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 08d15ea..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-01-28-talkbroadband-some-glitches-and-solutions.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: TalkBroadband - Some glitches and solutions
-created: 1075319880
-categories: 
-- VoIP
----
-<p>I just got off the phone with Primus TalkBroadband tech support. In particular, I had excellent service from Andy Boak, who works out of Montreal. He's a senior tech, and very knowledgeable.</p>
-
-<p>First, my glitch. I had opted only for the <a href="http://www.primus.ca/en/residential/talkbroadband/bundles.html">Basic bundle</a>, which does not include call answer a.k.a. voicemail. However, when I was on the phone or if the box was offline, calls to my number would go to voicemail, instead of answering with a busy tone or using my backup call forwarding. Since I didn't have voicemail, however, I couldn't actually log in and check any messages.</p>
-
-<!--break-->
-
-<p>So I called to get this fixed, and actually decided to add call answer/voice mail, since Kate is starting to use the number to apply for jobs. As well, we decided to add an alternate number, an Ottawa area code, so our friends there could call us locally. Luckily for me, I got Andy on the line.</p>
-
-<p>The first thing Andy pointed out was that <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/825" title="I updated info on the 'First setup' post to reflect this">TalkBroadband uses MGCP, not SIP</a>. He brought up my profile and saw that the ticket hadn't gone through yet, so he made some amendments, then put me on hold while he connected with customer service to add features.</p>
-
-<p>The tech support hold times, by the way, are quite long right now, about 20 - 30 minutes or so. Andy did say that there were some more techs coming on line this weekend, so that should ease, "unless demand goes through the roof again".</p>
-
-<p>I got Daniel from customer service, and Andy stayed on the line to immediately apply the changes to my profile. It doesn't get processed immediately, but it was quicker than going through two steps. Daniel processed everything from my account and informed me that my new charges would be $29.95 ($6 for call answer/voicemail and $4 for the alternate number with an Ottawa area code). Yes, this is the same price as the <a href="http://www.primus.ca/en/residential/talkbroadband/bundles.html">Power bundle</a>, but that one has call answer, call display, and call waiting. Since I personally never use call display or call waiting on my home phone, my "custom bundle" was a better value. I did give Andy my feedback that in my opinion, lowering the cost of the extra services would be a good strategic move, since every customer automatically uses Primus for long distance (unless you use a calling card and a local access number for another service).</p>
-
-<p>A few other things to note. If you do get call answer, the "backup call forwarding"  should essentially never occur. Calls go to voice mail if you are on the phone or if your DVG is offline (power outage, Internet outage, etc.). So, call answer should probably be part of the basic package (especially given my broken experience).</p>
-
-<p>To access voice mail from your VoIP line, just dial *98. The default password is the last four digits of your primary phone number. Although it isn't listed anywhere, you can access your voice mail from elsewhere by calling your number, hitting <acronym title="star">*</acronym>, your password, then <acronym title="pound">#</acronym>.</p>
-
-<p><em>(Hmmm...a second voice mail box for your alternate number might be an interesting idea)</em></p>
-
-<p>So, I'm still happy with the service. I've made about a dozen calls, and have not had any drops, quality issues, or other problems. And with my non-standard setup, too! Feel free to leave questions in the comments, or use the <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/feedback">contact</a> page to email me. Andy did also mention that my site was being put on their internal list, so some of the TalkBroadband techs may be stopping by to make sure that I don't have any factual inaccuracies.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Update:</strong> Primus fixed everything for me double-quick. Voicemail works, and it's got some cool features. For instance, each message starts by reading out the phone number that called (kind of like audio call display), then the date and time. Also, you can have up to three messages -- one for no answer, one for do not disturb (*04 to activate), and one for busy.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-01-29-darren-barefoot-exciting-news-indeed.md b/_posts/archive/2004-01-29-darren-barefoot-exciting-news-indeed.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 15591b5..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-01-29-darren-barefoot-exciting-news-indeed.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Darren Barefoot: Exciting News Indeed"
-created: 1075396920
-categories: 
-- Vancouver
----
-<p>Darren writes about how the <em>Vancouver Sun</em> and <em>Province</em> newspapers have launched online versions -- except, of course, when he called to ask how much, the salesperson didn't know:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-<p>As <a href="http://www.canada.com/vancouver/vancouversun/subscribe/index.html">I was instructed to do</a>, I called the Vancouver Sun today, to enquire about the pricing of the electronic edition. I'm never going to pay for it, but I wondered about the price. Get this: they didn't know. They announced this service on page three of the paper and online today but couldn't tell me how much it cost. In fact, the skilled saleswoman who answered my call suggested that I "call back next week." Wow, <a href="http://www.canwestglobal.com/">CanWest Global Communications</a>, way to sell that product.</p>
-<p><a href="http://www.darrenbarefoot.com/archives/000396.html" title="Vancouver Sun and Province Launch For-Pay Online Versions">Darren Barefoot: Exciting News Indeed</a></p>
-</blockquote>
-<!--break-->
-<p>In Ottawa, I used to get tons of calls about subscribing to the dead-tree version (usually to the <em>Ottawa Sun</em>, rather than the <em>Ottawa Citizen</em>). I told them I got all my news online or from the radio, and didn't read the newspaper. We've had subscriptions in the past, but I banned them, because by the end of just one week, there would be piles of unread newspapers all over the house.</p>
-
-<p>I will pick up and read a newspaper if it's around, especially in places like the ferry (they even have a recycle area where you can go to grab newspapers), but pay for them? Very rare instances. Do I feel for them? No, not really. They haven't changed with the times. The transition, just like the transition to online music, is going to be difficult and painful.</p>
-
-<p><a href="http://dominionpaper.ca/">The Dominion</a> and the<a href="http://dominionpaper.ca/weblog/">Dominion Weblog</a> are an interesting "grassroots national newspaper". With RSS feeds, of course.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-01-29-om-malik-tivo-the-digital-hub-powered-by-strangeberry.md b/_posts/archive/2004-01-29-om-malik-tivo-the-digital-hub-powered-by-strangeberry.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 11f20c3..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-01-29-om-malik-tivo-the-digital-hub-powered-by-strangeberry.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Om Malik: TiVo, the digital hub, powered by Strangeberry?"
-created: 1075435200
-categories: 
-- Home Server
----
-<p>Om Malik comments on the TiVo Strangeberry acquisition:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-<p>So what are they really building? My best guess is that Strangeberry crew, all former Sun folks, developed a piece of software that actually makes finding devices on the home networks as easy as turning on the power switch. And it is using some variant of Apple’s Rendezvous technology. I remember these guys had released some variation of Rendezvous for Java in the early days of their operation. Rendezvous is a technology which can and does work with all sort of networks - Wi-Fi, Ethernet or powerline networks.</p>
-<p><a href="http://gigaom.com/archives/2004/01/tivo_the_digital_hub_powered_by_strangeberry.html">Om Malik: TiVo, the digital hub, powered by Strangeberry?</a></p>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p><strong>Update:</strong> <a href="http://gigaom.com/archives/2004/01/strangeberrys_secrets_revealed.html">Om follows up on last week's post</a>. In this corner, TiVo -- in the other corner, Microsoft.</p>
-
-<p>Well, I've talked about the Open Services Gateway Initiative (OSGi) stuff before, and if you have a look at their <a href="http://osgi.org/resources/spec_download.asp">download page</a>, it does use Java. This is all, of course, in opposition to the Microsoft-backed <a href="http://www.upnp.org/">Universal Plug and Play Forum</a>…</p>
-
-<!--break-->
-
-<p>After the tech implosion, all this consumer-facing home gateway stuff just went away. Now that VoIP is heading strong into the residential space, and stuff like Bluetooth is finally gaining ground, and WiFi is everywhere, and online music sales are growing....well, it might just be time to look at residential home gateways again. Did I mention that Cisco bought LinkSys?</p>
-
-<p>I still see these platforms eventually moving towards the same space as commodity broadband home routers. They started out in the $200 - $300 range, and now are almost free. Of course, services and software bundled on top is where the money is going to come from. Open-source mesh networking folks that are experimenting with Linux-based wireless APs might be on to something: lots of boxes with a common platform means great potential for building services.</p>
-
-<p>All in all, TiVo seems to continue making good decisions.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-01-29-sunshine-coast-accommodations.md b/_posts/archive/2004-01-29-sunshine-coast-accommodations.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 03afa39..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-01-29-sunshine-coast-accommodations.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Sunshine Coast Accommodations
-created: 1075398000
-categories: 
-- Bowen Island
----
-<p>I got a call at my parents' place yesterday from <a href="http://www.sunshinecoastbb.com/">Sunshine Coast Accommodations</a>. It's a website put together by <a href="http://www.suntechbc.com/main.htm">SunTech Consulting</a> to help book bed and breakfasts on the Sunshine Coast.</p>
-
-<p>The call was actually to <a href="http://www.sevenhillsbnb.com" title="Seven Hills Bed and Breakfast, Bowen Island, part of the Sunshine Coast">Seven Hills Bed and Breakfast</a>, which is what my parents run. The site is up, but it's not quite done yet -- still have to do the graphical makeover and tweak a few things.</p>
-
-<!--break-->
-
-<p>I admit I kind of overwhelmed the woman that was on the phone: "What <acronym title="Content Management System">CMS</acronym> do you use to run your website?" "What's your Google ranking?" etc. etc.</p>
-
-<p>I'm going to be speaking with the technical guys, since I have some tips on how to make their site better. And actually get some Google rankings, because right now searches for both "sunshine coast accommodations" and "sunshine coast bed and breakfast" don't have them ranking anywhere in the top 10. Not good. If I do do some consulting, I might consider a trade for placements for my parents' B&B.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-01-30-roland-tanglao-vancouver-geek-dinner.md b/_posts/archive/2004-01-30-roland-tanglao-vancouver-geek-dinner.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 4c4059c..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-01-30-roland-tanglao-vancouver-geek-dinner.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Roland Tanglao: Vancouver Geek Dinner"
-created: 1075449780
-categories: 
-- Roland Tanglao
-- Avi Bryant
-- Vancouver Geek Dinner
-- Vancouver
----
-<p>Roland Tanglao and Avi Bryant are organizing a Vancouver Geek Dinner:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-<p>Here are the details:<br />
-<strong>WHEN</strong>: 7p.m. Wed Feb 11<br />
-<strong>WHERE</strong>: <a href="http://www.shinnova.com/hons_on_robson/">Hon's on Robson</a>, <a href="http://ca.maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?ed=GOaiFOp_0ToHiHmmlqssfWE6i2M-&csz=vancouver%2C+bc&country=ca">1339 Robson</a>, 604 685-0871, cheap, cheerful and veggie friendly<br />
-<strong>WHAT</strong>: eat Chinese food, talk about blogging, software development, life, the universe, whatever<br />
-<strong>RSVP</strong>: BY MON FEB 9, by leaving a comment, calling me at 604 729 7924 or emailing me at roland AT rolandtanglao.com so I can book a 
-table<br />
-<strong>WHO</strong>: All welcome! So far: Avi and myself</p>
-<p><a href="http://www.rolandTanglao.com/2004/01/29.html#a6277">Roland Tanglao: Vancouver Geek Dinner</a></p>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>I've RSVP'd, plus added it to my <a href="">Upcoming.org events</a>. Here's the direct link to <a href="http://upcoming.org/event/3116/">the event</a>.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-02-01-canadians-are-square.md b/_posts/archive/2004-02-01-canadians-are-square.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 89faa10..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-02-01-canadians-are-square.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Canadians are square
-created: 1075661580
-categories: 
-- Canada
----
-<p>Did you know that Robertson screws/screwdrivers are Canadian?</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-<p>It’s hard for a Canadian to imagine that there are people in the world still struggling with slot-headed or Phillips screws. Robertson, a Canadian inventor, developed the square-head screw and driver. And it’s about the only screw we use, when given the choice. I’ve driven, or tried to, screws of every stripe over the past 40 years, and there is simply no contest: Robertson rules.</p>
-<p><a href="http://www.xanada.com/archives/2004/01/31/be_square.html">Xanada: Be square!</a></p>
-</blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-02-01-talkbroadband-forum-setup.md b/_posts/archive/2004-02-01-talkbroadband-forum-setup.md
deleted file mode 100644
index d4c8553..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-02-01-talkbroadband-forum-setup.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: TalkBroadband - Forum setup
-created: 1075623120
-categories: 
-- BMC
-- VoIP
----
-<p>I've been getting so much great feedback and comments on my <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/795">original post</a> that I decided to open up/create <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/forum">forums</a> here on B. Mann Consulting.</p>
-
-<p>The <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/forum/124">Telephony forum</a> is where to go to chat about VoIP-related items. In particular, I've created an initial <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/834">TalkBroadband discussion topic</a>.</p>
-
-<!--break-->
-<p>The two other forums are <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/forum/125">Gastronomy</a>, for anything food related, and <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/forum/126">BMC</a>, which is basically a default, miscellaneous site forum. Feel free to suggest others.</p>
-
-<p>I'm specifically not creating a Apple/Mac forum, because I want people to use the <a href="http://midgard.bmannconsulting.com/mailman/listinfo/macheads" title="MacHeads -- Mailing list for people that like Macs">MacHeads</a>. As well, e-smith items are well-covered on the <a href="http://contribs.org/">Contribs.org</a> site, which I also read regularly.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-02-02-zerendipity-nick-tattersall-vef-meeting.md b/_posts/archive/2004-02-02-zerendipity-nick-tattersall-vef-meeting.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f23103e..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-02-02-zerendipity-nick-tattersall-vef-meeting.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Zerendipity - Nick Tattersall VEF Meeting
-created: 1075747860
-categories: 
-- Social Media
----
-<p><a href="http://andrewjones.zerendipity.com" title="Andrew Jones' Zerendipity Profile">Andrew</a> and I met with <a href="http://nicktattersall.zerendipity.com" title="Nick Tattersall's Zerendipity Profile">Nick Tattersall</a>, Managing Director of the <a href="http://www.vef.org" title="Vancouver Enterprise Forum">Vancouver Enterprise Forum</a> today. The Vancouver Enterprise Forum's <a href="http://www.vef.org/web/about.asp" title="Vancouver Enterprise Forum Mission Statement">mission</a> is:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-To advance technology entrepreneurship in British Columbia through publicly held forums focused on bringing together members of the technology enterprise community in the sharing and exchange of information with a view to educate and motivate.
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>We discussed a couple of different options for integrating <a href="http://www.zerendipity.com">Zerendipity</a> into the structure of the VEF website. We were hoping to add the concept of memberships and logins to the VEF, including a link to the Zerendipity profile of each member.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>One of the things I suggested was profiles for speakers and guests that are Zerendipity-powered. Just like you have a short bio/backgrounder that is "plain" HTML today, this could be replaced by a Zerendipity profile. This profile could also be used by the speaker to post documents (perhaps a soft copy of her presentation?), link to her website(s), and of course show public associations.</p>
-
-<p>We are seeking to extend physical networking venues like the VEF with this <a href="http://www.zerendipity.com/sponsors.aspx">government-sponsored</a> virtual networking tool designed and developed in BC for BC.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-02-04-globe-and-mail-has-rss-feeds.md b/_posts/archive/2004-02-04-globe-and-mail-has-rss-feeds.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f21670f..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-02-04-globe-and-mail-has-rss-feeds.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Globe and Mail has RSS Feeds
-created: 1075948080
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
-- Canada
----
-<p><a href="http://www.smithdm3.com" title="Dave Smith">Dave</a> pointed out that the <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com">Globe and Mail</a> has RSS feeds (there's also the <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/forum/129">Personal Publishing</a> forum to add links like that)</a>.
-
-<p>Since you have to register to find out the location and I've already gone through the trouble, I've pasted in the URLs of all the feeds, in RSS 0.9 format (hit the Read More link for the list). They also have <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/generated/headlines/xml/">their own XML format</a>.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>I've added the Technology, Science, and National feeds to a <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/import/bundle/32">Canada bundle</a>. Let me know in the <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/forum/126">BMC forum</a> or comments on this post if you want others added.</p>
-
-<p>(Actually, I just looked, and only the National feed had items in it -- the other two were empty)</p>
-
-<p><strong>Globe and Mail RSS Feeds</strong></p>
-<A HREF="http://www.globeandmail.com/generated/headlines/rdf/Arts.rdf">Arts</A><BR>
-<A HREF="http://www.globeandmail.com/generated/headlines/rdf/Comment.rdf">Comment</A><BR>
-<A HREF="http://www.globeandmail.com/generated/headlines/rdf/CommentEditorials.rdf">Comment Editorials</A><BR>
-<A HREF="http://www.globeandmail.com/generated/headlines/rdf/Environment.rdf">Environment</A><BR>
-<A HREF="http://www.globeandmail.com/generated/headlines/rdf/Health.rdf">Health</A><BR>
-<A HREF="http://www.globeandmail.com/generated/headlines/rdf/International.rdf">International</A><BR>
-<A HREF="http://www.globeandmail.com/generated/headlines/rdf/National.rdf">National</A><BR>
-<A HREF="http://www.globeandmail.com/generated/headlines/rdf/NationalReport.rdf">National Report</A><BR>
-<A HREF="http://www.globeandmail.com/generated/headlines/rdf/RealEstate.rdf">Real Estate</A><BR>
-<A HREF="http://www.globeandmail.com/generated/headlines/rdf/ROB.rdf">Report on Business</A><BR>
-<A HREF="http://www.globeandmail.com/generated/headlines/rdf/ROBColumn.rdf">Report on Business (Columns)</A><BR>
-<A HREF="http://www.globeandmail.com/generated/headlines/rdf/ROBManaging.rdf">Report on Business (Managing)</A><BR>
-<A HREF="http://www.globeandmail.com/generated/headlines/rdf/ROBMoneyAndMarkets.rdf">Report on Business (Money And Markets)</A><BR>
-<A HREF="http://www.globeandmail.com/generated/headlines/rdf/ROBNetWorth.rdf">Report on Business (NetWorth)</A><BR>
-<A HREF="http://www.globeandmail.com/generated/headlines/rdf/ROBSmallBusiness.rdf">Report on Business (Small Business)</A><BR>
-<A HREF="http://www.globeandmail.com/generated/headlines/rdf/Science.rdf">Science</A><BR>
-<A HREF="http://www.globeandmail.com/generated/headlines/rdf/Sports.rdf">Sports</A><BR>
-<A HREF="http://www.globeandmail.com/generated/headlines/rdf/SportsGolf.rdf">Sports (Golf)</A><BR>
-<A HREF="http://www.globeandmail.com/generated/headlines/rdf/Technology.rdf">Technology</A><BR>
-<A HREF="http://www.globeandmail.com/generated/headlines/rdf/Toronto.rdf">Toronto News</A><BR>
-<A HREF="http://www.globeandmail.com/generated/headlines/rdf/Travel.rdf">Travel</A><BR>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-02-04-social-networking-vs-blogging.md b/_posts/archive/2004-02-04-social-networking-vs-blogging.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c91ad18..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-02-04-social-networking-vs-blogging.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Social Networking vs. Blogging
-created: 1075961640
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
-- Knowledge Management
-- Social Media
----
-I've been thinking lately about how profiles relate to blogging relates to identity relates to knowledge management. Among other things :)
-
-I don't actually think that social networking sites are in opposition to blogging -- that's just not the right way to see it (although not being able to link directly and the "registration firewall" around sites is a detriment). Many bloggers say that their blog and their blogroll describe all the "social network" they ever want or need.
-<!--break-->
-You can definitely get a good idea about a person and their ideas by reading their blog over time, and seeing who else they read. But that is a process, something that takes time (on your part). An "About Me" page is of course good, but how do you compare or relate one person's "About Me" page to someone else's? In essence, you might even ask how you search for a "person" directly?
-
-And does reading/linking to someone's blog mean that you know them? Or imply any sort of relationship between you (other than you enjoy reading their material)?
-
-So, the way I see it is that a person's blog is the tacit representation of their identity (which naturally evolves and changes over time). A profile can be seen as a structured way of doing an "About Me" page, a way to make some details about themselves explicit. Using a structured, open format (as we are in the process of creating at <a href="http://www.zerendipity.com">Zerendipity</a>) means that this information can be compared, categorized, and searched. I also see it useful in the context of a "living CV" or resume. More on this soon.
-
-I also recently got called a "social hacker". I like that. So, new slogan for BMC.
-
-Blogging = <strong>Tacit</strong> Representation of Identity
-Profile = <strong>Explicit</strong> Representation of Identity
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-02-05-dining-out-for-life.md b/_posts/archive/2004-02-05-dining-out-for-life.md
deleted file mode 100644
index b83db3a..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-02-05-dining-out-for-life.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Dining Out for Life
-created: 1075997580
-categories: 
-- Vancouver
----
-<p><a href="http://www.vaneats.com/2004/02/04#a2444">VanEats</a> mentioned <a href="http://www.diningoutforlife.com/home.php?city=1" title="Dining Out for Life - Vancouver">Dining Out for Life</a>.</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-<p>Over 150 restaurants from Whistler to White Rock will join
-the fight against AIDS by donating 25 percent of their food revenue from every meal sold during this important event.</p>
-
-<p>All Starbucks stores across the Lower Mainland will also join in the fight against AIDS by donating 25 percent of all 'Double Tall Vanilla Lattes' sold the entire day!</p>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>It takes place Thursday, March 11, 2004. I can't figure out how to add something that takes place everywhere in a city to <a href="http://upcoming.org/user/2204/">my Upcoming.org calendar</a>, so I guess I'll just have to remember.</p>
-
-<p>Any excuse to eat out is a good excuse, I always say.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-02-05-globe-and-mail-monster-com-to-add-networking.md b/_posts/archive/2004-02-05-globe-and-mail-monster-com-to-add-networking.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 261eefb..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-02-05-globe-and-mail-monster-com-to-add-networking.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Globe and Mail: Monster.com to add networking"
-created: 1075998120
-categories: 
-- Social Media
----
-<p><a href="http://www.smithdm3.com/archives/000221.html">Dave</a> pointed out this story about Monster.com's plans to add social networking to its website:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-<p>While users can search for contacts by profession, location and school, they will have to pay to view contact information. For the test period, Monster is charging a $24.99 (U.S.) one-time fee and a monthly charge of $2.99 for users to get in touch with each other.</p>
-<p><a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040204.gtcanote04-5/BNStory/Technology/">Globe and Mail: Monster.com to add networking</a></p>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>I don't think much of their proposed integration, although I suppose the message is that social networking is making money (or at least the compant that is adding the functionality, is). Read on...</p>
-<!--break-->
-
-<p>This almost exactly follows the Classmates.com model -- where you can search for free but pay to get contact details. I think that there has to be higher value in a relationship to pay for it. Or maybe that you shouldn't have to pay for a relationship?</p>
-
-<p>Regardless, I understand the sentiment. If people are demanding social networking features, somebody has to pay. If people do pay, then it definitely has value. Or someone has to pay.</p>
-
-<p>We've got a couple of different ideas to make money from Zerendipity. Rather than trying to sell the network itself (after all, it's  really "owned" by the users who enter the content), we're going to focus on enabling new functionality using social networking. Right now, I think that people are confusing social networking sites as the end goal -- helping people by giving them software that works more like they already do.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-02-05-intravnews.md b/_posts/archive/2004-02-05-intravnews.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 3b262b7..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-02-05-intravnews.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Intravnews
-created: 1075995900
-categories: 
-- Application
-- Microsoft
----
-Greg <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/842#1468">mentioned</a> trying this RSS feed reader for Windows, that integrates into Outlook.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-02-05-mailpictures.md b/_posts/archive/2004-02-05-mailpictures.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 7badfae..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-02-05-mailpictures.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: MailPictures
-created: 1076054280
-categories: 
-- Application
-- Mac
----
-While Mac OS X provides the core functionality of displaying images in Mail or iChat, it is limited to either pictures you manually have assigned in the AddressBook and to .Mac accounts. With MailPictures any email address can have an image and there is no need to manually assign an image to a person. So if I send an email to you my image will magically pop up in the email message. There is nothing you have to do besides having MailPictures installed.
-
-Both sides must of course have it installed to work, as far as I understand. So make all your Mac friends install it. No, I don't know what happens if you already have a picture assigned.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-02-05-westworld-computers-on-broadway-in-vancouver.md b/_posts/archive/2004-02-05-westworld-computers-on-broadway-in-vancouver.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e638427..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-02-05-westworld-computers-on-broadway-in-vancouver.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: WestWorld Computers on Broadway in Vancouver
-created: 1076031780
-categories: 
-- Vancouver
-- Mac
----
-<p>So we just moved. And we're actually all set up at the new place. <a href="http://www.shaw.ca" title="Shaw Cable Internet Service">Shaw</a> came just when they said they would (10am when they said between 8am and 12noon).</p>
-
-<p>My Mac, the e-smith server, and the VoIP phone all got moved over to the new place today. And I managed to leave the iMac power cable behind. And I had work that I had to do tonight.</p>
-
-<p>Luckily, <a href="http://www.westworld.ca/" title="WestWorld Computers -- The Macintosh Experts">WestWorld</a> has a location just around the corner, on Broadway between Hemlock and Birch. I figured I could go borrow one until I got mine.</p>
-
-<p>Read on, gentle reader, for the full tale.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>So I rush into WestWorld, about 30min before closing. There were perhaps two customers browsing, and a handful of staff. The one closest to the door, looked at my wild-eyed appearance, and asked if he could help me.</p>
-
-<p>I explained that I needed an iMac flat-panel power cord. He walked me over to service. I explained I only needed to borrow it until tomorrow morning, but the service tech said he could only order me one. I asked again if there wasn't even one cord that I could borrow until morning, and the service tech instructed the salesperson to go ask the manager.</p>
-
-<p>The salesperson went to ask the manager, who was on the phone. I wandered around the store, browsing. The salesperson came back up to me and said that the manager had said no. I asked him to point out the manager. He was currently with a customer, so I waited until he was done.</p>
-
-<p>I again explained my need for a power cord temporarily. He proceeded to tell me that they were proprietary. "Yes, I know," which is why I needed to borrow one until morning, when I can get the one I left behind when moving.  I mentioned that they were about to close, and didn't open again until the morning, so couldn't I just borrow one until they opened?</p>
-
-<p>The sales manager relented, and had me fill out a rental form, charged me $5 (plus GST), copied down my credit card number, and sent me on my way, again with an admonishment to be back by 9am.</p>
-
-<p>I kept my cool during the whole ordeal, but I really didn't feel like I was welcome in the store. No one was forthcoming or really gave me the feeling that they wanted to help. If this is the state of independent Mac retailing in Canada...well, let's just say that I'll likely be trying <a href="http://www.simply.ca/">Simply Computing</a> or the Apple online store when I'm shopping for my new PowerBook.</p>
-
-<p>We'll see how the return of the cord goes tomorrow morning.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Update:</strong> Well, nothing dramatic. I didn't make a big scene or anything, I just returned the cord. But, interesting to note, it was shortly after 9am and the store wasn't really open and ready to recieve customers.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-02-06-ichat-bluetooth-headset-phone.md b/_posts/archive/2004-02-06-ichat-bluetooth-headset-phone.md
deleted file mode 100644
index cd63eab..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-02-06-ichat-bluetooth-headset-phone.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: iChat + Bluetooth Headset = Phone
-created: 1076138940
-categories: 
-- Mac
-- VoIP
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<p>Amongst others, <a href="http://a.wholelottanothing.org/archives.blah/007698">A Whole Lotta Nothing</a> pointed out that Apple's latest Bluetooth and iChat updates let you basically use iChat as a VoIP phone.</p>
-
-<p>The news being that the latest version of <a href="http://www.apple.com/ichat/download/" title="iChat  AV 2.1 Public Beta Download">iChat</a> will work with AOL clients on the PC side as well. And just after I figured out that I could use <a href="http://fire.sourceforge.net">Fire</a> to log onto AOL with my .Mac username as well.</p>
-
-<!--break-->
-
-<p>The Bluetooth angle is very cool. Now you can pair a Bluetooth headset with your Mac, enabling you to use it as an audio source and destination. So, wander around listening to iTunes wirelessly, then use speech control to change songs.</p>
-
-<p>(Yes, Rob Local, this means that if you and I both get webcams, we'll be able to chat)</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-02-06-talkbroadband-steady-state.md b/_posts/archive/2004-02-06-talkbroadband-steady-state.md
deleted file mode 100644
index eeff729..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-02-06-talkbroadband-steady-state.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: TalkBroadband - Steady state
-created: 1076137740
-categories: 
-- Canada
-- Vancouver
-- VoIP
----
-<p>This is likely going to be the last TalkBroadband post for a while unless other people have some questions (post them in the <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/834">TalkBroadband thread</a> or start a new thread in the <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/forum/124">Telephony forum</a>).</p>
-
-<p>I made the move over to Vancouver in an afternoon, unplugging all my computer stuff including the DVG and hooking it back up to my waiting Shaw connection at our new place. Before I left, I called tech support and opened a ticket about my alternate, Ottawa number not being provisioned yet (a week had gone by and it still wasn't working).</p>
-
-<p>But, another satisfactory experience with Primus' tech support resolved everything, and I got the last word on backup call forwarding. Read on.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>Once everything was up and running, I got a call in the evening from Primus. The tech identified himself as Kevin Jervis, and he explained he was testing to make sure that my alternate number was working correctly. He apologized for the inconvenience, and asked if I could hang up so he could call again.</p>
-
-<p>Kevin called again about 5 minutes later, verifying that my alternate number in Ottawa was working. I kept him on the phone to again ask about backup call forwarding. So, contrary to what I had written before, here is the <strong>final</strong> scoop on backup call forwarding, according to Kevin.</p>
-
-<p>My initial problems were that backup call forwarding wasn't working, and calls were going to voice mail, which I didn't have at the time. This was due, explained Kevin, to incorrect provisioning right at the beginning, and this apparently happened to quite a lot of customers.</p>
-
-<p>But, while I was moving, someone called and backup call forwarding <em>did</em> work, and got forwarded to my cell phone. Even though I had voice mail.</p>
-
-<p>So, regardless of whether or not you have voice mail, if you lose your Internet connection, power, or otherwise unplug your DVG, the central server will detect this, and backup call forwarding will kick in. At this time, there is no way to have the calls go to your voice mail instead. Kevin did say that there were a few other features coming online, so something like this might be possible in the future.</p>
-
-<p>That wraps up my TalkBroadband articles, I think. I'll continue to post in the <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/834">forum</a> and pass on anything that comes my way. I'm happy with the service, the quality, the reliability, and the price. I'm looking forward to gateways to other VoIP systems, like the <a href="http://192.246.69.231/jeff/personal/archives/000457.html">Vonage / <acronym title="Free World Dialup">FWD</acronym> interconnect</a>. And, of course, voicemail pick-up via email.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-02-06-wordpress.md b/_posts/archive/2004-02-06-wordpress.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 97a226b..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-02-06-wordpress.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: WordPress
-created: 1076091300
-categories: 
-- Open Source
-- PHP
-- Web 2.0
----
-An excellent PHP-based blogging tool, with all sorts of advanced features. Easy installation, easy upgrades, nice typographical formatting.
-
-Only downside right now is that it doesn't support auto-thumbnailing or a media directory for selecting already uploading pictures.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-02-08-bloglet.md b/_posts/archive/2004-02-08-bloglet.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 352f92d..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-02-08-bloglet.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Bloglet
-created: 1076273940
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
-- Web 2.0
----
-Bloglet offers an email subscription service for your blog. I started Bloglet as an experiment with Blogger's XML-RPC interface. Hopefully with your help we can make this into something worth keeping around for a while.
-
-Uses the Blogger API, so should be compatible with any site that uses that.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-02-08-vijs-recommended-by-stuart-mclean.md b/_posts/archive/2004-02-08-vijs-recommended-by-stuart-mclean.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 4aafdb3..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-02-08-vijs-recommended-by-stuart-mclean.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Vij's, Recommended by Stuart McLean
-created: 1076270400
-categories: 
-- Vancouver
----
-<p>It was my mom's birthday on <a href="http://www.whohasmybirthday.com/sample_list.html#02-07">February 7</a>, so my parents came over to see our new place, and then we went out to dinner at <a href="http://www.vijs.ca/" title="Vij's Restaurant">Vij's</a>, a fantastic Indian restaurant on 11th at Granville.</p>
-
-<p>Kate and I had seen it in our travels around the neighbourhood, but hadn't give it much thought. It doesn't look like much from the outside --  a sort of dark gray front with a little front courtyard, and the name in purple neon. But my mom heard about it from <a href="http://www.penguinblogs.ca/mclean/" title="Stuart McLean's Blog">Stuart McLean</a> (Stuart needs to blog more -- then I could link to an entry about Vij's). Apparently he raved about it on-air. Vij himself dropped by our table, and we mentioned this, and he said he never spoke to Stuart -- he wasn't there the night he came.</p>
-<!--break-->
-
-<p>In any case, we stopped by around 6pm and put our names on the waiting list. Vij's opens at 5:30pm, and there is often a line up before it even opens. There is a great little waiting area at the back, with some low tables, chairs, and a bar that serves free appetizers and chai lattes. We decided to window shop along Granville, since we had over an hour to wait.</p>
-
-<p>We returned and started sampling some beer (they serve Storm Brewery's India Pale Ale, Pilsner, and Scottish Ale) by the bar, and were seated about 10 minutes later.</p>
-
-<p>We had already been browsing the menu at the bar, so it didn't take us long to decide. A server came by with a brass water pitcher and glasses for everyone. We decided on just two appetizers, <em>Roast Kale with Chick Peas</em> and <em>Grilled Portobello Mushrooms</em>. For our mains, we each picked one, but were going to share everything (that's pretty much how things are set up -- the dishes aren't really meant for individual eating).</p>
-
-<p>When the appetizers first came, I was a bit dismayed by their small size. But, it was actually the perfect amount. Enough to get a good taste for all four people, not too much to get full with the taste or spoil your appetite for dinner. Warm naan bread accompanied it, and Vij came by to bring us more when we finished the first serving. The naan was mediocre, probably due to how busy the restaurant was, or perhaps just that I've had really great homemade naan in Ottawa.</p>
-
-<p>The appetizers were cleared, including the warmed plates we were eating from, and we got fresh cutlery and fresh warm plates. The servers were attentive about coming by and offering to refresh drinks, and filling up our water glasses and pitcher.</p>
-
-<p>More naan bread and some bowls of rice accompanied the entrees. Everything was very flavourful, and nothing was too spicey, although some dishes had a bit of kick. I chose the ghee-braised short ribs, my dad picked some grilled pork tenderloin, my mom had roast eggplant, and Kate selected the saag with daal. Salt also featured heavily -- which wasn't a problem for us, since we're all salt fanatics. There wasn't too much, but none of the dishes needed any more.</p>
-
-<p>Saag was explained to us as a Punjabi dish that is composed of mustard greens that are simmered for a long time with spices. It was a bit like creamed spinach, but much tastier. It was also topped with homemade paneer, which is a type of cheese. The paneer was a bit like feta (small crumbly white bits) and a bit like curds from Quebec (very soft and mild tasting).</p>
-
-<p>The entrees again looked small, but we barely finished what with the accompanying rice, naan, and some other grilled breads. Yes, of course we had room for dessert! We each tried a different one: my mother had the house chocolates, Kate had dumplings in a hot cardamon syrup, my dad had a type of almond rice pudding, and I had mango pistachio ice cream. These were all covered with silver leaf, which apparently is edible and has good anti-oxidant properties.</p>
-
-[image:860,right,5,5]
-
-<p>With a couple of beers each and three courses, the meal came to about $50 per person, including tip and tax. Very worthwhile, and I can highly recommend this to anyone that enjoys good food. We got our coats and were about to walk the 2 blocks back to our place, when my mother found something extra in her coat pocket.</p>
-
-<p>It might be a bit hard to see, but I'm holding a can of Lucky Lager. Not exactly upscale beer, but it has a certain retro cachet. I guess some Vancouver hipster came in with it, and then hid the empty can in my mom's coat pocket!</p>
-
-<p><strong>Update:</strong> I don't know why I didn't look for the website earlier. It's linked at the top now, and here's a <a href="http://www.vijs.ca/menu.html" title="Vij's Restaurant - Menu">direct link to the menu</a>.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-02-09-just-signed-up-for-spud.md b/_posts/archive/2004-02-09-just-signed-up-for-spud.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 994924a..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-02-09-just-signed-up-for-spud.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Just signed up for Spud
-created: 1076396280
-categories: 
-- Vancouver
----
-<a href="http://www.spud.ca">Small Potatoes Urban Delivery</a> that is. Local Vancouver online grocery delivery (hmm...that doesn't sound right, but you get what I mean).
-
-We're getting ~$15 worth of produce every week, and then a bunch of stuff every other week. First delivery is this Wednesday. Not quite sure how they're going to get into the building -- details are bit weak on that.
-<!--break-->
-I always wanted to try this in Ottawa, but none of the options were any good. Maybe I'm overly picky because I did a project on this in university, where we analyzed the needs of people and rated different options. The Spud interface is still not great. Kate's comment was "I'm glad that they don't give you too many choices". I think this is a key phrase: pick some best-in-class products, don't overwhelm your customers.
-
-But, the site is slow and the design is mediocre at best. Of course, these types of operations don't tend to have the cash to spend on a big site overhaul -- I'd love to have the kind of (financial) freedom to do this as a freebie. A blogging or community feature would be cool as well -- customers could post profiles and (most importantly) content like blog posts that are recipes or reviews of various products. You could design-a-meal or even design-a-diet, sharing it with others and having them comment. All the food/product references would automagically link to catalog items, and you could "click to add recipe" to have it in your next order, along with a print-out of the recipe.
-
-I'm hoping for a lottery windfall -- then I'll have the resources to launch half a dozen of these web ideas I have percolating!
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-02-10-media-server-consumer-electronics-sony-should-buy-apple.md b/_posts/archive/2004-02-10-media-server-consumer-electronics-sony-should-buy-apple.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c56fb07..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-02-10-media-server-consumer-electronics-sony-should-buy-apple.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Media Server = Consumer Electronics = Sony should buy Apple
-created: 1076442840
-categories: 
-- Home Server
-- Mac
----
-<p><a href="http://www.corante.com/mooreslore/20040201.shtml#69313">Dana Blankenhorn</a> points to a Parks Associates <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/51/35432.html">research report</a>.</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-<p>…most consumers think consumer electronics when considering a Media Server. And most of those who think of a consumer electronics company think of Sony.</p>
-<p>…</p>
-<p>There is a second, hidden message in this report, namely that a Sony buy-out of Apple does indeed make some sense. Apple has been better than anyone, even Microsoft, in marrying PC and CE technologies. Marrying them to Sony's content guarantees their future.</p>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Playing the "so-and-so company should buy Apple" game is always fun. Right now, even Microsoft is using G5s to do development for it's next generation <acronym title="PowerPC">PPC</acronym>-based Xbox. Apple's recent moves around building iPods for HP and integrating iChat with AOL shows a serious bent towards services. Services is where the future is, as media servers, home servers, or whatever you want to call them are going to run to commodity, just like broadband routers have today. They'll run an embedded form of Linux or BSD, and the pressure points will be around standards: how to interface with other CE devices in the home, how to interface with web services, etc.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-02-11-more-peeps-with-blogs.md b/_posts/archive/2004-02-11-more-peeps-with-blogs.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 03f133e..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-02-11-more-peeps-with-blogs.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: More peeps with blogs
-created: 1076547120
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
----
-I helped get <a href="http://blog.haggaret.com/" rel="friend met">Kevin Haggerty</a> and <a href="http://jamie.bmannconsulting.com" rel="friend met">Jamie Molloy</a> blogging.
-
-Kevin's running it on his <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/861">e-smith server</a> and Jamie's running on my e-smith box. Both are using <a href="http://www.wordpress.org">WordPress</a> as their blogging software.
-<!--break-->
-I can easily install WordPress in just a few seconds now, so if anyone wants a blog, let me know. I've put up a sort of <a href="http://blog.bmannconsulting.com/">support site</a>. Anyone can also <a href="http://blog.bmannconsulting.com/wp-register.php">register</a> and post immediately (to both test WordPress and to provide a place to put feedback, questions, etc.).
-
-Your blog will live at <code>http://blog.bmannconsulting.com/[your-name]/</code> unless you arrange something different with me.
-
-(Graham -- I know you <a href="http://gfair.blogspot.com/">have a blog</a>; I tried to use this <a href="http://cavedoni.com/2004/02/rss1">Atom to RSS</a> converter to get feeds from it, but it just gives errors)
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-02-11-vancouver-geek-dinner-wrap-up.md b/_posts/archive/2004-02-11-vancouver-geek-dinner-wrap-up.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 586c3f8..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-02-11-vancouver-geek-dinner-wrap-up.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Vancouver Geek Dinner Wrap-up
-created: 1076571720
-categories: 
-- Vancouver
----
-[image:866,left,5,5]
-
-<p>I just got back from the <a href="http://www.rolandtanglao.com/2004/02/09.html#a6316">Vancouver Geek Dinner</a>. There were 6 of us, which was a nice size for really getting to know everyone and discussing things.
-
-<p>In the picture, clockwise from the left, are <a href="http://borismann.zerendipity.com" title="Boris Mann's Zerendipity Profile">me</a>, <a href="http://marybrennan.zerendipity.com" title="Mary Brennan's Zerendipity Profile">Mary Brennan</a>, Ed, <a href="http://rolandtanglao.zerendipity.com" title="Roland Tanglao's Zerendipity Profile">Roland Tanglao</a>, <a href="http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/userblogs/avi/blogView">Avi Bryant</a>, and <a href="http://www.vcn.bc.ca/~wselent/" title="Walter Selent's Web Page">Walter Selent</a>.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>We actually spent the first little while agreeing about too many things (Microsoft bad, open source good), so Avi decided to heat things up by playing the "which programming language is best?" card.</p>
-
-[image:867,right,5,5]
-
-<p>Things that may be of interest that I mentioned:</p>
-<ul>
-<li><a href="http://www.contribs.org">E-smith</a>:<p>Ottawa-based company later bought by Mitel that developed an open-source Inter/Intranet server designed for small and medium businesses. The link goes to the main community site. You might also want to look at my <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/5">local collection of e-smith material</a>.</p></li>
-<li><a href="http://www.net-itech.com/">Net Integration</a>:<p>A commercial Linux-based offering that is similar to e-smith, but more robust 
-(the OS resides on a solid-state chip) and fully commercially supported. Includes Outlook-compatible Exchange clone and other niceties. My <a href="http://www.phenomenalsolutions.com">former company</a> is a reseller if you can't find one in Vancouver.</p></li>
-<li><a href="http://www.zerendipity.com">Zerendipity</a>:<p>where my obsession with profiles has lead me. <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/feedback">Contact me</a> if you want an invite. Lots of business/tech focused people in Vancouver are members now. Lots of cool future plans.</p></li>
-<li><a href="http://www.voidstar.com/sea/">Simple External Authentication (SEA)</a>:<p>Avi, post us some pointers to MISO, and <a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sim-ext-auth">join the mailing list</a>. To be honest, there has been pretty much zero activity on this. I'm sure Julian would be thrilled to have your ideas thrown against the wall as an implementation model. Except, of course, it might have to get coded in PHP...   :p</p></li>
-<li><a href="http://www.primustel.ca/en/residential/talkbroadband/" title="Primus TalkBroadband Residential VoIP Service">TalkBroadband</a>:<p>Check my <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/taxonomy/page/or/82">VoIP category</a> for my recent posts about TalkBroadband. I also have a <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/834" title="TalkBroadband forum">forum</a> setup for some more free-form discussions.</p></li>
-</ul>
-
-[image:869,left,5,5]
-
-<p>Did I mention virtually everyone had a Computer Science degree? And that 5 of the 6 went to school in BC? And that all three universities (UVic, UBC, and SFU) were represented?</p>
-
-<p>This bunch of highly educated coders got pretty thirsty after the dinner at Hon's, so we went next door to Fogg & Sudds and ordered the "Tower of Power" that Mary is cradling. She drank the last drop, too.</p>
-
-<p><a href="http://www.rolandTanglao.com/2004/02/12.html#a6329">Roland's post</a> probably does a better job of mentioning all the various things that came up. Thanks, Roland, now I have to strive for coolness AND knowledge! Congrats on the baby, and yes, lets definitely do this again. Actually, I'll likely be doing an "Intro to Disc Golf" event sometime soon -- Avi and Mary have already tentatively agreed.</p>
-
-<p>All the pictures I took are in the <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/taxonomy/page/or/133">Vancouver Geek Dinner</a> category. I'll put them on <a href="http://www.flickr.com">Flickr</a>, too.</p>
-
-<p>I almost forgot -- my fortune from Hon's:<br>
-<em>Relax and concentrate on your career plans.</em></p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-02-13-does-speed-advantage-mean-mac-tipping-point.md b/_posts/archive/2004-02-13-does-speed-advantage-mean-mac-tipping-point.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 641ed54..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-02-13-does-speed-advantage-mean-mac-tipping-point.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Does speed advantage mean Mac tipping point?
-created: 1076702760
-categories: 
-- Mac
----
-<p>I'm definitely not a chip guy, but judging by what the guys at <a href="http://www.arstechnica.com">ArsTechnica</a> are reporting about the next generation of G5 chips, this could be the year that the PowerPC architecture (and Mac platform) regain the speed crown from Intel:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-<p>Yes folks, a battle is not brewing, it's completely underway. A G5 jump to 2.5 or 3.0 GHz this year would represent a percentage speed increase likely not achievable by either Intel or AMD in that timeframe, the latter not being slated to hit 90nm until the second half of this year. Indeed, <a href="http://www.mdronline.com/watch/watch_abstract.asp?Volname=Issue%20%23117&SID=1068&on=T&SourceID=00000377000000000000" title="Microprocessor Report: IBM Takes the Lead
-">MR</a> is betting that come late year, the G5 will be the fastest CPU of of the bunch. The real question is, if that happens, will it also be the most expensive?</p>
-<p><a href="http://arstechnica.com/news/posts/1076696307.html" title="ArsTechnica: G5 Power PC 970FX to hit 2.5GHz">ArsTechnica: G5 Power PC 970FX to hit 2.5GHz</a></p>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Of course, a G4 eMac is still at $1000, and a current PC with monitor can be had for $600. Do iLife's apps tip the balance? Does immunity to viruses hold any cash value? Will a (perceived or otherwise) speed advantage make a difference?</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>I actually still think platform choices are interesting. Or rather, relative platform choices. I see the Wintel platform beset on all sides:</p>
-
-<ul>
-<li>Europeans use smartphones more than desktop computers</li>
-<li>Linux plus Intel is gaining huge ground in places like Germany and China (plus all the fanless stuff is from VIA, not Intel)</li>
-<li>The digerati all have PowerBook G4s</li>
-<li>Consumer electronics companies are becoming computing powers in their own right (ref. PlayStation, plus XBox2 is likely going to be PPC powered)</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>Wouldn't it be funny if <strong>Microsoft</strong> had a plan to port Longhorn, their next generation of Windows, to the PPC platform?!!?</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-02-13-no-tv-watching-the-latest-episodes.md b/_posts/archive/2004-02-13-no-tv-watching-the-latest-episodes.md
deleted file mode 100644
index d7bd9e6..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-02-13-no-tv-watching-the-latest-episodes.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: No TV, watching the latest episodes
-created: 1076705640
-categories: 
-- Movie
-- Multimedia PC
----
-<p><a href="http://gallery.bmannconsulting.com/our_new_place">Our new place</a> is pretty small -- only about 550 square feet. My desk is in the living room, and our (relatively) big 27" TV didn't really fit in anywhere. So, we gave it my parents, along with our old DVD player.</p>
-
-<p>My Mac does a pretty good job as a DVD watching station, which is pretty much all we used the TV for anyways (we haven't had cable in years). I know about being able to download near-DVD quality movies, but it's something I've never really gotten into. I guess it's always been easier to just walk down the block and rent the DVD.</p>
-
-<p>But, the other day I started downloading some TV episodes -- you know, Law & Order, CSI, The West Wing, that sort of thing. Some observations:</p>
-<!--break-->
-<ul>
-<li>quality is great</li>
-<li>commercials are edited out</li>
-<li>episodes are available the day or the day after they are aired</li>
-<li>using <a href="http://www.bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/">BitTorrent</a>, I can download 4 - 6 episodes per night</li>
-<li>BitTorrent downloads kill my VoIP phone system by saturating the bandwidth</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>Since I don't have QuickTime Pro, I can't use it to watch things fullscreen. Instead, I use <a href="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/" title="VideoLAN Client">VLC</a>, which tends also to play a lot of files that QT might have trouble with. Also in my searches, I did as recommended by <a href="http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20030825045710515">macosxhints</a> and installed both <a href="http://www.divx.com/mac/" title="DivX for Mac">DivX</a> and <a href="http://www.3ivx.com/">3ivx</a> codecs, which pretty much solves all problem AVI files.</p>
-
-<p>So Kate and I enjoyed a couple of TV episodes. In fact, Kate <strong>really</strong> liked it -- she went to Costco halfway through The West Wing, so I just closed it, did some other stuff, and watched the rest of it with her when she came back. We'll stick to rentals for movies, but TV…</p>
-
-<p>All this just after I told Greg that I never really bothered downloading movies :p<p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-02-13-pictures-of-newfoundland-snowstorm.md b/_posts/archive/2004-02-13-pictures-of-newfoundland-snowstorm.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 9fcca05..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-02-13-pictures-of-newfoundland-snowstorm.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Pictures of Newfoundland Snowstorm
-created: 1076703960
-categories: 
-- Canada
----
-<p><a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/blog/18" title="Todd Bailey's Blog">Todd Bailey</a> emailed me a bunch of pictures of the snowstorm in Newfoundland.</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-<p>I got these photos from a friend at work - they were taken during last
-year's snowstorm in Newfoundland. I had no idea that it ever got that bad?
-And no need for the army to dig them out. Speaking of digging out - one
-story I was told to accompany these photos was that a road crews had finally
-got out when the snow stopped and started digging and uncovered the roof of
-a bus - no joke!</p>
-
-<p>Boris: Instead of putting all that CRAZY computer stuff on your website -
-put some of these interesting photos! Interesting photos = more web hits.</p>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>So, here they are:</p>
-
-<!--break-->
-
-[image:872,middle,5,5]
-
-[image:873,middle,5,5]
-
-[image:875,middle,5,5]
-
-[image:874,middle,5,5]
-
-<p>Here's a <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/11/09/nfld_storm031109" title="CBC News: Snowstorm hits Newfoundland and Labrador">CBC story</a> which talks about the storm, from early November 2003.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-02-15-cvsfinder.md b/_posts/archive/2004-02-15-cvsfinder.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 73ef828..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-02-15-cvsfinder.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: cvsFinder
-created: 1076861460
-categories: 
-- Application
-- Mac
----
-<blockquote>
-cvsFinder is an attempt to integrate CVS into the Mac OS file manager, Finder.  The end goal is to provide all the features of command line CVS through integration with the file manager.  Most of the work is done in Cocoa and Objective-C.   Inspiration for this app comes from <a href="http://tortoisecvs.sourceforge.net/">TortoiseCVS</a>.
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Whoa. CVS integration into the <em>Finder</em>!?</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-02-16-flickr-kicks-off-rich-media-arms-race-for-social-networking-apps.md b/_posts/archive/2004-02-16-flickr-kicks-off-rich-media-arms-race-for-social-networking-apps.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 888b4d8..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-02-16-flickr-kicks-off-rich-media-arms-race-for-social-networking-apps.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Flickr kicks off rich media arms race for social networking apps
-created: 1076927400
-categories: 
-- Social Media
----
-<p>Somehow, <a href="http://www.flickr.com">Flickr</a> feels like a place to hang out. This is more like it -- it puts the "social" back into social software. The basic, web-page only interface isn't much. Actually, it's <em>really</em> barebones.</p>
-
-<p>So go ahead and hit the big <strong>Launch!</strong> button. It could maybe be even bigger, to signify what it leads to. Which is the first shot across the bow of every other app that dares call itself social software (<strong>Update:</strong> you have to register to see the "Launch" button, says <a href="http://www.flickr.com/profile.gne?id=35468135512@N01" title="Dave Smith's Flickr Profile">Dave</a>, and Lloyd wanted to <a href="http://sylloge.typepad.com/x/2004/02/we_ship.html">see a screenshot</a> without having to register)</p>
-
-<p>A giant, gorgeous interface that feels like a second desktop. With contacts, little graphical icons, tab-key navigation (tab navigation!) and everything feels clickable and draggable, because it is. Oh, and there are little icons representing your groups, and some more little icons representing your pictures, which do a nice magnify effect like the OS X dock as you mouse over.</p>
-
-<p>I actually thought it was an amazing DHTML interface the first time. Because I didn't get a "crappy Flash interface" allergic reaction to it. And, you can click on things and they open real URLs, which you can actually <a href="http://www.flickr.com/gallery_large.gne?id=1027" title="Is your bathroom breeding BOLSHEVIKS?!?">link to</a>.</p>
-
-<p>Anyway I was hanging out at some point, when <a href="http://www.flickr.com/profile.gne?id=12037949632@N01" title="Stewart Butterfield's Flickr Profile">Stewart Butterfield</a> acquainted himself to me, and let me in on some upcoming features…</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>IM conversation logs is all I can remember, which isn't all that interesting :p. Gimme gateways to other IM clients and I'm yours forever. People that don't have Macs and don't run <a href="http://fire.sourceforge.net" title="Fire - Mac OS X Multi-Client IM App">Fire</a> don't realize how easy it can be to talk to all the different networks out there.</p>
-
-<p>Sure, it's got some growing pains. I had a long rant in the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups_view.gne?id=34427465446@N01">FlickrIdeas</a> channel about <em>why</em> you can't rename pictures after you've made them public. The answer is: no particular reason, that's just the way it's coded (ref: long discussion about database design, person-specific meta-data, pointers to the original image data, problems with owner not being able to fix even simple spelling mistakes, etc. etc.). Thanks for listening, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/profile.gne?id=12037949663@N01" title="Caterina Fake's Flickr Profile">Caterina</a> (actually, I think I was badgering <a href="http://www.flickr.com/profile.gne?id=34427469121@N01" title="George Oates' Flickr Profile">George</a> first, before you jumped to the rescue, macro in hand: <em>We don't know why they coded it that way, but that's the way it currently works</em>).</p>
-
-<p>Let's see...ostensibly, Flickr is about sharing photos that you have kicking around. You've got a shoebox that you can upload to through your browser or by sending Magic Email. I love Magic Email. Wouldn't it be neat to have Magic Email that was trolled on a couple of spammer sites and see what happens? Interesting shoeboxes. And you have a gallery, on your profile page. Which is inexplicably not linked to your shoebox in any way. And doesn't do Magic Email.</p>
-
-<p>Maybe I'll wander by the <a href="http://www.ludicorp.com">Ludicorp</a> offices and see if they need the services of an <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=itinerant&r=67">itinerant</a> web tinkerer (ah-ha! new BMC slogan) -- this looks like it's going to be fun.</p>
-
-<p>I'll Flickr you later, dude.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-02-16-j2ee-consulting-with-eversun-software.md b/_posts/archive/2004-02-16-j2ee-consulting-with-eversun-software.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a051b23..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-02-16-j2ee-consulting-with-eversun-software.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: J2EE Consulting with Eversun Software
-created: 1076920740
-categories: 
-- Vancouver
----
-<p>Well, it's Sunday night/Monday morning and I'm still at it. I had a long day today, but a very good meeting with <a href="http://www.eversunsoft.com" title="Eversun Software does J2EE Consulting in Vancouver">Eversun Software</a>. They do software development here in Vancouver, focusing equally on <acronym title="Java 2 Enterprise Edition">J2EE</acronym> and .NET solutions. Now that's what I like to see -- a company with a lot of tools in it's toolbox!</p>
-
-<p>It's been a while since I did hard core Java coding. There's lot's of cool stuff out there, like <a href="http://www.eclipse.org">Eclipse</a> for doing rapid development, and even stuff like <a href="http://cocoon.apache.org">Cocoon</a> and <a href="http://avalon.apache.org" title="Modular, Component oriented Programming -- even for desktop apps">Avalon</a> have come a <em>long</em> way. Next thing you know I'll be installing blinds and ordering Jolt Cola by the case-lot. And popping Penguin Caffeinated Mints, natch.</p>
-
-<p>(I don't know what "natch" means -- I threw it in because it seemed appropriate)</p>
-
-<p>I was also IM'ing briefly with <a href="http://michaelday.zerendipity.com" title="Michael Day's Zerendipity Profile">Michael Day</a> just now and realized that I've never compiled all of my "Über-Google Tips and Tricks" anywhere. I've been giving away these tips "for free" for a while now, but it really comes down to implementation. So consider this a little placeholder that will remind me to write this stuff down. Kate would prefer that I get a "real job" :(</p>
-
-<p>I'm working my way through an MS Word doc -- lengthy, lots of formatting and use of styles -- and I suddenly realized that I probably could have done it faster in a <a href="http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/" title="Best text editor e-va = SubEthaEdit plus WebKit live Preview of HTML = coding goodness">text editor</a> using HTML and a CSS stylesheet!</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-02-16-linux-news-from-browser-to-platform-mozilla-rises.md b/_posts/archive/2004-02-16-linux-news-from-browser-to-platform-mozilla-rises.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 630f567..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-02-16-linux-news-from-browser-to-platform-mozilla-rises.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Linux News: From Browser to Platform: Mozilla Rises"
-created: 1076964780
-categories: 
-- Web Development
----
-<p>Nigel McFarlane writes an excellent article on the promise of Mozilla as a platform. Everything that he says in the article is at least in part attributable to Microsoft's XAML as well…except, of course, that MS' solution is non-portable and requires an entire operating system to deploy onto, not just a browser.</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-<p>Instead of a Web page, you can build a traditional user-oriented, GUI-based application with [XML, CSS and JavaScript]. There's a huge ready-made Web programmer audience for such application development. There is an opportunity for Web developers to broaden their skillset beyond what is now a very competitive Web development market.</p>
-<p><a href="http://www.linuxinsider.com/perl/story/32404.html" title="Linux News: From Browser to Platform: Mozilla Rises">Linux News: From Browser to Platform: Mozilla Rises</a></p>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>This talks to a number of important factors about the way that software development is changing…</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>You have the ability to target a platform, without having to worry about the complexities of the underlying operating systems or architectures. As mobile solutions get faster hardware (smartphones, etc.), we'll see these meta-operating systems extending there as well. Sure, you may have to design an alternate UI layout, but you could potentially re-use large chunks.</p>
-
-<p>Another great quote to end off (links added by me):</p>
-
-<blockquote>Mozilla's XUL has been so successful and so influential that most vendors of GUI development systems, like Microsoft and Macromedia, now offer an XUL clone or an XUL alternative of their own -- <a href="http://longhorn.msdn.microsoft.com/lhsdk/core/overviews/about%20xaml.aspx">XAML</a> and <a href="http://www.macromedia.com/software/flex/">Flex</a>, respectively. One day, all but the most specialized applications will have their visual user interfaces specified this way. It's the future.</blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-02-16-netomat.md b/_posts/archive/2004-02-16-netomat.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 3a6e459..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-02-16-netomat.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Netomat
-created: 1077004020
-categories: 
-- Social Media
-- Web 2.0
----
-<p>Mmm...these blurbs are starting to sound familiar</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-With netomat 1.0, you can create your own living spaces online - personalize them, share them, and use them again and again. Living spaces are live, multimedia channels of communication between you and your friends, family and co-workers.
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Here's another:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-<p>"Take the multimedia aspects of the Web, the personal connection of the blog, the social dynamics of instant messaging. Add some art theory and business strategy, and mix well."</p>
-<p>- David Becker, CNET</p>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Reading about the <a href="http://www.netomat.net/corporate/technology.php">technology</a>, I just ask myself, wouldn't this be better with XUL? And let's just use Jabber for all IM, mmm-kay?</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-02-16-reblogging.md b/_posts/archive/2004-02-16-reblogging.md
deleted file mode 100644
index eee9322..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-02-16-reblogging.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: reBlogging
-created: 1076993940
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
-- Drupal
-- Knowledge Management
-- reblogging
-- Eyebeam
-- Movable Type
-- drupal
-- Web 2.0
-- drupal
-- Eyebeam
-- Movable Type
-- reblogging
-- Web 2.0
----
-<p>
-	Using MovableType hacks, <a href="http://www.eyebeam.org/reblog/">Eyebeam created reBlogging</a>.</p>
-<p>
-	Except, of course, that <a href="http://www.drupal.org">Drupal</a> has always been able to do that: classify feeds with different keywords automatically, and then individually tag them with different keywords if desired.</p>
-<p>
-	If you&#39;re logged into this site, all the external feeds (two on the front page -- Friends and Interesting, plus of course <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/import/sources">all the other feeds</a>) have little &quot;blog it&quot; links next to them. I can select a set of taxonomy terms, re-title it, and just publish it straight up.<!--break-->Actually, the <a href="http://www.drupal.org/project/import">import contributed module</a> goes one step further.</p>
-<p>
-	Imported feeds are actually first-class nodes, essentially indistinguishable from regular postings. And they can also be tagged with taxonomy terms automatically, in order to set up custom re-feeds.</p>
-<p>
-	Copyright? Right-of-first syndication?</p>
-<p>
-	It&#39;s turtles all the way down, I suppose.</p>
-<p>
-	(reBlogged from <a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0110772/2004/02/10.html#a1455">Seb&#39;s</a>)</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-02-16-userplane.md b/_posts/archive/2004-02-16-userplane.md
deleted file mode 100644
index cbde596..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-02-16-userplane.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Userplane
-created: 1077004260
-categories: 
-- Web 2.0
----
-<p>Company that makes <a href="http://www.userplane.com/apps/">apps</a> that range from a Web A/V recorder to instant messaging with audio & video -- all through a browser/Flash interface!</p>
-
-<p>Did I mention the Intranet system?</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-02-16-winter-storm-damage-in-vancouver-and-victoria.md b/_posts/archive/2004-02-16-winter-storm-damage-in-vancouver-and-victoria.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 4fc22ed..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-02-16-winter-storm-damage-in-vancouver-and-victoria.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Winter Storm Damage in Vancouver and Victoria
-created: 1076957280
-categories: 
-- Vancouver
----
-<p>Fun forwarded email from Kathleen Sun:</p>
-
-<pre>
-Sent: February 16, 2004 10:17 AM
-Subject: Fw: Winter Storm Damage in Vancouver and
-Victoria
-
-Here is a photo of the damage from the terrible
-coastal storm that passed through Victoria last  week.
-Most people stayed home and most schools were
-cancelled. It really makes you cherish what you
-have, and reminds us not to take life for granted. 
-Warning: Following picture is quite graphic and may
-not be suitable for younger viewers.
-</pre>
-
-<p>See extended entry for picture.</p>
-<!--break-->
-
-[image:886,middle,5,5]
-
-<p>Yes, it's true that there are some terrible storms. I had to cinch the hood of my rain jacket a little tighter the other day :p</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-02-18-ichat-flickr-et-al-and-skype.md b/_posts/archive/2004-02-18-ichat-flickr-et-al-and-skype.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 3a6d84e..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-02-18-ichat-flickr-et-al-and-skype.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: iChat, Flickr (et al), and Skype
-created: 1077154800
-categories: 
-- VoIP
-- Social Media
----
-<p>I just started reading <a href="http://www.henshall.com/">Stuart Henshall</a>, or rather, his <a href="http://www.henshall.com/blog/" title="Unbound Spiral - Stuart Henshall's Blog">blog</a>. Lots of good stuff about <a href="http://www.skype.com">Skype</a>, he's talking about <a href="http://www.flickr.com">Flickr</a>, and some thoughts about how voice could potentially interact with social software.</p>
-
-<p>And he also pointed me towards <a href="http://www.2entwine.com/" title="2entwine's Gush Application">Gush</a> -- basically a combination RSS reader, IM client (using Jabber), and blogging client. Currently Windows-only, but a Mac OS X version is coming. Rich media arms race indeed!</p>
-
-<p>On to my own experiences with iChat…</p>
-
-<!--break-->
-
-<p>Last night I spent almost 2 hours on iChat, talking with first <a href="http://blog.haggaret.com" title="Kevin Haggerty's Blog">Kevin</a> and then Andy. The great thing was, I was able to walk around our (small) apartment and keep chatting. The iMac microphone is good enough that it picked me up as I went to the fridge, the kitchen, etc. With the addition of a <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/852">wireless Bluetooth headset</a>, I could have talked in a normal voice.</p>
-
-<p>The picture sharing felt very natural. I mean, I still know a lot of people that have difficulty sending pictures via email (all of them on the PC platform, I might add), but drag and dropping onto a chat window is something that anyone can do.</p>
-
-<p>Both Kevin and Andy plan to get parents set up with the latest version of the <a href="http://www.aim.com/">AOL Instant Messenger client</a>. Bye bye long distance calls, hello shared pictures and video! Andy and Irene Ann are expecting a baby, so this will let the grandparents stay in touch.</p>
-
-<p>Anything that calls itself social software has to, by definition, work the way that people already work. This means easy voice, easy group forming, easy sharing of media that represents the way we see and hear the world around us.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-02-18-k-scott-allen-newsgroups-blogs-and-magazines.md b/_posts/archive/2004-02-18-k-scott-allen-newsgroups-blogs-and-magazines.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c5522a5..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-02-18-k-scott-allen-newsgroups-blogs-and-magazines.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "K. Scott Allen: Newsgroups, Blogs, and Magazines"
-created: 1077127800
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
----
-<p>I was talking to <a href="http://blog.haggaret.com" title="Kevin Haggerty's Blog">Kevin</a> last night and got him all excited about <acronym title="Really Simple Syndication">RSS</acronym> and reading blogs and other websites using an aggregator. He still reads newsgroups a lot, so this article is perfect for explaining some of the differences:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-<p>Blogs gives people a place to “push
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-02-18-karma-mailing-list.md b/_posts/archive/2004-02-18-karma-mailing-list.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 67c8d53..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-02-18-karma-mailing-list.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Karma Mailing List
-created: 1077128760
-categories: 
-- mailing list
-- karma
-- email
----
-<p>
-	One of the biggest problems with large mailing lists is that there is usually a core group of really good contributors, and then large masses (often new subscribers) that just send out the same &quot;How do I...?&quot; or other &quot;noise&quot; type questions that could easily be answered by reading the manual or checking out the frequently asked questions page.</p>
-<p>
-	<a href="http://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/archive/2004/02/17/171.aspx">This article by K. Scott Allen</a> made me think about some changes to mailing lists that might help with the signal to noise ratio.</p>
-<p>
-	The basic idea is to implement a sort of karma or ratings system for mailing list subscribers, much like <a href="http://www.slashdot.org">Slashdot</a> or <a href="http://kuro5hin.org">kuro5hin</a>.</p>
-<p>
-	Each subscriber could set their threshold, so some users might choose to receive only the best posts, from the core group.</p>
-<p>
-	New members might have a certain trial period, or some other way for their posts to be seen following their initial sign up.</p>
-<p>
-	Karma rankings for individual users and/or posts could be done by a set of moderators, through a web interface. Alternately, any person could give feedback about a post by sending mail commands back to the list server -- e.g. forwarding it to a separate address, like &quot;list-karma&quot;, and having +1, -2, etc. listed on the first line.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-02-18-phpgedview.md b/_posts/archive/2004-02-18-phpgedview.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 73706cb..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-02-18-phpgedview.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: PHPGedView
-created: 1077127620
-categories: 
-- Web 2.0
----
-<blockquote>
-PhpGedView is a program for putting your genealogy on the internet. To  use it, copy the php files that come when you download the project to  your webserver along with your GEDCOM file. When you make changes to  your genealogical data, simply upload a new GEDCOM file.
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>We use <a href="http://www.leisterpro.com/">Reunion</a> to build our family tree. Will have to look at this for making the web version.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-02-18-yahoo-new-search-engine-does-rss.md b/_posts/archive/2004-02-18-yahoo-new-search-engine-does-rss.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 0f3519a..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-02-18-yahoo-new-search-engine-does-rss.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Yahoo new search engine, does RSS
-created: 1077160860
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
----
-[image:898,middle,5,5]
-
-<p>That's the search results for this site. Hard to read, but in the full version there are "View as XML" and "Add to My Yahoo" links. Yahoo sees that I've added special tags to my header which points to the location of my syndicated feeds -- my <a href="http://www.bmannconslting.com/node/feed">front page feed</a> (which is everything that makes it onto the front page) and the <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/blog/feed" title="B. Mann Consulting Blog Feeds">blog feeds</a> (which is a combined feed of everyone that posts to their blog here -- everyone also has their own blog feed).</p>
-
-<p>Yahoo has also recently switched to using its own search engine, instead of relying on Google. At the same time, Google made a press release today that they are crawling over a billion pages -- the largest of any search engine.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Update:</strong> speaking of RSS, the <a href="http://www.onlinebusinessnetworks.com/blog/2004/2/19/yahoo-and-rss-and-yahoo-groups">Online Business Blog</a> mentions that Yahoo Groups are now accessible as RSS feeds. No more mailing lists…</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-02-19-flickr-services.md b/_posts/archive/2004-02-19-flickr-services.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 58ae5b8..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-02-19-flickr-services.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Flickr Services?!
-created: 1077239520
-categories: 
-- Social Media
----
-<p>That sly <a href="http://www.benhammersley.com/dparchives/008100.html">Ben Hammersley fellow</a> is at it again. Apparently, Flickr has <a href="http://www.flickr.com/services/">services</a> which are accessible.</p>
-
-<p>Mr. Hammersley is responsible for <a href="http://www.benhammersley.com/linkr">Linkr</a>:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-<p>The current version of Linkr allows you to authenticate with your Flickr username and password, and then tells you all about the websites your Flickr contacts write.</p>
-
-<p>I say current version because the code is in there to add in the thing I want it to do, namely to display the last x urls those sites themselves link to.</p>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Other services include <a href="http://erikbenson.com/connectr/" title="Connectr - site down, I have no idea">Connectr</a>, <a href="http://www.pmbrowser.info/playlists/playlists.htm" title="Playr - Flickr Playlists">Playr</a>, and <a href="http://www.reviewr.com/" title="Reviewr -- some sort of review thing, I suspect">Reviewr</a>.</p>
-
-<p>There is some more stuff here. Single  sign on and third-party authentication anyone? Read on…</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p><a href="http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/userblogs/avi/blogView">Avi</a> will want to look at <a href="http://www.flickr.com/services/services_auth.pdf" title="PDF - Flickr Services Authentication Documentation">this (PDF)</a> to pick out the holes -- where does it fall down in comparison to his <a href="http://people.squeakfoundation.org/person/avi/diary.html?start=1" title="Minimal Integrated Sign On">MISO</a> suggestion for sign-ons?</p>
-
-<p>While you're at it, Avi, I also found this recent <a href="http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2004/02/handcrafting_my.html">Life with Alacrity</a> post that mentioned <a href="http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~rivest/sdsi10.html" title="A SImple Distributed Security Infrastructure">SDSI</a>:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-To adopt his method for FOAF requires everyone to have a FOAF service script somewhere and not just a data file. But we've seen broad adoption of personal RSS and Trackback services, so I don't think this is a huge obstacle to overcome.
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Just like I've been saying. Yes, I will run my own profile/authentication server. No problem. Folks without access to a server can get it from hosted sites, like those darn Flickr folks. Actually, Stewart et al at Ludicorp: please give us a GNE/Flickr script snippet written in PHP that we can put on our site.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-02-19-mkc-networks-offers-voip-licenses-for-e-smith.md b/_posts/archive/2004-02-19-mkc-networks-offers-voip-licenses-for-e-smith.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e14ee1c..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-02-19-mkc-networks-offers-voip-licenses-for-e-smith.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: MKC Networks Offers VoIP Licenses for E-smith
-created: 1077183240
-categories: 
-- VoIP
-- Open Source
----
-<p>This is <strong>very</strong> interesting. Mitel has spun off a company called <a href="http://mkcnetworks.com/" title="MKC Networks, formerly Mitel Knowledge Corp">MKC Networks</a> (formerly Mitel Knowledge Corp) to focus on VoIP solutions built around the e-smith server. I heard about this through a <a href="http://contribs.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=11">posting on the Contribs.org site</a>:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-I have asked for permission from the company to offer all of you a 5 User license for your own copy of the <a href="http://mkcnetworks.com/products/7000cs.asp">7000CS communication server</a>. For those of you who don't know what it is, it's a SIP based PBX/Router that runs on top of the SMEServer. It has integral voicemail, auto-attendant, Back-to-back User agent, call router, SIP registration server and much more.
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>This is a great. An easily installable, almost off-the-shelf solution for branch office networking and VoIP. Heck, the pricing is almost cheap enough that you could actually bring all the components along for a demo.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Update:</strong> now this makes sense -- <a href="http://www.pingtel.com/a_pressrelease.jsp?pressreleaseid=125">Pingtel announced it's open sourcing</a> all it's SIP-based IP-PBX stuff. Mitel has some advantages because of their familiarity with the e-smith platfrom, but they never leveraged open source as well as they could have.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-02-19-side-discussions-for-increasing-signal-to-noise.md b/_posts/archive/2004-02-19-side-discussions-for-increasing-signal-to-noise.md
deleted file mode 100644
index b7bd35b..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-02-19-side-discussions-for-increasing-signal-to-noise.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Side discussions for increasing signal-to-noise
-created: 1077180060
-categories: 
-- email
-- mailing list
-- QuickTopic
----
-<p>
-	Found this over at the Planet GNOME pages, which seems to have similar bearing on the problem with lists:</p>
-<blockquote>
-	<p>
-		Rather than fragmenting lists by &quot;general topic&quot;, which seems not to work, why don&#39;t we fragment list traffic on a per discussion basis. Very few discussions will need this, but the few that do we can not destroy the public list&#39;s readability for the week+ it takes to run its course.</p>
-	<p>
-		<a href="http://www.gnome.org/~seth/blog/ddl-problems" title="Seth Nickell: A Listy Dilemma">Seth Nickell: A Listy Dilemma</a></p>
-</blockquote>
-<p>
-	A solution for implementing Seth&#39;s idea (which were based around the same signal-to-noise issues that I thought of) would be to use <a href="http://www.quicktopic.com/">QuickTopic</a>.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-02-20-radio-doesnt-get-it.md b/_posts/archive/2004-02-20-radio-doesnt-get-it.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 871b3df..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-02-20-radio-doesnt-get-it.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Radio doesn't get it
-created: 1077308160
-categories: 
-- Vancouver
----
-<p><a href="http://www.caterina.net/archive/000470.html">Caterina's post about no TV</a> made me think about my radio experience again.</p>
-
-<p>We have a shower radio in the bathroom that is tuned to <a href="http://www.650cisl.com/" title="CISL 650 - Vancouver's Golden Oldies Station">CISL 650</a>, a "Golden Oldies" station. And it's AM, of course.</p>
-
-<p>When I was showering the other day, an ad came on from Burger King. It started off by the child's rhyme that counts the days in each month (30 days hath such-and-such…I don't actually know the rhyme!) and ends up with the odd one out, February. So the ad says, "29 cold and terrible days" and mentions how a stop in to Burger King will warm you right up.</p>
-
-<p>Except, of course, that in Vancouver it's 10 - 15°C and sunny and beautiful. So it just makes me think that Burger King doesn't know what it's talking about, and certainly that the ad doesn't apply to me in any way.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-02-22-10-random-songs.md b/_posts/archive/2004-02-22-10-random-songs.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 3be5c55..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-02-22-10-random-songs.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: 10 Random Songs
-created: 1077497220
-categories: 
-- Music
----
-<p>You are invited to list the first 10 songs in your music library when put on random:</p>
-<!--break-->
-<ol>
-<li><p><em>Guns in the Ghetto</em>, by Randy's All Stars (Impact)</p>
-<p>An import disc that Kate bought at the <a href="http://www.stevex.org/restaurants/ShowRestaurant.aspx?ID=193">Black Tomato</a> in Ottawa.</p></li>
-<li><p><em>Hola' Hovito</em>, by Jay-Z (The Blueprint)</p>
-<p>This song promptly eared a one-star rating, never to be seen in my play list again.</p></li>
-<li><p><em>Swimming in Your Ocean</em>, by Crashtest Dummies (God Shuffled His Feet)</p>
-<p>I like Crashtest Dummies perhaps because the lead singer has a low bassy voice that I can emulate. I consistently would sing <em>The Superman Song</em> at top volume while on watch during my <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/80">Class Afloat trip</a>.</p></li>
-<li><p><em>Comfortably Numb</em>, by Pink Floyd (The Wall)</p>
-<p>Why does this song (and this album) still seem so relevant?</p></li>
-<li><p><em>So Hysterically</em>, by Charley Beck (Life's Pleasures?)</p>
-<p><a href="http://www.charleybeck.com/">Charley</a> performed at a couple of events with the <a href="http://www.picklecatz.com">Picklecatz</a>. Support independent musicians!</p>
-<li><p><em>I Miss You (Album Version)</em>, by Björk (Telegram)</p>
-<p>Icelandic pop, who woulda thunk it? We used to listen to this a lot in university.</p></li>
-<li><p><em>Tuning In (Dub Mix)</em>, by Groove Armada (Goodbye Country (Hello Nightclub))</p>
-<p>Excellent funky electronic beats.</p></li>
-<li><p><em>The Jealous Kind</em>, by Joe Cocker (Joe Cocker's Greatest Hits)</p>
-<p>Everybody needs classic rock.</p></li>
-<li><p><em>Mystic Eyes</em>, by Them (Classic Rock - Rock Renaissance II)</p>
-<p>But how much classic rock is too much?</p></li>
-<li><p><em>Running Three</em>, by Tykwer, Klimek, Heil (Soundtrack: Run Lola Run)</p>
-<p>Great movie, with catchy music that puts hooks in your ears. Maybe I'm just a sucker for German-accented English...</p></li>
-</ol>
-
-<p>So, unlike the instructions, I did do a modification. A lot of the music that is in our library is arguably Kate's music (since most of the 750 CDs we have were hers to begin with). I have my own custom smart playlist, which filters out a bunch of genres (Classical, Country, etc.) and some artists (Ani DiFranco). As well, as per the comment above, anything that is rated below 3 stars is also filtered out. That still leaves 5,607 songs. I think of that as "my" music library.</p>
-
-<p>Via <a href="http://www.michaelhanscom.com/eclecticism/2004/02/10_random_songs.html">eclicticism</a> » <a href="http://www.justlikeadream.com/mt/archives/001105.html">Just Like a Dream</a> » <a href="http://www.aristoi.org/mt/archives/000924.html">Donut Jelly</a></p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-02-22-big-time-bellevue-geek-dinner.md b/_posts/archive/2004-02-22-big-time-bellevue-geek-dinner.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 922bb64..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-02-22-big-time-bellevue-geek-dinner.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Big-time Bellevue Geek Dinner
-created: 1077520080
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
-- Vancouver
----
-<p>Via <a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2004/02/22.html#a6625">Scobleizer</a>:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-Geek Dinner alert! Tuesday night. Mick Stanic from Australia is our guest of honor. At the Crossroads in Bellevue. At 6 p.m. You're invited, even if you're not a geek.
-</blockquote>
-<!--break-->
-<p>Mmm. YahooMaps says <a href="http://maps.yahoo.com/dd_result?ed=8OhuueV.winIG2pAshQv5Z3qzd81.HmHxjGmiMBJdw--&csz=Vancouver%2C+BC%2C+V6H+1J4&country=ca&tcsz=Bellevue%2C+WA&tcountry=us">2hrs, 40min</a>. Maybe less if <a href="http://www.terranomicsdevelopment.com/crossroads.htm">Crossroads</a> is on the outskirts. Not <strong>that</strong> crazy of an idea, given that we might go to <a href="http://www.mtbakerskiarea.com/">Mount Baker</a> (which we can see on a clear day) next weekend.</p>
-
-<p>Have to remember my current mission, though:</p>
-<ol>
-<li>???</li>
-<li>Get "real job"</li>
-<li>Paycheck</li>
-</ol>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-02-22-kids-and-social-software.md b/_posts/archive/2004-02-22-kids-and-social-software.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e7f417a..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-02-22-kids-and-social-software.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Kids and Social Software
-created: 1077500460
-categories: 
-- Social Media
----
-<p><a href="http://ross.typepad.com/blog/2004/02/next_next_gener.html">Ross Mayfield talks about the "Next Next Generation"</a> and kids publishing to the web. He points out <a href="http://www.think.com">Think.com</a>, an Oracle-run project to provide blogging and other tools for kids and their schools.</p>
-
-<p><a href="http://www.corante.com/many/archives/2004/02/22/social_software_for_children.php">Seb on the Corante Many2Many blog</a> points to <a href="http://foe.typepad.com/blog/2004/02/etech_social_so.html">Foe Romeo's talk on Social Software for Kids</a>. Foe "leads identity product development at BBCi" :</p>
-<blockquote>
-My motivation is to ensure that children continue to have the right to be present in public; to enjoy the benefits of social software and the good social capital it can generate, and to have a public voice. Digital spaces are particularly important given the social context in the UK, where a child playing freely outside is less common and teens don’t feel welcome in public space.
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Download the <a href="http://foe.typepad.com/blog/etech/SocialSoftwareForKids.pdf" title="Foe Romeo - Social Software for Kids">PDF</a> if you want to read the whole presentation.</p>
-
-<p>I've got a potential project brewing that involves kids, families, health, and fitness. I continue to be interested in the potential of the "publishing web" to allow everyday people to connect, create communities, and share information.</p>
-
-<p>There is such an overwhelming amount of factual information available on the Internet, but not so much on how to apply that information to everyday life. Sharing information in a more experiential- or story-based way might make it easier for people to relate and actually integrate into their lives.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-02-22-well-designed-weblogs.md b/_posts/archive/2004-02-22-well-designed-weblogs.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 15f0223..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-02-22-well-designed-weblogs.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Well-Designed Weblogs
-created: 1077499260
-categories: 
-- Web Development
----
-Specifically looks at the weblog format, and an example of some well-designed ones. Invariably, separation of presentation from content, a level of semantic markup, and table-less (or minimalist table) layouts are rated highly.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-02-23-caterina-net-things-to-do-in-vancouver.md b/_posts/archive/2004-02-23-caterina-net-things-to-do-in-vancouver.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 6a9a502..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-02-23-caterina-net-things-to-do-in-vancouver.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Caterina.net: Things to do in Vancouver"
-created: 1077584940
-categories: 
-- Vancouver
----
-A great, personally compiled list of of "Things to do in Vancouver".
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-02-23-cms-mailing-list.md b/_posts/archive/2004-02-23-cms-mailing-list.md
deleted file mode 100644
index fc3d6a3..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-02-23-cms-mailing-list.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: CMS Mailing List
-created: 1077562500
-categories: 
-- CMS
----
-Via <a href="http://www.steptwo.com.au/columntwo/archives/001119.html">Column Two</a> comes news of a CMS mailing list.
-
-Now to see if I can consume it via RSS instead.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-02-23-pseudorandom-vancouver-hilights.md b/_posts/archive/2004-02-23-pseudorandom-vancouver-hilights.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 45b4ad6..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-02-23-pseudorandom-vancouver-hilights.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "pseudorandom: Vancouver Hilights"
-created: 1077585000
-categories: 
-- Vancouver
----
-Inspired by <a href="http://www.caterina.net/archive/000268.html">Caterina's post</a>, another list of Vancouver best-ofs.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-02-23-textpattern.md b/_posts/archive/2004-02-23-textpattern.md
deleted file mode 100644
index b9c1272..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-02-23-textpattern.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: TextPattern
-created: 1077576780
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
-- CMS
----
-<p>The public gamma of TextPattern is now available.</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-A flexible, elegant, easy-to-use content management system for all kinds of websites, even weblogs.
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Uses <a href="http://textism.com/tools/textile/">Textile</a>, simplified plain-text markup that generates valid, typographically-pleasing XHTML.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-02-23-validate-your-code.md b/_posts/archive/2004-02-23-validate-your-code.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 8875a15..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-02-23-validate-your-code.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Validate Your Code
-created: 1077602040
-categories: 
-- SEO
-- validate
-- W3C
-- XHTML
-- Search Engine Voodoo
-- SEO
-- validate
-- W3C
-- XHTML
-- Search Engine Voodoo
----
-<p>
-	It&#39;s surprising to me that many people still don&#39;t validate their code before publishing. An HTML or XHTML document, whether created by hand or by some script or content management system, is a set of instructions to the web browser on what (and how) to display content.</p>
-<!-- aside: browser laziness, non-standards --><p>
-	By validating your code, you ensure that your page conforms to an accepted set of standards. There are a number of different specifications for HTML that you can choose from. The <a href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/#recommendations" title="W3C - Mark Up Recommendations">W3C has made a number of recommendations</a>, but the two that are most important are <a href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/#html4" title="HTML 4.01">HTML 4.01</a> and <a href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/#xhtml1" title="XHTML 1.0">XHTML 1.0</a>. Very roughly speaking, HTML 4.01 is the last non-XML based dialect still in broad use. XHTML, quoting the W3C, is <cite>a reformulation of HTML 4.01 in XML, and combines the strength of HTML 4 with the power of XML.</cite></p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>
-	Further, there are actually three &quot;flavours&quot; of XHTML 1.0. You will likely want to be working with XHTML Transitional most of the time, because of its backwards support for older browsers.</p>
-<!-- aside: DOCTYPE, encoding --><p>
-	Now that we&#39;ve covered the specifications that we will be vaildating to, the next step is to actually run the code through a validation service. Again, the <a href="http://validator.w3.org/" title="W3C Validation Service">W3C Validation Service</a> will be the first stop. Why validate? Search engines are built to understand standard web page codes. Any code that doesn&#39;t conform to the standard will only confuse search engines, and we want to make the job of understanding your pages as easy as possible for them. As well, validation often points out problem areas that you may miss if you only look at the visual representation of your page.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-02-23-zip-ca.md b/_posts/archive/2004-02-23-zip-ca.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 7144080..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-02-23-zip-ca.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Zip.ca
-created: 1077558060
-categories: 
-- Canada
-- Movie
----
-Dave <a href="http://www.smithdm3.com/archives/000225.html" title="Dave Smith on Zip.ca's DVD Rental Service">wrote about Zip.ca</a>, a DVD rental-by-mail service patterned after Netflix, but based in Canada. Actually, I believe they are actually in Ottawa. $24.95 per month, up to 3 movies out at one time. Means you would have to rent about 6 movies per month to make it worthwhile.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-02-24-boris-big-book-list-oh-boy.md b/_posts/archive/2004-02-24-boris-big-book-list-oh-boy.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 08a8684..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-02-24-boris-big-book-list-oh-boy.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,231 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Boris' Big Book List, Oh Boy!
-created: 1077689760
-categories: 
-- books
-- Armed Bear J
-- BBC
-- Personal
----
-<p>Whoa! 200 books -- have you read them? Would like to read them? Likely never to read them? Make your own list.</p>
-
-<p>As an aside, I copied this list from someone else, and all the numbers were not an ordered list, but actually hand-entered. As well, there were line breaks and other formatting interspersed. It took me all of a minute or two and several well-placed regular expressions to clean it up and format it nicely: <a href="http://www.armedbear.org" title="Java-based text editor that runs equally well on all platforms">Armed Bear J</a>, take a bow.</p>
-
-<p>And now, the books. <strong>Bold</strong> for read. Others had "started but didn't finish", but I'm hard pressed to think of books I never finished reading, unless I never really started.</p>
-<!--break-->
-
-<ol>
-<li><strong>The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien</strong></li>
-<li><strong>Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen</strong></li>
-<li>His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman</li>
-<li><strong>The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams</strong></li>
-<li><strong>Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling</strong>
-    <p>I read all the Harry Potter's in one go some Christmas' past, at Kate's aunt and uncle's place in Nanaimo.</p></li>
-<li><strong>To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee</strong></li>
-<li><strong>Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne</strong></li>
-<li><strong>Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell</strong></li>
-<li><strong>The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis</strong>
-    <p>The whole series of course, not just this book.</p></li>
-<li><strong>Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë</strong></li>
-<li><strong>Catch-22, Joseph Heller</strong></li>
-<li>Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë</li>
-<li>Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks</li>
-<li>Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier</li>
-<li><strong>The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger</strong></li>
-<li><strong>The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame</strong></li>
-<li><strong>Great Expectations, Charles Dickens</strong></li>
-<li>Little Women, Louisa May Alcott</li>
-<li>Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres</li>
-<li><strong>War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy</strong></li>
-<li>Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell</li>
-<li><strong>Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling</strong></li>
-<li><strong>Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling</strong></li>
-<li>Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling</li>
-<li><strong>The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien</strong></li>
-<li><strong>Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy</strong></li>
-<li>Middlemarch, George Eliot</li>
-<li><strong>A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving</strong></li>
-<li><strong>The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck</strong></li>
-<li><strong>Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll</strong></li>
-<li>The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson</li>
-<li>One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez</li>
-<li><strong>The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett</strong>
-    <p>My dad just finished reading this, translated into German.</p></li>
-<li><strong>David Copperfield, Charles Dickens</strong></li>
-<li><strong>Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl</strong></li>
-<li><strong>Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson</strong></li>
-<li>A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute</li>
-<li>Persuasion, Jane Austen</li>
-<li><strong>Dune, Frank Herbert</strong></li>
-<li><strong>Emma, Jane Austen</strong></li>
-<li><strong>Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery</strong></li>
-<li><strong>Watership Down, Richard Adams</strong>
-    <p>Rabbits!</p></li>
-<li><strong>The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald</strong></li>
-<li>The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas</li>
-<li>Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh</li>
-<li><strong>Animal Farm, George Orwell</strong></li>
-<li><strong>A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens</strong></li>
-<li>Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy</li>
-<li>Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian</li>
-<li>The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher</li>
-<li>The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett</li>
-<li><strong>Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck</strong></li>
-<li><strong>The Stand, Stephen King</strong></li>
-<li>Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy</li>
-<li>A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth</li>
-<li<strong>>The BFG, Roald Dahl</strong></li>
-<li><strong>Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome</strong>
-    <p>The cover had kids in sailing dinghies, which is sort of what this is about.</p></li>
-<li><strong>Black Beauty, Anna Sewell</strong></li>
-<li>Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer</li>
-<li>Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky</li>
-<li>Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman</li>
-<li><strong>Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden</strong></li>
-<li><strong>A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens</strong></li>
-<li>The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough</li>
-<li><strong>Mort, Terry Pratchett</strong></li>
-<li>The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton</li>
-<li>The Magus, John Fowles</li>
-<li><strong>Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman</strong></li>
-<li><strong>Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett</strong></li>
-<li><strong>Lord Of The Flies, William Golding</strong></li>
-<li>Perfume, Patrick Süskind</li>
-<li>The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell</li>
-<li><strong>Night Watch, Terry Pratchett</strong></li>
-<li><strong>Matilda, Roald Dahl</strong></li>
-<li><strong>Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding</strong></li>
-<li>The Secret History, Donna Tartt</li>
-<li>The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins</li>
-<li>Ulysses, James Joyce</li>
-<li>Bleak House, Charles Dickens</li>
-<li>Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson</li>
-<li><strong>The Twits, Roald Dahl</strong></li>
-<li>I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith</li>
-<li>Holes, Louis Sachar</li>
-<li>Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake</li>
-<li>The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy</li>
-<li>Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson</li>
-<li>Brave New World, Aldous Huxley</li>
-<li>Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons</li>
-<li><strong>Magician, Raymond E Feist</strong>
-    <p>This is one book I can visually remember reading. Actually, many of the read names on this list evoke a picture of the cover or a certain feel of the book. This book I distinctly remember reading on the way to my parents' <a href="http://family.bmannconsulting.com/Deka-Lake-The-Beginning/1985_Sommer_h">cabin at Deka Lake</a>, in the car, and it was the hard cover version with the black cover, from the West Van Library. Pretty much all the Feist books are good, but the earlier ones in the Magician series are particularly worthwhile.</p></li>
-<li>On The Road, Jack Kerouac</li>
-<li><strong>The Godfather, Mario Puzo</strong></li>
-<li><strong>The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel</strong></li>
-<li><strong>The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett</strong></li>
-<li>The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho </li>
-<li>Katherine, Anya Seton</li>
-<li>Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer</li>
-<li>Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez</li>
-<li>Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson</li>
-<li>The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot</li>
-<li>Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie</li>
-<li>Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K. Jerome</li>
-<li><strong>Small Gods, Terry Pratchett</strong></li>
-<li><strong>The Beach, Alex Garland</strong></li>
-<li>Dracula, Bram Stoker</li>
-<li>Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz</li>
-<li>The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
-<li>Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz</li>
-<li>The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks</li>
-<li><strong>The Day Of The Jackal, Frederick Forsyth</strong></li>
-<li>The Illustrated Mum, Jacqueline Wilson</li>
-<li>Jude The Obscure, Thomas Hardy</li>
-<li><strong>The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾, Sue Townsend</strong></li>
-<li>The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat</li>
-<li>Les Misérables, Victor Hugo</li>
-<li>The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy</li>
-<li>The Dare Game, Jacqueline Wilson</li>
-<li>Bad Girls, Jacqueline Wilson</li>
-<li>The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde</li>
-<li><strong>Shogun, James Clavell</strong></li>
-<li><strong>The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham</strong></li>
-<li>Lola Rose, Jacqueline Wilson</li>
-<li>Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray</li>
-<li>The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy</li>
-<li>House Of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski</li>
-<li>The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver</li>
-<li><strong>Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett</strong></li>
-<li>Angus, Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison</li>
-<li><strong>The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle</strong></li>
-<li>Possession, A. S. Byatt</li>
-<li>The Master And Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov</li>
-<li>The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood </li>
-<li><strong>Danny The Champion Of The World, Roald Dahl</strong>
-    <p>This is a sad but good book. I remember the pheasant poaching by soaking raisins in gin, then stuffing them in powdered aspirin.</p></li>
-<li>East Of Eden, John Steinbeck</li>
-<li><strong>George's Marvellous Medicine, Roald Dahl</strong></li>
-<li><strong>Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett</strong></li>
-<li>The Color Purple, Alice Walker</li>
-<li><strong>Hogfather, Terry Pratchett</strong></li>
-<li>The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan</li>
-<li>Girls In Tears, Jacqueline Wilson</li>
-<li>Sleepovers, Jacqueline Wilson</li>
-<li>All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque</li>
-<li>Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Kate Atkinson</li>
-<li>High Fidelity, Nick Hornby</li>
-<li><strong>It, Stephen King</strong>
-    <p>The movie for this (a made for TV one that was 6 hours long when shown with commercials) was filled on Bowen Island. Well, the part where the lake is, anyway. Gave me nightmares for a long time, and is why I don't like clowns.</p></li>
-<li><strong>James And The Giant Peach, Roald Dahl</strong></li>
-<li><strong>The Green Mile, Stephen King</strong></li>
-<li>Papillon, Henri Charriere</li>
-<li><strong>Men At Arms, Terry Pratchett</strong></li>
-<li>Master And Commander, Patrick O'Brian</li>
-<li>Skeleton Key, Anthony Horowitz</li>
-<li><strong>Soul Music, Terry Pratchett</strong></li>
-<li><strong>Thief Of Time, Terry Pratchett</strong></li>
-<li><strong>The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett</strong></li>
-<li>Atonement, Ian McEwan</li>
-<li>Secrets, Jacqueline Wilson</li>
-<li>The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier</li>
-<li><strong>One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey</strong></li>
-<li><strong>Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad</strong></li>
-<li>Kim, Rudyard Kipling</li>
-<li>Cross Stitch, Diana Gabaldon</li>
-<li><strong>Moby Dick, Herman Melville</strong></li>
-<li>River God, Wilbur Smith</li>
-<li>Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon</li>
-<li>The Shipping News, Annie Proulx</li>
-<li><strong>The World According To Garp, John Irving</strong>
-    <p>There's a movie starring a young Robin Williams based on this book.</p></li>
-<li>Lorna Doone, R. D. Blackmore</li>
-<li>Girls Out Late, Jacqueline Wilson</li>
-<li>The Far Pavilions, M. M. Kaye</li>
-<li><strong>The Witches, Roald Dahl</strong></li>
-<li><strong>Charlotte's Web, E. B. White</strong></li>
-<li>Frankenstein, Mary Shelley</li>
-<li>They Used To Play On Grass, Terry Venables and Gordon Williams</li>
-<li>The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway</li>
-<li><strong>The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco</strong></li>
-<li>Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder</li>
-<li>Dustbin Baby, Jacqueline Wilson</li>
-<li><strong>Fantastic Mr Fox, Roald Dahl</strong></li>
-<li>Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov</li>
-<li>Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, Richard Bach</li>
-<li><strong>The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery</strong></li>
-<li>The Suitcase Kid, Jacqueline Wilson</li>
-<li>Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens</li>
-<li><strong>The Power Of One, Bryce Courtenay</strong>
-    <p>I recently read another book by Bryce Courtenay -- <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/amazon/asin/0670910619">Matthew Flinder's Cat</a>. Another really great book that talks actually about alcoholism and redemption.</p></li>
-<li>Silas Marner, George Eliot</li>
-<li>American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis</li>
-<li>The Diary Of A Nobody, George and Weedon Grossmith</li>
-<li><strong>Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh</strong></li>
-<li>Goosebumps, R. L. Stine</li>
-<li>Heidi, Johanna Spyri</li>
-<li>Sons And Lovers, D. H. Lawrence</li>
-<li>The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera</li>
-<li>Man And Boy, Tony Parsons</li>
-<li><strong>The Truth, Terry Pratchett</strong></li>
-<li><strong>The War Of The Worlds, H. G. Wells</strong></li>
-<li>The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans</li>
-<li>A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry</li>
-<li><strong>Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett</strong></li>
-<li>The Once And Future King, T. H. White</li>
-<li>The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle</li>
-<li>Flowers In The Attic, Virginia Andrews</li>
-</ol>
-
-<p>Via <a href="http://kflood.net/2004_02.php#000059">Kyle</a>, <a href="http://breebop.toastmedia.com/archives/000198.html#more">breebop</a>,  <a href="http://arwen.org/archives/003296.php">arwen</a>, <a href="http://www.sandlund.net/voices/archive/001241.php">Robin</a>,   <a href="http://6thedition.blogspot.com/2004_01_01_6thedition_archive.html#107520794609314967">Tinka</a>, and the source is apparently the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/">BBCi Big Read</a>. The ordering/ranking were apparently all votes from the British public. Why can't the CBC do something like this?</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-02-24-dot-easy.md b/_posts/archive/2004-02-24-dot-easy.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e6157be..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-02-24-dot-easy.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Dot Easy
-created: 1077663060
-categories: 
-- Vancouver
-- Web Development
----
-Bannerless free web-hosting for business and individuals. Based in Burnaby, 20MB of space.
-
-You can upgrade to a for-pay plan at any point.
-
-Hmmm...I think this makes sense.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-02-24-geourl-updated.md b/_posts/archive/2004-02-24-geourl-updated.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 3922b95..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-02-24-geourl-updated.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: GeoURL updated
-created: 1077689400
-categories: 
-- BMC
----
-I finally got around to changing my <a href="http://www.geourl.org">GeoURL</a> coordinates.
-
-That green button labelled GeoURL on the left will now take you to a list of sites that have put their latitude and longitude on their site (or individual postings), and that are within 100 miles of my address here.
-
-Also, GeoURL now offers an RSS feed, so I added the <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/import/feed/91" title="GeoURL Feed for sites within 75 miles">feed for sites within 75 miles</a>. Why 75? 100 miles started adding ones near Seattle.
-
-Here's my <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/162">original post</a> about GeoURL. I've been using <a href="http://www.multimap.com">MultiMap</a> lately to get lat/longs.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-02-24-kate-and-i-are-oktoberfest-stars.md b/_posts/archive/2004-02-24-kate-and-i-are-oktoberfest-stars.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f3fd548..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-02-24-kate-and-i-are-oktoberfest-stars.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Kate and I are Oktoberfest stars
-created: 1077693720
-categories: 
-- Ottawa
----
-<a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/usr/18">Todd</a> sent me an email with a link to the <a href="http://www.ratebeer.com/ShowPlace.asp?PlaceID=1060">JIJ's Schnitzel House entry at RateBeer.com</a>. Featuring a picture of Kate and I from last year.
-
-Actually, the <a href="http://www.jijschnitzel.com/pages/3/index.htm">JIJ site</a> has a bunch of pictures of people we know. <a href="http://gallery.bmannconsulting.com/sep26_jij_oktoberfest">Our gallery</a> includes the picture on the RateBeer site -- I don't know who put it up there, but I imagine it came up from a Google search.
-
-By the way, when Todd isn't <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/blog/18" title="Todd Bailey's Blog">asking questions here</a>, he's over at the RateBeer site. <a href="http://www.ratebeer.com/ViewUser.asp?UserID=6162" title="Todd Bailey's alter-ego on RateBeer">Cap Flu</a> is his handle there. And look -- there's even a beer called <a href="http://www.ratebeer.com/Ratings/Beer/ShowBeer.asp?BeerID=26942&FanOfID=6162">Boris</a>.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-02-25-meyers-briggs.md b/_posts/archive/2004-02-25-meyers-briggs.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 3657713..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-02-25-meyers-briggs.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Meyers-Briggs
-created: 1077696248
-categories: 
-- Personal
----
-
-<!--70.59 51.52 52.63 58.82-->
-<p><strong>ESTP</strong></p>
-<blockquote>
-<em>&quot;Promotor&quot;</em>. Action! When present, things begin to happen. Fiercely competitive. Entrepreneur. Often uses shock effect to get attention. Negotiator par excellence. 4.3% of total population.
-</blockquote>
-<p><a href="http://similarminds.com/">Take Free Myers-Briggs Word Test</a></p>
-
-<p>Via  <a href="http://george08.blogspot.com/2004_02_01_george08_archive.html#107715127363231382">Georgie</a>. Also, <a title="George Oates' Flickr Profile" href="http://www.flickr.com/profile.gne?id=34427469121@N01">Georgie</a>.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-02-25-robert-scoble-i-still-dont-get-social-software.md b/_posts/archive/2004-02-25-robert-scoble-i-still-dont-get-social-software.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 43f2aae..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-02-25-robert-scoble-i-still-dont-get-social-software.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Robert Scoble: I still don't get social software"
-created: 1077777600
-categories: 
-- Social Media
----
-<blockquote>
-I still don't get social software. Who's my friends? It's the people I link to. Linking to someone is a far stronger social statement about someone than saying "yeah, they're my friend" to Orkut or Linked Up.
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>I just left a really long comment on <a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2004/02/25.html#a6656">Robert Scoble's weblog</a>. It turned out so long I thought I better keep it for posterity here as well. Read on for the full text of the comment.</p>
-
-<!--break-->
-
-<blockquote>
-<p>I equate it quite simply: a profile (in whatever system, and for the record, I hate the FOAF format, just waiting for a better one...) is a snapshot about you -- all the information that you want to make public. The "linking" portion can just as easily be combined with your profile, grabbed from your RSS feed, etc. So, the profile is explicit information.</p>
-
-<p>Your blog is tacit information. If someone came on a particular day and read all your posts, they might get a particular view. That might give a very good idea on your views on a subject, or a handful of subjects, but wouldn't tell anyone "Who is this Robert Scoble guy?".</p>
-
-<p>There isn't even a "About Me" page linked anywhere (which could be construed as being a non-structured form of a profile), so it might be very hard for someone to get some context about you.</p>
-
-<ul>
-<li>works at Microsoft</li>
-<li>worked at company X in the past</li>
-<li>hometown is such-and-such</li>
-<li>currently lives here-and-there</li>
-<li>and happens to know an old high school buddy of mine</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>OK, enough rambling. Does that make sense? I see the ultimate goal as a marriage between explicit (profile) and tacit (blog/comments/blogroll/etc.). Neither one is an end goal in and of itself.</p>
-</blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-02-25-the-rs-have-it.md b/_posts/archive/2004-02-25-the-rs-have-it.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 03dcde6..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-02-25-the-rs-have-it.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: The R's Have It
-created: 1077730620
-categories: 
-- Social Media
----
-<p><strong>R</strong> as in <a href="http://www.flickr.com/services/">Flickr services</a>, that is. <a href="http://erikbenson.com/entries/2004/02/23/talkrnet_proposal.html">Erik Benson lays out his vision for Talkr</a>, which in a nutshell is distributed identity using Flickr to manage/track/surf posts you make anywhere.</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-<p><strong>Example use cases:</strong></p>
-
-<p>Seems like a lot of work, but if you think about it most of it happens behind the scenes.  The first time you use this it will require the following clicks:</p>
-
-<ol><li>Click button to open popup.</li>
-<li>Authenticate on flickr.</li>
-<li>Choose which details to allow them to use from talkr.</li>
-<li>Write your comment and submit.</li>
-</ol>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>You may want to implement it as an MT plugin, but please make it a nice sensible API so that it can be added to other systems (the references to pop-up [ugh!] are for MT based blogs).</p>
-
-<!--break-->
-
-<p>Adding authentication to Drupal would consist of simply adding the Flickr authentication scheme to the list of allowed external authentications. The next bit that I want, which is to add/integrate a link to your Flickr profile for each member, would be a bit trickier. This ties in directly with the Talkr proposal, because then the <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/usr/1">user page</a>, where the "view recent blog entries" link is, could actually point to posts and comments all over the place.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-02-26-ms-access-why-the-need-for-visual-basic.md b/_posts/archive/2004-02-26-ms-access-why-the-need-for-visual-basic.md
deleted file mode 100644
index ae6a442..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-02-26-ms-access-why-the-need-for-visual-basic.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: MS Access - Why the need for Visual Basic?
-created: 1077810839
-categories: 
-- Microsoft
----
-I am wondering why Microsoft would make their MS Access need the programming skills of Visual Basic to perform, seemingly, a simple function?
-
-I had my tracking database set-up in MS Excel but wanted more functionality and an input page (forms), for ease of use, but the simple task of subtracting one DATE from another DATE (something easily possible within Excel) is some drawn-out VB script.
-
-Is there an easier way?
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-02-26-what-is-the-message-language-as-metaphor-president-as-magician.md b/_posts/archive/2004-02-26-what-is-the-message-language-as-metaphor-president-as-magician.md
deleted file mode 100644
index eb75a1b..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-02-26-what-is-the-message-language-as-metaphor-president-as-magician.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "What is the Message: Language as Metaphor? President as Magician"
-created: 1077822360
-categories: 
-- United States
----
-[image:928,right,5,5]<p>From <a href="http://www.mcluhan.utoronto.ca/blogger/2004_02_01_blogarchive.html#107760076746603764">What is the Message?</a>, a pointer to a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/20/business/20jobs.html?ex=1077944400&en=41a6b41847c4733a&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE">NY Times article</a> on how fast food restaurants should be reclassified as part of the manufacturing sector.</p>
-
-<p>I readily admit to not understanding large parts of American politics, but I do find it funny at times:</p>
-<!--break-->
-<blockquote>
-Apparently, according to all the President's men, "assembling the inputs" of the parts of a hamburger into a final product is close enough to assembling an automobile on an assembly line, and thus should be classifed as a manufacturing, as opposed to service sector job. The fact that such a reclassification would do wonders for the nominal job creation statistics in an election year is, well, magical! Abracadabra! Presto chango! Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!
-</blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-02-27-yet-more-content-from-me.md b/_posts/archive/2004-02-27-yet-more-content-from-me.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 0604390..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-02-27-yet-more-content-from-me.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Yet more content from me
-created: 1077878220
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
-- BMC
----
-I've started a <a href="http://links.bmannconsulting.com" title="Boris Mann's Link Blog">link blog</a>. Basically, bookmarks aren't cutting it anymore, and I needed a way to categorize differently, and I didn't want to pollute the <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/weblink">weblink directory</a> here, and finally most importantly WordPress has a "bookmarklet" that lets me blog directly without having to create any new posts or anything.
-<!--break-->
-The content also appears here, both <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/import/feed/93">imported as a feed</a>, and it will be mixed in with the <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/import/bundle/11">Interesting Blogs</a> links at right.
-
-I still have to hack the RSS feed so that it sticks in the main link as the title link. I think. I always hated that about some Radio feeds, since I couldn't go to the comment on the article.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-02-29-more-xbox-2-and-windows-on-g5-info.md b/_posts/archive/2004-02-29-more-xbox-2-and-windows-on-g5-info.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 7eca9c4..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-02-29-more-xbox-2-and-windows-on-g5-info.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: More XBox 2 and Windows on G5 Info
-created: 1078126260
-categories: 
-- Microsoft
-- Mac
----
-<p>I wrote about the <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/654" title="B. Mann Consulting: IBM to build chips for XBox 2">XBox 2 being powered by G5s</a>, then more recently threw out an off-hand remark about <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/863" title="B. Mann Consulting: Media Server = Consumer Electronics = Sony should buy Apple">Microsoft developing XBox2 on G5s</a>. Except that wasn't apparently confirmed yet. <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=14407" title="The Inquirer: Xbox 2 SDK released on cool Apple Power Mac G5s">The Inquirer</a> confirms it, with details of the XBox 2 <acronym title="Software Development Kit">SDK</acronym>:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-The big news to us is that the XBOX 2 SDK has been seeded to developers on dual Apple Power Mac G5 systems running a custom Windows NT Kernel.
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>My other recent post about the <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/871" title="B. Mann Consulting: Does speed advantage mean Mac tipping point?">Mac speed advantage</a>, where I talked about Microsoft possibly porting Windows to PPC, now doesn't seem so crazy anymore. The tie-in with Virtual PC and a lot of similar thinking is covered nicely by <a href="http://www.michaelhanscom.com/eclecticism/2004/02/xbox2_g5hellipa.html" title="XBox2, G5...and Virtual PC?
-">eclecticism</a>, home of Michael Hanscom, the (former) Microsoft employee that got fired for taking pictures of G5s on the loading dock.</p>
-
-<!--break-->
-
-<p>I don't quite know what to say. Microsoft porting to PPC would have seemed inconceivable not that long ago.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Update:</strong> the <a href="http://apple.weblogsinc.com/entry/6425655111144188/">Unofficial Apple Weblog</a> has an IBM memo that seems to be saying that the Apple G5 <em>might</em> have used Intel chips.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-01-nova-spivack-the-pattern-of-online-technology-fads.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-01-nova-spivack-the-pattern-of-online-technology-fads.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 4e2fd58..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-01-nova-spivack-the-pattern-of-online-technology-fads.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Nova Spivack: The Pattern of Online Technology Fads"
-created: 1078129320
-categories: 
-- Social Media
----
-<p>Nova Spivack does a very good job of tracing some themes/memes of online technology development in four areas: content, communication, collaboration, and community. Some of his thoughts closely parallel many of the things that I have been saying (privately) about social networking applications:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-<p>The key lesson here is that mere "Community Platform" companies did not become big businesses in their own right -- those that survived had to either verticalize or focus on enterprise collaboration. The same will be true of companies that provide platforms for social networking in the enterprise.</p>
-<p><a href="http://novaspivack.typepad.com/nova_spivacks_weblog/2004/02/deja_vu_all_ove.html" title="The Pattern of Online Technology Fads">Minding the Planet: The Pattern of Online Technology Fads</a></p>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Yes, absolutely: as I stated in my <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/926" title="Robert Scoble: I still don't get social software">recent post to Scoble</a>, neither <strike>blogging</strike> personal publishing nor social networking are an end goal in and of themselves -- they are merely new features. I feel even more strongly that all four areas that Nova mentions are headed on a direct collision course…</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>I crossed out "blogging" because it is not a good term. It is understandable to the industry, to those that self-identify with this new label, but it is not a good description of what it actually is. To me, it's personal publishing. I need to (consciously) start using this label, because it's important.</p>
-
-<p>As Nova does, I see big parallels to the birth of desktop publishing. Actually, I think personal publishing hasn't really arrive yet: everyone can/does desktop publish, very few people (relatively speaking) are involved in personal publishing. In dealing with businesses, I still see lots of problems with basic website publishing: the belief that it is hard, coupled with the belief that paying your neighbour's kid's friends a few bucks is the end goal of establishing a good web presence.</p>
-
-<p>Similarly, we're halfway through the 2000's and Nova's current identification of <em>"Wikis, Decentralized Collaboration & Semantic Webs"</em> as the status-quo for collaboration really doesn't seem to measure up with reality. His list of technologies for the previous step are <em>"Groupware, KM, and Intranets"</em>. To which I offer some counterpoints: most small businesses don't have any one of those tools, and even large companies struggle with all three of those items.</p>
-
-<p>Whew! This is starting to get long. Nova: as I recently <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/932" title="The bit about pushing, and playing devil's advocate">said to Roland</a>, I do well in a "devil's advocate" role -- I love being able to think about what you've presented in this post.</p>
-
-<p>Nova has "persistent identity and relationship management" in the communication category, whereas I would place those functions squarely in community. I would say that boundaries between "Content, Communication, Collaboration, and Community" are becoming very blurry (if indeed there were any to begin with).</p>
-
-<p>There is lots more to think about here. To sum up, I think that "not quite there yet" applies to a lot of these categories -- best practices are only now starting to emerge, and the current crop of "new" technologies have arisen out of identified failures in the current best practices.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-01-rolands-big-move.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-01-rolands-big-move.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 8daa0de..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-01-rolands-big-move.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Roland's big move
-created: 1078128480
-categories: 
-- E-smith
-- Drupal
-- Personal Publishing
-- Roland Tanglao
-- Movable Type
-- Wordpress
-- E-smith
-- Web Development
----
-<p>
-	<a href="http://www.rolandtanglao.com/2004/02/29.html#a6386" title="Roland Tanglao: Goodbye Radio, it's been great">Roland is making a big move</a>. Switching blogging platforms (Radio to Movable Type), switching hosting platforms (Windows to Linux), then moving his host to a co-lo. Wow!</p>
-<p>
-	This is a <strong>Big Job&trade;</strong>. Good luck with everything, Roland.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>
-	We&#39;ve talked about this (briefly) before...any reason that you settled on MovableType other than that you are an old Perl hacker? This is a big move, and something you likely only want to do once.</p>
-<p>
-	<a href="http://www.wordpress.org">WordPress</a> is still my current choice for best personal publishing system. You know what <a href="http://www.drupal.org" title="My choice for best personal publishing platform is Drupal">my choice</a> would be if it wasn&#39;t a personal site (although it can be <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com" title="My personal site B. Mann Consulting is Drupal-powered">good for that</a>, too). :p</p>
-<p>
-	Also, your choice of a Linux distro will likely cause holy wars, but that would also be an interesting topic. If you want easy server-type stuff through a web interface, I&#39;m still pushing <a href="http://www.e-smith.org">E-smith</a> and have written a bunch of tutorials on <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/5" title="How to setup e-smith">how to setup e-smith</a>.</p>
-<p>
-	Did I ever tell you that I push and push and push in my role of Devil&#39;s Advocate? I know it can be annoying, but it&#39;s because I truly want to understand the choices people make, to see if I should re-evaluate my own.</p>
-<p>
-	<em>Note: this <strong>almost</strong> got posted to my <a href="http://links.bmannconsulting.com" title="Boris' Link Blog">links blog</a> instead of here. The insidious ease of one-click <a href="http://www.bookmarklets.com/">bookmarklet</a> blogging is what (almost) made me do it. Note to self: kick-start bookmarklet development for Drupal again.</em></p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-01-the-snow-walker.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-01-the-snow-walker.md
deleted file mode 100644
index b9287cb..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-01-the-snow-walker.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: The Snow Walker
-created: 1078213740
-categories: 
-- Canada
-- Movie
-- Review
-- Vancouver
----
-[image:936,left,5,5]
-
-<p>We had free tickets to <a href="http://www.lionsgatefilms.com/dnm/profile.html?pid=IN-L-00112" title="The Snow Walker">The Snow Walker</a> tonight. A great Canadian film that is definitely worth watching.</p>
-
-<p>Kate and <a href="http://www.flickr.com/profile.gne?id=35034356918@N01" title="Mary Brennan">Mary</a> got us free tickets when they went shopping at <a href="http://www.mec.ca/" title="Mountain Equipment Co-Op">MEC</a> the other day.</p>
-
-<p>The entire story takes place in the North West Territories. An Inuit girl teaches an ex-World War II pilot how to survive after he crashes the plane they are both in. That's basically the entire movie, but there's obviously more to it than that :p It's based on a short story called <em>Walk Well My Brother</em> in Farley Mowatt's collection of stories called <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/amazon/asin/1552632482">The Snow Walker</a>.</p>
-<!--break-->
-[image:935,right,5,5]
-
-<p>Barry Pepper is the lead actor, starring as Charlie Halliday, the pilot. Annabella Piugattuk is the young Inuit girl, Kanalla. And yes, she really is a young Inuit girl -- they did some "guerilla casting", sending a casting agent around northern towns with a video camera begging girls to audition. I found Barry Pepper's story quite interesting, too -- he's from Campbell River, originally, spent 10 years sailing around the South Pacific with his parents, and currently lives somewhere on the Sunshine Coast. Mary actually said afterwards that she initially groaned, thinking "Oh no, not that guy!", but said she enjoyed his acting in this movie.</p>
-
-[image:937,left,5,5]
-
-<p>The scenery in this movie is incredible. It starts during the arctic summer, so lots of lakes and thousands of mosquitoes. Lots of landscape shots, animals, and walking for days. They even got the Northern Lights on film, apparently by randomly setting up a camera pointed at the sky and doing time lapse photography overnight (as explained by Charles Martin Smith -- screenwriter and director).</p>
-
-<p>After the film there was a short Q&A with Charles Martin Smith. Another interesting factoid, he was the actor that played Farley Mowatt in Never Cry Wolf. And they needed locals to be on guard against <a href="http://www.churchillmb.net/~cnsc/ab-attrac-bears.html" title="Polar Bears in Churchill, Manitoba">polar bears</a> during filming. And actually got charged by one, where everyone had to drop cameras and rush back to the trucks.</p>
-
-<p>Go see the movie. It will help it stay in theaters, and it's good to support a great Canadian movie.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-03-aaron-cope-extensions-to-xml-resume.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-03-aaron-cope-extensions-to-xml-resume.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 48db124..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-03-aaron-cope-extensions-to-xml-resume.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Aaron Cope Extensions to XML Resume
-created: 1078312320
-categories: 
-- Web Development
----
-Provides the following for XML Resume:
-- better support for external links
-- the ability to exclude your personal address or phone number from the final output
-- the ability to define multiple CSS stylesheets for a variety of devices
-- a stylesheet to prune specific elements from the source XML document
-- templates for handling a small number of elements that are not part of the DTD
-- <meta> headers for indicating content encoding in HTML output
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-03-hr-xml.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-03-hr-xml.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 734e349..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-03-hr-xml.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: HR XML
-created: 1078312020
-categories: 
-- Web Development
----
-The HR-XML Consortium is an independent, non-profit organization  dedicated to the development and promotion of a standard suite of XML  specifications to enable e-business and the automation of human  resources-related data exchanges.
-
-They have a <a href="http://www.hr-xml.org/channels/projects_main.cfm">resume format on their projects page</a> in PDF format.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-03-xml-com-xml-power-job-hunting.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-03-xml-com-xml-power-job-hunting.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 031e210..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-03-xml-com-xml-power-job-hunting.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "XML.com: XML Power Job Hunting"
-created: 1078312200
-categories: 
-- Web Development
----
-Excellent article that serves as a good "About XML Resume" document to get started with.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-03-xml-resume-and-resume-promotion.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-03-xml-resume-and-resume-promotion.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 5cd5b0a..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-03-xml-resume-and-resume-promotion.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: XML Resume and Resume Promotion
-created: 1078310986
-categories: 
-- Resume
-- SEO
-- XML
----
-<p>
-	I was working on my <a href="/node/620">resume</a> today when I had a couple of ideas that might be worth following up on.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>
-	The first was about XML resumes: it&#39;s actually faster for me to nicely format my resume in XHTML (with a stylesheet) rather than fighting with MS Word or some other program. Some quick searching turned up a handful of good options, which are links organized underneath this page.</p>
-<p>
-	The second idea is about resume promotion. This kind of ties in to Search Engine Optimization (a <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=boris+mann&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8">search for my name</a> has my main website first, and my resume second) and a bunch of blog promotion advertising stuff. Well, or advertising in general.</p>
-<p>
-	What if, just like <a href="http://www.google.com/adsense/">Google Ads</a> or <a href="http://blogsnob.simpleads.net/">Blogsnob</a>, you could &quot;advertise&quot; your resume all over the place? I&#39;m not clear on the entire structure, but essentially you could push your resume to relevant content all over the place.</p>
-<p>
-	There&#39;s a tie-in to social software here, as well. You could certainly link to/list friends, previous managers, previous companies, etc. A site like <strong>PromoteMyResume.com</strong> could be used as a central directory or search tool, and you could also link in external stuff. Hmmm...filter by &quot;previously employed by company X&quot; and other stuff like that.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-03-xml-resume-at-sourceforge.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-03-xml-resume-at-sourceforge.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 33afee8..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-03-xml-resume-at-sourceforge.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: XML Resume at Sourceforge
-created: 1078311900
-categories: 
-- Web Development
----
-The XML Résumé Library is an XML and XSL based system for marking up, adding metadata to, and formatting résumés and curricula vitae.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-05-consumer-voip-arrives-in-the-us.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-05-consumer-voip-arrives-in-the-us.md
deleted file mode 100644
index bdabce9..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-05-consumer-voip-arrives-in-the-us.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Consumer VoIP Arrives in the US
-created: 1078513440
-categories: 
-- VoIP
----
-<p>When something hits retail stores is when mass market popularity explodes. <a href="http://www.vonage.com/">Vonage</a> is currently at around 300K subscribers, and this deal with Circuit City to carry startup packages is likely to rapidly increase that number:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-<p>Those who sign up at the electronics giant will save $100. An adapter from Circuit City costs $100, but Vonage will offer the first two months of service free — a $70 savings — and waive the $30 activation fee.</p>
-<p><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/telecom/2004-03-05-vonage_x.htm">USAToday: Circuit City to offer Vonage Internet phone servic</a></p>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>The key factor here for consumers seems to be cost: consumer VoIP providers can offer the same services (or better ones, like multiple phone numbers in different cities) at an overall lower cost.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>I still want <em>different</em> services: voice mail via email, a softphone, conferencing, etc.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-05-sick-of-social-networks.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-05-sick-of-social-networks.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 6a7dc03..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-05-sick-of-social-networks.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,46 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Sick of Social Networks
-created: 1078536420
-categories: 
-- Social Media
-- Drupal
-- social networks
-- Flickr
-- drupal
-- Mindjack
-- Melanie McBride
-- LinkedIn
-- Drupal
-- Social Media
-- drupal
-- Flickr
-- LinkedIn
-- Melanie McBride
-- Mindjack
-- social networks
-- Chandrasutra
-- Social Media
----
-<p>
-	I want to go heads down and just build some cool tools that are actually useful to and used by people. Real, live people, not talking heads floating through the blogosphere.</p>
-<p>
-	Just a bit of a rant that exploded out. Still actually have to do some work to accomplish this. I&#39;m almost there for getting <a href="http://www.flickr.com">Flickr</a> authentication integrated with Drupal.<!--break-->Probably some frustration with not having a job. So many side projects going on, but so little money coming in. Ironically, getting a full time job might very well mean the end to some of these side projects, but perhaps this is the kind of focusing and winnowing down that I need.</p>
-<p>
-	I had a long chat with <a href="http://chandrasutra.typepad.com/chandra/">Chandra</a> on Flickr that was really great (she&#39;s <a href="http://www.flickr.com/profile.gne?id=35237091681@N01" title="Melanie McBride's Flickr Profile - Chandrasutra">Chandrasutra</a> on Flickr). Chandra writes for <a href="http://www.mindjack">Mindjack</a> occasionaly. Something I might try my hand at as well, although I think my Search Engine Voodoo article would be better for a more technical audience.</p>
-<p>
-	Yes -- I need some more uninterrupted time to work on it. I might just start a <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/book">book section</a> and add to it over time. Perhaps a better idea than trying it all in one go.</p>
-<p>
-	Basically, just tossing some ideas back and forth about social software and personal publishing (I really am trying not to use the &quot;b&quot; word, because that&#39;s not what this change is about).</p>
-<p>
-	Today&#39;s web tools are finally at the same stage as the beginning of desktop publishing: anyone with an Internet connection and a browser can publish their own content on the Internet. Even better, tools like RSS for syndication/distribution of content means that this content can easily get spread around and read by multiple people.</p>
-<p>
-	With comments (and trackback and referer pages and all those other strange terms that don&#39;t mean anything to regular people), conversations can move and grow beyond the original post, creating a &quot;web&quot; that is exactly what the Internet was built for.</p>
-<p>
-	So don&#39;t get confused by the term &quot;blog&quot; or &quot;blogging&quot;. It&#39;s not a way of life, it&#39;s not a skill given to some special few. It means an easy way for people -- individuals and yes, businesses, too! -- to put their own content on the Internet. No barriers, no scary codes to learn, just type into your browser and other people will be able to read what you write. Which might be teenage angst or it might be your next research topic or it might just be the specials at your store this week.</p>
-<p>
-	<strong>Update:</strong> something to further illustrate the broken-ness of many social networking sites today. Melanie McBride, a.k.a. Chandrasutra, contacted me via Flickr and mentioned that creating a LinkedIn profile might be useful (likely because of my job complaints above).</p>
-<p>
-	Well, I have a LinkedIn profile. Funnily enough, the id of my profile is 1746, and Melanie&#39;s is 191875. I can&#39;t &quot;link&quot; to either one, because you have to be signed in to the system to see the profiles. Also, I can&#39;t &quot;connect&quot; to Melanie within the system, either, because you have to know the person&#39;s email address. We &quot;know&quot; each other through Flickr, but I don&#39;t have her address (OK, LinkedIn recently changed this, giving you the option to try a direct connection -- still annoying).</p>
-<p>
-	I have long since updated my resume and general profile at other sites. But I have to go in and specifically update my LinkedIn one. I might even have &quot;out of date&quot; profiles scattered on other systems. Not a good situation.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-07-a-list-apart-facts-and-opinion-about-fahrner-image-replacement.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-07-a-list-apart-facts-and-opinion-about-fahrner-image-replacement.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c7cd97a..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-07-a-list-apart-facts-and-opinion-about-fahrner-image-replacement.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "A List Apart: Facts and Opinion About Fahrner Image Replacement"
-created: 1078658460
-categories: 
-- Search Engine Voodoo
----
-<p>Article by A List Apart from October 2003 that covers off some of the basics.</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-Development of the Fahrner Image Replacement technique and its analogues is moving faster than the destruction of the Berlin Wall. This article provides some much-needed empirical data on how FIR actually works in screen readers.
-</blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-07-digital-web-magazine-in-defense-of-fahrner-image-replacement.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-07-digital-web-magazine-in-defense-of-fahrner-image-replacement.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 2999984..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-07-digital-web-magazine-in-defense-of-fahrner-image-replacement.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Digital Web Magazine: In Defense of Fahrner Image Replacement"
-created: 1078658640
-categories: 
-- Search Engine Voodoo
----
-<p>Not everyone agrees with <acronym title="Fahrner Image Replacement">FIR</acronym>. <a href="http://www.mezzoblue.com">Dave Shea</a> writes an article explaining why he supports it.</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-As the Web moves away from presentational, hacked-up HTML towards a structural future, code is becoming abstract and graphic designers are losing their traditional control. CSS offers wonderful methods of regaining it, and in many ways goes further than HTML ever did. But it doesn’t go far enough yet, and designers still need images.
-</blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-07-image-replacement-decision-grid.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-07-image-replacement-decision-grid.md
deleted file mode 100644
index ca7e8fe..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-07-image-replacement-decision-grid.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Image replacement decision grid
-created: 1078658760
-categories: 
-- Search Engine Voodoo
----
-A comprehensive grid that looks at the methods of image replacement, what they support, and when to use which technique.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-07-reading-update.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-07-reading-update.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a899439..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-07-reading-update.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Reading update
-created: 1078655100
-categories: 
-- Review
----
-I'm working my way through two Oliver Sacks books rights now. Seems I've been on a science reading kick lately (or "science history", as <a href="http://www.360wiz.com/blog/" title="Trevor Jones' Obsessions in a Life">Trevor</a> calls it).
-
-I actually started with <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/amazon/asin/0679756973" title="An Anthropologist on Mars, Oliver Sacks">An Anthropologist on Mars</a>. Some of the writing and concepts are very domain-specific, which can make it hard to get through. The concepts about how we "see" colour blew my mind.
-<!--break-->
-(Note: I'm sure I'm going to screw up this explanation. I'm trying to distill it down from Sacks' complicated description that <em>still</em> makes my brain hurt.)
-
-Basically, the whole concept of colour is a completely different part of the brain from actually seeing. Yes, we have sensors in our eyes that respond to different frequencies of light. But the thing is, with differing light levels, we still see the same colours. So, an apple in full sunlight is seen by us as red, just as an apple in the shade is also red. Even though the frequencies of light bouncing off the apple are different.
-
-It is our "colour sense" that paints the apple red. Our "knowing" that the apple is red is completely separate from the light reflecting from it. There are some experiments that prove this, as well as medical cases where people lose this "colour sense" through brain injuries (which is how this comes up in the book).
-
-The book that I am actively reading is <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/amazon/asin/0375704043" title="Uncle Tungsten, Oliver Sacks">Uncle Tungsten</a>, which is Oliver Sacks' auto-biography, subtitled "Memories of a Chemical Boyhood". Some of the very detailed histories of scientists reminds me of <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/627" title="A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson">Bill Bryson's "A Short History of Nearly Everything"</a>. But Sacks goes into a lot more detail about chemistry. I'm doubtful that someone without a background in science will find it as interesting.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-07-seo-use-images-wisely.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-07-seo-use-images-wisely.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 49d6bd2..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-07-seo-use-images-wisely.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "SEO: Use Images Wisely"
-created: 1078657560
-categories: 
-- validation
-- SEO
-- img
-- longdesc
-- alt
-- Search Engine Voodoo
----
-<p>
-	As part of <a href="/node/917" title="Search Engine Voodoo - Validate Your Code">validation</a>, you may have noticed warnings if you failed to add <code>alt</code> attributes to your <code>img</code> tags. The <code>alt</code> attribute isn&#39;t there just to conform to a standard - it&#39;s actually useful! It stands for &quot;alternative&quot; and can be used to add a textual description to any image. As we&#39;ve discussed earlier, search engines are blind, so this description is vital for letting search engines know what your image represents.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>
-	A picture of a kitten might have an <code>alt</code> attribute as follows:</p>
-<blockquote class="code">
-	&lt;img src=&quot;kitten.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;A white Persian kitten&quot; /&gt;</blockquote>
-<p>
-	A search engine would then associate the file <code>kitten.jpg</code> with the text &quot;A white Persian kitty&quot;.</p>
-<p>
-	Additionally, the <code>title</code> attribute can be used to add text that acts as a caption for an image. Continuing with the previous example, we might use the following text:</p>
-<blockquote class="code">
-	&lt;img src=&quot;kitten.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;A white Persian kitten&quot; title=&quot;Allie&#39;s Kitten&quot; /&gt;</blockquote>
-<p>
-	Now we&#39;ve given the image a short descriptive phrase (<code>alt</code>) as well as a caption (<code>title</code>). The title attribute can actually be used for other elements as well, including the anchor tag. Many browsers will show the text of the <code>title</code> attribute in a floating &quot;tool tip&quot; box when the mouse pointer is placed over the element.</p>
-<p>
-	If you really want to go overboard, you can consider using the <code>longdesc</code> attribute, which is for including descriptive text that is too long to fit into the <code>alt</code> attribute.</p>
-<p>
-	But back to the wise use of images. Just as a page filled with images won&#39;t be very useful for a blind person, a search engine won&#39;t care much either. The critical portions of a page that should never be replaced with images are the various headings, company names, and pull quotes. While it is understandable to want to make these areas visually appealing, a search engine won&#39;t be able to &quot;read&quot; any text that appears in these graphics.</p>
-<!-- aside: press releases as images, PDFs --><p>
-	Two options exist. One is to use stylesheets to apply styling to text to make it standout. The second is to use one of a number of CSS tricks to replace the text with graphics (the most common one probably being the Fahrner Image Replacement [FIR] technique).</p>
-<p>
-	What&#39;s that? You&#39;re still not convinced? You want pretty looking graphics, or exact control over how content is going to appear? Let me go back to what I said earlier: search engines can&#39;t read graphics. Now let&#39;s imagine that your marketing department decides to start releasing press releases as images, or PDFs. Well, if the whole press release is a graphic, the entire contents of the press release will be invisible as far as the web is concerned.</p>
-<p>
-	PDFs are slightly better (Google, for example, can read the text inside of PDFs) but consider users that don&#39;t have a PDF reader installed. Or those browsing the web on handheld devices. Don&#39;t make things harder than they have to be! If you can generate a PDF, you can generate an HTML page of the press release.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-07-sites-that-dont-work-reveal-ca.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-07-sites-that-dont-work-reveal-ca.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 01835a1..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-07-sites-that-dont-work-reveal-ca.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Sites that don't work: Reveal.ca"
-created: 1078701300
-categories: 
-- Search Engine Voodoo
-- Canada
----
-<p>Greg <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/952#1598">pointed out</a> a <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040212.gtrevealfeb12/BNStory/Technology/">story at the Globe and Mail</a> that covers <a href="http://www.reveal.ca">Reveal.ca</a>:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-<p>The creators of an all-business search engine want it to become "the bible" of small business.</p>
-
-<p>"If I want to find a hotel in Banff, I just punch in 'hotel' and 'Banff' and I see a full listing of hotels in that community — not 850,000 hotel listings in Rome, Paris, or Detroit — just in Banff," Mr. Hamilton said.</p>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Mmm...interesting, because when I search for <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=hotel+Banff&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8">hotel Banff</a>, the entire first page of results are actual hotels in Banff. Since I can't bookmark search results on Reveal, I can't point you to the page of hotels in Banff that they offer.</p>
-
-<p>Read on if you want to know the many, many ways that Reveal.ca breaks all the rules of <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/952" title="Search Engine Voodoo - Website Optimization">Search Engine Voodoo</a>.</p>
-
-<!--break-->
-
-<ol>
-<li><strong>Code doesn't <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/917" title="Validate Your Code - Search Engine Voodo">validate</a></strong>
-<p>I had to override the doctype specification, since they didn't include one at all. Validation shows <a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.reveal.ca&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=HTML+4.01+Transitional">39 errors</a> on the front page alone. Don't even get me started on the terrible design and massive use of tables and font tags.</p></li>
-<li><strong>URL Structure is non-existant</strong>
-<p>There is no way to browse businesses, either by category or by region. Since I also can't bookmark search results, virtually all the content within the site is invisible to search engines.</p>
-</li>
-<li><strong>Individual pages use search-engine-unfriendly URLs</strong>
-<p>You can link to individual entries, like for the <a href="http://www.reveal.ca/details.asp?province=ALL_ALTA&ID=108711">Arrow Motel</a> in Banff. The URL used (and the fact that there is no way to get to that page without searching) guarantees that that page will never be indexed (except, ironically, perhaps through the link I just posted).</p></li>
-</ol>
-
-<p>OK, that's all I can stomach for the moment. Use of JavaScript for links and the <a href="http://www.reveal.ca/gold.html">unbelievable pricing for a Gold Membership</a> are just some of the additional problems with the site.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-07-stop-design-using-background-image-to-replace-text.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-07-stop-design-using-background-image-to-replace-text.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 924b132..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-07-stop-design-using-background-image-to-replace-text.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Stop Design: Using Background-Image to Replace Text"
-created: 1078658220
-categories: 
-- Search Engine Voodoo
----
-Douglas Bowman of Stop Design popularized the use of Fahrner Image Replacement (FIR). See <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/954" title="Search Engine Voodoo - Use Images Wisely">Use Images Wisely</a>.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-07-test-postflickr-test-post.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-07-test-postflickr-test-post.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a1ac092..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-07-test-postflickr-test-post.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Test PostFlickr Test Post
-created: 1078695000
-categories: 
-- Drupal
-- Social Media
----
-This is the (edited) test post from <a href="http://www.flickr.com">Flickr</a>. You can post pictures to your blog for supported systems.
-
-Actually, they support the Blogger API, the MetaWeblog API, and ATOM blogs, so that should cover off pretty much everything.
-
-FYI -- this version of Drupal uses the Blogger API. The newest version supports <strong>all</strong> the APIs I mentioned.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-07-use-of-the-longdesc-attribute-for-img-tags.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-07-use-of-the-longdesc-attribute-for-img-tags.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e3b35c2..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-07-use-of-the-longdesc-attribute-for-img-tags.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Use of the longdesc attribute for img tags
-created: 1078657980
-categories: 
-- Search Engine Voodoo
----
-<p>WATS (Web Accessibility Testing and Services) gives a good description of using the <code>longdesc</code> attribute, using a graphical chart as an example.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-07-w3c-markup-validation-service.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-07-w3c-markup-validation-service.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 154d590..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-07-w3c-markup-validation-service.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: W3C MarkUp Validation Service
-created: 1078657080
-categories: 
-- Search Engine Voodoo
----
-Make sure that your web page <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/917" title="Search Engine Voodoo - Validate Your Code">code validates</a>. You'll also want to pay attention to encoding and doctypes.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-07-why-rss-sucks-but-its-still-fantastic.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-07-why-rss-sucks-but-its-still-fantastic.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 19e971b..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-07-why-rss-sucks-but-its-still-fantastic.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Why RSS sucks, but it's still fantastic
-created: 1078647900
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
-- Web Development
----
-<p>I guess I've had this thought for a while, ever since I was doing some troubleshooting of <a href="http://www.opensourcexperts.com">OpenSourceXperts</a> RSS feeds. <a href="http://www.davidgalbraith.org/archives/000619.html">David Galbraith</a> talks about it in conjunction with Amazon's new <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/xs/syndicate.html/002-3131536-1614449">RSS listings</a> for products.</p>
-
-<p>The basic problem is that RSS was designed to syndicate a specific sort of data -- basically news and weblogs. Which is great! That is how I can pull in the <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/import/bundle/29">feeds from my friends</a> and display them on my site, and how I can aggregate info from lots of different news sources, and how I can get all the newest info without having to visit hundreds or even thousands of websites one at a time.</p>
-
-<p>But what if, like Amazon, you want to display the price of your products?</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>There is no "price" field in the default, plain jane RSS format. So you have no choice but to throw it in with some other info. But price is metadata. It gets more interesting if we can get access to it as a separate field: we can sort by price, we can filter to show "all books under $20", etc.</p>
-
-<p>I say don't worry about it. For everyday use, sites like Amazon will produce RSS feeds that put whatever they want to display for everyone straight into the description field. Anyone that needs/wants more access can parse the "raw XML".</p>
-
-<p>OpenSourceXperts had the same issue: they had all this information about service providers, like their location, their specialties, and their company logos. So they used RSS2.0 and stuck in a bunch of custom fields. Perfectly fine and legal, but completely invisible to all standard RSS readers. I encouraged them to produce "standard" feeds that included everything in the description field that they wanted visible by default, with the custom field available for people that wanted to do parsing on their end.</p>
-
-<p>It's this kind of misunderstanding and wrangling over formats that is holding back further development. To non-developers, non-web experts, it's hard enough to get excited about RSS, aggregation, and personal publishing: let's produce more examples of "cool stuff we can do", more education and evangelism about what some of this new stuff can do.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-08-rankpulse.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-08-rankpulse.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 4b8d2da..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-08-rankpulse.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: RankPulse
-created: 1078814040
-categories: 
-- Search Engine Voodoo
----
-<p>An excellent site dedicated to showing the movement of search engine results (in Google) for a set of 1000 keywords.</p>
-
-Their <a href="http://www.rankpulse.com/faq.htm">FAQ</a> is excellent, and covers many of the same questions I hope to address with <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/952">Search Engine Voodoo</a>.
-
-<blockquote>
-Search engines are amazing gateways to virtually unlimited content, and at RankPulse our goal is to provide some insights into how they work. One of our primary intentions is to show webmasters that although unscrupulous search engine optimization (SEO) techniques may yield temporary benefits, they are not foundations for a sound and sustainable website.
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Note: Search Engine Voodoo is <strong>not</strong> search engine optimization in the "unscrupulous" sense of the word: my suggestions are about building a better, quality site which is optimized for good search engine rankings. I don't use any techniques that purposefully game the system.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-09-asi-exchange-in-vancouver.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-09-asi-exchange-in-vancouver.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f10d2a4..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-09-asi-exchange-in-vancouver.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: ASI Exchange in Vancouver
-created: 1078881180
-categories: 
-- Vancouver
----
-<p>I just got back from the <a href="http://www.asiexchange.com">ASI Exchange</a>. There were perhaps 300 or so exhibitors, from companies to grad students. It was a good overview of some of the companies doing interesting technology work here in BC.</p>
-
-<p>I've talked about the difference between Ottawa and Vancouver before: Vancouver seems to be much more heavily focused on software solutions, whereas Ottawa has had roots in telecom and manufacturing. I noticed as well a lot of wireless solutions and collaboration/groupware type solutions.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>The number and quality of grad student presentations was amazing. I talked to <a href="http://www.ece.ubc.ca/~csnow/" title="Chris Snow">Chris Snow</a> (a UBC Master's candidate) about <acronym title="Ultra Wide Band">UWB</acronym> wireless (here's a link to his <a href="http://www.ece.ubc.ca/~csnow/talks/2004ASIexchange.pdf" title="Ultra-Wideband Radio for High Data-Rate Communication - 2004 ASI Exchange Poster - Chris Snow">poster on UWB [PDF]</a> ), and some other UBC students next to him about Bluetooth. Right when I walked in the door, I stopped and chatted to <a href="http://ucl.ece.ubc.ca/people/index.html" title="UBC Collaboration Lab - Vanesa Mirzaee">Vanesa Mirzaee</a>. She had done some really interesting work on analyzing history documents and mapping them to various ontologies. This gleaned information like events, places, and people that were connected through various documents.</p>
-
-<p>I immediately saw overlaps with lots of social networking concepts, and pointed out a couple of different networks for her to join (for the record: <a href="http://www.flickr.com">Flickr</a>, <a href="http://www.linkedin.com">LinkedIn</a>, and <a href="http://www.zerendipity.com">Zerendipity</a>).</p>
-
-<p>I had fun stopping by the Nokia booth. Really good people there. I don't think they enjoyed me mentioning the failure of the current NGage (you mean you have to take the battery out to put a new game in?). They were pretty good about it, and even let myself and <a href="http://marybrennan.zerendipity.com" title="Mary Brennan">Mary</a> play with a prototype they had in the next 7600 series. It's going to be another <a href="http://www.sidetalkin.com/">side talker</a>, and it's meant to be a rich media device, retailing for about 1000EUROs (it's unlikely to make it to North America for a while). Bluetooth, but no WiFi, and there was talk of a 1GB MMC card.</p>
-
-<p>Some BCIT students had a presentation about <a href="http://www.asterisk.org/" title="Asterisk - Open Source Linux PBX">Asterisk</a>, the open-source Linux PBX. They were hoping to deliver applications on top of the Asterisk platform, as part of their <a href="http://programs.bcit.ca/550RDIPLT">client-server course</a>. This got me to thinking about the potential of having a 1- or 2-year certificate program in VoIP. The local universities (BCIT, SFU Harbour Centre, Tech UBC) are very much setup to offer these types of programs. This is again why I think that Vancouver is having a bit of a software renaissance -- there are many qualified people here, and most of them don't want to leave the west coast.</p>
-
-<p>I even saw some people from <a href="http://www.uvic.ca" title="University of Victoria">UVic</a>. Of course lots of engineering students (who I didn't know), but Mary ran into <a href="http://chiselog.chisel.cs.uvic.ca/user/view/4" title="Victor Chong's Drupal Profile">Victor Chong</a>, whom I vaguely remembered. He's part of <a href="http://chiselog.chisel.cs.uvic.ca/" title="Computer Human Interface Software Engineering Lab - University of Victoria">CHISEL</a>, the Computer Human Interface Software Engineering Lab. I mentioned how the site was broken, but I was wrong -- it runs on Drupal, and has since been fixed up and works really well.</p>
-
-<p>Probably my most successful contact was David Brett, CEO of <a href="http://www.knexa.com/" title="Knexa, Collaboration and Knowledge Management">Knexa</a>. Knexa is based here in Vancouver and produces knowledge management software.</p>
-
-<p>David was interested when I mentioned that <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=vancouver+knowledge+management&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8">I'm the #1 hit for "vancouver knowledge management"</a>. Ironically, that result actually points to the website of the Vancouver KM community of practice site, but my site ranks higher.</p>
-
-<p>I've just briefly looked at Knexa's site, and yes, it does violate a number of my <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/952" title="Search Engine Voodoo -- tips to building better, searchable websites">Search Engine Voodoo</a> tips. I hope to talk to David about these concepts, as well as the intersection of traditional KM, social networks, and personal web publishing.</p>
-
-<p>Interestingly, the main function of the ASI Exchange actually seems to be about <a href="http://www.asiexchange.com/directory/index.html">producing a directory</a>. Only the dead-tree edition was available -- it takes months to create the soft copy. They did have everyone register at computer terminals when coming in the door (I left my affiliation blank and wrote "VoIP, Social Networking, Information Architect" on my badge), which would seem to be the perfect opportunity to kick-off a social networking site. Note to SNs: have a conference to kick-start your network.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-09-flickr-buddy-icons-fun.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-09-flickr-buddy-icons-fun.md
deleted file mode 100644
index cefafa0..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-09-flickr-buddy-icons-fun.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,44 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Flickr Buddy Icons Fun
-created: 1078831860
-categories: 
-- Social Media
----
-<p>Chandrasutra beat me to it (she <a href="http://chandrasutra.typepad.com/chandra/2004/03/buddy_iconograp.html">posts Stewart's</a> big list of faces), but didn't <a href="http://www.flickr.com/fun/buddies.gne?id=35237091681@N01" title="Chandrasutra's Flickr Face List">post her own</a>.</p>
-
-<p>Check below for my list of Flickr acquaintances (copied and pasted -- you can also see the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/fun/buddies.gne?id=35034346160@N01" title="Boris Mann's Flickr Face List">live list</a> -- change out the ID with another Flickr members to see their list):</p>
-<!--break-->
-<div style="float: left;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/profile.gne?id=35468136281@N01"><img src="http://www.flickr.com/buddyicons/35468136281@N01.jpg?1078817981" alt="haggaret" width="48" height="48" border="0"></a></div>
-<div style="float: left;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/profile.gne?id=35468142546@N01"><img src="http://www.flickr.com/buddyicons/35468142546@N01.jpg?1078817981" alt="fUL" width="48" height="48" border="0"></a></div>
-<div style="float: left;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/profile.gne?id=35034356918@N01"><img src="http://www.flickr.com/buddyicons/35034356918@N01.jpg?1078817981" alt="Mary" width="48" height="48" border="0"></a></div>
-<div style="float: left;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/profile.gne?id=35468135512@N01"><img src="http://www.flickr.com/buddyicons/35468135512@N01.jpg?1078817981" alt="smithdm3" width="48" height="48" border="0"></a></div>
-<div style="float: left;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/profile.gne?id=12037949632@N01"><img src="http://www.flickr.com/buddyicons/12037949632@N01.jpg?1078817981" alt="Stewart" width="48" height="48" border="0"></a></div>
-<div style="float: left;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/profile.gne?id=12037949663@N01"><img src="http://www.flickr.com/buddyicons/12037949663@N01.jpg?1078817981" alt="caterina" width="48" height="48" border="0"></a></div>
-<div style="float: left;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/profile.gne?id=12037951642@N01"><img src="http://www.flickr.com/buddyicons/12037951642@N01.jpg?1078817981" alt="Loli" width="48" height="48" border="0"></a></div>
-<div style="float: left;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/profile.gne?id=34427465953@N01"><img src="http://www.flickr.com/buddyicons/34427465953@N01.jpg?1078817981" alt="capodistria" width="48" height="48" border="0"></a></div>
-<div style="float: left;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/profile.gne?id=34427466141@N01"><img src="http://www.flickr.com/buddyicons/34427466141@N01.jpg?1078817981" alt="Oldtasty" width="48" height="48" border="0"></a></div>
-<div style="float: left;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/profile.gne?id=34427466389@N01"><img src="http://www.flickr.com/buddyicons/34427466389@N01.jpg?1078817981" alt="Shambly Hermit" width="48" height="48" border="0"></a></div>
-<div style="float: left;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/profile.gne?id=34427468531@N01"><img src="http://www.flickr.com/buddyicons/34427468531@N01.jpg?1078817981" alt="Yogi" width="48" height="48" border="0"></a></div>
-<div style="float: left;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/profile.gne?id=34427469121@N01"><img src="http://www.flickr.com/buddyicons/34427469121@N01.jpg?1078817981" alt="George" width="48" height="48" border="0"></a></div>
-<div style="float: left;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/profile.gne?id=34427470233@N01"><img src="http://www.flickr.com/buddyicons/34427470233@N01.jpg?1078817981" alt="rogue drone" width="48" height="48" border="0"></a></div>
-<div style="float: left;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/profile.gne?id=34427471661@N01"><img src="http://www.flickr.com/buddyicons/34427471661@N01.jpg?1078817981" alt="Kallese" width="48" height="48" border="0"></a></div>
-<div style="float: left;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/profile.gne?id=34955636935@N01"><img src="http://www.flickr.com/buddyicons/34955636935@N01.jpg?1078817981" alt="misuba" width="48" height="48" border="0"></a></div>
-<div style="float: left;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/profile.gne?id=35034346962@N01"><img src="http://www.flickr.com/buddyicons/35034346962@N01.jpg?1078817981" alt="riddle" width="48" height="48" border="0"></a></div>
-<div style="float: left;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/profile.gne?id=35034347309@N01"><img src="http://www.flickr.com/buddyicons/35034347309@N01.jpg?1078817981" alt="telemarkskier" width="48" height="48" border="0"></a></div>
-<div style="float: left;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/profile.gne?id=35034347371@N01"><img src="http://www.flickr.com/buddyicons/35034347371@N01.jpg?1078817981" alt="roland" width="48" height="48" border="0"></a></div>
-<div style="float: left;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/profile.gne?id=35034358593@N01"><img src="http://www.flickr.com/buddyicons/35034358593@N01.jpg?1078817981" alt="Walter Selent" width="48" height="48" border="0"></a></div>
-<div style="float: left;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/profile.gne?id=35034361136@N01"><img src="http://www.flickr.com/buddyicons/35034361136@N01.jpg?1078817981" alt="xinit" width="48" height="48" border="0"></a></div>
-<div style="float: left;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/profile.gne?id=35034362956@N01"><img src="http://www.flickr.com/buddyicons/35034362956@N01.jpg?1078817981" alt="Chaudruc" width="48" height="48" border="0"></a></div>
-<div style="float: left;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/profile.gne?id=35034364964@N01"><img src="http://www.flickr.com/buddyicons/35034364964@N01.jpg?1078817981" alt="Jay" width="48" height="48" border="0"></a></div>
-<div style="float: left;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/profile.gne?id=35237090177@N01"><img src="http://www.flickr.com/buddyicons/35237090177@N01.jpg?1078817981" alt="seokzzang" width="48" height="48" border="0"></a></div>
-<div style="float: left;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/profile.gne?id=35237091681@N01"><img src="http://www.flickr.com/buddyicons/35237091681@N01.jpg?1078817981" alt="Chandrasutra" width="48" height="48" border="0"></a></div>
-<div style="float: left;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/profile.gne?id=35237098411@N01"><img src="http://www.flickr.com/buddyicons/35237098411@N01.jpg?1078817981" alt="marccanter" width="48" height="48" border="0"></a></div>
-<div style="float: left;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/profile.gne?id=35468134499@N01"><img src="http://www.flickr.com/buddyicons/35468134499@N01.jpg?1078817981" alt="squarewithin" width="48" height="48" border="0"></a></div>
-<div style="float: left;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/profile.gne?id=35468136185@N01"><img src="http://www.flickr.com/buddyicons/35468136185@N01.jpg?1078817981" alt="roblef" width="48" height="48" border="0"></a></div>
-<div style="float: left;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/profile.gne?id=35468148669@N01"><img src="http://www.flickr.com/buddyicons/35468148669@N01.jpg?1078817981" alt="chicawhappa" width="48" height="48" border="0"></a></div>
-<div style="float: left;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/profile.gne?id=36521957441@N01"><img src="http://www.flickr.com/buddyicons/36521957441@N01.jpg?1078817981" alt="Iphigénie" width="48" height="48" border="0"></a></div>
-
-<p>I bugged Stewart about adding this as a code snippet for your own web page -- filterable by type of acquaintance, of course. And to add "title" attributes to either the image or the link, so that we can get mouse hover tool tips with the person's name or nickname.</p>
-
-<p>P.S.: root-relative URLs without the domain name suck. Well, they suck when pasting source code somewhere offsite, anyway.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-09-i-hate-the-term-blog.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-09-i-hate-the-term-blog.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 7d15ae9..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-09-i-hate-the-term-blog.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: I hate the term blog
-created: 1078821360
-categories: 
-- Social Media
-- Personal Publishing
-- CMS
----
-<p>Let me not beat around the bush with this: I hate the term "blog". It's "personal web publishing" or "self publishing". Or maybe just the next generation of content management. This realization has been a while in coming. I've "blogged" before it was called that. Many "bloggers" seem to have a certain attitude, a certain "if you blog, you must do it for these reasons". Apophenia talks only about the term "blogger" vs. "journaler":</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-<p>What are the implications for bloggers/blog tool creators to see people who identify as journalers and try to enforce that label on them? How does this affect tool design, community understanding and cultural development?
-<p><a href="http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2004/03/08/journaler_is_to_blogger_as_dyke_is_to_lesbian_why_identity_through_activity_fails.html">apophenia: Journaler is to Blogger as Dyke is to Lesbian (Why Identity through Activity Fails)</a></p>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>I still use the term when I need to explain it to other people, because the following long-winded explanation takes too long:</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>The phenomenon known as "personal web publishing" is nothing more than an easy way to add and edit content on the web. Some other attributes:</p>
-<ul>
-<li>easy-to-use browser-based content addition and editing; you can publish content, including media such as images, from anywhere that you have an Internet connection</li>
-<li>the concept of syndication, so that same content can be easily displayed on other sites, and read using a desktop application so that you can quickly see who has updated their content</li>
-<li>comments and/or links between sites, where a topic or idea can freely flow between different sites, especially through the display of links from other sites next to the original content</li>
-<li>unique and permanent links (URLs) for every piece of content, which is what enables the direct commenting of linking</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>Personal web publishing builds upon the foundation of the Web, on the concept of content linking to other content. Capitalizing on this fundamental rule is what makes it so useful. Because of the very personal, or at least opinionated, nature of the links and commentary between sites, many people describe this as something richer: conversations. Whether you are an individual, an organization, or a business, personal web publishing engages you in the larger conversation of the Internet. It gives people a reason to come back to your site, rather than view it once and never return.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-10-webworkshop-net-googles-pagerank-explained.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-10-webworkshop-net-googles-pagerank-explained.md
deleted file mode 100644
index de4d9f6..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-10-webworkshop-net-googles-pagerank-explained.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "WebWorkshop.net: Google's PageRank Explained"
-created: 1078962720
-categories: 
-- Search Engine Voodoo
----
-<p>Good overview piece on what PageRank is, and how Google calculates it:</p>
-
-<blockquote><p>PageRank is a numeric value that represents how important a page is on the web. Google figures that when one page links to another page, it is effectively casting a vote for the other page. The more votes that are cast for a page, the more important the page must be. Also, the importance of the page that is casting the vote determines how important the vote itself is. Google calculates a page's importance from the votes cast for it. How important each vote is is taken into account when a page's PageRank is calculated.</p>
-
-<p>PageRank is Google's way of deciding a page's importance. It matters because it is one of the factors that determines a page's ranking in the search results. It isn't the only factor that Google uses to rank pages, but it is an important one.</p>
-</blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-11-broadvox-is-coming-to-canada.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-11-broadvox-is-coming-to-canada.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 083011f..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-11-broadvox-is-coming-to-canada.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,44 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Broadvox is coming to Canada
-created: 1078995060
-categories: 
-- VoIP
-- Canada
----
-<p>I've started reading the <a href="http://www.broadbandreports.com/forum/voip">Broadband Reports VoIP Forum</a>, and saw an interesting <a href="http://www.broadbandreports.com/forum/remark,9639621~mode=flat">post</a>:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-Broadvox will offer Canadian numbers in the next few months (information from a post by Jeff Williams at the Voxilla Broadvox discussion group) in the following markets:
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Jeff Williams (Broadvox President) confirmed this in a later posting. Their <a href="http://www.broadvoxdirect.com/bd_plan1.html" title="Broadvox Direct - Pricing">pricing plans</a> look to be expensive (US$) compared to <a href="http://www.primustel.ca/en/residential/talkbroadband/" title="Primus Residential VoIP - Talkbroadband">Primus Talkbroadband</a>, but their <a href="http://www.broadvoxdirect.com/features.html" title="Broadvox - Included Feature Set">feature set</a> is superb. It really seems like "phone plus" rather than Primus' offering, which is nothing more than a phone line replacement today. I did suggest to the tech guys at Primus that lowering the price of additional features and adding more advanced ones would speed up adoption.</p>
-
-<p>It really does seem like people will be shopping for voice service providers in the future much like they shop for ISPs or web hosts today. There will be some cheap, fly-by-night operations, some good deals, and the expensive, gold-plated guys.</p>
-
-<p>I've grabbed the entire Broadvox feature list and mirrored it in the extended posting, including a brief summary and/or comment for those that need it.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>Broadvox seem to make a lot of features accessible through an <a href="http://www.broadvoxdirect.com/feature_oam.html">online interface</a> -- exactly how VoIP telephony should be managed.</p>
-
-<p>The full list of included features with Broadvox (the links go to the Broadvox page describing each one). As far as I can tell, all these services are provided free with every plan. I'm only including features which are different and/or not included free with Primus or your regular phone system.</p>
-
-<ul>
-<li><a href="http://www.broadvoxdirect.com/feature_callerid.html">Caller ID</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://www.broadvoxdirect.com/feature_return.html">Call Return</a> -- aka *69</li>
-<li><a href="http://www.broadvoxdirect.com/feature_forward.html">Call Forwarding</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://www.broadvoxdirect.com/feature_fmfm.html">Find Me, Follow Me</a> - make specific calls go to specific numbers (like your cell phone, pager, etc.)</li>
-<li><a href="http://www.broadvoxdirect.com/feature_faf.html">Friends & Family</a> - area code in a different city</li>
-<li><a href="http://www.broadvoxdirect.com/feature_fab.html">Family Address Book</a> - online contact manager</li>
-<li><a href="http://www.broadvoxdirect.com/feature_conference.html">Conference Calling</a> - free three-way calling</li>
-<li><a href="http://www.broadvoxdirect.com/feature_repeat.html">Repeat Dialing</a> - keeps re-dialing a number in the background if it is busy; you can continue to make other calls in the meantime</li>
-<li><a href="http://www.broadvoxdirect.com/feature_lld.html">Local Long Distance</a> - calls anywhere within the US or Canada are considered "local" and are part of your plan</li>
-<li><a href="http://www.broadvoxdirect.com/feature_voicemail.html">Voicemail</a> - Check voice messages via phone, online, or received as an email attachment. Email notification of new messages. Save as many messages as you want for as long as you want. And, of course, save messages to your hard drive. This is what VoIP-enabled voicemail is all about! This feature alone would make me switch to Broadvox. Well, that and the fact that "local" is basically all of North America.</li>
-<li><a href="http://www.broadvoxdirect.com/feature_lists.html">Customizable Contact List</a> - along with listing your contacts, you can organize them in different groups. Different groups can be set to contact you on different phone numbers/devices, in a different order.</li>
-<li><a href="http://www.broadvoxdirect.com/feature_faxes.html">Faxes to Email</a> - Hallelujah! Any fax calls to your number will get received, then forward to you via email as an attachment.</li>
-<li><a href="http://www.broadvoxdirect.com/features.html">Call Transfer</a> - you can actually dial a number for someone you have on the line and transfer them to the new call. May very well be an unused feature, but it seems cool nonetheless.</li>
-<li><a href="http://www.broadvoxdirect.com/feature_log.html">Call Logs</a> - just like on your cell phone, you can get full access to Missed, Incoming, and Outgoing calls.</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>Here's a feature that someone should add: configurable, auto-<a href="http://www.broadvoxdirect.com/feature_dnd.html">Do Not Disturb</a>. I'm unlikely to want to accept calls in the middle of the night or early morning on weekends: let me specify when DND will come on automatically.</p>
-
-<p>As an aside, Broadvox's website is a perfect example of how <em>not</em> to design a website. Absolutely everything is an image, making the vast majority of content on the site invisible to Google. I mean, the pages don't even have titles!</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-11-digital-web-magazine-optimizing-your-chances-with-accessibility.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-11-digital-web-magazine-optimizing-your-chances-with-accessibility.md
deleted file mode 100644
index d68ed5a..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-11-digital-web-magazine-optimizing-your-chances-with-accessibility.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Digital Web Magazine: Optimizing Your Chances with Accessibility"
-created: 1079023860
-categories: 
-- Search Engine Voodoo
----
-<p>Talks about following accessibility guidelines as a tool to also increase search engine ranking.</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-Much has been said about the use of a logical order of markup, semantics, and how to properly embed or include supplementary information in your pages. Keeping your markup well written and organized thoughtfully will present an easy-to-read source for search engine spiders to browse, giving them an excellent opportunity to rank accordingly.
-</blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-11-free-email-and-other-options-for-not-using-web-based-email.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-11-free-email-and-other-options-for-not-using-web-based-email.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c861934..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-11-free-email-and-other-options-for-not-using-web-based-email.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Free Email (and other options for not using web-based email)
-created: 1079064120
-categories: 
-- Vancouver
----
-<p>I give people grief all the time for:</p>
-<ul>
-<li>using their work account for all their email, and/or
-<li>using a web-based email service that gets filled with spam, doesn't support very much email, and is really hard to use if you get a lot of mail</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>It turns out that the <a href="http://www2.vcn.bc.ca/emailService" title="Vancouver Community Network - Free Email Accounts">Vancouver Community Network</a> offers free email accounts to registered members, which can be accessed via POP or IMAP (i.e. these are real accounts that you can setup on your computer). As well, you can also access them via webmail.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>What about just using the email address that comes with your Internet connection? Well, the difficulty there is that if you switch providers, you lose your address. Since deals are always changing, or you might move, having your address being held hostage by your service provider is not a great option. As well, their webmail often sucks.</p>
-
-<p>So, if you live in Vancouver and don't have a personal account, go check out <a href="http://www2.vcn.bc.ca/">VCN</a>. They even have virus filters installed! Thanks to <a href="http://www.richarderiksson.com/">Richard Eriksson</a>, which is where I noticed the <code>vnc.bc.ca</code> address.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-11-wired-news-cable-guy-whupping-phone-guy.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-11-wired-news-cable-guy-whupping-phone-guy.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a1ada75..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-11-wired-news-cable-guy-whupping-phone-guy.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Wired News: Cable Guy Whupping Phone Guy"
-created: 1079050500
-categories: 
-- United States
-- VoIP
----
-<p>Just like cable broadband is slowly overtaking DSL broadband, it seems like they're taking a major chunk of telephony revenues as well.</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-<p>Comcast Communications and Cox Communications have quietly climbed to the top rungs of telephone providers, helping the cable industry capture about $900 million in telephone revenue in the United States in 2003, or about 2.5 million residential customers, according to MRG, a digital media research firm. It projects cable operators could capture $8.1 billion in U.S. revenue, or 22 million subscribers, by 2007 -- or roughly 10 percent of the U.S. residential telephone market.</p>
-<p><a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,62616,00.html">Wired News: Cable Guy Whupping Phone Guy</a></p>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Note: this isn't VoIP -- yet. These numbers are for <em>"phones hooked up to cable lines"</em>. I'm now starting to think that equal access requirements really should apply to cable operators as well.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-15-vancouver-dinner-club-inaugural-event.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-15-vancouver-dinner-club-inaugural-event.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 4ab5404..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-15-vancouver-dinner-club-inaugural-event.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Vancouver Dinner Club Inaugural Event
-created: 1079340780
-categories: 
-- Vancouver
----
-<p>Well, <a href="http://mary.bmannconsulting.com/archives/2004/03/10/dinner-club-destination-spain/" title="Dinner Club Destination: Spain - Mary's Webog">Mary beat me to it</a>, but I should probably say a thing or two about last week's Vancouver Dinner Club inaugural event.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>First off, it was a rather exclusive gathering. I had originally thought of the concept in conjunction with some chatting at <a href="http://www.flickr.com">Flickr</a>. What with people having trouble logging into that from work and other issues, I set up a <a href="http://midgard.bmannconsulting.com/mailman/listinfo/vandinclub" title="Vancouver Dinner Club Mailing List">mailing list</a>. Catherine volunteered to host the first meeting, to christen her new pots. I didn't really feel right inviting a bunch of folks that I didn't know all that well yet to somebody else's house, so…  …next time.</p>
-
-<p>The theme this time was <strong>Spanish</strong>. Rebecca probably had the hardest job, having to do dessert, but the fried ladyfingers filled with custard were delicious (what's the name for that?!). Catherine's paella was delicious (Mary already posted the recipe for it -- need to get that from everyone). Everyone's food was delicious.</p>
-
-<p>Pictures of all the delicious food are in the <a href="http://gallery.bmannconsulting.com/vandinclub">gallery</a>, and <a href="http://mary.bmannconsulting.com/gallery/spain">Mary took pictures too</a>.</p>
-
-<p>On or about the 24th (maybe Thursday, May 25th?) will be the next club event, and Kate and I are going to host it at our tiny apartment. This time the doors will be swung wide open, and everyone's invited (yes, that means you, <a href="http://www.rolandtanglao.com">Roland</a> and <a href="http://george08.blogspot.com/">George</a>).</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-15-webpronews-blogs-mean-better-listings-on-google.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-15-webpronews-blogs-mean-better-listings-on-google.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 3d731b9..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-15-webpronews-blogs-mean-better-listings-on-google.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "WebProNews: Blogs mean Better Listings on Google"
-created: 1079377800
-categories: 
-- Search Engine Voodoo
-- Personal Publishing
----
-<p>This cannot be stressed enough. One of the key factors in traffic to your site is frequently updated content. Since (ideally) this is all content that is relevant to your business/product anyway, the only discipline lies in regular posting:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-<p>What are some reasons to have a blog? Bruner said, "Blog stands for Better Listings On Google" because Google favors regularly updated content. It's also common for breaking news to be featured on blogs.</p>
-<p><a href="http://www.webpronews.com/insiderreports/searchinsider/wpn-49-20040226BlogsMeanBetterListingsonGoogle.html">WebProNews: Blogs mean Better Listings on Google</a></p>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>The article also does a decent job of defining four categories of blogs -- Thought Leadership, Customer Relations, Peer Marketing, Media Relations. The comments about "monetizing blogs" are not correct, I think. Or rather, your goals for maintaining a blog are very different if you want to directly make money from it, i.e. through advertising or sponsorships, rather than maintaining it for its own sake.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>You might maintain a blog to demonstrate your expertise or opinions about a range of topics. This in turn might lead to paid work or opportunities that you would never have if you didn't publicly write about them. In the past, this might have been done through an opt-in email newsletter or infrequently published, longer articles.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-16-what-if-voice-were-free.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-16-what-if-voice-were-free.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e55b5a5..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-16-what-if-voice-were-free.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: What if voice were free?
-created: 1079424360
-categories: 
-- IM
-- VoIP
----
-<p>Lots of hype about the recent funding of Skype to the tune of $18M US. Yes, part of this is the classic "let's run with this and look for a business model later". <strong>But</strong> let's not forget that Skype is a true disruptor:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-<p>If recent announcements are correct then we will see the capability for Skype to Phone (as in PSTN). There is a general assumption that Skype will have to charge for calls into the local phone network or to a local cellphone. I believe their intent will be to make such calls free.</p>
-<p><a href="http://www.henshall.com/blog/archives/000815.html">Unbound Spiral: Skype Xfire Presence</a></p>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Comparisons are being made to Hotmail, which was one of the first free email providers. Now for the punch line: email <em>is</em> now essentially free (nevermind the part about how many would also now gladly pay for virus- and spam-free email -- that's the other side of the curve).</p>
-
-<p>I think that Skype could very easily and cheaply build out VoIP gateways with nothing more than a couple of local phone lines and some Linux gear.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-18-urlgreyhot-its-time-to-start-using-a-wiki-for-my-personal-knowledge-management.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-18-urlgreyhot-its-time-to-start-using-a-wiki-for-my-personal-knowledge-management.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 445be75..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-18-urlgreyhot-its-time-to-start-using-a-wiki-for-my-personal-knowledge-management.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "urlgreyhot: It's time to start using a wiki for my personal knowledge management"
-created: 1079654820
-categories: 
-- Drupal
-- Knowledge Management
-- Personal Publishing
----
-I started typing a long response to urlgreyhot's <a href="http://urlgreyhot.com/drupal/node/view/1513">It's time to start using a wiki for my personal knowledge management</a> , and then realized I needed to capture it here, since it is a kind of rationalization for myself of the different technologies I've been using. And he doesn't have <a href="http://www.drupal.org/project/trackback">trackback</a> turned on, so I can't post here but still let him know.
-
-I found myself involved in a bunch of different projects, all of which I had to start gathering knowledge for. The problems are somewhat the same -- the structure of Drupal makes it a bit harder for ad-hoc information gathering. On to my solution…
-<!--break-->
-I already run a couple of <a href="http://www.wordpress.org">WordPress</a> blogs, so I ended up setting one up to use for a <a href="http://links.bmannconsulting.com">links blog</a>. The best thing I find about it is the bookmarklet, where I can highlight some text on any page, then just hit a link in my toolbar, check off a few categories, and boom! -- a new entry. And, I can still syndicate the links blog back onto my main page using RSS.
-
-I actually think that adding bookmarklet support to Drupal's weblinks module would probably be enough for me. I'm in the process of splitting my <a href="http://boris.bmannconsulting.com" title="Boris Mann's Personal Blog">personal</a> and <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com" title="B. Mann Consulting - Search Engine Voodoo, Information Architecture, VoIP">business</a> blogs completely, and will likely implement this for the business one.
-
-However, lots of other people have also reported success with using an external service like <a href="http://www.furl.net">Furl</a> or <a href="http://del.icio.us/">del.icio.us/</a> (again using RSS to syndicate back).
-
-That was a long way of saying that you may find yourself addicted to Drupal -- I know I am!
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-19-how-to-build-a-business-around-voip.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-19-how-to-build-a-business-around-voip.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 3408516..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-19-how-to-build-a-business-around-voip.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: How to build a business around VoIP
-created: 1079724780
-categories: 
-- Canada
-- VoIP
----
-<p>Along with the continued excitement around VoIP, <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/add/story">GigaOm has posted his "Beware the VoIP Hype"</a> article. There is belief that the scramble to invest is creating another bubble, with comparisons being drawn to the investment in DSL providers.</p>
-
-<p>I believe the bubble around <em>residential</em> VoIP is just that -- a bubble. But there is a need for business-focused VoIP expertise and services.</p>
-
-<p>I don't see a bubble there, and I still see a lack of companies addressing the space (especially in Canada). Mainly because it's not technology that's lacking (there are many proprietary and open-source solutions), but rather knowledgeable, independent VoIP consultants. There is a lack of such people that know how to implement VoIP solutions for small and medium businesses. Read on for my idea of how to build a business around this.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>A successful VoIP-related company could be built around:</p>
-<ul>
-<li>Providing turn-key solutions to independent consultants, including technical and marketing assistance, a knowledge base, etc.</li>
-<li>Running and maintaining VoIP gateways at different POPs</li>
-<li>Give consultants a piece of the ongoing service revenue</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>Such a model provides independent computer and telephony consultants (and even small ISPs) a way forward: a way to quickly start offering VoIP services without having to have all the expertise in-house. They get all the money for installations and on-site support with the assurance of having a third-level technical support entity that they can turn to if they themselves need help. With a piece of any ongoing revenues, they gain a new revenue stream.</p>
-
-<p>Note: I've been thinking about this concept for a while -- this is the first that I've written publicly about it. As always, implementation is everything. Have a couple of hundred thousand to steer my way or want to team up to attack different geographic markets? <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/feedback">Contact me</a>.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-19-movabletype-is-the-windows-of-the-personal-publishing-world.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-19-movabletype-is-the-windows-of-the-personal-publishing-world.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 8fd4ae3..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-19-movabletype-is-the-windows-of-the-personal-publishing-world.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,68 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: MovableType is the Windows of the Personal Publishing World
-created: 1079717491
-categories: 
-- Drupal
-- Drupal
-- Personal Publishing
-- Drupal
----
-<p>Everyone is all a-twitter that <a href="http://www.movabletype.org/news/2004_03.shtml">MT 3.0</a> is about to come out of hiding. Am I biased because I use a <a href="http://www.drupal.org">different publishing system</a>? Probably.</p>
-
-<p>But I maintain that MT has gotten to the top of the heap because of it's wide adoption. Much like Windows. Many people agree that OS X or even Linux is a technically superior operating system, but it's still Windows with the lion's share of the market. Much like MT.</p>
-
-<p>So, herewith, a list of things that I don't like about MT.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>These are in no particular order. I've used MT (kicking and screaming), but am by no means proficient. These are my opinions, so you can disagree with them. Feel free to comment or otherwise <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/feedback">let me know</a> if I get something factually wrong. And yes, I am talking about a default install.</p>
-
-<ul>
-<li><strong>Runs on Perl</strong>
-<p>Perl is great for many things. It was used to build many of the first web applications. I still have many fond memories of <a href="http://stein.cshl.org/WWW/software/CGI/">CGI.pm</a>. Today, the CGI directory lock-down, the necessity for manually installing extra libraries, and the eclipse of Perl by other languages (notably PHP and Python) make it a pain to work with. Yes, this can and will cause a "my programming language is better" flame war.</p>
-</li>
-<li><strong>Anchor-based permalinks</strong>
-<p>Also known as "individual pages for posts turned off by default". There are many <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/952">Search Engine Voodoo</a> reasons why this is a bad thing. A big long page with lots of categorically-unrelated posts is not that great to link to. With comments on a separate page (see below), it keeps even more related content on a separate page. <a href="http://radio.userland.com/">Radio</a> is guilty of this as well.</p>
-</li>
-<li><strong>Static pages</strong>
-<p>Basically, MT has you create an entry, then "publishes" it, turning it into a static HTML page. The downside of this is two-fold:</p>
-<ol>
-<li>Hard to include dynamic content</li>
-<li>Increasing server load as content and/or comments increase</li>
-</ol>
-<p>Yes, there are some advantages to speed for really busy sites, since static pages can always be served faster than dynamic. But, I've heard of the comment system breaking down completely under heavy load. Drupal (for instance) implements database caching of pages for anonymous users.</p>
-</li>
-<li><strong>Pop-up comments</strong>
-<p>Why? <em>Why?</em> What is the use case for having pop-up comments? It makes it harder for search engines to index, it's harder to read, and pop-ups are so 1998. <a href="http://www.brendonwilson.com/profile/" title="Brendon Wilson's Profile">Brendon</a> does a good job with comments in MT.</p>
-</li>
-<li><strong>Complicated, hard to use admin and posting system</strong>
-<p>MT's backend is hard to use. I would not want to point <em>any</em> non-technical user at it. I find it confusing, and I consider it technical. I don't have a running install of MT kicking around anymore, otherwise I would break down its UI failings more thoroughly.</p>
-</li>
-<li><strong>Hard to install</strong>
-<p>This is kind of related to running on Perl, since the most common hang up seems to be around missing libraries. Still, the necessity of putting files in different places (cgi-bin vs. main html directory) just makes it harder than other systems.</p>
-</li>
-<li><strong>No out-of-the-box template switching</strong>
-<p>The default MT template is plain and ugly. The recent <a href="http://www.movablestyle.com/">Movable Style</a> website has a way to easily switch layouts. If someone downloaded and installed MT, is there a way to easily install a different template?</p>
-</li>
-<li><strong>Not free</strong>
-<p>Let's not debate free. You can't use MT commercially without paying a licensing fee. Many other systems are true open source, allowing full modification and no payment to anyone.</p>
-</li>
-<li><strong>Comment spam</strong>
-<p>No other system that I know of suffers from comment spam like MT does. Is it because it's the most popular system (again, like Windows)? Or is it because of failings in its technical architecture (again, like Windows)? I don't know the definitive answer, but I suspect it is a bit of both.</p>
-</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>What systems do I like? Depends on what you want to do. In any case, ease of installation and ease of use are two primary goals that always need to be satisfied.</p>
-
-<p><a href="http://www.wordpress.org">Wordpress</a> is an excellent individual or blog-only application that has many standards-based features built in from the get-go. It falls down a bit with its media management, but is still the engine I recommend for people that just want a blog.</p>
-
-<p><a href="http://www.drupal.org">Drupal</a> is my pick for advanced users, anyone that wants a community-based site, or as a content management system for business websites. Its base set of modules have everything included, its template system is flexible enough that you can build whatever you like, and its aggregation and feed-generating capabilities are without par.</p>
-
-<p>I'm sure that MT 3 will address some of these issues. Like Windows, it may very well introduce a whole set of new ones.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Related Links:</strong></p>
-<ul>
-<li><a href="http://cyberdash.com/node/view/231">cyberdash</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://www.blogherald.com/archives/000601.php">Blog Herald</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://www.rolandtanglao.com/archives/2004/03/20/movabletype_is_the_windows_of_blog_systems">Roland Tanglao</a> - Roland extends my analogy to say Drupal is like Linux and Wordpress might be like the Mac</li>
-<li><a href="http://www.das-netzbuch.de/index.php?id=P1366">das Netzbuch (German)</a> - makes a further expansion: <a href="http://www.typekey.com/">TypeKey</a> == MSN Passport</li>
-</ul>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-21-nimcat-networks.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-21-nimcat-networks.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 432091c..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-21-nimcat-networks.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Nimcat Networks
-created: 1079925000
-categories: 
-- VoIP
-- Canada
----
-<p>Recently, <a href="http://www.lancetracey.com" title="Lance Tracey's Blog">Lance</a> pointed out <a href="http://www.nimcatnetworks.com">Nimcat Networks</a>, an Ottawa-based company that purports to decentralize all call processing for VoIP networks directly into VoIP telephone sets:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-Peer to Peer call processing uses the existing LAN infrastructure of a  small enterprise and requires no additions or changes to the LAN equipment  already in place. Using the processing and memory available on a standard  VoIP telephone set and Nimcat's VoIP based patented Peer-to-Peer technology,  Nimcat is able to eliminate the need for costly centralized telephony equipment.  Nimcat enabled telephone sets provide the same feature rich capabilities  that business users have come to expect from a PBX or Centrex based solution, at a fraction of the cost.
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>If the solution works, their target market (small business) and solution looks very good. However, it all comes down to scalability and features. The information on their website doesn't give many details, but read on for some more thoughts on Nimcat's solution.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>I can see the thought process of de-centralizing intelligence -- it's very much in vogue, and counter to current network strategies of telcos and VoIP providers. When they use phrases like "costly centralized telephony equipment", I tend to think that these comparisons are being made to yesterday's proprietary, vendors-specific VoIP solutions. With a wide variety of robust open source solutions, IP-PBX's can be built very cheaply and placed in each office location.</p>
-
-<p>Also, a lot of the advanced features (like unified messaging, where you get voicemail in your inbox) actually require integration with another network "box". With the open source solutions, the cost for the software/functionality is essentially free already, so I get to the question: why NOT centralize the control? If you believe my analogies to the technology growth curve of VPNs, call-control type boxes will eventually move to the level of appliances, much like VPN routers of today.</p>
-
-<p>If anyone has more information on the Nimcat solution, please comment. There are some references to remote software update which leads me to believe there are still some centralized elements. As well, centralization is important from a maintenance/management perspective: how does this get supported by the IT department?</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-22-deleting-installed-packages-under-os-x.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-22-deleting-installed-packages-under-os-x.md
deleted file mode 100644
index b633f0b..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-22-deleting-installed-packages-under-os-x.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Deleting installed packages under OS X
-created: 1079991300
-categories: 
-- packages
-- OS X
-- wired
-- pkg
-- Mac
----
-<p>
-	I had recently installed <a href="http://www.zankasoftware.com/wired/">Wired</a>, which installs a Hotline-like server. There is no uninstaller and it puts junk in a bunch of different places. The easiest way to uninstall applications which use the <code>.pkg</code> format is to to use the OSX Package Manager. Find out more at <a href="http://www.osxgnu.org/">OSX GNU.org</a>. You can download the OSX Package Manager directly: <a href="ftp://us.osxgnu.org/pub/osxgnu/OSXPM/OSXPackageManager.sit">OSXPackageManager.sit</a></p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-23-wired-pay-once-share-often-with-lwdrm.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-23-wired-pay-once-share-often-with-lwdrm.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 312fbae..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-23-wired-pay-once-share-often-with-lwdrm.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Wired: Pay Once, Share Often With LWDRM"
-created: 1080091020
-categories: 
-- Music
-- Copyright
----
-<blockquote>
-<p>For the music industry, <acronym title="Light Weight Digital Rights Management">LWDRM</acronym> means that its copyrights can still be violated when consumers bypass the digital certificate. However, adoption of the system could be a PR victory for an industry that suffers not only from piracy, but also from a lack of goodwill from most consumers.</p>
-<p><a href="http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,62739,00.html">Pay Once, Share Often With LWDRM</a></p>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>This idea is from the <a href="http://www.fraunhofer.de/english/">Fraunhofer Institute</a>, the same people that originally invented MP3. They actually developed the technology for MPEG4, but are essentially back-porting it to be used with MP3. It looks like it's a ways from actually being implemented, and somehow I think that this is just one more attempt to put the genie back in the bottle.</p>
-
-<p>Fraunhofer also talks about having a full turn-key solution, with micro-payments and an online store for sale along with the technology for anyone that wants to implement it.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p><strong>Related Links:</strong></p>
-
-<ul>
-<li><a href="http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/archives/000559.html">Freedom to Tinker: Lightweight</a>
-<blockquote>
-It's hard to see much that's new in this proposal. If we ignore the newly coined LWDRM buzzword and the accompanying marketing spin, we're left with a fairly standard looking DRM scheme, of the type I call mark-and-trace.
-</blockquote></li>
-</ul>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-25-open-source-voipworks.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-25-open-source-voipworks.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 1a459e0..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-25-open-source-voipworks.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Open source VoIP\xE2\x80\xA6works"
-created: 1080247380
-categories: 
-- Open Source
-- VoIP
----
-<p>I found <a href="http://scottstuff.net/scott/">Scott Laird</a> today and saw that he had a pair of posts about <a href="http://www.asterisk.org" title="Asterisk - Open Source VoIP PBX">Asterisk</a>. Hist first post talks about what he wants out of his home phone and how he implemented the functionality:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-I've always wanted a home phone that doesn't suck. I like the things that my cell phone gets right: it syncs my list of phone numbers from my computer. It tracks my recent calls, and makes it easy to redial off of the list. It does a decent job with caller-id, and even does a nice job with call waiting. Unfortunately, it's also too small to be comfortable for long-term use, too expensive if I over-run my monthly minute allotment, and has lousy service inside of my house.
-<p><a href="http://scottstuff.net/scott/archives/000147.html">scottstuff.net: Asterisk, here we go</a></p>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p><a href="http://scottstuff.net/scott/archives/000149.html" title="scottstuff.net: Asterisk is working swimmingly">Scott's next post</a> details what Asterisk is doing for him and how well it works, as well as a good wishlist of extra features.</p>
-
-<p>My prediction: VoIP appliances built around open source solutions like this will become the norm, especially ones that include an analog connection as well as VoIP options. And this, of course, can only be accomplished by <a href="http://gigaom.com/archives/2004/03/in_defense_of_the_cable_guys.html">CPE</a>.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-25-voodoopad.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-25-voodoopad.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a7f391d..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-25-voodoopad.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: VoodooPad
-created: 1080247260
-categories: 
-- Application
-- Knowledge Management
-- Mac
----
-<a href="http://urlgreyhot.com/drupal/node/view/1513">urlgreyhot</a> mentioned this as a good desktop Wiki client.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-28-enabling-dynamically-configured-name-based-virtual-hosting-on-mac-os-x.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-28-enabling-dynamically-configured-name-based-virtual-hosting-on-mac-os-x.md
deleted file mode 100644
index bbf2290..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-28-enabling-dynamically-configured-name-based-virtual-hosting-on-mac-os-x.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,63 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Enabling Dynamically Configured Name-based Virtual Hosting on Mac OS X
-created: 1080529593
-categories: 
-- mac os x
-- apache
-- VirtualHost
-- mod_vhost_alias
-- Mac
-- Web Development
----
-<p>
-	Enabling virtual hosting on your Mac OS X machine will allow you to serve web content from a single IP address for multiple domain names, including sub-domains. This is useful for having a local development environment on your laptop, as you never need to edit your web server config files, just create additional folders matching the site names you want to work with.</p>
-<p>
-	<em>Note: the original version of this document was created for pre-Leopard Mac OS X versions. See the <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/node/1005/revisions/1973/view" title="Mac OS X 10.4 and earlier mass virtual hosting">previous revision here</a>. This version references Apache 2.2 on Mac OS X Leopard, and recommends editing the hosts file rather than using NetInfo.</em></p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>
-	All the following involves editing Apache server config files, which requires admin privileges. They are located at <code>/etc/apache2/httpd.conf</code> (main config file) and <code>/etc/apache2/extras/httpd-vhosts.conf</code> (file that is included, keep all your virtual host related config here), and it&#39;s best to make a backup before you begin (just copy the original with a new extension like &quot;bak&quot;, e.g. <code>/etc/apache2/httpd.conf.bak</code>).</p>
-<p>
-	First, you need to uncomment the sections related to virtual host aliasing in your main httpd.conf file, by deleting the # in front of the following lines:</p>
-<pre class="code">
-#LoadModule vhost_alias_module libexec/httpd/mod_vhost_alias.so
-#AddModule mod_vhost_alias.c
-</pre>
-<p>
-	You&#39;ll also need to uncomment the include which will pull in the next file, again by removing the # from in front of Include.</p>
-<pre class="code">
-# Virtual hosts
-#Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
-</pre>
-<p>
-	Decide where you want to put all your web files. I placed them all in a directory next to the main, default server, at <code>/Library/WebServer/Hosts</code>. Create that directory.</p>
-<p>
-	Now add this snippet at the end of the <code>/etc/apache2/extras/httpd-vhosts.conf</code> file:</p>
-<pre class="code">
-#allow access to the Hosts directory where your sites are
-&lt;Directory &quot;/Library/WebServer/Hosts&quot;&gt;
-Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
-AllowOverride All
-#you could configure the following to only allow access from localhost
-Order allow,deny
-Allow from all
-&lt;/Directory&gt;
-
-#get the server name from the Host: header
-UseCanonicalName Off
-VirtualDocumentRoot /Library/WebServer/Hosts/%0/html
-</pre>
-<p>
-	Now restart your web server with the command <code>apachectl graceful</code> If you don&#39;t see any errors, everything should be working.</p>
-<p>
-	At this point, you should be able to add folders like /Library/WebServer/Hosts/example.bmannconsulting.com/html and you&#39;re good to go. You can also use symlinks, so have multiple domains point to the same content. Remember, you either need to have DNS for the domain set up correctly or edit your hosts file at <code>/etc/hosts</code>. An example of that would be adding a line like <code>127.0.0.0.1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;example.local</code> to the end of the file -- it&#39;s corresponding web directory would then be <code>/Library/WebServer/Hosts/example.local/html</code>.</p>
-<p>
-	Note: For those developing Drupal multisite, any additional sites you want to develop on the same codebase, just symlink to your base Drupal install. So, if your base install is at base.example.local, and you want to create newsite.example.local, symlink <code>/Library/WebServer/Hosts/newsite.example.local</code> to <code>/Library/WebServer/Hosts/base.example.local</code>. You will still need to create the directory for the newsite at <code>/Library/WebServer/Hosts/base.example.local/html/sites/newsite.example.local</code> for Drupal to properly pick it up.</p>
-<p>
-	<strong>Related Links</strong></p>
-<ul>
-	<li>
-		<a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/mass.html">Apache.org: Dynamically configured mass virtual hosting</a></li>
-	<li>
-		<a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_vhost_alias.html">Apache.org: Advanced directory matching for virtual and IP based hosting using mod_vhost_alias</a></li>
-</ul>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-28-italk2u.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-28-italk2u.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 6b88edd..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-28-italk2u.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: iTALK2U
-created: 1080521878
-categories: 
-- VoIP
-- Microsoft
-- Application
----
-<blockquote>
-Compliance with VoIP standards means that users of his product should be able to connect to any other VoIP infrastructure that supports the standard. <strong>This is a terrific competitive advantage over Skype's current closed architecture approach</strong> and should really transform the game. With this product, any of the companies that have made VoIP investments will be able to leverage the p2p VoIP phenomenon using LitFiber's product.
-<cite><a href="">Ted Shelton: Competition for Skype</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>The product in question is <a href="http://www.litfiber.com/italk/">LitFiber's iTALK2U</a>. Emphasis mine, and a statement I definitely agree with.</p>
-
-<p>Just like I <a href="/node/view/1002">posted</a>, they've rolled in access to a bunch of other networks (AIM, ICQ). Still Windows only. From the screenshots (screen cap below), the <acronym title="User Interface">UI</acronym> is terrible. This one is not a winner.</p>
-
-<p>How hard can it be to build an open source <acronym title="Free World Dialup">FWD</acronym>/regular SIP plug in for one of the instant messaging clients? It should be possible to share a codebase across platforms so the various IM clients can then build individual plug-ins…</p>
-<!--break-->
-<img class="node-image" width="549" height="463" src="/images/italk2u.jpg" title="iTALK2U Screenshot" />
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-28-jim-kohlenberger-anyone-in-their-garage-can-now-be-a-telephone-company-for-the-entire-planet.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-28-jim-kohlenberger-anyone-in-their-garage-can-now-be-a-telephone-company-for-the-entire-planet.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c1503fe..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-28-jim-kohlenberger-anyone-in-their-garage-can-now-be-a-telephone-company-for-the-entire-planet.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Jim Kohlenberger: Anyone in their garage can now be a telephone company for the entire planet"
-created: 1080521384
-categories: 
-- VoIP
----
-<blockquote>
-Anyone in their garage can now be a telephone company for the entire planet. In shopping e-commerce you can get a voice rep. You can do online voice conferences. Included in game boxes and game consoles where kids use VoIP to communicate. Used in instant messaging. Star-trek type communicators are now used in Hospitals (Wi-fi based). All sorts of other things. Skype. Free World Dialup. Metcalf’s law: value of Internet goes up as you can talk to more people. New companies are broadband VoIP providers. Vonage, 8x8, etc. Plug in a regular phone to IP network and make calls. All types of new services are possible. Right now they look like regular telephones because that is what we expect. Many things are possible in the future. Question is how do we get there? How do we allow them to flourish so these new services can be made possible?
-<cite>Jim Kohlenberger (works with VON Coalition and Benton), transcribed by <a href="http://www.causingeffect.com/blog/archives/000207.html">Smart Cog or Pondering Aloud: ICC Update - VoIP</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-28-lunch-with-microsoft-and-sun.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-28-lunch-with-microsoft-and-sun.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 1e54d39..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-28-lunch-with-microsoft-and-sun.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,43 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Lunch with Microsoft and Sun
-created: 1080535026
-categories: 
-- Social Media
-- Personal Publishing
-- Vancouver
----
-<p>I managed to make it to the <a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2004/03/28.html#a7112" title="Robert Scoble: Geek lunch today">Geek Lunch</a>. The title of the post was something we were joking about -- the rumour that Microsoft was going to buy Sun because <a href="http://scoble.weblogs.com/">Robert Scoble</a> was talking to <a href="http://www.tbray.org/">Tim Bray</a>.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<blockquote>
-Naturally, Scoble and I took the opportunity to launch a diabolical Sun-Microsoft conspiracy to... oh, can’t talk about that. Otherwise, discussion included blogging, Atom, taxonomies, tablets, job-hunting, and a general sense of wonderment at being alive in these times where nobody knows what the business is going to look like this time next year. I got to meet a few Vancouver-scene folks that I hadn’t before, so that was cool too.
-<cite><a href="http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/03/28/GeekLunch">Tim Bray's Ongoing: Short-notice geek lunch</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>I'm still not convinced that both Robert and Tim are plants inside their respective organizations to stage public battles to re-energize the tech sector…</p>
-
-<p>Lots of folks were out: <a title="Sat next to me">Andy</a>, <a href="http://www.darrenbarefoot.com/" title="Darren Barefoot">Darren</a>, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/profile.gne?id=12037949754@N01" title="bees">Cal</a>, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/profile.gne?id=12037949632@N01" title="Stewart Butterfield's Flickr Profile">Stewart</a>, <a href="http://www.textuality.com/Lauren.html" title="Lauren Wood, also Tim Bray's wife">Lauren</a>, <a title="Lauren and Tim's son">Sean</a>, <a href="http://scoble.weblogs.com">Scoble</a>, <a title="Sat on my right">John</a>.</p>
-
-<p><a title="Robert Scoble's wife">Maryam</a> and <a title="Maryam's friend">Shadi</a> were unfortunately segregated to a separate table, leaving us to deal with the masses of food that Tim ordered. It was a clear Geek / non-Geek split.</p>
-
-<p>Now a little summary of what I ended up discussing with various people.</p>
-
-<p>I pointed out to Darren that we hadn't met in person before, but that we went to the same <a href="http://www.sd45.bc.ca/sentinel/" title="Sentinel Secondary, West Vancouver">high school</a> and also to <a href="http://www.uvic.ca" title="University of Victoria">university</a>, so I remembered seeing him around when I saw his site again recently.</p>
-
-<p>Darren had recently <a href="http://www.darrenbarefoot.com/archives/000595.html">floated the idea of a weblogging conference here in Vancouver</a>. Sounds like everyone is interested, and Lauren offered to potentially help organize.</p>
-
-<p>I outed <a href="http://www.urbanvancouver.com">Urban Vancouver</a>, the new blogging portal for the Vancouver area that <a href="http://www.streamlinewebco.com" title="Blog Consulting in Vancouver">StreamLine</a> is launching in the next couple of days. I've been doing consulting work with them on this.</p>
-
-<p>I briefly mentioned <a href="/topics/eportfolios" title="ePortfolio articles at B. Mann Consulting">ePortfolios</a>. I'm just getting up to speed with this myself, having been tracking down info for only the last couple of weeks or so. I'm interested in the <a href="http://www.lifia.ca/en/learn_eport2004.htm" title="ePortfolio Canada 2004 - Learning Innovators Forum">conference that's here in Vancouver in mid-April</a>. Roughly, ePortfolios are digital collections of information around people. It has applications in education (both K-12 and academia) and business (career pathing and employee profiles). There are aspects of social networking (profiles), knowledge management, and "lifelogs".</p>
-
-<p>I talked a bit about an idea that I had this morning in the shower (when I really wanted some sort of voice dictation thingie to note it down). Basically, it's easier to get a higher search ranking for phrases that include "vancouver" because of its "low search density" (I made up that phrase, I don't know if it's the best).</p>
-
-<p>Other geographical place names, like Ottawa (where I just moved back from) have a very high search density. There is so much content online with the word "ottawa" in it -- from government, to news, etc. etc. -- that it is more difficult to "bubble up" through many irrelevant results that happen to contain the same keyword. As well, all those items (as noted at lunch) aren't generally connected to each other or linking anywhere in particular: it's just this big chunk of content around the term "ottawa".</p>
-
-<p>I spent a little bit of time talking to Lauren about trying to raise Sean bi-lingual in English and German. Sean didn't speak that much German, but he did understand it. Lauren mentioned that he is going to German lessons, and that many of the other parents were actually not bi-lingual themselves, because their parents came over in the 1950s, and didn't want their children speaking German. Now, those kids were mad at their parents, and wanted to make sure that <em>their</em> kids could speak natively to their grandparents. Kate and I are going to be facing this same thing when we have kids.</p>
-
-<p>Finally met Stewart (of <a href="http://www.flickr.com">Flickr</a> fame) in person. I think I wisecracked a little too much, but I'm not going to torment him publicly, other than to slyly say that I now get the connection between him, cats, and small dogs. He just happened to bump into Scoble in the street, since their office is just around the corner from <a href="http://www.thaihouse.com/urbanthai/">Urban Thai</a> (food was good, by the way).</p>
-
-<p><a href="http://www.apple.com/applescript/folderactions/">Folder Actions</a> might be an easy way to get pictures on a Mac into Flickr, but I still think that <a href="http://www.zwily.com">Zach Wily</a> is going to add MetaWeblog API and/or Atom support to <a href="http://www.zwily.com/iphoto/" title="iPhoto Export to Gallery and Blogging Tools">iPhotoToGallery</a>.</p>
-
-<p>Whew. What with continuing to overhaul the new site here, moving my personal stuff to its <a href="http://boris.bmannconsulting.com">new home</a>, and the work with <a href="http://www.urbanvancouver.com">Urban Vancouver</a>, it's been a busy weekend!</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-28-ollicle-text-2-html-without-the-lock-down.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-28-ollicle-text-2-html-without-the-lock-down.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 1dc8498..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-28-ollicle-text-2-html-without-the-lock-down.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "ollicle: text 2 HTML without the lock down"
-created: 1080504248
-categories: 
-- Web Development
-- Drupal
-- Personal Publishing
-- Drupal
-- Drupal
-- CMS
----
-<blockquote>
-Jay Allen points, in his post <a href="http://www.jayallen.org/journey/2004/03/the_cms_and_inline_html">The CMS and inline HTML</a>, to an issue which I have been recently giving some thought as I consider switching between <a href="http://www.bradchoate.com/mt-plugins/textile">Textile</a> to <a href="http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/">Markdown</a>.
-<cite><a href="http://www.ollicle.com/2004/03/28/text_2_html_without_the_lock_down.html">ollicle: text 2 HTML without the lock down</cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>The referenced problem being that if you use a special syntax in a content management system, you suffer from a form of lock-in.</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-Readability of the entry would only be hampered in the rare event of revisiting a entry for editing.
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Drupal handles this through the use of filters. Your plain text or plain text plus markup is what is stored in the database, without being permanently transformed. Of course, the issue still remains that you're locked into a particular syntax.</p>
-
-<p>I've actually gotten in the habit of typing in (X)HTML directly. It's certainly not ideal, and absolutely no good for end users, but something like <a href="http://www.drupal.org/project/htmltidy">the HTML Tidy module</a> to check/correct your syntax would be good. There is also <a href="http://www.drupal.org/project/htmlarea">HTMLArea</a>, a WYSIWYG component for Mozilla browsers.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-28-om-malik-on-voip-why-skype-is-no-different.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-28-om-malik-on-voip-why-skype-is-no-different.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 9784d91..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-28-om-malik-on-voip-why-skype-is-no-different.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Om Malik on VoIP: Why Skype is No Different"
-created: 1080520377
-categories: 
-- VoIP
----
-<blockquote>In summary, Skype shares the same functional architecture with other VoIP providers. It shares the same business plan and outlook. But they have artificially cloaked it in a proprietary system. I guess this is their “economic moat
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-28-presence-blogging.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-28-presence-blogging.md
deleted file mode 100644
index d5cb0a8..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-28-presence-blogging.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Presence Blogging
-created: 1080519281
-categories: 
-- Social Media
----
-<blockquote>
-In short I would like to have a technology that would shrink the world. Where I can experience all but full contact presence with my friends who I can find in a global context and not be limited to my immediate 20 mile radius of my local world.
-<cite><a href="http://smartpei.typepad.com/robert_patersons_weblog/2004/03/making_blogging.html">Robert Paterson: Making Blogging more Real - Developing Presence?</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Presence-type systems invariable need the type of backend offered by social networks, which is why I still see an inevitable collision between the two. Indeed, TypeKey and TypePad people could even evolve into something like this.</p>
-
-<p>This could be done with <a href="http://www.flickr.com">Flickr</a>, including a chat widget for your blog so that people could IM into your Flickr space and vice-versa.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-28-tips-for-andy.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-28-tips-for-andy.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f779775..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-28-tips-for-andy.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Tips for Andy
-created: 1080526813
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
-- Mac
----
-<p>Andy is just about ready to start running a personal publishing system of some kind. He's going to run it off his Mac at home for now, so he wanted a couple of pointers.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>First off, don't bother with a static IP address from your broadband provider. It's absolutely not necessary. I pointed him to <a href="http://www.easydns.com">EasyDNS</a> for domain registration and dynamic DNS. On the Mac, combine that with <a href="http://www.dnsupdate.org/">DNSUpdate</a>. This is very reliable  and has worked great for me.</p>
-
-<p>Andy spent all day look into various open source content management systems. He looked at the <a href="http://www.opensourcecms.com/">Open Source CMS site</a> and in particular mentioned <a href="http://www.angelinecms.org/">Angeline CMS</a>. I don't know much about the app other than it doesn't come up very often when you <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=angeline+CMS&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8" title="'Angeline CMS' Google Search">search for it with Google</a>, which is never a good sign.</p>
-
-<p>I'm pretty blunt these days: use <a href="http://www.wordpress.org">WordPress</a> if you want a basic blog, choose <a href="http://www.drupal.org">Drupal</a> if you need more features, control, and options.</p>
-
-<p>Then we were talking about hosting more than one domain, or at least different sites for sub-domains (e.g. <code>subdomain.example.com</code>). I remembered I enabled virtual hosts on my Mac before, so I dug out the relevant bits from my <code>httpd.conf</code> file. I've written that up in a how-to called <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/macosx/howto/enable-dynamic-virtual-hosting">Enabling Dynamically Configured Name-based Virtual Hosting on Mac OS X</a>.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-29-apple-should-license-fairplay-drm.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-29-apple-should-license-fairplay-drm.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 04d228c..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-29-apple-should-license-fairplay-drm.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Apple should license FairPlay DRM
-created: 1080590520
-categories: 
-- Copyright
-- Music
-- Mac
----
-<blockquote>
-If Apple really wants to boost AAC, it would allow other device and software makers to license Apple's own FairPlay digital-rights-management (DRM) system. DRM is computer code bound to each downloaded track or album that carries instructions on how the music may be used. For example, FairPlay allows unlimited CD burns of single tracks but doesn't allow songs bought through iTMS to be played on other devices or to be traded on file-swapping networks. While anyone can use AAC -- it's an open standard, after all, and widely available for licensing -- FairPlay puts a barrier between Apple and the rest of the online music community because iTMS downloads can play only on iPods.
-<cite><a href="http://yahoo.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2004/tc20040324_2586_tc056.htm">Business Week Online: Digital Music: Apple Shouldn't Sing Solo</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-29-asterisk-dont-blame-the-users.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-29-asterisk-dont-blame-the-users.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 1f89659..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-29-asterisk-dont-blame-the-users.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "asterisk*: Don't Blame The Users"
-created: 1080575028
-categories: 
-- Web Development
----
-<blockquote>Blaming the users for anything should raise a huge red flag that you've got some usability problems.
-<cite><a href="http://www.7nights.com/asterisk/archives/">asterisk*: Don't Blame The Users</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-29-does-computer-science-in-academia-suck.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-29-does-computer-science-in-academia-suck.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 535baf5..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-29-does-computer-science-in-academia-suck.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Does Computer Science in Academia suck?
-created: 1080623015
-categories: 
-- Education
----
-<blockquote>
-I am on the second highest level of Computer Science education possible. I have learnt little in school. Where are the professors and classes that pertain to real world computing? Why are all the gurus and technology <em>innovators</em> outside of educational institutions? Where are the Mark Pilgrim, Phil Ringnalda, Joel Spolsky and Jakob Neilsons of the educational world? Why are we teaching classes about Ada and Cobol <em>instead</em> of classes on (developing) programming standards and .NET? Let me give you some examples.
-<cite><a href="http://mindfulmusings.net/weblog/2004/3/29/computer-science-versus-the-real-world/">Mindful Musings: "Computer Science" vs. the Real World</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>I have a Computer Science degree, and I absolutely learned everything useful outside of school. Luckily, <a href="http://www.uvic.ca">my university</a> had co-op programs, so I got to work at three different companies and learn three different skill sets. It also directly led to my <a href="http://www.nortelnetworks.com">first job</a>.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-29-lost-boy-scattered-self.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-29-lost-boy-scattered-self.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a94dfa7..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-29-lost-boy-scattered-self.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Lost Boy: Scattered Self"
-created: 1080578030
-categories: 
-- Mac
-- Personal Publishing
----
-<blockquote>
-<p>Currently I'm using <a href="http://allconsuming.net/">AllConsuming</a> for books, <a href="http://del.icio.us/">del.icio.us</a> for bookmarks and Morten's <a href="http://foaf.dk/hosting/">FOAF hosting</a> to grab my wishlist from Amazon.</p>
-<p>&#8230;</p>
-<p>As these services allow me to take away my augmented data in an easily processable format (XML/RDF) it means that as a hacker I can do Cool Things. But, more importantly, as an end user I don't have to worry about the pointy brackets: I key in some data and as well as an enriching my online experience, it also gives me a URL, a RESTful access point to my data, at which I can point other services. This is the Unix pipe metaphor extended to the web: small specialized services that can be plumbed together to create interesting applications.</p>
-<cite><a href="http://www.ldodds.com/blog/archives/000129.html">Lost Boy: Scattered Self</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Read the whole article. Some good usability comments, and at the end a<em>"series of recommendations for building user-centric services"</em>.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-29-mac-or-pc-everyone-at-wordpress-wants-a-powerbook.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-29-mac-or-pc-everyone-at-wordpress-wants-a-powerbook.md
deleted file mode 100644
index cd94059..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-29-mac-or-pc-everyone-at-wordpress-wants-a-powerbook.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Mac or PC? Everyone at WordPress wants a Powerbook
-created: 1080622659
-categories: 
-- Mac
----
-<blockquote>
-Many of the WordPress developers (if not all of them) secretly desire to buy a Powerbook at some point of time. There are many &ldquo;Oooh&rsquo;s and Aaah&rsquo;s&rdquo; that I talk about and here are some examples of peoples&rsquo; reactions to opening a new Mac (or browsing through one at a store) for the first time.
-<cite><a href="http://mindfulmusings.net/weblog/2004/3/21/mac-or-pc---from-a-new-buyers-perspective/">Mindful Musings: Mac or PC?</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-29-mac-os-rumors-mac-os-x-10-4-and-the-year-of-the-g5.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-29-mac-os-rumors-mac-os-x-10-4-and-the-year-of-the-g5.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 81d14b0..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-29-mac-os-rumors-mac-os-x-10-4-and-the-year-of-the-g5.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Mac OS Rumors: Mac OS X 10.4 and the 'Year of the G5'"
-created: 1080575710
-categories: 
-- Mac
----
-<blockquote>
-Earlier today, we first spoke of receiving several (highly embargoed) reports detailing some of the planned features and marketing points for Mac OS X 10.4 (preliminary code-name "Merlot;" an official Big Cat codename has yet to be announced).
-<cite><a href="http://www.macosrumors.com/32604L.html">Mac OS Rumors: Mac OS X 10.4 and the 'Year of the G5'</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Not a lot of info yet -- lots of G5/64-bit optimization, Expose 2.0 <em>"with more eye candy"</em>, and increased Windows compatibility.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-29-microsoft-now-does-search.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-29-microsoft-now-does-search.md
deleted file mode 100644
index daa3f33..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-29-microsoft-now-does-search.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Microsoft now does search
-created: 1080576264
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
-- Search Engine Voodoo
----
-<blockquote>
-The new services, called MSN Newsbot and MSN Blogbot, up the ante in the battle for Internet search market share. Microsoft has already said it is working on its own general Internet search engine, expected to be launched this year, to go head-to-head with Google. The Friday announcements were made at a Microsoft meeting for online advertisers.
-<cite><a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/pcworld/20040327/tc_pcworld/115416">Yahoo! News: Microsoft Readies News, Blog Services</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>More attention to blogs as a special category. There is, of course, increased meta-data surrounding typical blog posts, which can actually make searches easier. But, isn't it all just content? 
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-29-price-hostilities-in-the-voip-space.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-29-price-hostilities-in-the-voip-space.md
deleted file mode 100644
index d3daf0a..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-29-price-hostilities-in-the-voip-space.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Price hostilities in the VoIP space
-created: 1080593191
-categories: 
-- VoIP
----
-<blockquote>
-<a href="http://andyabramson.blogs.com/voipwatch/2004/03/global_crossing.html">Andy thinks</a> Level 3 and Global Crossing could spell trouble for Sprint and AT&T as pricing and service offerings will be what matters. I have heard this one before, oh I don&rsquo;t know back in 1999. I think we are going to see a rapid escalation of <strong>price hostilities in the VoIP space</strong> before end of this summer
-<cite><a href="http://gigaom.com/thevoipdaily/archives/2004/03/global_crossing_takes_on_the_enterprise.html">Om Malik on VoIP: </cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Emphasis mine. Agreed -- it's going to get ugly, and by early next year (if not sooner) a lot of companies are going to be hurting.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-29-primus-talkbroadband-expands-service.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-29-primus-talkbroadband-expands-service.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 6c7578f..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-29-primus-talkbroadband-expands-service.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Primus Talkbroadband expands service
-created: 1080591225
-categories: 
-- VoIP
-- Canada
----
-The <a href="http://www.primustel.ca/en/residential/talkbroadband/coverage.html" title="Primus Talkbroadband Coverage">Primus coverage page</a> has been updated, noting that Kitchener-Waterloo, London, Quebec City, Victoria and Winnipeg are now available.
-
-Discuss this in the <a href="/forum">forums</a> or over at <a href="http://www.broadbandreports.com/forum/remark,9815342~mode=flat">Broadband Reports</a>. All the area codes are listed in the extended entry.
-<!--break-->
-204 - Winnipeg*
-250 - Victoria*
-403 - Calgary
-418 - Quebec City*
-416 - Toronto
-514 - Montreal
-519 - London and Kitchener-Waterloo only*
-613 - Ottawa
-604 - Vancouver
-780 - Edmonton
-905 &#8211; Hamilton numbers only. 
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-29-think-secret-microsoft-developing-msn-messenger-for-mac-4-0-with-images.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-29-think-secret-microsoft-developing-msn-messenger-for-mac-4-0-with-images.md
deleted file mode 100644
index b18b704..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-29-think-secret-microsoft-developing-msn-messenger-for-mac-4-0-with-images.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Think Secret: Microsoft developing MSN Messenger for Mac 4.0 (with images)"
-created: 1080577410
-categories: 
-- IM
-- Microsoft
-- Mac
----
-<blockquote>
-A pre-release version of MSN Messenger for Mac 4.0 recently leaked out of Microsoft's MacBU and suggests that the MacBU plans to further intertwine the instant messaging client with its Office productivity suite. Sources offered several images of the beta at work. <cite><a href="http://www.thinksecret.com/news/msnmessenger4.html">Think Secret</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>I think that IM (and personal publishing capabilities) are going to start getting entwined into everything.</p>
-
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-30-consumer-price-index-cpi-inflation-calculator.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-30-consumer-price-index-cpi-inflation-calculator.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 2ee28b3..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-30-consumer-price-index-cpi-inflation-calculator.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Consumer Price Index (CPI) Inflation Calculator
-created: 1080680701
-categories: 
-- Web 2.0
----
-<p>Greg mentioned this to me:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-This is an inflation calculator for adjusting costs from one year to another using the  Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation index.  This inflation calculator is based on the average inflation index during the calendar year. This inflation calculator will compute inflation rates between 1913 and 2003. The  CPI represents changes in prices of all goods and services purchased for consumption by  urban households. User fees (such as water and sewer service) and sales and excise taxes  paid by the consumer are also included. Income taxes and investment items (like stocks,  bonds, and life insurance) are not included
-</blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-30-expose-and-windows.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-30-expose-and-windows.md
deleted file mode 100644
index fcffc4d..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-30-expose-and-windows.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Expose and Windows
-created: 1080693210
-categories: 
-- Mac
----
-<blockquote>
-I use OS X on a TiBook as my primary machine.  When I review software, however, I frequently use Windows.  Today, while on a Windows machine I was frantically moving the mouse into the lower left-hand corner to expose my running windows so I could find the one I wanted.  Didn't work.  :-)  That's when you know a feature has taken hold of you. <cite><a href="http://www.windley.com/2004/03/30.html#a1138">Windley's Enterprise Computing Weblog: Expose and Windows</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-30-marcosweskamp-a-map-of-the-news-media.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-30-marcosweskamp-a-map-of-the-news-media.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 7b368b8..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-30-marcosweskamp-a-map-of-the-news-media.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "marcosweskamp: a map of the news media"
-created: 1080715834
-categories: 
-- Search Engine Voodoo
----
-<blockquote>
-<a href="http://marumushi.com/apps/newsmap"><img src="http://marcosweskamp.com/blog/img/newsmap_blog.png" alt="" border="0"></a><br/>
-<a href="http://marumushi.com/apps/newsmap">newsmap</a> is an application that visualizes the totality of the <a href="http://news.google.com/">GoogleNews</a> aggregator.<cite><a href="http://www.marcosweskamp.com/blog/archives/000087.html">marcosweskamp: a map of the news media</a></cite></blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-30-peer-1-subsidizes-bandwidth-and-colocation-for-pulver-com-approved-voip-startups.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-30-peer-1-subsidizes-bandwidth-and-colocation-for-pulver-com-approved-voip-startups.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a8e030c..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-30-peer-1-subsidizes-bandwidth-and-colocation-for-pulver-com-approved-voip-startups.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Peer 1 subsidizes bandwidth and colocation for Pulver.com approved VoIP startups
-created: 1080686905
-categories: 
-- VoIP
-- Vancouver
-- Canada
----
-<blockquote>
-<p>Peer 1&rsquo;s world-class Internet network is complemented by Pulver.com&rsquo;s knowledge of the industry. Together, the companies can provide a launching pad for VOIP entrepreneurs with the vision, but not necessarily the financial backing, to take VOIP to the masses.</p>
-<p>&ldquo;The world is embracing VOIP,&rdquo; says Jeff Pulver, Founder of Pulver.com, &ldquo;and we are at the forefront of that movement. By identifying and nurturing some key start-ups, we aim to revolutionize the way the world communicates.&rdquo;</p><cite><a href="http://www.peer1.net/press_detail.asp?uid=52">Peer 1: Emerging VOIP companies to get financial assistance from industry veterans</cite></blockquote>
-
-Now imagine a couple of Linux boxes, a couple of T1 lines, and..boom! telephone company. Oh yes -- it would be great to get some agreements in place with overseas network providers.
-
-(via <a href="http://peer1.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2004/3/29/30501.html">Peer 1 Blog</a>)
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-30-premiers-technology-council-regional-consultation-and-reception.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-30-premiers-technology-council-regional-consultation-and-reception.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 57d449f..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-30-premiers-technology-council-regional-consultation-and-reception.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Premier's Technology Council Regional Consultation and Reception
-created: 1080687972
-categories: 
-- Vancouver
----
-<blockquote>
-The Premier&rsquo;s Technology Council (PTC) was appointed to inform the Premier on all technology-related issues and advise government on how to make B.C. a global magnet for high-tech investment, growth and job creation.
-<cite><a href="https://www.surreychamber.org/cgi-bin/rsvp.cgi?id=57&action=new">Surrey Chamber of Commerce: Event Sign Up</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>The event is on Tuesday, April 6, 2004, from 8am to 4pm, with a reception from 5:30pm to 7pm. The event is open to everyone, and there will be a formal presentation by Jim Mutter, President of the Premier&rsquo;s Technology Council.</p>
-
-<p>(via <a href="http://www.techvibes.com">TechVibes</a>)</p>
-
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-30-sipura-announces-voip-pstn-gateway-adaptor.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-30-sipura-announces-voip-pstn-gateway-adaptor.md
deleted file mode 100644
index fa1e30d..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-30-sipura-announces-voip-pstn-gateway-adaptor.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Sipura Announces VoIP/PSTN Gateway Adaptor
-created: 1080687285
-categories: 
-- VoIP
----
- <blockquote>
-The inclusion of an FXO port on an external telephone adaptor is good news for users of the Asterisk open source PBX system who now must rely on internal computer interface cards to integrate PSTN service with the system.
-<cite><a href="http://voxilla.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=64">Voxilla.com: Sipura Announces VoIP/PSTN Gateway Adaptor</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Now what I want to see is a <a href="http://www.knoppix.org">Knoppix</a>-based build of <a href="http://www.asterisk.org">Asterisk</a>. These types of announcements lead me to believe that it won't be long before we see appliance-type IP-PBXs, much like we have VPN appliances today: plug one in at any location, optionally configure it to point at similar appliances at remote locations, and voila! instant private, IP-based phone network. CPE <em>is</em> important -- Cisco realized this when they bought LinkSys.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-30-social-networking-its-the-apps-stupid.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-30-social-networking-its-the-apps-stupid.md
deleted file mode 100644
index ab0e60d..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-30-social-networking-its-the-apps-stupid.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Social Networking: It's the apps, stupid"
-created: 1080678894
-categories: 
-- Social Media
----
-<blockquote>
-<p>It's the <em>applications</em> that are interesting, not the infrastructure. And Orcut, Friendster, and Tribe.net are all just infrastructure. They're big databases full of relationships, but very little else. On top of that, the standards are all in place. It's as if these big repositories of data are being handed free APIs: <a href="http://www.foaf-project.org/">FOAF</a>, <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2445.txt">iCal</a>, <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2426.txt">vCard</a>, et al.</p>
-<p>The interesting thing is that the social network sites own the <em>contract</em> between you and your so-called-friends.</p>
-<cite><a href="http://www.veen.com/jeff/archives/000512.html">Jeffrey Veen: Will you be my friend?</a></cite></blockquote>
-
-<p>Excellent write-up. It absolutely is all about the apps, and there are a bunch of open APIs already available. There is nothing wrong with being infrastructure, but that infrastructure needs to be open, extensible, and not barricade your own data. Ideally, federated identity and personal profiles will allow you to link between many different systems. Each system will be better than another for certain functions, regions, interests, etc.</p>
-
-<p>I'm hoping that Drupal (that already federates identity) will go one step further and actually share profile data between sites as well. Then, anyone will be able to create their own social networking site. Or use <a href="http://www.flickr.com">Flickr</a>: it's still on my Cool Network That Isn't Evil&#153; list.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-30-vonage-sues-at-and-t.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-30-vonage-sues-at-and-t.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 857d8dc..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-30-vonage-sues-at-and-t.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Vonage Sues AT&T
-created: 1080676647
-categories: 
-- VoIP
-- Copyright
----
-<blockquote>
-The Edison-based Internet telephone start-up claims AT&T stepped on its cyber-turf when AT&T named its new Internet phone service "CallVantage" and registered some Web site names that sound close to Vonage's name.
-<cite><a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/national/8309500.htm">Miami Herald: Vonage Sues AT&T for Trademark Infringement</a></cite></blockquote>
-
-<p>VoIP is turning into a giant marketing war. But, it seems Vonage may have a case -- AT&T purposefully registered a bunch of domain names that are mis-spellings of some of Vonage's domains. Be interesting to see how this turns out.</p>
-
-(via <a href="http://www.broadbandreports.com/forum/remark,9825573~mode=flat">BBR VoIP Forum</a>)
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-30-welcome-to-the-new-b-mann-consulting.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-30-welcome-to-the-new-b-mann-consulting.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 25ad915..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-30-welcome-to-the-new-b-mann-consulting.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Welcome to the new B. Mann Consulting
-created: 1080671636
-categories: 
-- BMC
----
-It may seem to those that are following along at home that I haven't updated recently. Actually, posting to this "front page" will actually be less frequent, and will be reserved for longer stories.
-
-Read on for full details on the new site.
-<!--break-->
-The main news is that I've completely split off my personal content into a completely <a href="http://boris.bmannconsulting.com" title="Boris Mann's Personal Site">new site</a>. All the personal content is still on this site, but will eventually get exported.
-
-The blog on this site is going to become, essentially, my link blog -- short pointers and comments that aren't quite long enough for the front page. You can subscribe to the blog separately, using <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/blog/feed/1" title="B. Mann Consulting Link Blog">this link</a>, as opposed to the <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/feed" title="B. Mann Consulting Front Page RSS Feed">front page feed</a>.
-
-I will also be making it more clear how to only get feeds for certain categories -- like <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/topics/voip">VoIP</a>, <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/topics/personal-publishing">Personal Publishing</a>, etc.
-
-There are many new features that I am adding, thanks to the newest version of <a href="http://www.drupal.org">Drupal</a>. One of the big ones is subscriptions -- if you have an <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/user">account</a>, you can ask to be notified by email whenever a particular post has comments added to it. You can optionally <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/user/edit">edit your user account</a> to be notified by default once you have commented on a post.
-
-Any questions, comments, or feedback, leave them on this post or in the <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/discussions/bmc-feedback">site feedback forum</a>.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-31-asterisk-ideas-for-client-education.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-31-asterisk-ideas-for-client-education.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 33bab07..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-31-asterisk-ideas-for-client-education.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "asterisk*: Ideas For Client Education"
-created: 1080748848
-categories: 
-- Web Development
----
-<blockquote>
-A common concern, and regular challenge, is how to communicate and educate clients on things like Web standards, usability, information architecture and accessibility.
-<cite><a href="http://www.7nights.com/asterisk/archives/ideas_for_client_education.php">asterisk*: Ideas For Client Education</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Good reading for any technical person that needs to talk about web development with clients. I always cringe when I hear the phrase that starts out "We'd like to have a Flash-based splash page&#8230;".</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-31-from-manila-to-drupal.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-31-from-manila-to-drupal.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 41cbd95..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-31-from-manila-to-drupal.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: From Manila to Drupal
-created: 1080773855
-categories: 
-- Drupal
----
-<blockquote>
-<p>I took matters into my own hands and started undergoing the massive effort of rebuilding everything we had loved, onto an open source platform , that did not function as a black box without needing to buy into their proprietary , windows/mac only scripting environment and then still be incredibly limited in the amount of changes I could make.</p>
-
-<p>What I would like to know, is what specific requirements other people have from manila that isn&rsquo;t met by an open platform at present?</p>
-<cite><a href="http://daemon.co.za/stories/manila">Daemon: Not exactly trying to get Winer points</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-adrian is one of Drupal's most prolific developers. Turns out he was just trying to scratch some of his one itches, and in the meantime contributed a ton of code that's massively useful for everyone. I would also be interested to know the delta between manila and any open platforms.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-31-minding-the-planet-google-launches-gmail.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-31-minding-the-planet-google-launches-gmail.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 761cf5f..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-31-minding-the-planet-google-launches-gmail.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Minding the Planet: Google Launches gMail"
-created: 1080791042
-categories: 
-- Search Engine Voodoo
----
-<blockquote>Google has announced the beta of their new search-based free hosted e-mail service, called <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/040331/315958_1.html">gmail.</a> They will provide 1 gigabyte of free storage to every user, with built-in indexing and search. Wow.<cite><a href="http://novaspivack.typepad.com/nova_spivacks_weblog/2004/03/google_launches.html">Minding the Planet: Google Launches gMail</a></cite></blockquote>
-
-<p>This is big news. Wow is right, Nova.  Somebody had to get this right, since Hotmail certainly wasn't getting any better, and the broadband providers were doing a cr*p job with anti-spam and anti-virus (or charging for it!).</p>
-
-<p>I'm pretty much immediately going to recommend everyone that doesn't have their own email account and/or is currently using Hotmail or Yahoo should use this.</p>
-
-<p>Please, please let this not be an early April Fools...</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-31-situational-software.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-31-situational-software.md
deleted file mode 100644
index eb3ae57..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-31-situational-software.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Situational Software
-created: 1080799874
-categories: 
-- Social Media
-- Drupal
-- Drupal
-- Drupal
----
-<p>Lot's of people have pointed to <a href="http://www.shirky.com/writings/situated_software.html">Shirky's Situated Software</a>. Here's Greg's take on it:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-<p>4 example, almost anything from IETF pre-1994 fits his description, including TCP/IP, DNS (hence named), SMTP (hence sendmail), NNTP (hence nntpd), and HTTP (hence CERN & NCSA). Their method & 'tao' were 'situated' in performance, reliability and interoperability.</p>
-
-<p>With Netscape and Apache, we cross into a 'scale' paradigm.</p>
-
-<p>You look at Xerox PARC, it was designed to facilitate staff being 'situated'. Same with Bell Labs, same with Media Labs. It's long been a fundamental aspect of management to get best results.</p>
-</blockquote>
-<!--break-->
-<p>Interestingly, Shirky doesn't say how long it took them to write the program. It would take me a day.</p>
-
-<ol>
-<li>Install Drupal</li>
-<li>Use polls or ratings module, create a node for each prof</li>
-<li>Create user accounts with default passwords</li>
-<li>Mail out user details</li>
-</ol>
-
-<p>My other comment: how is this different from prototypes?</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-31-the-register-circuit-city-buys-intertan.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-31-the-register-circuit-city-buys-intertan.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c4a1f8d..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-31-the-register-circuit-city-buys-intertan.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "The Register: Circuit City buys InterTAN"
-created: 1080748159
-categories: 
-- Canada
----
-<blockquote>
-Circuit City, the US electronics superstore chain, is buying Canadian retailer InterTAN's for $284m cash.
-<cite><a href="">The Register: Circuit City buys InterTAN</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>This is likely in response to Best Buy's purchase of Future Shop last year (year before?). Independent computer stores are still the cheapest place to buy stuff, but I usually go to Future Shop to actually touch/feel products.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-03-31-vonage-now-live-in-canada.md b/_posts/archive/2004-03-31-vonage-now-live-in-canada.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 00e8b54..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-03-31-vonage-now-live-in-canada.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Vonage now live in Canada
-created: 1080789130
-categories: 
-- VoIP
-- Canada
----
-<p>The <a href="http://vonage.com/corporate/press_index.php">press release isn't up yet</a>, but it looks like <a href="http://www.vonage.ca" title="Vonage offers Canadian VoIP">Vonage is now in Canada</a>! They don't have a comprehensive listing of area codes, but it looks like every province except for Saskatchewan, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland have at least one area code.</p>
-
-<p>Read on for pricing levels (higher base price than <a href="http://www.primustel.ca/en/residential/talkbroadband/">Primus</a>), and features. It has a ton of features, but the price seems high. Of course, after I add voicemail, a second number, and pay for long distance to Primus, Vonage is cheaper with much better features (especially since I don't call outside North America).</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>There are three pricing levels:</p>
-<ul>
-<li><strong>Basic 500:</strong> $19.99, includes 500 minutes anywhere in the US and Canada.</li>
-<li><strong>Province Unlimited:</strong></strong>$34.99 for unlimited calls inside the province.</li>
-<li><strong>Unlimited</strong>: $45.99 for unlimited calls anywhere in the US and Canada.</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>Pretty much all the <a href="http://www.vonage.ca/features.php">features</a> are included in the basic price, except for "virtual phone numbers" (Vonage's name for additional area codes). They are $7.99 per month, and you can choose from Canadian or US area codes.</p>
-
-<p>Two quick features -- Simul-Ring will ring two numbers at the same time (like your Vonage number and your cell phone) and you can pick up either one.</p>
-
-<p>Voicemail has full phone, online, and by email support, including receiving your voicemail as an email attachment. Yes!</p>
-
-<p>I'd love to hear people's experience in the <a href="/discussions">forums</a>.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-01-im-will-win-voip.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-01-im-will-win-voip.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 482330b..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-01-im-will-win-voip.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: IM will win VoIP
-created: 1080865168
-categories: 
-- VoIP
-- IM
----
-<blockquote>
-Instant Message clients are becoming incredibly important and will be the eventual winners in the VoIP sweepstakes. This epiphany came standing at the Microsoft booth.
-<cite><a href="http://gigaom.com/archives/2004/04/the_incredible_importance_of_instant_message_clients.html">Om Malik's Broadband Blog: The Incredible importance of Instant Message</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Sorry, Om, I completely disagree. There is little or no money to be made off soft clients, IM or otherwise. Voice is free today on these platforms (have you used iChat? -- it's crystal clear, and "just works"), why do you think anyone will be able to charge for it in the future?</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>People will still want actual "phones", even if they are IP phones, that are separate from their computer. Think of how often peoples' computers are unusable. Imagine the calamity if this knocked out their voice communications as well.</p>
-
-<p>Also, open standards will eventually win the day. Jabber's XMPP is a likely winner, and because of strong telecom industry support, SIMPLE will likely succeed as well.</p>
-
-<p>I'm sure that there will be lots of use of softphone voice, but it won't come at the expense of other types of VoIP, but will be a compliment.</p>
-
-<p>Another example scenario: imagine that the gang at <a href="http://www.freeworlddialup.com">FWD</a> hook up with a Jabber gateway and a little software magic. Potentially, they could offer access to (at least) all Packet8, Vonage, and FWD customers, incoming and outgoing. If someone were interested in running PSTN gateways in a few places, this could extend to any pc-to-phone calling.</p>
-
-<p>Thanks, I'll stick with my IP phone for the time being. Feel free to <a href="ichat://boris_mann@mac.com">iChat</a> me, though.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-04-adding-adsense-to-your-rss-feed.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-04-adding-adsense-to-your-rss-feed.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 47c4f2e..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-04-adding-adsense-to-your-rss-feed.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: adding adsense to your RSS feed
-created: 1081111431
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
-- Search Engine Voodoo
----
-<blockquote>
-the plugin works fairly simply.  using your ad client identifier, it requests an advertisement on your behalf from the google servers, parses the content, and then sets a few variables that can be included in your RSS feed.  the URLs for the advertisements change fairly frequently (even if the advertisement stays constant), so this plugin does some caching on the blosxom end so as to not cause most RSS readers to flag the advertisement as new every time the page is fetched.
- <cite><a href="http://www.mehack.com/index.cgi/web/google/adsense/adsense.html">mehack: adding adsense to your RSS feed</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>May or may not be within the Google AdWords TOS. My guess is that this is something that Google themselves are looking at as well. I think I would be <strong>more</strong> likely to click on an ad in an RSS feed, but only if it is highly relevant. In fact, I might very well drop a feed if it served up non-relevant ads.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-04-fastmobile-another-better-than-skype-application.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-04-fastmobile-another-better-than-skype-application.md
deleted file mode 100644
index ef22d81..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-04-fastmobile-another-better-than-skype-application.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: FASTMOBILE - Another 'Better than Skype' Application
-created: 1081113925
-categories: 
-- VoIP
-- IM
----
-<blockquote>
-<p><a href="http://www.fastchat.com/us/">FastChat</a> is really carrier and platform independent voice communications. And, if someone is not using FastChat, a voice message link can be sent to either AIM or MSN&rsquo;s instant messaging clients from either the phone or PC, with Pocket PC soon to follow. And, one better is the ability to send an FastChat message by email to those who are not as connected.</p>
-
-<p>This is truly Voice over IP over GSM, but as FastMobile deploys wider, CDMA can&rsquo;t be that far behind, putting them smack in the middle of the Voice messaging market.</p>
-<cite><a href="http://andyabramson.blogs.com/voipwatch/2004/04/move_over_skype.html">VoIP Watch: Move Over SKYPE here's FASTMOBILE</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Now if only they had a Mac OS X client, and supported messages to other IM networks as well.</p>
-
-<p>Am I trying to post lots of anti-Skype posts? Well, sort of. They definitely have momentum, and I'm trying to put on the brakes: Skype is far from the open communications platform that <strong>I</strong> want to see as the future. Less proprietary, more open APIs!</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-04-mankind-vs-microsoft.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-04-mankind-vs-microsoft.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 3fc4183..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-04-mankind-vs-microsoft.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Mankind vs. Microsoft
-created: 1081106866
-categories: 
-- Microsoft
-- "*nix"
----
-<blockquote>
-Microsoft's biggest global competitors are exactly as they were on Thursday: Nokia and Sony, two companies whose core revenues don't derive from Windows and who can set global standards. (IBM has every motivation to fund Linux development, which Redmond really doesn't like at all, but IBM doesn't have the inclination to set standards elsewhere and can't dictate consensus in the OSS space). Not that it's any consolation on Sun's Blackest Friday, but if Mankind had to be represented in an Independence Day scenario, most people would rather it was Sun engineers downloading the Trojan onto the alien's computers, and not Microsoft engineers.
-<cite><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/7/36777.html">The Register: Why Sun threw in the towel in Mankind vs. Microsoft</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Increasingly, The Register makes me laugh, but they do have a few good points as well. As per the title, it looks like "mankind" lost.</p>
-
-<p>The battle over desktops has long since been fought and lost. In case you didn't get the memo, most people are still going to be running Windows. But…</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>Notice how I specifically said "desktops". There has been lots of noise about how everyone that is anyone takes an Apple PowerBook to work (i.e. the preponderance of PowerBooks at various tech conferences, and also in the hands of senior executives). As well, large parts of the world (Europe, Japan, etc.) don't have computers at home at all -- smartphones are their computing platform, or perhaps a gaming console.</p>
-
-<p>On the server side, it makes sense for Sun and Microsoft to present a more united front against Linux: the tag line may very well be "At least it's not free software".</p>
-
-<p>Apple long ago resigned itself to interoperate with Microsoft, and it has reaped the rewards because of this (basically, "Our stuff works with theirs, looks cooler, and crashes less").</p>
-
-<p>There really aren't going to be any other competitors to Microsoft in the near term; there will definitely be development in the home, specifically around media centers, but there aren't going to be any new players. Solutions will be built around some form of open-source software, which as a whole can be considered one "platform". Lack of consensus and bad UI are the two weaknesses here.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-05-asterisk-for-tech-support-voicemail.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-05-asterisk-for-tech-support-voicemail.md
deleted file mode 100644
index b07aecc..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-05-asterisk-for-tech-support-voicemail.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Asterisk for Tech Support Voicemail
-created: 1081199403
-categories: 
-- VoIP
----
-<blockquote>I&#8217;d probably be more excited about this if I had to perform day-to-day support anymore, but it&#8217;s still cool: an <a href="http://megaglobal.net/docs/asterisk/html/rtasterisk.html">interface</a> between the <a href="http://asterisk.org">Asterisk VoIP PBX</a> and the <a href="http://bestpractical.com/rt">Request Tracker</a> trouble-ticket system.  This would probably be a <em>great</em> way to handle support voicemail in a small tech company.  It&#8217;d be interesting to see what it&#8217;d take to route all support calls through RT; it&#8217;s pretty typical to have support email recorded in RT, so why not &#8220;this message may be recorded to ensure quality service&#8221; calls? <cite><a href="http://scottstuff.net/scott/archives/000159.html">*scottstuff*: Asterisk and Request Tracker</a></cite></blockquote>
-
-<p>Scott continues to churn out new uses and abuses for Asterisk at a prodigious rate.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-05-document-management-for-small-business.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-05-document-management-for-small-business.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 46020da..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-05-document-management-for-small-business.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Document Management for Small Business
-created: 1081200571
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
-- Knowledge Management
-- CMS
----
-<blockquote>My call last week for ideas on document management solutions for small business <a href="http://forums.windley.com/YaBB.cgi?board=askphil;action=display;num=1080695452">yielded two suggestions</a>, both from people I know and both saying, in essence, "Zope."  I'm not surprised that Zope was suggested since it was one of my first thoughts when my friend asked me for advice, but I'm a little surprised that nothing else was suggested. <cite><a href="http://www.windley.com/2004/04/05.html#a1150">Windley's Enterprise Computing Weblog: Document Management</a></cite></blockquote>
-
-<p>Document management is a huge need for small businesses, even if they don't know it themselves yet. It includes aspects of content management, knowledge management, and personal publishing.</p>
-
-<p>It seems like there still isn't an easy open-source or low-cost off the shelf solution. Zope (since it supports WebDAV/FTP) can function as a good tool for this, but this usually means having a (local) Zope consultant, and I don't think this meets the criteria for low-cost nor off the shelf.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p><a href="http://dms.markuswestphal.de/about.html">MyDMS</a> is the only solution I found that sort of worked, but it really wasn't that user friendly. Also, any of these web-only tools tend to get routed around -- people find it easier to send email or share things from their computers directly. Ideally, there is a web-based front-end to centralize information and capture some meta-data, but actually pushing files around is accomplished another way.</p>
-
-<p><a href="http://www.groove.net/">Groove</a> purports to enable this more seamlessly (the last times I had access to a Windows system, Groove's UI was terrible, it was resource heavey, and it crashed all the time), and perhaps <a href="http://www.clevercactus.com/share/">Clever Cactus' Share</a> might be up to the task as well. Ideally, something that <a href="/book/view/10" title="EGADS - Email General Attachment and Document Stripper">integrates into email</a> would likely see the most usage.</p>
-
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-05-primus-talkbroadband-updates-pricing-features-to-compete.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-05-primus-talkbroadband-updates-pricing-features-to-compete.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 587f3ab..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-05-primus-talkbroadband-updates-pricing-features-to-compete.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Primus TalkBroadband Updates Pricing, Features to Compete
-created: 1081183227
-categories: 
-- VoIP
-- Canada
----
-<p>Looks like Primus is getting set to compete before <a href="http://www.vonage.ca" title="Vonage in Canada">Vonage</a> and others come to town. The <a href="http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/April2004/05/c7804.html">press release</a> from Canada Newswire (brought to my attention by <a href="http://evans.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2004/4/5/32347.html">Mark Evans</a>) has the scoop:</p>
-<ul>
-<li>reiterate their <a href="/node/view/1014">new service areas</a></li>
-<li>announce 911 service</li>
-<li>introduction of an Unlimited Bundle for $45.95 that includes calling anywhere in the US and Canada and all local features</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>The <a href="http://www.primustel.ca/en/residential/talkbroadband/bundles.html">TalkBroadband web pages</a> haven't been updated yet, and there are a few other details in the full post.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>The base price of both business and residential service has been lowered <strong>with purchase of voice gateway hardware</strong>. Uh huh. So the base price for residential is $15.95 (as opposed to $19.95, a $4 savings), and the price of the gateway is $139.95. By my math, that means you would need to keep the service for almost 3 <em>years</em> before you made up the purchase cost.</p>
-
-<p>I talked <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/1033" title="Vonage now live in Canada">previously</a> about how Vonage's feature set is much stronger, and their unlimited bundle is $45.99. Other than having a jump on Vonage and being a Canadian company, it would seem tough for Primus to compete.</p>
-
-<p>Of course, having chosen Primus for our home service, we're somewhat locked in because of the phone numbers, so perhaps this is what Primus is counting on (hint: that's not good enough). It will be interesting to see about number portability issues, and I may phone Vonage just to ask about this.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-05-simon-willison-personalisation-weve-already-got-it.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-05-simon-willison-personalisation-weve-already-got-it.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 2c6164f..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-05-simon-willison-personalisation-weve-already-got-it.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Simon Willison: Personalisation? We've already got it"
-created: 1081201017
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
----
-<blockquote><p>No computerised system could possibly compete with 130 hand-picked human editors, working around the clock to channel interesting information in my direction. Blogs are conversations, but they are also filters. Never before in my life have I had to invest so little effort in finding so much diverse  and fulfilling content. As a certified infovore I don't know how I survived without them.</p><p>What this means for traditional news media is anyone's guess. It's certainly not going to die out: someone has to collect the news and there's only so much unpaid bloggers can do in that regard. We certainly live in interesting times.</p><cite><a href="http://simon.incutio.com/archive/2004/04/05/blogsAsFilters">Simon Willison: Personalisation? We've already got it</a></cite></blockquote>
-
-<p>With <a href="http://www.urbanvancouver.com" title="Vancouver news">UrbanVancouver.com</a>, we're trying to experiment with this fact: use humans to do filtering, use humans to do categorization. We have computers do the tedious part of aggregating and searching, then we decide what sticks.</p>
-
-<p>Simon also linked to <a href="http://www.ojr.org/ojr/business/1078349998.php">Vin Crosbie's "What Newspapers and Their Web Sites Must Do to Survive"</a>, which I have to take some time and go through in detail.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-06-less-blogging-more-personal-publishing.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-06-less-blogging-more-personal-publishing.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e3c46b6..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-06-less-blogging-more-personal-publishing.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Less blogging, more personal publishing
-created: 1081319313
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
----
-<blockquote>And here's where I come back to the word "blog" and why I want to kill it off. Because it's so ingrained now as meaning writing and linking, it doesn't express the full variety of things that are beginning to be produced and created on the Web by 'amateurs'. The phrase "personal publishing" does a better job of describing this new range of multimedia production.<cite><a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/2004/04/04.html#a220">Read/Write Web: Kill Blog</a></cite></blockquote>
-
-<p>The piece starts off with <em>Hands up who wants to get rid of the word "blog"?</em>: pick me, pick me! I wrote about <a href="/node/view/967">why I hate the term blog</a> before, and I still think it's a bad word. Or rather, that it's bad to label so narrowly.</p>
-
-<p>But personal publishing is a compromise, too. Businesses are doing it, too, and without highly complex CMS systems. But putting-stuff-on-the-web-easily is probably too complicated a term…  :p</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-06-near-time-flow.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-06-near-time-flow.md
deleted file mode 100644
index d0ad773..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-06-near-time-flow.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Near-Time Flow
-created: 1081292947
-categories: 
-- ePortfolio
-- Personal Publishing
----
-<p><a href="http://www.near-time.com/products/overview.htm">Near-Time Flow</a> looks like a pretty incredible product. It's part RSS reader, part knowledge management, and part collaboration tool. I <em>definitely</em> want a copy of this.</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-Imagine something like a wiki: an information system that simply accepts text and stores it away in a simple hierarchy. Now imagine it accepting that text from just about any source and (here’s where it gets fun) imagine it remembering that source. Say you’re doing web research on "rubber ducks." As you browse the web, you highlight paragraphs from interesting pages and drop them into Flow. Gradually you build your research into a local Flow document. You can annotate that document, adding your own notes. And, if you need more details, you can click on any of the original text and Flow will pop you over to the original web page. The linking works with files, images, whatever (we worked hard on Stu to get him to support e-mail too, but there are some issues with Mail.app to contend with).<cite><a href="http://www.pragprog.com/pragdave/Random/NearTimeFlow.rdoc">PragDave: Drop Target for my Brain</a></cite></blockquote>
-
-<p>It reminds me a bit of the Windows- and IE-only <a href="http://www.onfolio.com">OnFolio</a>, only…better, and for OS X (I think that should be the tagline for most OS X products).</p>
-
-<p>The <a href="http://www.near-time.com/products/FAQ.HTM#blog">FAQ says</a> it can output in "weblog format", including RSS. Mainly, I would hope that it fully supports the Meta Weblog API, then I can continue using any existing blog tool. Somehow, I suspect this is too much to hope for.</p>
-
-<p>I've signed up for <a href="http://www.near-time.com/products/early_access.php">early access</a>, as it isn't actually available yet.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-06-schubert-it-plugins.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-06-schubert-it-plugins.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a2ba6d5..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-06-schubert-it-plugins.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Schubert it Plugins
-created: 1081317890
-categories: 
-- Mac
-- Application
----
-<blockquote>
-<p>The wonderfully useful <a href="http://www.schubert-it.com/pluginpdf/" title="Schubert it - PDF Browser Plugin">PDF Browser plugin</a> has been updated. Most importantly the update improves smooth scrolling. Great work.
-</p><p>
-There also seems to be a <a href="http://www.schubert-it.com/pluginword/" title="Word plugin">plugin for Word documents</a> now. It claims to be text-only and may come handy if you can't avoid them.
-</p> <cite><a href="http://earthlingsoft.net/ssp/blog/2004/04/plugin_goodness"">Quarter Life Crisis: Plugin goodness</a></cite></blockquote>
-
-<p>It looks like the PDF Plugin is now "for pay" if you want to use it in a commercial context. Will have to give the Word plug-in a whirl, although I don't see too many raw .doc files on the Internet anymore.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-06-test-your-voip.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-06-test-your-voip.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c95e359..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-06-test-your-voip.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Test Your VoIP
-created: 1081295861
-categories: 
-- VoIP
----
-<blockquote>
-<p>You can't rely on your broadband provider or your VoIP company to tell you — they don't know. The only way to find out if your connection has what it takes is to put it to the test.
-<p>TestYourVoIP.com will do just that. We'll make a call from wherever you are to one of our U.S. test locations and report the results.</p></blockquote>
-
-<p>Java-based testing of your "VoIP connection quality" that is run by Brix Networks, a company that sells testing and monitoring tools for VoIP systems.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-06-voip-testing.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-06-voip-testing.md
deleted file mode 100644
index ffddba3..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-06-voip-testing.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: VoIP Testing
-created: 1081295615
-categories: 
-- VoIP
----
-<p>Today's BoardWatch is entitled <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/document.asp?doc_id=50483">VoIP Healthcare Takes Hold</a>. It summarizes several companies in the space of network performance testing and monitoring specifically around VoIP.</p>
-
-<p>I also happened to see <a href="http://www.testyourvoip.com/">TestYourVoip.com</a>, which is run by <a href="http://www.brixnet.com/">Brix Networks</a>, a player in this space.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-07-blow-to-canadian-voip.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-07-blow-to-canadian-voip.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 7d43945..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-07-blow-to-canadian-voip.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Blow to Canadian VoIP
-created: 1081407237
-categories: 
-- VoIP
-- Canada
----
-<p>Here's a short snippet directly from the <acronym title="Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission">CRTC</acronym> ruling:</p>
-<blockquote>
-As VoIP services provide access to and/or from the PSTN, it is the Commission's preliminary view that they are not retail Internet services, as that term is defined in <a href="http://www.crtc.gc.ca/archive/ENG/Orders/2001/O2001-220.htm">Order 2001-220</a>, and that the revenues from VoIP services are accordingly contribution-eligible. It is also the Commission's preliminary view that P2P services are retail Internet services and that the revenues from P2P services are accordingly not contribution-eligible.
-<cite><a href="http://www.crtc.gc.ca/archive/ENG/Notices/2004/pt2004-2.htm">CRTC: Regulatory framework for voice communication services using Internet Protocol</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>For now, the CRTC is narrowly defining P2P services as those that don't connect to the PSTN and that don't use 10-digit numbers (a.k.a. the North American Number Plan, NANP). The main point with the ruling is that the CRTC is considering VoIP to be substantially the same as "regular" phone service, since the same service is being delivered. It does not seem to take into account any of the differences, however.</p>
-
-<p>Comments from a few others:</p>
-<ul>
-<li><a href="http://192.246.69.231/jeff/personal/archives/000692.html">Jeff Pulver: Legacy rules should apply to VoIP</li>
-<li><a href="http://news.com.com/2100-7352_3-5186851.html">CNET: Canada leans toward regulating VoIP</a></li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>The decision is open for public comment in Gatineau on May 19-20 -- which, as Jeff Pulver notes, also happens to be when VON Canada is happening in Toronto. The deadline to notify of your intent to comment is April 16th.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-07-pdtp-lets-get-rid-of-ftp.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-07-pdtp-lets-get-rid-of-ftp.md
deleted file mode 100644
index deed85a..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-07-pdtp-lets-get-rid-of-ftp.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: PDTP - Let's get rid of FTP
-created: 1081325072
-categories: 
-- Web 2.0
----
-<blockquote>
-The Peer Distributed Transfer Protocol, or PDTP, is a project to define a replacement for the venerable FTP protocol.  PDTP is similar to BitTorrent in the way it handles distributed streams, but also manages a directory hierarchy automatically and includes other interesting features such as <a href="http://pdtp.org/static/rdl.html">metadata rich directory listings</a> and support for file integrity validation through the use of DSS signatures.  The project proposes <a href="http://pdtp.org/static/networks.html">three use cases</a> for increasing scale.
-<cite><a href="http://www.windley.com/">Windley's Enterprise Computing: Replacing FTP: The Peer Distributed Transfer Protocol (PDTP)</a></cite></blockquote>
-
-<p><em>If</em> PDTP gets going, it looks like it could rival BitTorrent. I'm all for getting rid of FTP as soon as possible. For BitTorrent, we probably still need a "nice" option that lets you specify a percentage of bandwidth to use…I need some left over to make and receive VoIP calls!</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-07-personal-publishing-is-not-just-tech.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-07-personal-publishing-is-not-just-tech.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a128f3b..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-07-personal-publishing-is-not-just-tech.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Personal publishing is not just tech
-created: 1081323050
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
----
-<blockquote><p><a href="http://blog.mathemagenic.com">Lilia Efimova</a> and I, on the night before <a href="http://blogwalk.mediapedagogy.com">BlogWalk</a>, were talking about how we tend to start talking about the technology involved when people ask us about blogging. We throw in RSS, trackback and whatnot. Probably because the tools are what all blogs have in common.</p>
-
-<p>But that is not why we find blogging so useful. That is about how it changed and shaped us, our learning, our professional development etc. So we thought about gathering blog stories to illustrate how blogs made a difference to you (and me).</p>
-
-<p>I've opened a wiki-space, called <a href="http://www.zylstra.org/extra/wakka.php?wakka=BlogStories">BlogStories</a>, where you can add your story / stories.</p><cite><a href="http://blog.zylstra.org/archives/001234.html">Ton's Interdependent Thoughts: BlogStories</a></cite></blockquote>
-
-<p>What more is there to say? Let's try and find non-techie words that explain personal publishing.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-07-voip-value-adds.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-07-voip-value-adds.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f3a3b50..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-07-voip-value-adds.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: VoIP Value Adds
-created: 1081322239
-categories: 
-- VoIP
----
-<blockquote>I have written previously about my personal favorite new voice application - voice messaging.  Ztel now has a service they call the Personal Voice Assistant (PVA).  I strongly encourage anyone interested in this space to review the <a href="http://www.z-tel.com/portal/ztel/learn/i/pva.jsp">demo</a> to get a sense for the direction the VoIP value-add service market will take.  And to think that the markets believe that voice is a mature segment ;)<cite><a href="http://trmcdonald.blogs.com/ruminations_on_telecom_an/2004/03/chchchchchanges.html">Ruminations on Telecom and the Economy: Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes</a></cite></blockquote>
-
-<p>I've also recently found out about <a href="http://www.calltrex.com/">CallTrex</a>, which seems to be heading in the same direction: offer can't-get-elsewhere voice features that people are willing to pay money for.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>With base prices of VoIP plummeting and only International long distance having any kind of profit (or, for that matter, charge!) associated, providers will need to add more features to stay profitable.</p>
-
-<p>Think about it: all the basic features that telcos have been charging $4 - $5 - $8 per month for are often bundled into a VoIP service <em>for free</em>. And that doesn't even take into account advanced features you can't get from your local telco, like 5-way calling or voicemail via email.</p>
-
-<p>Oh boy is it going to be fun watching this train wreck.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-08-big-telcos-may-do-better-than-you-think.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-08-big-telcos-may-do-better-than-you-think.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 993e717..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-08-big-telcos-may-do-better-than-you-think.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Big telcos may do better than you think
-created: 1081456386
-categories: 
-- VoIP
-- Canada
----
-<p>Brad Gibson of <a href="http://currentthinking.com/cti/default.asp" title="Current Thinking - Power Quality Professionals, Electrical Systems Experts">Current Thinking</a> wrote in a recent comment</a>:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-What really convinced me to give up on [the Primus Canada TalkBroadband service] however was a new service that Bell Canada is offering; <a href="http://www.bell.ca/snr">Single Number Reach</a> (SNR). They probably should call it 'VOIP killer'. Priced at C$19.95/month with vmail, it is a virtual number service with faxing, web interface, pager/email/sms notification and find me/follow me features. That was what I was hoping VOIP could do for me, now I've got it with my standard telephone and without the annoying 10 second wait for a dial tone and the extra piece of bling on my crowded desk. On top of that I ended up cancelling a couple of standard lines that had been used for dedicated fax and switch re-directing, saving about C$90/month.
-<cite><a href="/node/view/1052#comment-1710" title="VoIP Value Adds - Comment by Brad Gibson">Excerpt of comment by Brad Gibson on VoIP Value Adds</a></cite> 
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Great review, Brad. Your mention of a "10 second wait for a dial tone" sounds like a problem with your network setup -- myself and several acquaintances haven't had that experience. I agree that Primus should have launched with a "better" product, but I think it was more important for them to be "first". I think it's too early to tell who will succeed in this new VoIP market -- I am glad that the additional features now available are pushing everyone to compete more.</p>
-
-<p>My friend <a href="http://www.streamconsulting.com" title="Vancouver-based Mac consulting - Stream Consulting">Troy Angrignon</a> made an interesting comment: services like Bell's SNR have actually been offered for a long time, at least the find me/follow me. But people don't <em>want</em> to be found -- they use a series of numbers to segment people that can contact them in different contexts. We often forget that so many of the issues around communication have nothing to do with technology, but are more social.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-08-first-mac-os-x-trojan.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-08-first-mac-os-x-trojan.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f424110..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-08-first-mac-os-x-trojan.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: First Mac OS X Trojan
-created: 1081463980
-categories: 
-- Mac
----
-<blockquote>
-<p>Intego, the Macintosh  security specialist, has just released updated virus definitions for  Intego VirusBarrier to protect Mac users against the first Trojan horse  that affects Mac OS X. This Trojan horse, MP3Concept (MP3Virus.Gen),  exploits a weakness in Mac OS X where applications can appear to be  other types of files.</p>
-
-<p>The Trojan horse's code is encapsulated in the ID3 tag of an MP3 (digital  music) file. This code is in reality a hidden application that can run  on any Macintosh computer running Mac OS X.</p>
-<cite><a href="http://www.intego.com/news/pr40.html">Intego: Intego Announces Protection against the First Mac OS X Trojan Horse: MP3Concept</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Is this a buffer overflow? As far as I know, there is nothing inside ID3 that gets "executed" -- it just gets read. Does this also happen when you drag and drop the file onto the iTunes application or dock icon? More questions than answers...</p>
-
-<p><strong>Update:</strong> Jay Allen was asking the same questions I did, and then went a couple of hundred steps further and really dissected the Intego press release. He's kept his <a href="http://www.jayallen.org/journey/2004/04/mp3concept_a_mac_mp3_virus_or_hoax">post up to date</a> with all current information. Bottom line: this is much less of a problem than it sounds.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-08-trademarking-your-key-words.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-08-trademarking-your-key-words.md
deleted file mode 100644
index da36914..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-08-trademarking-your-key-words.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Trademarking your key words
-created: 1081408206
-categories: 
-- Search Engine Voodoo
-- Copyright
----
-<blockquote>
-I can't think of a good way to accomodate the trademark owners' legitimate interests, without essentially shutting down word-based ad placement services.  And in the absence of such a solution, it seems to me better to let the ad placements go on.<cite><a href="http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/archives/000570.html">Freedom to Tinker: Trademarks and Ad Placement</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Good overview of American Blinds vs. Google, who essentially say they own the copyright to the keywords "american" and "blinds" when used together, thus making it infringement if Google displays competitive ads next to that keyword phrase.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-11-blogware-adds-friends-and-address-book.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-11-blogware-adds-friends-and-address-book.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 73ec6de..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-11-blogware-adds-friends-and-address-book.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Blogware adds Friends and Address Book
-created: 1081750713
-categories: 
-- Social Media
----
-<blockquote>
-<p>Blogware users got a small preview of version 1.0 this week with the release of our new Address Book and Friends functionality.</p>
-
-<p>The Address Book is a pretty cool mechanism that provides Blogware Publishers with some pretty nifty tools for managing the relationships between users and content.</p>
-
-<p>The other new function, Friends, is a simple tool that allows users to connect with one another and will act as the basis for a bunch of cool new services as we move forward.</p>
-<cite><a href="http://www.byte.org/blog/_archives/2004/4/9/33574.html">Random Bytes: New Features: Friends & Addressbook</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Ross, where do you want feedback? Is there a central spot for development feedback, feature requests, etc.? The <a href="http://blog.blogware.com/">Blogware Blog</a> doesn't seem to have an obvious spot for this.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>I don't have a <a href="http://www.blogware.com">Blogware</a>-powered <a href="http://bmann.blogware.com">test blog</a> anymore, but I do have a "reader account" (anyone can have one of these) and I have posting privileges on a private blog used by <a href="http://www.streamlinewebco.com" title="Vancouver blog consulting">StreamLine</a>.</p>
-
-<p>So I tried out Friends. It's not a site, it's a part of Blogware itself. My first complaint is the very basic nature of describing your relationship to other people: you're a friend or you're not. I <em>hate</em> this, and so do many other people. So far, I still think <a href="http://www.flickr.com">Flickr</a> has the best model for this.</p>
-
-<p>Blogware's user accounts system have always reminded me a bit of <a href="http://www.livejournal.com">LiveJournal</a>. The addition of social-networking-like "friends" features makes sense. Or you could choose to see it more like TypePad's upcoming authentication service, TypeKey. By whatever name, it's still profiles and identity management, which means I want to be able to synch and export those details with other systems.</p>
-
-<p>I think you need to have a full Blogware account to see the Address Book feature (BTW -- I <em>do</em> like that Blogware has decided on, well, regular names -- people know what these things are). My account still allowed me to enter details for my address. Notably, it had home and work as separate entries, with separate permissions for each one (the permissions are "Private", "Friends only", and "Public"). Of course, this points to my problem with this single Friend/not-Friend binary -- I will want to share my business details with "business" acquaintances, but not necessarily my home details.</p>
-
-<p>On my To Do list is a longer review of what Blogware has to offer. Of course, this is all ahead of a v1.0 release, so I'm looking forward to what else gets added in the meantime.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-11-darren-tries-adsense.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-11-darren-tries-adsense.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 79ba121..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-11-darren-tries-adsense.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Darren tries AdSense
-created: 1081743901
-categories: 
-- Search Engine Voodoo
----
-<blockquote>
-I've resisted for many months, but after a conversation with Boris yesterday, I'm going to try out this Google AdSense bollocks. While a little extra cash is always nice, I'm interested in its application as a micro-payment system for content publishers like myself. Who knows, it might only net me 8 cents a month.
-<cite><a href="http://www.darrenbarefoot.com/archives/000639.html">Darren Barefoot: I'm Shillin' for the Man</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>I actually also started out Google AdSense as "an experiment". It turned out to be a bit addictive (look! people are visiting…and they're clicking, too!). And then it turned into some decent money. Why? Well, because of search engines. Let me explain…</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>People that use a search engine are looking for something. If you have a high search ranking (i.e. appear as one of the top 10 results for something), then people are likely to click through and land on your site, ideally directly at a page that is about what they were searching for.</p>
-
-<p>What you have on that page may or may not be the exact thing they were looking for, but it will certainly be related. In the same way, Google's AdSense ads then display "relevant" ads -- ads that are related to what they were searching for. About 1% - 2% of visitors will a) find these ads relevant and b) click on one of them.</p>
-
-<p>So, the more keywords or search terms that you rank highly for, the more people will come to your site. The more people, the more clicks, and the more money.</p>
-
-<p>This means it is in your best interest to make your site as search engine friendly as possible. Ideally, you are using a content management system, and you can tweak the underlying engine to do all the hard stuff for you. I have some info in my <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/search-engine-voodoo" title="Search Engine Voodoo">Search Engine Voodoo</a> section.</p>
-
-<p>Now some more feedback on other items that Darren asks about.</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-I note with some irony that the current ads are mostly for technical writing services. Ah well, I'm always happy to give the competitors a little help. AdSense veterans can correct me here, but it looks like Google only serves one set of ads for the whole site
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Nope. AdSense is specific to every page that it appears on. If it has yet to index that page, it will display some sort of charity ads. If it <em>has</em> indexed that page, but there is no strong "keyword content", for want of a better phrase, it will serve up ads that are relevant to other, more highly ranked material on the same page. Since your name and other site-related information appears on every page, it would display ads related to that.</p>
-
-<p>Since you write technical documentation, that seems to make sense. You can also choose to block ads from competitors. This is done on the <a href="https://www.google.com/adsense/filter">URL filter</a> page of your settings.</p>
-
-<p>In looking at your pages again, I noticed something that I didn't point out when we met -- your pages (including for individual posts) all have the same title! Think of the title of your page as one step above an &lt;h1&gt; tag. It's usually easiest to just make the title of your page be the title of your post, followed by the name of your site. Specifically in that order, and this is a usability issue for bookmarking as well: imagine people with 10 bookmarks, all titled "Darren Barefoot - …".</p>
-
-<p>You mentioned you were doing a site re-design, so just something else to keep in mind.</p> 
-
-<p>I hope some of this info is useful, and good luck!</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-12-another-life-log-application.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-12-another-life-log-application.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 1eee27d..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-12-another-life-log-application.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Another Life Log Application
-created: 1081757894
-categories: 
-- Social Media
-- Application
----
-<blockquote>
-Tidepool lets you collect, organize, describe, and browse your personal memories, such as digital photographs, movies, sound clips, and stories. With Tidepool, you can tell the who, what, where, and, when of it, using semantic web tagging technology.
-<cite><a href="http://bigfractaltangle.com/archive/2004/03/01.jsp">Big Fractal Tangle: Tidepool</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>I'm not sure what the name for this category of applications should be. I guess "life log" is as good a name as any. I've seen the name used elsewhere, but Google is not coming up with anything authoritative (well, there is the <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,62158,00.html?tw=wn_polihead_3">Pentagon thing</a>, but I was thinking of <a href="http://www.nokia.com/nokia/0,,54630,00.html">Nokia's Lifeblog</a>).</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>So many companies are swooping into this space because they see a real pain: it's hard to get all this stuff done right and done easy. People will pay money to have the process of sharing pictures, etc. made easier. This is why Apple has been successful: they've made all these areas pretty much push-button simple.</p>
-
-<p>But this is a very hard space to succeed in. Usability and reliability are two huge factors, both of which are deeply tied to the operating system. Apparently, Tidepool is being delivered with Java Web Start. I personally like this technology, but I don't know how easy this is going to be for people to use. I'll reserve judgement until I get a chance to use it myself.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-12-session-border-controllers-combined-with-firewalls.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-12-session-border-controllers-combined-with-firewalls.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 4ceb60c..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-12-session-border-controllers-combined-with-firewalls.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Session Border Controllers combined with firewalls
-created: 1081794483
-categories: 
-- VoIP
----
-<p>Good overview on Session Border Controllers -- essentially, they are needed to make VoIP work across firewalls and between NAT'd devices. Makes sense that they would essentially be integrated with firewalls.</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-It looks as though SBC technology would be best applied inside other networking gear, like firewalls and switches, it shouldn't surprise anyone when existing network equipment companies begin to buy the SBC vendors.
-<cite><a href="http://www.alwayson-network.com/comments.php?id=3623_0_8_0_C">Always On Network (Rafe Needleman): VoIP: Less Easy Than it Looks</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>(via <a href="http://andyabramson.blogs.com/voipwatch/2004/04/session_border_.html">Andy Abramson's VoIP Watch</a>)</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-12-softswitch-projected-growth-numbers.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-12-softswitch-projected-growth-numbers.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 74013d7..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-12-softswitch-projected-growth-numbers.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Softswitch projected growth numbers
-created: 1081755805
-categories: 
-- VoIP
----
-<blockquote>
-The market for softswitches (define), the platforms that connect wireline phone calls to IP networks for Voice over IP, is poised for explosive growth through 2008, after a jump of more than 42 percent in 2003, according to In-Stat MDR.
-<cite><a href="http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/3337911">internetnews.com: As Goes VoIP, So Grows Softswitches</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Well, well, well: the usual suspects are pumping growth in the telecom sector again. The numbers are smaller, but the growth still looks big. Here's some more number talk:</p>
-<!--break-->
-<blockquote>
-He said he expects to see a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 64.6 percent, between 2003 and 2008, resulting in revenues of $2.05 billion in the softswitch market.
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>In some ways, the "operating system" of these big vendors is another ripe target for replacement by open source vendors. If service provider A paid a bunch of money for their softswitch and provider B paid for solid hardware and open source software, who would win? Of course, things are never this simple. But if calls can be completed peer-to-peer today fairly simply, and if services (voicemail, etc.) can be provided in an equally distributed manner, then what is the function for these softswitches?</p>
-
-<p>I guess I like to keep thinking about "What comes next?", even though it's going to be a while before there are a significant amount of people that can call each other directly over a VoIP network -- that is, not crossing over the PSTN at all.</p>
-
-<p>(via <a href="http://blog.isportal.com/blog/_archives/2004/4/9/33563.html">ISPortal</a>)</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-12-telepocalypse-open-systems-will-continue-to-crush-closed-ones.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-12-telepocalypse-open-systems-will-continue-to-crush-closed-ones.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 966fb86..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-12-telepocalypse-open-systems-will-continue-to-crush-closed-ones.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Telepocalypse: Open systems will continue to crush closed ones"
-created: 1081756651
-categories: 
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
-- Open Source
----
-<blockquote>
-<p>Prediction: open systems will continue to crush closed ones. Why? The obvious reason is that open ones are fitter in an evolutionary sense. An application that almost hits the mark is easily superceded by one that scores a bullseye. In many ways, that’s the core concept of end-to-end or the stupid network.</p>
-
-<p>There’s a less obvious reason, too. It’s what I would call the openness ratchet effect. The easy, zero cost way of differentiating yourself from your competitors without incurring product development costs is to be a bit more open. Someone will always make the jump.</p>
-<cite><a href="http://www.telepocalypse.net/archives/000356.html">Telepocalypse: Lock-down screw-up</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>What industry is Martin talking about? Could be any of a number of technology ones, but in this case, he's talking about the cell phone industry, and then extrapolates to the rest of telecom. Great quote at the end: <em>"new value creation will ultimately route around your toll gate"</em>.</p>
-
-<p>Made me think about my <a href="/node/view/1062" title="Softswitch projected growth numbers">softswitch mumbling</a>.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-12-vocaldata-powers-voip-for-primus-telus.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-12-vocaldata-powers-voip-for-primus-telus.md
deleted file mode 100644
index efc6eba..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-12-vocaldata-powers-voip-for-primus-telus.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: VocalData Powers VoIP for Primus, Telus
-created: 1081783564
-categories: 
-- VoIP
-- Canada
----
-<p>It looks like <a href="http://www.vocaldata.com/">VocalData</a> is powering two of the main contenders here in Canada.</p>
-
-<p>A news brief from the start of last month says Primus is using them for TalkBroadband:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-PRIMUS Telecommunications Canada Inc. is using the VocalData application server — a set of hosted PBX and IP Centrex applications — to power its TalkBroadband service throughout Canada.
-<cite><a href="http://www.xchangemag.com/articles/431infra3.html">xchange: Infrastructure Solutions News Briefs, March 1, 2004</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>A <a href="http://www.vocaldata.com/pr011204.htm">VocalData press release</a> from the beginning of this year points to Telus using them as the application server portion of Telus' <a href="http://businesscontent.telus.com/webcontent/content/Products/voice/teleSystems/IpOne.jsp">IP One</a> service. This is essentially a hosted IP PBX solution, the rest of the solution being from Cisco (currently only available in Ontario and Quebec).</p>
-
-<p>I was interested in what features VocalData supports, so I checked out the rest of their website…</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>The <a href="http://www.vocaldata.com/application-integrated-productivity.htm">Productivity Applications</a> section on the VocalData website showcases web-based voicemail. As I <a href="/node/view/1043" title="Primus TalkBroadband Updates Pricing, Features to Compete">mentioned before</a>, residential VoIP service is now all about features --  I would expect Primus to turn on these features to compete with Vonage.</p>
-
-<p>As well, the <a href="http://www.vocaldata.com/telephony-hosted.htm">IP Centrex features</a> all seem to be in place to offer a fully hosted solution for many different sizes of business.</p>
-
-<p>Again, the challenge here is not technical: Primus and Telus need to get in front of small and medium businesses and explain the advantages of a VoIP solution. This may require partnering with local solution providers, many of whom are not yet themselves that familiar with VoIP technologies. Those that are ahead of the curve on VoIP may well be looking at open source solutions so that they can capture all the value from their customers. This is especially true if the service providers don't provide a way for the independent consultant to get a piece of the ongoing revenue.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-13-a-stew-of-packetized-content.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-13-a-stew-of-packetized-content.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 2891a5c..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-13-a-stew-of-packetized-content.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: A stew of packetized content
-created: 1081868819
-categories: 
-- VoIP
----
-<blockquote>
-But history tells us that speed and target marketing are not the forte of Tier 1 providers. Sure, they can collectively offer VoIP across the country in a blink of an eye, but to be anything more than a cheap, commoditized blending of voice and data into a stew of packetized content, large service providers need to utilize platforms that can spit out targeted application for very specific customer needs like watermelon seeds. Either that or they leave a big chunk of their potential market to those who can--the innovators.
-<cite><a href="http://enews.primediabusiness.com/enews/telephony/v/1162">Tim McElligott: The Tao of VoIP</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>The residential VoIP market is already facing a hail of price cuts, so it is likely that the incumbents (with their bigger bank rolls and large target markets) can win this low-margin business. To tap into higher value business (often associated with small and medium businesses), a one size fits all approach no longer works.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>Hence, the need for either a customizable "platform" or portfolio of solutions that meet different needs. Are we talking software or hardware here? Well, both, although I think an open software platform will be more important in the long run.</p>
-
-<p>(via <a href="http://192.246.69.231/jeff/personal/archives/000701.html">Jeff Pulver</a>)</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-14-a-whole-lotta-nothing-all-hail-bluetooth.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-14-a-whole-lotta-nothing-all-hail-bluetooth.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 27d10ad..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-14-a-whole-lotta-nothing-all-hail-bluetooth.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "A Whole Lotta Nothing: All Hail Bluetooth"
-created: 1081997369
-categories: 
-- Mac
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<blockquote>
-While I've known about bluetooth phones for the past few years and heard you could do cool stuff like use it as a modem, control your pc, and sync your computers with your phone, I didn't really give it a try until I got back from Etech this year. In the few months I've been playing with it, I can say one thing's for sure: it's like living in the goddamned future.
-<cite><a href="http://a.wholelottanothing.org/features.blah/entry/007805">A Whole Lotta Nothing: All Hail Bluetooth</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>This whole article is basically a "my Mac and Bluetooth phone work well together" post, but perhaps a good outline for those that don't know about the different things that Bluetooth can accomplish.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-14-peer1-spawns-symmetric-broadband.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-14-peer1-spawns-symmetric-broadband.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 0d84d5c..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-14-peer1-spawns-symmetric-broadband.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Peer1 spawns Symmetric Broadband
-created: 1081994604
-categories: 
-- Canada
-- Vancouver
-- VoIP
----
-<p><a href="http://www.peer1.net">Peer1</a> today announced that they're getting into the VoIP game:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-Symmetric will be focused solely on providing Internet Protocol to carriers and VoIP companies. Utilizing and leveraging Peer 1 Network’s existing co-location facilities and high performance IP network, Symmetric will set up VoIP gateways in all of Peer 1’s locations: Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal, as well as New York, Seattle and San Jose. The existing infrastructure will greatly accelerate the time to market.
-<cite><a href="http://www.peer1.net/press_detail.asp?uid=53">Peer1 Press Release: Peer 1 Network Introduces Symmetric Broadband, Inc</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-<!--break-->
-<p>In many ways, this is what I have been predicting -- wholesale termination services, meaning that other businesses can start offering VoIP services without having to worry about running highly reliable gateways.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-15-get-your-own-blog-or-the-real-problem-with-typekey.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-15-get-your-own-blog-or-the-real-problem-with-typekey.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a921bf0..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-15-get-your-own-blog-or-the-real-problem-with-typekey.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Get your own blog! (or, "The Real Problem with TypeKey")
-created: 1082014263
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
----
-<p>As Richard puts it:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-In an ideal world, though, no weblog would have comments enabled, but everybody would have their own weblog. You remember that old cliché, the freedom of the press goes only to those who own one. Well, there is remarkably little stopping you from owning one these days.
-<cite><a href="http://www.movableblog.com/archives/2004/04/14/typekey" title="The Real Problem with TypeKey - Richard Eriksson's MovableBLOG">MovableBLOG: The Real Problem with TypeKey</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-<!--break-->
-<p>The rest of Richard's post is actually about some problems with TypeKey, plus the de-centralized nature of weblog comments. I find that short comments that I make on other sites are generally forgotten (by me, in any case). If I have something longer to say (and this sometimes is only realized as I start typing) I'll make a post about it and point at the entry.</p>
-
-<p>Also -- <a href="http://www.technorati.com">Technorati</a> is fast becoming a way that people track mentions. <a href="http://idly.org/2004/04/14/a_world_without_typekey">Adam Gessaman</a> then does an excellent job of showing that you can "Technorati Bomb" just like you can game other systems.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-15-good-apps-on-mac-os-x.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-15-good-apps-on-mac-os-x.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 00c72b8..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-15-good-apps-on-mac-os-x.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Good apps on Mac OS X
-created: 1082012564
-categories: 
-- Application
-- Mac
----
-<p>Brad Choate made an <a href="http://bradchoate.com/weblog/2004/04/14/inventory">inventory of all his OS X apps</a> -- very extensive, and a good guide to look at. I've already downloaded a couple. Probably worthwhile to go back and (re)comment on each one.</p>
-
-<p>Justin Blanton posted in the comments that he also had a <a href="http://justinblanton.com/archives/2004/03/29/required_os_x_programs/">list of required OS X programs</a>.</p>
-
-<p>Great…now it's late already and I have a bunch of new programs to try out…</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-15-primus-buys-magma.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-15-primus-buys-magma.md
deleted file mode 100644
index d9649c3..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-15-primus-buys-magma.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Primus buys Magma
-created: 1082053484
-categories: 
-- Canada
-- VoIP
----
-<blockquote>
-[Primus] has acquired  Ottawa-based Magma Communications Ltd. (Magma), a premier provider of Internet solutions to corporate, government and residential clients in Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal. Magma's product offerings include Internet access, web development, website hosting, server co-location and managed services (system administration and security). Magma operates Internet Data Centres in Ottawa and Toronto.
-<cite><a href="http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/April2004/15/c1482.html">Canada NewsWire: PRIMUS Canada Acquires Magma, Ottawa's Premier Internet Services Company</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>With Primus' push into VoIP, they need more really solid data networks and data centers. Since <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2004/03/18/business/manitobatelecom_040318">Manitoba Telecom is buying AllStream</a> (Primus's current network provider and <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/nove/view/834#comment-1480">CLEC</a>), it may be that Primus is looking to own more of its infrastructure. Less reliance on a telco that may launch competitive services is probably a good thing.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-17-disrupting-the-canadian-ip-communications-industry.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-17-disrupting-the-canadian-ip-communications-industry.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 46fbb7e..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-17-disrupting-the-canadian-ip-communications-industry.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Disrupting the Canadian IP Communications Industry
-created: 1082186076
-categories: 
-- Canada
-- VoIP
----
-<blockquote>The current concept of applying old rules to new services will have the effect of disrupting the near term future innovation in the Canadian IP Communications Industry.
-<cite><a href="http://192.246.69.231/jeff/personal/archives/000711.html">Jeff Pulver Blog: Canada still has a chance to speak out about VoIP Regulation</a></cite></blockquote>
-
-<p>Great, another chance to lag behind the US. Voice is an application -- let's just regulate it where it actually connects to the PSTN. Of course, the telcos managed to stall independent data providers quite nicely with interesting interconnect schemes.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-18-4000us-per-month-for-playing-a-game.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-18-4000us-per-month-for-playing-a-game.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 793bc9a..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-18-4000us-per-month-for-playing-a-game.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: $4000US per month for playing a game
-created: 1082335172
-categories: 
-- Ultimate Online
-- MMORPG
-- virtual worlds
-- Game
-- Social Media
----
-<p>Journalist Julian Dibbell set out to do it as a bet: try to earn more money <a href="http://video-games.listings.ebay.com/Internet-Games_Ultima-Online_W0QQfromZR4QQsacategoryZ33886QQsocmdZListingItemListQQsocolumnlayoutZ3QQsocustoverrideZ1">selling virtual objects from the game Ultima Online</a> than as a professional journalist.</p>
-
-<p>He didn't quite succeed, but he did make <a href="http://www.juliandibbell.com/playmoney/2004_04_01_playmoney_archive.html#108200652843059601">almost $4000US in a single month</a> -- or $47K in annualized salary.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<a href="http://terranova.blogs.com/terra_nova/2004/04/journalist_earn.html#comments">Terra Nova</a> has a good listing of what some other professions make, and points out that Dibbell earned more than teachers and drug counselors. Perhaps not a long-term stable profession, but an interesting experiment: virtual goods are worth actual money.</p>
-
-<p>via <a href="http://www.corante.com/many/archives/2004/04/18/dibbell_earns_47k_annualized_in_ultima_online.php">Seb Paquet at Many-to-Many</a></p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-18-blogger-meeting-in-seattle-on-wednesday-night.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-18-blogger-meeting-in-seattle-on-wednesday-night.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 15ef1d5..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-18-blogger-meeting-in-seattle-on-wednesday-night.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Blogger meeting in Seattle on Wednesday night
-created: 1082355689
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
----
-<blockquote><p>I'll try to get to the <a href="http://www.anitarowland.com/gmarchives/00001727.html">Blogger Meetup in Seattle on Wednesday evening</a>. Things I like about this meetup is 1) Anita Rowland is there (I think of it as Anita's meetup) 2) Everyone is welcome. 3) It's in a low-cost venue so no one needs to dig deep in their pockets. 4) There's always a good geek quotient (and lots of people I've never met before, I like meeting new people). 5) You don't need to be a geek to come and there usually are non-geeks there as well, so my wife has more fun too 6) Usually there are people there who don't blog, either. It's lots of fun, something for everyone.</p>
-<cite><a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2004/04/18.html#a7230">The Scobleizer: Blogger meeting in Seattle on Wednesday night</a></cite></blockquote>
-
-<p>Ain't going to make it to this one. The Vancouver weblog meetup is cancelled -- going to do some promotion ahead of the next one. It seems like <a href="http://www.meetup.com">MeetUp.com</a> doesn't get used as much here in Canada. I've been trying to switch all my subscriptions to Vancouver from Ottawa, and the new "pay us money now!" links that are everywhere <em>really</em> annoy me, to the point where I'm ready to give up.</p>
-
-<p>In any case, I'm going to keep my eye on the Seattle stuff, and make a trip down there at some point, hopefully with some of the <a href="http://www.urbanvancouver.com" title="Urban Vancouver News">Urban Vancouver.com</a> crew in tow. It's only about 2-3hrs.</p>
-
-<p>Mmm...<a href="http://www.urbanseattle.com">this is taken</a>, albeit with a big Flash movie that doesn't load in Safari.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-18-pulpfiction-new-aggregator-for-os-x.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-18-pulpfiction-new-aggregator-for-os-x.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 17ea17a..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-18-pulpfiction-new-aggregator-for-os-x.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: PulpFiction, new aggregator for OS X
-created: 1082278211
-categories: 
-- Application
-- Mac
-- Personal Publishing
----
-<blockquote>
-I'm a big fan of "if you don't like it, do something better." I believe that PulpFiction is that "something better." It's better for me, anyway, and it may be better for you. Yes, PulpFiction is an aggregator of XML feeds. Its top ten features, in my mind, are as follows.
-<cite><a href="http://nslog.com/archives/2004/04/15/pulpfiction.php">NSLog(): PulpFiction</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Well, well, well. <a href="http://www.foolswisdom.com" title="Lloyd Budd's Website">Lloyd</a> pointed me towards this, and it sure is interesting.</p>
-
-<p>A new RSS aggregator for OS X that is meant to be Mail-like: lots of search features and built in Apple interface goodness.</p>
-
-<p>A web browser built in, customizable filters that allow you to sort posts, and advanced search and tagging features.</p>
-
-<p>I think, long term, that RSS aggregation will be something that gets built into browsers. For now, the community that uses aggregators is small and doesn't overlap with those that primarily use browsers to look at the web.</p>
-
-<p>PulpFiction is something I will definitely be keeping my eye on for May 1st.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-20-alec-saunders-leaves-versatel-starts-iotum.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-20-alec-saunders-leaves-versatel-starts-iotum.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 45e25ff..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-20-alec-saunders-leaves-versatel-starts-iotum.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Alec Saunders leaves Versatel, starts Iotum
-created: 1082446428
-categories: 
-- Canada
-- VoIP
----
-<p>Alec Saunders wrote the following on March 26, 2004 (I know, I'm playing catchup):</p>
-<blockquote>
-Six months ago I sat Bob Mimeault&#160;of <a href="http://www.versatelnetworks.com/">Versatel Networks</a> down in a restaurant and told him that I was working on a startup.&#160;Bob was terrific.&#160; He&#160;told me that he&#160;still needed me,&#160;but&#160;also&#160;committed to help me get my company started.&#160;Today was my last day as Versatel's marketing VP.&#160;Tomorrow is my first day full time as the CEO of Iotum Corporation, a VoIP startup.
-<cite><a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0111520/2004/03/26.html">Alec Saunders .LOG: Taking a deep breath</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Alec joined my LinkedIn network quite some time back while I was still in Ottawa, but I was in the midst of getting myself moved back out to Vancouver and never had a chance to meet him in person. Is <a href="http://www.iotum.com/">this</a> where Iotum will live? I'm keeping my eye out...</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-20-at-and-t-voip-marketing-in-ny.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-20-at-and-t-voip-marketing-in-ny.md
deleted file mode 100644
index d8558fc..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-20-at-and-t-voip-marketing-in-ny.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: AT&T VoIP Marketing in NY
-created: 1082473190
-categories: 
-- VoIP
----
-<p>Andy links to the <a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=SVBIZINK1.story&STORY=/www/story/04-19-2004/0002153898&EDATE=MON+Apr+19+2004,+08:05+AM">press release</a> announcing AT&T's entry into the NY market with their CallVantage VoIP service. A good analysis of how both education and promotion still need to be tied together, and how AT&T is doing a great job of both.</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-<p>What Dave Dorman has done is stepped up and said that to win the battle for the market, they have to educate the market about VoIP. If you notice, since AT&T announced entry into the space, the VoIP news noise level has increased. Smart marketers know they have to lead the category, not just get news for themselves.  </p>
-
-<p>If the AT&T product is as good as the marketing, then the other carriers have to start to look over both shoulders...and then figure out how to market better. </p>
-<cite><a href="http://andyabramson.blogs.com/voipwatch/2004/04/att_says_hello_.html">VoIP Watch: AT&T Says Hello to NY</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-20-batelle-on-furl.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-20-batelle-on-furl.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 1cdc30f..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-20-batelle-on-furl.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Batelle on Furl
-created: 1082473461
-categories: 
-- Knowledge Management
-- Personal Publishing
-- Web 2.0
-- Search Engine Voodoo
----
-<p><a href="http://www.furl.net/">Furl</a> is a web-based application that lets you save links, including actually archiving the page you are looking at. John Battelle has some ideas on how it might evolve, especially on an "Internet-scale" platform like Yahoo, Google, or Amazon.</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-But wait...there's more. You can share your PersonalWeb with others. And Mike just added a recommendation engine, so you can see links the service thinks will be interesting to you, based on what you've already Furl'd. Now, let's play this out. Imagine Furl on, oh, Yahoo, for example. Or Google. You now have a massively scaled application where millions of people are creating their own personal versions of the web, and then sharing them with each other, driving massively statistically significant recommendations, and...some pretty damn useful metadata that can be fed into search engine algorithms, resulting in...yup, far better search (and...far better SFO (Search Find Obtain) opportunities).
-<cite><a href="http://battellemedia.com/archives/000591.php">John Battelle's Searchblog: Grokking Furl: Storage, Search, and the PersonalWeb</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-20-most-of-the-drupal-developers-are-not-interested-in-world-domination.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-20-most-of-the-drupal-developers-are-not-interested-in-world-domination.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e86db49..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-20-most-of-the-drupal-developers-are-not-interested-in-world-domination.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "\"Most of the Drupal developers are not interested in world domination\""
-created: 1082474330
-categories: 
-- Drupal
-- Drupal
-- Open Source
-- Drupal
----
-<blockquote>
-You have written that Drupal is developed by people in their free time. Now why would most of these people care about world domination? They care about how their work can be best done with quick, clean and clear code, which is easy to develop with. Most of the Drupal developers are not interested in world domination as I have seen.
-<cite><a href="http://lists.drupal.org/archives/drupal-devel/2004-04/msg00387.html">drupal-devel mailing list: Gabor Hojtsy</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Secretly, world domination has always been my goal :p</p>
-
-<p>Working with an open source project can sometimes be frustrating, but it can also be glorious. For the most part, my experiences with Drupal have fallen in the second category. More than anything else, it is a fantastic platform.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>I think some people get frustrated because they pick a particular version, develop some stuff on it, then see all the cool new stuff in the <em>next</em> version, but are mad that they have to change their code in order to fit with the cool new stuff. Of course, without API changes, that "cool new stuff" wouldn't be possible to implement at all.</p>
-
-<p>The best advice I can give is to pick a particular version for deployment, then go with that. If it's a web site of any size, you won't constantly be updating the code in any case, so plan to revisit your code with a test site to prepare it for the next version. Of course, if you're happy with the current functionality, there is no reason to move to the next version at all.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-20-phonepage-homepage.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-20-phonepage-homepage.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 2cbd053..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-20-phonepage-homepage.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Phonepage Homepage
-created: 1082447040
-categories: 
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<blockquote>
-A phonepage is a homepage for mobile phones stored on the Internet and linked to a specific phone number. Our technology enables automatic display of phonepages at phone calls. A phonepage converts automatically to any mobile phone format e.g. WAP, Pocket PC or i-mode - in color or B/W. In addition, we have developed a solution to push phonepages automatically to mobile phones.
-<cite><a href="http://www.m-e-x.de/blog/archive/001328.html">M-E-X.de</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>I think the <a href="http://my.no/index.jsp">service itself</a> could do with a facelift, but the idea is very interesting. Don't know when North America will get to the point where there are enough smartphones around.</p>
-
-<p>(English translation and via <a href="http://www.tjacobi.com/archives/clever_mobile_service_idea.html">TJ's Weblog</a>)</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-20-show-value-in-k-logs-to-senior-management.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-20-show-value-in-k-logs-to-senior-management.md
deleted file mode 100644
index b2a9d6f..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-20-show-value-in-k-logs-to-senior-management.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Show value in K-logs to senior management
-created: 1082473909
-categories: 
-- Knowledge Management
-- Personal Publishing
----
-<p>There are some good concepts coming from the personal publishing and social software world that need to be applied to corporate knowledge management and sharing. I think many of the same values hold true, it's just that the tools are easier to use and the social software aspect has been increased. In all, I think this means that knowledge sharing projects (and cultures!) are more likely to succeed. More likely to succeed == better ROI == more organizations sharing knowledge.</p>
-
-<blockquote>I would like to take this issue and turn it into a seed question. "What would be common ways to convince management to use lightweight, social collaboration tools for knowledge management?"
-<cite><a href="http://www.eccop.com/blogs/public/archives/000092.html">ECCoP blog: Erik van Bekkum</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>(via <a href="http://www.steptwo.com.au/columntwo/archives/001204.html">Column Two</a>)</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-21-scribbling-net-help-the-googlebot-understand-your-web-site.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-21-scribbling-net-help-the-googlebot-understand-your-web-site.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 465de0e..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-21-scribbling-net-help-the-googlebot-understand-your-web-site.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Scribbling.net: Help the Googlebot understand your web site"
-created: 1082568483
-categories: 
-- Search Engine Voodoo
----
-Lots of good tips on making sure that Googlebot does a good job indexing your site.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-23-feedback-for-doc-searls-it-garage.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-23-feedback-for-doc-searls-it-garage.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e8f106d..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-23-feedback-for-doc-searls-it-garage.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Feedback for Doc Searls' IT Garage
-created: 1082746807
-categories: 
-- Drupal
-- Drupal
-- Drupal
----
-Doc Searls has started using Drupal, so I headed over to <a href="http://garage.docsearls.com">check it out</a>. Because, after all, I need to <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/1097">track Drupal converts</a>.
-
-I actually started typing this up in a comment entry box in response to <a href="http://garage.docsearls.com/?q=node/view/12">Doc's To-Do list</a>, but it quickly got really long, and probably has some valuable info in it for other people as well. So the following was written addressed directly to Doc:
-<!--break-->
-Writers: just invite them, and they can start posting. Either to their blog (which can be promoted to the front page, if you so desire), to the story node type, and/or by default placed into a moderation queue to decide whether stories get promoted. You can, of course, have different member roles (perhaps a "Contributor" role) with a different set of permissions.
-
-Separate feeds are available for each blog. I would recommend the <a href="http://www.drupal.org/project/syndicate">syndicate module</a> for more options -- as well as displaying the "front page" feed, it has easy display of URLs to feeds for individual blogs (mine would be <a href="http://garage.docsearls.com/?q=blog/feed/97">here on the garage site</a>). And of course, you can subscribe to a separate feed per topic as well.
-
-The "blogroll" is handled automatically within Drupal. Turn on the aggregator module, add as many feeds as you want. You can check out an example source list (a.k.a. blogroll) at <a href="http://www.urbanvancouver.com/news/source-list">Urban Vancouver</a> (there is a link to an auto-generated OPML file at the very bottom as well). You can also display these on the front page in a block.
-
-Better design: <a href="http://www.streamlinewebco.com">StreamLine</a> does Drupal consulting. Give us a shout if you need some help (we can assist with converting designs with templates and know the ins and outs of Drupal).
-
-Permalist of offsite links: perhaps you mean something like the <a href="http://www.drupal.org/project/weblink">weblinks module</a>?
-
-Featured links: could be handled by just grabbing their RSS feeds, tagging them with a special "featured" keyword, then creating a "Featured" bundle. This bundle can then be set to display on the front page (or wherever -- block display is handled by a PCRE). All available within the aggregator module.
-
-Lastly, it would be great if you turned on the "drupal" module, which will allow login from other Drupal sites (federated identity -- I don't want to have yet-another-account, but had to create one to post this comment). It's TypeKey without the centralization, since the authentication goes back to your "home" site, which might be an account on another group/community site, or it might be your own personal site.
-
-And, of course, clean URLs. This just means uncommenting some lines in your .htaccess file and selecting clean urls from the main <a href="http://garage.docsearls.com/?q=admin/system">admin page</a>.
-
-(Moments later…)
-
-OK, OK, I thought of more things. Turning on avatars (a.k.a. user pictures) and then turning on avatar display in comments is a neat way to have discussions, since everyone's face or icon shows up. This can also be turned on for main posts as well, which is a nice way to (easily, visually) distinguish who is posting.
-
-Also, the best way to keep up to date with what is going on on a Drupal site is <a href="http://garage.docsearls.com/?q=tracker">the tracker</a>. And you can see recent posts by <a href="http://garage.docsearls.com/?q=tracker/97">user</a> as well (might have to update the code -- latest version of Drupal shows comments as well, I believe).
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-23-start-with-smart-edges-and-a-dumb-center.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-23-start-with-smart-edges-and-a-dumb-center.md
deleted file mode 100644
index be210c5..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-23-start-with-smart-edges-and-a-dumb-center.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Start with smart edges and a dumb center
-created: 1082732727
-categories: 
-- VoIP
----
-<blockquote>Start with smart edges and a dumb center and you’re better off. And if you start the other wrong way round, you’ll never make the transition because the embedded base of dumb edge devices imposes an impossible switching cost
-<cite><a href="http://www.telepocalypse.net/archives/000374.html">Telepocalypse (Martin Geddes): To whom may I direct this call?</a></cite></blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-23-trendiq-tracks-internet-presence-of-social-networking-sites.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-23-trendiq-tracks-internet-presence-of-social-networking-sites.md
deleted file mode 100644
index ded07a4..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-23-trendiq-tracks-internet-presence-of-social-networking-sites.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: TrendIQ Tracks Internet Presence of Social Networking Sites
-created: 1082732930
-categories: 
-- Social Media
----
-<blockquote>TrendIQ has been measuring changes in the "internet presence" of the Social Networking Sites on the internet since February 8, 2004.  Social Networking sites are an emerging human networking technology utilizing the internet to build personal networks.
-<cite><a href="http://www.trendiq.com/info/Social-all.htm">Trend-IQ: Social Networking Information</a></cite></blockquote>
-
-<p>If you follow the link, you can see the graphs and easily compare how popular different sites are.</p>
-
-<p><a href="http://www.linkedin.com">LinkedIn</a> is really exploding, so much so that there is a second graph with the LinkedIn data removed so that you can more easily see the variation among the other services. Anecdotally, this has been my experience as well. And, although I had my doubts about it initially (there is still nothing to "do" there), its business opportunities seem to contain enough potential for it to be useful.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>The way I use LinkedIn is to make my first email contact with someone via the service. I'll copy business card information into my address book, then export the information to vCards. These vCards can now be imported into LinkedIn, and I can then send invite messages to these people.</p>
-
-<p>This invite message usually takes the form of reminding people where we met, any information we talked about exchanging, then an intro to the service. Since the messages are sent with my email address in the "From" field, people can easily hit "Reply" and respond as normal, as well as checking out the links to the LinkedIn.</p>
-
-<p>The "hit rate" of how many people actually sign into LinkedIn seems to vary widely. A better strategy might be to send an introductory email mentioning LinkedIn, and then an invite with a very short message (so the LinkedIn URLs are more clearly highlighted). Since I have been sending out quite a lot of invitations lately, I'm going to do some follow-up work to see why people haven't checked out the service.</p>
-
-<p>(via <a href="http://socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com/entry/7166396752885830/">Social Software (Weblogs Inc.)</a>)</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-26-hyperlocal.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-26-hyperlocal.md
deleted file mode 100644
index b690886..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-26-hyperlocal.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Hyperlocal
-created: 1083044219
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
----
-<blockquote>
-Go to <a href="http://www.goskokie.com">GoSkokie.com</a>: "news for the people by the people." It's the fruit of the <a href="http://mesh.medill.northwestern.edu/blogs/advance/">hyperlocal project</a> at Northwestern. Very exciting to see something grow from concept to reality so quickly.<cite><a href="http://www.buzzmachine.com/archives/2004_04_25.html#006917">BuzzMachine: Hyper about hyperlocal</a></cite></blockquote>
-
-<p>This is what we're trying to do with <a href="http://www.urbanvancouver.com" title="Urban Vancouver - Local News Powered by You">UrbanVancouver.com</a>.</p>
-
-<p>We're actually in the process of formulating some better words that describe what <a href="http://www.streamlinewebco.com" title="Streamline Web Co - Community Platforms, Blogging, and RSS experts based in Vancouver">we're</a> trying to do. The phrase <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=%22open+source+journalism%22&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8">open source journalism</a> seems to be much used already, but I think that's part of it.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-26-microsoft-expression-for-mac.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-26-microsoft-expression-for-mac.md
deleted file mode 100644
index ebdc086..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-26-microsoft-expression-for-mac.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Microsoft Expression for Mac
-created: 1083045918
-categories: 
-- Mac
-- Application
----
-<blockquote>
-Last September, Microsoft bought the software bits of <a
-href="http://www.creaturehouse.com">Creature House</a>, suspended their sales, and are now <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=bb222487-dc7a-46d0-bcec-7275bbc73788&DisplayLang=en">giving away</a> an <a href="http://www.creaturehouse.com/expression3.htm">extremely
-powerful</a> graphics system, <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/">Expression</a>, for Mac only, for free.
-<cite><a href="http://blog.simon-cozens.org/bryar.cgi/id_6724">Simon Cozens: Expression</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>I downloaded it and scribbled with it briefly. It's definitely a Carbon app, but it feels zippy under OS X, supports Photoshop plug-ins, and will likely be fun for artists to noodle about with. Even with just a mouse you can do some neat sketching (perhaps I'll post my "rooster head" at some later time).</p>
-
-<p>(via <a href="http://laughingmeme.org/mlp/archives/2004_04.html#001975">LaughingMeme's MLPs: Expression: a free Mac-only alternative to Illustrator</a>)</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-26-scalix-does-exchange-on-linux.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-26-scalix-does-exchange-on-linux.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e8b7fc9..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-26-scalix-does-exchange-on-linux.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Scalix does Exchange on Linux
-created: 1083046516
-categories: 
-- "*nix"
-- IT
-- Microsoft
-- Open Source
----
-<p>Even though I no longer do a lot of <a href="http://www.phenomenalsolutions.com" title="Ottawa-based IT, Web, and Business Consulting for Small Businesses">IT stuff</a>, I'm still interested by many of the problems. Contacts, calendaring, and groupware that <em>isn't</em> Microsoft Exchange continues to be an interesting space.</p>
-
-<blockquote><a href="http://www.scalix.com/">Scalix</a> the Linux based e-mail and calendaring software developer has secure another 6 million. Scalix is an interesting alternative to the security flawed MS Exchange platform.
-<cite><a href="http://www.tjacobi.com/archives/scalix_with_second_round.html">TJ's Weblog: Scalix with second round</a></cite></blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-26-stealth-enum-registry.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-26-stealth-enum-registry.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f2c356f..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-26-stealth-enum-registry.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Stealth ENUM Registry
-created: 1083030972
-categories: 
-- VoIP
----
-<blockquote>
-Stealth Communications, Inc., which owns and operates the Voice Peering Fabric, the World's first and only VoIP minutes exchange to provide complete transparency between buyers and sellers of VoIP routes, today announces the official launch of the VPF ENUM Registry.
-<cite><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/VoIP/SIG=12bq4m31i/*http%3A//www.lightreading.com/document.asp?site=lightreading&doc_id=51636">Light Reading: ENUM Registry Launches</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>I'm going to look into this Voice Peering Fabric stuff a little more: trading seconds or minutes makes more sense from an accounting perspective.</p>
-
-<p>(via <a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0111520/2004/04/26.html#a883">Alec Saunders .LOG</a>)</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-26-tasks-pro-1-1.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-26-tasks-pro-1-1.md
deleted file mode 100644
index b9a099c..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-26-tasks-pro-1-1.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Tasks Pro 1.1
-created: 1083045189
-categories: 
-- Web 2.0
----
-<p>I was just talking about <a href="http://www.taskspro.com/">Tasks Pro</a> today with <a href="http://www.rolandtanglao.com">Roland</a>. I tried out the original single-user version, <a href="http://www.alexking.org/software/tasks">Tasks</a>, and was pretty happy with it.</p>
-
-<p>We both talked about how we think/write in outlines, but it doesn't actually seem to work that well for tracking stuff. Tasks is currently the forgotten step-daughter of my electronic world. My phone handles contacts and calendaring, but the tasks part doesn't seem to work for me.</p>
-
-<p>Maybe it's time to give something like this a try. I still like <a href="http://www.php-collab.com/">PHP Collab</a> as a project management tool, but there is something to be said for easy, light interfaces. And RSS feeds and iCal support everywhere, of course.</p>
-
-<p>(via <a href="http://www.ranchero.com/?comments=1&postid=901">Ranchero</a>)</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-26-website-css-circa-2011.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-26-website-css-circa-2011.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c05fdd6..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-26-website-css-circa-2011.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Website CSS circa 2011
-created: 1083045351
-categories: 
-- Web Development
----
-<p>Dave Shea visits the future of advanced CSS design and finds it pleasing:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-<p>Anyway. The point of all this is that I put together a <a href="http://www.mezzoblue.com/tests/safari12/">very basic page</a> to serve as my test site's root index. My primary browser is Safari, so I took the opportunity to play with the new <code>text-shadow</code> CSS property. (Hit the thumbnail link if you're not using Safari). Combining this with a bit of <code>opacity</code> (upcoming in CSS3, supported now) a bit of generated content, and some guaranteed, non-standard font choices, I've caught a glimpse of where CSS is going. I like it. A lot.</p>
-	<p>No images were harmed in the making of this page, it's all pure CSS effects. Here's to 2011, when we might even be able to use this stuff.</p><cite><a href="http://www.mezzoblue.com/archives/2004/04/24/safari_css_e/">mezzoblue</a></cite></blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-27-at-and-t-callvantage-details.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-27-at-and-t-callvantage-details.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 9075c1f..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-27-at-and-t-callvantage-details.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: AT&T CallVantage Details
-created: 1083051744
-categories: 
-- United States
-- VoIP
----
-<blockquote>
-<p>I just learned that AT&T's CallVantage is not using SIP, and are using MGCP, but that SIP is on the edge is on their roadmap, and all of their core elements use SIP in their network.</p>
-
-<p>Also, AT&T's CallVantage offers no QoS (today) but their enterprise grade offerings have various Service Level Agreements (SLA's). As far as applications go, everything has been developed in house, no third party applications server, which is smart. No royalties, no licensing. I hear Webley has taken a similar approach.</p>
-<cite><a href="http://andyabramson.blogs.com/voipwatch/2004/04/to_sip_or_not_t.html">VoIP Watch</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Build your own application server? This sounds crazy to me, but it also means that AT&T has been planning this for a long time. Will have to have a peek to see if I can find out what companies like <a href="http://www.vocaldata.com/">VocalData</a> are charging: maybe AT&T went this route because they are paying per-subscriber licensing fees?</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-27-gush-for-os-x.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-27-gush-for-os-x.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 90eb568..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-27-gush-for-os-x.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Gush for OS X
-created: 1083051112
-categories: 
-- Application
-- IM
-- Mac
-- Social Media
----
-<blockquote>
-<p>&#8230;the OS X (Panther) release of Gush is finally here. It's still a little rough around the edges, but it's getting there.</p>
-(Update: There's a Gush OS X screenshot on <a href="http://nowhere.2entwine.com">Going Nowhere</a>).</p>
-<cite><a href="http://2entwine.com/archives/000085.html">Gush Blog: Getting There</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Downloaded. Double-clicked. Needed to get an update for <a href="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash&P2_Platform=MacOSX">Flash Player on OS X</a>.</p>
-
-<p>Wow. A giant Flash app. A desktop version of <a href="http://www.flickr.com">Flickr</a>? I'm getting some similar vibes. Interesting to see these recent <em>good</em> Flash apps.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>Will have to have some other folks try it with me to see how the IM/blogging/etc. work together. It looks pretty, which goes back to some very early discussions on how form can indeed help with function. Perhaps a tad slow, and option-click on the Mac gets you a contextual menu if you were looking how to do stuff.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-27-jons-radio-active-r-and-eacutesum-and-eacutes.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-27-jons-radio-active-r-and-eacutesum-and-eacutes.md
deleted file mode 100644
index aecc803..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-27-jons-radio-active-r-and-eacutesum-and-eacutes.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Jon's Radio: Active r&eacute;sum&eacute;s"
-created: 1083051530
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
-- ePortfolio
----
-<blockquote>
-<p>Any professional whose work is visible on the Net will become part of the conversation that establishes reputation and creates opportunity. The blog is an <i>active r&eacute;sum&eacute;</i> that enables you to participate -- by proxy -- in that conversation.</p>
-
-<p>What an active r&eacute;sum&eacute; should include will vary by profession and according to personal inclination. For a musician, a couple of complete tracks from each CD. For a home renovator, photos and write-ups of some completed projects -- and for extra credit, video walkthroughs. For a programmer, links to those of your applications, tools, or specifications that touch the public domain.</p>
-
-<p>Here's the bottom line. What Alf calls "collaborative filtering and recommendation networks" will rival -- and my guess is, largely supplant -- conventional marketing and promotion. But if those networks can't find you, they won't be able to help you.</p>
-
-<cite><a href="http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2004/04/22.html#a981">Jon's Radio: Active r&eacute;sum&eacute;s</a></cite></blockquote>
-
-<p>Do I really need to add anything? Perhaps a few points&#8230;</p>
-<!--break-->
-<ul>
-<li>(Your own) Content matters: put your thoughts and ideas on the web, because it's easier to notice them there and people still need <em>you</em> to implement them (well, at least until brain scanning gets perfected).</li>
-<li>Make it easy to find you: this goes from activities such as joining online networking sites that make sense for you to making sure that your content is easily visible to search engines.</li>
-<li>Participate in the conversation: you have to be very very good to be able to just shout from a mountain top and have people turn and listen. Post on other sites, leave comments, and of course link unto others.</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>These three items will make you part of a larger community, which in turn can (will!) lead to opportunities.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-27-medium-and-large-business-voip-has-50-cagr.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-27-medium-and-large-business-voip-has-50-cagr.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 291d360..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-27-medium-and-large-business-voip-has-50-cagr.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Medium and Large Business VoIP has 50% CAGR
-created: 1083049497
-categories: 
-- VoIP
----
-<blockquote>
-<p>According to Analysys forecasts, by 2008, VoIP penetration is expected to reach 17% of broadband-enabled households (growing from under 1 million at the end of this year to 11.7 million in 2008), and 23% of broadband-enabled small-business establishments (increasing from less than 100,000 in 2004 to 800,000 in 2008). Together, consumers and small businesses are expected to provide almost 13 million VoIP subscriptions and USD5.7 billion in annual service revenue in 2008. Although this is a significant amount, it represents 2.5% of the 2003 total US telecoms revenue of USD224 billion. </p>
-
-<p>For medium and large businesses VoIP growth is also very strong. Analysys expects the estimated installed base of IP station lines to increase from just over 3 million in 2004 to more than 18 million by the end of 2008. This represents a compound annual growth rate of over 50%.</p>
-<cite><a href="http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20040422005412&newsLang=en">BusinessWire: VoIP is a Turning Point for Us Telecoms, Says Analysys</a></cite></blockquote>
-
-<p>See that? 2.5% of the total US telecom revenue. That's a lot of headroom. I still find the medium business space more interesting.</p>
-
-<p>(via <a href="http://andyabramson.blogs.com/voipwatch/2004/04/research_saysvo.html">Andy Abramson VoIP Watch</a>)</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-27-more-on-project-management-tools.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-27-more-on-project-management-tools.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f74d616..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-27-more-on-project-management-tools.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: More on Project Management Tools
-created: 1083134551
-categories: 
-- IT
-- Web 2.0
----
-<p>Seems like everywhere I look there are more project/task/document management tools. I mentioned this briefly with the release of <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/1102">TasksPro</a>, and then it seemed to keep coming up in conversation.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p><a href="http://www.functionpoint.com/index.php">Function Point</a> was pointed out by Troy Angrignon (blog coming soon!). I was all prepared to give scathing commentary, but the app looks pretty slick and integrates a lot of different functions.</p>
-
-<p>In discussing good web application design firms, I remembered <a href="http://www.silverorange.com">SilverOrange</a> -- they won an award for best Intranet in 2001, then won again in 2003 for their redesign. I'm always impressed by companies that aren't afraid to re-invent themselves and their best practices.</p>
-
-<p>I may have a chance to do an overview of this space again in the near future. If anyone has suggestions for either low-cost hosted or open source apps in this space, post a comment.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-27-spike.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-27-spike.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a0f4f71..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-27-spike.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Spike
-created: 1083051857
-categories: 
-- Application
-- Mac
-- Microsoft
----
-A network-based, Rendezvous/ZeroConf-powered, cross-platform clipboard. Wow, what a mouthful.
-
-We need more easy ways to pass information back and forth.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-27-subethatrack.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-27-subethatrack.md
deleted file mode 100644
index ef39743..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-27-subethatrack.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: SubEthaTrack
-created: 1083051807
-categories: 
-- Application
-- Mac
-- Web 2.0
----
-A site for making <a href="http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/">SubEthaEdit</a> documents globally available.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-27-thank-you-moveable-type.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-27-thank-you-moveable-type.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f80e5b6..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-27-thank-you-moveable-type.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Thank You, Moveable Type
-created: 1083049943
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
----
-<blockquote>
-As a freelancer in the web before Movable Type, I got paid to make sites for clients. And make, I would. And I'd send them off into the world with a shiny new site made of html and attitude. And they'd come sailing right back every time they wanted to change something.
-<cite><a href="http://www.powazek.com/2004/04/000386.html
-">Derek Powazek: Just a Thought: Thank You, Moveable Type</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>MT <em>should</em> be congratulated for making it easy to do personal publishing for everyone from individuals to businesses. Time spent mindlessly doing content updates can be applied to design, usability, and marketing.</p>
-
-<p>See? I'm not just the <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/mt-is-the-windows-of-the-personal-publishing-world">MT sucks like Windows</a>-guy.</p>
-
-<p>(via <a href="http://jeremy.zawodny.com/linkblog/">Jeremy Zawodny's linkblog</a>)</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-27-this-is-visualstreet-net.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-27-this-is-visualstreet-net.md
deleted file mode 100644
index cffa84d..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-27-this-is-visualstreet-net.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: This is VisualStreet.net
-created: 1083052177
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
----
-<blockquote>
-Imagine a web site that holds photographs of every street number in London. Each picture would be uploaded by the general public using camphones. The system would hold a history of photos. It would be searchable by postcode or street name and street number in the style of Streetmap.co.uk. Attached to each photo would be a Wiki style page where people could leave comments and reviews. When you're going somewhere new, you could get a map from streetmap and visit this site to see what #23 actually looks like. If you were using a Wifi or GPRS connected PDA, you could look at the reviews and pictures while deciding whether to go in.
-<cite><a href="http://www.voidstar.com/node.php?id=1746#comment">Voidstar</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p><a href="http://www.visualstreet.net">VS</a> is in a holding pattern. It's likely that some of the functionality will end up getting integrated into <a href="http://www.urbanvancouver.com" title="Urban Vancouver - Local news powered by people">UrbanVancouver.com</a>, while the VS.net site will get used for testing and further development of the "place" objects that I have in mind.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-28-and-what-about-contact-management-and-calendaring.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-28-and-what-about-contact-management-and-calendaring.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 91c73ac..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-28-and-what-about-contact-management-and-calendaring.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: And what about contact management and calendaring?
-created: 1083138492
-categories: 
-- Application
-- Mac
----
-<p>So Troy and I kept ranting after discussing <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/1114">project management tools</a>. Next on the hit list was the un-usefulness of both iCal and Address Book for power users.</p>
-
-<p>Both of these applications are great as universal, OS-level components for storing and managing calendaring and contact information respectively. <strong>But</strong>, the built-in functionality just doesn't cut it beyond basic usage.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>The conversation went something like this "Wouldn't it be great if there was software that leveraged the integration and pervasiveness of these two tools, but had more power user features?"</p>
-
-<p>And I think this is the key. If you can work with standards (which, after all, is what we're talking about, with the added benefit of integration and support at the OS level) but add some special sauce on top -- whether it be UI, extended features, or something else that makes the underlying standard more useful -- you've got a winner.</p>
-
-<p>Troy promptly ran off and found <a href="http://www.objective-decision.com/en/products/od4contact/">OD4Contact</a> ("It's like iTunes but for your contacts" is the slogan) which seems to be doing that in the contact space. It's going in my "testing" pile for a 30-day trial.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-29-big-fat-dumb-pipes.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-29-big-fat-dumb-pipes.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c458c89..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-29-big-fat-dumb-pipes.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Big Fat Dumb Pipes
-created: 1083305940
-categories: 
-- VoIP
----
-<p>Alec pulls together a couple of different blog postings and summarizes them nicely with this last paragraph:</p>
-
-<blockquote>In other words, as VoIP providers succeed, they will obsolete themselves.  Today's carriers will become big fat dumb pipes, with value added network services like unified messaging, web hosting, and conferencing as their revenue sources.<cite><a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0111520/2004/04/29.html#a903">Alec Saunders .LOG: Russian Roulette for the Voice Industry</a></cite></blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-29-callvantage-service-works-well.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-29-callvantage-service-works-well.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 09a3fc1..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-29-callvantage-service-works-well.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: CallVantage Service Works Well
-created: 1083307273
-categories: 
-- VoIP
----
-<p>Andy Abramson's test of the AT&T CallVantage service is working out well. He figures that the quality and reliability of the service will serve as a benchmark:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-Candidly, I'm not surprised the service is this good. AT&T has too much to lose in putting out an inferior product. By putting out a product that is at basic mode already better than the competition which went first, AT&T has really fired a shot that will be heard around the telephony world.<cite><a href="http://andyabramson.blogs.com/voipwatch/2004/04/my_callvantage_.html">VoIP Watch (Andy Abramson): My CallVantage Service Is Working</a></cite></blockquote>
-
-<p>My gut instinct is that features and cost will be what consumers <em>actually</em> care about, as long as certain service and quality levels are met.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-29-why-ecademy-will-succeed.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-29-why-ecademy-will-succeed.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 7612a90..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-29-why-ecademy-will-succeed.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Why Ecademy will succeed
-created: 1083306203
-categories: 
-- Social Media
----
-<blockquote>
-Check out the pic at left from the <a href="http://www.ecademy.com/node.php?id=21472&xref=21039">Ecademy Asia Pacific launch event</a>.  There were over 500 people in attendance!</cite><a href="http://www.onlinebusinessnetworks.com/blog/2004/04/23/why-ecademy-will-succeed">Online Business Networks: Why Ecademy will succeed</a></cite></blockquote>
-
-<p>The <a href="http://www.urbanvancouver.com/node/view/77">Vancouver Ecademy event</a> I went to wasn't <em>quite</em> as large, but the speakers were really good and there was an interesting mix of people. I'm meeting with <a href="http://www.ecademy.com/account.php?op=view&id=20095">Stewart Marshall</a> on Monday to talk about the Vancouver Ecademy trusted network.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-30-deep-enterprise-search.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-30-deep-enterprise-search.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 7afd89d..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-30-deep-enterprise-search.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Deep Enterprise Search
-created: 1083337663
-categories: 
-- Search Engine Voodoo
-- Social Media
-- Personal Publishing
----
-<blockquote>
-[The enterprise search] market is still nascent, and there are buckets of money there (just ask Microsoft or FAST.) Mark my words, boring as it might seem, corporate search will be a big deal. And...there will be interesting implications w/r/t transparency and the like once all those corporate documents are discovered by the internal crawler.<cite><a href="http://battellemedia.com/archives/000617.php">John Battelle's Searchblog: Enterprise Search (Yaawwwwnnn)</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Having worked at large <a href="http://www.nortelnetworks.com">corporations</a>, I can tell you that more attention needs to be paid to the enterprise search market. Competitive intelligence, knowledge management, internal weblogs -- all these things need a tie-in to search as well. Heck, document management is something that many companies are still grappling with.</p>
-
-<p>Weblogs, email, and P2P concepts are three things that will intersect in this space. Oh, and I guess I'll throw profiles in there as well: internal subject matter experts centralizing information but being connected throughout the organization with other communities of practice.</p>
-
-<p>Since lots of corporate information is hidden in various other systems -- databases, groupware, etc. -- these systems need to be scanning the "deep web". But I think the missing piece is to take that information and not only return a link to it (if possible) but enable it to be published elsewhere and categorized, like the blogging model.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-30-qwest-eliminates-access-charges-on-true-voip-calls.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-30-qwest-eliminates-access-charges-on-true-voip-calls.md
deleted file mode 100644
index ae2bfb1..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-30-qwest-eliminates-access-charges-on-true-voip-calls.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Qwest Eliminates Access Charges on 'True' VoIP Calls
-created: 1083371662
-categories: 
-- VoIP
----
-<blockquote>
-For true VoIP traffic, Qwest’s new service, available now, requires VoIP carriers to convert traffic to TDM for handoff and termination. They are charged for transport, but not access, Glynn says. The move is as much a policy change for the carrier as a billing one, he says, noting that the emerging regulatory framework exempts true VoIP traffic from access charges. “Because of the way we viewed non-access-charge traffic, we did not have a non-access charge product to sell VoIP carriers,
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-04-30-skype-to-speak-out-at-von-canada-2004.md b/_posts/archive/2004-04-30-skype-to-speak-out-at-von-canada-2004.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 1cfa7d8..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-04-30-skype-to-speak-out-at-von-canada-2004.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Skype to Speak Out at VON Canada 2004
-created: 1083336303
-categories: 
-- Canada
-- VoIP
----
-<blockquote>
-As the communication industry press starts to understand the significance of [co-founder and CEO of Skype, Niklas Zennstrom's] presence at our conference, I expect the number of press requests to attend VON Canada 2004 to just continue to rise.
-<cite><a href="http://192.246.69.231/jeff/personal/archives/000747.html">Jeff Pulver Blog</a></cite></blockquote>
-
-<p>Hmmm...wonder if Jeff will let me attend as part of the "blogging press". Look at all the <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/topics/voip">VoIP</a> stuff I publish!</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>Much like the low level of education around VoIP in general, there are many people that haven't heard about <a href="http://www.skype.com">Skype</a> either. Jeff's right when he says that Zennstrom's presence will cause some press interest, and likely raise the level of awareness.</p>
-
-<p>I <em>am</em> going to try to make it to VON Canada one way or another.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-04-free-enum-efforts.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-04-free-enum-efforts.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 32883d7..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-04-free-enum-efforts.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Free ENUM efforts
-created: 1083656392
-categories: 
-- VoIP
----
-<blockquote>
-<p>
-Matthew Asham from BCWireless and Duane Groth from Sydney Wireless have coded up <a href="http://e164.org/">E164.org</a>, one of (if not) the first public ENUM DNS spaces for use by the public at large.
-<p>
-The system provides DNS glue between POTS numbers and VoIP systems on the Internet.  It provides either 100 "free" numbers out of the unused 822 country range, or ''verified'' mapping for real telephone numbers.
-<cite><a href="http://seattlewireless.net/~mattw/index.cgi/2004/05/03#20040502">mattw.fn_blog(): Asterisk, POTS and VOIP. Oh my...</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Looks like ENUM is the hot new acronym in the VoIP space. It could very well become the DNS of the voice calling world (well, that's what it's designed to be -- mapping "real" phone numbers to IP endpoints). Tough to say whether this is something that will only live in the free networks/kill the telco world or whether it will have larger application.</p>
-
-<p>Unsurprisingly, the ITU has a <a href="http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/newslog/2004/04/30.html#a597">long statement</a> about how concepts like ENUM and related applications like the .tel <acronym title="Top Level Domain">TLD</acronym> are in need of lots of regulation.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-04-next-version-of-wordpress-goes-beta.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-04-next-version-of-wordpress-goes-beta.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c0c83fd..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-04-next-version-of-wordpress-goes-beta.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Next version of WordPress goes beta
-created: 1083658397
-categories: 
-- Web 2.0
-- Personal Publishing
----
-<p>SEB is using MT right now, but he keeping his eye on both Wordpress and Drupal. Wordpress has done an amazing job of implementing a ton of standards out of the box, and is still my favourite for stand-alone blog tools.</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-I've been keeping an eye on WordPress for awhile now and I have to admit it's becoming more attractive all the time. They've just announced that <a title="WordPress - Development Blog" href="http://wordpress.org/development/archives/2004/04/28/12-beta/">version 1.2 has entered Beta</a> and have provided a partial list of the new features users can look forward to&#8230;<cite><a href="http://stupidevilbastard.com/archives/2004/04/30/wordpress_12_enters_beta.php">Stupid Evil Bastard: WordPress 1.2 enters Beta.</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-05-drupal-powers-motime-and-splinder.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-05-drupal-powers-motime-and-splinder.md
deleted file mode 100644
index abd4474..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-05-drupal-powers-motime-and-splinder.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Drupal powers Motime and Splinder
-created: 1083775209
-categories: 
-- Drupal
-- Drupal
-- Drupal
----
-<p>An interesting announcement from the largest currently running Drupal site. They've done extensive development to make it work with mobile browsers, as well as integration with IM using Jabber.</p>
-
-<p>The main point is that they've found it very easy to develop custom modules to extend functionality, showcasing the fact that Drupal's core is very well written. Read on for a quote and link to the full posting.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<blockquote>
-<p>The largest current installation of Drupal 4.4.0 in terms of community size has recently been upgraded to V.2.0. The common code for this blogging community powers <a href="http://www.motime.com/">motime.com</a> and <a href="http://www.tipic.com/">tipic.com</a> (in English) and <a href="http://www.splinder.it/">splinder.it</a> (in Italian). Among them, there are more than 180,000 registered users.</p>
-
-<p>One of the more interesting aspects of the Splinder/Motime project is the way that it takes advantage of a series of stand-alone modules written by Tipic, Inc. which showcase the flexibility of Drupal's module-based architecture.<p>
-<cite><a href="">Drupal.org (Howard Liptzin): Motime and Splinder launch v.2.0</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-05-sprint-canadas-bad-web-presence.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-05-sprint-canadas-bad-web-presence.md
deleted file mode 100644
index fb7e155..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-05-sprint-canadas-bad-web-presence.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Sprint Canada's bad web presence
-created: 1083801306
-categories: 
-- Web Development
----
-<p>Go to <a href="http://www2.sprintcanada.ca/Enterprise/">Sprint Canada's Enterprise site</a> using Safari on OS X. You should be greeted by a lovely message that says:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-Sorry, we are currently not supporting Netscape 6 at this time. Please use Netscape 4.x or Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.x/5.x .
-</blockquote>
-<!--break-->
-<p>Luckily (?), Firefox gets through just fine. The question mark is why I would want to keep dealing with Sprint…</p>
-
-<p>There is no excuse today for designing a public website (not a web application, just your basic corporate website) that doesn't automatically work with <strong>all</strong> browsers.</p>
-
-<p>The rest of the site is equally bad. I'm not going to decompose it completely, but just mention that typing "order T1" into the search box generates…zero results. I'm self-selecting as a customer that <em>wants to order a service from Sprint</em> -- and they have no results for me.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-06-jeff-pulver-blog-free-world-dialup-now-supports-asterisk.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-06-jeff-pulver-blog-free-world-dialup-now-supports-asterisk.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 4015ad0..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-06-jeff-pulver-blog-free-world-dialup-now-supports-asterisk.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Jeff Pulver Blog: Free World Dialup now supports Asterisk!"
-created: 1083855376
-categories: 
-- VoIP
----
-<blockquote>I'm happy to announce that we are formally supporting the Inter-Asterisk eXchange Protocol (version 2) - IAX2 on the FWD Network. This is in addition to our "experimental" peering support of both H.323 and Cisco Call Manager.
-<cite><a href="http://192.246.69.231/jeff/personal/archives/000764.html">Jeff Pulver Blog: Free World Dialup now supports Asterisk!</a></cite></blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-06-new-bloggers-on-the-block.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-06-new-bloggers-on-the-block.md
deleted file mode 100644
index eb2edeb..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-06-new-bloggers-on-the-block.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: New bloggers on the block
-created: 1083833153
-categories: 
-- Vancouver
-- Personal Publishing
----
-<p>I wanted to point out two colleagues of mine that recently started blogging. Actually, they started today, with a little help from the company I work for, <a href="http://www.streamlinewebco.com" title="Streamline Web Co - Vancouver based blog consulting and community platforms">Streamline Web Co</a>.</p>
-
-<p>So, say hello to <a href="http://stewartmarshall.blogware.com">Stewart Marshall</a> and <a href="http://www.troyangrignon.com">Troy Angrignon</a>. We hooked both of them up with personal <a href="http://www.blogware.com">Blogware</a> blogs (you can have your own free <a href="http://blogstore.streamlinewebco.com/">30-day trial</a>). Read on for a little more about these two.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>I met Stewart (in person) at the <a href="http://www.urbanvancouver.com/node/view/77">Vancouver portion of the Canadian Ecademy Roadshow</a>. By the time myself and <a href="http://www.rolandtanglao.com">Roland</a> had met with Stewart a second time, we had him drinking the blogging Kool-Aid. He's heading back to England for now, but he and his wife <a href="http://www.moosehat.com">Jessica</a> are going to be back as permanent Vancouver-area residents (it looks like North Vancouver is the first choice right now).</p>
-
-<p>Next up is Troy. Now I can stop having my inbox clogged up with cool links and ideas and just go read about them on his blog instead. His first post is entitled <a href="http://www.troyangrignon.com/blog/_archives/2004/5/6/52670.html">Big Questions, Long Views, and the Intersection of Technology and Society</a> and serves as an intro to the kind of things Troy will be writing about. I actually think that that title would actually make a good tagline for his blog.</p>
-
-<p>Here's the last paragraph from his post:</p>
-<blockquote>
-Finally! I now have somewhere to put all of my random thoughts in order to cross-link some more synaptic connections. That's one of the great joys of reflection and writing. I wish I could remember the author who said, "I do not write what I know, I write so that I may know myself." That was very wise. That is also a goal of this blog. Thanks for reading. (Hello? Hello?)
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Now go leave <a href="http://stewartmarshall.blogware.com">Stewart</a> and <a href="http://www.troyangrignon.com">Troy</a> a comment.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-06-talkbroadband-vs-telus.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-06-talkbroadband-vs-telus.md
deleted file mode 100644
index d41b989..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-06-talkbroadband-vs-telus.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: TalkBroadband vs. Telus
-created: 1083879286
-categories: 
-- Canada
-- VoIP
----
-<p>Troy, even though <a href="/node/view/1128">he's new at this blogging thing</a>, has posted a great pros and cons review of his new Primus TalkBroadband service versus his previous Telus service.</p>
-
-<p>It's very realistic and points out some of the failings of Primus' system, but in the end he states this:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-So my phone quality is good to non-existent and my message waiting [indicator] on my phone doesn't work, but I'm going to save another $600/year on long-distance and can have 5-way calling (which I'll only use once per month or so.) Was it a fair trade? Probably not. <strong>But I'm not going back. I'm going to keep going forward because I'm sure they'll work it out.</strong>
-<cite><a href="http://www.troyangrignon.com/blog/_archives/2004/5/6/52790.html">Troy Angrignon: Technology Review: Comparing Primus VoIP vs. Telus Analog line</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-08-evans-on-nyt-article-voip-in-canada.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-08-evans-on-nyt-article-voip-in-canada.md
deleted file mode 100644
index b543b20..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-08-evans-on-nyt-article-voip-in-canada.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Evans on NYT Article - VOIP in Canada
-created: 1084046359
-categories: 
-- Canada
-- VoIP
----
-<p>Mark's comments in response to an <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/05/business/worldbusiness/05canada.html?ex=1399089600&en=13703900736eb8c9&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND" title="No registration - thanks Richard Eriksson">NYT article</a>.</p><blockquote>
-A more accurate take is that the Internet is allowing new competitors to enter the market without having to make massive infrastructure investments. This environment compares with the late-1990s when competitive carriers such as <a href="http://www.angustel.ca/update/up294.html#NORIGEN IN RECEIVERSHIP">Norigen </a>and OCI Communications took a stab at taking on Bell Canada - only to fail miserably after spending hundreds of millions of dollars. Before VOIP takes off in Canada, there needs to be regulatory changes that has kept the price of local service at low levels. VOIP also needs to become more user-friendly so that its installation in a multi-phone household can be plug and play. <cite><a href="http://evans.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2004/5/5/51931.html">Mark Evans: VOIP in Canada</a></cite></blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-08-price-service-and-port-blocking-wars.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-08-price-service-and-port-blocking-wars.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 0022d4d..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-08-price-service-and-port-blocking-wars.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Price, Service, and Port Blocking Wars
-created: 1084045499
-categories: 
-- VoIP
----
-<blockquote>
-oh can you see the price, service and port blocking wars coming down the pike...I can.</p><cite><a href="http://andyabramson.blogs.com/voipwatch/2004/05/verizon_to_pusk.html">VoIP Watch (Andy Abramson): Verizon Pushes VoIP</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>I love this quote from Andy. The low-end of VoIP &mdash; single line services for residential and <acronym title="Small Office Home Office">SOHO</acronym> &mdash; are heading so quickly to commodity. Other than bundling, what features will people pay for?</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-08-snapstream-firefly-remote-giveaway.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-08-snapstream-firefly-remote-giveaway.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 383d4d2..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-08-snapstream-firefly-remote-giveaway.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: SnapStream Firefly Remote giveaway
-created: 1084043392
-categories: 
-- Multimedia PC
-- Application
-- Microsoft
----
-<blockquote>
-The folks over at Snapstream are currently running a giveaway of their new USB remote product, <a href="http://www.snapstream.com/firefly/">Firefly</a>.  They're giving away <a title="SnapStream - Firefly Five for Ten Giveaway" href="http://www.snapstream.com/firefly/giveaway/">five a day for the next ten days</a>. It includes their new home theater PC front-end software, so if you ever wanted to turn your PC into a TiVo, this would be a great way to start.<cite><a href="http://www.pvrblog.com/pvr/2004/05/firefly_giveawa.html">PVR Blog: Firefly giveaway</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-<p>Now that SnapStream has a remote, their software starts to look more interesting. Of course, being layered on top of Windows (both cost and stability issues) makes it less interesting.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>I will likely not be playing with this stuff directly for a while, unless I set one up for a friend. Not having a TV kind of makes this area less interesting, and I think a projector is a more likely future purchase.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-08-social-networking-doesnt-have-a-business-model.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-08-social-networking-doesnt-have-a-business-model.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 7b13891..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-08-social-networking-doesnt-have-a-business-model.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Social Networking Doesn't Have a Business Model
-created: 1084046725
-categories: 
-- Social Media
----
-<p>I don't think social networking has a business model. It is not an end goal, it is a <em>feature</em> that will (should!) be included in other applications.</p>
-
-<p>Adding social networking features allows additional functions in your applications: group filtering, recommendations, trust models, reputation, identity and profile management. The identity management part is an area that could use a lot of work still.</p>
-
-<p>Stuart Henshall is thinking about it, so I'm sure we'll get some good thoughts on it soon:</p>
-<!--break-->
-<blockquote>
-<p>David Coursey chimes in to the <a href="http://www.henshall.com/blog/archives/000817.html">Social Networking is Broken</a> theme.  So if it is broken with no business model where to next? </p>
-
-<p><i>Social networks are a good thing. Everybody should have one--and everybody I know does, in some form or fashion. But whether you need an online social network and, particularly, whether you need one whose primary purpose is separating you from your money is another question entirely.</i><br />
-<a title="No Business in Social Networking" href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1584469,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594">No Business in Social Networking</a></p>
-
-<p>Where to?<br />
-This is a question I've been pondering I just know I'm not getting to it tonight. Maybe someone else in the network will.</p><cite><a href="http://www.henshall.com/blog/archives/000890.html">Unbound Spiral (Stuart Henshall): Forget Current Social Networking Models</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-08-social-software-ideas-in-practice.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-08-social-software-ideas-in-practice.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 52d7a79..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-08-social-software-ideas-in-practice.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Social Software Ideas in Practice
-created: 1084044023
-categories: 
-- Social Media
----
-<p>An overview on a lot of the thinking around social software, specifically a "quick way in to pick the most appropriate ideas for people in other fields". I like this definition:</p>
-<blockquote>
-Social software's purpose is dealing with with groups, or interactions between people. This is as opposed to conventional software like Microsoft Word, which although it may have collaborative features ("track changes") isn't primarily social. (Those features could learn a lot from social software however.) The primary constraint of social software is in the design process: Human factors and group dynamics introduce design difficulties that aren't obvious without considering psychology and human nature.<cite><a href="http://interconnected.org/home/2004/04/28/on_social_software">Interconnected: Entry 2004/04/28/on_social_software</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-<p>My own goes like this:</p>
-<p><em>"Software designed to work the way people already do"</em></p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>It's a little awkwardly worded, but I hope it captures the concept of software (and all of technology) as an enabler, a supporter for richer human connections, communication, and collaboration in the "real world".</p>
-
-<p>It means that you need to have an understanding of how people use tools and what their needs are, and what the needs of different groups are going to vary.</p>
-
-<p>And it means you need to design some of these thoughts in from day one.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-08-what-is-a-wiki.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-08-what-is-a-wiki.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 4048dc9..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-08-what-is-a-wiki.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: What is a Wiki?
-created: 1084047646
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
----
-<p>An excellent description of what a wiki is, and what it's used for, all in non-technical terms. Todd <a href="/node/view/1036">asked about wikis in the forum here</a>.</p>
-<blockquote>
-Ultimately, a wiki is a specific type of website.  A wiki is special because it allows a group of people to build, edit and modify a website with no programming or HTML whatsoever.  Because it doesn&rsquo;t require technical expertise, all users of the wiki have equal ability to maintain and edit the site.  Wikis are easy to learn and use, which makes them accessible to everyone.
-<cite><a href="http://www.commoncraft.com/archives/000644.html">Common Craft: Wikis Described in Plain English</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>I also like this section:</p>
-<!--break-->
-<blockquote>
-
-<p><b>Wikis are different from normal web sites:</b></p>
-
-<p>Normal web sites are usually developed offline and then presented to users as a finished product.  By comparison, wikis are first presented to users as a blank slate- an empty page.  A new wiki is an empty wiki, no pages, no links.  Instead of a team of designers developing a web site in private, a wiki is developed in public by the users of the wiki over the life of the wiki. </p>
-</blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-08-zoe-and-email-choices.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-08-zoe-and-email-choices.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 425cc15..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-08-zoe-and-email-choices.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Zoe and Email Choices
-created: 1084045228
-categories: 
-- Search Engine Voodoo
-- Knowledge Management
----
-<p>Scott found <a href="http://zoe.nu/">Zoe</a> again and checked it out this time. I keep hoping it will get to a usable state at some point. Since I now have a laptop, it might make sense to start having all my email on this box.</p>
-
-<p>Actually, I'm going to be making some choices about email soon. I have my <a href="http://www.easydns.com">DNS</a> and my <a href="http://www.cihost.com">hosting</a> separated now, and my email is still with my <a href="http://www.xlinternet.com">old provider</a>. I'm debating moving all my email services to an outsourced provider. The wishlist includes:</p>
-
-<ul>
-<li>IMAP</li>
-<li>spam & virus filtering</li>
-<li>web access</li>
-<li>large (100-500MB+) mailboxes
-</ul>
-
-<p>In any case, read on for Scott's take on Zoe.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<blockquote>
-<p>Ah, finally&mdash;someone explains the <em>point</em> of Zoe.  It&rsquo;s basically a personal email search engine.  Once I got that, I grabbed a copy and tried it out.  It&rsquo;s trivial to install&mdash;just extract the files from the archive and double-click on Zoe.jar.  Zoe runs its own web server on port 10080, and automatically fires up your favorite browser when it starts.  The web interface is intuitive and reasonable attractive, and it&rsquo;s easy to add new POP or IMAP accounts and have Zoe import mail from them.  While it&rsquo;s possible to use Zoe as a web-based mail reader, it&rsquo;s not really very good at that&mdash;it doesn&rsquo;t do folders at all, and I can&rsquo;t figure out how to get it to do threads, but that&rsquo;s not really a problem, because it&rsquo;s not <em>supposed</em> to be used for normal mail reading: it&rsquo;s a search engine, not a mail reader.</p>
-
-<p>I probably have around 100,000 messages sitting in assorted IMAP mail boxes in various places, and Zoe is the first program that I&rsquo;ve found that is actually usable for searching them.  OS X&rsquo;s Mail program isn&rsquo;t very good at searching huge volumes of mail, particularly when most of it lives on IMAP servers.</p>
-
-<p>The big problem with Zoe is its resource needs&mdash;it&rsquo;s written in Java, and wants at least 70 MB of RAM when it&rsquo;s running on my laptop, plus a few hundred MB of disk space.  I just don&rsquo;t have enough free RAM on my laptop to add another 70+ MB program, so I&rsquo;m going to <em>try running it on one of my Linux servers</em> at home and see how that goes.</p><cite><a href="http://scottstuff.net/scott/archives/000181.html
-">scottstuff: Zoe</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Emphasis is mine &mdash; if Scott manages to work the same magic on Zoe that he has with <a href="http://scottstuff.net/scott/archives/cat_asterisk.html">Asterisk</a>, then we can look forward to some good instructions on getting Zoe on a server. Scott also points out <a href="http://www.near-time.com/">Near Time Flow</a>, which I talked about earlier &mdash; I'm still looking forward to testing this when it comes out.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-09-dell-might-buy-palmone.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-09-dell-might-buy-palmone.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 93a703b..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-09-dell-might-buy-palmone.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Dell might buy PalmOne
-created: 1084124793
-categories: 
-- IM
-- Palm
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<p><a href="http://home.justwerks.com" title="Evan Wise's Website">Evan</a> and I were talking about <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/07/palmone_dell/">this</a> the other day. Evan doesn't think that a takeover is Dell's style, and that a two-pronged strategy of PocketPC for their Axim product, and potentially Palm as a second platform wouldn't make sense. I of course countered with the fact that Dell ships both Windows and Linux pre-installed, but Evan was right when he pointed out that at least these two share the same hardware architecture.</p>
-
-<p>I do think that Dell needs more "skin in the game" &mdash; handhelds and smartphones are going to become more ubiquitous as opposed to just selling more computers. With PalmOne (does any else get confused between the hardware company, and PalmSource, the software company?), Dell would get an entry not only into light-weight handhelds but also smartphones with the Treo line.</p>
-
-<p>Evan still remains skeptical of a Dell takeover of PalmOne, but here is his parting comment: <em>"Of course, if this brings the cost of the Treo down and makes it more available: bring it on!"</em></p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-09-mt-vs-ee-for-a-corporate-weblogs-farm.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-09-mt-vs-ee-for-a-corporate-weblogs-farm.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 2564397..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-09-mt-vs-ee-for-a-corporate-weblogs-farm.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: MT vs. EE for a Corporate Weblogs Farm
-created: 1084143540
-categories: 
-- "*nix"
-- Drupal
-- Personal Publishing
----
-<blockquote>
-<p>I'm in the process of evaluating several weblog solutions for building a <em>corporate weblogs farm</em>. In other words, I'm looking for a solution that would allow a company, with a simple (if not single) software installment on its existing web platform, to host any number of internal and/or external weblogs.</p>
-<p>&#8230;</p>
-<p>I ended up comparing <a href="http://www.sixapart.com/">Six Apart</a>'s <a href="http://www.movabletype.org/">Movable Type</a> 3 and <a href="http://pmachine.com/">pMachine</a>'s <a href="http://pmachine.com/expressionengine/">ExpressionEngine</a> 1.0. The following is not a full fledged comparison of both products, but I thought it might be of interest for other people as I came out with some interesting differences that might help someone else make their mind about them.</p>
-<cite><a href="http://www.padawan.info/weblog/movable_type_vs_expressionengine_a_comparison.html">padawan.info: Movable Type vs. ExpressionEngine &mdash; A comparison</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>A good overview of <acronym title="MovableType">MT</acronym> vs. <acronym title="Expression Engine">EE</acronym>, in this case for their usefulness in a corporate setting. pMachine was my first true weblog system. I had been using <a href="http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu/">phpWebSite</a> for my tech news, but found that I was posting more often (almost exclusively) to this little pMachine-driven section. I also remember talking to Rick Ellis about a pMachine hosting platform, but he was in the midst of setting up his company and planning for EE. The rest of the story is well-known &mdash; I use <a href="http://www.drupal.org">Drupal</a> and think it's a great platform, and it works great for corporate needs.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-09-newspapers-see-danger-in-text-messaging.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-09-newspapers-see-danger-in-text-messaging.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 9fa30c6..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-09-newspapers-see-danger-in-text-messaging.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Newspapers See Danger in Text Messaging
-created: 1084124103
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
----
-<blockquote>
-International editors and publishers warned Friday that nontraditional communications&mdash;such as cell phone text messages&mdash;are rapidly outflanking radio, television, and print media because of their immediacy and proximity to the public.
-<cite><a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1588643,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594">eWeek: Newspapers See Danger in Text Message</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>And this is a surprise? I see the decline of print media as Darwin-istic: they have for the most part proven unable to adapt to the times, and so are headed for extinction. I have great respect for the written word, and count reading as one of my main pastimes, but newspapers add little value. They cover breaking stories much slower than TV or radio, large parts of each issue are of no or little interest to me, and they have very limited amounts of interaction or feedback built in.</p>
-
-<p>I don't see radio or television in quite as much danger &mdash; they are "richer" forms of media, and I think that richer media will be the winner. Just like text information on the web is richer than print media. We're going to be doing some experiments with audio and video content on <a href="http://www.urbanvancouver.com" title="Urban Vancouver - your source for local Vancouver news">Urban Vancouver</a>, and maybe even some radio. Yes, that's right &mdash; micro-broadcasting!</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-09-that-old-trackback-magic.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-09-that-old-trackback-magic.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 7547095..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-09-that-old-trackback-magic.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: That old Trackback magic
-created: 1084123071
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
----
-A comment I posted on at <a href="http://flowdelic.org/archives/000005.html">flowdelic</a>, a new blog by Mason Hale of <a href="http://www.frogdesign.com">frogdesign</a>:
-
-Actually, why do we need trackback? I very much agree with John Gruber's thoughts on trackback &mdash; <a href="http://daringfireball.net/2003/06/take_your_trackbacks_and_dangle">Take your Trackbacks and Dangle</a> and <a href="http://daringfireball.net/2003/06/trackback_addenda">Trackback addenda</a>.
-
-I agree that a "threaded" or otherwise centralized view of the flow of conversation would be incredible. But I don't want to shut out non-trackback using tools. The referrer is common across all web-platforms &mdash; it's just links, after all!
-
-That being said, for tools that don't do trackback, you can use <a href="http://kalsey.com/tools/trackback/">Simpletracks from Kalsey Consulting</a>. I use it on occasion, but other times I'll just do this &mdash; post comments on my site as well as type them into the comment box.
-
-Some other thoughts: Is "trackback" capitalized or not? Is it a trademark of MovableType?
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-09-voice-goes-live-in-the-corporate-data-center.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-09-voice-goes-live-in-the-corporate-data-center.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 96a46cf..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-09-voice-goes-live-in-the-corporate-data-center.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Voice goes live in the corporate data center
-created: 1084126199
-categories: 
-- VoIP
----
-<blockquote>
-Telephony servers now emerging are set to transform enterprise phone systems into just one more service provided through the corporate data center.<cite><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/05/03/HNmergeteledata_1.html">InfoWorld (Telecom): Siemens moves to merge telephony, data center</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>This InfoWorld article was actually prompted by Siemens' release of its <A href="http://www.siemens.com/index.jsp?sdc_contentid=1161753&sdc_langid=1&">HiPath 8000</a>  softswitch, but does a good job talking a little bit about the convergence of IP communications, XML, and web services. Siemens also talks about being more open than the offerings from other vendors in the past, certifying solutions other than its own to run on the platform.</p>
-
-<p>Not surprising, since the platform is a pair of IBM XSeries 345/346 servers running SuSE Linux. And yet, pricing at $300/user for 12,000 users?! Granted, voice platforms are more complicated than let's say a <a href="http://www.apache.org">webserver</a>, but I have to think that <a href="http://www.asterisk.org" title="Asterisk is an open-source VoIP platform">open source systems</a> could be lower cost than this.</p>
-
-<p>With the sweeping realization that voice is "just bits", large corporations are moving more of their infrastructure into their data centers, and it looks like there will be both open and proprietary systems there to meet them.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-10-web-hosting-server-control-panels.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-10-web-hosting-server-control-panels.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 1f05a42..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-10-web-hosting-server-control-panels.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Web Hosting Server Control Panels
-created: 1084255798
-categories: 
-- IT
-- Web Development
----
-<p>I was recently looking at a bunch of different control panel options for reseller accounts, particularly those for dedicated servers. I was looking specifically for unlimited domain options that run on some version of Linux.</p>
-
-<p>Here are some links and basic info that may prove useful:</p>
-<!--break-->
-<ul>
-<li><a href="http://www.sw-soft.com/en/products/plesk/">Plesk</a>: $799US for unlimited domains, includes 1 year of upgrades</li>
-<li><a href="http://www.cpanel.net/">cPanel</a>: $1500US one time license, includes 1 year of support and 2 years of upgrades</li>
-<li><a href="http://www.ensim.com">Ensim Pro Unlimited</a>: $800US</li>
-<li><a href="http://cpplus.altaire.com/">CP+</a>: $120US annually</a></li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>Of these, I've only ever used Ensim. From the contortions and problems that my shared web hosting provider went through, I think I can safely say that it isn't pretty. The UI for my account sucked, but it was usable enough.</p>
-
-<p>I briefly had a reseller account that was <a href="http://www.psoft.net/h_sphere2_info.html">HSphere</a> powered. Theoretically this Java-based control panel can be run clustered and is very powerful. Sadly, my experience with it was that it sucked a lot -- it was so slow as to be unusable (this might have been the host, but still…) and the interface and functions were basically incomprehensible. While everything seemed to be pushbutton, there was little guidance on what pushing different buttons did, and often hidden dependencies that wouldn't be revealed until you had tried to submit a long form -- only to be told to go back and set something else up first. Which you first had to find out where that something else was.</p>
-
-<p>Anyone have nice things to say about some of the other control panels?</p>
-
-<p>I'm starting to think that these current control panels, like many blogging systems, are just too hard and too complicated for most people to deal with. And for people that need extra power/flexibility, the command line ultimately offers better choices.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-13-iphoto-to-everything.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-13-iphoto-to-everything.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 7b529a6..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-13-iphoto-to-everything.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: iPhoto to Everything
-created: 1084431628
-categories: 
-- Application
-- Mac
----
-<a href="http://www.rolandtanglao.com/archives/2004/05/12/iphoto2weblog">Roland pointed out iPhotoToWeblog</a>, which is an AppleScript for posting to metaWeblog-API compatible blogs.
-
-I have always used <a href="http://gallery.sourceforge.net" title="The best web-based image gallery - only needs PHP">Gallery</a> for my mass posting of pictures, because I really do have too many pictures to clutter up a blog with -- like around 8,000 from the past 2 years or so.
-
-Since I'm on a Mac, I use <a href="http://www.zwily.com/iphoto/" title="Export from iPhoto directly to Gallery">iPhotoToGallery</a>, which is completely integrated into iPhoto with an "export" plugin that lets you post directly to any gallery without leaving iPhoto. It even supports great Mac integration like saving your password in the KeyChain and resizing pictures locally.
-<!--break-->
-I had talked to Zach a while back about adding MetaWeblog API support. He's apparently toiling away at it right now. Go make <a href="http://www.zwily.com/iphoto" title="Tell Zach that you'll pay for iPhotoToMetaWeblog">his traffic spike</a> to convince him to release what he's been working on!
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-15-do-not-buy-an-inexq-wireless-router.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-15-do-not-buy-an-inexq-wireless-router.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 3f42592..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-15-do-not-buy-an-inexq-wireless-router.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Do not buy an InexQ Wireless Router
-created: 1084655436
-categories: 
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<p>Unless, of course, you want a lot of grief.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>The problems come down to this:</p>
-<ul>
-<li>the firewall blocks legitimate outgoing connections (like to my IMAP server); having to turn the firewall off is not a nice option, but it's your only choice</li>
-<li>the submit page for setting the address of a DMZ machine is broken, meaning you have to port forward a bunch of things manually</li>
-<li>the range/power of the 802.11g wireless is pathetic -- I didn't even get full bars a scant few feet away</li>
-<li>for some reason, even though I manually port-forwarded web connections to my <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/e-smith">home server</a>, I could not connect to any domains hosted there from behind the router; external connections worked fine</li>
-<li>for the absolute crowning glory of all these problems, the InexQ website is inexplicably VBScript powered; I had hoped that firmware upgrades might solve some of these problems, but I can't even download them because you have to be running IE on Windows for that section of the website to even function; luckily, a friend with this combination went to the web page, clicked on the download link, and promptly received 404 errors.</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>I should have been warned by the fact that a <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=inexq&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8">search for InexQ</a> returns <a href="http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,8578616~mode=flat">InexQ crap</a> as the second hit.</p>
-
-<p>I think everyone can safely stay away from all InexQ products. Forever.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-15-palm-gphone-does-sip.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-15-palm-gphone-does-sip.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a4e1d1c..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-15-palm-gphone-does-sip.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Palm GPhone does SIP
-created: 1084647291
-categories: 
-- Palm
-- VoIP
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<p>SIP stacks for handhelds and smartphones mean more edge devices plugging into the VoIP cloud. I had a discussion the other day about the lack of text messaging uses in North America. I actually think that we are so far behind in use that text messaging will get leap-frogged by IM and VoIP options.</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-Gphone solutions are based on VL Inc’s propriety GPhone engine. GPhone is focused on  enabling high quality full duplex VoIP on resource constrained devices.
-<cite><a href="http://www.vliusa.com/prof_personal/palmgphone_specs.php">VL Inc: Palm GPhone Specs</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Known to work with the Tungsten C, the requirements are listed as Palm OS 5.0 and a StrongARM 206 or better.</p>
-
-<p>(via <a href="http://192.246.69.231/jeff/personal/archives/000792.html">Jeff Pulver Blog</a>)</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-15-wifi-box.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-15-wifi-box.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e953a67..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-15-wifi-box.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: WiFi Box
-created: 1084656500
-categories: 
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-Alternate firmware for the LinkSys  WRT54G wireless router, with enhanced functionality.
-
-Compiled into firmware upgrades that you can apply directly through the existing upgrade web interface.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-15-wrt54g-firmware.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-15-wrt54g-firmware.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 813681a..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-15-wrt54g-firmware.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: WRT54G Firmware
-created: 1084656701
-categories: 
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-Collection of links and downloads of original and hacked versions of firmware for the LinkSys WRT54G.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-16-a-quick-way-to-generate-obvious-links.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-16-a-quick-way-to-generate-obvious-links.md
deleted file mode 100644
index b6aef20..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-16-a-quick-way-to-generate-obvious-links.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: A quick way to generate obvious links
-created: 1084775626
-categories: 
-- Search Engine Voodoo
-- Personal Publishing
----
-<blockquote>
-I want a blog editor that will let me select a block of text, and then search Google for me, providing me with a list of URLs from a search for the text provided. Then, when I pick one, the text and URL will be turned into a link. Nothing fancy, just a quick way to generate obvious links. For instance, in the last post, I ended up searching Google a half-dozen times to find good URLs for the links in the post. I wish Ecto could automate that for me.
-<cite><a href="http://scottstuff.net/scott/archives/000185.html">*scottstuff*: Blog Editing with Google</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-16-civicspace-labs.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-16-civicspace-labs.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 8ae65aa..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-16-civicspace-labs.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: CivicSpace Labs
-created: 1084776788
-categories: 
-- Drupal
----
-<blockquote>
-Called <a href="http://www.civicspacelabs.org/">CivicSpace Labs</a>, their venture is building a software platform for activists. They envision a powerful and easy to use ``grass-roots organizing tool kit'' that gives people ways to organize campaigns and then connect with like-minded activists.
-<cite><a href="http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/010383.shtml">Silicon Valley - Dan Gillmor's eJournal - Civic Good Not Always About Financial Returns</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>I wonder what this could be powered by&#8230;</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-16-editthispagephp.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-16-editthispagephp.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 58aa071..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-16-editthispagephp.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: EditThisPagePHP
-created: 1084776538
-categories: 
-- Web 2.0
-- CMS
----
-<blockquote>
-At the fundamental level, EditThisPagePHP basically just let you remotely edit a single page. There are many situations where existing Wiki or Blog software is too complicated, or imposes too much structure. EditThisPagePHP lets you have total control over the HTML -- you can use sophisticated CSS layouts, or very simple HTML -- the software does not get in the way.
-<cite><a href="http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2004/05/simple_yet_soph.html">Life With Alacrity: Simple Yet Sophisticated Group Page Editing</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>I'm trying to figure out what's so different about <a href="http://editthispagephp.sourceforge.net/home/index.php">ETP</a>. This plus WebDAV might be interesting.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-16-information-overload-dissolves-into-nothingness.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-16-information-overload-dissolves-into-nothingness.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 0dcc0b0..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-16-information-overload-dissolves-into-nothingness.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Information Overload Dissolves Into Nothingness
-created: 1084774507
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
-- Knowledge Management
----
-<blockquote>
-If we look from a hierarchical perspective there is a need for having all available information at your disposal. It is what keeps you on top of it all. The usage of the term information overload implies a hierarchical situation. Taking the emergence perspective, information overload dissolves into nothingness: it is not about the individual information items, it&#8217;s about the overall shapes and patterns they in combination convey, which you should be alert to.
-<cite><a href="http://blog.zylstra.org/archives/001303.html">Ton's Interdependent Thoughts: The Emergence of Blogging</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-16-less-typing-more-linking.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-16-less-typing-more-linking.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 527ad1d..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-16-less-typing-more-linking.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Less typing, more linking
-created: 1084773985
-categories: 
-- BMC
----
-I've been sorely remiss in posting. I'm going to do less commentary in this blog area, and more linking and excerpting -- it is meant to be my "link blog". If you want to be less overwhelmed with new items, try subscribing only to my <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/feed" title="B. Mann Consulting RSS Feed - Main page">front page feed</a>. Items for which I provide commentary (hopefully longer, more thoughtful commentary) will go there.
-
-Alternately, you can also choose to only pick the topics that interest you -- see the <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/syndication" title="All syndicated feeds at B. Mann Consulting">syndication page</a> for links to all the categories available.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-16-tables-vs-css-in-web-standards.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-16-tables-vs-css-in-web-standards.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 1dded95..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-16-tables-vs-css-in-web-standards.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Tables vs. CSS in Web Standards
-created: 1084776018
-categories: 
-- Web Development
----
-<blockquote>
-In order to bring some balance back to the equation, and to have a bit of fun playing devils advocate, I&#8217;ve decided to write an article about why in some instances, traditional table based design can be as good, if not better than CSS and standards based design.
-<cite><a href="http://www.andybudd.com/archives/2004/05/an_objective_look_at_table_based_vs_css_based_design/index.php">Andy Budd::Blogography: An Objective Look at Table Based vs. CSS Based Design</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-16-whats-new-in-mt-3-0-other-than-a-licensing-controversy.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-16-whats-new-in-mt-3-0-other-than-a-licensing-controversy.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 8fb56c4..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-16-whats-new-in-mt-3-0-other-than-a-licensing-controversy.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: What's new in MT 3.0? (other than a licensing controversy)
-created: 1084774992
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
----
-<blockquote>
-&#8230;whether I use MT 3.0 is far more likely to be dependent on its feature set than its price. But what is the feature set? In the few minutes I've spent trying to find out, I simply can't determine what it has that's different from 2.6, why SixApart thinks I should upgrade, or anything like that.
-<cite><a href="http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~ejalbert/archives/2004/05/13.html#001236">Eric Albert: What's in this Movable Type 3.0 thing after all?</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-17-bitpal-address-book-and-to-dos-on-your-removable-drive.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-17-bitpal-address-book-and-to-dos-on-your-removable-drive.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 3a094ce..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-17-bitpal-address-book-and-to-dos-on-your-removable-drive.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: BitPal - Address Book and To Do's on your removable drive
-created: 1084777719
-categories: 
-- Microsoft
-- Mac
-- Application
----
-<blockquote>
-<p>BitPal is an Address Book and a To Do task manager. It's really nicely designed and easy to use. And it's designed to be mobile.</p>
-
-<p>Drag the BitPal folder to your USB Pen Drive, and everything you need goes with you. Take your address book info to work, while keeping it off company computers. Have your To Do List in the palm of your hand.</p>
-<cite><a href="http://bitpal.com/">BitPal, Inc.</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Sounds like a great application, and it works with OS X and Windows XP. From the look of it, I don't think it integrates with Address Book or the equivalent on Windows. If it did that, I'd get it for Kate. Oh, and can we add calendaring, too?</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-17-rendezvous-wifi-foaf-people-in-my-neighbourhood.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-17-rendezvous-wifi-foaf-people-in-my-neighbourhood.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 5a9d99c..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-17-rendezvous-wifi-foaf-people-in-my-neighbourhood.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Rendezvous + WiFi + FOAF = People in my Neighbourhood
-created: 1084780039
-categories: 
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
-- Social Media
----
-<blockquote>
-If you had a bit longer range then Bluetooth (30 feet is kind of short, 100-150 feet would be just about right, IMHO), and some reasonably standard way of mapping device IDs to people (think FOAF or something Technorati- or Google-driven, where people opt-in by posting their own IDs), and we could have a really fascinating way of building communities. There are certainly a ton of privacy issues, but those could be mostly mitigated by the opt-in nature of the device ID&#8594;identity mapping and by turning off Bluetooth discovery on your phone.
-<cite><a href="http://scottstuff.net/scott/archives/000183.html">*scottstuff*: Bluetooth Jabberwocky</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Mmmm...what about Rendezvous + WiFI, and using the MAC address of your WiFi card?</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-17-robotradio.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-17-robotradio.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 6fa936f..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-17-robotradio.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: RobotRadio
-created: 1084862028
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
----
-<blockquote>
-<a href="http://www.spacebrothers.com/robotradio/">RobotRadio.net</a> - automated streaming web (and satellite radio) talk show, with synthesized voices (bot jocks) reading the news from RSS/blog feeds and occasionally, PD or Open Source text (i.e., Gutenberg) - "the talk of the Internet." "Caller" comments entered via web form and read by robots and/or listener phone calls digitzed and stored. Sponsors submit text for robots and/or audio. Audio extra. Robot jocks do intros, outros, narrations...
-<cite><a href="http://www.byte.org/blog/_archives/2004/5/17/71495.html">Random Bytes :: OpenRadio</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Technically this is a quoted-quote, but Ross pulled it out of one of the PDFs (I think). And to think all that <a href="http://www.urbanvancouver.com" title="Vancouver news, photos, and more">UV</a> was thinking about was setting up some micro-FM transmitters with "backhaul" streaming over the Internet...</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-18-darwinports.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-18-darwinports.md
deleted file mode 100644
index ba23fb2..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-18-darwinports.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: DarwinPorts
-created: 1084867030
-categories: 
-- Mac
-- Application
-- "*nix"
----
-<blockquote>
-The DarwinPorts Project's main goal is to provide an easy way to  install various open-source software products on a Darwin, Mac OS X,  FreeBSD, or Linux system.
-<cite><a href="http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/">DarwinPorts Home</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>I haven't even installed the developer tools on this laptop yet. Once I start mucking about installing command-line "stuff", I'm going to pick a ports system like this or <a href="http://fink.sourceforge.net/">fink</a> and stick with it. One package manager to rule them all&#8230;</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-18-entellium.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-18-entellium.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 01edf89..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-18-entellium.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Entellium
-created: 1084868555
-categories: 
-- Web 2.0
----
-<blockquote>
-Officials also boast that Entellium has advanced workflow capabilities to handle things like report distribution and customer and lead routing, plus <strong>voice access</strong> to the service and a multi-tiered architecture to support channel management.
-<cite><a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1590543,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594">New Hosted CRM Provider Looks to Undercut Competition</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Is it just me, or are there an awful lot of CRM applications bubbling to the surface right now?</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-18-fast-dsl.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-18-fast-dsl.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 36b4c70..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-18-fast-dsl.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Fast DSL?
-created: 1084867187
-categories: 
-- United States
----
-<blockquote>
-While some DSL providers are now offering 6.0Mbps service to those with short line lengths and cable ISPs have been offering 3.0Mbps for some time, the 20Mbps residential speeds seen in other countries have been out of reach for American consumers. In a speech given on Monday in London, Nortel Network's Chief Technical Officer Greg Mumford outlined a vision for broadband where everyone would have a nice, fat DSL pipe.
-<cite><a href="http://arstechnica.com/news/posts/1084309132.html">ArsTechnica: Fast DSL: when will it hit the US market?</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>I'd prefer <acronym title="Fiber to the Home">FTTH</acronym>.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-18-goodbye-calltrex.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-18-goodbye-calltrex.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 3ec030d..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-18-goodbye-calltrex.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Goodbye Calltrex
-created: 1084866315
-categories: 
-- VoIP
-- Vancouver
----
-<blockquote>
-Despite all of these challenges, CallTrex had a unique value to offer the marketplace, with an innovative system for connecting our customers to their remote staff and allowing that remote staff to provide a great service to our customer's callers. It is sad to see it go. As we have notified our customers that the service will be turned off, we have received some terrific praise on how great our service was.
-<cite><a href="http://tedshelton.blogspot.com/2004/05/more-time-to-blog.html">Ted Shelton: More time to blog...</a></blockquote>
-
-<p>I had a post all queued up to say some complimentary things about Calltrex, especially some of the things they had coming down the pipe. Their shutdown came as a bit of a shock (I was testing the service). Ted, I still have people asking me about the advanced voicemail option!</p>
-
-<p>I want to wish Ted Shelton good luck on further ventures. For now, have fun with the kid.</p>
-
-<p>(P.S. The new Blogger template looks good. And here I was getting ready to try and switch you over to <a href="http://www.blogware.com">Blogware</a>!)</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-18-google-image-ads-offer-free-brand-advertising.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-18-google-image-ads-offer-free-brand-advertising.md
deleted file mode 100644
index feb1aa5..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-18-google-image-ads-offer-free-brand-advertising.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Google Image Ads offer free Brand Advertising
-created: 1084868648
-categories: 
-- Search Engine Voodoo
----
-<blockquote>
-Brand advertising *is* important, and does deserve some value. Will be interesting to see how this plays out. Clearly, if I am an advertiser and believe in brand advertising, AdSense images make a lot of sense, because (for now) I am getting a lot of free brand advertising. On the other hand, at some point either Google will begin to charge a fee for placement, and/or only image ads which are clicked on will run on the system.
-<cite><a href="http://battellemedia.com/archives/000665.php">John Battelle's Searchblog: What's the Value of Brand Advertising?</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Quick! Everyone start flooding Google with image ads!</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-18-meta-data-on-the-mind.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-18-meta-data-on-the-mind.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 28d92ad..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-18-meta-data-on-the-mind.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Meta Data on the mind
-created: 1084866760
-categories: 
-- Search Engine Voodoo
-- Personal Publishing
----
-<blockquote>
-I see lot&#8217;s of sites who&#8217;s head tags are stuffed full of meta tags and link tags, yet I rarely make use of such data on the sites I build. So I&#8217;m interest In what meta data you put into your sites and why.
-<cite><a href="http://www.andybudd.com/archives/2004/04/meta_data_what_do_you_use/index.php">Andy Budd::Blogography: Meta Data: What do you use</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Looks like <a href="http://geourl.org/">GeoURL</a> and <a href="http://dublincore.org/">Dublin Core</a> are the two leading favourites. Probably still lots of room for apps that do interesting stuff with this information.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-18-more-mt-vs-ee.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-18-more-mt-vs-ee.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 183bda4..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-18-more-mt-vs-ee.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: More MT vs. EE
-created: 1084864875
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
-- CMS
----
-<blockquote>
-<p>This said, the claim that EE can manage multiple weblogs holds true. Simply it must be clear that templates have to be created manually for each weblog and managed centrally by the administrators, without an easy way to delegate this task.</p>
-
-<p>For the technically inclined, here is, IMHO, the main difference between MT and EE when it comes to handling multiple weblogs</p>
-<cite><a href="http://www.padawan.info/weblog/update_on_mt_vs_ee.html">padawan.info: Update on MT vs. EE</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Follow up to <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/1142">MT vs. EE</a>. Are multiple weblogs a killer feature? It seems that many MT sites use multiple "blogs" for other effects (different sections, link blogs, etc.).</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-18-most-companies-never-change-direction-until-they-hit-the-wall.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-18-most-companies-never-change-direction-until-they-hit-the-wall.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a917070..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-18-most-companies-never-change-direction-until-they-hit-the-wall.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Most companies never change direction until they hit the wall
-created: 1084864653
-categories: 
-- Web Development
----
-<blockquote>
-We&#8217;re still clearly in a transition phase, where more and more companies will join the bandwagon, but it&#8217;s interesting to see the raise of the negative effects of sticking with bad habits vs. the benefits of adopting new rules as a driver for the adoption of web standards. Most companies never change direction until they hit the wall, as do many politicians who lack vision. It seems like a common trait of human nature.
-<cite><a href="http://www.padawan.info/web/negative_effects_of_crap_code_as_a_driver_for_web_standards.html">padawan.info: Negative effects of crap code as a driver for web standards</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-18-os-x-on-windows-via-pearpc.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-18-os-x-on-windows-via-pearpc.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 9e22f30..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-18-os-x-on-windows-via-pearpc.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: OS X on Windows via PearPC
-created: 1084868711
-categories: 
-- Microsoft
-- Mac
-- Application
----
-<blockquote>
-Leander Kahney reports that a couple of German comp-sci students have gotten the Mac OS to run in emulation under Windows via their PearPC project:
-<a href="http://saladwithsteve.com/osx/2004/05/its-been-trivial-for-years-to-run.html">Forwarding Address: OS X</a>
-</blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-18-palm-doing-well-in-smartphone-market.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-18-palm-doing-well-in-smartphone-market.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c6aa4ec..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-18-palm-doing-well-in-smartphone-market.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Palm doing well in smartphone market
-created: 1084868474
-categories: 
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
-- United States
-- Palm
----
-<blockquote>
-PalmSource's numbers come from US market watcher NPD, which tracks retail sales. During March, 47 per cent of the smart phones sold in the US through retail were based on the Palm OS, 20 per cent were based on the Symbian OS and the Series 60 UI (ie. Nokia and Sony Ericsson) and another 20 per cent used either of Microsoft's two smart phone-oriented Windows Mobile variants.
-<cite><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/12/palmone_treo_supply/">
-PalmOne pledges to boost Treo shipments | The Register</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>I've predicted the demise of Palm-based smartphones multiple times now, but that is likely because I keep thinking about European uses.</p>
-
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-18-roku-soundbridge.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-18-roku-soundbridge.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 7b1933f..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-18-roku-soundbridge.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Roku Soundbridge
-created: 1084866401
-categories: 
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
-- Music
-- Multimedia PC
----
-<blockquote>
-Finally, a digital music player that looks as good as it sounds! Roku presents the SoundBridge music players, featuring a unique design that fuses beautiful, large displays with compact, sleek enclosures. The SoundBridge connects your stereo or powered speakers to your computer&#8217;s digital music library.
-<cite><a href="http://www.rokulabs.com/products/soundbridge/index.php">Roku</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Looks pricey but pretty.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-18-search-changes-how-business-works.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-18-search-changes-how-business-works.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 8fb9d94..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-18-search-changes-how-business-works.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Search changes how business works
-created: 1084866911
-categories: 
-- Search Engine Voodoo
----
-<blockquote>
-We crawl continuously. We look to be updating our store [of information] within 20 minutes of when a page [on some other Web site] changes. <strong>We'd be happy to answer two or three questions per minute that are very complex and change how business works.</strong>
-<cite><a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/may2004/tc2004056_8496_tc_168.htm">BW Online | May 6, 2004 | Web Search: On to "Sense-Making"</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>A quote from the <a href="http://www.almaden.ibm.com/webfountain/">WebFountain</a> guys (emphasis mine). Remember: we do search because it helps solve problems. </p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-18-subethaedit-turns-2-0.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-18-subethaedit-turns-2-0.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 465d65d..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-18-subethaedit-turns-2-0.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: SubEthaEdit turns 2.0
-created: 1084869376
-categories: 
-- Mac
-- Application
----
-<blockquote>
-We are proud to announce the release of SubEthaEdit 2.0. Here are some of the <a href="http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/features.html">new features</a>
-<cite><a href="http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/news.html">SubEthaEdit - News</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Oh right, and now there is a&#8230;<a href="http://drupal.org/node/view/7835">Drupal mode</a>! Now all it needs is MetaWeblog API support so that you can team-edit blog posts. And <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/1158">EditThisPage</a> remote support. And direct editing over FTP. And SSH.</p>
-
-<p>(Somebody stop me, I'm spewing buzzwords)</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-18-talking-about-drupal-usability.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-18-talking-about-drupal-usability.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e79b800..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-18-talking-about-drupal-usability.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Talking about Drupal usability
-created: 1084898467
-categories: 
-- Drupal
-- Drupal
-- Drupal
----
-One of the big concepts for upcoming versions of Drupal is profiles -- essentially, a bundled set of configuration settings and enabled modules that are pre-set for specific uses.
-
-Some examples include <em>power blogger</em> or <em>community site</em>.
-
-There is a <a href="http://urlgreyhot.com/wiki/pmwiki.php/Drupal/Usability">Drupal Usability wiki over at urlgreyhot</a> that I've just made a few minor edits to. Probably a quick way to come to some rough consensus and explore some of the concepts around Drupal.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-18-telus-microcell-an-unholy-union.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-18-telus-microcell-an-unholy-union.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 1836326..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-18-telus-microcell-an-unholy-union.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Telus-Microcell: An Unholy Union?"
-created: 1084864448
-categories: 
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
-- Canada
----
-<blockquote>
-Microcell was seen as the one "unreasonable" player in the market that kept everyone else honest on prices. Given how Bell, Telus and Rogers have all adopted the mantra of higher ARPU and bottom-line profits, Microcell's elimination will likely mean one thing: higher prices.
-<cite><a href="http://evans.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2004/5/14/68076.html">Mark Evans :: Telus-Microcell: An Unholy Union?</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>I had to post this just for the title. Yes, this does look like a defensive move -- Telus uses CDMA and Microcell uses GSM, but Telus is afraid that Microcell might fall into the clutches of Rogers. In my personal experience, Microcell/Fido has had the best customer service, certainly the best available phones in Canada. It is unfortunate that they've had money troubles, and it's unfortunate that we might see more of a monopoly on telecom services.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-19-lagerway-vs-zennstrom-smackdown.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-19-lagerway-vs-zennstrom-smackdown.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 9fc6d54..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-19-lagerway-vs-zennstrom-smackdown.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Lagerway vs. Zennstrom - Smackdown!
-created: 1084950260
-categories: 
-- VoIP
-- Canada
----
-<blockquote>
-I would personally like to see a public debate on SIP versus Skype with myself and Niklas on the panel and put the theories in front of the people. If nothing else it might educate a few people.
-<cite><a href="http://sipthat.com/archives/000085.html">SIPthat.com: Xten and Skype at VON Canada</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Recounting his experiences at VON Canada, Erik Lagerway wants to take on Skype.</p>
-
-<p>How's that for sensationalism? Actually, I very much agree with what Erik has to say in his post: we've already travelled down the road of incompatible networks in the IM world, why would we want to do the same thing with Skype? And it's still Windows only, with APIs only for the COM world. What happens the first time you want to call a Mac- or Linux-user?</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-24-ted-shelton-will-telephony-go-to-zero-dollars.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-24-ted-shelton-will-telephony-go-to-zero-dollars.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c90cd45..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-24-ted-shelton-will-telephony-go-to-zero-dollars.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Ted Shelton: Will Telephony go to Zero (dollars)?"
-created: 1085464554
-categories: 
-- VoIP
----
-<blockquote>A reader of this blog anonymously posted a comment to one of my earlier posts, <a href="http://tedshelton.blogspot.com/2004/05/how-cheap-can-it-get.html">How Cheap Can It Get?</a>, asking if the price to make a phone call might one day drop to zero.  The answer is YES and that day is already here.
-<cite><a href="http://tedshelton.blogspot.com/2004/05/will-telephony-go-to-zero-dollars.html">Ted Shelton: Will Telephony go to Zero (dollars)?</a></cite></blockquote>
-
-<p>Ted uses Skype as an example of easy-to-use way to get free calling today. Anyone on a Mac can also use <a href="http://www.apple.com/ichat">iChat</a>.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-24-why-i-will-likely-delete-my-ecademy-account.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-24-why-i-will-likely-delete-my-ecademy-account.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 4f3a6c7..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-24-why-i-will-likely-delete-my-ecademy-account.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Why I will likely delete my Ecademy account
-created: 1085464808
-categories: 
-- Social Media
----
-<p>After signing up for <a href="http://www.ecademy.com">Ecademy</a> almost 2 years ago, I am likely going to ask to have my account deleted.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>I recently met some <a href="http://www.moosehat.com" title="Stewart and Jessica Marshall's Moosehat Blog">great Ecademy people</a> and so decided to give the whole thing another serious look.</p>
-
-<p>Going back in, I found that I had been given a "<a href="http://ecademy.com/node.php?title=Power+Networker">Power Networker</a>" trial period. You can see that last link for the full list of features that are enabled by this (access to <a href="http://www.regus.com">Regus</a> meeting centers alone looks good, although there aren't many in Canada). The usual price is $15US per month or $150US annually.</p>
-
-<p>All well and good, and as <a href="http://www.rolandtanglao.com">Roland</a> says, "Ecademy is the friendliest social network". I sent messages back and forth, found some more clubs (which are pretty much topic-specific forums or communities of interest) and all was good.</p>
-
-<p>I did struggle with the Ecademy interface. It never was clear to me how you "connect" with someone. This takes place, apparently, by exchanging messages -- you can't connect without sending a message, and by sending a message you automatically connect.</p>
-
-<p>Except, once the trial period expired, I could no longer connect with people. OK, fine, I really was just testing it in any case. But here's the tricky part: if someone sends me a message, <strong>I can't respond</strong>. Yes, that's right -- since I'm over my limit with connections (10 if you are not a "Power Networker"), and since "connecting" is done by replying to a message (or sending? this still isn't clear), and since I'm not allowed to connect to any more people, I can no longer respond to messages people send me.</p>
-
-<p>So, here's what I need from Ecademy in order for me to not delete my account: Give me the option to send an "auto-reply" message if I'm not able to respond; I can then choose to include my email address, a link to my website, or some alternate means of contacting me if people are interested.</p>
-
-<p>I should also put in a generic rant about how I will not allow anyone, much less an online social network, to limit the communications that I have with fellow human beings. I understand the need for Ecademy to build a business model (except <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/1136">I think that social networking doesn't have a business model</a>), but the current situation really is no good.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-25-voxilla-skype-adds-pictures.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-25-voxilla-skype-adds-pictures.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 5ee7be1..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-25-voxilla-skype-adds-pictures.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Voxilla: Skype Adds Pictures"
-created: 1085503621
-categories: 
-- VoIP
----
-<blockquote>
-The feature, called My Picture, is included in version 0.98.0.04 of the Skype software
-<cite><a href="http://voxilla.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=68">Voxilla: Skype Adds Pictures</a></cite></blockquote>
-
-<p>Did anyone ever doubt that the "picture" feature would get added to Skype? I mean, there were even placeholder spots since day one. This announcement does keep the hype machine rolling, however. Not that I've been consistently pointing out that many of Skype's actions are geared towards maintaining hype, oh no, I would never do that…</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-26-flickr-news-cool-stuff-i-want-to-pay-for.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-26-flickr-news-cool-stuff-i-want-to-pay-for.md
deleted file mode 100644
index b8c2d59..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-26-flickr-news-cool-stuff-i-want-to-pay-for.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Flickr News: Cool stuff I want to pay for"
-created: 1085636231
-categories: 
-- Vancouver
-- Social Media
----
-<p>I remember way back (about 2 months ago), when development at <a href="http://www.flickr.com">Flickr</a> was in full swing. They were going in all sorts of different directions, it seemed like, although picture sharing was still their strongest feature.</p>
-
-<p>With some <a href="http://www.flickr.com/may_news.gne">recent announcements</a>, Flickr is totally focused on being the best way to share pictures on the Internet. Not only that, but they'll even hang on to them forever.</p>
-
-<p>I can't tell you how excited I am about this. Somehow I think the news that Google is offering 1GB email accounts kicked something loose. People realized: storage is really, really, cheap. And now, they're doing stuff with it…</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>Flickr's <a href="http://www.flickr.com/upgrade/">offer</a> looks pretty good:</p>
-
-<ul>
-							<li><strong>500</strong> pictures in your shoebox</li>
-							<li><strong>1 GB</strong> upload limit per month</li>
-							<li>Permanent archiving of <strong>everything</strong> you upload</li>
-							<li>Storage of <strong>full resolution originals</strong></li>
-							<li>Complete access to your <strong>whole photostream</strong> in FlickrLive (coming soon)</li>
-						</ul>
-
-<p>And up until May 31, if you invite 5 friends, you'll get a free Pro account for three months. And apparently more features yet to come.</p>
-
-<p>So, let's compare this with my picture storage today. I have a <a href="http://gallery.bmannconsulting.com">server here locally</a> where I keep all the pictures for sharing. It's got essentially unlimited space, but I do have to back it up regularly (and we all know we forget to do this). Also, it's on a little cable Internet line, so if lots of people want to look at the pictures, or if the pictures are large, things slow down. Currently, we have about 7GB of pictures on there.</p>
-
-<p>FlickrPro might just work for me. Please, when can I pay for it?</p>
-
-<p>By the way, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/stewart/">Stewart Butterfield</a> is speaking about developing Flickr at the <a href="http://www.urbanvancouver.com/node/view/259">Vancouver User Experience Group May Session</a> tomorrow night.</p>
-
-<p>I'll be along to heckle.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-26-peerio-offically-announces-themselves.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-26-peerio-offically-announces-themselves.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 6cb7aea..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-26-peerio-offically-announces-themselves.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Peerio Offically Announces Themselves
-created: 1085592491
-categories: 
-- VoIP
----
-<blockquote>Over a week ago we mentioned that Popular Telephony would be rolling out Peerio, well <a href="http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/index.jsp?epi-content=GENERIC&newsId=20040526005209&newsLang=en&beanID=202776713&viewID=news_view">today</a> they officially did. Promising a serverless peer to peer platform, the new Skype competitor, the company plans to introduce a separate enterprise application.
-<cite><a href="http://andyabramson.blogs.com/voipwatch/2004/05/over_a_week_ago.html">VoIP Watch (Andy Abramson): Peerio Offically Announces Themselves</a></cite></blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-27-atom-linkblog-instructions.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-27-atom-linkblog-instructions.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e4feb38..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-27-atom-linkblog-instructions.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Atom Linkblog Instructions
-created: 1085681776
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
-- Web Development
----
-<p>Mark Pilgrim's instructions on how to build an Atom-powered linkblog:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-Link sidebars ("linkblogs") are increasingly popular among bloggers.  They are built into <a href="http://www.typepad.com/">Typepad</a>, newer publishing systems have plug-ins for them, and enterprising young bloggers everywhere have devised their own solutions.  Here's how I do mine in Atom.
-<cite><a href="http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/05/27/howto-atom-linkblog">Dive into Mark: How to make a linkblog in Atom</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-<!--break-->
-<p>I'm using my blog as my linkblog, with longer posts going to the front page. It's not ideal, but it frees up <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/weblink">the links section</a> for stuff that I want to remember, but it doesn't really matter if other people look at in a timely fashion.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-27-drupal-does-this-moderated-commments-and-moderated-posts.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-27-drupal-does-this-moderated-commments-and-moderated-posts.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a8bde10..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-27-drupal-does-this-moderated-commments-and-moderated-posts.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Drupal does this: moderated commments and moderated posts"
-created: 1085675407
-categories: 
-- Drupal
-- Drupal
-- Drupal
----
-<blockquote>
-Does anyone know of blogging software that allows blog posts and blog comments to be rated with the comments rising to the top the higher they are rated?  I am thinking of something much like Amazon's book pages where readers can rate both the books and the comments.  The software would have to be flexible.  Alternatively, can anyone out there write or modify existing software to perform these sorts of tasks?   <a href="mailto:Tabarrok@gmu.edu">Email me</a> with leads.  Thanks!
-<cite><a href="http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2004/05/question_about_.html">Marginal Revolution: Question about blogging software</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Drupal can do this by turning on moderated comments. The <a href="http://drupal.org/project/rating">rating contributed module</a> ranks users, not content, but I seem to remember someone had a content rating/ranking system working as well. I'll post something in the Drupal forums and get people to respond.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-27-setting-up-an-itunes-server-in-freebsd.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-27-setting-up-an-itunes-server-in-freebsd.md
deleted file mode 100644
index aa2f7c9..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-27-setting-up-an-itunes-server-in-freebsd.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Setting up an iTunes server in FreeBSD
-created: 1085674583
-categories: 
-- Application
-- Mac
-- Music
----
-Some pretty easy steps to run an iTunes-compatible music server on FreeBSD. Once installed and running, it will appear in iTunes as a shared music library.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-27-success-in-the-future-is-increasingly-defined-by-non-network-attributes.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-27-success-in-the-future-is-increasingly-defined-by-non-network-attributes.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 0c2a970..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-27-success-in-the-future-is-increasingly-defined-by-non-network-attributes.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Success in the future is increasingly defined by non-network attributes
-created: 1085680170
-categories: 
-- VoIP
----
-<blockquote>
-…success in future is increasingly defined by non-network attributes. Your ability to cheaply acquire and rapidly provision customers; to accurately manage the credit you extend; pro-actively seek out and destroy the root causes of customer care costs; excel at billing and collections; juggle your finances better than anyone else; perfectly tailor handset, spectrum and network supply chain management and inventory to demand; ramrod a few bundled third party communication services onto the bill; and so on. Anything to snatch and hold on to uppity churnaphilic customers.
-<cite><a href="http://www.telepocalypse.net/archives/000413.html">Telepocalypse: Lemma talk</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Ascendency of the IT class within telcos and other large network providers, as opposed to the network division.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-28-steve-gillmor-on-gates-rss-customer-driven-lock-in.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-28-steve-gillmor-on-gates-rss-customer-driven-lock-in.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 3dc5847..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-28-steve-gillmor-on-gates-rss-customer-driven-lock-in.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Steve Gillmor on Gates, RSS, Customer-driven Lock-In
-created: 1085767180
-categories: 
-- Microsoft
-- Personal Publishing
-- Social Media
----
-<p>This is an important article to read:</p>
-<blockquote>
-You don't have information you don't care about. RSS is the Tivo of the Web, filtering the information deluge through real-time metadata about your location, awareness, interests and events—stripping out the noise, improving the signal, saving time. It's WYDSIWYG: What You Don't See Is What You Get.
-<cite><a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1599458,00.asp">eWeek, Steve Gillmor: Gates Paying Attention to RSS</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Steve talks about how we as customers, or as power users in any case, are constantly looking for the easiest way to do things, using tools that save us time and makes us more efficient. RSS is one such tool, and Steve also describes his back and forth use of a Mac PowerBook and an HP Tablet PC. He loves his Mac, but is increasingly finding that the Tablet PC, even with the headaches of Windows, is saving him time.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-29-atom-will-create-the-two-way-web.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-29-atom-will-create-the-two-way-web.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f4ca660..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-29-atom-will-create-the-two-way-web.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Atom will create the two-way web
-created: 1085869203
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
----
-<blockquote>
-So, this means that the smart money is going to go into the feed space. Because that’s where the action is. Forget AdSense. I need contextual ads built right into my feed. Forget Typepad links, I need the links built right into my feed. Same with comments. And the feed needs to be two way. Atom has that capability I am told. So let me comment right in the feed. That’s a hell of lot better than Trackback.
-<cite><a href="http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2004/05/its_the_feed_st.html">It's the Feed, Stupid: A VC</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>RSS, comments, and Trackback (plus tools like Technorati) have gone a certain way into giving us a better picture of our neighbours in cyberspace, and the ability to interact more directly.</p>
-
-<p>Atom, being one spec for both reading and writing to weblogs, definitely is a good candidate for the next, full round-trip model of the two way web.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-29-oh-crap-marketing.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-29-oh-crap-marketing.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 4a1dc35..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-29-oh-crap-marketing.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Oh Crap Marketing
-created: 1085868991
-categories: 
-- marketing
-- Web 2.0
----
-<blockquote> <p>Don’t wait for the other guy to do something that makes you say, OH CRAP. Get off your rear and do something to make them say it.</p>  <p>Reactive marketing sucks, proactive marketing builds empires.</p> <cite><a href="http://www.entrepreneurslife.com/archives/2004/05/28/oh-crap-marketing/">An Entrepreneur&#39;s Life: Oh Crap Marketing!</a></cite> </blockquote>  <p><em>Note: for some reason, the text is utterly gigantic on the Mac. I think the stylesheet is messed up somehow.</em></p>   <p>(via <a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2004/05/29.html#a7641">Scoble</a>)</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-29-pubsub-linkrank.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-29-pubsub-linkrank.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 68e5c83..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-29-pubsub-linkrank.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: PubSub LinkRank
-created: 1085868127
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
-- Search Engine Voodoo
----
-<p>I was just in the processing of setting up some PubSub feeds for internal purposes when I saw their new <a href="http://www.pubsub.com/linkranks/">LinkRanks</a> feature. Wow. Very, very interesting (you can also read the <a href="http://www.pubsub.com/linkranks/about">about</a> complete with mathematical formulas.</p>
-
-<p>What does it do? It tracks the popularity of links to domains (domains, not individual pages). It specifically only looks at links that are within the body of syndicated content (which is pretty much limited to weblogs at this point). So, all those linkrolls and sidebars don't count.</p>
-
-<p>Also, if you include a link like this:<br>
-<a href="http://psi.pubsub.com/20040413:linkranks:1">http://psi.pubsub.com/20040413:linkranks:1</a><br>
-Then PubSub will track the "conversation" around their LinkRanks topic. This is another feature which doesn't look to be "live" yet, but seems very, very interesting.</p>
-
-<p>The potential here is to have true communication between and around web pages and blogs -- by pointing to a common link, all posts around a particular topic could be gathered together in one place.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-31-break-your-news-feed-to-easily-lose-readers.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-31-break-your-news-feed-to-easily-lose-readers.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 056c13d..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-31-break-your-news-feed-to-easily-lose-readers.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Break your news feed to easily lose readers
-created: 1086016814
-categories: 
-- CMS
-- Drupal
-- Personal Publishing
-- Web Development
----
-<blockquote>
-<p>It's not the first time I see this, so here is just one advice you may consider to avoid losing those of your readers who will not care following your moving feeds: <a href="http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI">Cool URIs don't change</a>! Changing the URL of a news feed is strictly equivalent to changing the URL of your home page, since the feed URL is actually the site entry point for its subscribers. Would you break your home page like this just because you've changed your content management system? No one in their sane mind would accept that a CMS breaks a home page like this, so why accept it for a news feed? OsOpinion could have changed their backend without changing the feed URL.
-<cite><a href="http://www.padawan.info/web/how_to_lose_readers_1.html">padawan.info: How to lose readers (1)</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>They could have also just re-directed their newsfeed to the new address.</p>
-
-<p>Little known Drupal feature #1: if you use the built in aggregator, when it goes out to check a feed and finds it has been re-directed, the new feed link will automatically be copied into the database.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-31-companies-prefer-authoritarianism-to-democracy.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-31-companies-prefer-authoritarianism-to-democracy.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 0122537..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-31-companies-prefer-authoritarianism-to-democracy.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Companies prefer authoritarianism to democracy
-created: 1086027532
-categories: 
-- Social Media
-- Knowledge Management
----
-<blockquote>
-American companies are suffering from a personality crisis. They talk about the virtues of flattened hierarchies and bottom-up organizations, and they laud the genius of the market. But when it comes to what they actually do, companies prefer authoritarianism to democracy. Success, most corporations assume, depends on the efforts of a few superlative individuals. As a result, they treat their CEOs as superheroes, look on most of their employees as interchangeable drones, and remain fond of command-and-control strategies that wouldn't have been out of place in the Politburo. In doing so, firms are neglecting their most valuable resource: the collective intelligence of the organization as a whole.
-<cite><a href="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.06/view.html?pg=2">Wired 12.06: Smarter Than the CEO&#160;(James Surowiecki)</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>"Internal decision markets" are described as one potential way to address these issues -- helping all the employees of of a company make good decisions. I remember thinking about "collectives" back in university -- some way to have "good" centralization -- economies of scale, benefiting from shared infrastructure and back-end services -- plus still allowing individuals.</p>
-
-<p>This is another equation where people changes + better tools are needed, so it is difficult to make the required changes.</p>
-
-<p>(via <a href="http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/05/31/Surowiecki">Tim Bray's Ongoing</a>)</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-31-dave-winer-impressed-me-today.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-31-dave-winer-impressed-me-today.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 0a2be54..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-31-dave-winer-impressed-me-today.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Dave Winer Impressed Me Today
-created: 1086020319
-categories: 
-- Web Development
-- Personal Publishing
----
-<p>And Mark Pilgrim <strike>depressed</strike> disgusted me.</p>
-
-<p>Here's what Dave Winer wrote in a long flame war on ATOM vs. RSS that broke out over on Scoble's comments:</p>
-
-<p><strong>Update:</strong> Dave is committed to making this work. See his <a href="http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/crimson1/2004/05/31#a1696">trial balloon</a>.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<blockquote>
-<p>To summarize: Atom has an advantage over RSS in that a content provider can, if necessary, tell the aggregator specifically how to process the equivalent of RSS's description element.</p>
-
-<p>If RSS was to match Atom, it would either have to directly adopt Atom's content model (breaking the roadmap, not good) or recommend the use of a namespaced element (preserving the roadmap) or just use Atom's content model (the best solution, imho). Then we would recommend to aggregator developers that they support this subset of Atom, where present, when processing RSS 2.0 feeds.</p>
-<cite><a href="http://scoblecomments.scripting.com/discuss/msgReader$12624?y=2004&m=5&d=31">Scoble Comments: Dave Winer</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Way to go, Dave. I think I'll have to start reading you again, rather than just triangulating you from other people's comments. While I'm a firm believer in <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/1193">Atom as two-way web enabler</a>, infighting amongst the greater community of syndication proponents doesn't help anybody.</p>
-
-<p>Can't we just agree that RSS 3.0 == Atom? This doesn't mean the 1.0 or 2.0 lineages stop developing, and seems to be a nice thing to get behind.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-31-km-work-effectiveness-improvement.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-31-km-work-effectiveness-improvement.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 612f2ad..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-31-km-work-effectiveness-improvement.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: KM == Work Effectiveness Improvement
-created: 1086045890
-categories: 
-- Knowledge Management
----
-<blockquote>
-As noted above, KM has traditionally been about building and populating databases with useful content, creating portals -- generally, making more information readily available. The consequence has often been to drown workers in hard-to-find information of dubious value just in case they should find themselves in a position to use it. We have actually made workers' intellectual activities harder rather than easier, by presuming, top-down or back-office-to-front-lines, to understand what information they need, and how, when and why they need it. In a world where jobs are more and more specialized, and everyone's information needs are increasingly unique, it's not surprising that KM has failed to live up to its promise.
-<cite><a href="http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2004/05/31.html#a755">How to Save the World: CONFESSIONS OF A CKO: WHAT I SHOULD HAVE DONE</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>There's something missing in here about serendipity -- sometimes "non-value added time" can be very hard to identify. But overall, this is a very good post from Dave Pollard.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-05-31-tumult-hyperedit-and-a-rant-on-collaboration.md b/_posts/archive/2004-05-31-tumult-hyperedit-and-a-rant-on-collaboration.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 395ba5a..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-05-31-tumult-hyperedit-and-a-rant-on-collaboration.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Tumult HyperEdit and a rant on collaboration
-created: 1086028164
-categories: 
-- Web Development
-- Mac
-- Application
----
-<blockquote>
-Tumult HyperEdit is a lightweight HTML editor with a preview pane that displays the web page live as you type. HyperEdit breaks the tedious cycle of writing html, saving the file, then reloading and viewing the page in the browser by combining the writing phase with the viewing phase. This clarifies the effects of your changes and speeds up the overall process of making a web page. W3C-based validation will red-underline any mistakes. It uses the same rendering engine found in Safari, so it is not only standards compliant, but also very fast.
-<cite><a href="http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~deutschj/HyperEdit/">Tumult HyperEdit</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-<!--break-->
-<p>This looks like a great app. Now that I'm back to posting with Ecto (bought and paid for, as of today), I'm tired of looking at <a href="http://www.padawan.info/weblog/rant_fuc_weblog_software.html" title="What You See Is F*cking Ugly Code">WYSIFUC</a>. I don't want a "preview" button, I want to see what things are going to look like as I type them. And I actually don't want to worry about the details of writing XHTML -- I want a rich text editor. And all those non-HTML markup languages are just as bad -- just different syntax for me to memorize, and all subtly different enough that you lose your mind if you have to work with more than one of them in different places.</p>
-
-<p>I'm also testing <a href="http://www.near-time.com/products/overview.htm">Near Time Flow</a> -- think of it as <a href="http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/">SubEthaEdit</a> combined with <a href="http://www.clevercactus.com/">Clever Cactus Share</a>, with a few rough edges.</p>
-
-<p>Or, as <a href="http://www.troyangrignon.com">Troy</a> put it the other day -- why isn't there a simple, cross-platform tool that allows us to collaboratively edit in real-time using rich text? Can we start a fund to get SubEthaEdit to support RTF and make a cross-platform version using <a href="http://www.porchdogsoft.com/products/howl/" title="Howl - Cross-platform Zeroconf / Rendezvous Library">Howl</a>? (Troy will post more about this soon, hopefully) </p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-06-01-primus-talkbroadband-is-currently-down-june-1-2004.md b/_posts/archive/2004-06-01-primus-talkbroadband-is-currently-down-june-1-2004.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 94b9674..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-06-01-primus-talkbroadband-is-currently-down-june-1-2004.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Primus Talkbroadband is currently down (June 1, 2004)
-created: 1086135158
-categories: 
-- VoIP
-- Canada
----
-The TalkBroadband service is currently down. The <a href="http://support.primus.ca/en/">tech support page</a> has not been updated.
-
-Patricia H. at tech support from Primus explained this to me, as they apparently don't have access to update the website. There is no ETA, and she was not able to say what the problem may be.
-
-Primus tech support may or may not be checking in here to leave comments.
-
-Update: the <a href="http://support.primus.ca/en/sysupdates.php?id=298&lang=en">status has been updated</a> to say "the system is down" (obscure <a href="http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail45.html">Strongbad</a> reference).
-<!--break-->
-Use my cell phone number to get in touch with me in the meantime.
-
-Update 2: so it looks like it's back up again. No explanation of what was going on. Might I add, I posted this initial notice at around 5pm, and it took another one and a half hours to get a notice up on the status page (which didn't have any more information, and is simply listed as "resolved"). The call center techs weren't too pleased about it either -- Patricia H. acknowledged that they knew that many (if not most) of their customers were themselves technically savvy, and that their instinctive reaction was to go check things out online.
-
-For me, I had recently fiddled with some network settings on my router, so I spent a bunch of time tearing apart my network and trying to figure out what was going on. Only to have tech support tell me that yes, the network had problems.
-
-The lesson? Give your tech support people access to a tool that allows them to post updates themselves, instead of waiting for some other department to do it for them. Oh ya -- I'd also subscribe to an RSS feed of network status for my broadband provider, cellphone provider, and VoIP provider.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-06-02-is-a-collaborative-cross-platform-rich-text-editor-too-much-to-ask.md b/_posts/archive/2004-06-02-is-a-collaborative-cross-platform-rich-text-editor-too-much-to-ask.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e01dd4e..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-06-02-is-a-collaborative-cross-platform-rich-text-editor-too-much-to-ask.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Is a collaborative, cross-platform, rich-text editor too much to ask?
-created: 1086190641
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
----
-<blockquote>
-This seems to be a really simple need that we have. And I think that with all of the energy and creativity out there working on parts of this puzzle, somebody is going to come along really soon and create an ad-hoc project team space that will have all of this functionality and it will be cross-platform and the birds will sing and the flowers will bloom and happy days will reign on Earth. Or at least we won't have to use Word anymore. Which is almost as good.
-<cite><a href="http://www.troyangrignon.com/blog/_archives/2004/5/31/80976.html">Troy Angrignon :: Do you want collaborative rich-text editing of documents? So do I. Alas, we are not there</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Troy's starting working on a big project, and we had jointly been throwing some potential solutions back and forth on what works.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p><a href="http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/">SubEthaEdit</a>, especially the <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/1176">newest version</a>, is great for knocking together plain-text with multiple people. Please, <em>please</em> add rich text support, even if it is a separate product!</p>
-
-<p>Like Troy, I'm testing the early access version of <a href="http://www.near-time.com/">Near Time Flow</a>. I can't say much more about it here except for this: it does do rich text editing, but it's not "real time", although the collaboration is still there.</p>
-
-<p>Lastly, Word with track changes absolutely does not work reliably. And I've talked before about how email is not for file transfer. Could <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=%22purple+numbers%22&#38;ie=UTF-8&#38;oe=UTF-8">purple numbers</a> be part of the solution here? (Or <a href="http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/05/31/PurpleAgain">purple pilcrows</a>, if you prefer)</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-06-06-p900-manager.md b/_posts/archive/2004-06-06-p900-manager.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a7387d1..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-06-06-p900-manager.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: P900 Manager
-created: 1086590138
-categories: 
-- Application
-- Mac
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-From Blarg Software, has the following functions:
-
-MovieMaker:
-Converts movies to proper MP4 format without QuickTime Pro
-
-BlueShare:
-Share your computer's Internet connection with your phone
-
-ToneMaker:
-Convert audio files to smaller and shorter ringtones
-
-Also works with the P800.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-06-07-apple-airport-express.md b/_posts/archive/2004-06-07-apple-airport-express.md
deleted file mode 100644
index df67a4d..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-06-07-apple-airport-express.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Apple AirPort Express
-created: 1086634474
-categories: 
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
-- Music
-- Multimedia PC
-- Mac
-- Home Server
----
-<p><a href="http://www.apple.com/airportexpress/">This</a> changes things.</p>
-<blockquote>
-With AirPort Express, Apple continues to advance wireless, delivering the first device to pack wireless networking, audio, printing and bridging capabilities into a single affordable, portable unit.
-<cite><a href="http://www.apple.com/airportexpress/">Apple: AirPort Express</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>$129US. Wireless support in the iPod can't be far behind. Apple is busy raising the bar in wireless, music, and home connectivity all in one go.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>I just bought a <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/linksys-wrt54g">LinkSys WRT54G</a> and I'll still likely buy one of these as part of my travel kit. Integration into iTunes! Printer sharing! Heck, with a USB connection, you could easily hook up all sorts of home networking dongles if Apple opens up some of the specs (I know, I know -- perhaps too much to hope for).</p>
-
-<p>Hat tip to <a href="http://home.justwerks.com">Evan</a>.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-06-07-blogs-arent-anything-special-but-they-are-better-than-cmss.md b/_posts/archive/2004-06-07-blogs-arent-anything-special-but-they-are-better-than-cmss.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a585acc..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-06-07-blogs-arent-anything-special-but-they-are-better-than-cmss.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Blogs aren't anything special (but they are better than CMSs)
-created: 1086598717
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
-- CMS
----
-<a href="http://photomatt.net/archives/2004/06/02/saddest-music/">Saddest Music</a><br />
-<blockquote>
-<a href="http://www.zeldman.com/daily/0604a.shtml#saddest">Jeffrey on the new Glassdog and the web</a>. Happy ninth birthday. <acronym title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</acronym> wasn&#8217;t easy enough, and it isn&#8217;t getting any easier. Blogs aren&#8217;t anything special, they&#8217;re just a function of software that makes it easy to maintain content. Compare the usability of the top 3 blog packages with the top 3 &#8220;content management systems.&#8221; Blogging software is the simplest mechanism for &#8220;In-depth explorations of every imaginable topic.&#8221; That&#8217;s the revolution.
-</blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-06-07-don-park-give-rss-2-0-to-w3c.md b/_posts/archive/2004-06-07-don-park-give-rss-2-0-to-w3c.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 3010d5e..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-06-07-don-park-give-rss-2-0-to-w3c.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Don Park: Give RSS 2.0 to W3C"
-created: 1086599209
-categories: 
-- Web Development
-- Personal Publishing
----
-<a href="http://www.docuverse.com/blog/donpark/EntryViewPage.aspx?guid=39b08c7c-6581-4afa-a4da-9e8b2d2f2cab">W3C RSS 3.0 Recommendation</a>
-<blockquote>
-<p>Dave suggests that <a href="http://archive.scripting.com/2004/06/04#When:8:42:32AM">W3C use RSS 2.0</a> as the basis for their syndicated data activities. I think W3C should do just that if they really want to do something in the syndicated data space.</p>
-
-<p>I realize that this will lead to another clash between RSS and Atom, this time with a major standard organizations behind each, but conflicts between standard organizations have happened before and will happen again.</p></blockquote>
-
-<p>Competing standards and competing standards organizations? Sounds like a good idea to me. I think Don is pointing to a good way forward -- no one has to feel hurt (W3C) and no one has to give up an existing standard (RSS).</p>
-
-<p>To me, Atom continues to be much more than "just" syndication, or "just" the web, so the IETF is the best place for it to be. RSS is very closely tied to both the web and syndication, so the W3C is it's logical companion.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-06-07-drupal-xtemplate-skins-from-cyberdash.md b/_posts/archive/2004-06-07-drupal-xtemplate-skins-from-cyberdash.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 37051a3..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-06-07-drupal-xtemplate-skins-from-cyberdash.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Drupal Xtemplate Skins from cyberdash
-created: 1086595883
-categories: 
-- Drupal
----
-<a href="http://cyberdash.com/node/view/300">Drupal Xtemplate Skins | cyberdash</a>:
-<blockquote>
-Like other CMS apps, Drupal's xtemplate theme supports switching site skins (as does the Chameleon theme in Drupal). Here are a couple that can be used just by being unzipped and dropped into the themes/xtemplate/ folder of a Drupal 4.4.x installation</blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-06-07-dual-wan-nat-router.md b/_posts/archive/2004-06-07-dual-wan-nat-router.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 225bd92..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-06-07-dual-wan-nat-router.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Dual WAN NAT Router
-created: 1086598578
-categories: 
-- IT
----
-<blockquote>Here's the coolest gizmo to arrive so far: a <a href="http://www.xincom.com/twr402.html">Xincom DPG-402</a>. This is a dual WAN NAT router. I already have the equivalent device from Nexland, but since they were bought by Symantec, the product seems all but dead.
-</blockquote>
-<cite><a href="http://www.campbellassociates.ca/blog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=528a40cd-ff7b-4299-9997-3bafd87661fd">Richard Campbell</a></cite>
-
-<p>This is something I am going to look into getting. Except, since I don't have a landline, I don't think I have any options for a second network provider. My one experience with Nexland is that they are terrible -- the Xincom (from checking out the website) looks like a more well-made product.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-06-07-giving-ie-team-members-a-nugie-for-standards.md b/_posts/archive/2004-06-07-giving-ie-team-members-a-nugie-for-standards.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 11c10f0..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-06-07-giving-ie-team-members-a-nugie-for-standards.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Giving IE team members a nugie for standards
-created: 1086596028
-categories: 
-- Web Development
-- Personal Publishing
----
-<a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2004/05/31.html#a7660">Nigel says that Microsoft hates the Web</a><br />
-<blockquote>
-<p>Oh, and everytime I meet an IE team member in the halls (which is quite often) I grab them by the shirt, give them a nugie, and ask them when they are gonna support standards. Someday that's gotta affect them. ;-)</p>
-<p>Personally, though, Nigel, you totally missed the boat. Syndication is where the action is. That's what's going to take lowest-common-denominator-platforms (er, the Web) ahead in huge leaps (no matter what platform you like). You should see the traffic graphs for RSS. Doubling every month.</p>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Is <code>nugie4standards.com</code> taken?</p>
-
-<p>On the second point: RSS feels like a bubble. But it feels like a bubble that is going to make more bubbles.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-06-07-open-standards-skype.md b/_posts/archive/2004-06-07-open-standards-skype.md
deleted file mode 100644
index fed1422..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-06-07-open-standards-skype.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Open Standards Skype
-created: 1086598944
-categories: 
-- VoIP
-- Vancouver
----
-<a href="http://sipthat.com/archives/000093.html">What's the Hype about Skype?</a>
-<blockquote>
-<p>I have decided to design a P2P [Peer to Peer] IM/Telephony/Video application built to compete directly with Skype. Why you ask? Because the public needs to understand why open standards is a much better solution than proprietary offerings. </p>
-
-<p>Here is a glimpse of what I have included in the design of this application...</p>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>This is Erik Lagerway of Xten, so you know this is something that can actually get done. A cross-platform, standards-based version of Skype? Yes, please.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-06-07-posting-to-blogware-via-ms-word.md b/_posts/archive/2004-06-07-posting-to-blogware-via-ms-word.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 6212538..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-06-07-posting-to-blogware-via-ms-word.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Posting to Blogware via...MS Word?!
-created: 1086596286
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
----
-<a href="http://www.byte.org/blog/_archives/2004/6/1/81287.html">Blogware support in MSOffice?</a>
-<blockquote>
-<P>So I guess my question for Mr. Gates is this. </P><P align=center><STRONG>"When&nbsp;will Word&nbsp;be able to effectively publish to&nbsp;Blogware?"</STRONG></P>
-</blockquote>
-<p><a href="http://scoble.weblogs.com/">Scoble</a> <strike>can do</strike> does this today with <a href="http://www.kunal.org/outlookmt/">Kunal's Outlook MT</a>. Shouldn't be too hard to extend to other systems given support for APIs.</p>
-
-<p>It will be a while before we see more effective use. I would say that desktop-to-weblog/RSS tools are still in pretty early stages (translation: they all suck).</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-06-07-purple-everywhere.md b/_posts/archive/2004-06-07-purple-everywhere.md
deleted file mode 100644
index b59b8e4..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-06-07-purple-everywhere.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Purple everywhere
-created: 1086595601
-categories: 
-- purple numbers
-- Tim Bray
-- Personal Publishing
-- Web Development
----
-<a href="http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/05/31/PurpleAgain">ongoing: Purple Pilcrows</a>:
-<blockquote>When everyone from Lauren to Aaron Swartz is whining at me to make the #-marks go away, I have to listen. I&#8217;ve adapted Simon Willison&#8217;s brilliant hack, and a couple of remarks are worth making.</blockquote>
-
-<p>These "purple numbers", where individual paragraphs are able to be linked to, is an interesting concept (I've linked to Tim's post because he has pointed to most of the other interesting discussions around this, and because generally I enjoy his "take" on things). But, since anchors aren't actually first class citizens, I would say that a way to link to (and only display) relevant paragraphs is more useful and powerful. This could also be used for <a href="http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?TransClusion">TransClusion</a> -- including content from other places locally. An <code>iframe</code> is an ugly way of doing this -- you would likely need some wiki-like framework to make it possible.</p>
-
-<p>So, you need a dynamic system where you can point to an entire article (e.g. <code>/article-name/</code>), and then a way to get just individual paragraphs (e.g. <code>/article-name/p/1</code>). You could probably do ranges of paragraphs this way as well: <code>/article-name/p/1-3</code>.</p>
-
-<p>The more we link, the more we get enmeshed in other people's thoughts and ideas: I think this is a good thing.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>I like the fact that I found out that the paragraph marker (this may or may not look like one in your browser: &#182; ) was called a "pilcrow" from Tim Bray.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-06-07-rss-for-downloading-torrent-files.md b/_posts/archive/2004-06-07-rss-for-downloading-torrent-files.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 5833f94..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-06-07-rss-for-downloading-torrent-files.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: RSS for downloading .torrent files
-created: 1086598237
-categories: 
-- Movie
-- Microsoft
-- Mac
-- Application
----
-<a href="http://ddll.sdf1.net/archives/002626.html">The Slakinski Log</a>:
-
-<blockquote>Nucleus will download a specified RSS file, and look for .torrent files that match any of the specified keywords. If a match is found it will queue up that file for download. After it has gone through the entire RSS file it will download each file 1 at a time. If no matches are found the program will just simply exit.</blockquote>
-
-<p>Yes, this is incredible. Sometimes I wish I had a big pot of money just laying around to throw at <strike>Mac</strike> developers to push apps and services forward. Hmmm...maybe Brent at <a href="http://www.ranchero.com">Ranchero</a> wants to put this in NNW.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-06-07-the-killer-apps-in-drupal-for-david-nunez.md b/_posts/archive/2004-06-07-the-killer-apps-in-drupal-for-david-nunez.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f0bc723..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-06-07-the-killer-apps-in-drupal-for-david-nunez.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: THE killer apps in Drupal for David Nunez
-created: 1086595820
-categories: 
-- Drupal
----
-<a href="http://www.davidnunez.com/blog/node/view/486">Movable Type and Drupal and a rant for dessert | davidnunez.com</a>:
-
-<blockquote>
-<p>This discussion attempts to draw lines between MT and Drupal, showing why Drupal meets or exceeds the feature set of MT.</p>
-
-<p>That's a played-out discussion, though... (and the way to market yourself is not to keep mentioning the competitors)</p>
-
-<p>I'd rather mention THE killer apps for me in Drupal:</p>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Yep. Who cares about the other guys when you can just win people over on features? Comparisons will always be made with other products -- focus on your star features, be honest about shortcomings, point out good examples of use, and let people make their own decisions.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-06-07-todayspapers-com.md b/_posts/archive/2004-06-07-todayspapers-com.md
deleted file mode 100644
index cd127af..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-06-07-todayspapers-com.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: TodaysPapers.com
-created: 1086598326
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
----
-<a href="http://www.mrbarrett.com/mt/archives/2004_06_01.html">MrBarrett.com: Damien Barrett</a>:
-<blockquote>
-Have you ever been reading a news article online and wanted to comment on it, but the hosting site didn't provide you with a way to do so? My brother Cameron and his colleague Joe Stump have created an interesting solution--TodaysPapers.com. It's a news aggregator that provides a discussion section for each article. Think of it as Google News + Metafilter. It'll be interesting to watch TodayPapers and see which articles float to the top based on comments, read numbers, and votes.</blockquote>
-
-<p>This looks very interesting. I have lots of questions, but will have to check it out a bit to see if they are answered.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-06-07-w3c-is-the-best-place-for-atom-to-take-root.md b/_posts/archive/2004-06-07-w3c-is-the-best-place-for-atom-to-take-root.md
deleted file mode 100644
index fc8abec..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-06-07-w3c-is-the-best-place-for-atom-to-take-root.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: W3C is the best place for Atom to take root
-created: 1086598805
-categories: 
-- Web Development
----
-<a href="http://www.bestkungfu.com/archive/?id=492">Atom/W3C redux</a><br />
-<blockquote>If Atom goes to IETF, and that's how it's looking, Atom remains a great idea, and we wish it well. But I still believe that the W3C is the best place for Atom to take root.
-</blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-06-07-weblogs-do-help-businesses.md b/_posts/archive/2004-06-07-weblogs-do-help-businesses.md
deleted file mode 100644
index daa3f65..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-06-07-weblogs-do-help-businesses.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Weblogs do help businesses
-created: 1086595030
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
----
-<a href="http://www.commoncraft.com/archives/000672.html">Common Craft - Online Community Strategies: Year One is Behind Me Now</a>:
-<blockquote>
-When I look over the past year, it's very clear to me what an incredible value this weblog has been to Common Craft. As I started thinking about founding the company, I knew I needed a way to promote myself and I really wanted people to get to know me- the person. I wanted the market and my niche to have a way to see how I think, work, write. I was prepared to take the risk that people may not agree with me or like me for that matter, because I knew that the ones that did feel a connection would make the difference.
-</blockquote>
-<!--break-->
-<p>(Note: I have a ton of stuff to post, and am going to abandon my regular format a bit. At least, until <a href="http://www.kung-foo.tv/ecto/">ecto</a> supports templates)</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-06-08-comcast-testing-integrated-cable-modem-and-38-voip-box.md b/_posts/archive/2004-06-08-comcast-testing-integrated-cable-modem-and-38-voip-box.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 0c4962f..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-06-08-comcast-testing-integrated-cable-modem-and-38-voip-box.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Comcast Testing Integrated Cable Modem &#38; VoIP Box
-created: 1086711487
-categories: 
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
-- VoIP
----
-<a href="http://andyabramson.blogs.com/voipwatch/2004/06/comcast_testing.html">Comcast Testing Integrated Cable Modem &#38; VoIP Box</a>
-<blockquote>
-<p>Comcast is testing a new combined cable modem and VoIP adapter in a few cities, according to Light Reading.</p>
-
-<p>I'm also hearing reports that D-Link will release a line of in home networking equipment at SuperComm in a few weeks that includes a wireless adapter that has built in VoIP.</p></blockquote>
-
-<p>D-Link makes the voice gateway that Primus' Talkbroadband uses. I did work 3 years ago looking at the different ways to distribute connectivity throughout a house. I concluded the only way to do it was wirelessly*, but wireless was still too expensive and too slow at the time. Devices like <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/1217">Apple's AirportExpress</a> show that wireless innovation is taking off again.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>Hmmm...imagine a USB telephone handset plugged into the AirportExpress...</p>
-
-<p>*Well, the other option was using the ubiquitous coax cabling that houses already have installed, but that required development of a IP-over-Coax. It hasn't been developed since then, so wireless it is. </p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-06-11-canadians-dont-know-nuthin-about-voip-willis.md b/_posts/archive/2004-06-11-canadians-dont-know-nuthin-about-voip-willis.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 31fd53a..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-06-11-canadians-dont-know-nuthin-about-voip-willis.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Canadians don't know nuthin' about VoIP, Willis
-created: 1086991869
-categories: 
-- Canada
-- VoIP
----
-<blockquote>In what has to be a true communications issue, only 23 percent of Canadiens admit to knowing about VoIP according to a newly released survey.<cite><a href="http://andyabramson.blogs.com/voipwatch/2004/06/67_of_canadiens.html">VoIP Watch (Andy Abramson): 67% of Canadiens Don't Know About VoIP</a></cite></blockquote>
-
-<p>This is absolutely a marketing issue. Telus and Bell are dragging their heels, because they know that they are going to have to push it to make it succeed, and they are not yet feeling the heat from Primus or Vonage.</p>
-
-<p>What's the lesson? There is an opening here for consultants to teach small businesses about VoIP solutions. A Google search for <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=voip+consulting+canada&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8">voip consulting canada</a> is not encouraging…I'm the #3 hit and the other listings in the top 10 aren't consultants at all!</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>We've got two remote team members, one in Ontario and one in South Africa. Are we going to communicate using regular phone lines? No way! We already regularly use IRC and IM to communicate. We've got iChat for voice. If we do get a phone system, we'll be choosing something like Packet8's Virtual Office, which allows all of us to appear as local extensions, even though we're all over the world.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-06-14-2004-canadian-telecom-summit.md b/_posts/archive/2004-06-14-2004-canadian-telecom-summit.md
deleted file mode 100644
index af2d508..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-06-14-2004-canadian-telecom-summit.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: 2004 Canadian Telecom Summit
-created: 1087203691
-categories: 
-- VoIP
-- Canada
----
-<blockquote>
-In an industry starting to see more than its share of conferences again with less-than-inspiring speakers, the<a href="http://www.gstconferences.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi"> 2004 Canadian Telecom Summit</a> has managed to come up with an impressive list of speakers. The agenda includes Cisco CEO John Chambers, Nortel CEO Bill Owens, Telus CEO Darren Entwistle and CRTC chair Charles Dalfen. Chambers is clearly the star attraction given how his company dominates the telecom equipment industry and has its sights set on the telecom sector. But Owens&#39; first public speech since taking over as Nortel&#39;s CEO in April should be interesting from a public relations and strategic perspective.
-<cite><a href="http://evans.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2004/6/13/87056.html">Mark Evans:The Who's Who of Canadian Telecom</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Lot's of interesting people going to be there, as Evans points out. But the site is terrible! Is there going to be updated content? Will there be transcripts and/or presentations posted? Here's hoping, but it doesn't look like it.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-06-14-being-appled.md b/_posts/archive/2004-06-14-being-appled.md
deleted file mode 100644
index ad41540..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-06-14-being-appled.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Being "Appled"
-created: 1087204943
-categories: 
-- Mac
----
-<blockquote>
-<p>Jeff Jarvis <a href="http://www.buzzmachine.com/archives/2004_06_07.html">coins another phrase</a>.  He's being "Appled", bit by bit.</p>
-<p>I know <a href="http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2004/03/apple.html">the feeling</a>.</p>
-<p>[ snip ]</p>
-<p>You can't take on a monster like Microsoft head on, but you can chip away at the edges.  That's Steve Jobs approach and its working, at least on me.</p>
-<cite><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/AVc?m=163">A VC: Being "Appled"</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>I bow to our Cupertino overlords.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-06-14-brad-gibson-has-entered-the-building.md b/_posts/archive/2004-06-14-brad-gibson-has-entered-the-building.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 8e40299..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-06-14-brad-gibson-has-entered-the-building.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Brad Gibson has entered the building
-created: 1087199279
-categories: 
-- Canada
-- Drupal
-- Drupal
-- Drupal
-- VoIP
----
-<p>I was very happy to <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/1220">receive this email</a> from <a href="http://www.bradfordgibson.net">Brad Gibson</a>, a self-confessed regular reader of this site (he made a <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/1052#comment-1710">long comment about cancelling Primus</a> a while back).</p>
-
-<p>He credits me on his front page for luring him into Drupal. I've just gone over and read through his site. Subscribed! Lots of good <a href="http://www.bradfordgibson.net/?q=taxonomy/page/or/21" title="Brad Gibson's Current Thinking - Canadian Politics">Canadian content</a> and good <a href="http://www.bradfordgibson.net/?q=taxonomy/page/or/26" title="Brad Gibson's Current Thinking - VoIP">thoughts on VoIP</a>.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-06-14-buttress.md b/_posts/archive/2004-06-14-buttress.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 14b21ef..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-06-14-buttress.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Buttress
-created: 1087204791
-categories: 
-- Application
----
-<blockquote>
-Buttress will be a Application to automatically download and run .torrent files from RSS feeds, without user input.
-<cite><a href="http://www.sailes.co.uk/buttress/index.php">Buttress - Bittorrent RSS application</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Written in Java, so should be cross platform. Downloaded, haven't had a chance to play with it yet. Anyone know of RSS feeds that contain .torrent files? Pointers to legal ones only, please.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-06-14-content-separated-from-delivery-media.md b/_posts/archive/2004-06-14-content-separated-from-delivery-media.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 8116bdd..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-06-14-content-separated-from-delivery-media.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Content separated from delivery media
-created: 1087203505
-categories: 
-- VoIP
-- Canada
----
-<blockquote>
-When content can be separated from delivery media, individuals will usually only pay for one of the two. This is the current dilemma of the phone companies. Now that conversation can be digitized and IP'ed, its worth is zero. Only the network carrying those bits has value. If I can 'FWD' or 'Skype' my friends and colleagues for 'free', why would I want to 'phone' them and pay?
-<cite><a href="http://www.bradfordgibson.net/?q=node/view/5">Brad Gibson's Current Thinking: I'll pay you once but I won't pay twice.</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>I'm looking forward to more on this from Brad. He identifies voice and music as two types of content that can easily be separated from the delivery media, and books as a type of content that can't be separated yet. </p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-06-14-jeffrey-veen-on-feedburner-and-ping-o-matic.md b/_posts/archive/2004-06-14-jeffrey-veen-on-feedburner-and-ping-o-matic.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f2a41cb..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-06-14-jeffrey-veen-on-feedburner-and-ping-o-matic.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Jeffrey Veen on Feedburner and Ping-O-Matic
-created: 1087205829
-categories: 
-- Web Development
-- Personal Publishing
----
-<blockquote>
-[It] was a relief to me that a couple more pieces of Web infrastructure moved into the "somebody else can worry" realm. The first is feeds. I spent a few years with the W3C working on HTML and CSS specifications, so I'll likely never bother to read another rant about which idea is more brilliant than the other when it comes to the minutia of standards making. RSS and Atom in particular fit squarely into that category these days. Goodbye to all of that. Rather than fret over the various feed templates on my site, I can now just point to <a href="http://feedburner.com/">Feedburner</a>. They bravely content negotiate for all known aggregators and spit out the Right Thing. And lots of other stuff. Go look. They're cool.
-<cite><a href="http://www.veen.com/jeff/archives/000555.html">Jeffrey Veen: Leave the Hard Stuff to Someone Else</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>I had a hard time figuring out what  to quote from this article, which is usually a good sign: go read the whole thing. I've been experimenting with Feedburner myself, and it has some very interesting features. It exists mainly because our current tools are bad, or perhaps the integration of tools is bad. Item-level statistics are great, but shouldn't this just be built into your publishing platform?</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-06-14-pretty-sticky-things.md b/_posts/archive/2004-06-14-pretty-sticky-things.md
deleted file mode 100644
index d5f860f..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-06-14-pretty-sticky-things.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Pretty Sticky Things
-created: 1087207611
-categories: 
-- Gmail
-- IMAP
-- Hotmail
-- email
-- Web 2.0
----
-<blockquote>
-<p>All in all, it's a good product, but all these people talking about how 30mm people are going to switch over to it must be seeing something I don't.  My prediction (and I'll happily and publicly acknowledge defeat if I am misreading this) is that they will get a few million new users initially, many for a second or third address as opposed to their primary address, and that many of them won't stick with it to become active users over a longer period of time.  After that, they'll grow at the same rate, with the same type of characteristics, as Yahoo, Hotmail, and other webmail providers.</p>
-
-<p>Email and email addresses, unlike search engines, are pretty sticky things.</p>
-<cite><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/Onlyonce?m=13">Only Once: Gmail - I Don't Get It</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>I archive my email locally because I have to -- my mail servers aren't big enough, and my webmail access doesn't include search. If Google offered me Gmail <em>plus</em> access via IMAP, I'd pay for it. Just like I'd <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/1184">love to pay Flickr to handle all my online photo sharing</a>.</p>
-
-<p>I agree that email is very sticky. I'd love to convince everyone that doesn't already have their own domain to get one.</p>
-
-<p>When Gmail becomes widely availably, I'm going to lobby very, very hard to all my friends that currently have Hotmail accounts to switch. I know Hotmail doesn't do forwarding, and it likely doesn't have a vacation message/auto-reply. Can anyone think of a way to forward your Hotmail automatically?</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-06-14-residential-voip-in-canada-not-looking-so-good.md b/_posts/archive/2004-06-14-residential-voip-in-canada-not-looking-so-good.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 9f3aba1..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-06-14-residential-voip-in-canada-not-looking-so-good.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Residential VoIP in Canada: Not looking so good"
-created: 1087203003
-categories: 
-- Canada
-- VoIP
----
-<p>Brad's talking about Primus Talkbroadband and how their entire network recently went down, and how this reflects on them:</p>
-<blockquote>
-<p>When your entire VoIP network <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/1199">crashes</a> you prove a number of things: <br/>
-
-1) You must have a single point of failure, which means that somebody in your organization doesn't get that whole "up-time and reliability" thing.<br/>
-
-2) You should not be charging anything like the price you are charging for the service, given that you have demonstrated a lack of interest in investing in reliability (ie: re-read the first point).<br/>
-
-3) You have power washed any good will or early adopter enthusiasm out of the product.<br/>
-
-4) This does not yet seem to be a good business proposition for an investor or a prospective customer. <p/>
-<cite><a href="http://www.bradfordgibson.net/?q=node/view/7">Brad Gibson's Current Thinking: What happens when the Category Killer Dies?</a></cite>
-
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>After the network problem and some further thinking, I might be just about ready to stop using Primus for now. I'll tell you why:</p>
-<!--break-->
-<ol>
-<li>I had been waiting for voicemail-via-email. This is the killer app for me, other than the "second number" capability that lets me have an Ottawa number as well as my Vancouver one. No sign of this feature, and no news on when it is going to be available.</li>
-
-<li>I just upgraded my cellphone to a <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/sony-ericsson-p800">P800</a>, so now I have a "spare" cellphone that I can give to Kate</li>
-<li>Quality has been sporadic. I do have the gateway behind my router, but there have also been echoes, it's unusable with our cordless phone, etc.</li>
-<li>Lastly, I'm not saving any money. I don't do enough long distance calling to make the "free" North America-wide long distance worthwhile. I can see where this factor all by itself would convince people to keep it, but I suspect these will be special cases for individual residential users. Lots of business users would fall into this category, but they are also likely highly dependent on quality and reliability.</li>
-</ol>
-
-<p>I'm glad I experimented, and I'll likely keep trying out different options, but I don't think Primus meets my needs as a reliable provider of primary line services. For now, two cellphones is going to be the answer.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-06-14-scoble-wants-full-text-rss.md b/_posts/archive/2004-06-14-scoble-wants-full-text-rss.md
deleted file mode 100644
index ba484c8..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-06-14-scoble-wants-full-text-rss.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Scoble wants full-text RSS
-created: 1087208394
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
----
-<p>Why should I care? Well, <a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2004/06/12.html#a7750">he's cleaning out his RSS feeds</a>:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-<p>I'm cleaning out my RSS feeds. Things that'll get feeds removed:</p>
-<p>1) If I haven't read you for months.<br />
-2) If you don't publish full content feeds.<br />
-3) If you haven't published for months.<br />
-<p>I wish it were easier in NewsGator to delete feeds. Right now I have to delete them one-by-one and it's frustrating.</p>
-<p>I'll publish a new OPML file later.</p>
-</blockquote>
-<!--break-->
-<p>I can't do anything about #1, and I overdid it with #3 today. What did I do? Ran to my shell account, edited a couple of files, and <a href="http://drupal.org/node/view/6741">hacked full text feeds into my install of Drupal</a>. And hey, Robert, I have <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/1232">XAML</a> on my front page, so there's another reason to keep reading me.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-06-14-social-networking-is-a-feature.md b/_posts/archive/2004-06-14-social-networking-is-a-feature.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 7d86000..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-06-14-social-networking-is-a-feature.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Social networking is a feature
-created: 1087204515
-categories: 
-- Social Media
-- Personal Publishing
----
-<p>Quoting a quote as seen on <a href="http://socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com/entry/4351347570381003/">Social Networking Glut = Greater Than Four</a>:</p>
-<blockquote>
-RIESCHEL: We looked at five sites and passed on everything. In '99 everyone got in trouble when maybe 17 companies  were all trying to sell pet food online. <em>At Mobius, now if we identify more than four venture-backed start-ups in a sector, we won't bite.</em> <strong><em>There are at least 14 social-networking sites.</em></strong>
-</blockquote
-
-<p>This one is easy: exactly what I've been saying for quite some time -- social networking is a <em>feature</em> not a business model.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-06-14-the-big-secret-of-search-optimisation.md b/_posts/archive/2004-06-14-the-big-secret-of-search-optimisation.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 4f1f753..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-06-14-the-big-secret-of-search-optimisation.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: The Big Secret of Search Optimisation
-created: 1087206383
-categories: 
-- SEO
-- Search Engine Voodoo
----
-<blockquote>
-Here - then - is the big secret of search optimisation. Search optimisation isn't really about optimising for a search engine at all. It's about making good quality, cleanly designed, semantically-constructed sites that people want to read, that people can link to and which people can get the gist of in a few seconds. If you make a website well for human beings, then as a side effect - more often than not - search engines will spider it well and rank it highly. And they'll do this because it's the best site, not because you're trying to fool them.
-<cite><a href="http://www.plasticbag.org/archives/2003/06/against_search_engine_optimisers.shtml">plasticbag.org | weblog | Against Search Engine Optimisers...</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Amen. Except, of course, that most people stumble over the first part: "<em>making good quality, cleanly designed, semantically-constructed sites</em>". In theory, it's easy. In practice -- get someone who knows what they're doing to help you.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-06-14-tivo-online.md b/_posts/archive/2004-06-14-tivo-online.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 9271ecf..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-06-14-tivo-online.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: TiVo Online
-created: 1087205361
-categories: 
-- Multimedia PC
-- Home Server
----
-<blockquote>The new TiVo technology, which will become a standard feature in its video recorders, will allow users to download movies and music from the Internet to the hard drive on their video recorder. Although the current TiVo service allows users to watch broadcast, cable or satellite programs at any time, the new technology will make it possible for them to mix content from the Internet with those programs.
-<cite><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/09/technology/09net.html?ex=1402113600&#38;en=7bd25f7836498ba2&#38;ei=5007&#38;partner=USERLAND">The New York Times: New Service by TiVo Will Build Bridges From Internet to the TV</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Also mentions TiVo's purchase of Strangeberry, which is likely where these features are coming from. I talked about <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/831">Strangeberry back in January</a>.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-06-14-waml-vs-xaml.md b/_posts/archive/2004-06-14-waml-vs-xaml.md
deleted file mode 100644
index ac464eb..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-06-14-waml-vs-xaml.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: WAML vs. XAML
-created: 1087207045
-categories: 
-- Web Development
----
-<blockquote>
-The proposed solution to this quagmire is WHAT WG, the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group. Announced just a few days ago, the group "aims to develop specifications based on HTML and related technologies to ease the deployment of interoperable Web Applications, with the intention of submitting the results to a standards organisation". The plan seems to be to develop new extensions to HTML 4 in an open environment, while avoiding breaking backwards compatible with the ever-present Internet Explorer. This group is no fly-by night organisation of hot-headed web nerds: the current membership includes key representatives of the Mozilla, Opera and Safari browser teams, most of whom have experience working on W3C specifications. They're running an open mailing list and already have an initial draft document for Web Applications Markup Language 1.0, their first proposed specification.
-<cite><a href="http://www.sitepoint.com/blog-post-view.php?id=174066">WHAT's going on? - SitePoint DHTML &#38; CSS Blog</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>This is something I'm going to start tracking. Recent first-hand experience working with web applications shows me that browsers have some serious limitations. Flash apps like <a href="http://www.flickr.com">Flickr</a> have done a good job overcoming some of them, but I think a higher level of "desktop integration" (for want of a better word) is needed.</p>
-
-<p>It's no accident that they chose the name WAML: these vendors have teamed up to produce an open specification in direct competition with Microsoft's <a href="http://www.xaml.net/">XAML</a> . Or as Simon Willison called it when it was released, "<a href="http://simon.incutio.com/archive/2003/10/24/microsoftsXUL">Microsoft's XUL</a>". With the Mozilla team on board, I expect a lot of the XUL work to be folded in here. Heck, this might even just be a XUL re-branding exercise.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>Amazing: I first <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/636">talked about XAML</a>  about 600 posts ago, in October of 2003. And of the two options, "Develop a compelling alternative platform" is what this announcement heralds.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-06-14-who-needs-books.md b/_posts/archive/2004-06-14-who-needs-books.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 460e371..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-06-14-who-needs-books.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Who needs books?
-created: 1087205217
-categories: 
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
-- Handheld
----
-<blockquote>
-The picture definition on Japanese camera-phones is now so high that people can stand in a shop, surreptitiously photograph the pages of a magazine and then later read their ill-gotten literature from the screens of their mobile phones.
-<cite><em>The Times</em>, June 5, 2004, p.2W, no link available</cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>As seen on <a href="http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2004/06/the_next_killer.html">Marginal Revolution</a>. Kind of makes you wonder about <a href="http://www.bradfordgibson.net/?q=node/view/5">Brad's thoughts on separating content from delivery</a>, and how books aren't facing this problem yet.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-06-15-maybe-my-milk-will-tell-the-fridge-jokes.md b/_posts/archive/2004-06-15-maybe-my-milk-will-tell-the-fridge-jokes.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 9a43a15..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-06-15-maybe-my-milk-will-tell-the-fridge-jokes.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Maybe my milk will tell [the fridge] jokes
-created: 1087367688
-categories: 
-- IT
----
-<blockquote>
-<p>Screw the disintermediation of traditional advertising, the introduction of disruptive technologies to electronics consumers, and the enabling of networked hardware for ubiquitous seamless e-commerce.</p>
-
-<p>No, I'll be satisfied with nothing less than the disintermediation of <i>design itself</i>, and the empowerment of <i>stuff</i>.</p>
-<cite><a href="http://williamtozier.com/slurry/comment/tech/convergence.html">Notional Slurry: Your fridge will still be stupid and cold, but maybe my milk will tell it jokes</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Another great quote was <em>"If you can&#8217;t buy a modem equipped or Bluetooth milk-aware fridge from Hammacher-Schlemmer in the next couple of years, I&#8217;ll make you eat your hat."</em>. </p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-06-16-john-gruber-i-am-trying-to-write-the-out-of-this-stuff.md b/_posts/archive/2004-06-16-john-gruber-i-am-trying-to-write-the-out-of-this-stuff.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 9d0ee8b..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-06-16-john-gruber-i-am-trying-to-write-the-out-of-this-stuff.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "John Gruber: I am trying to write the **** out of this stuff"
-created: 1087431625
-categories: 
-- Web Development
-- Personal Publishing
-- Mac
----
-<blockquote>
-<p>But I need to impress upon you just how serious I am about this, and I see no other way to do so than to step out from behind the curtain just this once to address you directly, author to reader, with nothing but 100 percent honesty.</p>
-
-<p>No stagecraft. No artifice. Just me, your humble author, hat in hand, heart in throat, asking for your support.</p>
-<cite><a href="http://daringfireball.net/2004/06/something_daring">Daring Fireball: Something Daring</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Wow. I think I say that every time I read a piece by John Gruber at his Daring Fireball weblog. He writes eloquent, well-thought out pieces talking about the Mac, software development, web design, and other technology issues</p>
-
-<p>And I'm saying wow again after reading this request for&#8230;well, funding, I guess. Do we, his readership, want to support Gruber? Have we enjoyed/benefited from his writing in the past? Do we want to continue to see the same high quality writing?</p>
-
-<p>Update: I went ahead and got the t-shirt, and used <a href="http://daringfireball.net/2004/06/membership_faq">esellerate</a>. I mean, Gruber did post a picture of his kid after all…</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>For me, I think the answer is yes. I'm off to pay 2 kilopennies* for a year's worth of Daring Fireball.</p>
-
-<p>*2 kilopennies == $20.48US. Gotta love that. Nice work, John. Another John that I think I'd pay to read is John Siracusa, he of of <a href="http://arstechnica.com/reviews/003/panther/macosx-10.3-1.html">ArsTechnica Mac OS X review</a> fame.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-06-17-google-looking-at-texturize.md b/_posts/archive/2004-06-17-google-looking-at-texturize.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 2de415a..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-06-17-google-looking-at-texturize.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Google looking at Texturize
-created: 1087504762
-categories: 
-- Web 2.0
-- Personal Publishing
----
-<blockquote>
- I got an email from a project manager at Google a week or two ago asking for a Texturize feature list and if the code was available. He wouldn't say what they were going to use it for.
-<cite><a href="http://photomatt.net/archives/2004/06/17/smartypants-on-demand/">Photo Matt: SmartyPants On Demand</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>They might be using it to send rich email. They might be using it in Blogger.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-06-17-my-ilec-charges-me-to-call-numbers-10-miles-away.md b/_posts/archive/2004-06-17-my-ilec-charges-me-to-call-numbers-10-miles-away.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 7db5017..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-06-17-my-ilec-charges-me-to-call-numbers-10-miles-away.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: My ILEC charges me to call numbers 10 miles away
-created: 1087497080
-categories: 
-- VoIP
----
-<blockquote>
-I can call pretty much every industrialized country in the world via VoIP for less then my ILEC charges me to call numbers 10 miles away.
-<cite><a href="http://scottstuff.net/scott/archives/000204.html">scottstuff: New rates for NuFone</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Toll bypass is a great motivator. People see the difference between $50 long distance bills and $5 bills pretty clearly. Me, I know I'm going to be paying for communications fees at some level, I'm happy to pay for extra features.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-06-18-erik-lagerway-wants-to-take-the-gloves-off.md b/_posts/archive/2004-06-18-erik-lagerway-wants-to-take-the-gloves-off.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 5572ac9..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-06-18-erik-lagerway-wants-to-take-the-gloves-off.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Erik Lagerway wants to take the gloves off
-created: 1087617859
-categories: 
-- VoIP
----
-<blockquote>
-Let's take the gloves off. I would like to see Jeff Pulver present a panel in Boston this year at Fall VON. That panel would be comprised of 3 open standards advocates and 3 [if you can find them] pro-proprietary spokesmen. The topic "Open Standards versus Proprietary Technology, Which Will Prevail and Which will Fail!" Each presenter would have 10 minutes to speak their mind. At the end, 2 from each team are chosen to debate the issues for another 15 minutes. During this time the audience will ask the panel questions and each member will have a chance to respond. 
-<cite><a href="http://sipthat.com/archives/000103.html">Sip That, Erik Lagerway: VoIP Security - In the headlines... again.</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>It's open standards in this corner vs. the same old proprietary spiel. Hey! Didn't I <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/1178">suggest that</a>?</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-06-18-is-drupal-a-second-generation-blog-rss-aggregation-site.md b/_posts/archive/2004-06-18-is-drupal-a-second-generation-blog-rss-aggregation-site.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 0fe835a..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-06-18-is-drupal-a-second-generation-blog-rss-aggregation-site.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Is Drupal a "second generation blog/RSS aggregation" site?
-created: 1087617506
-categories: 
-- Search Engine Voodoo
-- Drupal
----
-<p>John Battelle is reviewing a bunch of predictions that he had for this year, 6 months in. Lots of good technology, state-of-the-web, and so on items. I'm picking out #7:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-<p>7. Second generation blog/RSS aggregation sites will come close to combining directory functions with LinkedIn- and recommendation-engine-like features - think Amazon+Yahoo for the blogosphere....</p>
-
-<p>UPDATE:  Not yet, unless I've missed something. </p>
-<cite><a href="http://battellemedia.com/archives/000707.php">Battelle Media: A Year Of Predictions, Six Months In</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>I don't think we're quite there yet in terms of standards/formats/interfaces to enable this. But Drupal has a lot of these pieces baked in.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-06-18-no-more-ca-for-non-canadians.md b/_posts/archive/2004-06-18-no-more-ca-for-non-canadians.md
deleted file mode 100644
index cd554ac..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-06-18-no-more-ca-for-non-canadians.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: No more .ca for non-Canadians
-created: 1087617233
-categories: 
-- IT
-- Canada
----
-<blockquote>
-<acronym title="Canadian Internet Registration Authority">CIRA</acronym>'s on a witch hunt, and the first casualties are the wave of multiple suspended .ca domains dropping off the internet this weekend.
-<cite><a href="http://www.mezzoblue.com/archives/2004/06/12/cira_ca_doma/index.php">CIRA .ca Domain Suspensions</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>This from Dave Shea, who isn't actually Canadian either. He's <a href="http://we04.com/presenters.cfm">"Candian" apparently</a>. In any case, the draconian way that CIRA has handled this isn't winning them any points.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>(hat tip <a href="http://www.justagwailo.com">Richard</a>)</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-06-18-subversion-for-os-x.md b/_posts/archive/2004-06-18-subversion-for-os-x.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 630406c..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-06-18-subversion-for-os-x.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Subversion for OS X
-created: 1087598668
-categories: 
-- Mac
-- Web Development
----
-Bill Bumgarner has nicely packaged up Subversion for OS X, and also has lots of links to other resources.
-
-I ended up using <a href="http://homepage.mac.com/martinott/">Martin Ott's subversion pkg</a>, mainly because I only needed the client.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-06-18-sxip-comes-out-of-stealth.md b/_posts/archive/2004-06-18-sxip-comes-out-of-stealth.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f10c17d..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-06-18-sxip-comes-out-of-stealth.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Sxip comes out of stealth
-created: 1087572439
-categories: 
-- Web 2.0
-- Vancouver
-- Drupal
----
-<a href="http://www.sxip.org">Sxip</a> came out of hiding today -- " simple, open and trusted identity network". I just signed up for an <a href="http://www.demohomesite.com">account</a> -- not much there yet, but they do have the concept of "personas". Basically, the ability to manage different profiles for different sites you login to.
-
-You'll need that account to watch the <a href="https://sxip.org/Demo">demos</a> -- use a "sxip in" button to login and share requested information from your different personas, instead of having to enter them in all the different places.
-
-This is very similar to what we're thinking about with <a href="http://www.drupal.org">Drupal</a>. You can already login to Drupal sites using one home site account. The next step is pushing profile information back and forth (which will likely coincide with some level of FOAF integration).
-
-Will be interesting to look at possible areas of integration.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-06-18-the-bleeding-edge-of-the-web-has-moved-away-from-html.md b/_posts/archive/2004-06-18-the-bleeding-edge-of-the-web-has-moved-away-from-html.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 232300f..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-06-18-the-bleeding-edge-of-the-web-has-moved-away-from-html.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: The bleeding edge of the Web has moved away from HTML
-created: 1087616961
-categories: 
-- Web Development
-- HTML
-- Robert Scoble
-- Web Development
----
-<blockquote>
-	I see a trend there. The bleeding edge of the Web has moved away from HTML and onto other fronts -- fronts where the standards bodies have not yet been involved. <cite><a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2004/06/11.html#a7733">The Scobleizer: Molly calls for Web standards advocates to hold strong</a></cite></blockquote>
-<p>
-	Bleeding edge is really well done Flash or other more &quot;active&quot; technologies: XAML, XUL, Java Webstart. Does this mean you have to ignore standards? Definitely not, but here it&#39;s more about interfaces (XML-RPC, SOAP, platform APIs) than formats (XHTML etc.).</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-06-18-x-ten-interface-is-terrible.md b/_posts/archive/2004-06-18-x-ten-interface-is-terrible.md
deleted file mode 100644
index ea726d2..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-06-18-x-ten-interface-is-terrible.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: X-Ten Interface is Terrible
-created: 1087576694
-categories: 
-- VoIP
-- Vancouver
----
-<blockquote>
-<a href="http://vonage.com/">Vonage</a> is likely to release the final version of its softphone for OS-X next week. I have been using a beta version of the <a href="http://www.xten.com/">X-Ten</a> Pro software which apparently has been customized for Vonage by X-Ten Networks. If the customized version is anything like the one I have been using, Mac users are going to love it.
-<cite><a href="http://gigaom.com/thevoipdaily/archives/2004/06/17/vonage-os-x-client-next-week/">Om Malik's VoIP Daily: Vonage OS-X client next week?</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Somehow, I doubt Mac users are going to love it. Maybe on Windows users are accustomed to this type of interface, but&#8230;</p>
-
-<p>X-Ten is a great company -- leading VoIP softphone, commitment to open standards, and they're even a good, local Vancouver company. But their interface is <em>terrible</em>. The interface isn't native on any platform that I've seen it on, the preference screens are hidden in the same terrible "we're trying to make it look like a phone" graphics, and it's gigantic!</p>
-
-<p>Please, hire some interface designers and re-do the entire interface. Think clean, minimalist, and platform native. Heck, it's a voice application -- all I really need is a taskbar icon.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-06-19-social-networking-inaccuracies.md b/_posts/archive/2004-06-19-social-networking-inaccuracies.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 1fb6cb9..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-06-19-social-networking-inaccuracies.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Social networking inaccuracies
-created: 1087651114
-categories: 
-- Social Media
----
-<blockquote>
-Brad Howarth's ZDNet Australia article, <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/business/0,39023166,39150883,00.htm">Social networking tools face uncertain future</a>, completely misses the mark.  It would be one thing if it were just another rant about the supposed lack of a business model for social networking sites, but this one is so chock full of inaccuracies as to be worthy of comment:
-<cite><a href="http://www.onlinebusinessnetworks.com/blog/2004/06/18/zdnet-social-networking-article-misses-the-mark-and-the-facts">Online Business Networks: ZDNet social networking article misses the mark (and the facts)</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>I rant about the lack of business models, but the ZDNet article does have a bunch of errors -- follow the link to read the inaccuracy/correction list at Online Business Networks. It also serves as a good summary of some of the major points about social networking.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-06-23-another-victory-for-hardware-raid.md b/_posts/archive/2004-06-23-another-victory-for-hardware-raid.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 3716dbd..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-06-23-another-victory-for-hardware-raid.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Another victory for Hardware RAID
-created: 1087984031
-categories: 
-- IT
----
-<blockquote>
-	<p>I wound up swapping it with the spare drive, and went and rebuilt the array again. After about an hour and a half (not bad for 74gigs) the array was in an OK state. The entire procedure with the first failed rebuild and the second rebuild took about 10 minutes. Now MX1's uptime is only 99.27% darn.</p>
-	<p>It is kind of distressing to see the drive die so quickly as it has only been in production for about 2 months. I guess using cheap desktop SATA drives has it's drawbacks. However those damn SCSCI setups are so expensive.
-</p>
-<cite><a href="http://phrax.dyndns.org/blog/index.php?p=22">Phrax Blog (Benson Wong): Another victory for Hardware RAID</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Ben's been churning through all sorts of good IT solutions that balance do-it-yourself against cost. The SCSI vs. SATA debate will rage on, but cheap wins over expensive if you can use techniques like hardware RAID and spare drives to maintain good reliability.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-07-06-bell-does-5-for-1000-long-distance-minutes.md b/_posts/archive/2004-07-06-bell-does-5-for-1000-long-distance-minutes.md
deleted file mode 100644
index d9ef28c..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-07-06-bell-does-5-for-1000-long-distance-minutes.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Bell does $5 for 1000 long distance minutes
-created: 1089155771
-categories: 
-- VoIP
-- Canada
----
-<blockquote>
-<p>Bell Canada, in what is an obvious pre-emptive strike to deter consumers from switching to newcomers to the telephony services game, can you spell VoIP Vonage or Primus, has taken a major step to keep customers talking over their lines. </p>
-
-<p><a href="http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&#38;c=Article&#38;cid=1087769408294&#38;call_pageid=968350072197&#38;col=969048863851">Today they announced</a> the lowering of the price to $5 dollars for 1000 minutes a month when customers sign a two year contract, possibly taking the consumers out of the game as new services come along. Consumers also have to buy into a bundle of satellite delivery of television and high speed internet.</p>
-
-<p>Andy's advice to our friends to the north...WAIT, unless you know you have no interest in what may change.<br />
-</p>
-<cite><a href="http://andyabramson.blogs.com/voipwatch/2004/06/long_distance_f.html">VoIP Watch: Long Distance for 5 Dollars (Canadian)</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>The catch is in a) bundling with ExpressVu and high-speed as well as b) a 2-year contract. This really is a move born of desperation. VoIP is still relatively unknown in Canada, but as people start talking about how they have multiple phone numbers and can call anywhere in North America for free, there will be increased interest.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-07-06-bloggers-are-becoming-subject-matter-experts.md b/_posts/archive/2004-07-06-bloggers-are-becoming-subject-matter-experts.md
deleted file mode 100644
index af45c62..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-07-06-bloggers-are-becoming-subject-matter-experts.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Bloggers are becoming subject matter experts
-created: 1089156839
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
----
-<blockquote>
-Bloggers are becoming subject matter experts, and should the story I was interviewed for run soon, I'm sure the companies mentioned, both pro and con, will know that.. Not only with their service, but with how they care and feed all the press. Bloggers and webcasters included.
-<cite><a href="http://andyabramson.blogs.com/voipwatch/2004/06/voip_and_the_me.html">VoIP Watch: VoIP and The Media</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>I'd like to turn the title around and say "subject matter experts are becoming recognized through their blogs". I'm a subject matter expert first, and someone that maintains a blog second. This kind of personal publishing lets individuals have a similar (if not better) reach online than traditional media.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-07-06-blogging-tools-suck.md b/_posts/archive/2004-07-06-blogging-tools-suck.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 140bfcb..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-07-06-blogging-tools-suck.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Blogging Tools Suck
-created: 1089157461
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
----
-<blockquote>
-<p>What really sucks is the integration between TypePad (or any other hosted blogging platform) and the other services that bloggers need.  Here is a list of things I'd like to be tightly integrated with my blogging platform whether its Typepad or anything else.</p>
-
-<p>Google AdSense (or some other advertising service)<br />
-Google WebSearch (or some other site search/web search service)<br />
-Bloglet (or some other email subscription service)<br />
-Technorati (or some other service to see who is linking to my blog)<br />
-SiteMeter (or some other service that tells me how many visitors and page views I get)<br />
-Feedburner (or some other service that tells me who is reading my feed)</p>
-<cite><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/AVc?m=191">A VC: Blogging Tools Suck</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Well, <a href="http://www.blogware.com">Blogware</a> does do everything on the list except for advertising. Part of the issue is that we are very much still dealing with first-generation type applications. We'll eventually see consolidation in these areas, as the best-of-breed add-ons get bought by hosted blogging platform providers (witness the purchase of <a href="http://www.blogrolling.com">Blogrolling</a> by Blogware).</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-07-06-dont-expect-a-converged-information-superhighway.md b/_posts/archive/2004-07-06-dont-expect-a-converged-information-superhighway.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 1bf9b46..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-07-06-dont-expect-a-converged-information-superhighway.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Don't expect a converged information superhighway
-created: 1089155264
-categories: 
-- VoIP
-- Music
-- Multimedia PC
-- Movie
----
-<blockquote>
-Data storage is becoming cheaper at <a href="http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/2004_archives/001053.html">rapid rates</a>.  This is one reason why I don't ever expect a totally converged information superhighway, supplying our television, computer, music listening, etc., all in one service.  Why obsess over your piping when you can have milk delivered cheaply at your doorstep?  Netflix and Google's Gmail, rather than Verizon, may represent our cultural future.  Data storage and delivery also tend to be less regulated than centralized piping, plus they limit natural monopoly problems.  Under this alternative model, I might receive "cultural disks" in the mail, every month or week, and decide what on those disks I am willing to pay for.  Yes there will be hackers but we will be rich, the discs will be cheap and convenient, and they will offer ancillary services of organization and presentation.  I can hardly wait, except now I remember I don't even have time for the current menu of cultural offerings.
-<cite><a href="http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2004/06/the_economics_o.html">Marginal Revolution: The economics of storage</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>This is similar to a discussion I had with <a href="http://www.rolandtanglao.com">Roland</a> a little while back. His argument was that he wants a little broadband router sized device that takes care of all his services for him. My argument being that sure, I can do many of those things today (like my own <a href="http://gallery.bmannconsulting.com">gallery</a> vs. <a href="http://www.flickr.com">Flickr</a>), but that economics of scale will always see advances first happening in a centralized fashion then becoming decentralized as they become commoditized/processing power increases at the edge/etc.</p>
-
-<p>So, I expect things like 3D images  or other computationally or storage intensive applications to start at the center, and over time you'll be able to buy it in a small form factor that sits on your desk.</p>
-
-<p>Oh yes, and in case you didn't get the memo, it looks like centralized telephony networks are doomed -- we can do all that stuff at the edge, all we need is someone to run a <a href="http://www.e164.org">centralized directory</a>.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-07-06-drm-inhibits-communications.md b/_posts/archive/2004-07-06-drm-inhibits-communications.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c84235b..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-07-06-drm-inhibits-communications.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: DRM inhibits communications
-created: 1089154010
-categories: 
-- IT
----
-<blockquote>
-<p>Ultimately, telecom is about communications, not media. DRM inhibits communications. That&#8217;s the opposite of what you&#8217;re after. If we&#8217;d had DRM before the Internet became widely available, telcos would have sold a lot less dial-up and broadband, and the industry would have even more unlit fiber than it does today.</p>
-<p>How many future broadband and FTTH sales will be lost because you can&#8217;t share a few moments of a good TV show with your granny over the Internet?</p>
-</blockquote>
-<cite><a href="http://www.telepocalypse.net/archives/000188.html">Telepocalypse: DRM - enemy of telecom</a></cite>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-07-06-knopsterisk.md b/_posts/archive/2004-07-06-knopsterisk.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 0fa9cf5..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-07-06-knopsterisk.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Knopsterisk
-created: 1089171076
-categories: 
-- "*nix"
-- VoIP
----
-A <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/1025#comment-1958">comment posted</a> points to what I had been talking about, Knoppix + Asterisk == Knopsterisk (their slogan being "PC to PBX in 4 minutes").
-
-Currently being sold by mail order, the company also does custom configurations.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-07-06-make-whatever-you-offer-a-vehicle-for-advertisements.md b/_posts/archive/2004-07-06-make-whatever-you-offer-a-vehicle-for-advertisements.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 19dbfc5..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-07-06-make-whatever-you-offer-a-vehicle-for-advertisements.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Make whatever you offer a vehicle for advertisements
-created: 1089162362
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
----
-<blockquote>
-So what could Engadget do so that it doesn't have to resort to advertising as the only model for revenue? Well, how about providing additional features for paying subscribers? Paying subscribers could get feeds with additional analysis, tips, comments, or whatever. Including high quality images or extra images related to the story is another option. Paying subscribers could be allowed to update their feeds as often as every 5 minutes, or have access to feeds that don't have news items that are slightly time delayed. The list goes on and on.<br/>
-<br/>
-By the way, I'm still working on a scheme so that I can figure out a way to make money off of Engadget / Weblogs Inc. every time I refer to them. That's free publicity for them, and I'll be damned if I can't squeeze everyone under the sun for some money.
-<cite><a href="http://nowhere.2entwine.com/archives/000163.html">Going Nowhere: RSS Advertisements</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p> I tend to agree with these comments. Having advertising as your only way to support yourself isn't that great of a business model. As mentioned in the examples above, giving paying subscribers value adds just seems so much better than "we'll just slap some advertising in the RSS feeds". Of course, this all depends on you having good content to begin with.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p><a href="http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/07062004054751PMEBRTKG.htm">Ed Brill</a> writes about advertising in the eWeek RSS feeds:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-Should the RSS feed itself be viewed as a way to generate revenue, or the content on the pages that the RSS entry leads to? &#160;Because if the signal to noise ratio drops, RSS is going to be a whole lot less interesting.
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>People like <a href="http://scoble.weblogs.com">Robert Scoble</a> insist on full-text feeds, and I tend to prefer these as well (I <a href="http://daringfireball.net/2004/06/something_daring">paid for Daring Fireball</a> in part so that I could get access to full-text feeds). Again, I would prefer to pay for good content (high signal to noise) rather than have it "polluted" by ads.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-07-06-more-types-of-information-to-be-syndicated.md b/_posts/archive/2004-07-06-more-types-of-information-to-be-syndicated.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c6a489c..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-07-06-more-types-of-information-to-be-syndicated.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: More types of information to be syndicated
-created: 1089156316
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
----
-<blockquote>
-A change in the cost and ease of syndication will cause far more <em>types</em> of information to be syndicated -- not just news, and certainly not just blogs. That is what is interesting about all of this, and it is baffling to me that so few people get it.
-<cite><a href="http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/000471.html">Infectious Greed: Syndication Writ Large, HBR, etc.</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>On my to-do list has been a brain storming session about types of information that would benefit from syndication, preferably with some non-techies in the mix as well. And the other half of syndication (the consumption part), needs to be abstracted away by saying "Would you like to be notified when X happens?" or something of the sort -- like explaining that PubSub "searches the future".</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-07-06-not-advertising-via-blogs-youre-doing-your-client-a-disservice.md b/_posts/archive/2004-07-06-not-advertising-via-blogs-youre-doing-your-client-a-disservice.md
deleted file mode 100644
index fc5684f..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-07-06-not-advertising-via-blogs-youre-doing-your-client-a-disservice.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Not advertising via blogs? You're "doing your client a disservice"
-created: 1089154212
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
----
-<blockquote><a href="http://www.hespos.com/">Tom Hespos</a>, an experience media buyer (and CEO of <a href="http://www.underscoremarketing.com/">Underscore Marketing</a>) blogs about an experience he had recently buying ads on a blog. The take-away: "Said blog kicked ass and was one of the best performers on the campaign.
-<cite><a href="http://www.businessblogconsulting.com/2004/06/hespos_yes_blog.html">Business Blog Consulting: Hespos:  Yes, Blogs Are A Great Advertising Environment</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-07-06-os-x-tiger-server-does-blogging-and-im.md b/_posts/archive/2004-07-06-os-x-tiger-server-does-blogging-and-im.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 397b922..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-07-06-os-x-tiger-server-does-blogging-and-im.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: OS X "Tiger" Server does blogging and IM
-created: 1089159559
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
-- Mac
-- Knowledge Management
-- IT
-- IM
----
-<blockquote>
-The server version of Tiger will offer weblog hosting with <a href="http://wiki.blojsom.com/wiki/display/blojsom/About+blojsom">Blojsom</a>. As far as I know Apple servers are used mostly in office environments. With Safari RSS and Blojsom Apple is becoming a very interesting k-logging environment.
-<cite><a href="http://paolo.evectors.it/2004/06/29.html#a2162">Paolo Valdemarin: Tiger k-logging</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>And an iChat server based on Jabber (well, it's a Jabber server, so it works with all Jabber-compatible clients as well). And of course, both the IM server and the blog server both tie into Open Directory for user accounts and authentication. Like <a href="http://scottstuff.net/scott/archives/000220.html">Scott</a>, I want iChat to start supporting arbitrary SIP servers as well. Somehow, the fact that there has been absolutely no word out of Apple about support for SIP makes me think they're up to something.</p>
-
-<p>Check the <a href="http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/tiger/">server preview</a> for all the other Tiger Server stuff.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-07-06-primus-talkbroadband-will-be-available-at-future-shop-best-buy-stores-in-canada.md b/_posts/archive/2004-07-06-primus-talkbroadband-will-be-available-at-future-shop-best-buy-stores-in-canada.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c527936..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-07-06-primus-talkbroadband-will-be-available-at-future-shop-best-buy-stores-in-canada.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Primus TalkBroadband will be available at Future Shop/Best Buy stores in Canada
-created: 1089149881
-categories: 
-- VoIP
-- Canada
----
-<p[>It's not up on <a href="http://www.primustel.ca/en/about/press/index.htm">Primus' press release page</a>, but this comes from <a href="http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/June2004/30/c9682.html">Canada NewsWire</a>:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-PRIMUS Telecommunications Canada Inc. (PRIMUS Canada) is partnering with Best Buy and Future Shop to make TalkBroadband(TM), Canada's leading Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phone service, available at retail outlets across the country.
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Now what Future Shop/Best Buy should do is have a live version of TalkBroadband set up in their stores, but set it so that you can only call other TalkBroadband users, including those in other stores.</p>
-
-<p>What the heck: let them call anyone in North America -- it's only $40 a month, after all, and would pretty much drive home the advantages pretty clearly.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-07-06-pubsub-notification-via-jabber.md b/_posts/archive/2004-07-06-pubsub-notification-via-jabber.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f4a57af..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-07-06-pubsub-notification-via-jabber.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: PubSub notification via Jabber
-created: 1089157774
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
-- IM
----
-<blockquote>
-The <a href="http://www.jabber.org/pipermail/standards-jig/2004-June/005545.html">news</a> about the <a href="http://www.pubsub.com/">PubSub</a> service is really exciting both for us and the rest of the Jabber community. We've been saying all along that IM and syndication belong together, and the PubSub service is the server side extension to that vision.  The most exciting part for me about a PubSub like service, is the possibility to subscribe to a topic, and then get notified within in seconds of the actual post. It's basically like subscribing to Google results and being instantly notified when Google discovers a new webpage matching your query. Very exciting.
-<cite><a href="http://nowhere.2entwine.com/archives/000134.html">Going Nowhere: PubSub and Jabber's Network Topology</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-07-06-rss-is-a-big-blue-icon.md b/_posts/archive/2004-07-06-rss-is-a-big-blue-icon.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 34b2e5a..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-07-06-rss-is-a-big-blue-icon.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: RSS is a big blue icon
-created: 1089159767
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
----
-<blockquote>
-<img src="http://paolo.evectors.it/myImages/RSSicon.jpg" align="right" hspace="5" vspace="5">Among the other news from yesterday's Apple Developers Conference <a href="http://stream.apple.akadns.net/">keynote</a>, it's interesting to note that apple picked the blue RSS icon and not the orange XML one to represent RSS (and Atom).<br><br>
-Even if I'm a long time orange icon user and fan, I think I can imagine
-Apple thinking: "why using an icon with the word 'XML' to link to
-something we call 'RSS'?". It's true: users are smart, but why making
-their life harder?
-<cite><a href="http://paolo.evectors.it/2004/06/29.html#a2161">Paolo Valdemarin: Safari and RSS</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>I laughed when I read this. It's true, an icon labelled "RSS" does make a lot more sense. Also, regardless of format (e.g. Atom), RSS is the branding term.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-07-06-web-is-still-gaining-developer-mindshare-at-the-expense-of-win32.md b/_posts/archive/2004-07-06-web-is-still-gaining-developer-mindshare-at-the-expense-of-win32.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 80a6035..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-07-06-web-is-still-gaining-developer-mindshare-at-the-expense-of-win32.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Web is still gaining developer mindshare at the expense of Win32
-created: 1089158170
-categories: 
-- Web Development
-- Web 2.0
-- Microsoft
----
-<blockquote>
-<p>I've been thinking about the rise of the web as an application
-platform for a while. But what hadn't occurred to me until I read
-<a href="http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html">Spolsky's essay</a> last week is this, which I think is quite
-remarkable: Microsoft totally fucked up when they took aim at
-Netscape. It wasn't <em>Netscape</em> that was a threat to Windows as an
-application platform, it was the web itself.</p>
-
-<p>They spent all that time, money, and development effort on IE,
-building a browser monopoly and crushing Netscape -- but to what
-avail? Here we are, and the web is still gaining developer
-mindshare at the expense of Win32.</p>
-<cite><a href="http://daringfireball.net/2004/06/location_field">Daring Fireball: The Location Field Is the New Command Line</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Microsoft is still hedging it's bets. It sunk money into WebTV and is still struggling with smartphones and handhelds. But if the web wins, Microsoft loses.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-07-07-alec-and-andy-do-voip-futures.md b/_posts/archive/2004-07-07-alec-and-andy-do-voip-futures.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c71f765..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-07-07-alec-and-andy-do-voip-futures.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Alec and Andy do VoIP futures
-created: 1089236002
-categories: 
-- VoIP
-- Canada
----
-<p><a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0111520/2004/07/07.html#a971">Alec Saunders</a> comments on <a href="http://andyabramson.blogs.com/voipwatch/2004/07/andy_says.html">Andy Abramson's 6 SWAGs</a>, so I thought I'd give it a try as well, albeit keeping the Canadian market a bit more in mind.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<ol>
-<li><em>Yahoo becomes your phone company</em>
-<p>Not if they keep switching protocol formats, they won't! (see <a href="http://tedshelton.blogspot.com/2004/06/im-wars.html">Ted Shelton's post on "The IM Wars"</a>)</p>
-</li>
-<li> <EM>Microsoft becomes your phone company</EM>
-<p>Nope, but like Alec says, they'll provide technology plus APIs to hook into different systems. They're offering various broadband network gear for the home -- an MS phone appliance isn't too much of a stretch.</p>
-</li> 
-<li><EM>AOL becomes your phone company</EM>
-<p>Alec says that they're doing this in Canada, will have to check on this. All large ISPs continue to look for services to sell to their customers -- being nothing more than a bit mover is not a high margin business, and it's not very much fun, either.</p>
-</li>
-<li> <EM>There will be shakeout within the VoIP industry sooner than people realize</EM>
-<p>The shakeout may happen even before it really gets established here in Canada. Of course, this is still mass-market residential stuff -- the small business market is where things are going to be really interesting, and where the telcos are going to have to fight tooth and nail to retain their expensive monopoly pricing. We haven't seen this pain yet, but it's coming.</p>
-</li>
-<li><EM>Look for the mobile carriers in the USA to become VoIP partners</EM>
-<p>I only wish this would happen in Canada. Perhaps Primus should buy Microcell/Fido? Wow, that would be a <em>great</em> bundle. Sure I'm biased because I use the two services, but the point is I really don't need a landline voice on top of my high speed access (from Shaw).</p>
-</li>
-<li><EM>WiFi with VoIP</EM>
-<p>Perhaps a good way to finally get money out of all that free wireless access? Right now, many free/open wireless access points block anything but http/https traffic. How do these networks serve as </p>
-</li>
-</ol>
-
-<p>And I'll add a #7 (although it belongs up there with #1 and #2, and maybe even #6):</p>
-<p><em>Apple becomes your phone company</em></p>
-<p>They've got iChat, Tiger Server is going to ship with an <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/1259">enterprise IM server based on Jabber</a>, and they've got the .Mac online service. Let's add a fun Apple rumour on at the end: Apple launches a new iPod that is both wireless- and voice-enabled. And I'm still not counting that mystery USB connection on the Airport Express out either -- how easy would it be to plug in a USB phone?!</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-07-07-xoduszero.md b/_posts/archive/2004-07-07-xoduszero.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 887deb9..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-07-07-xoduszero.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Xoduszero
-created: 1089269823
-categories: 
-- Search Engine Voodoo
----
-Richard wants to be number one for <a href="http://www.movableblog.com/archives/2004/07/07/xoduszero" title="Xoduszero">Xoduszero</a>. Help him out by throwing a couple of links his way.
-
-I don't know if other people will use SEO "scam" techniques. I still haven't finished my <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/search-engine-voodoo">Search Engine Voodoo</a> series, and it's hard to explain to people what it is that most SEO isn't (or rather, how to accomplish, which usually means difficult stuff like refactoring your code and URL naming). Good content, good code, lots of interlinking. So get linking, give it one for the gipper.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-07-08-why-doesnt-apple-want-to-do-xhtml.md b/_posts/archive/2004-07-08-why-doesnt-apple-want-to-do-xhtml.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 7fef7f0..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-07-08-why-doesnt-apple-want-to-do-xhtml.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Why doesn't Apple want to do XHTML?
-created: 1089319979
-categories: 
-- Web Development
-- Mac
----
-<blockquote>
-Hyatt is, of course, neglecting to mention that, alongside the KHTML engine Safari is based on, there is a <a href="http://svg.kde.org/">KSVG</a> engine. They wouldn&#8217;t have to reinvent the wheel to use that any more than they did to integrate KHTML. What&#8217;s more, an SVG-based interface would allow authors to create pixel-perfect interfaces in <i>Adobe Illustrator</i>, among other tools. How can that not be seen as an attractive feature to a Mac audience?
-<cite><a href="http://www.bestkungfu.com/index.php?p=510">bestkungfu weblog: On implementing SVG</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>There has been something of a sh*tstorm over Apple's decision to add a couple of <a href="http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/hyatt/archives/2004_07.html#005928">extensions to HTML 4.01</a>. Basically, it seems like the answer that comes back is "XHTML is hard". That doesn't seem good enough. Companies like Apple, Opera, and the Mozilla project need to tackle the hard stuff. bestkungfu's point about the KSVG engine is a good one: Apple, please implement SVG by integrating the KSVG into WebKit. Hmmm...maybe even a good fit for CoreImage?</p>
-
-<p>This needs some loud shouting by anyone/everyone that cares about standards, and about moving past XHTML. Only with XHTML and XML-based technologies can we move forwards on the web. Apple may have a small window now where they can add some more tech to Tiger, the next version of OS X.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-07-09-yahoo-gets-odd-to-go-beyond-the-browser.md b/_posts/archive/2004-07-09-yahoo-gets-odd-to-go-beyond-the-browser.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e051d0d..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-07-09-yahoo-gets-odd-to-go-beyond-the-browser.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Yahoo gets Odd to go beyond the browser
-created: 1089415121
-categories: 
-- Web Development
-- Web 2.0
----
-<blockquote>
-Yahoo has acquired <a href="http://www.oddpost.com/">Oddpost</a>. A couple of weeks ago I got a heads-up that this deal had been consumated and would be announced shortly. Little did I imagine then that they would pick a <i>Friday evening</i> to make the announcement, but that's the way it goes. It's a big one. Oddpost <a href="http://archive.scripting.com/2002/04/04#l5fa8380fa21ee43479c838e7c7dab1c3">turned</a> the idea of what you could do with a browser upside down, by producing a clone of Microsoft Outlook in JavaScript and DHTML running in MSIE. Since then, they have labored in relative obscurity, growing a customer base, raising VC money, adding people, and staying out of the way. Then Google launches Gmail, with a very Oddpostish interface, and someone at Yahoo says "Hmmm, I've seen that somewhere," calls up Ethan and Iain and their new VCs and asks "Are you for sale?" and the rest is history. Now Google has competition on elegance of user interface.
-<cite><a href="http://archive.scripting.com/2004/07/09#When:6:28:25PM">Scripting News: Yahoo has acquired Oddpost</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>I've just been using my Gmail account for the past week or so. It's pretty good as far as web apps go. I went over and read the <a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0108381/">Oddpost blog</a>, since the app itself runs in IE only. Turns out they <a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0108381/2004/06/24.html#a121">read RSS feeds</a> in the same interface. Should be a good fit for <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/899">Yahoo Search's Add to My Yahoo links</a>.</p>
-
-<p>The web as a platform is back. Now is it "beyond the browser", or beyond HTML?</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-07-10-dashboard-apps-multiplying.md b/_posts/archive/2004-07-10-dashboard-apps-multiplying.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 99fcfe8..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-07-10-dashboard-apps-multiplying.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Dashboard apps multiplying
-created: 1089484453
-categories: 
-- Mac
-- Application
----
-Apple's <a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/dashboard.html">Dashboard</a> is already seeing lots of Widgets being created, like those found over at <a href="http://www.thedashboarder.com/">The Dashboarder</a>.
-
-Looking through the <a href="http://www.thedashboarder.com/forums/">forums</a>, I found a link to <a href="http://www.designasaur.com/gadgets/">some widget mockups</a> developed by a graphic designer.
-
-I think this is what Apple was targeting: make the barrier to entry for creating applications very low, and you'll see all sorts of useful little things being created.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-07-10-more-oddpost-comments.md b/_posts/archive/2004-07-10-more-oddpost-comments.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 140abd4..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-07-10-more-oddpost-comments.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: More Oddpost comments
-created: 1089483711
-categories: 
-- Web Development
-- Web 2.0
----
-<blockquote>
-This is about RIAs (rich internet apps), integrated web services and open standards being fused with productivity software, micro-content and social networking and offered as hosted experiences.
-<cite><a href="http://marc.blogs.it/archives/2004/07/why_yahoo_buyin.html">Marc Canter: Why Yahoo buying ODDpost is so important</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p><a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/1267" title="Yahoo gets Odd to go beyond the browser">Like I said</a>, this Rich Internet App stuff is about going "beyond HTML".</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-07-13-common-definition-of-xml-readership.md b/_posts/archive/2004-07-13-common-definition-of-xml-readership.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 0fc7231..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-07-13-common-definition-of-xml-readership.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Common definition of XML "readership"
-created: 1089779677
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
----
-<blockquote>
-We're going to need to settle on a common definition of XML "readership," while respecting the diverse landscape of feed consumers.  Remember the transition in the web space from "hits" to "page views" to "visits"?  We're about to see something similar here.
-<cite><a href="http://sippey.com/b/2004/06/measurable-syndication.html">this is sippey.com: measurable syndication</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-07-13-nloci-java-based-sip-server-being-sold-by-bankruptcy-trustee-for-9500.md b/_posts/archive/2004-07-13-nloci-java-based-sip-server-being-sold-by-bankruptcy-trustee-for-9500.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 5414578..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-07-13-nloci-java-based-sip-server-being-sold-by-bankruptcy-trustee-for-9500.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: nLoci Java-based SIP server being sold by bankruptcy trustee for $9,500
-created: 1089744959
-categories: 
-- VoIP
-- Open Source
-- nLoci
-- Java
-- SIP
-- Pingtel
-- Open Source
-- VoIP
----
-<p>
-	Via <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/contact">my contact form</a>, Antony Vickery writes:</p>
-<blockquote>
-	Interesting press release at <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/7/prweb140769.htm">http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/7/prweb140769.htm</a>. Someone&#39;s selling the source code to a J2EE SIP Presence and Proxy Server and SIP development platform for $9,500.</blockquote>
-<p>
-	Looks like the company <a href="http://www.nloci.com/">nLoci</a> is the one that developed the code, and then ran out of capital. Now the trustee is selling the assets. Of course, with companies like <a href="http://www.pingtel.com/a_opensource.jsp">Pingtel going open source</a>, it may be that even $9,500 is too high of a price.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-07-13-seb-turns-off-comment-counters-saves-the-day.md b/_posts/archive/2004-07-13-seb-turns-off-comment-counters-saves-the-day.md
deleted file mode 100644
index d4273ed..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-07-13-seb-turns-off-comment-counters-saves-the-day.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: SEB turns off comment counters, saves the day
-created: 1089763110
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
----
-I almost had to unsubscribe from <a href="http://www.stupidevilbastard.com">Stupid Evil Bastard</a>. But when I IM'd Les to explain, he <a href="http://stupidevilbastard.com/index/seb/rss_feed_mystery_has_been_solved/">fixed things</a> pretty much instantaneously.
-
-If you like some fun stuff, some serious stuff, and lots of strong opinions, check out <a href="http://www.stupidevilbastard.com">SEB</a> -- one of these days we'll get him moved over to <a href="http://www.drupal.org">Drupal</a>!
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-07-14-feed-splicing-begins-to-really-deliver-on-the-promise-of-syndication.md b/_posts/archive/2004-07-14-feed-splicing-begins-to-really-deliver-on-the-promise-of-syndication.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a492cbc..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-07-14-feed-splicing-begins-to-really-deliver-on-the-promise-of-syndication.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Feed splicing begins to really deliver on the promise of syndication
-created: 1089872813
-categories: 
-- feed splicing
-- Feedburner
-- Drupal
-- Personal Publishing
----
-<blockquote />
-<p>We just launched the first version of a new service this evening that we're very excited about. The service allows users of the photo sharing site <a href="http://www.flickr.com">Flickr</a> to splice their public photos into another feed (like a blog feed).  The announcement about our partnership can be found <a href="http://www.burningdoor.com/feedburner/announce/feedburner_flickr_release_20040714.html">here</a>. </p>
-
-<p>Many of our publishers have expressed the desire to be able to use different publishing tools for different purposes (eg, a blogging tool, a bookmarks tool, a photo sharing tool, etc.) but still have one resulting feed that friends, family, and subscribers could access.  Tonight's announcement is a fun step in this direction. </p>
-
-<cite><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/BurnThisRSS2?m=38">Burn This! - The Feedburner Weblog: Feed Splicing, Part I</a></cite>
-
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>I talked about adding this functionality -- feed splicing -- into Drupal. Just like you can add a home page or other URL to your user profile today, in the future you should be able to also add a URL pointing to any feed that is you, and Drupal will aggregate it for you.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>This is already possible today through Drupal's aggregation capabilities, but I want to take it to the next level, doing personal aggregation for every member account in a community. <a href="http://www.justagwailo.com">Richard</a> is doing this for his many weblogs using Magpie, and the effect is good -- especially when he can do things like post to <a href="http://www.urbanvancouver.com">Urban Vancouver</a> but then still have the item show up on "his" site.</p>
-
-<p>Congrats, Flickr-ites. And yes, of course I'm trying it out. I had recently switched the "visible" feeds here to use Feedburner (although I'm not redirecting the existing Drupal URLs at this point). But I don't think my Flickr pictures mesh well with the business nature of this site. Herewith the Feedburner feed of <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/crazyworking">my personal site</a>.</p>
-
-<p>Side note: this breaks Technorati. I've never believed in them as a long term play in any case. It's interesting to see how many sites rely on instant spidering of updated feeds.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-07-16-time-to-demonstrate-simpletracks-again.md b/_posts/archive/2004-07-16-time-to-demonstrate-simpletracks-again.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 0c9fe78..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-07-16-time-to-demonstrate-simpletracks-again.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Time to demonstrate Simpletracks again
-created: 1090010158
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
----
-<a href="http://www.businessblogconsulting.com/2004/07/now_using_track.html">Rick</a>, there is <a href="http://kalsey.com/tools/trackback/">Kalsey Consulting's Simpletracks</a> for those whose tools don't directly support it.
-
-That's what I've used to let you know about this post.
-<!--break-->
-I'm also not a huge fan at the way that the trackback concept is implemented today. So let's explain what we'd like to be different, and go from there.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-07-17-adiumx-interview.md b/_posts/archive/2004-07-17-adiumx-interview.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 7bad351..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-07-17-adiumx-interview.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: AdiumX Interview
-created: 1090090189
-categories: 
-- Application
-- IM
-- Mac
----
-<blockquote>
-iChat is fine, but what if you want to use more than AIM? AdiumX allows you to access all the networks at once from within one application. If you have more than one AIM name, you're screwed in iChat, but AdiumX allows you to have them online at the same time. If your iBooks' tiny screen is overwhelmed with 10 chats, AdiumX has tabbed windows (draggable!) and a compact contact list and much, much more.
-<cite><a href="http://www.drunkenblog.com/drunkenblog-archives/000306.html">DrunkenBlog: Evan Schoenberg of AdiumX</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>I've been using <a href="http://www.adiumx.com">AdiumX</a> for <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/1079">a while now</a>. Reading this interview with one of the developers made me go check out <a href="http://www.adiumxtras.com/">Adium Xtras</a>, the site where all the little add-ons, graphics, etc. etc. live.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>My co-workers have taken to saying things like "No more ducks!" lately. So I'm stuck with headphones. Maybe they'll like the <a href="http://www.adiumxtras.com/index.php?a=xtras&xtra_id=436">Goonies</a> or <a href="http://www.adiumxtras.com/index.php?a=xtras&xtra_id=132">Strongbad</a> sound sets better.</p>
-
-<p>Oh right. Tech stuff here. So it uses WebKit to display and style both the contact list and the message display. Which is just like Dashboard. Which is kind of like a Rich Internet Application. Mmmm.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-07-18-compete-on-merit.md b/_posts/archive/2004-07-18-compete-on-merit.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 31b0143..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-07-18-compete-on-merit.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Compete on merit
-created: 1090218097
-categories: 
-- Web Development
-- Personal Publishing
----
-<blockquote>
-We decided months ago that we're gonna bend over backwards to interop with everyone. We want you to be able to open Tidepool to gather photos from your camera, open iPhoto to remove some red-eye and rotate a few, open Tidepool to do some tagging, open Photoshop Album to see those tags, etc. We'd rather compete on merit than hold our customers hostage.
-<a href="http://bigfractaltangle.com/archive/2004/07/16.jsp">Big Fractal Tangle: all-hands interop</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>I honestly don't believe that lock-in on formats/non-interoperability is a good long term strategy.</p>
-
-<p>I'm <em>still</em> struggling in the search for a good contact/calendar/project management tool that works for multiple people and is cross-platform. We're trying out <a href="http://www.basecamphq.com/">Basecamp</a>. I had given it a try quite some time ago, and felt mediocre about it. It seems to be working out better this time, especially the way it integrates with iCal (tasks and calendar events) and having your own custom RSS feeds for notification.</p>
-
-<p><a href="http://www.silverorange.com/a/intranet">Silver Orange's Intranet</a> looks really good, too, but the online demo doesn't give me enough of a feel for how well it might work. And of course I haven't had the time to ask for a more complete demo.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-07-18-off-line-web-applications.md b/_posts/archive/2004-07-18-off-line-web-applications.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 3ee22c4..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-07-18-off-line-web-applications.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Off-line Web Applications
-created: 1090218895
-categories: 
-- Web Development
-- Web 2.0
----
-<blockquote>
-<p>The only downside to this I can see is that as the gap between "desktop" and "web based" applications closes, users won't understand the difference.  The Oddpost client, for example, feels like a fancy mail and RSS application.  But take it offline (such as cross-country flight) and suddenly it does a lot less that one might expect.  Knowing that it's a web-based system with most of the data stored on the server, this comes as no shock to most anyone reading this.  But to average folks like my Mom, well... that's probably a whole different story.</p>
-
-<p>This makes me wonder how we're going to bridge the gap or if that gap will become irrelevant as the odds of having an Internet connection in any random location continue to increase.</p>
-<cite><a href="http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/002241.html">Jeremy Zawodny: Oddpost, DHTML, and off-line Web Applications</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>We need to improve on the end-user experience with web applications. Or maybe we <em>can</em> go beyond the web? So what's the strategy for storing data and interacting with it -- when we are offline. </p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-07-18-ongoing-reports-more-mozilla-visits-than-ie.md b/_posts/archive/2004-07-18-ongoing-reports-more-mozilla-visits-than-ie.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 678366c..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-07-18-ongoing-reports-more-mozilla-visits-than-ie.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Ongoing reports more Mozilla visits than IE
-created: 1090216715
-categories: 
-- Web Development
----
-<blockquote>
-In the week ending Saturday July 10, 2004, for the first time,  <em>ongoing</em> received more visits from browsers in the Mozilla family than from Internet Explorer. I've attached a graph...
-<cite><a href="http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/07/11/BrowserLinesCross">Ongoing: The Lines Cross</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>(insert image of Ghostbusters "Crossing the streams")</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-07-18-people-rarely-comment.md b/_posts/archive/2004-07-18-people-rarely-comment.md
deleted file mode 100644
index b842cdc..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-07-18-people-rarely-comment.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: People rarely comment
-created: 1090216399
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
----
-<blockquote>
-People rarely comment on this blog (or most non-political blogs, I've noticed), so feel free to share your best lemons-to-lemonade story with me in a comment, and I promise I'll post the best couple of them pronto!
-<cite><a href="http://onlyonce.blogs.com/onlyonce/2004/07/turning_lemons_.html">Only Once: Turning Lemons into Lemonade</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Comments are in some sense an artifact of early days, when very few people had blogs. These days, much as <a href="http://www.justagwailo.com/filter/2003/12/06/decentralized">Richard mentioned</a>, it is more common to just write up a blog post on your own site in "response" to someone. All my lengthy comments are done in this way, using either trackback or a short comment just pointing to my own response.</p>
-
-<p>We still need better tools to connect -- we need to be able to talk across mailing lists, newsgroups, blogs -- and comments. And we need to be able to easily follow these conversations wherever they appear.</p>
-
-<p>(and hey, <a href="http://onlyonce.blogs.com/onlyonce/2004/07/turning_lemons_.html">check out Only Once's full post</a>, because it's a good read)</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-07-19-asterisk-on-os-x.md b/_posts/archive/2004-07-19-asterisk-on-os-x.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 442adf1..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-07-19-asterisk-on-os-x.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Asterisk on OS X?
-created: 1090222729
-categories: 
-- VoIP
-- Open Source
-- Mac
-- Application
----
-<blockquote>
-open source PBX, VoIP, IVR &#38; voice mail
-<cite><a href="http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/24011">VersionTracker: Asterisk - CVS 10-28-03</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>VersionTracker had the CVS release of <a href="http://www.asterisk.org">Asterisk</a> show up in the RSS feed that I read. I admit, I never really considered Asterisk on the Mac platform. <a href="http://scottstuff.net/scott/archives/000227.html">Scott</a> points out that Asterisk just posted their first 1.0 <acronym title="Release Candidate">RC</acronym>. I guess you could use an external interface rather one of the internal <a href="http://www.digium.com">Digium</a> products: they do have the <a href="http://www.digium.com/index.php?menu=iaxy">IAXy</a>.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Update:</strong> OK, this is definitely an OS X version of Asterisk, since some <a href="http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/24031">AppleScripts for managing it</a> also got released. The company behind this is <a href="http://www.sunrise-tel.com/">Sunrise Telephone Systems</a>, based out of Japan. They have some impressive GUI config screenshots for OS X up ("Macsterisk"). Now I'm excited!</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-07-19-innovation-from-existing-user-behavior.md b/_posts/archive/2004-07-19-innovation-from-existing-user-behavior.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 62a4eb8..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-07-19-innovation-from-existing-user-behavior.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Innovation from existing user behavior
-created: 1090226565
-categories: 
-- Web Development
----
-<blockquote>
-Bad design is based on the arrogant and extremely difficult attempts to modify user behavior. Good design derives innovation from existing user behavior. Guess which one succeeds more often?
-<cite><a href="http://www.veen.com/jeff/archives/000580.html">Jeffrey Veen: Damage in Web Design</cite>
-</blockquote>
-<p>Veen is commenting on the <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/">All Music Guide</a> re-design.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-07-19-new-brunswick-business-blog-survey.md b/_posts/archive/2004-07-19-new-brunswick-business-blog-survey.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 4400898..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-07-19-new-brunswick-business-blog-survey.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: New Brunswick Business Blog Survey
-created: 1090294889
-categories: 
-- Canada
-- Personal Publishing
----
-Matthew Lin came by and <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/1284">posted his request to fill out his blog survey</a>.
-
-I first saw this over at <a href="http://www.businessblogconsulting.com/2004/07/survey_on_use_o.html">Rick E. Bruner's Business Blog Consulting</a>, and I did fill out the survey. Maybe Matthew saw my URL and decided to check it out.
-
-So, if you read this site and have a business blog, go <a href="
-http://business.unbsj.ca/bblog/">fill out the survey</a>.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-07-19-ssh-keys-and-subversion-on-os-x.md b/_posts/archive/2004-07-19-ssh-keys-and-subversion-on-os-x.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 5edf0a9..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-07-19-ssh-keys-and-subversion-on-os-x.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: SSH Keys and Subversion on OS X
-created: 1090221343
-categories: 
-- Web Development
-- Mac
-- Application
----
-<a href="http://www.jluster.org/node/221">J Luster recently wrote about Gentoo's keychain</a> and I've been using it more in conjunction with <a href="http://subversion.tigris.org/">Subversion</a>. I'm trying <a href="http://www.sshkeychain.org/">SSHKeyChain</a>, a nice, GUI-based Mac OS X solution.
-
-I also found the <a href="http://www.sshkeychain.org/mirrors/SSH-with-Keys-HOWTO/SSH-with-Keys-HOWTO-4.html">SSH with Keys HOWTO</a> useful.
-
-For Subversion, you'll want Martin Ott's <a href="http://www.codingmonkeys.de/mbo/" title="Mac OS X Subversion">Subversion pkg</a>, and you can watch his <a href="http://www.codingmonkeys.de/mbo/plan/">blog</a> for updates on that as well as <a href="http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/">SubEthaEdit</a> (he's one of the three "Coding Monkeys").
-
-I tried to find a Mac OS X binary of <a href="http://rapidsvn.tigris.org/">RapidSVN</a>, a visual SVN tool -- compiling with the various dependencies looks like a big job. <a href="http://www.lachoseinteractive.net/en/community/subversion/svnx/features/">svnx</a> is another visual tool, which is why I started fiddling with SSH keys in the first place.
-
-(I <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/1242">linked to Bill Bumgarner's page earlier</a>, but didn't say much; Subversion is good, me like.)
-
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-07-20-spoke-vs-linkedin.md b/_posts/archive/2004-07-20-spoke-vs-linkedin.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 2dd20a7..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-07-20-spoke-vs-linkedin.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Spoke vs. LinkedIn
-created: 1090390553
-categories: 
-- Social Media
-- Vancouver
----
-<p><a href="http://www.kriskrug.com">Kris Krug</a> contacted me a little while ago, looking for contacts in Vancouver. He's originally from BC, but now living in San Francisco. Wisely, he's looking to move back to Vancouver. He and I had connected on LinkedIn, then he sent me this question about Spoke:</p>
-<blockquote>
-Hey I was browsing around Spoke.com's website and&#160;created an account. I noticed you were there too which is why I wanted to ask you a couple questions. Which do you prefer, Spoke or LinkedIn? Do you find more people you know are on one as opposed to the other? Or that the quality of contacts you've made at one is superior to another? Just wondering..
-<cite><a href="">Kris Krug</a> via email</cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Yes, I do have an account on Spoke. I couldn't ever get it to work for me, since it requires either a Windows machine and a program you need to install, or a web mail account. I could never get it to work with my Yahoo account, so I gave up on it. I'm not too concerned -- it looks like Spoke is chasing the enterprise market more seriously -- their free Internet service is almost more like a trial.</p>
-
-<p>The only social networking site that I actually continue to use is LinkedIn (<a href="http://www.flickr.com">Flickr</a> doesn't really count -- it's too much fun to be a networking site). I use LinkedIn to keep track of business contacts. Generally I only connect with people that I've either met in person or had an extended online interaction with. Kris and I only exchanged a couple of emails, so I don't quite know how he snuck in :p</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>Seriously though, I find the value of LinkedIn to be the very high-quality business connections that are there. It's most useful when you are actually looking for something, be it a job, someone to fill a job, or a contact at a company where you are trying to build a relationship. The rest of the time, it just sort of sits there -- there's not much point to going back. But this is a good thing: you're not being bombarded by email or other notification forms, you just know that it's a solid service that you can make use of when you want it.</p>
-
-<p>A recent article in the <a href="http://www.onlinebusinessnetworks.com/blog/2004/07/20/linkedin-facts-direction-highlighted-in-oakland-tribune-article">Online Business Networks Blog</a> points to an article in the <a href="http://www.oaklandtribune.com/Stories/0,1413,82~10834~2281270,00.html">Oakland Tribune</a> about LinkedIn. The last sentence echoes my thoughts:</p>
-<blockquote>Think of LinkedIn like a map that lets you navigate your network when you need it.</blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-07-25-sending-free-sms-from-a-website.md b/_posts/archive/2004-07-25-sending-free-sms-from-a-website.md
deleted file mode 100644
index ba354dd..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-07-25-sending-free-sms-from-a-website.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Sending free SMS from a website
-created: 1090822625
-categories: 
-- ipipi
-- Send SMS Now
-- SMS
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
-- ipipi
-- Send SMS Now
-- SMS
-- Vodafone
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
-- ipipi
-- Send SMS Now
-- SMS
-- Vodafone
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<div style="border: solid 1px black; margin: 5px; padding: 2px;">
-	<em>Note: Thank you for your interest in this post. This website doesn&#39;t offer free SMS services, but there are many links in the comments to various services. Feel free to add your own suggestion in the comments to other services.</em></div>
-<p>
-	[adsense:200x90:5058070018]</p>
-<p>
-	My sister is visiting from Italy. She was trying to send an SMS back home, but apparently you have to know the SIM card number of the phone you are trying to reach, as well as the phone number -- this is on the Vodafone network.</p>
-<p>
-	So, I did some quick searching to see if there were some web-based services that allowed this. The two I found that (sort of) worked were <a href="http://www.sendsmsnow.com/index.php">Send SMS Now</a> and <a href="http://www.ipipi.com/">ipipi</a>. Send SMS now doesn&#39;t require an account, but it also doesn&#39;t seem to work -- we tested by trying to send to my phone here, and nothing ever arrived. Send SMS Now has an account-based system which requires an email address and sign-up. It also provides free email services and in general works quite while. However, the &quot;free&quot; part is exaggerated: we sent (and received) an SMS message to my phone, but you only get 2 credits for free. You then need to pre-pay your account to get more credits.</p>
-<p>
-	With all these difficulties and walled garden type approaches, I&#39;m still convinced that pure IM/email will actually leapfrog SMS here in North America.</p>
-<p>
-	By the way, this will be my last post for a while: I&#39;m off getting married and won&#39;t be back in action until August 9th.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-08-19-absentee-web-landlord.md b/_posts/archive/2004-08-19-absentee-web-landlord.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a0bcd22..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-08-19-absentee-web-landlord.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Absentee (Web) Landlord
-created: 1092981356
-categories: 
-- BMC
----
-So, another change, and back to more posting. The website is somewhere stable and fast (finally!). It's been upgraded to the newest version of Drupal, which basically means a bunch of stuff is broken, but there are some good new features coming.
-
-Excuses? Yep, I got plenty of 'em. Work has been keeping me very busy the past two weeks (<a href="http://www.sutton.com" title="Canadian Real Estate">here</a>, <a href="http://www.streamlinewebco.com" title="Purveyors of fine Blogware Solutions">here</a> and <a href="http://www.bryght.com" title="Bryght - Community Content Hosting (and my soon-to-be-launched startup)">here</a>) and before that <a href="http://wedding.bmannconsulting.com">I got married</a>.
-
-And finally, the technical excuse. The el-cheapo dedicated server box in a Texas datacenter that I invested in simply didn't have enough juice to keep up.
-
-Use the <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/add/forum/126">BMC feedback forum</a> if you want to point out any broken-ness. This whole site will go through (yet another) revamp. I need to re-integrate <a href="http://boris.bmannconsulting.com">my personal life</a>.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-08-19-vancouver-ecademy-blogging-for-business.md b/_posts/archive/2004-08-19-vancouver-ecademy-blogging-for-business.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 06ac50a..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-08-19-vancouver-ecademy-blogging-for-business.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Vancouver Ecademy: Blogging for Business"
-created: 1092948629
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
-- Social Media
----
-<p>This is a talk I gave at the August 18th Vancouver Ecademy meeting. I was asked to give a brief, 10 minute talk about blogging, specifically how blogging relates/impacts/etc. business. Since many people in Ecademy are entrepreneurs and/or run businesses that tend to be smaller, I focused on small business aspects.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p><b>What is blogging?</b></p>
-
-<ul><li>I don't like the term: &quot;personal publishing&quot; -- a really easy way to put content online, using nothing more than a web browser</li><li>generally, it's a reverse chronological listing of short items of content (but it doesn't have to be -- it can be long)</li><li>each posting has a unique URL, also known as a permalink</li><li>an RSS feed -- means that people can be notified when you've put up new content, as opposed to having to manually go back to your page again and again</li><li>having an RSS feed also plugs you into a number of tools which are dedicated to searching content in &quot;real time&quot; (as opposed to Google, which only indexes things in the past/after they've happened)</li><li>explain PubSub, &quot;searching the future&quot; [BM: I didn't actually get around to explaining this, and I didn't spend much time talking about RSS or news aggregators in general – check out <a href="http://www.bloglines.com">Bloglines</a> as an online tool for reading RSS feeds]</li></ul><p>
-
-<p><b>Why run a business blog?</b></p>
-<ol><li>increase your search ranking
-<ul><li>search placement has the best ROI</li>
-<li>I'm the #1 hit for &quot;technology consulting vancouver&quot;</li>
-</ul></li>
-<li>connect with your customers
-<ul><li>provides a real voice and real connection to your business -- which just happens to be online</li>
-<li>having conversations (comments, links to your posts, etc.) with many more people than you could ever have in person</li>
-</ul></li>
-<li>demonstrate yourself as a subject matter expert
-<ul>
-<li>posting about things that you know, whether original thoughts, expansions of other ideas, or even as rebuttals, will establish you as a voice of authority in your community of practice</li>
-<li>speaking engagements, guest authorship</li>
-</ul></li>
-</ol>
-
-<p><b>Tips</b></p></><ul><li>post often</li><li>link to everyone, even your competitors (the web is built on linking)</li><li>credit your sources (they'll find you and will likely start to follow/link to your blog if you are in the same industry)</li><li>take commentary in stride</li><li>don't post only self-promotion -- this is your voice, you wouldn't do it in person either</li></ul><p><br />Some questions that I thought people might have in mind, which I pre-emptively answered.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Who else is doing this?</span><br /><ul><li>Microsoft</li><li>Sun</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">Why would I want to give away valuable information?</span><br /><ul><li>parable of two consultants</li><li>open-ness wins</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">This is only for tech companies, right?</span><br /><ul><li>that's like saying the web is only for tech companies</li><li>search ranking alone -- if you can type in &quot;woodworking vancouver&quot; and have your site come up as the #1 hit, that's valuable</li></ul>There were some good questions afterwards, none of which I wrote down, but in particular I remember one asking about corporate uses of blogging. My little talk was specifically limited to giving an overview of using blogging for primarily small businesses, but here are some brief thoughts.<br /></p><p>Blogging/personal publishing has many uses in the corporate world. First, for public use, it is another communication channel, and so definitely needs to be considered as part of the marketing mix. Internal usage of these tools can be very successfull in promoting information sharing, whether it be used for research, marketing, competitive intelligence, or project management.<br /></p><p>Some related articles that may be of interest: <br /></p><p><ul><li><a href="http://radiantdigital.blogs.com/radiant/2004/08/top_10_reasons_.html">Bright Ideas in Marketing and Technology</a></li><li><a href="http://customerevangelists.typepad.com/blog/2004/08/small_businesse.html">Small businesses and blogging</a></li></ul>Some blogging tools:</p><ul><li><a href="http://www.blogger.com">Blogger</a>: owned by Google, free and easy way to try; permanent blogs should be hosted at your own domain, since you're branding <span style="font-weight: bold;">you</span>, not Google's domain<br /></li><li><a href="http://www.wordpress.org">Wordpress</a>: recommended by me as the best open source, individual blogging tool if you are comfortable installing on your own web space</li><li><a href="http://www.blogware.com">Blogware</a>: one of the companies I am associated with (<a href="http://www.streamlinewebco.com">Streamline</a>) is a reseller of this system; I believe it's the best individual hosted tool, and you can try a <a href="http://blogstore.streamlinewebco.com">30-day free trial</a></li><li><a href="http://www.drupal.org">Drupal</a>: another open source tool that's perfect for running communities or corporate intranets; my new company <a href="http://www.bryght.com" title="Bryght - We do community content hosting">Bryght</a> (launches next week!) is basing our <a href="http://www.bryght.com/services">community content hosting</a> on this system<br /></li></ul>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-08-20-an-overview-of-the-basecamp-project-management-system.md b/_posts/archive/2004-08-20-an-overview-of-the-basecamp-project-management-system.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 7677497..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-08-20-an-overview-of-the-basecamp-project-management-system.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,55 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: An overview of the Basecamp project management system
-created: 1093013638
-categories: 
-- Web 2.0
-- Social Media
-- Review
----
-
-<p><a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/1278#comment-2034">Troy asked</a> for an update on our use of <a href="http://www.basecamphq.com">Basecamp</a>.</p>
-
-<p>Yes, we're keeping it. It's a bit like &quot;project management light&quot;, but this is definitely what is wanted if you don't want to get bogged down in updating some sort of tool, but you do need something to organize multiple people and multiple projects that are going on in parallel. Hit the read more link for the full story.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>Basecamp facilitates keeping communications about a project all in one place by the use of messages, which can be:</p>
-<ul>
-<li>organized into different, customizable categories</li>
-<li>use check marks to specifically notify selected or all project members via email</li>
-<li>be associated with and/or complete milestones</li>
-<li>Have files attached</li>
-<li>be monitored via email updates or by using RSS (more on this later)</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>Before moving on to milestones, let me briefly mention files. They have their own tab with which you can upload files directly without attaching them to a message, but the most common use is to associate them with a message.</p>
-
-<p>Files are actually stored on <strong>your</strong> server, not Basecamp's, which neatly does away with the problem of storage space -- you're free to upload as much as you want, as long as your system has space. This is accomplished by setting up FTP details in the Basecamp system, so that when you upload, you're actually uploading to your own system. For less technical users, this might be a bit of a barrier, but FTP is generally very easy to set up and virtually every web host supports.</p>
-
-<p>They don't currently offer SFTP or WebDav support, but are considering them.</p>
-
-<p>Milestones are the only &quot;dated&quot; item in Basecamp. We use it to track &quot;real&quot; milestones -- when stuff is due, is going live, etc. -- as well as other dated events like meetings. This allows some very easy shared calendar, although specifically focused on projects (it won't show you that the boardroam is booked at 2pm, and in fact doesn't use time at all -- only dates).</p>
-
-<p>As mentioned, messages can be associated with milestones. When creating a message, you can opt to select the project milestones from a drop down list, and then a link to the message will show up organized underneath the milestone. As well, there is a checkbox listed as &quot;This message completes this milestone&quot;, which is a good way of giving a description of how the item was completed without having to separately go and check off the milestone.</p>
-
-<p>As well as being the only dated item, milestones are the only item that can be made the responsibility of someone directly. You can choose to make a company (e.g. YourCompany, YourClient) responsible, or you can choose one person.</p>
-
-<p>To do lists are the third major item in Basecamp. They can also be associated with milestones in the same manner as messages, although they cannot be used to (directly) complete milestones. They are very easy to create, consisting of a title and as many text-based items as you want. Since you can't associate a person responsible with a to do list or individual items, you can use several different strategies. You might have a shared to do list, like &quot;Website Pre-Launch Checklist&quot;, that uses initials beside particular items. Or, you could title the to-do list to include a person's name.</p>
-
-<p>This <em>is</em> a bit awkward -- I'd like the ability to choose to associate people (or not) the same as milestones. The text labelling seems to be working for now.</p>
-
-<p>It does make sense that individual to-do items don't have dates -- if it is something that is required for a specific date, it should be a milestone.</p>
-
-
-<p>Lastly there are contacts associated with projects. You need to have admin access to create projects and contacts (really, there are only admin users and non-admin users, although how contacts are set up does give you some additional granularity). As part of setting up Basecamp, you set up your company (of which you are obviously a member). Later users are then added as a contact at your company (where they can be listed as an employee or a contractor) or as a contact at a client company. Employees by default have access to any new projects you create (so you must uncheck access for them), while contractors must be manually given access on a per-project basis. Client contacts can only have access to projects which are associated with their company, and can be given read-only access.</p>
-
-<p>So, while the different types of access are quite simple, in practice they tend to be rich enough. The one downside is that usernames are unique per instance of Basecamp. Most people wouldn't see this as a problem, but I am using the system in several companies, so have a different login for each instance. This could easily be solved by making users global, and by keying by your email address instead of a username.</p>
-
-<p>There are two other aspects that I'm going to mention but not go into much detail about. RSS can be used to notify you of any changes -- this can be done on a per-project basis, or for your entire Basecamp instance. There is also iCal support, with one iCal per project that shows milestones in the calendar and the to-do lists as tasks. While it's called iCal like the <a href="http://www.apple.com/ical">tool from Apple</a>, it does also work with Mozilla-based browsers. This includes the newly-released-and-too-early-to-use-seriously <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird.html">Sunbird</a>, which is Mozilla's new stand-alone calendaring app, or the <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/download.html">Calendar extension</a> that works with the full version of Mozilla, Firefox, or Thunderbird on all platforms.</p>
-
-<p>iCal on Mac OS X is the only system on which it's really easy to add a calendar -- I'll go into full setup details for the Mozilla's if people want.</p>
-
-<p>And no, it doesn't integrate with Outlook. This is still the default email application on many users' desktops, even if they don't use an Exchange server. So I'm looking for an easy way to sync/integrate iCal into Outlook.</p>
-
-<p>Whew! Well, that was more a description of the system than a review. We are happy with this &quot;good enough&quot; solution, and will continue using it. And I never did mention the elegant interface, but that's really the point -- it's good enough that it doesn't get in the way of actually using the system. Check the <a href="http://everything.basecamphq.com/">Everything Basecamp</a> site for more information -- it's the &quot;official news and support blog&quot;.</p>
-
-<p>If our thoughts change, I'll post again. In the meantime, here's a link to a <a href="https://secure.basecamphq.com/signup/Free">completely free one project plan</a> -- with no 30 day trial and no credit card required. You can still upgrade at any time.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-08-20-cocoalicious.md b/_posts/archive/2004-08-20-cocoalicious.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 8eab0cb..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-08-20-cocoalicious.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Cocoalicious
-created: 1093068830
-categories: 
-- Application
-- Mac
-- Web 2.0
----
-A Cocoa del.icio.us Client for Mac OS X
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-08-21-fried-potatoes.md b/_posts/archive/2004-08-21-fried-potatoes.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 0c55406..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-08-21-fried-potatoes.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Fried Potatoes
-created: 1093073058
-categories: 
-- potatoes
-- Personal
-- Food
----
-<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;">
- <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photo.gne?id=219884" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://www.flickr.com/photos/219884_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a>
- <br />
- <span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;">
-  <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photo.gne?id=219884">Fried Potatoes</a>
-  <br />
-  Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/boris/">bmann</a>.
- </span>
-</div>
-<p>This is my first post of personal content back on this site. I'm really enjoying my <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/canon-s1-is">new camera</a> -- with a 10x optical zoom! I got jealous of <a href="http://www.smithdm3.com">Dave's</a> 8x optical...</p><br />
-<br />
-<p>I didn't need it for this picture -- I made potatoes for breakfast, since Matt is visiting (he's competing in the <a href="http://www.canadianultimate.com/cuc/2004/">Canadian Ultimate Championships</a>, which are being held at UBC).</p>
-<br clear="all" />
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-08-24-cheap-home-networking-companies-are-now-selling-voip-adapters.md b/_posts/archive/2004-08-24-cheap-home-networking-companies-are-now-selling-voip-adapters.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a3d2520..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-08-24-cheap-home-networking-companies-are-now-selling-voip-adapters.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Cheap home networking companies are now selling VoIP adapters
-created: 1093368589
-categories: 
-- VoIP
----
-<blockquote>
-I’ve been predicting this for months, and it looks like it’s finally happened: the commodity-networking companies are starting to do VoIP. Yesterday, both <a href="http://news.com.com/Netgear%2C+Vonage+gear+up+for+VoIP/2100-7352_3-5320926.html?tag=nefd.hed">Netgear</a> and <a href="http://news.com.com/Linksys%2C+Vonage+connect+on+VoIP/2100-7352_3-5321184.html?tag=nefd.top">Linksys</a> announced deals with Vonage.
-<cite><a href="http://scottstuff.net/scott/archives/000266.html">scottstuff: Netgear and Linksys enter the ring</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>With these cheap VoIP adapters now on the scene, the next step in the commodity chain is <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/1025" title="Sipura Announces VoIP/PSTN Gateway Adaptor">IP-PBX appliances</a>.</p>
-
-<!--break-->
-<p>Scott also points out that <a href="http://froogle.google.com/froogle?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&tab=wf&q=DVG-1120&btnG=Search+Froogle">Froogle thinks I sell the DVG-1120</a>.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-08-24-im-a-bryght-guy.md b/_posts/archive/2004-08-24-im-a-bryght-guy.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 83a1d22..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-08-24-im-a-bryght-guy.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: I'm a Bryght guy
-created: 1093372995
-categories: 
-- BMC
-- Vancouver
-- Drupal
----
-<p>Yesterday evening we took the password protection off <a href="http://www.bryght.com">Bryght</a>, our new company.</p>
-
-<p>Bryght is focusing on community content hosting -- we've taken <a href="http://www.drupal.org">Drupal</a>, combined it with web hosting and email services, and are working on making it even better. So, if you know of an organization, company, or individual that would benefit from a Bryght Site, check us out.</p>
-
-<p>I wrote up a brief post on <a href="http://www.bryght.com/node/view/52">my blog on the new site</a> that talks a little bit about how we got to where we are today.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-08-24-windows-is-everyones-problem.md b/_posts/archive/2004-08-24-windows-is-everyones-problem.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 592cfc3..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-08-24-windows-is-everyones-problem.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Windows is everyone's problem
-created: 1093370407
-categories: 
-- Microsoft
-- Mac
----
-<p>Mitch Ratcliffe says: <a href="http://www.ratcliffeblog.com/archives/000164.html" title="How do I hate Windows? Let me count...">Windows gives me a lot of <em>big</em> problems</a></p>
-
-<p>Talking about malware/spyware on Windows, Robert Scoble says <a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2004/08/23.html#a8138">the problem is horrific out there</a>. Luckily, Scoble is someone that is passionate about fixing this.</p>
-
-<p>I'm realistic -- most of the world runs Windows. But for my immediate business contacts, friends, and family, I have a pretty clear line: if you want my help, get a Mac. Part of this is because I no longer run Windows anywhere. And this is problematic -- I don't see what's happening on the other side of the fence, I'm not exposed to a wider range of ideas, and I certainly don't keep up with all the ins and outs of security and support issues like I used to.</p>
-
-<p>The whole technology/computer industry could get a lot farther ahead with some of these issues behind us.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-08-27-vonage-ca-trying-another-canadian-voip-option.md b/_posts/archive/2004-08-27-vonage-ca-trying-another-canadian-voip-option.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 63aaf7c..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-08-27-vonage-ca-trying-another-canadian-voip-option.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Vonage.ca - Trying another Canadian VoIP Option
-created: 1093640040
-categories: 
-- VoIP
-- Canada
----
-<p>I'm filling out the <a href="http://www.vonage.ca/help_contactUs.php">Vonage contact page</a> to ask about switching my phone number to them. The contact page is pretty smart -- it asks you to select your General Topic (Sales) then displays some specific questions (I want to transfer my phone number) and then gives me a textarea to put in more info. We'll see what Vonage says when they find out it is a Talkbroadband number. Do <acronym title="Local Number Portability">LNP</acronym> rules apply? I'm about to find out…</p>
-
-<p>Kate is now using my <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/751">T616</a>, so we can ditch Primus Talkbroadband. That is, my use of VoIP will be primarily for experimentation and research. I'll talk more about my recent experiences with Talkbroadband soon (here's the short form: the service got really bad).</p>
-
-<p>The big thing I'm looking forward to is voicemail-via-email and a softphone (yeah, I think <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/1241" title="XTen Interface is terrible">that one</a> is my only choice I think).</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-08-27-windows-as-opposed-to-linux-mt-vs-wordpress.md b/_posts/archive/2004-08-27-windows-as-opposed-to-linux-mt-vs-wordpress.md
deleted file mode 100644
index b346706..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-08-27-windows-as-opposed-to-linux-mt-vs-wordpress.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Windows as opposed to Linux, MT vs. Wordpress
-created: 1093598064
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
----
-<blockquote>
-Firstly, MT is what I&#8217;m used to. As of the middle of next month, I&#8217;ll have been using it for 2 years - whereas I&#8217;ve been using Wordpress for less than 3 months. It&#8217;s the same reason why I use Windows as opposed to Linux - sure, Linux may be more secure and less likely to crash, but I know how Windows works and I feel comfortable in that environment.
-<cite><a href="http://www.neilturner.me.uk/2004/Aug/22/why_im_not_switching_to_wordpress.html">Neil's World: Why I'm not switching to Wordpress</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Makes me think of <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/mt-is-the-windows-of-the-personal-publishing-world" title="MovableType is the Windows of the Personal Publishing World">that other post about MT</a>. But I understand the warm glow of familiarity &#8211; how best to replace it? My vote is to win people over through better features and better usability. How much better does another solution have to be to win people over (because "different that what I'm used to" can be a large block)?</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-08-30-yasn-rankings-arent-newsworthy.md b/_posts/archive/2004-08-30-yasn-rankings-arent-newsworthy.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 4d9977a..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-08-30-yasn-rankings-arent-newsworthy.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: YASN rankings *aren't* newsworthy
-created: 1093915146
-categories: 
-- Social Media
----
-<blockquote>First of all, a sincere congratulations to Italian IT consultant Carmelo Cutuli, who has now made the top 30 most connected people on LinkedIn.  And I'm all for creative use of press releases, but is this really <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/8/prweb153437.htm">newsworthy</a>?
-<cite><a href="http://www.onlinebusinessnetworks.com/blog/2004/08/30/linkedin-rankings-are-now-newsworthy">Online Business Networks: LinkedIn rankings are now newsworthy?</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Funny, I just declined Carmelo's request to connect today -- for the second time. What Carmelo is doing is the social networking equivalent of spam. Why should I connect with him? Just because he knows a bunch of people? Too bad there isn't a way to give people a "thumbs down" in LinkedIn.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-08-31-skype-for-os-x-available.md b/_posts/archive/2004-08-31-skype-for-os-x-available.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 403425e..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-08-31-skype-for-os-x-available.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Skype for OS X Available
-created: 1093964291
-categories: 
-- IM
-- VoIP
----
-Yes, it's now available, with the version listed as "0.8.0.2".
-
-As much as I dislike the fact that Skype isn't using standard SIP, I have to congratulate them on a well put together OS X client. It's got a full Aqua look and feel, and uses all the standard OS X technologies: a drawer that slides out of the side with your contact's profile info, a customizable toolbar, and a standard preferences panel.
-
-You can get it from the <a href="http://www.skype.com/download_osx.html" title="Download Skype for OS X">Skype for OS X</a> download page. I'll try to remember to keep it turned on for testing – my username is "borismann". Leave yours in the comments if you want to test it.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-09-06-asterisk-for-windows.md b/_posts/archive/2004-09-06-asterisk-for-windows.md
deleted file mode 100644
index b9e96b5..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-09-06-asterisk-for-windows.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Asterisk for Windows?
-created: 1094531710
-categories: 
-- VoIP
----
-<p>I <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/1281" title="Asterisk on OS X">posted about Asterisk for OS X</a>, now there is Asterisk for Windows...sort of. The <a href="http://www.n2net.com">N2Net</a> site doesn't have any information about this, but the <a href="http://voxilla.com/modules.php?op=modload&#38;name=News&#38;file=article&#38;sid=86">Voxilla posting</a> says that it is a distribution built on top of <a href="http://www.colinux.org/" title="Cooperative Linux">coLinux</a>, a version of Linux that runs in parallel with Windows.</p>
-
-<p>Digium, the major supplier of Asterisk hardware, has a <a href="http://www.digium.com/index.php?menu=astwind">press release</a>, with the distribution being called "AstWind".</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-09-06-broadband-telephone-numbers.md b/_posts/archive/2004-09-06-broadband-telephone-numbers.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 94b63f6..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-09-06-broadband-telephone-numbers.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Broadband Telephone Numbers
-created: 1094530819
-categories: 
-- VoIP
----
-<blockquote>
-<p>This morning Reuters is <a href="http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&#38;storyID=6158418">reporting</a> that Ofcom has stated establish the code "056" for non-geographic UK Broadband telephone numbers. This follows the recent announcement of a similar assignment, the area code "050" for non-geographic Japanese Broadband telephone numbers.</p>
-
-<p>It was real interesting to see Ofcom take this action. I'm wondering what country will be next in the delivery of a non-geographic VoIP broadband telephone numbers.</p>
-
-<p>From a North American perspective, I would like to see some of the service providers representing the countries inside of country code 1 to get together and for "experimental" purposes only, request the reuse of the "500" area code (or something similar).</p>
-<cite><a href="http://192.246.69.231/jeff/personal/archives/001138.html">Jeff Pulver blog: Time for North America to Start Experimenting with Broadband Telephone Numbers</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Makes sense in an interim world where "broadband" numbers are second class citizens to "real" phone numbers.</p>
-
-<p>Kate (who is looking for work in Vancouver in <acronym title="Human Resources">HR</acronym>) recently had some trouble with the <acronym title="Employment Insurance (in Canada)">EI</acronym> office -- their system showed her calls from our Talkbroadband system as originating in Ontario, not BC. The investigating officer actually needed an email directly from Primus explaining their system so the case could be closed.</p>
-
-<p>I can imagine quite a few other government agencies or BigCo's that have trouble wrapping their minds around the concept of VoIP. </p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-09-06-google-loves-im.md b/_posts/archive/2004-09-06-google-loves-im.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 1b9d8e5..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-09-06-google-loves-im.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Google loves IM
-created: 1094528780
-categories: 
-- IM
----
-<p>Lots and lots of rumours about Google and IM. <a href="http://www.hello.com">Hello</a> (part of the <a href="http://www.picassa.com">Picassa</a> purchase) is an IM application -- Windows-only, proprietary protocol, used for image sharing/posting. It is more likely that Google will line up behind Jabber/XMPP, since:</p>
-
-<ol>
-<li>many other IM vendors are lining up behind SIMPLE (which is what the telcos/bellheads like, because it's an extension of SIP); Jabber already interoperates with SIP/SIMPLE through a gateway, and is more likely to be backed by internet/web/IP types</li>
-
-<li>Jabber already includes the capability to run "gateways" to other IM services, which would be a mainstream (as opposed to <a href="http://www.adiumx.com">Adium</a> on Mac or <a href="http://www.trillian.cc/">Trillian</a> on Windows) example of an interface that lets you "talk" to all protocols</li>
-</ol>
-
-<p>Some thoughts of Google's play include tying gmail IDs into Jabber/IM IDs, potentially even having chat logs stored in a similar, Gmail interface (and showing text ads, which would fit with their business models). Of course, with an ID infrastructure, plus permissions and contact lists, things like filtering email/identifying spam becomes easier as well.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-09-06-jluster-at-the-social-tools-weblog.md b/_posts/archive/2004-09-06-jluster-at-the-social-tools-weblog.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 5a9176a..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-09-06-jluster-at-the-social-tools-weblog.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: jluster at the Social Tools Weblog
-created: 1094522794
-categories: 
-- Social Media
----
-<a href="http://www.jluster.org">Jonas Luster</a> has a new gig writing over at the <a href="http://www.socialtools-weblog.com/">Social Tools Weblog</a>. <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/aggregator/sources/154">Subscribed</a>.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-09-06-john-batelle-searchblogs-new-look-ad-update.md b/_posts/archive/2004-09-06-john-batelle-searchblogs-new-look-ad-update.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c88e225..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-09-06-john-batelle-searchblogs-new-look-ad-update.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "John Batelle: Searchblog's New Look, Ad Update"
-created: 1094533049
-categories: 
-- Search Engine Voodoo
-- Personal Publishing
-- BMC
----
-<blockquote>
-Thanks to all who helped me grok this move, and supported it. And please, send feedback on the new look, and whether the ads are bumming you out, to the comments below<cite><a href="http://battellemedia.com/archives/000869.php">John Battelle's Searchblog: Searchblog's New Look, Ad Update</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>John Batelle has a) changed the look and feel of his Searchblog and b) is experimenting with online advertising (he's starting with Google's AdSense). I'm mentioning it here because this is one of the few times I've "clicked through" on his RSS feed item and actually gone to his site -- he has full posts in his RSS feed, so I have very little incentive to actually go to his site, unless I want to leave a comment. And longer comments are usually easier to keep track of on your own site.</p>
-
-<p>Looking at the site, I honestly can't remember what the previous design was -- again, because I read an (essentially) text-only version in my RSS reader.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>I run Google's AdSense on my site here. It certainly did start off as an experiment, but because I have very high search engine rankings (and thus lots of search traffic), I actually make (some) money from it. But virtually all the clicks are (I suspect) from visitors that come here following search links. In essence, I run those ads to make money off people who aren't my regular readership. In fact, I could actually pepper my site with ads for "anonymous" users -- this would have no effect on regular readers (who sign up for an account) or those that read through an RSS reader (and my hits are about 2-to-1 in favour of RSS).</p>
-
-<p>Speaking of regular readers, <a href="http://www.feedburner.com">Feedburner</a> is giving me some idea of how many "people" are subscribed to my site. Looks to be about 72 over the last "7 day period". That actually doesn't cover some other feeds, like my one for <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/taxonomy/term/82" title="VoIP">Voice over IP</a>, which I can see from my statistics gets a lot of traffic.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-09-10-everyone-loves-flowers.md b/_posts/archive/2004-09-10-everyone-loves-flowers.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 2f0153a..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-09-10-everyone-loves-flowers.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Everyone loves flowers
-created: 1094877981
-categories: 
-- Personal
----
-
-<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;">
- <a title="photo sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photo.gne?id=313572"><img style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);" src="http://www.flickr.com/photos/313572_m.jpg" /></a>
- <br />
- <span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;">
-  <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photo.gne?id=313572">Pink flower with bee</a>
-  <br />
-  Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/boris/">bmann</a>.
- </span>
-</div>
-I'm no <a href="http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/">Tim Bray</a>, but I have been taking a lot of flower pictures lately.<br />
-<br />
-Luckily, <a href="http://www.flickr.com">Flickr</a> now has a <a href="http://blog.flickr.com/flickrblog/2004/09/introducing_sli.html">slideshow feature</a>, so now you can easily flip through <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/tags/flower/show/">all my flower pictures</a>.
-<br clear="all" />
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-09-11-daniel-berninger-all-new-communication-applications-benefit-the-internet.md b/_posts/archive/2004-09-11-daniel-berninger-all-new-communication-applications-benefit-the-internet.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 232ca1b..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-09-11-daniel-berninger-all-new-communication-applications-benefit-the-internet.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Daniel Berninger: All new communication applications benefit the Internet"
-created: 1094937893
-categories: 
-- VoIP
----
-
-<blockquote>
-The much noted convergence of data and voice networks really amounts to a hostile takeover of communication by the information technology sector. The Internet did not get invented to displace the PSTN, but continuous improvement makes this outcome inevitable. The info tech czars like Bill Gates and Andy Grove are loathe to explicitly challenge the telecom incumbents, but the information technology solutions will replace not converge with the traditional telephone networks. The business models of the telephone incumbents work only to the extent the regulated biosphere does not get infiltrated by unregulated infoservices. The telecom service versus info service dichotomy dissolved with the arrival of VoIP. Game over. The PSTN remains invulnerable to innovation while the platforms leveraged by the info tech industry get faster and cheaper. The next wave is already underway with the computing power of PC's incorporated into consumer electronics of various form factors. Consider the emerging battle between Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo's voice enabled multiplayer games.
-<cite><a href="http://www.danielberninger.com/endoftelecom.html">Daniel Berninger: End of Telecom</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Greg forwarded me this essay. Read the whole thing - every paragraph describes and explains another nail in the coffin of traditional telecom and the PSTN. And in the last paragraph, Dan dangles a carrot: replacing slow-growth (3%) traditional telecom, with the annual 30% growth of the tech industry. Great stuff (and yes, too bad it's not a blog -- how do I remember to go back?). Looks like <a href="http://www.telepocalypse.net/">Telepocalypse</a> has some competition -- or maybe make Dan a guest blogger?</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>I'm going to pull out some more quotes -- they're all great soundbites. Bring on the newspaper headlines:</p>
-
-<ul>
-<li>&quot;The collective reliability of several best effort services starts to match the reliability of plain old telephone service.&quot;</li>
-<li>&quot;The sale of supposedly profitable supposedly non-strategic wireline and directory assets amounts to little more than burning the furniture to keep warm.&quot;</li>
-<li>&quot;The Bell System not only did not expand employment over the last twenty years, it served as a job destruction machine&quot;</li>
-</ul>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-09-12-overview-of-i-neighbors.md b/_posts/archive/2004-09-12-overview-of-i-neighbors.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 77157d4..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-09-12-overview-of-i-neighbors.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Overview of i-neighbors
-created: 1095006903
-categories: 
-- Social Media
----
-
-<p>While the idea behind <a href="http://www.i-neighbors.org">i-neighbors</a> is interesting (connect people online using their local, physical neighbourhoods), ultimately the platform is broken. I think it probably doesn't help that my neighbourhood (based on my postal code, V6H 1J4), is mis-spelled as &quot;West Farivew&quot; (should be &quot;Fairview&quot;).</p><p>I've listed some initial issues I had with the system, as well as an overview of the different functions available from within the system.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<b>No profile privacy<br /></b><p>There is no way to limit viewing of the information you enter – anything you fill out is viewable to everyone, from birthdate to street address. Of course, you could just leave lots of things blank, but that defeats the purpose.<br /></p><p><b>Can't share links: no access unless you are logged in and registered<br /></b></p><p>Being logged into &quot;my&quot; neighbourhood, there are not unique URLS – I can't even send a link to it, because you have to be logged in and join the neighbourhood to see it. Why is this important? If you're invisible to search engines, your potential growth is limited, and you don't participate in the wider web -- i.e. linking.</p><p><b>Uses email for communication</b></p><p>This is like an invitation for spam. The basis for all communication in the neighbourhood is a mailing list, and you are by default on the mailing list and must opt-out after you've registered. There is also no clear opt-out link in the email -- you  have to login and change the settings on your email tab.</p><p>The best community communication systems combine email, a (search engine indexed) web forum, and RSS feeds. Being automatically signed up to a mailing list basically just ticked me off.</p><p><b>Changes to the community information can only be done by the &quot;founder&quot;</b></p><p>I've already described how the name of my neighbourhood is wrong. We've been hearing a lot lately about <a href="http://www.wikipedia.org">Wikipedia</a> and other collaborative sources of authority. The concept of a founder or site admins is still valid, but notice the &quot;s&quot; on admins: it would be best to have a group of people able to change neighbourhood-level items.<br /></p><p>But check out i-neighbors for yourself – tieing physical proximity to a single online gathering area <i>is</i> neat. Browsing through the member directory, I found one person, &quot;Sellars&quot; (again, I can't link to the profile directly), who lives in my building (although he didn't list his apartment number).</p><p>The other features of each neighbourhood include:</p><ul><li>Directory: listings of other members in the neighbourhood, and ability to send them email (through a form, your email is not displayed)</li><li>Matches: shows star ratings next to other members based on how well you match; works by comparing information you've entered into your profile</li><li>Events: local calendar to which you can add events</li><li>Photos: viewable by month, by member, and latest uploaded</li><li>Reviews: reviews about local businesses and services; maximum of 1000 characters, plus you can give a 1 to 5 star rating</li><li>Polls</li><li>Carpool: you need to enter in a work postal code for this to function<br /></li></ul><p>Although there isn't (currently) any physical location information on <a href="http://www.urbanvancouver.com">Urban Vancouver</a>, sites like it that are open to the Internet as a whole will ultimately succeed better than any of these Internet ghettos, hidden behind registration walls.<br /></p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-09-13-viral-needs-more-than-just-cool.md b/_posts/archive/2004-09-13-viral-needs-more-than-just-cool.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 72982b7..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-09-13-viral-needs-more-than-just-cool.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Viral needs more than just cool
-created: 1095060521
-categories: 
-- Social Media
-- Web 2.0
----
-
-<p>I seem to be doing this a lot lately. I started commenting on <a href="http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/000620.html">Paul Kedrosky's &quot;Is Nothing Viral Anymore?&quot;</a> and then it got really long. So I stuck it here.<br /></p><p>I tend to agree -- cool isn't enough anymore. But part of it is the role of early adopters, I think. We've been suckered too many times, stuck in systems which at first blush seemed cool, but then betrayed us somehow. And not just us, but all the non-techies we convinced to come on board.</p>I seriously regret the series of <acronym title="Yet Another Social Network">YASN</acronym>s that I foisted on a handful of friends. And I won't make that mistake again. As <a href="http://marc.blogs.it/archives/2004/09/entrance_and_ex.html">Jeremy, Jon, and Mark</a> point out -- we want an exit strategy.<br /><br />So, viral still works. But it has to be truly compelling/cool, not too complicated/different, and consistently useful. Oh yes, and all those adjectives have to apply to the regular user, after the geeks have been through and dubbed it worthy.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-09-13-writing-elsewhere-drupal-commentary.md b/_posts/archive/2004-09-13-writing-elsewhere-drupal-commentary.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a9693ea..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-09-13-writing-elsewhere-drupal-commentary.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Writing elsewhere, Drupal commentary
-created: 1095087026
-categories: 
-- Drupal
-- BMC
-- Drupal
-- Drupal
----
-
-<p>In case you were wondering, I'm posting quite a bit of content over at <a href="http://www.bryght.com/blog/2">my blog on Bryght</a>. Most recently, I posted a <a href="http://www.bryght.com/node/view/86">long commentary on a Drupal review</a>.</p>
-
-<p>I'll eventually have a combined feed here which aggregates all the material I write.</p><p><b>Update:</b> oh ya, and then there's <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/blog/2">my Urban Vancouver blog</a>, where I posted <a href="http://www.urbanvancouver.com/node/view/1158">my review of Feast of Fields 2004</a>.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-09-14-amazons-search-engine-web-app-heres-a9-again.md b/_posts/archive/2004-09-14-amazons-search-engine-web-app-heres-a9-again.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 9eb4ccf..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-09-14-amazons-search-engine-web-app-heres-a9-again.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Amazon's Search Engine Web App: Here's A9 Again"
-created: 1095220858
-categories: 
-- Search Engine Voodoo
-- Web 2.0
-- Social Media
-- Personal Publishing
----
-
-<p align="center"><a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/1326?res=original" title="A9 Screenshot: Click for full size"><img vspace="5" hspace="5" style="width: 441px; height: 213px;" alt="A9 Screenshot" src="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/images/drupal/20040914_20.56.54-1326_640x480.jpg" /></a></p>
-
-<p>It looks like a web page, but it's a full blown web app, tied to services all over the place.</p>
-
-<p>Read on for an explanation of what's in the screenshot. <a href="http://www.business2.com/b2/web/articles/0,17863,697177,00.html">John Battelle's article on Business 2.0</a> is also good reading. And of course, check out <a href="http://a9.com">A9</a>.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Update:</strong>the A9 diary is not a blog, it's for "[annotating] any page with notes", according to <a href="http://www.unto.net/unto/work/a9_launch.html">an insider</a>.</p>
-
-<!--break-->
-
-<p>The underlying search results are in part from Google, and in part from Amazon (the tagline at the bottom reads &quot;Search results enhanced by Google. Results also provided by A9.com and Alexa&quot;).</p><p>The screenshot was taken with me logged in. You get access to things like a search history, showing recently visited sites, searches in the past 24 hours, and other time periods. Searches will also return results from your history, just as they will return results from any bookmarks you have.<br /><br />The far right row of buttons controls what you see. Clicking the buttons displays additional columns, without any page reloading. The whole thing certainly does feel very interactive, and very slick. The application it most feels like is (perhaps not surprisingly) Google's Gmail.</p><p>The buttons control the display and search results from the following:</p><ul><li><b>Web:</b> standard web search</li><li><b>Books:</b> uses Amazon's Search Inside the Book to return results for the terms in books</li><li><b>Images:</b> Google Image Search<br /></li><li><b>Movies:</b> results from <a href="http://www.imdb.com">IMdb.com</a></li><li><b>Reference:</b> <a href="http://www.gurunet.com/">GuruNet</a> results</li><li><b>History:</b> as mentioned, your own search history</li><li><b>Diary:</b> from what I can tell, this is Amazon giving you your own blog -- the URL it points to (<a href="http://diary.a9.com">diary.a9.com</a>) is currently not working. You can apparently only post to it from the A9 Toolbar, which currently only works in IE.</li></ul><p>Amazon has always been good at turning searches directly into dollars, and they've pulled together some interesting partners. I'm of course especially curious about this mysterious diary component. And the big hype word du jour -- RSS -- is nowhere to be seen.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-09-16-tiger-ichat-has-jabber-support.md b/_posts/archive/2004-09-16-tiger-ichat-has-jabber-support.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 1c1f6f6..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-09-16-tiger-ichat-has-jabber-support.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Tiger iChat has Jabber support
-created: 1095368318
-categories: 
-- IM
-- Mac
----
-<p><a href="http://www.walkah.net">James</a> pointed me towards this post on AppleInsider when I asked about multi-network support in iChat:</p>
-
-<blockquote>In addition to supporting video conferencing with up to three people, the most recent builds of iChat 3.0 include support for Jabber's real-time communications software. The iChat implementation will let organizations host their own Jabber servers, allowing employees to use iChat privately and securely behind a local firewall. A new addition to the iChat setup assistant provides an interface for enabling Jabber
-support.
-<cite><a href="http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=649">AppleInsider: New Mac OS X Tiger builds reveal iChat Jabber support, parental controls</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>So, it looks like iChat will support Jabber. Which means, of course, that if you or your organization run a Jabber server with the proper gateway installed, you can appear online using several different networks -- MSN, Yahoo, etc. Not nearly as good as the single client support for all networks found in apps like <a href="http://www.adiumx.com">Adium</a>, but a step in the right direction.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-09-17-open-comments-and-the-interesting-things-that-can-happen.md b/_posts/archive/2004-09-17-open-comments-and-the-interesting-things-that-can-happen.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 382cdfc..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-09-17-open-comments-and-the-interesting-things-that-can-happen.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Open comments and the interesting things that can happen
-created: 1095438030
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
-- Social Media
----
-
-<p>I've always allowed posting by anonymous users. So far, I've even let them remain anonymous if they so choose. In part, I'm lucky that Drupal doesn't suffer under comment spam the way MT and some other systems do.</p>
-
-<p>Many people (in part frustrated by commment spam) have taken to turning comments off. <a href="http://contentcentricblog.typepad.com/businessblogs/2004/09/comment_on_comm.html">Others</a> don't see a lot of activity in their comments.</p><p>But having open comments let interesting things happen. I've got a really interesting discussion going on about Zip.ca (Canadian version of NetFlix). I posted a short article a long time ago, but obviously this is one of the only places that people can vent.</p><p>And now, fed up with the lack of access to any feedback channels at Zip.ca directly, &quot;JM&quot; has posted their <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/910#comment-2149">corporate details</a>.</p><p>The lesson here is that all companies need a certain level of openness. Participate in the conversations that your customers are having, because if you don't, people are only going to see the bad news.<br /></p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-09-20-15000-paying-subscribers-in-canadian-voip-marketplace.md b/_posts/archive/2004-09-20-15000-paying-subscribers-in-canadian-voip-marketplace.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 67e6024..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-09-20-15000-paying-subscribers-in-canadian-voip-marketplace.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: 15,000 paying subscribers in Canadian VoIP Marketplace
-created: 1095696953
-categories: 
-- Canada
-- VoIP
----
-<p>Jeff Pulver writes:</p>
-<blockquote>
-<p>According to last week's National Post VoIP <A href="http://www.canada.com/national/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=d492a4dd-ffcf-44f5-9f4e-6fc5e0781e73">story</a>, there are about 15,000 people in Canada who pay for voice over broadband services across multiple providers.</p>
-
-<p>Looking at the <a href="http://www.freeworldialup.com/">Free World Dialup</a> user demographics, there are about 15,000 people in Canada who have a Free World Dialup account.</p>
-<cite><a>Jeff Pulver: FWD is amongst the leaders in the Canadian VoIP Marketplace</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Sorry, Jeff, but I have to disagree. If we use these sorts of numbers, we can probably just as easily say that iChat users are amongst the leaders in the Canadian VoIP marketplace. I <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/373">have a FWD account</a> but I've only used it perhaps twice right after I got it -- it's just not easy enough to use.</p>
-
-<p>Of course, I'm still pulling for Jeff when he speaks to the <acronym title="Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission">CRTC</acronym>.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-09-22-google-local-in-canada-so-what.md b/_posts/archive/2004-09-22-google-local-in-canada-so-what.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 7407dbc..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-09-22-google-local-in-canada-so-what.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Google Local in Canada: So what?"
-created: 1095919375
-categories: 
-- Canada
-- Social Media
-- Search Engine Voodoo
----
-
-<p>As you have likely heard, <a href="http://local.google.ca/">Google Local</a> is now available in Canada, allowing you to search for things &quot;local&quot; to your physical location.</p>
-
-<p>The example given is <a href="http://local.google.ca/local?sc=1&hl=en&q=coffee+shops&near=vancouver%2C+bc&btnG=Google+Search&sl=1">coffee shops in Vancouver BC</a>. And indeed, that's what is shows...sort of. It defaults to 75km. Switch it to 2km, and it certainly doesn't show much of Vancouver, and it doesn't refresh the search when you re-center the map. Now what about <a href="http://local.google.ca/local?q=coffee+shops&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&sa=G&near=surrey,+bc&radius=1.242742">coffee shops in Surrey</a>? One result? Not very good.</p>
-
-<p>So what's wrong with this picture?</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>Looking a little closer, you see at the bottom of the page &quot;Business listings distributed by <a href="http://www.yellowpages.ca/">YellowPages.ca</a>™&quot;. OK, so only businesses in the YellowPages are going to show up.</p>
-
-<hr />
-<p>Aside: And by the way, check out the URL for a search for coffee shops in Vancouver on the YP.ca site:</p>
-<pre>http://www.yellowpages.ca/searchBusiness.do?what=coffee+shop<br />&amp;srchtype=category&amp;city=vancouver&amp;sType=simpleSearch<br />&amp;action=homeSearch&amp;step=getDirectory&amp;Se=smp&amp;x=0&amp;y=0<br /></pre>
-
-<p>No wonder they are partnered with Google -- there is no way any of their content is ever going to rank highly in search engines -- it's hidden behind bad URLs and a private database that doesn't participate in the web ecology of linking organically. And of <em>course</em> I can't link to individual entries. End Aside.</p>
-<hr />
-
-<p>So how do I add information to this? How do I comment on an entry? How do I add the details for the 6 coffee shops I know are within a block or two of me that aren't listed? You can't, because robots in California are running the show.</p>
-
-<p>This is one area where locally run, directory-style websites will trump local search, likely for quite some time. Even better, make them community run: allow anyone to submit content, filling in details for their favourite corner store or best takeout Mongolian. And add trackback, comments, pictures. Give every physical location and street address a permanent URL.</p>
-
-<p>For extra bonus points, local directories can follow best practices and optimize their pages and listings to gain high search engine rankings. Heck, they can even encode <a href="http://www.geourl.com">GeoURL</a> information, making it easier for tools like Google Local to actually work right.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-09-29-eric-meyers-powerpoint-implemented-in-html.md b/_posts/archive/2004-09-29-eric-meyers-powerpoint-implemented-in-html.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 554e13c..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-09-29-eric-meyers-powerpoint-implemented-in-html.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Eric Meyer's PowerPoint implemented in HTML
-created: 1096519941
-categories: 
-- Web 2.0
-- Web Development
-- HTML
-- Eric Meyer
-- PowerPoint
-- Web 2.0
-- Web Development
----
-<blockquote>
-	The great thing is that with one (X)HTML document, you can have a slide show, a printer-friendly version, and a screen presentation. I put markup and CSS examples right there in the document, ready to be printed, and simply hide them in the slide show. In some cases, I printed out the file for handouts, and then used the exact same file for the slide show. It was very, very handy. <cite><a href="http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2004/09/24/slide-show-beta/">Eric&#39;s Archived Thoughts: Slide Show Beta</a></cite></blockquote>
-<p>
-	Eric Meyer is actually talking about a feature of Opera called <a href="http://www.opera.com/support/tutorials/operashow/index.dml">Opera Show</a>, but it describes what he has now accomplished in CSS, XHTML, and a little JavaScript: a browser-based slideshow that is just plain code underneath, with no plug-ins. It looks and feels like PowerPoint...except it isn&#39;t, and it can be used anywhere. Check out Eric&#39;s <a href="http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/slideshow/test.html">test file</a>. Viewing source on that page shows a thing of beauty.</p>
-<p>
-	Dear Apple/Steve: please make Keynote export to this &quot;format&quot; automatically.</p>
-<p>
-	(via <a href="http://urlgreyhot.com/drupal/node/view/1989">urlgreyhot</a>)</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-09-29-sha-lin-noodle-house-and-kristian-at-kino.md b/_posts/archive/2004-09-29-sha-lin-noodle-house-and-kristian-at-kino.md
deleted file mode 100644
index d2a1cba..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-09-29-sha-lin-noodle-house-and-kristian-at-kino.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Sha Lin Noodle House and Kristian at Kino
-created: 1096446337
-categories: 
-- Food
-- Vancouver
----
-<div style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 10px; MARGIN-LEFT: 10px"><a title="photo sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/621933/"><img style="BORDER-RIGHT: rgb(0,0,0) 2px solid; BORDER-TOP: rgb(0,0,0) 2px solid; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(0,0,0) 2px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: rgb(0,0,0) 2px solid" src="http://www.flickr.com/photos/621933_550bbd136c_m.jpg" /></a> <br /><span style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 0.9em"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/621933/">Pan-fried Vegetable Dumpling - Inside</a> <br />Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/boris/">bmann</a>. </span></div><p>Kate and I went for dinner at the Sha Lin Noodle House (Broadway close to Cambie). We went last time way back in February when Kate had just arrived in Vancouver, with Mary and Evan.</p><br clear="all" /><!--break--><p>The dumplings were as good as we remembered, but we couldn't find the garlic gai-lan (Chinese broccoli) on the menu anymore, so had to settle for regular broccoli. Still tasty, and nice and garlicky.</p><p>I didn't remember how big the dumplings were, so also ended up with a hot &amp; sour soup. Very tasty, not too thick (lots of places dump cornstarch in until the broth is more like mud) and lots and lots of good &quot;stuff&quot; in the broth: fresh cilantro on top, oyster mushrooms, tofu.</p><p>Check out the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/tags/shalinnoodlehouse/show/">slideshow </a>to see all the food.</p><p>Pleasantly full, and with a few dumplings left over for later, we headed off to the Kino Cafe to listen to Kristian perform with the Ian Ross Quartet -- jazz-y pleasant listening music + beer + lots of conversation.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-09-29-steamworks-invaded-by-germans.md b/_posts/archive/2004-09-29-steamworks-invaded-by-germans.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 3c5c46e..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-09-29-steamworks-invaded-by-germans.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: SteamWorks invaded by Germans
-created: 1096520539
-categories: 
-- Vancouver
----
-
-<p>I never did post anything about the great time I had on Friday night, and since <a href="http://www.kriskrug.com/2004/09/vancouver-shout-outs-and-name-dropping.html">Kris Krug just did a massive &quot;shout out&quot;</a>, I should probably say at least a thing or two.</p>
-
-<p>I knew I had to meet with Kris while he was in town, plus I missed a meeting with Ean earlier in the week, so I emailed a small group of people and figured we might have 8 or 10 people turn up. Well, by the time <a href="http://www.troyangrignon.com">Troy</a> got through his rolodex, <a title="The Blogfather - Vancouver" href="http://www.darrenbarefoot.com">Darren</a> posted it to his weblog, and Kris invited his posse along, I think there were 20 or 30 people there over the course of the evening. Lots of good people, lots of good discussion.<br /></p>
-
-<p>It was me that ordered the snacks -- I was just too busy talking German: it turns out that <a href="http://www.analyticsonline.ca/about_ej.html">Ean Jackson</a>, <a href="http://www.cielosystems.com">Djun Kim</a>, and (of course, look at his name!) <a href="http://www.invers.com/">Rudi Six</a> all speak it. So, expect some sort of German event in the near future.</p>
-
-<p>I actually took some pictures, but wasn't paying attention and/or had the spirit of <a href="http://www.rolandtanglao.com">Roland</a> (another German speaker) in me, so they're a bit blurry. Check them on <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/tags/steamworks/">Flickr</a>.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-10-01-im-is-texting-in-north-america.md b/_posts/archive/2004-10-01-im-is-texting-in-north-america.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 22cc70e..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-10-01-im-is-texting-in-north-america.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: IM *is* texting in North America
-created: 1096621580
-categories: 
-- IM
----
-<p>danah boyd points out the central feature of texting in North America: instant messaging on mobile devices has leapfrogged adoption of SMS:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-<strong>Adults don't get the importance of text</strong>, particularly AIM text. And the Sidekick understands that American kids are mostly on AIM and it's a central feature, not a pain in the ass add-on. This is what texting looks like in the States. Turning AIM texting into a gameboy and voila!
-<cite><a href="http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2004/10/01/why_i_love_my_sidekick.html">apophenia: why i love my sidekick</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>(emphasis mine)</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-10-01-it-appears-i-never-have-to-throw-anything-away-again.md b/_posts/archive/2004-10-01-it-appears-i-never-have-to-throw-anything-away-again.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 122c831..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-10-01-it-appears-i-never-have-to-throw-anything-away-again.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: It appears I never have to throw anything away again
-created: 1096657287
-categories: 
-- Mac
-- Search Engine Voodoo
----
-
-
-<blockquote>With unlimited storage, I need a new home directory approach. It's starts with reconciling my various home directories (main work machine, home machine, misc_firewire) into one home directory so I can stare it and figure out an organizational hierarchy that scales like crazy. Mac OS X is handy with it's home directory template, but HELLO EVERYTHING I DO IS A DOCUMENT.... a single Document folder doesn't really help me.
-
-If you have any suggestions here, I'd like to <a title="rands AT jerkcity.com">hear</a> them because I'm still chewing on this.  Oh yeah, <a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/spotlight.html">Spotlight</a> better rock, too... because I'm about to have some serious search issues.
-<cite><a href="http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2004/10/01/crunch_time_cleaning.html">Rands in Repose: Crunch Time Cleaning</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>I don't remember when I started reading Rands. It's quality over quantity (that is, infrequent postings -- the posts themselves are long and enjoyable).</p>
-
-<p>I have the same problem: lots of stuff, lack of good tools to organize it. I have some ideas. I think labels could be improved. Why do we have to have a limited amount of labels? Much like Flickr or del.icio.us tags, I could tag documents with labels, and just see slices of content all over the place. And obviously, smart folders to collect the stuff together. And the labels should be pervasive, from Address Book to Mail to Documents.</p>
-
-<p>Maybe I should go read up on Spotlight again and see how much it does. With an open API (another necessity), one could perhaps build something like this.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-10-01-remembering-pitcairn-and-easter-island.md b/_posts/archive/2004-10-01-remembering-pitcairn-and-easter-island.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a0990c4..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-10-01-remembering-pitcairn-and-easter-island.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Remembering Pitcairn and Easter Island
-created: 1096622081
-categories: 
-- Personal
----
-
-<p>Darren just <a title="Darren Barefoot, Vancouver's Blogfather" href="http://www.darrenbarefoot.com/archives/001179.html">posted about Pitcairn and Easter Island</a>. I've actually been to both <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/428">Pitcairn</a> and <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/429">Easter Island</a>.</p>
-
-<p>The 10 year anniversary of my return from <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/80">Class Afloat</a> was some time this past July. On the one hand I feel that I need to get a new story -- I mean, it <em>was</em> 10 years ago -- but the voyage was so incredible and got me to many places that I am unlikely to get back to again.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>Pitcairn was a treat after 2 weeks at sea, sailing from Tahiti. The local people are very welcoming, and always take groups like ours -- and really any random sailors that make it there -- into their homes to stay with them. Cruise ships do stop there as well, but only for a few hours.</p>
-
-<p>Since it's in the middle of the ocean with no large land masses nearby, a continual line of rain squalls passes over the island. It's brilliant blue sky with a shining sun, then it will rain for half an hour, coming down in just massive bursts of water, then the squall will pass and everything is sunny again. A lot of the earth is red, almost Martian red, and this of course turns to flowing mud.</p>
-
-<p>So: scrambling all over the island in shorts, muddy and wet. Gathering breadfruit and bananas off the trees, bushwacking to make it to the peak on the island. Looking down at the rocks and surf below, filled with energy after being ship-bound, after having travelled all this way; amazed at the remoteness, gorged on the 30lb water melons fed to us by our hosts, revelling in the tropical wildness of it all.</p>
-
-<p>Easter Island was pretty incredible as well. Misty, with these low clouds or fog hanging off the statues. Some semi-wild horses that roam around, which locals grab and ride bareback. And of course that aura of spookiness, of what are these great big stone things? The current residents don't seem to bear much relation to the people that built the statues: the little town and it's inhabitants feel seem very South American.</p>
-
-<p>We camped when we were on Easter, so I remember falling asleep on the rim of the crater, filled with water, papyrus, and the standing stones all around. And those incredible South Pacific night skies, dark but brilliant with stars.</p>
-
-<p>I can still remember the taste of the biscuits we ate. Flour, water, and baking soda, and very hard. But stamped with (what else?) an outline of the famous Easter Island statues. Only Eric Quane liked them, so we saved them for him to hoard underneath his bunk back on board ship.</p>
-
-<p>And of course, me having to go back to the ship to study for an AP Calculus exam. Can you imagine being on Easter Island and having to study for a <em>calculus</em> exam?! Don't worry, I'm shaking my head over that one as well.</p>
-
-<p>I really do have to go through all my slides, digitize them, and put them together in some sort of presentation format. I gave a couple of presentations after I got back, but slides are just so darned difficult to work with.</p>
-
-<p>The Concordia, the ship I was on, was actually recently in Vancouver (it even managed to get stuck on a sand bar out by Richmond). I happened to be cycling around the sea wall, and I <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/tags/concordia/">took some pictures</a>.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-10-02-p2p-has-provided-the-blueprint-for-the-next-generation-of-web-applications.md b/_posts/archive/2004-10-02-p2p-has-provided-the-blueprint-for-the-next-generation-of-web-applications.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 4aa9231..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-10-02-p2p-has-provided-the-blueprint-for-the-next-generation-of-web-applications.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: P2P has provided the blueprint for the next generation of web applications
-created: 1096761337
-categories: 
-- IT
----
-
-<blockquote>
-If you are an ISP, or your clients are ISP's then you might need to
-know what is keeping them up at night. Here is an interesting analysis of what uses up an ISP's bandwidth, produced by <a href="http://www.cachelogic.com/research/slide1.php">CacheLogic</a>. It appears that most bandwidth is used by peer-to-peer (P2P) services - remember Napster? The rest of the web's traffic is negligible compared to P2P file-sharing, much of which is legal, so it's not just music and videos.
-<cite><a href="http://www.jarche.com/node/view/325">Jarche Consulting: Peer-to-Peer</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>So what if ISPs acted as super-nodes in some of these p2p systems? Much like traditional caching, this would enable them to share the load, keeping traffic on their network, and thus reduce their costs.</p>
-
-<p>But would this make ISPs liable for any illegal content in their p2p cache? My non-lawyer brain immediately thinks: of course not, it's exactly like running an HTML cache that might contain illegal content.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-10-03-late-blogacatmas-entry.md b/_posts/archive/2004-10-03-late-blogacatmas-entry.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 246e982..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-10-03-late-blogacatmas-entry.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Late BlogACatMas Entry
-created: 1096872676
-categories: 
-- Personal
----
-
-<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;">
- <a title="photo sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/694789/"><img style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);" src="http://www.flickr.com/photos/694789_45a9c17d56_m.jpg" /></a>
- <br />
- <span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;">
-  <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/694789/">Karma Sprawled Out II</a>
-  <br />
-  Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/boris/">bmann</a>.
- </span>
-</div>
-I missed Friday's second annual <a href="http://www.byte.org/blog/_archives/2004/10/1/152321.html">BlogACatMas</a>, but better late than never, right?<br />
-<br />
-We visited my <a title="Anne Mann's Blog at Seven Hills Bed and Breakfast, Bowen Island" href="http://www.sevenhillsbnb.com/blog/2">mom</a> on Bowen Island this weekend (<a title="Horst Mann's Profile on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/people/opa/">dad</a> is up at our cabin near Deka Lake). Karma the cat, having moved with us from Ottawa last December, is enjoying her new, free-roaming home with my parents.
-<br clear="all" />
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-10-03-voip-and-social-software.md b/_posts/archive/2004-10-03-voip-and-social-software.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 301470b..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-10-03-voip-and-social-software.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: VoIP and Social Software
-created: 1096863780
-categories: 
-- VoIP
-- Social Media
----
-
-<p>The <a href="http://socialsoftware.weblogsinc.com/entry/4978755886575277/">Social Software Weblog asks</a>: &quot;Will Skype partner with a social networking service?&quot;. This in connection with <a href="http://www.cpwire.com/archive/2004/9/30/1643print.asp">Voiceglo's Friendster hookup</a>.</p>
-
-<p>Aaaah! <strong>NO</strong>! Skype is already a piece of social software. Why tie yourself to one system? Do this the right way -- add FOAFnet support from day one, export people's buddylists, and you might just win the whole the online presence thing as well as VoIP.</p>
-
-<p>Here we go -- I just added a &quot;Skype&quot; entry to the profile info on <a href="http://test.bryght.com">Bryght's test site</a>. Check out <a href="http://test.bryght.com/user/register">user registration</a>. See? A Skype field. I'll get <a href="http://marc.blogs.it/" title="Marc Canter">Marc</a> to add it to <a href="http://www.foafnet.org">FOAFnet</a> later.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>(and I get to grumble again about how I hate how FOAF handles arbitrary IM/messaging entries -- it should be &lt;foaf:im service=&quot;skype&quot;&gt;borismann&lt;/foaf:im&gt;, dammit!)</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-10-05-pr-isnt-dead.md b/_posts/archive/2004-10-05-pr-isnt-dead.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 8a35a68..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-10-05-pr-isnt-dead.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: PR isn't dead?
-created: 1097030990
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
----
-
-<p><a href="http://www.darrenbarefoot.com" title="The Blogfather of Vancouver">Darren</a> is leading a great discussion on how <a href="http://www.darrenbarefoot.com/archives/001202.html">PR isn't actually dead after all</a>.</p>
-
-<p>Darren is a good person to be having this discussion with. His personal blog is very popular, and his day job is running a <a title="Capulet Communications - Vancouver" href="http://www.capulet.com">firm</a> that provides (among other things) marketing and communications. And yes, it's highly likely we'll eventually pay him to do something with <a href="http://www.bryght.com">Bryght</a>.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-10-06-calendaring-in-xhtml.md b/_posts/archive/2004-10-06-calendaring-in-xhtml.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f0fabb8..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-10-06-calendaring-in-xhtml.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Calendaring in XHTML
-created: 1097046000
-categories: 
-- Social Media
-- Web Development
----
-
-<p>A long time ago (almost 1000 posts ago!), I talked about an alternative to <acronym title="Fried Of A Friend">FOAF</acronym> I had dreamed up, called <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/442" title="Profile Reveals Origins, Interests, Likes, Etc.">PROFILE</a>. I'm still not a big fan of FOAF's RDF-ishness, but I love open-ness more, and FOAF is the only moderately widespread profile interchange format today (my FOAF is <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/foaf/1">here</a>, thanks to the Drupal module <a href="http://www.walkah.net">James</a> wrote).</p>
-
-<p>I expressed it really badly back then, but what I wanted PROFILE to be was an XHTML-valid format so that it would easily display within web pages using nothing but CSS for styling, but still have enough semantic meaning to be machine-parsable.</p>
-
-<p>So the next target is calendaring information. <a href="http://tantek.com/log/2004/09.html#hcalendar">Tantek calls it hCalendar</a>, inspired by some work at <a href="http://wiki.oreillynet.com/foocamp04/index.cgi?HTMLForCalendars">foocamp04 on HTMLForCalendars</a>.</p>
-
-<p>I recently wrote up some thoughts on <a href="http://dev.bryght.com/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/wiki/EventiCalModule">syndicating events using iCal in Drupal</a>. That is, embed/attach iCal to RSS feeds. This will likely still happen (lots of people can easily consume iCal compatible information today). But for web-to-web representation, especially in feed readers, an XHTML compatible format would provide easy display today.</p>
-
-<p>Hat tip to <a href="http://www.laughingmeme.org">kellan</a> for the Tantek related links.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-10-06-evan-reviews-the-airport-express.md b/_posts/archive/2004-10-06-evan-reviews-the-airport-express.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e9cc29c..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-10-06-evan-reviews-the-airport-express.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Evan reviews the Airport Express
-created: 1097046882
-categories: 
-- Mac
-- Review
----
-<blockquote>
-I take <a href="http://home.justwerks.com/node/view/156">it</a> (mostly) all back. I just got my Airport Express up and running (thanks Erin for mule'ing it for me!). Total time to "install" and get operational: 4 minutes.
-<cite><a href="http://home.justwerks.com/node/view/158" title="Evan Wise">Personal Web Herding: Apple Redeems!</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Right now, my main use for this would be as a portable wireless router -- our apartment is too small to require zapping our music to somewhere else. Although, the wireless reception in the bathroom <em>is</em> a  little weak...</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-10-07-200-things.md b/_posts/archive/2004-10-07-200-things.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a8abe88..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-10-07-200-things.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: 200 Things
-created: 1097218732
-categories: 
-- Personal
----
-
-<p>I've seen this list lots of different places. Made me think way back to post #18, <a href="/node/18">50 Places to See Before You Die</a>.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p><b>Bolded</b> is a &quot;yes&quot;.</p>
-
-<p><b>1. Bought everyone in the pub a drink</b> (Germany, when I was 16, in one of the first pubs I was in)<br /><b>2. Swam with wild dolphins</b> (rescued a <a href="http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/speciesid/fish_page/fish60a.html">Pacific Whitesides Dolphin</a> at Long Beach on Vancouver Island's west coast; so not really swimming, but we walked it past the surf line)<br /><b>3. Climbed a mountain</b> (what, with climbing gear? Or does hiking count?)<br />4. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive<br />5. Been inside the Great Pyramid<br />6. Held a tarantula<br />7. Taken a candlelit bath with someone<br /><b>8. Said &quot;I love you&quot; and meant it</b><br /><b>9. Hugged a tree</b><br />10. Done a striptease<br />11. Bungee jumped<br /><b>12. Visited Paris</b> (yep, the Europe trip at 16)<br /><b>13. Watched a lightning storm at sea</b> (lots)<br /><b>14. Stayed up all night long, and watched the sun rise</b><br /><b>15. Seen the Northern Lights</b> (we thought they were towns in Quebec at first)<br /><b>16. Gone to a huge sports game</b><br />17. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa<br /><b>18. Grown and eaten your own vegetables</b><br />19. Touched an iceberg<br /><b>20. Slept under the stars</b><br /><b>21. Changed a baby's diaper</b><br />22. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon<br />23. Watched a meteor shower<br /><b>24. Gotten drunk on champagne</b><br />25. Given more than you can afford to charity<br /><b>26. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope</b><br /><b>27. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment</b> (I'm looking at you here, Rob Sample!)<br /><b>28. Had a food fight</b><br />29. Bet on a winning horse<br /><b>30. Taken a sick day when you're not ill</b><br />31. Asked out a stranger<br /><b>32. Had a snowball fight</b><br />33. Photocopied your bottom on the office photocopier<br /><b>34. Screamed as loudly as you possibly could</b><br /><b>35. Held a lamb</b><br /><b>36. Enacted a favorite fantasy</b><br /><b>37. Taken a midnight skinny dip</b><br /><b>38. Taken an ice cold bath</b><br />39. Had a meaningful conversation with a beggar<br />40. Seen a total eclipse<br /><b>41. Ridden a roller coaster</b><br />42. Hit a home run<br /><b>43. Fit three weeks miraculously into three days</b><br /><b>44. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking</b><br />45. Adopted an accent for an entire day<br />46. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors<br /><b>47. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment</b><br /><b>48. Had two hard drives for your computer</b> (I think my record is three, not including external drives)<br />49. Visited all 50 states<br />50. Loved your job for all accounts<br /><b>51. Taken care of someone who was shit faced</b><br />52. Had enough money to be truly satisfied<br /><b>53. Had amazing friends</b><br />54. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country<br /><b>55. Watched wild whales </b>(lots; most amazing was the killer whale and calf next to the Bowen ferry)<br /><b>56. Stolen a sign</b><br /><b>57. Backpacked in Europe</b><br /><b>58. Taken a road-trip</b><br />59. Rock climbed (OK, I'm changing that mountain one, I think hiking a mountain counts)<br />60. Lied to foreign government's official in that country to avoid notice<br /><b>61. Went for a midnight walk on the beach</b><br /><b>62. Gone sky diving</b> (first co-op trip to Ottawa)<br />63. Visited Ireland<br />64. Been heartbroken longer then you were actually in love<br />65. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger's table and had a meal with them<br /><b>66. Visited Japan</b><br /><b>67. Benchpressed your own weight</b> (back in high school, while on the rugby team)<br /><b>68. Milked a cow</b><br />69. Alphabetized your records<br />70. Pretended to be a superhero<br /><b>71. Sung karaoke</b><br /><b>72. Lounged around in bed all day</b><br />73. Posed nude in front of strangers<br /><b>74. Gone scuba diving</b><br />75. Got it on to &quot;Let's Get It On&quot; by Marvin Gaye<br /><b>76. Kissed in the rain.</b><br /><b>77. Played in the mud</b><br /><b>78. Played in the rain</b><br />79. Gone to a drive-in theater<br />80. Done something you should regret, but don't regret it<br />81. Visited the Great Wall of China<br />82. Discovered that someone who's not supposed to have known about your blog has discovered your blog<br />83. Dropped Windows in favor of something better<br /><b>84. Started a business</b><br /><b>85. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken</b><br />86. Toured ancient sites<br /><b>87. Taken a martial arts class</b> (I did a lot of Judo in high school)<br />88. Swordfought for the honor of a woman<br /><b>89. Played D&amp;D for more than 6 hours straight</b><br /><b>90. Gotten married</b> (yes!)<br />91. Been in a movie<br />92. Crashed a party<br /><b>93. Loved someone you shouldn't have</b><br /><b>94. Kissed someone so passionately it made them dizzy</b><br />95. Gotten divorced<br />96. Had sex at the office<br />97. Gone without food for 5 days<br /><b>98. Made cookies from scratch</b><br />99. Won first prize in a costume contest<br />100. Ridden a gondola in Venice<br />101. Gotten a tattoo<br />102. Found that the texture of some materials can turn you on<br />103. Rafted the Snake River<br />104. Been on television news programs as an &quot;expert&quot;<br />105. Got flowers for no reason<br />106. Masturbated in a public place<br /><b>107. Got so drunk you don't remember anything</b><br />108. Been addicted to some form of illegal drug<br />109. Performed on stage<br />110. Been to Las Vegas<br />111. Recorded music<br /><b>112. Eaten shark</b><br /><b>113. Had a one-night stand</b><br />114. Gone to Thailand<br />115. Seen Siouxsie live<br />116. Bought a house<br />117. Been in a combat zone<br />118. Buried one/both of your parents<br />119. Dyed your hair<br />120. Been on a cruise ship<br /><b>121. Spoken more than one language fluently</b><br />122. Gotten into a fight while attempting to defend someone<br /><b>123. Bounced a check</b><br />124. Performed in Rocky Horror<br />125. Read - and understood - your credit report<br />126. Raised children<br />127. Recently bought and played with a favorite childhood toy<br />128. Followed your favorite band/singer on tour<br />129. Created and named your own constellation of stars<br />130. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country<br />131. Found out something significant that your ancestors did<br />132. Called or written your Congress person<br />133. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over<br />134. ...more than once?<br />135. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge<br /><b>136. Sang loudly in the car, and didn't stop when you knew someone was looking.</b><br />137. Had an abortion or your female partner did<br />138. Had plastic surgery<br />139. Survived an accident that you shouldn't have survived.<br />140. Wrote articles for a large publication<br />141. Lost over 100 pounds<br />142. Held someone while they were having a flashback<br />143. Piloted an airplane<br />144. Petted a stingray<br />145. Broken someone's heart<br /><b>146. Helped an animal give birth</b><br /><b>147. Been fired or laid off from a job</b><br />148. Won money on a T.V. game show<br />149. Broken a bone<br />150. Killed a human being<br />151. Gone on an African photo safari<br /><b>152. Ridden a motorcycle</b><br />153. Driven any land vehicle at a speed of greater than 100mph<br />154. Had a body part of yours below the neck pierced<br />155. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol<br /><b>156. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild</b><br /><b>157. Ridden a horse</b><br />158. Had major surgery<br />159. Had sex on a moving train<br />160. Had a snake as a pet<br />161. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon<br />162. Slept through an entire flight: takeoff, flight, and landing<br /><b>163. Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours</b><br /><b>164. Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states</b><br />165. Visited all 7 continents<br /><b>166. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days</b><br />167. Eaten kangaroo meat<br />168. Fallen in love at an ancient Mayan burial ground<br />169. Been a sperm or egg donor<br /><b>170. Eaten sushi</b> <br />171. Had your picture in the newspaper<br />172. Had 2 (or more) healthy romantic relationships for over a year in your lifetime<br />173. Changed someone's mind about something you care deeply about<br />174. Gotten someone fired for their actions<br />175. Gone back to school<br />176. Parasailed<br />177. Changed your name<br />178. Petted a cockroach<br />179. Eaten fried green tomatoes<br /><b>180. Read The Iliad</b><br />181. Selected one -important- author who you missed in school, and read their work<br />182. Dined in a restaurant and stolen silverware, plates, cups because your apartment needed them<br />183. ...and gotten 86'ed from the restaurant because you did it so many times, they figured out it was you<br />184. Taught yourself an art from scratch<br /><b>185. Killed and prepared an animal for eating</b><br />186. Apologized to someone years after inflicting the hurt<br />187. Skipped all your school reunions<br /><b>188. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language</b><br />189. Been elected to public office<br /><b>190. Written your own computer language</b> (heh. Well, not an <i>entire</i> language. It was in Scheme, and it was called D- or something like that)<br />191. Thought to yourself that you're living your dream<br />192. Had to put someone you love into hospice care<br /><b>193. Built your own PC from parts</b><br />194. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn't know you<br />195. Had a booth at a street fair<br />196: Dyed your hair<br />197: Been a DJ<br />198: Found out someone was going to dump you via LiveJournal<br /><b>199: Written your own role playing game</b><br />200: Been arrested</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-10-14-google-invades-windows-desktops-whats-the-mac-plan.md b/_posts/archive/2004-10-14-google-invades-windows-desktops-whats-the-mac-plan.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a684b09..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-10-14-google-invades-windows-desktops-whats-the-mac-plan.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Google invades (Windows) desktops: what's the Mac plan?"
-created: 1097768106
-categories: 
-- Mac
-- Web 2.0
-- Search Engine Voodoo
----
-
-<p>Yep. Here's <a href="http://desktop.google.com/">Google on your desktop</a>. It searches Outlook and Outlook Express email, Internet Explorer, AOL IM chats, and all the MS Office formats.</p><p>Check out <a href="http://battellemedia.com/archives/000966.php">John Batelle's Searchblog</a> for an interview and more cogent analsis. I'm just sad I can't use it (although I suspect third-party APIs will mean a ton of applications in the next couple of weeks). Hmmm...Google Image search that automatically checks <a href="http://www.flickr.com">Flickr</a> as well...</p>
-
-<p>Second &quot;hmmm&quot;: imagine <a href="http://www.zoe.nu/">Zoe</a>, except implemented as Google Desktop for the Mac: iPhoto, Address Book, Mail, etc. etc. all with intertwined search results.</p>
-
-<p>Do you think Google is working on this for the Mac? Somehow, I doubt it. They'll get a bunch of this functionality &quot;for free&quot; when Tiger ships (so if they are working on it, they'll make sure it ships with Tiger). But given Jobs' pitching of <a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/spotlight.html">Spotlight</a>, it may be up to a third party to tackle this.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-10-20-to-quote-myself-on-voip.md b/_posts/archive/2004-10-20-to-quote-myself-on-voip.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 24c580f..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-10-20-to-quote-myself-on-voip.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: To quote myself, on VoIP
-created: 1098260354
-categories: 
-- VoWLAN
-- Skype
-- NorthPoint
-- Covad
-- softphone
-- VoIP
----
-<p>This is something I wrote today, when someone asked me about VoWLAN handheld hardware:</p><blockquote><p>To be honest, the VoIP space is over-saturated at this point. I did a fair bit of market research and analysis in this space when I first moved back to Vancouver, but there are just too many people in the space right now. We'll see a die-back here just like we did with the Data CLECs -- NorthPoint, Covad and Rhythms are all dead and gone, even though their stock went from 70¢ to $170...<br /><br />Where to focus on the VoIP space? Software. For VoWLAN, a killer application would be localized detection of other handsets and buddylists, etc. This is kind of like a walkie-talkie plus instant messaging.<br /><br />So, needless to say, I'm focusing on web applications and collaborative tools. Hope that little rant was useful.</p></blockquote>
-
-<p>I skipped adding a bunch of other stuff regarding UI design. Like, Skype is winning as much because of their usability as their technology. But if someone built a softphone with a decent UI that worked with open protocols...perhaps that is the same as asking for Linux desktop usability: it's not quite there yet.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-10-23-do-we-actually-want-one-super-app.md b/_posts/archive/2004-10-23-do-we-actually-want-one-super-app.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 038eb37..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-10-23-do-we-actually-want-one-super-app.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Do we actually want one super app?
-created: 1098561958
-categories: 
-- Application
-- IM
-- Mac
-- Microsoft
----
-
-<p>Tris is talking about Microsoft's Istanbul, a &quot;super app&quot; that combines IM, Outlook email, contacts, etc. etc. But is it good to have everything in one application?</p>
-<blockquote>
-Now, on the other side of the coin entirely...do we actually want one super app?  I'm really of two minds on this.  One one side I've always thought it would be great to have one app to open in the morning and <em>everything</em> is there.  All my documents, IM, news, everything.  On the other hand, what if that app cacks out?  What if you get a corrupted profile or setting?  What's the backup plan?  As much as I've tried I haven't been able to condense my apps to a great extent, not that I haven't tried.  But by having several ways to skin a cat, as it were, I do have a certain amount of redundancy that would allow me to communicate (online) as long as I could get the Internet connection and a browser to work.
-<cite><a href="http://blog.larixconsulting.com/blog">View from the Isle: Michael Sampson: Underwhelmed on the Road to Istanbul</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>My alternate title for this post was &quot;loosely coupled applications&quot;. More and more we are integrating web services (Flickr, del.icio.us) into our &quot;desktop&quot; applications (or at least work flow). I bailed out of Outlook (or at least <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/1341">Entourage on the Mac</a>) a long time ago. Corrupted data in proprietary formats didn't work for me.</p>
-
-<p>Apple has gone in the opposite direction. They've put all the components in place, system level APIs and storage for contacts (Address Book) and calendars (iCal). Applications like iChat or Adium (and many other third-party applications) tie into the base, system level formats.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>A great example of one application that is (in some ways) a &quot;super app&quot; but still ties back into all these separate pieces is <a href="http://www.objective-decision.com/en/products/od4contact/">OD4Contact</a>. I <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/1115">tried it</a> a while ago, and I need to try the newest version again.</p>
-
-<p>But back to loosely-coupled. Along with loosely-coupled comes lowest common denominator, or perhaps easiest-way-to-collaborate is a better phrase. We're still using <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/basecamp-overview">Basecamp</a>. It doesn't tie emails to contacts and calendars, but (at least) it allows me to share these items individually with a team. And that's what's important. Being locked into the Mac ghetto or the Windows mothership are both not good places to be. So: open formats, APIs, and standards. Cross-platform. Web-friendly. Group centric but also customizable. Anything that breaks those rules -- forget it, I'm out of there.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-10-23-not-on-the-web-you-wont-get-hired.md b/_posts/archive/2004-10-23-not-on-the-web-you-wont-get-hired.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 045c7e4..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-10-23-not-on-the-web-you-wont-get-hired.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Not on the web? You won't get hired
-created: 1098558247
-categories: 
-- Social Media
-- Search Engine Voodoo
----
-<p>Scoble asserts that having a presence on the web is becoming q requirement to getting hired:</p>
-
-<blockquote>I wouldn't hire anyone who can't be found in Google or MSN or Yahoo (or, better yet, all three). If you don't care enough to put at least some information about yourself on a website or a blog and get a friend who has a blog to link to you, why exactly should I hire you?
-<cite><a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2004/10/23.html#a8467">Robert Scoble: Mark gives advice for getting his attention</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>So, wither the poor introvert/technophobe? Well, that's where I see some of these hosted services coming in. And I even have some specific examples (not that I necessarily think that either one is an introvert or a technophobe).</p>
-
-<p>What kind of hosted services? Ones that offer member profiles and blogs. That are structured in a Web 2.0 fashion -- search engine optimized, clean (and memorable) URLs, and social networking features built-in. Anyone can run a service like this, and people will gravitate to ones that represent an interest or community they feel a part of. It could be regional (like <a href="http://www.urbanvancouver.com">Urban Vancouver</a>), it could be a hobby, like fishing, or <a href="http://www.vaneats.com">restaurants and food</a>.</p>
-
-<p>Now my examples.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>First, <a href="http://www.moosehat.com/" title="Stewart Marshall">Stewart Marshall</a>. <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=stewart+marshall">Search for him</a> and you'll find his <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/user/76">member profile on my site here</a> plus his <a href="http://www.ecademy.com/account.php?op=view&id=20095">Ecademy profile</a>. Stewart is writing at his <a href="http://www.moosehat.com">Moose Hat Blog</a> about (mainly) personal things, and he hasn't figured out what he wants to do with his <a href="http://www.stewart-marshall.com/" title="Stewart Marshall, Corporate Financial Strategist">professional site</a>. So, these community profiles show up higher.</p>
-
-<p>Next is the <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=Ian+bruk">search</a> for Ian Bruk. The entire first page of search results are profiles for different communities! And this is a good thing, although difficult to manage for Ian. He controls each of those profiles, so can manage the information there, manage the view that people have of him when they type his name into Google. But it's difficult to keep all these different profiles in sync, to remember to update them.</p>
-
-<p>So, profiles are a good thing. Associated with different communities, communities that have high ranking, they will help you "appear" in Google -- even if you're not an A-level blogger, even if you're not a technologist. Do the things you are interested in, and you'll appear appropriately (and realistically) online.</p>
-
-<p>But this mass of unconnected profiles has to stop. That's why we <a href="http://www.bryght.com/news/bryght-releases-foaf-module">released the foaf.module for Drupal</a>. It's a step in the direction of managing and connecting all those disparate profiles.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-10-27-how-to-pick-beer-even-the-kind-that-comes-in-a-tower.md b/_posts/archive/2004-10-27-how-to-pick-beer-even-the-kind-that-comes-in-a-tower.md
deleted file mode 100644
index eb6bc2a..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-10-27-how-to-pick-beer-even-the-kind-that-comes-in-a-tower.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: How to pick beer (even the kind that comes in a tower)
-created: 1098925626
-categories: 
-- Vancouver
-- Personal
-- Search Engine Voodoo
----
-<p>Brian Lamb knows <a href="http://www.reusability.org/blogs/brian/archives/000217.html">how to pick beer</a>. Or so <a href="http://careo.elearning.ubc.ca/weblogs/brian/archives/009144.html">he says</a>.</p>
-
-<p>(I'm always happy to help people with their Google juice)</p>
-
-<p>And speaking of beer, yes, that's definitely a <a href="http://www.darrenbarefoot.com/archives/001283.html">tower of power</a> we consumed with <a href="http://www.buytaert.net">Dries</a> of Drupal.org fame. Actually, <a href="http://www.walkah.net">James</a> didn't even get a picture of the second one.</p>
-
-<p>For <strong>real</strong> information about beer, check out <a href="http://www.ratebeer.com">Rate Beer</a>.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-10-27-zip-ca-finds-my-comment-thread.md b/_posts/archive/2004-10-27-zip-ca-finds-my-comment-thread.md
deleted file mode 100644
index ffaa6c7..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-10-27-zip-ca-finds-my-comment-thread.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Zip.ca finds my comment thread
-created: 1098927732
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
-- Social Media
----
-
-<p>I've got 37 comments and over 1,000 page views on my <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/910">Zip.ca post</a> (which is nothing but a link to the site -- I haven't used the service myself...and certainly don't plan to after reading all the comments).</p>
-
-<p>After all this time of people posting comments there, <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/910#comment-2971">Meredith, product manager for Zip.ca,</a> posted a response:</p>
-<blockquote>
-My name is Meredith and I am the product manager for Zip.ca. I noticed a lot of you post anonymously on this blog and I would like to invite you to send me or George, our Customer Service Manager, an email at suggestions@zip.ca. I would like to look into each of your complaints and ensure your concerns things being addressed properly.
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>What's the important thing to look for? Well, if you don't give customers an open place to interact with you, to give you feedback, if you force them through automated channels -- they'll look for a place to post feedback anywhere they can, which in this case is my blog post.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>The other side: I've had that post up since February of this year. As a company today, especially one that appeals to technology savvy consumers (of which there are increasingly more), you need to monitor all the channels. Subscribe to <a href="http://www.pubsub.com">PubSub</a> search for your name and URL. Search Google for references to your company name or <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=zip.ca" title="Google search for zip.ca -- oops, my post is #4!">website</a>.</p>
-
-<p>Within an hour of Meredith's post, someone else replied to her:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-<p>I must take note that you mentioned that most of us post anonymously. I should point out that even you posted anonymously - which is a double edge in my mind. I'm a zip.ca customer as well. Anyways, I've only been a member a little while (not trial).</p>
-
-<p>I should point out that I am an internet professional and run my own business. One of my peeves about Zip.ca is that no matter how bad a problem is - there isn't anybody I can call on the phone. Email is OK - but most companies never respond or respond slowly with bad information. Unless you have stellar email service, then you need to have phone service.</p>
-<cite><a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/910#comment-2996">Read the whole comment</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Hey Zip.ca -- <a href="mailto:borismann@gmail.com">contact me</a> if you want to talk about how to use all these tools, and how to interact with your customers in a &quot;real&quot; way.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-10-28-ipod-photo-thoughts.md b/_posts/archive/2004-10-28-ipod-photo-thoughts.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 3cc8c56..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-10-28-ipod-photo-thoughts.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: iPod Photo Thoughts
-created: 1099002233
-categories: 
-- Music
-- Movie
-- Mac
----
-
-<p><a href="http://marc.blogs.it/archives/2004/10/ok_im_officiall.html">Marc asked</a>:</p>
-<blockquote>
-Will one of you Apple slave - I mean customers - please tell me why you'd want to carry around photos that you didn't take with your iPod in your iPod?
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>And I wrote a long series of comments:</p>
-<!--break-->
-
-<hr />
-
-<p>Because it's a firmware upgrade and a few license agreements with Hollywood studios away from syncing for-pay video content (iTunes already shows videos cross-platform, and QT got revved along with the iTunes update).</p>
-
-<p>Because Kate loves the security of carrying around a backup of all her music AND photos.</p>
-
-<p>Because (wishful thinking?) it's another firmware upgrade away from being able to plug in firewire to be able to capture/transfer photos directly to iPod (lenses are expensive, leave it up to the people who are good at those).</p>
-
-<p>Because some people don't have computers at home...but they still have an iPod and now, gee willikers, it does photos, too (OK, this one is a stretch...but I seem to see a lot of a-typical iPod users, and have one/two anecdotal stories of people buying computers to go with their iPod...and both were PCs)</p>
-
-<hr />
-
-<p><a href="http://weblogs.jupiterresearch.com/analysts/gartenberg/archives/004021.html">Michael Gartenberg</a> seems to agree with my reasoning for no video (yet) -- that the market just isn't ready. There isn't enough &quot;consumer&quot; content (which to me means legal video downloads).</p>
-
-<p>Russell Beattie thinks <a href="http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1008113.html">Steve Jobs is wrong about mobile video</a> -- based on his experience of the phone/mobile market. Sorry, I don't buy it. Postage stamp sized video is not something that people will pay a bunch for. But here's my use case.</p>
-
-<p>Apple gets legal downloads. Lots of free stuff (music videos, movie trailers, commercials, etc.) that is "small" -- plays OK on the little screen. The legal downloads are movies, that take up about 1GB, give or take (you can probably get good quality at less than that, especially if there are some fancy new codecs). That means 60 movies at once, but more likely a half-dozen at most. People <strong>could</strong> watch them on the little LCD. But, since the iPod Photo does video-out, people watch it where they like watching videos -- on a TV.</p>
-
-<p>Graham (I think it was Graham -- it's anonymous) did a long rant about the <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/1364">new ipods over in the forums</a> as well.</p>
-
-<p>But why are people so upset? If there are better solutions...then they'll win. Me? I might buy one. Actually, more likely as I said above, I'd buy one for Kate. And hope for firmware upgrades :P</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-10-30-greenthing-theme-and-this-week.md b/_posts/archive/2004-10-30-greenthing-theme-and-this-week.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 730456a..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-10-30-greenthing-theme-and-this-week.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Greenthing theme and this week
-created: 1099187010
-categories: 
-- BMC
-- Vancouver
-- Drupal
-- Personal
----
-<p>Thanks to <a href="http://home.ericscouten.com">Eric Scouten</a> (who I met, but didn't get much of a chance to talk to, AND didn't even manage to buy beer for!), here is the <a href="http://drupal.org/node/12334">Greenthing</a> theme. It only has one right hand column, which means there is a ton of information shoved in there. I've been experimenting with adding a left column that goes all the way to the top</p>
-
-<p>This week has been very, very hectic. I don't even think that's completely the right word. Lots of meetings, lots of dinners, lots of thinking. It was great to meet so many people in the flesh. <a href="http://www.walkah.net">James</a> put it best -- for what we crammed into barely 5 days, we could easily have used 2 weeks. There is lots to digest (literally and figuratively) and I continue to be excited about the direction things are going...even if it is a bit tiring at times.</p>
-
-<p>And yes, feel free to post comments/complaints/suggestions about the new look, although I don't expect to be fiddling with it (much) for a while.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-10-31-what-do-i-expect-from-my-blog.md b/_posts/archive/2004-10-31-what-do-i-expect-from-my-blog.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 970ecc5..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-10-31-what-do-i-expect-from-my-blog.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,41 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: What do I expect from my blog?
-created: 1099271137
-categories: 
-- BMC
-- Personal
-- Personal Publishing
----
-
-Chris from the <a href="http://www.bicg.org/" title="Bali Consulting">Bali International Consulting Group</a> posted the following as a <a href="/about#comment-3084">comment on my about page</a>:
-<blockquote>
-<p>Hi Boris,</p>
-
-<p>just really curious how you can handle such a blog and if its worth it...</p>
-
-<p>what you expect from it and what you really gain?</p>
-
-<p>saw your Bali pic, I live there, so looked for Bali Consulting on Googloe and found you...quite some trouble with those search engines lately, might be better to stick to yellow pages ;-)</p>
-
-<p>anyhow don't get me wrong, just curious...</p>
-
-<p>Best</p>
-
-<p>Chris from sunny Bali</p>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Great question, Chris. For some of the reasons I run this site, check out my <a href="/node/1290">Blogging for Business</a> talk.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>But it started off because I wanted to:</p>
-<ol>
-<li>Wanted to have my own domain/site that didn't depend on the particular access provider I was using</li><li>Experiment with web-based tools</li><li>Have a place to put thoughts, ideas, etc. online where I could share them</li><li>Keep in touch with friends and family who lived elsewhere</li></ol>
-<p>The site started off with more of a personal focus. But, many of the things I'm interested in center around technology. I've always done a certain amount of research and analysis in positions I've held, so some of this translates over into the writing I do here. As more people began to read this site, and especially as I became a small business owner and then an independent consultant, I wrote more about technology and business.</p>
-
-<p>So, what do I expect? I've always written here for my own purposes -- that is, I've wanted/needed to put thoughts down, and this site serves as a good way to organize them.</p>
-
-<p>What do I hope to gain? Connections. Conversation. Opportunities. I've gained all three through this site.</p>
-
-<p>You also asked how I &quot;handle&quot; the site. Well, it runs on a system called <a href="http://www.drupal.org" title="Open Source Content Management Platform">Drupal</a>, if that's what you mean, and is hosted by my company, <a href="http://www.bryght.com">Bryght</a>. If you mean the time commitment...well, I'm writing a lot less here than I have before, but that's because I also write elsewhere. Writing 2 or 3 posts a week is something that anyone can handle, and you can usually find at least 2 or 3 items of interest to you in that time frame.</p>
-
-<p>I hope that helps answer your questions: hearing from someone so far away is why, yes, it is absolutely worth running this site. <a href="/contact">Contact me</a> if I can help you with anything else. My company doesn't have any representation in Bali yet...</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-11-01-near-time-flow-example.md b/_posts/archive/2004-11-01-near-time-flow-example.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 83f8a98..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-11-01-near-time-flow-example.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Near-Time Flow Example
-created: 1099343337
-categories: 
-- Application
-- Mac
-- Personal Publishing
----
-
-<p>OK, Scott, I'm keeping the post up this time. It works! It does rich text editing, too, and the HTML is pretty clean.<br /></p>
-
-<blockquote>For example, if you would like to post content discovered while browsing the web or viewing your RSS feeds in Flow, just select the appropriate text and choose Post Selection to Blog from the Share menu. You will be presented with a list of the blog accounts you've added to Flow. Pick the appropriate  space and folio (which will be the category for the post if your blog supports categories.) Flow will copy the selected text into a new page within the selected space.  Add any commentary and click the Post button on the toolbar to post the page to your blog.</blockquote>
-
-<p>Posted with <a href="http://www.near-time.com/PRODUCTS/flow.htm">Near-Time Flow</a> &lt;- this should be an option, and also have a graphic.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-11-04-lycoris-takes-over-e-smith.md b/_posts/archive/2004-11-04-lycoris-takes-over-e-smith.md
deleted file mode 100644
index ef190e4..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-11-04-lycoris-takes-over-e-smith.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Lycoris takes over E-smith
-created: 1099615864
-categories: 
-- E-smith
----
-
-<p><a href="http://www.foolswisdom.com">Lloyd</a> forwarded me news from the E-smith project:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-Effective immediately, contribs.org and the development and support of the SME Server will be handled by Lycoris (<a href="http://www.lycoris.com">www.lycoris.com</a> and <a href="http://www.lycoris.org">www.lycoris.org</a>). Lycoris is a successful Linux company that has developed a reputation as a world-wide leader in Desktop Linux Operating Systems with their Lycoris Desktop/LX product line.
-<cite><a href="http://contribs.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=31">Contribs.org: News</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Having e-smith once more in a &quot;supported&quot; mode could mean interesting things. Of course, having the &quot;free&quot; version available was great for lots of consultants catering to schools, small businesses, and non-profits, so hopefully Lycoris will continue to provide ISOs for those uses.</p>
-
-<p>For really robust, turn-key Linux based servers, I have taken to recommending the <a href="http://www.net-itech.com/">Net Integrator</a>. Their per-user licensing is a bit strange in the Linux world, but I really like their integrated <a href="http://www.net-itech.com/products/hardware.php">server hardware</a> solutions, and they do offer a complete Exchange replacement (which still lets you run Outlook with full server support on the desktop).</p>
-
-<p>Checking out the site, I see that they now have a remote desktop type of product, <a href="http://www.net-itech.com/products/expression.php">Expression Desktop</a>. Still a good company to keep an eye on, and I'll definitely check them out if I find myself having to spec out large hardware deployments again.</p>
-
-<p>I haven't touched my home server in months (<a href="http://midgard.bmannconsulting.com/phpsysinfo/">up and running</a> for half a year), and will likely be taking it down some time soon, mainly because the PC it is on is too loud, and because all the picture galleries on it are being transitioned to <a href="http://www.flickr.com">Flickr</a>. Our desktop Mac will handle any serving duties I might have.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-11-04-ubiquitous-browser-evolution.md b/_posts/archive/2004-11-04-ubiquitous-browser-evolution.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 72ea6df..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-11-04-ubiquitous-browser-evolution.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Ubiquitous Browser Evolution
-created: 1099633033
-categories: 
-- Web 2.0
-- Web Development
----
-
-<p>Roughly in chronological order (gasp!), here are three excerpts and links to longer articles that are important to go and read. My version of a link dump.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<blockquote>
-<p>The PC is no longer the only battleground. The Internet is the new medium and it has the effect of leveling the playing field. While this isn't a new insight, let me say it in two specific ways:</p>
-<ol>
-<li>The web enables infinite distribution of content without any special effort or infrastructure.</li>
-<li>The web extends the reach of our apps and services as far as we're willing to let them go.</li>
-</ol>
-<p>Both notions come back to ubiquity. If your stuff (and your brand) is everywhere, you win. The money will follow. It always does.</p>
-<cite><a href="http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/002931.html">Jeremy Zawodny: Ubiquity in the Internet Age</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>His other rules boil down to build great stuff, make it open, and give opportunity to other people to build/make money on top of it.</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-We need to get web publishing back on the fast track, and by rapidly speeding both the evolution and the adoption of modern web standards, we can create an efficiency and innovation boom this medium has never seen.
-<cite><a href="http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2004/11/speeding-up-browser-evolution">Mike Davidson: Can We Speed Up Browser Evolution?</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>I can get behind this. Designers drool at some of the special tags added to Safari...but then sob because they can't use it elsewhere. So -- aim for open-ness and standards, but push the envelope as well?</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-Perhaps more importantly, as I said in a prior post, most of the value today is coming from the community, the reputation, the access to information and goods and services, and the media itself. This ineluctable fact coupled with the driving forces of much faster evolution in response to the natural selection of market needs, much cheaper and easier and more simple user interface, and much better ability to know what can be done better for the customer are all combining. Services will be the dominant model. Think of it as evolution in action.
-<cite><a href="http://www.adambosworth.net/archives/000028.html">Adom Bosworth: Evolution in Action</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>The deliver everything as a service that can be a service concept. I had an &quot;aha!&quot; moment around this when looking at development cycles for interpreted languages vs. compiled languages. It may very well be that much of the advantage comes from that difference as well, since desktop apps are generally compiled.</p>
-
-<p>Of course, if you can deliver a desktop app that is auto-updating and based around an interpreted language core, do you get some of the same benefits? In looking at <a href="http://1001.kung-foo.tv/">1001</a>, I see a single-purpose app that hides complexity, but is still tied into a wider web world.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-11-04-urls-are-dead.md b/_posts/archive/2004-11-04-urls-are-dead.md
deleted file mode 100644
index ef2d1fd..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-11-04-urls-are-dead.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: URLs are dead
-created: 1099597520
-categories: 
-- Search Engine Voodoo
-- Web 2.0
----
-
-<p>I agree with some of <a href="http://www.darrenbarefoot.com/archives/001329.html" title="Blogfather Darren Barefoot of Vancouver">Darren's discussion on choosing a domain name</a>...but <strong>URLs are dead</strong>. People type stuff into Google. They've learned not to trust bookmarks (broken computer, switching machines, home vs. work, too many becomes unwieldy to find), but can easily memorize search phrases that get them where they want to go.</p>
-
-<p><a title="Drupal Rockstar Developer - James Walker" href="http://www.walkah.net">James</a> related how his wife finds recipes by remembering (again) the search phrase plus the position on the page. And of course, if you are on the same computer, the link will be purple, showing that you've visited it already.</p>
-
-<p>The only reason you need a &quot;good&quot; URL is for offline marketing purposes. But even there, people are still likelier to remember the name of your company, and just type that in (because sometimes it's not .com, it's .ca, or some other reason). Bottom line: Google/search is easier for end users. So optimize your site</p>
-
-<p>(I wish those bullets were numbered on Darren's post -- let's just pretend they are). In any case, <a title="Bryght - Drupal-powered Managed Content Hosting and Online Communities" href="http://www.bryght.com">we</a> couldn't do rule #2 without breaking rule #1. There are a very limited number of 5/6 letter domain names left. So we opted for hard spelling. At least it's still short enough to spell over the phone.</p>
-
-<p>For #5...I agree about punctuation, except that for branding, that's easier to read. And when you type &quot;tigh na mara&quot; into Google...they're the number 1 hit. Mission accomplished. Same with <a title="A Drupal promotion site a la SpreadFirefox.com" href="http://www.drupal-world-domination.com">drupal-world-domination.com</a> (coming soon).</p>
-
-<p>And I'm calling bullshit on your repeat visitors comment. If people can always find you online (email notification, RSS feeds, Google search for your name/business keywords), that's what will bring in the repeats.</p>
-
-<p><b>Update:</b> while I was typing, Richard also responded -- <a href="http://www.movableblog.com/archives/2004/11/04/urls">In the Future, Domains and URLs Won't Matter</a> -- and Darren updated to include some of those thoughts.</p><p><b>Update 2:</b> I like this phrase I used in Darren's comments (which have some good back and forth between him, myself, and Richard), so I'm keeping it here, too:</p><p><i>Ten years <b>could</b> be enough time to move to an all-search based front end to the web -- only machines will need to know URLs, just as only machines need to know IP addresses today.</i><br></br> </p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-11-04-voipail-is-voicemail-for-skype.md b/_posts/archive/2004-11-04-voipail-is-voicemail-for-skype.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 3118b32..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-11-04-voipail-is-voicemail-for-skype.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: VOIPail is voicemail for Skype
-created: 1099586160
-categories: 
-- VoIP
----
-<p>Currently Windows only, and the <a href="http://voipail.blogspot.com/">blog says</a> the beta test begin smid-November. You can sign up for beta testing on the <a href="http://www.voipail.com">main site</a>. Yes, I don't like the name either.</p>
-
-<p>I'm drowning under voicemail, and have real trouble managing it. I get a lot of email as well, but it's much easier to handle and organize there. I would pay for a voicemail only service that delivered it via email.</p>
-
-<p>I <strong>am</strong> about to start testing something, but I can't talk about it yet. I'm going to point it at my  Gmail account. Heck, it would be a good way to do podcasting.</p>
-
-<p>(via <a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0111520/2004/11/04.html#a802">Alec Saunders</a>)</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-11-07-bittorrent-whack-a-mole-give-us-legal-video-downloads.md b/_posts/archive/2004-11-07-bittorrent-whack-a-mole-give-us-legal-video-downloads.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 7f53d37..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-11-07-bittorrent-whack-a-mole-give-us-legal-video-downloads.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "BitTorrent Whack-a-Mole: Give us legal video downloads!"
-created: 1099848999
-categories: 
-- IT
-- Web 2.0
----
-
-<p>By now, many will have read the <a href="http://in.tech.yahoo.com/041103/137/2ho4i.html">news about BitTorrent</a>:</p>
-<blockquote>
-According to British Web analysis firm CacheLogic, BitTorrent accounts for an astounding 35 percent of all the traffic on the Internet -- more than all other peer-to-peer programs combined -- and dwarfs mainstream traffic like Web pages.
-</blockquote>
-<p>What is <a href="http://www.bittorrent.com/">BitTorrent</a>? It's a <acronym title="Peer to Peer">P2P</acronym> program that is optimized for sharing really big files in a bandwidth efficient manner.</p>
-
-<p>This sounds like a path we've been down before. Napster was the first high-profile P2P program, used to distribute (at that time) large music files. Now broadband is more wide-spread, and the files are bigger.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>What kind of really big files? Video content is probably the most widely shared -- from TV shows that are 300 - 500 megabytes in size to DVD copies that can run to several gigabytes. And the reaction of copyright holders? Just like with Napster, handing out lawsuits seems to be the preferred method of the <acronym title="Motion Picture Association of America">MPAA</acronym> of dealing with the problem. Well, that and anti-piracy advertising in movie theatres and on TV.</p>
-
-<p>Have the movie studios learned <strong>nothing</strong> from the situation with music?! There are a handful of successful online music stores today, making good money. If you easily get legal cotent into the hands of consumers...they will welcome it (and pay for it)! It's again a matter of it being easier to get illegal content.</p>
-
-<p>In writing about the <a title="Is the iPod Photo a firmware upgrade away from video content?" href="/ipod-photo-thoughts">iPod Photo</a>, I mused about the possibility that Steve Jobs was going to do another first: enable legal video content downloads. Offering legal content will control the problem faster (and be more profitable) than playing whack-a-mole with different sharing programs.</p>
-
-<p>And the whack-a-mole game is starting. Here in Vancouver, <a title="Cable Broadband Provider, Shaw Communications" href="http://www.shaw.ca">Shaw</a> has begun <a href="http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/56419">throttling BitTorrent traffic</a>. And users are already looking at a new program, <a title="Rodi, BitTorrent alternative" href="http://larytet.sourceforge.net/">Rodi</a>. Will ISPs ultimately be successful in filtering or blocking? Here's a <a href="http://larytet.sourceforge.net/btRat.html">comment from the designers of Roti</a>:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-ISPs are getting smarter. I am wondering what they are going to do with HTTP based filesharing network ? And if the HTTP packet is encrypted ?
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Let me translate that: P2P content that masquerades as secure web traffic will be completely unstoppable.</p>
-
-<p>(hat tip: Greg, Phil)</p>
-
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-11-07-save-canadas-internets.md b/_posts/archive/2004-11-07-save-canadas-internets.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 20e413e..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-11-07-save-canadas-internets.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Save Canada's Internet(s)
-created: 1099870594
-categories: 
-- Canada
----
-<p>The Canadian Heritage Ministry wants to sign the World Intellectual Property Organization treaty, which has all sorts of interesting DMCA-like provisions for "protecting" copyright.</p>
-
-<p><a href="http://www.darrenbarefoot.com/archives/001342.html">Darren has the whole story</a>, as well as a lengthier letter to send to officials involved in the decision.</p>
-
-<p>If you want to help in a point-and-click way, <a href="http://www.willpate.org">Will</a> set up a <a href="http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/canadawipo">petition</a>.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-11-09-wow-open-beta.md b/_posts/archive/2004-11-09-wow-open-beta.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c7421a0..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-11-09-wow-open-beta.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: WoW Open Beta
-created: 1100019108
-categories: 
-- Game
----
-
-<p>The World of Warcraft open beta is now ready for <a href="https://signup.worldofwarcraft.com/menu.html">signup</a>.</p>
-
-<p>Once you've created your account, you download a small downloader (both Mac and Windows versions available). This is in fact a downloader which (as far as I can tell from the port ranges used) uses BitTorrent to download the over 2GB installer.</p>
-
-<p>This is an obvious legal use of BitTorrent. And <a href="/node/1378">Shaw is throttling my bandwidth</a>. Grrr.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-11-10-marqui-content-management-in-vancouver-and-blogging-for-money.md b/_posts/archive/2004-11-10-marqui-content-management-in-vancouver-and-blogging-for-money.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 537ce95..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-11-10-marqui-content-management-in-vancouver-and-blogging-for-money.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Marqui - Content Management in Vancouver and Blogging for Money
-created: 1100075987
-categories: 
-- Social Media
-- Personal Publishing
-- CMS
-- Vancouver
----
-
-<p><a href="http://marc.blogs.it">Marc</a> Canter has gotten quite the <a href="http://www.marqui.com/Newsroom/event11100498593507.aspx">storm of controversy</a> about paying bloggers to...blog. Of course, Marc won't get any respect until, say, <a href="http://susanmernit.blogspot.com/2004/11/ojr-msn-gm-imagines-blogging-business.html">Microsoft does it</a>.</p>
-
-<p><a href="http://www.rolandtanglao.com">Roland</a> and I met with Marc Tuesday night to go over some Bryght business (<a href="http://realneo.contenthosting.org" title="REALNEO">this</a>, <a href="http://www.ourmedia.org" title="OurMedia - The Global Home for Grassroots Media">this</a>, and <a href="http://www.peopleaggregator.com">this</a>, if you must know). Marc also gave us a preview of the new <a href="http://www.marqui.com">Marqui</a> (nee <a href="http://www.maestrocms.com">MaestroCMS</a>) demo. Marqui has some great workflow features, they output to multiple formats, and they even have RSS feeds in their <a href="http://www.marqui.com/Newsroom/">newsroom</a> now.</p>
-
-<p>Would reviewing a <a href="/topics/cms" title="Content Management Systems Category">CMS</a> make sense for my blog? Absolutely.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>Yes, my <a href="http://www.bryght.com" title="Bryght - Drupal-powered Managed Community Content and Web Publishing">business</a> might be considered a competitor, but I've already been thinking how the two systems could work together. Let Marqui handle the complicated workflow of larger corporations and a mass of static content. Let Bryght handle your community site, developer forums, or other highly-dynamic sections of your web presence.</p>
-
-<p>Heck -- this post might be my first entry in a paycheque from Marqui. (Disclaimer: I'm <strong>not</strong> being paid to post this right now)</p>
-
-<p>In any case, congratulations to Marc and Marqui. It's great to see another Vancouver company doing really interesting work, and succeeding.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-11-11-bmp-presents-cdx2.md b/_posts/archive/2004-11-11-bmp-presents-cdx2.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f3ca5bc..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-11-11-bmp-presents-cdx2.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,139 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "BMP Presents: CDX2"
-created: 1100168588
-categories: 
-- CDX2
-- Burning Monkey Productions
-- Personal
----
-<p>
-	Through <a href="http://www.urbanvancouver.com">Urban Vancouver</a>, I was lucky enough to meet <a href="http://www.rustyvalentine.com">Rusty</a>, a.k.a. Alex. Somehow I got drawn into the crazy web that is &quot;CD Exchange 2&quot;.</p>
-<p>
-	And so, I give to you my entry:</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>
-	<strong>Burning Monkey Productions Presents: CDX2</strong></p>
-<p>
-	Format is: Song Name / Artist Name (Album) Time<br />
-	If no album is listed, it is the same as the artist name.</p>
-<ol>
-	<li>
-		All Hell For A Basement / Big Sugar (Brothers &amp; Sisters, Are You Ready?) 4:00
-		<p>
-			I love Big Sugar, from their early, more blue-sy stuff (and I was tempted to pick one of those, since many people haven&#39;t heard it), to their rockin&#39; later stuff. But they really shine when you see them live, and they string together 2 or 3 songs, spending 15, 20, or even 30 minutes playing with the music. And Gordie Johnson can play the guitar like no one else.</p>
-		<p>
-			<i>Alternate pick:</i> Sleep in Late / Big Sugar (500 Pounds)</p>
-	</li>
-	<li>
-		Monkey Wrench / Foo Fighters (The Colour and the Shape) 3:51
-		<p>
-			Continuing with the &quot;rock&quot; theme that started the disc, I needed something that kicked things up another notch.</p>
-		<p>
-			<i>Alternate pick:</i> Everlong / Foo Fighters (The Colour and the Shape)</p>
-	</li>
-	<li>
-		In The Land Of The Super Freaks / Hammerheads 4:44
-		<p>
-			Who the heck are The Hammerheads?! They&#39;re a local Ottawa band that plays all the time. You can probably classify them as &quot;disco funk revival&quot; if you had to pick a label. Always a good time out at the bar, and very danceable. Still very high energy like the previous two songs, but without that hard rock edge.</p>
-		<p>
-			<i>Alternate pick:</i> I wanted a band that few if any had heard, so an alternate would likely have been something from another Ottawa band, Andrew Vincent and the Pirates.</p>
-	</li>
-	<li>
-		Exploration / Thievery Corporation-DJ Kicks 3:07
-		<p>
-			Bringing the energy and speed down a notch. Retro vocal samples plus a blend of instruments and beats. The alternate was too long and a little too electronic after the preceding songs.</p>
-		<p>
-			<i>Alternate pick:</i> Escape to Neptune / Rising High Trance Injection</p>
-	</li>
-	<li>
-		Burn One Down / Ben Harper (Fight For Your Mind) 3:31
-		<p>
-			I&#39;ve only seen Ben Harper live once, and that&#39;s not nearly enough times. How does one go about picking a favourite song? The music is great, the lyrics are great, and there are a ton to choose from.</p>
-		<p>
-			<i>Alternate pick:</i> Excuse Me Mister (live) / Ben Harper (Live from Mars 1)</p>
-	</li>
-	<li>
-		Candela / Buena Vista Social Club 5:31
-		<p>
-			This was a case of me wanting to put something &quot;different&quot; in to switch the mood a little. I like Spanish / Cuban music, and this BVSC has a great little melody in the background that weaves in and out of the vocal track.</p>
-	</li>
-	<li>
-		Cracklin&#39; Rosie / Neil Diamond (His 12 Greatest Hits) 2:59
-		<p>
-			What? You don&#39;t like Neil Diamond?! Of course you do, you just have to listen to him a couple more times. Bet you weren&#39;t expecting that on here. Neil, for all his cheese, puts together some fun, listenable music.</p>
-		<p>
-			<i>Alternate pick:</i> Kentucky Woman / Neil Diamond</p>
-	</li>
-	<li>
-		Woman Of The Ghetto / Hortense Ellis (Impact!) 3:05
-		<p>
-			I like the vocals on this particular track. The compilation is by <a href="http://www.souljazzrecords.co.uk/impact.htm" title="Impact! by Soul Jazz Records">Soul Jazz Records</a>, and is a British import. A great restaurant in Ottawa called the Black Tomato has great music like this, and they&#39;ll even sell it to you.</p>
-		<p>
-			Alternate pick: Be Thankful / Donovan Carless (Impact)</p>
-	</li>
-	<li>
-		Holes To Heaven / Jack Johnson (On and On)) 2:55
-		<p>
-			&quot;There were so many fewer questions / when stars were still just the holes to heaven&quot; -- what a great lyric. The bass lines in this have great hooks (are you beginning to see I like background beats?).</p>
-		<p>
-			<i>Alternate pick:</i> Bubble Toes / Jack Johnson (Brushfire Fairytales)</p>
-	</li>
-	<li>
-		Wrong / Everything But The Girl (Walking Wounded) 4:38
-		<p>
-			Kicking off a three song electronica run, there are enough vocals in this to make a good transition from Jack. I love every song on this album, and it&#39;s one I often include on &quot;Intro to House&quot; mixes.</p>
-		<p>
-			<i>Alternate pick:</i> Corcovado / Everything But The Girl (Walking Wounded) a.k.a. the &quot;32 flavours and then some&quot; song.</p>
-	</li>
-	<li>
-		Part of The Process / Morcheeba (Big Calm) 4:27
-		<p>
-			I had a choice of putting in some old Morcheeba, or some new Morcheeba, and I chose old. The new Charango album took me some time to get used to, but now I really like it.</p>
-		<p>
-			<i>Alternate pick:</i> Charango (feat. Pace Won) / Morcheeba (Charango)</p>
-	</li>
-	<li>
-		Hymn Of The Big Wheel / Massive Attack (Blue Lines) 6:37
-		<p>
-			By this third track, I&#39;ve got you right where I want you: nice and relaxed, with your ears perked up to suck in some more beats and interesting voices. I went with old instead of new again.</p>
-		<p>
-			<i>Alternate pick:</i> Karmacoma / Massive Attack (Protection)</p>
-	</li>
-	<li>
-		Dobie - I Miss You (Sunshine Mix) / Bjork (Telegram) 5:35
-		<p>
-			Bjork&#39;s strange voice should start to get you out of relaxation mode, but in not too jarring of a way. I like this mixed version of the song.</p>
-	</li>
-	<li>
-		Here&#39;s That Rainy Day (Koop Remix) / Astrud Gilberto (Verve Remixed 2) 3:31
-		<p>
-			The beginning of this song almost has a little Super Mario Bros. vibe to it. This is from the <a href="http://www.vervemusicgroup.com/product.aspx?ob=n&amp;src=art&amp;pid=10832">Verve Remixed 2</a> double album. One CD is filled with jazz originals, the second contains remixed versions of the originals.</p>
-		<p>
-			<i>Altnerate pick:</i> Fried Neckbones and Some Homefries (Dan the Automator Remix) / Willie Bobo (Verve Remixed 2) -- because of the name of the song, of course.</p>
-	</li>
-	<li>
-		Thick Necked Man / Crash Test Dummies (The Ghosts that Haunt Me) 3:20
-		<p>
-			And now for something completely different! Listen to the lyrics or just kind of tap your feet and get the music.</p>
-		<p>
-			<i>Alternate pick:</i> The Superman Song / Crash Test Dummies (The Ghosts thaat Haunt Me)</p>
-	</li>
-	<li>
-		Psycho Killer (Live) / Talking Heads (Stop Making Sense) 4:24
-		<p>
-			I wanted to round out the disc with a live track, and this song is a classic that was nicely different from the rest of the music.</p>
-		<p>
-			<i>Alternate pick:</i> Burning Down the House / Talking Heads (Stop Making Sense)</p>
-	</li>
-</ol>
-<p>
-	Of course, I wasn&#39;t quite organized enough to manage printing a cool insert ahead of time, so I&#39;ve gone the techie route. There are three PDFs to choose from to download and print:</p>
-<ul>
-	<li>
-		<a href="/files/cdx2_insert.pdf">full colour</a></li>
-	<li>
-		<a href="/files/cdx2_insert_bw.pdf">b&amp;w</a></li>
-	<li>
-		<a href="/files/cdx2_insert_songs_only.pdf">song list only</a></li>
-</ul>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-11-12-msn-now-does-search-thinks-google-is-a-good-result.md b/_posts/archive/2004-11-12-msn-now-does-search-thinks-google-is-a-good-result.md
deleted file mode 100644
index d8bac3e..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-11-12-msn-now-does-search-thinks-google-is-a-good-result.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: MSN now does search, thinks Google is a good result
-created: 1100276718
-categories: 
-- Microsoft
-- Search Engine Voodoo
----
-<p>So <a href="http://beta.search.msn.com/">MSN now does search</a>. I was going to skip commenting on it, since it's not very interesting until we see some advertising plans or something else that's actually new and different.</p>
-
-<p>There was discussion on <a href="http://battellemedia.com/archives/001031.php">John Battelle's search blog</a> on how Google's website was actually showing up in some searches, suggesting that some results were "hand-tweaked".</p>
-
-<p>A search for "canadian voip" returns Google as the #1 hit. I know that I and others have linked to Google searches, especially with title tags of "Google Search for Canadian VoIP", so that may help explain it.</p>
-
-<p>There are a handful of other searches where Google.com is either the #1 hit or somewhere in the top 10. Ouch...I think there will be some "hand tweaking" to remove results that include Google.com...</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-11-12-panics-story-of-audion.md b/_posts/archive/2004-11-12-panics-story-of-audion.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 00cd680..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-11-12-panics-story-of-audion.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Panic's Story of Audion
-created: 1100303471
-categories: 
-- Application
-- Mac
----
-<p>I read the <a href="http://panic.com/extras/audionstory/">True Story of Audion</a> with interest. Here's the short version: they almost got bought by AOL, almost got hired by Apple to build iTunes, and now still make pretty cool stuff. Like <a href="http://panic.com/desktastic/">Desktastic</a>, which almost made me go out and buy a <a href="http://www.macally.com/spec/usb/input_device/icecad.html">graphics tablet</a> today.</p>
-
-<p>Given Panic's record...this probably means Apple is building a Tablet PC :P</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-11-15-the-deep-web-only-courtesy-of-search-portal-x.md b/_posts/archive/2004-11-15-the-deep-web-only-courtesy-of-search-portal-x.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 2e21e0b..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-11-15-the-deep-web-only-courtesy-of-search-portal-x.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: The Deep Web...only courtesy of Search Portal X
-created: 1100585558
-categories: 
-- Search Engine Voodoo
----
-
-<p>Don Park wrote an interesting piece on how competition in the search space might build walls around certain types of searchable content. But that it might also lead to access to the &quot;deep web&quot; and/or richer, easier search of metadata:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-How this phase unfolds doesn't have to be as ugly as I described above.  More palatable scenario is to open up previously unsearchable areas of the Web and make it available only through a particular search engine.  Another approach is to enrich search result using metadata not available to crawlers.
-<cite><a href="http://www.docuverse.com/blog/donpark/EntryViewPage.aspx?guid=18c255c1-23c1-42e4-ad69-61f803ce06df">Don Park: Search: Great Walls and Silk-roads</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Which goes nicely with this <a href="http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000048.html">Yahoo!  Search blog post</a>, talking about a look into library catalogs with the <a title="Online Computer Library Center" href="http://www.oclc.org/">OCLC</a>. Will Google search/index this as well? (the Yahoo! logos slapped all over the place make me suspect no)</p>
-
-<p>But there's more data locked up in the deep web. I'd love to have more of it available, whatever makes that possible. Reviews, listings, recipes, real estate....sheesh, sounds like I'm channeling <a href="http://marc.blogs.it">Marc Canter</a>!</p>
-
-<p>In any case, any sort of walls will I think give rise to the search of meta-engines. If competing search providers have access to separate silos of information -- I would want access to both.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-11-19-wow-beta-is-over-some-comments.md b/_posts/archive/2004-11-19-wow-beta-is-over-some-comments.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 7d0824d..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-11-19-wow-beta-is-over-some-comments.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: WoW Beta is over, some comments
-created: 1100910224
-categories: 
-- Game
-- Personal
----
-
-<p><a href="http://www.badgergoose.com/">Gerard</a> saw my  <a href="/node/1380">World of Warcraft Beta</a> post and asked some pertinent questions.</p>
-
-<p>Note: I am <strong>not</strong> a hard-core gamer by any stretch of the imagination. The only other <acronym title="Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game">MMORPG</acronym> I've played is <a href="http://chronicle.ubi.com/">Shadowbane</a>. Yes, because I'm in the Mac ghetto and can't play games usually.</p>
-<!--break-->
-
-<p>On Horde vs. Alliance: Do you actually have to choose? I'll probably choose Alliance if you do, otherwise I'll have a couple on both sides. I don't play <acronym title="Player versus Player">PvP</acronym> (or haven't, in the past), so I'll pick the servers that don't promote that.</p>
-
-<p>On which classes/races I play: As with all these games, I'm interested in the mechanics, and so like to experiment a lot. I don't play enough to get very far, usually.</p>
-
-<p>Here are the two main characters I worked with:</p>
-<ul>
-<li>Trusha (13): Female Gnome Rogue<br />
-Professions: miner, engineer (I got to throw bombs!)<br />
-Skills: cooking, fishing (I had a magic fishing pole and caught a 17lb catfish that I could hold in my hand and slap people with while fighting)</li> 
-<li>Erselle (11): Female Night Elf Hunter<br />
-Professions: herbalist, alchemist<br />
-Skills: cooking, first aid</li>
-</ul>
-<p>No reason they are both female, it just worked out that way -- I played a half dozen other combinations that were all male, but these were the two that I ended up sticking with.</p>
-
-<p>It was fun to play. You got going pretty quickly, the early levels made it easy to complete a bunch of quests which got you exploring your surroundings. Each class had it's own set of skills to learn -- generally the best combo to use to defeat things. Equipment and money are somewhat hard to come by, but that just makes you value it more. Side activities like the professions (which don't gain you experience) made for a bunch of other stuff to do. I loved fishing -- very relaxing just clicking a single button and listening to the sounds of the waves coming in.</p>
-
-<p>On guilds: I don't play enough. Apparently you need 20 people or something like that? I don't think I know enough people that would play to form a guild, but it might be fun to have a guild of casual players.</p>
-
-<p>(I was the only person from work that managed to get a beta account and download the 2.4GB beta)</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-11-21-axentra-multifunction-server-appliances.md b/_posts/archive/2004-11-21-axentra-multifunction-server-appliances.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 4429d2d..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-11-21-axentra-multifunction-server-appliances.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Axentra Multifunction Server Appliances
-created: 1101065361
-categories: 
-- "*nix"
-- Home Server
----
-
-<p>I last wrote about Axentra when they had <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/579">changed their name from OEOne</a> back in October 2003. Marc Benglia, the CEO of Axentra, came by and left a comment on that post, so I went and checked out their <a href="http://www.axentra.com/products/">new products</a>.</p>
-
-<p>Marc had specifically pointed out their <a href="http://www.axentra.com/products/multifunc_server_appliances/home_series_net-box/">Net-Box  Home Series</a>, which are two server appliances targetted at home network use. The entry level model is $499US -- much too expensive in my opinion, but I still understand the lure of having a full-featured server on your own network.</p>
-
-<p>I'm in the process of getting rid of my local Linux server. Obviously I'm not the target market for these products, nor is anyone that can build their own server. But I think that Axentra is going to have trouble explaining the benefits -- and making it easy enough -- for the average end user.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>For example, sharing pictures. This was the main driver for running my own server initially. I have a handful of hosting accounts, and even a dedicated server, but all of them have limited storage space. So, running a local server, where I can run a huge amount of storage (digital pictures at 500KB - 1MB a piece start to add up pretty quickly). But now there's <a href="http://www.flickr.com">Flickr</a>. For a measly $5US/month, I get unlimited storage -- limited only by the 1GB of uploads per month. It has many more features than my <a href="http://gallery.bmannconsulting.com">local gallery</a>, with more being added every day. And it's housed on super-redundant servers, so I don't have to worry about making offsite backups. For $5US/month, that's 100 months of the service before I've made up the cost of the Net-Box.</p>
-
-<p>The big thing I could see myself using one of Axentra's servers for is backup. I'd love to see a server whose main function was really good backup. <a href="http://scoble.weblogs.com/">Scoble</a> linked to a <a href="http://www.buffalotech.com/products/product-detail.php?productid=71&categoryid=16">Buffalo Technologies</a> product a while back that seemed to offer that -- and it's $300US for a 160GB model, with the capability of adding external USB 2.0 drives as well.</p>
-
-<p>My message to Axentra is to focus: focus on a small set of features. Yes, Linux-based hardware can do a lot of things, but the only way to differentiate yourself if you do something differently from other products.</p>
-
-<p>Perhaps their <a href="http://www.axentra.com/products/multifunc_server_appliances/office_series/">Office series</a> is a better bet. The consumer market is still a tough one. Of course, lots of competition in the office space as well -- I still like the <a href="http://www.net-itech.com/products/hardware.php">Net Integrator Servers</a>.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-11-23-google-is-a-deaf-user-that-loves-reading-metadata.md b/_posts/archive/2004-11-23-google-is-a-deaf-user-that-loves-reading-metadata.md
deleted file mode 100644
index aa1ccfd..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-11-23-google-is-a-deaf-user-that-loves-reading-metadata.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Google is a deaf user that loves reading metadata
-created: 1101251065
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
-- Web Development
-- Search Engine Voodoo
----
-
-<p>Going through my aggregator, I saw Marc crying out for any sort of structured information, any sort of meta-data:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-What's your excuse why you'd flow structured data through RSS 2.0 and lose it's structure? I gotta understand why that is a good thing?
-<cite><a href="http://marc.blogs.it/archives/2004/11/but_wait_i_am_n.html">Marc's Voice: But WAIT! I am NOT an rdf Zealot</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>And then I read that Google is deaf:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-What if a deaf user sees a topic that interests him or her, and wants to know what these subject-matter experts have to say about it? Should he or she go without simply because the moderator thinks it would disrupt the natural feel found in the panel’s voices?
-<cite><a href="http://www.bestkungfu.com/archive/date/2004/11/google-is-a-deaf-user/">bestkungfu: Google is a deaf user</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Too true. The best way to design sites is to think of search engines as one of your primary visitors. A visitor that can't see graphics, can't hear podcasts, and doesn't know what to do with a bunch of Javascript.</p>
-
-<p>And as Marc says, let's not get mired down in format wars, or stop implementing and innovating because of format wars. Agree on open standards and APIs, stick more data in there, and wait for &quot;cool stuff&quot; to happen.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-11-25-massive-traffic-on-wow-still-fun.md b/_posts/archive/2004-11-25-massive-traffic-on-wow-still-fun.md
deleted file mode 100644
index b270507..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-11-25-massive-traffic-on-wow-still-fun.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Massive traffic on Wow, still fun
-created: 1101428103
-categories: 
-- Game
-- Personal
----
-<p>So I picked up <acronym title="World of Warcraft">WoW</acronym> on Tuesday. I played a few hours that night, when things were really busy. Not suprising, given the response:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-We launched with 41 servers in the U.S. yesterday, and we are bringing up an additional 34 servers today to accommodate the influx of players. Over 200,000 accounts were created in just a single day!
-<cite><a href="http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/">World of Warcraft Community Site: WoW - Day One</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>By shifting around to different servers, I was able to experiment a bit with different characters. Because of the traffic and upgrade issues, you should probably try and create characters on a couple of different servers. That way if your server is down or under heavy load, you'll still have a backup character to play.</p>
-
-<p>There are some unrelated-to-load issues with latency when fighting or getting "loot" at times, but I predict there are going to be a lot of people playing this game and really enjoying it. We'll see if Blizzard manages to make this type of game more accessible to a wider range of people.</p>
-<!--break-->
-
-<p>What am I playing, and on what servers? Here's the current list:</p>
-
-<ul>
-<li>Rumba, Tauren Hunter, on Cenarius server (Pacific)</li>
-<li>Cudgel, Human Rogue, on Argent Dawn role-playing server (Eastern)</li>
-<li>Retarxis, Gnome Warlock, on Silvermoon (Pacific)</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>I'm playing characters that you can either solo easily with, or that are good additions to any team. There is enough "stuff" to do (fishing!) that even just picking it up and playing for an hour or so is fun.</p>
-
-<p>Note: the front page of the community site is very "blog-like", but the individual items don't have permalinks that I can see, so I can't link to the individual items. To be fair, Blizzard does run a <a href="http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/">huge number of forums</a>, but they also don't have easy ways to keep track. Hey Blizzard -- permalinks and RSS are a good thing!</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-11-25-todd-maffin-great-work-on-covering-mozilla.md b/_posts/archive/2004-11-25-todd-maffin-great-work-on-covering-mozilla.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a33a0ee..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-11-25-todd-maffin-great-work-on-covering-mozilla.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Todd Maffin: Great work on covering Mozilla"
-created: 1101429191
-categories: 
-- Canada
-- Vancouver
-- Open Source
-- Personal Publishing
----
-<p>Almost exactly a year ago, I heard the worst piece of reporting ever on <a href="http://www.cbc.ca" title="Canadian Broadcasting Corporation">CBC</a> -- Todd Maffin's piece on the costs of printing digital vs. analog pictures. I of course <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/732">posted about it</a>. Todd and I had a bit of a dialog via email, but it never really went anywhere -- that is, he didn't want to budge on any of his points.</p>
-
-<p>But today I want to say to Todd -- great job! I just finished listening to his piece on open source, and in particular the launch of Mozilla Firefox and accompanying meetups. You can listen to it, too -- Todd's managed to get <a href="http://vancouver.cbc.ca/nerd/podcast.htm">podcasts on CBC</a>*, and here's a direct link: <a href="http://vancouver.cbc.ca/nerd/tech_mozilla_parties_(pod).mp3">The Open Source Community Grows (November 21, 2004)</a></p>
-
-<p>Your friend and mine, Vancouver's own <a href="http://www.darrenbarefoot.com" title="Vancouver's blogfather, Darren Barefoot">blogfather, Darren Barefoot</a> is interviewed for the piece. Sounds really good, Darren. Isn't that the second time you've been on CBC, both thanks to blogging?</p>
-
-<p>OK, one more thumbs up for Todd. He's been jumping into podcasting with both feet, and is running a Blogware blog called <a href="http://iloveradio.org">I Love Radio</a>. Having someone who understands this technology on the "inside" of a major media organization in Canada is great. We've got a man on the inside now...watch out!</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>Note to Todd: get your domain issues fixed so that your domain is accessible through iloveradio.org. Roland wrote up <a href="http://www.streamlinewebco.com/blog/Blogware/HowTo/_archives/2004/5/3/51406.html">instructions for GoDaddy</a>, and then the second part is adding iloveradio.org as a domain in Blogware.</p> 
-
-<p>*Arrgh! No permalinks, making it impossible to reference the summary etc. around the piece, forcing you to link directly to the audio file. The podcast page does have RSS at least, and again, kudos to Todd for managing to get that implemented, but <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/638">RSS feeds and the CBC</a> obviously still don't go together. And why is the title of that podcast page "The CBC does not endorse the con"? What does that mean?</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-11-28-fotobuzz-like-flickr-notes.md b/_posts/archive/2004-11-28-fotobuzz-like-flickr-notes.md
deleted file mode 100644
index d76a15b..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-11-28-fotobuzz-like-flickr-notes.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: FotoBuzz -- like Flickr notes
-created: 1101697091
-categories: 
-- Drupal
-- Web 2.0
-- Web Development
----
-<p>The <a href="http://www.2entwine.com/" title="Flash- and Jabber-based cross platform IM, photo sharing, and RSS reading application">Gush</a> developers have created something very similar to <a href="http://www.flickr.com">Flickr's</a> notes capability:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-We've released a web utility called FotoBuzz which allows you to annotate JPEGs using Flash on the client side and PHP/Python on the server-side. It's dirt easy to integrate into existing webpages. After including some CSS and JavaScript in the HTML head, all you have to do is add a single attribute to the image tag and it will do the rest for you.
-<cite><a href="http://nowhere.2entwine.com/archives/000347.html" title="Going Nowhere: FotoBuzz viewlet">Going Nowhere: FotoBuzz viewlet</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p><em>Of course</em> I have to think about putting this into Drupal somehow. Along with integrating Flickr directly (<a href="http://www.jluster.org">Jonas</a> -- get off your ass and release that code!), this should do nicely.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-11-28-no-games-for-the-mac-and-gaming-micro-content.md b/_posts/archive/2004-11-28-no-games-for-the-mac-and-gaming-micro-content.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 6c89707..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-11-28-no-games-for-the-mac-and-gaming-micro-content.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: No games for the Mac and gaming micro-content
-created: 1101695711
-categories: 
-- Game
-- Mac
----
-<blockquote>
-When you tell someone you're buying a Mac and they throw the No_Mac_Game FUD in your face, they're being lazy. Someone, somewhere, at some time, told them that &quot;Mac Games Suck&quot; and that's simple idea to remember. FUD paints a world of black and white and the good news is it's all gray people.
-<cite><a href="http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2004/11/27/silver_bullet_no_games_for_the_mac.html" title="Rands In Repose: Silver Bullet: No Games for the Mac">Rands In Repose: Silver Bullet: No Games for the Mac</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>I thought this was appropriate since I am (still) enjoying World of Warcraft. Pretty much all of <a href="http://www.blizzard.com">Blizzard's</a> games are cross-platform, and usually ship with one set of CDs as well. Actually, the guys at Electronic Boutique where I bought the game almost didn't want to sell it to me when I mentioned I was playing on a Mac.</p>
-
-<p>I don't care to get involved in the FUD one way or another -- if I was really interested in playing games I would get an Xbox or a PlayStation.</p>
-<!--break-->
-
-<p>Something else that I wanted to point out was the other company referenced in Rands' post: <a href="http://www.bioware.com">Bioware</a>.</p>
-
-<p>Their main products are based around the <acronym title="Dungeons & Dragons">DnD</acronym> role-playing system -- they've used it to development the fantasy-based Neverwinter Nights as well as the Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic. But both are platforms (with NN being more of one).</p>
-
-<p>Neverwinter Nights ships with full development tools. You can make your own modules, including full scripting abilities, your own persistent servers, etc. etc. Every pen-and-paper RPG playing nerds fantasy.</p>
-
-<p>And now Bioware has opened up a <a href="http://store.bioware.com">store</a>. Small, high-quality, very inexpensive modules that you can play after you've finished the main "game". This goes beyond mods or add-ons for other games -- these modules are completely self-contained, and need only the original platform purchase to enable people to start playing.</p>
-
-<p>Theoretically individuals could start charging for these modules as well. Gaming micro-content, which has been out of reach because of the now millions of dollars that is required to develop (and more importantly, market) a game.</p>
-
-<p>I see modular sales like this as being another valid business model vs. online games like World of Warcraft that charge ongoing subscription fees.</p>
-
-<p>Interesting times. I'm off to go summon some demons with my gnome engineer.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-12-01-itunes-canada-finally.md b/_posts/archive/2004-12-01-itunes-canada-finally.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 1aee1fa..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-12-01-itunes-canada-finally.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: iTunes Canada -- finally!
-created: 1101971323
-categories: 
-- Personal
-- Music
-- Canada
----
-
-<p>It was supposed to launch a few days ago, the launch slipped, but who cares? It's here! And yes, it's still 99¢ per track, so we're saving up here with our Canadian pesos!</p>
-
-<p>Have I bought music? Yep, you bet. First purchase: <a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playlistId=28659665">Black Eyed Peas, Let's Get it Started (The Urbz Edition)</a>. 4 tracks, $3.96. Canadian.</p>
-
-<p>I've been really enjoying the Black Eyed Peas. For some reason I thought they were from Toronto, but no, they're from LA. But hey, they have their own Sims characters, who can't love them? Seriously, they have a fun mix of songs with good beats, and they've ended up on quite a few <a href="/boris/bmp/cdx2">compilations</a> recently.</p>
-
-<p>Would I have bought that in a store? No way, I don't usually buy singles. But this was *dead simple*. Oh man, I'm afraid to show Kate this...</p>
-
-<p>Craziness...I can even make an iMix now: <a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPublishedPlaylist?id=167079">Burning Monkey Productions Presents: CDX2</a> -- on the Apple iTunes Music Store.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Update:</strong> second purchase. <a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playlistId=28680234">Sarah McLachlan - Afterglow Live</a> -- in part purely because of the <a href="http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/10/05/OhSarah">video</a>.  Yeah, it brings tears to my eyes, as do many of Sarah's tracks.</p>
-
-<p>But also, $9.99 for 18 tracks. Hmmm...I'm already starting to think in a "track" way. (Just to turn all that mushiness back into cash and the cold hard tech world we live in)</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-12-01-zaks-chinese-market-butter-chicken.md b/_posts/archive/2004-12-01-zaks-chinese-market-butter-chicken.md
deleted file mode 100644
index d0db0c2..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-12-01-zaks-chinese-market-butter-chicken.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Zak's Chinese Market Butter Chicken
-created: 1101933534
-categories: 
-- Food
----
-<p>Zak decided to bless some local Vancouver-ites with his  cooking skills. Unfortunately, he ran out of <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/fweep/549.html">butter chicken</a>, but apparently we're going to get some pulled pork instead.</p>
-
-<p>(yes, I'm posting this purely to bookmark the recipe)</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-12-10-cbc-now-has-headline-only-rss-feeds.md b/_posts/archive/2004-12-10-cbc-now-has-headline-only-rss-feeds.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 574db6e..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-12-10-cbc-now-has-headline-only-rss-feeds.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: CBC now has (headline only) RSS feeds
-created: 1102675276
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
-- Canada
----
-
-<p>Welcome to the party, CBC! Although that's about all the nice things I have to say about their implementation...</p>
-
-<p><a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/638#comment-3359">Someone left me a comment</a> with a link directly to the <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/rss/feed.html">free headlines page</a> that lists all the RSS feeds available. Conveniently, that let me skip past the <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/rss/">agreement</a> page.</p>
-
-<p>The agreement (which I didn't agree to, since I have that <a title="CBC RSS Feed Page" href="http://www.cbc.ca/rss/feed.html">URL that jumps straight to the feed page</a>) has some fun stuff in it:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-<p>Website Exclusivity. You guarantee that the CBC Feed or Feed Content shall be the exclusive content on your website from a general news and information provider.</p> 
-
-<p>Promotion. You shall not make any promotion or advertisement of the CBC Feed or Feed Content, without the written authorization of CBC/Radio-Canada.</p>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Hmmm...I hope this isn't promoting the feed. Actually, I'm not going to include it in my <a href="/aggregator">aggregator</a> here, because I might be accused of being a commercial user. Not that I would be interested in doing that -- it's a headline-only feed, which lost its appeal about 30 seconds after people starting using RSS.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Update:</strong> the agreement has been removed, and I sent a <a href="/node/1403" title="Feedback on CBC RSS">feedback email</a> asking for (at least) teaser feeds.</p>
-
-<!--break-->
-<p>And exclusivity?! Who are they kidding?</p>
-
-<p>There is a pretty good selection of content, split into General, Sports, and Regional (one per province). Do I need to mention the part about it being a headline only feed again?</p>
-
-<p>They've thoughtfully provided a list of news readers at the bottom of the page...cleverly missing such popular clients as <a href="http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/">NetNewsWire</a>. Actually, the two Mac ones they mention are ones that I've never heard of. They actually mention My Yahoo! as an option, bu then cunningly only include a link to <a href="http://www.bloglines.com">Bloglines</a> in the web category of their list of readers.</p>
-
-<p>Well, I guess I'm done beating up CBC for the day. They have an email address listed (headlines AT cbc.ca), so I'll send them an email tomorrow, politely asking for (at least) a teaser feed.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-12-16-apple-and-motorola-are-making-a-phone.md b/_posts/archive/2004-12-16-apple-and-motorola-are-making-a-phone.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 1e2d3e2..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-12-16-apple-and-motorola-are-making-a-phone.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Apple and Motorola are making a phone?
-created: 1103242538
-categories: 
-- Mac
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-
-<p>Mike Davidson thinks that this <a href="http://www.forbes.com/technology/2004/12/16/cx_ah_1216aapl.html">Forbes article</a> confirms the fact that we may see an &quot;iPhone&quot; next year.</p>
-<blockquote>
-Apple has confirmed that not only will they be releasing a full-fledged Apple-inspired phone with Motorola circuitry, but it will likely be shown off in January to an eagerly-awaiting public at MacWorld Expo.
-<cite><a href="http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2004/12/iphone-prediction-confirmed">Mike Davidson: iPhone Prediction Confirmed</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>This certainly could be another use for the CompactFlash memory rumours that had people speculating about a CF-based iPod. As noted in the Forbes article, the carriers may not like this -- being able to load content onto the phone without using their data services is what they really fear: it means their expensive investments in upgrading their networks is being neatly side-stepped. Hmmm...sounds kind of like the rest of the telecom industry.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-12-16-cbc-removes-agreement-on-rss-usage-my-feedback-email.md b/_posts/archive/2004-12-16-cbc-removes-agreement-on-rss-usage-my-feedback-email.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 3ebab2b..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-12-16-cbc-removes-agreement-on-rss-usage-my-feedback-email.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,46 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: CBC removes agreement on RSS usage, my feedback email
-created: 1103262274
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
-- Canada
----
-
-<p>CBC has in the meantime removed the agreement I wrote about in my <a href="/node/1401" title="CBC has RSS feeds">first post</a>.</p>
-
-<p>I sent them my feedback letter today. Here's what I said:</p>
-
-<p><strong>Update:</strong> I got a (very fast) response, posted as well.</p>
-
-<!--break-->
-<blockquote>
-<p>Dear CBC:</p>
-
-<p>Thanks for implementing RSS for your website. I posted some <a href="/node/1401">feedback</a> several days ago. I notice that you've now removed the agreement page -- thanks for that. I have a few suggested links below that you might like to add. Also, I would request that you consider turning the feeds into full article content, or at the very least present &quot;teasers&quot;. The current headline-only format is nothing more than a token implementation -- it is very rare that I can tell by reading the headline whether the entire article would interest me. So, as it is, I tend to skip over 98% of the headlines that appear in my news reader.</p>
-
-<p>For News Reader tools, you should add the following two links under the Apple section:<br />
-<a href="http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/">NetNewsWire</a><br />
-<a href="http://www.newsfirerss.com/">NewsFire</a><br />
-</p>
-
-<p><a href="http://www.2entwine.com/">Gush</a> is a Flash-based tool that works on all operating systems that you should also add.</p>
-
-<p>MyYahoo is another web-based tool that can be used to read news.</p>
-
-<p>I would be happy to discuss RSS strategy or any other questions that you might have. In my opinion, the more open CBC is, the better the online interaction can be for everyone, and that everyone wins.</p>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>And the response, signed with an actual person's name:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-We thank you for your kind feedback.  We have also received similar requests from other users and therefore will consider your suggestions carefully.  
-
-Unfortunately, since there are so many News Readers available on the web, we cannot list all of them.  However, we will keep your suggestions in mind when reviewing our list of readers, and will also recommend them to affiliates requesting support for CBC RSS feeds.  
-
-We thank you once again for your interest in Free Headlines.  Your feedback is greatly appreciated.
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>&quot;so many News Readers available on the web&quot;?! Again, might I point out that the ones listed under &quot;Apple&quot; I have never heard of either one of them?! And that typing in &quot;apple news reader&quot; into Google has NetNewsWire as the #1 hit?! Is updating the CBC website with additional links really THAT hard?</p>
-
-<p>The rest of it is basically just saying that if enough people email headlines AT cbc.ca, they'll consider putting in teasers. What are you waiting for? Go email!</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-12-17-fortune-500-blogging.md b/_posts/archive/2004-12-17-fortune-500-blogging.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 44ecefa..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-12-17-fortune-500-blogging.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Fortune 500 Blogging
-created: 1103347833
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
----
-
-<p><a href="/www.ensight.org">Jeremy C. Wright</a> posted this in the comments to <a href="http://www.businessblogconsulting.com/2004/12/business_blog_c_1.html">Rick E. Bruner's post about blog consulting companies</a>:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-Rick, InsideBlogging is an exclusive blog consulting company, it's all we do. We've only been around for a few weeks, but we're just about to announce our 5th client - a Fortune 500 company.
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>I know <a title="Darren Barefoot, Vancouver Blogfather" href="http://www.darrenbarefoot.com">Darren</a>, Jeremy's partner in <a title="Inside Blogging" href="http://www.insideblogging.com">Inside Blogging</a>, which they started specifically to be a blog consulting company.</p>
-
-<p>I look back at the year 2004 and shake my head in wonder. (note how I still file this under the term &quot;personal publishing&quot; and try and stay away from the &quot;b&quot; word).</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-12-17-links-of-interest-december-12-2004.md b/_posts/archive/2004-12-17-links-of-interest-december-12-2004.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 1b5342f..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-12-17-links-of-interest-december-12-2004.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Links of Interest: December 12, 2004"
-created: 1103349462
-categories: 
-- Links of Interest
----
-
-<p>These are my links of interest, remaindered links, link-list, whatever you want to call it. They've been sitting as open tabs in <a href="http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/" title="NetNewsWire - Mac News Reader">NNW</a> for far too long. Which leads to a request: a script for NNW that takes all the open tabs and pastes the link for them into a new post in the associated blog editor.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<ul>
-<li><a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0111520/2004/11/23.html#a837">Alec Saunders .LOG: Good experience with Zip.ca</a>: he says &quot;I'm pretty impressed!&quot; (I thought it only fair to link to that, given the little <a href="/node/910" title="Zip.ca">complaint thread</a> I seem to be hosting)</li>
-<li><a href="http://evans.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2004/11/24/190629.html">Mark Evans: Comparing VoIP in Canada</a>: Mark writes excellent stuff about telecom in Canada. I don't think anything, even relatively low prices for local phone service, can hold VoIP back (I want features!).</li>
-<li><a href="http://scottstuff.net/scott/archives/000327.html">Scottstuff: A few days with MythTV</a>: he's conquered home VoIP with Asterisk, now he's turning his attentions to the video/PVR world</li>
-<li><a href="http://www.zylstra.org/blog/archives/001514.html">Ton's Interdependent Thoughts: Bye Bye Ecademy</a>: what he said</li>
-<li><a href="http://www.feld.com/blog/archives/2004/12/sales_tools_kee.html">Feld Thoughts: Sales Tools - Keep Them Simple (e.g. A Heat Map)</a>: Excel as fancy-schmancy sales analysis tool.</li>
-<li><a href="http://listings.local.yahoo.com/">Yahoo Local Listings</a>: you can get a free local listing for your business or pay for an enhanced one. Is there a format for this? Some sort of &quot;open yellow pages listings&quot;?</li>
-<li><a href="http://www.rufuswainwright.com/">Rufus Wainwright</a>: I heard the same song on CBC twice today (&quot;The One You Love&quot;, from his &quot;Want Two&quot; album), so I bought the track off iTunes; no incentive to link to iTunes, since I don't get any cash from it.</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>Phew! That felt good. Safely stored in my backup brain, so I can forget about them.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2004-12-19-vote-for-troys-technology-buyers-manifesto.md b/_posts/archive/2004-12-19-vote-for-troys-technology-buyers-manifesto.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 2df958f..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2004-12-19-vote-for-troys-technology-buyers-manifesto.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Vote for Troy's Technology Buyer's Manifesto
-created: 1103509463
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
----
-
-<p><a href="http://www.troyangrignon.com">Troy</a> wrote up a manifesto and submitted it. Now it's time to <a href="http://www.changethis.com/proposals/314">go vote</a>:</p>
-<blockquote>
-Would you like to have a world where the technology that we buy is stable, reliable, and actually serves our needs? In this manifesto, Troy Angrignon has a heart to heart with the purveyors of technology and tells them how, we, the buyers, would like to be treated from now on. And how the community around the technology should be open, transparent, and honest, allowing the technology to accelerate and become more useful more quickly.
-<cite><a href="http://www.changethis.com/proposals/314">ChangeThis: Technology Buyer's Manifesto</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-01-10-macs-rule-rss-custom-rss-apps-are-next.md b/_posts/archive/2005-01-10-macs-rule-rss-custom-rss-apps-are-next.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 73f6fb1..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-01-10-macs-rule-rss-custom-rss-apps-are-next.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Macs rule RSS - Custom RSS Apps are next
-created: 1105427567
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
-- Mac
----
-
-<p><a href="http://www.feedburner.com">Feedburner</a> has an interesting post about <a href="http://www.burningdoor.com/feedburner/archives/000961.html">RSS Market Share</a>. Specifically, what aggregators are being used to read RSS feeds.</p>
-
-<p>Read on for some ideas about the rankings, and where RSS aggregators are going.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>The interesting part comes in the top contenders. The web-based <a href="http://www.bloglines.com">Bloglines</a> is #1 by a long shot. This is, I believe, because of two factors. The first is the &quot;no install&quot; factor. Why not setup a Bloglines account? Just go to a website, register, start reading feeds. And access your news from work, home, or anywhere with a browser. No installing, no selecting an app, no paying or demo apps.</p>
-
-<p>This goes nicely with my ideas around <acronym title="Rich Internet Apps">RIAs</acronym>. Actually, Bloglines isn't very &quot;rich&quot; (yet!), but it is a well-put together web app.</p>
-
-<p>The second factor is what I'll call the &quot;newbie factor&quot;. Any sort of guide to blogging/RSS reading typically includes a link to both Bloglines and MyYahoo as two easy ways to start reading feeds. And because of the no-install factor, lots of people do create accounts. Heck, I still have an account -- so those numbers might be skewed the same way &quot;abandoned&quot; blogs are: how many of those subscriptions are for active accounts? A &quot;What if someone subscribes to your feed but doesn't read it?&quot; sort of thing.</p>
-
-<p>The second highest aggregator (although half that of Bloglines -- 32% vs. 16%), is <a href="http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/">NetNewsWire</a>. A Mac-only app. Let me say it again: Mac only. So that means that of all of the people aggregating RSS feeds, a heck of a lot of them are using Macs.</p>
-
-<p>I have a couple of theories here. First is lack of insanely great news aggregator for Windows. NewsGator seems well-liked, and probably fits well in the using-at-work crowd. But there are lots of people that don't like to treat RSS like email, and also lots that don't like Outlook. FeedDemon has been recommended to me as a good option, but it is for-pay only (NNW has a &quot;Light&quot; sibling that is free).</p>
-
-<p>So, is great news aggregation software driving people to the Mac platform? I wouldn't stretch that far.</p>
-
-<p>I guess my second theory must be true: of the power Internet users that use RSS, many of them (a majority?) use Macs. This also suggests to me we're not even close to seeing mass market adoption of RSS. I mean, I knew that, but these numbers seem to clearly indicate that.</p>
-
-<p>What happens when the masses arrive? Well, I happen to think that the masses aren't interested in news aggregation. They don't want to drink from a firehose of 100, 200, or (<a href="http://www.rolandtanglao.com">Roland</a>, <a href="http://scoble.weblogs.com">Scoble</a>) 1000 feeds. They want news they're interested in (topics + filters) and they want to be kept up to date with &quot;stuff&quot; (i.e. notified - searches, PubSub, etc.).</p>
-
-<p>This will in part be satisfied by portals. Only Yahoo fits here -- Bloglines needs to get less aggregator-y and more custom-web-page-y; yes, kind of like <a href="http://www.kinja.com">Kinja</a>, but with (still) less focus on this thing called a &quot;weblog&quot; and more of a focus on stuff-I-want-to-know.</p> 
-
-<p>The other half of this &quot;stuff comes to me&quot; will be handled by desktop apps. But not general news aggregators (although some of them might evolve to do more than one thing). You'll have your music app thingie -- powered by RSS (think audioscrobbler, last.fm, and, heck, &quot;podcasts&quot; directly into iTunes of new music). You'll have your photo thingie (it's here, it's called <a href="http://1001.kung-foo.tv/">1001</a>). And your average end user won't know or care that RSS is a standard for pushing content around the Internet.</p>
-
-<p>What else? Well, <a href="http://marc.blogs.it">Marc's</a> OpenListings will want a dedicated classifieds app. Well, maybe more than one -- one for buying and selling general stuff (like your newspaper or craig's list) and perhaps another, fancier one for looking at real estate.</p>
-
-<p>These custom, single purpose RSS apps? They'll be cross platform. They won't be installed. They'll have a web component that they tie into. They might look a bit like <a href="http://www.2entwine.com">Gush</a>.</p>
-
-<p>I'm looking forward to it.</p>
-
-<p>(Yeah, I know -- long time no post. <a href="http://personal.bmannconsulting.com">Personal</a> got split off (again!), and that <a href="http://www.bryght.com/blog/2">work stuff</a> is keeping me busy)</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-01-11-aggregators-are-tomorrows-newspapers.md b/_posts/archive/2005-01-11-aggregators-are-tomorrows-newspapers.md
deleted file mode 100644
index eed2f3b..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-01-11-aggregators-are-tomorrows-newspapers.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Aggregators are tomorrow's newspapers
-created: 1105462449
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
----
-
-<p>After my <a title="Macs rule RSS, Custom RSS Apps are next" href="/node/1410">post last night</a>, I woke up to read <a href="http://archive.scripting.com/2005/01/11#theSolutionToTheYahooProblem">Dave's suggestion for one-click subscribe</a>. It would work for web-based aggregators, I suppose, but I don't like the centralization of it all. Couldn't one write a Firefox plugin to set preferred aggregator, and have RSS links automatically shunted to your aggregator? (I moved this talk to the updates at the bottom).</p>
-
-<p>In any case, Dave's mention of all the brands and information providers immediately made me think: newspaper!</p><p>So, these portal sites are likely to have aggregation functions. Editors who pick out the best stories, re-categorize them, some original content creation, and of course advertising. Just like a newspaper.</p>
-
-<p><a href="http://www.byte.org/">Ross's</a> new package for ISPs (<a href="http://skydasher.tucows.com">Skydasher</a>), which includes RSS-powered content blocks, is one step in this direction: run your own MyYahoo.</p>
-
-<p>Oh yes, one more parallel: aggregators take news feeds, equivalent to the custom wire services that newspapers use, and exposes them as &quot;regular&quot; web pages, which is what the mass market reads.</p><p><strong>Update:</strong> <a href="http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/003918.html">Jeremy</a>
-(and his comments) pretty much covers the options. For desktop, get a
-MIME-type registered. For online, depend on something like Firefox to
-hold your preference.</p>
-
-<p>Just thought of this: a &quot;my preferred aggregator&quot; site -- click on
-the link, it generates the proper redirect to get the feed added to
-your online aggregator of choice.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Update 2:</strong> yeah, it already exists. See <a href="http://philringnalda.com/blog/2005/01/centralized_subscription_not_that_way_thanks.php">Phil Ringnalda</a>, where he mentions <a href="http://purl.org/net/syndication/subscribe/">Syndication Subscription Service</a> (via <a href="http://www.justagwailo.com/">Richard</a>)</p>
-
-<!--break-->
-<p>It doesn't quite work for &quot;personal&quot; type news aggregation (i.e.
-desktop based, but that's where MIME-type would work), but again, the mass market is not likely going to do
-this -- they are more likely to customize info in the context of a more
-portal-like site.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-01-11-how-the-mac-mini-fits-into-my-life.md b/_posts/archive/2005-01-11-how-the-mac-mini-fits-into-my-life.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 22654d4..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-01-11-how-the-mac-mini-fits-into-my-life.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,66 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: How the Mac Mini fits into my life
-created: 1105503311
-tags: 
-- Small Form Factor
-- Mac
-- Multimedia PC
-- Small Form Factor
-- Mac Mini
-- Benq FP231W
-- Elgato
-- eyeTV
-- Small Form Factor
-- Mac
-- Multimedia PC
----
-<p>
-	Yes, I think I&#39;m <a href="http://www.apple.com/macmini/" title="Apple's new Mac Mini">getting one</a>.</p>
-<p>
-	I&#39;m looking at the Mac Mini to be our new desktop, stay-at-home machine, as well as to form the basis for a media center.</p>
-<p>
-	Mike Davidson has a good outline for the <a href="http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2005/01/macworld-january-2005">Media Mac</a> that he wants to see from Apple, but I&#39;m going to outline how I think the Mac Mini (plus a few other pieces) is going to work for me today.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>
-	My personal main machine is a PowerBook 15&quot;. At home, an original iMac 15&quot; 800Mhz G4 is our desktop machine.</p>
-<p>
-	Generally we use the iMac to watch movies and listen to music (TV given to parents, stereo in storage until we have a bigger place). The Pro speakers go as loud as needed in our small apartment, and Kate and I can sit fairly close to the monitor. I <em>could</em> use my phone to control movie and music playback, but generally I just learn forward and use the keyboard.</p>
-<p>
-	The iMac is now almost 3 years old. It&#39;s about time for my parents to get a new machine, so it will find a good home there.</p>
-<p>
-	So, the Mac Mini becomes our new desktop. With no monitor. Excellent! I&#39;ve been hemming and hawing over the choice between a projector and a big LCD monitor for a while. I still might add a projector at a later date, but this is a good excuse to get an LCD monitor.</p>
-<p>
-	The <a href="http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=12245&amp;vpn=FP231W-D&amp;manufacture=BENQ" title="Benq FP231W at NCIX">Benq FP231W</a> is the screen that I&#39;ve been looking at. It&#39;s pricey (about $1800CDN), but has some very good features:</p>
-<ul>
-	<li>
-		very fast 16ms response time</li>
-	<li>
-		all the connectors you need: D-Sub/DVI-D/S-Video/Composite (could connect any video source, including game console)</li>
-	<li>
-		4-port USB 2.0 hub</li>
-	<li>
-		it&#39;s frickin&#39; gigantic</li>
-</ul>
-<p>
-	Reading a couple of reviews (I&#39;m not going to link to any, because I didn&#39;t really find them useful) seems to indicate that the one downside is that the viewing angle is a bit constrained, so watching from farther away might not be ideal. I&#39;d love to see the screen in person, but haven&#39;t found it here in Vancouver anywhere.</p>
-<p>
-	Well, that could be it to replicate what we have today, with a machine that is 50%+ faster and a monitor that is...did I mention gigantic? Oh yes: I would have to get some computer speakers back out of storage -- these would connect to the headphone jack that is the audio output for the Mini Mac.</p>
-<p>
-	But I want to do a little more media. Specifically, some <acronym title="Personal Video Recorder">PVR</acronym> action, that will let me watch TV and record it on the computer.</p>
-<p>
-	So, this means an external solution. The <a href="http://www.elgato.com">Elgato</a> solutions look like the best bet.</p>
-<p>
-	The two Elgato products that would seem to be the best fit for me are:</p>
-<ul>
-	<li>
-		<a href="http://elgato.com/index.php?file=products_eyetv20">eyeTV 200</a>: Firewire-attached MPEG2 encoder and TV tuner, comes with remote ($279)</li>
-	<li>
-		<a href="http://elgato.com/index.php?file=products_eyetvwonder">eyeTV Wonder</a>: USB2.0 co-branded product with ATI; compression is done on the Mac ($129)</li>
-</ul>
-<p>
-	Actually, there is a third-party product on the Elgato site (since it&#39;s bundled with Elgato&#39;s EyeTV software): the <a href="http://www.plextor.com/english/products/TV402UMac.htm">Plextor ConvertX PX-TV402U (Mac)</a>. It&#39;s listed at $229US, or $283CDN from the <a href="http://www.plextorshopcanada.com/">Canadian store</a>. This is an interesting product -- it offers MPEG1, MPEG2, and DivX hardware encoding. No remote, but for the price difference, I can get an <a href="http://www.ati.com/products/remotewonder/index.html">ATI Remote Wonder</a> -- and it&#39;s an <acronym title="Radio Frequency">RF</acronym>, remote, too, so perfect for controlling iTunes when you&#39;re not in sight of the computer. The ConvertX looks to be in the lead.</p>
-<p>
-	The Mac Mini is going to form the basis for my media center, and I&#39;m going to get the chance to experiment with TV 2.0 using a PVR system. What are <strong>you</strong> going to do with your Mac Mini?</p>
-<p>
-	(Andy has a <a href="http://anarkystic.com/blog/archives/2005/01/11/uses_for_the_mac_mini.php" title="reoriginalize: Uses for the Mac Mini">few uses in mind</a>)</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-01-12-the-future-of-online-aggregators-skydasher.md b/_posts/archive/2005-01-12-the-future-of-online-aggregators-skydasher.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 5a2ae96..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-01-12-the-future-of-online-aggregators-skydasher.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "The future of online aggregators: Skydasher"
-created: 1105573481
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
----
-
-<p>Alternate title: <strong><a href="http://skydasher.tucows.com">Skydasher</a> and the world of tomorrow</strong>.</p>
-
-<p>I managed to get my hands on a short video of an online aggregator / portal / <a href="/node/1411" title="Aggregators are tomorrow's newspapers">newspaper of the future</a>:</p>
-
-<object>
-<param value="files/skydasher.avi" name="src" />
-<param value="true" name="controller" />
-<param value="true" name="autoplay" />
-<!-- Backwards Compatibility -->
-<embed controller="true" autoplay="true" src="files/skydasher.avi" />
-</object>
-<p>
-<a href="/files/skydasher.avi">Can't see the video above? Click here to launch the file directly</a></p>
-
-<p>The credit goes to an anonymous source. The description I was given explains that the media center component gets enclosures coming in from various RSS feeds, and sorts them into the appropriate section based on the type of media.</p>
-
-<p>The UI, by the way, is a DHTML interface.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>The features demo'd certainly look interesting, but I'd be more interested in an upstream interface where editors can tailor, sort, and categorize incoming feed items into more digestable feeds for the mass market.</p>
-
-<p>If you're thinking of building something like this from scratch...well, the competition is way ahead of you. But consider <a href="http://www.drupal.org">using open source</a> as the basis for extending aggregator functionality.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-01-13-syndication-subscription-service.md b/_posts/archive/2005-01-13-syndication-subscription-service.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 769ed8c..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-01-13-syndication-subscription-service.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Syndication Subscription Service
-created: 1105636889
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
----
-<p>Dave Winer is <a href="http://archive.scripting.com/2005/01/13#When:10:16:33AM">still talking</a> about coming up with a system. We have the <a href="http://purl.org/net/syndication/subscribe/">Syndication Subscription Service</a>. Any reason not to use it?</p>
-
-<p>Other than hanging on to a copy of my OPML (why would I want that?), what's different about Dave's proposal?</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-01-14-lcd-tv-or-lcd-monitor.md b/_posts/archive/2005-01-14-lcd-tv-or-lcd-monitor.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c704c8c..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-01-14-lcd-tv-or-lcd-monitor.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: LCD TV or LCD Monitor?
-created: 1105743050
-categories: 
-- LCD
-- LCD Monitor
-- LCD TV
-- Monitor
-- TV
-- Multimedia PC
-- LCD
-- LCD Monitor
-- LCD TV
-- Monitor
-- TV
-- Dell W2600
-- Multimedia PC
-- Dell W2600
-- LCD
-- LCD Monitor
-- LCD TV
-- Monitor
-- TV
-- Multimedia PC
----
-<p>Should I get an LCD TV for my <a href="/node/1413">Media Mini Mac</a>?</p><p>To tell the truth, I&#39;m a little confused between the two. The two categories are definitely merging. The main thing seems to be that units that call themselves LCD <em>TVs</em> have low native monitor resolution.</p><p>But, they tend to be cheaper than LCD monitors. Harry pointed out the Dell W2600 to me, which is 26&quot;, has two TV tuners (so it can do picture-in-picture), and even some basic built-in speakers, for $1999 -- $100 more than the 23&quot; Benq, with 3&quot; and tons of features.</p><!--break--><p>Here&#39;s what Trusted Reviews had to say:</p><blockquote>There&#39;s a lot to say about the W2600, but before I get into the detail let me say that this is the best LCD TV that I&#39;ve ever seen. This comes as something of a surprise considering that Dell is definitely a computer company rather than a consumer electronics one, but as Bob Dylan once said, the times, they are a-changin&#39;. <cite><a href="http://www.trustedreviews.com/article.aspx?art=936">Trusted Reviews: Dell W2600 26&quot; LCD TV</a></cite></blockquote><p>Flip over to the full article to read all the specs -- it has a total of 10 input options, comes with a ton of different cables, has a good remote -- heck, it even has a video <em>out</em> connection, so you could run it back out to a PVR.</p><p>Hmmm...I&#39;ve sworn up and down that I wouldn&#39;t want to buy a Dell computer, but their TVs might just do it for me.</p>
-<!--ad|nids=2858-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-01-16-sell-the-imac-buy-the-parents-a-mac-mini.md b/_posts/archive/2005-01-16-sell-the-imac-buy-the-parents-a-mac-mini.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c4a8387..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-01-16-sell-the-imac-buy-the-parents-a-mac-mini.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Sell the iMac, buy the parents a Mac Mini?
-created: 1105943287
-categories: 
-- Mac
----
-<p>My 3-year old iMac 800 is still (according to <a href="http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/imac/stats/imac_800_fp.html">EveryMac</a>) worth $1000US. I paid $1800 for it new. Somehow, with a $499US Mac Mini waiting in the wings, that seems a bit crazy.</p>
-
-<p>Of course the iMac has a 15&quot; flat panel monitor, Apple Pro Speakers, and keyboard and mouse. And it's upgraded with an extra 512MB of RAM.</p>
-
-<p>Still, I'm thinking of selling/trading in the iMac rather than passing it on to the <a href="http://www.sevenhillsbnb.com">parentals</a>. It might end up being cheaper that way.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-01-17-unlimitel-plus-question-about-yak-voip-in-canada.md b/_posts/archive/2005-01-17-unlimitel-plus-question-about-yak-voip-in-canada.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f7bfbe8..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-01-17-unlimitel-plus-question-about-yak-voip-in-canada.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Unlimitel plus Question about Yak VoIP in Canada
-created: 1106025794
-categories: 
-- Canada
-- VoIP
----
-<p>Wow...been a while since I commented on VoIP. I had been testing a service from <a href="http://www.unlimitel.ca" title="Business VoIP for Ottawa, Montreal, and Toronto">Unlimitel</a>, helping check on cross-country latency. It worked very well (much better quality than Talkbroadband), although their VoIP router was a pain to set up. I especially enjoyed the voicemail-via-email feature. I'm done with testing, and since they only currently offer numbers for Ottawa, Montreal, and Toronto, I'm shipping the system back (note to Stephan: I haven't gotten around to getting it packaged up yet, will try to get to that this week).</p>
-
-<p>In any case, this comment from anonymous user "Daniel":</p>
-<blockquote>
-Hello: Has anyone tried Yak's new VoIP product? I just saw their ad in the Toronto edition of the Metro and their packages begin at $12.99 a month. Any feedback would be appreciated.
-<cite><a href="/node/795#comment-3529">original comment in Talkbroadband post</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>See what I dug up in the full post.</p>
-<!--break-->
-
-<p>I looked around a bit, and didn't find any first hand reports of people using Yak. I also couldn't find information on what equipment they are using. I did find <a href="http://worldcity.yak.com/frame.cgi?http%3A//worldcity.yak.com/en/availability/%3FCountry_columnfilter%3DCAN" title="Yak Canadian VoIP Area Codes">this list of area codes available in Canada</a>.</p>
-
-<p>The <a href="http://worldcity.yak.com/frame.cgi?http%3A//worldcity.yak.com/en/features/">features page</a> has a few more details. It looks like the Yak "VoIP Caller" product is mainly for <em>making</em> calls, with limited features -- at $9.99USD, this is probably the Canadian product.</p>
-
-<p>The "VoIP Communicator" is the full-featured product, and you can apparently get numbers in the US, Canada, or the UK, and even get a second number (at additional charge). At $14.99USD a month, that's the one I would pick. Even has voicemail-via-email, although they call it unified messaging. Can't tell if the softphone (either XTen Pro and/or XTen's Eyebeam) is an extra cost or not.</p>
-
-<p>Hmmm...I initially scoffed at Yak (silly name, look to be aiming downmarket), but it might be worth a try. Before February 28th, looks like no install charge, either. Put your own comments on Yak or anything else VoIP-related in the <a href="/forums/voip">VoIP forum</a>.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Update:</strong> I did find out what equipment they are using, and it looks good! That is, checking out the <a href="http://worldcity.yak.com/assets/en/user_manual/IM_Overview_1.1.pdf">installation manual overview (PDF)</a>, the pictures look like the same box that I currently have from Unlimitel -- the Mediatrix 2102. This unit can be (as I mentioned at the start) a bit of a pain to configure. Specifically, it <strong>does not</strong> support NAT, so you have to install it between your broadband modem and your router. This will also screw up things like iChat, although Skype works great.</p>
-
-<p>The good news is that voice quality is excellent, although that may have as much to do with Unlimitel's network.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-01-17-zip-ca-president-rick-anderson-responds-to-complaints.md b/_posts/archive/2005-01-17-zip-ca-president-rick-anderson-responds-to-complaints.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 6018de3..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-01-17-zip-ca-president-rick-anderson-responds-to-complaints.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,53 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Zip.ca President, Rick Anderson, Responds to Complaints
-created: 1106024531
-categories: 
-- Canada
-- Movie
-- Personal Publishing
----
-<p>Rick Anderson, president of Zip.ca, just <a href="/node/910#comment-3527" title="Zip.ca Comment Thread">posted to the ongoing comment thread on Zip.ca</a>.</p>
-
-<p>I posted the <a href="/zip-ca-finds-comments" title="Meredith, Zip.ca Product Manager, posted a short comment">last time Zip found my comments</a>, back in October 2004. The original post (a link, mentioned because my friend <a href="http://www.smithdm3.com" title="Dave Smith of Ottawa">Dave</a> was trying the service) was from February.</p>
-
-<p>Almost one year later, the current statistics are: 2355 page views on the original post, and 64 comments.</p>
-
-<p>Rick, as I posted the last time I brought this up -- feel free to <a href="mailto:borismann@gmail.com">contact me</a> if you want some tips on setting up a blog, forum, other avenue to let your customers interact with Zip directly. I've also posted your comment in it's entirety below, so hopefully your point of view gets some more publicity.</p>
-
-<p>Note: I have still not tried Zip's service. I have comments on my website. I do moderate postings from anonymous users, but only to remove spam.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<blockquote>
-Well, this is certainly a different read from what we are used to.
-
-Zip.ca takes service, selection and value seriously - and we are generally rated number one in Canada in all three areas.
-
-But it is clear we have some work to do in one or more of the cases described in this thread. I encourage anyone with an outstanding Zip.ca issue to send the details directly to me,
-
-In the meantime, allow me to address some of the general points referred to in this thread.
-
-Our standard membership is 4-DVDs-at-a-time, for $24.95 monthly (not 3 DVDs as stated here). We also have 1, 2 and 6-DVD memberships, but 85% of our members choose the 4-DVD membership. Members basically determine how fast they turn around rentals - our most active 4-DVD members rent up to 18, 19, 20, or even more DVDs per month. Some rent just one or two.
-
-Zip.ca's average 4-DVD member receives 8.5 DVDs a month from us. That means that their rental costs average $2.93 per DVD. Home delivered, at our cost both ways. From an unbeatable selection, best in the country by far. Pretty near impossible to beat that deal.
-
-As stated in the thread, our first new member shipment usually does go by Xpresspost, to help people get started quickly. It usually has the new member's first 3 or 4 DVDs, of course that depends what they've selected and what we have on hand that moment. After that first shipment, everything is shipped back and forth individually, so that if you have one or two DVDs in the mail, you still have two or three at home ready for watching.
-
-Until last fall, we did offer telephone support as well as web-based support and e-mail support. Frankly, we did not always feel the accuracy of information conveyed in the less-formal environment of telephone support was up to par, so we suspended it until we can get tghat to the quality we think it needs to be. We'll be reinstating telephone support soon. In the meantime, most of our members' web-based support requests are resolved same day, and that's the best way to get customer service.
-
-Stolen goods are a fact of life in many retail businesses, including online and catalogue-based services which deliver goods by mail. Just as with shoplifting, they raise costs for all of us. Our success to date in preventing and fighting theft is pretty good: of more than 850,000 DVDs shipped to Zip.ca members over our first year, over 99% arrived without problem. Like other responsible vendors, we take reasonable precautions, and take written reports when discs are stolen, share those reports with postal and law enforcement authorities and investigate thoroughly. Where theft involving a particular locale is a recurring event, we really have little choice but to suspend service. If someone has a better idea how to handle this problem, we are all ears: we do not enjoy being victims, having our goods stolen, nor cancelling memberships. Thankfully, these are all rare occurences, but once is too often...
-
-In our experience, Canada Post provides very efficient service. We airship out to all the largest Canadian cities every single day, so that our members' shipments are mailed locally in seven places across Canada each and every day. This means that over 80% of Canadians are in our "local" mailing area, for which Canada Post's service standard is generally two days. Together with co-operating members, we survey shipping results on an ongoing basis, and Canada Post pretty reliably achieves these service standards. Sometimes they do even better, delivering our DVDs in just one day. It can take three, it is rarely more than that. The return is just as good - and our service even allows longer-term members to declare a return online, upon we'll send them a replacement within a day, even before we get their return. Try that at your local video outlet.
-
-Nobody's perfect, certainly not a start-up about to turn one. We don't pretend we know everything, but we try our best, and we do pretty well by most objective and independent assessments. More important, we are prepared to keep learning and improving, and among other things we count on member feedback for this. Look at our site and service - they're changing, innovating and improving constantly, often thanks to the many great ideas being advanced all the time by our creative and demanding members.
-
-We have a very simple rule for building our library: if it's missing, and legally and commercially available, and you want it, we'll add it to our library. Even if there's just one of you. That's how we've gotten to 26,000 DVD titles, 8 or 10 times the variety available at most video outlets, and twice or three times the selection of any other online service in Canada.
-
-Bottom line: we - and most independent reviewers - think we're doing pretty well in selection, service and value. But where we can do even better, we will. And we will always welcome your feedback and suggestions to do so.
-
-Thanks for your time.
-
-Rick Anderson
-President, Zip.ca
-
-[Email your problem to]<a href="mailto:rick@zip.ca">rick@zip.ca</a>, and I will see it attended to. (If you also copy our service manger, George Leclair, <a href="mailto:george@zip.ca">george@zip.ca</a>, that'll save a step).
-</blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-01-18-the-first-business-plan-with-social-networking-features-linkedin.md b/_posts/archive/2005-01-18-the-first-business-plan-with-social-networking-features-linkedin.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 17a83f7..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-01-18-the-first-business-plan-with-social-networking-features-linkedin.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "The first business plan with social networking features: LinkedIn"
-created: 1106040769
-categories: 
-- Canada
-- Social Media
----
-
-<p>Once I got over my initial enthusiasm with social networking sites, I started saying a simple phrase: social networking is a <i>feature</i>, not a business plan.</p>
-
-<p>From <a href="http://marc.blogs.it/archives/2005/01/linkedin_finall.html">Marc</a>, I see that Reid Hoffman's <a href="http://www.linkedin.com">LinkedIn</a> has jumped full force into jobs. The features? Relationship (follow the connections between you and potential employees/employers), References (people connected to you can give references), and Reputation (displays endorsements for employees/employers).</p>
-
-<p>Great stuff, and the latest graphical updates have made LinkedIn nice looking and very usable.</p>
-
-<p>LinkedIn is the one network that I've stuck with. Many of my earlier complaints about it were that &quot;there's nothing to do there&quot;. Well, that's the point. It sits there quietly waiting for the time when you need to search through your business connections.</p><p>And maybe one of these days they'll support Canadian ZIP codes. :P<br /> </p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-01-19-please-follow.md b/_posts/archive/2005-01-19-please-follow.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e0fad71..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-01-19-please-follow.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Please, follow
-created: 1106201659
-categories: 
-- Search Engine Voodoo
----
-
-<p>Yes, this is about the great <a href="http://www.google.com/googleblog/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html">nofollow </a>debate. Except it's not a debate -- like <a href="http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/000954.html">Paul Kedrosky</a>, I'll quote Matthew Skala:</p>
-<blockquote>
-I'm really concerned about anything that is sold on a pretext nobody can argue with. Nobody can speak out against fighting spam
-<cite><a href="http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/lawpoli/spam/nofollow.php">Matthew Skala: Thoughts on &quot;nofollow&quot;</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Like John Battelle, I worry about unintended consquences:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-My gut take on this yesterday was &quot;We're making a decision without thinking through the implications.&quot; My second gut take was &quot;We can't possibly imagine all the implications.&quot; So my third gut take is &quot;Don't do it if we can't imagine what consequences it might have.&quot;
-<cite><a href="http://battellemedia.com/archives/001198.php">John Batelle's Searchblog: Follow On No Follow: Will &quot;Fully web-expressed writing&quot; Suffer?</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Spam already doesn't make it onto my site. I get lots, they sit in my approval queue, and I ignore them. So why do I care? It's not solving the problem, but it will change the structure of the searchable web.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Update:</strong> I'm going to point to Ben Hammersley for the last word on this.</p>
-<!--break-->
-
-<blockquote>
-Meanwhile, <a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2005/01/18.html#a9229">Scoble points out how it can be used in other ways</a>, and undermines the second aspect of the attribute: as respecting rel="nofollow" will involve loosing an enormous amount of implicit metadata, any tools that are interested in that will be forced to ignore it. Technorati will have to choose if it’s a site that measures raw interconnectivity, or some curious High School metric of look-at-that-person-but-don’t-pay-her-any-attention that the selective use of the rel="nofollow" attribute will produce. For many purposes, this would mean the results are totally debased and close to useless.
-<cite><a href="http://www.benhammersley.com/weblog/2005/01/20/let_no_fellow_nofollow_lest_we_all_lie_fallow.html">Benn Hammersley's Dangerous Precedent: Let no fellow nofollow, lest we all lie fallow</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>So. This won't help, it will actually aggravate the problem by shifting to non-technical blogs (arms race), thus harming the entire industry. On top of that, removing *some* outgoing links will represent a skewed view of what's going on online.</p>
-
-<p>In any case, I'll be following this whole thing with interest.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-01-20-2005-will-be-the-year-my-inboxes-die.md b/_posts/archive/2005-01-20-2005-will-be-the-year-my-inboxes-die.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 0ddc31f..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-01-20-2005-will-be-the-year-my-inboxes-die.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: 2005 will be the year my inboxes die
-created: 1106249856
-categories: 
-- IM
-- IT
-- Web 2.0
----
-<p>An in-depth, full-bore write up of spam, email, IM, and the arms-race in dealing with it all.</p>
-
-<p>And a prediction that people want...or <strong>need</strong>...to move on to some other communications medium that doesn't suffer so badly:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-You can only slice the 'time pie' so thin before the wedge just crumbles and you have no choice but to move on... Which means IM services better step up and start to kick ass this year, as I am starting to believe 2005 will be the year my inboxes die.
-<cite><a href="http://www.drunkenblog.com/drunkenblog-archives/000375.html">Drunkenblog: Diary of a Dying Inbox</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Other quotes, like "It's actually affecting <em>tuition</em> costs at some Universities", simply can't be ignored.</p>
-
-<p>Get in touch with me by mentioning me in a blog post? That works. Would do attachments nicely, too.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-01-24-at-the-blog-business-summit.md b/_posts/archive/2005-01-24-at-the-blog-business-summit.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 98c53a6..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-01-24-at-the-blog-business-summit.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: At the Blog Business Summit
-created: 1106615482
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
----
-
-<p>I'm at <a href="http://www.blogbusinesssummit.com">BBS05</a> in Seattle, so no posts here until I get back. Check my <a href="http://www.bryght.com/blog/boris-mann">Bryght blog</a> for a few posts, but this event is so well covered, I'm mainly just trying to internalize a lot of the things I'm learning. Pictures are up on my <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris">Flickr account</a>, although I've only been bringing my camera to  end-of-day events once I've ditched my laptop.</p>
-
-<p>A selection of people picking up my slack include:</p>
-<ul>
-<li>The <a href="http://www.commoncraft.com/">Common Craft</a> -- he's big in Canada!</li>
-<li>My trip-mate, <a href="http://www.willpate.org">Will</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://blog.larixconsulting.com/">Tris Hussey</a>, another great part of the Canadian contingent</li>
-</ul>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-01-27-mac-tablet-media-macs-and-itunes-movies-predictions-that-is.md b/_posts/archive/2005-01-27-mac-tablet-media-macs-and-itunes-movies-predictions-that-is.md
deleted file mode 100644
index b5bc0de..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-01-27-mac-tablet-media-macs-and-itunes-movies-predictions-that-is.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Mac Tablet, Media Macs, and iTunes Movies (predictions, that is)
-created: 1106857232
-categories: 
-- Mac Tablet
-- media
-- iTunes
-- movies
-- rumours
-- Mac
-- Movie
-- Multimedia PC
-- Music
----
-<p><a href="http://www.gigaom.com/2005/01/26/sonos-digital-shipping/">Om's post about the Sonos Digital</a> prodded me to write up my Mac Tablet prediction (and Media Mac and movies from iTunes).</p>
-<p>Well, that, and I said it out loud talking to <a href="http://marc.blogs.it">Marc Canter</a> and <a href="http://scoble.weblogs.com/">Robert Scoble</a> at <a href="http://blogbusinesssummit.com">BBS05</a>, so I need to make sure I stake my blogosphere claim.</p>
-<p><em>(Note to Scoble: I'll get around to turning on full posts again one of these days. Sorry about that.)</em></p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>Let's work backwards with this Mac rumour mill. I talked about <a href="/ipod-photo-thoughts">support in iTunes/iPod Photo for movie downloads</a> earlier:</p>
-<blockquote> Apple gets legal downloads. Lots of free stuff (music videos, movie trailers, commercials, etc.) that is &quot;small&quot; -- plays OK on the [iPod Photo] little screen. The legal downloads are movies, that take up about 1GB, give or take (you can probably get good quality at less than that, especially if there are some fancy new codecs). That means 60 movies at once, but more likely a half-dozen at most. People could watch them on the little LCD. But, since the iPod Photo does video-out, people watch it where they like watching videos -- on a TV. </blockquote>
-<p>So let's just agree that:</p>
-<ol>
-    <li>Apple could do to movie downloads what they've done to music downloads</li>
-    <li>iTunes is a likely place for this functionality to live because it's the one app that's already on Windows</li>
-</ol>
-<p>But watching things on your TV where you have to walk your iPod Photo across and plug it into your TV (without a remote) isn't really an ideal interface. It would work, but it's not ideal.</p>
-<p>Same thing goes for the Airport Express. You can now have all your music on your Mac, and beam it across to your stereo. Except, when you're not actually in front of your computer, you can't control iTunes.</p>
-<p>This is where the Mac Tablet comes in. Steve probably poo-poos the Tablet as your main computer (that's what high-end PowerBooks are for). But, a Mac Tablet as media remote, as second computer in the home? Maybe good enough for students, replacing/augmenting the iBook line? Sounds like extra computers being sold.</p>
-<p>I'm going to predict the media remote option. It will of course have built in 802.11g wireless and Bluetooth. It will be able to connect via the Airport Express to control iTunes playing on your &quot;main&quot; home Mac. You'll be able to stream music to it directly via iTunes' built-in Library sharing features.</p>
-<p>Built-in video camera with iChat/softphone support is possible.</p>
-<p>Now on to the Media Mac, or Mac PVR. It will sit next to your TV, and have video and audio outputs. You'll be able to stream music (regular iTunes, as well as to the Airport Express?) and movies (downloaded as well as time-shifted) from it. Apple was one of the first to license the CDDB database. Will they help put a nail in TiVo's coffin by licensing/updating an open TV scheduling service with no monthly fees? Or (ugh) another for-pay service that is part of .Mac?</p>
-<p>You'll be able to connect your digital camera to it, as well as your iPod.</p>
-<p>But you still need to control an onscreen interface. Bluetooth or RF remote, plus of course the &quot;richer&quot; control via the Mac Tablet. I'd have to come down on the side of Bluetooth remote, since then you can use an Apple Keyboard with it (surf the web on your TV, with a full version of Safari, probably based on the version shipping with Tiger).</p>
-<p>I had previously thought that this Mac PVR would be more like external computer PVR boxes today: a FireWire &quot;box&quot; that connects into a parent computer. But, you need a <strong>lot</strong> of horsepower to play back really nice video. With some dedicated video hardware in a more appliance-style box, you can likely guarantee a much better experience, never mind the &quot;10 ft UI&quot; needs.</p>
-<p>That was fun. Remember, you heard it here first. Check back when these products are released. Better yet, send me a prototype to test!</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-01-29-stack-the-mac-mini-with-an-apple-pvr.md b/_posts/archive/2005-01-29-stack-the-mac-mini-with-an-apple-pvr.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 25a0d7b..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-01-29-stack-the-mac-mini-with-an-apple-pvr.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Stack the Mac Mini with an Apple PVR?
-created: 1106991423
-categories: 
-- Mac
----
-<p>The <A href="http://mrzippy.org.uk/macmediacenter/forum/viewthread.php?tid=63">Mac Media Center forums</a> had this to say about the power connector of the Mac Mini potentially having more "lines" than needed:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-It has been speculated that this port could be used to stack something ontop of - or under - the mini. For instance, have you heard of the rumored "asteroid" audio input/output device? its supposed to be about the shape of the mini and fit snugly ontop of it. If you could daisy-chain devices to the mini's "power" port like firewire, it could be extremely useful (and stylish too). 
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>This rumour stuff is fun!</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-01-31-photo-management-chain-of-pain-on-windows.md b/_posts/archive/2005-01-31-photo-management-chain-of-pain-on-windows.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f6e8909..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-01-31-photo-management-chain-of-pain-on-windows.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Photo Management Chain of Pain on Windows
-created: 1107163398
-categories: 
-- Web 2.0
-- Microsoft
-- Mac
-- Application
----
-
-<p>Om writes up his <a href="http://www.gigaom.com/2005/01/30/picasa-like-iphoto-for-windows/">experiences with the new release of Picassa 2</a>, the Windows photo management app that Google bought. He finds it to be the iPhoto for Windows. I remember reading an interview with Picasa recently where the question was raised about cross-platform. The Picassa person basically responded with: &quot;Have you seen iPhoto on the Mac?&quot;. Us people on the Mac forget how easy things are some times.</p>
-
-<p>And then when Om said &quot;I find Flickr a wee bit confounding, and so do some of my non-techie friends&quot;, a few things came clear. Even with technical people (i.e. people I talked to at <a href="http://www.blogbusinesssummit.com">BBS05</a>), Flickr was confusing or hard. All those people were on Windows, and faced a &quot;chain of pain&quot; in downloading, managing, and uploading their pictures (plug in camera, manually copy photos into file system, organize locally with something that isn't iPhoto, manually resize photos, select photos in file system, drop on Uploadr, upload). Something which, on the Mac, we tend to forget: iPhoto is the center of photo goodness, and with the <a href="http://www.speirs.org/flickrexport/">iPhoto plug-in</a> that allows uploading directly to Flickr, our needs are complete.</p>
-
-<p>I've always found Flickr easiest to explain if I actually sit someone down for 10 minutes and just show them how to use it and what is possible. Everyone doesn't have their own personal Boris, so this obviously doesn't scale.</p>
-
-<p>So what else can Flickr do? I think more in the direction of Rich Internet Apps. Break the Organizr out of the browser, add an uploader to it, and stick it on Windows desktops. I mean, they haven't had to invest any money in Mac support, because of all the software that has been written for free -- from the Flickr iPhoto plug-in to the incredible <a href="http://1001.kung-foo.tv/">1001</a>.</p>
-
-<p>So, fix the chain of pain for Windows users. It may seem obvious to experienced Flickr users, but it isn't for the vast majority. Make it dead simple. Put lots of features on the desktop. And make it a non/minimal install cross-platform thingie (Flash makes the most sense).</p>
-
-<p>I'll have more to say on the chain of pain on Windows with regards to blogging, where I (finally) push some love towards <a href="http://www.qumana.com">Qumana</a>.</p>
-
-<p>(Interesting aside: I don't link to <a href="http://www.flickr.com">Flickr</a> anymore because I assume everybody knows about it already, the same way I don't link to Google)</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-02-03-google-registrar-concepts.md b/_posts/archive/2005-02-03-google-registrar-concepts.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 2616a04..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-02-03-google-registrar-concepts.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Google Registrar Concepts
-created: 1107458568
-categories: 
-- Search Engine Voodoo
-- Web 2.0
-- Personal Publishing
----
-
-<p>I've been thinking about this since I heard the news, and CircleID's <a href="http://www.circleid.com/article/930_0_1_0_C/">10 Things Google Could do as a Domain Registrar</a> post made me remember to post.</p>
-
-<p>Chalk these ideas up in the &quot;rumours/predictions&quot; list, but I think all of the thoughts below are ones that &quot;make sense&quot; for Google.</p>
-
-<!--break-->
-<p>There are some good points in CircleID's list, and I tend to agree with #2 (Domains for <a href="http://www.blogger.com">Blogger</a> hosting) and #10 (Free domain + website with automatic adsense). Actually, I think these two amount to the same thing -- what is Blogger besides a hosted CMS/blogging tool?</p>
-
-<p>As I stated in my <a href="http://www.bryght.com/node/180">Picking a Blogging Platform</a> post, the first thing that anyone using Blogger needs to do is get a domain name so that they can control the future of their content.</p>
-
-<p>This creates a barrier to the continued ease of use of Blogger. <a href="http://www.blogware.com">Blogware</a> lets you start with a free subdomain (subdomain.blogware.com) and then easily point a domain at it later. It would make sense that Google would offer something similar for people wanting to move off their subdomain.blogspot.com address.</p>
-
-<p>Yahoo has a similar strategy, although they don't have a blogging platform. They offer domain registration, DNS management, and their Yahoo Stores are widely used as an easy e-commerce platform.</p>
-
-<p>I could also see Google &quot;re-inventing&quot; domain registration/DNS management. The only good interfaces for this that I have seen also carry premium pricing (<a href="http://www.easydns.com">EasyDNS</a> comes to mind -- fantastic, first-class DNS management, service, and uptime, but high costs). Google could pull a &quot;Gmail&quot; and create an innovative interface that is also low-cost. Heck, where's the 1-click shopping equivalent in the domain world?</p>
-
-<p>Speaking of Gmail, this could also be pointing towards a premium version of that: rather than just forwarding, allow people to host their email directly on Google's systems.</p>
-
-<p>Probably enough <acronym title="Stupid Wild Ass Guesses">SWAG</acronym>s for the day :P</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-02-07-daring-fireball-doesnt-hate-canada.md b/_posts/archive/2005-02-07-daring-fireball-doesnt-hate-canada.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 4565389..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-02-07-daring-fireball-doesnt-hate-canada.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Daring Fireball DOESN'T hate Canada
-created: 1107836712
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
-- Canada
----
-<p>I bought a <a href="http://www.daringfireball.net">Daring Fireball</a> membership/t-shirt combo a <a href="/node/1237">long long time ago</a>, and didn't get my shirt yet.</p>
-
-<p>I compared notes recently with <a href="http://www.rolandtanglao.com">Roland</a> and <a href="http://www.justagwailo.com">Richard</a> — and they didn't get their shirts either!</p>
-
-<p>Turns out cross border t-shirt shipping doesn't always work that great, but John, horrified to hear that his Canadian fans might be going t-shirt-less in the winter, got on the case. And here's me wearing my new DF shirt:</p>
-
-<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/4441016/" title="Boris in Daring Fireball T-shirt"><img src="http://photos4.flickr.com/4441016_7f02b6d363_m.jpg" border="0" hspace="10" /></a>
-
-<p>Next stop: DF in Europe! Actually, I think John should have a contest: best photo of a DF t-shirt somewhere cool.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-02-07-no-lnp-in-canada-equals-no-competition.md b/_posts/archive/2005-02-07-no-lnp-in-canada-equals-no-competition.md
deleted file mode 100644
index b0a2e49..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-02-07-no-lnp-in-canada-equals-no-competition.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: No LNP in Canada equals no competition
-created: 1107769750
-categories: 
-- Canada
-- VoIP
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<p>I'm going to pull together two of <a href="http://evans.blogware.com/">Mark Evans'</a> recent posts to complain about how bad the cellular market is in Canada.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>Mark <a href="http://evans.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2005/2/2/300383.html">points to Tyler Hamilton's discussion</a> on how the lack of <acronym title="Local Number Portability">LNP</acronym> is harming competition:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-The CRTC has said it will look at the issue this year, but more immediate action is needed. Canadian rates are much higher and plans offer fewer features than what U.S. carriers offer, and in many respects it has become more affordable for a Canadian to sign up with a U.S. carrier's North America plan than to get an equivalent package in Canada.
-<cite><a href="http://tylerhamilton.blogspot.com/2005/02/pressure-builds-for-wireless-number.html">Tyler Hamilton: Pressure builds for wireless number portability</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>I'm pretty close to signing up for a US plan, especially when I make a lot of calls to the US, and as noted, can get a "North America" plan. But there's that damn LNP issue! What can I do with my current number? Nothing.</p>
-
-<p>The "new" CityFido plan is terrible (30¢/minute outside the "local" area, *plus* long distance -- previous price was 10¢/minute) now that Rogers bought Microcell.</p>
-
-<p>More on the no-LNP causing monopoly, plus the cellphone device choice monopoly:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-Consumers are also plagued by the lack of local number portabilty, which dampens competition because it's not easy to switch to rival carrier. I'm not sure why the CRTC is so reluctant to push LNP into the market given it has a mandate to encourage competition.
-Another puzzling issue is how consumers get to choose wireless devices. The way it works now, the carriers offer you several models, and you pick the one that meets your needs and budget. There is no way, however, to bring your own device to the table.
-<cite><a href="http://evans.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2005/2/5/303706.html">Mark Evans: Canada's Wireless Monopoly</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Hmmm. I wonder if I can argue that my cell number is my home number, and so LNP should apply? Actually, I wonder about people that switched their home phones to CityFido. Wouldn't LNP still apply?</p>
-
-<p>I'm willing to fight this one. Because, basically, the phone company has my number hostage. If I want to keep my number, which is on my business cards, my email, everywhere -- I have to stay with the same cell provider.</p>
-
-<p>And choice of phones. The only place in Vancouver that I've found that has good phones is Cell Baby on Robson at Bute. The phones are expensive, but you can even get a fancy <a href="http://reviews.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/mobilephones/0,39023925,39148266,00.htm">Sony Ericsson K700i</a>.</p>
-
-<p>Actually, I had an interesting business idea that involved only switching your number once: provide an unlimited forwarding service. There are VoIP providers that could do this easily. So, unlimited forwarding for $5/month, including a web portal to easily change forwarding options. Add in voicemail + voicemail by email for an extra $2.50/month. Basically, $7.50/month for a super-charged virtual phone number.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-02-09-lcd-tvs-and-monitors-there-is-no-difference.md b/_posts/archive/2005-02-09-lcd-tvs-and-monitors-there-is-no-difference.md
deleted file mode 100644
index b929845..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-02-09-lcd-tvs-and-monitors-there-is-no-difference.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,63 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: LCD TVs and Monitors...there is no difference
-created: 1107967586
-categories: 
-- Movie
-- Multimedia PC
-- LCD TV
-- LCD Monitor
-- DVI
-- HDMI
-- Toshiba
-- Sharp
-- ViewSonic
-- Movie
-- Multimedia PC
----
-<p>
-	I&#39;m still looking at LCD TVs and/or monitors, and haven&#39;t made a choice yet.</p>
-<p>
-	My next bit of information is about video connections. DVI is a new~ish interface for video, but it&#39;s already being replaced on the high end by HDMI. HDMI is a smaller, more compact cable than DVI, but actually has room to transfer more information, and it can include audio.</p>
-<p>
-	Two good articles I found basically said it was a good interface, but that most devices today only transfer simple 2 channel audio. And, there hasn&#39;t been any adoption in the computer market yet. Based on the quote below from AnandTech, HDMI has copy protection baked in, so we&#39;re likely going to see it overtake DVI over the next couple of years.</p>
-<p>
-	Read on for some HDMI links and a listing of some different models and prices that I looked at.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<ul>
-	<li>
-		<a href="http://news.designtechnica.com/talkback45.html">Designtechnica: HDMI Falls Short on Audio - For Now</a></li>
-	<li>
-		<a href="http://www.anandtech.com/multimedia/showdoc.aspx?i=2321">AnandTech: Gearing up for HDMI on the Desktop</a>: this article should be a bit of a wake up call about how copyprotection is being baked into interfaces all around us:<br />
-		<blockquote>
-			With Intel&rsquo;s HDCP tied into the HDMI specification so tightly, manufacturers and content providers would be insane not to push HDMI out the door to replace DVI. The additional perks for HDMI are still there: it&rsquo;s a smaller cable, can run longer distances without issues, and obviously, the integrated ability to transfer audio too. However, when a tier 1 OEM decides to build their next HTPC, they will certainly come under considerable scrutiny to provide a secure platform if they expect backing from the content providers. The fact that HDMI protects video and audio signaling is enough for content providers to lean on PC manufacturers to adopt the standard over DVI.</blockquote>
-	</li>
-</ul>
-<p>
-	I was at Future Shop and got some good info from the TV section. Basically, there is no difference between a &quot;TV&quot; and a &quot;monitor&quot;.</p>
-<p>
-	The TVs all include TV tuners (many have 2 for Picture-in-Picture functionality), tend to have lower native resolutions, and don&#39;t necessarily have a computer video connection (either analog VGA interface or DVI).</p>
-<p>
-	An LCD monitor will have a computer video connection and high native resolution. Some models include a TV tuner and are then virtually indistinguishable from an LCD TV, except perhaps for less video and audio connections.</p>
-<p>
-	I&#39;ve pretty much decided that I&#39;m going to get an LCD TV rather than a monitor with a TV tuner. This is because the use I have in mind is mainly for media and for occasional computer use. With a native resolution of 1280x768 or 1366x768, this is good enough to do computer work with.</p>
-<p>
-	At Future Shop I looked at the following models, all prices in CDN$:</p>
-<ul>
-	<li>
-		Toshiba 23HL84 ($1699): 23&quot;, no DVI interface, native 1366x768</li>
-	<li>
-		Sharp LC20B6US ($1599): 20&quot;, native 1024x768</li>
-	<li>
-		Sharp 23M1U ($1899): 23&quot;, native 1366x768</li>
-</ul>
-<p>
-	None of those are particularly great feature or price wise.</p>
-<p>
-	At CompuSmart, which is just up the street from my new office, they had some very low prices on large no-name brand LCD TVs.</p>
-<p>
-	The particular one I was looking at was model LT30HU (some brand beginning with an &quot;S&quot;), for which I can&#39;t find any hits online. It was a 30&quot; screen, 1280x768 native resolution, and had a DVI input, dual tuners, and pretty much everything else you would expect. For $1499!</p>
-<p>
-	Just to round this list of models out, <a href="http://www.urlgreyhot.com">jibbajabba</a> <a href="/node/1416#comment-3608">commented</a> that the <a href="http://www.macconnection.com/ProductDetail?sku=4853828">ViewSonic 30&quot; N3000W</a> looked pretty good. At $1599US (just under $2000CDN), it&#39;s the most expensive of those listed, but ViewSonic is known for high-quality monitors, and the other specs also look good.</p>
-<p>
-	What does all this mean? It means that prices are still falling dramatically, and it&#39;s probably a good idea to wait a few months.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-02-15-my-non-appearance-on-cbc-talking-about-voip.md b/_posts/archive/2005-02-15-my-non-appearance-on-cbc-talking-about-voip.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 80f58c7..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-02-15-my-non-appearance-on-cbc-talking-about-voip.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: My non-appearance on CBC talking about VoIP
-created: 1108506952
-categories: 
-- VoIP
-- Vancouver
-- Canada
----
-<p>I missed my chance to be on the CBC show BC Almanac today. I was busy working and didn't check my Gmail account until later in the day (Darren mentioned that I should put my cellphone number on my website...and he was right). A producer from the BC Almanac show called, wanting to get my take on residential VoIP, what with Shaw's announcement of their ridiculously over-priced service ($55CDN!).</p>
-
-<p>I would have talked about something similar to the following:</p>
-<!--break-->
-
-<hr />
-
-<p>There are quite a few residential VoIP solutions in Canada now. Shaw's is among the most expensive, and there is really no point to picking them over "traditional" phones. <a href="http://primustel.ca/">Primus</a> is slashing their prices, but they are using old technology and suffer from quality issues. <a href="http://www.vonage.ca">Vonage</a> is high-quality and is what I would recommend for the "average" user.</p>
-
-<p>There are a number of lower-priced, national competitors starting up such as <a href="http://www.netfone.ca">Netfone.ca</a>, <a href="http://worldcity.yak.com/">Yak</a>, <a href="http://ca.inter.net">ca.inter.net</a>. In reality, anyone can become a "VoIP provider" -- there are a number of wholesale and turn-key solutions. The other big thing is "softphones" -- meaning wherever I have my laptop and an Internet connection, I can make and receive calls. This includes proprietary solutions like <a href="http://www.skype.com">Skype</a> as well as VoIP providers that offer a softphone connected to a "real" phone number.</p>
-
-<p>The real story here is that the cost of voice communications is trending towards zero. Features are the only thing that customers are willing to pay for (that is, with a race towards zero or flat-rate cost for unlimited long distance anywhere).</p>
-
-<hr />
-
-<p>Sigh. Next time, I guess. Maybe I can talk about how CBC is <a href="http://holycola.net/archives/000634.html#comments">using Wikipedia.org as source material</a>.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-02-16-the-deal-eo-with-teleo.md b/_posts/archive/2005-02-16-the-deal-eo-with-teleo.md
deleted file mode 100644
index cf194ab..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-02-16-the-deal-eo-with-teleo.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: The Deal-eo with Teleo
-created: 1108607912
-categories: 
-- VoIP
----
-
-<p>Robert Scoble <a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2005/02/14.html#a9426">called</a> Teleo a &quot;potential Skype killer&quot;. Stuart Henshall can be summarized as <a href="http://www.henshall.com/blog/archives/001122.html">saying</a> &quot;no presence, no thanks&quot;.</p>
-
-<p>It's a tough world, this middle ground between computers (presence, IM, click-to-call, user interface requirements) and phones (&quot;just works&quot; voice connectivity). But as you can see from just that last statement, the &quot;features&quot; are all on the side of computers. No one raves about placing a call or call forwarding.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>But I still want Teleo. Or something like it. I want something built on standards (like SIP) rather than Skype's closed walls. Will and I had a long discussion about this: it comes down to I *know* that other systems interoperate with SIP today, whereas any future development around Skype, I have to wait for Skype to build or bless the usage of.</p>
-
-<p>I want a number that I can point at other telephony devices. I'm held hostage by my Canadian cell phone provider because of the lack of <a title="Local Number Portability for cellular providers doesn't exist in Canada" href="/node/1428">LNP</a>. I'll gladly pay Teleo $3 or $5 per month so that I can have a permanent number.</p>
-
-<p>Except, of course, that that number is still tied to Teleo. I'm unlikely to get it back if they go out of business or I want to switch to another service.</p>
-
-<p>I'd love to trial Teleo, but they currently require downloading and installing a Windows-only application.</p>
-
-<p>I'm going to try my luck with <a href="http://sipphone.com/">SIPphone</a> instead. It even has presence support through <a href="http://sipphone.com/phonegaim/">PhoneGaim</a>, a multi-network IM client and sotfphone in one, although it's Linux and Windows only for now. My wish: that <a href="http://www.adiumx.com">Adium</a> manages to integrate SIP-based telephony.</p>
-
-<p>And I still want to buy a number. Just like I can buy a domain. Who can a) sell me one and b) guarantee that I'll be able to switch it to different services?</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-03-03-what-does-the-world-look-like-when-every-router-is-a-sip-proxy.md b/_posts/archive/2005-03-03-what-does-the-world-look-like-when-every-router-is-a-sip-proxy.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 73a5597..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-03-03-what-does-the-world-look-like-when-every-router-is-a-sip-proxy.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: What DOES the world look like when every router is a SIP proxy?
-created: 1109871685
-categories: 
-- VoIP
----
-
-<p>Alec Saunders is experimenting with <a href="http://sipath.sourceforge.net">SIPatH</a>, a <acronym title="Session Initiation Protocol">SIP</acronym> proxy that runs on a $50 Linksys WRT-G router. Here's what his rules for the future of telecom are:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-<ol>
-<li>Your PSTN connectivity is outsourced to the lowest bidder.  The only calls you pay for are calls that terminate on the PSTN.</li>
-<li>Your &quot;telephone number&quot; is simply a SIP address terminating on your local SIP proxy. To call me, you use your SIP client to reach alec@saunders.com - the SIP proxy I have at home.</li>
-<li>The telephone network, as we know it, ceases to exist.  Telephony is nothing more than an embedded application running on a common transport.</li>
-</ol>
-<cite><a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0111520/2005/03/02.html#a916">Alec Saunders .LOG</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>He also points out <a href="http://www.toyz.org/mrblog/archives/00000186.html">Mr. Blog</a>, talking about running <a href="http://lestblood.imagodirt.net/archives/83-Asterisk-on-OpenWRT.html#extended">Asterisk on the same router</a> (where Asterisk is a full-fledged IP-PBX).</p>
-
-<p>I suppose I should stop being amazed, but we're not quite there yet. I had a quick look at both projects, and they would both take more fiddling than I'm willing to deal with at this point. However, since they are running on commodity home networking gear, it means we're not more than a year or so away (less?) from having a shippable product that is pre-installed and relatively plug and play. In the meantime, I'm still looking for a good PSTN termination provider in Canada.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-03-04-new-phone-nokia-6630.md b/_posts/archive/2005-03-04-new-phone-nokia-6630.md
deleted file mode 100644
index b399b51..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-03-04-new-phone-nokia-6630.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "New phone: Nokia 6630"
-created: 1110000770
-categories: 
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-
-<p>My &quot;old&quot; P800 gave up the ghost: the keypad stopped working. I got pretty frustrated with it in any case -- the UI felt kludgy and the stylus wasn't that great for working with it. The scroll wheel was nice, but not enough to make up for all the other deficiencies. I briefly used a temporary, do-nothing phone with no computer synchronization, no Bluetooth, nothin'. The experience was not pleasant, just lots of flipping open the laptop just to get someone's number.</p>
-
-<p>After seeing what <a href="http://www.bryanrieger.com">Bryan Rieger</a> is doing with Flash on phones, and the fact that only Nokia has licensed it so far, I decided to get a Nokia phone.</p>
-
-<p>I got my new Nokia 6630 just yesterday, and am still figuring it out. This <a href="http://www.loudthinking.com/arc/000363.html">Loud Thinking blog post</a> has lots of good info on why it's the Best. Phone. Ever... as well as linking to a lot of useful applications.</p>
-
-<p>I'm also going to link to this page of <a href="http://www.dslreports.com/faq/7418">Fido GPRS settings</a>, since I had to re-enter them.</p>
-
-<p>(Yes, I do have to wait until <a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger">Tiger</a> before it will sync with my laptop, but it's *really* easy to add contacts as people call)</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-03-07-not-exactly-a-mac-mini.md b/_posts/archive/2005-03-07-not-exactly-a-mac-mini.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 8756de1..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-03-07-not-exactly-a-mac-mini.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Not exactly a Mac Mini
-created: 1110216896
-categories: 
-- Vancouver
-- Mac
----
-
-<p>This weekend was a very computer-y affair. Gladly, I got to spend most of it with Kate, since it also coincided with cleaning up and rearranging our apartment so the new &quot;stuff&quot; would fit.</p>
-
-<p>I was <em>supposed</em> to end up with a <a href="/node/1413">Mac Mini</a>. I had been to stores a week ago or so just as they were coming in, and everyone had lots. Or so I thought. But when I went to make my purchase, the story was the same for all the local Vancouver Mac dealers: 4 - 6 weeks if I put a full deposit down. Wow, these things really are popular.</p>
-
-<p>Stymied for the moment, I went to make my LCD TV purchase. I settled on the <a href="http://www.benq.com/lcd_tv/lcdtv_dv2680.html">BenQ DV2680</a> – 26&quot; screen, great computer compatability, and very good price from <a href="http://www.ncix.com">NCIX</a>.</p>
-
-<p>So back to the computer purchase. I was committed to getting things done this weekend, since I promised our current 15&quot; flat-panel iMac to my parents.</p>
-
-<p>I reviewed why I was getting a Mac Mini in the first place. Basically, because it was inexpensive yet full-featured, would fit well into our living room, and didn't include a monitor. The concept of strapping it to the back of the LCD monitor was not so far-fetched.</p>
-
-<p>The eMac and iMacs were out, since they included a screen. That left us with the option of a PowerBook or a PowerMac. Yes, we actually considered a PowerBook -- it's got DVI output and is nice and small after all! But in the end, I came home with a PowerMac.</p>
-
-<p>Yes, a gigantic silver tower, about the size of 4 or more Mac Minis. As a joke, we had actually borrowed a Mini Cooper from <a href="http://www.cooperativeauto.net" title="Cooperative Auto Network">CAN</a> to pick up our purchases with (get it? Mac Mini and Mini Cooper together!), but the PowerMac box actually didn't fit in the back seat. So I crawled in the back, and the PowerMac (or &quot;Gigantor&quot;, as we're calling it) rode up front.</p>
-
-<p>Back at the apartment, everything came together quite nicely. Gigantor slid underneath the table that the BenQ monitor is on, and is whisper quiet. We can sit on the couch and use a wireless mouse and keyboard, or turn off all the electronics and look out the windows over the mountains.</p>
-
-<p>Next step: getting the <a href="http://www.plextor.com/english/products/TV402UMac.htm">Plextor ConvertX</a> or something similar (well, that and a cable subscription!). With the PowerMac, I can actually choose from <a href="http://del.icio.us/borismann/pci">internal PCI solutions</a> as well, but the ones from AlchemyTV are the only ones for Mac as far as I know, and they don't look that great.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-03-07-the-best-days-of-voip-are-yet-to-come.md b/_posts/archive/2005-03-07-the-best-days-of-voip-are-yet-to-come.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 66ea540..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-03-07-the-best-days-of-voip-are-yet-to-come.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: The best days of VoIP are yet to come
-created: 1110221086
-categories: 
-- VoIP
----
-
-<p><a href="http://thedalzells.org/">Erin Dalzell</a> sent me a link to a recent <a href="http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20050303.html">Cringely article (&quot;The Best days of Voice-over-IP Telephone Service May Already Have Passed&quot;)</a>. Cringely seems to think that VoIP is doomed because it will just be sneakily blocked (or rather, not tagged with <acronym title="Quality of Service">QoS</acronym>.</p>
-
-<p>I think Cringely gives the telcos and big network operators too much credit. This would be non-trivial to implement across entire networks.</p>
-
-<p>Aside from the difficulty or not of tagging all network traffic is the encrypting/tunneling option: much like P2P traffic that will likely start to travel encrypted over common ports (e.g. pretend it's regular HTTP traffic or VPN traffic or...), VoIP has the same option.</p>
-
-<p>If the network doesn't know you're running VoIP, it can't block it.</p>
-
-<p>Suffice it to say, I'm not too worried about the future of VoIP. We haven't seen anything truly interesting yet (well, Skype comes close, but it's closed, proprietary nature makes me not want to like it), and there is lots of room for innovation yet.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-03-08-another-business-just-went-massively-multiplayer.md b/_posts/archive/2005-03-08-another-business-just-went-massively-multiplayer.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 2762a60..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-03-08-another-business-just-went-massively-multiplayer.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Another business just went massively multiplayer
-created: 1110350077
-categories: 
-- Social Media
-- Web 2.0
----
-<p><a href="http://www.zopa.com">Zopa</a> is an amazing little experiment in lending and borrowing money (UK only right now):</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-Here’s the really clever bit. An individual lender doesn't lend to an individual borrower because that’s too risky. Instead a lender lends their money across at least fifty Zopa borrowers, and similarly a borrower borrows from a group of Zopa lenders. So the risk is well and truly spread.
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>I saw it <a href="http://sippey.typepad.com/filtered/2005/03/zopa.html">via sippey</a> and liked <a href="http://www.benhammersley.com/weblog/2005/03/09/zopa_rhymes_with_future_shock.html">Ben Hammersley's comments on it</a>.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-03-08-mac-even-more-mini-rumours-come-on-we-know-its-a-tablet.md b/_posts/archive/2005-03-08-mac-even-more-mini-rumours-come-on-we-know-its-a-tablet.md
deleted file mode 100644
index ad71ecd..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-03-08-mac-even-more-mini-rumours-come-on-we-know-its-a-tablet.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Mac even-more-mini rumours: come on, we *know* it's a tablet!"
-created: 1110354067
-categories: 
-- Mac Tablet
-- rumours
-- Mac
----
-<p><a href="http://scottstuff.net/scott/archives/000381.html">PDA Mac</a>? <a href="http://www.darcynorman.net/2005/03/08/ibook-mini">iBook mini</a>? <a href="http://www.powerpage.org/cgi-bin/WebObjects/powerpage.woa/wa/story?newsID=14284">Palmtop Mac</a>?</p>
-<p>Don't believe the rumours. <strong>I've</strong> got the real scoop. It's going to be a tablet!</p>
-<p>I wrote up my <a href="/node/1424">Mac tablet predictions</a> earlier, but let's do a recap:</p>
-<!--break-->
-<ul>
-    <li>screen-only interface and form factor, like the <a href="http://www.sonystyle.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/eCS/Store/en/-/USD/SY_BrowseCatalog-Start;sid=Y-Ku6ptqMryu2NlChAak4dRnvn4cmxc2C-w=?CategoryName=tv_LocationFreeTVs&amp;Dept=tv">Sony LocationFree TVs</a>, except done right</li>
-    <li>runs full OS X, just on an under-powered G4, so a bunch of heavy duty apps like Photoshop won't necessarily run well</li>
-    <li>Airport and Bluetooth built-in</li>
-    <li>stylus interface; attach Apple Bluetooth keyboard and mouse if you want direct input</li>
-    <li>it's a remote for your &quot;main&quot; iTunes/iPhoto system</li>
-</ul>
-<p>What's the target? Basically, even-smaller-form factor plus remote control of other systems plus remote viewing (iPhoto, movies)/listening around the house. I could see myself using it in meetings etc. -- easy/quick &quot;on the go&quot; note taking where tablets excel.</p>
-<p>It also &quot;solves&quot; the problem of the 10-foot interface: give people a 1 foot interface to <strong>control</strong> their 10-ft interfaces with. It's elegant, sneaky, and a very &quot;Apple&quot; thing to do. TV remains TV, OS X remains OS X...you just get the best of both worlds.</p>
-<p>What would be a real coup? If you could use it with iTunes for Windows...</p>
-<p>P.S. If I'm wrong on this one <acronym title="Steve Jobs, who we all know reads this blog">SJ</acronym>, I still think it would be a good one to build.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-03-10-skype-to-offer-real-phone-numbers-soon.md b/_posts/archive/2005-03-10-skype-to-offer-real-phone-numbers-soon.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 2f490cb..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-03-10-skype-to-offer-real-phone-numbers-soon.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Skype to offer "real" phone numbers soon
-created: 1110501850
-categories: 
-- VoIP
----
-
-<p>While <a href="http://www.duanestorey.com">Duane</a> and <a href="http://www.muddylaces.ca">Greg</a> have been <a href="/node/1438" title="The best days of VoIP are yet to come">contributing to the discussion</a> about how we are going to see a lot in the standards-based SIP world soon, Skype keeps rolling out features.</p>
-
-<p>Andy Abramson got alerted to some interesting sections in Skype's help docs, which seem to suggest that Skype will be offering virtual numbers very soon:</p>
-
-<blockquote><a href="http://support.skype.com/index.php?_a=knowledgebase&_j=questiondetails&_i=269">Skype's Help</a> section can be a plethora of information. A loyal reader in the UK sent along a note about SkypeIN. While I have yet to verify that In is Out, certainly the details are emerging. Do a little noodling around Skype's help and see what I mean.
-<cite><a href="http://andyabramson.blogs.com/voipwatch/2005/03/skype_in_out.html">VoIP Watch: Skype In, Out?</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-<!--break-->
-<p>I've set up a <a href="http://www.sipphone.com">SIPPhone</a> account, but haven't gotten around to a) configuring it on a free client or b) buying a virtual number. Actually, since I didn't buy any software or hardware from SIPPhone, there seems to be a bug: I can't buy a virtual number!</p>
-
-<p>In any case, Skype is running on my desktop all the time. I would absolutely pay $5US/month for a virtual number plus voicemail.</p>
-
-<p>It is no longer (or perhaps never?) about technology: it's marketing. Skype has an excellent, highly usably product with an excellent GUI sitting on desktops around the world. It's not getting any better with <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/fraserspeirs/843257.html">some people saying Apple should hook up with Skype</a>. SIP needs a very large champion to overcome this advantage.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-03-17-skypein-live-list-of-us-area-codes-available.md b/_posts/archive/2005-03-17-skypein-live-list-of-us-area-codes-available.md
deleted file mode 100644
index ca76591..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-03-17-skypein-live-list-of-us-area-codes-available.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,61 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: SkypeIn live, list of US area codes available
-created: 1111086577
-categories: 
-- VoIP
-- United States
-- Skype
-- SkypeIn
-- area code
-- United States
-- VoIP
----
-<p>
-	That was fast. <a href="http://www.skype.com/products/skypein/">SkypeIn</a>, Skype&#39;s connection of &quot;real&quot; phone numbers to your Skype account, is live.</p>
-<p>
-	They are offering numbers from Hong Kong, the UK (well, sold out, apparently), France, and the US. I&#39;ve seen <a href="http://blog.larixconsulting.com/blog/_archives/2005/3/12/427517.html">people say they want to wait for Canadian numbers</a> -- I&#39;ll probably just try a US number and get a Canadian one later.</p>
-<p>
-	So, looking at the list of US area codes, I was trying to figure out what area I would want a number from. I copied out all the area codes and looked them up <a href="http://www.bennetyee.org/ucsd-pages/area.html">here</a>. Below is the list of SkypeIn area codes and what area of the US they are connected with:</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>
-	203 - Connecticut: Fairfield County and New Haven County; Bridgeport, New Haven<br />
-	240 - W Maryland: Silver Spring, Frederick, Gaithersburg<br />
-	248 - Michigan: Oakland County<br />
-	267 - SE Pennsylvania: Philadelphia<br />
-	301 - W Maryland: Silver Spring, Frederick, Camp Springs, Prince George&#39;s County<br />
-	302 - Delaware<br />
-	310 - S California: Beverly Hills, West Hollywood, West Los Angeles<br />
-	312 - Illinois: Chicago<br />
-	347 - New York<br />
-	408 - Cent. Coastal California: San Jose<br />
-	415 - California: San Francisco County and Marin County<br />
-	508 - Cent. Massachusetts: Framingham; Cape Cod<br />
-	562 - California: Long Beach<br />
-	586 - Michigan: Macomb County<br />
-	626 - E S California: Pasadena<br />
-	631 - New York: Suffolk County, Long Island; Huntington, Riverhead<br />
-	646 - New York<br />
-	650 - California: Peninsula south of San Francisco<br />
-	678 - N Georgia: metropolitan Atlanta<br />
-	706 - N Georgia: Columbus, Augusta<br />
-	707 - NW California: Santa Rosa, Napa, Vallejo, American Canyon, Fairfield<br />
-	718 - New York City Metro Area, New York<br />
-	734 - SE Michigan: west and south of Detroit -- Ann Arbor, Monroe<br />
-	773 - Illinois: city of Chicago, outside the loop<br />
-	774 - Cent. Massachusetts: Framingham; Cape Cod<br />
-	805 - S Cent. and Cent. Coastal California<br />
-	815 - NW Illinois: Rockford, Kankakee<br />
-	817 - N Cent. Texas: Fort Worth area<br />
-	903 - NE Texas: Tyler<br />
-	978 - Massachusetts: north of Boston to NH</p>
-<p>
-	Hmmm...where to pick? Does it make sense to pick a number in your own timezone? Or should I pick a number &quot;close&quot; to some clients in Chicago or Northeast Ohio? When looking at SIPPhone, I was going to get a Silicon Valley number...far cheaper than opening an office down there.</p>
-<p>
-	Skype&#39;s list of numbers will likely change. The only list is from actually going through the sign up process and copying out the list of numbers, so I&#39;ll update this as I can.</p>
-<p>
-	<strong>Update:</strong> OK, I picked. You can call me at (415) 367-3595 -- a San Francisco number. It will go to voicemail if I don&#39;t pick up, with this great Norwegian lady telling you that I&#39;m not available.</p>
-<p>
-	I was thinking that I could use the voicemail instead of my cellphone voicemail, but it would mean paying long distance charges to San Fran. Of course, this might still be cheaper than my $8/month voicemail and caller display charges.</p>
-<p>
-	In my test (I called the number from my cell phone), SkypeIn does Caller ID as well.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-03-20-links-of-interest-march-20-2004.md b/_posts/archive/2005-03-20-links-of-interest-march-20-2004.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 03b52f4..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-03-20-links-of-interest-march-20-2004.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Links of Interest: March 20, 2004"
-created: 1111379049
-categories: 
-- Links of Interest
----
-
-<p>I don't do these very often, but I really do need to point a handful of things out before they age too much:</p>
-
-<ul>
-<li><a href="http://holycola.net/archives/000697.html">Todd Sieling's holycola.net - Wiki critics:</a> Todd, this was an awesome round-up post of everything it means to be wiki. Lots of great quotes, I probably like this one best: &quot;A given technology won't work like it's supposed to unless it's used like it's supposed to be used!&quot; </li>
-<li><a href="http://www.gnomedex.com/updates/2005-03.phtml#026193">Gnomedex registration is open:</a> it's in Seattle, and <a href="http://www.julieleung.com/">Julie</a> is going to be there. But the big question...do I get to play with the kids again if I go? Also on tap for afterwards: Bowen Island FamilyCon? We'll see on both counts...</li>
-<li><a href="http://www.nokia.com/lifeblog">Nokia Lifeblog:</a> OK, it's installed on my <a title="Nokia 6630" href="/node/1436">new phone</a>...but it doesn't seem to work. I set up the details for it to work with Flickr, but pictures never actually show up in the Lifeblog app. I haven't read any docs yet, but shouldn't this just work?</li>
-<li><a href="http://www.kriskrug.com/?p=245">Kris Krug - Vancouver BeerCasting at Subeez on March 16, 2005:</a> there are so many things I need to be saying about Kris. He's been &quot;embedded&quot; in our <a title="525 Seymour" href="http://www.bryght.com">office</a> for the last couple of weeks. He put on a <a href="http://www.beercasting.com">BeerCast</a> that I attended, and ended up talking about <a href="http://media2.libsyn.com/podcasts/beercaster/VAC_03-16-2005_1_71.mp3">Reality TV (direct MP3 link)</a>. Kris is also doing interesting things with <a href="http://www.eventblogging.com/">Event Blogging</a> -- he did a fantastic job covering Northern Voice, and now he's experimenting with audio as well. Any event you need photographed, blogged, or recorded, Kris is your guy. Actually, I just talked to Shayne at <a title="Health Resort and Fitness Resort on Forbidden Plateau, part of the Courtenay - Comox Valley" href="http://www.coastaltrek.com">Coastal Trek</a> about having Kris do photography work. I probably have more reasons to throw props Kris' way, but just want to say: been great having you around so far.</li>
-</ul>
-<!--break-->
-
-<p>I don't think I need to say anything about <a href="http://www.flickr.com">Flickr</a> being acquired by Yahoo. I'll say something including more Y!s over on the company blog.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-03-29-massive-and-beercasting.md b/_posts/archive/2005-03-29-massive-and-beercasting.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 8014e33..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-03-29-massive-and-beercasting.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: MASSIVE and Beercasting
-created: 1112165076
-categories: 
-- Vancouver
----
-
-<p>Wow. My last post over a week ago, and that only a &quot;Links of Interest&quot;. Well, Easter was in between, and I did get a chance to try a Segway, among lots of work stuff.</p>
-
-<p>Speaking of which, the <a alt="Community and Content Management Hosting" href="http://www.bryght.com">Bryght</a> crew (including <a href="http://www.kriskrug.com">Kris Krug</a>, the newest addition), is going to be at <a href="http://www.techvibes.com/massive">MASSIVE</a>, a local Vancouver technology tradeshow and exhibition.</p>
-
-<p>Roland <a href="http://www.bryght.com/bryght-radio/massive-2005-preview">interviewed me about Massive</a>. Just a short practice run, really -- I'll likely get recorded again when we head over to Subeez for the <a href="http://www.kriskrug.com/?p=275">second Vancouver BeerCasting</a>.</p>
-
-<p>If you stop by (we're at Booth #229, in the Peer1 Pipeline), you can also see my <a title="PowerMac G5 and BenQ DV2680" href="/node/1437">new TV</a>, which we're using as our booth demo.</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-04-02-blog-therapist-answer-1-aggregating-everything.md b/_posts/archive/2005-04-02-blog-therapist-answer-1-aggregating-everything.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 4dfc8d6..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-04-02-blog-therapist-answer-1-aggregating-everything.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Blog Therapist Answer #1: Aggregating everything"
-created: 1112469389
-categories: 
-- Social Media
-- Drupal
-- Personal Publishing
-- Drupal
-- Drupal
-- Vancouver
----
-
-<p>So, apparently I am the first <a href="http://www.blogtherapist.com">Blog Therapist</a>, thanks to <a href="http://alexandrasamuel.com/blog/?p=52">Alex Samuel</a>. I had spent some time talking to her at the <a href="http://www.darrenbarefoot.com/archives/002520.html">Blog Meetup Thingy</a> as Darren so eloquently calls it. I met Alex (well, registered her as she and her <a href="http://www.robcottingham.ca/roblog/index.php" rel="nofollow">husband</a> came in the door) at <a href="http://www.northernvoice.ca">Northern Voice</a>, so it was great to see them come out to the meetup.</p>
-
-<p>Alex is going to have an article in the Toronto Star about the tagging phenomenon, and we chatted about what to do when you start getting multiple blogs. When to post to which one? How to aggregate all &quot;your&quot; posts together? The answer is going to be in aggregation, using something like <a href="http://www.justagwailo.com">Richard Eriksson's fancy Magpie-powered iste</a>. I have the &quot;<a href="http://personal.bmannconsulting.com/borisphere">borisphere</a>&quot; on my personal site -- I aggregate everything from my <a href="http://www.bryght.com/blog/boris-mann">Bryght blog</a> to my <a href="http://www.43things.com/people/view/bmann">43 Things</a> and <a href="http://www.audioscrobbler.com/user/bmann/">Audioscrobbler page</a>. This is all part of the built-in <a href="http://support.bryght.com/adminguide/aggregator">Drupal aggregator</a>.</p>
-
-<p>This concept is exactly what <a href="http://marc.blogs.it">Marc</a> has been talking about for quite some time as a Digital Lifestyle Aggregator. Using tags to <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/boris+mann">channel</a> posts is really just an intermediate step (or maybe a spam-filled cul-de-sac?) on the way to <a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2005/04/01.html#a9793">conversation tracking</a>. You want to share topics? <a href="http://marc.blogs.it/archives/2005/03/opentopics.html">OpenTopics</a>! Which should really be <a href="http://matt.blogs.it/specs/ENT/1.0/">Easy News Topics</a>.</p>
-
-<p>Tags: <a rel="tag" href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com">boris mann</a>, <a rel="tag" href="http://www.blogtherapist.com">blogtherapist</a>, <a rel="tag" href="http://alexandrasamuel.com/">alex samuel</a>, <a rel="tag" href="http://alexandrasamuel.com/blog/?p=52">integrating multiple blogs</a></p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>P.S.: Alex: I think I helped with your other problem: when I linked to Rob....I used &quot;nofollow&quot; :P</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-04-02-blog-therapist-answer-2-no-more-meta-blogging.md b/_posts/archive/2005-04-02-blog-therapist-answer-2-no-more-meta-blogging.md
deleted file mode 100644
index dafbd2a..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-04-02-blog-therapist-answer-2-no-more-meta-blogging.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,41 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Blog Therapist Answer #2: No more Meta-blogging"
-created: 1112473050
-categories: 
-- Drupal
-- Personal Publishing
-- Drupal
-- Drupal
----
-<p>I hate the term blogging, because I see what we call blogging today as a component of personal publishing, which is in turn an aspect of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0">Web 2.0</a>.</p>
-
-<p>Many people who have blogs (my fancy way of not using the term &quot;bloggers&quot;) despair about <a href="http://writelife.typepad.com/blog/2005/04/a_thousand_apol.html">blog postings about blogs</a>. I feel your pain (that's what a blog therapist does, I guess).</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>I mentioned in my <a href="/node/1452">wrap up of the March 31st Vancouver Blogger meetup</a> that people wanted less business- and technology-talk about blogs. The group formed because they interacted online, and wanted to continue that interaction offline. The technology of blogs was not the intersection of their interests -- it was a media channel that they were using to communicate.</p>
-
-<p>Of course, in the business and technology communities, there is intense interest in blogs. But more around the technology and concepts (tagging, conversation tracking, search, web applications, etc. etc.) surrounding it.</p>
-
-<p>So blogging about blogging is natural. But if you have an audience that is NOT interested in the technology -- but rather in the communications that are facilitated by it -- they can get annoyed by this veering into the technology. I think <a href="http://www.darrenbarefoot.com">Darren Barefoot</a> is experiencing this as well. He often has to apologize to his wider readership for delving into blog or other tech issues.
-
-</p><p>What to do? Categories is one answer. On this site (and anything running on the Drupal platform) every category has a separate taxonomy feed. So people can subscribe or browse those posts that are of interest to them and ignore the rest.</p>
-
-<p>A separate blog is another answer. I have about 4 places where I post. This personal business site (as opposed to my <a href="http://personal.bmannconsulting.com">personal personal site</a>, which has zero technology posts), my <a href="http://www.bryght.com/blog/boris-mann">company blog</a>, and then there is <a href="http://www.urbanvancouver.com" title="Vancouver's community blog">Urban Vancouver</a>, where you can also see <a href="http://www.urbanvancouver.com/blog/2">just my blog</a>.</p>
-
-<p>I have one more trick that I employ here on B. Mann Consulting. It took me a while to figure out how to do it, and it's still not perfect. I used to use the &quot;blog&quot; component for personal stuff, and the front page &quot;story&quot; type for business and technology stuff. Each have separate feeds, so people could choose whether to subscribe to the front, the blog, or both. I didn't have the discipline to keep the two types separated, or I would ignore one or the other.</p>
-
-<p>So, now I use the &quot;blog&quot; component for everything, but I only selectively promote things to the front page. I try to only promote things that I know will be of interest to the majority of people, or that I feel is important enough to highlight. For instance, the fact that I <a href="/node/1453">changed my header image</a> is not really front page material, but will still be interesting for some.</p>
-
-<p>For the record, here are my two feeds (disregarding the feed-per-category that you can subscribe to if you wish):</p>
-<ul>
-<li>Front page only: <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/feed">http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/feed</a></li>
-<li>All posts: <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/blog/feed">http://www.bmannconsulting.com/blog/feed</a></li>
-
-</ul>
-
-<p>This is also related to some discussions I've been having recently about cross-posting. I believe cross-posting is a short term thing. Generally, if I want to alert a localized audience to information elsewhere, I do a short intro post explaining where to find it and why they might be interested. This interrupts your topic only minimally, and the readers can make the choice whether to follow the link, being aware that they are reading in another context -- either going from personal to business, vice versa, or a switch of topics. <a href="http://www.rolandtanglao.com">Roland</a> does a very good job of this.</p>
-
-<p>So, hopefully this answers your question, <a href="http://writelife.typepad.com/blog/2005/04/a_thousand_apol.html">Writelife</a> (I checked your <a href="http://writelife.typepad.com/about.html">about page, but didn't find a name anywhere).</a></p>
-
-<p>Tags: <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com" rel="tag">boris mann</a>, <a href="http://www.blogtherapist.com" rel="tag">blogtherapist</a>, <a href="http://writelife.typepad.com/blog/2005/04/a_thousand_apol.html" rel="tag">blogging about blogging</a></p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-04-02-new-header-image.md b/_posts/archive/2005-04-02-new-header-image.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 33c91d8..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-04-02-new-header-image.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: New header image
-created: 1112472489
-categories: 
-- BMC
----
-
-<img align="left" src="http://photos7.flickr.com/7922292_45b44195c1_t.jpg" style="padding: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;" alt="Flickr Photo Sharing: Boris Mann at Massive, photo by Kris Krug" />
-
-<p>I swapped out the &quot;Boris in sunglasses&quot; image in my header here. The <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kk/7922292/">picture there now</a> was taken by <a href="http://www.kriskrug.com">Kris Krug</a> at the <a href="http://www.bryght.com/events/massive-2005" title="Bryght Vancouver Massive 2005 Event">Bryght Massive 2005 booth</a>.</p>
-
-<p>Several people at the <a href="http://www.kriskrug.com/?p=282">March 30th Vancouver Beercasting</a>, including <a href="http://www.nowpublic.com">Michael Tippett of Now Public</a> mentioned that the sunglasses image was scary. It made me look intimidating. Actually, <a href="http://www.shanesworld.ca">Shane</a> said this a long time ago. So, hopefully this image, of me talking to someone and not staring directly at you, will be less intimidating.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-04-02-vancouver-webloggers-meetup-march-31st-next-web-2-0-meetups.md b/_posts/archive/2005-04-02-vancouver-webloggers-meetup-march-31st-next-web-2-0-meetups.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 9ec853a..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-04-02-vancouver-webloggers-meetup-march-31st-next-web-2-0-meetups.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Vancouver Webloggers Meetup March 31st: next, Web 2.0 Meetups?"
-created: 1112471992
-categories: 
-- Web 2.0
-- Personal Publishing
-- Vancouver
----
-
-<p>I should probably have more to say about the <a href="http://www.darrenbarefoot.com/archives/002520.html">blog meetup</a>.</p>
-
-<p><a href="http://www.kriskrug.com">Kris</a> got everybody's URL down at the meetup, so I'll get those from him on Monday, or wait for him to post them. Update: <a href="http://www.kriskrug.com/?p=304">Kris' post</a> which has everybody linked.</p>
-
-<p>I did see <a href="http://ianking.ca/article/673/met-up">Ian King's post</a>. It was great to meet him -- I've been reading him for a while, and I got lots of scoops on the local paper media landscape from him.</p>
-
-<p>Darren got some feedback that some people felt that the meetups were getting too &quot;business&quot; focused. There is a fair bit of truth to this: I am a bad <a href="http://personal.bmannconsulting.com">personal blogger</a>, and I am caught up in too many business-related blogging activities to, well, relax and keep it personal. I keep jumping ahead to technology solutions or business connections.</p>
-
-<p>Darren wanted me to start running a Business Blogger Meetup. I'm involved in too many things already to run with this, but I would certainly attend on occasion. Actually, I continue to hate the term &quot;blog&quot; -- I would suggest NOT labelling it &quot;business blogger&quot;: it's too short sighted and too limiting. Maybe we'll call it a &quot;Web 2.0 Meetup&quot; -- inclusive of technology and business? I guess that means I'm nominating <a href="http://www.rolandtanglao.com">Roland</a> or <a href="http://www.hopstudios.com">Suzie and Travis</a> to run it. Or <a href="http://blog.larixconsulting.com">Tris</a>, but that means he has to fly over to Vancouver every month.</p>
-
-<!--break-->
-
-<p>And remember, if I'm going to get labelled as the <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/1451">Blog Therapist</a> as well as having <a href="http://www.darrenbarefoot.com/archives/002515.html">my name's tag on Flickr being associated with beer</a>, we have to keep up the tradition of calling <a href="http://www.darrenbarefoot.com" title="Darren Barefoot is the Vancouver Blogfather">Darren Barefoot the Blogfather</a>.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-04-04-google-maps-now-has-keynote-satellite-imagery.md b/_posts/archive/2005-04-04-google-maps-now-has-keynote-satellite-imagery.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 160190f..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-04-04-google-maps-now-has-keynote-satellite-imagery.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Google Maps now has Keynote satellite imagery
-created: 1112671497
-categories: 
-- Vancouver
-- Web 2.0
----
-
-<p>So, Google Maps continues to blow my mind, or as <a href="http://laughingmeme.org/archives/002911.html">Kellan says, to &quot;make an already amazing service jaw dropping&quot;</a>. Everyone else will be linking to it in one form or another, of course, but gives me a chance to post a picture of my neighbourhood:</p>
-
-<a title="Photo Sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/8483667/"><img width="500" height="272" alt="Map of our house" src="http://photos8.flickr.com/8483667_6845a376cd.jpg" /></a>
-
-<p>I've said that I believe that this is the year of maps and calendars. <a href="http://www.darrenbarefoot.com">Darren</a> says it's the year of photo sharing for a wider segment of people, and he's right as well: I tend to think about what's new and different and done well for the first time. For photo sharing, we hit that peak last year with Flickr already.</p>
-
-<p>In any case....maps and calendars, you heard it here first. Also gives me a chance to link to the newly relaunched <a href="http://www.geourl.org">GeoURL 2.0</a>, complete with <a href="http://geourl.org/news/">weblog</a>.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>I didn't know, but GeoURL was actually originally put together by Joshua Schachter, creator of <a href="http://del.icio.us">del.icio.us</a> (who has quit his job and is working on it full time).</p>
-
-<p>I happen to think that tagging is not that difficult of an application. Granted, it is easy to say now with del.icio.us as an example. Meta-tags, yeah, that's the ticket...</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-04-11-civilities-and-viewpoints.md b/_posts/archive/2005-04-11-civilities-and-viewpoints.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f27fc57..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-04-11-civilities-and-viewpoints.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Civilities and ViewPoints
-created: 1113211142
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
-- Drupal
-- Social Media
----
-<p>I must be slipping. I had never heard of Civilities until <a href="http://www.blogaholics.ca/archives/2005/04/the_blogging_re.html">Arieanna pointed towards it</a>. Jon Garfunkel is doing some amazing writing, and he's hitting all my buttons: it's all about Web 2.0, it's not a blog, and he's using Drupal to power it all:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-Civilities is the work, so far, of one person. One might thus label it a <a href="http://civilities.net/OnBlogs">blog</a>, but it isn't one. It's better than a blog. I call it a <a href="http://civilities.net/CivDefinition">Civ</a>, which conveniently is an acronym for &quot;Constructing Informative Viewpoints&quot;.<p>
-<cite><a href="http://civilities.net/About">Civilities.net: About page</a></cite>
-</p></blockquote>
-<!--break-->
-
-<p>Next fantastic thing from Jon: <a href="http://civilities.net/ViewPoints">ViewPoints</a>. Alex Samuel and I had a discussion about online consultation -- which we really need to post some ideas around -- and I think Jon's ViewPoints are a step in that direction. Here's what he sees as the Usage Patterns:</p>
-<blockquote>
-<ul><li>Any point of discussion can become a quick poll.
-</li><li>A debate may develop between two parties; participants may score each point in the debate as it happened.
-</li><li>Meta-moderation works simply by applying ViewPoints to an existing post.</li></ul>
-<cite><a href="http://civilities.net/ViewPoints">Civilities.net: ViewPoints</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-<p>Luckily, Alex is also heading back east soon, so hopefully she will get a chance to sit down and discuss these concepts with Jon directly.</p><p>Tags: <a rel="tag" href="http://alexandrasamuel.com/">alex samuel</a>, <a rel="tag" href="http://civilities.net/">jon garfunkel</a>, <a rel="tag" href="http://del.icio.us/tag/onlineconsultation">online consultation</a></p><p><a rel="tag" href="http://del.icio.us/tag/onlineconsultation"></a></p>
-
-<p>BTW -- these tag things at the bottom of some of my posts are supposed to lure <a href="http://www.technorati.com">Technorati</a> here. My Blog Therapist posts still aren't showing up with their tags, but T. did finally <a href="http://www.technorati.com/profile/borismann">accept my blog claim</a>. I'm choosing specifically to not link to the Technorati tag page, but rather a URL I believe representative of the linked tag. It's still supposed to work, but hasn't for me so far.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-04-13-mac-os-x-tiger-what-is-the-one-more-thing.md b/_posts/archive/2005-04-13-mac-os-x-tiger-what-is-the-one-more-thing.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 0fa9556..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-04-13-mac-os-x-tiger-what-is-the-one-more-thing.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Mac OS X Tiger: What is the \"one more thing\"?"
-created: 1113415426
-categories: 
-- Mac OS X Tiger
-- mac os x
-- Mac
----
-<p>By now we've heard about Apple's upcoming release of Mac OS X 10.4, a.k.a. Tiger. It's scheduled for the end of this month: April 29th.</p>
-<p>And all of the features are known. <a href="http://weblogs.jupiterresearch.com/analysts/gartenberg/archives/007715.html">Michael Gartenberg gushes</a> about the release, saying he's &quot;still convinced that Tiger is a big deal and it just might be the the best OS on a PC I have ever seen for productivity use&quot;.</p>
-<p>But we've come to expect something more. Jobs always seems to have a rabbit up his sleeve. Or maybe the new OS really is that good, that installing it/using it IS the rabbit? I can tell people are looking for more info -- my <a href="/node/1009">rumours post on 10.4 is getting lots of traffic</a>.</p>
-<p>Here's my related but somewhat random rumour: <a href="http://scoble.weblogs.com/">Scoble</a> has been talking Apple a lot lately. Jobs has convinced him to come to Apple to do tablet evangelism (that's the one more thing, and here's my <a href="/node/1441">Mac tablet spec</a>) and kickstart Apple's entry into the blogosphere.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>What do you think? What are you most looking forward to in Tiger?</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-04-18-ext2-filesystem-for-mac-os-x.md b/_posts/archive/2005-04-18-ext2-filesystem-for-mac-os-x.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a6f9ea4..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-04-18-ext2-filesystem-for-mac-os-x.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,129 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: EXT2 Filesystem for Mac OS X
-created: 1113808587
-categories: 
-- mac os x
-- EXT2
-- Mac
----
-<p>
-	Note: this is copied from the distribution of <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsx/">ext2fsx on Sourceforge.net</a>. I couldn&#39;t find a copy online other than in the download, so have put it here for convenience.</p>
-<div align="center">
-	EXT2 Filesystem for Mac OS X<br />
-	1.3<br />
-	2004/08/02</div>
-<p>
-	&nbsp;</p>
-<h2>
-	Donations</h2>
-<p>
-	If you are interested in making a donation, please vist my Kagi Payment page. A minimum of US $10 is requested because of the fees Kagi charges. Please don&rsquo;t take this as a request for donations. Make a donation only if you want to, not because you feel you have to. Gifts from my Amazon wish list are also appreciated (and preferred).<br />
-	<br />
-	Kagi: https://order.kagi.com/?VN<br />
-	Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/registry/1UV8OJ9VKS9VV/<br />
-	&nbsp;</p>
-<h2>
-	Requirements</h2>
-<p>
-	Mac OS X 10.2.0 through 10.3.x. Mac OS X 10.0.x, 10.1.x and 10.4.x or higher are not supported.</p>
-<h2>
-	ExtFS Manager</h2>
-<p>
-	ExtFS Manager is an OS X Preference Pane for managing Ext2/3 disks. From this pane you can set mount options for any Ext volume. The current options are:<br />
-	<br />
-	Don&#39;t Automount -- The volume will not be mounted automatically by the system.<br />
-	<br />
-	Mount Read Only -- When mounted, mount R/O.<br />
-	<br />
-	Enable Indexed Directories -- See &#39;Supported Features&#39; below.<br />
-	<br />
-	Ignore Permissions -- When checked, the filesystem will be mounted with only root permissions in effect. All other files will be accessible by any user.<br />
-	<br />
-	All options (except &quot;Enable Indexed Directories&quot;) can be temporarily overridden using &#39;/sbin/mount_ext2 -x&#39; followed by &#39;disktool -r&#39; to mount the volume.<br />
-	<br />
-	Note: You must be an admin user and /Library/Preferences must be writable by the admin group or changes made to the options will have no effect.</p>
-<h2>
-	ExtFS S.M.A.R.T. Hard Disk Monitor</h2>
-<p>
-	ExtFS Manager includes a utility that is designed to monitor your local ATA disk drives for impending problems. This is done by querying the drives for their S.M.A.R.T. status. S.M.A.R.T. is a built in feature of modern ATA disk drives that allows the drive to perform diagnostic tests on itself. The results of these tests can then be queried by applications.<br />
-	<br />
-	The ExtFS S.M.A.R.T. monitor is installed in your Login Items the first time you launch the ExtFS Manager preference pane. It will continually monitor your ATA drives for any S.M.A.R.T. warnings or errors and report those to you via an alert panel.<br />
-	<br />
-	If you do not want the S.M.A.R.T. monitor running, simply remove it from your Login Items and it will not be installed again.</p>
-<h2>
-	Using command line utilities</h2>
-<p>
-	The installation includes the full set of Ext2 command line utilities found in Linux; including newfs, fsck, debugfs, etc.. If you want to use these from Terminal, you may wish to add &quot;/usr/local/bin&quot; and &quot;/usr/local/sbin&quot; to your shell PATH variable for easy access. You may also wish to add &quot;/usr/local/share/man&quot; to your shell MANPATH variable for easy access to the man pages.<br />
-	<br />
-	If you need to operate on a corrupted disk image with one of the repair utils (fsck, debugfs, dumpe2fs, etc), you will need to attach the disk image via the command line util &#39;hdid&#39; with the &quot;-nomount&quot; option; this will prevent the automounter from trying to mount the disk image. After this, you can use the ext2 programs on the device returned from hdid. See &quot;Known Limitations&quot; for an example.</p>
-<h2>
-	Supported Features</h2>
-<p>
-	The OS X driver respects/implements the following inode flags (man chattr):<br />
-	A -- (NOATIME)<br />
-	a -- (append only)<br />
-	i -- (immutable)<br />
-	<br />
-	Ext3 indexed directories are supported. Indexed directories are orders of magnitude faster than standard directories. The driver will auto-recognize and use these when present; if you wish to add support to an existing volume using Mac OS X, then the filesystem must be mounted with the -o index option (this can be enabled via the ExtFS Manager Preference Pane). Note: Indexed directories are backwards compatible with Ext2 filesystems, so you can enable them without worrying about breaking older filesystems (from Linux or Mac OS X).</p>
-<h2>
-	Known Limitations</h2>
-<p>
-	Volumes will fail to auto-mount if they are corrupted. The auto-mounter funs fsck (in verification mode only) before mounting a volume and if fsck fails, the auto-mounter won&#39;t even try to mount the volume. If you are having problems with volumes not auto-mounting, try running fsck_ext2 on the device. After any volume errors have been corrected, you can get the auto-mounter to try mounting the device again by running &#39;disktool -r&#39; from Terminal. Please note that the kernel will also fail to mount any filesystem R/W if it is not clean.<br />
-	<br />
-	If you re-format an existing partition as Ext2, then that partition may fail to automount in the future. This is because re-formating does not change the partition type in the partition header of the disk. Automounter uses this type as a &quot;hint&quot; when trying to find the right filesystem utility to use. Unfortunately, the &quot;hint&quot; is actually literal; automounter will find an incorrect filesystem utility based on the partition type and when that utility fails the probe phase, automounter will return an error without trying other filesystem utilities. There is no known way to change a partition type without re-formating the entire disk. (Amendment: Dan C. pointed out that pdisk can apparently alter the partition table without destroying other partitions. So you could drop a partition and replace it with a new type. I don&#39;t know if I trust this, so for now I&#39;ll leave this up to the intrepid user.)<br />
-	<br />
-	Renaming a volume in the Finder is only supported on 10.3.0 and later (not 10.2.x) . To change the name of a volume while running 10.2.x, you must use the Terminal program &#39;e2label&#39;. Example (using a disk image):</p>
-<pre>
-brian$ hdid -nomount Desktop/MyExt2Image.dmg</pre>
-<pre>
-/dev/disk1              Apple_partition_scheme         </pre>
-<pre>
-/dev/disk1s1            Apple_partition_map            </pre>
-<pre>
-/dev/disk1s2            EXT2        </pre>
-<pre>
-brian$ /usr/local/sbin/e2label /dev/disk1s2 &quot;My Image&quot;</pre>
-<pre>
-brian$ hdiutil detach /dev/disk1</pre>
-<pre>
-hdiutil: detach: &quot;disk1s1&quot; detached successfully.</pre>
-<pre>
-hdiutil: detach: &quot;disk1s2&quot; detached successfully.</pre>
-<pre>
-hdiutil: detach: &quot;disk1&quot; detached successfully.</pre>
-<p>
-	<br />
-	Linux does not care what character encoding is used for directory entries (IOW, file names). Linux just treats the name as a byte stream with no interpretation done. If you are using non-ASCII characters in file names, there is no way to find out what encoding is used for a particular file (or the FS as a whole). The solution to this is to use UTF-8. This is what Mac OS X does. Unfortunatly, if you are not currently using UTF-8 in Linux, then your names will be mis-interpreted on Mac OS X and there is nothing that can be done to fix this.<br />
-	<br />
-	Block fragments are not supported!<br />
-	<br />
-	NFS export is not supported.<br />
-	Boot/Root is not supported.<br />
-	EXT3 journaling, extended attributes, and ACL&#39;s are not supported.<br />
-	Quotas are not supported.</p>
-<h2>
-	Reporting a Bug</h2>
-<p>
-	Bug reports should be entered into the bug tracking system at<br />
-	&lt;http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsx/&gt;.<br />
-	<br />
-	Please include the following.<br />
-	<br />
-	Your name and e-mail address -- in case I need to contact you.<br />
-	System Version (including build number)<br />
-	Version of Ext2 FS for Mac OS X<br />
-	A copy of your system log in /var/log/system.log.<br />
-	A detailed description of what lead to the problem and how to reproduce it.<br />
-	<br />
-	If the problem is a kernel panic, please include a copy of the panic. Mac OS X 10.2 (or later) logs panic information to the /Library/Logs/panic.log file after the machine is rebooted.</p>
-<h2>
-	Credits</h2>
-<p>
-	Engineering: Brian Bergstrand, and Dan Kalowsky<br />
-	<br />
-	German Localization: S&ouml;ren Kuklau<br />
-	<br />
-	Tux&#39;n&#39;Tosh icons: Bandar Raffa &lt;http://www.sadeem.net/tux.html&gt;<br />
-	<br />
-	Special Thanks: Sam Vaughan</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-04-18-helping-with-the-gouranga-meme.md b/_posts/archive/2005-04-18-helping-with-the-gouranga-meme.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 2bf47b6..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-04-18-helping-with-the-gouranga-meme.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Helping with the Gouranga meme
-created: 1113875753
-categories: 
-- Search Engine Voodoo
----
-<p>It's either <a href="http://www.juju.org/archives/2003/04/06/call-out-gouranga-be-happy">Hare Krishnas, Grand Theft Auto</a>, or <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=gouranga">a word on motorways in north-west UK</a>.</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-Call out Gouranga be happy!!!
-Gouranga Gouranga Gouranga ....
-That which brings the highest happiness!!
-<cite><a href="mailto://nitaigouranga@aol.com">Neateye 	
-&lt;nitaigouranga@aol.com&gt;</a> via email</cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>If a meme flows and no one knows that it means, is it still a meme?</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-04-18-mounting-ext2-linux-filesystems-on-mac-os-x.md b/_posts/archive/2005-04-18-mounting-ext2-linux-filesystems-on-mac-os-x.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f5b333c..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-04-18-mounting-ext2-linux-filesystems-on-mac-os-x.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Mounting EXT2 Linux filesystems on Mac OS X
-created: 1113808487
-categories: 
-- "*nix"
-- E-smith
-- Mac
-- EXT2
-- Linux
-- ext2fsx
-- EXT3
-- "*nix"
-- E-smith
-- Mac
----
-<p>
-	I recently decommissioned a Linux (<a href="/e-smith">e-smith</a>, to be exact) server at home. Its main job was to <a href="http://gallery.sf.net" title="The Gallery project is still the best way to work with large amounts of pictures if you really want to host them yourself">store pictures</a>, and now that I&#39;m using Flickr, there was no need to have it sitting in our living room.</p>
-<p>
-	But, there are a ton of pictures on there that still needed to be taken off. Gigs of pictures. Which are just generally a pain to transfer over the network.</p>
-<p>
-	I have an external Firewire enclosure for IDE hard drives, so I thought I would experiment in trying to get the Linux file system (EXT2) mounted on Mac OS X. Long story short, after much Googling, I found <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsx/">ext2fsx</a>. Like many Mac applications, it &quot;just worked&quot; and is really user friendly.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>
-	<img align="left" alt="ext2fsx System Pref Icon" src="/sites/bmannconsulting.com/files/syspref_extfsx.jpg" /></p>
-<p>
-	After you install the package, it adds a cute little icon to the &quot;Other&quot; section of your System Preferences. That&#39;s it. That&#39;s pretty much all you need to know to get Linux disks mounting on OS X.</p>
-<p>
-	All the command line tools are installed as well, and I did actually have to run the <code>fsck</code> command to fix some problems with the drive I had, but generally you just need to hit one of the three buttons in the control panel:</p>
-<p>
-	<img alt="ext2fsx Control Panel" src="/sites/bmannconsulting.com/files/ext2fsx_cp.jpg" /></p>
-<p>
-	So, highly recommended!</p>
-<p>
-	Note: ext3 is a journaled version of ext2, and this utility works fine with that as well.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-04-20-skype-killing-im-networks-too.md b/_posts/archive/2005-04-20-skype-killing-im-networks-too.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e4ab4ab..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-04-20-skype-killing-im-networks-too.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Skype killing IM networks, too?
-created: 1114036580
-categories: 
-- IM
-- VoIP
----
-
-<p>From anecdotal evidence, my own usage patterns, and <a href="http://blog.larixconsulting.com/blog/_archives/2005/4/20/600588.html">Tris</a> and <a href="http://www.ensight.org/archives/2005/04/18/dropping-msn-messenger/">Jeremy</a>, it seems like <a href="http://www.skype.com">Skype</a> is becoming not only the VoIP client of choice, but also the IM client of choice.</p>
-
-<p>So why are people switching? Well, the average non-technical person at best has one IM account and one client -- and it's usually one of Yahoo, MSN, or AOL. But more technical users that communicate with a lot of people over IM are forced into using multi-protocol clients. While these clients can talk to all the systems, they often don't work well with basic functions like file transfer.</p>
-
-<p>And this is where Skype comes in. It's a good IM client, it has wide-spread usage among the people that are likely to be using IM, and it has fully encrypted communications. The file transfers work really well (I've never had one fail, even behind firewalls), and you can even transfer contacts to someone else.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>Oh right....AND it does voice, including conferences. Gersham had this to say (over Skype, of course):</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-I find the usage pattern for me with a bunch of people I use with it is to start IM'ing with them, then switch to voice and then back to IM.
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>This is <em>exactly</em> how I use Skype. It allows me to mix voice and IM as needed. When I'm busy, I can IM and multitask. When I need to switch to a focused, information rich conversation, I can make a voice call.</p>
-
-<p>I have been using <a href="http://www.agilemobile.com/agile_messenger.html">Agile Messenger</a> on my phone, but <a href="http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000337040770/">Engadget reports</a> today that Skype is getting on Symbian, too.</p>
-
-<p>Now I'm feeling like a Skype commercial. Well, last tip for this ad: change the default double-click behaviour to send an IM instead of initiate a voice call...your Skype conversion is complete.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-04-27-hire-matt-may.md b/_posts/archive/2005-04-27-hire-matt-may.md
deleted file mode 100644
index b872fa4..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-04-27-hire-matt-may.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Hire Matt May
-created: 1114662484
-categories: 
-- Social Media
----
-
-<p>Matt May <a href="http://www.bestkungfu.com/archive/date/2005/04/quittin-time/">needs hiring</a>. And so I got this crazy idea into my head. An experiment in conversation tracking and tagging, and who knows what else, prompted by Matt's statement &quot;but really, who reads resumes anymore?&quot;.</p>
-
-<p>See the tag at the end of this post? Use &quot;hire matt may&quot;, and it should show up on <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/hire+matt+may">this Technorati tags page</a>.</p>
-
-<p>Also, I've created a PubSub search for the phrase &quot;hire matt may&quot;, so you should just be able to use that exact phrase anywhere in your post and it will show up on <a href="/aggregator/hire-matt-may">this page</a> (I'm aggregating the PubSub RSS feed -- here's the <a title="RSS feed for PubSub search 'hire matt may'" href="http://rss.pubsub.com/57/ce/32141e8dbb126be9193dc392b9.xml">direct feed link</a>).</p>
-
-<p>So...if you want to, um, hire Matt May, then use the tag or that phrase. Either put up a post suggesting a company where he might like to work, or offer him a job via your weblog, or show support that other people should hire him. Heck, Flickr pictures with a written testimonial (a la <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/lockergnome/">Pirillo's chest</a>) might even be a good idea.</p>
-
-<p>Who is Matt May? Well, I've been following his weblog for quite some time. I've met him once, very briefly (he may not remember) -- down at the Business Blogging Summit in Seattle. He knows webbie-type stuff, and happens to have a really great podcast as well. I would love to have him as a <a href="http://www.bryght.com">Bryght guy</a> but....well, no but. I don't know if we can afford him right now.</p>
-
-<p>Let's see what happens next...</p>
-
-<p>Tags: <a rel="tag" href="http://www.bestkungfu.com/archive/date/2005/04/quittin-time/">hire matt may</a>, <a rel="tag" href="http://www.bestkungfu.com/">matt may</a></p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-04-27-linkies.md b/_posts/archive/2005-04-27-linkies.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f26f94a..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-04-27-linkies.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Linkies
-created: 1114660684
-categories: 
-- Links of Interest
----
-
-<p>Yep, it's link roundup time. I have stuff that needs posting over on the personal site, too.</p><ul><li>My dad left for his pilgrim's walk today, and came by the office first. Kris took a <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kk/11229342/">picture</a>. Yep, he's got a <a href="http://pilgramage.blogspot.com/">blog</a>.</li><li>The XBox 360, a.k.a. XBox 2, is coming out soon. <a href="http://scottstuff.net/scott/archives/000413.html">Scott</a> talks about backwards compatility. I've been tempted to get an XBox 1 to act as media center, due to it's extreme hackability. Will version 2 also be hack-friendly?</li><li>I read Fraser Speirs' ideas around <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/fraserspeirs/868220.html">Neutrino XML</a> with interest. Then I reallized it was pretty much OPML. And of course, I already have the <a href="http://personal.bmannconsulting.com/borisphere">borisphere</a>.</li><li>Fred does a great job talking about the <a href="http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2005/04/linking_in.html">benefits of LinkedIn</a>.</li><li><a href="http://www.kriskrug.com">Kris</a> lent me Firefly on DVD and I was hooked, so I'm looking forward to the <a href="http://www.apple.com/trailers/universal/serenity/">Serenity</a> movie. Could this be a way to re-launch the series?</li><li>The <a href="http://www.dpreview.com/news/0504/05042201canons2is.asp">Canon S2 IS</a>, the successor to my S1, just got released. <a href="http://home.justwerks.com">Evan</a> was sitting on the fence for quite some time, this might push him over to buy it. Heck, I'm thinking of giving my S1 to <a href="http://www.justagwailo.com">Richard</a> for services rendered and getting it myself. Only annoying bit: they changed the memory card format from Compact Flash to SD, and I have quite a few CF cards already.</li><li><a href="http://www.anisotropic.net/node/122">Jeffie is building Drupal stuff and making fun of Dries</a> -- &quot;I am slowly getting a clearer picture of what a demented little monkey Dries is&quot;</li></ul>
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-<p>Aside: is some of this stuff &quot;personal&quot; and shouldn't be here? I'm really bad at keeping my life in little boxes scattered all over the place...</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-04-29-i-got-bradcasted.md b/_posts/archive/2005-04-29-i-got-bradcasted.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 0e1e381..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-04-29-i-got-bradcasted.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: I got Bradcasted!
-created: 1114771740
-categories: 
-- BMC
----
-<p><a href="http://www.bradfordgibson.net/node/142">Brad Gibson</a> posted part 1 of an interview he did with Roland and I. We talked about the Vancouver scene, especially Flickr and the growing recognition of BC as a center of tech innovation in Canada -- something that I had just finished discussing with Leonard Brody, who Roland is hopefully going to interview in a few weeks about his <a href="http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470836377/qid%3D1114683390/701-7529337-1851519">new book</a>.</p><p>Thanks a lot, Brad! Wow, I don't know if I can handle *another* 30 minutes of me talking...</p>
-<p>P.S. I want some &quot;I got Bradcasted!&quot; pins</p>
-<p>Tags: <a rel="tag" href="http://www.bradfordgibson.net">bradcasted</a>, <a rel="tag" href="http://www.bradfordgibson.net">brad gibson</a></p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-04-29-wiki-resume.md b/_posts/archive/2005-04-29-wiki-resume.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 2a73b36..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-04-29-wiki-resume.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Wiki Resume
-created: 1114758842
-categories: 
-- Social Media
-- Web Development
-- Search Engine Voodoo
----
-
-So <a href="http://www.bestkungfu.com/archive/date/2005/04/update-canadian-style/">Matt May noticed</a> <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/blog/bmann/hire-matt-may">this experiment</a>.
-<blockquote><p>I think it might be an interesting experiment to collect references
-from various people. It’s destined to be more enlightening than the
-reference letters I’ll send you. However, as it’s out of my control,
-it’s also apt to be more mixed than I might like, which is scary, and
-scary is bad.</p>
-	<p>Ah, what the hell. Tag what you think of me as a
-Web geek. If it’s positive on the whole, it could be a powerful
-statement to a potential employer. Or it could be an excuse to weep,
-drink, and go on medication.</p>
-	<p>And if anyone sees a job that they
-think would interest me, or simply wants to pile abuse on me, they
-should tag such advice and abuse “<a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/get+a+job+slacker">get a job slacker</a>“. I’ll track that and Boris’ feed.</p></blockquote>
-
-<p><a href="http://www.alexandrasamuel.com/blog/">Alex Samuel</a> pointed me to <a href="http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/dyn/wendy_resume/index.php/Main_Page">Wendy Koslow's wiki resume</a>, which got me thinking about an old idea I had about <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/941">XML Resumes and Resume Promotion</a>. That post has some sub-links to various formats, but looking back at it, some of it is implemented by <a href="http://www.linkedin.com">LinkedIn</a> already. <a href="http://www.simplyhired.com">SimplyHired</a> has been talked up a bit lately, but unfortunately, <a href="http://www.simplyhired.com/index.php?dstate=searchresult&state=searchresult&miles=25&within=&lv=&ncn=&rl=&jt=&mj=&db=&hci=&mr=10&sortby=&q=web+geek&l=seattle&submit_btn=search">zero results for &quot;web geek&quot; in Seattle</a> (and yes, that query string is atrocious, but at least you can bookmark searches). What, no RSS?</p>
-
-<p>I've always complained about LinkedIn not making my profile publically visible: just give me a feed or an XML output or something (we love APIs!) so that I can integrate it in other places. Please?</p>
-
-<p>Tags: <a href="http://www.bestkungfu.com/archive/date/2005/04/quittin-time/" rel="tag">hire matt may</a>, <a href="http://www.bestkungfu.com/" rel="tag">matt may</a>, <a href="http://www.alexandrasamuel.com/" rel="tag">alex samuels</a>, <a title="Wendy Koslow's Wiki Resume" href="http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/dyn/wendy_resume/index.php/Main_Page">wendy koslow</a>, <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/blog/bmann/wiki-resume" rel="tag">wiki resume</a>, <a rel="tag" href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/bright-ideas/xml-resume">xml resume</a></p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-05-01-birth-of-a-baby-gurl.md b/_posts/archive/2005-05-01-birth-of-a-baby-gurl.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 7e0a791..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-05-01-birth-of-a-baby-gurl.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Birth of a baby (g)URL
-created: 1114975134
-categories: 
-- Web Development
-- Vancouver
----
-<p>Congratulations to Michael Tippett and family:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-Kate and I are happy to announce the birth of Sylvie Cochrane Tippett.  She was born April 20, 2005, is just shy of 7 pounds, in good health and an expert sleeper (so far). We are both doing well and Hugo has enjoyed getting to know his new little sister.  Photos will soon be posted on <a href="http://www.SylvieTippett.com">www.SylvieTippett.com</a>.
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Wow. What a dad -- a new baby girl and her very own URL from birth. Should she get her own <a href="http://www.flickr.com">Flickr</a> and <a href="http://del.icio.us">del.icio.us</a> accounts as well?</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>Michael is a Vancouver native and mastermind behind <a href="http://www.nowpublic.com">Now Public</a>. Maybe we'll see him come up for air again in a couple of weeks and we can talk about kids online during a <a href="http://www.kriskrug.com">Vancouver Beercast</a>.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-05-01-sunday-afternoon-link-o-rama.md b/_posts/archive/2005-05-01-sunday-afternoon-link-o-rama.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e7c54ab..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-05-01-sunday-afternoon-link-o-rama.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Sunday afternoon link-o-rama
-created: 1114981552
-categories: 
-- Links of Interest
----
-
-<p>It seems like Sunday afternoons are better for linking than thinking.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<ul>
-<li><a href="http://protagonist.co.uk/dashLicious/">dashLicious</a>: a Mac OS X Tiger Dashboard widget that lets you add links to del.icio.us; needs to add Firefox support and then I can ditch the bookmarklet I use right now</li>
-<li>Richard Eriksson writes on <a href="http://www.justagwailo.com/filter/2005/04/30/creative-commons">Creative Commons hooking up with BzzAgent</a> and how disappointed he is; makes me want to use phrases like &quot;tour-de-force&quot; and &quot;definitive write up&quot;</li>
-<li>More Vancouver-local talent, <a href="http://www.davidrdgratton.com/">David RD Gratton</a>; apparently <a href="http://www.bryanrieger.com">Bryan</a> coerced him back into blogging; he's thinking about <a href="http://www.davidrdgratton.com/archives/2005/04/another_reason.html">music DRM right now</a>; go subscribe and keep up with him if you can</li>
-<li><a href="http://www.rolandtanglao.com">Roland</a> linked to this <a href="http://www.infosyncworld.com/reviews/n/5358.html">Stowaway Bluetooth keyboard</a> -- I had one of these for my first PDA, a Handspring; I can see how this might be useful for on-the-fly anywhere reporting/blogging -- I could do this with my Nokia 6630 + GPRS; but, I've never had good success with these accessory accessories...I always lose the dream and stop using them...</li>
-<li>Skype now has an <a href="http://www.skype.com/partners/affiliate/">affiliate program</a> (via <a href="http://blog.larixconsulting.com/blog/_archives/2005/4/30/635119.html">Tris</a>); I'll add it to my banners here</li>
-<li>The infamous-yet-anonymous :P Holycola is <a href="http://holycola.net/archives/000773.html">rockin' Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger</a>, and here's my favourite quote: &quot;Tiger unifies applications and their data like only some kind of high-end database could before, and does it with elegance. If that isn't a major change, I don't know what is.&quot;</li>
-</ul>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-05-04-how-i-hate-the-b-word.md b/_posts/archive/2005-05-04-how-i-hate-the-b-word.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 587fb6b..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-05-04-how-i-hate-the-b-word.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: How I hate the "b" word
-created: 1115262035
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
-- Social Media
----
-<p>Lots of people know I hate the &quot;b&quot; word.</p>
-
-<p>The guys over at Raincity Studios are &quot;hanging out&quot; in our virtual project space, where we talk about all sorts of interesting things. They asked us what the &quot;label&quot; is for what we all do.</p>
-
-<p><a href="http://www.darrenbarefoot.com/archives/001444.html">Darren asked this</a> a while back as well.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>Bryan and Steph thought everyone knew about personal publishing, online collaboration, and tracking conversations in the two-way web. By a <a href="http://bryanrieger.com/2005/05/happy-accidents/">happy accident</a>, they're now helping people explore and use all these tools.</p>
-
-<p>But time and again, we're forced to sprinkle magic blogging dust on the concept of building accessible, community-enabled websites that help people to connect and communicate. I guess it's just easier to say blogging.</p>
-
-<p><a href="http://www.gigaom.com/2005/05/01/blogging-101-whats-blogging-whats-not/">Om Malik gets it</a>: "I am a reporter who uses “easy publish
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-05-04-online-ad-networks-or-online-content-networks.md b/_posts/archive/2005-05-04-online-ad-networks-or-online-content-networks.md
deleted file mode 100644
index b29656d..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-05-04-online-ad-networks-or-online-content-networks.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Online ad networks or online content networks?
-created: 1115251758
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
----
-<p>As <a href="http://worcester.typepad.com/pc4media/2005/05/future_of_onlin.html">Peter Caputa</a> mentions, we had a call this afternoon. Among other things (like cool event microformats and digital identity standards), we kicked around some of <a href="http://www.kriskrug.com">our</a> ideas about online advertising and content.</p>
-
-<p>Peter posted this on my &quot;theory&quot;:</p>
-<blockquote>Boris mentioned a theory that there will be online ad networks like <a href="http://www.searchenginelowdown.com/2005/05/who-needs-googles-new-ad-options.html">google's adsense</a>, yahoo's business/ad services, cnet networks, <a href="http://www.buzzhit.com/2005/05/another-day-another-job-site-workcom.html">job sites</a>, <a href="http://www.computertoaster.com/archives/rss/profiting_from_rss_feeds.php">rss ad networks</a>, etc, etc. that advertisers will turn to. </blockquote>
-
-<p>Actually, I wasn't so much talking about the ad network side of things -- although I do think there could be improvement in that area. I was more thinking about the content network side of things.</p><p>Just like radio and TV networks are actually in the business of producing content around which ads are wrapped, and they band together to have more content to be more appealing to ad networks, the same thing is/will happen online. But we are seeing it at a very grass roots level today.</p>
-<!--break-->
-
-<p>Yes there are the <a href="http://www.corante.com">Corante</a>'s and <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com">WebLogIncs</a> of the world that are experimenting with this, but they seem to be very traditional models just moved online.</p>
-
-<p>There are micro-networks forming. Some of them are communities of interest (I only have to think about my writing about <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/topics/voip">VoIP</a>, Skype, and related, and think about the other dozen or so high profile people in the space) and some of them are regional or based on offline social networks.</p><p>I probably link to <a href="http://blog.larixconsulting.com">Tris</a>, <a href="http://www.blogholics.ca">Ianiv, and Arieanna's</a> <a href="http://www.cookingmadesimple.net">Cooking Made Simple</a> (as well as other &quot;local&quot; Vancouver concepts) more often than not. <a href="http://www.urbanvancouver.com">Urban Vancouver</a> isn't really doing a lot of election blogging this year because we helped <a href="http://election.terminalcity.ca" title="Vancouver and BC Election coverage">Terminal City set up a site</a> dedicated to that (and <a href="http://www.thetyee.ca">The Tyee</a> is doing something as well).</p><p>Today, those networks are informal at best. Something like <a href="http://9rules.com/">9 Rules</a> might be the start of more formal connections. These networks of eyeballs can present an attractive target for advertisers.</p><p>And I think there is lots of advertising money just waiting to spend more money online, especially as broadband enables richer advertising.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-05-08-tiger-ized.md b/_posts/archive/2005-05-08-tiger-ized.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 253955d..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-05-08-tiger-ized.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Tiger-ized
-created: 1115538892
-categories: 
-- IM
-- Mac
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/6175957/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://photos5.flickr.com/6175957_a202f71b1b_t.jpg" width="100" height="75" alt="Old desktop, meet new desktop" align="left" style="padding: 0 10px 10px 0" /></a>
-<p>I completed my upgrade to Tiger today. Well, actually, I still have some application installing and data migration to do to my laptop, but Tiger is running.</p>
-
-<p>First impressions are good -- I'm likely to use purely Smart Folders for my mail, rather than doing any filtering or sorting out of my inbox, especially since all my accounts are actually Gmail accounts (more on that at some point soon).</p>
-
-<p>But, my most hoped-for thing, sync capability with my Nokia 6630, apparently is not to be.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>The <a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/isync/devices.html">iSync supported devices page</a> certainly doesn't list it, but I was hoping. Well, I'm a bit stuck now. A quick search shows a <a href="http://forums.macosxhints.com/showpost.php?s=d8eaf5e1e122990ce6a9d604b2b3a5fb&p=199865&postcount=5">mac os x hints thread</a> which suggests that since the 6630 uses Symbian Series 60 version 8.0, there is still work to be done.</p>
-
-<p>On the big desktop machine, 1280x720 is now a supported resolution for my Benq DV2680 (yay!) and the Epson CX4600 drivers, including scanning support, are included and work great (yay!).</p>
-
-<p>iChat now has Jabber support. It doesn't support signing on to gateways (which will let you connect to your MSN, Yahoo, AIM, etc. accounts)...<strong>but</strong>, if you connect to a gateway with your Jabber account on a client that supports it, you will remain connected in iChat. I'm going to try and run iChat/Jabber + gateways as my backup IM client (after Skype). Yes, <a href="http://www.adiumx.com">Adium</a>, especially the latest 0.80 version, is still great, this is just another step in my experiments with IM.</p>
-
-<p>Check out <a href="http://missig.org/julian/blog/2005/04/30/ichat-and-jabber/">Julian Missig for all you need to know about iChat/Jabber</a>. He's a long time Jabber developer, and makes some really interesting points about iChat's (non) support of standards. Ouch, doesn't look good for Apple on this one. Where's the <a href="http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/hyatt/">Dave Hyatt</a> of Apple's Jabber support?</p>
-
-<p>I've already used Automator a couple of times. It's incredibly easy to build little "apps" that do stuff like scaling/cropping to a particular set of dimensions. Which is good, because as far as I can tell, Preview still doesn't have a resize option.</p>
-
-<p>Dashboard is cool. I re-mapped my screen gesture of the Expose current application windows to bring up the Dash instead. I'm not sure how much I will use it -- it's certainly another place to "put" things. I'm feeling that I actually need more/simpler ways to <em>input</em> things -- e.g. a key combo/service/graphical widget to create a new iCal entry.</p>
-
-<p>There are some interesting little add-ons that you can download already, like a <a href="http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/dashboard/capture.html">screen capture widget</a>. I think the Address Book widget will also be super useful -- I'm always having to launch AB just to get a phone number/whatever, and now it's that much closer. And of course, a couple of clocks showing different time zones for people I talk to all the time.</p>
-
-<p>Most difficult task in migrating? Well, I was running really close to running out of room because of the huge amount of music that I was carrying around. I really do need to get an iPod of some kind for this, since the desktop machine is our main repository. For now, I'm paring things down, but it looks like I'll still have a few thousand songs.
-
-<p>Oh yeah, and I need some kind of playlist-based syncing between iTunes libraries on separate machines: I seem to remember that <a href="http://zwily.com/iphoto/">Zack Wily of iPhoto to Gallery fame</a> was working on something like this. Last thing I remember was him being pissed off because I had already thought of half a dozen feature requests ;P</p>
-
-<p>Speaking of sync'ing...while I haven't pulled the trigger yet, I'm thinking I will get a .Mac account. Kate and I really do need to be sync'ing our calendars, her phone supports syncing etc. etc. Where all the etc. come down to the fact that calendars and contacts need to "just work". I cannot believe that an Exchange server or a .Mac account are <em>still</em> the only easy solutions.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-05-09-here-come-itunes-purchased-video.md b/_posts/archive/2005-05-09-here-come-itunes-purchased-video.md
deleted file mode 100644
index b604e8c..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-05-09-here-come-itunes-purchased-video.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Here come iTunes purchased video
-created: 1115708299
-categories: 
-- Movie
-- Mac
----
-<p><a href="http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=1062">AppleInsider</a> broke the news that iTunes 4.8 (not yet in Software Update, you can get it from <a href="http://www.apple.com/itunes" title="Apple iTunes download">Apple directly</a>) supports Quicktime content. Specifically, you can play videos directly in iTunes, either in the main window, a separate window (<a href="http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000323042773">Engadget as a good screenshot</a>), or...full screen.</p>
-
-<p>As you can see from the screenshot, movie content is stored directly within iTunes, much like a regular audio file. The fields don't make as much sense, but that's easy enough to fix in later versions.</p>
-
-<p>The <a href="http://forums.appleinsider.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=53955">AppleInsider forum thread</a> is filled with various bits of dis-information, but there were some good tidbits.</p>
-
-<p>One of the lines of discussion was about the different apps and how they fit together. iPhoto 5 supports storing/organizing videos from your camera, and iMovie is for editing movies; why in iTunes as well? Well, one view is that iTunes is for paid content (movie/TV downloads!) and organizing (think video playlists/search/etc.) not importing/editing of your created content.</p>
-
-<p>Oh right, and of course, <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/1424">iTunes is the only app that plays with Windows</a>, so that's where movie download/sales stuff has to live.</p>
-
-<p>There might even be a smoking gun. The excellent ArsTechnica forum had <a href="http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/ubb.x/a/tpc/f/8300945231/m/159002623731/r/442000723731#442000723731">this</a>:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-<p>I just looked through the strings in the iTunes executable file.</p>
-
-<p>The first one I found was "Has Video," mixed in with attributes like "Has Variable Bit Rate" and "Genre."</p>
-
-<p>The second is a bit more interesting. After "Purchased Music": "Purchased Videos"!</p>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p><strong>Update:</strong> <a href="http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2005/05/airvideo_and_im.html">Christopher Allen points to "AirVideo"</a> -- video delivered via an upgrade to the AirPort Express. <a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2005/05/10.html#a10042">Scoble isn't sure it's an Apple employee</a> where the comments originated on Slashdot. I've always thought that there's more than meets the eye in the AirPort Express (<a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/1263">like VoIP</a>).</p>
-
-<!--break-->
-<p>And that should be enough for the rumour mill tonight -- now lovingly collected under the <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/macosx/rumours/itunes-movies">iTunes Movies</a> rumour section.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-05-11-my-first-itunes-video-purchase.md b/_posts/archive/2005-05-11-my-first-itunes-video-purchase.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 8287106..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-05-11-my-first-itunes-video-purchase.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: My first iTunes video purchase
-created: 1115799533
-categories: 
-- Music
-- Movie
-- Mac
----
-
-<p><a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/1477">Video support in iTunes: check</a>. Now off to find some video to buy.</p>
-
-<p>Well, not really -- it happened by accident. I was browsing around and noticed that the Canadian iTMS had something new from Gorillaz featured.</p>
-
-<p>Turns out that Feel Good Inc (Single Edit) is an album...because it comes bundled with the music videos for four other songs: Game of Death, Hey Our Toys, Jump Gut, and Tibet. In the interests of research (well, and it's a pretty good song), I paid my 99 cents to buy the &quot;album&quot;.</p>
-
-<p>You can check it out yourself using the iTunes link below (Canadian storefront) or read on for my description.</p>
-
-<a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?selectedItemId=52656014&playListId=52656051&originStoreFront=143455">
-    <img width="61" height="15" alt="Feel Good Inc (Single Edit)" src="http://ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net/images/badgeitunes61x15dark.gif" />
-</a>
-
-<p><strong>Update:</strong> <a href="http://www.appleinsider.com/news.php?id=1065">AppleInsider</a> talks about premium video content that you pay for directly, as opposed to the bundled freebies that I bought.</p>
-
-<!--break-->
-<p>The videos are each listed as &quot;Video -&quot; followed by the name of the song, and have a little movie camera icon next to them. There is no preview, and the time is listed as 0:00, with the album being the same as the single.</p>
-
-<p>Once downloaded, I figured out that these particular videos aren't actually music videos: they are little animated Gorillaz shorts. I didn't pay any extra for them since they were &quot;bundled&quot; with the song, so that's OK, but Apple will have to do previews, which currently don't work.</p>
-
-<p>The downloaded files are MPEG 4 Video at 30fps, with an AAC, stereo, 48Khz audio track. The video's base resolution is 480x272. Weird...sounds like the dimensions for a small screen...</p>
-
-<p>Even fullscreen, the videos look quite good. Size-wise, the longest video (1 minute, 20sec) was 15.7MB in size, or about 10MB per minute.</p><p>Doing a search for &quot;video&quot; in the iTMS doesn't pick up any of these files, so it looks like this is a bit of a stealth rollout.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-05-15-mac-asterisk-community-and-dial-skype-from-your-address-book.md b/_posts/archive/2005-05-15-mac-asterisk-community-and-dial-skype-from-your-address-book.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 16d477b..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-05-15-mac-asterisk-community-and-dial-skype-from-your-address-book.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Mac Asterisk community, and dial Skype from your Address Book
-created: 1116224127
-categories: 
-- Address Book
-- Asterisk
-- SIP
-- Skype
-- Mac
-- VoIP
----
-<p>Benjamin Kowarsch emailed me to give me the thumbs up on mentioning this. Ben's company, <a href="http://www.sunrise-tel.com/">Sunrise Tel</a>, have been putting together graphical front ends and configuration wizards for the Asterisk IP-PBX running on Mac OS X.</p>
-
-<p>There is now a placeholder website at <a href="http://www.astmasters.net">Astmasters.net</a> -- "where the Macintosh Asterisk community meets". Of particular interest, if you request an account on the Macintosh Asterisk Mailing List, you can get a free VoIP account:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-<p>Regular members of the Macintosh Asterisk Mailing List may apply for a free account on the Astmasters VoIP service. This service supports both SIP and IAX and is predominantly intended for Macintosh Asterisk users to test connectivity and to be able to call other list members free of charge. However, it is also possible to make and receive calls to and from other networks.</p>
-
-<p>Account holders will be provided with an Astmasters.net SIP URI which can be called from any SIP compliant IP phone. Regular PSTN telephone numbers can be called, provided that the numbers are E164 directory listed. Both VoIP calls and VoIP to PSTN calls are free of charge. User controlled Do-not-disturb (DND) is provided by default and incoming voicemail will be sent by email.</p>
-<cite><a href="http://www.astmasters.net/voip-service.html">Astmasters VoIP Service</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Ben is going to be completing peering with <a href="http://www.freeworlddialup.com/">Free World Dialup</a> as well. Oh, if only I had a few weeks to focus on nothing but Mac VoIP for a while...</p>
-
-<p>Unrelated from Asterisk on Mac, I just found out about <a href="http://homepage.mac.com/jonn8/jpt/">Jon's Phone Tool</a>, an immensely scriptable application that lets you do all sorts of phone-related things from your Mac. Including, dial via Skype from your Address Book. Check it out.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>Skype dialing is described in the <a href="http://homepage.mac.com/jonn8/jpt/ug/index.html?using.html">user guide</a> (select the "Skype" link from the left hand menu).</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-05-19-tiddlywiki-as-note-system.md b/_posts/archive/2005-05-19-tiddlywiki-as-note-system.md
deleted file mode 100644
index db056bb..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-05-19-tiddlywiki-as-note-system.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: TiddlyWiki as note system
-created: 1116490236
-categories: 
-- Drupal
-- Drupal
-- Drupal
-- Web 2.0
----
-
-<p>I don't remember exactly why I looked at <a href="http://www.tiddlywiki.com">TiddlyWiki</a> again about a week ago.  I just noticed that <a href="http://www.docuverse.com/blog/donpark/EntryViewPage.aspx?guid=e117b1ee-9d33-43d6-9913-e1581344e568">Don Park mentioned it</a>, so I thought I would post before I forgot.</p>
-
-<p>TiddlyWiki is a wiki (sort of) that also happens to be completely self-contained in one HTML file...including being able to edit and save the contents back to disk. It does this through some JavaScript magic, but basically it allows me to have a local copy on my hard drive which I can &quot;run&quot; in my browser. Since it's one file, it could also be copied to a (for example) USB keychain and carried around and run anywhere, on any OS that gives you access to a supported browser, which today means anything that can run Firefox or IE.</p>
-
-<p>Both <a href="http://www.kriskrug.com">Kris</a> and I are using it to keep our own personal, private notes -- it's our new default home page.</p>
-
-<p>What I love about this use is the lack of context switching. I've been thinking about this a lot lately in the context of computer interaction and interruptions which flow through that space. Switching apps is disruptive, and the app I spend most of my time in is my web browser. With all my notes being only one tab a way, there is no transition into note taking mode or &quot;to do list&quot; mode.</p>
-
-<p>And yes, of course I've been thinking of crazy ideas. TiddlyWiki is an interesting little secret right now. What if we glued it into Drupal? Create a page, and that page is a TiddlyWiki. Every page is an entire wiki, with TiddlyWiki's unique editing/reading style. I'm not quite sure what it would do, but I'm sure it would be interesting.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>Oh, and in the best tradition of Steve Jobs, just one more thing: <a href="http://www8.ocn.ne.jp/~sonoisa/TiddlyWikiPod/index.html">TiddlyWiki on your iPod</a>...with wiki links to songs, playlists, artists, etc., of course.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-05-21-first-apple-store-in-canada-yorkdale-in-toronto-opened-today.md b/_posts/archive/2005-05-21-first-apple-store-in-canada-yorkdale-in-toronto-opened-today.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 473502d..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-05-21-first-apple-store-in-canada-yorkdale-in-toronto-opened-today.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: First Apple Store in Canada - Yorkdale in Toronto opened today
-created: 1116729033
-categories: 
-- Apple
-- Apple Store
-- Toronto
-- Yorkdale
-- Canada
-- Mac
----
-<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/sets/362333/"><img width="240" height="240" border="0" align="left" style="padding: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;" alt="Yorkdale Apple Store - Palm Trees" src="http://photos9.flickr.com/15005435_286ca51642_m.jpg" />
-
-</a><p id="p-0">I just happened to make it to the <a href="http://www.apple.com/ca/retail/yorkdale/">Yorkdale Apple Store</a> today -- the first of its kind in Canada. I was wearing my <a href="http://www.daringfireball.net">Daring Fireball</a> <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/1429">member's t-shirt</a>, but no one was hip enough (Mac geek enough?) to pick up on it. <a href="http://www.walkah.net">James</a> got a picture of me taking a picture, so hopefully that turned out for proof.</p>
-
-<p id="p-1">The store (as you can see from the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/sets/362333/">pictures</a>) was crushingly packed. The line up we waited in was because they only let people in as people left -- and it was still hot and sticky from all the people inside. A ton of people were buying iPods of various shapes and sizes and I was tempted.</p>
-
-<p id="p-2">James ended up getting a blue iPod Mini for his wife, along with the iPod car charger he actually needed. The atmosphere was incredible -- everyone was so hyped up and there were so many purchases going on, there was a feeling you HAD to buy something. So I ended up with an iSight, which will go on the desktop at home, since it doesn't have a microphone built in.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p id="p-3">In an email discussion, Michael Tan sent along a link to <a href="http://www.ehmac.ca/showthread.php?t=24125&page=58&pp=10">more pictures in an EhMac.ca thread</a>. He also said &quot;this reminds me of when Krispe Kreme first opened up in Mississauga&quot; to which Greg responded &quot;I like that Krispy Kreme analogy. AAPL is not a tech company, it's a sugar-as-lifestyle marketing agency.&quot;.</p>
-
-<p id="p-4">Am I a slave to marketing? Don't know, I'm just super comfortable in my Mac ghetto and haven't felt a push for a very long time to leave it. The iPod definitely is a marketing phenomenon...but it also seems to &quot;just work&quot;. Anyway, I'm off to experiment with some webcam software for the new iSight.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-06-11-transcending-apple-hardware.md b/_posts/archive/2005-06-11-transcending-apple-hardware.md
deleted file mode 100644
index d45d056..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-06-11-transcending-apple-hardware.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Transcending Apple Hardware
-created: 1118518401
-categories: 
-- Mac
----
-
-<p>I had a long post typed up on the day of the Apple-Intel announcement. Unfortunately, most of it got eaten.</p><p>I've thought about this sea change some more since then, and decided I don't care about Apple hardware: I've transcended it.</p><p>Translation: I love OS X. It's good enough, fast enough, and has enough apps for everything I need to do.</p><p>So, if Apple can keep building OS X and hide the hardware underneath, bring it in. And please <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/1441">build me a tablet</a> :P</p><p>Update: <a href="http://www.mrbarrett.com/archives/2005/06/macs_on_intel_r.html">Mr. Barrett</a> is fine with Intel as well, and +1s my tablet:</p><blockquote><p>Perhaps I'm selling the Vanderpool technology as a panacea, but I hold that it'd dramatically increase the Macintosh's role in the desktop market and open up avenues into other markets long closed to Apple. One might even speculate on how an Intel Celeron-based Mac tablet (perhaps with iPod and phone functionality) might come about.</p></blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-06-12-count-me-in-for-familydimsum-event-formats.md b/_posts/archive/2005-06-12-count-me-in-for-familydimsum-event-formats.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 78a4364..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-06-12-count-me-in-for-familydimsum-event-formats.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Count me in for FamilyDimSum, event formats
-created: 1118602118
-categories: 
-- Drupal
-- Drupal
-- Vancouver
-- Drupal
-- Social Media
----
-
-<p>Hey <a href="http://marc.blogs.it/archives/2005/06/family_oriented.html">Marc</a>, your calculations are correct. I will be back from <a href="http://www.bryght.com/blog/boris-mann/open-source-in-stuttgart">Stuttgart</a> in time for dim sum. Maybe <a href="http://www.julieleung.com/">Julie</a> wants to come too, and we can go hang out at Stanley Park afterwards.</p>
-
-<p>I'm a fan of micro-content. Drupal has enabled this for years, since it's not &quot;just&quot; a blogging tool. Ideally, formats/standards will arise organically. It's fairly trivial to export a different structured format if the source information is stored in a database. I don't really care much about the h* formats...specialized outputs will either be supported directly by themes, or styled as appropriate by people using them.</p>
-
-<p>Drupal's current <a href="http://www.drupal.org/project/event">event module</a> outputs iCal feeds. I think we're going to add per-item vCal links, as well as maybe an RSS feed with vCal items in the enclosure field. There is an RDF <a href="http://web.resource.org/rss/1.0/modules/event/">namespace for events</a> that might be useful as well, but by supporting iCal and vCal, you get support for the majority of platforms/users without having to rely on support in the client news aggregator -- the default actions of the local OS take over.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p><strong>Update:</strong> I created an <a href="http://upcoming.org/event/22261/">Upcoming.org entry</a></p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-06-13-widgets-for-your-series-60-phone-nokia-goes-webcore.md b/_posts/archive/2005-06-13-widgets-for-your-series-60-phone-nokia-goes-webcore.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 52f5056..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-06-13-widgets-for-your-series-60-phone-nokia-goes-webcore.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Widgets for your Series 60 phone - Nokia goes WebCore
-created: 1118658529
-categories: 
-- Mac
-- Open Source
-- Web Development
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<p>Isn't open source great? Nokia has made the jump to <a href="">using Apple's WebCore and JavaScriptCore framework on its Series 60 platform</a>.</p>
-
-<p>What does this mean? Well, crazy ideas like have OS X run on phones aside, it means that the widget concept could even be available on Series 60. This might see the creation of another "platform" on top of which to build applications, which runs both on the OS X desktop as well as your mobile phone.</p>
-
-<p>(via <a href="http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/hyatt/archives/2005_06.html#008321">Dave Hyatt</a>)</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-06-14-heya-neighblog-check-out-my-blogmap.md b/_posts/archive/2005-06-14-heya-neighblog-check-out-my-blogmap.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 2993381..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-06-14-heya-neighblog-check-out-my-blogmap.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Heya neighblog, check out my blogmap
-created: 1118791149
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
-- Social Media
----
-<div style="float: left; padding: 0 10px 10px 0;"><script lang="javascript" src="http://www.feedmap.net/blogmap/blogapi.ashx?method=blogmapbadge&feed=http://www.bmannconsulting.com/blog/feed"></script></div>
-
-<p>I also have <a href="http://www.feedmap.net/blogmap/neighblogs.aspx?feed=http://www.bmannconsulting.com/blog/feed">NeighBlogs</a>, like <a href="http://www.jamehealy.com/">Jame Healy</a> who reminded me about this -- he came by the office a long, long time ago (*wink*) and is getting his site up to speed. He's a Microsoft guy (won't hold that against him, some of the <a href="http://www.scobleizer.com">best people</a> are 'softies) and works over at <a href="http://www.sunaptic.com/">Sunaptic</a>.</p>
-
-<p>These MapPoint services are pretty easy to use and integrate but they look...well, they look crufty and not very smooth. Is this just for the free versions? They remind me of MapQuest, which is also definitely showing it's age compared to Yahoo or Google.</p>
-
-<p>(And yes, I do feel dirty having used the <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/1473" title="I really don't like the term blog">b word</a> that many times in one post)</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-06-21-heading-to-gnomedex-5-0-in-seattle.md b/_posts/archive/2005-06-21-heading-to-gnomedex-5-0-in-seattle.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 44d70a7..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-06-21-heading-to-gnomedex-5-0-in-seattle.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Heading to Gnomedex 5.0 in Seattle
-created: 1119403298
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
-- Social Media
----
-I'd say something witty like "light blogging ahead" (are those sorts of sayings really necessary?), but such has been the case for weeks.
-
-I'm heading to <a href="http://www.gnomedex.com">Gnomedex</a> with the <a href="http://www.bryght.com">Bryght</a> Vancouver crew. I probably won't post much during the event -- I tend to do better responding "live". You can catch all the related content over at <a href="http://www.kriskrug.com">Kris's</a> <a href="http://www.eventblogging.com/aggregator/gnomedex">Gnomedex Aggregator</a>.
-
-I'm really looking forward to <a href="http://www.commoncraft.com/archives/001095.html">The Fever's BBQ</a>. If anyone wants to virtually attend the BBQ, <a href="http://www.rolandtanglao.com">Roland</a> and I will bring our iSight cameras and you can attend via iChat.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-06-21-really-del-icio-us-easy-shared-bookmarks.md b/_posts/archive/2005-06-21-really-del-icio-us-easy-shared-bookmarks.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 1131a83..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-06-21-really-del-icio-us-easy-shared-bookmarks.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Really del.icio.us - easy shared bookmarks
-created: 1119415596
-categories: 
-- del.icio.us
-- social bookmarking
-- Social Media
----
-I showed <a href="http://personal.bmannconsulting.com/blog/kate">Kate</a> how to setup and use <a href="http://del.icio.us">del.icio.us</a> the other day, then there was a question about it on the <a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/cof/group.jsp?id=9">FastCompany - Vancouver Company of Friends mailing list</a>, and I realized that most of the people I deal with just know what it is, so I've never really written about it.
-
-So, here's something I sent along to the CoF list.
-
-Del.icio.us is known as a "social bookmarking tool". For starters, you can sign up for an account and then store all your bookmarks there. Why would you want to do that? Well, here are a couple of reasons:
-1) it's an easy, central place that you can get to from any computer
-2) you can use simple tag-based categories to organize your bookmarks
-3) you can socially/collaboratively use tags (by, e.g. all using "vancouvercof") to gather a list of shared resources
-<!--break-->
-Those are the basics. Once you sign up, you can get a little JavaScript link that you can drag to your browser's toolbar, letting you easily bookmark any page as you come across it.
-
-For users that have "drunk the kool-aid", you can subscribe to RSS feeds of tags (e.g. get notified when someone tags a web page with "vancouvercof" or even users (e.g. I want to keep track of what Peter is thinking about, so I subscribe to his links).
-
-(Peter Rees had set up a Vancouver CoF <a href="http://del.icio.us/vancouvercof">user account on del.icio.us</a> and was using some advanced, subscribe-to-other-users stuff that I'll cover some other time)
-
-As I used in my examples above, a best practice (or maybe just easier) would actually be to agree on a shared tag -- like "vancouvercof". I've tagged one item with this just now, and you can see all my Vancouver CoF links here: http://del.icio.us/borismann/vancouvercof
-
-Now here comes the collaborative part. Anyone else that creates an account can also tag their links with "vancouvercof", and it will show up on the global page for this tag: http://del.icio.us/tag/vancouvercof
-
-This ends a little abruptly, but consider this part 1 of bookmarks. I need to go and experiment with some of the other online tools and desktop apps that tie into them.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-06-22-the-fever-theme-song.md b/_posts/archive/2005-06-22-the-fever-theme-song.md
deleted file mode 100644
index ca69614..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-06-22-the-fever-theme-song.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: The Fever Theme-song
-created: 1119506641
-categories: 
-- Social Media
----
-<p>Does this count as podcasting? Arriving in Seattle, we put together a little song for <a href="http://www.commoncraft.com/">Lee Lefever</a>.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-06-23-start-thinking-opml.md b/_posts/archive/2005-06-23-start-thinking-opml.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 37e4ea4..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-06-23-start-thinking-opml.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Start thinking OPML
-created: 1119544709
-categories: 
-- Mac
-- Drupal
-- Drupal
-- Drupal
-- Web 2.0
----
-<p>I've been talking about more OPML support in <a href="http://www.drupal.org">Drupal</a> for quite some time. I'm here at <a href="http://www.gnomedex.com">Gnomedex</a>, where Dave Winer is going to release his new <a href="http://www.opml.org">OPML</a> tool, and it seems like Microsoft is going to make some big announcement as well regarding extending RSS.</p>
-
-<p>The <a href="http://archive.scripting.com/2005/06/23#When:11:33:07AM">latest from Dave</a> indicates that he's got some interesting concepts about local, desktop editing of OPML files and then reflecting changes on your online website. This is very similar to what John VanDyk, Mathias, JonBob and I dreamed up for Mac OS X and Drupal in a beer cellar somewhere in Belgium.</p>
-
-<p>I'd like to at the very least consider OPML to be a general format for import and export of blog posts between different tools. Of course, maybe we'll start seeing OPML chiclets appearing on web pages.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>The <a href="http://www.reallysimplesyndication.com/2005/06/22#a634">Microsoft "lists" extension to RSS</a> is somewhat troubling. Lists are kind of what OPML is all about. But, I'll withhold judgement until we know more.</p>
-
-<p>People are finally thinking beyond a plain old blog (POB), differentiated from <a href="http://www.whizspark.com">events</a>, <a href="http://www.civicmaps.org">geolocation</a> or other microformats/content types. Maybe soon I won't have to use the b-word anymore.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-06-25-mojave-and-litefeeds.md b/_posts/archive/2005-06-25-mojave-and-litefeeds.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 5640426..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-06-25-mojave-and-litefeeds.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: MoJave and Litefeeds
-created: 1119687018
-categories: 
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
-- Application
----
-<category>Application</category><category>Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile</category><p>Just testing these two mobile products. <a href="http://www.litefeeds.com">Litefeeds</a> are a part of the vancouver crew and <a href="http://www.mobrion.com">mojave</a> is the tool we're posting with. We're at kells in seattle about to call it a night.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Note</strong>: I edited the above to add links and publish it. I was posting from my Nokia 6630, and it did work, but not completely correctly -- i.e. it didn't post, but was sitting on the blog in unpublished state. <A href="http://www.rolandtanglao.com">Roland</a>, I might actually want to test that Bluetooth keyboard. <a href="http://www.mixedcontent.com">Colin</a>: see, it worked!</p>
-
-<p>Trying an edit now.
- Now with the litefeeds guys.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-06-26-gnomedex-2005-closing-rumours.md b/_posts/archive/2005-06-26-gnomedex-2005-closing-rumours.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 5d41502..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-06-26-gnomedex-2005-closing-rumours.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Gnomedex 2005 Closing Rumours
-created: 1119773150
-categories: 
-- gnomedex
-- Gnomedex 2005
-- Vancouver
-- Personal Publishing
-- Social Media
----
-<p>Gnomedex 2005 has wrapped, and Roland and I are driving north heading back to Vancouver, discussing our experiences at the conference. My <a href="http://www.bryght.com/blog/boris-mann">Bryght blog</a> has all the things I posted during the conference. I posted a lot more than I thought I would, even with shaky WiFi connectivity, lots of intense sessions and hallway meetings.</p>
-
-<p>I thought I would come back over here and pass on a couple of rumours:</p>
-
-<ul>
-<li>Google is readying people search capabilities. Typing in a person's name in proper caps and clicking on "I'm feeling lucky" makes...interesting things happen. Think about it!</li>
-<li><a href="http://www.dailysourcecode.com/">Adam Curry</a> was overwhelmed by the Vancouver presence at Gnomedex. He's moving from Amsterdam to Vansterdam.</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>Not a rumour: no <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/21354028/">bears</a> or fish were harmed at the <a href="http://www.edgewaterhotel.com">Edgewater Hotel</a>.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-06-26-ie7-rss-display-safari.md b/_posts/archive/2005-06-26-ie7-rss-display-safari.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 95f0cce..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-06-26-ie7-rss-display-safari.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: IE7 RSS display == Safari
-created: 1119838496
-categories: 
-- Web Development
-- Microsoft
-- Mac
----
-<p>I did find it strange how similar the IE7 display of feeds was to Safari. And by similar I mean identical.</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-They couldn&rsquo;t even innovate on the details of the layout. Compare the blurry photo-of-slide of <a href="http://bink.nu/photos/news_article_images/picture9241.aspx">Microsoft&rsquo;s feed display</a> with a similar blurry photo of <a href="http://nikkeibp.jp/jp/report/shared/mti20040628-wwdc07.jpg">Safari RSS</a> from <em>last year&rsquo;s</em> Apple developer conference. (Since that photo we added a search field at the top, making the resemblance even more spooky.) The main difference in the appearance is that MS had to bathe it in that unique gray boxy dorkiness of theirs.
-<cite><a href="http://mooseyard.com/Jens/2005/06/ive-been-microsofted#comments">Jens/log: I've been Microsofted!</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>(via <a href="http://mjtsai.com/blog/2005/06/26/longhorn-and-safari-rss/">Michael Tsai</a>)</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-06-26-my-two-feeds-main-and-complete.md b/_posts/archive/2005-06-26-my-two-feeds-main-and-complete.md
deleted file mode 100644
index fb8029b..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-06-26-my-two-feeds-main-and-complete.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "My two feeds: main and complete"
-created: 1119774179
-categories: 
-- BMC
----
-Just a quick note: I actually have two main feeds on this blog (as well as per-category feeds).
-
-The "main" feed is everything that makes it to the front page, and can be found <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/feed">here</a>.
-
-The "complete" feed is pretty close to everything that I post that is a blog (yeah, I'm not going to get into it, it's just a b-word vs. larger platform thing again), and can be found <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/blog/feed">here</a>. It includes items that I don't promote to the front page.
-
-Basically, the front page main feed is "stuff that Boris thinks everyone should read/is interested in". The stuff I don't promote to the front page is...well, something that I don't feel compelled to pester absolutely everyone about. Like my <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/1494">Gnomedex rumours</a>. I might even put boring site notices off the front page. Except for this one, since then you'd <strong>never</strong> know what you're missing.
-
-Of course, front pages are dead in any case, so your mileage may vary. We now return you to our regularly scheduled programming.
-
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-06-26-the-dark-web.md b/_posts/archive/2005-06-26-the-dark-web.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 8e9ec48..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-06-26-the-dark-web.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: The Dark Web
-created: 1119771759
-categories: 
-- Social Media
-- Personal Publishing
-- Personal
----
-<p>In wrapping up his feelings about GnomeDex, Lee LeFever pinged me to explain what our made up term 'The Dark Web' means. I don't feel entirely comfortably explaining it, so tag, you're it <a href="http://www.justagwailo.com">Richard</a>.</p>
- 
-<blockquote>
-I&rsquo;ve been hearing more references to different things referred to as &lsquo;dark-something&rsquo;  Dark Blogs are Intranet blogs, <a href="http://www.darknet.com/">Dark Net</a> is a book by J.D. Lasica and 'The Dark Web' is something <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/">Boris Mann</a> will have to explain
-<cite><a href="http://www.commoncraft.com/archives/001108.html">Common Craft: GnomeDex Revolution</a></cite>&#133;</blockquote>
-
-<p>I actually do have my own Dark Web blog -- it's <a href="http://personal.bmannconsulting.com">my personal site</a>. In some ways, I would almost welcome a <a href="http://www.livejournal.com">LiveJournal-like</a> (or Flickr-like) set of access rules so that only the people I want can read it. So, it means I sensor myself, but am OK with anyone looking there. After listening to <a href="http://www.julieleung.com/">Julie Leung's</a> presentation for the second time, I feel I'd like a private channel for some people in my life...including me, in the old personal journal/diary sense of the word.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-06-27-blackberry-or-treo-rogers-or-telus.md b/_posts/archive/2005-06-27-blackberry-or-treo-rogers-or-telus.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 0a4cdfb..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-06-27-blackberry-or-treo-rogers-or-telus.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Blackberry or Treo, Rogers or Telus
-created: 1119941560
-categories: 
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
-- Vancouver
----
-<p>My friend Jamie asked me this via email:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-<p>I may have the option to get a blackberry or a treo on either a Rogers or Telus network and I was wondering if you have had any experience with these products.</p>
-
-<p>I know Telus has better network reliability in some of the locations I will be frequenting (ie. Sechelt on the Sunshine Coast), so I am leaning towards Telus.</p>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>The Treo is an open platform, so you can easily load other applications and get accessories for it. Blackberry stuff only comes from Blackberry, and there is little to no developer community making apps for it.</p>
-
-<p>Rogers uses SIM cards, so you can get unlocked devices from any where and use them on the network. I've been through three phones (Sony Ericsson T610, Sony Ericsson P800, and now my Nokia 6630), and all I did was take the same chip and move it between phones. You can only get Telus phones from Telus, and you can't use the devices on any other network ever.</p>
-
-<p>The <em>only</em> point in Telus' favour is wider network coverage. But where are you going to be using the device the most? How much time do you spend in remote places vs. central places?</p>
-
-<p>My recommendation: get an unlocked Treo (either locally or online) and get Rogers/Fido (Rogers bought Fido). I would never willingly put myself in a position where I have a locked phone or am locked into a service provider.</p>
-
-<p>Hope that helps. Ask questions in the comments or share your own experiences with advanced mobile devices here in Canada.</p>
-
-
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-06-27-knowledge-gardening.md b/_posts/archive/2005-06-27-knowledge-gardening.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 78d76e5..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-06-27-knowledge-gardening.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Knowledge Gardening
-created: 1119941575
-categories: 
-- Knowledge Management
-- Drupal
-- Drupal
-- Drupal
----
-<p>I've been talking for a while about knowledge gardening, as it applies to running wikis, large community sites, or other interactive, collaborative knowledge stores. I really like the metaphor -- it implies a fertile ground for organic systems to grow, but also a gardener to take care of the weeds that inevitably grow. Translation: you need a site mom/gardener/etc. to get the most out of your shared space.</p>
-<p>Tagging is new to the party, and we're still figuring out how to use it. Jordan Willms (as well as creating lots of great Drupal code) has been thinking a lot about mixing tags with a little more control: gardened hierarchical folksonomy. Follow the link to check out his ground rules:</p>
-<blockquote>
-	<p>What I propose is a concept called <strong>'gardened hierarchical folksonomy'</strong>. The basic idea is that you let the site visitors build and construct the taxonomy tree. While this sounds like pure anarchy, it can be effectively controlled with a few ground rules:</p>
-<cite><a href="http://www.jordanwillms.com/index.php/archives/2005/06/26/gardened-hierarchical-folksomy-the-next-evolution-of-web-20/">stream of conscious: gardened hierarchical folksonomy - the next evolution in semantic classification</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p><strong>Update:</strong> WordPress is <a href="http://photomatt.net/2005/06/29/bugmaster/">appointing Bug Gardeners</a>. Pretty much the same thing, except I don't know if a bug or knowledge is the easier thing to garden :P</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>Over at <a href="http://www.43places.com">43 Places</a>, the <a href="http://www.robotcoop.com">Robots</a> have been dealing with something very similar as they try to help people organize all the worlds places -- a hierarchy of pre-made places with users iterating over and filling in the gaps, and then going back and fixing mistakes and making adjustments.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-06-27-xbox-360-how-microsoft-wins.md b/_posts/archive/2005-06-27-xbox-360-how-microsoft-wins.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f1130ef..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-06-27-xbox-360-how-microsoft-wins.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: XBox 360 - How Microsoft wins
-created: 1119857739
-categories: 
-- Microsoft
-- Game
----
-<p>I was amazed when I heard the Xbox 360 would support iPods out of the box. But, of course, it has to. Embrace AND extend.</p>
-
-<p>One of the big take-aways for me was hard drives vs. optical. Everyone knows what a pain it is to burn discs. They're the floppy drive / sneaker net of this era, only being used if there are no other alternatives. So of course Microsoft bypasses them with a portable hard drive.</p>
-
-<p>But basically, click through to Mitch's overview of how the XBox is going to kick the PS3's butt.</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-Here's how Microsoft will win the Game Wars by next summer, before the Playstation 3 ships in volume, using a wireless handheld Xbox that plays games, movies and TV stored on the detachable hard drives announced in the Xbox 360&mdash;and, building on .NET, Microsoft will turn both the game console and the portable game system into full-fledged productivity systems.
-<cite><a href="http://www.ratcliffeblog.com/archives/2005/06/a_bone-jarring.html">RatcliffeBlog -- Mitch's Open Notebook: A bone-jarring Ah-ha moment: How Microsoft wins the Game Wars</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-06-28-itunes-4-9-has-podcasting-rss-and-a-phone.md b/_posts/archive/2005-06-28-itunes-4-9-has-podcasting-rss-and-a-phone.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 23a1dc2..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-06-28-itunes-4-9-has-podcasting-rss-and-a-phone.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: iTunes 4.9 has podcasting, RSS, and a phone
-created: 1119974028
-categories: 
-- Music
-- Mac
----
-<p>What's going on? Microsoft releases an extension under a Creative Commons license, and Apple gives us a PDF download? Hmm, I'm not impressed. Why couldn't we have had a &quot;podcast&quot; namespace, instead of the Apple-specific &quot;itunes&quot;? I'd ask Apple what I asked Dean and Amar when they were on stage: where's the community process? But I guess we got the answer already -- there isn't one.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Update:</strong> Marc does <A href="http://marc.blogs.it/archives/2005/06/now_i_hate_to_s.html">good pointers to Dare and Danny</a>...and thinks we should all support <a href="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss">Yahoo's mediaRSS</a>.</p>
-
-<p>Below are some round up links to iTunes podcasting support.</p>
-
-<ul>
-<li><a href="http://weblogs.jupiterresearch.com/analysts/gartenberg/archives/008993.html">Michael Gartenberg: iTunes 4.9 is here with Podcasting support but wait... there's more</a>: &quot;In short Apple's done for podcasting the same thing they did with RSS in Tiger. They made it usable by the mass markets and at the same time, they have the what is going to be the most widely used podcasting client on both Macintosh and Windows and that will make their directory the one to be listed in.&quot;</li>
-<li><a href="http://archive.scripting.com/2005/06/28#When:7:10:26AM">Scripting News: Apple has defined a namespace for...</a>: &quot;Apple has defined <a href="http://phobos.apple.com/static/podcast_specifications.pdf">(PDF)</a> a namespace for podcast info. Just took a <a href="http://www.reallysimplesyndication.com/2005/06/28#a682">brief look</a>. Net-net, it would have been a <i>really good idea</i> for them to get a community review, like Microsoft did, before shipping. We could have done a lot better.&quot;</li>
-<li><a href="http://walkah.net/blog/walkah/itunes-phone">walkah.net: itunes phone?</a>: &quot;while there are a couple other posts I've been meaning to do lately... this little snippet caught my eye and has me all excited this morning. from <a href="http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2005/06/20050628065508.shtml">macrumors.com</a>&quot;</li>
-</ul>
-<!--break-->
-<p>Apple should have released this at <a href="http://www.gnomedex.com">Gnomedex</a>. Maybe that would have just blown everyone's mind. Too...much...new...stuff.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Update 2:</strong> I'm going to keep collecting some feedback down here.</p>
-
-<ul>
-<li><a href="http://usefulinc.com/edd/blog/contents/2005/06/28-rss-apple-itunes/read">Edd Dumbill: A first look at iTunes RSS extensions</a> :"From the point of view of XML and the web, iTunes RSS extensions are somewhat disappointing. From a professional point of view, I'd say this looks rather embarrassing: Apple clearly don't have enough people who really understand XML."</li>
-</ul>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-06-28-my-first-video-blog-the-eric-rice-fanboy-edition.md b/_posts/archive/2005-06-28-my-first-video-blog-the-eric-rice-fanboy-edition.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 440b9ad..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-06-28-my-first-video-blog-the-eric-rice-fanboy-edition.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "My first video blog: The Eric Rice Fanboy edition"
-created: 1120009526
-categories: 
-- Video and Podcast
----
-<p>As mentioned in <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/sites/bmannconsulting.com/files/My%20first%20video%20blog%20(Take%203).mp4" rel="enclosure">the video</a>, this is all thanks to <A href="http://www.ericrice.com">Eric Rice</a>.
-
-<p>Links from the show:</p>
-<ul>
-<li><a href="http://podcastroadshow.com/blog/_archives/2005/5/22/878538.html#comments">Podcast and Videoblog Roadshow: Vancouver Edition</a></li>
-<li><A href="http://www.gnomedex.com">Gnomedex</a> was great, but were really tired last night because of it</li>
-<li>My recent post on <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/1500>iTunes 4.9</a></li>
-<li><A href="http://blog.ericrice.com/blog/_archives/2005/6/14/939809.html">Eric's 60sec promo</a></li>
-<li>All iPods are now iPod Photos, more fuel for the <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/macosx/rumours/itunes-movies">iTunes Movies</a> conspiracy</ul>
-<!--break-->
-<p>Putting this together was pretty easy. I have an iSight, so I typed something like "isight video recording" into Google, and got this <a href="http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/07/01/isight.html?page=1">MacDevCenter article</a>. It told me to go get <a href="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/broadcaster/">Apple QuickTime Broadcaster</a>, so I did. Make sure to put your network settings to Manual Unicast (as in the screenshot) and it will work fine. Then crunched it down from 40MB to just under 5MB with iMovie. Do I have to go through that step every time? Not sure.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-06-29-picking-opml-no-use-swimming-upstream.md b/_posts/archive/2005-06-29-picking-opml-no-use-swimming-upstream.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 2294dc4..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-06-29-picking-opml-no-use-swimming-upstream.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Picking OPML: no use swimming upstream"
-created: 1120095289
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
----
-<p>Ross is <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/1491">thinking OPML</a> with respect to Tucows' new Skydasher product. He's worried if he's making the right decisions:</p>
-
-<blockquote>No use swimming upstream. I just wish that this course had been this clear two years ago when I last had to make this decision - and I pray that the decision is equally smart two years from now when I look back on today.
-<cite><a href="http://www.byte.org/blog/_archives/2005/6/29/984158.html">Random Bytes by Ross Rader: Skydasher gets OPML</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Well, we run with the standards (whether proper spec or running code), prior art, and market direction as we can. Me, I still depend on open APIs and interfaces among loosely coupled systems ruling the day.</p>
-
-<p>By the way, if a slogan for RSS is "suck my feed" or "feed me", what's the slogan for OPML? "Play with my hierarchy" doesn't have much of a ring to it. I nicknamed <A href="http://www.scripting.com">Dave Winer's</a> product -- The OPML Editor -- to be called "TOE". So..."play with my toes". I like it :P</p>
-
-<p>Related to the adoption of formats, Tristan Louis left a <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/1500#comment-13774">comment</a> pointing to a <a href="http://www.tnl.net/blog/entry/RSS_and_Media:_Can't_we_all_just_get_along?">suggested merge of Yahoo's Media RSS and Apple's iTunes extensions</a>. It's too early to bet on either one, so we have to support both for now.</p>
-
-<p>I keep hearing people complain about different formats. Well, it certainly is an issue from a user perspective, seeing a giant row of "chiclets" pointing to slightly different feeds. But from a dynamic system perspective, it's all sitting in a database anyway, so it's fairly easy to spit out a couple of different kinds of formats.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>Is the answer better auto-detection? i.e. stick it all in the head, and let the requesting application figure it out? Some sort of uber-subscribe protocol? Don't know, we'll just have to make it through these rocky in between times.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-07-03-can-you-say-maps-for-everyone.md b/_posts/archive/2005-07-03-can-you-say-maps-for-everyone.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 147ac4a..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-07-03-can-you-say-maps-for-everyone.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Can you say "maps for everyone"?
-created: 1120427555
-categories: 
-- Web Development
-- Web 2.0
----
-
-<p><a href="http://joshp.typepad.com/15/2005/07/seriously_jokin.html">Josh Peterson compares and contrasts attitudes towards using their maps</a> at Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft.</p>
-
-<p>Let's do a little summary (but go read Josh's post for the note of incredulity and the links to some of these things):</p>
-<ul>
-<li>Google has open APIs, and is putting up prize money for innovative uses of the API, and allows commercial usage (oh, right, and has that whole <a href="http://earth.google.com/">3D Earth thing</a>, too)</li>
-<li>Yahoo has open APIs, but doesn't allow commercial usage</li>
-<li>Microsoft's MapPoint charges per map generated</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>If I were a commercial entity relying on mapping, I would actually <em>want</em> to pay Google (or whomever) to ensure service and support. But if I had the flexibility to decide for myself to NOT pay, and still get great service (or &quot;good enough&quot;, given my business model, risk tolerance, etc.)...well, yeah, that's the option I would pick.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Update:</strong> this <a href="http://geobloggers.blogspot.com/2005/06/network-link-killer-app-for-google.html">network link connection to Google Earth</a> is almost enough incentive to rush out and buy a Windows machine to run Google Earth on. Yes, I just blew my own mind.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>BTW, one of Josh's <a href="/http:/www.43places.com">43 Places</a> users put together a <a href="http://joshp.typepad.com/15/2005/07/43tokyo.html">Greasemonkey script that adds Google Maps to 43 places</a>.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-07-03-delicious-construction-kit.md b/_posts/archive/2005-07-03-delicious-construction-kit.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 260b7bc..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-07-03-delicious-construction-kit.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Delicious Construction Kit
-created: 1120431188
-categories: 
-- Mac
-- Application
----
-
-<p>I love <a href="http://www.delicious-monster.com/">Delicious Library</a>. But I want more.</p>
-
-<p>Delicious Library works with your iSight or a dedicated barcode scanner to scan the UPC codes of your books, music, movies, and games, and create a library on your computer. It also connects to Amazon and looks up all the information directly from the UPC code, including a picture of the cover and all sorts of other good stuff.</p>
-
-<p>The other day, we were drinking some red wine and really enjoying it, and I was looking at the bottle and noticed the UPC code. So I walked over to the computer, held it in front of the camera, and... *beep*.</p>
-
-<p>Except the beep doesn't do anything. It does get entered into the library, but Amazon certainly doesn't know anything about wine, so it doesn't have any information to grab. And the library is restricted to books, movies, music, and games...so where does the wine go?</p>
-
-<p>This would seem the perfect application of a <a href="http://drupal.org/cck-status">Content Construction Kit</a> -- give developers (and users) the power to create new libraries and library items out of a list of fields and value types. Heck, I might even pay a monthly fee to get access to an updated database of wine info.</p>
-
-<p>So, here's hoping that the Monsters (Delicious Monster, that is, the development team) decide to give us the Delicious Construction Kit. Everyone from wine enthusiasts to comic book collectors will take care of the rest. Just like the CD database began with hand entering content, that's how wine or comic book directories could grow as well.</p>
-
-<p>Hey, this milk carton has a UPC code on it...Delicious Refrigerator anyone?</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>P.S.: Dear Monsters, I know you've heard of this &quot;blog&quot; thing. I'm not asking you to build blog posting capability in, but is there some easy way you could click a button to get a snippet of HTML? Or make me a little &quot;post to blog&quot; button that connects with <a href="http://ecto.kung-foo.tv/">Ecto</a> or <a href="http://ranchero.com/marsedit/">MarsEdit</a>. Thanks!</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-07-03-gizmo-sip-client-hopes-to-break-skype-silo.md b/_posts/archive/2005-07-03-gizmo-sip-client-hopes-to-break-skype-silo.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e0ab27f..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-07-03-gizmo-sip-client-hopes-to-break-skype-silo.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Gizmo SIP client hopes to break Skype silo
-created: 1120429499
-categories: 
-- VoIP
-- IM
----
-
-<p>Phoneboy is where I first saw mention of Gizmo:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-Hey look, it's Michael Robertson's attempt at cloning Skype: <a href="http://www.gizmoproject.com/">Project Gizmo</a>. Since it basically is using the existing <a href="http://www.sipphone.com">SIPphone</a> infrastructure to pull it off, it's definitely SIP, it's definitely got connectivity with other SIP networks, and they've got inbound and outbound PSTN connectivity.
-<cite><a href="http://blog.phoneboy.com/index.php?itemid=379">PhoneBoy's Blog: Project Gizmo?</a></cite> 
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>It's essentially a slick client for SIPphone, which I mentioned briefly trying in <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/1442">this post about Skype</a>. I'm going to download it and try it out, but I initially don't think it has the clout to take out the Skype juggernaut. Am I going to get more than a handful of people to try this out when Skype works today? I agree with <a href="http://doc.weblogs.com/2005/06/30#silosBeDamned">Doc Searls</a>, it <em>is</em> a locked silo, which I'm not happy about...but it's here today, it works, and it far surpasses the &quot;just works&quot; test.</p>
-
-<p>What does Gizmo need to do to win my loyalty? Use <a href="http://www.jabber.org">Jabber</a> for your instant messaging, and run gateways that let me connect to all the other systems with your one client. Solve my too many IM clients problem! (which is actually an identity / buddylist problem in part)</p>
-
-<p>(Actually, yes, I <strong>would</strong> like to see SIP support in <a href="http://www.adiumx.com">Adium</a>! Where do I send my money?)</p>
-
-<p>Later: OK, gets stuck at &quot;Starting agent...&quot; then &quot;Failed to register with server, an unknown error occurred.&quot;, although I did get username &quot;borismann&quot;. And yes, there are some &quot;neat&quot; features, like recording of calls, integration of maps and users, and even picking your own &quot;on hold music&quot;. Somebody call me when it works.</p>
-
-<!--break-->
-<p>More:</p>
-<ul>
-<li>Michael Robertson, who runs SIP Phone / Gizmo, talks <a href="http://www.michaelrobertson.com/archive.php?minute_id=177">Skype Bad, Gizmo good</a> (he should have said SIP, with Gizmo as one example)</li>
-<li><a href="http://gigaom.com/2005/07/02/will-gizmo-project-thwart-skype/#comments">Om points out</a> &quot;The SIP based softphones have been disregarded by consumers because of their kludgy interfaces and poorish sound quality&quot; -- not just kludgy, <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/1241">terrible</a></li>
-</ul>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-07-03-matt-may-standards-evangelist-at-large.md b/_posts/archive/2005-07-03-matt-may-standards-evangelist-at-large.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c03e374..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-07-03-matt-may-standards-evangelist-at-large.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Matt May, Standards Evangelist at Large
-created: 1120426975
-categories: 
-- Web Development
-- Social Media
----
-<p>Down at <a href="http://www.gnomedex.com">Gnomedex</a>, I got to spend a little bit of time chatting with <a href="http://www.bestkungfu.com/">Matt May</a>. He just <a href="http://www.bestkungfu.com/archive/date/2005/06/click-ok-to-confirm/">hit OK</a> on the last days of his "real" job with the W3C.</p>
-
-<p>We spent some time comparing notes on not knowing where the next paycheque is coming from exactly, the difficulty that significant-non-blogging-others have wrapping their minds around the whole concept of "people on the Internet know me", and the general exhilaration of doing your own thing.</p>
-
-<p>So, you can feel free to try and <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/blog/bmann/hire-matt-may">hire Matt May</a>, but it sounds like he's got some interesting projects of his own to work on.</p>
-
-<p>Good luck, Matt, I'm sure you'll do fine. P.S. You'll want to update your "about me" section :P</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-07-03-scalable-distributed-backups-with-bittorrent.md b/_posts/archive/2005-07-03-scalable-distributed-backups-with-bittorrent.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c7355ef..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-07-03-scalable-distributed-backups-with-bittorrent.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Scalable, distributed backups with BitTorrent
-created: 1120426216
-categories: 
-- IT
----
-<p>Jeff Barr writes up his thoughts on switching to BitTorrent for Backups (or Backup with BitTorrent - BWB, as he calls it):</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-I have been thinking of using <a href="http://www.bittorrent.com/">BitTorrent</a> to simplify and automate the <a href="http://www.syndic8.com/">Syndic8</a> backup process ... if this works, I could ask a trusted friend or two to subscribe as well, giving me a scalable, distributed backup solution. Of course I would be happy to do the same for them.
-<cite><a href="http://www.syndic8.com/~jeff/blog/index.php?p=246">Jeff Barr's Blog: BWB - Backup With BitTorrent</a></cite> 
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>I remember my friend Lloyd asking if I wanted to do this with him a few years ago. At the time, ti seemed like a lot of trouble. To be honest, it probably still is, especially for the volumes of data that I'd want backed up. Well, actually, the *first* time it would take a really long time, but wouldn't I just use rsync after that? Not sure, and also not sure if there would be any speed savings unless you really did have multiple (3? 6?) people all doing this together.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-07-03-tag-clouds-are-not-a-replacement-for-ui.md b/_posts/archive/2005-07-03-tag-clouds-are-not-a-replacement-for-ui.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 47c61ab..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-07-03-tag-clouds-are-not-a-replacement-for-ui.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Tag clouds are not a replacement for UI
-created: 1120428023
-categories: 
-- Web Development
-- Web 2.0
-- Social Media
-- Knowledge Management
----
-
-<p>I tend to agree with Rands:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-My question remains. What is the purpose of a tag cloud? It's more interesting than a bulleted list, but as user interface goes it's a aflutter with clutter. If you tell me this is intended to a casual interface for browsing tags, I'll buy it, but if it's intended to more useful than a stumblable interface, I'd like to hear your theories...
-<cite><a href="http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2005/07/03/a_chance_of_tag_clouds.html">Rands In Repose: A Chance of Tag Clouds</a></cite> 
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Favourite two phrases: &quot;aflutter with clutter&quot; and &quot;stumblable interface&quot;.</p>
-
-<p>What do I want? I want &quot;top tags today&quot;, &quot;my top tags&quot;, &quot;popular tags of all time&quot;, and ways of applying these tags as I add AND browse content. The whole issue of a personal tag space vs. a global tag space is something that needs exploring on an application by application basis, too. Which opens the door to permissions models and identity, of course...</p>
-
-<p>Are tags really just an aid to search? I think we can begin to do more interesting things when we can make links between different people's thoughts on tags. My &quot;restaurant&quot; means the same thing as your &quot;restaurant&quot;. My &quot;Vancouver&quot; is Vancouver, BC, not Vancouver, WA.</p>
-
-<p>Groups of people could attach themselves to certain tags and &quot;agree&quot; that it means the same thing to them.</p>
-
-<p>Yeah, this ended up being a brain dump on tag ideas, a lot of which are just half-baked concepts right now. But...will we point at Rands' post and say &quot;this is when the love affair with tags began to decline?&quot; :P</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-07-03-the-b-word-blogrolls-are-bare-links.md b/_posts/archive/2005-07-03-the-b-word-blogrolls-are-bare-links.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e09c8a8..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-07-03-the-b-word-blogrolls-are-bare-links.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,43 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "The \"B\" Word: Blogrolls are bare links"
-created: 1120425947
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
----
-<p>Lee asks about blogrolls, and gives me another chance to <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/1473">rant about the "b" word</a>.</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-What do you think about blogrolls?  Should they match RSS subscriptions? Are they useful? Would it remove value from this site to take it off completely?   </p>
-<cite><a href="http://www.commoncraft.com/archives/001119.html">Common Craft: Blogroll Conundrum</a></cite> 
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>(Follow that link for lots of good points in the comments)</p>
-
-<p>Blogrolls are an interesting little thing, and maybe in some way even tie into Steve Gillmour's notions of attention.xml (about which I don't know enough to have an opinion, other than I don't *think* I need it). I think we've outgrown them, even if there ever was a need. Is it for people that don't link to other people in their regular posts? Yeah, I've got lot's more to say after the jump...</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>I only sort of have a <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/360">blogroll</a> (aside: that's from late 2003, and I just edited to fix broken links; sorry, no custom blogroll icon -- imagine a log with an axe in it). Sort of, because the built in <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/aggregator">aggregator</a> goes along merrily sucking in other people's feeds in various different categories, including one I even call <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/aggregator/categories/37">blogroll</a>.</p>
-
-<p>But only sort of, because it in no way reflects the just under 300 feeds I'm subscribed to. Especially the 2 dozen or so PubSub feeds, which pull in "stuff" from all over the place, and let's me "read" several orders of magnitude more resources. Some of those feeds are private, but mainly it's too hard to keep updated, and doesn't really add much value. It's the same reason I don't use my <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/weblink">weblink directory</a> anymore: sure, the feature is there, but if I'm going to link, either I'll put it in del.icio.us and add some tags, or I'll make a longer blog post with my own thoughts on it. What's the value of a bare link?</p>
-
-<p>I remember the always-insightful and usually thought provoking Shelley Powers starting off a blogroll debate a little while ago:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-Rarely do people discover new webloggers through blogrolls; most discovery comes when you reference another weblogger in your writings. But blogrolls are a way of persisting links to sites, forming a barrier to new voices who may write wonderful things &mdash; but how they possibly be heard through the static, which is the inflexible, immutable, blogroll?
-<cite><a href="http://weblog.burningbird.net/archives/2005/03/15/steve-levy-dave-sifrey-and-nz-bear-you-are-hurting-us/">Burningbird: Steve Levy, Dave Sifry, and NZ Bear: You are Hurting Us</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Melanie McBride does a good job of representing the other side of the argument, that a blogroll is a feature that helps define what a blog is:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-The suggestions of abandoning blogrolls, so early in the history of the form, is a very bad idea. Especially when it's coming from high profile bloggers or, at least, bloggers with influence. To abandon blogrolls is to abandon community and the links that connect diverse and unique sensibilities. Links that help others find us and help those who are not already well-connected techy-scenesters find allies and audiences. And our blogrolls are yet another thing that distinguishes us from the traditional media. I don't like blogs that don't have blogrolls. Those blogs imply that they're really only interested in promoting their own voice and don't have the time or inclination to show you who they're reading or reveal their support for other blogs via a blogroll. My blogrolls says "I like these blogs (for now)". Let's be adult and assume that if we have the time to put together a post we also have the two seconds to add or remove a link. It's really not that much work to maintain a blogroll. I make changes about once every few months maybe adding a new link every month or so. This really isn't hard work. And my blogroll is not static.
-<cite><a href="http://chandrasutra.typepad.com/chandra/2005/05/blogrolls_and_c.html">chandrasutra: Blogrolls and community</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>I don't think a "blogroll" is much of a thing at all. What does it say, exactly? It says, here are some people I read, that you might enjoy reading too. Except, since I read through RSS, I never see those links. And if I come to your site to comment, it's just a static chunk of space on the left or right that doesn't mean much to me -- it's a set of bare links without context. How often do they post? What do they write about?</p>
-
-<p>So what is the difference between a blogroll and links that happen to be websites representing people? Can't we use del.icio.us? Or put together some more categories around this content, like a <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/aggregator/categories/36">selection of people that write about VoIP</a>.</p>
-
-<p>A more generally useful application for links to blogs certainly is for putting together bundles of (what you consider to be) related blogs about different topics. But then, that's not a blogroll anymore, is it? Actually, these all sound like <a href="http://www.simplelistextensions.org">lists</a> or OPML applications, don't they?</p>
-
-<p>Back when there were a few double handfuls of people blogging, blogrolls were useful ornaments to help find other interesting people. In today's world of link clouds, tagging, PubSub monitoring, and millions of blogs...there are better tools.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-07-07-rss-opml-and-pirate-weather.md b/_posts/archive/2005-07-07-rss-opml-and-pirate-weather.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 3465e78..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-07-07-rss-opml-and-pirate-weather.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: RSS, OPML, and Pirate Weather
-created: 1120800217
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
----
-<p>Dave Winer pointed out some interesting implementations of OPML and US weather forecasts:</p>
-<blockquote>
-<a href="http://www.rssweather.com/hw3.php?pands=new+york%2Cny&config=&forecast=zandh">RSS Weather</a> has OPML files for every state. Here's the <a href="http://www.rssweather.com/opml/us_wi.opml">one</a> for Wisconsin, and here's what that data looks like in an OPML <a href="http://scriptingnews.worldoutline.com/2005/July/07/RSS%20Weather%20feeds%20for%20Wisconsin/">directory</a>.
-<cite><a href="http://archive.scripting.com/2005/07/07#When:8:41:01PM">Scripting News: RSS Weather has OPML files for...</a></cite> 
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>I'm still highly ranked in Google for the phrase because of some previous notes on the subject: <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/333">RSS Weather</a>. No one has implemented what I thought would actually be interesting at the time:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-An extra-cool feature would be supporting TrackBacks/referrers so that you could see the comments/blog entries that people were making about the weather -- certainly something that people in Canada are likely to do.
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Of course, what actually prompted this post was an email from Rob at <a href="http://www.pirateweather.com">Pirate Weather</a>. Yes, <a href="http://www.pirate-monkey-ninja.org">pirate</a> weather. They've taken weather in RSS a step further -- you can actually subscribe to a <a href="http://www.pirateweather.com/weather/podcast/yourzipcode.htm">podcast weather forecast for your zipcode</a>.</p>
-
-<p>Yaar!</p>
-<!--break-->
-
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-07-08-citizen-journalism-and-the-london-bombings-interview-alert.md b/_posts/archive/2005-07-08-citizen-journalism-and-the-london-bombings-interview-alert.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e4fe2ce..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-07-08-citizen-journalism-and-the-london-bombings-interview-alert.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Citizen Journalism and the London Bombings: Interview Alert"
-created: 1120846539
-categories: 
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
-- Video and Podcast
-- Personal Publishing
-- Vancouver
----
-
-<p>I'm going to be interviewed by Global TV in a few hours, talking about citizen journalism and how people in the streets of London began documenting the recent events there practically in real time, using cell phones and digital cameras.</p>
-
-<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com">Flickr</a> will likely feature prominently,  even though they're not technically a Vancouver company anymore. I'm going to use this post to gather links, and I did a little pre-show practice with the <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/sites/bmannconsulting.com/files/Global.mp4" rel="enclosure">attached movie</a>.</p>
-
-<p>All the links after the jump. I'll update as I know more, please do send in examples of more coverage (leave a comment or just link to this post).</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p><strong>Update:</strong> the interview is done, <a href="http://www.kriskrug.com/?p=609">covered nicely by Kris</a>. He took some <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kk/24532577/">pictures</a>, too. I'm pretty happy with how it went -- there was a lot to cover, so hopefully I gave a little taste of what's available, and what that means for covering current events like the events in London.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<ul>
-<li><a href="http://doc.weblogs.com/2005/07/08#timeTravel">Doc Searls:</a> &quot;Look up &quot;London Bombing&quot; on <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=london+bombing">Google</a>, on <a href="http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=london+bombing">Yahoo</a>, and on <a href="http://www.technorati.com/search/london%20bombing">Technorati</a>. Radical differences on all three.&quot;</li>
-<li>On Flickr: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/74918957@N00/">7/7 Community</a>, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/londonexplosions/">London Explosions group</a>, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/missinginlondon/">Missing in London</a></li> -- here is a <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mc/24232340/">picture taken directly underground</a>
-<li>Scoble has a good link round up of <a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2005/07/07.html#a10559">media covering blog coverage of the blasts</a></li>
-</ul>
-
-<p><strong>Update 2:</strong> I didn't manage to watch the 6pm news, but got calls from friends and relatives who saw it. From all accounts, it went pretty well, although my segment was quite short. I tuned in to the 11pm news to see if I could see it myself....but <a href="http://accordionguy.blogware.com/">Joey deVilla scooped me</a>! Not really, but it looks like they cut together a different segment based on footage from the Toronto office. One more chance some time tomorrow, I think.</p><p><b>Update 3:</b> <a href="http://www.moosehat.com/">Stewart Marshall</a> sent along a bunch of relevant links --</p>
-
-<ul>
-<li>http://www.boingboing.net/2005/07/07/photos_related_to_lo.html
-</li>
-<li>http://www.blogherald.com/2005/07/07/london-bombings-blogs-covering-from-the-frontline/
-</li>
-<li>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/uk/2005/london_explosions/default.stm#
-</li>
-<li>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4663561.stm
-</li>
-</ul>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-07-10-richard-explains-the-for-tag-in-del-icio-us-expands-on-social-software.md b/_posts/archive/2005-07-10-richard-explains-the-for-tag-in-del-icio-us-expands-on-social-software.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f830742..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-07-10-richard-explains-the-for-tag-in-del-icio-us-expands-on-social-software.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Richard explains the "for" tag in del.icio.us, expands on social software
-created: 1120993544
-categories: 
-- Social Media
----
-<p>I <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/1488">explained del.icio.us as easy shared bookmarks</a> a while back. There is a lot more development going on, and the del.icio.us team is obviously watching their users. I first saw the "for" tag used/explained on <a href="http://www.feld.com/blog/archives/2005/07/forbradfeld.html">Brad Feld's blog</a>, and then it <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/FeldThoughts?m=486">got implemented</a>.</p>
-
-<p>Richard explains its use, but you really need to click through and read his whole, much longer post on what social software means to him:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-<p>Today <a href="http://blog.del.icio.us/blog/2005/07/tags_for_two.html">del.icio.us introduced the for: tag</a>, which you use to &ldquo;send&rdquo; links to people.  It has a &ldquo;private&rdquo; RSS feed&mdash;probably would have been smarter for them to require your del.icio.us username and password to download it, since it&rsquo;s a) technically possible and b) more secure&mdash;and anything tagged with that, only people access to that username&rsquo;s account can view all the stuff tagged as such.  So, if you want to &ldquo;send&rdquo; me something, tag it as <code>for:sillygwailo</code> and I&rsquo;ll find out about it.</p>
-<cite><a href="http://www.justagwailo.com/filter/2005/07/09/for-tag">Just a Gwai Lo: Aggregator: For Tag</a></cite> 
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Basic summary: tag stuff with for:[delicious-user-name], and that person will get private notification of that link -- the digital equivalent of tapping someone on the shoulder and telling them to "look over there".</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-07-13-isync-update-means-my-nokia-6630-now-syncs.md b/_posts/archive/2005-07-13-isync-update-means-my-nokia-6630-now-syncs.md
deleted file mode 100644
index bad0b7e..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-07-13-isync-update-means-my-nokia-6630-now-syncs.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: iSync update means my Nokia 6630 now syncs
-created: 1121238275
-categories: 
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
-- Mac
----
-<p><a href="http://home.justwerks.com">Evan</a> pinged me with a link to the <a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/isync/devices.html">Apple iSync supported devices list</a>, and sure enough, the 6630 is now listed. Do a Software Update, and iSync goodness should be yours.</p>
-
-<p>Nothing else too exciting to report, although it is great that this is another item in the "just works" category when your device actually is supported.</p>
-
-<p>While I was at it, I set up Kate's T610 (my old phone), to work with the desktop. I keep thinking I should try .Mac to sync both our calendars (and contacts) together, but I just haven't felt enough of a need.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-07-13-scottstuff-is-flickring.md b/_posts/archive/2005-07-13-scottstuff-is-flickring.md
deleted file mode 100644
index fb10899..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-07-13-scottstuff-is-flickring.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: scottstuff is flickring
-created: 1121286496
-categories: 
-- Social Media
----
-<p><a href="http://scottstuff.net">Scott Laird</a> is now <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/scottlaird/">on Flickr</a>. As he mentions below, we've been tracking each others stuff for some time now, and he found the infamous beer tower picture that is on the 1001 home page.</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-<p>Weird example &#8211; 1001&rsquo;s <a href="http://1001.kung-foo.tv/">home page</a> has a few example pictures, and the last one looked kind of familiar to me.  I haven&rsquo;t seen the picture before, but the guy on the left looks a lot like <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/">Boris Mann</a>; Boris and I have been swapping comments on each other&rsquo;s blogs for quite a while now.  A bit of searching and I found the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkah/1085837/">original</a> picture of Boris and <a href="http://www.rolandtanglao.com/">Roland Tangelo</a>.  Even though I&rsquo;ve never actually <em>met</em> Boris, I&rsquo;ve met at least three or four of the people on his Flickr <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/boris/contacts/">contacts list</a> and I read the blogs of several others.  I picked a few other people on his contact list and looked at <em>their</em> contact lists, and I kept finding more people I knew.  I&rsquo;m not sure if this is all that <em>useful</em>, but it&rsquo;s certainly interesting, and it&rsquo;s given me a chance to see a lot of fascinating pictures.</p>
-<cite><a href="http://scottstuff.net/blog/articles/2005/07/12/still-flickring">scottstuff: Still Flickring</a></cite> 
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Useful? Well, it's one more place where people can connect directly and get a better sense of each other's lives, interests, and pass times. All of which are good things, I think.</p>
-
-<p>And one of these days when I am down in Seattle I'm going to meet Scott.</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-07-15-cringely-thinks-clickstar-is-itunes-movie-store.md b/_posts/archive/2005-07-15-cringely-thinks-clickstar-is-itunes-movie-store.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 6deab0e..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-07-15-cringely-thinks-clickstar-is-itunes-movie-store.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Cringely thinks ClickStar is iTunes Movie Store
-created: 1121464350
-categories: 
-- Mac
-- Movie
----
-<p>Actually, Cringely <em>also</em> thinks that Apple is going to come out with a portable retinal display:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-<p>What about a higher resolution display, possibly a retinal scan display, for the Video iPod? It's the only way to extend Apple's "Year of HD" to its tiniest platform.</p>
-
-<p>Nearly all of the retinal scan patents are held by Bothell, Washington-based MicroVision, a company I have written about in the past. And from the look of the SEC filings, a lot is happening up there in Bothell. As always I have no insider information at all, but it wouldn't surprise me if Apple introduced a super-high-capacity iPod and a separate retinal-scan display. It will be aimed at the very high end of the price scale, just like the Apple Cinema Display originally cost $4,000 for what now costs less than $1,000. The retinal scan display won't be cheap, but it will be cool, and it will be some permutation of HD, too.</p>
-<cite><a href="http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20050714.html">I, Cringely: There's More to the Apple/Intel Deal Than Even Bob Thought At First</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>My previous writings on the <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/macosx/rumours/itunes-movies">iTunes Movies rumours</a> and associated devices.</p>
-
-<p>Cringely spends some time talking about how Intel is tied into movies here, through its investment in Click Star. Retinal displays? I don't know. I still want a <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/1424">Mac tablet</a>, and it wouldn't surprise me if it was Intel-powered.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-07-15-the-work-which-i-admire-is-being-by-guys-and-gals-in-their-late-teens-and-early-20s.md b/_posts/archive/2005-07-15-the-work-which-i-admire-is-being-by-guys-and-gals-in-their-late-teens-and-early-20s.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 1e0189f..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-07-15-the-work-which-i-admire-is-being-by-guys-and-gals-in-their-late-teens-and-early-20s.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: The work which I admire is being by guys and gals in their late teens and early 20s
-created: 1121471201
-categories: 
-- Web Development
----
-<p>Hopefully Jonathan won't mind that I'm pointing to this entry, which he's labeled "personal thoughts". He's over at <a href="http://www.firebright.com">Firebright</a>, where I bumped into him through <a href="http://www.bryght.com" title="Community Content Hosting based on Drupal">work</a>. We've been having some great discussions about technology, the future, and working together, and both of us have been around since the "old school" days.</p>
-
-<p>Is the only good stuff coming from young(er) people? Of course not -- <a href="http://www.scripting.com">Dave Winer</a> will continue to stir the pot with new technologies and approaches.</p>
-
-<p>But it is interesting to see that people like <a href="http://an9.org">Andy</a> (who got kicked out of Canada for being too young to work) or <a href="http://www.jeremyhubert.com/">Jeremy</a> are creating really great stuff.</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-<p>But, interestingly, much of the work which I admire the most is being done by guys and gals in their late teens and early 20s. This generation coming up after them is going to be amazing when it comes to throwing down with ip, &rsquo;cause they&rsquo;re going to be the first ones who didn&rsquo;t know about dialup, and grew up with the web. I can&rsquo;t wait to see how embedded it is in their lives.</p>
-
-<p>But I wonder, will it lead to more innovation, or will the Internet/WWW settle, like most innovations, into a comfortable niche in people&rsquo;s lives where they learn to ignore it.</p>
-<cite><a href="http://blog.workhabit.com/?p=68">workhabit : Bryan Buchs has been building web sites for 11 years&#8230;</a></cite> 
-</blockquote>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-07-16-pluto-home-plus-squeezebox-sonos-killer.md b/_posts/archive/2005-07-16-pluto-home-plus-squeezebox-sonos-killer.md
deleted file mode 100644
index d316180..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-07-16-pluto-home-plus-squeezebox-sonos-killer.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Pluto Home plus Squeezebox = Sonos killer?
-created: 1121528488
-categories: 
-- Home Server
-- Multimedia PC
----
-<p>mark_tar_mark posted a long comment about how he uses the <A href="http://plutohome.com/">Pluto Home</a> along with the Squeezebox:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-I just setup a Pluto Home system (smarthome + media server). It’s really cool and works great with SqueezeBoxes. Just plug the squeeze box into an Ethernet jack. When it sees the squeezebox request an IP address it automatically installs the slimserver and sets everything up on its own. There’s no software to install at all. And if you have a Bluetooth mobile phone, that turns into the remote control—complete with cover art, access to playlists, etc. Plus, it knows how to control all the other stuff too—so when I start playing music on my squeeze box it automatically turns on the stereo and sets it to the right input.
-<cite><a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/704#comment-17657">mark_tar_mark: Cool new application for SqueezeBox—a Sonos killer</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>I <A href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/786" title="Pluto Home media and home automation system">wrote about Pluto</a> in early 2004, around the time I first <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/704">posted about the Squeezebox</a>.</p>
-
-<p>Finally, mark asks "So, is anybody out there working on a C++ squeezebox2 player? This is the only small piece that’s missing. With that piece this would be a total sonos killer." <a href="http://www.sonos.com/">Sonos</a> is a whole home digital music player. It's quite slick and has a dedicated wireless controller, but is expensive and only does music.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>I'm not doing much more investigating into home server systems until I live in a larger place and can actually make use of such a thing.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-07-24-coras-does-have-good-breakfasts-more-podcasts-from-the-cbc-please.md b/_posts/archive/2005-07-24-coras-does-have-good-breakfasts-more-podcasts-from-the-cbc-please.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 896f33c..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-07-24-coras-does-have-good-breakfasts-more-podcasts-from-the-cbc-please.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Cora's does have good breakfasts...more podcasts from the CBC, please
-created: 1122266747
-categories: 
-- Canada
-- Ottawa
-- Social Media
----
-<p>Dave was in Ottawa and had breakfast at Cora's. My guess is the one on <a href="http://www.google.com/local?hl=en&lr=&client=safari&rls=en&q=cora%27s+breakfast&near=Ottawa,+ON,+Canada&sa=X&oi=locald&radius=0.0&latlng=45352088,-75723440,15880405067924037563">Merivale</a>, on his way up from the 401.</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-I had one of the best breakfasts of my life at a restaurant called Cora's in Ottawa. Maybe it was because I like Ottawa so much, or did some really great work on my walk just before breakfast, or maybe it's because the food was incredibly well prepared. I don't know but, it was pretty great
-<cite><a href="http://archive.scripting.com/2005/07/22#When:2:27:05PM">Scripting News: 7/22/2005</a></cite> 
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>I noticed the mention because there was an interview on CBC recently with the founder of Cora's -- initially a completely family run chain in Quebec, and now a franchise. The food *is* really good. The point being, I wish that all of the CBC's programming was available as podcasts. Of course, when I played <a href="http://www.cbcradio3.com/podcast/list.cfm?year=2005&Playlist_Id=9">Episode #9 from the CBC Radio 3 podcast</a>...it kind of sucked (I've liked the rest of them so far). But still...more, please.</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-07-24-idea-farming.md b/_posts/archive/2005-07-24-idea-farming.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 0ef4455..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-07-24-idea-farming.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Idea farming
-created: 1122271176
-categories: 
-- Social Media
-- Web 2.0
-- Web Development
----
-<p>Dave Winer is choosing between winter in the Rockies (Dave, do you mean Whistler, or maybe Jasper?) or New York City. He's also got the concept for sort of an idea farm -- get people together, plant some seeds, water it a little, see if something grows.</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-In NY, I have actually been recruited by investors. Imho, that's the way it should be. Anyway, I have a dream, of a media technology research center located in the media headquarters of the western world. One where tech people meet to try out new ideas, with the support of the investment community, on a pooled basis. The entrepreneur shares ownership in the idea with a group of investors, who then get to bid on starting businesses around the ideas. So you put down micro-bets, $100K to $250K, get a server up and running, and see if the users like it. If they do, fund it up, maybe $2 million, and go to the next level. Why do it in NY? Well, we wouldn't just do it in NY, but it has a great airport, and theater, opera, museums, baseball, and the kind of people who are drawn to a vibrant intellectual life. People come to NY to do more than work, they come to create. And that's what draws me there too.
-<cite><a href="http://archive.scripting.com/2005/07/24#morningCoffeeNotes">Scripting News: Morning coffee notes</a></cite> 
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Isn't this a little like investing in exploration for oil and gas deposits? This is not my idea, but rather <a href="http://www.lancetracey.com">Lance's</a>. Just like mining etc., you form a company and do some exploration (get smart entrepreneurs). You get some investment and spend money up front. Then you "fail faster" (credit to Lance for that one, too) and hopefully come up with some really great ideas (find the oil/gas/diamonds).</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p><a href="http://www.bryght.com">We're</a> still looking for the Texas oil fields (or should that be Alberta oil sands?), but I think we're prospecting in the right area.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-07-25-battle-of-the-widget-platforms.md b/_posts/archive/2005-07-25-battle-of-the-widget-platforms.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 3fec012..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-07-25-battle-of-the-widget-platforms.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Battle of the widget platforms
-created: 1122278659
-categories: 
-- Web 2.0
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<p>Verrrry interesting. Another scoop from Om about the next Yahoo acquisition:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-<p>Yahoo has bought, Pixoria, the company behind <a href="http://www.konfabulator.com">Konfabulator</a>, the widget application. Widgets are small web-apps that run on your desktop and retrieve information from the Internet.</p>
-<cite><a href="http://gigaom.com/2005/07/24/yahoo-buys-konfabulator/#comments">Om Malik on Broadband: Yahoo buys Konfabulator</a></cite> 
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>I've been thinking about how to extend the web to the desktop for a while now. I've been following Apple's Dashboard stuff with interest, especially since both Nokia and Sony have made recent announcements about using the KHTML codebase for mobile browsers. This is close enough to Apple's work that having this as a platform to write applications for mobile phones and other platforms is not unthinkable...and as <a href="http://www.rolandtanglao.com/archives/2005/07/17/nokia_6680_j2me_still_doesnt_allow_photos_larger_than_640x480">Roland has been complaining about J2ME</a>, mobile phones desperately need a platform.</p>
-
-<p>But...I'm not convinced about widgets, since they're not particularly mainstream enough. I think real end users want stuff that feels like apps. Obviously they have to (from the dev point of view) have an easy platform to build to. I'm still feeling bullish on cross-platform desktop Flash apps.</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-07-25-hanging-with-the-gnomes-in-seattle-dinner-anyone.md b/_posts/archive/2005-07-25-hanging-with-the-gnomes-in-seattle-dinner-anyone.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f372961..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-07-25-hanging-with-the-gnomes-in-seattle-dinner-anyone.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Hanging with the 'Gnomes in Seattle: Dinner anyone?"
-created: 1122278818
-categories: 
-- United States
-- Social Media
----
-
-<p><a href="http://www.kriskrug.com">Kris</a> and I are heading down to Seattle to hang with the <a href="http://www.lockergnome.com">'gnomes</a> today (Monday, July 25th).</p>
-
-<p>I think we'll probably stay the whole day and likely have time for a Web 2.0 dinner. Any takers? Like...<a href="http://www.commoncraft.com">Lee</a>, <a href="http://www.robotcoop.com">Robots</a>, <a href="http://scoble.weblogs.com/">Scoble</a>, <a href="http://www.scottstuff.net">Scott</a>? I'm sure I've forgotten people, but it's &quot;today&quot; already and I need to go to sleep/get up early (and Kris will likely fill in some more for me...).</p>
-
-<p><strong>Update:</strong> we're heading to <a href="http://www.google.com/local?hl=en&lr=&client=safari&rls=en&q=chinoise&near=Seattle,+WA&sa=X&oi=locald&radius=0.0&latlng=47606389,-122330833,6605340101891054864">Chinoise on Madison</a> at 6:30pm. <a href="http://chris.pirillo.com">Chris</a> says it's &quot;pan asian&quot;, which apparently means it has sushi plus more (i.e. non-sushi stuff).</p>
-
-<p>And yes, as you can see by my comments, I did forget a bunch of people. I need to start filtering by city or something, although that wouldn't have helped with <a href="http://www.43places.com/places/view/197080">Bainbridge Island</a>. Here are some more pings: <a href="http://www.bestkungfu.com/">Matt May</a>, <a href="http://www.nickfinck.com/">Nick</a>?</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-07-25-telus-blocking-access-to-union-website.md b/_posts/archive/2005-07-25-telus-blocking-access-to-union-website.md
deleted file mode 100644
index bfd948a..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-07-25-telus-blocking-access-to-union-website.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Telus blocking access to union website
-created: 1122277481
-categories: 
-- Canada
----
-<p>Wow. This is just unbelievable. Telus is actually blocking their union's website to all of its Internet subscribers (including DSL customers who actually use third-party companies, but still run on Telus' infrastructure). I think this is going to get them in a heap of trouble. Also covered by <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2005/07/24/phone_company_blocks.html">Boing Boing</a>, among other places. And, as <a href="http://www.darrenbarefoot.com/archives/002881.html">Darren says</a>, it's probably a good idea to contact your MP about this.</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-Customers who use telus.net as their Internet Service Provider are unable to access this website due to censorship by TELUS. When support is called they claim not to be blocking access. Television station BCTV Global did a story on the 6:00 o'clock news on this issue. Radio station CKNW also had as story on censoring TELUS customers, after receiving calls from numerous TWU members. Both media outlets are in British Columbia. In both cases, the company admitted to censoring TWU members and their customers.TELUS customers can pass this proxy URL to TWU members they know who uses TELUS as their ISP: http://vfc.proxy.pfak.org/
-<cite><a href="http://www.voices-for-change.com/news/news_comments.asp?NewsID=53">Voices For Change: TELUS censors customers by denying access to Voices For Change</a></cite> 
-</blockquote>
-
-<!--break-->
-<p>(from Greg by email)</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-07-26-dinner-in-seattle-was-great.md b/_posts/archive/2005-07-26-dinner-in-seattle-was-great.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a004940..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-07-26-dinner-in-seattle-was-great.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Dinner in Seattle was great
-created: 1122422916
-categories: 
-- United States
-- Social Media
----
-
-<p>Well, <a href="http://www.kriskrug.com">Kris</a> is mad at me because we're even farther behind in various projects, but I really wanted to fit this <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/1522">trip to Seattle</a> in before going to <a href="http://www.bryght.com/events/oscon-2005">OSCON in Portland</a> next week.</p>
-
-<p>Thanks to <a href="http://chris.pirillo.com">Chris</a> for spending your Gnomie points on us at Chinoise, and happy birthday! I still don't get the term &quot;pan asian&quot;...</p>
-
-<p>I keep thinking we should do more cross-border trips specifically to Seattle. Maybe Web 2.0 meetups every month, alternating between Seattle and Vancouver (and Bainbridge?).</p>
-
-<p>After the jump, I'm just going to quote all of <a href="http://www.scottstuff.net">Scott Laird's</a> post, since he nicely covered all the necessary links.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<blockquote>
-<p>I’ll have to call this a personal first: I had dinner at <a href="http://www.chinoisecafe.com">Chinoise</a> yesterday with a group of people that I’d never actually met in person before, all arranged at the last minute via <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/1522">blog</a> trackbacks.</p>
-
-<p>Besides <a href="http://scottstuff.net/blog/articles/2005/07/12/still-flickring">finally</a> meeting <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/">Boris</a>, I got to meet <a href="http://chris.pirillo.com/">Chris</a>, <a href="http://www.commoncraft.com/">Lee</a>, <a href="http://www.kriskrug.com/">Kris</a>, Amanda, and a friend of Kris’s who’s name I’ve completely forgotten.  Sorry.  I’d never been to Chinoise before, but I’ll be back soon–great food, wonderful presented.  The conversation was enjoyably geeky; Boris and I double-teamed Lee and Chris on the “you need a <a href="http://scottstuff.net/blog/articles/2005/07/08/nokia-n91-lust">Nokia N91</a>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-07-28-vancouver-perl-mongers-with-casey-west-july-28th.md b/_posts/archive/2005-07-28-vancouver-perl-mongers-with-casey-west-july-28th.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 87ad6eb..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-07-28-vancouver-perl-mongers-with-casey-west-july-28th.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Vancouver Perl Mongers with Casey West, July 28th
-created: 1122574542
-categories: 
-- Vancouver
-- Web Development
----
-
-<p>I posted the <a href="http://www.urbanvancouver.com/node/2311">details on an event listing at Urban Vancouver</a>, but wanted to make notice of it here as well. Luke Closs reads my blog and emailed to invite me. I can't make it tonight, but one of the things that Casey is going to talk about is <a href="http://www.openjsan.org/">JSAN</a>, which is a proposal to make a kind of CPAN for JavaScript.</p>
-
-<p><a href="http://www.cpan.org/">CPAN</a> is a central repository for a ton of Perl code (it stands for &quot;Comprehensive Perl Archive Network&quot;). Having the same thing for JavaScript would certainly be a very interesting concept, especially with all the AJAX frameworks that seem to be crawling out of the woodwork.</p>
-
-<p>I see that there is going to be a <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2005/view/e_sess/7486">JSAN BOF at OSCON 2005 in Portland</a>. I'll be attending, and will be mainly posting over at <a href="http://www.bryght.com/events/oscon-2005">Bryght's OSCON coverage</a>.</p>
-
-<p>Thanks for the heads up, Luke.</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-07-29-read-only-calendars-were-nice-in-2002.md b/_posts/archive/2005-07-29-read-only-calendars-were-nice-in-2002.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 23385a9..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-07-29-read-only-calendars-were-nice-in-2002.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Read-only calendars were nice in 2002
-created: 1122623258
-categories: 
-- Mac
-- Social Media
----
-<p>Scott points to a <a href="http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0507osxserver.html">rumour</a> that Apple is going to use <a href="http://www.hula-project.org/Hula_Server">Hula</a> as a mail + calendaring solution. But, we'd all really just like iCal sharing for small numbers of people:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-The ability to publish read-only calendars was nice in 2002 when it was first added, but it&rsquo;s been three years, and I&rsquo;m still waiting for the ability to share read/write calendars with other family members. I&rsquo;m aware that I could probably do this with <a href="http://www.mac.com">.Mac</a>, but I&rsquo;m not willing to pay $100/year just so I can edit events on my wife&rsquo;s calendar a couple times per week.
-<cite><a href="http://scottstuff.net/blog/articles/2005/07/28/apple-to-adopt-hula">scottstuff: Apple to adopt Hula?</a></cite> 
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Amen, Scott. And, I'd be willing to wager that editing events on a spouse's calendar would be one of the major uses.</p>
-
-<p>There's a <a href="http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/OsconEvents2005">CalDAV BOF</a> that I'm going to attend down at <a href="http://www.bryght.com/events/oscon-2005">OSCON</a>, but really, we're stilling banging our heads over how to properly support true two-way desktop calendar integration. Hula looks like a *big* solution, and <a href="http://daemon.co.za">Adrian</a> reminded me of the <a href="http://www.jwz.org/doc/groupware.html">post dissing groupware that went with it</a>. For the same reason that blog-like tools are overtaking much larger CMS's, I would argue that a small, nimble, person-to-person focused calendaring solution that is *easy* will win over big groupware.</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-07-30-q-why-do-bloggers-sleep.md b/_posts/archive/2005-07-30-q-why-do-bloggers-sleep.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e24d092..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-07-30-q-why-do-bloggers-sleep.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Q: Why do bloggers sleep?"
-created: 1122756768
-categories: 
-- Social Media
----
-<p><strong>A:</strong> To give their news readers time to fill up again.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-07-31-gprs-nokia-6630-bluetooth-powerbook-ethernet-ibook.md b/_posts/archive/2005-07-31-gprs-nokia-6630-bluetooth-powerbook-ethernet-ibook.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 2bff58f..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-07-31-gprs-nokia-6630-bluetooth-powerbook-ethernet-ibook.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: GPRS > Nokia 6630 > Bluetooth > Powerbook > Ethernet > iBook
-created: 1122862802
-categories: 
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<p>That strange title is to indicate how I'm posting this. I'm on the road to OSCON, taking place in Portland. <a href="http://www.rolandtanglao.com">Roland</a> is driving, <a href="http://zak.greant.com">Zak</a> is working on his tutorial (something to do with dolphins and databases), and <a href="http://darrenduncan.net">Darren</a> is on the iBook on the other side of the Ethernet cable.</p>
-
-<p>I had this set up once before, on a trip to New Brunswick, between Montreal and Quebec City. At best, once you've figured out the GPRS connection scripts (I use the Nokia GPRS scripts I got from <a href="http://www.taniwha.org.uk/">Ross Barkman's home page</a>) things pretty much work. It's certainly not zippy, but you can definitely hit refresh on your aggregator and grab your latest email. And even post to your blog (via <a href="http://www.ranchero.com/marsedit">MarsEdit</a>, no less).</p>
-
-<p>Actually, the story about the connection scripts is a good one. I was in the car back east, and thought I would try it out since I had just gotten my unlimited data plan. I used the <a href="http://www.opera.com/products/mobile/products/s60/">Opera browser</a> to search Google, found <a href="http://www.taniwha.org.uk/">Ross's page</a> and downloaded the script to my phone. I then used Bluetooth to push the script to my Powerbook, unstuffed it and installed. Then I connected back the other way through Bluetooth, and voila! I was online.</p>
-
-<p>The connection sharing is the other thing of beauty in OS X. You can pretty much share from any interface to any other, so you just select Bluetooth as the connection to share, and then enable either a wired Ethernet connection or even WiFi. Darren was getting only between 2 - 4 Kbps per second, which is fantastic: basically as fast as a 33.6 dial-up connection.</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-07-31-testing-the-opml-editor.md b/_posts/archive/2005-07-31-testing-the-opml-editor.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 0d9f821..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-07-31-testing-the-opml-editor.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Testing the OPML Editor
-created: 1122841695
-categories: 
-- Open Source
-- Mac
-- Application
-- Personal Publishing
-- Social Media
----
-<p>I've got the Mac version, now available from the <a href="http://support.opml.org/download">download page at support.opml.org</a>.</p>
-
-<p>Turns out I hate the way that <a href="http://blogs.opml.org/boris/">opml blogs work</a> -- the anchor-based perma-links, the no separate entries, the weirdo "adding a link to a whole entry". I think the OPML editor should stick to what it does best -- working with OPML outlines. Actually, talking to <a href="http://www.mixedcontent.com">Colin</a> and others, we really just want to have <a href="http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnioutliner/">Omni Outliner</a> speak instant outlining.</p>
-
-<p>But this begs the question, what are we building here? I think this could be done with Jabber, the <a href="http://www.jabber.org/jeps/jep-0024.html">Publish/Subscribe JEP</a>, and passing back and forth OPML document fragments. With identity and presence built in, of course. Would <a href="http://www.scripting.com">Dave</a> be open to swapping out the communications protocol with something more standards based?</p>
-
-<p>It's the same reason I'd like to see <a href="http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/">SubEthaEdit's protocol opened</a> -- there are many more things we could build if these were standards.</p>
-
-<p>In any case, thanks Dave for giving us a new old thing to experiment with.Try subscribing to my Instant Outline. Not sure if this works yet.</p>
-
-<table><tr><td><center><a href="http://127.0.0.1:5337/outlinerSubscribe?url=http%3A%2F%2Fhosting.opml.org%2Fboris%2FinstantOutliner%2FborisMann.opml&amp;author=Boris%20Mann"><img src="http://images.scripting.com/archiveScriptingCom/2005/06/09/fullcup.gif" width="99" height="107" border="0" alt="Click on the coffee mug to add Boris Mann's Instant Outline to your OPML Editor buddy list."></a></center></td></tr><tr><td><center><font size="-1"><a href="http://support.opml.org/whatIsOpmlCoffeeMug">What Is This?</a></font></center></td></tr><table>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-08-06-rice-photo-by-b-mann.md b/_posts/archive/2005-08-06-rice-photo-by-b-mann.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 16779e7..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-08-06-rice-photo-by-b-mann.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Rice, photo by B. Mann
-created: 1123320710
-categories: 
-- Vancouver
----
-<p>The <a href="http://ericrice.com/">Eric Rice</a> universe features a new picture on the front page, with a credit to me.</p>
-
-<p>This was from Eric's visit up to Vancouver as part of his podcasting and video blogging roadshow, and was actually taken with <a href="http://www.rolandtanglao.com">Roland's</a> camera.</p>
-
-<p>If you want to see a real photographer, check out <A href="http://www.kriskrug.com">Kris Krug's</a> pictures. And, he won the <a href="http://photos.linux.hp.com/">HP OSCON 2005</a> photo contest, of course -- Rhonda has it covered over on <a href="http://www.staticphotography.com/node/53">Static Photography</a>.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>I think I might also start using <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kk/31078933/">this picture</a> as my new icon. I'm not opening it for discussion -- I'll leave that up to <a href="http://www.commoncraft.com/archives/001147.html">Lee Lefever</a>.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-08-08-buying-wireless-smart-stuff-choose-unlocked-and-open.md b/_posts/archive/2005-08-08-buying-wireless-smart-stuff-choose-unlocked-and-open.md
deleted file mode 100644
index aec81ad..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-08-08-buying-wireless-smart-stuff-choose-unlocked-and-open.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Buying wireless smart stuff? Choose unlocked and open
-created: 1123542812
-categories: 
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
-- Mac
----
-
-<p>Whoops! I was answering a different set of requirements (specifically, Blackberry vs. Treo as the only two choices) and <a href="http://www.alexandrasamuel.com">Alex</a> picked a Treo. She actually mentioned it on the phone again today, and I still didn't get that she was talking about *my* post as the impetus for her switch...</p>
-
-<p>From the universe of all smart phone/PDA choices, I'm currently liking the Nokia/Symbian Series60 platform. I also quite liked my Sony Ericsson, and the P910 is a pretty good device. The Palm is still an open platform, and my main point is to go unlocked and open, whatever device you choose.</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-	<p>The other tool that <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com">Boris Mann</a> points me to is <a href="http://www.objective-decision.com/en/products/od4contact/">OD4Contact</a>. Since Boris’ offhand <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/1499">post re: buying an unlocked Treo</a> is what tipped me over the Treo-purchase abyss, I’m inclined to follow-up on any tool that he tells me actually will make my life easier. I’m downloading it now — report to follow.
-</p>
-<cite><a href="http://www.alexandrasamuel.com/archive/235/#comments">alexandrasamuel.com: The perfect note app for a post-Entourage world</a></cite> 
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>My friend Jamie ended up getting a Blackberry, and I had a chance to play with it a bit this weekend. It has Bluetooth, but apparently only supports it as an audio interface -- we got it connected to my Nokia 6630, but only as an Audio Gateway. I tried to send vCards, photos, anything -- and nothing worked. What a waste -- it's email crack and nothing but. Call me back when you've built an open developer community.</p>
-
-<p>And Alex: sorry to have pushed you over the abyss. I used Entourage extensively several years ago, but after the Nth database corruption of its proprietary system, I vowed not to play the lock-in game again. Mail, Address Book, and iCal are certainly not perfect, but they expose their data in open (enough) formats and interfaces that other tools can be built around them.</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-08-08-request-for-tutorial-using-sshkeychain.md b/_posts/archive/2005-08-08-request-for-tutorial-using-sshkeychain.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 6677436..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-08-08-request-for-tutorial-using-sshkeychain.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Request for Tutorial: Using SSHKeyChain"
-created: 1123561643
-categories: 
-- SSHKeyChain
-- SSH
-- email
-- Application
-- IT
----
-<p>Richard <a href="http://www.undeniablygeeky.com/weblog/2005/08/08/10">wrote about securing his email</a> with SSHKeyChain in the context of pointing to <a href="http://outflux.net/blog/archives/2005/08/07/oscon-2005-wireless-sniffing/">Kees Cook's discovery of 45 clear auth POP accounts at OSCON</a>.</p>
-
-<p>I actually ran <a href="http://www.sshkeychain.org/">SSHKeyChain</a> before my upgrade to Mac OS X Tiger, but never re-installed. It worked most of the time, but not all the time. To be honest, the whole process is somewhat hard. Richard (or anyone), I'm making a Request for Tutorial (RFT): please document both the requirements (what do I need in a mail server to support this?) and the steps involved in secure email.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-08-09-ubiquitous-mac-apps-i-dont-use-quicksilver.md b/_posts/archive/2005-08-09-ubiquitous-mac-apps-i-dont-use-quicksilver.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 1bf74f7..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-08-09-ubiquitous-mac-apps-i-dont-use-quicksilver.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Ubiquitous Mac Apps I don't use: Quicksilver"
-created: 1123578649
-categories: 
-- Mac
-- Application
----
-<p>Sorry, Alex, I don't use <a href="http://quicksilver.blacktree.com">Quicksilver</a>. Lots of people do (by my count, maybe 50% or more of power users, as modeled by my colleagues). I'm sticking with Tiger's built in Spotlight capability. It's slower than Quicksilver, but it's built right into everything.</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-The uber-launcher turned master-controller that has Mac users raving. But can it act as my de facto universal tagging app? Do real people find it useful? Does Boris?
-<cite><a href="http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/">del.icio.us/for/borismann: [from awsamuel] quicksilver: find not. do. or do not</a></cite> 
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>And yes, not being able to add items/tasks/people to more than one category in OD4Contact *is* frustrating. I'm using project-based organization, since it is supposed to be mainly for task tracking, and this seems to work OK.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-08-14-flock-feedback.md b/_posts/archive/2005-08-14-flock-feedback.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 7e67eaf..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-08-14-flock-feedback.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Flock feedback
-created: 1124080102
-categories: 
-- Web Development
-- Web 2.0
-- Social Media
-- Open Source
-- Mac
-- Application
----
-<p>I'm using <a href="http://www.flock.com">Flock</a>, a new <a href="http://www.firefox.com">Firefox-based</a> open source browser. Why? Well, it's to be the world's first "social browser", but mainly because lots of friends work there.</p>
-
-<p>And, I'm already responsible for sending <a href="http://www.foolswisdom.com">one person</a> to the mothership (note to <a href="http://www.decrem.com/bart/">Bart</a> and Jeffrey: you owe me at least an iPod, especially if I hook you up with someone from the original <a href="http://www.oeone.com/">OE One</a> team)</p>
-
-<p>Sorry if this is cryptic to some. My main point in posting (other than to publicize my request for an iPod) was to start listing some feedback to the Flockers. Roland did a <a href="http://www.rolandtanglao.com/archives/2005/08/11/flock_rocks_or_chris_messina_is_a_demo_god">good post on why Flock is important</a> with some more meat to it.</p>
-
-<p>The first item of feedback being...</p>
-<!--break-->
-<ol>
-<li>...where do I post feedback/bugs? It's not listed anywhere on beta.flock.com that I can see. And yes, pinging a URL like <a href="http://beta.flock.com/feedback">beta.flock.com/feedback</a> and/or using a tag like <a href="http://beta.flock.com/feedback" rel="tag">flockfeedback</a> would work, too. Just let us know.</li>
-<li>I already have Firefox installed. Can you suck in info from there. The "Import" command doesn't list Firefox as a source.</li>
-<li>I created two groups (<a href="http://beta.flock.com/groups/show/vancouver">Vancouver</a>, <a href="http://beta.flock.com/groups/show/Drupal">Drupal</a>) but wasn't added as a member of those groups.</li>
-<li>How do I add tags if I don't "add & tag"?</li>
-<li>I know what my blog settings are. The Blog Manager doesn't auto-detect correctly, but I don't see options to set this up manually.</li>
-</ol>
-
-<p>That's all for now, after my first few minutes of Flocking. Looks like interesting work so far guys -- keep up the good work.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-08-14-you-know-youre-busy-when.md b/_posts/archive/2005-08-14-you-know-youre-busy-when.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 33a6858..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-08-14-you-know-youre-busy-when.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: You know you're busy when...
-created: 1124077864
-categories: 
-- Web Development
-- Vancouver
----
-<p>...you're on the phone with <a href="http://www.workhabit.com/">Jonathan</a> fitting in a conversation on the way to lunch, can't put down the phone even when you're shaking hands with <a href="http://blame.ca/dick/">Dick</a>, and then finally you have to hang up on the aforementioned Jonathan of <a href="http://www.firebright.com" title="Advanced hosting and provisioning of open source tools">Firebright</a> because you're meeting <a href="http://chuqui.typepad.com/">Chuq</a> for the first time.</p>
-
-<p>Or maybe I'm just a jerk with a cellphone. In any case, sorry to all involved. It <strong>was</strong> great meeting <a href="http://chuqui.typepad.com">Chuq</a> and Laurie. Roland is the center point for the International Brotherhood of Blogging Foodies, and we enjoyed lunch at the Boss, a great Hong Kong style diner in Vancouver's Chinatown.</p>
-
-<p>Lots of <a href="http://www.whatsweb20.com">Web 2.0</a> conversation, as well as foodie topics and 1 Infinite Loop. Nope, didn't find out anything, other than Chuq is crucial to success.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>...and also you thought you posted this days ago.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-08-15-come-get-your-pker-and-v14gr4-spam-is-being-nuked.md b/_posts/archive/2005-08-15-come-get-your-pker-and-v14gr4-spam-is-being-nuked.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 0a31a66..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-08-15-come-get-your-pker-and-v14gr4-spam-is-being-nuked.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Come get your p*ker and v14gr4 -- spam is being nuked
-created: 1124170971
-categories: 
-- Drupal
-- Social Media
----
-<p><a href="http://drupal.org/user/409">Jeremy</a> just released the new version of his <a href="http://www.kerneltrap.org/jeremy/drupal/spam/">Drupal spam module</a>. Yes, it's true that Drupal sites suffer from spam as well -- it's just always had a comment moderation system, so you can easily place comments from anonymous users into an approval queue.</p>
-
-<p>This works great at low volumes. For high traffic sites that get lots of high traffic spam...it doesn't work at all. Legitimate comments get drowned out by a flood of spam -- e.g. I have 36,000+ comments sitting in my approval queue. But, since I've been an advocate of <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/1329">open comments</a>, I didn't want to close things down and force people to <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/user/register">register</a>.</p>
-
-<p>So, tougher measures are called for, and at 10:30PM PST tonight, the first piece of p*ker comment spam bit the dust. And I didn't even need captchas. Thanks, Jeremy!</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-08-19-test-post-from-flock-blog-manager.md b/_posts/archive/2005-08-19-test-post-from-flock-blog-manager.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 977463f..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-08-19-test-post-from-flock-blog-manager.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Test post from Flock blog manager
-created: 1124442031
-categories: 
-- Social Media
-- Web Development
----
-<p>Lloyd responded to my <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/1534">Flock feedback</a> and
-I'm finally finding a few minutes in the middle of the night to respond.<br /></p>
-<p><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">
-Q: How do I give feedback? A: http://beta.flock.com/feedback, and Help
-Menu &gt; Give Feedback</span><br style="font-weight: bold;" /></p>
-<p>That feedback doesn't seem very friendly and seems
-very bug focused -- don't you want suggestions as well. A forum? <a href="http://www.flickr.com">Flickr</a>
-just used their threaded discussion groups to gather feedback, report
-bugs, etc. On the other extreme, <a href="http://www.robotcoop.com">The Robots</a> use <a href="http://www.43things.com">43
-Things</a> alien technology to allow users to actually rate/rank desired
-features and bugs.<br /></p>
-<p>The Help Menu item is nicely hidden. I explore menus once, but I
-don't tend to go there much. While you're in this early alpha/beta
-stage, you might want to include an actual toolbar button for
-feedback/bugs -- Safari used to have this on by default in the early
-days, and it's still a toolbar option. Another option might be to add feedback to the magic plus button dropdown menu (does this have a name?).<br /></p>
-<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Q: How do I manually configure my blog settings? A: ???</span><br /></p>
-<p>I actually found the "Options" menu, so the new bug report should actually read as follows:<br /></p>
-<p>Title: Blog manager does not let you customize your blog settings if it fails to auto-detect<br /></p>
-<p>It seems to only reliably detect WordPress blogs.<br /></p>
-<p>Work around: have the blog manager auto-detect something that auto-detects successfully. Then, use Options &gt; Configure blog to change the settings to whatever you like. I am very likely the first person to suck down content from a Basic Auth protected Drupal site using Blog Manager :P<br /></p>
-<p>Now that I'm working with the Blog Manager (it's how I made this post), I have some feedback there, too.<br /></p>
-<ol>
-<li>I don't see a button for adding links. I can drag and drop links from my shelf, but I can't hilight text and add a link (ahh...found it using ctl-click in context menu...I think you still need a toolbar button).</li>
-<li>Hitting return creates a &lt;br&gt;. Hitting return multiple times some times magically transforms this into a &lt;p&gt; tag. I'd like an option whether return creates paragraphs or line-breaks by default -- I like return to be a paragraph, and shift-return to get a line break.</li>
-<li>I get nervous when there is no obvious "save" button when I'm in draft mode (/me copies the source from this long post)</li></ol>And here's a nice picture of a tree in Victoria as thanks for letting me play with this tool.<br /><br /><a title="undefined" href="http://flickr.com/photos/35034346160@N01/34228762"><img style="border: 0px solid ; width: 180px; height: 240px; text-align: center;" alt="Flickr Photo" src="http://photos22.flickr.com/34228762_90ceea5807_m.jpg" /></a>
-<p>And for tracking purposes: <a href="http://beta.flock.com/feedback" rel="tag">flockfeedback</a></p><!-- technorati tags begin --><p style="font-size:10px;text-align:right;">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tag/flockfeedback" rel="tag">flockfeedback</a></p><!-- technorati tags end -->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-08-23-going-to-san-fran-attending-burning-geek.md b/_posts/archive/2005-08-23-going-to-san-fran-attending-burning-geek.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 38a1c2a..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-08-23-going-to-san-fran-attending-burning-geek.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Going to San Fran, attending Burning Geek
-created: 1124843936
-categories: 
-- United States
-- Open Source
----
-<p><a href="http://www.an9.org">termie</a> and <a href="http://www.factoryjoe.com">factoryjoe</a> are doing another one. On the night I think I had the couch booked (it's Kate's 30th birthday, so we're in San Fran until the 28th, then I have meetings which keep my in town until Sept. 4th -- <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/contact">call me</a>!)</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-You can start planning for the next event:
-
-<a href="http://upcoming.org/event/28948">Burning Geek BBQ</a> happening at The Langpad (where Chris and I live) this Sunday (the 28th), 3pm+.
-
-You bring the food, the booze and the skillz, we provide the venue. Emergent party, baby.
-<cite><a href="http://an9.org/blog/2005/08/23/someday-theyll-let-me-sleep/">reoriginalize: Someday They&rsquo;ll Let Me Sleep</a></cite> 
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>My contribution will be tequila peanut dipping sauce.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-08-23-google-talks-jabber.md b/_posts/archive/2005-08-23-google-talks-jabber.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c9fff18..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-08-23-google-talks-jabber.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Google Talks Jabber
-created: 1124845679
-categories: 
-- Search Engine Voodoo
-- IM
----
-<p>Google Talk is Google's unnannounced (until tomorrow?) <a href="http://www.jabber.org">Jabber</a>-based instant messaging system. We'll know more tomorrow, but it's fun that <a href="http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/archives/2005/08/google_talk_is_live.html">Niall</a> figured out how to connect early (via <a href="http://gigaom.com/2005/08/23/googles-jabber-is-alive/">Om</a>, looks like it's offline).</p>
-
-<p>What are some good Jabber clients on Windows? I can't think of any, so I suspect Google will launch a killer Jabber client of their own. This time, us folks on Macs won't be left in the cold, though -- Apple's iChat already natively supports Jabber. Looking forward to see what else Google has up its sleeve for the real release tomorrow.</p>
-
-<p><a href="http://www.walkah.net">walkah</a> -- now would be a good time to commit that jabber module for Drupal.</p>
-
-<p>It's <a href="http://www.google.com/talk">up</a>. Check the compatability chart of <a href="http://www.google.com/talk/otherclients.html">other IM clients</a> -- it does included voice only in the Windows version that Google offers for download. So...the big thing about Skype is that it is completely cross platform. Does Google once again not love Mac users? Will Apple roll an upgrade that makes iChat work with this?</p>
-
-<p>(via <a href="http://photomatt.net/2005/08/23/google-talk/">Photo Matt: Google Talk</a>)</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-08-25-fussing-about-formats-micro-or-otherwise.md b/_posts/archive/2005-08-25-fussing-about-formats-micro-or-otherwise.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 0304826..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-08-25-fussing-about-formats-micro-or-otherwise.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Fussing about formats, Micro or otherwise
-created: 1125005194
-categories: 
-- Web Development
-- Social Media
----
-<p>OK, Peter Caputa, you pushed me over the edge with this one:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-<p><a href="http://www.unmediated.org/archives/2005/08/econometa_on_mi.php">Exactly</a>. Microformats could be as big an innovation as databases were. </p>
-
-<p>If databases let us store information. Microformats let us access the world's databases. Potentially! </p>
-
-<p>Yes, APIs do this too. But, microformats make the database (or data store) distributed. Not controlled by one entity. </p>
-<cite><a href="http://worcester.typepad.com/pc4media/2005/08/microformats_en.html">pc4media: MicroFormats Enable Distributed Applications!</a></cite> 
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Umm. OK. Except....all the microformats that are going to be in wide usage are going to be auto-generated by dynamic systems of some kind (e.g. WordPress, Drupal). Which run on databases. Which can just as easily use an API directly or generate a standard format (e.g. vCard, vCal, etc.) that *works today*.</p>
-
-<p>I'm not against microformats. <a href="http://www.factoryjoe.com">Chris</a> and I had a long discussion in Portland about this, wherein I couldn't make my point clearly. The usefulness that I have seen is some Greasemonkey scripts that take hCard and hCal and automatically create....vCard and vCal.</p>
-
-<p>For the time being, these standard formats are well understand by lots of applications. Double-click them, and your local OS will "do stuff".</p>
-
-<p>I think Chris' point is that eventually, the browser will be able to understand all of these things natively, while parsing. Well, except, I don't want my browser to be one big bloated app that does everything. We've been there before, and it sucks. See also: Firefox, Thuderbird, Sunbird, etc.</p>
-
-<p>For now, I'm sitting microformats out. We'll happily support them and generate them (and yes, having a common layout from a design perspective is useful), it's just that it's easier to build distributed apps today by using APIs. Which <strong>are</strong> distributed.</p>
-
-<p>Please bang me about the head if there is something I'm missing here.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-08-28-fido-yanking-unlimited-data-plans.md b/_posts/archive/2005-08-28-fido-yanking-unlimited-data-plans.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c1fc0b1..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-08-28-fido-yanking-unlimited-data-plans.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Fido yanking unlimited data plans?
-created: 1125217139
-categories: 
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
-- Canada
----
-<p>Ouch! According to Alex, Fido is going to get rid of their unlimited data plan:</p>
-<blockquote>
-<p>29 days into my love affair with an unlocked Treo and I have discovered why it&rsquo;s nice not to be married to any one cell phone carrier. I made the leap into wireless, thinking that Fido&rsquo;s unlimited data plan offered a net; they&rsquo;ve since pulled the plan, though existing subscribers are grandfathered in &mdash; for now. One of Fido&rsquo;s customer service reps told me today that Fido is planning to scrap its unlimited plan altogether once it migrates to the Rogers network as of September 15th.<cite><a href="http://www.alexandrasamuel.com/archive/fido-complaint/#comments">alexandrasamuel.com: Scratching at Fido&rsquo;s door</a></cite> 
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>I'm one of the "grandfathered" subscribers, as is <a href="http://www.rolandtanglao.com">Roland</a>. I can't help but wonder where this will end. Competition is rapidly going out the window in the Canadian cell service market. I've complained before that our lack of adoption of advanced services is putting us at a disadvantage to places like Europe and the US.</p>
-
-<p>I had previously looked into perhaps getting a US plan. The "fine print" apparently says that a certain percentage of time has to be spent on network, but I have anecdotal reports that this isn't enforced. In any case, I'll be watching to see future Fido/Rogers plans.</p>
-<!--break-->
-
-<p><strong>Update:</strong> Think I'm exaggerating how ridiculous this is? <a href="http://gigaom.com/2005/08/28/san-francisco-evdo-is-here/">Om reports</a> that Verizon is turning on 3G -- about 10x faster than the GPRS that Fido/Rogers offers -- for $60US/month.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-08-28-gmail-supports-from.md b/_posts/archive/2005-08-28-gmail-supports-from.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 2e5d365..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-08-28-gmail-supports-from.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Gmail supports "from"
-created: 1125257556
-categories: 
-- Web 2.0
----
-<p>Via <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/FeldThoughts?m=572">Brad Feld</a>, I found out that Gmail supports "from" addresses.</p>
-
-<p>I switched over to using Gmail as the backend storage for my main emails several months ago. The big downside is that if you send through Google's SMTP server, it only lets you set the "from" as your Gmail account, regardless of your Reply-To setting. So, other people see that you're using a Gmail account.</p>
-
-<p>The funny thing is, an @Yahoo or @Hotmail account from a supposed business person looks really unprofessional. That is, from people that have their own domain, but never got email set up there.</p>
-
-<p>It kind of bothered me that I was exposing my use of Gmail, but Gmail itself has a certain cach&eacute; to it -- it's a power user tool (well, until today -- anyone can sign up now).</p>
-
-<p>Well, today Gmail is back to being a behind the scenes power. Making it that much more useful to me, much like Feedburner's feed hosting service that uses your own domain.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>Side note: my current categories are for the most part starting to break down. I have a "search engine" category, which Google at one time was, but Gmail doesn't make as much sense in that context. This whole "tag" thing might catch on one of these days :P</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-08-29-microformats-love-vcards.md b/_posts/archive/2005-08-29-microformats-love-vcards.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 419b1c6..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-08-29-microformats-love-vcards.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Microformats love vCards
-created: 1125351562
-categories: 
-- Web Development
-- Social Media
----
-<p>I had a chance to to have a long talk with <a href="http://tantek.com/log">Tantek</a> about <a href="http://www.microformats.org">microformats</a> -- following on <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/1539">comments we were trading on the subject</a>.</p>
-
-<p>The impression that I had been getting is that microformats were meant as a <strong>replacement</strong> for today's desktop standard formats -- vCards for people and companies, vCal for events/calendaring data. But the various h* formats are not replacements. They build directly on these existing formats -- the <a href="http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard">hCard spec</a> actually states that it is a "1:1 representation of the vCard standard (RFC2426) in XHTML".</p>
-
-<p>I'm sort of posting this for my own clarity in trying to figure out where microformats fit, especially in comparison to desktop integration (they'll translate to vCard and vCal) and direct API support (e.g. the <a href="http://drupal.org/node/27953">upcoming.org integration into Drupal</a>).</p>
-
-<p>Feedback to microformats promoters: the desktop integration story is something that I was very confused about, and it's where my perception of competition with vCards etc. came from. Other than being mentioned on the spec page, these desktop formats aren't mentioned on the front page or on the about page at all. There isn't a FAQ section, but maybe there should be. Here's my first cut at what I would put on such a page:</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>Q: How do microformats integrate with my desktop applications (e.g. Outlook, iCal, Thunderbird, etc.)?</p>
-
-<p>A: insert answer with pointers to Greasemonkey scripts as well as vCard/vCal transformation proxies.</p>
-
-<p>Q: Are microformats in competition with vCard, vCal, or other formats?</p>
-
-<p>A: No. Microformats are primarily for display -- designed for human viewing. They work in conjunction with existing formats to integrate with desktop apps. See (insert link to first Q/A) for more information.</p>
-
-<p>I think the main disagreement between Tantek and myself is how these formats will spread. He believes that hand-coding -- whether of individual static pages or of templates in publishing tools -- will be the main vector. I tend to think that writing plugins that implement APIs to various data sources will surpass this quite quickly. Of course, even in the latter case, developers can (will!) support microformats at the display layer, so everyone can have their own way.</p>
-
-<p>I look forward to serving our new microformat overlords :P</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-09-02-link-farming-the-future.md b/_posts/archive/2005-09-02-link-farming-the-future.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 3e0794c..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-09-02-link-farming-the-future.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Link farming the future
-created: 1125656852
-categories: 
-- del.icio.us
-- social bookmarking
-- Personal Publishing
-- Social Media
----
-<p>Seems like lots of people are talking about link logs or link lists posted to their blogs, and whether or not people find them useful.</p>
-
-<p>Darren explains <a href="http://www.darrenbarefoot.com/archives/2005/08/im-not-reading-your-daily-links.html">his thoughts on daily links</a>, and asks for feedback on whether his readers like them (he himself admits the link round ups were "probably [not] that compelling to me in the first place". Feedback for Darren: only do it if it is useful to you. I might very well subscribe to a feed of your links if you offered them, as they are fairly easy to skim in a newsreader. But, they don't really draw people back to your site, so only do it if *you* want to. Or, do both: integrate them directly into your site (or sync them), but make it a separate feed/archive that people can pay attention to or not as they choose.</p>
-
-<p>I've manually posted a few link round ups over time, but never used del.icio.us (read <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/1488">all about del.icio.us here</a>) or other link gathering tool to automatically post here. Why? They really are a different content type from blog posts. Some people may be interested in them, but many likely won't be. Inserting link content into blog posts muddies blog posts. For those that really do want to follow my links, you can get <a href="http://del.icio.us/rss/borismann">my feed</a> from del.icio.us directly. When I finalize on the event/calendaring tools that I use, you can "watch" what I'm doing through a separate events feed. Point is, these are separate types of content than text blog posts, and should (need?) to be handled separately.</p>
-
-<p>My use of links is...well, I don't know why I'm doing it. I have the vague sense that I should bookmark or note down stuff that is interesting, not important/relevant/timely enough to devote a whole blog post to, and a way to share those links with others. <a href="http://www.justagwailo.com/filter/2005/07/09/for-tag">Richard described the "for:username" usage of del.icio.us</a> -- feel free to send me stuff by adding the tag "for:borismann" to links you tag at del.icio.us.</p>
-
-<p>I'm link farming the future, thinking that at some future time I may search my links or go back to them or...do something with them.</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-09-02-tagspaces-blessed-tags-and-more.md b/_posts/archive/2005-09-02-tagspaces-blessed-tags-and-more.md
deleted file mode 100644
index bbabd01..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-09-02-tagspaces-blessed-tags-and-more.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Tagspaces, blessed tags, and more
-created: 1125657814
-categories: 
-- Social Media
-- Personal Publishing
----
-<p>Tags are being overloaded today as info-routers -- a loosely-coupled, loosely-typed way of shunting around data. People are excited by this, because it just works. For the record, I'm not against tags, I just have some concerns about how current implementations are susceptible to spam, and really am more interested in the next step beyond -- personal and shared tagspaces.</p>
-
-<p>This is not quite topics in the sky or anything like that, but more of a pointer or agreement that a group has decided to mean the same thing when they're using tags. As well, an agreement that they've decided to populate/aggregate a particular tagspace (instead of everyone using <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tags">someone else's tagspace</a>). For example, <A href="http://www.whatsweb20.com">What's Web 2.0?</a> might create a <a href="http://www.whatsweb20.com/glossary">glossary</a> defining terms (== tags) used there, and I could point all the tags that I use locally at their <a href="http://www.whatsweb20.com/tags/">tagspace</a> (this last link will be up in a bit...).</p>
-
-<p>I talked a little bit about the <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/1543" title="Link farming the future">del.icio.us use of the "for:username" tag</a> while explaining my use of links. That got me thinking, along with observing how <a href="http://www.flock.com">Flock</a> might eventually deal with groups, about blessing or formalizing the use of "for:" and perhaps "forgroup:" as standard usages.</p>
-
-<p>There is background for this, in the use of tagging that acts as a review or rating (what's the link for this? rating:6 plus Amazon ASIN), as well as intense use of place name and/or latitude/longitude usage to tie together information such as photos or blog posts to map data, a.k.a. geotagging.</p>
-
-<p>Permissions is the tricky part of this. People can spam me directly by adding "for:borismann" to their del.icio.us links. A group would have the same issue. But, if we can set those issues aside for the moment -- basically leaving it up to the implementing system on how to deal with this (e.g. friend and group lists that only allow certain accounts to do this) -- this might be an interesting way to form another level of organization around "just" simple tagging.</p>
-
-<p>Finally, a ramble on "blessed" tags. It's a bit like a bottom up taxonomy creation and/or knowledge gardening -- watch tags form, then bless certain ones with special displays that give people an incentive to stick to the blessed formats of tags. For example, on <a href="http://www.43places.com">43 Places</a> I stick to a personal format of making sure all eating places are tagged as "restaurant". Helper displays for metro areas would be quite easy to show -- e.g. top 10 most visited restaurants for Vancouver (teaser: and might actually be extracted remotely with a forthcoming API). Still, the spam issue. How to give people anti-tagging powers? Hey, I know -- we'll bless the "not:restaurant" format! A whole new level of tag fighting...</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-09-06-a-microformat-for-music.md b/_posts/archive/2005-09-06-a-microformat-for-music.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 03b5ff5..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-09-06-a-microformat-for-music.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: A microformat for music?
-created: 1126038319
-categories: 
-- Web Development
-- Personal Publishing
-- Music
----
-<p style=""><a href="http://www.mixedcontent.com" style="">Colin</a> mentioned an excellent use case for <a href="http://www.microformats.org" style="">microformats</a> to me: a standardized way of displaying information about music, most likely a direct one-to-one relation in XHTML of the <a href="http://www.id3.org/" style="">ID3</a> data that is embedded in MP3 files today.</p>  <p style="">Since audio files are binary files, in many cases quite huge, having basic crawlers parse them to get this ID3 would introduce a ton of overhead. Having this available in a human-readable way that is also parse-able would be great.</p>  <p style="">I'm sure Colin will expand on this mini-post (nudge, nudge). <strong>Update:</strong> He did - <a href="http://www.mixedcontent.com/technology/2005/09/micro-formats-and-audio-peanut-butter-and-chocolate/">Micro formats and audio = peanut butter and chocolate</a></p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-09-06-three-ways-of-syndicating-beyond-blogging-content.md b/_posts/archive/2005-09-06-three-ways-of-syndicating-beyond-blogging-content.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 8f66368..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-09-06-three-ways-of-syndicating-beyond-blogging-content.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Three ways of syndicating beyond blogging content
-created: 1126036911
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
-- Web Development
----
-<p>In my continuing quest to understand and try to explain where <a href="http://microformats.org">microformats</a> fit, I think I have three use cases of syndicating "beyond blogging" content. This means, content/data which has semantic information attached to it -- events, people, etc. etc. I'm probably using the phrase "semantic information" wrongly -- call it rich data or structured blogging, it's content that goes beyond base textual description and is "data" that has meaning.</p><p>For the most part, I'm only considering generated content. People that want to hand-code individual pages will fall into the first use case of embedded rich data.</p><p>This is a work in progress. I may make changes inline and/or integrate comments directly.</p><!--break--><ol><li><p><strong>Text/HTML blobs with embedded rich data</strong></p><p>Considering as I am not a fan of RDF for no particular reason, this seems the best use case for microformats -- easily accomplished even by having little saved snippets in your composing tools.</p></li><li><p><strong>First-class data model support (XML flavoured)</strong></p><p>This use case is where a platform/web app supports events or people natively, e.g. there are event and people data objects which you can create/display directly. The type of application which would have first-class support might be an online address book (example?) or calendaring program (e.g. <a href="http://www.k5n.us/webcalendar.php">WebCalendar</a>).</p><p><a href="http://tantek.com/log/">Tantek</a> has had some feedback that it may be easier to, e.g., generate an hCalendar display and then use a proxy to transform this into (in this case) vCal. I know that in Drupal, and I would think in other well-designed applications, it's easier or as easy to just generate a vCal file directly. Remote proxies involve a point of failure, and local proxies mean another app/more code to deploy. Code libraries which parse microformats or vCal etc. should be equally available.</p><p>Microformats are good at the display layer, for presenting a uniform target for theming thanks to common classes. Crawlers optimized for XHTML might have an easier time parsing this, although just as crawlers can do conversion of binary formats such as PDF or Word to HTML/text, I imagine the same could be done with vCard.</p></li><li><p><strong>Established format support</strong></p><p>Typically, every system that has native support for data models will also provide direct support for any non-RSS established formats. Calendars supporting iCal/vCal and address books supporting vCard are two good examples. Outlines supporting <acronym title="Outline Processor Markup Language">OPML</acronym> is another example, although neither outlines nor the OPML format itself are nearly as widespread -- something that is likely to change rapidly due to <a href="http://www.opml.org/">Dave Winer's work with the OPML editor</a>.</p><p>These established formats are probably few and far between -- offhand, only something like <a href="http://www.keyhole.com/kml/kml_doc.html">Google's KML</a> comes to mind, which is nothing more than a de-facto standard for interfacing with the Google Earth application. These formats are of course not directly human consumable -- clicking on an iCal button representing a webcal feed and/or ics file depends on the operating system to pass this on to local applications that support them.</p></li></ol><p>So, in two out of three use cases, there are very compelling reasons to make non-microformat information available as well. Of course, we're mainly talking about event and person data, for which long standing formats exist that are consumable today by lots of systems, including desktop applications. My next post will cover some areas that are sorely in need of microformats.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-09-07-itunes-phone-in-canada-will-we-be-able-to-rokr.md b/_posts/archive/2005-09-07-itunes-phone-in-canada-will-we-be-able-to-rokr.md
deleted file mode 100644
index fca6e67..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-09-07-itunes-phone-in-canada-will-we-be-able-to-rokr.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: iTunes phone in Canada - will we be able to ROKR?
-created: 1126118549
-categories: 
-- Motorola
-- cellphone
-- iTunes
-- Apple
-- ROKR
-- Cingular
-- GSM
-- Rogers
-- iPod
-- iPod Nano
-- Outlook
-- sync
-- Canada
-- Mac
-- Music
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<p>The iTunes <a href="http://www.apple.com/itunes/mobile/">support for mobile phones</a> begins today, with Apple's partenership with <a href="http://www.makemedance.com/index.php?section=demo">Motorola's ROKR E1 and the US cell company Cingular</a>.</p>  <p>The big question is of course...can we use it in Canada? Well, the Motorola ROKR is a GSM phone that also supports international networks. Being a GSM phone, it means it also uses SIM cards to activate the phone -- meaning you could use the card from any network provider. Cingular may be distributing the phones as locked, but it probably won't be more than a couple of weeks before a firmware upgrade will unlock it, making it capable of being used on any GSM network. Here in Canada, that's only the Rogers/Fido network.</p> <p style=""><b style="">Update:</b> <a href="http://evans.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2005/9/7/1204618.html" style="">Mark Evans</a> says the ROKR will be available through Rogers by mid-September, although he doesn't name a source.</p>  <p>Elsewhere, <a href="http://weblogs.jupiterresearch.com/analysts/gartenberg/archives/010311.html">Michael Gartenburg covers the iPod Nano</a> -- for us Mac folks, the Windows announcement might get lost in the shuffle: &quot;With the integration with Outlook with iTunes 5.0 and the small size, I can even see folks using this as a personal information manager.&quot;</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-09-14-google-blogsearch-launches.md b/_posts/archive/2005-09-14-google-blogsearch-launches.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 23e1dad..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-09-14-google-blogsearch-launches.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Google BlogSearch Launches
-created: 1126708111
-categories: 
-- Search Engine Voodoo
-- SiteStats
-- search
-- PubSub
-- microformats
-- Google
-- blog
----
-<p>I saw this first <a href="http://gigaom.com/2005/09/13/google-rss-search-coming/">via Om</a> -- Google has launched it's own feed-only <a href="http://www.google.com/blogsearch">BlogSearch</a>. Feed-only is important, as <a href="http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/archives/2005/09/google_launching_feed_search_t.html">Niall explains</a>:  </p><blockquote>I think feed search is just another type of search restricted to a group of MIME types, as previously stated, and as the types of content made available via a feed continue to grow I think a feed-specific search tool will become much more than just blog search. </blockquote>  <p>Niall also talks about how <a href="http://www.technorati.com">Technorati</a> indexes the entire blog page HTML, not just feed. This is actually less valuable for me -- all I ever get that way are blogroll hits and other irrelevant matches.</p>  <p>In exploring microformats, I actually was checking out Google's support for filetype restrictions. For instance, here is a <a href="http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&as_qdr=all&q=test+filetype%3Avcf&btnG=Search&meta=">search for the phrase &quot;test&quot;, restricted to vCards</a> (.vcf is the extension). Very interesting...</p>  <p>So, the space continues to evolve. In my TV spot, I demo'd how searches for London Bombing at the time showed results from the 1940's blitz in Google, and realtime results in blog search engines. Google <i>had</i> to respond at some point. This current release is decidedly uninteresting -- the results aren't that great. I do like the hinted-at capabilities of the <a href="http://www.google.com/blogsearch/advanced_blog_search?hl=en">advanced blog search page</a>, but PubSub's <a href="http://www.pubsub.com/booleanhelp.php">boolean operators</a> are already as powerful or more so.  </p><p>Aside: Hey, are PubSub SiteStats new? here are the ones for <a href="http://www.pubsub.com/site_stats.php?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bmannconsulting.com">this site</a>.</p>  <p>So, Google, welcome to the community. I'm hoping you'll grow a <a href="http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog">Zawodny</a> soon...you're starting to feel a bit big and corporate (translation: it doesn't feel like you're engaging your community)</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-09-15-b-mann-in-wired-news.md b/_posts/archive/2005-09-15-b-mann-in-wired-news.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 9f8ef5f..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-09-15-b-mann-in-wired-news.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: B. Mann in Wired News
-created: 1126795029
-categories: 
-- wired
-- flock
-- interview
-- BMC
----
-<p style="">Thanks to everyone that emailed to congratulate me for the quotes in <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,68823,00.html" style="">Jeff MacIntyre's piece on Flock in Wired News</a>. Occasionally, messing around with a lot of web technology *does* lead to good things.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-09-15-my-first-mobile-purchase.md b/_posts/archive/2005-09-15-my-first-mobile-purchase.md
deleted file mode 100644
index fd444f8..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-09-15-my-first-mobile-purchase.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: My first mobile purchase
-created: 1126798629
-categories: 
-- Series 60
-- Nokia 6630
-- cellphone
-- Nokia
-- Skype
-- eBay
-- PayPal
-- mobile
-- Game
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<p style="">I can't remember what exactly prompted it: I wanted an application for my cellphone that *wasn't* a productivity app, that *wasn't* the half-finished handiwork of a lone developer, and that did just work. So I ended up buying a game.</p>  <p style="">My phone is a Nokia 6630, running on the Series 60 platform. The <a href="http://www.fido.ca" style="">Fido</a> site does sell applications, including games. It was basically useless for looking for stuff. My phone isn't sold by Fido, and they only offer browsing by type of phone. There is no way to say what platform your phone is.</p>  <p style="">Luckily, the <a href="http://www.gamemobile.co.uk/" style="">Mobile Gamer</a> site in the UK was great. Right at the top of the site, you can filter everything available by your model of phone, and mine was listed, so I got a full page of <a href="http://www.gamemobile.co.uk/nokia_6630_games.htm" style="">Nokia 6630 games</a>. I browsed around for a bit, and settled on <a href="http://www.gamemobile.co.uk/mightandmagic6630.htm" style="">Might &amp; Magic</a> -- the same name of a game that I remember playing on the Apple IIe. Actually, the graphics on my phone look <i style="">better</i> than an Apple IIe.</p>  <p style="">Getting the game was ridiculously easy. I entered in my full phone number, including the +1 to show it's in North America. I paid via PayPal. Moments later, I got an SMS with the URL of a download. I clicked on it in my phone. It downloaded the installer. The installer launched, and downloaded the rest of the game.</p>  <p style="">That is what seamless delivery of mobile content is all about. I didn't try it, but I suspect I could have navigated the site directly, and completed the entire experience via my phone's browser. Hmmm...pay for something via PayPal, have it delivered immediately around an identity-based infrastructure that's encrypted. Skype + eBay ring any bells now?</p><!--break-->  <p style="">Oh, right. You want to know about the game? It's nothing like the original Might &amp; Magic, but it is a fun and well-built game. It's addictive and yet easy enough to put down and come back to later (except this one part I'm stuck at, where the wizard keeps frying me...).</p>  <p style="">While <a href="http://www.gamespy.com/company/025/025216.html" style="">New World Computing</a> doesn't exist anymore, there is a brand new version coming out for the PC -- <a href="http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/might-and-magic/643622p1.html" style="">Dark Messiah of Might &amp; Magic Preview</a>.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-09-15-yiibu-crew-back-to-yvr.md b/_posts/archive/2005-09-15-yiibu-crew-back-to-yvr.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 9ff6470..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-09-15-yiibu-crew-back-to-yvr.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Yiibu Crew Back to YVR
-created: 1126788313
-categories: 
-- yiibu
-- bryan rieger
-- steph rieger
-- mobile
-- vancouver
-- Vancouver
----
-<p style="">So, before I had a chance (it has been too long) to point to <a href="http://bryan.yiibu.com/2005/07/update-from-bangkok.html" style="">Bryan's update from Bangkok</a>, he and <a href="http://steph.nmadness.com/" style="">Steph</a> are coming back to Vancouver.</p>  <p style="">Can't say I'm disappointed that SE Asia didn't have enough allure for them -- I'm going to need more help in getting the &quot;Innovation Commons&quot; off the ground here in Vancouver. More on that later, I have to post a recent mobile experience to celebrate the return of these guys.</p>  <blockquote style="">Well, it's been just over three months since we left Vancouver and it's just over a week until we're back. Definately not what we had planned. Sometimes life just takes you on the strangest journeys despite your best efforts to stray off the beaten path.<br style="" /><br style="" />Anyway, long story short - Steph and I are returning to YVR September 24th to continue working on Yiibu. Three months ago we came to Asia with the idea of building a mobile content company (don't get me started), but then after a few weeks of continued research, countless conversations, more than a few arguments in addition to a burning desire to do something meaningful we've diverged from our original plans a little.<br style="" /><br style="" />Basically, we going to try and build a shareable, micro-content publishing company with the majority of our work licensed under a Creative Commons license (hopefully <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/" style="">by Attribution 2.5</a> - <span style="font-style: italic; ">which would allow commercial uses of our work</span>.) <cite style=""><a href="http://bryan.yiibu.com/2005/09/even-best-laid-plans.html" style="">The Life of Bryan: Even the best laid plans...</a></cite> </blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-09-16-northern-voice-and-moose-camp-now-in-blue.md b/_posts/archive/2005-09-16-northern-voice-and-moose-camp-now-in-blue.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 1bc2e9b..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-09-16-northern-voice-and-moose-camp-now-in-blue.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Northern Voice and Moose Camp: now in blue"
-created: 1126912575
-categories: 
-- Vancouver
-- vancouver
-- northern voice 2006
-- northern voice
-- moose camp
----
-<p><a href="http://2005.northernvoice.ca">This year</a> we did Northern Voice in Vancouver. We had a fantastic time and met a ton of interesting people.</p>  <p>The moose is loose again, <a href="http://www.darrenbarefoot.com/archives/2005/09/the-moose-got-loose-again.html">as Darren says</a>, as we start planning for the February 2006 edition of of Northern Voice...now with bonus Moose Camp the day before.</p>  <p>Wander over to <a href="http://2006.northernvoice.ca">the site</a> and glory in the all the techie tweaks the other organizers let me roll in this year. I've been so busy that I've managed to only contribute a little to the process so far. But...potluck! I will get this off the ground this time.</p>  <p>What are you waiting for? Clicky-clicky!</p>  <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2006.northernvoice.ca"><img src="http://2006.northernvoice.ca/sites/2006.northernvoice.ca/files/theme_editor/northernvoice/2006banner.gif" /></a></p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-09-16-the-new-feedback-will-not-be-controlled.md b/_posts/archive/2005-09-16-the-new-feedback-will-not-be-controlled.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a0f6b30..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-09-16-the-new-feedback-will-not-be-controlled.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: The new feedback will not be controlled
-created: 1126911884
-categories: 
-- feedback
-- comments
-- Social Media
----
-<p style="">I found this post by Ian Hixie very interesting. At <a href="http://www.bryght.com" style="">Bryght</a>, we're looking at revamping our support ticketing and feedback process to more closely follow what we believe: that companies should value every ounce of feedback/suggestion/whatever that people choose to give them....wherever that feedback happens.</p>  <blockquote style="">I found several posts giving suggestions and feedback on the WHATWG specs. But as far as I can tell, none of those messages were sent to the list.<br style="" /><br style="" />I've made a note of those posts so that I can make sure to incorporate the comments that were made, but please, if you have comments... send them to the list! Or to me! Leaving them on your Web log will not (unless I happen to run into those comments like I did those above) result in the spec improving. Your comments are welcome, whoever you are, and however minor or controversial you might think your comments are. <cite style=""><a href="http://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1126833042&count=1" style="">Hixie's Natural Log: Message in a Bottle</a></cite> </blockquote>  <p style="">So...how about using some of these fancy new blog search tools to find out what people are saying about you? You could even designate a blog entry to link to for different types of feedback (or even, vote with links -- link to different posts for different strategies).</p>  <p style="">Ideally, I'd love to see a type of feedback node that accepts blog links, comments, and just about anything else you can think of. Tagging would be included, as would ratings/voting for the main feedback point as well as subsequent comments. Also, linking similar/the same feedback together.</p>  <p style="">The <a href="http://www.robotcoop.com" style="">Robots</a> have done a fantastic job of using their own platform (<a href="http://www.43things.com" style="">43 Things</a>) to gather feedback on their next platforms. See <a href="http://ideas.43places.com" style="">ideas.43places.com</a> for how this works.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-09-18-talk-like-a-pirate-day.md b/_posts/archive/2005-09-18-talk-like-a-pirate-day.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e9c098b..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-09-18-talk-like-a-pirate-day.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Talk like a Pirate Day
-created: 1127109129
-categories: 
-- Drupal
-- talk like a pirate day
-- pirate
-- module
-- drupal
----
-<div class="content">     <p>Tomorrow -- September 19th -- is th' internationally acclaimed <a href="http://www.talklikeapirate.com/">Talk like a Pirate</a> day.</p> <p> <a href="http://www.justagwailo.com/">Richard</a> did th' unthinkable, and produced...a <a href="http://drupal.org/node/31270">Pirate</a> module fer Drupal, we'll keel-haul ye! Aarrr! On Sept. 19th, and Sept. 19th only, it will change all o' yer postin's into &quot;pirate&quot; versions. My favourite: personal information admiral turns into personal information admiral.</p> <p> What are ye waitin' fer?  Go <a href="http://drupal.org/files/projects/pirate-cvs.tar.gz">download</a>!</p>   </div>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-09-22-barcamp-amsterdam-or-oops-we-did-it-again.md b/_posts/archive/2005-09-22-barcamp-amsterdam-or-oops-we-did-it-again.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 5d2a811..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-09-22-barcamp-amsterdam-or-oops-we-did-it-again.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: BarCamp Amsterdam (or, oops, we did it again)
-created: 1127439586
-categories: 
-- Open Source
-- open source
-- DrupalCon
-- drupal
-- barcamp amsterdam
-- barcamp
-- amsterdam
----
-<p>The Drupal community was in the process of organizing a meet up around <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/eurooscon/">O'Reilly's EuroOSCON event</a> when we heard the bad news: since this is O'Reilly's first OSCON event in Europe, they had limited space and wouldn't have an exhibit hall, and hence wouldn't have room for booths from open source projects. <a href="http://www.drupal4hu.com">Károly N&eacute;gyesi</a> is giving a talk, but we would have no booth to man, making it hard to meet a lot of the interesting people that are going to be there.</p>  <p>We were somewhat dejected, but then we had An Idea: why not do our own event, and invite other open source projects to come along. Hmmm...what did this sound like? It sounds like <a href="http://www.barcamp.org/">BarCamp</a>. So, please join us in helping to organize/attend/promote <a href="http://www.barcamp.org/index.cgi?BarCampAmsterdam">BarCamp Amsterdam</a>*.<br /></p>  <p><img alt="BarCamp Amsterdam" src="/system/files?file=images/drupal//45504215_d5de0a690e.jpg" /></p>  <p><a href="http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2005/09/22/bar-camp-amsterdam/">Messina</a>, patron saint of BarCamps everywhere, has <a href="http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2005/09/22/bar-camp-amsterdam/">posted about this as well</a> -- so we're off to the races!</p>  <p>* I wanted to call it HamsterCamp...after all, we've got a <a href="http://2006.northernvoice.ca/moosecamp">Moose Camp</a></p> <!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-09-25-blog-flux-mapstats.md b/_posts/archive/2005-09-25-blog-flux-mapstats.md
deleted file mode 100644
index dc72583..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-09-25-blog-flux-mapstats.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Blog Flux MapStats
-created: 1127711916
-categories: 
-- statistics
-- maps
-- Blog Flux
-- Personal Publishing
----
-<script language="JavaScript" src="http://mapstats.blogflux.com/display.php?id=3511&width=400&padding=5&title=25 Latest Visitors&title_color=000000&bg_color=FFFFFF&link_color=0000FF&border_color=000000&cities=25&font_size=11&double_space=0" type="text/javascript"></script><noscript><a href="http://mapstats.blogflux.com/">MapStats - Real-Time City and Web Stats Analysis</a></noscript>
-
-<p>I'm testing out <a href="http://blogflux.com">Blog Flux</a> -- they still have to come by and manually approve my blog (maybe that is just for the directory?), so we'll see what happens.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-09-27-uc-berkeley-photon-iphoto-plug-in-test.md b/_posts/archive/2005-09-27-uc-berkeley-photon-iphoto-plug-in-test.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c4fd6c4..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-09-27-uc-berkeley-photon-iphoto-plug-in-test.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: UC Berkeley - Photon iPhoto plug-in test
-created: 1127839089
-categories: 
-- Photon
-- iPhoto
-- drupal
-- Application
-- Drupal
-- Mac
----
-<p><img width="360" height="480" alt="IM000523.JPG" src="/system/files?file=IM000523.JPG" /><br /><br />Check out <a href="http://www.daikini.com/photon/">Photon</a> -- a plugin for iPhoto that uses the blog APIs to connect to your blog system and export photos directly.</p>  <p>And yes, it works with Drupal. I wrote up the settings on <a href="http://drupal.org/node/30417#comment-56378">drupal.org</a>.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-09-29-recommended-links.md b/_posts/archive/2005-09-29-recommended-links.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 5ca8828..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-09-29-recommended-links.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Recommended Links
-created: 1128033784
-categories: 
-- recommended
-- web 2.0
-- BMC
----
-<p>I just created a new section in my handbook called <a href="/recommended-links">Recommended Links</a>. Before, I only had one link, Troy Angrignon's post on the <a href="http://www.troyangrignon.com/blog/_archives/2005/6/19/955532.html">mental evolution that people go through from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0</a>.</p>
-
-<p>I've just added a second: <a href="http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2005/09/05/why_web20_matte.html">Danah Boyd's post on Why Web 2.0 matters</a>, where she goes through more of the social and business changes taken place that are being aided/accelerated by technology.</p>
-
-<p>And yes, there is <a href="Http://www.whatsweb20.com">What is Web 2.0</a> as well. This is my corner where I can send people a single link and tell them to read the posts linked there, then come back and talk.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-09-29-shifting-paradigms-the-mental-evolutionary-process-of-moving-from-web-1-0-to-web-2-0-in-18-steps.md b/_posts/archive/2005-09-29-shifting-paradigms-the-mental-evolutionary-process-of-moving-from-web-1-0-to-web-2-0-in-18-steps.md
deleted file mode 100644
index cf6751d..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-09-29-shifting-paradigms-the-mental-evolutionary-process-of-moving-from-web-1-0-to-web-2-0-in-18-steps.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Shifting paradigms: The mental evolutionary process of moving from web 1.0 to web 2.0 in 18 steps"
-created: 1128033430
-categories: 
-- web 2.0
-- mental evolution
-- Social Media
----
-<p>Troy Angrignon does his usual fantastic job of crystallizing and refining all the swirling thoughts about the differences between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0. More specifically, he explains the mental evolution that people have to go through to realize what this means to them, and what benefits they can get from it.</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-There are several phases that people tend to pass through in their migration from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 thinking.I have watched this transformation over and over as I have had conversations with a lot of people on this subject. As far as I can see this is the general thought pattern that people go through over time.
-</blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-09-29-why-web2-0-matters-preparing-for-glocalization.md b/_posts/archive/2005-09-29-why-web2-0-matters-preparing-for-glocalization.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 2df28db..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-09-29-why-web2-0-matters-preparing-for-glocalization.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Why Web2.0 Matters: Preparing for Glocalization"
-created: 1128032901
-categories: 
-- web 2.0
-- glocalization
-- Social Media
----
-Goes on my list of "must read" articles about shifting nature of Web 2.0, from Danah's unique perspective at the intersection of social science, academia, and technology.
-
-<blockquote>
-<p>Buzzwords associated with Web2.0 include: remix, tagging, hackability, social networks, open APIs, microcontent, personalization. People discuss how the web is moving from a read-only system to a <a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/002434.php">read/write system</a> and they focus on technologies like GreaseMonkey, Ajax, RSS/Atom, Ruby on Rails.  Of course, others talk about the <a href="http://www.abstractdynamics.org/archives/2005/08/27/web_20.html">paradoxical relationship between openness and control</a>. The reality is that when people talk about Web2.0, they're talking about a political affiliation with The Next Cool Thing, even if no one has a clue what it is yet.</p>
-
-<p>Personally, i don't find comfort in any of the business, technological or experiential explanations. Yet, i do believe that a shift is occurring and i find myself emotionally invested in it. So then i had to ask myself: what is Web2.0 and why does it matter? The answer is glocalization.</p> 
-</blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-09-30-the-innovation-commons.md b/_posts/archive/2005-09-30-the-innovation-commons.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 6401f72..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-09-30-the-innovation-commons.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: The Innovation Commons
-created: 1128139057
-categories: 
-- Vancouver
-- vancouver
-- innovation commons
----
-<p>[Cross posted from the <a href="http://wiki.bryght.com/blog/boris-mann/innovation-commons-kick-off">wiki</a>.]</p>  <p>Inspired by such diverse influences as <a href="http://archive.scripting.com/2005/08/26#When:9:21:42PM">Dave Winer's post about this for Silicon Valley</a>, the <a href="http://www.queenstreetcommons.org">Queen Street Commons</a> in Prince Edward Island, and the serendipity of continuously meeting Vancouver's local tech/entreprenuer community at <a href="http://www.take5cafe.com/">Take 5</a> slurping lattes and free wireless, I'm announcing the kick off meeting for organizing Vancouver's Innovation Commons. I'm suggesting <a href="http://wiki.bryght.com/events/innovation-commons-brainstorming-session-sep-2005">6:30pm next Wednesday</a>. Steamworks or Raincity Studio's Video Monster are two possible locations, please leave a comment suggesting an alternate.</p>  <p>Right now, I see the concept of the Innovation Commons tying together a network of physical locations around the world. The <a href="http://wiki.bryght.com/wiki/other-people-thinking-along-the-same-lines">other people thinking along the same lines</a> page lists links to thoughts and existing locations. For Vancouver's location, here is the working mission statement:</p>  <blockquote> Build a physical, 24/7 space where Vancouver's entrepreneur community can gather to motivate each other's innovation. </blockquote>  <p>I make the distinction of the Innovation Commons as a network, because I think each place has to have it's own self-sustaining community. Part of that is having a connection with that place, right down to having a name that people can relate to. Charlottetown is small enough that &quot;Queen Street&quot; immediately evokes the locality. We need the same thing for the Vancouver location. So, coming up with an identity/name/brand will be part of the first meeting.</p>  <p>We have the good fortune to have connected with a group of four university students from the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia. <a href="http://wiki.bryght.com/wiki/newenterprisedevelopment">Nik, Stacy, Elicia, and Cam</a> -- thanks for being on board. They're going to be helping put together a business plan.  </p><p>I've already spoken with Dean Punzo of <a href="http://www.take5cafe.com">Take 5 Cafe</a>. He's on board in principle as the &quot;anchor tenant&quot; that will provide the cafe in the public space. His location at Granville and Hastings already plays host to dozens of &quot;in the know&quot; people. Providing much-needed sustenance and caffeine to entrepreneurs, as well as catering for after hours events such as AGMs, launch parties or other such events, this should be a profitable, self-sustaining business.</p>  <p>How to get involved/keep track? I recently set up a <a href="http://wiki.bryght.com">wiki</a> running on Drupal and hosted by my company <a href="http://www.bryght.com">Bryght</a>. The <a href="http://wiki.bryght.com/wiki/innovation-commons">Innovation Commons page</a> is the &quot;top&quot; of most of the information. Please tag all contributed pages as &quot;innovation commons&quot;, which you can see a filter of here -- <a href="http://wiki.bryght.com/tags/innovation-commons">http://wiki.bryght.com/tags/innovation-commons</a>. There is an RSS feed for this tag <a href="http://wiki.bryght.com/tags/innovation-commons/feed">here</a>.</p>  <p>What follows after the jump are some hopes and dreams for Vancouver's node of the Innovation Commons:</p> <!--break--> <ul> <li>provide 24/7 access on a membership basis -- work on your great ideas any time of day or night, without pesky cafe closing times</li> <li>provide affordable office space and shared resources for entrepreneurs and start ups</li> <li>serve as a location/funding organization where motivated co-op students (see University of Waterloo, University of Victoria) can spend semesters developing their own business ideas and/or working on open source projects, rather than more traditional work placements with actual companies</li> <li>bring the power of small teams to large companies: rent space and buy memberships for your employees (I'm looking at you, <a href="http://www.activestate.com/">ActiveState</a> and <a href="http://www.blastradius.com/">Blast Radius</a>) to interact with the wider universe of small teams and innovative ideas; or even let your employees do &quot;20% work&quot; on their own projects like Google does, working at the commons one day per week</li> <li>providing a physical space for various meetups; ActiveState does a great job of doing this now, but we need access to the Internet, people! And, it should be open to everything from <a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/cof/group.jsp?id=9">Vancouver Company of Friend's</a> Sunday Jams to Biodiesel enthusiasts and social venture groups</li> <li>(insert more ideas here -- create a <a href="http://wiki.bryght.com/node/add/page">new page on the wiki</a>)</li> </ul>  <p>Want to participate? Please use the wiki, and add your name to the <a href="http://wiki.bryght.com/wiki/innovation-commons-supporters">list of Innovation Commons Supporters</a>.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-09-30-welcome-to-vancouver-dan-let-the-outliner-games-begin.md b/_posts/archive/2005-09-30-welcome-to-vancouver-dan-let-the-outliner-games-begin.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 72eab53..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-09-30-welcome-to-vancouver-dan-let-the-outliner-games-begin.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Welcome to Vancouver, Dan - let the Outliner games begin
-created: 1128063742
-categories: 
-- Windows
-- outliner
-- OPML
-- Dan V
-- vancouver
-- Application
-- Vancouver
-- Microsoft
----
-<p>Roland already did the <a href="http://www.bryght.com/blog/roland-tanglao/daniel-venkitachalam-on-focus-his-windows-net-outliner">podcast for Bryght Radio with Dan</a>, but I owe him a post talking about some of the ideas we discussed regarding outliners, OPML, the universe, and everything.</p>  <p>Dan is aiming high. He's here in Vancouver doing heads down work on <a href="http://www.expandingbrain.com/blog">Focus, the best outliner for Windows</a>. Basically, he says he wants to build the <a href="http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnioutliner/">Omni Outliner</a> for the Windows outliner market. I asked him all sorts of devil's advocate questions, like what about web-based outliners, or cross platform ones, or Dave Winer's <a href="http://support.opml.org/download">OPML Editor</a>. Well, for starters, he's got a <a href="http://www.expandingbrain.com/wiki">wiki filled with all the outliner apps he can find</a>, so he's definitely surveying the competition. The next part is that he's got some definite market segments in mind. He's going to build his outliner so it meets the needs of Getting Things Done disciples. And he's building it on Windows because he a) wants to make money and b) thinks there's room for a great desktop outliner on Windows (maybe cross promote with Omni?).</p>  <p>I bugged him a bit about open source, but there are very few examples of great desktop apps in that category. As well, Dan plans on a plug-in architecture -- actually, embedding Python via the .NET framework to make the whole thing scriptable. Sounds pretty cool, and pretty much the equivalent of AppleScript on the Windows platform.</p>  <p>I think he's got some other plans with regards to &quot;instant outlining&quot; and connecting with Dave's OPML editor, but I'll let him make the big splash about that.</p>  <p>So, welcome to Vancouver, Dan. I'm sure we'll see you at some more <a href="http://van2.ca/">Vancouver Web 2.0 User Group</a> meetings, and of course, if you're a supporter of the Innovation Commons concept, go <a href="http://wiki.bryght.com/wiki/innovation-commons-supporters">add your name to the list</a>.</p> <!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-10-01-invalid-btree-node-size-and-other-joys.md b/_posts/archive/2005-10-01-invalid-btree-node-size-and-other-joys.md
deleted file mode 100644
index eea3904..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-10-01-invalid-btree-node-size-and-other-joys.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Invalid BTree node size and other joys
-created: 1128212852
-categories: 
-- Mac
-- OS X Tiger
-- OS X
-- firewire
-- enclosure
-- disk corruption
----
-<p>Translation: I think I managed to screw up several hard drives.</p><p>I have had a Maxtor external drive for quite some time (like 3 years or so?). Its main job was to hold our entire iTunes collection attached to the desktop (<a href="/node/1437" target="_self">Gigantor</a>) we have at home. Yes, note the use of &quot;was&quot;. I should have listened more closely when Kate said iTunes wouldn't let her do certain things. Turns out those were symptoms of a drive that was going bad.</p><p>I ended up recovering some of it by purchasing <a href="http://www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior/" target="_self">Alsoft's DiskWarrior</a>. Kate is paranoid (luckily) so she has backups on DVD in a safety deposit box. I also had a recent backup on another hard drive. Yep, another external one, for which I have a FireWire external enclosure that I just swap bare drives through.</p><p>It mounted, I was browsing files, and sure enough, that directory called &quot;Music (Backup)&quot; was there. Except, then, it wasn't. A system error about the disk being put away improperly. And the drive was/is toast, at least with the external enclosure I have, using the Oxford 911 chipset. There was of course the <a href="http://www.macintouch.com/panfirewire.html#oxford" target="_self">Panther Firewire Bug</a>, but it seems there are some <a href="http://www.macintouch.com/tigerreview/incompatibility.html" target="_self">Tiger incompatibilities</a> with some external enclosures as well.</p><p>Ouch. That'll teach me to try and do computer fixes early in the morning before I've had my first coffee. So, lessons learned -- if you notice any &quot;funny&quot; behaviour, immediately backup data (that was before the Maxtor went south). Secondly, if you notice *anything* funny with drives unmounting, unplug/power down the drive and do not touch them again or try and repeat the procedure. I may have actually nuked two drives in a row with this...I'm not sure yet until I get a different enclosure to test them with <img border="0" src="/hm/profiles/standard/modules/tinymce/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-yell.gif" /></p><p><span class="image medium"><img width="320" vspace="5" hspace="5" height="256" border="0" align="left" title="RAIDTech 800 Product Image" alt="RAIDTech 800 Product Image" src="/system/files?file=images/drupal//hr8_lg.medium.jpg" /></span>This was a painful lesson. I have had &quot;get proper backup solution&quot; on my to do list for a while. What I really want is an external firewire hot-swappable hardware RAID solution, like the <a target="_self" href="http://www.wiebetech.com/products/RAIDTech800.php">RAIDTech800</a> from WiebeTech (which I suspect is made by a company in Victoria called Synetic -- the box there is the <a href="http://www.synetic.net/Synetic-Products/SyneRAID-Units/SyneRAID-XFW-XSC.htm" target="_self">Stardom 3600</a> -- $640CDN). This is not cheap, but it's pretty much bulletproof. A cheaper option might be something like the <a href="http://www.wiebetech.com/products/Baydock800.php" target="_self">WiebeTech BayDock 800</a> - 2 or 4 drive enclosures, Mac OS X software RAID (<a href="http://www.macsonly.com/arch00404.html#261" target="_self">review at Macs only</a>). But, that doesn't solve backup -- with hot-swap, you can get three drives all with drive trays, and always keep one off site.&nbsp;</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-10-02-43-people-feedback-let-me-cheer-everything.md b/_posts/archive/2005-10-02-43-people-feedback-let-me-cheer-everything.md
deleted file mode 100644
index fff3c0c..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-10-02-43-people-feedback-let-me-cheer-everything.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "43 People feedback: let me cheer everything"
-created: 1128236966
-categories: 
-- Robot Co-op
-- 43 people
-- "43"
-- cheers
-- Social Media
-- Web 2.0
----
-<p>So I've been playing with <a target="_self" href="http://www.43people.com">43 People</a>. It's the latest in <a target="_self" href="http://www.robotcoop.com/">the Robots'</a> evil plan in building their 43 universe, along side <a target="_self" href="http://www.43things.com">43 Things</a> and <a target="_self" href="http://www.43places.com">43 Places</a> (sorry, <a target="_self" href="http://43thongs.com/">43 Thongs</a> is already taken).</p><p>People isn't sure what it wants to be when it grows up, and reactions have been mixed. When our office first got access (it's *sort of* invite only, in that you need to have a 43 Things and/or Places account, and then if someone links to you, you magically can get in), we spent the day (days?) madly adding people we had met or wanted to meet...and then we were done. That's sort of the main thing you can do -- make lists of people you've met, and people you want to meet. Yes, it's a social networking app, but like I said, 43 people doesn't know exactly what it's going to become, I think, which is a similar feeling that <a target="_self" href="http://www.flickr.com">Flickr</a> had in the early days.<br /></p><p>But I keep coming back, heading straight in to &quot;Hasselhoff&quot; - a sort of dashboard of the latest connections, photos, comments and stories that people have made. Stories are fantastic, and somehow everyone has adopted a very similar tone of righting, that somehow comes from being involved in th 43 universe.</p><p>And the other part I check out is my subscriptions. These are all the people I am connected to, and all the content they are generating across 43 Things, Places, and People. And, it lets me &quot;cheer&quot; any content that lives in that context. But, even more importantly, the Robots have invited the rest of the Internet to come and live in their 43 universe: Flickr accounts are tied in automatically, plus you can add any RSS feed that represents that person.</p><p>So, this &quot;river of news&quot; style page mixes in all the micro-content you could wish for, for <strong>all</strong> your people -- from your Netflix account feed to your Upcoming.org calendar, even so far as the items you're checking out from the Seattle Public Library. I would probably drown under the amount of information flowing through there, but being able to (serendipitously) find out that <a target="_self" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ericrice/48048354/">Eric Rice took a really cool picture of a cat</a> is...great. It makes the world a smaller, more connected place.</p><p>And now, let me circle back around to the feedback part. The 43 universe has cheers. It can represent many things in different contexts, but often it's an easy way to say &quot;this is cool&quot;, without having to leave a comment. It's a light touch to let other people know that you're hanging out, see what they're doing, and that you dig it/think it's cool.</p><p>But I want to &quot;cheers&quot; everything. And I think maybe the Robots and 43 People can let me do that.</p><p>So, here's my virtual cheers until such functionality gets built. Erik, this is a great post:</p><blockquote>What if ideas are like species in our head. Thinking an idea (or using an idea) (or otherwise incarnating the idea) is like a little animal living its life in the ecosystem of your head. <br /><a href="http://erikbenson.typepad.com/mu/2005/10/the_ecosystem_o.html">Erik Benson: the ecosystem of our brain</a></blockquote> <p>Now everyone should go off and read the full entry. It's the same sort of thing that lives off in a corner of MY brain, too. No, not you Robots -- back to work! We need cheers everywhere.<br /> </p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-10-02-news-from-the-uvic-alumni-association.md b/_posts/archive/2005-10-02-news-from-the-uvic-alumni-association.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 4c5e1fe..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-10-02-news-from-the-uvic-alumni-association.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: News from the UVic Alumni Association
-created: 1128292492
-categories: 
-- uvic
-- university of victoria
-- alumni
-- web 2.0
-- LinkedIn
-- Canada
----
-<p>I just gave a young woman calling from the <a href="http://alumni.uvic.ca/" target="_self">UVic Alumni Association</a> a bit of a hard time, as I do anyone calling me unsolicited.</p><p>I asked a bit about their online progress. It turns out you can <a href="http://alumni.uvic.ca/" target="_self">donate online</a>, although predictably the entire site seems to be kept up to date using manual updates and Dreamweaver templates.</p><p>What would I like from my Alumni association? Well, a Web 2.0 website with profiles of my former classmates would be nice, as well as the option to subscribe to news via RSS. Perhaps that's asking a bit much. I'm stilling following <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/" target="_self">LinkedIn</a> with interest: they actually manage some group affiliations, like these <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/static?key=groups_directory_acadalumni" target="_self">alumni associations</a>.</p><p>But, I guess I only get to complain if I get involved and try and help out. Time to go find out who to contact at UVic.&nbsp;</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-10-04-innovation-commons-first-meeting-wednesday-october-5-2005.md b/_posts/archive/2005-10-04-innovation-commons-first-meeting-wednesday-october-5-2005.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 1b85a9d..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-10-04-innovation-commons-first-meeting-wednesday-october-5-2005.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Innovation Commons First Meeting: Wednesday, October 5, 2005"
-created: 1128485076
-categories: 
-- Vancouver
-- vancouver
-- Take 5 Cafe
-- innovation commons
----
-<p>The first meeting about building a local, physical space for entreprenuers, as part of the Innovation Commons (see my <a target="_self" href="/blog/bmann/the-innovation-commons">previous post announcing this</a>, as well as check out the <a target="_self" href="http://wiki.bryght.com/wiki/innovation-commons">wiki</a>) takes place on Wednesday, October 5, 2005, at <a target="_self" href="http://www.take5cafe.com">Take 5 Cafe</a> space that is being donated after hours by the owner, Dean Punzo.</p><p>There is already an impressive <a target="_self" href="http://wiki.bryght.com/wiki/innovation-commons-supporters">list of supporters</a> -- please add your name even if you can't make it to Wednesday's meeting.<br /> </p><p>We'll be brainstorming on how to move this project forward, and the <a target="_self" href="http://wiki.bryght.com/wiki/newenterprisedevelopment">New Enterprise Development team</a> will ask for feedback on a survey, as well as help in promoting the survey.</p><p>Event details:</p> <ul>   <li>on the <a href="http://wiki.bryght.com/events/innovation-commons-brainstorming-session-sep-2005" target="_self">wiki</a><br /> </li>   <li>at <a href="http://upcoming.org/event/33913/" target="_self">Upcoming.org</a><br /> </li> </ul> <p>Subscribe to future Innovation Commons events via the wiki's iCal: <a title="Add this calendar to your iCalendar" href="webcal://wiki.bryght.com/event/ical/all/57"><img border="0" alt="Add to iCalendar" src="http://wiki.bryght.com/hm/profiles/standard/modules/event/images/ical16x16.gif" /></a> <br /> </p><p>&nbsp;</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-10-04-maps-travel-and-making-the-world-a-smaller-place.md b/_posts/archive/2005-10-04-maps-travel-and-making-the-world-a-smaller-place.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 17124bf..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-10-04-maps-travel-and-making-the-world-a-smaller-place.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Maps, travel, and making the world a smaller place
-created: 1128488718
-categories: 
-- Web 2.0
-- Social Media
-- web 2.0
-- TWINF
-- The World is Not Flat
-- Platial
-- maps
-- Lee Lefever
-- drupal
-- Common Craft
-- Bryght
----
-<p>If you haven't already, go on over and check out Lee Lefever's <a target="_self" href="http://www.theworldisnotflat.com">The World Is Not Flat</a> site, affectionately known as &quot;TWINF&quot;. It's running on <a target="_self" href="http://www.bryght.com">Bryght</a>, and we had a hand in twiddling a few bits of the code -- specifically, <a target="_self" href="http://www.mixedcontent.com/miscellany/2005/10/the-world-is-not-flat/">Colin</a> mucked with maps and is now an AJAX god (or so he tells us) and <a target="_self" href="http://www.justagwailo.com/filter/2005/10/04/twinf">Richard</a> wrestled with custom PHP snippets and blocks. The always powerful Mark Yuasa of <a target="_self" href="http://www.raincitystudios.com/">Raincity Studios</a> did the CSS-fu to keep the site looking daisy fresh.<br /> </p><p>Why should you care about TWINF? Well, number 1, <a target="_self" href="http://www.leelefever.com">Lee</a> (of <a target="_self" href="http://www.commoncraft.com">Common Craft</a> fame) is a very cool guy who is going to be travelling around the world next year with his wife Sachi. It fits in the category of international travel blog, but Lee and Sachi don't just want you to be able to keep up with what they're doing...they want to hear from you. The idea is to gather people's experiences which will help them decide where to go and what to visit (and what not to visit).</p><p>What coolio Web 2.0 features did we help cook up? Well, as I mentioned, Colin did some neat map work -- a <a target="_self" href="http://www.theworldisnotflat.com/maps">global map</a> will display Lee and Sachi's posts around the world, and an AJAX interface shows posts from a particular city when clicked on. You can also vote on individual entries, plus there is a <a target="_self" href="http://www.theworldisnotflat.com/keywords">tag cloud interface for dispatches and countries</a>.</p><p>In any case, congrats to everyone for getting TWINF live. I'm jealous that Lee and Sachi are going on such a fun trip, sad that we won't see them for a long time, and also wish them all the best. <em>Special bonus tip:</em> visit the <a target="_self" href="http://mapstats.blogflux.com/3636.html">Blog Flux Map Stats</a> page to see where people are visiting the site from.<br /> </p><p>But wait, there's more! Why point to just one map interface when you can point to 2? Jason and Di-Ann let me know that they have a preview of their site <a target="_self" href="http://www.platial.com">Platial</a> up and running, and I spent a little bit of time poking around. It's also Google Maps powered, and has a very innovative interface: maps have lots of &quot;layers&quot;, you can create your own maps, there's tagging. All the cool kid Web 2.0 stuff. <strong>Update:</strong> feel free to swing by <a href="http://preview.palatial.com" target="_self">http://preview.palatial.com</a> to kick the tires.<br /> </p><p>Note to Jason and Di-Ann: you need to have a public place (e.g. forums, blog posts, whatever) to gather feedback -- a mailto: link doesn't cut it anymore. Where's the Platial blog?<br /> </p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-10-04-why-the-nokia-n91-is-delayed-voice-over-wlan-support.md b/_posts/archive/2005-10-04-why-the-nokia-n91-is-delayed-voice-over-wlan-support.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 5c875ef..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-10-04-why-the-nokia-n91-is-delayed-voice-over-wlan-support.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Why the Nokia N91 is delayed: Voice over WLAN support?"
-created: 1128478901
-categories: 
-- Series 60
-- SIP
-- J2ME
-- Nokia N91
-- Nokia
-- Voice over WLAN
-- wi-fi
-- Skype
-- speculation
-- vancouver
-- VoIP
-- VoIP
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<p>There are a bunch of us (<a href="http://scottstuff.net/blog/articles/2005/07/08/nokia-n91-lust" target="_self">Scott</a>, <a href="http://walkah.net/blog/walkah/rokr-this" target="_self">James</a>, and <a href="http://chris.pirillo.com/" target="_self">Chris</a>, too, once we told him the specs) that are lusting after the Nokia N91, but it is supposedly <a href="http://scottstuff.net/blog/articles/2005/09/09/nokia-n91-delayed" target="_self">delayed until the first quarter of 2006</a>. <br /> </p><p>Some background on the specs: this phone is a pretty high end unit, including a 4GB hard drive (store tons of music, photos, etc.), standard headset jack (use your killer headphones to listen to the music), 2MP camera (almost decent enough quality to leave your low-end digital camera at home) AND, the big one, built in Wi-Fi of the 802.11G flavour. <br /> </p><p>It's this last that is interesting. Nokia has already said that is working on Voice over WLAN: see <a href="http://www.time.com/time/europe/magazine/article/0,13005,901050912-1101277,00.html" target="_self">Time Europe</a> -- &quot;2006 will be a big year for [mobile] wi-fi&quot; and <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/itweek/news/2138152/wi-3g-mobiles-due" target="_self">vnunet.com</a> -- &quot;replacing mobile and desktop phones with series 60 Nokia smartphones could make IT management easier&quot;. So, my guess is that they are specifically holding back the release of the N91 so it can be one of the flagship phones to include this functionality.</p><p>Now the other big question is: will Nokia work with <a href="http://www.skype.com" target="_self">Skype</a> to include a Series 60 compatible Skype client on the phone, or will they do a standards based SIP client? If I were advising Nokia, I'd tell them to stick Skype on there -- I have to believe with the eBay purchase that users are more important than ever, more so than fighting the carriers, so this might be a doable deal today.</p><p>Of course, there is a <a href="http://developers.sun.com/techtopics/mobility/apis/articles/sip/" target="_self">SIP API for J2ME</a> and an existing project to build an <a href="https://sip-for-me.dev.java.net/" target="_self">open SIP stack for mobiles</a>, and Nokia should probably make sure this is available as well if they are serious about pushing both Series 60 and open VoWLAN implementations. Scott specifically pointed out SIP support on <a href="http://scottstuff.net/blog/articles/2005/07/08/nokia-n91-lust" target="_self">his post</a> about wanting the N91, so it looks like that is a done deal, but you really need some sort of service provider to make this useful to the average end user (perhaps average end user is a meaningless context in this case, since Scott already runs a full VoIP infrastructure at home).<br /> </p><p>Supposedly this phone was designed by the same team that built the N-Gage, who also happen to be right here in Vancouver. <a href="http://www.rolandtanglao.com" target="_self">Roland</a> is still trying to get us some early access to phones. Anyone have strings they can pull at the Nokia labs here in town? <br /> </p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-10-05-video-ipod-or-airport-express-video.md b/_posts/archive/2005-10-05-video-ipod-or-airport-express-video.md
deleted file mode 100644
index fe4d7d8..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-10-05-video-ipod-or-airport-express-video.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Video iPod or....Airport Express Video?
-created: 1128581421
-categories: 
-- airport express
-- video
-- Apple
-- speculation
-- Mac
-- Movie
----
-<p>Ever since the Airport Express came out, I've been speculating about what else could be done with it. Surely that USB port wasn't just for something as mundance as printer sharing.</p><p>Well, there's another Apple Special Event coming up. They might be announcing the <a href="http://www.darcynorman.net/2005/10/05/ive-figured-out-the-apple-special-event-announcement" target="_self">bundling of the Google Toolbar with Safari</a>....or it might be a video version of the Airport Express to coincide with the opening of the iTunes Movie Store.</p><p>Yep, put me down for not believing in the fabled video iPod. Well, actually, I do believe in it, but Travis figures the Airport Express Video edition is a safer bet. <a href="http://www.unvarnished.com" target="_self">Travis</a> said I *had* to blog about this, so I am.</p><p>So, the special event will announce the opening of for-pay video downloads via the iTunes store, at the same time as they announce how to connect it to your TV via Airport. Apparently, there has been no new music video content in iTunes for the past couple of weeks, perhaps indicating a build up of new content. With Google announcing streaming of UPN shows, Apple's timing is probably about right.</p><p>On quality: well, this is meant to be the year of HD, but this probably just means a crisper, clearer version than regular cable TV. Could an Airport device have anything more than an SVideo interface? I can't picture it, although I suppose a component output is possible.&nbsp;</p><p>A dock that streams video content wirelessely directly from your iPod to this Airport device is a potential as well, but I can't quite picture the price point on it. Bundling it with the Airport might be interesting, to catch all those people that only have iPods but no computer at home? Not sure...<br /> </p><p>According to <a href="http://www.erisfree.com" target="_self">Eris</a>, the special event is probably the next version of Keynote :P&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-10-09-apple-predictions-how-video-is-useful.md b/_posts/archive/2005-10-09-apple-predictions-how-video-is-useful.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f362bb8..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-10-09-apple-predictions-how-video-is-useful.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Apple predictions, how video is useful
-created: 1128916395
-categories: 
-- rumours
-- speculation
-- Video iPod
-- iPod
-- Apple
-- Airport Express Video
-- Canada
-- Mac
----
-<p>Troy posts some predictions for Apple's October 12 event. He figures <a href="http://www.troyangrignon.com/blog/_archives/2005/10/9/1289722.html">Intel-based Powerbooks and iPod Minis that have no hard drives</a>. He also says &quot;I really doubt all this nonsense about video iPods. I just can't see it. Video is not that useful to people&quot;.</p>  <p>Well, I've already speculated that an <a href="/blog/bmann/video-ipod-or-airport-express-video">Airport Express Video</a> might be more likely than a video iPod (I would buy a Sony PSP over a video iPod...but that would mean Apple would need to allow Fairplay DRM to be built into the PSP, which seems unlikely).</p>  <p>I've been writing about <a href="/macosx/rumours/itunes-movies">iTunes Movies</a> since October 2004...when the iPod Photo came out. I really do think video is &quot;useful&quot; to people. At least, in the small world of anecdotal stories.</p>  <p>Apple has stopped posting new music video content for the past couple of weeks. This seems to be one indication that *something* with video is coming. What if they did offer video content? Movies? TV Shows? I mean, <a href="http://video.google.com">Google Video</a> is already going to be <a href="http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/050926-102229">offering UPN's &quot;Everybody Hates Chris&quot;</a>.</p>  <p>I would pay for video. I don't have cable, but I do have a very nice screen and computer. I have no way of getting legal video content. The posting <a href="http://www.eirikso.com/2005/06/06/how-bob-the-millionaire-became-a-pirate/">How Bob the Millionaire Became a Pirate</a>, describing how it is impossible to get video online, is a good illustration of the problem.</p>  <p>What would Apple price video at? Movies vs. TV shows would of course have separate pricing. I can't see movies going for any less than $9.99. So let's say TV shows are $4.99 each. That's 5 shows per month vs. basic cable at $25, or 13 shows per month vs. full cable at $65. The numbers seem to make sense...if the movie industry actually makes it possible.</p>  <p>Of course, copyrights are once again per country, so it will be years before we get this in Canada. Regardless of what the &quot;one more thing...&quot; is, we're all looking forward to the unveiling this Wednesday.</p><p><strong>Update:</strong> <a href="http://www.jeremyhubert.com/os-x/ipod-video-at-the-oct-12-apple-event/" target="_self">Jeremy Hubert</a> whispers about inside sources, suggesting that there are indeed video *things* in the works for tomorrow. As well, Roland and I went to <a href="http://www.simply.ca/" target="_self">Simply Computing</a> today, and they are out of stock on PowerMacs and PowerBooks. Will it, in fact, not be one more thing, but but a bunch more things?&nbsp;</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-10-12-brent-holliday-with-web-2-0-anti-hype-and-get-ready-for-vancouver-enterprise-forum-2-0.md b/_posts/archive/2005-10-12-brent-holliday-with-web-2-0-anti-hype-and-get-ready-for-vancouver-enterprise-forum-2-0.md
deleted file mode 100644
index b641c1f..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-10-12-brent-holliday-with-web-2-0-anti-hype-and-get-ready-for-vancouver-enterprise-forum-2-0.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Brent Holliday with Web 2.0 anti-hype (and get ready for Vancouver Enterprise Forum 2.0)
-created: 1129179393
-categories: 
-- vancouver
-- Brent Holliday
-- VEF
-- Vancouver Enterprise Forum
-- web 2.0
-- Vancouver
----
-<p>There seem to be lots of cranky people about the Web 2.0 meme. I think that used as hype, it's not that useful. As a general label for a lot of things that are happening with technological, social, and business changes, I find it useful. After all, it seems to be one of those things that you can recognize when you see it.</p>  <p>Brent Holliday, a partner in Vancouver-based <a href="http://www.greenstonevc.com/">Greenstone Venture Partners</a>, recently posted an <a href="http://www.bctechnology.com/statics/bh-oct0705.html">anti-hype rant on the BC's T-Net site</a>. He makes some really good points, but comes across a little bitter about some of the useful aspects of Web 2.0. I'm hoping to help explain some of those useful aspects, in plain natural language at the October 25th <a href="http://www.vef.org">Vancouver Enterprise Forum</a> event. <a href="http://blame.ca">Dick Hardt</a> is running the show, and there are some really great local speakers lined up, including:</p>  <ul> <li><a href="http://www.rolandtanglao.com">Roland Tanglao</a> giving his blogging, etc. talk</li> <li><a href="http://blogs.ebusiness-apps.com/andre/">Andre Charland</a>, who has been doing AJAX before it was called that</li> <li><a href="http://fergusson.net/">Michael Fergusson</a> on user generated content </li><li><a href="http://paul.kedrosky.com/">Paul Kedrosky</a>, giving a good business perspective on the whole industry and how it all ties together, and who is so well known outside Vancouver that I tend to forget he's a local</li> </ul>  <p>Note to Brent: when BC T-Net updates their CMS 1.0, you can get them to fix the mis-spelling of your name at the top of your <a href="http://www.bctechnology.com/statics/bh-bio.html">bio page</a>. :P</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-10-12-mac-as-media-center-with-front-row-video-ipods-and-video-downloads.md b/_posts/archive/2005-10-12-mac-as-media-center-with-front-row-video-ipods-and-video-downloads.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 6528f93..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-10-12-mac-as-media-center-with-front-row-video-ipods-and-video-downloads.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Mac as media center with Front Row, video iPods, and video downloads
-created: 1129165969
-categories: 
-- iPod
-- Apple
-- Front Row
-- iTunes
-- video
-- Mac
----
-<p>So, I was completely wrong about <a href="/blog/bmann/video-ipod-or-airport-express-video">Airport Express Video</a> (but wouldn't be surprised to see it at some time in the future).</p>  <p>Thanks to the UK magazine <a href="http://www.stuffmag.co.uk/hotstuffarticle.asp?de_id=594">Stuff</a>, I was getting real time updates about the big Apple event today. The three announcements were:</p>  <ul> <li>new iMacs, with built in iSight and Front Row app including remote: a 10ft UI for Macs; yes, I do want to get this for my home machine</li> <li>The video iPod: 30GB for $299, $60GB $399, comes with a video out port to connect directly to your TV; score one for my long-ago predictions</li> <li>iTunes 6, which includes for-pay video downloads: today this is only music videos and some short Pixar ones for $1.99; I expect licensing to be a real PITA for Apple, but I also expect them to announce other licensed video content over time. Would I pay $1.99 per TV show? Well, since I don't have cable, yes I would -- that would be 2 hours per week of only the shows *I* want to watch. And this makes easy, legal</li> </ul>  <p>Am I going to get a video iPod? Well, I'll be consuming video on my computer at home, with its big LCD TV screen. And, as Graham said, I actually don't find mobile video on the iPod compelling. Now, if they did a deal with Sony to have it on the PSP...</p><p>But video downloads are a *big deal*. There will be lots more about this over the coming days, I'm sure.&nbsp;</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-10-14-innovation-commons-follow-up-snowball-edition.md b/_posts/archive/2005-10-14-innovation-commons-follow-up-snowball-edition.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 3e57e0d..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-10-14-innovation-commons-follow-up-snowball-edition.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Innovation Commons follow-up, Snowball edition
-created: 1129357588
-categories: 
-- innovation commons
-- vancouver
-- Vancouver
----
-<p>[Cross-posted from the <a href="http://wiki.bryght.com/blog/boris-mann/innovation-commons-first-meeting-notes-next-event">wiki</a>]</p>  <p>Well, things are well and truly moving. I didn't get around to posting a wrap up of the <a href="http://wiki.bryght.com/events/innovation-commons-brainstorming-session-sep-2005">October 5th meeting</a> -- Roland <a href="http://www.rolandtanglao.com/archives/2005/10/05/innovation_commons_first_meeting_was_tonight_and_it_was_fantastic">made a post</a> and also took a bunch of pictures on Flickr -- just check the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/innovationcommons">innovation commons</a> tag.</p>  <p>Suffice it to say, we had about 20 plus people show up, <a href="http://www.take5cafe.com">Take 5</a> stayed open late to let us hang out, and there was a great discussion on what people wanted out of this here in Vancouver. The main take away: let's do this thing, and what can we do to make it happen.</p> <!--break--> <p>Troy Angrignon connected the effort with Charles Holmes (who did a great job of adding some analyses to the <a href="http://wiki.bryght.com/wiki/innovation-commons">wiki</a>), and is briefing Cindy Pearson of the <a href="http://www.bctia.org/">BC Technologies Industry Association</a> this evening.</p>  <p>The other big &quot;snowball&quot; item was a contact from <a href="http://bad.typepad.com">Bill MacEwen</a>. Apparently, Bill had actually been working on a local Innovation Commons concept for the past few months, and is a lot farther along in terms of business plans, looking at locations, etc. Bill is going to present at the next meeting to get us caught up -- he posted some details about his <a href="http://wiki.bryght.com/wiki/workspace-cafe">Workspace Cafe</a> to the wiki.</p>  <p>I'm out of town for the next week, so I'm going to suggest <a href="http://wiki.bryght.com/events/innovation-commons-second-meeting">October 26th for the next meeting</a>. I'm sure I'll get feedback if this interferes with a hockey game or other event that I'm not cool enough to know about. As usual, adding your name to the <a href="http://wiki.bryght.com/wiki/innovation-commons-supporters">supporters list</a> and filling in more information on the <a href="http://wiki.bryght.com/wiki/innovation-commons">wiki</a> is how you can continue to help. The list of <a href="http://wiki.bryght.com/wiki/possible-names">names</a> was another big discussion -- add some more, then we'll run a poll at some point.</p>  <p>Thanks to Nik and Elicia from the <a href="http://wiki.bryght.com/wiki/newenterprisedevelopment">New Enterprise Development team</a> for putting up with the wide ranging discussion. Some of that material is going to make it's way in to a survey which we're going to ask people to fill out and help promote.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-10-20-drupalcon-eurooscon-and-barcamp-amsterdam-is-hopping.md b/_posts/archive/2005-10-20-drupalcon-eurooscon-and-barcamp-amsterdam-is-hopping.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 666fa12..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-10-20-drupalcon-eurooscon-and-barcamp-amsterdam-is-hopping.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: DrupalCon, EuroOSCON, and BarCamp - Amsterdam is hopping
-created: 1129849059
-categories: 
-- barcamp
-- barcamp amsterdam
-- amsterdam
-- open source
-- DrupalCon
-- EuroOSCON
-- Open Source
----
-<p>Well, I'm still in Amsterdam nearing the end of the week but it feels like things are just getting started. I'm actually sitting in de Brakke Grond, site of the <a href="http://drupal.org/conference-amsterdam-2005">DrupalCon</a>, as <a href="http://www.tejasa.com/">Moshe Weitzman</a> walks us through the <a href="http://drupal.org/simpletest">simpletest</a> framework for unit testing in Drupal.</p>  <p>The first <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/eurooscon/">OSCON in Europe</a> is just ending. I was disappointed that we couldn't integrate more fully, but Chris Messina and I had a really long and fruitful discussion with Gina Blaber and Margi Levin of O'Reilly's conference team. The team is already looking at planning the next OSCON event in Europe, and I'm looking forward to have a really interesting set of satellite events in partnership with O'Reilly in the future.</p>  <p>And yeah, <a href="http://www.barcamp.org/index.cgi?BarCampAmsterdam">BarCampAmsterdam</a>. It starts...well, it started about an hour ago, I'm just still finishing my <strong>last</strong> conference! Yes, things are busy, so busy that I didn't get a chance to bang the drum about some cool hacking stuff that I hope to see accomplished during BarCamp (there's a long story about the lack of Internet connectivity in Amsterdam as well). So, on to the hand waving, or Cool Things I'd Love to See Hackers Build at BarCamp:</p>  <ul> <li><a href="http://synchroedit.com">SynchroEdit</a>: let's get this implemented in a couple of different systems like <a href="http://drupal.org">Drupal</a>, <a href="http://joomla.org">Joomla</a>, and <a href="http://wordpress.org">Wordpress</a>. It's Firefox-only right now, so I'm look at <a href="http://blogs.ebusiness-apps.com/andre/">Andre's AJAX team at eBusiness Apps</a> to do the IE compatibility.</li> <li>We had a visit from <a href="http://www.flossusability.org/wiki.pl?JanMuehlig">Jan Muehlig</a> of the <a href="http://www.openusability.org/">Open Usability</a> project. He showed us a demo of a great Flash-based front end for doing card sorts. This is something else that I figure we can integrate into <a href="http://drupal.org">Drupal</a>, making it very easy to run card sorts.</li> </ul>  <p>More soon, keep an eye on the <a href="http://barcamp.org">BarCamp wiki</a> for news over the weekend. I have to work on my open source cooking skills -- I'm doing a stirfry for hungry BarCampers.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-10-21-jabber-and-the-search-for-the-best-php-cms-that-uses-postgresql.md b/_posts/archive/2005-10-21-jabber-and-the-search-for-the-best-php-cms-that-uses-postgresql.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f0618c7..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-10-21-jabber-and-the-search-for-the-best-php-cms-that-uses-postgresql.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Jabber and the search for the best PHP CMS that uses PostgreSQL
-created: 1129917317
-categories: 
-- ejabberd
-- jabber
-- barcamp
-- barcamp amsterdam
-- PHP
-- CMS
-- drupal
-- Twisted
-- erlang
-- Open Source
-- PHP
----
-<p>The <a href="http://www.jabber.org">Jabber</a> guys are planning world domination with us here at <a href="http://www.barcamp.org/index.cgi?BarCampAmsterdam">BarCamp Amsterdam</a>. <a href="http://ralphm.net/blog/2005/10/21/barcamp_2">Ralph</a> is keeping the secret pretty close to his chest, but we've got it pretty well sketched out: our session is at 14:30 today in the kitchen</p>  <p>Apparently, <a title="Best PHP CMS that uses PostgreSQL" href="http://drupal.org">Drupal</a> isn't ranking highly in searches for &quot;PHP CMS&quot;, so I'm doing some links to help with that. Funny thing is, searching for <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=broken+CMS">Broken CMS</a> ends up pointing to a Drupal-powered site...but it has links to Typo3, XOOPS, and PHPWCMS. Yeah, we laughed.</p>  <p>I'm hoping that <a href="http://walkah.net">James</a> will commit his <a href="http://drupal.org/project/jabber">Jabber module</a> today, so that we can kick the tires on it. Of course, the <a href="http://ejabberd.jabber.ru/">ejabberd server</a> already runs their community site on Drupal. We had a little bit of a discussion about have a new jabberd server that has some of the attributes of ejabberd -- distributed, fault-tolerant, etc. -- except, not written in a not very widely supported language like erlang. Python and the <a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/">Twisted networking framework</a> sound like good choices.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-10-23-back-from-3-conferences-in-amsterdam-busy-week-ahead.md b/_posts/archive/2005-10-23-back-from-3-conferences-in-amsterdam-busy-week-ahead.md
deleted file mode 100644
index d4411f1..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-10-23-back-from-3-conferences-in-amsterdam-busy-week-ahead.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Back from 3 conferences in Amsterdam, busy week ahead
-created: 1130136967
-categories: 
-- amsterdam
-- barcamp
-- barcamp amsterdam
-- open source
-- drupal
-- DrupalCon
-- EuroOSCON
-- Vancouver
----
-<p>I just got back today from a long week in Amsterdam, having attended a grand total of 3 conferences: <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/eurooscon/" target="_self">Euro OSCON</a>, <a href="http://drupal.org/conference-amsterdam-2005" target="_self">DrupalCon</a>, and <a href="http://www.barcamp.org/index.cgi?BarCampAmsterdam" target="_self">BarCamp</a>. I met a huge group of people</p><p>I would like to thank <a href="http://chris.pirillo.com/" target="_self">Chris Pirillo</a> (check out his new <a href="http://gada.be" target="_self">gada.be</a> multi-search service) for supporting BarCamp. Chris: wish you could have been there, buddy...we could have worked on our plans for World Domination, and probably gotten pretty close.<br /> </p><p>It didn't quite turn out to be the &quot;hackfest&quot; that my preconceptions led me to believe. Or perhaps the hacking was more of the &quot;hack your brain&quot; kind. More on BarCamp and these other conferences later: one big thing I learned is that I am not very good at creating artifacts while attending conferences. I'm very much in the moment, having intense sessions with people and trying to integrate it all internally. Inserting a computer into the mix means I miss what's happening. Paper seems to work OK for notes (maybe a tablet would, too?)...now I just have to transcribe all the bits and pieces, especially what essentially turned into an interview with <a href="http://ralphm.net/" target="_self">Ralph</a> and <a href="http://mons.net/" target="_self">Edwinn</a> of the Jabber Software Foundation.<br /> </p><p>Did I mention the week ahead was going to be busy? I'll be at the <a href="http://www.vef.org/web/EventDetails.asp?ProductID=86" target="_self">Vancouver Enterprise Forum Web 2.0 event</a> on Tuesday, then Wednesday night is the <a href="http://wiki.bryght.com/events/innovation-commons-second-meeting" target="_self">second meeting for the Innovation Commons</a>, with the various other meetings and activities sprinkled through out the week.<br /> </p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-10-24-distributed-social-networking.md b/_posts/archive/2005-10-24-distributed-social-networking.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 7b665e3..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-10-24-distributed-social-networking.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Distributed Social Networking
-created: 1130163749
-categories: 
-- p2p
-- ton zylstra
-- jabber
-- FOAF
-- XFN
-- vCard
-- Canter's Law
-- barcamp amsterdam
-- social networking
-- Social Media
----
-<p>I didn't get nearly as much time (hardly any!) to talk to <a href="http://www.zylstra.org">Ton Zylstra</a> at BarCamp Amsterdam as I would have liked to. He's continuing the conversation on his blog, with this post about P2P social networking:</p>  <blockquote> <p>I would like to have a true peer to peer social networking platform.&nbsp;Also I'd like to have my own spiders and agents.</p> <p>FOAF isn't ready for this kind of thing I think, but we might look to an <a href="http://www.zylstra.org/blog/archives/001807.html">existing p2p infrastructure like Skype</a> to be a carrier. <a href="">Boris Mann</a> pretty much repeatedly said Jabber can do anything during BarCamp, and seemed to be only half joking. <a href="http://www.zylstra.org/blog/archives/001818.html">Ton's Interdependent Thoughts: How to Get P2P Social Networking</a> </p></blockquote>  <p>You're right, Ton, I <em>was</em> only half joking. I think real time is very important. If the &quot;IM Wars&quot; have shown us anything, it's that we need to have common standards and formats. For XML message passing, including IM, Jabber is the answer to this (and might be the answer for voice and video as well, but I've got more to write about this later).</p>  <p>But whatever the pieces of the infrastructure are, we still need to be able to pass rich user profiles back and forth. We've got an RDF-based one in <a href="http://www.foaf-project.org/">FOAF</a>, we've got a microformat one in <a href="http://gmpg.org/xfn/">XFN</a>, and we've got a desktop app-compatible one in vCard. What's missing? An extensible XML-based format for user profiles that is standardized and widely deployed. Actually, <a href="http://www.jabber.org/jeps/jep-0054.html">Jabber uses an XML version</a>, with an interesting <a href="http://www.jabber.org/protocol/vcard-xml/history.html">historical note</a>. The <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/vcard-rdf">W3C has an RDF spec</a> of vCard, but I still think an XML one is going to be required. I think this will become clear along with advances in the identity infrastructure. In the meantime, we'll need to follow <a href="http://marc.blogs.it/archives/2005/09/canters_law_1.html">Canter's Law #1</a>, and support all formats.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-10-26-innovation-commons-wednesday-october-26th-2005-630pm.md b/_posts/archive/2005-10-26-innovation-commons-wednesday-october-26th-2005-630pm.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 71f482e..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-10-26-innovation-commons-wednesday-october-26th-2005-630pm.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Innovation Commons: Wednesday, October 26th, 2005 - 6:30pm"
-created: 1130354034
-categories: 
-- Vancouver
-- vancouver
-- Take 5 Cafe
-- innovation commons
----
-<p>The <a target="_self" href="http://wiki.bryght.com/events/innovation-commons-second-meeting">second Innovation Commons meeting</a> is tonight, Wednesday, October 26th, at 6:30pm, at Take 5 Cafe.<br /> </p><p>Bill MacEwen is going to present the work he's done over the past couple of months to develop a business oriented around the same concept, which he calls &quot;WorkSpace&quot;.</p><p>We can kick around some of the names and maybe take a straw poll on it, get a list of services that people would potentially be interested in, and then start working on a survey that can be posted for others to fill out. As always, add other ideas to the <a target="_self" href="http://wiki.bryght.com/wiki/innovation-commons">wiki</a> -- hope to see you tonight.</p><p>Here's an <a href="webcal://wiki.bryght.com/event/ical/all/57" target="_self">iCal feed</a> if you want to subscribe to these events, BTW.&nbsp;</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-10-26-tivo-in-canada-and-other-pvr-info.md b/_posts/archive/2005-10-26-tivo-in-canada-and-other-pvr-info.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 42fad5a..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-10-26-tivo-in-canada-and-other-pvr-info.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: TiVo in Canada and other PVR info
-created: 1130339982
-categories: 
-- Canada
-- Windows MCE
-- TiVo
-- PVR
-- Media Center
-- media
-- Global TV
-- Front Row
----
-<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nep/48831777/" target="_self"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/33/48831777_4faa4b1b77_m.jpg" border="0" alt="Travis Smith&#39;s new TiVo" title="Travis Smith&#39;s new TiVo" hspace="10" vspace="10" align="left" /></a>I&#39;m being interviewed today by Global TV about <a href="http://www.tivo.com/1.6.1.asp#9" target="_self">TiVo coming to Canada</a>. Actually, for today it just means that the programming guide service is available: you still have to buy the TiVo&#39;s in the US or elsewhere, since you can&#39;t buy the units themselves in Canada yet.<br /> </p><p>For those that don&#39;t know, a TiVo is a brand of one of the most popular Personal Video Recorders, or PVRs (sometimes also seen as &quot;Digital Video Recorders&quot;, or DVRs; yep, more jargon to learn). You connect it to your TV and cable service, and it will automatically record shows to its built in hard drive, including automatic scheduling of shows you want to watch. The magic of TiVo means that it will even record shows automatically that you <em>might</em> like to watch, depending on other shows and feedback you give (a thumbs up/thumbs down on recordings). And, since recordings are being made all the time, you can actually pause/rewind live TV, and fast forward through commercials.<br /> </p><p>I&#39;m going to talk mainly about other solutions and the market in general, since <a href="http://www.hopstudios.com/nep/unvarnished/item/welcome_to_canada_my_new_tivo/" target="_self">Travis</a> and <a href="http://www.alexandrasamuel.com" target="_self">Alex</a> are also being interviewed (the picture I&#39;ve included is <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nep/48831777/" target="_self">Travis&#39; TiVo on Flickr</a>). There have been PVR&nbsp; options available in Canada before this from all the major players, but TiVo has long been acknowledged as the best user interface, as well as a large number of add on options for working with recorded shows on your computer or elsewhere on your home network. In fact, TiVo is so popular that the <a href="http://www.tivocanada.com" target="_self">TivoCanada</a> wiki and forums was created specifically for instructions on how to hack it to work before it was officially supported. Here are the links to current PVR offerings in Canada:</p> <ul>   <li><a href="http://www.bell.ca/shop/PrsShpTvSna_Landing.page" target="_self">Bell ExpressVu PVR options</a></li>   <li><a href="http://www.shoprogers.com/store/cable/ptv/control/pvr.asp" target="_self">Rogers PVR</a></li>   <li><a href="http://www.shaw.ca/en-ca/ProductsServices/Television/DigitalTV/DigitalTVEquipment/ShawHDPVRTerminal.htm" target="_self">Shaw PVR</a>&nbsp; (Update Jan 3, 2007: link is 404 -- <a href="http://www.shaw.ca/en-ca/ProductsServices/BundlesAndPricing/SpecialOffers/HDPVRSpecialOffer.htm?wbc_purpose=Basic&amp;WBCMODE=PresentationUnpublished">new Shaw PVR info page</a>)<a href="http://www.shaw.ca/en-ca/ProductsServices/Television/DigitalTV/DigitalTVEquipment/ShawHDPVRTerminal.htm" target="_self"><br /> </a></li> </ul> <p>Aside from these boxes that you just plug in to your TV, there are a variety of build-your-own solutions that generally involve a computer and a TV tuner card. Microsoft has had its <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/mediacenter/default.mspx" target="_self">Windows Media Center Edition</a> for several years now, and you can actually buy a complete system from most of the major computer vendors like <a href="http://www.dell.com/html/us/segments/dhs/mediacenter/tour_rel2/flash/default.htm" target="_self">Dell</a> (that&#39;s a big Flash link). Apple just recently released its <a href="http://www.apple.com/imac/frontrow.html" target="_self">new iMac G5 with Front Row software</a>, which although it doesn&#39;t do TV recording today, many believe will evolve to do that. Lastly there are Linux solutions, with <a href="http://www.mythtv.org/" target="_self">MythTV</a> software being the most popular/reliable.</p><p>I&#39;ve been writing about Multimedia PCs for some time -- check out the <a href="/taxonomy/term/35" target="_self">Multimedia PC category</a> for other posts. My description of existing options that might <a href="/node/1413" target="_self">fit well with the Mac Mini</a> is also related. I&#39;ll add an update if anything else comes up in the interview.</p><p><strong>Update:</strong> something happened and I didn&#39;t get on TV. And me with my good shirt on, too! No worries, Alex and Travis got interviewed...&nbsp;</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-11-01-breaking-the-web-wide-open.md b/_posts/archive/2005-11-01-breaking-the-web-wide-open.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 71f4b7a..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-11-01-breaking-the-web-wide-open.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Breaking the Web Wide Open
-created: 1130891347
-categories: 
-- standards
-- open source
-- marc canter
-- always on network
-- Open Source
----
-Marc Canter's long piece on openness -- open APIs, standards, open source and other components that are tying together to build loosely coupled applications and data flows. Very long, but a good starting point for lots of the different things that are happening right now.<br />
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-11-05-audioblog-com-mini-review-audio-via-phone-and-video-posting.md b/_posts/archive/2005-11-05-audioblog-com-mini-review-audio-via-phone-and-video-posting.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a1fa115..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-11-05-audioblog-com-mini-review-audio-via-phone-and-video-posting.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "AudioBlog.com mini-review: audio via phone and video posting"
-created: 1131237679
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
-- Movie
-- video
-- review
-- drupal
-- audioblog.com
----
-<p>So, after completing the <a href="/blog/bmann/revver-com-and-other-video-storage-options" target="_self">previous post about storing video and other large files</a>, I did go off and buy my <a target="_self" href="http://www.audioblog.com">AudioBlog.com</a> membership for a year (you can try a 7 day free trial as well).</p><p>Over on my personal site, I posted my <a target="_self" href="http://personal.bmannconsulting.com/blog/boris/first-moblog">first moblog</a>: I called into the AudioBlog phone number with my cell phone, recorded, and hit publish. I had previously set AudioBlog up with all my blog details (I have 4 set up so far -- this site, my personal site, Bryght, and Urban Vancouver), and you punch a code into your phone identifying the blog to which you want to publish. You can also just record and handle the publishing details later on through the website.</p><p>Everything went pretty easy, minus a few things I had to fiddle with in Drupal to get things working seamlessly. The two things you need to know here are 1) choose MovableType as your blog type...the Drupal one falls back to using the Blogger API, which doesn't even support titles, never mind categories; and 2) AudioBlog uses an iframe to display the Flash audio player, which won't display unless you have Full HTML and/or iframes not filtered by default.</p><p>As well as posting by phone, you can also upload MP3s directly, or record directly through a Flash app on the AudioBlog site.&nbsp;</p><p>Next I tried uploading a video, also viewable over <a target="_self" href="http://personal.bmannconsulting.com/blog/boris/baby-seal-off-cape-roger-curtis">on my personal site: a baby seal, how cute</a>! I talked to <a target="_self" href="http://www.ericrice.com">Eric Rice</a>, the man behind AudioBlog, about my views on uploaders (i.e. a desktop app like the one that Revver provides or the Ourmedia CCUploader). Basically, my previous experience with web uploads has been that they don't work well for files over 10MB in size. Also, things like batch uploads and resumable uploads are also not supported by web-only clients. Regardless, the videos that I uploaded all worked fine with the AudioBlog web uploader. It has a nice little AJAX-y progress bar to show how much has been uploaded and how much longer it is estimated to take. I uploaded 3 videos in total, all between 40 - 50MB in size, and they completed no problem. I was still nervous about navigating to other portions of the site in another tab, but this might very well be down to previous experiences with bad uploaders.</p><p>The one downside I could find with both audio and video is that it's a one shot deal -- you publish, and it appears on your blog. If you change any details, you'll need to republish. The one feature request I have: give me an HTML snippet for each video so I can cut and past the iframe HTML wherever I need it (kind of like Flickr's multiple size view for cut'n'pasting anywhere). OK, OK -- there's a second downside -- no direct links to the source video (audio blogging provides direct MP3 links at your option).&nbsp;</p><p>I haven't covered all the features that AudioBlog offers -- it's got extensive support for podcasting and iTunes feeds that you can work with directly from within the system, whether or not your particular tool supports it. As well, the video features are only in beta, with lots more changes (especially iTunes / video iPod specific ones) coming. Check the <a target="_self" href="http://news.audioblog.com">AudioBlog News site </a>to keep up to date. Much like Flickr, right now AudioBlog is looking like a great app to use and an easy price to pay to take care of all of your audio and video blogging needs.<br /></p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-11-05-revver-com-and-other-video-storage-options.md b/_posts/archive/2005-11-05-revver-com-and-other-video-storage-options.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f8a9dd2..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-11-05-revver-com-and-other-video-storage-options.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Revver.com and other video storage options
-created: 1131220275
-categories: 
-- Movie
-- YouTube
-- video
-- Revver
-- ourmedia
-- MediaRSS
-- BitTorrent for Dummies
-- BitTorrent
-- audioblog.com
----
- <p>It seems that since the launch of <a href="http://www.ourmedia.org" target="_self">Ourmedia</a>, there are now dozens of places wanting to keep your videos online. You know, trying to be the &quot;Flickr of Video&quot; (aside: could <a href="http://www.flickr.com" target="_self">Flickr</a> itself start storing video? I think there are a lot of differences between static photos and video, but I'd love for that team to take a run at it...). Actually, the issue is bigger than just video -- in general, there is a lack of easy ways of both storing and downloading large user created files online. BitTorrent (plug: go get <a href="http://bittorrentfordummies.com/" target="_self" title="BitTorrent for Dummies">BitTorrent for Dummies</a>, written by my friends <a href="http://www.kriskrug.com" target="_self">Kris Krug</a> and <a href="http://www.buzzmarketingwithblogs.com/" target="_self">Susie Gardner</a>) helps with download and bandwidth savings, but uploading and storage haven't really been solved. 10MB seems to be the magic number -- anything larger than that is difficult to deal with using a regular web upload, meaning you need to use an uploader application of some kind.</p> <p>In any case, this is was just meant to be a test post pointing to some personal videos. I completed my test of Revver, which uses a special uploader. I was wondering why my videos weren't showing up, and it turns out there is an extra step of actually bringing them public. This should probably be worked into the uploader at some point, but for now it makes the uploading process very simple.</p> <p>My<a href="http://www.revver.com/user/bmann/" target="_self"> public video page for Revver</a> has all the clips I've uploaded (only two so far), both taken on my Canon S1 IS. Here's the thumbnail and click-through link for the heron video:</p> <p align="center"><a href="http://revver.com/video/1496/"><img border="0" src="http://revver.com/broadcast/1496/thumbs/thumb_default.jpg" /></a></p> <!--break--> <p>I also have a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch.php?v=AicSITirQSU">video of seared beef</a> on YouTube, but I wasn't happy with the quality of how it was transcoded. Revver seems to keep the original quality.</p>  <p>I haven't tried <a href="http://video.google.com/">Google Video</a> -- anyone have experiences to share there? It *seems* somewhat cumbersome with the whole approval process etc. I can understand this for for-pay video, but my main goal here is posting my own video content and making it easy to share with people, not to make money off it.</p>  <p>Yahoo doesn't have a video hosting option (am I missing something?), but instead has video search. What they want you to do is <a href="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/submit">submit your MediaRSS feed</a> (more <a href="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss">info on MediaRSS here</a>). Judging by Apple's success in getting people to adopt the iTunes RSS format, this is definitely an interesting direction to go. Of course, with the video iPod, who is to say that Apple and iTunes RSS might be the leader here for video as well.</p>  <p>Oh, and I can't forget the strangely named but very good <a href="http://www.audioblog.com">AudioBlog.com</a> -- which is/will be storing and transcoding video of up to 100MB in size. AudioBlog.com is the best solution that I know of right now if you want to retain control over your own audio and video content -- they just take care of all the hard bits like hosting and display, and you choose where to put it, without any advertising or third-party website where it lives. Note to self: activate full AudioBlog.com membership.</p><p><strong>Update:</strong> Roland did a <a target="_self" href="http://www.rolandtanglao.com/archives/2005/11/06/flickr_of_video_doesnt_exist_my_video_upload_experience">similar exercise</a> and also concluded that AudioBlog is the best choice, but still lacking: it needs options for links to the source video (like it does for MP3s) to avoid the re-encoding problem that degrades quality.</p><p><strong>Update 2:</strong> somehow, a bunch of people had the same idea about looking at video all at the same time; here's the <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2005/11/06/the-flickrs-of-video/" target="_self">TechCrunch review</a> looking for the &quot;Flickr of Video&quot;. It's missing AudioBlog.com, so expect some more noise about video over the coming weeks.<br /> </p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-11-07-marc-liyanages-php-apache-module.md b/_posts/archive/2005-11-07-marc-liyanages-php-apache-module.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 76e0ee0..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-11-07-marc-liyanages-php-apache-module.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Marc Liyanage's PHP Apache Module
-created: 1131351784
-categories: 
-- PHP
-- marc liyanage
-- pkg
-- OS X
-- mac
-- apache
-- Mac
-- Open Source
-- PHP
----
-If you want an easy double-click install of PHP in .pkg format, you go here and use Marc's stuff. The installer even makes the necessary changes so that PHP &quot;just works&quot; on your OS X box.<br />
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-11-07-mysql-4-1-os-x-installer.md b/_posts/archive/2005-11-07-mysql-4-1-os-x-installer.md
deleted file mode 100644
index fbbf7a9..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-11-07-mysql-4-1-os-x-installer.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: MySQL 4.1 OS X Installer
-created: 1131352225
-categories: 
-- OS X
-- mysql
-- database
-- Mac
-- Open Source
----
-MySQL 5.0 is being pushed hard, but I'm still sticking mostly with 4.1 for the things I'm doing. Here's the direct link to the download page...scroll down to the Mac OS X section.<br />
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-11-08-ietf-64-social-tuesday-nov-8th-anyone-attending.md b/_posts/archive/2005-11-08-ietf-64-social-tuesday-nov-8th-anyone-attending.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 78f6da3..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-11-08-ietf-64-social-tuesday-nov-8th-anyone-attending.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "IETF 64 Social - Tuesday, Nov. 8th: Anyone attending?"
-created: 1131438820
-categories: 
-- IETF
-- IETF 64
-- Vancouver Acquarium
-- Nortel
-- photo
-- Vancouver
----
-<div>  <a title="photo sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/61184006/"><img border="0" alt="" src="http://static.flickr.com/30/61184006_e314b6cd53_m.jpg" /></a>  <br />  <span>   <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/61184006/">IETF 64 Shirt</a>   <br />   Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/boris/">bmann</a>.  </span> </div> Thanks to the infamous Soo, I got a ticket to attend the <a href="https://www.meetinghq.com/group/101004751?wslid=nortel_ietf2005social">IETF 64 Social</a> Tuesday night at the Vancouver Acquarium.<br /> <br /> The <a href="http://www.ietf.org/meetings/IETF-64.html">meeting here in Vancouver</a> is hosted by <a href="http://www.nortel.com">Nortel</a>, my old employer (and where I met the infamous Soo).<br /> <br /> I'll just post this in case anyone way out there in blogosphere land might see this. I'll be wearing the red shirt that the infamous Soo gave me. <br />
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-11-08-speak-at-northern-voice-2006.md b/_posts/archive/2005-11-08-speak-at-northern-voice-2006.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c88ddb6..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-11-08-speak-at-northern-voice-2006.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Speak at Northern Voice 2006
-created: 1131521215
-categories: 
-- Social Media
-- Personal Publishing
-- Vancouver
-- vancouver
-- nv06
-- northern voice 2006
-- northern voice
-- moose camp
----
-<p>No, really, we want people talking. <a href="http://2006.northernvoice.ca/" target="_self" title="Canadian Blogging Conference">Northern Voice 2006</a> is pretty much right around the corner. The official deadline is <strike>tomorrow</strike>* next week, Wednesday, Nov. 16th. So <a href="http://2006.northernvoice.ca/speaker-submission" target="_self">apply as a speaker</a>. Remember, this is a very &quot;open tent&quot;, not necessarily &uuml;ber techie conference. Come and share stories with us in Vancouver. It's going to be the same shareable size -- about 250 people give or take, except that day 1 is <a href="http://2006.northernvoice.ca/wiki/moose-camp" target="_self">Moose Camp</a> -- an open day for special interest groups or just old friends to take over the space. This is not a complete unconference -- maybe you want to organize a mini conference of 10 or 20 people that are all interested in the same subject. Head over to the <a href="http://2006.northernvoice.ca/wiki" target="_self">wiki</a> and self organize (and let us know, and we'll help make sure the word gets out).</p><p>I may actually extend this conference and try and gather people together for the week preceding Moose Camp/Northern Voice -- a gathering of open source CMS/Blogging tools to talk about cross platform issues and working more closely together on standards and interoperability. Watch this space for more info (think Vancouver/Whistler in February: how could you NOT want to come?). At the very least, there will likely be a DrupalCon Vancouver 2006. Moose Camp will be the culmination of this event, hopefully as fun as the BarCamp Amsterdam event I attended at Mediamatic. What can I say, I might just be addicted to these things...<br /> </p><p>(Yes, <a href="http://www.julieleung.com/" target="_self">Julie</a>, that does mean you -- don't even think about NOT submitting something! or maybe <a href="http://www.sauria.com/blog" target="_self">Ted</a> wants to try something a little less like his usual techie stuff?)</p><p>So, any EduBloggers? Knitting Bloggers? Food Bloggers? From journalists to home makers to gardeners to people just telling stories, we want speakers that have things to share. It's a wide audience, from lots of local Vancouverites wanting to find out more to lots of top bloggers and techies from around the world.&nbsp;</p><p>*Just me living in the future again, I guess <img border="0" src="/hm/profiles/standard/modules/tinymce/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-wink.gif" /><br /> </p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-11-08-vlc-media-player.md b/_posts/archive/2005-11-08-vlc-media-player.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 8302450..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-11-08-vlc-media-player.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: VLC Media Player
-created: 1131444351
-categories: 
-- open source
-- video
-- VLC
-- Movie
-- Open Source
----
-The best open source media player for OS X. Should play most anything you come across, and in full-screen without the Quicktime Pro tax.<br />
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-11-10-opportunities-people-and-tools.md b/_posts/archive/2005-11-10-opportunities-people-and-tools.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 60793d8..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-11-10-opportunities-people-and-tools.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Opportunities, people, and tools
-created: 1131640976
-categories: 
-- tools
-- anniversary
-- ton zylstra
-- Personal Publishing
----
-<blockquote> Tools never change anything. It is people seeing opportunities and grabbing them with those tools that change things. <a href="http://www.zylstra.org/blog/archives/001822.html">Ton's Interdependent Thoughts: Three years ago today...</a> </blockquote>  <p>This is a great quote from Ton, as he posts on the three year anniversary of blogging. I'd like to think that I'm interested in making tools that make it really easy for people to see opportunities. That flexible tools can help people. But without the people, the tools can do nothing -- we are not like the Sorcerer's Apprentice, with dancing brooms toiling away. In man vs. machine, I am on the side of man....except I still try and build a better machine, and delete in the tinkering involved. Every new bolt I add, I see a new opportunity open up, and hope by making those tools available, people's opportunities will expand.</p>  <p>Happy anniversary, Ton. May every tool you choose open new opportunities.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-11-11-parceltongue.md b/_posts/archive/2005-11-11-parceltongue.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 16f36ab..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-11-11-parceltongue.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Parceltongue
-created: 1131757106
-categories: 
-- pretzel
-- Twisted
-- python
-- parceltongue
-- open source
-- jabber
-- pretzelserver
-- IM
----
-<p><em>Do <strong>you</strong> speak snake? A Jabber server written on the Python Twisted framework.</em></p><p>This is a new project of mine/Bryght&#39;s. I&#39;ve long been an advocate for the Jabber/XMPP protocol. Now, I&#39;m hoping to give something back plus form a community around a new jabber server daemon. For now, just redirects to a wiki where we&#39;ll organize and add some more details. Feel free to add &quot;like to have&quot; or other ideas of what you want to see out of a new Python-based jabberd.</p><p><strong>Update:</strong> we changed the name to Pretzel. There is currently a placeholder project up at Google Code Hosting: <a href="http://code.google.com/p/pretzel/">Pretzel Server&nbsp;</a></p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-11-14-doubletake-best-panorama-stitch-tool-for-mac-os-x.md b/_posts/archive/2005-11-14-doubletake-best-panorama-stitch-tool-for-mac-os-x.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f6b105d..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-11-14-doubletake-best-panorama-stitch-tool-for-mac-os-x.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,73 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "DoubleTake: best panorama stitch tool for Mac OS X"
-created: 1132036454
-categories: 
-- Mac
-- shareware
-- review
-- panorama
-- mac os x
-- hReview
-- DoubleTake
-- application
-- application
-- DoubleTake
-- hReview
-- mac os x
-- panorama
-- review
-- shareware
-- Mac
-- application
-- DoubleTake
-- hReview
-- mac os x
-- panorama
-- review
-- shareware
-- Hugin
-- Photostich
-- AutoPano
-- Mac
----
-<p>
-	Last night I was up too late for my own good, drawn into some strange corners of the Internet over on the <a href="http://dannychoo.com/blogg/eng/mac/" target="_self">Mac section of Danny Choo&#39;s site</a>, and found a link to <a href="http://echoone.com/doubletake/" target="_self">DoubleTake</a>, a Mac OS X application for stiching together panoramas. I decided not to try it out, but did <a href="http://del.icio.us/url/7fb4924a932a669150d828d9a486fbaa" target="_self">add it to my del.icio.us</a> links for later. My description was a bit strange (&quot;$12; there are no free stitch apps that I can find; I&#39;m having a hard time finding *good* ones, never mind free ones&quot;), and hinted at my frustration with other tools like the open source, highly complex/somewhat slow <a href="http://hugin.sourceforge.net/" target="_self">Hugin</a> and Canon&#39;s crappy still-looks-like-OS-9 Photostich.</p>
-<p>
-	I was very surprised to get up this morning and get an email from <span class="q">Henrik Dalgaard, creator of DoubleTake</span> and other apps at <a href="http://echoone.com/" target="_self" title="Software for Mac OS X - DoubleTake, iSwiff, File Juicer">Echo One</a>. He is obviously tracking del.icio.us linkage, and wanted to know more:</p>
-<blockquote>
-	<p>
-		Thank you for the delicious comment. It is ambigous though. Do you<br />
-		have any feedback I could use to make DoubleTake better?<br />
-		I am aiming to make it simple to get quality results with DoubleTake,<br />
-		and let Stitcher and Hugin take care of the more professional needs.</p>
-</blockquote>
-<p>
-	I felt a bit silly, since I hadn&#39;t even tried the software yet, and also amazed at how well Henrik is tracking feedback. Well, I got home today, tried it out, and here&#39;s my review (in fancy dancy hReview format, thanks to <a href="http://microformats.org/code/hreview/creator" target="_self">hReview creator</a>, inspired by <a href="http://www.darcynorman.net/2005/11/14/webstractor-nice-app-wrong-direction" target="_self">D&#39;Arcy Norman</a>).</p>
-<!--break-->
-<div class="hreview">
-	<span class="version">0.2</span>
-	<h2 class="summary">
-		Best panorama stitch tool for Mac OS X</h2>
-	Nov 14, 2005 by <span class="reviewer fn">Boris Mann</span> <span class="type">product</span> <img border="0" class="photo" src="http://echoone.com/doubletake/dt.png" /> <a href="http://echoone.com/doubletake/"> DoubleTake </a>
-	<blockquote>
-		<p>
-			★★★★★</p>
-		<p>
-			<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/63485505/in/photostream/" target="_self"><img align="left" border="0" height="68" hspace="5" src="http://static.flickr.com/26/63485505_54de5d8351_t.jpg" vspace="5" width="100" /></a>The joy of DoubleTake begins with the download and unpacking of the disk image for the beta release of version 2 (available at the bottom of <a href="http://echoone.com/doubletake/" target="_self">this page at Echo One</a>). The original 1.6 version as well as the beta version are bundled together, along with sample images and a link to the <a href="http://echoone.com/doubletake/userguide.html" target="_self">online one page manual</a>. Surprisingly, the one page manual is not only good, but pretty much unnecessary -- I used DoubleTake just fine without it, although I did learn that you can rotate and/or otherwise adjust the original photos in iPhoto, and DoubleTake will notice and update them.<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/63485496/in/photostream/" target="_self"><img align="right" border="0" height="78" hspace="5" src="http://static.flickr.com/33/63485496_4871c2aa03_t.jpg" vspace="5" width="100" /></a></p>
-		<p>
-			Once you&#39;ve installed and launched DoubleTake, you&#39;ll notice immediately that the UI is very Mac-like -- it looks like a native application, right down to the transparent grey floating windows: one for Geometry (rotating, etc.) and one for Adjustments (basic brightness, etc.). Operation is drag-and-drop -- take one or multiple images from anywhere, including directly from iPhoto, and drop them in the new window. DoubleTake will roughly arrange them, and leave the fine tuning up to you.</p>
-		<p>
-			And the fine-tuning is darn easy: you can pretty much eyeball the alignment of features and it sort of snaps into place, immediately showing you what the finished picture is going to look like. While dragging, the dragged image goes translucent, making it easy to overlay on top of the next one. As you can see in the second screenshot, DoubleTake overlays a watermark when not registered. I don&#39;t remember what application I was testing, but it did grayscale or sepia output when not registered. Since colour blends/seams are an important part of panoramas, I much prefer the watermark method.</p>
-		<p>
-			Once you&#39;re happy with what you see, all you have to do is save. The preview onscreen nicely matches the final product, with minimal delay in stitching. You can save in DoubleTake format to keep your arrangement for later tweaking, or output to JPEG, PDF, or PNG. On save there is a short &quot;rendering&quot; phase, which takes a few seconds on my Powermac G5 to output a 5000x1400 pixel panorama. Here&#39;s a sample panorama of Nymph Falls, or check the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/tags/doubletake/">DoubleTake tag in my Flickr account</a> for all images:</p>
-		<p>
-			<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/63485482/in/photostream/" target="_self"><img border="0" height="67" hspace="0" src="http://static.flickr.com/33/63485482_ede289d6a1_m.jpg" vspace="5" width="240" /></a></p>
-		<p>
-			All in all, a well deserved 5 out of 5. And of course, I liked it so much I bought it -- $12US for easy panorama stitching is definitely worth the money, and hints of Automator support and other tidbits show a real awareness of native Mac goodies that should definitely be supported.&nbsp;</p>
-	</blockquote>
-</div>
-<div style="margin:10px; padding: 5px; border: 1px solid black; text-style: italic;">
-	<p>
-		<strong>Note</strong>: a lot of people still seem to be on the lookout for other tools. Leave a comment if you have recommendations to favourite apps. In particular, I have heard good things about <a href="http://www.autopano.net/en/photo-stitching-solutions/autopano-pro.html">AutoPano</a> as a professional tool, which is based on the AutoStitch codebase / algorithms. It is cross platform and runs on Windows / Linux / Mac.</p>
-</div>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-11-14-subethaedit.md b/_posts/archive/2005-11-14-subethaedit.md
deleted file mode 100644
index df271b6..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-11-14-subethaedit.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: SubEthaEdit
-created: 1132040146
-categories: 
-- text editor
-- collaboration
-- Application
-- Mac
----
-Still my favourite text editor, and not only for it's advanced multi-user collaborative editing: it's a great editor for everything from simple text to HTML with built in live preview and syntax colouring for lots of languages.<br />
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-11-15-innovation-commons-please-take-the-survey.md b/_posts/archive/2005-11-15-innovation-commons-please-take-the-survey.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 65138c6..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-11-15-innovation-commons-please-take-the-survey.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Innovation Commons: Please take the survey"
-created: 1132046095
-categories: 
-- innovation commons
-- survey
-- sustainability
-- Vancouver
----
-<p>The <a href="http://wiki.bryght.com/wiki/newenterprisedevelopment" target="_self">New Enterprise Development team</a> have done a great job in designing a survey to gather some more information for the Vancouver Innovation Commons location. Please head over to the wiki and <a href="http://wiki.bryght.com/innovation-commons-survey" target="_self">take the survey</a>.</p><p>The team has also put together some preliminary numbers on what is needed to make this a reality, but there are definitely some more rounds of feedback needed. I can report that I had a great meeting the other day with Charles Holmes of SFU's Learning Strategies group, who is involved in too many cool local projects to grasp -- everything from a project with the Dalai Lama to an upcoming &quot;30 Days of Sustainability&quot; in March. I bring it up because especially the latter project, which focuses on sustainability, could certainly see some tie-ins to potential evolutions of the Innovation Commons. At the very least, I hope that Vancouver's tech/entreprenuer community can be a part of the event here in Vancouver.<br /> </p><p>Probably another get together in a couple of weeks to share findings and brainstorm some next steps.<br /> </p><p>P.S. <a href="http://www.mixedcontent.com" target="_self">Colin</a> checked out the Waves coffee shop that recently opened with free wireless, and open 24 hours. Definitely no competition in the coffee department (&quot;worse than Starbucks&quot; was the phrase used), and it didn't have a great vibe. I'll have to check it out for myself, maybe even late one night.&nbsp;</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-11-15-wayfaring.md b/_posts/archive/2005-11-15-wayfaring.md
deleted file mode 100644
index aff0275..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-11-15-wayfaring.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Wayfaring
-created: 1132041769
-categories: 
-- Google Maps
-- maps
-- tags
-- review
-- web 2.0
-- Web 2.0
----
-A very nifty personal (only you get to add content) or shared (allow anyone to update and edit) mapping site powered by Google Maps. Has all the buzzwords the kids like today, from community to tags to reviews. Minus points for no Flickr integration, and for no support of Canada (!).<br />
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-11-17-yiibu-re-inventing-microcontent.md b/_posts/archive/2005-11-17-yiibu-re-inventing-microcontent.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 534a7e2..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-11-17-yiibu-re-inventing-microcontent.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Yiibu: re-inventing microcontent"
-created: 1132258870
-categories: 
-- yiibu
-- bryan rieger
-- microcontent
-- andaman
-- Vancouver
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<p>Bryan Rieger came by the office yesterday and we caught up on where his new company, <a href="http://www.yiibu.com" target="_self">Yiibu</a> is at. They just soft launched with an example of one of the first pieces of open microcontent that they're going to be working with. Their first microcontent stack is a guide to tropical fish, a wonderful nod to the original <a href="http://www.smackerel.net/black_white_07.html" target="_self">Mackerel Stack</a> mentioned in Bryan's recent <a href="http://bryanrieger.com/2005/11/13/thank-you/" target="_self">thank you post</a>. It's been my pleasure to get to know both Bryan and Steph, and it's been amazing seeing the ideas they come up with.</p><p><a title="Download" href="http://yiibu.com/downloads"><img border="0" alt="Download content for your favourite devices." src="http://yiibu.com/wp-content/images/but_content.jpg" /></a> <a title="Shareable + Remixable" href="http://yiibu.com/license"><img border="0" alt="All our content is shareable and remixable." src="http://yiibu.com/wp-content/images/but_license.jpg" /></a></p><p>What they're doing and thinking about is a new new thing, I believe. We're finally getting to the point where mobile devices can easily work with multimedia content, with new devices like the colour iPods and the Sony PSP turning out to be great platforms to carry around user-created content. The Creative Commons and the very concept of shareable content shouldn't be discounted either -- lessons like the Sony DRM debacle are only reinforcing that.</p><p>How can you share microcontent? How can you get paid for creating microcontent? What is the best way forward in terms of mobile platforms and the carrier walled gardens? These are the types of things that Yiibu is thinking about, and has started creating solutions for. There are still lots of issues, like truly portable metadata, and being able to source where content comes from, but this is exactly the space that Bryan and Steph are working in. Their doors are open if you want to pick up some smart consultants in this space, never mind start experimenting with some of the content and payment models they've put together today.<br /></p><p>I'm going to write a longer review of <a href="http://yiibu.com/content/andaman-downloads/" target="_self">Andaman: A Wee Guide to Tropical Fish</a> and how it works on different mobile devices -- or at least, my iPod Nano and my Nokia 6630. Check it out yourself, and think about what universal microcontent means to you.<br /></p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-11-18-shozu.md b/_posts/archive/2005-11-18-shozu.md
deleted file mode 100644
index fdfdfca..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-11-18-shozu.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: ShoZu
-created: 1132341801
-categories: 
-- ShoZu
-- Flickr
-- Series 60
-- photos
-- mobile
-- cameraphone
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<p>I've been using ShoZu for several weeks now. It's an application for your cameraphone that will automatically upload pictures that you take to Flickr. As in, you take the picture, and seconds later, ShoZu will connect to the network (GPRS in my case) in the background, and upload to Flickr. I've got it set to fully automatic, but you can also set it to ask you each time you take a picture whether it should be uploaded to Flickr or not.</p><p>It's made me actually take more pictures with my phone, as well as actually getting them off my phone to share. You can see the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/tags/ShoZu/" target="_self">pictures I've uploaded with ShoZu</a>, as well as <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/ShoZu/" target="_self">all pictures on Flickr tagged with ShoZu</a> (over 4000 as I'm making this post).&nbsp;</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-11-22-announcement-open-source-cms-and-blogging-tools-summit-vancouver-february-7-9-2006.md b/_posts/archive/2005-11-22-announcement-open-source-cms-and-blogging-tools-summit-vancouver-february-7-9-2006.md
deleted file mode 100644
index b198388..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-11-22-announcement-open-source-cms-and-blogging-tools-summit-vancouver-february-7-9-2006.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Announcement: Open Source CMS and Blogging Tools Summit, Vancouver, February 7 - 9, 2006"
-created: 1132710712
-categories: 
-- Open Source
-- vancouver
-- open source
-- Joomla
-- ezPublish
-- drupal
----
-<p>This is the official first post announcing planning of the Open Source CMS and Blogging Tools Summit. I'm taking the opportunity of the <a href="http://www.northernvoice.ca">Northern Voice</a> conference (and especially the spirit of <a href="http://2006.northernvoice.ca/wiki/moose-camp">Moose Camp</a>) to try and put together a mini-conference of a variety of open source communities.</p><p>The great thing about open source is that we can all share and learn from each other. Our only goal is to make our own &quot;product&quot; better and -- unlike proprietary systems -- there is a large incentive to work together on shared areas of interest. This is made even easier when there are other areas of overlap, like the standard &quot;stack&quot; of technologies that support these tools, from the Linux operating system, the Apache web server, MySQL and PostgreSQL databases, and Python/Perl/PHP coding languages.</p><p>I met with Zak Greant on Friday, who is an evangelist working with <a href="http://www.ez.no">ez Systems</a>, makers of the ezPublish CMS. <a href="http://www.rolandtanglao.com">Roland</a> is going to be contacting local representatives of the <a href="http://plone.org/">Plone</a> community, like <a href="http://www.enfoldsystems.com/">Enfold Systems</a>. Of course, the <a href="http://www.drupal.org">Drupal</a> community will be here, with <a href="http://www.buytaert.net">Dries Buytaert</a> and other developers convening in Vancouver for our North American meetup (thanks Chad and Angie for kickstarting discussions about that).</p><p>I know that <a href="http://www.photomatt.net">Matt Mullenweg</a> is going to be coming up for Northern Voice, so perhaps he can extend his trip and talk a little WordPress.</p><p>In part, many of the ideas for this summit came about from a presentation by the <a href="http://www.joomla.org">Joomla</a> guys to the <a href="http://drupal.org/conference-amsterdam-2005">DrupalCon Amsterdam 2005</a><!--break--> -- we found we had a lot in common, and many areas of shared interest, from distributed user logins to templating engines. And of course, appearances by Rasmus Lehrndorf of PHP and David Axmark of MySQL just added to the notion that we are part of a larger ecosystem that should be working together more closely.</p><p>There are many other projects that I haven't mentioned. Suffice it to say that if you're an open source project and you've got an interest in putting content on the web, you're welcome to self-organize a gathering of interested developers here in Vancouver, and to participate in the special interest groups.</p><p>So the purpose of this summit will in fact be twofold. On the one hand, it's a chance for any interested projects to use this an umbrella event to have developer-centric meetings, planning and coding the future growth of their systems. On the other, it's a chance to meet with like-minded people working on similar problems, and hopefully to collaborate on the solutions. The three day event will be a mix of project-centric meetings in the mornings, and special interest groups in the afternoon. We're hoping to get at least three rooms, and space/time will be on a first come/first serve basis for any projects wanting to attend. Of course, there will be lots of power and wifi, so a good time for ad hoc developer collaboration in any case.</p><p>Some of the special interest groups might include:  </p><ul> <li>Identity and Authentication: from single sign on to distributed authentication, how can we make user interoperability seamless</li> <li>WYSIWYG: why are there so many rich text editors that are all mediocre at best? Is there a way to provide general rich text editing hooks, and then work on making a selection of robust, cross platform editors?</li> <li>Extending to the desktop: integration with protocols such as MetaWeblog API and the Atom Publishing Protocol</li> <li>Calendaring: it's a big issue, dates and timezones are hard; making calendars work together across sites and to the desktop</li> <li>Templates and themes: making it really easy for designers to create standards compliant themes.</li><li>Distributed development strategies: from CVS to newer distributed systems like darcs or bzr, share strategies on how your project works together, and what can be done to improve this<br />   </li>  <li>Add your own special interest group: this is just a selection of themes...write a description and <a href="http://2006.northernvoice.ca/wiki/open-source-cms-and-blogging-tools-summit">post to the wiki</a></li> </ul><p>  To keep up to date or to help organize, please join the <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/OSCMS-Vancouver-2006">OSCMS Google group</a>, or <a href="/contact">contact me</a>. As well, Northern Voice's Moose Camp is in some ways going to be the culmination of this event -- I've added a <a href="http://2006.northernvoice.ca/wiki/open-source-cms-and-blogging-tools-summit">page to the wiki</a> that can be used to help organize your project and add your attendance details (you'll need to <a href="http://2006.northernvoice.ca/register">register for Northern Voice</a> if you plan to attend that as well).</p><p>Cost? Well, we'll need to cover the costs for a venue if any. At most, we'll have something like a minimal suggested donation...but we're happy to have sponsors help out here.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-11-23-innovation-commons-request-post-a-video-on-why-you-want-the-commons.md b/_posts/archive/2005-11-23-innovation-commons-request-post-a-video-on-why-you-want-the-commons.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 08505e9..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-11-23-innovation-commons-request-post-a-video-on-why-you-want-the-commons.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Innovation Commons request: post a video on why you want the commons"
-created: 1132743363
-categories: 
-- Vancouver
-- video
-- vancouver
-- innovation commons
----
-<p>The <a href="http://wiki.bryght.com/wiki/newenterprisedevelopment">New Enterprise Development</a> team from UBC is nearing the end of their class, and are about to do a final presentation. They're asking for people to submit video clips explaining why they want something like the <a href="http://wiki.bryght.com/wiki/innovation-commons">Innovation Commons</a> to exist. Of course, my interest is seeing this actually happen here in Vancouver, but I think the model would work well in any city in the world: throw a bunch of smart, independent, motivated people together in one space and let collaboration and innovation blossom. Hmmm...too schmalzy? Perhaps, but tell us why you want something like this in your own city -- the students are going to put together a video montage. Time is short: their presentation is on Thursday morning, so your post pretty much needs to be up by tomorrow. A podcast would probably work, too.</p>  <p>-- I'll be updating this post later with my own video clip --</p>  <p><strong>Update</strong>: Aargh. The video is sitting at home in draft mode. I'm uploading a video filled with a high number of &quot;ums&quot; per minute that I took with my cameraphone just now. Here's the <a href="/system/files?file=20051124.3gp" target="_self">3gp file</a>.<br /> </p><p>Actually, thinking more about this, it would be great if the team's presentation (which includes a business model, among other things) could be made available for people to run with in their own city...hmm, I smell some Creative Commons licensing coming up.</p>  <p>P.S. Need a place to put your video? Roland <a href="http://www.rolandtanglao.com/archives/2005/11/06/flickr_of_video_doesnt_exist_my_video_upload_experience">wrote up his recent experiences on video sharing services</a> with lots of different suggestions.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-11-23-syncing-itunes-music-folders-using-rsync.md b/_posts/archive/2005-11-23-syncing-itunes-music-folders-using-rsync.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 855d7f7..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-11-23-syncing-itunes-music-folders-using-rsync.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Syncing iTunes Music folders using rsync
-created: 1132762951
-categories: 
-- rsync
-- iTunes
-- Mac
-- Music
----
-<p>
-	Very much a work in progress. This took about 15min over a wireless connection, for 3000 songs on my Powerbook to the desktop machine. Shouldn&#39;t be used on anything other than 10.4 Tiger because the &quot;E&quot; flag is specific to that version, which keeps Apple resource fork information when copying.</p>
-<p>
-	rsync -rtE --progress iTunes/iTunes\ Music/ yourothercomputer.com:/Volumes/MaxtorBlue/Music</p>
-<p>
-	You&#39;ll be prompted for your password on the remote machine (assumes you have the same username on both machines).</p>
-<ul>
-	<li>
-		r: recurse into directories</li>
-	<li>
-		t: maintain the time stamp on the files</li>
-	<li>
-		E: keeps Apple resource forks intact</li>
-	<li>
-		progress: scrolls by a list of transfers and how long they take</li>
-</ul>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-11-27-broadband-providers-blocking-podcasts-in-canada.md b/_posts/archive/2005-11-27-broadband-providers-blocking-podcasts-in-canada.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a3f4723..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-11-27-broadband-providers-blocking-podcasts-in-canada.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Broadband providers blocking podcasts in Canada?
-created: 1133160402
-categories: 
-- Canada
-- TorCamp
-- Shaw
-- Rogers
-- podcast
-- Alec Saunders
----
-<p>Over at TorCamp, <a href="http://saunderslog.com/2005/11/26/rogers-blocking-podcasts/">Alec Saunders hears that Rogers and Shaw may be blocking podcast downloads</a>:</p>  <blockquote>While at Torcamp I have heard from several sources that Rogers and Shaw are blocking podcast downloads.&nbsp; After two to three downloads, the data stops.</blockquote>  <p>I highly doubt this is true: I subscribe to several podcasts here in Vancouver, and am connected to Shaw. No blockage here. If this *is* true, it would be a major issue (kind of like <a href="/node/1378">throttling BitTorrent</a> traffic). Alec, let's get confirmation on this, because it doesn't sound realistic right now.</p><p><strong>Update:</strong> <a href="http://www.hogtownconsulting.com/" target="_self">Patrick Dinnen</a> left a comment, pointing especially to <a href="http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=239295&tstart=0" target="_self">Apple forums</a> where this is being discussed. Virtually all of the complaints seem to be limited to Rogers customers back east. The factor seems to be anything that downloads the same file from multiple servers -- which is consistent with Apple's use of Akamai, as well as P2P programs that use multiple download sources.</p><p>Other links: <a href="http://digg.com/links/Rogers_blocking_podcast_downloads_" target="_self">digg</a> pointing to this <a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20051121/0117243_F.shtml" target="_self">Techdirt article</a>, also pointing to <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2005/11/20/canadian_isp_blockin.html" target="_self">Boing Boing</a> bringing it up. Still no confirmation, but it wouldn't surprise me if it's Shaw/Rogers not blocking podcasting, but rather having misconfigured traffic shaping tools.<br /> </p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-11-27-synching-itunes-with-rsync.md b/_posts/archive/2005-11-27-synching-itunes-with-rsync.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 67fe17a..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-11-27-synching-itunes-with-rsync.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Synching iTunes with rsync
-created: 1133159348
-categories: 
-- Windows XP
-- rsync
-- iTunes
-- synch
-- PHP
-- Microsoft
-- PHP
----
-Rasmus has a short sample PHP script of how he keeps a Windows XP box in sync with an OS X iTunes library.<br />
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-11-27-using-rsync-to-sync-itunes-on-two-computers.md b/_posts/archive/2005-11-27-using-rsync-to-sync-itunes-on-two-computers.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 4ef3c6d..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-11-27-using-rsync-to-sync-itunes-on-two-computers.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Using rsync to sync iTunes on two computers
-created: 1133159205
-categories: 
-- rsync
-- iTunes
-- music
-- synch
-- Mac
----
-After I did some more searching, it turns out Mac OS X Hints covered this back in October 2004. Of course, it doesn't cover subsets, which is what I did with my Powerbook &lt;--&gt; Desktop.<br />
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-11-28-icann-brings-cool-people-to-town-geek-dinner-tuesday.md b/_posts/archive/2005-11-28-icann-brings-cool-people-to-town-geek-dinner-tuesday.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 1df0803..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-11-28-icann-brings-cool-people-to-town-geek-dinner-tuesday.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: ICANN brings cool people to town...geek dinner Tuesday?
-created: 1133187837
-updated: 2016/06/02
-categories: 
-- Vancouver
-tags:
-- event
-- ICANN
-- Joi Ito
-- Gervaise
-- Geek Dinner
----
-It looks like the <a href="http://www.icannvancouver.ca/">ICANN Vancouver meeting</a> is bringing several cool people into town...including <a href="http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/archives/2005/11/im_back_2.html">Gervaise</a>, whom I met at BarCamp Amsterdam, and <a href="http://joi.ito.com/archives/2005/11/28/icann_meeting_this_week.html">Joi Ito</a>, who I've never met but would like to (Joi: here are a few <a href="http://joi.43people.com/">other people that want to meet you</a>).
-
-The ICANN meetings don't start until Wednesday, so maybe Tuesday night would be a good night? I'm going to try and get in touch with Gervaise and Joi, and of course ping organizer extraordinaire, <a href="http://www.rolandtanglao.com">Roland</a>, to find us a <a href="http://www.vaneats.com">good place to eat in Vancouver</a>.
-
-**Update:** looks like Wednesday night (tomorrow) is going to be better...Richard, long time #joiito denizen, spent some time polling and Steamworks might be the easiest choice. I've put the <a href="http://upcoming.org/event/43811">event on upcoming.org</a>, so please indicate if you are attending so I can give Steamworks a heads up on how many people to plan for. This is definitely not limited in any way to only ICANN attendees of course...just come on out and we'll (as usual) talk about building the next version of the Internet as per usual :P
-
-**Archive Update June 2016:** now that [@waxpancake brought Upcoming back to life](https://twitter.com/bmann/status/738026053155708928), I need to fix this page! _/node/1616_ should redirect here correctly.
-
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-12-05-how-to-lose-a-platform-adobe-tries-to-make-pdf-and-flash-play-nice.md b/_posts/archive/2005-12-05-how-to-lose-a-platform-adobe-tries-to-make-pdf-and-flash-play-nice.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 7b61981..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-12-05-how-to-lose-a-platform-adobe-tries-to-make-pdf-and-flash-play-nice.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "How to lose a platform: Adobe tries to make PDF and Flash play nice"
-created: 1133848706
-categories: 
-- Web Development
-- Microsoft
-- Sparkle
-- PDF
-- Microsoft
-- Macromedia
-- Flash
-- Adobe
----
-<p>From comments by <a href="http://www.sheriftariq.org/">Sherif</a> on Todd Dominey's post about <a href="http://whatdoiknow.org/archives/002519.shtml">Flash Player and Adobe Reader being combined</a>:</p>  <blockquote> <p>Hmm, I wonder if Adobe just shot themselves in the foot with this announcement vis-a-vis Microsoft Sparkle (aka Expressions), which I realize isn't currently meant to be a Flash competitor. I see two possibilities:</p>  <p>1) Adobe tries to integrate PDF into Flash, the plugin becomes enormous, people balk at downloading it, Adobe backtracks, and keeps the two apps separate (I don't see the PDF plugin becoming smaller, at least based on past experience).</p> <p>2) Microsoft sees an opportunity to win over the Flash market, after several failed versions (typically true with MS), develops an excellent, fairly small plugin (2-3MB) that does what Flash can do and more, and splits the market, forcing designers like us to buy two apps - Flash and Sparkle, giving us more headaches to deal with.</p> </blockquote>  <p>This at the same time that Dave Shea tells us that <a href="http://mezzoblue.com/archives/2005/12/05/macromedia_n/">Macromedia is no more</a>, but notes that &quot;it has always seemed that Macromedia was fundamentally more in tune with the technology and the community.&quot;</p>  <p>I guess this whole post is just an excuse to ask, is it possible that Flash could be overthrown, and who would be the owner of this next platform?</p><p><strong>Update:</strong> John Dowdell did a great job of <a href="http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2005/12/player_faq_chan.cfm">updating the Flash Player FAQ</a>, as well as <a href="http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2005/12/sheas_gang_on_a.cfm">linking to the great comments on Dave Shea's site</a>. And, of course, running around the blogosphere leaving comments and catching this story in real time. Thanks for the comment, John.<br /> </p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-12-05-lots-of-domains-because-its-cheap-and-easy.md b/_posts/archive/2005-12-05-lots-of-domains-because-its-cheap-and-easy.md
deleted file mode 100644
index ddf463b..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-12-05-lots-of-domains-because-its-cheap-and-easy.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Lots of domains...because it's cheap and easy
-created: 1133829733
-categories: 
-- namecheap
-- paul kedrosky
-- domain names
-- domains
-- Web Development
----
-<p>Paul Kedrosky ran a <a href="http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/002155.html">domain ownership survey</a>, and concludes:</p>  <blockquote>It is a tri-modal distribution, however, with there being a subset who own no domains, another cluster with 2 to 5 domains, and yet another cluster of people who own 10 or more domains. For the sake of argument, I'll characterize the three groups as people who don't care about domains, pragmatists who have a couple for their own reasons, and pros &amp; speculators who own many domains for investment purposes. <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/InfectiousGreed?m=1751">Infectious Greed: And the Survey Says .... You Like Domains</a> </blockquote>  <p>Purely on anecdotal evidence, I agree with the three groups (I fit squarely into the the pragmatist group), but disagree with the cut-off points. Kedrosky put 10 or more as the number which made someone a pro/speculator. I have more than 10 domains, based solely on the fact that it's cheap ($9US for full-featured domain management, somewhere around $3US for just registering) and easy (use Blogger or a myriad of other easy to use services and get a site up very quickly).</p>  <p>And in part, it's about topical focus and brand. I was discussing with <a href="http://www.troyangrignon.com">Troy</a> how he wants to structure a new site, which is actually more like 5 or 6 sites. Each site becomes a filter/tag/container for topically related content. Much like a Technorati tag (or other aggregation URL) shows content slices from everywhere, people are using domains to indicate the same thing.</p>  <p>My current recommendation for buying domains, for which I get no bonuses whatsoever, is still <a href="http://www.namecheap.com">Namecheap</a>.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-12-06-open-formats-how-to-make-enhanced-podcasts-without-apple.md b/_posts/archive/2005-12-06-open-formats-how-to-make-enhanced-podcasts-without-apple.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e4f974c..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-12-06-open-formats-how-to-make-enhanced-podcasts-without-apple.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Open formats: how to make enhanced podcasts without Apple"
-created: 1133941785
-categories: 
-- XIPF
-- XSPF
-- iTunes
-- iPod
-- Songbird
-- Mac
-- Music
-- Open Source
----
-<p>The short answer: you can't. Actually, you can't even listen/view an enhanced podcast without iTunes or an iPod.*</p>  <p>What do I mean by an enhanced podcast? Check out such podcasts as the <a href="http://www.cbcradio3.com">CBC Radio 3 show</a>, <a href="http://podguides.net/">Podguides.net</a>, or the fabulous Montreal-based <a href="http://mcturgeon.com/blog/">Vu d'ici</a> for some examples of integrating music, time markers, pictures, descriptions, and even web links. Apple enables this with its crazy ChapterTool, but your best source of information on creating enhanced podcasts is the <a href="http://www.voxmedia.org/wiki/PodcastChapterTool">Voxmedia Wiki Podcast Chapter Tool page</a>.</p>  <p>So...what's the big deal? Well, we need an alternate, open format, and we need alternate players. Microsoft is, in all likelihood, going to come up with something based around RSS and Simple List Extensions. Hmmm...wait...except for the part where all the data is actually bundled inside the audio file format itself. So, some sort of Windows Media strangeness? Or follow Apple's lead and use the MPEG-4 packaging format. Will this be open enough? Somehow, I suspect not.</p>  <p>Maybe Yahoo will come to the rescue; <a href="http://bryanrieger.com/2005/12/03/xipf-extensible-interactive-packaging-format/">Bryan Rieger points to a brand new initiative called XIPF</a>, or eXtensible Interactive Packaging Format. Actually, following that train of thought, <a href="http://www.xspf.org/">XSPF</a>, the XML Shareable Playlist Format might be trivial to use directly as the basis for an enhanced podcast standard, since it supports images, links, etc. already. Imagine every Webjay playlist as an enhanced podcast.<br /> </p>  <p>Now all we need is one or more players for this new format. Do I hear a resounding &quot;yes!&quot; from the direction of <a href="http://www.songbirdnest.com/">Songbird</a> or perhaps <a href="http://www.videolan.org/vlc">VLC</a>?</p>  <p>Somewhat related aside: <a href="http://www.mixedcontent.com">Colin</a> and I have been musing over what an online enhanced podcast maker would look like, and whether or not <a href="http://www.odeo.com">Odeo</a> or <a href="http://www.audioblog.com">AudioBlog</a> might be adding this sooner rather than later.</p>  <p>* not <em>quite</em> true, since there is a very interesting podcast-to-J2ME application to called <a href="http://www.geocities.com/tvhuangsg/javacast/">Javacast</a> that will let you use this on a variety of mobile phones.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-12-11-wireless-data-in-canada-is-ridiculously-expensive.md b/_posts/archive/2005-12-11-wireless-data-in-canada-is-ridiculously-expensive.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 14c2baa..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-12-11-wireless-data-in-canada-is-ridiculously-expensive.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Wireless data in Canada is ridiculously expensive
-created: 1134354048
-categories: 
-- 3G
-- GPRS
-- Fido
-- Rogers
-- Bell
-- Telus
-- 1X
-- Canada
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<p>Mentioning his on the road week at Les Blogs, <a href="http://paolo.evectors.it/2005/12/11.html#a2700">Paolo Valdemarin reports</a> that 3G access with his phone costs 0,75 eurocent/kb = 7,6 Euros per Mb.</p>  <p>I would happily pay that price, especially for the approximately 300kbps speed of 3G. How much does wireless cost in Canada? Well, only Fido/Rogers have GPRS, while Bell and Telus have the ridiculous 1X no SIM card lock in nonsense. If you don't have a data plan, GPRS costs $30 CDN / MB, or 30 cents/kb. So, uploading one picture from my 1.3MP cameraphone costs about $9. Ridiculous!</p>  <p>Luckily, I have a grandfathered Fido plan that lets me use unlimited data for $50 / month. I try and use it as much as possible to get my moneys worth. Darren earlier reported what happens when you <a href="http://www.darrenbarefoot.com/archives/2005/10/gprs-is-a-joke.html">try data without a plan</a>.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-12-12-del-icio-us-bought-ma-gnolia-being-built.md b/_posts/archive/2005-12-12-del-icio-us-bought-ma-gnolia-being-built.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 599d9e6..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-12-12-del-icio-us-bought-ma-gnolia-being-built.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: del.icio.us bought, ma.gnolia being built
-created: 1134457808
-categories: 
-- social bookmarking
-- ma.gnolia
-- del.icio.us
-- yahoo
-- Take 5 Cafe
-- Todd Sieling
-- Web 2.0
----
-<p>I ran into <a href="http://holycola.net/">Todd Sieling</a> at <a href="http://www.take5cafe.com">Take5 Cafe</a> today (our defacto <a href="/blog/bmann/the-innovation-commons">Innovation Commons</a> - sign up to <a href="http://wiki.bryght.com/wiki/jump-start-your-dollars-can-get-innovation-commons-rolling">put your money down</a> now!). He's been working with a company down in the valley on something very timely -- a social bookmarking site called <a href="http://ma.gnolia.com/">ma.gnolia</a>. Todd actually briefed Roland and myself on this a couple of months back, and we were bitterly disappointed when we didn't get a live demo. Today, Todd clicked me through a couple of sample pages. What can I say? The design looks nice and polished, we quibbled a bit about what the semantics of &quot;send a link&quot; are and what icons should like, and so on. I'm looking forward to kicking the tires on it when it goes live some time in the new year, especially since its target is regular web users. Saying things like &quot;get a del.icio.us account and subscribe to your private 'for:' feed in RSS&quot; pretty much results in blank stares today...<br /> </p><p>So, can another (or any?) social bookmarking site succeed? Well, aside from arguing <a href="http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/002191.html">as Paul Kedrosky does</a> that del.icio.us' installed base are &quot;early-adopter geeks utterly unrepresentative of anything approximately a larger market than del.icio.us's current 300,000 supposed users&quot;. Of course, there are all sorts of interesting comments in that post going back and forth about whether buying del.icio.us was &quot;worth it&quot; for Yahoo, and I've actually changed my mind a couple of times because of the different viewpoints there.</p><p>And now for a little anecdotal story of what people think about social bookmarking.&nbsp;</p><p>Since we spend so much time at Take5, we've gotten to know the staff really well. I stopped to say bye on my way out the door, and mentioned that there was another technology company taking shape in the couches at the back. For a minute, I was going to say something like &quot;it's a social bookmarking site, similar to del.icio.us&quot;, when I reallized that means approximately zero to the average person on the street. So I said, simply, &quot;it's an online tool to help organize your bookmarks and share them with your friends&quot;. Know what? They got it immediately...AND thought it was a great application.</p><p>Does it matter that they've never used del.icio.us? Nope. I think potentially a handful of these sites will &quot;win&quot;, all growing out through various viral (natural? word of mouth? offline marketing?) means. One only has to look at MySpace to see that better technology is definitely not the factor at play here.&nbsp;</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-12-15-bell-offers-flat-rate-global-roaming-with-a-cdma-gsm-phone-at-2-49-per-minute.md b/_posts/archive/2005-12-15-bell-offers-flat-rate-global-roaming-with-a-cdma-gsm-phone-at-2-49-per-minute.md
deleted file mode 100644
index ca74373..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-12-15-bell-offers-flat-rate-global-roaming-with-a-cdma-gsm-phone-at-2-49-per-minute.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Bell offers flat-rate Global Roaming with a CDMA/GSM phone...at $2.49 per minute!
-created: 1134698513
-categories: 
-- CDMA
-- GSM
-- Motorola A840
-- Bell
-- Canada
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<p>This is from a <a href="http://www.bce.ca/en/news/releases/bc/2005/12/12/73111.html">December 12th press release</a>:</p>  <blockquote> Bell's new flat-rate global roaming on GSM networks service will cost users $2.49 per minute globally for all in-country and country-to-country calls, including all long-distance charges, offering users a more competitive and simpler price plan for international calling. </blockquote>  <p>GSM? Bell? How is this possible, you're asking yourself (perhaps as you laugh at the ridiculous pricing structure), since Bell's network uses CDMA technology which is incompatible with most of the rest of the world's networks?</p>  <p>Well, I guess they got tired of answering questions about why their phones didn't work in Europe or China or hundreds of other places, so Bell bit the bullet and is now celling a dual-mode CDMA/GSM phone, the <a href="http://direct.motorola.com/ENS/web_producthome.asp?Country=USA&amp;language=ENS&amp;productid=29608">Motorola A840</a>. Hmmm...now this is the kind of thing that I *might* like if, say, you could swap out the SIM card and have both a Bell pay-as-you-go plan for places where Rogers/Fido don't have coverage. But, of course, it's all locked in, can only be used with the Bell network, and won't be able to take advantage of cheap local providers by just swapping out the SIM card.</p>  <p>Tell me again why CDMA actually still exists, or why people voluntarily lock themselves in?</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-12-17-jabbers-jingle-comes-out-of-the-closet-in-time-for-the-holidays.md b/_posts/archive/2005-12-17-jabbers-jingle-comes-out-of-the-closet-in-time-for-the-holidays.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 85c9786..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-12-17-jabbers-jingle-comes-out-of-the-closet-in-time-for-the-holidays.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Jabber's JINGLE comes out of the closet in time for the holidays
-created: 1134822986
-categories: 
-- jabber
-- JINGLE
-- XMPP
-- JEP
-- press release
-- IM
-- Open Source
----
-<p>Sorry, couldn't resist the Christmas themed title. What am I talking about? Well, the <a href="http://www.jabber.org/press/2005-12-15.shtml">JINGLE press release</a>* came out yesterday, announcing the official Jabber Extensions Protocols (JEPs) for doing multimedia over Jabber, or XMPP as the IETF approved protocol is officially known.</p>  <p>Here's the part where we learn that this is in reality a way for everyone to plug into Google Talk:</p>  <blockquote> The Jingle technology represents an open version of the protocols used in the popular <a href="http://www.google.com/talk/">Google Talk</a> application released in August 2005, and Google is supporting the standardization and evolution of these protocols through the JSF's community standards process. </blockquote>  <p>The two JEPs cover <a href="http://www.jabber.org/jeps/jep-0166.html">signalling</a> and the specific format for <a href="http://www.jabber.org/jeps/jep-0167.html">audio sessions</a>. There is running code for interoperability with <a href="http://www.asterisk.org">Asterisk's</a> IAX protocol, and SIP and H.323 is in the works.</p>  <p>I've long turned up my nose at the primarily telco driven (with the notable exception of Microsoft) SIMPLE spec, an attempt to add presence and text messaging to SIP. Now XMPP has turned the tables, and gone after SIP. Well, actually, I don't believe that SIP will go away -- it has emerged as the core way to ship VoIP around networks -- but I think we can close the lid on SIMPLE.</p>  <p>What else is going on? Well, let's look at some related happenings. <a href="http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/002223.html">Kedrosky reports</a> that <a href="http://www.meebo.com">Meebo</a>, a web-based IM system, got some major money. <a href="http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2005/12/16/Adium">Tim Bray points to</a> <a href="http://www.adium.com">Adium</a>, a multi-platform IM client for OS X, as an example of what a great application looks like. Oh, right, Adium is based around the <a href="http://gaim.sf.net/">Gaim</a> library, which brings us full circle, since the name of that library is on the press release from Jabber.</p>  <p>What's next? Well, for me, I'm flying to <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?oi=map&amp;q=Missoula,+MT">Missoula, Montana</a>, where <a href="http://www.firebright.com">some</a> <a href="http://www.bryght.com">of</a> <a href="http://www.2entwine.com">us</a> are going to try and figure out what this all means, and what we're going to put together. Identity, presence, guaranteed delivery, security, voice...there are a bunch of applications of this technology waiting out there, we're going to take a crack at figuring out what's right.</p>  <p>* no RSS for the press section? Come on guys, get a real <a href="http://www.drupal.org">content management system</a>.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2005-12-29-2006-will-be-the-year-of-xmpp.md b/_posts/archive/2005-12-29-2006-will-be-the-year-of-xmpp.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 235ef0c..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2005-12-29-2006-will-be-the-year-of-xmpp.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: 2006 will be the year of XMPP
-created: 1135860302
-categories: 
-- IM
-- XMPP
-- JINGLE
-- jabber
----
-<p>As <a href="http://ralphm.net/blog/2005/12/22/barcamp_3">Ralph Meijer</a> puts it, I am still delinquent in publishing the notes I took after BarCamp Amsterdam:</p> <blockquote> I suppose the plan for World Domination&trade; will remain a secret until Boris Mann publishes the result of the <a href="/blog/bmann/back-from-3-conferences-in-amsterdam-busy-week-ahead">notes</a> he took at <a href="http://www.barcamp.org/index.cgi?BarCampAmsterdam">BarCamp Amsterdam</a>. The event was totally awesome. Thanks all!  </blockquote>  <p>I'm *still* carrying the notes around with me -- I had the great good fortune to spend a lot of time with Ralph and <a href="http://mons.net/">Edwinn</a> and suck all the Jabber aka XMPP knowledge I could out of them that I could. I've been following the growth of Jabber/XMPP for years, and here are some of the concepts and happenings which I think are going to blow it wide open in 2006:</p>  <ul> <li>A major Internet entity commits to natively using the XMPP protocol for a new IM network: Google did this with the release of GoogleTalk; their recent deal with IM makes me think that Google - AOL - Apple iChat interoperability could happen in 2006. At any point, Google could also turn on gateway services to MSN and Yahoo as well.</li> <li>Consumer multi-network IM gets funding: <a href="http://www.meebo.com">Meebo</a> got WAAAAY too much money. It's a simple, simple service, and there is no unique technology or IP. BUT...why are so many people using it? Because being able to talk to all your friends, no matter which network, is the killer app. And while the <a href="http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2005/12/16/Adium">Mac has one of the best multi-network clients ever in Adium</a>, on Windows it's just a pain. Oh, and web apps that you can get to from anywhere -- especially for a communication app like IM -- are infinitely better than desktop installs.</li> <li>XMPP isn't just about IM anymore: there have always been really cool examples floating around in the Jabber community (e.g. <a href="http://map.butterfat.net/">Google Maps + Jabber</a>, including a *very* cool way to login by having the server message you a login phrase), but the really big news is JINGLE, including the immediate release of an audio transport, with Asterisk integration almost immediately and video probably not far behind.</li> <li>Increasing open source activity: <a href="http://ejabberd.jabber.ru/">eJabberd</a> is one of the best XMPP servers period. For Java-heads, there is Jive Software's <a href="http://www.jivesoftware.org/wildfire/">Wildfire</a>, now available under a dual license. Jive Software also released a <a href="http://www.jivesoftware.org/xiff/">Flash Jabber API called XIFF</a>, meaning you could build your own version of <a href="http://gtalkr.com">GTalkr</a> (disclaimer: I know Wes and Dudley, the masterminds behind GTalkr...it's not that easy, and right this minute they're installing killer features to blow your mind :P). Now all we need to make Jabber really accessible for developers is a great server written in one of the &quot;P&quot; languages -- PHP, Python, or Perl. Since the Python Twisted networking stack has Jabber support in the <a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/projects/words/">Twisted Words</a> component, and Python makes for great daemon-izable apps, it's probably the best choice.</li> <li>The push for realtime: this goes hand in hand with the last point. The super secret part of XMPP is that it's not about IM at all...it's a generalized XML message passing protocol optimized for real-time. Every ounce of effort to get faster polling of RSS is wasted...it's an asynchronous poll model -- XMPP is the step beyond. I suggested that <a href="http://www.plazes.com">Plazes</a> throw away it's proprietary protocol and use XMPP directly, preferably using the <a href="http://www.jabber.org/jeps/jep-0080.html">User Geolocation JEP</a> that has already been defined for exactly such uses. Anything else you want to pass around in real time that can be represented in XML? Like real-time <a href="http://www.xmpp.org/drafts/draft-saintandre-atompub-notify-04.html">ATOM</a>? Yep, the possibilities are endless.</li> </ul> <p>What are my next steps with XMPP? Well, I'm getting very interested in what a combination of a Jabber server plus identity store might be able to do. <a href="http://www.parceltongue.org">Parceltongue</a> is a placeholder for potentially writing such a server in Python (why another server? well, part of that is in the secret notes...let's just say that Jabberd 1.x and Jabber 2.x are both needed if you want to run a complete set of services, plus the aforementioned desire for a &quot;P&quot; language to run a Jabber server with).</p>  <p>I'm going to be attending <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2006">FOSDEM 2006</a> in Brussels, and I hope to talk with and about Jabber while I'm there, focusing mainly on community aspects (see <a href="http://ralphm.net/blog/2005/12/22/fosdem_2006_call">Ralph's &quot;Call for Presence&quot;</a>). Ralph, maybe you and I could do a &quot;Jabber World Domination&quot; presentation oriented towards non-Jabber users? It seems to me that much of the community feeling is focused around individual applications (which is fine...it's hard to get verklempt about a protocol...hmmm...unless maybe it's RSS :P) and there needs to be some work done on interoperability and lots of great stuff actually getting out there and getting the recognition it deserves.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-01-03-allpeers-puts-bittorrent-in-the-browser.md b/_posts/archive/2006-01-03-allpeers-puts-bittorrent-in-the-browser.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a8650ca..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-01-03-allpeers-puts-bittorrent-in-the-browser.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: AllPeers puts BitTorrent in the browser
-created: 1136348932
-tags: 
-- XMPP
-- BitTorrent
-- Firefox
-- flock
-- Web 2.0
----
-<p>Via <a href="http://www.scripting.com/2006/01/03.html#When:1:26:32PM">Dave Winer</a>, I found this <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/01/03/allpeers-is-the-firefox-killer-app/">post by Mike Arrington talking about the AllPeers Firefox extension</a>:</p>  <blockquote> AllPeers is a simple, persistent buddy list in the browser. Initially, interaction with those buddies will be limited to discovering and sharing files - If you choose to, you can share any file on your network with one or more of your friends. They will be able to see what files you choose to share (even getting an RSS feed of new files you include), and with a single click download it to their own hard drive. </blockquote>  <p><a href="http://www.allpeers.com/">AllPeers</a> is private, P2P file sharing using BitTorrent to do the transfer, implemented as a Firefox extension. It involves buddylists as well, so I left a comment on Mike's site that they should use <a href="http://www.xmpp.org/">XMPP</a> to power the buddylist. Buddylists and IM capabilities in the browser (which are proxies for identity and peer-to-peer communication, respectively) are destined to have some sort of representation directly in the browser. This might be something for <a href="http://www.flock.com">Flock</a> to think about.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-01-06-liberty-alliance-people-service-webcast-on-january.md b/_posts/archive/2006-01-06-liberty-alliance-people-service-webcast-on-january.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 341f69c..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-01-06-liberty-alliance-people-service-webcast-on-january.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Liberty Alliance People Service Webcast on January
-created: 1136536852
-categories: 
-- Social Media
-- SAML
-- People Service
-- Liberty Alliance
-- identity
----
-<p>Interested in social networking and all things identity? The Liberty Alliance is having a webcast on the ID-WSF People Service (I <em>can't believe</em> that that has a TM after it...kind of illustrates the icky feeling people have towards Liberty stuff...) -- <a href="https://www.projectliberty.org/scripts/webcast_jan06.asp">8AM PST, January 11, 2006, ID-WSF 2.0&rsquo;s People Service: Federated Social Identity, presented by Paul Madsen</a>:</p>  <blockquote> The Liberty ID-WSF People Service&trade;, a key component in ID-WSF 2.0, is the industry&rsquo;s first comprehensive platform for managing social information within an open federated network environment. People Service allows consumers and enterprise users to manage social applications such as bookmarks, blogging, calendars, photo sharing and instant messaging from a common layer within the ID-WSF 2.0 framework. Liberty People Service has been developed to allow individuals to easily store, maintain, and categorize online relationships so that other socially-aware Web services applications can leverage information based on the consent and privacy controls established by a user in the federated social network. With Liberty Alliance People Service, consumers and enterprise users can now centrally manage all of their online social relationships using a federated network approach with privacy controls built into the system allowing users to leverage the privacy functionality of Liberty Web Services to more easily and securely share social and enterprise information across applications, platforms and service providers. In this Web cast, we&rsquo;ll overview the functionality of People Service and provide some use case examples. You won&rsquo;t want to miss this highly informative session. </blockquote>  <p><a href="http://www.laurenwood.org/anyway/">Lauren</a> gave me a heads up on this, and checked with the organizers: there are over 60 people signed up already, and the organizers will make more slots available if it gets &quot;full&quot;...but you need to <a href="https://www.projectliberty.org/scripts/webcast_jan06.asp">RSVP</a> soonish to make sure.</p>  <p>So, I mentioned the feelings that people have towards SAML/Liberty Alliance stuff. The perception is one of complexity, corporate focus, and closed source. The concepts covered in the People Service should definitely indicate that there is the desire to address all the fun non-corporate end-user apps that we're all playing with these days. Talking about the closed source issue, when I started looking into this, the main resource I found was <a href="http://www.opensaml.org/">OpenSAML</a>. But, nothing but nasty (complex!) Java and C++ implementations.</p>  <p>If you want adoption of your standard/spec/whatever in wider open source communities, you pretty much need an implementation in one of the main &quot;scripty&quot; languages in the LAMP stack -- PHP, Python, or Perl.</p>  <p>I also just put up a <a href="http://www.oscms-summit.org/events/joint-discussion-on-identity-issues-solutions-and-implementation">placeholder page for the OS CMS Summit Identity Session</a> [link moved], where we'll be able to discuss a lot of these issues face to face.</p><p><strong>Update:</strong> the session did fill up completely -- there will be another session on January 25th at 6AM PST. Make sure to register. There is a <a href="https://www.projectliberty.org/resources/whitepapers/Liberty_Federated_Social_Identity.pdf">white paper</a> [PDF] about PeopleService, and here are the <a href="http://www.projectliberty.org/resources/presentations/liberty-webinar-peopleservice-Jan11.pdf">session slides [PDF]</a><br /> </p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-01-12-oscms-summit-is-go-for-launch.md b/_posts/archive/2006-01-12-oscms-summit-is-go-for-launch.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 076c1ef..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-01-12-oscms-summit-is-go-for-launch.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: OSCMS Summit is go for launch
-created: 1137136915
-categories:
-- Event
-- Conference
-tags: 
-- Open Source
-- Vancouver
-- OSCMS
----
-<a href="http://www.oscms-summit.org"><img width="160" vspace="5" hspace="10" height="180" border="0" align="left" title="OSCMS Banner" alt="OSCMS Banner" src="http://www.oscms-summit.org/system/files?file=images/open-cms-con_1.jpg" /></a>
-
-<p>Somehow when I wasn't looking, the <a title="Open Source CMS Summit" href="http://www.oscms-summit.org">OSCMS Summit</a> that I talked about a <a href="/blog/bmann/announcement-open-source-cms-and-blogging-tools-summit-vancouver-february-7-9-2006">while back</a> came together really nicely. It takes place February 7 - 9 here in Vancouver, right before <a href="http://2006.northernvoice.ca">Moose Camp and Northern Voice</a>. If you're an open source developer or are interested in CMS applications, come by and check it out. We've been lucky enough to get reduced rates at the same UBC Robson Square venue as Northern Voice.</p>  <p>Who's coming? Well, I admit that things will be a little <a href="http://www.drupal.org">Drupal-centric</a> (we've got about 90 people coming from around the world). Maybe I can prod <a href="http://www.scottstuff.net">Scott Laird</a> one more time to talk to us about Typo and Ruby on Rails, or maybe tell us about his <a href="http://www.google.com">new boss</a> and teach us some search or mapping APIs or something.</p>
-
-<p>Actually, as I mentioned, things have really come together. We're still <a href="http://www.oscms-summit.org/news/2006/01/10/sponsorship-opportunities-for-open-source-cms-and-blog-tools-summit">looking for sponsors</a> but the space is set and a great big diverse bunch of people are coming.<a href="http://lerdorf.com/">Rasmus</a> might even make it, except I have to promise to memorize the spelling of his name.</p>  <p>If you feel like running a session -- on anything from Ruby on Rails and frameworks in general, to geodata, to internalization, <a href="/contact">contact</a> me or leave a comment on the <a href="http://www.oscms-summit.org/topics">topics</a> page (lots more inspiration there).</p>
-
-<p>The <a href="http://www.oscms-summit.org/schedule">schedule</a> might look a little empty right now, but we have to fit in all those damn <a href="http://www.oscms-summit.org/drupal-sessions">Drupal sessions</a>.</p>  <p>I hope, like the *camps, that the model of having a host conference that can serve as a container for related interests (e.g. DrupalCon at the same time) as well as hooking it to other events (e.g. having it next to MooseCamp and Northern Voice) will be something that can continue to grow, making it easier for groups to gather face to face without having to do the burden of organization etc. all by themselves. <a href="http://www.kaliyasblogs.net/Iwoman/">Kaliya</a> is already volunteering to put together the next one.</p>  <p>It's going to be a heck of a ride, and I'm going to be absolutely wrung out after 5 straight days of conferencing and the intense brain work that happens with so many fun/smart/outrageous people together in one place. I can't wait, and I hope I'll see you there.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-01-25-sameplace.md b/_posts/archive/2006-01-25-sameplace.md
deleted file mode 100644
index dc9ff99..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-01-25-sameplace.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: SamePlace
-created: 1138247719
-categories: 
-- jabber
-- XMPP
-- Firefox
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<p><a href="/blog/bmann/2006-will-be-the-year-of-xmpp#comment-107939">hyperstruct left a comment</a> announcing the developer preview release of this Firefox 1.5 plugin. It enables &quot;real time social browsing&quot; with an integrated Jabber IM client. Every URL creates a separate chatroom, so you can IM to other people that are viewing the same page as you.</p><p>I haven't tried it out yet, since I haven't upgraded to Firefox 1.5 yet. Soon!&nbsp;</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-02-04-free-software-fosdem-attendance.md b/_posts/archive/2006-02-04-free-software-fosdem-attendance.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 62ce6c1..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-02-04-free-software-fosdem-attendance.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Free Software, FOSDEM attendance
-created: 1139043265
-categories: 
-- FOSDEM
-- FOSDEM 2006
-- FSF
-- free software
-- JSF
-- drupal
-- Vancouver
-- Open Source
----
-<p>&nbsp;</p> <div class="image">  <img width="88" vspace="5" hspace="5" height="31" border="0" align="left" alt="FSF Associate Member 4161" title="FSF Associate Member 4161" src="/sites/bmannconsulting.com/files/images/drupal//getButton.png" />  <div class="caption">&nbsp;</div></div> <p>I just joined the <a href="http://www.fsf.org/register_form?referrer=4161">Free Software Foundation as an Associate</a>. It's $120/year, or $60/year if you're a full time student. The <a href="http://www.oscms-summit.org">OSCMS Summit</a> is next Tuesday, and I will be attending <a href="http://www.fosdem.org">FOSDEM</a>.</p>   <p>As well, I've really enjoyed my efforts here in Vancouver, working with organizations like <a href="http://www.leadingedgebc.ca">Leading Edge BC</a> to explain and promote open source locally. And, of course, Zak Greant (of many free-and-open connections, as well as now regional director of North America for <a href="http://ez.no">eZ</a>), who was the direct inspiration for my FSF membership. And <a href="http://www.activestate.com">ActiveState</a>. And <a href="http://www.enfoldsystems.com/">Enfold Systems</a>. Gee...lots of cool, innovative open source stuff going on here in Vancouver! This is a Good Thing&trade;.<br /> </p>  <p>While at FOSDEM, I'll be participating in the (light) <a href="http://www.drupal.org">Drupal</a> representation, as well as hanging out in the <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2006/index/dev_room_jabber">Jabber dev room</a>. <a href="http://ralphm.net">RalphM</a> was just running past scheduling with me -- I'll likely heckle him during the Intro to Jabber sessions and mutter &quot;XMPP is more than IM&quot; a lot. I hope to have some more direct involvement/impact on the Jabber/XMPP community this year. In the meantime, my 2006 blessing of XMPP continues to <a href="/blog/bmann/2006-will-be-the-year-of-xmpp">rile Erlang programmers worldwide</a>. Did I mention I love Erlang?</p><p>I'll try and post some other FOSDEM sessions I am likely to attend. Please leave a comment if you are also going to be attending FOSDEM and would like to meet up. I'll likely be in Brussels from at least the evening of February 24th to the day of the 27th.&nbsp;</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-02-06-cocomment-comments.md b/_posts/archive/2006-02-06-cocomment-comments.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 795fde1..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-02-06-cocomment-comments.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: CoComment comments
-created: 1139213870
-categories: 
-- comments
-- coComment
-- SXIP
-- SXORE
-- identity
-- Web 2.0
----
-<p>I bumped into <a href="http://www.cocomment.com/">coComment</a> finally. It's an interesting idea, almost identical in its end results to <a href="http://sxore.com/">SXORE</a> (which should be more officially launching this week, I think). But, the way it works and why you might want to use it is highly different.</p><p>coComment gives you a little &quot;bookmarklet&quot; to drag to your toolbar, and you click it whenever you see a comment box you want to leave a comment in. It sends your comment back to the central coComment server and you can of course track things via RSS and all that good stuff. The comment still lives in the original spot on the original blog...it just happens to be tracked centrally as well.</p><p>How is this different than SXORE? Well, at it's core, SXORE is based on identity, and could replace/augment the user login process of many types of systems. coComment is more of an overlay system, however at the end of the day it is tied to your coComment username, which is also an identity of sorts. What would be really interesting is if coComment actually begins SXIP-enabled -- that your coComment username is one of your identities, with which you could login to all sorts of things.</p><p>I suspect that usage of coComment will grow *much* more quickly (it only requires a browser an account to work, and no modifications to many existing blog systems), but what it enables is much less interesting than the eventual promise of SXORE and other identity systems.&nbsp;</p><p>You can find my test comments at http://www.cocomment.com/comments/boris -- in my short testing, it doesn't work with Drupal or <a href="http://www.rollerweblogger.org/">Roller</a> (two posts I just happened to have open), and it does work with WordPress and TypePad.&nbsp;</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-02-13-identity-2-0-we-must-federate-and-cooperate.md b/_posts/archive/2006-02-13-identity-2-0-we-must-federate-and-cooperate.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 05f9e4f..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-02-13-identity-2-0-we-must-federate-and-cooperate.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Identity 2.0: We must federate and cooperate"
-created: 1139866169
-categories: 
-- Web Development
-- identity
-- drupal
-- coComment
-- ClipperZ
----
-<p>Lorenzo Viscanti left a comment on my <a href="/blog/bmann/cocomment-comments#comment-109333">coComment post</a> pointing out that they are trying to build a &quot;a comment rating system based on identity20&quot; over at <a href="http://www.clipperz.net/">ClipperZ</a>. I wandered over and found out two things 1) they are running <a href="http://www.drupal.org">Drupal</a> and 2) they're based in Italy. #2 is interesting because I'm sitting in the Vancouver airport right now, waiting to get on the plane to Torino, Italy. You can find out more about our Olympic journeys over at <a href="http://2010.dailyvancouver.com">2010.dailyvancouver.com</a>. I'm also going to be in Bologna visiting my sister -- Lorenzo, Marco, Giulio, send me an <a href="/contact">email</a> with your contact info and perhaps we can discuss.</p>  <p>But the creation of multiple reputation/identity/etc. stores is quickly going to become a problem akin to the multiple IM systems we have to deal with today: what if all these rating and comment systems use different, incompatible identity stores? We're back to the same problem of no single sign on, and no single view of our comments, rating, etc.</p>  <p>So this is a call to action. We have to work together to federate and cooperate. A particular identity protocol is not the area where value will accumulate: user experience, privacy rules, and other applications built around identity is what is valuable. Like I've said about social networks in the past, identity is a feature, not a business model. ClipperZ, coComment, what about it? Become, for example, <a href="http://www.sxip.org">SXIP</a> homesites, and work together on educating the market about the value of identity. Heck, maybe SXIP can stop work on <a href="http://www.sxore.com">SXORE</a> and just help you with federation and identity store issues.</p>  <p>I learned a lot at the <a title="Identity Session at the Open Source CMS Summit" href="http://www.oscms-summit.org/events/joint-discussion-on-identity-issues-solutions-and-implementation">identity session</a> we had OSCMS Summit. We had knowledge shared about a variety of protocols and stakeholders, from simple consumer facing applications (the long tail of identity, if you will) to standards-based solutions around SAML. There was expressed a general desire by everyone to work together and to try and understand the issues that are most important to different use cases. Pointers specifically to Keith and Weston at <a href="http://www.sxip.com">SXIP</a>, Eve Mahler of Sun, residing at <a href="http://www.xmlgrrl.com/">XMLGrlll</a>, and <a href="http://www.kaliyasblogs.net/Iwoman/">Kaliya the infamous Identity Woman</a>.</p>  <p>Update: Eve put some very extensive notes online, covering the <a href="http://www.xmlgrrl.com/blog/archives/2006/02/12/the-long-identity-tail/">long identity tail</a> concepts. Of course, what's immediately apparent is that there are *13* identity systems, never mind the coComment, ClipperZ, etc. which I maintain are actually identity proxies as well.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-02-18-skype-benefits-and-drawbacks.md b/_posts/archive/2006-02-18-skype-benefits-and-drawbacks.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c8bd142..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-02-18-skype-benefits-and-drawbacks.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Skype benefits and drawbacks
-created: 1140251792
-categories: 
-- Project Gizmo
-- XMPP
-- GoogleTalk
-- Skype
-- iChat
-- SIP
-- JINGLE
-- identity.
-- IM
-- VoIP
----
-<p>Some quick notes for an upcoming interview.</p>  <p>Benefits</p> <ul> <li>free voice calls between Skype users</li> <li>easy multi-person conferencing (up to 50, depending on bandwidth)</li> <li>multi-platform -- works on Windows, Mac, and Linux</li> <li>first IM client for many users who use voice feature first</li> <li>easy file sharing</li> <li>can have &quot;real&quot; phone numbers in many locations</li> <li>can also use video (various solutions, Windows only for now)</li> <li>Skype on your phone -- Microsoft PocketPC has a Skype client, <a href="http://www.eqo.com">EQO</a> is new and works on Symbian Series 60 and other Java capable phones (client currently requires Windows on desktop)</li> </ul>  <p>Disclaimer: EQO is a local Vancouver company that I've met with, and my company <a href="http://www.bryght.com">Bryght</a> powers their online community forums. They're also the only mobile app other than <a href="http://www.shozu.com">ShoZu</a> that made my jaw drop (well, until I found out about the desktop client requirement...boo!).</p>  <p>Drawbacks</p> <ul> <li>have to have Skype to communicate (or pay for SkypeOut)</li> <li>built on a closed network, closed protocols (as opposed to open standards like <a href="http://www.sipforum.org/">SIP</a> or <a title="Jabber / XMPP voice and video spec promoted by Google and others" href="http://www.jabber.org/jeps/jep-0166.html">JINGLE</a>)</li> <li>computers on open networks might be used as a SuperNode, consuming lots of bandwidth</li> <li>Skype (now bought by <a href="http://www.ebay.com">Ebay</a>) is the only provider of the service</li> </ul>  <p>Other forward looking options include click-to-buy or click-to-access solutions -- use your Skype ID and the client to pay for online goods and services, including restricted access to online content -- enter your Skype ID into a web form, get messaged with a special code, complete a transaction, receive an access code -- voila! instant online access. Note: this is of course possible with any IM service or even SMS, and Jabber is doing this today. In many ways, Skype is JAIS -- Just Another Identity Store -- that happens to have VoIP/IM/etc. built on top of it as an application.</p><p><a href="http://www.gizmoproject.com/">Project Gizmo</a> is likely the best open competitor to Skype, although <a href="http://www.google.com/talk/">GoogleTalk</a> needs watching, especially if they federate/interoperate with both iChat and AOL instant messenger. Yes, yet more identity stores....once username AT domain.com &quot;just works&quot;, we will be free to pick whatever client app we like.<br /> </p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-02-19-how-canadian-mobile-providers-are-stifling-their-own-growth.md b/_posts/archive/2006-02-19-how-canadian-mobile-providers-are-stifling-their-own-growth.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 63b4677..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-02-19-how-canadian-mobile-providers-are-stifling-their-own-growth.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: How Canadian mobile providers are stifling their own growth
-created: 1140396348
-categories: 
-- UMTS
-- 3G
-- Vodaphone
-- SIM
-- Nokia 6630
-- Italy
-- Fido
-- Rogers
-- Alec Saunders
-- innovation
-- Canada
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<p>I'm currently still in Torino, Italy, although I'm heading out to Milan, then Bologna tomorrow, and will be in Brussels by the end of the week in time for <a href="http://www.fosdem.org">FOSDEM</a>.</p>  <p>I'm writing a bit about mobile technologies here in Italy over on <a title="Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics" href="http://2010.dailyvancouver.com">2010.dailyvancouver.com</a> (check the <a href="http://2010.dailyvancouver.com/topic/tech-talk">Tech Talk section</a>). I've got a Vodaphone SIM for my Nokia 6630 with UMTS-based 3G service (around 350kbps) and the experience has been fantastic.</p>  <p>So, while we had our <a href="http://2010.dailyvancouver.com/topic/torino-2006/olympics-and-web-2-0-symposium">symposium</a>, the relative maturity of the European vs. Canadian mobile technologies certainly did come up. One example I used was how there is a mobile data plan here that gives you 9GB of transfer for 40EU. On Fido, which is my provider back home, this would cost $270,000 based on the listed per MB charges of $30. Actually, I did the calculation in my head initially and everyone was shocked/amused by the figure of $27,000...and then we figured out we were still an order of magnitude off!</p>  <p>So I can sympathise with <a href="http://saunderslog.com/2006/02/19/when-does-unlimited-mean-unlimited/">Alec Saunders' experience with the Rogers &quot;unlimited&quot; plan</a> which is definitely not unlimited:  </p><blockquote> Rogers used to be an innovator in the Canadian market. This kind of behaviour smacks of clueless, and deliberately deceitful, lawyers and marketing people trying to pull a fast one on customers. Rogers needs to fix my bill, and then offer a proper unlimited data plan -- one that recognizes the reality of the advanced data devices they're pushing in the marketplace.</blockquote>  <p>I am &quot;lucky&quot; to have a grandfathered unlimited data plan from Fido, which <a href="http://www.rolandtanglao.com">Roland</a> was also lucky enough to get -- it's $50CDN per month, but it's also the <strong>only</strong> way to experiment with rich mobile services in Canada; anything else would bankrupt you within months. Hence, Canadian mobile providers are actually stifling their own growth.</p><p>I'm going to add my voice to Alec's: Rogers, use the Fido brand as the place to try out innovation. And yes, I'm happy to help :P<br /> </p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-02-27-meeting-clipperz.md b/_posts/archive/2006-02-27-meeting-clipperz.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 7912e58..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-02-27-meeting-clipperz.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Meeting ClipperZ
-created: 1141071263
-categories: 
-- SXORE
-- SXIP
-- Italy
-- identity
-- EuroOSCON
-- coComment
-- ClipperZ
-- barcamp
-- Barcamp Brussels
-- Social Media
----
-<p>It was my great pleasure to <a href="http://www.clipperz.net/users/marco/blog/2006/02/27/clipperz_meets_boris_mann">meet</a> the three guys from <a href="http://www.clipperz.net">ClipperZ</a> (The image is a little blurry, but that's because I had them shout &quot;Identity 2.0&quot; when I took the picture :P).</p>  <a title="Photo Sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/103182657/"><img width="240" vspace="10" hspace="10" height="180" border="0" align="left" alt="ClipperZ in Bologna" title="ClipperZ in Bologna" src="http://static.flickr.com/28/103182657_74d3a3e0a9_m.jpg" /></a>  <p>We sat down for several hours to discuss Identity 2.0 and some of their thoughts on blog owner centric vs. comment maker centric systems, talking mainly about <a href="http://www.sxore.com">SXORE</a> (Marco has a <a href="http://www.clipperz.net/users/marco/blog/2006/02/14/sxore_reasons_i_dont_like_it">post with SXORE feedback</a>)  and <a href="http://www.cocomment.com/">coComment</a>. No comments from the SXORE team on that post, although <a href="http://bryanrieger.com/">Bryan Rieger</a> found it. Go Vancouver people!</p>  <p>In any case, they are thinking about portable reputation (or maybe federated reputation would be a better phrase) as an initial application that can be built on top of Identity 2.0 systems. A reputation manager (a reputation provider? store?) would support multiple identity systems for authentication, and also share reputation with other reputation managers. This would initially be based on some very simple metrics, like perhaps whether or not a comment was approved, but certainly could support multiple other values (which gets quickly into a discussion about designing karma systems, perhaps, although it would depend on the feedback loops involved). Definitely subscribe to their <a href="http://www.clipperz.net/blog">blog</a> if you want to keep up with what these guys are up to.</p>  <p>The other exciting thing I found was that here was a new &quot;Web 2.0&quot; style startup company based in Italy that had a lot more in common with Vancouver or San Francisco than anything else I had seen up to that point in Italy. We discussed the difficulties and benefits of a distributed team (although they are all in Italy, they live in different towns), and the usual roundup of tools -- they tried Basecamp but ended up using <a href="http://www.edgewall.com/trac/">Trac</a>, their user interaction diagrams are in <a href="http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnigraffle/">OmniGraffle</a>, we discussed <a href="http://www.campfirenow.com/">Campfire</a> vs. Skype bookmarked chats, or perhaps a Jabber multi-user chatroom.</p>  <p>It's nice to see such interesting things happening in Europe, and I have more of an interest in cross-pollination with European companies and clients than I do in jumping down into the scrum in Silicon Valley. I'm already scheming what the next European event will be: perhaps a <a href="http://barcamp.org/BarCampBrussels">BarCamp Brussels</a>? Could be organized around <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/euos2006/">Euro OSCON 2006</a> at the end of September 2006 (the <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/euos2006/create/e_sess/">Call for Participation deadline is March 6th).</a></p> <!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-02-27-standards-pingbacking.md b/_posts/archive/2006-02-27-standards-pingbacking.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 0d7737a..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-02-27-standards-pingbacking.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Standards pingbacking
-created: 1141043913
-categories: 
-- drupal
-- pingback
-- standards
-- Drupal
----
-<p>If I get to vote, I pick <a href="http://photomatt.net/2006/02/23/pingback-vs-trackback/">pingback</a>. Here's the <a href="http://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1033171507&amp;count=1">Hixie whitepaper that says why</a>. Time to work on the pingback module for Drupal.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-02-28-fosdem-attendees-and-european-hacker-culture.md b/_posts/archive/2006-02-28-fosdem-attendees-and-european-hacker-culture.md
deleted file mode 100644
index daf97ac..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-02-28-fosdem-attendees-and-european-hacker-culture.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: FOSDEM attendees and European hacker culture
-created: 1141163565
-categories: 
-- Europe
-- FOSDEM 2006
-- FOSDEM
-- Brussels
-- Open Source
----
-<p>A little more personal pointer to the people at FOSDEM. It was nice to see <a href="http://www.oreilly.com">O'Reilly</a> as the major sponsor. The bookstore was hot, with people agonizing over just how many dozens of books they should buy. In many ways (as indicated by the full name -- Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting), the attendees are the core audience for O'Reily's books. OSCON, on the other hand, tends to be priced out of reach of the mainly grassroots, non-commercial hacker culture in Europe (aside from being accepted as a speaker).</p>  <p>Some of the usual European suspects were there -- <a href="http://www.ralphm.net">Ralph</a> and <a href="http://mons.net">Edwin</a> (wow -- Edwin did some Englsh blog posts <a href="http://mons.net/blog/310">Day 0/1</a>, <a href="http://mons.net/blog/311">Day 2</a>), and I did see <a href="http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/">Gerv</a> off in the distance although I didn't end up talking to him directly. I also met <a href="http://home.vianetworks.nl/users/richtofe/">Christ</a>, who came with Ralph and Edwin (and yes, that name will be funny to native English speakers).</p>  <p><a href="http://www.dankarran.com">Geo Dan</a> came along to experience the uniquely European hacker experience that is FOSDEM, along with the infamous <a href="http://www.ilabra.org">Ivan</a> with whom I had many great talks about architecture and culture as well as a fantastic dining experience. <a href="http://an9.org/blog/">Andy</a> brought an Amsterdam crew (Gijs, Marco, Nadya) and talked about <a title="The world's next browser?" href="http://www.flock.com">Flock</a> and I stole the wonderful Nadya's scarf.</p>  <p>Back to culture. The stat I hear floating around is that 80% of open source developers are based in Europe (with India and other parts of South East Asia gaining fast, I'm sure). And many of these are the passionate anarchists who believe in free information, are against software patents, and generally are part of the fuel that make open source work. But the disconnect is that there are very few in between people that can explain the concepts of open source to middle management and big business. So, talented developers who stay in Europe do what they can to integrate open source into their day jobs or academic research.</p>  <p>I'm hoping that the EuroOSCON in September in Brussels will include a venue for open source projects. Right now I have to <a href="https://members.oreilly.com/cs/members/rlogin?x-url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oreillynet.com%2Fcs%2Fnl%2Flogin">signup for an O'Reilly account</a> before I can even subscribe to the EuroOSCON newsletter -- the only interactive way to receive notices. Please -- cross post newsletter items to a blog for easier interaction!</p>  <p>Some point form FOSDEM feedback:</p> <ul> <li><strong>network access needs work:</strong> geeks were collapsing in the hallway and tearing out their hair with the lack of network access at FOSDEM. It was worse than last year. Please, ask for help -- there are several low cost, documented ways to blanket an area with WiFi. Maybe get both a team of network volunteers as well as a network sponsor to make sure this is in place.</li> <li><strong>power needs work:</strong> see last point. The Jabber crew brought a spool of network cable and a bunch of power bars, and pretty much supplied their whole area of FOSDEM with power and connectivity. Get power bar sponsors and keep them from year to year.</li> <li><strong>Be clear in the schedule and to your presenters/tutorials on what to present:</strong> One presentation I saw was basically reading out manual pages -- even developers need high level introductions on why they should care before getting into the nitty gritty. On the other hand, <a href="http://alex.dojotoolkit.org">Alex Russell's</a> bait-and-switch with Dojo and then describing in heavy detail how good of a language JavaScript actually is was excellent (<a href="http://alex.dojotoolkit.org/?p=542">slides here</a>).</li> <li><strong>fantastically fertile culture:</strong> everyone was there to learn, discuss, mingle, hack. Being able to buy beer for 1EU and 2EU for a sandwich meant everyone hung out for 6 or 7 hours in a row...only to move on to bars and cafes.</li> <li><strong>developer rooms vs. main talks:</strong> some of the best presentations and interactivity happened in the developer rooms. Put the developer rooms directly into the schedule. Keep the big presentations (if only to use the auditorium space for highly popular topics), and perhaps even promote them more directly to a wider audience -- I bet there would have been hundreds of enterprise folks who would have been highly interested in the <a href="http://www.xensource.com/">Xen</a> presentation -- &quot;Enterprise Grade Open Source Virtualization). <a href="http://www.fosdem.org/2006/index/interviews/interviews_pratt">FOSDEM Interview with the Xen presenter, Ian Pratt</a></li> <li><strong>work the university angle:</strong> FOSDEM organizers should contact every University in Europe and encourage researchers, academics, etc. to come into the mix</li> </ul>  <p>Organizing a free conference is a lot of work. Congrats to the organizers for the attendance, I'm looking forward to next year.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-02-28-jabber-at-fosdem-2006.md b/_posts/archive/2006-02-28-jabber-at-fosdem-2006.md
deleted file mode 100644
index d07cdd5..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-02-28-jabber-at-fosdem-2006.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Jabber at FOSDEM 2006
-created: 1141160183
-categories: 
-- Open Source
-- JSF
-- XMPP
-- jabber
-- FOSDEM 2006
-- FOSDEM
----
-<img vspace="5" hspace="5" border="0" align="left" src="http://static.flickr.com/40/104992252_ed99990b58_m.jpg" />  <p><a href="http://www.fosdem.org">FOSDEM 2006</a> is over. The picture at left was taken by <a href="http://buytaert.net">Dries Buytaert</a>, showcasing the fact that this was my first appearance at an event being associated with Jabber. I'd put &quot;officially&quot; somewhere in that last sentence, but I'm not a member of the <a href="http://www.jabber.org">Jabber Software Foundation (JSF)</a>*, so it's just my name on a presentation. I had a lot of fun co-presenting with <a href="http://www.ralphm.net">Ralph</a> for the second time -- he knows all the technical nitty gritty, and I wave my hands and try and open people's minds as to the current and future potential of XMPP.</p>  <p>Lots of people had heard about Jabber, and I think mine and Ralph's intro presentation on the first day helped hilight the point that I have been trying to make for a while now: that it's time for people to pick up the IETF-blessed XMPP standard and use it for real-time uses other than IM.</p>  <a title="Photo Sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/105581424/"><img width="240" vspace="5" hspace="5" height="180" border="0" align="right" alt="Full house in the Jabber Dev Room" src="http://static.flickr.com/47/105581424_999080767d_m.jpg" /></a>  <p>The picture at right is from my poking my head into the Jabber developer room on the second day -- every seat was taken and it was standing room only. Ralph by all accounts kept the room quite full, being stuck doing all the presentations as other presenters hadn't been able to make it. The Virtual Presence session (see the <a href="http://www.lluna.de/">LLuna project for more info</a>) became a step more virtual because the presenter wasn't in the room, but that itself became a great example of uses of the technology.</p>  <p>Jabber booth was well-visited over the course of two days, but we were there mainly just answering questions as people came by -- no stickers, posters, or demonstrations. I have to give major credit to Ralph, <a href="http://www.mons.net">Edwin</a> -- they are <strong>the</strong> Jabber evangelists in Europe, and travel on their own dime attending such events (never mind getting Jabber into as many projects as they can in their day jobs). The whole mandate of the JSF, which is not to develop the server- or client-side sofware that people actually use, but rather to promote XMPP and preside over JEPs, is problematic when it comes to public events. There is only so much you can do in evangelizing a protocol without implementations.</p>  <p>So, for further events, the goal should be to use the Jabber presence as an umbrella group to include the open source projects that are building software on both the client and server side. There are a very wide range of projects, written in a number of different programming languages for a number of platforms. This very diversity should lead to some interesting discussions.</p>  <p>*On joining the JSF: right now, the <a href="http://www.jabber.org/members/responsibilities.shtml">JSF membership responsibilities</a> states that &quot;Prospective members are expected to have made significant contributions&quot; and goes on to list mainly very technical contributions. Have to find out whether evangelism counts -- I probably need to kick off a little more significant project at some point, like maybe lobbying <a href="http://osuosl.org/">OSU's Open Source Lab</a> to run a jabber server for every project that it hosts, including the all-important multi-user chat.</p>   <p>Next Jabber community event? (Doh! No &quot;events&quot; list on jabber.org -- maybe convert <a href="http://planet.jabber.org/">Planet Jabber</a> to Drupal so we can have events, too?) Well, I talked with Ralph about doing something around EuroOSCON in September (also maybe a <a href="http://barcamp.org/BarCampBrussels">camp</a>). I don't know if I will be attending OSCON in Portland this year...have to have a look and see if there is any Jabber activity happening there. Maybe I will go down to <a href="http://www.penguinday.org/">Penguin Day in Seattle</a> and tell non-profits about Jabber.</p>   
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-03-04-youtube-to-itunes.md b/_posts/archive/2006-03-04-youtube-to-itunes.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 5e2ab4a..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-03-04-youtube-to-itunes.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: YouTube to iTunes?
-created: 1141462064
-categories: 
-- Web 2.0
-- YouTube
-- video
-- Revver
-- iTunes
-- audioblog.com
----
-<p>Wouldn't it be great if you could get the original video files back out of <a href="http://www.youtube.com">YouTube</a>? Wouldn't it be great if you could just upload videos to YouTube and have them automatically appear in iTunes, correctly transcoded as needed?</p>  <p>Yes, I was as surprised as you when I went poking around the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/dev">YouTube developer section</a> and found no methods to get back the original video files or to do any of these other things I wish for.</p>  <p>I still like <a href="http://www.revver.com/">Revver's</a> &quot;bolt ads to your videos&quot; business model, and <a href="http://www.audioblog.com">AudioBlog</a> is still my choice for the most flexible commercial service to easily input/host/etc. all your audio and video service (including direct-to-iTunes support).</p>  <p>But where are people putting videos in order to get an audience? YouTube, of course. Let the chorus of &quot;YouTube sucks&quot; begins...until someone else manages to make something that is as popular.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-03-08-barcamp-brussels-for-the-impatient.md b/_posts/archive/2006-03-08-barcamp-brussels-for-the-impatient.md
deleted file mode 100644
index b8cf114..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-03-08-barcamp-brussels-for-the-impatient.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: BarCamp Brussels...For The Impatient
-created: 1141874308
-categories: 
-- Social Media
-- Europe
-- Brussels
-- BarCamp Brussels ForTheImpatient
-- Barcamp Brussels
-- barcamp
----
-<p>So I kind of stealth launched the concept of <a href="http://barcamp.org/BarCampBrussels">BarCamp Brussels</a> in some posts wrapping up FOSDEM 2006, slated for around September 2006 to coincide with EuroOSCON.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><div style="text-align: center"><img width="368" height="105" border="0" src="/system/files?file=109839111_d466a8216d.jpg" /></div>&nbsp;<p>&nbsp;</p><p>I just found out about <a href="http://barcamp.org/BarCampBrusselsForTheImpatient">BarCamp Brussels ForTheImpatient</a> -- for April/May! Boy, those Europeans sure are impatient :P Being organized by <a href="http://blog.forret.com/blog/index.html">Peter Forret</a>.<br /> </p><p>Hey, <a href="http://www.zylstra.org/blog/">Ton</a>, I'm hoping you and your crew will be interested in one or both camps. What do you think? (and yes, I still &quot;owe&quot; you a post on the 4 jobs meme...it might end up being a podcast or something suitably different).<br /> </p><p>Sounds like fun...wish I could attend lots more European events, but I have to ration out my travel a bit. Hopefully the ForTheImpatient crew will be able to figure out some good areas and set things up nicely for a bigger (or at least...more international?) attendance in September. I'll be watching it with interest.<br /> </p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-03-12-innovation-is-alive-and-well-in-vancouver-dabbledb-getting-a-ton-of-press.md b/_posts/archive/2006-03-12-innovation-is-alive-and-well-in-vancouver-dabbledb-getting-a-ton-of-press.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 5424553..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-03-12-innovation-is-alive-and-well-in-vancouver-dabbledb-getting-a-ton-of-press.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Innovation is alive and well in Vancouver: DabbleDB getting a ton of press"
-created: 1142219323
-categories: 
-- DabbleDB
-- Avi Bryant
-- Andrew Catton
-- innovation
-- Vancouver
----
-<p>I met <a href="http://www.smallthought.com/avi">Avi</a> over 2 years ago when I had just come back to Vancouver, at <a href="http://archive.rolandtanglao.com/2004/02/09.html#a6316">Roland's Geek Dinner</a> (yes, where I met Roland for the first time in person). Avi promptly moved off to Amsterdam so I didn't see much of him for quite some time.</p>  <p>Then he and <a href="http://smallthought.com/andrew/">Andrew</a> were back in Vancouver, getting interested in the Innovation Commons, hanging out at our local &quot;third place&quot;, <a href="http://www.take5cafe.com">Take 5 Cafe</a>, and generally being part of the very interesting Vancouver scene that continues to build.</p>  <p>Avi wowed the computer science nerds at <a href="http://www.oscms-summit.org">the Open Source CMS Summit</a> talking about Smalltalk/Seaside (<a href="http://www.bryght.com/blog/roland-tanglao/avi-bryant-smalltalk-seaside-pier-30-seconds-of-oscms-part-2">see the video by Roland</a>), and then thanks to coming out to <a href="http://2006.northernvoice.ca/moosecamp">Northern Voice's MooseCamp</a>, <a href="http://smallthought.com/blog/?p=25">landed a spot on Under the Radar</a>. And then <a href="http://smallthought.com/blog/?p=26">winning best in show at UTR</a>, showing that made-in-Canada can easily go down to the Valley and kick butt.</p>  <p>And now Avi and Andrew's <a href="http://dabbledb.com/">DabbleDB</a> has made it <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/11/dabbledb-online-app-building-for-everyone/">on to TechCrunch</a>:</p>  <blockquote> Every so often I get asked &lsquo;what is the latest hot app&rsquo; and after using DabbleDB I have a new answer to that question. DabbleDB is a platform that allows you to create applications online using a web interface. The sort of applications you would create and then use are what most of us normally hack together in a spreadsheet or using some other database application that is often complex. </blockquote>  <p>Congrats, guys. Still lots of work ahead of you, and the one thing I hope is that you don't get sucked out of Vancouver and down into the Valley...we need these success stories to stick around and continue motivating other local Vancouver teams.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-03-16-dugs-drupal-user-groups-that-is.md b/_posts/archive/2006-03-16-dugs-drupal-user-groups-that-is.md
deleted file mode 100644
index dd3935f..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-03-16-dugs-drupal-user-groups-that-is.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: DUGs (Drupal User Groups, that is)
-created: 1142501537
-categories: 
-- Drupal
-- Vancouver
-- Canada
-- Toronto
-- Montreal
-- DUG
-- Drupal User Groups
----
-<p>It's fun when communities start sprouting up all over the place. In Canada, there are 3 Drupal User Groups meeting in the next week or so. For Vancouver locals, the VanDUG, in conjunction with the Vancouver PHP Users Group, is going to be today, Thursday, March 16th, at 6:30pm at Take5 Cafe (RSVP at <a href="http://upcoming.org/event/62053/">Upcoming</a>).</p><p>Next Tuesday, March 21st, you can fly over to Toronto for TorDUG (also in <a href="http://upcoming.org/event/62634/">Upcoming</a>), and then next Thursday, March 23rd, <a href="http://koumbit.org/en/node/463">Koumbit</a> is throwing a pizza and beer gathering in Montreal (again with the <a href="http://upcoming.org/event/59497/">Upcoming</a>). Note to self: get upcoming.org integration code kickstarted again.<br /></p><p>Awesome! Can't wait until http://groups.drupal.org is all up and running...<br /></p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-03-23-web-2-0-mesh-conference-in-toronto-announced-may-15th-16th.md b/_posts/archive/2006-03-23-web-2-0-mesh-conference-in-toronto-announced-may-15th-16th.md
deleted file mode 100644
index bfea17c..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-03-23-web-2-0-mesh-conference-in-toronto-announced-may-15th-16th.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Web 2.0 Mesh Conference in Toronto announced - May 15th - 16th
-created: 1143117581
-categories: 
-- barcamp
-- web 2.0
-- Toronto
-- mesh06
-- mesh conference
-- gnomedex
-- barcamp tdot
-- Canada
----
-<p><a href="http://www.meshconference.com"><img width="178" vspace="5" hspace="5" height="158" border="0" align="left" src="/system/files?file=Picture%204.png" /></a>Looks like <a href="http://www.meshconference.com">Mesh Conference</a> was just announced -- a &quot;Web 2.0&quot; conference for Canada. At $350 for 2 days, I have to think about this vs. <a href="http://www.gnomedex.com">Gnomedex</a>. Of course, those are Canadian pesos, so lots less. Many interesting faces, but not a lot of details on tracks, conference style, etc. The blurb from one of the first blog posts goes like this:</p><blockquote><p>There is all this buzz around Web 2.0. But what&rsquo;s really happening, especially around here? Does anybody know? Can anybody help me understand it, and what it means for me? My business? My future? My family? My world?<br /><br />mesh&rsquo;s mandate will be to answer this question in as compelling, credible and authentic a way possible. Everything to do with the event will be around furthering that objective, and the content itself will serve to help mesh participants (not attendees :-)) to really start to get it, this year and in years to come. We will create the Canadian forum for next generation Web ideas and leaders. <br /></p></blockquote><p>Here's the <a href="http://upcoming.org/event/65428/">upcoming.org link</a> -- nice to see <a href="http://www.walkah.net">walkah</a> and I were among the first two to start tracking it. I'm watching for now: would like to support other Canadian events, but suspect it might just be a chance to <strike>party</strike> <strike>connect</strike> party with a bunch of folks from south of the border. Well, either that, or we storm the place with a troop of West Coast folks (just like Gnomedex...).</p><p><strong>Update</strong>: I completely forgot about everyone's favourite unconference that is happening right before Mesh -- <a href="http://barcamp.org/TorCamp">BarCamp TDot</a>. Here's the <a href="http://upcoming.org/event/65436/">upcoming.org link</a> for that.&nbsp;</p><p>Mesh guys: post a logo/badges -- I had to screenshot the one I have here to post it since it's not a separate image. (Rob Hyndman emailed me the logo -- it's attached below -- they'll likely post it to their blog soon)<br /></p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-03-28-vancouver-is-a-fine-place-to-start-a-company-or-to-join-one.md b/_posts/archive/2006-03-28-vancouver-is-a-fine-place-to-start-a-company-or-to-join-one.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 3a358ec..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-03-28-vancouver-is-a-fine-place-to-start-a-company-or-to-join-one.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Vancouver is a fine place to start a company (or to join one)
-created: 1143557195
-categories: 
-- Vancouver
-- vancouver
-- The Level
-- SXIP
-- Google North
-- get a job
-- EZ Systems
-- ebusiness Apps
-- Active State
----
-<p>Referencing Caterina&#39;s <a href="http://www.caterina.net/archive/000965.html">It&#39;s a bad time to start a company</a> list, <a href="http://anisotropic.net/caterinas_take_on_starting_a_company_in_the_valley">Jeff Griffiths</a> figures that being in Vancouver actually helped with Flickr&#39;s success beyond the not-in-the-valley stealth mode that being in Canada imparts:</p> <blockquote> I would go even further and say that one of the critical success factors for Flickr *was* that they were not just &#39;toiling in obscurity&#39;, but that they were IN Vancouver. Up here we have lots of talent, a relatively low cost of living ( compared to the valley at least ), and all sorts of added lifestyle bonuses that San jose will never beat ( climbing / biking / snowboarding / music ).<br /><br />And for Flickr in particular, a major part of their early success was a loyal local following of users; witness the hugeness of the Vancouver tag. I would smugly theorize that Flickr&#39;s ability to find their users was helped in a large way by their being in Vancouver, a city that seems to breed tech-obsessed shutterbugs more than most places.<br /><br />I dunno, I think it&#39;s probably a bad time to start a company in San Jose, but it&#39;s hard to say when that would ever be true given Caterina&#39;s qualifications. Vancouver, on the other hand, seems to be a fine place to ( re ) start a company... </blockquote>  <p>Jeff is currently toiling in obscurity over at the newly re-vivified <a href="http://www.activestate.com">Active State</a>. They&#39;ve got new offices lined up in the UK Building right above our de-facto Innovation Commons at <a href="http://www.take5cafe.com">Take 5 Cafe</a>.</p>  <p>Re: talent. This is one of my major concerns: make it clear to worldwide talent that Vancouver is a great place to live (not hard) and that there are lots of companies doing interesting things here (harder). This is something I&#39;ve talked at length with Zak Greant of <a href="http://ez.no">EZ Systems</a>, who&#39;s in the process of getting a larger <a href="http://ez.no/company/ez_crew/north_america">EZ presence</a> set up here in Van-groovy. Looks like he&#39;s still looking for a <a href="http://zak.greant.com/ez-systems-north-america-wants-you/">Sales Director and a Senior Project Manager</a> (Matt Everard, the project manager position is one that would be a good fit for you...bug Zak about it).</p>  <p><a href="http://blogs.ebusiness-apps.com/andre/">Andre</a> said something about wanting some more AJAX-y JavaScript experts for <a href="http://ebusiness-apps.com/">eBusiness Apps, makers of fine AJAX components</a>. And you&#39;ll probably learn how to take Fridays off and go skiing.</p>  <p>The guys at <a href="http://www.thelevel.com/">The Level</a> combine many of my most <strike>hated</strike> distasteful words: Java, Enterprise, Portal, and Proprietary. BUT, I met with them the other day, they have a killer office looking out over the Granville/Burrard bridges, are great guys, and are working on some seriously cool stuff. Java/XSLT experts, <a href="http://www.thelevel.com/careers">apply within</a>.</p>  <p>Identity 2.0? <a href="http://www.sxip.com/careers">SXIP has work</a>.</p>  <p>So, just a selection of cool Vancouver companies doing interesting, cutting edge stuff -- I&#39;m sure there are more. Now all we need is a Sun research center overseen by <a href="http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/">Tim</a> and <a href="http://www.laurenwood.org/anyway/">Lauren</a>, or maybe a Google North.</p>  <p>Move up to Vancouver and start a company, already! (or join one of the ones above).</p> <!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-03-28-voicemail-coming-to-google-talk-gmail.md b/_posts/archive/2006-03-28-voicemail-coming-to-google-talk-gmail.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 71a536b..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-03-28-voicemail-coming-to-google-talk-gmail.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Voicemail coming to Google Talk, Gmail
-created: 1143557897
-categories: 
-- Gmail
-- voicemail
-- GoogleTalk
-- Google
-- email
-- VoIP
----
-<p>I think I just found a feature that's going to be implemented in Google Talk / Gmail real soon now: voicemail.</p>  <p>Try creating a label with the name &quot;voicemail&quot;. I was cleaning up my personal account, where I get my voicemail delivered by email. I had set up a label months ago, and was trying to apply the label to one of the voicemails and got the error &quot;The label name Voicemail is invalid&quot;. Hmmmm. So, I deleted the label, then tried to re-create it with the same name. No go...same error. <a href="http://www.justagwailo.com">Richard</a> quickly verified that he was getting the same error.</p><p>&nbsp;<img vspace="5" hspace="5" border="0" alt="screenshot of Voicemail label error" title="screenshot of Voicemail label error" src="/system/files?file=Picture%208.png" /></p>  <p>Of course, trying to create a label with the name &quot;Chats&quot; gives you a different message -- &quot;System specific names are not allowed. Please try another name.&quot; -- but it likely just means that &quot;Voicemail&quot; isn't truly live in the system yet.</p><p>Oh, and by the way, <a href="http://www.bryght.com/blog/boris-mann/gmail-for-domains-and-a-few-other-email-solutions">Bryght's switch to Gmail for domains</a> is working really well.&nbsp;</p>  
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-03-29-internet-identity-workshop-open-for-registration.md b/_posts/archive/2006-03-29-internet-identity-workshop-open-for-registration.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 70dc54b..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-03-29-internet-identity-workshop-open-for-registration.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Internet Identity Workshop open for registration
-created: 1143631646
-categories: 
-- Web 2.0
-- phil windley
-- open space
-- microid
-- kaliya hamlin
-- IIW
-- identity
-- doc searls
-- conference
-- ClipperZ
----
-<img width="236" vspace="5" hspace="5" height="105" border="0" align="left" src="/system/files?file=iiw_2006_large.png" /><p>Identity-related happenings are definitely chugging along. The next <a href="http://www.windley.com/events/iiw2006a/announcement">Internet Identity Workshop (IIW)</a> is something I probably need to go to (<a href="http://upcoming.org/event/63871/">upcoming.org</a>).<br /></p><p>IIW is being put together by <a href="http://www.kaliyasblogs.net/Iwoman/">Kaliya</a>, <a href="http://doc.weblogs.com">Doc</a>, and <a href="http://www.windley.com">Phil</a>. I'm looking forward to doing things the open space way with my pal Kaliya. I'll have to think about what I might present. I need to spend some more time with the <a href="http://www.clipperz.net/">Clipper Z</a> guys...maybe I can represent some of the things we talked about (distributed reputation management) when I was in Bologna on their behalf (unless they're coming, of course...).</p>  <p>An aside: I saw the announcement via <a href="http://doc.weblogs.com/2006/03/29#puttingTheIInIdentity">Doc</a>, and realized that somewhere along the way <a href="http://www.windley.com/">Phil Windley's excellent blog</a> had gotten lost from my aggregator. I'm all caught up now, and realize that he's done a couple of posts that I've had rolling around in my head for a while: <a href="http://www.windley.com/archives/2006/03/trusting_google.shtml">Google authentication</a> (especially in regards to <a href="http://www.joga.com">Joga</a>) and the simple explanation of <a href="http://www.windley.com/archives/2006/03/microid_a_micro.shtml">MicroID</a>. It's great when you can just point to things like that and say &quot;yes, that's pretty much what I was thinking, only written down in a clear and elegant way&quot;. Suffice it to say, Phil's back in the aggregator, and I'm looking forward to spending some time around him and other smart folks at IIW.</p> <!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-04-05-real-estate-and-the-web-in-canada-listen-to-ben.md b/_posts/archive/2006-04-05-real-estate-and-the-web-in-canada-listen-to-ben.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 57271bc..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-04-05-real-estate-and-the-web-in-canada-listen-to-ben.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Real Estate and the Web in Canada - Listen to Ben
-created: 1144246772
-categories: 
-- Canada
-- web 2.0
-- sutton
-- real estate
-- ben wong
----
-<p>Want to know <a href="http://www.mostlygeek.com/2006/04/04/the-state-of-real-estate-and-the-web-in-canada/">State of Real Estate and the Web in Canada</a>? Just read Ben Wong&#39;s stuff over at Mostly Geek:</p>  <blockquote> We&rsquo;re deep in web2.0 and data is flying everywhere. However, real estate listings in Canada are pretty much still stuck in web1.0. When I read stories about listing aggregators like Zillow.com with millions of listings in the US, I can&rsquo;t help but let out a long *sigh* about the state of things in Canada. </blockquote>  <p>I worked with Ben on some projects at <a href="http://www.sutton.com">Sutton Group</a>. I got a chance to break my head around the many nuances of the real estate business. Just when I thought I understood everything and the various business and regulatory aspects, there would be another layer, I&#39;d swear a lot, and throw out my design for open real estate data.</p>  <p>This is part one from Ben, where he&#39;s going to walk us through the issues around the real estate data walled garden issue in Canada. Remember, this *is* a tipping point kind of thing. Right now, virtually all the value is inside the walled garden silo, with very little information sitting in the &quot;open&quot; silo. But, as the open silo grows, it accrues value a lot more quickly than the walled garden ever can, and there will come a tipping point. Really, the only way to prevent complete open-ness is for the walled garden itself to take steps to become more open.</p>  <p>Open real estate data. It&#39;s an interesting technology concept, but there is *so much* about the real estate business that really is about people. I&#39;ll perhaps write some anecdotal stories about this as Ben continues his series.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-04-05-windows-on-a-mac-apple-releases-boot-camp-beta.md b/_posts/archive/2006-04-05-windows-on-a-mac-apple-releases-boot-camp-beta.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 6cb413f..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-04-05-windows-on-a-mac-apple-releases-boot-camp-beta.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Windows on a Mac - Apple releases Boot Camp beta
-created: 1144256233
-categories: 
-- Apple
-- Xen
-- Windows
-- Boot Camp
-- Windows XP
-- dual boot
-- Leopard
-- OS X
-- Mac
----
-<p>I thought that Apple was going to do a big product release of *some* kind on April 1st, their 30th anniversary as a company. But, obviously, releasing <a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/">Boot Camp</a>, software that lets you easily install Windows XP on your Intel-based Mac, would really have been regarded as a practical joke, so they waited until today.</p><p>Dual-booting is really not that interesting. You don&#39;t really share files, and you can&#39;t switch back and forth without restarting the system and rebooting completely. I&#39;ve been speculating if Apple will actually support <a href="http://www.xensource.com">Xen</a>, an open source virtualization technology that lets you run multiple environments simultaneously. Perhaps Boot Camp is just a start -- Apple has already said that it will be included as part of Mac OS X 10.5, aka Leopard, so perhaps that is when Xen support will be rolled into the base of the operating system.<br /></p><p>I&#39;ll be looking for mentions of Xen as people dig into the details of Boot Camp over the next couple of days.&nbsp;</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-04-19-registered-for-iiw-2006.md b/_posts/archive/2006-04-19-registered-for-iiw-2006.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 8bf5a0e..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-04-19-registered-for-iiw-2006.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Registered for IIW 2006
-created: 1145434295
-categories: 
-- identity
-- IIW
-- IIW 2006
-- goodstorm
-- phil windley
-- cafepress
-- Social Media
----
-<p><a href="http://www.windley.com/archives/2006/04/iiw_gear_availa.shtml">Phil Windley asked me to register for IIW 2006</a>, so I did. See you in San Francisco in a couple of weeks...</p>  <blockquote> If you&#39;re planning on coming to IIW May 1-3, I&#39;d really appreciate you <a href="http://www.windley.com/events/iiw2006a/register">registering</a> as soon as possible so that we can use reasonably good numbers for planning food for breaks, etc.   </blockquote>  <p>But, Phil, <a href="http://www.cafepress.com/iiw2005">CafePress</a>? With a deprecated 2005 URL? Come on, everyone knows the new kid on the block is <a href="http://www.goodstorm.com">GoodStorm</a> -- capitalism done right. Shirts start at $5.95US for a &quot;Good&quot; quality white shirt with no markup.</p>  <p>Disclaimer: <a href="http://www.bryght.com">we&#39;ve</a> been working with the GoodStorm guys. I&#39;ve got a <a href="https://www.goodstorm.com/stores/boris">test store</a> that you can order a <a href="https://www.goodstorm.com/item/boris/meat">meat t-shirt</a> from if you like. For a mere $7US! Hopefully, a new version will be Identity 2.0 enabled.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-04-20-stop-with-the-guest-posting-already.md b/_posts/archive/2006-04-20-stop-with-the-guest-posting-already.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e3b5674..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-04-20-stop-with-the-guest-posting-already.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Stop with the guest posting already
-created: 1145521428
-categories: 
-- guest posts
-- Robert Scoble
-- Joi Ito
-- Om Malik
-- rant
-- Social Media
----
-<p>Um, can we stop with the guest posting already? If I wanted to subscribe to other people....I&#39;d subscribe to them. We have a time honoured tradition of pointing to off-blog content...it&#39;s called a &quot;link&quot;, or perhaps a &quot;quote&quot;.</p>  <p>Want to have more than one &quot;voice&quot;? Great...there are lots of different systems that allow more than one person to blog.</p>  <p>And let me name names -- <a href="http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/">Scoble</a>, <a href="http://joi.ito.com/">Joi</a>, and <a href="http://gigaom.com/">Om</a>. Please, stop. Or have a separate, guest blog feed that I can *choose* to subscribe to.</p>  <p>Thanks for listening to the rant.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-04-24-identity-profiles-and-reputation-federated-networks.md b/_posts/archive/2006-04-24-identity-profiles-and-reputation-federated-networks.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 4590f0e..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-04-24-identity-profiles-and-reputation-federated-networks.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Identity, Profiles, and Reputation -- Federated Networks
-created: 1145945517
-categories: 
-- identity
-- profiles
-- reputation
-- federated networks
-- ClipperZ
-- mark pincus
-- IIW
-- IIW 2006
-- Social Media
----
-<p>Hey <a href="http://markpincus.typepad.com/markpincus/2006/04/aurens_radleaf_.html">Mark Pincus</a>, I agree with you (&quot;that there is a need for a portable reputation system that can enable non-ebay p2p transactions&quot;). You didn&#39;t link to anything by Auren Hoffman who is working on this, so I thought I would point people to <a href="http://www.clipperz.net/">ClipperZ</a> -- they are combining Identity 2.0 (using existing systems) and building distributed reputation managers on top of that.</p>  <p>And of course, &quot;transactions&quot; is a very general term. Identity is to figure out that you&#39;re talking about the same person, profile information gives you some contextual information about that person, and reputation lets you know (again, in context -- relating to you and your connections) whether you should trust that person.</p>  <p>Mark goes on to say:</p> <blockquote>My own experience has been that its a major uphill battle convincing walled garden sites that benefit in the short term from lockin to act in the long term interest of their users.</blockquote>  <p>This is the sticking point. Many of the large &quot;containers&quot; of identity, profile, and reputation information do not have much of an incentive to open their networks. The one thing that might challenge such silos is the rise of large amounts of federated networks. Even here, when the network is small, it is difficult to convince people to federate -- who will be the hub or aggregator of the network? Everyone will want to be in this central position, and we are back to hubs facing off against each other.</p>  <p>This is the beginning of an exploration of how these concepts fit together. I hope to explore them in more detail at the Internet Identity Workshop (Phil Windley just posted <a href="http://iiw.windley.com/wiki/Who%27s_Attending">Who&#39;s attending</a> on the wiki).</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-05-02-out-of-towner-dinner-in-san-francisco-at-osha-thai.md b/_posts/archive/2006-05-02-out-of-towner-dinner-in-san-francisco-at-osha-thai.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 4ed5af8..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-05-02-out-of-towner-dinner-in-san-francisco-at-osha-thai.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: " Out of Towner Dinner in San Francisco at Osha Thai"
-created: 1146617957
-categories: 
-- IIW 2006
-- san francisco
-- dinner
-- california
-- chris messina
-- osha thai
-- Social Media
----
-<p>Chris Messina set up a <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/factoryjoe?m=108">dinner in the city</a> (aka San Francisco -- I&#39;m way down in Mountain View attending <a href="http://www.windley.com/events/iiw2006a/announcement">IIW 2006</a>):</p>  <blockquote>It&rsquo;s last minute, I know, but if you can make it to tonight&rsquo;s Out of Towner at <a href="http://upcoming.org/event/74882"><strong>Osha Thai at 7:30pm</strong></a> you can expect some great food and very captivating conversation!<p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&hellip;specifically:</p> <ul> <li>Identity 2.0</li> <li>Drupal</li> <li>Microformats</li> <li>NP Tech</li> <li>Coworking</li> <li>Open source</li> <li>&hellip;other yadda yadda!</li> </ul> </blockquote>  <p>So, if anyone feels like having a chat tonight, stop on by Osha Thai at 7:30pm. I turn into a pumpkin before the last midnight Caltrain back down to Mountain View.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-05-11-drupalcamp-barcamp-and-mesh-conference-toronto.md b/_posts/archive/2006-05-11-drupalcamp-barcamp-and-mesh-conference-toronto.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 7ef17ae..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-05-11-drupalcamp-barcamp-and-mesh-conference-toronto.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: DrupalCamp, BarCamp, and Mesh Conference Toronto
-created: 1147387378
-categories: 
-- drupal camp
-- bar camp
-- mesh conference
-- Toronto
-- conference
-- drupal
-- Canada
----
-<p>It&#39;s been a busy couple of weeks. My last post was from San Francisco, and I haven&#39;t even finished posting my notes from the Internet Identity Workshop that I was attending down there.</p><p>I&#39;m sitting in the airport waiting to board a flight to Toronto. I&#39;ll be there until next Wednesday, attending not one, not two, but three separate conference/events.</p><p>They are, in order:</p><ul><li>Drupal Camp Toronto</li><li>Bar Camp Toronto</li><li><a href="http://www.meshconference.com">Mesh Conference</a></li></ul><p>For some reason, I waited until the last minute to buy a ticket to Mesh. It turns out that <a href="http://www.troyangrignon.com">Troy</a> will be joining me there, I&#39;ll be hanging out in the unconference room (check the wiki for updates around that) and looking to connect with some eastern folks that left nice comments on my <a href="/blog/bmann/web-2-0-mesh-conference-in-toronto-announced-may-15th-16th">first post</a> saying I was coming -- like <a href="http://nuvvo.com/about">John Philip Green</a>. See you in a bit, I still need to update my <a href="http://www.43people.com">43 People</a> list.&nbsp;</p><p>And this will be a very Drupal-y time, I think. This post in I<a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/home/News.asp?id=39402&amp;cid=9">T Business.ca says &quot;Everything&#39;s coming up Drupal&quot;</a>. I probably need to debunk that in more detail -- the summary is that only low budget companies are choosing open source.&nbsp;</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-05-14-innovation-commons-must-get-built-in-vancouver.md b/_posts/archive/2006-05-14-innovation-commons-must-get-built-in-vancouver.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 70edff4..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-05-14-innovation-commons-must-get-built-in-vancouver.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Innovation Commons must get built in Vancouver
-created: 1147647868
-categories: 
-- Vancouver
-- workspace
-- innovation commons
-- harold jarche
-- centre for social innovation
----
-<p>This post was jogged by two things. One was seeing the <a href="http://www.jarche.com/?p=775">post by Harold Jarche</a>, who is moving ahead with putting together a Commons as well. The second was experiencing the fantastic space of the <a href="http://www.the215.ca/">Centre for Social Innovation</a> in Toronto (thanks, <a href="http://www.communitybandwith.ca">Philip</a> for getting us this space for DrupalCamp).</p>  <p>So, the <a href="/blog/bmann/the-innovation-commons">Innovation Commons</a> concept <em>has</em> to get built. Bill&#39;s <a href="http://bad.typepad.com/workspace/">Workspace</a> shared office concept is a great solution <em>as a business</em>. But, the Innovation Commons needs to be a mix of businesses, non profits, and perhaps even public-private funding sources. I think the Centre for Social Innovation is a good model, but actually less of a focus on exclusively non-profit businesses. Creative, tech, non profit.</p>  <p>On to action items.</p>  <p>The SFU students that worked on an Innovation Commons business model did produce some good, lengthy documents, Excel spreadsheets, and presentations which really need to be posted in friendly non-proprietary formats and distributed under a Creative Commons license. Nik, I&#39;m looking at you here.</p>  <p>As commons-type initiatives spring up around the world, we can hopefully pool our learnings and go farther faster -- check <a href="http://www.furl.net/members/hjarche/Commons">Harold Jarche&#39;s &quot;Commons&quot; tag on Furl</a>. My eventual hope is that we can have linkages between different commons, so traveling members can connect locally when they are on the road.</p>  <p>The <a href="http://wiki.bryght.com">wiki</a> is OK, but I&#39;ve come to believe that every project needs a URL. A URL is a pivot point around which concepts can form. So, back to the drawing board there -- suggest some names/URLs and I&#39;ll get a wiki-fied site set up that we can centralize resources at (and move the existing stuff from the wiki).</p>  <p>The problem, of course, is finding another slice of time to focus on and champion this initiative. Rather than the large group we have had meeting and talking, we need a smaller handful of people that can actually commit some time. More thoughts on this over time.</p>  <p>(And yes, my dream location would still be buying the Sam the Record Man building on Seymour)</p><p><strong>Update:</strong> it turns out we&#39;re building it Canada wide. I&#39;m amazed that after talking to <a href="http://davidcrow.ca/">David Crow</a> and <a href="http://remarkk.com">Mark Kuznicki</a>, that we&#39;ve been thinking the exact same thing. Actually, it&#39;s spookier than that -- the business model and actual 3 year plan are nearly identical. So, <a href="http://innovationcommons.ca">innovationcommons.ca</a>, coming soon, David Crow nominated as benevolent Executive Director for life. </p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-05-18-verisign-chooses-openid.md b/_posts/archive/2006-05-18-verisign-chooses-openid.md
deleted file mode 100644
index dce5911..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-05-18-verisign-chooses-openid.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Verisign chooses OpenID
-created: 1147939270
-categories: 
-- identity
-- verisign
-- SAML
-- OpenID
-- mesh06
-- Canter's Law
-- Personal Identity Provider
-- InfoCard
-- Web 2.0
----
-<p><a href="http://blogs.verisign.com/infrablog/2006/05/introducing_the_verisign_perso_1.php">VeriSign chose OpenID</a> for their new &quot;Personal Identity Provider&quot;, aka pip: <a href="http://pip.verisignlabs.com/">http://pip.verisignlabs.com/</a>.</p>  <p>I&#39;m a bit confused. OpenID handily does single sign on. But that&#39;s it. I can understand not deploying a huge SAML stack -- all of those blogs and web apps that they talk about it in the announcement post have no way of easily interoperating with SAML today, aka lack of scripty language support -- but OpenID is fairly limited today. Be interesting to see if VeriSign will push Simple Registration Protocol and/or extend the OpenID &quot;spec&quot; and/or standardize it in some way as DIX is doing (or merge/interoperate/implement DIX?).  </p><p>If I were VeriSign, I would follow this up with support for multiple identity protocols -- that is, after all, <a href="http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2005/09/canters_law_1">Canter&#39;s Law</a>: work with everything. You could have a single identity hosted by VeriSign and accessible via a variety of protocols, from OpenID to DIX to SAML to InfoCard.</p>  <p>It certainly is great to see experimentation actually starting to happen in this space. At the <a href="http://www.meshconference.com">Mesh conference</a>, which I&#39;ve just come back from, I heard some rumours about a potential 10M profile installation of DIX. Exciting times...</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-05-19-cloning-technology-aka-technology-barriers.md b/_posts/archive/2006-05-19-cloning-technology-aka-technology-barriers.md
deleted file mode 100644
index b5e04b6..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-05-19-cloning-technology-aka-technology-barriers.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Cloning technology, aka technology barriers
-created: 1148046327
-categories: 
-- AOL Uncut Video
-- YouTube
-- video
-- Google Video
-- MySpace Video
-- Plenty of Fish
-- cloning technology
-- Web 2.0
----
-<p>Om Malik posted a great conversation starter entitled <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/OmMalik?m=660">Attack of the You Tube Clones</a>, talking about all the video sites that are out there now from the &quot;majors&quot;.</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://communityvideo.aol.com/Main.do">AOL just announced</a> Uncut Video, their own version of online video sharing <em>ala</em> You Tube. (Read <a href="http://mashable.com/2006/05/16/uncut-video-aols-youtube-rival/">Mashable&rsquo;s take on it</a>.) Niall Kennedy says that Yahoo is working on something <a href="http://www.niallkennedy.com/blog/archives/2006/05/yahoo-unveils-v.html">similar as well</a>, and said so in its analyst day meeting with the financial analysts. Niall says that &ldquo;The new video site includes videos from around the web and a few from Yahoo! users as well.&rdquo; </p>  <p>With Google Video and MySpace Video already up and running, I wonder what are the exits for companies like You Tube and other such services? Will someone buy YouTube for its traffic? What are your thoughts on this?</p> </blockquote>  <p>The bits of setting up a video sharing service are fairly simple. Or at least, the Web 2.0 tech platform for running a community website. Of course the Drupal framework can be used as one example (<a href="http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/news/story.html?id=b0bd00a3-425f-4fa2-8477-03a1cda93387&amp;p=3">this story about Bryght</a> in the Saskatoon Star Phoenix apparently quotes Roland as saying we&#39;ll build a clone of MySpace for $100K), but Ruby on Rails or any other decent web framework can be used to easily build web applications/community sites.</p>  <p>The hard parts? UI is one. We had good sessions at BarCamp Toronto on designing for the novice user, in part talking about <a href="http://www.bubbleshare.com">Bubbleshare</a>. You need to design for your target market -- be it teens or an older, mass market audience. Ignore the early adopters. Or? The best we could come up with was the concept of configurable or hackable user interfaces, progressive discovery as found in OS X, where everyone can find their own path, with good defaults that the majority won&#39;t change.</p>  <p>The other hard part is scaling. There aren&#39;t nearly enough examples of people talking tricks and techniques. And throwing lots of servers at the problem is not a viable solution, but may be the only solution when you don&#39;t have time to re-code from scratch. A good example of this done right is Markus Frind&#39;s <a href="http://www.plentyoffish.com">Plenty of Fish</a>. I talked with the fellow Vancouverite at Mesh, where he said that the entire system runs on *3 servers* -- and is one of the largest online dating sites in North America, vs. other sites which run over 600 servers for similar amount of users...(never mind that Markus runs the whole thing himself).</p>  <p>The hardest parts? What is the magic that will make people stay and use the site, the thing that made <a href="http://www.flickr.com">Flickr</a> the Flickr of photos (heh). And the business model. Can you scale the business module as well as scaling the technology and community?</p>  <p>Ultimately, it may be that the open nature of many of today&#39;s systems may mean that people self-select for a variety of services, which interoperate with other tools, and lots of people have viable businesses.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-05-19-never-miss-google-blog-search.md b/_posts/archive/2006-05-19-never-miss-google-blog-search.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 84f568e..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-05-19-never-miss-google-blog-search.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Never miss Google Blog Search
-created: 1148043394
-categories: 
-- Technorati
-- PubSub
-- Google
-- blog search
-- Web 2.0
----
-<p>So, uh, until Google posted <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/05/never-browse-outdated-posts-again.html">Never browse outdated posts again</a>, I forgot they even *had* blog search...</p>  <p>I still use <a href="http://www.technorati.com">Technorati</a> for &quot;instant&quot; blog search, and all my future search feeds are using <a href="http://www.pubsub.com">PubSub</a>.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-05-19-we-can-give-blogging-101-and-wiki-101-every-single-year-for-the-next-5-years.md b/_posts/archive/2006-05-19-we-can-give-blogging-101-and-wiki-101-every-single-year-for-the-next-5-years.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 8fa0807..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-05-19-we-can-give-blogging-101-and-wiki-101-every-single-year-for-the-next-5-years.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: We can give Blogging 101 and Wiki 101 every single year for the next 5 years
-created: 1148043361
-categories: 
-- Debbie Weil
-- Where does the RSS live
-- mesh06
-- Blogging 101
-- Wiki 101
-- Web 2.0
----
-<p>Tris writes about <a href="http://blog.larixconsulting.com/blog/_archives/2006/5/18/1968158.html">controversy coming from Debbie Weil</a>:</p> <blockquote>  <p>Somehow I don&#39;t think Debbie intended to start an international firestorm when she came to support me at my <a href="http://blog.larixconsulting.com/blog/_archives/2006/5/15/1959272.html">Mesh Blogging 101 workshop</a>.&nbsp; She <a href="http://www.blogwriteforceos.com/blogwrite/2006/05/tris_hussey_on_.html">posted right away</a> and mentioned that she was surprised some of the questions, that they were similar to the questions we fielded a couple years ago.</p>  <p>I saw that she posted and left a comment.&nbsp; Look I spent most of the day hanging out with Debbie including post-conference dinner, she really, really didn&#39;t mean it like it came out.&nbsp; She edited that post and <a href="http://www.blogwriteforceos.com/blogwrite/2006/05/i_take_it_all_b.html">came out with another soon after</a>.</p>  <p>All of this <a href="http://blogs.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2006/05/canadian_fighti.html">got the attention of BusinessWeek&#39;s Blogspotting blog</a>, oh dear.</p> </blockquote>  <p>One of the phrases <a href="http://www.blogwriteforceos.com/blogwrite/2006/05/tris_hussey_on_.html">from Debbie</a> was &quot;Interesting, though, that they&#39;re such close neighbors and yet the &quot;mind set&quot; and knowledge level about blogging is a beat or two behind.&quot;. So, I was *at* most of the blogging conferences in the US two years ago. Specifically, early 2004, <a href="http://www.willpate.org">Will Pate</a> and I and a ton of other Canadian folks descended on the Business Blogging Conference in Seattle. I seem to remember Debbie saying a rather naive comment at the time...</p>  <p>In any case, blogging and wikis are not mainstream in Corporate North America. I don&#39;t know how long it will take, but I suspect we can give Blogging 101 and Wiki 101 courses for the next 5 years at least. At this point, these tools can be a real competitive advantage if companies invest in learning about them now.</p><p><a href="http://www.meshconference.com">Mesh</a> was good. In part (I&#39;ll admit it) surprisingly so. The organizers did a great job of mixing the tribes, and I think both sides benefited from it.&nbsp;</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-06-11-socialtext-is-going-open-source-the-return-of-jluster.md b/_posts/archive/2006-06-11-socialtext-is-going-open-source-the-return-of-jluster.md
deleted file mode 100644
index cc6bc39..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-06-11-socialtext-is-going-open-source-the-return-of-jluster.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: SocialText is going open source, the return of jluster
-created: 1150089309
-categories: 
-- open source
-- wikiCalc
-- Socialtext
-- Jonas Luster
-- jluster
-- OSI
-- Open Source
----
-<p>I&#39;ve missed <a href="http://www.jluster.org/">Jonas Luster</a>. I knew he was about to resurface as he left websites in his path -- like the redesign of <a href="http://socialtext.com/">SocialText</a> in Drupal*. Luckily, I stayed subscribed to his RSS feed, and the posts just started pouring in again a couple of days ago. Jonas&#39; title is Open Source Manager for SocialText, Dan Bricklin&#39;s wikiCalc is going to be a part of SocialText...and the whole thing is going open source:</p>  <blockquote> <p>So, here it goes .. Tadaa! Remember Dan Bricklin? The dude whose <a href="http://www.bricklin.com/visicalc.htm">VisiCalc</a> turned out to be a greta idea, and even greater invention, and to create hordes of College students trying to memorize cell macros? Well, he joined Socialtext&rsquo;s board and with him <a href="http://wikicalc.org">wikiCalc</a> joined Socialtext. We&rsquo;ll be developing this beast in the months to come, under an OSI compliant <a href="http://www.soicaltext.net/stoss/">Open Source license</a>, of course, and hope you&rsquo;ll find it as useful and cool as we do.</p>  <p>But that&rsquo;s not all. It&rsquo;d be kinda boring to now go back and hang with my homies, so - just in time for the World Cup (<a href="http://www.socialtext.net/soccertext/index.cgi">Socialtext has a Wiki for it, of course</a>), my work starts to bring you <strong>all</strong> of Socialtext as Open Source. Yupp, that&rsquo;s right, my boss and CEO role model <a href="http://ross.typepad.com/">Ross Mayfield</a> spilled them OSI compliant beans today, as well: We&rsquo;ll have Socialtext Open Source by <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2006/">OSCON 2006</a>. I&rsquo;ll definitively be in Portland for that, and had a chat with <a href="http://radar.oreilly.com/nat/">Nat</a>, today, so chances are you&rsquo;ll also see me say something on stage, as well. Yet another reason to sign up, no? :)</p> </blockquote>  <p>Read the rest of the <a href="http://www.jluster.org/articles/2006/06/09/the-riddle-unfolds">Jonas&#39;s riddle on his site</a>. Congrats to everyone involved, this sounds very interesting. And welcome back, Jonas...maybe I&#39;ll actually get to meet you in person one of these days.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>(Well, and is making me re-think attendance at OSCON...but I&#39;m committed to EuroOSCON already, so don&#39;t think I&#39;ll be in Portland this year)&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Update:</strong> Patrick Tanguay wrote in to point out that <a href="http://adaptivepath.com">Adaptive Path</a> did the design of the new SocialText site and his company <a href="http://tasteofblue.ca/">Taste of Blue</a> was responsible for a large part of the rest of the Drupal work. </p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-06-14-iosvan-identity-open-space-in-vancouver-in-july.md b/_posts/archive/2006-06-14-iosvan-identity-open-space-in-vancouver-in-july.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 7b63375..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-06-14-iosvan-identity-open-space-in-vancouver-in-july.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "IOSVan: Identity Open Space in Vancouver in July"
-created: 1150322865
-categories: 
-- identity
-- IOSVan
-- Liberty Alliance
-- Kaliya
-- unconference
-- Lauren Wood
-- Vancouver
----
-<p>Kaliya announces that she is helping to unconference an <a href="http://www.identitywoman.net/?p=344">Identity Open Space in Vancouver in July</a> (aka IOSVan):  </p><blockquote> 	<p>I am excited there will be <strong>open space identity</strong> event in the <strong>northwest </strong>that will provide an opportunity for <strong>Identity Gang participants </strong>in the region along with the <strong>Web 2.0</strong> development community and the <strong>social good techies</strong> there to come together with <strong>Liberty Alliance participants </strong>and broaden the dialogue around the technical and social issues surrounding user-centric identitiy.  This is NOT the next IIW that will be in November. </p> 	<p><a href="http://iiw.windley.com/wiki/IdentityOpenSpace">The Identity Open Space</a> is being jointly produced by the <a href="http://www.internetidentityworkshop.net">Internet Identity Workshop</a> and <a href="https://www.projectliberty.org">Liberty Alliance</a> July 20-21 in Vancouver Canada.</p> </blockquote>  <p>I&#39;m:</p> <ul> <li>excited that this is taking place in Vancouver -- thanks to the <a href="https://www.projectliberty.org">Liberty Alliance</a> and local Sun representative <a href="http://www.laurenwood.org/anyway/">Lauren Wood</a></li> <li>happy that Kaliya is being unconference woman and will undoubtly do a good job</li> <li>signed up already</li> <li>might not be able to go because I&#39;ve had an unexpected trip to Germany come up...doh! I&#39;ll update this as I figure out my travel</li> </ul>  <p>So, if you want to get plugged into the Identity community and learn about the tangled web of protocols, specifications, and standards, go <a href="https://www.projectliberty.org/scripts/ID_OpenSpace.asp">register</a>. See the <a href="http://ios.windley.com/wiki/IOSVan">wiki</a> for more information.</p>  <p>[cross posted to my <a href="http://www.bryght.com/blog/boris-mann/iosvan-identity-open-space-in-vancouver-in-july">Bryght blog</a>]</p>  <!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-06-24-matchstick-ca-is-buzz-marketing-gone-wrong.md b/_posts/archive/2006-06-24-matchstick-ca-is-buzz-marketing-gone-wrong.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 1cea2ed..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-06-24-matchstick-ca-is-buzz-marketing-gone-wrong.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Matchstick.ca is buzz marketing gone wrong
-created: 1151135144
-categories: 
-- Fido
-- Matchstick.ca
-- Nokia
-- Nokia 6682
-- Canada
-- Vancouver
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<p>So, I wasn&#39;t going to write about this at all, but now Travis has, so I&#39;m going to tell how it went down with me.</p>  <a href="http://www.hopstudios.com/nep/unvarnished/item/i_wont_be_nokias_bitch/">Travis Smith: I Won&#39;t Be Nokia&#39;s Bitch</a>: <br /> <blockquote><p>This is cool: Nokia’s going to be sending me a fancy free (not fancy-free) cell phone soon, because I have the POWER oF BLOGGING at my fingertips.</p><p> That said, me and 44 other people (or should I say 44 other people and I? The use of “other” depends on a predicate, doesn’t it?) will be getting a <a href="/www.nokia.ca/english/products/6682/6682.asp">Nokia 6682</a> multimedia smart phone, fully equipped with 512 MB of memory, a stereo headset and a wireless Bluetooth Headset as well. </p></blockquote>   <p>A company that does &quot;buzz marketing&quot;, Matchstick.ca, had three separate people contact me via email. All of those emails were sent en-masse -- I consider it to be spam. And I happen to know at least two other people (<a href="http://davidcrow.ca">David Crow</a>, <a href="http://www.rolandtanglao.com">Roland Tanglao</a>) that got the same email.</p>  <p>And, it turns out, <a href="http://www.darrenbarefoot.com/archives/2006/06/matchstick-crosses-the-line-into-spamming.html">Darren Barefoot was spammed by Matchstick.ca, too</a>. So, rather than go into all the sordid details, I&#39;ll just point you at his post. Hey Matchstick.ca, consider me pissed off. Oh, and Nokia? Like I said to one email: </p><ul> <li>I am a heavy mobile phone user and buy new models often</li> <li>I have a grandfathered unlimited data plan from Fido</li><li>I blog loudly and often about mobile issues in Canada and help make buying decisions for my friends about their mobile phones</li> <li>I hate filling out Word forms when putting up a survey online is so much easier and takes me less time</li> <li>I already have a better phone (Nokia 6630) than the one they are offering for free</li> <li>My experience with Matchstick.ca has made me reconsider doing ANY business with Nokia in the future</li> </ul>  <p>Bottom line: screw buzz marketing companies, just start a blog with some real people and let us interact with you directly!  </p><p>My top hint on what Nokia should do? Forget the free phones: continue to sell great phones, but pressure Fido and Rogers to offer a &quot;citizen journalism&quot; data package so people in Canada can use all the cool features. The HipTop plan from Fido is $25/month for unlimited data...I think there would be a ton of people that would pay that to be able to upload pictures to Flickr on the fly and use all of the other great features that Nokia phones can enable (*cough* <a href="http://www.shozu.com">ShoZu</a> *cough*).</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-06-25-barcamp-sf-the-jive-live-or-how-to-make-money-from-great-video-content.md b/_posts/archive/2006-06-25-barcamp-sf-the-jive-live-or-how-to-make-money-from-great-video-content.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 5086af1..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-06-25-barcamp-sf-the-jive-live-or-how-to-make-money-from-great-video-content.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "BarCamp SF: The Jive Live, or how to make money from great video content"
-created: 1151279795
-categories: 
-- Greg Narain
-- video
-- Jive Live
-- barcamp
-- barcamp san francisco
-- Revver
-- YouTube
-- blip.tv
-- Social Media
----
-<p><a href="http://www.socialtwister.com">Greg Narain</a> and I had a long discussion with the <a href="http://www.thejivelive.com">Jive Live</a> team at BarCamp San Francisco. They take high quality video of all sorts of live events, from art openings to the Pride Parade here in SF, and then post it to their website. In some ways they think of themselves as a daily video newspaper.</p>  <p>We talked about using blogs and RSS and existing video communities to spread their content everywhere, to get traffic going to their site. They currently host their own videos, and Greg and I were of the opinion that as soon as they actually got significant traffic, their video costs would start going through the rough. The difficulties of success when it comes to video content on the Internet today...</p>  <p>A large part of the discussion centered around what we all would and would not do on the Internet, including talking about who subscribes to RSS, uses tags, etc. As I have said time and again, feel free to ignore the small part of the population that uses these tools directly....just stick the functionality on to your site, and the structured nature of RSS, the tag glue, and the automated tools and aggregators that are in place will blast your content around the Internet, which has the net effect of raising your Google ranking, which is really how everyone finds stuff on the Internet today. RSS = higher search ranking, enough said.</p>  <p>On the topic of using existing video communities, we went back and forth as to what kind of video those communities like (short stupid stuff for the younger crowd?) and how to get people back to your own website from that. Greg talked about branding: do intros and overlays on your video, plus link back to your website in the description. But, there is no denying that putting video into a community like YouTube can really increase traffic. But, of course, you have to use the tools: connect with people on YouTube, make groups, tag all your video, and cross promote all this with your blog.</p>  <p>But can <a href="http://www.youtube.com">YouTube</a> help you make money? Directly, probably not. Our friend <a href="http://mickipedia.com/">Micki Krimmel</a> is now Director of Community over at <a href="http://www.revver.com">Revver</a>, which integrates advertising and pays you money for views of your video content. The Jive Live crew are in LA as well, so hopefully they can connect at some point.</p>  <p><a href="http://www.blip.tv">Blip.tv</a>, which I&#39;m using from my cameraphone, is also supposed to be launching integrated advertising soon.</p>  <p>These seem to be more realistic avenues of making money directly from your video content (well, for freely shared video content -- you could also sell videos using Google Video).</p>  <p>At the end of our discussion, we <a href="http://thejivelive.wordpress.com/2006/06/25/hello-world/">set them up with a Wordpress.com blog</a>. Of course, long term they should integrate this directly into their website, and in fact re-vamp the website so episodes are in RSS feeds and people can subscribe to different categories of video directly, but this gives them an easy way to start experimenting.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-06-25-reverse-microformat-ing-at-barcamp-san-francisco.md b/_posts/archive/2006-06-25-reverse-microformat-ing-at-barcamp-san-francisco.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 10b8ed2..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-06-25-reverse-microformat-ing-at-barcamp-san-francisco.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Reverse Microformat-ing at BarCamp San Francisco
-created: 1151239313
-categories: 
-- barcamp
-- barcamp san francisco
-- tantek
-- microformats
-- Social Media
-- Web Development
----
-<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/174262188/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/64/174262188_70842806d7_m.jpg" alt="Arriving at BarCamp San Francisco" hspace="10" vspace="10" width="240" height="180" align="left" /></a>  <p>I just landed in San Francisco and took the BART directly to BarCamp San Francisco. I grabbed some coffee, some beer, and some North Beach pizza from the common areas, and then landed straight in an intense session about microformats.</p>  <p><a href="http://tantek.com/">Tantek</a> and <a href="http://factoryjoe.com/blog/">Chris Messina</a> are trying to herd us cats in the room as we think about what &quot;actions&quot; we can do if there is lots of data that is microformat-enabled online.</p>  <p>I&#39;m hearing lots of actions that at their base sound like publish and subscribe actions. But we&#39;re trying to stick at the UI layer -- one of Messina&#39;s stated goals was actions that are the same across sites for the same type of data. e.g. a Greasemonkey plugin that could do &quot;add as contact&quot; when given an hCard, no matter which site you are on.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-06-27-congrats-vancouver-innovation-avi-and-andrews-dabbledb-gets-funded.md b/_posts/archive/2006-06-27-congrats-vancouver-innovation-avi-and-andrews-dabbledb-gets-funded.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c0af4f8..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-06-27-congrats-vancouver-innovation-avi-and-andrews-dabbledb-gets-funded.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Congrats Vancouver Innovation: Avi and Andrew's DabbleDB gets funded"
-created: 1151409555
-categories: 
-- Ventures West
-- innovation commons
-- Avi Bryant
-- Andrew Catton
-- DabbleDB
-- paul kedrosky
-- Vancouver
----
-<p>Congrats to Avi and Andrew for <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/InfectiousGreed?m=2971">getting funded</a>. I&#39;m saying congrats to Vancouver&#39;s innovation with this post as well, and it&#39;s great to see that local Vancouver VC firm <a href="http://ventureswest.com/">Ventures West</a> did this deal.</p>  <p><a href="http://paul.kedrosky.com/">Paul Kedrosky</a> points to Om&#39;s scoop, and calls DabbleDB the first Enterprise 2.0 company. I suspect <a href="http://ventureswest.com/Team/Profiles/Paul_Kedrosky.asp">Paul&#39;s position at VenturesWest</a> had a thing or two with making this deal happen.</p>  <blockquote> I planned to post on this tomorrow, but I see the news is already breaking, and <a href="http://gigaom.com/2006/06/26/dabble-db-raises-cash/">Om has the scoop</a>: the venture firm Ventures West in Vancouver has closed a Series A financing round of <a href="http://www.dabbledb.com">Dabble DB</a>. He has it mostly right, including the huge opportunity for Andrew Catton&#39;s and Avi Bryant&#39;s startup. Let&#39;s call this the first truly &quot;Enterprise 2.0&quot; company.<br /> <br />One small correction/comment: The investment size is only Om&#39;s guess, and the actual dollars will not be announced -- whether larger or smaller.&nbsp;</blockquote>Can the local venture and innovation communities continue to churn out winners? I hope so :P<br />
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-06-30-ambient-vector-doing-startup-blog-in-the-globe-and-mail.md b/_posts/archive/2006-06-30-ambient-vector-doing-startup-blog-in-the-globe-and-mail.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 752c803..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-06-30-ambient-vector-doing-startup-blog-in-the-globe-and-mail.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Ambient Vector doing startup blog in the Globe and Mail
-created: 1151670056
-categories: 
-- Sutha Kamal
-- Globe and Mail
-- Ambient Vector
-- startup
-- Toronto
-- Canada
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<p><a href="http://suthakamal.blogspot.com/">Sutha Kamal</a> just let me know that his company, <a href="http://www.ambientvector.com/">Ambient Vector</a>, has been asked to <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060627.wsbtechblog0627/BNStory/specialSmallBusiness/home">write a blog on the Globe and Mail</a> covering what it means to be a startup in Toronto. Here's a bit from Sutha's first post that tells us what Ambient Vector does:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-<p>What does Ambient do?</p>
-
-<p>Great question. Got a cell phone? Does it take pictures? How about videos? Ever tried to get that stuff off your phone and onto the Web…to your blog, or a photo gallery? Ever noticed that it wasn't as easy as you hoped?</p>
-
-<p>Have you ever been bored on a train and wanted to see what your friends were doing?</p>
-
-<p>Ambient makes it easy to create, share and view all those moments that are important to you—from your phone or the Web. Pictures, videos, whatever's important to you, whenever you want to share something with the people you care about, or whenever you want to tune in to see what's going on in their lives.</p>
-
-<p>OK, I'm getting a little preachy…I'm the CEO, what can I say? I love this stuff.</p>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Looking forward to seeing an RSS feed on the blog so I can actually subscribe to it...</p>
-
-<p>And, um, Sutha, is "Project Boris" named after me?!?! Maybe just because the system crashes whenever I go anywhere near it :P</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-06-30-drupal-camp-seattle-finishes-gnomedex-starts-techmeme-hacked.md b/_posts/archive/2006-06-30-drupal-camp-seattle-finishes-gnomedex-starts-techmeme-hacked.md
deleted file mode 100644
index cd7ff87..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-06-30-drupal-camp-seattle-finishes-gnomedex-starts-techmeme-hacked.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Drupal Camp Seattle finishes, Gnomedex starts, TechMeme hacked
-created: 1151712423
-categories: 
-- drupal
-- drupalcamp seattle
-- gnomedex
-- techmeme
-- Web 2.0
----
-<p>I&#39;m sitting at the opening remarks of <a href="http://www.gnomedex.com">Gnomedex</a> in Seattle.</p><p>Just wrapped two fantastic days at <a href="http://groups.drupal.org/drupalcamp-seattle-2006">DrupalCamp Seattle</a>. As always, I thoroughly enjoyed my time hanging with Drupaleers from all over. I was amazed at how far people traveled: we had participants from Calgary, Minnesota, San Francisco, and probably more places that I&#39;m not aware of. This Drupal thing might just take off!</p><p>Actually, I think that&#39;s the amazing thing: people are picking up Drupal for all sorts of projects. As much hype as Ruby on Rails gets, it is so enjoyable to meet people that are learning the Drupal interface and doing very cool things without being programmers or developers.&nbsp;</p>  <p>And of course, Chris Pirillo just let us know that <a href="http://feeds.pirillo.com/ChrisPirillo?m=1007">TechMeme was hacked</a>.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-06-30-interacting-with-bloggers-101-permalinks-product-info-and-personality.md b/_posts/archive/2006-06-30-interacting-with-bloggers-101-permalinks-product-info-and-personality.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 9bc92f7..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-06-30-interacting-with-bloggers-101-permalinks-product-info-and-personality.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Interacting with Bloggers 101: Permalinks, Product Info, and Personality"
-created: 1151720562
-categories: 
-- permalinks
-- product info
-- gnomedex
-- Steve Rubel
-- Personal Publishing
-- Search Engine Voodoo
----
-<p>I made some comments today during <a href="http://www.micropersuasion.com">Steve Rubel&#39;s</a> <a href="http://www.gnomedex.com">Gnomedex</a> session. Steve asked, what are PR and marketing professionals doing right and wrong? What do people who blog want/need from such departments?</p>  <p>After much <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/uncleweed/178622661/">arm waving</a> I got Steve to notice me, and I answered with three P&#39;s.</p>  <ol><li><strong>Permalinks:</strong> folks, this is such a simple one. Don&#39;t make your press release page be &quot;press.php&quot; and old news be &quot;archive.php&quot;. Have a single, unique link for each press release, news story, product, or (*gasp*) blog post you make. This means not trying to make me figure out a crazy javascript or Flash navigation system, but simply having a clear, single link I can use to directly get to information. URL schemes like /news/2006/07/01/bigstory or /products/coolproduct/model-vw83 are some good examples. </li><li><strong>Product Info:</strong> I like product info. I like permalinks to direct product info. I like tech specs, and I like easily grab-able (and even better, friendly licensed) product photos. Heck, encourage me to hotlink images from your corporate server. Include copy/paste code that includes the permalink and a caption that I can drop into any system that groks HTML. For bonus points, make a little Flash/Javascript/rotating GIF widget that I can put into a post.</li><li><strong>Personality:</strong> yes, I want personality. This one is last, because a lot of corporates just can&#39;t get past legal, or want the community to bring in the personality. If you&#39;re not going to blog, perhaps upgrade your press release writer to someone with a little more human in their blood, or give me a contact that I can talk to/interview to get more of a human face to the information you&#39;re presenting.</li></ol>  <p>It seems so simple. But I know how difficult this can be. Many marketing and PR departments rely on a chain of consultants, contractors, or other folks to manage their web presence somewhere down the line. PR types need to become actively vocal about the needs they have. The three P&#39;s might be a good place to start.</p><p>[cross posted to my <a href="/blog/boris-mann/interacting-with-bloggers-101-permalinks-product-info-and-personality">Bryght</a> blog]&nbsp;</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-06-30-notify-i-might-have-accidentally-spammed-you.md b/_posts/archive/2006-06-30-notify-i-might-have-accidentally-spammed-you.md
deleted file mode 100644
index fbb4b90..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-06-30-notify-i-might-have-accidentally-spammed-you.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Notify (I might have accidentally spammed you)
-created: 1151683975
-categories: 
-- notify
-- drupal
-- email
-- BMC
----
-<p>So, I just turned on the <a href="http://drupal.org/project/notify">notify</a> module here on my site. I noticed that *I* just got a massive email sent to me from the site with lots of posts in it. Err..I may have spammed everyone with an account on this site.</p><p>If you *don&#39;t* want to get email every week with any of my new posts, you can login, and go to the <a href="/user">my account</a> link, then hit the &quot;my notify settings&quot; link.</p>  <p>So, if you got a big long email from this site...sorry for the spam!</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-06-30-stephanie-rieger-talks-mobile-snacks.md b/_posts/archive/2006-06-30-stephanie-rieger-talks-mobile-snacks.md
deleted file mode 100644
index d10ff13..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-06-30-stephanie-rieger-talks-mobile-snacks.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Stephanie Rieger talks mobile snacks
-created: 1151671744
-categories: 
-- Stephanie Rieger
-- yiibu
-- Canada
-- Vancouver
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<p>Stephanie Rieger has a <a href="http://stephanierieger.com/content/casual-mobile-snacks-for-everyone/">great post on casual mobile gaming</a>:</p>  <blockquote> We have a unique opportunity with mobile devices in that they can be insanely personal and private while being incredibly social and contextual (presence, location etc.) They can offer small moments of quiet play or learning&mdash;no peers, no pressure&mdash;or small moments of highly networked interaction and competition. Not to mention hybrids of the two. </blockquote>  <p>I&#39;m doing more thinking about mobile as I talk to younger people in North America (like <a href="http://ptorgie.wordpress.com">Petrina</a>) and also spend more time in Europe, where mobile is so much more pervasive.</p>  <p>In case you were wondering, <a href="http://www.mobilemuse.ca">mobile</a> <a href="http://www.innovationcommons.ca">innovation</a> is alive and well in Vancouver. Now go and <a href="http://mobili.st/?p=17">vote for Stephanie&#39;s post for Carnival of the Mobilists</a>.</p> 
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-07-01-gnomedex-video-let-us-buy-smartphones-with-bre-pettis.md b/_posts/archive/2006-07-01-gnomedex-video-let-us-buy-smartphones-with-bre-pettis.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 6f66058..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-07-01-gnomedex-video-let-us-buy-smartphones-with-bre-pettis.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Gnomedex (Video): Let us buy smartphones, with Bre Pettis"
-created: 1151761900
-categories: 
-- Video and Podcast
-- Will Pate
-- smartphone
-- ShoZu
-- Nokia 6630
-- Nokia
-- gnomedex
-- Bre Pettis
----
-<p>I&#39;ve now got ShoZu on my Nokia 6630 setup to easily send video to <a href="http://bmann.blip.tv">my blip.tv account</a>*. Lots of <a href="http://www.gnomedex.com">Gnomedex</a> video going up.</p>  <p>Most fun was lamenting about the lack of Nokia smartphones to buy here in North America with <a href="http://brepettis.com/">Bre Pettis</a> (someone *needs* to give Bre a phone for his <a href="http://phonetagger.com/">Phonetagger</a> alter-ego) and <a href="http://www.willpate.org">Will Pate</a>. Short story here is: Nokia, forget about <a href="/blog/bmann/matchstick-ca-is-buzz-marketing-gone-wrong" title="Matchstick.ca is buzz marketing in Canada gone wrong">buzz marketing</a> to give away phones -- there are people that just want to *buy* your high end phones.</p><p>  	 	<a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/Bmann-BreLoveHatesNokia403.3gp?source=3"><img src="http://blip.tv/uploadedFiles/Bmann-BreLoveHatesNokia403-902.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a> 	<br /> 	<br /> 	<a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/Bmann-BreLoveHatesNokia403.3gp?source=3">Watch the Video </a></p><p>And I&#39;m going to repeat what I said to Nokia before about encouraging carriers (especially in Canada):</p><blockquote><p>My top hint on what Nokia should do? Forget the free phones: continue to sell great phones, but pressure Fido and Rogers to offer a &quot;citizen journalism&quot; data package so people in Canada can use all the cool features. The HipTop plan from Fido is $25/month for unlimited data...I think there would be a ton of people that would pay that to be able to upload pictures to Flickr on the fly and use all of the other great features that Nokia phones can enable (*cough* <a href="http://www.shozu.com/">ShoZu</a> *cough*). <br /></p></blockquote><p>* Micki: I&#39;ve been talking about <a href="http://www.revver.com">Revver.com</a> a lot. blip right now is just so damn easy to put this low quality camphone video up to. I know I can make money on Revver, but I need it to be a little easier to use.&nbsp;</p><a href="http://blip.tv/file/get/Bmann-BreLoveHatesNokia403.3gp?source=3"></a>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-07-01-pop-is-a-machine-ethan-kaplan-at-gnomedex.md b/_posts/archive/2006-07-01-pop-is-a-machine-ethan-kaplan-at-gnomedex.md
deleted file mode 100644
index b3fb4a6..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-07-01-pop-is-a-machine-ethan-kaplan-at-gnomedex.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Pop is a machine - Ethan Kaplan at Gnomedex
-created: 1151805748
-categories: 
-- Music
-- Drupal
-- headautomattica
-- gnomedex 2006
-- gnomedex
-- Ethan Kaplan
-- drupal
----
-<h2><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jrnoded/179338395/"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/64/179338395_9568240121_m.jpg" border="0" alt="" hspace="10" vspace="10" width="89" height="133" align="left" /></a></h2><p><a href="http://blackrimglasses.com/">Ethan Kaplan</a> is doing an awesome session at <a href="http://www.gnomedex.com">Gnomedex</a>. Here are some awesome quotes:</p>  <h2>Pop is a machine</h2>  <h2>Monetizing beyond the physical 5 inch</h2>  <p>And of course, go off and check out the Drupal-powered <a href="http://www.headautomatica.com">Headautomatica</a> that Ethan put together. It&#39;s using the <a href="http://drupal.org/node/19571">hall of fame module</a> to have people vote on aggregated items from everywhere.</p><p>Photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jrnoded/179338395/">noded on Flickr</a>&nbsp;</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-07-15-heading-to-stuttgart-9-hour-layover-at-heathrow-tips-dont-forget-ios-van.md b/_posts/archive/2006-07-15-heading-to-stuttgart-9-hour-layover-at-heathrow-tips-dont-forget-ios-van.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a8f902d..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-07-15-heading-to-stuttgart-9-hour-layover-at-heathrow-tips-dont-forget-ios-van.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Heading to Stuttgart, 9 hour layover at Heathrow tips (don't forget IOS Van)
-created: 1153003744
-categories: 
-- travel
-- Heathrow
-- London
-- Stuttgart
-- Germany
-- layover
-- IOSVan
-- identity
-- Vancouver
-- Personal
----
-<p>So, I&#39;m back from a short <a href="http://www.listsofbests.com/list/8007">roadtrip vacation</a> with <a href="http://www.adventureswithkate.com">Kate</a>, and I&#39;m just about to go to the airport to fly to Stuttgart. Only it turns out I have a 9hr layover in Heathrow tomorrow, starting 11am London time. Any tips on what do with roughly 6 hours of free time?</p><p>Also: don&#39;t forget about the <a href="/blog/bmann/iosvan-identity-open-space-in-vancouver-in-july">Identity Open Space event here in Vancouver</a> (check the <a href="http://ios.windley.com/wiki/IOSVan">wiki</a> for more info), happening next week on July 20th and 21st. I am unfortunately missing it, but <a href="http://www.bryght.com/about/the-team/colin">Colin Brumelle</a> is attending on my behalf.&nbsp;</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-07-16-bmc-blog-design.md b/_posts/archive/2006-07-16-bmc-blog-design.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 4579172..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-07-16-bmc-blog-design.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: BMC Blog Design
-created: 1153051402
-categories: 
-- Cathy Wang
-- cathycracks
-- design
-- BMC
----
-<a href="/image/potential-new-design-for-bmc-from-cathycracks"><img src="/system/files?file=images/drupal//unknown.thumbnail.png" border="0" alt="Potential new design for BMC from cathycracks" title="Potential new design for BMC from cathycracks" hspace="5" vspace="5" width="100" height="72" align="left" /></a><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/cathycracks/">Cathy Wang</a> was bored one night recently and sent me this potential new design for my site -- thanks, Cathy! I started talking to Cathy perhaps 6 months ago or so, before she got snapped up by <a href="http://www.raincitystudios.com">Raincity Studios</a> (she also works with Alex Williams, doing work on the <a href="http://www.podcasthotel.com">Podcast Hotel</a>).</p><p>Of course, it has the requisite <a href="http://www.kriskrug.com">&quot;Photo by Kris Krug&quot;</a>, and this screenshot is of an interior &quot;static&quot; page. Green would be a new colour for me...I long ago picked dark blue plus the yellow-gold highlight as &quot;my&quot; colours....but then, I don&#39;t even have a real brand for BMC other than my name itself. Maybe I should go shopping for a new domain name as well?<br /></p><p>The big task, which really should come before the design, is to re-examine my info architecture. There is a lot of different type of info on this site, and I also have content in several external places I would like to highlight/integrate a bit better (e.g. sync local <a href="/weblink">weblinks</a> with my <a href="http://del.icio.us/borismann">del.icio.us</a> account, have posts from my <a href="http://www.bryght.com/blog/boris-mann">Bryght blog</a> appear here and perhaps vice versa).</p><p>One of those spots is the &quot;personal&quot; side of me. It lives over at <a href="http://personal.bmannconsulting.com">personal.bmannconsulting.com</a> for those that are interested, and is an aggregation of content produced by me on many other sites (the 43 universe, like <a href="http://www.43places.com">43 places</a>, being a major source).&nbsp;</p><p>And along with design comes thinking about content...I&#39;m going to try not to veer off into &quot;blogging about blogging&quot;, but I should definitely be doing more short snippets of thought here -- I admire <a href="http://sacha.free.net.ph/">Sacha</a>, <a href="http://paul.kedrosky.com">Paul</a>, and <a href="http://www.blackrimmedglasses.com">Ethan</a>&#39;s styles in particular, in terms of frequency, type, and length of content. </p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-07-18-jabber-geeking-merge-jep-0080-and-jep-0112.md b/_posts/archive/2006-07-18-jabber-geeking-merge-jep-0080-and-jep-0112.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 4dd1fed..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-07-18-jabber-geeking-merge-jep-0080-and-jep-0112.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Jabber geeking: merge JEP-0080 and JEP-0112?"
-created: 1153242125
-categories: 
-- IM
-- XMPP
-- JSF
-- JEP-0112
-- JEP-0080
-- jabber
-- geolocation
----
-<p>I&#39;m in Stuttgart meeting with some clients. Lots of Drupal + Jabber integration talk, and luckily <a href="http://ralphm.net/">ralphm</a> is here to bring along lots of Jabber expertise.</p><p>We&#39;ve been talking a lot about geolocation notification over Jabber -- so users can indicate their location over Jabber. There are few (if any?) clients that support this today, so we&#39;ll probably support some short hand for testing purposes -- being able to type in geoloc:[lat],[lon].</p><p>So, I was looking at <a href="http://www.jabber.org/jeps/jep-0080.html">JEP-0080 (geoloc)</a> and <a href="http://www.jabber.org/jeps/jep-0112.html">JEP-0112 (physloc)</a>. 112 is a plain text representation of physical location, and JEP 80 is the latitude / longitude. JEP 80 also has a plain text &quot;description&quot; field. So...why not collapse the two? physloc could replace the current JEP 80 &quot;description&quot; entry...every single entry is optional, so the text field in physloc can handle the current usage of the description field. It just seems wasteful to maintain two separate JEPs for what is essentially the same information.</p><p>As well, if a service already knows the physical location, it can send it along with the geoloc -- you can&#39;t derive the physical location from the geolocation, so in the current case, you would have to send two messages.<br /> </p><p>The *one* issue is the reverse: the latitude and longitude for geoloc are currently set to MUST. This means we can&#39;t send only the physical location, and leave the lat/long blank...I think this should be changed...people can send updates of either geolocation or physical location -- the server side can do a geoloc lookup if needed.</p><p>BTW, I reapplied for <a href="http://wiki.jabber.org/index.php/Membership_Applications_July_2006">membership in the Jabber Software Foundation</a> -- apparently the April voting had some issues.&nbsp;</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-07-23-googles-challenge-searching-the-live-web.md b/_posts/archive/2006-07-23-googles-challenge-searching-the-live-web.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 751d744..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-07-23-googles-challenge-searching-the-live-web.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Google's challenge: searching the live web"
-created: 1153717786
-categories: 
-- Google
-- Live Web
-- Google Subscribed Links
-- Google Sitemaps
-- PubSub
-- Web 2.0
-- Search Engine Voodoo
----
-<p>I&#39;m looking forward to the Google &quot;Behind the scenes&quot; presentation put on by the <a href="http://www.vanhpc.org/nextmeeting">Vancouver HPC Users Group</a> (note: not a permalink; added to <a href="http://upcoming.org/event/93536">Upcoming.org</a>). It&#39;s being given by  Narayanan Shivakumar (&#39;Shiva&#39;), a Google Distinguished Entrepreneur and the founding Director of the Google Seattle-Kirkland R&amp;D center. The abstract is as follows:</p><blockquote><p>Google deals with large amounts of data and millions of users. We&#39;ll take a behind-the-scenes look at some of the distributed systems and computing platform that power Google&#39;s various products, and make the products scalable and reliable.</p></blockquote><p>The bio says that Shiva is currently &quot;excited about a variety of search and webcrawling technologies (including Google Sitemaps)&quot;.</p><p>I see the challenge for Google and all search engines to be &quot;how to search the live web&quot;. One of the things I often explain is that I firmly believe that all static web pages will eventually be replaced by dynamic web pages. Another way to say this is that much of the content on the web, especially much of it which is being updated often, is actually being created by web apps.</p><p>For web apps, URLs are nothing more than keys to content. Type in www.domain.com/about, and the underlying web application will look up the content that is keyed to that URL. In fact, that &quot;about&quot; string is nothing more than a query to the underlying content &quot;engine&quot; of a website.</p><p>What is Google and other search engines? They are a centralized aggregator of all the unique queries of all the web apps that run websites in the world. Increasingly, they are having trouble keeping up. </p><p>So, the <a href="https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps">Google Sitemaps</a> (<a href="http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/050602-195224">Search Engine Watch Q&amp;A with Shiva</a> from June of 2005) XML file is an attempt to have a central place per site to indicate to Google how to get at that information. <a href="http://www.google.com/coop/">Google Co-op</a> (with <a href="http://www.google.com/coop/docs/guide_subscribed_links.html">Google Subscribed Links</a> powering it) is another, albeit user-driven example. Both are still designed with static content (or relatively unchanging) in mind. Of course, the purpose for Google Sitemaps is to have individual websites use this as a hint file, to inform the GoogleBot what is updated and what it would like indexed. I&#39;m not sure that a new format is needed here -- the idea was that it could be an industry standard, but of course it&#39;s still being called Google Sitemaps, so it doesn&#39;t seem to have done much in that regard.</p><p>What other XML format do we know that describes changes to web pages? Yep, RSS/Atom are definite features of the live web, and has well defined mechanisms of being polled for updates (and even <a href="http://www.jabber.org/jeps/jep-0060.html">publish-and-subscribed</a> to, a much more efficient mechanism than polling).</p><p>Social search, cross-language search (search for &quot;monkey&quot; in English, get relevant matches in all languages you understand and optionally machine translations of ones you don&#39;t), subscribed searches, levels of notification (your mobilephone, your RSS reader, your work email account) -- all of these are combining into something more complex than &quot;type words into a box&quot;, in the interest of becoming simpler: getting us the information we need, when we need it. </p><p>If you hadn&#39;t already guessed, yes, I am going to <strike>try and</strike> ask some questions at the presentation. Of course, this is a presentation at the High Performance Computing Users Group, so maybe I won&#39;t get to ask as many search questions as I&#39;d like. </p><p>And yes, I do find it ironic that the <a href="http://www.google.ca/search?q=Narayanan+Shivakumar">number one hit for Shiva&#39;s full name</a> is a <a href="http://www-db.stanford.edu/~shiva/">link</a> that leads to a 403 Forbidden error :P </p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-07-24-out-with-eba-in-with-nitobi.md b/_posts/archive/2006-07-24-out-with-eba-in-with-nitobi.md
deleted file mode 100644
index b63f36f..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-07-24-out-with-eba-in-with-nitobi.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Out with EBA, in with Nitobi
-created: 1153782330
-categories: 
-- Andre Charland
-- Nitobi
-- AJAX
-- rebranding
-- Canada
-- Vancouver
----
-<p><a href="http://www.nitobi.com"><img src="http://www.nitobi.com/nitobilogo.gif" border="0" alt="" hspace="5" vspace="5" align="left" /></a></p>  <p>Congrats to Andre and the gang, formerly known as E-business Apps, now known as <a href="http://www.nitobi.com" title="Nitobi - built for people - AJAX components">Nitobi</a>. <a href="http://blogs.ebusiness-apps.com/alexei/?p=24">Alexei has a write up</a>, including the background on the name.</p>  <p>Rebranding is a tricky business...I teased EBA mercilessly about their name previously (EBusiness Application -- a hyper generic name, with the short form of EBA being only marginally better). I like the new name and logo, now begins the task of making it clear that Nitobi makes some of the best commercial AJAX components in the business. And they&#39;re dabbling with Flex/Flash now as well. Oh, and they&#39;ve become prolific bloggers and BarCamp attendees in the past year or so that I&#39;ve known them, and are all wicked skiiers.</p>  <p>Again, congrats on the renaming process (a 6 letter domain name even!) and good luck...looking forward to lots more news from you all.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-07-25-matt-everard-entrepreunerial-pm.md b/_posts/archive/2006-07-25-matt-everard-entrepreunerial-pm.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 4664cab..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-07-25-matt-everard-entrepreunerial-pm.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Matt Everard, Entrepreunerial PM
-created: 1153895146
-categories: 
-- Canada
-- Atimi
-- project management
-- matt everard
-- jobseeker
-- entrepreneur
-- blog intro
-- Vancouver
----
-<p>I got a ping from Matt Everard, saying that his blog is now &quot;ready&quot;. He calls it <a href="http://entreprenpm.wordpress.com/">Entrepreneurial Project Management</a>.</p>  <p>Who is Matt? He&#39;s a smart, interesting project management and dev type who is trying to move to the beauty that is Vancouver (I mentioned him briefly in my post on <a href="/blog/bmann/vancouver-is-a-fine-place-to-start-a-company-or-to-join-one">Vancouver being a fine place to start or join a company</a>). Here&#39;s a snippet from his about page:</p>  <blockquote> [This site] is a bit of an intellectual dumping ground containing my musings on &ldquo;in the trenches, get it done, IT project management&rdquo; as well as other bright, shiny objects I find along the way.  The PM Depot is a work-in-progress, hopefully growing to 20 or so &ldquo;best of the web&rdquo; resources (mostly templates and articles) </blockquote>  <p>Matt&#39;s anecdote about project management, using <a href="http://entreprenpm.wordpress.com/2006/07/12/adding-features/">drywalling his basement as an example</a>, does a good job of explaining some of the difficulties in working with clients and adding features. There&#39;s more like this from him, that I can tell comes from experience -- so go on over and check out <a href="http://entreprenpm.wordpress.com/">his blog</a>. And if you&#39;re looking for a good technical/dev project manager in Vancouver...hire him!</p><p><strong>Update:</strong> Matt got hired by <a href="http://www.atimi.com">Atimi</a>, and also got a fantastic place to live on Granville Island -- see the <a href="http://entreprenpm.wordpress.com/2006/08/04/change-change-change/">Change, Change, Change post</a> on his blog for more info. Congrats!&nbsp;</p> 
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-07-26-openid-bounties-and-identity-convergence.md b/_posts/archive/2006-07-26-openid-bounties-and-identity-convergence.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 0bc68c0..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-07-26-openid-bounties-and-identity-convergence.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: OpenID bounties and identity convergence
-created: 1153965533
-categories: 
-- Scott Kveton
-- OpenID
-- identity
-- bounty
-- jabber
-- SXIP
-- Drupal
-- Web 2.0
----
-<p>Scott Kveton <a href="http://kveton.wordpress.com/2006/07/26/openid-code-bounty/">announced</a> the <a href="http://iwantmyopenid.org/bounty">OpenID Code Bounty</a> at OSCON today: </p><blockquote> <p>Integrate <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenID">OpenID</a> into your open source project and we&rsquo;ll give $5,000 to your project.</p> <p>We&rsquo;ve seen OpenID really start to gain some momentum over the past couple of months and this Bounty program is really the exclamation point on that.  There is a great <a href="http://iwantmyopenid.org">list of sponsors</a> for the program that includes people, organizations and businesses focused on building a simple, light-weight and decentralized user-centric identity platform around OpenID.  Working with all of these people over the last couple of weeks has proven to me that convergence is really happening around OpenID.</p> </blockquote>  <p>I wasn&#39;t really a fan of the &quot;original&quot; OpenID spec. That is, it worked great, but only solved single sign-on. Then the <a href="http://www.openidenabled.com/openid/simple-registration-extension">Simple Registration Protocol</a>, or SRP, got kludged in. This supports only 9 -- and exactly 9 -- attributes, and is not extensible. So, colour me firmly in the SXIP camp at this point.</p>  <p>Now, <a href="http://sxip.com/newsitem-sxip_joins_consortium_funding_openid_development">SXIP is helping to fund the OpenID bounties</a>, and OpenID is further evolving. There is a <a href="http://openid.net/specs/openid-authentication-2_0-05.html">5th draft of OpenID 2.0</a>, which still has profile information as separate, and Scott Kveton was earlier <a href="http://kveton.wordpress.com/2006/07/25/oscon-openid-and-convergence/">talking about OpenID v3 and convergence</a>.</p>  <p>So...lots of pieces still coming together. The bounty announcement is, on the one hand, a good idea (something that SXIP should have done years ago...except for the fact that the spec keeps changing); on the other hand...we want to make sure that the best solution is implemented. Perhaps OpenID as the lowest common denominator for basic single sign on interoperability is a good start.</p>  <p>Is Bryght going to join the consortium to help fund bounties? Well, we don&#39;t have that kind of cash -- we are self-funded after all. We will work on making sure that OpenID works well with Drupal and Jabber.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-07-28-barcamp-vancouver-and-more-great-vancouver-people.md b/_posts/archive/2006-07-28-barcamp-vancouver-and-more-great-vancouver-people.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 4ea4592..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-07-28-barcamp-vancouver-and-more-great-vancouver-people.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: BarCamp Vancouver, and more great Vancouver people
-created: 1154133079
-categories: 
-- barcamp
-- barcamp vancouver
-- Canada
-- Vancouver
----
-<p><a href="http://barcamp.org/BarCampVancouver">BarCamp Vancouver</a> is coming up quickly. It will take place in Bryght&#39;s new offices at the edge of Gastown. Now we have to talk to the construction dudes and make sure they finish in time. Add it to your <a href="http://upcoming.org/event/87852/">calendar on upcoming</a>. </p><p><a href="http://www.moosehat.com/">Stewart Marshall</a> actually emailed me, concerned that my name wasn&#39;t on the list...I stuck my name on the <a href="http://barcamp.org/BarCampVancouverRegistry">attendee list</a> -- technically we&#39;re maxed at 90 people, so there are only 3 slots left as I am posting. </p><p>It&#39;s a great list of folks on there already, and I keep bumping into more that should come. Specifically, I attended the <a href="/blog/bmann/googles-challenge-searching-the-live-web">Google presentation at VanHPC</a> last night, and bumped into a few folks:</p><ul><li><a href="http://www.stewartclan.ca/blogs/thinkingGeek/">Michael Stewart</a>, who works at BCIT and is digging into identity (and who tells me his friend <a href="http://www.mynameiskate.ca/">Kate</a> is moving to Vancouver...excellent, more cool locals)<br /> </li><li><a href="http://www.chani3.com/">Chani</a>, who is going back to school for a CS degree at UBC...she reminds me of some other smart, cool geek girls I know like <a href="http://sacha.free.net.ph">Sacha Chua</a> and <a href="http://hypatia.ca/">Leigh Honeywell</a> (that&#39;s a compliment)  </li><li><a href="http://www.juneharman.com/jmdyck/">Michael Dyck</a>, who spends time working on the <a href="http://www.pgdp.net">Distributed Proofreaders</a> project that helps with <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/">Project Gutenburg</a> (he should talk about this at BarCamp Vancouver)<br /></li><li><a href="http://group42.ca/">Dale McGladdery</a>, who is&nbsp; my partner in crime in helping to organize the <a href="http://groups.drupal.org/vancouver">Vancouver Drupalleers</a> and is looking for something to get into outside of his BigCo dayjob<br /></li></ul><p>I see Michael Stewart and Chani have already added themselves, and of course Dale is #5 with a bullet on the attendee list. So much other tech (<a href="http://www.brightsidetech.com/">BrightSide</a> display tech) and people (yay! <a href="http://brepettis.com/">Bre</a> is coming from out of town, <a href="http://www.podcasthotel.com">Alex Williams</a> will be podcasting) Good stuff!</p><p>And <a href="http://hartshorne.ca/">Beau Hartshorne</a>, who came by the office today, added himself as well.</p><p>He&#39;s got a very interesting AJAX image editing interface at SnipShot and is working on all sorts of other innovative things. He&#39;s currently debating whether to add his innovation to the local Vancouver environment or to take off back to Silicon Valley, where he attended startup school as part of <a href="http://ycombinator.com/">Y Combinator</a> (yes, we need this here...the <a href="http://www.innovationcommons.ca">Innovation Commons</a> might play host to such a thing). </p><p>Whew! Things don&#39;t slow down in the summer. I&#39;m happy to be in town until the end of September, and it looks like I won&#39;t have any shortage of things to do. For now...off to the parents on Bowen Island for a rest. Enjoy your weekends...  </p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-08-07-a-vancouver-job-connection-area-here-on-bmc.md b/_posts/archive/2006-08-07-a-vancouver-job-connection-area-here-on-bmc.md
deleted file mode 100644
index ae258b2..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-08-07-a-vancouver-job-connection-area-here-on-bmc.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: A Vancouver Job connection area here on BMC?
-created: 1155005485
-categories: 
-- Canada
-- BMC
-- jobs
-- Vancouver
----
-<p>Om Malik writes about <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/9302758/">Niche Job Boards Rising</a>:</p>  <blockquote> <p>CrunchBoard, <a href="http://jobs.37signals.com/jobs">37Signals</a> and <a href="http://paidcontent.org/">PaidContent</a> - they are all bringing attention to the fact that narrow niche sites work, and the job boards don&rsquo;t seem to have the necessary impact or perhaps get the right kind of users. These three sites have very strong communities, and as a result their job boards work and will continue to work. These three boards should enjoy success, because the number of technology job listings in on an upswing.  <a href="http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends.jsp">Indeed.com reports</a> that there are 121 job listings per 1000 people in San Jose, and 74 job listings per 1000 in San Francisco. </p> </blockquote>  <p>Recently, I&#39;ve been toying with the idea of adding a &quot;jobs&quot; section to this site. Why? Well, I think I have some interesting ideas about jobs, resumes, and linking. Secondly, I constantly run into great individuals looking for jobs, as well as interesting companies looking for employees. So, bringing them together in a dedicated section might be an interesting idea.</p>  <p>Issues like having people be able to remain anonymous while still being endorsed (by me or others) likely need to get handled. Or ignored, and we just do truly public information, but then how am I going to help friends jump from current positions?</p>  <p>I know that David Crow already runs a <a href="http://davidcrow.ca/jobs">Canadian UX jobs</a> section, so there&#39;s some &quot;local&quot; precedent as well -- he does, however, also do a bunch of aggregation. Right now I&#39;m thinking more of directly submitted/hand-selected Vancouver jobs and people. The people part is what most interests me.</p>  <p>What do you think? Is this a good idea? Do you think I&#39;ll actually find the time? :P</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-08-07-apple-notes-after-wwdc-2006-keynote.md b/_posts/archive/2006-08-07-apple-notes-after-wwdc-2006-keynote.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 7b4863e..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-08-07-apple-notes-after-wwdc-2006-keynote.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Apple notes after WWDC 2006 keynote
-created: 1155014270
-categories: 
-- Apple
-- Mac OS X Leopard
-- MacPro
-- Blu-Ray
-- iCal
-- CalDAV
-- Time Machine
-- Mac
----
-<p>I didn&#39;t watch the video today, but did scroll through the <a href="http://www.macrumorslive.com/">MacRumors live update</a>. Looking through the transcript and poking around the various updated pages at Apple.com, there are some interesting tidbits that I think I can extract.</p>  <p>Here as well are some other posts that I found interesting:</p> <ul> <li>Om talks about increasing broadband and CPU speed requirements both in home and across the network in the context of Apple&#39;s new apps and OS X improvements: <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/9795494/">Putting Leopard In The Broadband</a></li> <li>Kevin Marks talks about <a href="http://epeus.blogspot.com/2006_08_01_epeus_archive.html#115497034632834302">Apple&#39;s HD Future</a> -- from Blue Ray to HD everywhere now that CPUs have more oomph. And of course &quot;The iTunes store has been selling low-res TV shows for $2 each, so they have the makings of an entire distribution chain for content.&quot;</li> </ul> <!--break--> <h2>MacPro</h2> <ul> <li>Dual Optical Bays: why? so that they can slipstream in Blu Ray and/or HD DVD as a build to order option. People who buy with a SuperDrive today can add one of those drives after the fact.</li> </ul>  <h2>Mac OS X Leopard</h2>  <ul> <li><a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/ical.html" title="iCal in Mac OS X Leopard">iCal</a>: CalDAV - yes! open standards support. At the OSCON session last year, it was doom and gloom...except for the potential that Apple would add CalDAV support directly into iCal. This gives us publish AND subscribe. OS X Server Leopard will then include a <a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/server/macosx/leopard/icalserver.html">CalDAV server component</a>. Now that this is for sure, I will start driving/promoting CalDAV more extensively -- Lloyd, I&#39;m pushing for open data/standards here, I&#39;ll <a href="http://www.foolswisdom.com/~lloyd/wordpress/index.php/apple-advocate-at-large/">fight other battles later</a>.</li>  <li><a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/spotlight.html">Spotlight</a>: distributed search across networks. Also some &quot;launcher&quot; functions...making it a bit like <a href="http://blacktree.com/apps/quicksilver/">Quicksilver</a>. Apple is stealing from Quicksilver! no, it&#39;s not...I don&#39;t use QS, and already use Spotlight as a rudimentary launcher. Thanks for building it into the OS...QS can continue to innovate faster, more complex-ly, and open source for those that need it.</li>  <li><a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/timemachine.html">Time Machine</a>: Apple is going to tackle backup for us...since we&#39;re never going to do all the things we&#39;re supposed to do. Think of this paired with <a href="http://www.jungledisk.com/">Jungle Disk (mount Amazon S3 as a disk)</a> or the rumoured Google 1TB personal storage service</li>  </ul>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-08-08-2paths-java-web-app-experts-in-vancouver.md b/_posts/archive/2006-08-08-2paths-java-web-app-experts-in-vancouver.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 1558a18..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-08-08-2paths-java-web-app-experts-in-vancouver.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: 2Paths, Java web app experts in Vancouver
-created: 1155092986
-categories:
-- Vancouver
-tags: 
-- Aaron Gladders
-- workspace
-- jabber
-- innovation commons
-- 2Paths
-- Java
----
-<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/205973115/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/89/205973115_97657356bd_m.jpg" alt="Aaron from 2Paths" hspace="5" vspace="5" width="240" height="180" align="left" /></a>
-
-<p>I had lunch the other day with Aaron Gladders from <a href="http://www.2paths.com">2Paths</a>. He bumped into me when we were doing a final walkthrough of our new 1 Alexander offices, and recognized me from the picture here on my blog.</p>  <p>2Paths is a company filled with biologists turned programmers. They started out as a PHP shop, but since they provide full ongoing 24/7 support, hosting, and ongoing maintenance to most of their customers, they found that straight PHP code had a tendency to get very spaghetti-like. They switched to doing Java development and have been building expertise. Aaron confidently says that 2Paths is likely the best lightweight Java web application developer in Vancouver.</p>  <p>In fact, Aaron says they started to look at Ruby on Rails as it began to gain hype -- perhaps they would use it for prototyping. But they weren&#39;t happy with some aspects of it, although in favour of many of its lightweight aspects. So, they looked around for a Rails-like framework for Java. Ultimately, they rejected existing solutions for a number of architectural reasons and ended up creating their own. I&#39;ll leave it up to 2Paths to talk about its cool factor -- they&#39;ll be open sourcing it and releasing it to the world sometime real soon now (there might be a presentation at <a href="http://barcamp.org/BarCampVancouver">BarCamp Vancouver</a> about it).</p>  <p>Another interesting story about 2Paths I learned from Aaron was that they&#39;re going fully distributed. They&#39;ve spend the last half-dozen years building their team centrally in Vancouver, all in one office. They did look for some larger space, but ended up going in another direction all together. I took a <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/205924646/">picture of the stack of MacBook Pros</a> in their office: every team member is getting a laptop, and is being encouraged to work from home...or from wherever. Next, Aaron is going to go shopping for expertise wherever he can find it -- Java experts who like a lightweight approach encouraged to apply from anywhere in the world.</p>  <p>They will be keeping their office as a central connection area and place to meet clients. Aaron is a fan of the <a href="http://www.innovationcommons.ca">Innovation Commons</a> concept, and toured Bill MacEwen&#39;s <a href="http://www.abetterplacetowork.com">Workspace</a>, but ultimately keeping the office made more financial sense.</p>  <p>Aaron told me about <a href="http://www.acetech.org/acetechhomepage.asp?action=category&amp;id=125">AceTech Emerging</a>, which is for young company executives to meet and share solutions at networking events and an annual conference in Whistler. I&#39;ve gotten invitations in the past, but was put off by the email blasts and mediocre website (yeah, I&#39;m bad like that). I&#39;ll give them a try, since Aaron says it&#39;s worthwhile.</p>  <p>However, recently speaking with <a href="http://blogs.ebusiness-apps.com/andre/">Andre Charland</a> from <a href="http://www.nitobi.com" title="Nitobi makes AJAX components">Nitobi</a>, <a href="http://www.robertscales.org/">Robert Scales</a> from <a href="http://www.raincitystudios.com">Raincity Studios</a>, and now Aaron, it seems that we are all facing very similar issues. Developer tools, collaboration spaces, project management, lead tracking, etc. We may be holding some informal meetings soon to share some of these tools and techniques. </p>  <p>Somehow in telling the tale of Bryght, I also ended up doing my usual evangelizing of Jabber. <a href="http://jivesoftware.org/wildfire">Wildfire</a> is a great open source Java-based server from <a href="http://jivesoftware.com/">Jive Software</a>, and it has some great enterprise deployment and management features when paired with its <a href="http://jivesoftware.org/spark" title="open source Jabber client from Jyve">Spark</a> client.</p>  <p>What else? Well, apparently 2Paths has some Web 2.0-ey service goodness up their sleeve which we didn&#39;t end up talking about. Since I&#39;m writing up this giant post and Aaron reads my blog, I suspect a blog isn&#39;t too far off either :P </p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-08-16-officially-a-member-of-the-jabber-software-foundation.md b/_posts/archive/2006-08-16-officially-a-member-of-the-jabber-software-foundation.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f61e14f..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-08-16-officially-a-member-of-the-jabber-software-foundation.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Officially a member of the Jabber Software Foundation
-created: 1155767497
-categories: 
-- Open Source
-- IM
-- JSF
-- Jabber Software Foundation
-- jabber
----
-<p>I&#39;m now officially a member of the Jabber Software Foundation, according to the <a href="http://www.jabber.org/members/meetings/2006-08-16.shtml">member meeting minutes</a>.</p><p>For one of my first acts, I&#39;ll be at EuroOSCON&#39;s Dot Org Day (some info <a href="http://drupalcon.org/news/2006/08/04/dot-org-day-at-euro-oscon-2006">posted on the DrupalCon website</a> -- if you are an open source project with presence in Europe, please attend!) helping <a href="http://ralphm.net/blog/">RalphM</a> and <a href="http://www.saint-andre.com/blog/">stpeter</a> man the booth there.</p><p>That was one of the reasons I wanted to be &quot;official&quot; -- I&#39;ve already unofficially been promoting/evangelizing Jabber, but now I can say that I&#39;m a member of the JSF.</p><p>I hope to get more involved as a member, working on everything from web presence, conference attendance, and general promotion of Jabber-the-community and XMPP-the-protocol.<br /></p><p>Help keep our instant messaging and real time protocols open, free, and standards based -- Jabber is for people :P&nbsp;</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-08-17-announcing-pretzel-a-python-based-jabber-server-on-twisted.md b/_posts/archive/2006-08-17-announcing-pretzel-a-python-based-jabber-server-on-twisted.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 5520487..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-08-17-announcing-pretzel-a-python-based-jabber-server-on-twisted.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Announcing Pretzel, a Python-based Jabber server on Twisted
-created: 1155834507
-categories: 
-- jabber
-- pretzel
-- Pretzel Server
-- Twisted
-- JEP-0080
-- geolocation
-- IM
-- Open Source
----
-<p>I have the great pleasure to announce <a href="http://code.google.com/p/pretzel/">Pretzel</a> -- a Jabber server written in Python on the <a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/">Twisted</a> framework.</p><p>The two main authors are <a href="http://ralphm.net/blog/">Ralph Meijer</a>, well known as a long time member of the Jabber community, and <a href="http://term.ie/blog/">Andy Smith</a>, hacker extraordinaire. </p><p>For now, Andy checked in some experimental code hosted on Google&#39;s new code repository. Check it out at <a href="http://code.google.com/p/pretzel/" title="Pretzel - Python Jabber Server on Twisted">http://code.google.com/p/pretzel/</a>. We&#39;re looking for other people to join in -- one of the reasons we started the project was because it seemed there were a lot of people looking for the same thing. It is available under the MIT license to make it potentially usable by the broadest number of people, as well as being under the same license as Twisted.</p><p>Please join us on the <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/pretzel-dev/">pretzel-dev list</a> and we&#39;ll get the discussion going.&nbsp;</p><p>What&#39;s on the roadmap? Well, this is a very early release -- more of a proof of concept. We hope to enable the quick and easy implementation of various JEPs, making it fun and simple to add all sorts of powerful features to the server and clients, truly showing how Jabber can go way beyond &quot;just&quot; instant messaging.</p><p>One of the first goals will be support for geolocation/presence information. <a href="http://ralphm.net/world">Ralph&#39;s map</a> is an interesting example of what could be built...expect that to be live, allowing you to update your location yourself, using your client. Since practically no clients (leave a comment if you know of one) support <a href="http://www.jabber.org/jeps/jep-0080.html">JEP-0080 User Geolocation</a> today, we&#39;ll likely provide some simple text-based ways to send that information (e.g. geoloc:48,100 or some such). </p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-08-26-notes-from-barcamp-vancouver.md b/_posts/archive/2006-08-26-notes-from-barcamp-vancouver.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 6767946..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-08-26-notes-from-barcamp-vancouver.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Notes from BarCamp Vancouver
-created: 1156653515
-categories: 
-- barcamp
-- BarCamp Earth
-- barcamp vancouver
-- Vancouver
----
-<ul><li>every event should make a list of &quot;fun URLs&quot; that get thought up at events -- and then registered, like <a href="http://www.myurlistoolong.com">http://www.myurlistoolong.com</a> </li><li>there were are as many great presentations that I couldn&#39;t make it to as I did attend</li><li>we need to find a kit to stress-test wireless networks ahead of time...or revert to wired connections</li><li>I got to talk to many great people...and also missed spending time with others (too many to mention...but <a href="http://elearningskinny.com/">Zug</a> is definitely in my thoughts)</li><li>Google needs to point out who the heck is going to talk about identity issues (from technical interop to privacy); also, say things in public about your logging policy </li><li>every time I talk about microformats I passionately argue the opposite case; they are a great solution for putting mixed, structured content into one big text blob (i.e. a blog post with an event, a location, some people, and a resume); they are not a great solution for passing structured data between systems and/or for presenting a pure feed of one type of data (events, people, etc.)<br /></li><li>OpenID does simple sign on great today -- go ahead and implement it; <a href="http://sxip.org">SXIP</a> is a better solution, since it also covers profiles and personas. <a href="http://blame.ca">Dick</a> and company: get us a stable implementation and put all your code in one place and we will implement the h*ck out of it; while you&#39;re at it, unite the tribes, extend OpenID to v3 or whatever the hell we have to wait for until it has profile/persona support too, and make sure we have an upgrade path and/or compatibility with SAML. Thanks. </li><li>The Vancouver tech community is awesome. So awesome that we get fun friends from the US coming up to visit us. We should get together more often, but perhaps with a little less intensity, &#39;cause I&#39;m exhausted.<br /></li><li>We need to do a <strong>Foo(d) Camp</strong> </li><li>Bill MacEwen&#39;s <a href="http://www.abetterplacetowork.com">Workspace</a> is a great space, and he&#39;s put a ton of work into it; lots of people are excited about using the space, I&#39;ll even be renting a room on Tuesday; I applaud him and his business, I still wish we could do a non-profit version </li><li>I&#39;m kicking myself for not playing with/implementing VoIP sooner; why the heck am I bound by the shackles of the stupid phone system? <a href="http://asterisk.org">Asterisk</a> is awesome, thanks to George of <a href="http://netvoice.ca">Netvoice</a>...I hope you will make my (telephony) life and that of other local Vancouver geeks better in the days to come </li><li>I like to BBQ </li></ul>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-09-26-back-from-belgium.md b/_posts/archive/2006-09-26-back-from-belgium.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e81b21b..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-09-26-back-from-belgium.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Back from Belgium
-created: 1159282601
-categories: 
-- euro oscon
-- eurooscon06
-- DrupalCon
-- Barcamp Brussels
-- belgium
-- govcamp
-- Vancouver
-- Personal
----
-<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/253318750/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/103/253318750_0eee9e4e04_t.jpg" alt="mmm...waffle" hspace="5" vspace="5" width="100" height="75" align="left" /></a><p>I&#39;ve just gotten back from a whirlwind conferennnce tour -- <a href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/euos2006/">Euro OSCON</a>, <a href="http://www.govcamp.org">GovCamp</a>, <a href="http://drupalcon.org">DrupalCon Brussels</a>, and <a href="http://barcamp.org/BarCampBrussels">BarCamp Brussels</a>, all packed into a little less than a week in Belgium.</p><p>I acknowlege that I&#39;m pretty much hopeless when it comes to conference blogging: my mind is spinning with all the talks and face to face meetups with people, and I can&#39;t seem to slow down to get something useful posted.</p><p>I did manage to write up two lengthy posts relating to discussions with <a href="http://blog.zylstra.org/">Ton Zijlstra</a> at BarCamp Brussels, which I&#39;ll be posting later today, and I uploaded a handful of pictures to my Flickr account. Now to dive back into work...talk soon! </p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-09-26-feed-reading-via-people-face-to-face-with-ton-zijlstra-part-1.md b/_posts/archive/2006-09-26-feed-reading-via-people-face-to-face-with-ton-zijlstra-part-1.md
deleted file mode 100644
index d1fb0cb..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-09-26-feed-reading-via-people-face-to-face-with-ton-zijlstra-part-1.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Feed Reading via People: Face to Face with Ton Zijlstra, Part 1"
-created: 1159295450
-categories: 
-- Ton Zijlstra
-- feed reading
-- Barcamp Brussels
-- Social Media
----
-<p>I was a bit late to <a href="http://barcamp.org/BarCampBrussels">BarCamp Brussels</a> due to the wrap up of <a href="http://drupalcon.org">DrupalCon Brussels 2006</a> the night before, but I was immediately energized by the people there.</p>  <p>I jumped straight into an in depth conversation with Ton Zijlstra, a long time &quot;blog buddy&quot; who I met for the first time in person last year at <a href="http://barcamp.org/BarCampAmsterdam">BarCamp Amsterdam</a>.</p>  <p>Somehow, we quickly dived into feed reading strategies. Ton uses essentially the &quot;Blink&quot; strategy (my words, not his) to capture hilights of the content that he reads. And that was our first point of interest. He doesn&#39;t read via content or by information/topic slice, but rather primarily reads via people. Ton uses <a href="http://www.lektora.com/">Lektora</a>, and tends to read in disconnected mode on the train.</p>  <hr /><p class="aside"><em><strong>Aside:</strong> I need to write up some thoughts on the use of media by &quot;commuters&quot;...I have a virtually non-existent commute, so my media usage is very different than those that do commute. Silicon Valley/the Bay Area has very long commutes...does this have an effect on innovation?</em></p>  <hr /><p>Ton&#39;s strategy of skimming/browsing to pick out the high level themes that he is looking at, combined with his offline status in reading, means that he picks out themes as well as links to follow and captures them on a wiki that is locally installed on his laptop. These are entered as kind of &quot;to do&quot; or &quot;followup&quot; items.</p>  <p>I find this mode of operating fascinating. I think I will need to hack my feed reading to become more efficient like this...it seems to encourage better/richer/more intense feedback loops, too. Right now, my feedreader is a bit like an email inbox (with the attendant &quot;worry&quot; about unread status as well...) where each individual item isn&#39;t critical and/or directed at me...except for some of my notification feeds, which are in fact directed and personalized just for me.</p>  <p>Do we need two modes for feeds? I know that my &quot;to do&quot; and &quot;project status&quot; feeds -- with time critical and/or followup information necessary -- are perhaps better suited to delivery via a pubsub infrastructure (there&#39;s Jabber again...), coupled with a way to pin/flag them for my attention. Coupling this with the Growl notification system might work.</p>  <p>In any case, Ton would like a stronger focus on the people to which feeds are attached. In his head, his social network of blogs that he reads is quite clear. In his feed reader, it is a list of blog titles in a list. Not quite the format to which a human mind can easily pattern match to a group of social connections.</p>  <p>I pointed to the <a href="http://www.43people.com/subscriptions">43 People subscriptions page</a> as an example that is quite a bit closer than what we have in feed readers today. You subscribe to people, and then attach feeds to them. If they aren&#39;t in the system, you can add them yourself as placeholders, seeding their identity within the system with feeds you specify. In fact, anyone can add feeds to people, although the people themselves can remove them. You can additionally choose to subscribe/follow only a subset of the feeds defined about a person.</p>  <p>While not designed as a feed reader, I have been using my subscriptions page as a back up feed reader whenever I am away from my laptop, which is the centralized home of my subscriptions and feed reader.</p>  <p>Even if <a href="http://robotcoop.com">the Robots</a> don&#39;t evolve subscriptions into a full fledged reader (e.g. read and unread status), their APIs are quite open, so one can imagine building such a reader based on this information.</p>  <p>As well as having a <a href="http://bmann.43people.com">43 People entry for myself</a> which has many feeds attached, I run my own &quot;person aggregator&quot; at <a href="http://personal.bmannconsulting.com">http://personal.bmannconsulting.com</a> for my non-business persona. This is composed of Flickr pictures, All Consuming entries, etc. -- all feeds from the many systems that I interact with and create content at. Subscribing to that aggregate feed is quite a complete picture of that non-business persona.</p>  <p>After our direct discussion (which continued...lots more to write), we decided to do a session on how we would like to see social software tools to evolve to add/display more of a shared context, based on information that we post and the interlinking (both semantically and via http) between them.</p><p>But most importantly, as per the title of this post, subscribing to people and their content, and deriving connections and new content that helps inform and filter what you are reading.<br /></p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-09-27-idea-fragments-face-to-face-with-ton-zijlstra-part-2.md b/_posts/archive/2006-09-27-idea-fragments-face-to-face-with-ton-zijlstra-part-2.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 8e3663c..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-09-27-idea-fragments-face-to-face-with-ton-zijlstra-part-2.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Idea Fragments: Face to Face with Ton Zijlstra, Part 2"
-created: 1159402477
-categories: 
-- Social Media
-- Ton Zijlstra
-- RDF
-- NINA
-- Mixel
-- KNOSOS
-- corporate blogging
----
-<p>See also: <a href="/blog/bmann/feed-reading-via-people-face-to-face-with-ton-zijlstra-part-1">Feed Reading via People: Face to Face with Ton Ziljstra, Part 1</a></p>  <p>I wanted to share with Ton some of the information that came up during DrupalCon.</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://drupalcon.org/node/42">NINA</a> -- a bundle of Semantic Web (yes, big &quot;S&quot; -- it is an RDF store) tools being built on top of Drupal. Don&#39;t forget the <a href="http://drupal.org/project/relationship">Relationship module</a> -- it&#39;s still around and still very interesting. RDF for a long time has had the perception of complexity. Secondly, it has had real performance issues as tuples can&#39;t natively be represented in a relational database. Both of these are chicken-and-egg issues, I believe. If there were more running code in an easily accessible platform that automatically created and worked with RDF metadata...well, we might see some interesting things :P</li> <li><a href="http://mixel.be">Mixel</a> and Ton should meet/talk more. Mixel&#39;s <a href="http://www.knosos.be/">KNOSOS (Knowledge Sharing over Social Software)</a> project has built some very interesting tools on top of Drupal and is continuing to evolve; we&#39;re all looking forward to see more on his tag visualization</li> </ul>  <p>Ton uses <a href="http://www.qumana.com">Qumana</a> to easily cross-post to multiple locations. I&#39;m unhappy with this as a solution, as context is actually lost. That is, there should be one canonical/permanent/referenceable URI for each blog post...or at least a GUID. Atom does this well, we need it to be better automated. To be fair, Ton does customize and/or intro each duplicated cross post, adding local context. Ideally, there is a field in the feed specs that could be used for this purpose without changing the GUID -- I may want to see his local context hints, but I don&#39;t want to see the same article three times from him. I know I feel the same pressure/need -- these collection of posts should be at Bryght as well as B. Mann Consulting because we haven&#39;t yet enabled automatic aggregation of targetted posts.</p>  <p>Corporate use of aggregated/group blogs may be pointing towards more of a focus on feed reading via person. Or are also trying to solve the cross-posting issue mentioned above.</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.flock.com/blog">Flock</a> actually wrote the <a href="http://drupal.org/project/planet">Planet module</a> for Drupal to help in aggregating employee blogs. Not only that, it is easy to indicate which posts should actually be cross-posted by the use of keyword filtering.</li> <li><a href="http://www.socialtext.com/blog/">SocialText</a> uses the built-in multi-user community blog feature of Drupal -- they don&#39;t currently aggregate. This is an out-of-the-box Drupal functionality -- there are feeds available by author (all multi-author systems SHOULD have this...I&#39;m again reminded of this crazy mixed feed from the <a href="http://gigaom.com">Om gang</a> that still continues to annoy me) as well as the aggregate feed.</li> </ul> <p>I only know of these corporate examples because they use Drupal. Pointers to other examples appreciated...ideally NOT using the <a href="http://www.planetplanet.org/">Planet Planet</a> code, but something integrated directly into the corporate site.</p>  <p>We were discussing upcoming conference schedules for the next 6 - 8 months. Ton knows a fellow Drupal compatriot, <a href="http://www.langemark.com/">Gunnar Langemark</a>, because of his attendance at <a href="http://reboot.dk/">REBOOT</a>. It sounds like a conference I should make time for (and I&#39;ve been meaning to). But conferences planning now needs to take place *globally* -- the <a href="http://2006.northernvoice.ca/news/2006/06/30/go-to-lift-then-join-us-at-northern-voice-07">LIFT conference wanting to know the Northern Voice schedule</a> indicates as well that we digital nomads are not geographically restricted. But we are still restricted by space and time to only be in one place at a time :P</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-09-27-presenting-at-bctia-go-2-market-roundtable-using-the-tools-of-web-2-0.md b/_posts/archive/2006-09-27-presenting-at-bctia-go-2-market-roundtable-using-the-tools-of-web-2-0.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 9cf83f6..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-09-27-presenting-at-bctia-go-2-market-roundtable-using-the-tools-of-web-2-0.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Presenting at BCTIA Go 2 Market Roundtable: Using the tools of Web 2.0"
-created: 1159393048
-categories: 
-- presentation
-- BCTIA
-- Andre Charland
-- Vancouver
-- Web 2.0
----
-<p>It&#39;s late notice, but myself and <a href="http://blogs.nitobi.com/andre/">Andre Charland</a> will be presenting on <a href="http://www.bctia.org/Events/Archive/event09280601.asp">Using the Tools of Web 2.0 at the BCTIA Go 2 Market Roundtable</a> tomorrow morning (Sept. 28th). It&#39;s taking place at the BC TIA Boardroom.</p><p>What are the tools of web 2.0? Well, the audience will mainly be marketing focused, so we&#39;ll cover some interesting marketing ideas and basic concepts around blogs, wikis, and customer interaction. That&#39;s code for &quot;I need to work on some more slides tonight&quot;. I&#39;ll definitely cover how for small businesses, blog == Better Listings On Google.<br /></p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-10-11-save-us-from-flash-video.md b/_posts/archive/2006-10-11-save-us-from-flash-video.md
deleted file mode 100644
index d9254fe..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-10-11-save-us-from-flash-video.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Save us from Flash video
-created: 1160603507
-categories: 
-- video
-- Flash
-- Quicktime
-- MPEG4
-- Google Video
-- Democracy
-- DivX
-- Google
-- YouTube
-- Web Development
----
-<p>I&#39;ve been spending a lot of time lately looking at video online. Part of it has been technical, and part of it has been thinking about what is needed and where it is headed. I was involved with IPTV / video over IP back at Nortel, and a lot of things actually haven&#39;t changed.<br /></p><p>As if video on the Internet wasn&#39;t hot enough already, the whole Google buys YouTube has upped the fever pitch to...well, something hotter than fever :P<br /></p><p>So, for starters, go and read (and link to!) <a href="http://epeus.blogspot.com/2006/10/five-point-plan-to-save-us-from-crappy.html">Kevin Marks&#39; five point plan to save use from Flash video</a>. He included &quot;crappy&quot; in the title, and he&#39;s right, but...well, it&#39;s what works today.</p><p>And that&#39;s what will stop us from getting any further. Getting stuck in the &quot;works today&quot; mindset is a bad thing. When you sit down to build something new, you&#39;re really never building it for today...you&#39;re building it for today AND for the next little while. Somebody has to take a chance on figuring out the future.&nbsp;</p><p>In any case, I very much agree with all of Kevin&#39;s points. The phrase &quot;detection script&quot; makes me shiver a bit, and Flash is still the only platform solution if you want one integrated application that has interactivity built into it as well, but for straight up video, we can do better, and should be trying to.<br /></p><p>A closer alliance between Google and Apple wouldn&#39;t surprise me...&nbsp;</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-10-13-innovation-in-vancouver-funded-by-the-bdc.md b/_posts/archive/2006-10-13-innovation-in-vancouver-funded-by-the-bdc.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 16b0b97..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-10-13-innovation-in-vancouver-funded-by-the-bdc.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Innovation in Vancouver funded by the BDC
-created: 1160790570
-categories: 
-- innovation commons
-- BDC
-- DemoCampVancouver
-- DemoCamp
-- Digital Coast
-- MoMoVan
-- Vancouver
----
-<p>Wasn&#39;t that a fun title? Not quite correct, of course -- but Jenny Yang who works at the <a href="http://www.bdc.ca">Business Development Bank of Canada aka BDC</a> did end up paying for beer at the Yaletown Brewery this afternoon. Thanks, Jenny! Other attendees were <a href="http://www.davidrdgratton.com/">David Gratton</a>, <a href="http://www.quixit.com">Michael Cole</a>, and <a href="http://khannafedina.com/">Sanja Khanna</a>. </p><p>Now that I&#39;ve got your attention, what am I talking about? Well, after Bryan and Stephanie Rieger of <a href="http://www.yiibu.com">Yiibu</a> left Vancouver (again!) to head back to Thailand, a bunch of people felt that the grassroots nature of Mobile Monday in Vancouver aka <a href="http://www.momovan.org">MoMoVan</a> kind of went away. An email discussion about potentially organizing some more grass roots events in Vancouver led to this first meeting tonight.</p><p>I actually was filling in for Roland (off in Rotterdam), who&#39;s the real mobile evangelist around. As it turns out, the discussion turned to a much broader theme than just mobile. Maybe something like a <a href="http://barcamp.org/DemoCamp">DemoCamp</a> -- regular presentations in Vancouver that bring together business, technical, academia, and content folks. Maybe this<br /></p><p><a href="http://barcamp.org/DemoCampToronto1">DemoCamp Toronto</a> is a great example, although I do think it is quite tech centric (I could be wrong). We&#39;ve recently had <a href="http://barcamp.org/BarCampVancouver">BarCamp Vancouver</a> (tech/entrepreneur/++), <a href="http://casecamp.org/home/show/CaseCampVancouver1">Case Camp</a> (marketing) and <a href="http://barcamp.org/ArtCamp">Art Camp</a> (content / media). What with great music and movie talent here in the city, plus excellent tech roots, this kind of cross disciplinary event might be just thing.</p><p>So...what&#39;s the stumbling block? When do we do the first event? Who do we invite? Well, much like the <a href="http://www.innovationcommons.ca">Innovation Commons</a>, there is only so much time in the day when you&#39;re also running a business. And...what&#39;s the purpose of this thing? Is it &quot;just another DemoCamp&quot;? How do we attract cross disciplinary folks?<br /> </p><p>As a next step, the attendees decided on homework -- writing up a paragraph stating:</p><ul><li>what you would want out of such an event or what would be your interest, and how you would describe what this event should be or do? </li><li>drivers and blockers: what drivers are there for doing such an event in Vancouver? are there any blockers?</li><li>what is your definition of success of such an event? (e.g. number of attendees, more companies started in Vancouver, etc.)&nbsp;</li></ul><p>Rather than just for the attendees at this meeting, I&#39;m giving this homework to everyone. Put your answer on the <a href="http://barcamp.org/DemoCampVancouver">DemoCampVancouver</a> page or on your blog and add a link on that page.</p><p>Even better...someone interested in organizing this? Go for it!&nbsp;</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-10-19-going-to-portland-drupal-identity-and-geek-dinners.md b/_posts/archive/2006-10-19-going-to-portland-drupal-identity-and-geek-dinners.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 79c32a4..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-10-19-going-to-portland-drupal-identity-and-geek-dinners.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Going to Portland: Drupal, Identity, and Geek Dinners"
-created: 1161248503
-categories: 
-- Portland
-- Identity 2.0
-- Geek Dinner
-- Dries Buytaert
-- Scott Kveton
-- JanRain
-- OpenID
-- Drupal
-- Personal
----
-<p>It&#39;s settled, I&#39;m heading to Portland. I&#39;m going to be there from Sunday, October 22nd to Wednesday, Oct. 25th.</p><p>On the schedule, in no particular order:</p><ul><li>See <a href="http://buytaert.net/">Dries Buytaert</a>, who is in town for some sort of crazy Java optimization conference</li><li>Catch up with <a href="http://kveton.com/blog/">Scott Kveton</a> and the <a href="http://janrain.com/">JanRain</a> guys to plan world domination via OpenID v53<br /></li><li>Go to a <a href="http://upcoming.org/event/118889/">Geek Dinner</a> - organized by <a href="http://feedia.net/wordpress/?p=55">Alex Williams and co. over at Feedia</a> (ditto on the world domination)&nbsp;</li><li>Go to a <a href="http://groups.drupal.org/node/1657">Drupal meetup on Tuesday night</a></li></ul><p>I&#39;m staying at the very funky <a href="http://www.mcmenamins.com/index.php?loc=60">White Eagle Hotel</a>. I stayed at the <a href="http://www.43places.com/places/view/199392">Kennedy School</a> a couple of weeks back when I was briefly in town for a vacation. These are a cool chain of hotels/breweries/etc. Highly recommended. </p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-10-20-get-your-moose-on-this-is-your-mothers-conference.md b/_posts/archive/2006-10-20-get-your-moose-on-this-is-your-mothers-conference.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 48b16bf..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-10-20-get-your-moose-on-this-is-your-mothers-conference.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Get your Moose on: This IS your mother's conference"
-created: 1161359601
-categories: 
-- Social Media
-- Vancouver
-- virtual worlds
-- Robert Scoble
-- Northern Voice 2007
-- northern voice
-- geolocation
-- conference
----
-<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/88787641@N00/pool/"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/18/23652191_a83b1c7054_m.jpg" border="0" alt="" hspace="5" vspace="5" width="150" height="200" align="left" /></a>Yes! We did it...or will do it. We&#39;re going to have another <a href="http://www.northernvoice.ca" title="Canada&#39;s personal blogging and technology conference">Northern Voice</a>!</p><p><strong>Update:</strong> did I mention it&#39;s going to be out at the UBC Forest Sciences Centre? Which is fantastic, according to these pictures from Cyprien. <br /></p><p>Our &quot;mandate&quot; has always been to make a highly accessible event that would be of interest and educational for a wide range of people. For people who aren&#39;t necessarily techies and/or who haven&#39;t been exposed to some of the stuff we cover on personal blogging and other tech (who also tend to be local Vancouverites...can we get non-techies from other cities to come?), I like to think Northern Voice gives them a bit of a taste of what&#39;s new. Not necessarily new-bleeding-edge, but new-you-can-use-it-now.</p><p>Maybe techies are tired of Blogging 101, Wiki 101, and Photo Sharing 101. I know we can keep giving these sessions <em>every single year</em>. And you, the techie reading this post (hi, <a href="http://www.sevenhillsbnb.com">Mom</a>!), should sit in and share your knowledge and perspective.  </p><p>You know the phrase, &quot;This isn&#39;t your mother&#39;s X?&quot;. Well, Northern Voice <strong>is</strong> your mother&#39;s conference. But the neat part, it&#39;s also for you techies. Cheap, fun, educational, mind-expanding.<br /><br />Right now, the <a href="http://2007.northernvoice.ca/speaker-submission">speaker submission</a> page is open. One thing to note....write a good abstract, and take filling that speaker submission form out seriously. We got lots of entries from great folks who just didn&#39;t bother telling us what they would talk about, or make a case for why they should have a session (or un-session, as the case may be). <a href="http://www.mixedcontent.com">Colin Brumelle</a> (and yes, he works with me at Bryght), was the only abstract submission that was unanimously voted in on the first pass.</p><p>What kind of submissions do we want to see? Well, let me tell you what <strong>I </strong>would love to see...&nbsp;</p><p>I sat down with <a href="http://scobleizer.wordpress.com">Robert Scoble</a> at <a href="http://www.gnomedex.com">Gnomedex</a>, asking him what he would like to see at next year&#39;s Northern Voice (he <a href="http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2006/10/18/giving-away-the-photo-store/">mentioned it briefly</a> talking about <a href="http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2006/10/digging_deepercreative_commons.html">Kris&#39; part in a MediaShift article</a>). We talked about two things: Geolocation and virtual worlds.</p><p>Abstracting this a little, to me it means the <strong>intersection of the physical world with online</strong>. Blogging has always done this -- with people bring pieces of their offline lives online, or helping to make real life connections through communicating online.</p><p>I talked about our mandate -- appealing to a wide range of people. Geolocation and virtual worlds are still new. But, not too new that people can&#39;t start experimenting if someone gives them a few pointers. Flickr now has integrated geotagging, and <a href="http://www.secondlife.com">Second Life</a> continues to explode. Your barber is not unlikely to play <a href="http://www.worldofwarcraft.com">World of Warcraft</a>, and the <a href="http://www.nokia.com/nseries/index.html#product,n95">Nokia N95</a> has GPS and photo sharing built in.</p><p>What are you waiting for? Go make a great <a href="http://2007.northernvoice.ca/speaker-submission">speaker submission</a>, and let everyone know to get their moose, like <a href="http://www.darcynorman.net/2006/10/19/moose-season-is-coming">D&#39;Arcy</a> just did (first post -- nice work!). </p><p>P.S. What can we do as a fun live event? Scoble suggests a photowalk. I think we should do a photowalk plus geocaching plus geotagging plus constructing virtual worlds. Or something :P&nbsp;</p> <!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-10-22-mobile-apps-vs-the-mobile-web.md b/_posts/archive/2006-10-22-mobile-apps-vs-the-mobile-web.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 2ca22aa..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-10-22-mobile-apps-vs-the-mobile-web.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Mobile apps vs. The mobile web
-created: 1161584196
-categories: 
-- Java
-- Google
-- Gmail
-- Google Reader
-- Google Maps
-- Web 2.0
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<p>I made this post originally with <a href="http://www.blogplanet.net">Blogplanet</a>, a Java app for mobile. It may end up being one of the few mobile apps that I actually keep around.</p>  <p>But what do I mean about mobile apps vs. the mobile web? Well, we talk a lot about web applications, but we usually think about a full desktop and browser supporting them. The mobile web can be thought of as being the web optimized for mobile devices, or we can think about how web-based applications should be evolving to work well with mobile devices.</p><p>Then there are mobile apps. Many of them are, indeed, written in Java for that mythical write once run anywhere, although in the mobile world it&#39;s more like write once, endlessly test, tweak, and optimize everywhere. The platform specific apps tend to be richer and more polished -- e.g. Series 60 apps for the vast variety of Symbian phones out there. ShoZu is a pretty good example, but even there, there is Seres 60 vXX where incompatibilities creep in.</p><p>So, I&#39;ve been using both the mobile web and mobile apps on my new E61. And the mobile web is winning. Much of that is due to Google.</p><p>Gmail? Works great in HTML (*not* mobile) mode using the built in browser. Google Reader has a <a href="http://www.google.com/reader/m">mobile friendly mode</a>. Google Maps actually doesn&#39;t work very well / at all, and I actually used Mapquest. But, then there&#39;s a mobile app for this -- downloadable <a href="http://www.google.com/gmm/index.html">Google Maps for Mobile</a>. Chalk one point up for mobile apps.</p><p>So why would I use Gmail instead of the built in email client? Which I could even configure with Blackberry push email? Well, one reason is that Gmail for domains is my main email, and I heavily label / sort my email. On the mobile, using POP3, it just grabs everything.&nbsp; I don&#39;t see myself using the built in email client until Gmail (or another system I use) supports IMAP.</p><p>Going forward, the browser on my mobile device will, like the desktop, continue to be the most important application on there. Are you developing for mobile? Well, forget it...you&#39;re developing for the web, some of it just happens to have slightly smaller screens. <br /></p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-10-22-nokia-e61-first-impressions.md b/_posts/archive/2006-10-22-nokia-e61-first-impressions.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 9c64876..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-10-22-nokia-e61-first-impressions.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Nokia E61 First Impressions
-created: 1161551550
-categories: 
-- Nokia
-- Nokia E61
-- Nokia N95
-- Nokia N80
-- iSync
-- Canada
-- Mac
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<p>Yes, I finally got a new cellphone. My Nokia 6630 lasted me 2 years, and has been a great phone. But, I&#39;m finding the need for a smartphone -- calendar, to do&#39;s, and email at my fingertips. Hence, sticking with my favourite platform, the Nokia E61 was the best choice for me. If I wanted to do more multimedia with my phone, I would have held out for the Nokia N95, with 5Mp camera and integrated GPS, including geotagging of photos on the fly. *drool* If I had wanted a phone with camera in the same price range as the E61, my pick would have been the Nokia N80 (which is what <a href="http://www.kriskrug.com">Kris</a> just picked up to replace his Sidekick).<br /></p><p>Regardless...I will miss having a cameraphone. I&#39;ll have to see what kind of camera or picture taking workflow will make it easy to still upload photos on the fly. </p><p>Even better, I didn&#39;t even have to travel to Europe to actually buy the phone. I got it at <a href="http://www.google.com/maps?q=cell+baby&amp;near=Vancouver,+BC,+Canada&amp;radius=0.0&amp;latlng=49250494,-123111934,1994400973961306932&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=local&amp;ct=result&amp;cd=2">Cellular Baby</a>, just a few blocks from my house.</p><p>My first impression of the phone: fast! The UI is very responsive, and it comes loaded with applications. I haven&#39;t had much of a chance to add extra applications. I&#39;ll be putting Opera on, even though the built in browser is surprisingly usable in some ways.<br /></p><p>But of course, does it work with Macs? Well, it&#39;s not officially supported by iSync. I used <a href="http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060511162644120">this post</a> to add an entry to the plist file to trick iSync into working with it.</p><p>I really like the keyboard. It&#39;s a compact QWERTY keyboard, and I&#39;ve already sent several test emails from it. Oh, and of course, it does have wifi. There is a hotspot finder that makes it easy to scan for connections and then create an access point / connect, without having to predefine them.</p><p>More soon, as I add some more apps.&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-11-06-flickr-patents-interestingness.md b/_posts/archive/2006-11-06-flickr-patents-interestingness.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f28b019..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-11-06-flickr-patents-interestingness.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Flickr patents interestingness
-created: 1162836943
-categories: 
-- Flickr
-- patent
-- yahoo
-- Social Media
----
-<p>Via IM from <a href="http://www.walkah.net">James</a> and <a href="http://bopuc.levendis.com/weblog/archives/-2006/11/06/when_the_money_comes_knocking_egotism_answers.php">posting from bopuc</a>, it seems that <a href="http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&amp;Sect2=HITOFF&amp;d=PG01&amp;p=1&amp;u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&amp;r=1&amp;f=G&amp;l=50&amp;s1=%2220060242139%22.PGNR.&amp;OS=DN/20060242139&amp;RS=DN/20060242139">Flickr is patenting &quot;interestingness&quot;</a>.</p><p>What?!</p><p>Are you kidding me?!</p><p>How about we do the same thing...only call it &quot;intriguingness&quot;. Perhaps &quot;disgustedness&quot; would be a better term.</p><p>Reading through the patent, it seems very specific to interestingness and Flickr&#39;s implementation. So, I would kind of figure...why bother patenting? I guess this is the lawyers at Yahoo getting hinky.<br /> </p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-11-06-industrial-brand-creative-blogging-up-a-storm.md b/_posts/archive/2006-11-06-industrial-brand-creative-blogging-up-a-storm.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 7bc5ed8..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-11-06-industrial-brand-creative-blogging-up-a-storm.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Industrial Brand Creative blogging up a storm
-created: 1162836183
-categories: 
-- Social Media
-- Vancouver
-- Industrial Brand Creative
----
-<p><a href="http://www.industrialbrand.com">Industrial Brand Creative</a> is a local Vancouver branding and design group. They&#39;re a great bunch of guys, do great design work, and are also slightly nuts.</p><p>They&#39;ve got a great <a href="http://blog.industrialbrand.com">blog</a> called &quot;We&#39;re not wired right&quot;. I guess I would have to agree...the current post features, um, <a href="http://blog.industrialbrand.com/archives/2006/11/if_you_doubt_yourself_wea.html">men&#39;s tight swimwear and some special add-ons</a>.</p><p>I was reminded that I hadn&#39;t &quot;introduced&quot; their blog to lots of other folks when I saw Ben Garfinkel, an IBC Partner and Creative Director, at the Ukrainian Church Perogie dinner last Friday. So, consider them introduced -- one more great piece of the Vancouver ecosystem.  </p><p>P.S. Check out their <a href="http://kitchen.industrialbrand.com/">Kitchen</a> as well...I&#39;d love to have a cook off with their team one of these days...&nbsp;</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-11-06-switching-to-google-reader.md b/_posts/archive/2006-11-06-switching-to-google-reader.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 58b323f..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-11-06-switching-to-google-reader.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Switching to Google Reader
-created: 1162838097
-categories: 
-- Google
-- Google Reader
-- NetNewsWire
-- Nokia E61
-- Personal Publishing
-- Social Media
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<p>I&#39;ve been a long time user of <a href="http://www.newsgator.com/NGOLProduct.aspx?ProdID=NetNewsWire">NetNewsWire</a> -- the best desktop news aggregator app on any platform. But I&#39;m switching to Google Reader.</p><p>Reason number one is portability. Forget synching...it just doesn&#39;t work reliably, and I don&#39;t like <a href="http://www.newsgator.com">NewsGator</a>&#39;s online version at all. I&#39;m now on my Nokia E61 phone a lot, and the mobile version of Google Reader works great&nbsp;</p><p>Reason number two is that I want to share. My <a href="http://del.icio.us/borismann">delicious postings</a> are one of the main ways I&#39;ve been sharing lightly -- light blog posting in general, except for brief spurts like today. I think that Google Reader will make it easier for me to share. For example, here are all the postings I&#39;ve gathered in <a href="http://www.google.com/reader/shared/user/09750022241426538111/label/bryght">my &quot;bryght&quot; folder</a>. It&#39;s not ideal --&nbsp; I can only tag, star, or share items, without leaving any commentary as I do in delicious -- but I expect it will get better.</p><p>The big downside of Google Reader? No authenticated feeds. I have many beefs with Google and the way they&#39;re dealing (or not dealing, as the reality is) with identity: this lack of support for authenticated feeds seems another aspect of this.&nbsp;</p><p>So, there you have it: the best feed reading experience that synchs with your mobile is currently Google Reader. <br /></p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-11-09-syncing-the-nokia-e61-and-the-rest-of-the-e-series-with-mac-os-x.md b/_posts/archive/2006-11-09-syncing-the-nokia-e61-and-the-rest-of-the-e-series-with-mac-os-x.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 2d03c9e..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-11-09-syncing-the-nokia-e61-and-the-rest-of-the-e-series-with-mac-os-x.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Syncing the Nokia E61 (and the rest of the E-Series) with Mac OS X
-created: 1163094432
-categories: 
-- Nokia E61
-- iSync
-- expansys
-- GPS
-- Canada
-- Mac
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<p>My friend <a href="http://www.stewart-marshall.com/">Stewart Marshall</a> took the plunge and also got an E61 after seeing mine. He ended up ordering from <a href="http://www.expansys.ca">Expansys</a> -- they look like a really great online store to order mobile gear from in Canada. I had noticed them before and will probably be getting a cheapo GPS unit from there to experiment with.</p><p>In any case, Stewart was asking about syncing with the Mac. There isn&#39;t an E-series compatible plugin for iSync yet, but there are various instructions for enabling this floating around.</p><p>I used the very <a href="http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060511162644120">geeky instructions from Mac OS X Hints</a>. There is also a <a href="http://www.e-series.org/archives/28">free plugin</a> described here, although some people seem to have trouble with it.&nbsp;</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-11-13-google-reader-update.md b/_posts/archive/2006-11-13-google-reader-update.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 42b096f..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-11-13-google-reader-update.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Google Reader Update
-created: 1163483627
-categories: 
-- Google
-- Google Reader
-- Offline Online
-- Gordita
-- newsreader
-- Social Media
----
-<p>Seems I set off a bit of an avalanche of feed reader switching (and lots of <a href="/blog/bmann/switching-to-google-reader">comments on the first post</a>), so I thought I would post an update.</p><p>Short answer: it&#39;s working for me, and this is almost entirely due to how well the mobile mode works. I can now easily fit feed reading into a few spare moments. Starring items is how I mark them for followup.&nbsp;</p><p>I do have some issues / wishlist items for Google Reader...but rather than list them, I&#39;ll send you off to read Jame Healy, who has a great <a href="http://jamehealy.com/blog/jame/google-reader">wishlist</a> (and he just <a href="http://jamehealy.com/blog/jame/google-reader-mobile">fell in love with Google Reader Mobile</a>). I actually found a bit of a solution to the whole del.icio.us sharing issue: <a href="http://www.memerocket.com/2006/11/05/gordita-delicious-tagging-for-google-reader/">Gordita</a>. That link, thanks to Bill Burcham, will create a bookmarklet for you that will let you bookmark items in del.icio.us from your Google Reader page. Now I can go through and bookmark all my starred items. </p><p><a href="http://www.alexharford.com/2006/10/17/google-reader-updated/">Alex Harford</a> wants &quot;oldest first&quot; ordering.</p><p><a href="http://muddylaces.ca/">Greg Fox</a> doesn&#39;t trust online-only apps (<a href="/blog/bmann/switching-to-google-reader#comment-134981">comment</a>):</p><div class="content"><blockquote><p>gmail was pretty crappy for a week and a bit for me.&nbsp; Hard to sell me on the idea of an online life when service outages can just take everything away.&nbsp; At least with desktop tools I can see offline content.</p><p>If google or someone else could create an online store for feeds, and read vs unread items that I can synch from my desktop(s) that would be useful.&nbsp; On the road provide a nice UI.&nbsp; Perhaps google reader already does this.&nbsp; Don&#39;t know since I haven&#39;t checked it out.&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;As far as authenticated feed handling goes, I hope that if they add that feature, they handle it correctly.&nbsp; Some sites authenticate their feeds because it is a pay-for service.&nbsp; Google reader needs to consider the share feature in light of that. </p></blockquote><p>Re: online only. With my new &quot;business class&quot; mobile phone (and, er, my grandfathered unlimited data Fido account), there are very limited places where I am truly &quot;offline&quot;. I agree that more offline or synch services are warranted...but we&#39;re still in early days for feed reading in general. <a href="http://www.troyangrignon.com/blog/_archives/2006/11/11/2492577.html">Troy Angrignon</a> and <a href="http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2006/11/09/offline_is_the.html">Paul Kedrosky</a> have some offline/online thoughts lately.</p><p>Your point about &quot;sharing&quot; of for-pay features is, I think, the same as for any other reader: I can easily re-post or otherwise share that content.&nbsp;</p> </div><p>I actually was checking out the <a href="http://persistent.info/archives/2006/10/13/google-reader-redux">Gmail - Google Reader integration via a Greasemonkey</a> script...but this won&#39;t work for me. I use mainly my &quot;business&quot; email which is Bryght&#39;s Gmail for Domains....but then it tries to use THAT version of my &quot;identity&quot; for Reader, as well. Hey, Google, did I mention you&#39;re STILL really screwed up about identity?&nbsp;</p><p>Lastly, I still need something on my desktop for authenticated feeds. I&#39;m going to try out a few other readers to see if they fit this very specific task. My interaction with these feeds are primarily of the sort where it&#39;s *really* important whether or not I&#39;ve actually read them...that is, more like a &quot;to do&quot; list rather than the information trawling I do with my main public feed subscriptions. On the list so far are <a href="http://www.newsfirerss.com/">NewsFire</a> (not free, but gorgeous UI) and <a href="http://www.rssowl.org/">RSSOwl</a> (free, open source, cross platform, and home page built with Drupal :P).</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-11-20-flat-rate-mobile-from-3-in-the-uk.md b/_posts/archive/2006-11-20-flat-rate-mobile-from-3-in-the-uk.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 379e558..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-11-20-flat-rate-mobile-from-3-in-the-uk.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Flat rate mobile from 3 in the UK
-created: 1164089873
-categories: 
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
-- X-Series
-- UK
-- Skype
-- Fido
-- Europe
-- 3 Group
----
-<p>Flat rate mobile broadband? 3 Group in the UK just <a href="http://www.three.co.uk/news/h3gnews/pressnewsview.omp?collcid=1019745742912&amp;cid=1163170230108&amp;index=1">announced their &quot;X-Series&quot;</a> -- flat-rate broadband Internet access on their mobile phones, with interesting tie ins with everyone from Google to Sling boxes to Orb.</p><p>I saw this a couple of different places, and agree with <a href="http://www.troyangrignon.com/blog/_archives/2006/11/20/2514502.html">Troy</a> -- I also hope that this &quot;will drive a chain reaction and like the Berlin wall, this would cause flat-rate pricing and open gardens to flourish across the planet, creating a massive open platform upon which innovation would explode across the 2 billion phones currently on the planet.&quot;</p><p>At the same time, I spent some time today looking at a mobile service that still includes WAP and really simple services. This is a huge addressable market, but it doesn&#39;t seem as interesting as some of the &quot;next step&quot; smart platforms that we&#39;re seeing.&nbsp;</p><p>Of course, my recent trip to the US saw me paying 95&cent; per minute for roaming charges. Due to my grandfathered Fido plan, my data services the whole way were free. In what universe does this make sense?&nbsp;</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-11-23-should-i-learn-eclipse-xcode-or-something-else.md b/_posts/archive/2006-11-23-should-i-learn-eclipse-xcode-or-something-else.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 93564fb..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-11-23-should-i-learn-eclipse-xcode-or-something-else.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Should I learn Eclipse, Xcode, or...something else?
-created: 1164304985
-categories: 
-- Eclipse
-- Xcode
-- IDE
-- Komodo
-- ActiveState
-- SVN
-- CVS
-- svnX
-- Smultron
-- Vancouver
-- Drupal
-- PHP
-- Web Development
----
-<p>I&#39;m trying to find some time to setup a development environment locally again, and I want to invest in learning an IDE. Most of the folks I know use something like emacs or TextMate to code, but I&#39;d love a little more of an environment. Also, I&#39;m still trying to find more bits and pieces that together form a set of best practices for developing, deploying, and maintaining Drupal. </p><p>Initially I was thinking about learning Eclipse, except I&#39;ve heard that it&#39;s PHP support isn&#39;t the greatest. Looks like the <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/php/">PHP IDE isn&#39;t going to be 1.0 until June 2007</a>. But then again, <a href="http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/ibm/osource/implement.html">IBM&#39;s Drupal tutorial also explained using Eclipse</a>. </p><p>Xcode is Apple&#39;s own tool, and there are some <a href="http://developer.apple.com/internet/scripting/phpappledevtools.html">guides on using it for PHP</a>.</p><p>Then there&#39;s <a href="http://www.activestate.com/Products/Komodo">Komodo</a>, made by Vancouver&#39;s very own <a href="http://www.activestate.com">ActiveState</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>I want to learn an IDE that has support for multiple languages, so editors purely focused on PHP are out.&nbsp;</p><p>Integration directly with CVS / SVN is a nice to have. <a href="http://www.lachoseinteractive.net/en/community/subversion/svnx/">svnX</a> works for me as a GUI.</p>
-<!--break--><p>Aside: I was using SubEthaEdit as my text editor / quick notes entry until recently (using Spotlight and / or pasting into an online wiki later). Now it&#39;s no longer free at all, and I don&#39;t use the group editing feature enough to make it worthwhile. Enter <a href="http://smultron.sourceforge.net/">Smultron</a> -- it even has a nice one-window view, which is much better than the 10 text documents I used to have floating around.&nbsp;</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-11-29-innovators-gathering-tonight-at-steamworks.md b/_posts/archive/2006-11-29-innovators-gathering-tonight-at-steamworks.md
deleted file mode 100644
index fc514ed..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-11-29-innovators-gathering-tonight-at-steamworks.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Innovator's Gathering tonight at Steamworks
-created: 1164827429
-categories: 
-- Steamworks
-- DemoCamp Vancouver
-- DemoCamp
-- Vancouver
----
-<p>Jenny Yang organized another get together over beer tonight &ndash; Wednesday, Nov. 29th &ndash; at Steamworks at 5pm (entry on <a href="http://upcoming.org/event/128802/">upcoming.org</a>).</p><p>See a <a href="/blog/bmann/innovation-in-vancouver-funded-by-the-bdc">previous post</a> on how this came to be, which also talked about the potential for a <a href="http://barcamp.org/DemoCampVancouver">Demo Camp Vancouver</a>. Follow that link and you&#39;ll see that Megan Cole has now picked up that torch and is going to kick off a first Demo Camp in the new year.</p><p>It&#39;s snowy and cold outside, and while you might not want to venture outside, you&#39;ve probably been huddling indoors for days now. Come hoist a beverage with us down at Steamworks instead... </p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-11-29-subscribing-to-people-and-gigaom-re-visited.md b/_posts/archive/2006-11-29-subscribing-to-people-and-gigaom-re-visited.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 485e7f4..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-11-29-subscribing-to-people-and-gigaom-re-visited.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Subscribing to people and GigaOM re-visited
-created: 1164833845
-categories: 
-- GigaOM
-- Om Malik
-- Wordpress
-- Personal Publishing
-- Social Media
----
-<p>Recall the <a href="/blog/bmann/stop-with-the-guest-posting-already">rant I had on guest posting</a>. I was recently looking at my <a href="http://gigaom.com/">GigaOm</a> subscribtion again, and was preparing to get all pissy about not being able to subscribe just to Om Malik.</p><p>Except, of course, since they&#39;re using Wordpress and have actually set up separate authors, it&#39;s actually built in functionality.</p><p>So, if you want to read all posts by Om, just subscribe to this feed: <a href="http://gigaom.com/?feed=rss2&amp;author=om-malik">http://gigaom.com/?feed=rss2&amp;author=om-malik</a><br /></p><p>I feel so much happier now that I can have Om delivered just for me. That&#39;s not to say that postings by <a href="http://gigaom.com/author/liz-gannes/">Liz Gannes</a> et al aren&#39;t good (quite the opposite, in fact). But in my mind, the mixing of author posts was diluting the &quot;voice&quot; that I heard from Om. Not having interacted with the other authors as much, it will take me more time to recognize their voice and style as belonging to a particular person. Otherwise, it&#39;s just news.<br /></p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-11-30-yahoo-canada-panama-search-preview-at-opus-hotel.md b/_posts/archive/2006-11-30-yahoo-canada-panama-search-preview-at-opus-hotel.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 8f3826e..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-11-30-yahoo-canada-panama-search-preview-at-opus-hotel.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Yahoo! Canada Panama Search preview at Opus Hotel
-created: 1164940970
-categories: 
-- Search Engine Voodoo
-- Web 2.0
-- Vancouver
-- Canada
-- Yahoo Canada
-- yahoo
-- Search Marketing
-- Panama
-- Opus Hotel
-- Kerry Munro
-- Fleishman-Hillard
----
-<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kk/311462177/"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/102/311462177_5c45a10b61_m.jpg" border="0" alt="" hspace="10" vspace="10" align="left" /></a>I&#39;m currently at a <a href="http://ca.yahoo.com/">Yahoo! Canada</a> preview event at the Opus Hotel. I&#39;m actually skipping out on the  <a href="http://groups.drupal.org/vancouver">Vancouver Drupal User Group</a> because it&#39;s taking longer than I expected (sorry, guys!).</p><p>Yahoo! is going to be focusing heavily on the Canadian market. I&#39;ve long been convinced that focusing on the Canadian market is a great strategy. Obviously, it&#39;s not as large as the US market, but the &#39;search density&#39; is very low: it&#39;s very easy to get top ranks for keywords that include Canadian place names.</p><p>Yahoo! Canada has grown from 12 people to over 100. Of course, most of those are based out east: there is a small sales ofice here in Vancouver. Next goal (for me): get an R&amp;D lab in Vancouver. Of course, I still know more people out of SF Yahoo than here in Canada: most of the focus here is on sales rather than technology. </p><p>The Panama Search advertising demo was very interesting. Most of the presentation was focused on ad purchasers, rather than inventory providers. It seems to have a much more robust dashboard and great geo-location capabilities, visualization, analytics, etc. -- they actually mentioned 13 provinces and territories.</p><p>It doesn&#39;t hurt that 80% of Canadian Internet users use a Yahoo property of some kind... <br /></p><p>I was the only one to ask a question (surprise!) after the pure presentation part of the event. I asked about inventory: what was Yahoo!&#39;s strategy to get more Yahoo! ads onto various Canadian web properties? The answer was very much focused on partnerships with &quot;main stream&quot; providers. Rogers was the name mentioned (not sure if that is mobile or cable data or...?). I was fishing for an answer about how to get developers and bloggers in Canada to bake Yahoo-related content and ads into their stuff.</p><p>I did catch up with Kerry Munro, the GM of Yahoo! Canada afterwards, and I&#39;m satisfied that they have a real strategy and the people in place to follow it up. Still: it&#39;s catch up time to convince both ad buyers and &quot;inventory&quot; of content providers to use Yahoo instead of &quot;the other guys&quot;.<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kk/311463919/"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/120/311463919_82706e6da0_m.jpg" border="0" alt="" hspace="10" vspace="10" align="right" /></a></p><p>Note to <a href="http://www.fleishman.ca/en/">Fleishman-Hillard</a>: you need more west coast presence -- you missed a bunch of folks like <a href="http://www.darrenbarefoot.com">Darren Barefoot</a> who are big out here, never mind a potential huge customer like Markus at <a href="http://www.plentyoffish.com">plentyoffish.com</a> (blog at <a href="http://plentyoffish.wordpress.com">plentyoffish.wordpress.com</a>). Thanks in any case for getting me in last minute :P<br /> </p><p>Here&#39;s a link to a <a href="http://www.traffick.com/2006/11/after-panama-in-canada-launch-two.asp">review of the Toronto version of the same event</a>, with another one by <a href="http://stuart.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2006/11/29/2535648.html">Stuart McDonald</a> of Mesh-y fame.</p><p>Photos by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kk/">KK</a>, of course.&nbsp;</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-12-01-northern-voice-2007-final-speaker-submissions.md b/_posts/archive/2006-12-01-northern-voice-2007-final-speaker-submissions.md
deleted file mode 100644
index afd7aea..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-12-01-northern-voice-2007-final-speaker-submissions.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Northern Voice 2007 final speaker submissions
-created: 1165018631
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
-- Vancouver
-- Canada
-- Northern Voice 2007
-- northern voice
-- GPS
-- geocaching
-- conference
----
-<a href="http://www.northernvoice.ca"><img src="http://2007.northernvoice.ca/system/files/NV2007_Badge_Small.jpg" border="0" alt="" hspace="10" vspace="10" align="left" /></a><p>Today is the last (extended) day for <a href="http://2007.northernvoice.ca/speaker-submission">speaker submissions for Northern Voice 2007</a>. We&#39;d love to have your thoughts and submissions -- the last minute rush to enter submissions has led to a fabulous selection that is going to be hard to choose from.</p>  <p>The organizers are meeting next week to fight tooth and nail for their favourite entries. In the mean time, <a href="http://2007.northernvoice.ca/register">registration is open</a>, so you can go ahead and get your tickets now. We&#39;ve got slightly more room than in past years, but we&#39;ve sold out every year so far...</p>  <p>And what about Boris&#39; traditional Northern Voice crazy plans? Well, we&#39;re still debating, but I might get to put together a geocaching / GPS adventure. We&#39;ll start it as one of the last sessions of Moose Camp, and end the day wandering the UBC campus with GPS in hand. Ideally, we&#39;ll have some photographers along to document the process, and we&#39;ll be able to combine GPS timelogs with photos and see it all on a map.</p>  <p>Do you know someone that knows all about geocaching? I&#39;d like to talk to them...</p> <!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-12-06-social-media-club-vancouver.md b/_posts/archive/2006-12-06-social-media-club-vancouver.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 2c13875..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-12-06-social-media-club-vancouver.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Social Media Club Vancouver
-created: 1165464094
-categories: 
-- SMC
-- Social Media Club
-- Social Media Club Vancouver
-- Vancouver
----
-<p>Here&#39;s another last minute heads up about a Vancouver event you might want to attend. It&#39;s the launch of the <a href="http://www.socialmediaclub.org/">Social Media Club</a> in Vancouver (on <a href="http://upcoming.org/event/121064/">upcoming</a>).</p><p>We&#39;ve been bumping into Chris Heuer, the co-founder of SMC, at conferences and un-conferences all over the place. When he asked to use our new Bryght offices for a kick off meeting in Vancouver, we said sure! this is right up our alley. </p><p>Here&#39;s the blurb on what SMC is:</p><blockquote><span><p>Chris Heuer, co-founder of Social Media Club, will be in Seattle on December 6th and Vancouver on December 7th to officially launch the local chapters in each city. If you are in the area and interested in social media and the intersection of journalism, activism, marketing and technology - we encourage you to join us and meet your peers to share best practices, while working towards the establishment of ethics and standards and promoting media literacy.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">We will discuss &ldquo;The Rise of Social Media&rdquo; and review the latest in tools, technologies and success stories. Chris will share accomplishments from other chapters and suggest possible next steps. The goal of Social Media Club is for each chapter to set goals, meet regularly and share opinions on the role of social media in the present and future of PR, marketing and journalism.</p></span></blockquote><p>Chris, you should ping the people over at <a href="http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotvan/">Dorkbot Vancouver</a>...seems like there might be some like-minded spirits there.&nbsp;</p><p>See you at 1 Alexander tomorrow night (aka Thursday, December 7th, at 6pm).&nbsp;</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-12-11-community-wireless-in-vancouver-fon-meraki-something-else.md b/_posts/archive/2006-12-11-community-wireless-in-vancouver-fon-meraki-something-else.md
deleted file mode 100644
index d830450..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-12-11-community-wireless-in-vancouver-fon-meraki-something-else.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Community Wireless in Vancouver - FON, Meraki, something else?
-created: 1165862431
-categories: 
-- community wireless
-- BC Wireless
-- Meraki
-- FON
-- Wireless Toronto
-- "\xC3\x8Ele Sans Fil"
-- Canada
-- Vancouver
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<p>So, in recent discussions with folks like <a href="http://www.darrenbarefoot.com">Darren Barefoot</a> as well as <a href="http://cust.educ.ubc.ca/programs_/maed/instructors/davidvogt.htm">David Vogt</a> of <a href="http://www.mobilemuse.ca">Mobile Muse</a> (and, of course, kicking the idea around the <a href="http://www.bryght.com">Bryght</a> offices), it&#39;s become clear that community wireless in Vancouver is something that really should happen. We&#39;ve got the <a href="http://2010.dailyvancouver.com">Olympics in 2010</a> staring us in the face, and it seems like that&#39;s a good deadline to try and accomplish a variety of innovative things. </p><p><a href="http://bcwireless.net">BC Wireless</a> has been around for quite some time, but hasn&#39;t really crossed over from the geek side. Actually, I need to give it some more time. I reactivated the wiki account I have there and spent some time looking at the various projects going on. The <a href="https://www.bcwireless.net/users/view.post.php?id=477&amp;tid=477">&quot;to do&quot; of analyzing&nbsp; the various hardware access points that are available</a> looks promising. </p><p>While involvement from the various Vancouver municipalities would be ideal, there are other things that can happen from a grassroots perspective. This led me to start poking around some of the technology pieces.</p><p>Both <a href="http://en.fon.com/">FON</a> and <a href="http://www.meraki.net/">Meraki</a> look interesting. Anyone have pointers to similar, off-the-shelf inexpensive wireless access points? Mesh solutions </p><p>FON is closely related to voice / VoIP &quot;stuff&quot; and has a compact router for $30US including shipping. That&#39;s cheap enough to pick up a couple just to mess around with. Oops! Except their <a href="https://shop.fon.com/FonShop/shop/?language=en">store</a> only lists the US under North America...The discussion of <a href="http://en.fon.com/info/whats_fon.php#Fonera">&quot;what is FON&quot;</a> which describes the range of sharing to pay users is a good place to start. If there is interest (leave a comment) I&#39;ll try and get a contact with FON about doing a bulk / special order to Canada. Or at least, Vancouver for starters.</p><p>Meraki has had some <a href="http://venturebeat.com/2006/12/01/google-invests-less-than-1m-in-wireless-router-meraki-for-indoor-wifi/">investment from Google</a> and is currently in beta for both pricing and the service. The hardware units are tied to a back end management system for which they also charge for. I sent an email asking about the beta program and got a price list. The nice thing is that they also have ruggedized outdoor units as opposed to the cheap indoor FON units. As well, they are a mesh solution, so can seamlessly cover wide areas.<br /></p><p>I sent a follow up email essentially asking &quot;Why Meraki?&quot;...I guess I&#39;m leery of getting locked into a backend management system that charges fees. FON of course has a system as well, but doesn&#39;t charge end users directly. </p><p>I&#39;ll leave it up to Darren to post a poll / survey asking if you would share your home and/or business data connection in order to help blanket Vancouver in wireless...</p><p>Other interesting community wireless projects in Canada include <a href="http://wirelesstoronto.ca/">Wireless Toronto</a> and <a href="http://www.ilesansfil.org/">&icirc;le Sans Fil (Montreal)</a>.&nbsp;</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-12-17-mybloglog-is-distributed-social-networking.md b/_posts/archive/2006-12-17-mybloglog-is-distributed-social-networking.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 05972d8..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-12-17-mybloglog-is-distributed-social-networking.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: MyBlogLog is distributed social networking
-created: 1166386725
-categories: 
-- Social Media
-- Technorati
-- OpenID
-- MyBlogLog
-- identity
-- distributed social networking
----
-<p><a href="http://www.mybloglog.com">MyBlogLog</a> is the closest to distributed social networking I&#39;ve seen. There is no &quot;claiming&quot; of blogs, which is a bit of an issue...they&#39;ll need to add something like that soon.</p><p>They also don&#39;t have identity figured in, plus the most ridiculously long profile information pages which just underscores for me that I really never want to fill out another one of those, and I don&#39;t want to have to set privacy...I want that stuff to just work.</p><p>This might be an interesting purchase for Technorati (which just added OpenID support...).&nbsp;</p><p>Update: and apparently I should <a href="http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/community/2006121113445135/">link to my &quot;community&quot;</a>.&nbsp;</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-12-17-synching-and-backing-up-your-itunes-music-using-mp3tunes.md b/_posts/archive/2006-12-17-synching-and-backing-up-your-itunes-music-using-mp3tunes.md
deleted file mode 100644
index dd16518..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-12-17-synching-and-backing-up-your-itunes-music-using-mp3tunes.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Synching (and backing up) your iTunes music using MP3Tunes
-created: 1166384219
-categories: 
-- synch
-- iTunes
-- backup
-- MP3Tunes
-- Oboe Sync
-- Streampad
-- Mac
-- Music
----
-<p>An article I wrote on <a href="/node/701">Sharing iTunes and iPhoto libraries between users</a> is consistently one of my most popular pages here. iPhoto&#39;s most recent versions has photo sharing on the same machine using the network capabilities, but the iTunes &quot;solution&quot; has always had major problems: you end up sharing the same ratings, play count, etc. etc.</p><p>Additionally, since I recently had some hard drive corruption (this has happened more than once...) we lost a big chunk of music: backing up 80GB of legitimate music is *hard* (never mind consistently keeping an offsite backup up to date).</p><p>Lastly, I&#39;ve long kept a &quot;subset&quot; of music on my laptop (e.g. no country, no opera, no Ani DiFranco). I haven&#39;t been great about keeping this up to date, but <a href="/mac-os-x/how-tos/syncing-itunes-music-folders-using-rsync">using rsync basically works</a>.&nbsp;</p><p>I recently rediscovered <a href="http://www.mp3tunes.com">MP3Tunes</a> and the concept of a music locker. It&#39;s only $40US/year for an unlimited size locker and syncing between unlimited computers (there is a free 1GB account that you can experiment with). This was a Flickr-size investment, so I decided to just go for it. On paper, it seems pretty perfect. Here&#39;s what MP3Tunes does:</p><ul><li>It keeps your playlists and music in sync with a desktop sync client</li><li>You can selectively sync subsections (solution for my laptop!)</li><li>Sync can be bi-directional or uni-directional&nbsp;</li><li>You can access/stream your music from the web</li><li>There is talk of a mobile client for Symbian Series 60&nbsp;</li></ul><p>Sounds pretty much perfect. The *only* downside is that protected/DRM&#39;d music can only be played on authenticated devices -- i.e. no streaming of DRM music. That&#39;s fine, I&#39;m mainly interested in the sync/backup functions anyway...I&#39;m not sure if I&#39;ll use the streaming function (although it will mean that I likely put a lot less music on my laptop).</p><p>I suspect that this is actually a &quot;Part I&quot; type of post. It took the Oboe Sync client something like 24 hours to just scan my music directory, and the actual sync has been running for 1.5 hrs. The projected total is ~340hrs (!! -- seems to run at about 60KB/s).</p><p>In closing, let me link to <a href="http://www.streampad.com/">Streampad</a>. I was checking this service out and it integrated with MP3Tunes lockers. Doing a little more investigating, it might going somewhere interesting. Here&#39;s what <a href="http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2006/12/streampad_gets_.html">Fred Wilson had to say about it</a>:</p><blockquote><p>The primary objective of <a href="http://www.streampad.com/">Streampad</a> is to build an iTunes like service in the browser. Not as a browser (like Songbird is doing which is also a neat idea), but in a browser.</p><p>You can go to Streampad at any time and listen to services like hypemachine, internet radio, etc. But if you install the Streampad server on the computer where your music library is, you can listen to your entire music collection anywhere, from inside a browser.</p></blockquote>  <p>Music anywhere is definitely an idea whose time has come. More interesting things to come, I&#39;m sure (Last.FM integration to show what music I actually own?). </p><p>&nbsp;</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2006-12-18-5-things-about-me-you-might-not-know.md b/_posts/archive/2006-12-18-5-things-about-me-you-might-not-know.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 435bbd9..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2006-12-18-5-things-about-me-you-might-not-know.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: 5 things about me you might not know
-created: 1166502238
-categories: 
-- meme
-- Personal
----
-<p>So, I&#39;ve so far resisted any sort of &quot;tagging&quot; meme where one gets tagged by another blogger to write about something. Memes, of course, mutate along the way. I was first tagged back in February of this year, <a href="http://www.zylstra.org/blog/archives/2006/01/tag_im_itfour_t.html">by Ton</a>. Back then, it was a mere 4 things.</p><p>Then <a href="http://www.hopstudios.com/nep/unvarnished/item/five_things_you_dont_know_about_me/">Travis got me, with 5 things</a>. Travis did a fantastic job of his write up...which makes me believe this is why people do these tag things in the first place...hoping for a &quot;Travis&quot;.</p><p>Now <a href="http://www.blogaholics.ca/archives/2006/12/i-have-been-tagged.html">Arienna thinks it&#39;s six things</a>. <br /></p><p>That&#39;s a lot of tagging :P</p><p>I think I&#39;ll stick to the &quot;5 Things You Don&#39;t Know About Me&quot;.</p><ol><li>I think of myself as German Canadian. Both my parents are German. I was born in Vancouver, but spoke German before I spoke English. My parents and I originally lived in the West End, when it really was still called Robson Strasse (Strasse means &quot;street&quot; in German). There were (and still are) quite a few German families on Bowen Island, where I lived since I was 4. What does being German Canadian mean? It means you know where the Freybe Outlet store is, and you get to open your presents on Christmas Eve. None of this getting up early stuff for us...<br /><br /> </li><li>I read. A lot. It goes in spurts, but if I have a nice hard sci-fi novel to tear into, I can read really fast (Greg Bear&#39;s Darwin&#39;s Radio and Darwin&#39;s Children in the past 36 hours).<br /><br /> </li><li>I cook. A lot. I flipped a coin between going to cooking school and going to university. I ended up at Capilano College and then started at UVic thinking I was going to be a marine biologist and swim with dolphins. Note: an undergraduate biology student does *not* swim with dolphins. My mom thinks I put too many complicated spices in thing, but the wives enjoy it when I cook their meals.<br /><br />I started cooking when I was about 12, since I was the first one home in the evenings. Eventually, I was cooking for dinner parties and such and just telling my mom that the recipe I was making was something I &quot;read in a magazine&quot;. Except, I would just make them up, and they pretty much turned out most of the time.<br /><br /> </li><li>I have a <a href="http://personal.bmannconsulting.com">personal site</a> that&#39;s a weird aggregator of me interacting with all sorts of external services; it&#39;s even got <a href="http://personal.bmannconsulting.com/recipes">recipes<br /><br /></a> </li><li>13 years ago (1993 - 1994), I sailed around the South Pacific on a tall ship called the S/V Concordia on a program called <a href="http://classafloat.com/">Class Afloat</a> (think <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118158/">White Squall</a> only co-ed and with a bigger boat). It left me with a lot of friends and experiences, and part of my drive is thinking about how to get back to some of those places I visited. Also, I need a new &quot;big story&quot; :P <br /></li></ol><p>And this is the point where I&#39;m supposed to tag someone else. Someone in my daily blog wanderings ended up saying something like &quot;I think I&#39;ll be a leaf in this graph&quot;. I was thinking of just stealing that, but I actually think this is a good method to make you go check out two other people that floated up into my thoughts in the last little while. <a href="http://www.jamehealy.com">Jame Healy</a> is one of them, and the other is <a href="http://www.mostlygeek.com">Ben Wong over at Mostly Geek</a>. Both are Vancouverites, and I think you&#39;ll find lots of interesting things to read over there. </p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-01-02-personal-info-cloud.md b/_posts/archive/2007-01-02-personal-info-cloud.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 1ea2140..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-01-02-personal-info-cloud.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Personal Info Cloud
-created: 1167807342
-categories: 
-- Search Engine Voodoo
-- Web 2.0
-- Social Media
-- Thomas Vander Wal
-- serendipity feed
-- PubSub
-- Personal Info Cloud
----
-<p>Personal Info Cloud. That&#39;s the closest I can come to for what I&#39;m thinking, and as I search a bit I see that <a href="http://www.personalinfocloud.com">PersonalInfoCloud.com</a> is one of the faces of <a href="http://vanderwal.net/random/index.php">Thomas Vander Wal</a>, perhaps best known for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Vander_Wal">coining the term &quot;folksonomy&quot;</a>. We don&#39;t say that so much anymore, having devolved into tagging madness.</p><p>It seems to be that, even with the &quot;aids&quot; of RSS to more quickly skim through information, and tagging to perhaps help winnow through the particular areas we are interested in, we are reaching a kind of nexus point of signal to noise. I need my filters back. The information -- now in podcasting, photosharing, video blogging goodness in HD quality with surround sound -- is rolling towards us and we are being crushed. I probably shouldn&#39;t add something about spam (splogs, etc. etc.).</p><p>I had hoped that PubSub.com would be the foundation for something that could help solve this. In part, because its technology<sup>1</sup> was based on a real time infrastructure -- publish and subscribe -- instead of this polling and pinging mess we are faced with &quot;regular&quot; RSS. In my ideal world, PubSub&#39;s rich boolean search interface would be available, to easily create field-level searches trawling the entire web -- e.g. return all blog posts with the word &quot;Drupal&quot; in the &lt;title&gt; field. That&#39;s an incoming stream that could be vast indeed, but it&#39;s what PubSub did best: search the future.<br /></p><p>And next is feedback. I would tag, or bookmark, or favourite or &quot;Shift-S&quot; for Google Reader fans, and stick it in my Personal Info Cloud. That could then become the basis for retrospective search aka what Google does really well right now, but filtered by my own sources of information. Ideally, I could expand my cloud to a Local region (geographically, my <a href="http://www.placeblogger.com">Placeblogger</a> friends) or my trusted network (tie into the public sources exposed by my communities). I say communities rather than the simpler family, friends, colleagues, etc., because I want to stress that there are going to be more than one cloud connected in.<br /></p><p>It&#39;s all overlapping <a href="/We&#39;re%20entering%20the%20stage%20of%20networks%20of%20networks.">networks of networks</a>. </p><p>Sure, we&#39;ve got bits and pieces around. <a href="http://rollyo.com/borismann">Rollyo</a> and <a href="http://eurekster.com/">Eurekster&#39;s Swicki</a> are little bits of this, allowing people to create curated, pre-populated search collections based on domains. Even Wikipedia is getting in the game with <a href="http://search.wikia.com/">Wikia / WikiSearch</a><sup>2</sup>.</p><p>I keep tumbling a littler deeper into this rabbit hole. <a href="http://www.lijit.com">Lijit</a>, on my list of &quot;really must dig into this deeper&quot;, has a <a href="http://www.lijit.com/help/front/map_your_world">map your world page</a> with...surprise! a picture of a Personal Info Cloud. That ties back into <a href="http://www.zylstra.org/mt/mt-zeghetes.cgi?entry_id=1986">discussions with Ton Ziljstra at BarCamp Brussels</a>. </p><p>And here I am, manually re-entering my little bits of identity into different services, looking for the Holy Grail. Perhaps convincing some friends that this time, maybe just this once, won&#39;t they also please sign up and enter their information into just one more system, &#39;cause then it&#39;ll be better for everyone. </p><p>So. Info Clouds. Personal, Local, Community. Search between communities, each member a pivot into another cloud. Maybe <a href="http://bryght.com/blog/steven-wittens/drupal-opensearch-aggregator">aggregating searches</a>. I didn&#39;t really cover ratings and feedback loops, as well as the magic nature-vs-nurture algorithm that gives you a serendipity feed, that will always be magically full of things outside your echo chamber, and you can decide whether to let them in or &quot;thumbs down&quot; them away.  </p><p>Welcome to 2007. I&#39;m still excited by what&#39;s out there. Lots of day-to-day get-stuff-done work that needs to be done. But let&#39;s keep talking about and building the big stuff.&nbsp;</p> <!--break--> <p><sup>1</sup> <em>it&#39;s still around...I think it will be used for something less social in its next iteration, although I think the right technology is there underneath to do this social thing in real time. And real time is basically mobile search.</em></p><p><sup>2</sup> <em>There&#39;s some confusion about different services with similar names and different relations to Jimmy Wales / Wikipedia. You&#39;ll need to trawl through the comments on this <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/25/the-wikisearch-screen-shot-isnt-wikiasari-so-what-is-it/">TechCrunch</a> post to figure it out.&nbsp;</em></p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-01-08-googles-identity-infrastructure-is-messed-up-and-no-one-is-talking.md b/_posts/archive/2007-01-08-googles-identity-infrastructure-is-messed-up-and-no-one-is-talking.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c906225..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-01-08-googles-identity-infrastructure-is-messed-up-and-no-one-is-talking.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Google's Identity Infrastructure is messed up and no one is talking
-created: 1168285145
-categories: 
-- identity
-- Google
-- Google for Domains
-- OpenID
-- Web 2.0
----
-<p>OK, I&#39;ve talked to several people about this now and everyone is feeling the pain. 2007 means no more free ride for Google. No, they&#39;re not evil....they&#39;ve just seriously messed up their infrastructure to the point that it is utterly broken.</p><p><a href="http://www.darrenbarefoot.com/archives/2007/01/google-and-my-identity-crisis-2.html">Darren</a> describes the situation quite well. I know that <a href="http://henshaw.org/">Jeff</a> has the same issues, with an extra fun one trying to connect to people with Google Talk. Both Jeff and I have talked to people we know inside Google, but they haven&#39;t been able to find anyone on the &quot;inside&quot; who knows more.</p><p>Here&#39;s my screenshot (extended description on Flickr) of being logged in twice with the same address:</p>  <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/305078296/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/112/305078296_c28d279202.jpg" alt="Google is screwing up identity" width="500" height="170" /></a>  <p>Public acknowledgement of the broken-ness? Not that I can find. Response to &quot;regular&quot; channels? i.e. this is critical and I can&#39;t use Docs/Spreadsheet? None.</p><p>Google, what&#39;s the plan? I&#39;m not asking to switch to OpenID or allow OpenID logins or any sort of *crazy* talk like that...I just want your existing identity structure to work, to allow me to combine or retire accounts as needed, and not have everything be broken.</p><p>Be nice to have a name or pointer to the person/team that is working on this...there are many people willing to troubleshoot and work on this.&nbsp;</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-01-08-linkedin-answers-getting-hot.md b/_posts/archive/2007-01-08-linkedin-answers-getting-hot.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 5041b4a..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-01-08-linkedin-answers-getting-hot.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: LinkedIn Answers Getting Hot
-created: 1168276853
-categories: 
-- LinkedIn
-- LinkedIn Answers
-- identity
-- Social Media
----
-<p>If you haven&#39;t been back to LinkedIn for a while, it&#39;s time to check it out again. I&#39;ve written about it in full or passing before -- my favourite title is probably <a href="/node/1420">The first business plan with social networking features: LinkedIn</a>, highlighting the fact that connecting people really is just one aspect of any such service. </p><p>So, why should you go back now? <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/answers">LinkedIn Answers</a>. It lets you ask questions, answer them, recommend experts and links. It&#39;s definitely going through some growing pains, especially as there are no feedback loops in place to stop people from marketing or pitching rather than really asking questions.</p><p>I&#39;ve been using it for the last 5 days or so....and it&#39;s addictive (bagged my first &quot;expert&quot; star in the Blogging category). The quality of the interaction is quite high, and I actually find myself browsing the questions. That has been my single biggest feedback about LinkedIn (not bad or good, just feedback): you go there when you need something, but there isn&#39;t anything that inherently draws you back. With Answers, that changes.</p><p>One thing I would like to see is increased open-ness from the system. Answers is exactly the sort of thing that should be out in the open, for many of the questions and answers. Any decent answer I post is likely of high enough quality that it should be posted out on my blog, available to the &quot;open Internet&quot;. Having an account on LinkedIn is a fine barrier for interacting, but the content itself should be publicly permalinkable. Yes, LinkedIn is an identity system with reputation built in...wonder when they will connect to an open standard. </p>
-<p>If you want to give feedback directly, I started a question inside Answers: <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/answers?viewQuestion=&questionID=7704&askerID=1746">Suggestions on how LinkedIn Answers should evolve</a>.</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-01-08-openid-mashpit-in-vancouver.md b/_posts/archive/2007-01-08-openid-mashpit-in-vancouver.md
deleted file mode 100644
index d7b92a4..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-01-08-openid-mashpit-in-vancouver.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: OpenID MashPit in Vancouver
-created: 1168320317
-categories: 
-- identity
-- OpenID
-- SXIP
-- Lori Pike
-- MashPit
-- OpenID MashPit
-- Vancouver
-- Web 2.0
----
-<p>Coming up January 17th, 2007 (next Wednesday, if you&#39;re reading this in current day blogtime), <a href="http://www.sxip.com">SXIP</a> is hosting the Vancouver incarnation of an <a href="http://mashpit.pbwiki.com/MashPitOpenidVancouver">OpenID MashPit</a> event. Here&#39;s the scoop:<br /></p><blockquote><p> Want to learn more about <a href="http://www.openid.net/">OpenID&nbsp;2.0</a> and spend an evening hacking on the new code? Join <a href="http://www.sxip.com/">Sxip</a> at the OpenID 2.0 Mash Pit evening in the New Year in Vancouver. There will be simultaneous events that night in Portland and other locations, with a live webcast amongst us. OpenID is an emerging <a href="http://www.identity20.com/">Identity&nbsp;2.0</a> standard for exchanging identity data on the internet. This is for people to come and hack on OpenID 2.0 and figure out how to make it work for their sites or applications.</p><p> We&#39;ll do a brief introduction on OpenID 2.0 and the new stuff you can do with it such as attribute exchange with the email verification service, followed by 5 minute lightening talks on whatever you want to demo or talk about and then break out into small groups to help people actually dig into the &quot;doing&quot; of OpenID enabling their site. The goal? More hacking, less talking.</p></blockquote><p>The enigmatic <a href="http://www.walkah.net" title="Your number one James Walker -- accept no imitations">walkah</a> will be flying in from the east to attend, and show off some hot new OpenID 2.x code -- server and client. Fingers crossed...we&#39;ll have more to show on this tomorrow already.&nbsp;</p><p>Do I need to disclaim that we&#39;ve been working with SXIP for 2 years, and that Lori Pike bought myself and Roland dinner tonight to help discuss and plan? There you go...disclaimed! Come join us at the MashPit, either here in Vancouver, or in Portland, San Francisco, Boston, Paris, Austin, etc. etc. Let&#39;s get identity rolling in 2007... </p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-01-09-iphone-is-a-tablet.md b/_posts/archive/2007-01-09-iphone-is-a-tablet.md
deleted file mode 100644
index bfba101..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-01-09-iphone-is-a-tablet.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: iPhone is a tablet
-created: 1168367695
-categories: 
-- Mac
-- Tablet
-- Steve Jobs
-- iPhone
-- Apple
----
-<p><a href="http://flickr.com/photos/ipodlounger/351861352/"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/151/351861352_cbea55613a_m.jpg" alt="" hspace="5" vspace="5" align="left" /></a>Our morning staff meeting got a little disrupted by the <a href="http://www.macrumorslive.com/">MacRumorsLive</a> stream of Apple iPhone updates.&nbsp;</p><p>I&#39;ve been predicting a Mac tablet for years. Here&#39;s the <a href="/node/1441">last time I predicted tablet specs</a>. But, of course, Steve Jobs wouldn&#39;t call it a phone or a tablet....he wants a new category.</p><p>And yes, in my <a href="http://www.rolandtanglao.com/archives/2007/01/08/boris-manns-macworld-2007-predictions-no-iphone-but-table-like-thingie">video interview with Roland yesterday, I said &quot;no iPhone&quot;</a>. I should have more clearly said &quot;not a phone&quot; -- because it really is a new category.</p><p>Both OS X and Safari Webkit are &quot;platforms&quot;. What can we build on top?<br /></p><p>The Google <strong>AND</strong> Yahoo partnership is amazing. Click to call. EDGE + Wifi.</p><p>Yeah, I&#39;m excited...it&#39;s like a new age of computing + mobile has dawned. </p><p>Prediction on biggest complaints: availability, screen scratches/broken-ness, battery life&nbsp;</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-01-10-is-the-iphone-really-locked-to-cingular.md b/_posts/archive/2007-01-10-is-the-iphone-really-locked-to-cingular.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a455d94..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-01-10-is-the-iphone-really-locked-to-cingular.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Is the iPhone really locked to Cingular?
-created: 1168448639
-categories: 
-- iPhone
-- Cingular
-- Mac
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<p>So, I&#39;ve had some time to reflect on the iPhone announcement yesterday and my <a href="/blog/bmann/iphone-is-a-tablet" title="iPhone is a tablet">gushing post</a> on it. June seems really far away, but of course, I had to laugh at <a href="http://blackrimglasses.com/archives/2007/01/09/microsoft-confirms-zune-will-play-games-by-july-2008-engadget/">Ethan Kaplan&#39;s comment on the news that Zune will play games in July 2008</a>. What will the iPhone do in comparison by that time?</p><p><a href="http://ralphm.net/blog/">RalphM</a> points out in my comments that the iPhone is essentially a closed platform: call Apple if you want to build something on top. Ouch. I can understand, as they have to own making the device a vertically integrated experience that fits the &quot;just works&quot; category, and Google and Yahoo are major players that they wouldn&#39;t want displaced by some brilliant third party hack. Except, of course, that there *might be* brilliant third party hacks. This will happen over time, and Widgets seem the easiest way in. Lower level access will take much longer, which is a shame...</p><p><a href="http://mezzoblue.com/archives/2007/01/09/imobile/">Dave Shea</a> talked about new interaction models with the touchscreen, with which I have to agree, and then goes on to talk about the big issues: Cingular contracts and lockage aka how can we get it in Canada before it&#39;s &quot;officially&quot; here. <a href="http://chuqui.typepad.com/chuqui_30/2007/01/my_thoughts_on_.html">Chuqui</a> has a good deep dive on this and how the FCC fits in, too. Graham Fair covers this in my comments as well. <br /></p><p>Apple could go two paths with this. What they&#39;ve announced, is that the iPhone will be available in June only with a contract from Cingular.&nbsp; In the US, most people (not even most consumers -- most people in general) don&#39;t understand the whole locked phone / SIM card thing. I heard a comment in passing that it may have been actually illegal to try and unlock your own phone, that you own, because of DMCA issues.</p><p>OK, so the Apple bundle. Does it just come pre-installed with a Cingular SIM card, and &quot;just works&quot;? That&#39;s what I expect. I expect that Apple in fact will not allow locking of the iPhone at all: they&#39;re using a business contract to control the Cingular relationship, but haven&#39;t actually built anything into the OS that facilitates locking. That&#39;s path number one.</p><p>Path number two is that Apple does have locking built in, and we&#39;ll have to find a way to circumvent it, which would suck.&nbsp;</p><p>Remember, this is pure speculation, but if the iPhone doesn&#39;t have locking capabilities, it means we could buy one, pay for a Cingular plan, then take out the SIM card and replace it with a Canadian/European/whatever one, and it would &quot;just work&quot;. Knock on wood.</p><p>Now, data. Dave Shea mentions &quot;Somehow there has to be reconciliation between a bandwidth-hungry device like the iPhone promises to be, and the bandwidth-stingy mobile plans that many of us are stuck with&quot;. This is the case in Canada. Again, a few people are lucky enough to have a grandfathered plan that has unlimited data. But in the US, there are unlimited data plans that are really quite reasonable. And there&#39;s always WiFi...</p><p>Expect a horde of Canadians to be visiting in June....&nbsp;</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-01-10-linkedin-answers-answers.md b/_posts/archive/2007-01-10-linkedin-answers-answers.md
deleted file mode 100644
index d221eb9..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-01-10-linkedin-answers-answers.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: LinkedIn Answers Answers
-created: 1168451263
-categories: 
-- LinkedIn
-- LinkedIn Answers
-- Scott Allen
-- Betsy Kimak
-- Social Media
----
-<p>As I mentioned in <a href="/blog/bmann/linkedin-answers-getting-hot">my last post on LinkedIn Answers</a>, I posted a meta-question to give feedback:</p><blockquote><h3>Suggestions on how LinkedIn Answers should evolve</h3><p>I&#39;ve been poking around LinkedIn Answers and am enjoying it so far. As other posts have said -- the offtopic and/or posts that aren&#39;t questions need to have a way that members can flag them.  <br />Here&#39;s one suggestion on further additions: give me RSS feeds and/or other notification options to subscribe to Answers -- per category, as well as per post, so I can follow up on later answers. </p></blockquote><p>There has been lots of good activity in there, but of course it is up to me as question poser to &quot;close&quot; the question and award the best answer to someone. In another pseudo-question on the use of open source software, I remarked that making these discussios public are of higher value to the &quot;open Internet&quot;, and encouraged people to at the very least cross-post to their blogs when they are adding valuable answers.</p><p>Scott Allen saw this and posted to his blog, which is dedicated to looking at <a href="http://linkedintelligence.com/top-ten-feature-requests-for-linkedin-answers/">LinkedIn: LinkedIntelligence - Top Ten Feature Requests for LinkedIn Answers</a>. I think I&#39;ll nominate him as the best question answer-er and add to the &quot;green expert stars&quot; he&#39;s collecting.</p><p>I also wanted to share a snippet of an answer from <a href="http://www.umaitech.com/">Betsy Kimak</a>, indicating that LinkedIn Answers is getting a bit addictive...</p><blockquote><p>I&#39;m sure I had things to do...goals and projects...family? Hmmm. Can&#39;t seem to remember what they were. Maybe if I pose a question someone will tell me. I&#39;ll just look through the list first&hellip; Huh, deal-flow generation, what&#39;s that? There&#39;s really a tube yogurt market? Am I interested in split placement? How do I know? I had better find out what that is&hellip; What is it that I do again? Ok, here&#39;s the category&hellip;What&#39;s that one? Oh, I know the answer! Better respond...Wow, is it dark outside already? <br /> <br /> My suggestions: <br /> <br /> (1) Support group for LinkedIn Answers addicts. Seriously. Sign me up. There&#39;s got to be someone here with the credentials, let me just browse through the profiles&hellip; <br /> <br />(2) Mechanical Turk-style payment/barter feature. Lots of talent is being given away for free. Besides, we&#39;ll need a way to support ourselves after we all lose our jobs and clients. After all, a penny earned&hellip; </p></blockquote><p>Thanks for sharing that, Betsy -- made me grin.&nbsp;</p>
-
-<p>Final thought: what about making the LinkedIn Answers portion of the site public? And a widget for displaying my "expert stars"? And cross posting questions/answers to my blog? And...and... :P</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-01-12-northern-voice-travel-bursaries.md b/_posts/archive/2007-01-12-northern-voice-travel-bursaries.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 1a8decd..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-01-12-northern-voice-travel-bursaries.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Northern Voice Travel Bursaries
-created: 1168628931
-categories: 
-- northern voice
-- Northern Voice 2007
-- NV07
-- travel bursary
-- Vancouver
----
-<p>So, we were lucky enough to get a killer deal on our space at the UBC campus for Northern Voice 2007. This meant that we had some money available to do other things with.</p><p>We decided one of the things we wanted to do was to increase the reach of the conference. We&#39;re lucky enough to have a lot of friends travel great distances already to come to the conference, but maybe there&#39;s a really passionate blogger somewhere far away that just doesn&#39;t have the money to be able to travel.</p><p>Today Darren posted the details on the <a href="http://2007.northernvoice.ca/news/2007/01/12/get-a-travel-bursary-for-northern-voice">Northern Voice Travel Bursaries</a> -- six travel bursaries of $500CDN each. We&#39;ll award these based on a blog/video/photo/podcast post that the applicant makes, and then fill out the <a href="http://2007.northernvoice.ca/nvbursary/submit">bursary submission form</a>.</p><p>It&#39;s the middle of January, and I can&#39;t wait for the end of February to roll around.&nbsp;</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-01-18-openid-mashpit-vancouver-wrap-up.md b/_posts/archive/2007-01-18-openid-mashpit-vancouver-wrap-up.md
deleted file mode 100644
index ed21ce1..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-01-18-openid-mashpit-vancouver-wrap-up.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: OpenID MashPit Vancouver wrap up
-created: 1169159521
-categories: 
-- Web Development
-- Vancouver
-- SXIP
-- OpenID MashPit Vancouver
-- OpenID
-- Identity 2.0
----
-<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/noboundaries/361772757/"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/163/361772757_b27362a5d2_m.jpg" border="0" alt="" hspace="10" vspace="10" align="left" /></a>I did a much longer <a href="http://www.bryght.com/blog/boris-mann/openid-mashpit-vancouver-openid-2-code-available-for-drupal">recap/announcement over on my Bryght blog</a>, but wanted to point to some people specifically. I had a great time and it was good to see so many people out.<br /></p><p><a href="http://www.buffmuthers.com/~hadfield/">Scott Hadfield</a> wins the prize for actually OpenID-enabling his blog in real time (and for his bizarro domain name :P).</p><p>My site here does have delegation headers for my <a href="http://home.bryght.com" title="Bryght OpenID 2 Identity Provider">home.bryght.com</a> account (<a href="http://simonwillison.net/2006/Dec/19/openid/">Simon Willison has good instructions for the OpenID 1.1 format here</a>), but it won&#39;t work most places until we get our code updated with the OpenID 1.1 backwards compatability.&nbsp;</p><p>I think <a href="http://www.jayandsilentrob.com/">Rob of jayandsilentrob.com</a> wins the prize for most errors/frustration encountered in trying to get his site delegating. I realized as we were all clustered around trying to test delegation with various systems....that there are still very few &quot;large&quot; sites that you can just do login with...besides random blog comments. Definitely more work needed here. Oh, and Rob has an event coming up here in Vancouver for tech types (Rob, looked for it in upcoming and couldn&#39;t find it...post/email and I&#39;ll update this).<br /></p><p>Always good to see <a href="http://stewartclan.ca/blogs/thinkinggeek">Michael Stewart</a> out from far-off Delta. He&#39;s leaving the safe surroundings of BCIT in April, and is looking for &quot;what&#39;s next&quot;. Hire him! He&#39;s passionate about identity and knows his stuff, especially in educational contexts.&nbsp;</p><p>A few more links on the <a href="http://mashpit.pbwiki.com/MashPitOpenidVancouverPhpRoom">wiki</a> -- please update with more pointers and learning.</p><p>Special thanks to Lori and the rest of the <a href="http://www.sxip.com">SXIP</a> team. The Belgian beer was much appreciated :P&nbsp;</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-01-23-buy-the-monkeyblaster-9000-podcast-with-elastic-path.md b/_posts/archive/2007-01-23-buy-the-monkeyblaster-9000-podcast-with-elastic-path.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 979d3df..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-01-23-buy-the-monkeyblaster-9000-podcast-with-elastic-path.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Buy the MonkeyBlaster 9000: podcast with Elastic Path"
-created: 1169622467
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
-- Vancouver
-- Jason Billingsley
-- Elastic Path
-- ecommerce
-- Dave Olsen
----
-<p>I went over to Elastic Path in the pouring Vancouver winter rain yesterday and did a <a href="http://company.getelastic.com/blogging-for-retailers-get-elastic-18/">podcast</a> with Dave Olsen and Jason Billingsley. We talked about blogging for retailers (<a href="http://www.elasticpath.com/resources/white-paper/blogging-for-retailers/index.jsp">white paper</a>), which Elastic Path has put together a ton of information for online retailers on what they need to know about blogging.</p><p>Luckily, I had just been reading <a href="http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2007/01/why_id_make_eve.html">A VC&#39;s post on Why I&#39;d Make Every E-Merchant Become a Blogger</a>, which covers lots of the same ground.</p><p>I really enjoyed doing the podcast with Dave. Looking back, I&#39;ve thought about and written on these topics for many years now, and it feels comfortable and natural to be sitting around talking about them. More podcasts. How? Not sure :P</p><p>Elastic Path is an interesting company here in our Vancouver back yard. They&#39;re doing very interesting stuff, with more on the way. How are they doing? Well, their demo site ranks so highly for <a href="http://demo.elasticpath.com/film-cameras/waterproof-camera/c90000012-p1.html">waterproof cameras</a> that they had to plaster it with notices to make it clear it was a demo. Combine that with a blogging strategy and you could sell a lot of whatever widgets you&#39;re selling.&nbsp;</p><p>Oh, and the <a href="http://monkeyblaster9000.bryght.net">MonkeyBlaster 9000</a>? It&#39;s a fantastically fun summer toy that every child will want this summer...&nbsp;</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-01-25-susan-mernit-on-the-role-of-no-in-product-development.md b/_posts/archive/2007-01-25-susan-mernit-on-the-role-of-no-in-product-development.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e210fe9..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-01-25-susan-mernit-on-the-role-of-no-in-product-development.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Susan Mernit on the role of "no" in product development
-created: 1169789718
-categories: 
-- Susan Mernit
-- product development
-- product management
-- Drupal
-- Social Media
----
-<p>Susan Mernit has a great post up about <a href="http://susanmernit.blogspot.com/2007/01/adventures-in-product-development-no.html">saying no in product development cycles</a> (it was also Susan&#39;s birthday recently -- happy birthday!).</p><p>It&#39;s a great post. It&#39;s applicable not only to large businesses/sites (Susan works on <a href="http://personals.yahoo.com/">Yahoo! Personals</a>) but really to projects of any size. Many web projects, the &quot;launch&quot; of a site is just the beginning. *Maybe* the functionality and content are done, on simpler sites, but now it&#39;s time to start marketing and promoting the site. In most other cases, there a bunch of items that fall into a staged launch schedule (say &quot;no&quot; for launch and plan it for a later rollout) or in a big &quot;future features&quot; bucket (say &quot;no&quot; to it at first, and dump it in the future features bucket) which can be revisited over time. And of course, feedback from the users of any website should be taken into account when looking at these lists.</p><p>I also want to draw attention to the first of Susan&#39;s criteria: &quot;Make the product support both the customer experience/value and the business needs&quot;. Every feature has to balance both interests. Often times, this is not correctly balanced, and too much in either direction is going to cause issues. <br /></p><p>In general, I&#39;m too nice. I like to say &quot;yes&quot; a lot. I&#39;ve been working on this, and actually REALLY enjoying saying &quot;no&quot;, or challenging people to prove/explain/defend what they want and how it relates to the goals of a project. A good &quot;no&quot; can be worth 10 yes&#39;s.&nbsp;</p><p>As an aside or addendum, I wanted to talk about connecting with people in person and then continuing to read their blog. I met Susan at <a href="http://www.gnomedex.com">Gnomedex</a>: she spoke on stage and we briefly shared a cab with <a href="http://www.adventureswithkate.com">Kate</a> and I. One of the first things Susan said was &quot;I read your blog&quot;. Wow. First, that&#39;s a bit scary, and makes you want to step up your writing game. Secondly...meeting someone in person is just a different experience. Now, when I read Susan&#39;s blog, I can &quot;hear&quot; a bit more of her voice and personality behind every phrase. </p><p>Meeting people in person adds to the richness of their data in your own personal info cloud.</p><p> Meeting someone whose blog you read puts a cloud of data around their head of past/shared data context.</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-02-07-email-is-the-place-where-information-goes-to-die.md b/_posts/archive/2007-02-07-email-is-the-place-where-information-goes-to-die.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e105e92..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-02-07-email-is-the-place-where-information-goes-to-die.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Email is the place where information goes to die
-created: 1170888924
-categories: 
-- Knowledge Management
-- quotes
-- email
-- email
-- quotes
-- Bill French
-- Basecamp
-- Knowledge Management
----
-<p>
-	Email is the place where information goes to die</p>
-<p>
-	<strong>Update</strong>: <a href="http://www.rolandtanglao.com/archives/2007/02/08/email-is-the-place-where-knowledge-goes-to-die-boris">Roland</a> found the original <a href="http://myst-technology.com/mysmartchannels/public/item/5994">quote by Bill French, April 2003</a>.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>
-	So, I&#39;ve been accused of using this phrase quite a lot.&nbsp; I figured I should probably claim it by making this blog post.</p>
-<p>
-	And yes, I still believe it: email and mailing list is great for quick back and forths. It&#39;s terrible for synthesizing information and finding a conclusion a week later.</p>
-<p>
-	I&#39;m in favour of web native / crawlable archive systems. Email for notification and quick discussion, but give it a permalink to the conclusion.</p>
-<p>
-	I have many (many, many, ...) gripes with <a href="http://www.basecamphq.com">Basecamp</a>, but even if you use it as nothing more than a centralized email archive, it&#39;s pretty decent. Other strategies? The <a href="http://trac.edgewall.org/">Trac</a> wiki/ticketing/SVN repository, email enabled forums (with RSS, of course), etc.</p>
-<p>
-	Synthesizing and collecting all the resources we deal with is import. Help make information not die, your future self will thank you.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-02-07-marc-canter-is-building-his-heart-out.md b/_posts/archive/2007-02-07-marc-canter-is-building-his-heart-out.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 78b35b5..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-02-07-marc-canter-is-building-his-heart-out.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Marc Canter is building his heart out
-created: 1170854544
-categories: 
-- identity
-- marc canter
-- PeopleAggregator
-- CardSpace
-- OpenID
-- Attribute Exchange
-- Social Media
-- Web 2.0
----
-<p><a href="http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/">Marc Canter</a> continues to blog up a storm. If you really, carefully, read about all the stuff he&#39;s been posting: he really is looking to the future.</p><p>Yes, I do find it a bit scary to be agreeing with Marc. I mean...I love the guy, I love his family, but he drives me crazy 50% of the time <img src="/hm/profiles/standard/modules/tinymce/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-wink.gif" border="0" alt="Wink" title="Wink" /></p><p>So, what has Marc got right lately?</p><ul><li>It&#39;s about the network of networks</li><li>social networking is a feature...and it makes sense to pick and choose building blocks to start from rather than blowing your brains out developing code (and UI, and standards, and, and...) from scratch every time; Marc feels burned by open source, so he&#39;s doing PeopleAggregator, me, I&#39;m pushing away at my old friend Drupal</li><li>identity is great for sign on is great; now let&#39;s get working on attribute exchange, without which 2.x is somewhat pointless -- we had this working 2 years ago with SXIP</li></ul><p>That last point is from <a href="http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2007/02/microsoft-supports-openid">Marc&#39;s latest on Microsoft&#39;s CardSpace plus Open ID</a>, and he closes with &quot;without import/export we have no context&quot;. That is code for &quot;don&#39;t make me create an account on another god-dang site that really should be a feature, and especially don&#39;t make me re-enter all my stuff into another system&quot;.</p><p>So, props to you, Marc -- build your heart out around PeepAgg, let&#39;s interwork around standards and get to those &quot;Just Work&quot; ah-ha moments.&nbsp;</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-02-07-open-source-in-vancouver-panel.md b/_posts/archive/2007-02-07-open-source-in-vancouver-panel.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 83b2b0a..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-02-07-open-source-in-vancouver-panel.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Open Source in Vancouver Panel
-created: 1170899039
-categories: 
-- PHP
-- Vancouver
-- Vancouver PHP Users Group
-- Vancouver PHP Conference 2007
-- open source
-- FOSS
----
-<p>The Vancouver PHP Conference 2007 is coming up next week. I think registration is full or close to it. We&#39;ve got <a href="http://acko.net">Steven</a> and <a href="http://walkah.net">James</a> giving a couple of talks on Drupal and Identity / OpenID.</p><p>There is also a (free, as in beer) <a href="http://vancouver.php.net/osspanel2007">panel on Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) on Monday night</a>. It&#39;s open to the public and sponsored by a group called <a href="http://ictcoop.ca/">Information and Communications Technology / Open Source Co-op</a>. Never heard of &#39;em, but they run Drupal, so they can&#39;t be all bad :P</p><p>Some of the topics up for discussion include:</p><ul><li>Choosing a license</li><li>GPL3</li><li>Common Misperceptions about the GPL</li><li>Growth in GPL</li><li>Winning Over New Converts to FOSS</li><li>Reasons Why Businesses Choose FOSS</li><li>Current state of FOSS in North America</li><li>Encouraging the growth of FOSS in Vancouver/N. America</li></ul><p>Well, there&#39;s a selection of things I&#39;m passionate about :P Should be interesting to see how the discussion goes, but I suspect it will be preaching to the converted in many cases. </p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-02-13-oscms-summit-at-yahoo-rolling-call-for-participation.md b/_posts/archive/2007-02-13-oscms-summit-at-yahoo-rolling-call-for-participation.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e974762..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-02-13-oscms-summit-at-yahoo-rolling-call-for-participation.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: OSCMS Summit at Yahoo! Rolling - Call for participation
-created: 1171391784
-categories: 
-- Open Source
-- Drupal
-- yahoo
-- OSCMS Summit 2007
-- OSCMS Summit
----
-<p><a href="http://2007.oscms-summit.org"><img src="/system/files?file=banner.png" border="0" alt="" /></a>&nbsp;</p><p>OSCMS Summit is something that I helped pull together in short order <a href="http://2006.oscms-summit.org">last year</a>. We had great attendance (about 300 people over 3 days, with about 150 people per day) and lots of local Vancouverites mixing in.</p><p>This year, Vancouver has the <a href="http://vancouver.php.net/php_conference">Vancouver PHP Conference</a> which is going on right now, and the <a href="http://2007.oscms-summit.org">OSCMS Summit 2007</a> is happening down at Yahoo&#39;s Sunnyvale campus. Yep, <a href="http://www.yahoo.com">Yahoo</a>: we joked about this a while back, and then some of the folks we know inside Yahoo said -- sure, we&#39;d love to help out with this. Moral of the story: ask and ye shall receive. I have to say, Yahoo should be applauded for this: they&#39;ve really been reaching out to developers lately, with great events like Hack Day showing off some of the great work they&#39;ve got going on. </p><p>Once again, the OSCMS Summit will be a kind of &quot;container&quot; event for other projects to gather around. This does mean the Drupal hordes will be descending...but, if all I wanted to do was a Drupalcon, that&#39;s what I would push for. I&#39;m still really passionate about having various open source projects come together and discuss solutions and approaches to web content: we&#39;re all facing the same challenges and the nature of open source means it&#39;s that much easier for us to learn from one another.&nbsp;</p><p>There are already a selection of projects attending the summit, with a wide range of topics. We&#39;re soliciting sessions until the end of this week. Add your project, add your sessions suggestion.<br /></p><p>And of course, please do go ahead and register if you plan to ahead: we&#39;re rapidly approaching our original cap of 250 attendees, so may have to go back and ask for more space, as it definitely seems there is enough interest.</p><p>March 22nd and 23rd, Yahoo campus in Sunnyvale: see you there!&nbsp;</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-02-16-guy-gavriel-kay-talk-at-the-viwf.md b/_posts/archive/2007-02-16-guy-gavriel-kay-talk-at-the-viwf.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 1740f88..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-02-16-guy-gavriel-kay-talk-at-the-viwf.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Guy Gavriel Kay talk at the VIWF
-created: 1171626571
-categories: 
-- Guy Gavriel Kay
-- Vancouver International Writers Festival
-- VIWF 2007
-- Nokia E61
-- Vancouver
----
-<p><em><strong>Update:</strong> this was posted live from the reading using a mobile blog client. Much of it is a partial transcript of Guy speaking.</em><br /></p><p>I&#39;m at a reading with <a href="http://www.brightweavings.com/">Guy Gavriel Kay</a>, which is taking place as part of the Vancouver International Writer&#39;s Festival. At the last minute, Susie said she had an extra ticket. It turns out that I love Guy&#39;s work: I&#39;ve read and enjoyed all his books, so I was happy to come along.</p><p>Provence was the inspiration for his new book, Ysabel. Guy is explaining that Provence is some place that you literally trip over history. Much of his works deal with different times, and events in the past having an effect on today. So it&#39;s fitting that this book is a novel set in modern times.</p><p>Guy spoke about the tension in France in 2004 (and today) and how that contributed to the evolution of the novel.  Ysabel does still deal with some of the history and magic that Guy is known for: the tension of a Roman world vs. a Celtic world, with conflict reaching back for millenia.  Provence was the right backdrop. We don&#39;t have records of battles over Antarctica - it is places like the south of France, places of extreme beauty, that have this legacy of conflict.</p><p>The protagonist in the book is a young man. 15 year olds today have different roles in culture.<br /></p><p>Other changes and differences between then and now: sunset was never beautiful: it was frightening. Darkness was dangerous, go inside, lock the doors. </p><p>Sunrise was beautiful - you&#39;re still alive in the morning.</p><p>We live longer today. Can&#39;t be 35 and just getting started in the past: you were lucky to live that long.<br /><br />The idea that writers need to draw upon life, for the creative process. How can any of us write anything but autobiography? Comes down to imaginative empathy. To think yourself into the head of someone else.</p><p><br />Always been interested in the layering of history. The <a href="http://www.sacred-destinations.com/france/aix-cathedrale-st-sauveur.htm">cathedral of Aix-en-Provence</a> is built&nbsp; on top of a Roman forum which is built on the destroyed ruins of a Celtic place.</p><p>An engaging novel will include interesting things happening to interesting people. Many best sellers have interesting happenings, many contemporary &quot;literature&quot; novels have interesting people. I see it as one process.</p><p>Fantasy has been seen as down market, escapist. &quot;Literarily adolescent&quot; (great for a book lover&#39;s t-shirt) vs. adolescent literature.<br /></p><p>Increasing use of the tropes of fantasy &amp; sci fi in serious novels - Margaret Atwood, etc.</p><p>Increasingly, all or no genre, as the tools of the fantastical can be broadly applied. Fantasy as the low brow, shallow end of the pool, is a North American concept. In South America, called magical realism &ndash; if the New York Times likes a fantasy novel, it&#39;s called magical realism.</p><p>Elsewhere, the fantastical used seriously &ndash; here, we look down on it. Sure, lots of it <strong>is</strong> bad, the excellent is rare, and we have to look for it. Use magic as a tool.</p><p>In Ysabel, logical, engineering mindset of Greco Roman collided with the more intuitive, holistic world of the Celts. Oversimplification, but doesn&#39;t mean it&#39;s not true. Walking the landscape of Provence, stub your toe on history. People in the region live their life overtop. Outsiders are fascinated by ruins: locals find them sad, or in the way, or irrelevant.</p><p>Rapidly changing world causes us to think less about the past.</p><hr /><p>Guy then read an excerpt from the novel. A quote that stood out was&nbsp; one of the characters saying &quot;Google is my friend, Google is my midnight lover&quot;. That definitely seems out of place from Guy, but it IS set in contemporary times. Still, perhaps a bit over the top or contrived: I can see older people hearing that phrase and acknowledging that&#39;s how young people feel....but myself, hearing that...Google and other search engines are no longer magic to young people: they just ARE...they are part of the background, the underpinnings of the technological society we live in. </p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-02-18-wii-report.md b/_posts/archive/2007-02-18-wii-report.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f236176..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-02-18-wii-report.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Wii Report
-created: 1171827224
-categories: 
-- Wii
-- Nintendo
-- Game
----
-<p>I went over to <a href="http://www.hopstudios.com/nep/">Travis</a> and <a href="http://www.unfavorablepink.com/">Susie</a>&#39;s yesterday evening to play with a <a href="http://wii.com/">Wii</a> for the first time. Overall verdict: fun! My arms and back are actually sore today...</p><p>I spent a bunch of time exploring the user interface and all the various options that the Wii has. If people can actually buy it and get it into the home, entire families are going to get hooked on this thing. From Internet access to &quot;Miis&quot; (virtual avatars for each user) to email in and out of the system...lots of different ways to use this system that *aren&#39;t* traditional gaming.</p><p>I started by building my Mii. There&#39;s enough variability that you can build a pretty good clone of yourself. Apparently, the Wii Remotes can actually carry your Wii around. I can see people customizing their Wii Remotes and carrying them around.&nbsp;</p><p>The Internet access is based on the Opera browser: one thing I was surprised was how long it took to &quot;boot up&quot; the Internet browsing app. The system does have Flash support...so this means it&#39;s a YouTube browsing front end. I navigated over to <a href="http://www.rathergood.com">Rathergood.com</a> to show off some of the funny songs/movies there, and the Flash videos only loaded intermittently...might be an issue just with that site. The Internet channel is in &quot;preview&quot; mode, and Nintendo isn&#39;t sure if they are going to charge for it or not. I think charging for the Internet would be insane...there are SO many other ways they could make money by allowing this for everyone. </p><p>As well as this full browser, there is also the <a href="http://us.wii.com/viewer_channel.jsp?vid=2">News channel</a>: it sucks in news from AP and displays it on top of a virtual globe that you can rotate, zoom in on, and click on news stories in the locations they are happening. Is this what we mean by hyperlocal? The Everybody Votes channel is even going to allow people to fill out polls and various questions. Hmmm...I&#39;m *really* hoping that Nintendo continues to open this up: I can&#39;t wait until a local news organization integrates with this...  </p><p>When we finally started playing actual games, we started with the <a href="http://us.wii.com/soft_wii_sports.jsp">Wii Sports</a> games that are bundled with the system. Tennis, Baseball, Golf, Bowling, Boxing. Yes, you do have to play these games standing up, and yes, they do make you sweat. Not much else to say here...lots of fun to play with multiple people, and even the training and fitness items are &quot;fun&quot;.</p><p>The only other game we played was Rayman Raving Rabbids. It reminds me a bit of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conker&#39;s_Bad_Fur_Day">Conker&#39;s Bad Fur Day</a>, although less &quot;adult&quot; humour, but just as many bathroom jokes. There are many different puzzles / mini games which you have to complete in story mode, but then can play vs. another player. Shooting rabbits with a plunger gun, throwing a cow that you spin around your head, or the uber strenuous pumping carrot juice game. Actually, one of the most fun is having to drop rabbits in time to the beat from different songs.</p><p>My previous favourite party game was Super Monkey Ball for the GameCube. It&#39;s <a href="http://wii.nintendo.com/software_monkey.jsp">available for the Wii</a> as well, so I&#39;m looking forward to seeing what they&#39;ve done with it. The Wii controller is going to open up a lot of different options, obviously.&nbsp;</p><p>So, the Wii is going to continue to be a big hit. Rather than an XBox 360, I&#39;m now thinking that I&#39;d rather like to get a Wii. I&#39;ve currently got a desktop machine hooked up to my screen here at home: the Wii could perform a bunch of the things I currently use the computer for, although I would be looking for a DVD player and a keyboard. It&#39;s going to be interesting to see how Nintendo continues to evolve this platform.&nbsp;</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-02-20-subscribe-to-the-social-designers-at-common-craft.md b/_posts/archive/2007-02-20-subscribe-to-the-social-designers-at-common-craft.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 6a0227c..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-02-20-subscribe-to-the-social-designers-at-common-craft.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Subscribe to the social designers at Common Craft
-created: 1171982591
-categories: 
-- Lee Lefever
-- Common Craft
-- Dell
-- IdeaStorm
-- Salesforce
-- AppExchange
-- Flickr
-- Social Media
----
-<p>If you read Lee LeFever&#39;s <a href="http://www.commoncraft.com/">Common Craft</a> website, I&#39;ve been discussing a lot of things with him, as evidenced by a couple of nice &quot;so I was talking to Boris the other day and...&quot; links he&#39;s thrown my way.</p><p>If you&#39;re interested in or in any way intersect social software and/or online community, you should be subscribed to Common Craft.</p><p>What is it? They have a little note that says Common Craft &quot;is a consulting practice and weblog operated by Lee and Sachi LeFever.  The focus of Common Craft is Social Design for the Web.&quot; I like that phrase: Social Design for the Web. Which makes Lee and Sachi &quot;Social Designers&quot;.</p><p>Most recently, we <a href="http://www.commoncraft.com/archives/001328.html">talked about Dell&#39;s IdeaStorm</a>, which is a Salesforce AppExchange component made by <a href="http://www.crispyideas.com/global/ideas">CrispyIdeas</a>. The big thing here is that the underlying technology of &quot;social software&quot; is being commoditized. Now comes the hard part: understanding and utilizing the technology in the context of engaging your community. </p><p>Before that I asked Lee if he felt he was a <a href="http://www.commoncraft.com/archives/001311.html">member of Flickr&#39;s community</a>. I used to be a member of the Flickr community, waaay back in the old days when it was just getting started. But I don&#39;t think I can call myself that now: it&#39;s &quot;just&quot; a place to put pictures. I&#39;ve moved out of the active 1% and in to the &quot;just use it&quot; 9%.</p><p>There&#39;s lots of technology out there: I spend more and more time thinking about the soft underbelly that&#39;s all about people.&nbsp;</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-02-22-google-apps-and-sxip-access-identity-and-the-google-platform.md b/_posts/archive/2007-02-22-google-apps-and-sxip-access-identity-and-the-google-platform.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 20aab95..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-02-22-google-apps-and-sxip-access-identity-and-the-google-platform.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Google Apps and SXIP Access Identity and the Google Platform
-created: 1172189216
-categories: 
-- Web 2.0
-- Open Source
-- Vancouver
-- SXIP
-- Salesforce
-- OpenID
-- identity
-- Google Apps
-- Google
----
-<p>So, everyone is writing about the <a href="http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=60217">Google Apps Premier Edition</a>. Lots of partners have announced services that integrate with Google Apps today -- see the <a href="http://www.google.com/enterprise/gallery/index.html">Google Enterprise Solutions</a> gallery for what&#39;s available today.</p><p>I&#39;ve complained before about <a href="/blog/bmann/googles-identity-infrastructure-is-messed-up-and-no-one-is-talking">Google&#39;s messed up identity system</a> (it&#39;s not fixed yet). And it looks like SXIP is now doing the same thing that it provides for Salesforce: identity management.</p><p>I&#39;ve pinged the folks at SXIP to find out more. Their <a href="http://www.sxip.com/press_releases-Sxip_Identity_Delivers_OnDemand_Identity_Management_for_Google_Apps">press release</a> points to <a href="http://www.sxip.com/sxip_access_google">SXIP Access</a>, which is their, dare I say it, &quot;previous&quot; solution vs. the OpenID bandwagon? Or maybe not?</p><p><strong>Update:</strong> I got the scoop from Lori Pike at SXIP: &quot;At this point in time there&#39;s no relation between [SXIP Access] and OpenID or SXIP 2.0/DIX.&quot; -- and likely there will be a blog post that explains a bit more. </p><p>At Bryght, we built a <a href="http://drupal.org/project/sxip">SXIP module for Drupal</a>. <a href="http://walkah.net">James</a> is building out the <a href="http://drupal.org/project/openid">OpenID client and server modules</a> for the 2.x version of the standard. Lots of identity stuff still in the mix here...I&#39;ve got lots of ideas swirling in my mind, as you should be able to tell by the scattered nature of this post.</p><p>OK, final thought: I mentioned Salesforce, who have App Exchange. I have long been expecting Google to add it&#39;s own shared contact system to complete it&#39;s Microsoft Exchange-killer. But now, they don&#39;t have to: they&#39;ve got this shared platform that anyone can deploy connector apps to. And the most highly critical bits -- email and calendar -- are maintained by Google, so this limits risk for adopters.</p><p>What is interesting to me is the potential for open source here. Will Google allow connectors and solutions that are &quot;free&quot;? Can you connect to other solutions ONLY if you pay for a Premier edition? Google as platform is now a reality...this definitely changes things. </p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-03-15-canadian-cell-phone-rates-are-higher-than-mexico.md b/_posts/archive/2007-03-15-canadian-cell-phone-rates-are-higher-than-mexico.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e4d2bcf..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-03-15-canadian-cell-phone-rates-are-higher-than-mexico.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Canadian cell phone rates are higher than Mexico
-created: 1174004692
-categories: 
-- Mexico
-- Alec Saunders
-- Rogers
-- wireless number portability
-- Canada
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<p><a href="http://saunderslog.com/2007/03/15/seaboards-damning-indictment-of-canadian-cellular-providers/">Alec Saunders reposted</a> a chart and some data from <a href="http://www.seaboardgroup.com/main/index.php?option=content&amp;task=view&amp;id=601&amp;Itemid=166">Seaboard Group&#39;s report on Canadian cell phone pricing -- Lament for a Wireless Nation</a>. The summary is</p><ul><li>Canada has lower cell phone usage than small African nations like Botswana </li><li>Pricing, bundles, and market growth were much better when there was competition (before Clearnet and Microcell aka Fido got bought)</li><li>First hand experience in buying a pay as you go SIM card in Mexico has lower rates for local and long distance than Rogers regular pricing back in Canada&nbsp;</li></ul><p>Of course, this is at the same time that <a href="http://www.digitalhome.ca/content/view/1737/207/">we now have wireless number portability</a> -- as of yesterday, March 14th to be exact. But since there is no competition, it will really only let highly pissed off consumers switch from their current bad provider to one of the other bad choices. Maybe at least we&#39;ll see a flood to Rogers/Fido where GSM phones and SIM cards rule...but it&#39;s not like I&#39;m overly happy with the service either.<br /> </p><p>There is a growing list of stories in Canada as well about the ridiculous level of cell phone pricing in Canada -- <a href="http://www.rolandtanglao.com/archives/2007/03/05/cellphones-a-r-poff-in-canada-why-is-this-news">Roland recently posted about a Globe and Mail story</a>, and there was a CBC piece on it as well.</p><p>So what can we do? Not much. Hope that someone brings real competition to Canada (a big, costly proposition) or perhaps just focus on rolling out free wifi to cover all the major cities.&nbsp;</p><p>And yes, for those following along at home, I am disputing some US roaming charges so currently my cell phone is out of order.&nbsp;</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-03-20-oscms-summit-starts-thursday.md b/_posts/archive/2007-03-20-oscms-summit-starts-thursday.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 3862f02..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-03-20-oscms-summit-starts-thursday.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: OSCMS Summit starts Thursday
-created: 1174459577
-categories: 
-- OSCMS Summit
-- OSCMS Summit 2007
-- yahoo
-- Sunnyvale
-- Drupal
-- Open Source
----
-<p>All I can say is....whew!</p><p>The response to the <a href="http://2007.oscms-summit.org">OSCMS Summit</a> this year has been simply overwhelming. OK, OK, maybe we could have predicted that making it a) free and b) in Silicon Valley and c) on the Yahoo Campus would drive attendance, but...</p><p>...well, I&#39;m overwhelmed. And the conference is, too, which is why I&#39;ve been basically radio silent about it on the blog here: we&#39;ve been full for weeks, and madly scrambling to see about staying in Yahoo&#39;s good graces so we could fit a few more people into nooks and crannies. Promoting it more was the last thing we needed to do because of our space constraints.</p><p>I want to specifically thank <a href="http://360.yahoo.com/profile-ycPI7RIzaafA5yTvjwqjn30nxTtKXtyTZw--">Bradley Greenwood</a> for taking point inside Yahoo, and to the twin <a href="http://www.lullabot.com">&#39;bots</a>, Jeff Robbins and Angie Byron, for website and schedule wrangling and working through all the details from the outside.&nbsp;</p><p>I&#39;m really looking forward to learning more from the collection of Open Source CMS projects that will be attending. I *still* would like to see broader participation, but of course this time around we were slammed for space from day one. And, really, note to self: if there hasn&#39;t been a US Drupal gathering in a while......make it it&#39;s own event.</p><p>I am stoked that a large portion of the <a href="http://www.joomla.org">Joomla</a> crew are coming out -- they&#39;ve got a massive release on the go with many, many exciting changes and I want to learn more. <a href="http://www.alfresco.com">Alfresco</a> should serve nicely to teach us all a little more about &quot;enterprise&quot; features. They also went <a href="http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/02/alfresco_goes_1.html">100% GPL open source on my birthday</a> this year, so it will be interesting to see what changes that brings.</p><p>Lastly, but absolutely not least, <a href="http://www.yahoo.com">Yahoo</a>: again, thanks to all involved for sponsoring and letting us bring this event to the heart of your campus. I want to see lots of cool code integrating with your sites and APIs, from the ever present Flickr to Yahoo Maps, Pipes, and all the other stuff you&#39;ve got brewing.&nbsp;</p>  <p>I&#39;ll be in San Francisco late tomorrow until noon on Monday, March 26th. My time will be filled out with OSCMS events plus the overflow of Drupal activities at the Sheraton Sunnyvale, but if you&#39;re in the area and/or attending, I&#39;m looking forward to connecting with you.</p> <!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-03-31-install-profile-api-for-drupal.md b/_posts/archive/2007-03-31-install-profile-api-for-drupal.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e20ed01..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-03-31-install-profile-api-for-drupal.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Install Profile API for Drupal
-created: 1175326833
-categories: 
-- CVS
-- install profiles
-- Bryght
-- Drupal
----
-<p>After about 3 years of running multisite and working on some variant of &quot;install profiles&quot; with our whole team at <a href="http://www.bryght.com">Bryght</a>, I reactivated my CVS account on Drupal.org and created the Install Profile API &quot;module&quot;.</p><p>I&#39;m incredibly proud of <a href="http://drupal.org/cvs?commit=62627">commit 62627</a>.   </p><p>As <a href="http://www.civicspacelabs.org">Kieran Lal of CivicSpace</a> said at the recent <a href="http://2007.oscms-summit.org">OSCMS Summit</a>, creating install profiles creates a new &quot;profession&quot; in the Drupal ecosystem: install profile maintainer.</p><p>It combines the consulting skills of taking business requirements and translating those into a selection of Drupal modules and configuration. It takes a bit of rigor and diligence to keep track of included modules, and listening to the community that is using your install profile.&nbsp;</p><p>I&#39;m excited about the <a href="http://drupal.org/project/Installation+profiles">installation profiles on drupal.org</a>. Every community can potentially bundle a custom package and easily leapfrog the (frustrating) learning stage of what module should I use and how do I configure this.</p><p>Every large organization that needs to deploy departmental websites.</p><p>Every consulting shop can have their own custom bundle when approaching projects.</p><p>Yep, I&#39;m excited. Forward!&nbsp;</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-04-09-the-travesty-of-canadian-mobile-data-rates.md b/_posts/archive/2007-04-09-the-travesty-of-canadian-mobile-data-rates.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 377b554..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-04-09-the-travesty-of-canadian-mobile-data-rates.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: The Travesty of Canadian Mobile Data Rates
-created: 1176146882
-categories: 
-- Canada
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px">  <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomaspurves/452679328/" title="photo sharing"><img style="border: 2px solid #000000" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/250/452679328_26f6ba593e_m.jpg" alt="" /></a>  <br />  <span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px">   <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomaspurves/452679328/">Write to your MP. The CRTC needs to be taken out and shot*</a>   <br />   Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/thomaspurves/">Tom Purves</a>.  </span> </div><p><strong>Update:</strong> I redid the graph to look at 1GB usage and look at just the 4 Canadian carriers. Fido and Rogers come in at a whopping $4100 per month, and Telus, who I&#39;ve long dismissed, is actually really competitive.<br /></p>  <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/453017593/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/173/453017593_344ba1805e.jpg" alt="Canadian Mobile Data Rate Costs (1GB)" width="500" height="375" /></a>  <p> Much like Net Neutrality, this story needs to get spread. This pricing structure is stifling mobile innovation in Canada. I would argue that it is causing carriers to lose money in the short as well as long term.<br /> <br /> There are groups like <a href="http://www.mobilemuse.ca">Mobile Muse</a> and others like that are doing innovative stuff. Locked away in research labs or funding short trials, because no one else can afford the data rates. </p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-04-10-can-the-crtc-help.md b/_posts/archive/2007-04-10-can-the-crtc-help.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c6b77e7..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-04-10-can-the-crtc-help.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Can the CRTC help?
-created: 1176216090
-categories: 
-- CRTC
-- Canada
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<p>So, I think we&#39;ve got agreement on the <a href="/blog/bmann/the-travesty-of-canadian-mobile-data-rates">ridiculous costs of mobile data in Canada</a>. But is it the &quot;fault&quot; of the CRTC?</p><p>I did a follow up comment on <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomaspurves/452679328/?#comment72157600061743796">Thomas Purves&#39; image post on Flickr</a>:</p><blockquote><p>I skipped over any mention of the CRTC: the focus here really is the short sightedness of the companies involved, that 100,000 customers at a lower cost is more money than 1,000 customers at a high cost (never mind the network effects of lots of people doing interesting things with mobile data, which intuitively would lead to even more revenue). I may do another post today that explores this a bit: can the CRTC help? I think government support / intervention is the only likely option, given the cost of infrastructure buildout here in Canada.<br /><br />What if the CRTC had blocked the sale of Fido to Rogers?<br /><br />Something to think about....(and maybe change the inflammatory title). </p></blockquote><p>Living in Canada, I&#39;m not against regulation in all its forms. I honestly don&#39;t know enough about the ins and outs of all the issues, or what twiddling the levers of intervention / regulation do to economies and businesses.</p><p>But it&#39;s likely that the right people to lobby are the mobile carriers themselves. The <a href="http://digg.com/tech_news/Canada_Worse_than_3rd_World_Countries_when_it_comes_to_Mobile_Data_Access/">comments on Digg</a> (surprisingly!) have some other useful points. <a href="http://martin.cleaver.org/blog/2007/04/09/the-stupidity-of-canadian-telcos-with-their-exhoribitant-data-rates/">Martin Cleaver</a> in particular points to what we can do (lobby your carrier!) and describes in more detail the issues that the CRTC faces. </p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-04-24-ben-wong-pushes-sutton-com-out-of-the-nest.md b/_posts/archive/2007-04-24-ben-wong-pushes-sutton-com-out-of-the-nest.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 4384962..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-04-24-ben-wong-pushes-sutton-com-out-of-the-nest.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Ben Wong pushes Sutton.com out of the nest
-created: 1177424883
-categories: 
-- real estate
-- sutton
-- Bryght
-- ben wong
-- Dave Shea
-- Bright Creative
-- Sutton.com
-- Vancouver
-- Drupal
----
-<p>Congratulations to <a href="http://www.mostlygeek.com/2007/04/23/sutton-2-0/">Ben Wong for the launch</a> of <a href="http://www.sutton.com">Sutton.com</a>. Sutton is one of Canada&#39;s largest real estate companies, and it now has a nice and clean &quot;Web 2.0&quot; style website. Well, maybe not THAT web 2.0 &ndash; a distinct lack of tag clouds :P</p><p>What it does have is a Drupal powered backend, cleanly designed HTML and highly search engine friendly structure.</p><p>It was very nice of Ben to mention <a href="http://www.bryght.com">Bryght</a> as part of the team that put Sutton.com together. Actually this was something that I and other members of the team were involved in even before there was a Bryght. In reality, most of the kudos should go to Ben himself, who is not only a programming and sysadmin ninja, but also did a great job of managing the dev team to see this to completion. And of course, <a href="http://www.mezzoblue.com">Dave Shea</a>&#39;s <a href="http://brightcreative.com/">Bright Creative</a> consultancy is who did the great design.</p><p>I&#39;ll be watching this site with interest, and hope Ben will give us a report on traffic and other commentary in a month or so from now. I know there are many more possibilities waiting in the wings, especially now that they&#39;ve got a web application framework in the form of Drupal underneath. Who knows, they might even add tag clouds...&nbsp;</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-05-02-experimenting-with-freebase.md b/_posts/archive/2007-05-02-experimenting-with-freebase.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 72a0c8e..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-05-02-experimenting-with-freebase.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Experimenting with Freebase
-created: 1178145889
-categories: 
-- Freebase
-- metadata
-- Nova Spivack
-- Radar Networks
-- Semantic Web
-- Web 3.0
-- Drupal
-- Web 2.0
-- Web Development
----
-<p>No, it&#39;s not a drug, it&#39;s the Semantic Web :P</p><p><a href="http://www.freebase.com">Freebase</a> is sort of like a structured wiki. In that, anyone can add content to the system. What&#39;s different, is that you can also add and define your own &quot;Type&quot; which are a collection of metadata. User generated content is quite common, and Freebase actually sucks in a ton of information from Wikipedia which gives it a huge base of content to start with, but this concept of being able to add/edit/organize higher level structures and metadata is new (tagging aside...). </p><p>I had great fun fleshing out entries for <a href="http://www.freebase.com/view?id=%239202a8c04000641f8000000000131038">Drupal</a> and the <a href="http://www.freebase.com/api/metaweb/view?id=%239202a8c04000641f8000000004f41d73">Drupal Association</a>, figuring out Company, Software, and People types in the process.</p><p>OK, OK, I admit -- filling in the <a href="http://www.freebase.com/view/filter?id=/food/beer">Beer</a> entries for <a href="http://www.freebase.com/view?id=%239202a8c04000641f8000000004f4214e">Hacker-Pschorr Weisse</a> and the <a href="http://www.freebase.com/view?id=%239202a8c04000641f80000000006304db">Hacker-Pschorr Brewery</a> were actually more fun :P</p><p>A couple of pieces of feedback on Freebase:</p><ul><li>A bit slow: some of the actions/dropdowns don&#39;t seem as snappy as they could be</li><li>URLs are ugly as sin: there is no perfect way to do this, but the URLs simply aren&#39;t &quot;friendly&quot; at all</li><li>Feature request - extend types: I couldn&#39;t figure out how to extend an existing type with extra metadata&nbsp;</li></ul><p>I can certainly understand <a href="http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/03/freebase_will_p_1.html">Tim O&#39;Reilly&#39;s great praising of Freebase</a> (and, of course, similar concepts like my old &quot;blog friend&quot; <a href="http://novaspivack.typepad.com/">Nova Spivack</a>&#39;s company, <a href="http://www.radarnetworks.com/">Radar Networks</a>) -- it&#39;s how the entire web *should* work.</p><p>So, when I link to a page, the page that I link to should show a link back to my post (it&#39;s called a referrer or trackback...except we can&#39;t use them in practice because of spam). And that &quot;link&quot; is a structured piece of content, that may have extra metadata and values associated with it (e.g. if it&#39;s been on Digg, how many Diggs it has, if it&#39;s a spam domain, a link to another &quot;owner&quot; person, etc.). </p><p>Spam aside, we still have these &quot;static&quot; web pages that can&#39;t fully participate in this more interactive web. Some of the smarts are migrating to individual pages themselves. I&#39;ve always believed this, and have long predicted the &quot;death of static pages&quot;.</p><p>But enough pontificating. Go experiment with Freebase, and the first person to mention Web 3.0 *will* get a slap.</p><p><strong>Update:</strong> so, yeah, I&#39;m sorry that I don&#39;t have any invites to give out yet. I didn&#39;t realize that Freebase was, um, as closed as it is still. Leave a note in the comments if you want an invite, and I&#39;ll hand them out as I get some.&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Update 2:</strong> OK, I&#39;ve got invites. Leave a comment in this thread or <a href="/contact">email me</a> if you want one.&nbsp;</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-05-08-superhappydevhouse-vancouver-may-11th-2007.md b/_posts/archive/2007-05-08-superhappydevhouse-vancouver-may-11th-2007.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 0fbb08d..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-05-08-superhappydevhouse-vancouver-may-11th-2007.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: SuperHappyDevHouse Vancouver, May 11th, 2007
-created: 1178656362
-categories: 
-- Bryght
-- DemoCampVancouver
-- SuperHappyDevHouse
-- Vancouver PHP
-- Vancouver
----
-<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px">  <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kk/490198495/" title="photo sharing"><img style="border: 2px solid #000000" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/197/490198495_e69036b5bb_m.jpg" alt="" /></a>  <br />  <span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px">   <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kk/490198495/">SuperHappyDevHouse - Vancouver Edition</a>   <br />   Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/kk/">kk+</a>.  </span> </div><p> SHDH is coming to Vancouver...this Friday, at the Bryght offices, 1PM to 1AM. <a href="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/171753/">Upcoming</a> that, bi-atch!</p><p>OK, OK -- there&#39;s a <a href="http://www.socialtext.net/stoss/index.cgi?super_happy_grow_op_dev_house">wiki page with more info on it</a>, too. BBQ, Beer, XBox (somebody want to bring a Wii), coding, etc. etc. Maybe art? Whatever, we&#39;ve got 12 hours, let&#39;s see what happens....</p><p>In other events: </p><ul><li>Vancouver PHP monthly event is is <a href="http://vancouver.php.net/node/469">PHP, remote XUL, and jQuery</a> this Thursday, also at Bryght&#39;s offices<br /> </li><li>here&#39;s a <a href="http://barcamp.org/DemoCampVancouver">DemoCampVancouver</a> early access notification -- <a href="http://barcamp.org/DemoCampVancouver01">May 24th at Work Space</a>!</li> </ul> <br />
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-05-12-super-happy-indeed.md b/_posts/archive/2007-05-12-super-happy-indeed.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 69574e2..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-05-12-super-happy-indeed.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Super Happy indeed
-created: 1179000671
-categories: 
-- Flapjax
-- Free Geek
-- Free Geek Vancouver
-- SHDH
-- SHDHVan
-- Socialtext
-- SuperHappyDevHouse
-- Vancouver
----
-<p>Yep, Super Happy indeed.</p><p>Well, the week was busy and Luke and I just sort of pulled everything together at the last minute, but <a href="http://www.socialtext.net/stoss/index.cgi?super_happy_grow_op_dev_house#edit">Vancouver&#39;s first SHDH</a> went pretty darn well, I think. Like I said, we were long on the Super and the Happy. Maybe not so much Dev, but I had an absolutely awesome number of great conversations. And we really did go all the way to 1am....we could have gone longer if the keg of beer hadn&#39;t run out *hours* earlier (another surprise, that...).<br /></p><p>Connected in particular with <a href="http://ascher.ca/blog/">David Ascher</a>....who I&#39;ve had great convo&#39;s with in the past, but found out a little more about him this time around. Hmmm. Vancouver Open Source Mafia. I like it :P I didn&#39;t really find out about <a href="http://www.flapjax-lang.org/">Flapjax</a>, which David was mumbling about...something for <a href="http://acko.net">Steven</a> to dive into, I think.</p><p>Was great to see everyone. A BCIT broadcast/journalism team grabbed a bunch of video, so we&#39;ll see how that turned out. Can&#39;t link/shout out to everyone, but here are a few links/one liners of interest.</p><ul><li>Great to see <a href="http://www.miss604.com/2007/05/superhappydevhouse-live-blog.html">Miss604</a> and hubby <a href="http://audihertz.net/">John</a>; hire John ... he&#39;s all about the Drupal now, and even legal to work here now</li><li>Always good to see <a href="http://www.duanestorey.com">The Duane Storey</a>; that much tequila probably shouldn&#39;t stay in our office :P </li><li><a href="http://www.ivantohelpyou.com/blog/2007/05/super-happy-grow-op-dev-house.html">Ivan did a great job of doing paper and pen coverage of the event</a>. You may remember him as &quot;that live spam guy&quot; from Lee and Nancy&#39;s Northern Voice 07 talk<br /></li><li>Ended up talking about <a href="http://www.steampowered.com">Valve&#39;s Steam</a> game download service (more on this in a separate post, likely) with <a href="http://randomdude.com/blog/">Dustin Sacks</a>. <a href="http://www.poxnora.com">PoxNora</a> is an online + Java Web Start kind of collectible card game + strategy game that illustrates, for me, a really nice balance of how games can / should be deployed as well. Dustin -- something along this line for website integration with &quot;Lux Online&quot; might be interesting....collect army cards?!?</li><li><a href="http://foolswisdom.com/shdh-v1/">Lloyd</a> was missed. Victoria: so close, and yet so far away (P.S. SHDH and SHDHVan)&nbsp;</li><li>All the <a href="http://freegeekvancouver.org/">Freegeek Van</a> folks kick an incredible amount of a** -- feels like new energy and kindred spirits to kick it up a notch here in Van... <br /></li><li>(Later) And of course, catch up with <a href="http://nearlyfree.org/vancouver-hack-thon">Keith Grennan</a>, who is doing cool things with grant management software (although it looks like he won&#39;t get to build it with his new love, Drupal; yes, a Pingback module [or taking over the existing Trackback, and making it PB compatible too] is a good idea) </li></ul><p>(Man, this is getting long, and I haven&#39;t even done the <a href="http://scotthadfield.ca/">Hadsie</a>, <a href="http://mackhardy.ca/">Mack Hardy</a>, or <a href="http://www.buffmuthers.com/~midge/archives/2007_05.html#000732">Ariane</a> shout outs...that&#39;s it for now, see y&#39;all soonish)&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://www.socialtext.com">SocialText</a>, <a href="http://www.activestate.com">ActiveState</a>, <a href="http://www.sophos.com">Sophos</a> -- thanks for coming, and thanks for supporting with beer and pizza delivery. <a href="http://vpfree.pinkbike.com/bb/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&amp;u=2&amp;">Radek Burkat</a> gets the spontaneous rib steak donation award :P<br /></p><p>Next up: <a href="http://barcamp.org/DemoCampVancouver">DemoCampVancouver</a>, May 24th. Yes, this blog IS filled mainly with event announcements :P One of these days, the great merging of <a href="http://personal.bmannconsulting.com">personal</a> etc. and upgrading will happen...<br /></p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-05-14-twitter-is-jabber.md b/_posts/archive/2007-05-14-twitter-is-jabber.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 82d002e..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-05-14-twitter-is-jabber.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Twitter is Jabber
-created: 1179209977
-categories: 
-- Dave Winer
-- jabber
-- SMS
-- Twitter
-- XMPP
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<p>OK, I finally lost it when I read <a href="http://www.scripting.com/stories/2007/05/14/twitterPremium.html">Dave Winer&#39;s post re: Twitter premium</a>:</p><blockquote><p>Jason Calacanis is known for stimulating interesting discussion. Today is no different. &nbsp;<a href="http://www.scripting.com/stories/2007/05/14/twitterPremium.html#p1"><img src="http://www.scripting.com/images/2001/09/20/sharpPermaLink3.gif" border="0" alt="Permalink to this paragraph" width="6" height="9" /></a> </p><p><a name="p2" title="p2"></a><a href="http://www.calacanis.com/2007/05/14/i-would-pay-for-twitter-com/">He says he&#39;d pay $100</a> a year for a Twitter that was always fast, almost always up, and had some additional features.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.scripting.com/stories/2007/05/14/twitterPremium.html#p2"><img src="http://www.scripting.com/images/2001/09/20/sharpPermaLink3.gif" border="0" alt="Permalink to this paragraph" width="6" height="9" /></a></p><p><a name="p3" title="p3"></a>I sent Jason a private email which I&#39;ll now repeat here.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.scripting.com/stories/2007/05/14/twitterPremium.html#p3"><img src="http://www.scripting.com/images/2001/09/20/sharpPermaLink3.gif" border="0" alt="Permalink to this paragraph" width="6" height="9" /></a></p><p><a name="p4" title="p4"></a><em>Just FYI, because of their API, you don&#39;t really need Ev and Biz to do that for you. A bunch of us could pool resources and set up a server of our own, and peer with Twitter&#39;s. If Twitter is down it would just queue up the messages, in the meantime, anyone who was on the premium system would see the messages immediately. </em>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.scripting.com/stories/2007/05/14/twitterPremium.html#p4"><img src="http://www.scripting.com/images/2001/09/20/sharpPermaLink3.gif" border="0" alt="Permalink to this paragraph" width="6" height="9" /></a></p></blockquote>  <p>&nbsp;Look: forget Twitter. It has a bunch of users, that&#39;s about it. How to build twitter:</p><ol><li>Install Jabber server</li><li>Install SMS gateway</li><li>Done</li></ol><p>That&#39;s about it. And it has a publish and subscribe architecture built in, rather than all these crazy desktop apps that constantly poll the Twitter mothership. That&#39;s it. It&#39;s simple.</p><p>&quot;Peering with Twitter&quot;. WTH. Built into the XMPP protocol. It&#39;s a standard. Works with lots of other things already.&nbsp;</p><p>My only explanation for the Twitter craze is that North Americans are still enamored of anything that can do the tiniest bit of mobile integration. Yes, Twitter has managed to scale and spend many thousands of dollars paying for SMS gateways. Great! Maybe if they had built a front end on top of Jabber, they would have gotten there faster... </p><p>/me shakes head&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Update:</strong> <a href="http://www.scripting.com/stories/2007/05/15/bMannLosesIt.html">Dave links back</a> and explains that the number of users that have adopted Twitter is important. So...yes, I agree, I mean, I <a href="http://bryght.com">help build community sites</a> for a living. So why are we talking about building an ecosystem around a company? Jabber would allow everyone who wants to build a real coral reef...one that doesn&#39;t rely on body of a company in the middle. </p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-05-15-gold-stars-for-drupal-contrib-modules-and-how-to-get-one.md b/_posts/archive/2007-05-15-gold-stars-for-drupal-contrib-modules-and-how-to-get-one.md
deleted file mode 100644
index bc8cd57..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-05-15-gold-stars-for-drupal-contrib-modules-and-how-to-get-one.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Gold stars for Drupal contrib modules -- and how to get one
-created: 1179296664
-categories: 
-- PHP
-- simpletest
-- unit testing
-- Drupal
----
-<p>So, it&#39;s probably about time I took some thoughts that have been rambling around my head for a while and even spilled out a bit in #drupal here and there, and talked about what I think about &quot;gold stars&quot; for Drupal contrib modules. </p><p>Nick Lewis has written one of his usual <a href="http://www.nicklewis.org/node/914">thought provoking posts</a> on the subject of having a &quot;top tier&quot; of contributed modules. I agree...in principle. But he&#39;s also wrong.</p> <!--break--> <p>I&#39;ve been an advocate for more access to all. Give that poor, downtrodden PHP programmer in the corner a CVS account. It will make them a better person, they&#39;ll learn best practices, and a glorious garden of contrib will flourish. Well...not so much, although there are some fantastic starting points out there in contrib, and a few great, solid pieces of code that perform yeoman work. </p><p>Want a gold star? Here&#39;s how to get one:</p><ol><li>Your code conforms to coding standards, right? Coder module can help you.</li><li>You use the new system of branches and tagged releases. You there, in the corner, speak up! Yes, OK, if you are pre-Drupal-5 and dww project module goodness, stand down: you can just run a 4.7 branch and be done with it. But tag up on Drupal 5+, and you can still get a gold star.<br /></li><li>Tests. Lovely, lovely unit tests. <a href="http://drupal.org/project/simpletest">Simpletest</a> (dear gawd, the test module doesn&#39;t even have an official Drupal 5 release...). You&#39;ve got tests, and they succeed. Intrigued? Like the idea of having code that you KNOW works, even after you&#39;ve made changes, or someone else has submitted a patch. Learn more about the <a href="http://drupal.org/simpletest">simpletest framework and module</a> (OOP fans rejoice! The simpletest framework uses classes, so now you can have your Drupal and eat your OOP, too)</li><li>Insert some final hand waving about being a good maintainer. This means probably having at least one co-maintainer for all but the simplest of modules, not being a duplicate-but-slightly-different-module, plus no-I-didn&#39;t-bother-to-try-and-get-incredibly-useful-feature-into-core will also be frowned upon. Yes, this point is the fuzzy one. Got better suggestions? </li></ol><p>What are the consequences? Maybe only a select few get gold stars. Those with stars get more stars. merlinofchaos gets a new wizard robe, the rest of us have quidditch mud thrown in our faces.</p><p>But wait. Here&#39;s a suggestion. What if, if you don&#39;t follow these steps...you don&#39;t get publicly listed. That&#39;s right, forget the gold star.</p><p>What if, when browsing the downloads section for contributed modules, it only listed modules that met these standards. You could, of course, still get to those projects, and visit their issue queues, and link to them directly. And maybe, if killes is feeling especially generous and has had a delicious newbie snack to tide him over for a while, there&#39;s a special &quot;I know what I&#39;m doing and I really want to see the stinky code over the corner even though it will probably eat my baby&quot; button/flag/giant padlock that you can click to get to browse through all the modules.</p><p>But the default is, no gold star, no public listing. </p><p>Perhaps even more radical – and if you pay attention to nothing else, internalize this bit – what if, on every project you worked on, every time you touched a contributed module, you did the following:</p><ul><li>Run it through the Coder module, make fixes if necessary and submit a patch</li><li>Verify that all simpletests complete without errors. No tests available? Write at least one and submit it as a patch.</li><li>That feature that you want/need added? Write it up! And make a simpletest. And submit a patch.</li><li>Review and comment on at least one other patch in the queue.</li></ul><p>I think clients want tests. It reduces their maintenance costs long term. Oh? You thought you were buying a finished product? Remember, CMS is a project, not a product.</p><p>Do I need to write up the bit about having a &quot;patches&quot; directory, and a developer ticket which links to the patch and the drupal.org issue queue number, and that the work isn&#39;t done until the issue is closed and the code is resynced with the upstream tree? Let&#39;s take that as a given...</p><p>What would be the long term effects of individual developers and consulting shops adopting such a model? How much would the code quality improve over time? On the second project that you start, where 80% of the modules are the same as the last one, which now all have simpletests available, how much time would you save?</p><p>Some food for thought. I think it&#39;s a process I&#39;d like to embark on. In the short term, it&#39;s going to be HARD. But in the long term, I think the <a href="http://acko.net/blog/ensuring-your-contributed-code-gathers-dust">mountain pygmies</a> will thank us.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-05-15-twitter-is-jabber-part-ii.md b/_posts/archive/2007-05-15-twitter-is-jabber-part-ii.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 116ffba..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-05-15-twitter-is-jabber-part-ii.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Twitter is Jabber, Part II
-created: 1179246390
-categories: 
-- jabber
-- XMPP
-- Twitter
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<p>So, both <a href="http://www.scripting.com/stories/2007/05/15/bMannLosesIt.html">Dave</a> and <a href="http://scobleizer.com/2007/05/15/its-the-users-not-the-technology/#comments">Robert Scoble</a> raked me over the coals for daring to say that a popular service with lots of users could be <a href="/blog/bmann/twitter-is-jabber">done differently</a>. I had some good back and forth comments in Scoble&#39;s comment thread, re-posted below. </p><ul><li>I don&#39;t plan on building a &quot;Twitter killer&quot; using Jabber</li><li>I don&#39;t think Twitter should go away...just that they might want to look at using Jabber directly as their core, which has many open benefits not the least of which is an automatic federation model</li><li>I don&#39;t claim that the entire Twitter community could be duplicated: yes, I understand &quot;it&#39;s the users, stupid!&quot;...I can still wish for technological improvements<br /></li></ul><p>From my <a href="http://scobleizer.com/2007/05/15/its-the-users-not-the-technology/#comments">comment on Robert&#39;s post</a>:&nbsp;</p><blockquote><p>I&rsquo;d love to see a Jabber-to-Twitter API that means all the rest of us outside the walls of Twitter could interoperate, peer, and all that good stuff.</p><p>Building it around one company, no matter how many users it has, doesn&rsquo;t seem like a particularly good idea.</p><p>Facebook implemented SMS notifications (&rdquo;just like Twitter&rdquo;) and has a TON of users. If we had a standard like Jabber in the middle, people could have <a href="mailto:joe@facebook.com">joe@facebook.com</a> accounts and <a href="mailto:jane@twitter.com">jane@twitter.com</a> accounts. And it would all just work <img class="wp-smiley" src="http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif" alt=":P" /> </p><p>A note on Jabber/XMPP: XMPP is an open, IETF standard that has been used to implement a lot of IM-like functionality in the past. It also happens to be a protocol that&rsquo;s great for passing around any sort of data where real time or publish and subscribe models make sense.</p><p>It&rsquo;s all about the users: so make it so that ALL the users can talk to each other in a real federation model (which works today with Jabber), rather than being locked in Twitter&rsquo;s trunk.</p></blockquote>    <p>Robert&#39;s response:</p><blockquote><p>Boris: now joining Facebook and Twitter sounds like a great opportunity! Building a bridge between two islands adds value. Trying to replace the islands doesn&rsquo;t interest me at all. Building a third island that connects the other two? Good too! I guess it&rsquo;s all in the semantics.</p></blockquote><p>He goes on to say that &quot;Twitter is NOT IM or SMS&quot; and that he uses mainly the web interface. So...I agree. It&#39;s *the* area where Twitter has been innovating. A perfect thing to build on top of an open standard and add value.</p><p>Also left as a parting word in comments:</p><blockquote><p>To me, XMPP is a real time version of RSS. That&#39;s the very shortest description I can make that also highlights the power and potential I think the protocol/standard itself has.&nbsp;</p></blockquote>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-05-16-les-orchard-xmpp-for-self-hosted-twitter-esque-nodes.md b/_posts/archive/2007-05-16-les-orchard-xmpp-for-self-hosted-twitter-esque-nodes.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e5b9950..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-05-16-les-orchard-xmpp-for-self-hosted-twitter-esque-nodes.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Les Orchard: XMPP for self-hosted Twitter-esque nodes"
-created: 1179348501
-categories: 
-- decafbad
-- jabber
-- Les Orchard
-- p2p
-- Twitter
-- XMPP
-- IM
-- Web 2.0
----
-<p><a href="/blog/bmann/twitter-is-jabber#comment-136131">Les&#39; comment</a> was too good to languish in the comments. Content management systems and blogs are now clearly at the &quot;easy to self host level&quot;. How long will it take to be able to easily do the same thing with a Jabber server?</p><p>In the light of ongoing PHP wrangling, PHP is also likely not the best language to be writing that server in. </p><blockquote><p>What I think would be a hot &quot;Twitter killer&quot; (successor?) would be something self-hosted like WordPress or Drupal. I&#39;ve been idly thinking about this since I first saw the site, so my ears perk up when I see discussion like this :)</p><p>I think XMPP would be excellent for communication for node-to-node and user-to-node. The user-to-user case works for a private IM back channel, but even there it might help to have a web-based Jabber client and maybe a custom XMPP server with an archival plugin tapping in.</p><p>Another thing I&#39;ve been wondering is what limitations XMPP might introduce in deployment cost in a cheap PHP hosting world where WordPress, etal thrive? How hard is it to run your own XMPP server, or is it really necessary? (I&#39;m spoiled because I&#39;ve either always had root on my own dedicated / virtual server, or shared a server that had a Jabber server running.)</p><p>Along with XMPP, though, I think a few other federation options might be handy. Optionally CC&#39;ing to an account on Twitter / Jaiku / iStalker / etc itself via the API to keep looped into an existing community - dirty, but handy. Also, polling RSS / Atom / JSON feeds to &quot;pull&quot; updates for a friend subscribed on the self-hosted node who&#39;s not in the XMPP loop.</p><p>In any case, I think XMPP is an excellent foundation for a network of self-hosted Twitter-esque nodes. I&#39;m just wondering what else needs to be layered on and how.</p></blockquote><p> Now go over and <a href="http://decafbad.com/blog/">subscribe to the rest of Les&#39; stuff -- you probably know him as decafbad</a>.</p> <!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-05-24-democampvancouver01-and-on-using-facebook-for-getting-the-word-out.md b/_posts/archive/2007-05-24-democampvancouver01-and-on-using-facebook-for-getting-the-word-out.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 4b64e1c..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-05-24-democampvancouver01-and-on-using-facebook-for-getting-the-word-out.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: DemoCampVancouver01 and on using Facebook for getting the word out
-created: 1180047256
-categories: 
-- DemoCamp
-- DemoCampVancouver
-- DemoCampVancouver01
-- Facebook
-- Vancouver
----
-<p>Why yes, I <strong>am</strong> continuing the tradition of not-real-blogging-its-just-about-event-posting :P</p><p>&nbsp;</p><div style="text-align: center"><a href="http://barcamp.org/DemoCampVancouver01"><img src="http://barcamp.org/f/vancouverdemocamp.png" border="0" /></a></div><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>So, the first <a href="http://barcamp.org/DemoCampVancouver01">DemoCampVancouver01</a>, held at <a href="http://www.abetterplacetowork.com">WorkSpace</a>, is over. And no blog post ahead of time from me! </p><p>But that, in part, is what this post is about.</p><p>See, I procrastinated making a post. I used a bunch of channels to get the word out about this event. I added some subtle links in earlier posts to this blog, I made an entry on Upcoming.org, we made a mailing list, and then....and then I decided to experiment with Facebook.</p><p>I created a <a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2426652061">DemoCampVancouver group</a>, and I made an event posting, and I invited all my friends. And Facebook has this built in ability to pass on these type of postings/notifications, and it spread even further. As of today, there are almost 100 members in the Facebook group.</p><p>So, Facebook works. It helped that WorkSpace promoted the event &quot;live&quot; to all its members, who are naturally an entrepreneurial group of people. But...well, even with the talk of <a href="http://gigaom.com/2007/05/24/live-at-the-facebook-launch/">Facebook as platform</a>, it&#39;s inherently closed nature, it&#39;s non-participation in the open web...bugs me.</p><p>Isn&#39;t this why I&#39;m working on identity? So we can build Facebook in a distributed matter, everywhere? </p><p>...but I digress. The evening was great, we had about 50 people out, way more interest in presenting that there was time for, and a really engaged/interesting/awesome group of people. Look to the various channels of the Internet universe for more info, check out the <a href="http://www.technorati.com/tag/democampvancouver">DemoCampVancouver tag</a>, and we&#39;ll update the <a href="http://barcamp.org/DemoCampVancouver">wiki</a> with more information. Thanks to all for coming out, tell all your many tribes about this, and let&#39;s get prepped for some Powerpoint Karaoke for next time...</p> <!--break--> <p>Next event with a subtle link? Come out next <a href="http://groups.drupal.org/node/4077">Thursday for May&#39;s League of Vancouver Drupal-ers at our Bryght offices</a>, with a presentation on &quot;Achieving Awesome Design with Drupal&quot;. </p><p>&nbsp;</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-05-25-facebook-is-mall-of-america.md b/_posts/archive/2007-05-25-facebook-is-mall-of-america.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a7fb67a..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-05-25-facebook-is-mall-of-america.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Facebook is Mall of America
-created: 1180138767
-categories: 
-- Facebook
-- Social Media
-- Web 2.0
----
-<p>In the office today, we talked more <a href="http://www.facebook.com">Facebook</a>. It&#39;s an important component of the industry we play in.</p><p>Here&#39;s a little analogy that we think is right:</p><blockquote><p>Facebook is to the Internet as the <a href="http://www.mallofamerica.com/">Mall of America</a> is to the rest of the world: there are a lot of people, activity and commerce on the inside, and you definitely want a stall/shop/exhibit there, but your warehouse, your home base, is always going to be on the outside.</p></blockquote><p>Sure is fun thinking about how all these things intertwingle.... </p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-06-03-why-you-should-send-interesting-tech-gadgets-to-my-dad-for-testing.md b/_posts/archive/2007-06-03-why-you-should-send-interesting-tech-gadgets-to-my-dad-for-testing.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 9bf7487..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-06-03-why-you-should-send-interesting-tech-gadgets-to-my-dad-for-testing.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Why you should send interesting tech gadgets to my dad for testing
-created: 1180893355
-categories: 
-- Facebook
-- Flickr
-- Horst Mann
-- Opa
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<p>My dad, <a href="http://horst.wordpress.com">Horst Mann</a>, turned 70 yesterday. He has an old Canon digital camera, my hand me down 15&quot; Powerbook G4, and talks to his daughter and grand daughter in Italy using Skype and video.</p><p>He is an &quot;Old Skool&quot; Flickr member. I kicked him off my home server hosting using Gallery, and he&#39;s been a Flickr community member since about March 2004. Yep, that&#39;s &#39;04, March. On Flickr, he&#39;s known as <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/opa">Opa</a>, which means &quot;grandpa&quot; in German.<br /></p><p>As of yesterday, he and my mom both have Facebook accounts. They both use <a href="http://www.newsgator.com/Individuals/NetNewsWire/">NetNewsWire</a> to keep up to date via RSS with a variety of sites, including this one. Subscribing to new sources is hard, but then clicking through every link in a blog entry and reading every resulting page takes some time, so I&#39;m not sure they have room for more. They blog occasionally, but uploading pictures to Flickr seems the easiest way to tell a story. </p><p>Dad has a cellphone, some sort of Motorola from Telus. His phone number is actually set to 100 Mile House, since my parents have a cabin up there, and it lets him do a few things like (painfully) text people and make phone calls using a cell phone antenna on the roof. He&#39;s seen me using a variety of Nokia phones to easily take pictures and upload them directly to Flickr on the go using <a href="http://www.shozu.com">ShoZu</a>. But, we know all about <a href="/blog/bmann/the-travesty-of-canadian-mobile-data-rates">Canadian mobile data rates</a> and how that&#39;s impossible for &quot;regular people&quot; to afford.&nbsp;</p><p>70. My dad is 70. Growing up, he knew all about technology. He was the guy that taught me a lot. He taught courses on AppleWorks and the Apple IIe. We got cool tech at home earlier than most (I mean, a <a href="http://lowendmac.com/pb/portable.shtml">Mac Portable</a>, upgraded to 2MB!!! of RAM).</p><p>So, on this day after my dad&#39;s 70th birthday, I&#39;m throwing out a request. We&#39;ve got a lot to learn from people using technology, of all ages and backgrounds. I&#39;d like to see my dad get some cool tools or services to kick the tires on. He&#39;s going to do the Camino, the pilgrim&#39;s walk in Spain, for the second time next year, so perhaps mobile devices would be particularly appropriate.<br /></p><p>Leave a comment, get in touch, or even just head over and <a href="http://horst.wordpress.com/2007/06/03/birthday-wishes-for-horst/">leave a comment wishing him happy birthday</a>. Happy birthday, dad, and thanks for teaching me so much.<br /></p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-06-07-12-macbook-pro-with-touchscreen-keyboard.md b/_posts/archive/2007-06-07-12-macbook-pro-with-touchscreen-keyboard.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 02e1205..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-06-07-12-macbook-pro-with-touchscreen-keyboard.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: 12" Macbook Pro...with touchscreen keyboard
-created: 1181271081
-categories: 
-- "12"
-- Apple
-- iPhone
-- Leopard
-- prediction
-- WWDC
-- Mac
----
-<p>OK, <a href="http://developer.apple.com/wwdc/">WWDC</a> is on its way and we need to guess what might be announced. Here are some data points:</p><ul><li>a Macbook rev has been announced</li><li>a Macbook Pro rev has been announced</li><li>the iPhone is out and is supercoolawesome already </li><li>we don&#39;t know everything about Leopard</li><li>usually something &quot;cool&quot; gets announced at WWDC</li></ul><p>So, by that logic, we might see something not so exciting like &quot;brushed steel iMacs&quot; (rumor passing on credit to <a href="http://www.mezzoblue.com">Dave Shea</a>).</p><p>But, I&#39;m going to take a stab at predicting what we might see: I think we&#39;re in for a 12&quot; Macbook Pro (or a different name?). But with a difference. No keyboard. The entire surface will be a touchpad / tablet / screen thingie, kind of like the iPhone. You can use a virtual keyboard, or you can do crazy touch sensitive actions.</p><p>There are reports of <a href="http://news.com.com/Virtual%20keyboard%20tops%20Apple%20patent%20requests/2100-1041_3-6066425.html">patents</a> going back a while (and yes, that might just be iPhone related), and then there is that crazy virtual keyboard company that I can&#39;t find a link to now, that Apple bought some time ago. </p><p>There. That&#39;s it. That&#39;s my guess. I hope I&#39;m right :P</p><p><strong>Update:</strong> I found a <a href="http://www.techfeed.ca/?q=node/95">link to a &quot;leaked&quot; outline for the WWDC keynote</a> tomorrow -- talking about a 10&quot; iPhone at Home...which is pretty close to the &quot;tablet / non computer&quot; that I&#39;ve been thinking Apple would launch for quite some time. </p> <!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-06-10-trip-to-galiano.md b/_posts/archive/2007-06-10-trip-to-galiano.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 13c4874..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-06-10-trip-to-galiano.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Trip to Galiano
-created: 1181543791
-categories: 
-- Galiano
-- Unfuddle
-- Christian Nally
-- Avi Bryant
-- Raincity Studios
-- workspace
-- OpenCoffee
-- Trac
-- SVN
-- Subversion
-- Canada
-- Vancouver
-- Drupal
----
-<p>I just got back from Galiano Island, one of the Southern Gulf Islands between Vancouver and Victoria/Vancouver Island. Theoretically it was a <a href="http://groups.drupal.org/galiano-potlatch-2007">Drupal geek thing</a> hosted by <a href="http://instillanarchy.com/cms/" title="Instill Anarchy is an anagram of Christian&#39;s name -- cool!">Christian Nally</a>, and we did spend a fair amount of time thinking about <a href="http://groups.drupal.org/node/4492">install profiles for Drupal 6 core</a>.</p><p>But really, it was a chance to get out of the city, and it ended up being a great place to connect with a lot of people. Did you know, for instance, that <a href="http://smallthought.com/avi/">Avi Bryant</a> has bought a place there? I&#39;ve been doing my own thinking about how to get over Vancouver housing crisis/prices pain without doing a suburb, and Galiano is not a bad compromise.<br /></p><p>I was lucky enough to get a ride from <a href="http://www.billmacewen.com/blog/">Bill</a> of <a href="http://www.abetterplacetowork.com">WorkSpace</a>, and it turns out <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/josli/">Josli</a> is actually from Galiano. I&#39;m an islander myself, having grown up on Bowen Island.<br /></p><p>Actually, the Bill / WorkSpace connection is interesting, since Nally would really like to have a &quot;WorkSpace Galiano&quot;. So, how do you grow/spread/franchise the concept/name and have it continue to succeed? Do alternate systems a la <a href="http://www.opencoffeeclub.org/">OpenCoffee</a> plug into this? I have more on this rolling around, and I hope that something real/with money behind it comes of it. More soon. </p><p>P.S. Dear blogosphere: what&#39;s happening in Facebook is very important. More of the bits over there need to be dragged out here...and a lot of it is about this identity layer that&#39;s just not quite built yet out here. </p><p>P.P.S. Another great find over the weekend was <a href="http://www.unfuddle.com">Unfuddle</a>. <a href="http://www.raincitystudios.com">Raincity Studios</a> have been using it for a while and have found it good (we use <a href="http://trac.edgewall.org/">Trac</a>, which is a lot like it only...harder for humans). I&#39;m still kicking tires, AND I wish the codebase was open (just do the hosted service thing, guys....) but it seems very good. I still need to write up and/or do a training course on &quot;Best Practices for Drupal Development using Subversion&quot;, and Unfuddle would be a good part of it.&nbsp;</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-06-11-drupal-5-upgrade.md b/_posts/archive/2007-06-11-drupal-5-upgrade.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 043c3f3..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-06-11-drupal-5-upgrade.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Drupal 5 Upgrade
-created: 1181557655
-categories: 
-- upgrade
-- BMC
----
-<p>OK, BMC is sitting on Drupal 5 now. From 4.6 to 5.0 in one fairly painless move. I expect lots of stuff will be broken. I've got <a href="http://drupal.org/project/simplemenu">SimpleMenu</a>, which makes me happy.</p>
-
-<p>I'm going to be re-arranging things a lot and try and draw a bunch of my presence back into this spot. Including a partial re-integration of <a href="http://personal.bmannconsulting.com">personal</a>.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-06-14-freegeek-vancouver-and-vancouver-php-offer-summer-of-php.md b/_posts/archive/2007-06-14-freegeek-vancouver-and-vancouver-php-offer-summer-of-php.md
deleted file mode 100644
index d535121..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-06-14-freegeek-vancouver-and-vancouver-php-offer-summer-of-php.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: FreeGeek Vancouver and Vancouver PHP offer "Summer of PHP"
-created: 1181855481
-categories: 
-- Free Geek Vancouver
-- Vancouver PHP Users Group
-- Vancouver
-- Web Development
----
-<p>Check out the <a href="http://vancouver.php.net/node/484">Vancouver PHP Users Group Summer Workshop Series</a>. It&#39;s specifically targeted at beginners, here&#39;s the description:</p><blockquote><p>The purpose of this workshop is to introduce beginners to PHP and associated technologies. There is no charge, and these workshops are intended to be an introduction to further courses, that you could pursue at a college or university.</p></blockquote><p>As well, Audrey is going to be one of the main instructors, and she&#39;s looking specifically to get a core of women interested in these courses. Check the VanPHP website for <a href="http://vancouver.php.net/node/484">full details and session descriptions</a>. This is </p><p>What&#39;s the catch? Well, <a href="http://freegeekvancouver.org/" title="Computer recycling and tech activism">Free Geek Vancouver</a> is providing both the venue and a computer lab setup, and there is no charge for these courses. But, just having moved into their new space, they need more power. If you know of an electrician that can help, please <a href="http://freegeekvancouver.org/contact">contact Free Geek Vancouver</a>. </p><p>Also, if you do have older computers or computer gear, drop it by Free Geek Vancouver. It will help not only this course, but also the free computers that they give out to people. It&#39;s great for me to see the rise of Free Geek here -- a very passionate group of tech folks -- and even better that they&#39;re working with VanPHP.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-06-16-on-facebook-apps-and-friend-requests.md b/_posts/archive/2007-06-16-on-facebook-apps-and-friend-requests.md
deleted file mode 100644
index ddc3bea..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-06-16-on-facebook-apps-and-friend-requests.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: On Facebook apps and friend requests
-created: 1182008535
-categories: 
-- Facebook
-- Social Media
-- Web 2.0
----
-So...while I am experimenting with Facebook Apps myself (see http://apps.facebook.com/bmannconsulting -- but really, that just allows login to this website), I am unlikely to add arbitrary Facebook App X. The only ones I&#39;m interested in are ones that connect out to the Internet: random little apps that live only inside FB are less interesting to me. And actually, ones that let users add content but then you HAVE to be a member to even see the content...yeah, yeah...I get the viral thing, it&#39;s just annoying!<br /><br />That means a lot of &quot;ignore this&quot; from me.<br /><br />Also....I&#39;m only adding friends that I&#39;ve actually met in person OR spent a significant amount of time interacting with online. This is a long standing rule of mine that I&#39;ve used for years.<br /><br />If you&#39;re a friend of a friend that I&#39;ve met once or twice: don&#39;t feel bad, we&#39;re &quot;connected&quot; through that friend of mine. That&#39;s how these social network things work.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-06-23-buying-an-lcd-monitor-as-a-tv.md b/_posts/archive/2007-06-23-buying-an-lcd-monitor-as-a-tv.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 95350b3..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-06-23-buying-an-lcd-monitor-as-a-tv.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,46 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Buying an LCD Monitor as a TV
-created: 1182585478
-categories: 
-- LCD
-- LCD Monitor
-- TV
-- LCD TV
-- HDMI
-- LG
-- L226WA
-- Multimedia PC
-- HDMI
-- L226WA
-- LCD
-- LCD Monitor
-- LCD TV
-- LG
-- TV
-- Multimedia PC
----
-<p>
-	I went shopping for a TV with my friend Jamie last night. I myself ended up making the decision to buy an LCD TV rather than a monitor several years ago (<a href="/node/1416">LCD TV vs LCD monitor</a>, <a href="/node/1430">no difference between them</a>, and my eventual <a href="/node/1437">BenQ DV2680 purchase</a>). The technology has evolved in the meantime, and Jamie ended up with a 22&quot; LG LCD monitor (<a href="http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&amp;langid=EN&amp;MSCSProfile=3C79F0C7EA3162B25DCF0857B6387C8EC71A1439AF7916FD2B71AF723A0B8A15D9B3CAE545736561B7A1EC3220D7AE65E357C93815D675B0120B63A3218A53B7D6FB3CE68738F8B898766A89B6A3CE8A9FB7A6423C962020C267F48336E628E21BB2FBD464AB1E6FC801C4CBB17A6FAA14917397B44D83DF6D30006EEB7FA96BFB305D2CA759121E1BA99E4E6DD51318C68C8AE9C7D27A8412AB11FF0EA1B81FDE96C1EBAD245D28DEDE5CAA8E254ECDA84FA26D56B057E39F669E7B6E86919C11F7C96BAA30478C&amp;sku_id=0665000FS10084266&amp;catid=">L226WA - $349 at Future Shop</a>). The neat thing about this monitor is that it also has direct composite video inputs, so it can be used for any video source.</p>
-<p>
-	We did do the back and forth between a larger LCD TV, but it was 3x the price, and for that you &quot;just&quot; get a larger display (but lower resolution for computer work), speakers, and an HD tuner. But, if you don&#39;t have cable, and will be hooking up a DVD player and/or a computer, the tuner is not needed, and external speakers are going to be better quality. Seems like a no brainer, especially considering that the Shaw PVR now actually has an HDMI connector on it as well.</p>
-<p>
-	The monitor connections:</p>
-<ul>
-	<li>
-		composite video inputs: the &quot;old&quot; high quality standard that most people will have, and that most game consoles have</li>
-	<li>
-		HDMI input: video and audio</li>
-	<li>
-		single audio out: a simple headphone jack style audio output, meant to put out the audio carried in over the HDMI cable. This can then easily be plugged into a set of computer speakers or use headphones.</li>
-	<li>
-		DVI and D-SUB connectors: for easily connecting in a laptop or other computer</li>
-</ul>
-<p>
-	The DVD player then hooks directly into the monitor via the HDMI connection. Audio can be taken directly from the audio outputs it has, or pushed through the audio out on the monitor.</p>
-<p>
-	One of the most expensive parts of the system? A 3ft HDMI cable cost $70. And that was the cheaper one that Kate found after the salesperson got us the &quot;basic&quot; Monster cable that was $140! A cable that costs more than a DVD player...wow.</p>
-<p>
-	In any case, it was fun to dive back into what the current state of the art is with consumer electronics. Computing and consumer electronics continue to merge, the content owners are trying to lock down legitimate use with these hard core new cable technologies, and I can barely remember the massive mix of acronyms and cable connectors we need to deal with.</p>
-<p>
-	At the end of the day, watching an upsampled DVD in one moment, and a great downloaded Planet Earth episode the next, I can only see the mix of computing and video getting easier. Especially when folks immediately jump to solutions like &quot;now all I need to do is hook up a Mac Mini to this...&quot;.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-06-23-democampvancouver-now-with-more-gong.md b/_posts/archive/2007-06-23-democampvancouver-now-with-more-gong.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 3a440bc..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-06-23-democampvancouver-now-with-more-gong.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: DemoCampVancouver, now with more gong
-created: 1182589385
-categories: 
-- DemoCampVancouver
-- DemoCampVancouver02
-- Ventures West
-- David Mcintyre
-- cohousing
-- workspace
-- EQO
-- Vancouver
----
-<p>We&#39;re just under 2 weeks away from the second <a href="http://barcamp.org/DemoCampVancouver">DemoCampVancouver</a> event on July 5th. There is an <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=2406253086">event on Facebook</a>, and you may also <a href="http://barcamp.org/DemoCampVancouver02">list yourself on the wiki</a>, especially if you want to start socializing an idea you want to demo. The guys from <a href="http://www.eqo.com">EQO</a> would like to demo their new mobile client – add yourself to the list!<br /> </p><p>Remember we are changing the format slightly, based on feedback. Everyone that comes with a demo idea will be given a 30 second pitch time at the beginning, then we&#39;ll have all the attendees vote, and the top four demo ideas will then each get 6 minutes.</p><p>I&#39;m going to invite a bunch of extra people to stack the deck for my pick: a talk on what cohousing is, along with details of the <a href="http://www.windsong.bc.ca/">Windsong cohousing community in Langley</a>. </p><p>We&#39;re looking into a liquor license for the evening, if only to have the comfort of a cold beer in hand while we listen to presenters. There are no sponsors per-se, but the license may incur some costs. If you&#39;re interested in helping out with this, please get in touch.</p><p>Lastly, <a href="http://www.ventureswest.com/Team/Profiles/David_Mcintyre.asp">David Mcintyre of Ventures West</a> pinged me to say that he can bring a 2ft gong to the event. Yes, a gong. Unfortunately, Dane from WorkSpace already called dibs on being &quot;gong boy&quot;. Perhaps we&#39;ll raffle off this unique opportunity next time :P Thanks David and Ventures West...I&#39;m looking forward to the event even more now that I know it will be gong-enabled.</p><p>We also talked a bit about PowerPoint games or other such antics. This isn&#39;t fully baked yet, please add suggestions to the wiki on how we should run this, and let us know if you want to participate in that portion. </p><p>DemoCampVancouver coming up too quickly and your idea isn&#39;t fully backed? <a href="http://barcamp.org/BarCampVancouver2007">BarCampVancouver 2007 happens August 17th and 18th</a>...although we&#39;re at capacity! Some ideas on making more space may be required... </p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-06-23-game-downloads-and-experimenting-with-online-games.md b/_posts/archive/2007-06-23-game-downloads-and-experimenting-with-online-games.md
deleted file mode 100644
index ae0012f..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-06-23-game-downloads-and-experimenting-with-online-games.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Game downloads and experimenting with online games
-created: 1182586953
-categories: 
-- Boot Camp
-- DDO
-- digital downloads
-- Direct2Drive
-- Eve Online
-- Java
-- Java Web Start
-- MMORPG
-- PoxNora
-- Steam
-- Valve
-- Game
----
-<p>I have longer thoughts on these items, but I&#39;ve talked to enough people that I should highlight this a bit. Two areas that I&#39;ve been experimenting with / learning about are digital downloads, specifically of games, and some Windows-only online games that I can now try thanks to Apple&#39;s Boot Camp on my Intel Macbook Pro.</p><p>Some game/digital download services:</p><ul><li><a href="http://www.steampowered.com/">Valve&#39;s Steam system</a>: I ended up with this on my system because it came bundled with Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Might and Magic was also the first RPG game I played, on the Apple IIe), and this is where the adventure began; when you can buy classics like X-Com: Terror of the Deep for $2.95, or buy a more recent game for about $20, with the instant gratification of a 15 or 20 minute download....that means something.<br /></li><li><a href="http://www.direct2drive.com">Direct2Drive</a>: used it because it was the first place I saw that had <a href="http://www.ddo.com/">D&amp;D Online (known as DDO for short)</a></li></ul><p>So, the thought process between these online direct download services is that this is going to continue to apply to all software. And that your desktop doesn&#39;t matter: I can delete all these games, install the Steam client on another machine, and download / install whatever I have purchased. Yes, please.</p><p>Online games that I&#39;ve been experimenting with (I say experimenting because it feels more like work, and because I tend to only play to understand the underlying game mechanics and/or general thrust of the game, then I quickly get bored):</p><ul><li><a href="http://www.poxnora.com">PoxNora</a>: a cross-platform, Java Web Start powered game that also has a browser component of managing/buying/trading/etc. collectible cards; yes, a bit like Magic or other such systems -- free to play with the starter decks, so try it out for sure; buy a minimum of $10 worth of credits/cards to get your own starter deck which can gain experience. I like this &quot;freemium&quot; model.</li><li><a href="http://www.ddo.com">Dungeons &amp; Dragons Online</a>: what geek hasn&#39;t played/understood this game world? I had to try it out to see how it felt. I enjoy complex character creation, and a lot of flexibility is here. It&#39;s hard to play solo except with certain characters, and I don&#39;t really have time for extensive group play, so this is likely the nex to go.</li><li><a href="http://www.eve-online.com/">Eve Online</a>: a lot of people are apparently waiting for me to write a longer review on this. I was intrigued by a <a href="http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=77768">recent Eurogamer.net story</a> about the company behind this game, which is now 10 years old. Other tidbits, like the fact that the entire game world runs on one giant supercomputer in London instead of on distributed &quot;shards&quot; like every other MMORPG, or the fact that character skills can take 10s of &quot;real&quot; days to train -- but that you also feel like your character is progressing when you&#39;re not playing -- make this a bit differnet. Oh, and for those that don&#39;t click the link, my very short summary is that this is a like big space sim game. It feels fun even if you treat it as a single player game -- jumping in and doing a few missions, or exploring on your own -- with the promise of much more to explore as you progress. </li></ul><p>Take away from the (continued) rise of browser and/or monthly service games is that we have lots more to see evolve in this space, and that monthly fees are a real money maker. I have a hunch that because of how lucrative these can be, we&#39;ll actually see more freemium attempts, and that browsers are about due for some games directly within them.</p><p>OK, maybe this post was long enough that I won&#39;t go into further detail around this – at least not in the short term. Any questions or comments, I&#39;m happy to discuss...what are you playing these days?</p><p>Oh, and if you want to try Eve, click on my affiliate enabled link below:</p><a href="https://secure.eve-online.com/ft/?aid=102976" title="Eve Online 14 Day Free Trial - Boris' affiliate code"><img src="/sites/bmannconsulting.com/files/468x60.gif" border="0" alt="Eve Online 14 Day Free Trial Banner" /></a>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-06-23-microsoft-expression-launch-event-at-canvas-lounge-with-gk-vanpatter-and-silverlight.md b/_posts/archive/2007-06-23-microsoft-expression-launch-event-at-canvas-lounge-with-gk-vanpatter-and-silverlight.md
deleted file mode 100644
index cc75b8b..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-06-23-microsoft-expression-launch-event-at-canvas-lounge-with-gk-vanpatter-and-silverlight.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Microsoft Expression launch event at Canvas Lounge with GK VanPatter (and Silverlight)
-created: 1182588553
-categories: 
-- Microsoft Expression
-- Canvas Lounge
-- GK VanPatter
-- Silverlight
-- XAML
-- Adobe CS3
-- Flex
-- AIR
-- Adobe
-- Flash
-- David Crow
-- Canada
-- Microsoft
-- Web Development
----
-<p>On Thursday night I was invited to the Microsoft Expression launch event. I was soubly glad to attend because David Crow, who is now with Microsoft Canada, came through town for the event (<a href="http://davidcrow.ca/article/1585/barcampvancouver-is-sweaty-like-hot-balls">a post from David</a> about the upcoming <a href="http://barcamp.org/BarCampVancouver2007">BarCamp Vancouver</a> ... which looks to be at capacity already!).</p><p>So...what is <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/expression/">Microsoft Expression</a>? In a nutshell, it&#39;s an Adobe competitor. Or, as I mentioned as a comment in the session, a Macrobe competitor, since its Silverlight output is direct competition to the Flash part from the (old) Macromedia, and the rest is vs. Adobe&#39;s Illustrator/Photoshop/etc. It&#39;s a tool suite for creatives aimed squarely at Adobe&#39;s CS3 bundle, and on the other side it connects into developer tools around Visual Studio and XAML. I&#39;ve been waiting with baited breath for the emergence of XAML stuff for years now, and finally all these related platforms are hitting at the same time: Flex, AIR, and even JavaScript itself coming into its own as a way to directly build rich interfaces, esp. with the widgets everywhere concept. </p><p>The run through of Microsoft Expression capabilities actually came last in the presentation. The evening started with a presentation by <a href="http://www.nextd.org/05/index.html">GK VanPatter</a>. VanPatter is a leading design thinker, and his company <a href="http://www.nextd.org">NextD</a> tries to train/teach/facilitate learning the next levels of design thinking. I felt myself going back and forth listening to his words. In my context, talking about Design 3.0 has negative connotations, and his use of words like community and tribe alternately had me engaged and turned off, as I struggled to identify with the concepts. Was I within the (design) community? Was I in a (design) tribe? Or should I put my technologist or developer hat on? I had a great conversation with VanPatter afterwards (as did <a href="http://www.rolandtanglao.com">Roland</a> and <a href="http://puregin.org">Djun</a>, and I think Roland has some video of the talk), and it reminded me of discussions with <a href="http://www.industrialbrandcreative.com">Mark Busse of IBC</a> about the Helvetic Hegemony. Perhaps we can have GK VanPatter back out to a larger <a href="http://www.gdc.net">GDC</a> event, something I briefly mentioned to the Microsoft Canada folks.  </p><p>Then on to an example app built in Expression / Silverlight -- a video editing app that lives inside your browser, in only 50K: <a href="http://www.metaliq.com/portfolio/silverlight.html">Top Banana, built by Metaliq</a>. Many others have written and commented about Silverlight, I&#39;ll leave it as an exercise to the reader to look for more. It&#39;s cross platform (good), it&#39;s competition for Flash (good), it&#39;s not really part of the open / native web (bad).</p><p>Lastly came the big run through of the components of the Expression suite, which all attendees also got free licenses for. My big question was &quot;Are you bringing it to the Mac?&quot; The short answer is &quot;yes&quot;...although there are question marks around the time frame which seem to hint at larger struggles within Microsoft. I&#39;ve been worried about the rise of the Adobe-opoly, especially with regards to Flash as the only viable way to do video in browsers, so I&#39;m happy to see MS stepping up to this fight: competition is *good*.</p><p>Some other details, like free hosting of Silverlight content from Microsoft and various other software as service components, point to larger trends: your stuff lives out in the cloud, and your random server probably either can&#39;t handle specific app needs, or it can&#39;t scale, so various vendors are going to sell you services by the pound to make it &quot;just work&quot;. </p><p>I made some comments to <a href="http://www.freyburg.com/">Warren Frey</a> that I&#39;m hoping to get the video of. Why should you pay attention to Microsoft Expression? Because what Microsoft does inevitably has an affect on the wider web, and because Adobe really does need some competition. Thanks to the Microsoft Canada team for inviting me – I hope to see more events out here on the west coast.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-06-26-mossberg-iphone-review-no-sim-card-cdma-only.md b/_posts/archive/2007-06-26-mossberg-iphone-review-no-sim-card-cdma-only.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 01eba4c..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-06-26-mossberg-iphone-review-no-sim-card-cdma-only.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Mossberg iPhone Review: no SIM card, CDMA only?"
-created: 1182900319
-categories: 
-- CDMA
-- GSM
-- iPhone
-- Mossberg
-- review
-- Rogers
-- SIM
-- Wall Street Journal
-- Canada
-- Mac
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<p>Mossberg has posted his <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118289311361649057.html?mod=hps_us_at_glance_columnists">review of the iPhone</a>, calling it a &quot;breakthrough handheld computer&quot;. What caught my eye was this statement:</p><blockquote><p>But the iPhone has a major drawback: the cellphone network it uses. It only works with AT&amp;T (formerly Cingular), won&#39;t come in models that use Verizon or Sprint and can&#39;t use the digital cards (called SIM cards) that would allow it to run on T-Mobile&#39;s network. So, the phone can be a poor choice unless you are in areas where AT&amp;T&#39;s coverage is good. It does work overseas, but only via an AT&amp;T roaming plan.</p></blockquote><p>Uh....what? Somehow, we had always assumed that this would be a GSM phone. The confusion about the AT&amp;T vs. Cingular brand heightens this. I was under the impression that AT&amp;T was moving to GSM...but Cingular&#39;s network was/is CDMA based. </p><p>If the iPhone is, indeed, a CDMA phone, then the whole <a href="/blog/bmann/is-the-iphone-really-locked-to-cingular">will the iPhone be locked to Cingular</a> question is a bit moot: without SIM cards, you can&#39;t take it to another network.</p><p>What does this mean for the timeline of a Canadian iPhone provider? Well, Rogers is a GSM network, not CDMA. So...Bell or Telus? Well, just a bit more time and some more of this should be revealed.</p><p><strong>Update:</strong> ok, I&#39;m pretty sure iPhone as CDMA phone is incorrect, here&#39;s another <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/edwardbaig/2007-06-26-iphone-review_N.htm">review from USA Today</a>:</p><blockquote><p>In techie terms, iPhone is a &quot;quad-band GSM&quot; phone, meaning you can operate it overseas. (You&#39;ll have to tell AT&amp;T to turn on international roaming.)</p></blockquote><p>So. We know that iPhone *is* a GSM phone. But no SIM card. Our best guess now is that this is all done in software / firmware...hence the iTunes activation step. So, unless you know how to re-program the iPhone&#39;s firmware to make it emulate another carrier&#39;s SIM....the iPhone is locked to only the networks that Apple chooses to support. Which, however, they can update through iTunes.</p><p>Wow. Apple iTunes as gateway to buying cellphone services. I&#39;m still shaking my head at how they managed to put the carriers in a headlock...and still sad that they took away user choice by not just having a user-accessible SIM card.</p><p><strong>Update 2:</strong> OK, last update on this (and boy, this blog post now is completely wrong). The iPhone *does* have a SIM card slot, which we can see thanks to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/ref/business/20070627_POGUE_GRAPHIC.html">David Pogue&#39;s graphic </a>about it. The comment says:</p><blockquote><p>If you insert a pin or an unfolded paperclip into the pinhole and push hard, the pre-installed SIM card tray pops out. Any recent AT&amp;T SIM card should work, although only after iPhone activitation in the iTunes software. </p></blockquote><p>Thanks to <a href="http://www.roguewolves.com/">Scott Langevin</a> for pointing this out in the comments.</p><p>So, final final conclusion -- the iPhone is a GSM phone (duh!), it *does* have a SIM card (yay!), and it is somehow locked and/or tied into iTunes activation. Next challenge: unlock the iPhone.... </p> <!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-06-30-boris-likes-to.md b/_posts/archive/2007-06-30-boris-likes-to.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 223beda..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-06-30-boris-likes-to.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Boris likes to...
-created: 1183269744
-categories: 
-- meme
-- Personal
----
-<p>A meme! Thanks, <a href="http://www.hopstudios.com/nep/unvarnished/item/travis_likes_to/">Travis </a>and <a href="http://www.somisguided.com/weblog/monique-likes-to/">Monique</a>.<br /> </p><p>(and yes, a vaguely non-tech entry -- everything is being merged back here somewhat, so you&#39;re going to get a bit of a different mix...) </p><p>Without further ado, here are the top 10 results when typing &quot;boris likes to&quot; into Google: </p><!--break--><ol><li><font size="-1"><strong>Boris likes to</strong> sit in different positions on the chair while playing (a chess player)</font></li><li><font size="-1"><strong>Boris likes to</strong> get things done and thrives on a faster-pace of life</font> (a real estate agent)</li><li><font size="-1"><strong>Boris likes to</strong> reminisce about the time that he and Ivan got Hedeon so drunk (tips on fleshing out your RPG character)</font></li><li><font size="-1">there&#39;s enough violence with the way <strong>Boris likes to</strong> play horsey with the baby (remind me to tell the story of the German &quot;Hoppe hoppe, Reiter&quot; lullabye one of these days...)</font></li><li><font size="-1"><strong>Boris likes to</strong> look at sick pictures and is a disturbed person (Yeltsin, I think)</font></li><li><font size="-1">As <strong>Boris likes to</strong> say about his own work, “Thanks be to God for all He has given me!”   (a Ukrainian Boris)</font></li><li><font size="-1"><strong>Boris likes to</strong> think of WRRV’s contests, and music news as benchmarks (Boris as a last name of a DJ in New York)</font></li><li><font size="-1">Perhaps Wordpress is the Mac of Blog Systems (or personal publishing systems as <strong>Boris likes to</strong> call Blog Systems) but I doubt it (yep, that&#39;s me on Roland&#39;s blog)</font></li><li><font size="-1"><strong>Boris likes to</strong> say &quot;Message is in details.&quot; (a medical massage practitioner in California)</font> <br /></li><li><font size="-1"><strong>Boris likes to</strong> draw its material just as much from other sources such as psychedelic rock, punk, noise, minimal- and drone music (the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_(band)">band</a>)</font> <br /></li></ol><p>Oh, and the first image result in Google:</p><p><a href="http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://www.dogsledding-picture-gallery.com/images/Gallery/Guests_And_Dogs/16.jpg&amp;imgrefurl=http://www.dogsledding-picture-gallery.com/Picture_Gallery/2006/guests_and_dogs04.htm&amp;h=450&amp;w=600&amp;sz=13&amp;hl=en&amp;start=1&amp;um=1&amp;tbnid=goZ5T_vYdA13HM:&amp;tbnh=101&amp;tbnw=135&amp;prev=/images%3Fq%3D%2522boris%2Blikes%2Bto%2522%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN"><img src="http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:goZ5T_vYdA13HM:http://www.dogsledding-picture-gallery.com/images/Gallery/Guests_And_Dogs/16.jpg" border="0" width="135" height="101" /></a></p><p>Some sort of dogsledding, there. Yahoo has a fun Flickr, result:</p><p><a href="http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0Je5xYEQ4dG6IwAxhSJzbkF;_ylu=X3oDMTBpdnJhMHUzBHBvcwMxBHNlYwNzcgR2dGlkAw--/SIG=1mataskp5/EXP=1183356036/**http%3A//images.search.yahoo.com/search/images/view%3Fback=http%253A%252F%252Fimages.search.yahoo.com%252Fsearch%252Fimages%253Fei%253DUTF-8%2526p%253D%252522boris%252520likes%252520to%252522%2526fp_ip%253DCA%2526fr2%253Dtab-web%2526fr%253Dyfp-t-501%26w=448%26h=335%26imgurl=static.flickr.com%252F35%252F71190030_8c43c46653_m.jpg%26rurl=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.flickr.com%252Fphotos%252F16439519%2540N00%252F71190030%252F%26size=51.3kB%26name=71190030_8c43c46653.jpg%26p=%2522boris%2Blikes%2Bto%2522%26type=jpeg%26no=1%26tt=10%26oid=495cddca6492e7e2%26fusr=anncoulour%26tit=Boris%2Blikes%2Bto%2Bspoon%26hurl=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.flickr.com%252Fphotos%252F16439519%2540N00%252F%26ei=UTF-8%26src=p"><img src="http://mud.mm-a3.yimg.com/image/123912392" border="0" alt="Go to fullsize image" title="http://www.flickr.com/photos/16439519@N00/71190030/" width="140" height="104" /></a></p><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/16439519@N00/71190030/">&quot;Boris likes to spoon&quot; </a>-- the rest of the Yahoo image results are various Boris cats and dogs, mainly. </p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-06-30-iphone-hints.md b/_posts/archive/2007-06-30-iphone-hints.md
deleted file mode 100644
index dc23a37..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-06-30-iphone-hints.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: iPhone Hints
-created: 1183272407
-categories: 
-- Apple
-- iPhone
-- Ethan Kaplan
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<p><a href="http://www.blackrimglasses.com">Ethan Kaplan</a> has set up <a href="http://www.iphonehints.com">iPhoneHints.com</a>, to start capturing some of the tips and tricks that are going to come spiralling out of the iPhone ecosystem.</p><p>Two things:</p><ol><li>Let&#39;s make it less bloggy</li><li>How about aggregating some iPhone-tagged feeds (not on main page, but let people vote/rate them/editorialize them to get them on the front)</li></ol><p>...ok, I have way more than 2 ideas. Like OpenID enabling. And Feedburner. And getting rid of &quot;submit content&quot;. And tweaking the slogan to include &quot;hints&quot; and &quot;iPhone&quot;. How about an admin account? :P </p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-07-03-testing-purple.md b/_posts/archive/2007-07-03-testing-purple.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 0af47a1..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-07-03-testing-purple.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,60 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Testing Purple
-created: 1183528129
-categories: 
-- code
-- Eugene Eric Kim
-- Les Orchard
-- purple
-- purple numbers
-- purple-include
-- Semantic Web
-- transclusion
-- Web 3.0
-- XPath
-- Drupal
----
- <p id="p-0">It's been quite some time since I wrote about <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/blog/bmann/purple-everywhere">purple numbers</a> -- fragment identifiers for bits of text within HTML documents. Or, <a href="http://www.eekim.com/software/purple/purple.html">Granular Addressability in HTML documents as E.E. Kim describes</a> in 'An Introduction to Purple'.</p>
-
-<p id="p-1">Back then, I wasn't a fan of these anchor links, as anchor links aren't first class web citizens -- where links are currency. I'm still not a fan, but maybe the anchor links are just there to make it easy to grab pieces of this content.</p>
-
-<p id="p-2">A recent <a href="http://blogs.opml.org/decafbad/2007/07/03#When:1:45:16PM">reference by Les Orchard</a> (oh, look, OPML anchor tags!) to <a href="http://blueoxen.net/c/purple/purple-include/">purple-include</a>, which enables transclusion (aka including content from elsewhere, directly inline, rather than copy/paste) got the brain cells tickling tonight. So I built a Purple module for Drupal. Which, in reality, just includes the purple-include.js and a little bit of CSS to make purple links show up. I am trying to include some of <a href="http://simonwillison.net/2004/May/30/plinks/">Simon Willison's plinks cleverness</a>, but not sure if I'm going to get that working.</p>
-
-<p id="p-3">Transclusion feels very <acronym title="Semantic Web">SemWebby</acronym>. No, I'm not going to use the dreaded Web 3.0-label (but do go read the <a href="http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/07/01/100117068/index.htm?postversion=2007070305">Business 2.0 article</a> if you want a backgrounder (via <a href="http://novaspivack.typepad.com/nova_spivacks_weblog/2007/07/web-30----no-hu.html">Nova Spivack, of course</a>). Ahem. Back to the point.</p>
-
-<p id="p-4">From Facebook apps to photos stored on Flickr, we want to have all our "stuff" just magically collected together wherever we happen to be, whatever network we happen to be interacting with. Aggregation, sucking this content in, pushing it over there -- all just temporary ways of flowing content around. One that arguably duplicates content and spews extraneous permalinks around. I just want my pictures right here, or I just want to link deep into someone else's posting and pull in a piece of text. And I want the "other end" to know about that inclusion, a gentle ping, yeah, kind of a trackback. That's the Semantic Web to me: where every plain old HTML file is dynamic and intelligent and knows about the links and people that are incoming and outgoing.</p>
-
-<p id="p-5">OK, now to Purple. Here's an example that includes a file I have on my server, shamelessly copied from the <a href="http://blueoxen.net/c/purple/purple-include/tests/examples.html">purple-include examples page</a>. First the code:</p>
-<code>
-&lt;hx:include src=&quot;/sites/bmannconsulting.com/files/purple_include.html#xpath!//p&quot;&gt;&lt;/hx:include&gt;
-</code>
-<p id="p-6">And now the transcluded bit:</p>
-<code>
-<hx:include src="/sites/bmannconsulting.com/files/purple_include.html#xpath!//p"></hx:include>
-</code>
-
-<p id="p-7"><strong>Update:</strong> <a href="http://haggaret.com">Kevin</a> reports that the transclusion doesn't work in Safari. Stupid client side technologies :P</p>
-
-<p id="p-8">Note: I don't *actually* know XPath. But if you open the <A href="/sites/bmannconsulting.com/files/purple_include.html">file directly</a>, you'll see it just grabbed the paragraph. I'm assured you can do more complicated things than that :P</p>
-
-<p name='p-todo' id='p-todo'>To Do: <a href='#p-todo' class='plink'>#</a></p>
-<ul>
-<li>Find out where purple-proxy is hiding / what to do with it so I can transclude from elsewhere</li>
-<li>autogenerate plinks / pilcrows / numbers, perhaps via a Drupal filter</li>
-<li>make a real module available somewhere, maybe also tracking down jluster's old purple numbers code</li>
-</ul>
-<!--break-->
-<p id="p-9">Here's pretty much the entire "meat" of the module, which does nothing but include some JavaScript and CSS:</p>
-
-<pre>
-function purple_footer() {
-  $path = drupal_get_path('module', 'purple');
-  drupal_add_css($path .'/purple.css', 'module', 'screen');
-  drupal_add_js($path . '/purple-include.js','module');
-}
-</pre>
-
-<p id="p-10">That was fun, and somewhat therapeutic. It's only going to get really interesting when I grab the proxy code. Oh, and of course, I'm typing in bare HTML here and turning off the WYSIWYG which eats funky hx-namespaced code for breakfast.</p>
-
-<p id="p-11">Oh yes, and to the various folks I've bumped into that tell me "Sometimes I have no idea what you're talking about"...well, sorry, this is probably one of those posts :P</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-07-05-microsoft-canada-opening-software-dev-center-in-vancouver-commentary.md b/_posts/archive/2007-07-05-microsoft-canada-opening-software-dev-center-in-vancouver-commentary.md
deleted file mode 100644
index eb3fba3..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-07-05-microsoft-canada-opening-software-dev-center-in-vancouver-commentary.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Microsoft Canada opening software dev center in Vancouver (commentary)
-created: 1183660476
-categories: 
-- BNN
-- Business News Network
-- Global TV
-- Google
-- Microsoft Canada
-- press
-- yahoo
-- Canada
-- Vancouver
-- Microsoft
----
-<p>So, my phone was ringing off the hook this morning with people wanting feedback on the announcement that <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/jul07/07-05MSExpandVancouverPR.mspx">Microsoft Canada is opening a software development center here in Vancouver</a>.</p>
-
-<p>What's my reaction? It's great! Microsoft Canada has been taking some interesting steps lately, like hiring <a href="http://davidcrow.ca">David Crow</a>, who kick started the Toronto tech scene over the past few years. It was great to catch up with him at the <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/blog/bmann/microsoft-expression-launch-event-canvas-lounge-gk-vanpatter-and-silverlight">Microsoft Expression launch</a> event I attended a couple of weeks back.</p>
-
-<p>Yahoo missed the chance to have an engineering team here when they moved the entire Flickr team down to San Francisco (the last big tech acquisition here in town, rumoured to be around $40M). Google has spoken with some local universities, but they tend to be computer science snobs, so they went for the more well known Waterloo (also to keep an eye on RIM, which being in the mobile space is going to become increasingly important).</p>
-
-<p>I see the Microsoft lab here in Vancouver as an increasing acknowledgment that "stuff is happening" here. We've got a unique mix of creative and tech people, big companies and start ups, and world events like the 2010 Olympics that are going to put us at center stage.</p>
-
-<p>So...Yahoo and Google...when are the labs coming to town? And, unlike Microsoft who are rumoured to be going to boring Burnaby or Richmond -- stick a center downtown somewhere. Gastown and Yaletown still have lots of room for you!</p>
-
-<p>If you tune to Global TV for the noon show, I may be on there. I've also briefly talked to <a href="http://bnn.ca">Business News Network</a>, so we'll see if that's a go for the evening slot. Busy day....</p>
-
-<p><strong>Update:</strong> I got a small clip on Global TV in the noon show, which re-aired at 5pm and 6pm. I didn't manage to get the digital version of that clip, I'll update again if I can get a copy. I did end up getting interviewed by Howard Green from <a href="http://www.bnn.ca">BNN</a> (was formally Report on Business TV). It was myself and Bernie Magnan, Chief Economist for the Vancouver Board of Trade. The clip was up about an hour after the show, and I managed to find this <a href="http://www.bnn.ca/servlet/HTMLTemplate/!robVideo/robtv0726.20070705.00053000-00053208-clip1/h/220asf/">direct link to the episode</a>. I'm about 5 - 7 minutes in, and unfortunately it will only play on Windows as far as I can see.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>Oh, and don't forget: we're talking everything from co-housing to tech tonight at <a href="http://barcamp.org/DemoCampVancouver02">DemoCampVancouver02</a>.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-07-06-andy-smith-at-the-stud-in-san-francisco-schmap.md b/_posts/archive/2007-07-06-andy-smith-at-the-stud-in-san-francisco-schmap.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 5d70b88..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-07-06-andy-smith-at-the-stud-in-san-francisco-schmap.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Andy Smith at the Stud in San Francisco Schmap
-created: 1183770304
-categories: 
-- Andy Smith
-- Flickr
-- san francisco
-- Schmap
-- The Stud
-- Personal
----
-<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/42183025/" title="Photo Sharing"><img style="padding: 5px" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/29/42183025_2fb9d6612d_m.jpg" border="0" alt="Andy at the Stud Bar" width="180" height="240" align="left" /></a> <p><a href="http://www.schmap.com/">Schmap</a> puts together digital travel guides in website and downloadable form. They also happen to use Flickr as one of their main sources to get pictures for various items in their guides. I travel a far bit, and I have a lot of pictures on Flickr, so I&#39;ve got lots of requests for various photos to be included.</p>  <p>One of my recent pictures that got selected as part of the San Francisco city guide was <a href="http://www.schmap.com/sanfrancisco/nightlife_civiccenter/#mapview=Map&amp;tab=Places&amp;p=6441&amp;topleft=37.7992,-122.43207&amp;bottomright=37.75742,-122.40795&amp;i=6441.jpg">Andy Smith standing under The Stud sign</a>. Now, the Stud happens to be &quot;one of The City&#39;s most renowned gay clubs&quot; and <a href="http://term.ie">Andy Smith actually is a stud</a>, so it was a good match :P</p>  <p>Andy currently lives way over in Amsterdam. He hasn&#39;t been doing the blog thing much, because he&#39;s been busy adding coolness to <a href="http://www.jaiku.com">Jaiku</a>. His most recent entry, <a href="http://term.ie/blog/three-ways-to-make-your-developers-like-you-more/">Three Ways to Make Your Developers Like You More</a>, is a good read for anyone that works with developers.</p>  <p>Hi, Andy, I am hoping I will be seeink you soonish, and also the lovely Nadya. Maybe <a href="http://barcelona2007.drupalcon.org">Barcelona in September</a>? Cheers!</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-07-06-boring-site-note-which-feed-do-you-want.md b/_posts/archive/2007-07-06-boring-site-note-which-feed-do-you-want.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 39f7888..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-07-06-boring-site-note-which-feed-do-you-want.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Boring site note: which feed do you want?"
-created: 1183787653
-categories: 
-- Borisphere
-- Feedburner
-- feeds
-- transclusion
-- BMC
----
-<p>I put together a <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/site-info/feeds">feeds page</a> which describes the content of the 2 main feeds I have available<a name="footnote" title="Explaining how I've transcluded content right below this paragraph">*</a>.</p>
-
-<hx:include src="http://bmannconsulting.com/site-info/feeds#xpath!//ul[@id='p-feeds']"></hx:include>
-
-<p><a href="http://www.feedburner.com">Feedburner</a> (which I recently re-fell in love with after re-tuning this site and adding the <a href="http://drupal.org/project/feedburner">Drupal Feedburner module</a>) tells me that about 450 of you are subscribed to my main front page stuff (out of which I recently removed my del.icio.us link splicing), and about 100 of you subscribe to the front page + personal + Flickr + del.icio.us links super feed of doom.</p>
-
-<p>But wait! There's more!</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>I've actually been working on re-combining all my other stuff here. For quite some time I've run <a href="http://personal.bmannconsulting.com">personal.bmannconsulting.com</a>, aka "The Borisphere", wherein I aggregate all content that I post elsewhere. I've got a few aggregated feeds <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/feeds">here on the site</a>, including some rather strange ones like my <a href="http://www.facebook.com/posted.php?id=500905437&amp;amp;share_id=2392823337#s2392823337">Facebook posted items feed</a> or all the <a href="http://foodlikethat.com" title="Tastes your mouth will like -- recipes at FoodLikeThat">recipes from my FoodLikeThat site</a>. Eventually, I'll have all "my" feeds available here, and you'll be able to pick and choose which feed you want to subscribe to, or maybe even pick and choose which tags you are interested. So you can miss boring site notes like this :P</p>
-
-<p><em><a href="#footnote">*Note:</a> if you've been following along with the <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/blog/bmann/more-purple">purple series</a>, and are actually visiting the website directly instead of, um, reading it through a feed, then you'll see the bit where i just added in the info from the feeds page.</em></p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-07-06-feeds-and-subscriptions.md b/_posts/archive/2007-07-06-feeds-and-subscriptions.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 53ced4e..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-07-06-feeds-and-subscriptions.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Feeds and Subscriptions
-created: 1183785505
-categories: 
-- feeds
-- RSS
----
-<ul class="nid" id="p-feeds" name="feeds">
-	<li>
-		Main RSS feed: <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/rss.xml">http://bmannconsulting.com/rss.xml</a> - includes all posts that show on the front page</li>
-	<li>
-		Asides feed: <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/asides/feed">http://bmannconsulting.com/asides/feed</a>&nbsp;- my daily as-I-post-them links, with witty commentary and in-jokes (also browseable directly at <a href="http://asides.bmannconsulting.com">asides.bmannconsulting.com</a>)</li>
-</ul>
-<p>
-	<a class="plink nid" href="#p-feeds">#</a><!--break--></p>
-<p>
-	You may also subscribe to my main feed posts via email:</p>
-<form action="http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverify" method="post" onsubmit="window.open('http://www.feedburner.com', 'popupwindow', 'scrollbars=yes,width=550,height=520');return true" style="border:1px solid #ccc;padding:3px;text-align:center;" target="popupwindow">
-	<p>
-		Enter your email address:</p>
-	<p>
-		<input name="email" style="width:140px" type="text" /></p>
-	<input name="url" type="hidden" value="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~e?ffid=2779" /><input name="title" type="hidden" value="B. Mann Consulting - Technology Consulting in Vancouver" /><input name="loc" type="hidden" value="en_US" /><input type="submit" value="Subscribe" />
-	<p>
-		Delivered by <a href="http://www.feedburner.com" target="_blank">FeedBurner</a></p>
-</form>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-07-06-more-purple.md b/_posts/archive/2007-07-06-more-purple.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f190ebb..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-07-06-more-purple.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: More Purple
-created: 1183776670
-categories: 
-- Brad Neuberg
-- purple
-- purple numbers
-- purple-include
-- transclusion
-- Web Development
----
-<p><a href="http://codinginparadise.org/">Brad Neuberg</a> <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/blog/bmann/testing-purple#comment-136422">left a comment</a> on where to find the proxy...or rather, that left me an email address so I could email him that there was no download link :P I've got it now, so now I can transclude the <a href="http://blueoxen.net/c/purple/purple-include/#nidLK">introduction from the purple-include page</a> here directly (note: probably Firefox only at this point -- you should some purple text below after this rolling symbol: <img src="/roller.gif" />):</p>
-
-<blockquote style="color: purple;">
-<hx:include src="http://blueoxen.net/c/purple/purple-include/#nidLK"></hx:include>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>And that was just one more line in the Drupal module to set the meta tag:</p>
-<code>
-drupal_set_html_head(&#39;&lt;meta name=&quot;purple_proxy_path&quot; content=&quot;/&#39; . $path . &#39;/purple-proxy.php&quot; /&gt;&#39;);
-</code>
-
-<p>Now I just have to hope that bad, terrible things won't happen from this proxy.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-07-08-boris-goes-to-washington.md b/_posts/archive/2007-07-08-boris-goes-to-washington.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 087da94..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-07-08-boris-goes-to-washington.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Boris goes to Washington
-created: 1183901048
-categories: 
-- Washington DC
-- Virginia
-- YVR
-- airport
-- power
-- Development Seed
-- Thomas Vander Wal
-- AirPower
-- United States
----
-<p>I'm currently sitting at the Vancouver airport, waiting for a flight to Toronto and then on to the Dulles airport. I'll be spending the week there in meetings with clients in Sterling, VA. The days will be full, but I'm hoping to connect with some Drupal folks like <a href="http://www.developmentseed.org">Development Seed</a> and the fabulous <a href="http://earnestberry.com/">Earnest Berry</a>, aka <a href="http://drupal.org/user/23325">souvent22</a>. Actually, I seem to recall that <a href="http://www.vanderwal.net/">Thomas Vander Wal</a> is over in Bethesda, which is pretty close as well. Perhaps a personal info cloud meetup on Wednesday night.</p>
-
-<p>Now a mini rant on airport power. <a href="http://puregin.org">Djun</a> and I were recalling the horror that is Heathrow (of which Tim Bray recently wrote). Here at YVR power is usually good, but we're at this weird Gate 50 - 52 area that has no outlets other than at the gate agent station. So we're plugged into the printer outlet :P I wanted to document this, and there is apparently the <a href="http://wiki.jeffsandquist.com/default.aspx/AirPower/AirPower%20Home.html">AirPower Wiki</a> hosted as part of <a href="http://jeffsandquist.com">Jeff Sandquist's</a> stuff. I'm sticky about things like that -- it needs to be at airportpower.org or some other top level domain, not hidden in someone's personal namespace. But I got up at 3:45am today, so please excuse any grumpiness. (and yes, I just registered http://airportpower.org and URL forwarded it to Jeff's wiki for now...)</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>OK, maybe a quick update in Toronto, now I'm going to sleep on the whole flight.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-07-15-watching-the-it-crowd.md b/_posts/archive/2007-07-15-watching-the-it-crowd.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 1f6ebf1..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-07-15-watching-the-it-crowd.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Watching 'The IT Crowd'
-created: 1184554338
-categories: 
-- TV
-- The IT Crowd
-- AllUC
-- Personal
----
-<p>I've just finished watching all of <a href="http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/microsites/I/itcrowd/">The IT Crowd</a> episodes that I can find (<a href="http://www11.alluc.org/alluc/tv-shows.html?action=getviewcategory&category_uid=901">AllUC link</a>)</p>
-
-<p>It's another British office comedy, focused around an IT department that works out of the basement. A definite mix of that uncomfortable feeling plus ridiculous comedy in the style of The Office. Worth watching, now I just have to find more episodes and/or wait for Series 2?</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-07-16-vancity-bikeshare-handoff-from-roland.md b/_posts/archive/2007-07-16-vancity-bikeshare-handoff-from-roland.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 9a5fd68..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-07-16-vancity-bikeshare-handoff-from-roland.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: VanCity BikeShare Handoff from Roland
-created: 1184635208
-categories: 
-- VanCity Bike Share
-- ChangeEverything
-- bikeshare
-- Vancouver
-- Personal
----
-<style type="text/css">
-.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }
-.flickr-yourcomment { }
-.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }
-.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }
-</style>
-
-<div class="flickr-frame">
-	<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/roland/831528881/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1146/831528881_c6dc5d28fc.jpg" class="flickr-photo" alt="" /></a>
-<br />
-	<span class="flickr-caption"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/roland/831528881/">Image1056</a>, originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/roland/">roland</a>.</span>
-</div>
-				
-<p class="flickr-yourcomment">
-	<a href="http://rolandtanglao.com">Roland</a> handed off his <a href="http://www.changeeverything.ca/vancity_bike_share>VanCity Bike Share</a> bike to me today. I did a test drive a while back, and now have the bike for 3 weeks, until I hand it off to someone else. I can even <a href="http://www.changeeverything.ca/tags/bikesharerequest>search ChangeEverything.ca for people wanting a bike handoff</a>. A neat program, I'll try and do some more posts on where my red bike takes me.<br />
-<br />
-Takes about 20 minutes to bike home from the office. I'll do another post with my route on a Google map.
-</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-07-18-ipipi.md b/_posts/archive/2007-07-18-ipipi.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 5b1f1e6..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-07-18-ipipi.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: ipipi
-created: 1184822786
-categories: 
-- SMS
-- vancouver
-- mobile
-- Upside Wireless
----
-<p>A Vancouver based company where the <a href="http://blogaholics.ca">blogaholics</a> used to work. Another one of the two sites that I initially tried.</p>
-
-<p>The company that runs this, Upside Wireless, also has <a href="http://www.upsidewireless.com/api.htm">Developer APIs</a>. I need to look into this further.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-07-18-media-deck.md b/_posts/archive/2007-07-18-media-deck.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 221551a..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-07-18-media-deck.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Media Deck
-created: 1184802991
-categories: 
-- SMS
----
-<p>From a <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/blog/bmann/sending-free-sms-website#comment-136460">comment</a>:</p>
-<blockquote>
-Hi, try www.mdeckport.co.uk you can get cheap sms to send worldwide you can also use it from your phone ( needs to have wap) so its not limited to your computer but the link for sending on the computer is web.mdeckport.net. it cost £1.50 for 100 sms text MEDIA to 80996 or they give you 10 free credits to test it out first test FREE to 80996.
-</blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-07-18-pswincom.md b/_posts/archive/2007-07-18-pswincom.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 489d241..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-07-18-pswincom.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: PSWinCom
-created: 1184823222
-categories: 
-- SMS
----
-<p>A whole host of SMS related services. The <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/blog/bmann/sending-free-sms-website#comment-80465>commenter</a> who mentioned had a great posting:</p>
-<blockquote>
-What a wild thread! So for my $.02 worth (euro, if only I knew the key-combo), I throw the ring at pswin.com which at less than a dime a pop ain't free, but so far that's been the best real deal, and *much* cheaper than actually calling the damn mobiles, in Europe anyway. I figure I can say what I want to say for less than a dime via sms, and if the other party, who forces me onto their expensive network in the first place, wants to contact me, they can pay whatever they feel its worth. Pfffft!
-
-That said, I've seen recent ads for even cheaper sms, but my ad retention is low. Still, I'm willing to pay for an actual web interface/ keyboard combo. I'm not willing to pay to call those damn pricey little phones. hrrmmmph.
-
- oh, one nice thing about pswin.com, I can enter whatever i want (subject to non-abuse terms, natch), into the 'sender's address/number field. I can actually write my name, as opposed to my cell number, which I might prefer not to. 
-</blockquote>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-07-18-sandbox-for-purple-module.md b/_posts/archive/2007-07-18-sandbox-for-purple-module.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a732f4c..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-07-18-sandbox-for-purple-module.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Sandbox for Purple module
-created: 1184828275
-categories: 
-- purple-include
-- purple
-- code
-- CVS
----
-The purple module in my Drupal CVS sandbox.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-07-18-sweet-crazy-boy.md b/_posts/archive/2007-07-18-sweet-crazy-boy.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 64abaa3..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-07-18-sweet-crazy-boy.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Sweet Crazy Boy
-created: 1184823367
-categories: 
-- SMS
----
-Winner of the sweetest, craziest website name. Seems to be an East Indian provider that has ads, Flash, and many other things to offer.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-07-19-europe-photobloggers-looking-for-photography-related-sponsors.md b/_posts/archive/2007-07-19-europe-photobloggers-looking-for-photography-related-sponsors.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 0b66fca..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-07-19-europe-photobloggers-looking-for-photography-related-sponsors.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Europe Photobloggers looking for photography related sponsors
-created: 1184836873
-categories: 
-- Europe Photobloggers
-- Flickr
-- Berlin
-- Europe
-- 2007 Europe Photoblogger Meetup
-- Germany
-- yahoo
-- Drupalcon Barcelona
-- Social Media
----
-<img src="/sites/bmannconsulting.com/files/ep_logo.gif" border="0" align="left" /><p>My buddy <a href="http://www.exposur3.com/">chrys</a> pinged me about a sponsorship opportunity in Europe. The <a href="http://www.europephotobloggers.org/2007meetup">2007 Europe Photoblogger Meetup</a> is happening in Berlin, September 7th to 9th, and the organizers are still looking for sponsors. Paging Yahoo Europe, or perhaps most especially the fine folks at Flickr, you might want to jump on this one.</p><p>I won&#39;t be making it to this, but I am looking forward to <a href="http://barcelona2007.drupalcon.org">DrupalCon Barcelona</a>, which takes place later in September. I have some ideas brewing on putting together an Enterprise Lounge concept to talk about Drupal... </p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-07-19-looking-for-drupal-saml-sp-implementation.md b/_posts/archive/2007-07-19-looking-for-drupal-saml-sp-implementation.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 327a077..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-07-19-looking-for-drupal-saml-sp-implementation.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Looking for Drupal SAML SP implementation
-created: 1184884736
-categories: 
-- identity
-- SAML
-- IdP
-- OpenID
-- Google Apps
-- Drupal
----
-<p>At some point I got a ping from someone that was working on a SAML implementation for Drupal. Unfortunately, that was a year ago or more, and trawling my email doesn't seem to surface anything.</p>
-
-<p>So, anyone out there in blog land working on a SAML *SP* (aka client) implementation for Drupal? I have some folks that would like to test interop. Please <a href="/contact">contact me</a> if you've got something.</p>
-
-<p>Related to this is the <a href="http://drupal.org/project/googleauth">Google Apps Authentication module</a>, which lets you use your Drupal database as an authentication source for Google Apps -- the for pay, Enterprise or Education edition. This is a SAML v2.0 IdP implementation as far as I know...</p>
-
-<p>And yes, I'm still a huge OpenID fan. But combining the two standards is even better, since theoretically you could create new Drupal accounts via OpenID, and the Drupal accounts in turn would serve as auth for Google Apps. AKA how to use OpenID with Google :P</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-07-20-drupalish-meetup-at-smiths-pub-in-victoria-was-good-fun.md b/_posts/archive/2007-07-20-drupalish-meetup-at-smiths-pub-in-victoria-was-good-fun.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 3c840a0..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-07-20-drupalish-meetup-at-smiths-pub-in-victoria-was-good-fun.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Drupal~ish meetup at Smith's Pub in Victoria was good fun
-created: 1184996349
-categories: 
-- Smith's Pub
-- Victoria
-- Canada
-- Drupal
----
-<p><a href="http://www.kriskrug.com">KK</a> and I had to travel over to Victoria for a <a href="http://www.gov.bc.ca/tsa/" title="we met with some ministerial types">meeting</a>. At the last minute, we put out a <a href="http://groups.drupal.org/node/5248">call to come together and hang out at Smith's Pub</a>.</p>
-
-<hx:include src="http://groups.drupal.org/node/5248#xpath!//div[@class='content']"</hx:include>
-
-<p>I think good fun was had by all, the lamb burgers were reason enough to head to Victoria again some time soon.</p>
-
-<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/862204231/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1326/862204231_e7f4482a48_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Mini Lamb Burger @ Smith's Pub" /></a>
-
-<p style="text-size: small;">Note: there is <a href="/tags/purple-include">transcluded</a> content above, viewable only with Javascript in Firefox.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-07-20-yahoo-pipes-on-upcoming-reconfigurable-feeds.md b/_posts/archive/2007-07-20-yahoo-pipes-on-upcoming-reconfigurable-feeds.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 424ed35..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-07-20-yahoo-pipes-on-upcoming-reconfigurable-feeds.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Yahoo Pipes on Upcoming - reconfigurable feeds
-created: 1184995143
-categories: 
-- Upcoming
-- yahoo
-- Yahoo Pipes
-- Web 2.0
----
-<img src="http://bmannconsulting.com/sites/bmannconsulting.com/files/Picture 9.png" align="left" style="padding: 5px;" />
-<p><a href="http://upcoming.yahoo.com">Upcoming</a> has a way to *reconfigure* your event feed. Here's a link directly to the <a href="http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=ns70kRi32xGhv8UAt5qdmw">pipes page for this feed</a>.</p>
-
-<p>On the fly remapping and merging of arbitrary structured data coming out of feeds? So, um, wow.</p>
-
-<p>And yes, Not For Humans™. But still, deeply cool.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-07-29-back-from-boston.md b/_posts/archive/2007-07-29-back-from-boston.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a65e70d..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-07-29-back-from-boston.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Back from Boston
-created: 1185774828
-categories: 
-- Boston
-- Lisa Williams
-- Placeblogger
-- La Casa de Pedro
-- wicked pissah
-- Personal
----
-<p>I'm back from Boston. Oh? Yeah, I didn't really mention that. I did end up doing a <a href="http://groups.drupal.org/node/5270">geek meetup</a>, of course. Was a small group, but fun as usual. Summary: there is lots of exciting stuff in Drupal's future, there is too much to do today, there are some fun ideas and activities going to happen at the <a href="http://barcelona2007.drupalcon.org">Barcelona Drupalcon</a>.</p>
-
-<p>Spent some great time with <a href="http://www.cadence90.com/">Lisa Williams</a> of <a href="http://www.placeblogger.com">Placeblogger</a> and <a href="http://h2otown.info/" title="Aggregator of all things Watertown, outside of Boston">h20town</a> fame. I got to not only see the famous Watertown part of Boston, but even ate there, at a place called <a href="http://lacasadepedro.com/">La Casa de Pedro</a>. Turns out Lisa is my kind of restaurant eater: lots of meat! I had a flank steak on top of two different kinds of chorizo. Yes, three meats. Thanks again, Lisa, looking forward to more Placeblogger adventures...</p>
-
-<p>Why was I in Boston? The folks at <a href="http://crameronline.com/">Cramer</a> are doing a Drupal build for a large client, and I'm helping architect. The best part about the Cramer offices is the coffee. They have these crazy little foil-topped plastic containers with coffee in them -- different blends, like West Coast and so on -- and you insert the container directly into the machine, foil top and all, stick a cup underneath, and press brew. Somehow, the magical machine punctures the foil, spits the coffee into the cup, and devours the container. Very cool, and wicked pissah coffee, too (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_accent" title="Wikipedia page on the Boston accent -- wicked pissah means good">ref</a>).</p>
-
-<p>I didn't see much else of Boston except for the two trips above I mentioned, but did do a bit of driving around various highways. Yes, that is about as exciting as it sounds. Next time I have to eat some 'chowda' ("say it, Frenchie!").</p>
-
-<p>Hmmm. This is the "personal" section. I suppose it should be less geeky, but then, that always happens to me. There are many other things going on, and I am working on looking forward. I'm heading to Ottawa at the end of August and will reconnect with many old friends, I might take some time and hike California with my good friend <a href="http://www.workhabit.com/">Jon</a>, and... who knows. There isn't much else I feel like sharing at this point. I've been doing some journaling privately (<a href="http://bmann.livejournal.com">here</a> -- I might eventually post some friends only stuff, but don't hold your breath).</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-08-01-first-joyent-taco-tuesday-meetup-at-chill-winston.md b/_posts/archive/2007-08-01-first-joyent-taco-tuesday-meetup-at-chill-winston.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 3b4382f..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-08-01-first-joyent-taco-tuesday-meetup-at-chill-winston.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: First Joyent Taco Tuesday meetup at Chill Winston
-created: 1185984670
-categories: 
-- Bryght
-- Chill Winston
-- Joyent
-- Mark Mayo
-- virtualization
-- Vancouver
----
-<p><a href="http://www.joyent.com">Joyent</a> hosted a <a href="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/221709/">meetup</a> for Joyent customers and friends tonight at Chill Winston. I'll place myself in the "friend" column, and really, if you host a get together in the lounge that is on the ground floor of my office building, you know I'll be showing up :P</p>
-
-<p>I wrote up some more thoughts on <a href="http://www.bryght.com/blog/boris-mann/joyent-meetup-and-thoughts-on-virtualization">virtualization and my discussion with Mark Mayo over on my Bryght blog</a> (or included here directly via transclusion).</p>
-<!--break-->
-<hr />
-<p style="display:none">Extra content viewable in your browser, or visit http://www.bryght.com/blog/boris-mann/joyent-meetup-and-thoughts-on-virtualization</p>
-<hx:include src="http://www.bryght.com/blog/boris-mann/joyent-meetup-and-thoughts-on-virtualization#xpath!//div[@class='node']/div[@class='content']"></hx:include>
-<hr />
-<p>P.S.: I almost forgot to congratulate you on the <a href="http://forum.textdrive.com/viewtopic.php?pid=136511">naming system for servers that uses Vancouver street names</a>. Bryght just uses Canadian mountie names :P</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-08-02-mac-alarm-clock-this-mornings-tune.md b/_posts/archive/2007-08-02-mac-alarm-clock-this-mornings-tune.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 622ab61..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-08-02-mac-alarm-clock-this-mornings-tune.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Mac Alarm clock, this morning's tune
-created: 1186062159
-categories: 
-- electronica
-- Alarm Clock
-- iTunes
-- Application
-- Mac
-- Music
-- Personal
----
-<p>I installed an <a href="http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/ipod_itunes/alarmclock.html">iTune's Alarm Clock</a> last night, and was woken this morning by some electronica: <a href="http://forums.di.fm/showthread.php?t=34765">Rising High Trance Injection: Perry and Rhodan - The Beat Just Goes Straight On & On</a>.</p>
-
-<p>Have a good day, all.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-08-03-openid-attribute-exchange-is-portable-social-networking-and-more.md b/_posts/archive/2007-08-03-openid-attribute-exchange-is-portable-social-networking-and-more.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 7f18bf6..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-08-03-openid-attribute-exchange-is-portable-social-networking-and-more.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: OpenID Attribute Exchange is portable social networking and more
-created: 1186166947
-categories: 
-- identity
-- OpenID
-- Attribute Exchange
-- Scott Kveton
-- SXIP
-- FOAF
-- XFN
-- Social Media
----
-<p>Scott Kveton does a bit of a round up of what <a href="http://kveton.com/blog/2007/08/03/portable-social-networking-is-coming/">some folks are working on a technical level with portable social networking</a>, in and around OpenID and some loose markup.</p>
-
-<p>He takes what, in my opinion, is a bit of a cut against <a href="http://openid.net/specs/openid-attribute-exchange-1_0-05.html">Attribute Exchange</a>:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-Also, attribute exchange doesn’t solve the portable social networking component although I imagine it could be hacked up to do so.
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Sorry, Scott, when you use phrases like "hacked up", I take issue. Frankly, I would never have gotten on board with OpenID if I didn't see AX on the horizon as the logical conclusion of the SREG stop gap.</p>
-
-<p>AX is an extensible system that will be able to pass many different kinds of information back and forth between systems. It has the same decoupled nature that OpenID has. Different sites can loosely couple by doing nothing more than using the same keys to define different sets of attributes. Why, exactly, would one NOT use this? In theory, one could do something as simple as host an agreed upon list of attributes -- based on FOAF, XFN, or for that matter any one of them in their own namespaces or with mapping between them.</p>
-
-<p>I mean, we implemented syncing of user profiles using <a href="http://www.bryght.com/news/2004/10/19/bryght-releases-foaf-module">Drupal's simple distributed authentication + FOAF</a> *3 years ago*. Working with <a href="http://www.sxip.com">SXIP</a> in their various protocol incarnations, DIX, and finally the merging into OpenID and AX has all been part of the process of consensus around standards.</p>
-
-<p>Attribute Exchange is a flexible, extensible base on which to implement many use cases around data exchange for user profiles and related information. Any solution around portable social networking should use this at its base, and the OpenID community should move to finalize the extension and move forward to building cool sh*t on top of it.</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-08-07-itunes-sleep-timer-itunesshut.md b/_posts/archive/2007-08-07-itunes-sleep-timer-itunesshut.md
deleted file mode 100644
index ec9f90b..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-08-07-itunes-sleep-timer-itunesshut.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: iTunes Sleep Timer - iTunesShut
-created: 1186494387
-categories: 
-- iTunes
-- iTunesShut
-- Application
-- Mac
-- Music
----
-<p>I've been listening to music before going to bed (and <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/blog/bmann/mac-alarm-clock-mornings-tune">using music as an alarm clock</a>). Last night I used <a href="http://web.mac.com/gugulino1/iWeb/GuguSoft/News/News.html">iTunesShut</a>, which lets you set a number of songs or a number of minutes for iTunes to play before it slowly fades out the music over time and stops. See the <a href="http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/macgems/2006/07/itunesshut/index.php">Macworld review</a> for a longer explanation.</p>
-
-<p>The songs? I just bought <a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=251609835&s=143455">Feist's "The Reminder"</a> and <a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=260404761&s=143455">Mathew Good's "Hospital Music"</a>.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-08-12-back.md b/_posts/archive/2007-08-12-back.md
deleted file mode 100644
index ed00752..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-08-12-back.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Back
-created: 1186988151
-categories: 
-- camping
-- Birkenhead Lake
-- Duane Storey
-- Personal
----
-<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/duanestorey/1100502098/"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1235/1100502098_c7c5716214_m.jpg" border="0" align="left" style="padding: 10px;"/></a>
-
-<p>I spent the weekend at <a href="http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/bcparks/explore/parkpgs/birkenhe.html">Birkenhead Provincial Park</a>. It was sunny, it rained, we cooked nachos on the fire and toasted bacon on sticks. We drank some wine and some beer, and spent an evening play Hearts and Euchre. In all, an excellent camping weekend, thanks to Duane, Dori, and Dustin.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>No photos from me, since my camera is still in Duane's car. So, photo above by <a href="http://www.duanestorey.com">Duane Storey</a>, more from me later. Including a video-multimedia extravaganza!</p>
-
-<p>Back? I ended up taking a leave of absence from work last week due to some, shall we say, major upheaval in my personal life. Yes, I'm fine, thanks for asking, feel free to email me if you'd like to chat further.</p>
-
-<p>I wasn't at <a href="http://www.gnomedex.com">Gnomedex</a> and unfortunately had to put my involvement with some major projects at work on hold. I'm going to slowly work my way back into things this coming week.</p>
-
-<p>Aside from life, the universe, and everything, I've been thinking about GPS and geolocation, getting more involved with <a href="http://freegeekvancouver.org/">Free Geek Vancouver</a> (to help kickstart a free wifi revolution in Vancouver, of course), and getting down to some serious <a href="http://foodlikethat.com">cooking</a> with friends.</p>
-
-<p>More soon. Thanks.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-08-13-new-google-map-stuff-link-roundup.md b/_posts/archive/2007-08-13-new-google-map-stuff-link-roundup.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 56e9c52..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-08-13-new-google-map-stuff-link-roundup.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: New Google Map stuff link roundup
-created: 1187072748
-categories: 
-- Google
-- Google Local
-- geolocation
-- Google My Maps
-- Google Maps
-- mapplets
-- 43 Places
-- Web 2.0
----
-<p>Continuing with the <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/tags/geolocation">geo</a> theme, I've got a post brewing on what Google is doing and what this means for the growth of geo in general. I tried to get momentum for geo-related stuff for this past February's <a href="http://2007.northernvoice.ca">Northern Voice</a>...but I think I was off by at least a year. Herewith some interesting links and examples of what you can now do with Google and maps.</p>
-
-<p>For example, you can <a href="http://www.google.com/local/add?hl=en&gl=us">add your own business listing to local</a> (and others can even review it, <a href="http://maps.google.ca/maps?um=1&q=bryght&near=Vancouver,+BC&fb=1&view=text&latlng=49283426,-123104011,6942316115532227902&sa=X&oi=local_result&resnum=1&ct=result">here's the entry for Bryght in Vancouver</a>), and the Google My Maps now makes it really easy to create your own custom maps (e.g. here is my start of <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&om=0&msa=0&msid=108403776136895878523.00000111c289a9a5559e5&z=2">Drupal events around the world</a>). My Maps even lets you add "mapplets" -- different layers that folks create -- <a href="http://maps.google.com/ig/directory?synd=mpl&pid=mpl&features=sharedmap,geofeed">here's the directory</a>, I'm a fan of the <a href="http://maps.google.com/ig/directory?synd=mpl&pid=mpl&features=sharedmap%2Cgeofeed&num=24&url=http://labs.sumaato.net/tools/flickr_mapplet/mapplet.xml">Flickr Mapplet</a>.</p>
-
-<p>I've been looking for a central place that I can trust to "store" my geo-related information. While I still like <a href="http://www.43places.com">43 Places</a>, it's certainly not going to be the only place I put geo-related data. Can I use Google to just act as a giant store for all my geo-related data, and pull it out, remix it, display it elsewhere as needed?</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-08-13-want-to-buy-a-gps-logging-device.md b/_posts/archive/2007-08-13-want-to-buy-a-gps-logging-device.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 319490d..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-08-13-want-to-buy-a-gps-logging-device.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,60 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Want to buy a GPS logging device?
-created: 1187071058
-categories: 
-- ClueTrust
-- DG100-GPS
-- expansys
-- geolocation
-- Globalsat
-- GPS
-- gps logging
-- GPS-CS1
-- GPX
-- KML
-- LoadMyTracks
-- Mac
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<p>I've continued to think about GPS and geolocation, and thinking about how to, well, be more geo.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Update 2:</strong> you can now participate in a <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/blog/bmann/bulk-buy-globalsat-dg100-gps-through-expansys">bulk buy of a Globalsat DG100-GPS from Expansys</a>.</p>
-
-<p>Some of this in context of <a href="http://placeblogger.com">Placeblogger</a>, of course, more of it in imagining a future where even MORE photos and media are easily discoverable as being "local". In fact, <a href="http://www.veen.com/jeff/archives/000971.html">Jeffrey Veen's Fixing the Web has a modest proposal to geo-enable *everything*</a>:</p>
-
-<blockquote cite="http://www.veen.com/jeff/archives/000971.html">
-I wish every device that was capable of talking to the network could send its geolocation. I'd like this to be fundamental—let's send longitude and latitude in the HTTP header of every request. Let's make it as ubiquitous and accessible as the time stamp, user agent, and referring URL. 
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>So, it has to be easy, it has to be (almost) always on, and I need to be able to easily combine geo information with other media -- blog posts, photos, videos, etc. -- that get created along the way.</p>
-
-<p>Enter GPS logging devices. "What is a GPS logger?", you ask. Well, it's a simple GPS receiver that does nothing more than log your location to local memory with a timestamp, which you can later pull off onto your computer as a GPS "track". It's small, it's battery powered, and you can keep it with you all the time. OK, OK, still too complicated.</p>
-
-<ol>
-<li>Buy GPS logger</li>
-<li>Turn on and clip to belt</li>
-<li>Walk around taking pictures, video, blogging, etc.</li>
-<li>Get back to your computer, download the GPS track and the media you've just taken</li>
-<li>Run some software to merge your GPS location information with your pictures (e.g. <a href="http://oregonstate.edu/~earlyj/gpsphotolinker/">GPS Photo Linker</a>)</li>
-<li>Voila! Thousands of your <a href="http://flickr.com/map">pictures on a map</a></li>
-</ol>
-
-<p>Of course, this works for keeping track of hiking, biking, running, boating or anything else where you might want to see a map of a route you've taken after the fact.</p>
-
-<p>After a little research on where to buy (I like <a href="http://www.expansys.ca">Expansys</a> and <a href="http://www.ncix.com">NCIX</a>) and what to buy (this <a href="http://scilib.typepad.com/science_library_pad/2007/05/dg100_gps_logge.html">review  of the Globalsat DG100-GPS and the Sony GPS-CS1</a> was immensely helpful -- some <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rakerman/486497603/in/photostream/">photos by the reviewer rakerman on Flickr are good to get a sense of size</a>), I'm pretty sure that the Globalsat DG100-GPS is the unit for me. It charges over USB, has a longer battery life, and a bunch of different logging modes. It can even do "GPS mouse mode", where it can act as a GPS receiver for a laptop (e.g. various mapping software packages on your laptop showing real time location info for when you do have your laptop with you).</p>
-
-<p>The only, <em>only</em> downside is that it really doesn't work all too well with the Mac. As in, it comes with a bunch of crazy Windows software and that's about it. Enter <a href="http://www.cluetrust.com/LoadMyTracks.html">ClueTrust's LoadMyTracks, a Mac app for sending and receiving GPS data tracks to/from various devices</a>. It doesn't *currently* support the Globalsat unit, but...</p>
-
-<p>...here's where you come in: Want to pay around $100 CDN for a Globalsat DG100-GPS and start geologging your social media? Leave a comment below, and I'll continue talking to Expansys about getting a bulk order in (we'll need to buy 5 or more), including arranging to get a unit to the guys at ClueTrust. I've put emails in to both Expansys and ClueTrust, and the guys at ClueTrust have provisionally said that they should be able to make it work nicely on the Mac. And of course, if you're on Windows, feel free to just take advantage of a bulk order :P</p>
-
-<p><strong>Update:</strong> in the comments, Richard Akerman, the person whose review I enjoyed, did a <a href="http://scilib.typepad.com/science_library_pad/2007/08/gps-loggers-and.html">round up of GPS logging and the Mac</a>. Looks like we are on the right track to try and get more support in software...</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p><a href="http://barcamp.org/BarCampVancouver2007">BarCamp Vancouver 2007</a> is coming up this weekend already, so unfortunately I don't think I'll have time to grab a unit before then, although I may get my hands on a Bluetooth GPS brick and some Series 60 logging software for my Nokia E61 to go along with Kris' photowalk...</p>
-
-<ul>
-<li><a href="http://www.expansys.ca/d.aspx?i=149006">Globalsat DG100-GPS at Expansys</a> -- <strong>important</strong>: if you want to buy one of these, leave a comment below, and we'll do a bulk order</li>
-<li><a href="http://www.expansys.ca/p.aspx?i=147273">Sony GPS-CS1 at Expansys</a></li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>P.S. No, I don't (currently) have any affiliation with Expansys. But I *am* hoping they will take me up on the offer to "sponsor" LoadMyTracks support. Email me back, guys!</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-08-14-going-swimming.md b/_posts/archive/2007-08-14-going-swimming.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 0fdd3dc..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-08-14-going-swimming.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Going swimming
-created: 1187120854
-categories: 
-- swimming
-- Jericho Beach
-- Spanish Banks
-- Vancouver Open Water Swimmers
-- VOWSA
-- Vancouver
-- Personal
----
-<p>I've been trying to go swimming as much as possible this summer. In the ocean, because that's what I'm used to from growing up on an island.</p>
-
-<p>Usually this is Jericho / Locarno Beaches here in Vancouver, or farther along at Spanish Banks. These are also great places to take along a little Hibachi and have a cook out or throw a frisbee around.</p>
-
-<p>I'm going tonight (Tuesday) and will likely go most days while it's still sunny and warm. <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/contact">Give me a call</a> if you want to come: I usually aim to go around 6:30pm or so.</p>
-
-<p>In sending out an email about this to some friends, <a href="http://www.iworkindustries.com">James</a> responded with a mention of the <a href="http://www.vowsa.bc.ca/">Vancouver Open Water Swimmers Association</a>. Huh. An association for swimming in the ocean. Again, just seems strange 'cause I grew up swimming by myself in the ocean all the time. In any case, looks like an interesting group, especially if you want to push yourself a little more and go for longer swims.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-08-15-pubsub-will-be-something-simpler.md b/_posts/archive/2007-08-15-pubsub-will-be-something-simpler.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 52b611b..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-08-15-pubsub-will-be-something-simpler.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: PubSub will be Something Simpler
-created: 1187222198
-categories: 
-- Ian Bell
-- Lance Tracey
-- PubSub
-- Something Simpler
-- Vancouver
-- Web 2.0
----
-<p>I'm glad to finally see that the news about <a href="http://www.pubsub.com">PubSub 2.0</a> is out there (see <a href="http://gigaom.com/2007/08/14/something-simpler-acquires-pubsub-assets/">Om</a>, <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/14/pubsub-round-two/">TechCrunch</a>, and the view on both from local Vancouver <a href="http://www.ianbell.com/2007/08/14/pubsub-part-deux/">founder Ian Bell</a>). One more great addition to the Vancouver tech scene that will be watched world wide.</p>
-
-<p>One of these days I will tell the story of mine / Bryght's early involvement with PubSub 1.0. Looking at the <a href="http://www.somethingsimpler.com/main/about">Something Simpler about page</a>, the bio for <a href="http://www.lancetracey.com">Lance Tracey</a> outs him as our initial angel investor. It's good to see him being acknowledged.</p>
-
-<p>I am (still) a big believer in the core technology of PubSub. The new tagline of "find the future" makes it very clear what the strengths are. Now, how to expose that in a user friendly way. That has always been the challenge since day one. Today, in a future where engines like Google News Alerts / Blog Search and Technorati are still not performing as well as the "old" PubSub engine, and we have many more orders of magnitude more "real time" sources of information, the need for filtering, reporting, and notification is that much greater.</p>
-
-<p>I look forward to working with the PubSub team and seeing what they come up with. Beyond Ian and Lance, there are great people there already and they're looking for more.</p>
-
-<p>Go, Vancouver, go! :P</p> 
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-08-16-experimenting-with-bluetooth-gps-receivers-my-first-gps-adventure.md b/_posts/archive/2007-08-16-experimenting-with-bluetooth-gps-receivers-my-first-gps-adventure.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a81d2b2..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-08-16-experimenting-with-bluetooth-gps-receivers-my-first-gps-adventure.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Experimenting with Bluetooth GPS Receivers: my first GPS Adventure"
-created: 1187257005
-categories: 
-- Bluetooth
-- geolocation
-- GEtrack
-- GPS
-- gps logging
-- GPS Photo Linker
-- Nokia E61
-- Series 60
-- TomTom
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<p>So, I went on my first GPS adventure after work tonight. I was talking to <a href="http://www.rolandtanglao.com">Roland</a> about doing something for BarCamp Vancouver 2007, and he reminded me that <a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0100115/">Cyprien</a> had a Bluetooth receiver to borrow. So, we swung by Cyprien's place and I was off to see if I could find the pieces to make this work. Thanks, Cyprien!</p>
-
-<p>I specifically posted earlier about a <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/blog/bmann/want-buy-gps-logging-device">simple GPS logging device</a> instead of a Bluetooth receiver. Bluetooth receivers allow you to hook up a PDA or your laptop and do various "on the go" GPS activities, usually involving directions and maps. But, I'm looking for something dead simple that a) just works and b) doesn't mean fiddling with / charging / carrying a bunch of other devices.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>Cyprien's device is a<a href="http://www.expansys.ca/d.aspx?i=141161">TomTom Bluetooth receiver</a> and I have a <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/tags/nokia-e61">Nokia E61</a>. Next step was to find some logging software -- the Position, Navigator, and Landmark applications on the E61 do communicate easily with Bluetooth receivers...but they don't really do anything. Including logging out of the box seems like a no brainer. In any case, I had already done some research on <a href="http://del.icio.us/borismann/geo+series60">GPS related applications for Series 60</a>, with the listing of <a href="http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/software/all/GPS/">GPS apps at All About Symbian</a> being the most useful.</p>
-
-<p><a href="http://www.mobile-j.de/snipsnap/space/Products/GETrack">GETrack</a> ended up being the simplest application specifically for logging. There are other apps that also do some map integration and so on, but GETrack is optimized for capturing tracks, storing them on your smartphone, and then exporting it to a variety of formats and sending them to your laptop. Perfect. You can get a <a href="http://www.handango.com/PlatformProductDetail.jsp?siteId=1&productId=188408">trial download that logs 50 waypoints from Handango</a>, and you can also buy it for about $14 from there.</p>
-
-<p>So, after downloading and installing GETrack and making it sure it could communicate with the TomTom, I grabbed my camera and went for a walk. The TomTom receiver just has a single button and a flashing green light, and it slipped easily into the pocket of my shorts, after which I ignored it. I found myself spending more time fiddling with the software, trying to make sure it was working, figuring out how often I should log (I set it to 10 seconds, but even that might be overkill while walking), and of course watching to make sure I didn't go over 50 waypoints. All while trying to remember to take some pictures that I could geotag later :P</p>
-
-<p>Once I got things settled I put the E61 in my other pocket and just walked. I ended up with three tracks, each maxed out at 50 waypoints for the trial version of GETrack. Once back at home, I sent the tracks in GPX format (you can choose from several formats, including KML for direct display on Google Maps), and then used <a href="http://oregonstate.edu/~earlyj/gpsphotolinker/>GPS Photo Linker</a> to load in the tracks, and then loaded in the photos I took. This would be the exact same step to import tracks from a simple GPS logger, the tricky part being that unlike Bluetooth, the interfaces aren't standardized, so you need to find the software to get the tracks off.</p>
-
-<p>Finally, here is my <a href="http://www.flickr.com/map/?&user_id=35034346160@N01&fLat=49.264073&fLon=-123.140601&zl=2&min_taken_date=2007-8-15%2000:00:00&max_taken_date=2007-08-16%2000:00:00">GPS adventure walk on my Flickr map</a>. For starters, I should have perhaps taken more photos. Secondly, I messed up the time codes on my first batch. In essence, the time codes are the most important thing. The best way to make sure you're getting it right is to take a picture close to the beginning of your logging, and another one right at the end. Then, look at the time offsets in GPS Photo Linker and adjust the timezone offset until the GPX track timestamps match up with your first / last photos. This doesn't have to be exact, but it should be close.</p>
-
-<p>I manually fiddled with the last batch, matching up track waypoints with photos, and got great results. A good example is <a href="http://www.flickr.com/map/?&user_id=35034346160@N01&fLat=49.264055&fLon=-123.140602&zl=1&min_taken_date=2007-8-15%2000:00:00&max_taken_date=2007-08-16%2000:00:00&map_type=hyb">this shot of Death By Chocolate</a>, where the hybrid map mode let's you see that the distinct roof matches the photo I took.</p>
-
-<p>All in all a pretty good experience, but having to research, install, and then get the software working, plus the potential for difficulties in getting the Bluetooth receiver talking to your logging device (most Series 60 phones should work with GETalk) confirms for me that I just want a GPS logger :P</p>
-
-<p>The nice thing for photowalks and other group events, is that only one person needs to be carrying a logger. Sharing the tracks afterwards will allow anyone to easily geotag their photos.</p>
-
-<p>Lastly, <a href="http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/">GPS Visualizer</a> and <a href="http://www.everytrail.com">Everytrail</a> are two sites I've found where you can upload GPX tracks directly and see them on a map. I'm sure there are others. Whew. That was a complicated tech exercise for such a short adventure :P</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-08-17-barcamp-vancouver-2007-kicks-off-this-eve.md b/_posts/archive/2007-08-17-barcamp-vancouver-2007-kicks-off-this-eve.md
deleted file mode 100644
index b9aceae..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-08-17-barcamp-vancouver-2007-kicks-off-this-eve.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: BarCamp Vancouver 2007 kicks off this eve
-created: 1187378515
-categories: 
-- barcamp
-- barcamp vancouver
-- barcamp vancouver 2007
-- unconference
-- Vancouver
----
-<p>Here we are at noon on the eve of <a href="http://barcamp.org/BarCampVancouver2007">BarCamp Vancouver 2007</a>. <a href="http://www.duanestorey.com">Duane Storey</a> and I are hacking some <a href="http://www.mycallmonster.com">phone VoIP stuff</a>, I'll be doing geo logging (surprise!) and....and I don't know what else will happen.</p>
-
-<p>It was great to read through <a href="http://www.rolandtanglao.com/archives/2007/08/15/barcamp-barcamp-amsterdam-and-barcamp-vancouver-looking-back-and-looking-forward">Roland's retrospective of BarCamp's</a> we've been involved in. I think he missed BarCamp SF at the Microsoft offices...I caught part of that after a late flight in.
-
-<p>BarCamp Amsterdam has to be one of my favourites. <a href="http://chris.pirillo.com">Chris Pirillo</a> came in with a big donation that helped (European) beer-fueled hacking, the Mediamatic people and offices were fantastic, and lots of my European friends were there that I don't get to see very often. Oh, right, and I got to cook for 50+ people over an open flame indoors :P</p>
-
-<p>I love unconferences. I wasn't involved in organizing this year's BarCamp Vancouver, so thanks to the many organizers and helpers. Here's what <a href="http://www.telltenfriends.com/blog/2007/08/14/barcampvancouver2007/">Jordan Behan has to say</a>:</p>
-<blockquote>
-After last year’s event, I was so amazed at the things I learned and the people I met that I wanted to help out anywhere I could this year. So I joined (invited myself onto) the organizing committee, and thus I feel it is my duty to share a bit of Barcamp How-to.
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>That's exactly the spirit we want to see. See you tonight...</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-08-18-barcamp-vancouver-2007-a-wrap.md b/_posts/archive/2007-08-18-barcamp-vancouver-2007-a-wrap.md
deleted file mode 100644
index b5a582f..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-08-18-barcamp-vancouver-2007-a-wrap.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: BarCamp Vancouver 2007 a wrap
-created: 1187504611
-categories: 
-- Ad Hack
-- b5media
-- barcamp
-- barcamp vancouver
-- barcamp vancouver 2007
-- community wireless
-- Free Geek Vancouver
-- My Call Monster
-- Vancouver
----
-<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42096627@N00/1162074123/"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1375/1162074123_274c005137_t.jpg" border="0" align="left" /> Photo by Ariane</a> Whew. /me lets out big breath.</p>  <p>As always, this year&#39;s <a href="http://barcamp.org/BarCampVancouver">BarCamp Vancouver</a> event was absolutely fantastic. Ideas, social media, intense thinking, tossing around concepts, learning from everyone, lots of fun, beer, eats, etc. etc.</p>  <p>Feedback and thoughts in no particular order.</p> <!--break--> <ol> <li>we didn&#39;t do a good job of kicking off BarCamp with the straight-to-the-bar party on Friday night; there was no announcement, it really was just a party to drink at...let&#39;s move this to the day after? not sure... </li><li>the &quot;Camp&quot; aspect of doing stuff overnight is really important for cranking stuff out -- how do we do this better? I flubbed as much as anyone and just needed to go home and crash (see point #1) plus giving <a href="http://scottstuff.net">Scott</a> a comfortable place to sleep for the night</li> <li>follow on again from last point: needs for hacking code together are different than talking about ideas in sessions...maybe stamp the night with the SuperHappyDevHouse moniker (plus social media project creation? I love having artifacts to show...), and then have set aside time in the tracks for everyone to demo</li> <li>My Geo presentation was very unprepared, which I apologize for -- it was supposed to be in the afternoon, and I ended up being computerless in the morning...I&#39;ve put up <a href="http://barcamp.org/Geo">notes on Geo on the wiki</a>, hope that helps -- don&#39;t forget to <a href="/blog/bmann/want-buy-gps-logging-device">leave a comment if you want to bulk buy a GPS logger</a></li> <li>I like wearing a cowboy hat and my rockin&#39; sleeveless &quot;Boris&quot; t-shirt</li> <li>I&#39;ve still got more thinking to do about helping / assisting / developing / connecting something that feels a bit like an advertising and/or blogging network; spent some time musing to <a href="http://www.miss604.com">Miss604</a> and <a href="http://www.telltenfriends.com">Jordan Behan</a> about this; <a href="http://www.b5media.com/">b5</a>, is this you? We need to talk...</li> <li>I had *so* *much* *fun* in James&#39; session on DIY advertising. Yes, it&#39;s all an evil plan as part of <a href="http://www.adhack.com">Ad Hack</a>...but getting groups of people together, falling into different roles, and then producing a video advertising a product in one hour....rocked. I&#39;ll need to dedicate a whole post to my team, &quot;Vice Ads&quot;, who produced the <a href="http://www.unclefatihspizza.com">Share a Fatih</a> video... (see <a href="http://adhack.com/site/comments/diy-advertising-in-60-minutes-or-less/">James&#39; post on all three videos)<br /></a></li> <li>I flubbed collaborating with Duane on <a href="http://www.mycallmonster.com">MyCallMonster</a>...he did more hacking, we have a project space set up, stay tuned. What is it? Tagline: eating your voicemail so you don&#39;t have to. In a couple of weeks, ditch your cellphone voicemail and get voicemail via email and more for the same price...<a href="http://groups.google.com/group/mycallmonster">Sign up</a> if you&#39;re interested. </li> <li><a href="http://www.canadabombshell.ca/?p=55">Megan Cole was missed</a> ... sheesh, I haven&#39;t seen the girl in ages. Red wine when you return? (Note: that link goes to Canada Bombshell...a group blog to highlight coolness in Canada&#39;s New Media sector...subscribe to it, it&#39;s good)</li> <li>I&#39;m recycling the name &quot;Innovation Commons&quot; along with partner in crime and entrepreneur extraordinaire  <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/dannyrobinson">Danny Robinson</a> (aside: dude, when the hell are you going to get a blog up? :P) to accelerate startups in Vancouver -- we socialized the idea among some developer / entrepreneur types that wandered by...yep, this is also in need of an entire blog post(s)</li> <li>I&#39;ve wanted to get more involved with <a href="http://freegeekvancouver.org/" title="Ethical Computer Recycling in Vancouver">Free Geek Vancouver</a> -- I really dig the people and I believe in their ideals. But: I&#39;m not a hardcore hardware guy. So? The Free Geek Vancouver Wireless Cadre. We had an ad hoc session and talked community wireless, mesh networking, Wifidog / <a href="http://code.google.com/p/dogonrails/">DogOnRails</a> (by <a href="http://www.infil00p.org/blog/">Joe Bowser</a> already a FGV member, who brought all the actual wireless knowledge to the session), and various ideas how everything from <a href="http://www2.vcn.bc.ca/">VCN</a> to <a href="http://www.mobilemuse.ca">Mobile Muse / MUSE3</a> can fund some of this work. This also needs to be a whole post...</li> </ol>  <p>We capped off the day with a trip to New Town Bakery for a shared Chinese meal before everyone headed their separate ways. I&#39;m ripping on the writing here only because I had a Hong Kong Milk Tea. It&#39;s supercharged with caffeine.</p>  <p>No (more) links to the many many many people I connected with. So much fun as always (yes, even with you, Lyal, and no apologies...). I love the people, culture, and energy we create from these events. How to filter / channel these connections into the next project / cause / business / meetup?</p>  <p><strong>Update</strong>:<br /> Dustin Sacks wrote up some very good <a href="http://randomdude.com/blog/threads/2531-BarCamp-thoughts-and-photos">thoughts on BarCamp Vancouver</a>. I left a comment there on the timing / structure that I want to repeat here: BarCamp could start late morning or early afternoon with a true kick off and three tags once around the room. We might break for lunch right afterwards and then do sessions right after lunch. Sessions would &quot;officially&quot; end at some evening point and there would be ad hoc dinner / cocktail plans, and then return to the space to &quot;camp&quot; as well as clearly labeled hack / develop / create spaces, a la SuperHappyDevHouse but expanding into social media creation and such (all night DIY ads, anyone?). In the morning, we would reconvene, maybe recap sessions and do demos from the previous night&#39;s hacking / creation, then continue with sessions until lunch time. We&#39;d wrap up and clean. This, I think, is a good formula with a wide mix of goals met. I think I&#39;ll make some space on the wiki specifically for discussing / planning / templating this.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-08-18-going-disc-golf-and-to-north-van.md b/_posts/archive/2007-08-18-going-disc-golf-and-to-north-van.md
deleted file mode 100644
index cd36036..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-08-18-going-disc-golf-and-to-north-van.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Going disc golf...and to North Van?
-created: 1187500886
-categories: 
-- disc golf
-- Queen Elizabeth Park
-- North Vancouver
-- Personal
----
-<p>Looks like I'm going to lead a Sunday expedition tomorrow to go <A href="http://gambit.instruct.langara.bc.ca/~cstd2411/qhomepage/qhomepage/html/course.html">disc golfing at Queen E aka Little Mountain Disc Golf Park</a>.</p>
-
-<p>Lots of disc golf newbees....turns out I've been playing for something like 12 years, ever since I started going to UVic. I haven't managed to make it out many times here, best thing to do is recruit new folks who want to come out and play. I have some other disc golf dates to schedule, too. Talking shop on the disc golf course -- what could be better?!</p>
-
-<p>In any case, if you didn't get an email invite, ping me if you want to come tomorrow morning (10am~ish? we're gathering details...). Afterwards, a by-transit field trip over to see <a href="http://www.uncleweed.net">DaveO's</a> new place in North Vancouver. Transit! North Vancouver! Shock! Horror!</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-08-18-notes-from-geo-talk-at-barcamp-vancouver-2007.md b/_posts/archive/2007-08-18-notes-from-geo-talk-at-barcamp-vancouver-2007.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 572b4f0..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-08-18-notes-from-geo-talk-at-barcamp-vancouver-2007.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Notes from Geo talk at BarCamp Vancouver 2007
-created: 1187506059
-categories: 
-- geolocation
-- conference
-- notes
-- barcamp vancouver 2007
----
-
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-08-18-what-to-attend-and-pay-attention-to-after-barcamp-vancouver-2007.md b/_posts/archive/2007-08-18-what-to-attend-and-pay-attention-to-after-barcamp-vancouver-2007.md
deleted file mode 100644
index edb29df..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-08-18-what-to-attend-and-pay-attention-to-after-barcamp-vancouver-2007.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: What to attend and pay attention to after BarCamp Vancouver 2007
-created: 1187505442
-categories: 
-- barcamp vancouver 2007
-- DemoCamp Vancouver
-- innovation commons
-- Rob Lewis
-- Startup Weekend
-- TechVibes
-- Vancouver
-- Web 2.0
----
-<p>This was originally part of my <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/blog/bmann/barcamp-vancouver-2007-wrap>BarCamp Vancouver 2007 wrap up post</a>, but that turned into a monster and this is really about what's next.</p>
-
-<p>So, you're still flying high on the good vibes from BarCamp Vancouver, and you're trying to figure out "What next?". Some things to watch for...</p>
-
-<p>A <a href="http://barcamp.org/DemoCampVancouver">DemoCamp Vancouver</a> event some time in mid September. Need to spend some time talking to <a href="http://techvibesblog.com">Rob Lewis / TechVibes</a> about helping out with organizing these...I'm trying to shed as many organizing roles as I can, while still promoting / attending / etc. I love all this stuff, but it don't pay the bills...</p>
-
-<p>Also on the plate....when are we going to do a <a href="http://www.startupweekend.com/">Startup Weekend</a> (once again, <a href="http://techvibesblog.com/startup-weekend-in-vancouver/">nod to TechVibes for kicking off discussion</a>)? Late October, maybe right after a sort of "organizing" DemoCamp Vancouver on the Thursday before? This may ideally be the kickoff for a new take on the Innovation Commons that I hinted at in my other post.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>Aside: last TechVibe's pimping -- <A href="http://www.techcouver.com/>TechCouver</a>, a "map" of Vancouver Web 2.0 companies.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-08-22-third-tuesday-attended-yesterday-npost-is-today.md b/_posts/archive/2007-08-22-third-tuesday-attended-yesterday-npost-is-today.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 5752b6f..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-08-22-third-tuesday-attended-yesterday-npost-is-today.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,41 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Third Tuesday attended yesterday, nPost is today
-created: 1187799007
-categories: 
-- DemoCamp Vancouver
-- Facebook
-- Jenn Lowther
-- Meetup.com
-- nPost
-- Rob Lewis
-- TechVibes
-- TechVibes.com
-- Third Tuesday
-- Upcoming.org
-- Vancouver
----
-<p>A late meeting I had last night ended early and I was at loose ends downtown, so I ended up swinging by the Third Tuesday event, since <a href="http://techvibesblog.com/tomorrow-is-third-tuesday/">Rob Lewis' post at the TechVibes blog</a> reminded me that there were a couple of events going on mid week.</p>
-
-<p>Tonight (Wednesday) is the <a href="http://www.npost.com/events.jsp#vancouver">nPost Entrepreneur Meetup</a>*. I'm not too sure about nPost. I mean, it's great to have more people highlight and promote tech in Vancouver, but there is such a thing as too many different events and focus at some point... The focus for nPost seems to be startups, and highlighting the people and companies in cities where they have events. Rob and the gang at TechVibes are sponsoring, so I'm sure they'll do a good job of guiding them into the Vancouver scene. Unfortunately, I won't be able to make it, I've got the <a href="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/242074">Granville Island Night Photowalk</a> to attend.</p>
-
-<p>Back to discussing the Third Tuesday event...this was a sort of "kick off" event, so there was no speaker or discussion, just mingling at the Soho Cafe in Yaletown. I think there were as many as 30 people through out the course of the evening. I ended up mind melding with Rob Lewis as we talked about the rebirth of <a href="http://www.techvibes.com">TechVibes.com</a> and tech / events in Vancouver in general. Soon the martini-wielding <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/jennlowther">Jenn Lowther</a>** from <a href="http://www.invokemedia.com">Invoke Media</a> and Mike***, a Comp Sci / Cognitive Science student from UBC, joined us bad kids by the bar.</p>
-
-<p>One of the things that we discussed is "where to post events?". Third Tuesday itself is the perfect example for this. Rob posted about it on the TechVibes blog, and linked to the <a href="http://www.techvibes.com/events/event49795.html">listing he created on TechVibes.com</a>. That, in turn, linked to the <a href="http://publicrelations.meetup.com/95/">Meetup.com page</a>. On the Meetup page, we find that <a href="http://thirdtuesday.collectivex.com/main/summary">a CollectiveX group has been created</a>. I created an <a href="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/241845/">Upcoming entry for Third Tuesday</a>, but I actually originally found out about it through the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=3585465493">Facebook group</a>.</p>
-
-<p>Yeah. That *is* ridiculous in case you were wondering. I won't go through this time and analyze the usefulness of each of those listings, but as two data points, I believe Mike and Jenn both found out about the event through Meetup.com. Oh, and why did I create an Upcoming.org entry? Because there is a widget for Facebook, so posting to Upcoming automatically gets it into Facebook. I just did the same thing for the <a href="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/242074">Granville Island Night Photowalk</a> -- the upcoming entry can be a public Internet URL, but it shows up inside the walled garden of Facebook as well.</p>
-
-<p>The ideal event listing platform would allow you to do two things:</p>
-<ol>
-<li>aggregate event listings from all platforms in a management queue</li>
-<li>publish those events you want to talk about / promote / etc. with a local permalink, which in turn would all you to cross post to those platforms that don't yet have a listing</li>
-</ol>
-
-<p>For bonus points, aggregate back all the media that gets created to your permalinked event entry. Merging attendee listings might be fun to try and tackle, but approaching impossible until we get closer to the whole portable social network concept.</p>
-
-<p>In any case, thanks to the organizers of Third Tuesday. I'm looking forward to a more structured 2nd event with a speaker. Just let me know where to look for event announcements :P</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>Notes:<br />
-*to the nPost guys: you don't even <em>have</em> a permalink for this particular event, just the #vancouver anchor tag: <a href="http://www.techvibes.com/events/event49720.html" title="nPost in Vancouver at Library Square">Rob's TechVibes listing</a> gives you a permalink, but you really need to have direct permalinks / separate pages for all your events<br />
-** Jenn, ya gotta get a real site that's "you" online. I'm tempted to become number one for your name :P<br />
-*** sorry, Mike, I forgot your URL. Leave a comment or email me and I'll update it.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-08-29-weewar.md b/_posts/archive/2007-08-29-weewar.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 26d5c14..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-08-29-weewar.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: WeeWar
-created: 1188442157
-categories: 
-- WeeWar
-- Game
-- Personal
----
-<p><a href="http://www.hopstudios.com/nep/">Travis</a> and <a href="http://www.unfavorablepink.com/">Susie</a> got me playing <a href="http://weewar.com?referrer=boris">WeeWar</a>. Caution: do not click during a work day. Although, luckily, you can set "turns" to be as long as an entire day, so you don't necessarily need to be glued to your screen. I think we'll see more of these fun, casual, browser-based games.</p>
-
-<p>Now, off to see if my Heavy Trooper and Raider strategy is working...</p>
-
-<div id="weewarCorner" style="position:absolute; top:0px; right:0px; z-index:99;"><a href="http://weewar.com?referrer=boris" title="Have a little war at Weewar.com"><img style="border-width:0px;" src="http://blog.weewar.com/images/weewar_corner_1.gif" width="75px" height="101px" alt="weewar.com corner"/></a></div>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-08-31-bulk-buy-of-globalsat-dg100-gps-through-expansys.md b/_posts/archive/2007-08-31-bulk-buy-of-globalsat-dg100-gps-through-expansys.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 2904898..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-08-31-bulk-buy-of-globalsat-dg100-gps-through-expansys.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Bulk buy of Globalsat DG100-GPS through Expansys
-created: 1188588919
-categories: 
-- DG100-GPS
-- expansys
-- geolocation
-- Globalsat
-- GPS
-- gps logging
-- GPSBabel
-- open source
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<a href="http://www.expansys.ca"><img src="http://bmannconsulting.com/sites/bmannconsulting.com/files/Picture 7.png" align="left" border="0" style="padding: 5px;"/></a>
-
-<p>Good news! I've been in touch with Corey Leach of Expansys / Mobile Planet, and he's agreed to help out with both a bulk buy and with getting a loaner unit out to the Chief Babelhead for the open source <a href="http://www.gpsbabel.org">GPS Babel project</a> (thanks to <a href="http://scilib.typepad.com/science_library_pad/2007/08/gps-loggers-and.html">Richard Akerman</a> for making the post that prompted that connection). I've also had an update from the folks at <a href="http://www.cluetrust.com/LoadMyTracks.html">LoadMyTracks</a>, who have been contacted by the Globalsat manufacturer directly.</p>
-
-<img src="http://bmannconsulting.com/sites/bmannconsulting.com/files/l149006.jpg" align="right" border="0" style="padding:5px;">
-
-<p>So, it's time to pony up some money and start geo-enabling yourself. The <a href="http://www.expansys.ca/d.aspx?i=149006">Globalsat DG100-GPS</a> is the unit that I <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/blog/bmann/want-buy-gps-logging-device">wrote about previously</a> and it is currently listed at $100.95CDN.</p>
-
-<p>If we get 5 - 9 buyers, the price will be discounted $5 USD per unit.</p>
-
-<p>If we get 10+ buyers, the price will be discounted $10 USD per unit.</p>
-
-<p>Corey Leach has suggested that the easiest way to make sure we get the discount applied is for everyone who is interested in purchasing to email him directly. We'll wait a couple of days to see if you get above 10 buyers, and then apply the discount and it will get shipped to everyone directly.</p>
-
-<p>Note: this is open to *anyone* that wants to buy this unit -- the more the merrier. Just include a link to this blog post in your email and/or cc <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/contact">me</a> on the email. What are you waiting for? <a href="mailto:Corey.Leach@mobileplanet.com?subject=DG100-GPS">email Corey to book your order</a>.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Update:</strong> we are now at 7 people and only need 3 more to get the magical 10 person discount. We'll wait another couple of days, and then everyone can place their order, Corey will ask for your REF number, and the price will be reduced. <a href="http://www.hopstudios.com/nep">Travis</a> also pointed out to me a good thread on <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/vandigicam/discuss/72157601785880574/">Vandigicam</a> talking about geo logging.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Update 2:</strong> we are now at 10 people! Please go ahead and purchase the unit normally and email Corey your confirmation / ref number to receive the discount.</p>
-
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-08-31-can-drupal-help-commoditize-facebook-app-development.md b/_posts/archive/2007-08-31-can-drupal-help-commoditize-facebook-app-development.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 7ffbf76..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-08-31-can-drupal-help-commoditize-facebook-app-development.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Can Drupal help commoditize Facebook app development?
-created: 1188604869
-categories: 
-- Facebook
-- Donat Group
-- camel cheese
-- Bryght
-- DabbleDB
-- ActiveState
-- Up4
-- DabbleDo
-- Project Opus
-- Vancouver
----
-<p>The answer is "probably yes". I just wrote up a <a href="http://bryght.com/blog/boris-mann/facebook-apps-with-drupal">description of our Vancouver Drupal Users Group event over on Bryght</a>, but saved the provocative title for here.</p>
-
-<p>I think that maybe I'll lift my stance on only adding Facebook apps that have a "public Internet" face as well. Much as I hate locking data into Facebook, I do want to support local developers: <a href="http://blogs.activestate.com/activestate/2007/08/activestates-up.html">ActiveState's Up4</a>, <A href="http://blog.dabbledb.com/2007/08/introducing-dab.html">DabbleDB's DabbleDo</a>, and the soon-to-be-released Opus Player by the <a href="http://www.donatgroup.com/">Donat Group<a/> / <a href="http://www.projectopus.com">Project Opus</a>.</p>
-
-<p>But don't think I won't be continuing to push folks to figure out ways to nicely push and pull data in and out of Facebook in a way that benefits the open Internet as well as respects the privacy and security of user's content within Facebook.</p>
-
-<p>Finally I wanted to share with you that yes, we did indeed continue to chat over beer. The strangest phrase that came up was <a href="http://raincoaster.com/2007/08/31/camel-cheese/">camel cheese</a>. Nice.</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-08-31-vanguardistas-in-barcelona.md b/_posts/archive/2007-08-31-vanguardistas-in-barcelona.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 01962d1..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-08-31-vanguardistas-in-barcelona.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Vanguardistas in Barcelona
-created: 1188591823
-categories: 
-- Barcelona
-- Mark Pratt
-- Vanguardistas
-- Zope
-- Zope3
-- python
-- DrupalCon
-- Drupalcon Barcelona
-- Europe
-- Open Source
----
-<p>I can't believe it's been almost 4 years since I last bumped into <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/44/976">Mark Pratt</a> (entry from <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/news/2003/11/20/opensourcexperts-redux">November 2003 about OpenSourceXperts</a>). A chance IM conversation today let me know that he is now based out of Barcelona, but my trip to attend DrupalCon Barcelona means that I'm just going to miss him while he makes a trip to the US.</p>
-
-<p>Mark is a Zope expert, open source business model experimenter, and more. He told me he's now got a great consulting firm, <a href="http://vanguardistas.net/">Vanguardistas</a>, that are doing "amazing things with Zope3". I admit to knowing very little about the cool stuff going on in Zope3, so it will be interesting to hear more. And of course, we're all partners in waving the flag of open source goodness, especially in Europe.</p>
-
-<p>I'll be missing Mark in Barcelona, but he's connected me to some of his colleagues at Vanguardistas, and told me that <a href="http://www.frommers.com/destinations/barcelona/D55424.html">La Bombeta</a> is where I'll have to go for delicious, cheap food. I'm really looking forward to this trip...I really have to make plans to be in Europe more regularly: there are so many great people and projects to get connected to, never mind the side benefits like great food :P</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-09-02-email-vs-facebook.md b/_posts/archive/2007-09-02-email-vs-facebook.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a75bf95..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-09-02-email-vs-facebook.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Email vs. Facebook
-created: 1188717305
-categories: 
-- ActiveState
-- email
-- Facebook
-- Up4
-- Social Media
-- Web 2.0
----
-<p>Not a big thesis on this topic, just an observation that this evening, as I was thinking about organizing something with friends for tomorrow morning, my instinct was to open a tab and go to Facebook to contact them...rather than email.</p>
-
-<p>And of course, this is exactly what <a href="http://www.activestate.com">ActiveState's</a> <a href="http://apps.facebook.com/your-upfors">Up4 Facebook app</a> is trying to help with as well.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Update:</strong> And of course, today I see that Facebook has added straight-to-email messaging -- "No more switching back and forth between email and Facebook. When you are writing a message, simply enter any email addresses into the “To:” field.". There is a longer <a href="http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=5344177130">post on the Facebook blog</a> about this.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-09-02-text-one-free.md b/_posts/archive/2007-09-02-text-one-free.md
deleted file mode 100644
index edc698a..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-09-02-text-one-free.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Text One Free
-created: 1188784164
-categories: 
-- SMS
----
-Welcome to www.text-one-free.com. From here you'll be able to send one free SMS everyday to many different nations. No hassling such as registration, sign-ups or news letters. You just have to make two banner clicks to get through and send your daily free SMS, instant, direct and fast.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-09-04-apple-rumours-sept-2007-touchscreen-ipod-appletv-revs.md b/_posts/archive/2007-09-04-apple-rumours-sept-2007-touchscreen-ipod-appletv-revs.md
deleted file mode 100644
index bf4dac9..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-09-04-apple-rumours-sept-2007-touchscreen-ipod-appletv-revs.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Apple Rumours Sept 2007: touchscreen iPod, AppleTV revs"
-created: 1188931290
-categories: 
-- AppleTV
-- GoogleTalk
-- iPhone
-- iPod
-- Video iPod
-- iPod Touch
-- Mac
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<p>Everyone loves a good Apple rumours post, and since tomorrow is a "special Apple event", we've got only hours to wait until we know the real answer...hence the perfect time to predict.</p>
-
-<p>What I'd *like* to see is my own long-predicted Mac Tablet. But really, with the iPhone, isn't that product already here? So....what I would like to see is an iPhone without the "phone" part -- a touch screen iPod with Wifi that runs OS X. It really is an iPhone, just without the cellular connection (or contract). But with WiFi, that could mean GoogleTalk / Skype / whatever for voice communications (with my bet on GoogleTalk). Yes, sort of like Nokia's N800.</p>
-
-<p>OK, so back from dream land to something that's more likely. The iPod Nano becomes the "classic" iPod for audio, and a new touchscreen, wide aspect iPod is the "Video iPod". No WiFi, that'll come in later revs.</p>
-
-<p>AppleTV revs? Well, it fits in the general video category, and there's been noise around TV downloads recently. Aside: so NBC is <a href="http://waffle.wootest.net/2007/09/01/pr-speak-nbc-universal/">high as a kite</a>. Regardless, I just want the licensing figured out so I can buy stuff in Canada! Actual details? No idea...probably just software, maybe some gaming support.</p>
-
-<p>What are your predictions? Any purchasing plans? What are you waiting for?</p>
-
-<p><strong>Update:</strong> so, we now have an iPod Touch. Sweet. And it comes with Wifi already. Yep, the tablet is here...</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-09-06-democampvancouver03-september-13th-or-october-4th.md b/_posts/archive/2007-09-06-democampvancouver03-september-13th-or-october-4th.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c98747c..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-09-06-democampvancouver03-september-13th-or-october-4th.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: DemoCampVancouver03 -- September 13th or October 4th?
-created: 1189123983
-categories: 
-- DemoCampVancouver
-- DemoCampVancouver03
-- Launch Party
-- Vancouver
----
-<p>Next Thursday, September 13th would be slightly less than 6 weeks after BarCamp Vancouver...but would keep things rolling.</p>
-
-<p>What say you? Should we go ahead and roll with something ad hoc next week, or wait until October 4th? Leave a comment! Make a blog post! Suggest a topic/speaker/demo!</p>
-
-<p><strong>Update:</strong> Oct. 4th it is, check Facebook for the event listing that just got sent out, and I've just copy/pasted the wiki page: <a href="http://barcamp.org/DemoCampVancouver03">DemoCampVancouver03</a>. Coming up right before that is <a href="http://www.techvibes.com/events/event49801.html">Launch Party</a> -- but I'll do a longer post on that as I get more info on it.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-09-06-uncle-fatihs-pizza-to-pigeons-park.md b/_posts/archive/2007-09-06-uncle-fatihs-pizza-to-pigeons-park.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 2326c73..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-09-06-uncle-fatihs-pizza-to-pigeons-park.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Uncle Fatih's Pizza to Pigeon's Park
-created: 1189074600
-categories: 
-- Uncle Fatih's Pizza
-- pizza
-- DTES
-- Pigeon Park
-- workspace
-- Gastown
-- video
-- Vancouver
----
-<p>I had an interesting experience on Wednesday night. The guys at <a href="http://www.abetterplacetowork.com">WorkSpace</a> called around some local Gastown businesses to fund a pizza delivery to Pigeon Park, and I stopped in to help hand out the pizzas. Here's a short video that I did with Bill MacEwen talking about why:</p>
-
-<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://blip.tv/scripts/flash/showplayer.swf?file=http%3A%2F%2Fbmann%2Eblip%2Etv%2Frss%2Fflash%2F%3Fnsfw%3Ddc&showplayerpath=http%3A%2F%2Fblip%2Etv%2Fscripts%2Fflash%2Fshowplayer%2Eswf" width="550" height="350" allowfullscreen="true" id="showplayer"><param name="movie" value="http://blip.tv/scripts/flash/showplayer.swf?file=http%3A%2F%2Fbmann%2Eblip%2Etv%2Frss%2Fflash%2F%3Fnsfw%3Ddc&showplayerpath=http%3A%2F%2Fblip%2Etv%2Fscripts%2Fflash%2Fshowplayer%2Eswf" /><param name="quality" value="best" /></object>
-
-<p><a href="http://unclefatihspizza.com/">Uncle Fatih'z Pizza</a> was the project we took on during <a href="http://barcamp.org/BarCampVancouver">BarCamp Vancouver</a> where we built <a href="http://adhack.com/site/comments/diy-advertising-in-60-minutes-or-less/">DIY video advertising in 60 minutes</a>. It was some of the most fun, intense, creative time I had and I would do it again in a second. Here's the video that my team did:</p>
-<!--break-->
-<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/fhUdr2uS-AM"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/fhUdr2uS-AM" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>
-
-<p>The Pigeon Park experience was great. I don't know <a href="http://www.darrenbarefoot.com/archives/2007/08/my-gnomedex-talk-1100-stacies.html">how many Stacies it's worth</a>, but the thanks of the people there who appreciated this food we were giving them was enough. I don't know how we can fix many of the issues faces the Downtown Eastside, but this is Bill's idea to at least spread a little good.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-09-07-facebook-shutting-down-useful-developers.md b/_posts/archive/2007-09-07-facebook-shutting-down-useful-developers.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c93f1c4..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-09-07-facebook-shutting-down-useful-developers.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Facebook shutting down useful developers
-created: 1189223686
-categories: 
-- Facebook
-- development
-- Mark Shropshire
-- Friendster
-- Social Media
-- Web 2.0
-- Web Development
----
-<p>Since I've been rambling on about Facebook recently, <a href="http://shropnet.com/">Mark Shropshire</a> pinged me to let me know that Facebook is blocking / taking legal action against apps that attempt to remotely "automate" Facebook. Said like that, it sounds kind of bad, but in reality, it's <a href="http://blog.circlesixdesign.com/2007/09/06/losing-facebook/">MoodBlast trying to update your status</a> across all systems -- FB, Twitter, Jaiku, etc.</p>
-
-<p><a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/06/facebook-opening-up-but-on-its-own-terms/">TechCrunch has a longer write up on this trend</a>. What does this mean? Well, it's probably not a good idea to treat a large, commercial system as a coral reef (hat tip to Dave Winer).</p>
-
-<p>Aside: coral reefs and other ecosystems flourish around the rusting hulks of sunken ships. Should we extend the analogy to businesses as well? Didn't all these other social networks spring up because of the dead carcass of Friendster?</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-09-09-ringtones-need-separate-licenses.md b/_posts/archive/2007-09-09-ringtones-need-separate-licenses.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 502f954..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-09-09-ringtones-need-separate-licenses.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Ringtones need separate licenses?
-created: 1189404091
-categories: 
-- licensing
-- copyright
-- ringtone
-- iPhone
-- Music
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<p>With the Apple event last week, I was a bit surprised at the ringtone announcement. At first glance, it seemed like a money grab. What, 99¢ for songs you already have? I don't get it.</p>
-
-<p>Today I came upon the concept that music publishers consider a ringtone a "performance" of the song that must be licensed separately, hence there are actual costs to Apple if it wants to say "this is a ringtone".</p>
-
-<p>For more background, read an <A href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061024-8063.html>"Ars Technica article from last year</a>. The <a href="http://www.harryfox.com/public/infoFAQRingtones.jsp">FAQ at Harry Fox Agency</a> (the largest issuer of music licenses in the US) is interesting to read through as well.</p>
-
-<p>Ringtones for 99¢? Apparently, we should be glad to be paying so little. Or being allowed to use them at all? In any case, it seems to be fairly simple to <a href="http://joemaller.com/2007/09/08/make-custom-iphone-ringtones-work-with-itunes-741/">use some file renaming to make ringtones out of existing songs</a>.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-09-11-vancouver-seo-birthday-gift-alex-brabant-is-emarketing-101.md b/_posts/archive/2007-09-11-vancouver-seo-birthday-gift-alex-brabant-is-emarketing-101.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 93ccb38..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-09-11-vancouver-seo-birthday-gift-alex-brabant-is-emarketing-101.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Vancouver SEO Birthday Gift: Alex Brabant is emarketing 101"
-created: 1189552927
-categories: 
-- SEO
-- emarketing 101
-- Alex Brabant
-- Vancouver
-- Search Engine Voodoo
----
-<p>So, I ended up attending <a href="http://www.emarketing101.net/about/alexandre-brabant-bio-vancouver/">Alex's</a> birthday party this past Saturday night (great Greek food at the Ouzeri in Kits, BTW). I know that he is a big SEO guy, so I thought I would give the "gift of a link". Alex runs a great consulting firm called emarketing 101, and Alex's title is a <a href="http://www.emarketing101.net/" Title="Vancouver BC Canada Search Engine Marketing (SEM) & Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Services Specialist">Vancouver BC Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Services Expert</a>.</p>
-
-<p>I remember first get interested in search results when I first started with Drupal. I spent a bunch of time trying to figure out what worked, and why. I can safely say that I'm nowhere near knowing all of the intricate details and "tricks" of SEO, but I think I still know the basics -- clean HTML code, clean URLs, some logical cross linking of pages (tags are great for this), and so on. And, of course, the three C's -- compelling content constantly.</p>
-
-<p>Will this be a trend? Have other people given links as birthday gifts?</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-09-12-vancouver-wireless-cadre-kick-off-meeting.md b/_posts/archive/2007-09-12-vancouver-wireless-cadre-kick-off-meeting.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 5fb0ce3..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-09-12-vancouver-wireless-cadre-kick-off-meeting.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Vancouver Wireless Cadre Kick Off Meeting
-created: 1189616272
-categories: 
-- community wireless
-- DogOnRails
-- Joe Bowser
-- Meraki
-- mesh
-- wifi
-- Vancouver
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<p>It's time to gather forces and talk about how to get Vancouver covered in wireless connectivity -- let's meet this Thursday.</p>
-
-<p>Join us to discuss strategies for getting more wireless networks deployed from the ground up. <a href="http://blogs.nitobi.com/joe/">Joe Bowser</a> is working on <a href="http://code.google.com/p/dogonrails/">DogOnRails</a>, a re-write of the venerable WifiDog software, and several other attendees have experience with Meraki wireless gear.</p>
-
-<p>Ideally, we will join force with <a href="http://www.freegeekvancouver.org">Free Geek Vancouver</a> and work towards grass roots community wireless coverage of the city.</p>
-
-<p>Here's what Joe Bowser has to share with us:</p>
-<blockquote>
-<ol>
-<li>Nitobi will have a unit installed. If we can get the signal out to
-Workspace, that'd help get the network up and going.</li>
-<li>DogOnRails is deployed, but I haven't tested the latest version.
-It's not really related to mesh directly, but it can be used as a
-captive portal.</li>
-<li>I bought two WGT634Us to test MIT Roofnet and see how easy it is to
-get it working, and it's fairly simple. With some dev work, we can get
-an Open Meraki firmware (one that doesn't phone home, or use Dashboard),
-which is definitely worth talking about.</li>
-</ol>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>This is very much a quick kick off meeting to get the ball rolling. Please come out and share your thoughts and ideas.</p>
-
-<p>5:30pm this Thursday, Sept. 13th, at the <a href="http://www.bryght.com/contact">Bryght offices</a>. On <a href="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/264870/">Upcoming</a> and on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=4788858038&ref=mf">Facebook</a>.</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-09-13-canon-s5-is-the-canon-powershot-s-series-is-still-my-favorite.md b/_posts/archive/2007-09-13-canon-s5-is-the-canon-powershot-s-series-is-still-my-favorite.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 77367b3..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-09-13-canon-s5-is-the-canon-powershot-s-series-is-still-my-favorite.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,44 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Canon S5 IS - the Canon Powershot S series is still my favorite
-created: 1189667561
-categories: 
-- Canon S5 IS
-- canon
-- Future Shop
-- London Drugs
-- Personal
----
-<p><a href="http://www.iworkindustries.com">James</a> and I originally set out on Saturday to both buy a <a href="http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&langid=EN&sku_id=0665000FS10089228&catid=11719">Canon S5 IS at Future Shop</a>, but they were out and gave us rain checks. Here's a link to <a href="http://www.flickr.com/cameras/canon/powershot_s5_is">Flickr's page about the S5 IS</a> -- there are some amazing photos there.</p>
-
-<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/1254841854/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1295/1254841854_9511ce2162_t.jpg" width="100" height="75" alt="More product shots" align="left" style="padding: 5px;"/></a>
-
-<p>I've been a long time fan of the S series. I bought the S1 IS three years ago, and have been raving about it ever since: big zoom, great movie mode, really good optics, regular rechargeable AA batteries. I've taken most of the 7000 pictures on my Flickr account with the S1 IS. But, I recently dropped the camera and it's been acting up.</p>
-
-<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/1368921351/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1402/1368921351_29a049aa02_t.jpg" width="100" height="75" alt="Sunset Basil" align="right" style="padding: 5px;"/></a>
-
-<p>Luckily, Canon has continued to evolve the series. I've continued to recommend the series, and pretty much everyone I know that has bought one has been happy with it. About the *only* downside is its size: it's too big to be a pocket cam. But, I've always been happy with this trade off -- increasingly, my cellphone has been taking the role of pocket cam, and if I am going somewhere where I want really great pictures, I'll take the camera along.</p>
-
-<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/1369943872/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1329/1369943872_252ca9bf86_t.jpg" width="100" height="75" alt="Eating at Banana Leaf with Dad"  align="right" style="padding: 5px;"/></a>
-
-<p>So I ended up going to London Drugs this evening and bought the Canon S5 IS ... it's on for $499 there, but they'll price match Future Shop at $479. I went to the store on West Broadway -- Harry C was behind the counter and super knowledgeable. A 4GB SD card for $69 completed the purchase (and I just remembered that I forgot to get a UV filter -- recommended even just as a way to keep your main lens from scratching). First photo at right. Not super exciting, I know, but 8MP rather than the 3.2MP that I've been used to, and *excellent* low light performance.</p>
-
-<p>In short, I still love the Canon PowerShot S series, and continue to recommend it to anyone that doesn't want a pocket cam. </p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>You should buy this camera if you want:</p>
-<ul>
-<li>a really big zoom (technically the ultrazoom category) -- the S5 is 12x optical</li>
-<li>great macro modes -- the S5 actually has a 0cm "super macro" -- yes, you can actually put the lens directly on the thing you want to take a picture of (check out these <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/10596914@N05/1191068197"/>macro shots of lemons on Flickr</a> that were taken with the S5)</li>
-<li>regular AA batteries -- esp. important when travelling</li>
-<li>excellent movie quality, including sound -- 640x480 at 30fps, with stereo audio recording; oh yeah, and it actually has built in audio levels and even a wind filter</li>
-<li>a rotating LCD screen -- from self portraits to crowd shots, I've been addicted</li>
-<li>a viewfinder -- I actually take most of my pics through the viewfinder, which also saves batteries; the viewfinder just gives me more of a, well, professional feel, I guess</li>
-<li>consistently good pictures -- there's not much fiddling to be done here, although you do have access to a lot of programmability</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>You should not buy this camera if you want:</p>
-<ul>
-<li>something that fits in your pocket -- this is way smaller than an SLR, but it's not jean pocket sized</li>
-<li>RAW support -- well, this really is high end camera stuff</li>
-<li>an SLR -- while this is perfect for me, who just isn't going to add high end photography and lenses etc. etc. to stuff that I do, this is not a Digital SLR; it just happens to be a very good "prosumer" digital camera</li>
-</ul>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-09-14-vancouver-freethenet-ca-community-wireless-in-your-neighbourhood.md b/_posts/archive/2007-09-14-vancouver-freethenet-ca-community-wireless-in-your-neighbourhood.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 9628c82..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-09-14-vancouver-freethenet-ca-community-wireless-in-your-neighbourhood.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Vancouver.FreeTheNet.Ca - Community Wireless in your neighbourhood
-created: 1189755791
-categories: 
-- FreeTheNet.ca
-- Meraki
-- community wireless
-- Gastown
-- NetEquality
-- Vancouver
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<p>Seems like the <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/blog/bmann/vancouver-wireless-cadre-kick-meeting">wireless meetup tonight</a> went really well.</p>
-
-<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/1377050673/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1179/1377050673_0cfb82c861_t.jpg" width="100" height="75" alt="Graham asking good questions" align="right" style="padding: 5px;"/></a>
-
-<p>We had a good selection of folks come out, and I know I learned a lot. <a href="http://www.infil00p.org/">Joe Bowser</a> is software and hardware hacker extraordinaire and taught us a bunch, while <a href="http://geodata.ca">Mike West</a> has already imported a stack of <a href="http://meraki.com/">Meraki</a> units so we can get started experimenting with mesh right away.</p>
-
-<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/1377046543/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1042/1377046543_7549aeb945_t.jpg" width="75" height="100" alt="Joe channels wireless netgear" align="left" style="padding: 5px;"/></a>
-
-<p>We talked a lot about some of the other solutions out there, from hacking Netgear units to MIT Roofnet. At the end of the day, the Meraki units "just work", and we are at this point more interested in experimenting with good mesh coverage than diving into more hardware or software hacking. While Meraki isn't fully open source, the firmware is open, and we're confident that the Meraki software could be replaced in the future if necessary.</p>
-
-<p>Mike shared with us his experiences in getting larger numbers of Meraki units into Canada, especially modified outdoor units from <a href="http://www.netequality.org"/>NetEquality</a>. NetEquality is another organization out of Portland (the original <a href="http://freegeek.org/">FreeGeek</a> started in Portland, too) that is a non-profit which "provide[s] planning, deployment resources and internet mesh products worldwide and install[s] free network hardware in qualified communities in the Pacific Northwest".</p>
-
-<p>We spent some time talking about working with other local groups: <a href="http://www.bcwireless.net"/>BCWireless.net</a>, <a href="http://www2.vcn.bc.ca"/>Vancouver Community Network</a>, <a href="http://freegeekvancouver.org"/>Free Geek Vancouver</a>, and <a href="http://www.mobilemuse.ca/">Mobile Muse</a>. </p>
-
-<p>Graham from <a href="http://toothanddagger.com/">Tooth and Dagger</a> proved perfect in asking lots of great questions. We settled on trying to answer the question, "What would it take to cover Water Street to Waterfront Station with mesh wireless?" The estimate is that we could need as little as 15 units, and there are a good handful of local Gastown businesses who are already interested. Basically, we'll consider this a "Phase 0" of experimentation where we test getting a mesh up and running, monitor bandwidth usage, and so on. Much longer term, wouldn't it be interesting if some of the many large towers from Yaletown to the West End could be educated in running a mesh node, rather than the 100s of overlapping wifi routers in place today.</p>
-
-<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/1377974900/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1082/1377974900_d3e0a26543_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Box of Meraki gear: get your unit today" align="right" style="padding: 5px;"></a>
-
-<p>Mike has left this pile of Meraki units at the Bryght offices -- I'll confirm the pricing tomorrow, but around $75 for the indoor unit and $125 for the outdoor one. If you want one for personal use, for your business, for anything, you can come buy one (or several!). More details on this in the next couple of days.</p>
-
-<p><a href="http://www.bryght.com">Bryght</a> is going to put an outdoor unit on the roof, <a href="http://www.raincitystudios.com">Raincity Studios</a> is moving in and will probably stick a unit in the front window. Joe works at <a href="http://www.nitobi.com">Nitobi</a> and already has a unit on the roof. If we can start by covering the first block from Alexander to Abbott, that will be an excellent start: then we can start talking to the Gastown Business Improvement Association and the other local businesses.</p>
-
-<p>Lastly, in scheming over beer later, Mike shared that he has the domain FreeTheNet.ca. For now, we'll go under the working assumption that we'll use Vancouver.FreeTheNet.ca as the working name for the group, and start building out things like a list of locations of nodes, as well as a write up how people in other cities can get started as well.</p>
-
-<p>Want to continue the discussion? Join the <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/freethenet-ca">FreeTheNet.ca Google Group</a>. Tentatively, we planned for another meet up on October 11th.</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-09-14-vancouver-freethenet-ca-how-to-buy-your-wireless-mesh-node.md b/_posts/archive/2007-09-14-vancouver-freethenet-ca-how-to-buy-your-wireless-mesh-node.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 105d3be..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-09-14-vancouver-freethenet-ca-how-to-buy-your-wireless-mesh-node.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Vancouver.FreeTheNet.Ca - how to buy your wireless mesh node
-created: 1189813246
-categories: 
-- FreeTheNet.ca
-- Gastown
-- Meraki
-- Vancouver
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<p>So, one day later (!!!), our concept of getting <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/blog/bmann/vancouver-freethenet-ca-community-wireless-your-neighbourhood#comment-136571">free wireless going in Vancouver</a> is picking up a ton of steam. Here's the map of wireless nodes across Vancouver as of today:</p>
-
-<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/1383645464/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1216/1383645464_44820b77b6.jpg" width="500" height="251" alt="vancouver.freethenet.ca" /></a>
-
-<p>I'm going to take a unit home, so there will be a South Granville location, too. Also check out the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/1382749731/">zoomed-in version of Gastown</a> -- we could have really good coverage in no time.</p>
-
-<p>We had <a href="http://vancouvertechguy.com/free-willy-the-internet">Lyal</a> from <a href="http://www.outcome3.com">Outcome3</a> come and buy a unit, and Jennifer from <a href="http://www.elasticentertainment.com">Elastic Entertainment</a>. Raincity Studios, who are going to be sharing our office here at 1 Alexander, are going to <a href="http://www.raincitystudios.com/thestandard/free-wi-fi-for-the-people-of-vancouver">unwire their side of the office as well</a>. I'm thinking Chill Winston is going to see some more laptop users soon. I think <a href="http://www.kriskrug.com">Kris Krug</a> narrowly beat out Joe Bowser to be the first "home" node up. Wow...and that's day 1!</p>
-
-<h2>How to buy a Meraki wireless mesh node in Vancouver</h2>
-
-<img src="http://bmannconsulting.com/sites/bmannconsulting.com/files/freethenet10.gif" title="FreeTheNet.ca Meraki units in Vancouver"/>
-
-<p>We've currently got a stack of Meraki units from <a href="http://www.geodata.ca">Mike West</a> sitting in the Bryght offices. If you are a business or individual, <a href="http://www.bryght.com">contact Bryght</a> or stop by during business hours and we'll configure a unit and sell it to you. If you're a regular home user, the Meraki Mini will do just fine.</p>
-
-<p>What do you need? Nothing more than a network connection. If you buy more than one, they will automatically form a mesh so you can cover a wider area. Need help configuring? We'll do what we can to get you up and running -- Joe Bowser is our official hardware/network geek.</p>
-
-<p>We'll hurry to get Vancouver.FreeTheNet.ca set up early next week, so we can promote everyone that is running nodes. Ideally, we'll get an interface (and coverage!) like the <a href="http://sf.meraki.com/overview">San Fran network</a>, where we can keep the map updated in real time.</p>
-
-<p>Join the <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/freethenet-ca">FreeTheNet Google Group</a> to stay in touch.</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-09-15-i-am-heading-to-barcelona-for-drupalcon.md b/_posts/archive/2007-09-15-i-am-heading-to-barcelona-for-drupalcon.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a2a7769..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-09-15-i-am-heading-to-barcelona-for-drupalcon.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: I am heading to Barcelona for Drupalcon
-created: 1189894614
-categories: 
-- Barcelona
-- DrupalCon
-- Drupalcon Barcelona
-- Personal
----
-<p>So, I'm madly rushing around the house throwing stuff together, doing laundry, etc. (Later: I'm plugged in at the airport, waiting to board).</p>
-
-<p>Dave set up some <a href="http://feasthouse.wordpress.com/2007/09/12/barcelona-travel-tips-for-tokers-and-foodies/">travel tips</a> for me, and I <a href="http://www.43places.com/entries/view/2347141">asked 43 Places what the best beaches in Barcelona are</a>.</p>
-
-<p>Unfortunately, it doesn't look like I'll have time to make the flight to Malta to visit <a href="http://www.darrenbarefoot.com">Darren</a> and Julie. I didn't realize there was a direct flight from Barcelona to Malta. I've still got my fingers crossed that I can shuffle my flight back, so we'll see about this...</p>
-
-<p>Oh, right, why am I going? We've got some client work to meet up around, and that's followed by <a href="http://barcelona2007.drupalcon.org">DrupalCon Barcelona 2007</a>. This looks to be the largest Drupal event ever, with almost 400 people attending.</p>
-
-<p>Anyone have other tips? Leave a comment! I'm going to try and produce a fair amount of social media, so follow the Flickr stream. See you in 10 days!</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-09-18-barcelona-tapas-are-delicious.md b/_posts/archive/2007-09-18-barcelona-tapas-are-delicious.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 7735597..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-09-18-barcelona-tapas-are-delicious.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Barcelona: Tapas are delicious"
-created: 1190110480
-categories: 
-- Barcelona
-- EasySleep
-- Personal
----
-<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/1401309358/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1237/1401309358_6abf86f094_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Bar snacks: prawns and olives" style="padding: 5px;" align="left" /></a>
-
-<p>So, in actuality, the prawns and olives above were not that great, but they WERE available within 2 blocks of our apartment at a random street side cervezeria. The food here definitely is in incredible - -I'm looking forward to sharing my pictures of the market once we get to somewhere with a solid Internet connection. With the <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/blog/bmann/canon-s5-canon-powershot-s-series-still-my-favorite">new camera</a>, at almost 3MB per picture, we have to be somewhat careful about not overloading wireless networks we are connected to.</p>
-
-<p>The plan is to go back to the market today and cook for folks at our apartment. I'll be sure and document in pictures and video. The apartment (through <a href="http://www.easysleepbcn.com/">EasySleep</a>) is quite nice -- has a kitchen with gas range, lots of shops in the area to get supplies, easily sleeps 5. Some trouble with the Internet and Mac laptops, and payment has been problematic (don't ask...), but I would definitely stay in this type of apartment rental again. There should be more of these in Vancouver...I'm not really aware of anything organized like this other than Craigslist.</p>
-
-<p>Had a great evening talking with <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/blog/bmann/vanguardistas-barcelona">Brian Sutherland from the Vanguardistas</a>, who are Zope3 experts. I have some notes and will post more about this.</p>
-
-<p>We've got some work to do today, and <a href="http://barcelona2007.drupalcon.org">DrupalCon Barcelona</a> will hit full force tomorrow....given my previous records around blogging during events, I may very well go silent until I come out the other side and spend a day at the beach...</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-09-18-will-mailco-mozillas-thunderbird-spin-off-to-be-run-by-david-ascher-be-headquartered-in-vancouver.md b/_posts/archive/2007-09-18-will-mailco-mozillas-thunderbird-spin-off-to-be-run-by-david-ascher-be-headquartered-in-vancouver.md
deleted file mode 100644
index ce56180..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-09-18-will-mailco-mozillas-thunderbird-spin-off-to-be-run-by-david-ascher-be-headquartered-in-vancouver.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Will MailCo, Mozilla's Thunderbird spin off to be run by David Ascher, be headquartered in Vancouver?
-created: 1190147149
-categories: 
-- open source
-- Mozilla
-- David Ascher
-- ActiveState
-- Thunderbird
-- Vancouver
-- Open Source
----
-<p>OK, OK, that's a ridiculously long title. But it's great to hear that <a href="http://ascher.ca/blog/2007/09/17/joining-mozilla/">David Ascher will be heading MailCo</a> and taking Thunderbird in to a brave new adventure.</p>
-
-<p>Stay in Vancouver? Yes, please! We're on a roll, here, and I'm rooting for more open source businesses to grow up here.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-09-19-phreaky-phonez.md b/_posts/archive/2007-09-19-phreaky-phonez.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f3c78b9..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-09-19-phreaky-phonez.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Phreaky Phonez
-created: 1190207090
-categories: 
-- SMS
----
-Send free SMS worldwide for free at <a href="http://phreakyphonez.net">www.phreakyphonez.net</a>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-09-23-drupalcon-barcelona-over-first-drupal-association-report.md b/_posts/archive/2007-09-23-drupalcon-barcelona-over-first-drupal-association-report.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 3fc72e1..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-09-23-drupalcon-barcelona-over-first-drupal-association-report.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,49 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: DrupalCon Barcelona over, first Drupal Association report
-created: 1190610619
-categories: 
-- Drupal Association
-- DrupalCon
-- Drupalcon Barcelona
-- Canada
-- Drupal
-- Open Source
----
-<p>This is not a wrap up post about <a href="http://barcelona2007.drupalcon.org">DrupalCon Barcelona</a> (I'm notoriously bad at those, with all these fresh ideas swirling in my head instead), but rather a post about the <a href="http://association.drupal.org">Drupal Association</a>.</p>
-
-<p>We had an open panel / community feedback session at DrupalCon with the members of the association. I was very proud to be sitting there with those folks, even more so after each person spoke about what they want to do as part of the association. But...</p>
-
-<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kk/31325978/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/21/31325978_297d19158b_m.jpg" width="240" height="162" alt="Boris, Dries, and Kieran of Drupal Fame" align="left" style="padding: 10px;"/></a>
-
-<p>...but let's not get to the "but" yet. The photo at left is myself, Dries, and Kieran sitting down at OSCON 2005. This is when we first started discussing the idea that, well, Drupal was getting pretty big, and we might need some other entity to help support it. What it really came down to is that at the very least, we needed a checking account: shuffling money between companies and Dries' personal Paypal account, etc. were getting increasingly painful. And heck, we had a conference with a whole 50 people show up!</p>
-
-<p>2 years later and we've had many more successful DrupalCons. Sticking just to Europe, we had 150 people last year, and almost 450 this year. That's a tripling every year, and it's clear that the Association really is needed to help handle the logistics around these gatherings.</p>
-
-<p>Back to the "but". The Association is almost a year old. It's been tough getting started, with only Kieran Lal having had previous experience serving on a board / running an association, and some of the busiest community contributors upping their contribution. We've got some of the nuts and bolts tackled now (accounting, legal, meetings, roles, etc.), have gone through some growing pains, and are pretty much ready to kick ass. We've got our first General Assembly ahead of us in a couple of months time, which will likely see the Permanent Membership grow and we'll have a new board elected.</p>
-
-<p>One of the big points from the community was they wanted more feedback about what the Association was doing...but also how they can help, and what they can expect from the Association. We've talked internally and will try to adopt the Mozilla Foundation model of "reporting via blog". See <a href="http://zak.greant.com/tags/organization/mofo/">Zak Greant's MoFo Weekly Reports</a> for an example. This blog post isn't really a report in that style...I just sent off a bunch of email that should be good material for next week's report, and have tried to put a few bits of info in the footer that are a bit report-like.</p>
-
-<p>And me? Well, I need to continue the process of getting things off my plate and having someone else's name attached to responsibilities, and to look at recruiting more people across the community to help run various initiatives. My main "hat" within the Board is marketing...I do a lot of that through direct outreach now, but there are so many other large and small things that could/should be done. For starters, I need to put some energy into gathering all the marketing folks back at home base -- <a href="http://groups.drupal.org/drupal-marketing">http://groups.drupal.org/drupal-marketing</a>. There were many "marketing only" folks that came up to me after the panel to say "how can we help?" ... many business cards to go through!</p>
-
-<p>I would also like to serve as a direct channel to many large entities that are now starting to interact with the Drupal community -- larger enterprises, governments, universities, research initiatives, and so on.</p>
-
-<p>In particular, it's my not so secret ambition to start at home in Canada / Vancouver and encourage local and federal governments to fund and support open source in general, and Drupal in particular. How about a 3rd Computer Science university course on "Coding for Open Source", including a section on Drupal in particular...</p>
-
-<p>OK, time to wrap this up. I'm re-invigorated both about the Drupal Association and my role within it, and of course with the Drupal community as a whole after such a large gathering in Barcelona.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Update:</strong> after a little sleep, I realize I forgot to link to <a href="http://association.drupal.org/blogs">Planet Drupal Association</a> -- you can subscribe to a feed of all posts there. Also a few minor updates to reports below. Case studies!</p>
-<!--break-->
-<hr />
-<p><strong>Next Week</strong></p>
-<ul>
-<li>Engage with marketing connections made at DrupalCon -- go <a href="http://groups.drupal.org/drupal-marketing">http://groups.drupal.org/drupal-marketing</a></li>
-<li>Look at where / how to gather case studies using case study template sent from <a href="http://one-agency.be">Wim Janin</a></li>
-<li>Follow up on emails related to local user group support</li>
-<li>Follow up with <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/downstream/">Sun</a> about various projects</li>
-<li>Help with DrupalCon Barcelona debrief and wrap up communication</li>
-<li>Further discuss concept of "legal fund" and get legal advice mailing list setup</li>
-</ul>
-<p><strong>Background</strong></p>
-
-<p>Boris Mann is on the Board of Directors of the Drupal Association. Feel free to <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/contact">contact him</a> about Drupal Association related inquiries, especially related to press and marketing.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-09-24-great-memories-from-barcelona-september-2007.md b/_posts/archive/2007-09-24-great-memories-from-barcelona-september-2007.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 08bc50c..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-09-24-great-memories-from-barcelona-september-2007.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Great memories from Barcelona September 2007
-created: 1190652165
-categories: 
-- Barcelona
-- Euskal Etxea
-- Mercat de la Boqueteria
-- NowPublic
-- Personal
----
-<p>I'm winding down on my last evening here in Barcelona. Folks in Vancouver are starting to wake up, and I'm looking forward to heading home. Here are some of the things I enjoyed while in Barcelona:</p>
-
-<ul>
-<li>Cooking with the <a href="http://www.nowpublic.com">NowPublic</a> crew; I always enjoy cooking, and it was an absolute pleasure to shop for ultra fresh ingredients at Mercat de la Boqueteria and then cook, eat, and drink for something like 12 hours until everyone was groaning -- mussels, prawns, baby octopus, lamb chops, squid, wild mushrooms, blood sausage, cheeses, whitefish, and so on...</li>
-<li>on Saturday night, we went out until everything closed, then found an all night underground club that was covered in cardboard on the walls, where everyone was painting</li>
-<li>a meal at <a href="http://euskaletxeak.org">Euskal Etxea</a>, where we had 9 dishes + flights of wine + complimentary Catalan liquers + 3 desserts and a smokin' hot server that also gave great service</li>
-<li>last night, hanging out at the pier watching the moon over the waves, sharing a bottle of french champagne and discussing how to change the world with good friends</li>
-<li>the many people, thoughts, discussions, and ideas that continue to bubble in my head from attending <a href="http://barcelona2007.drupalcon.org">DrupalCon Barcelona</a></li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>Pictures will make their way online when I get back. Thanks to "REBECA", we have wifi, but we don't want to stress it with GBs of uploads unnecessarily. See you in Vancouver soon...</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-09-28-successful-launch-party.md b/_posts/archive/2007-09-28-successful-launch-party.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 5577ae2..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-09-28-successful-launch-party.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Successful Launch Party
-created: 1191013101
-categories: 
-- DemoCampVancouver03
-- Launch Party
-- Maura Rodgers
-- Rob Lewis
-- TechVibes
-- Twiistup
-- CMS
----
-<a href="http://flickr.com/photos/roland/1451675018/in/set-72157602182454212"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1185/1451675018_c8ca3bb2de_m.jpg" border="0" align="left" style="padding: 10px;"/></a><p>Last night saw the first Launch Party event here in Vancouver (<a href="http://techvibesblog.com/launch-party-vancouver/">background write up by Rob Lewis of TechVibes here). </a><a href="http://www.strutta.com">Maura Rodgers</a>, <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/dannyrobinson">Danny Robinson</a>, and <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/dimitrisirota">Dimitri Sirota</a> joined forces to put on what I can best summarize as being a social gathering for Vancouver&#39;s tech community, from entrepreneurs to marketers to interested potential investors.</p><p>I&#39;ve come to know Maura and Danny quite well. They&#39;ve come back up from the Valley and have now settled back here in Vancouver, with a commitment to make Vancouver&#39;s tech community -- including a healthy ecosystem of investment -- really shine. Conveniently, that&#39;s completely in line with what I want to accomplish as well. I quizzed Maura ahead of time to compare/contrast Launch Party with <a href="http://barcamp.org/DemoCampVancouver">DemoCampVancouver</a>. Here&#39;s what she had to say:</p><blockquote><p>Moving here from the Valley, where there is no shortage of fun events for people to attend, I thought an event like LP for entrepreneurs, techies, marketers was missing here. There are lots of great events like democamp, barcamp, VEF, and they fill a need too. After work, I am just looking for good mingling and want to bring the people together in and around this city, who are sitting on great ideas but not everyone knows about them. Every month, we hope to showcase about 4-5 cool, early stage companies in the city. It will be very informal and fun and give the people, who are not competing in the decibel competition ;), a chance to warm up and be involved.</p><p>We have connections to Silicon Valley. We know investors, marketers, companys there and want to make them aware of the Vancouver scene. Our next LP will most likely be in November. I will be collaborating with the people of the very popular event <a href="/www.twiistup.com">Twiistup of CA</a>, who are interested in the scene up here to put on a bigger, more involved event than our first called Launch Party with a Twiist. We hope to get more people from South of the Border up for that one.</p> </blockquote><p>So, there you have it. Launch Party fills a more casual, social role to meet and catch up with what folks are doing. I think the attendees had a good time networking with each other as well as sitting in on demos/pitches on the startups that attended. It was great to see everyone out, meet some new faces, and get to learn more about some of the great companies and products that folks are working on. I wanted to especially send some congrats to <a href="http://www.sun.com">Sun</a>, who stepped up as one of the main sponsors. I just got back from DrupalCon Barcelona, where I met <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/downstream/">Scott Matoon from Sun</a> -- I'm impressed to see Sun stepping up to different communities, from local ones like Launch Party, to global communities like Drupal. Other than that...go Maura Go!</p><p>And now that you&#39;re all partied out, head on over to WorkSpace next Thursday, October 4th, for <a href="http://barcamp.org/DemoCampVancouver03">DemoCampVancouver03</a>.</p>
-
-<p>(Photo by <a href="http://www.rolandtanglao.com">Roland Tanglao</a>, of <a href="http://victoriarevay.com/">Victoria Revay</a> and <a href="http://uncleweed.net/">Dave Olson</a>)</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-09-30-rogers-and-fido-sms-message-center-number.md b/_posts/archive/2007-09-30-rogers-and-fido-sms-message-center-number.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 30c6542..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-09-30-rogers-and-fido-sms-message-center-number.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
----
-title: Rogers and Fido SMS Message Center Number
----
-<p>For future reference, I found a <a href="http://kb.palm.com/SRVS/CGI-BIN/WEBCGI.EXE?New,kb=PalmSupportKB,CASE=obj(28591),ts=Palm_External2001">Palm article that mentions the Rogers SMS message center number</a>. The number is +17057969300 for Rogers, and +15149931123 for Fido. You'll need to change this in <kbd>Messaging > Settings > Text Message > Message centres</kbd> (on Series 60 phones), as well as set the Message centre in use. A reboot is required, and any messages in the Outbox won't work...they'll still have the old message center number in it.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-10-02-media-appearance-the-christy-clark-show-talking-freethenet-ca.md b/_posts/archive/2007-10-02-media-appearance-the-christy-clark-show-talking-freethenet-ca.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 2170148..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-10-02-media-appearance-the-christy-clark-show-talking-freethenet-ca.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Media appearance: The Christy Clark show, talking FreeTheNet.ca"
-created: 1191360817
-categories: 
-- FreeTheNet.ca
-- Christy Clark
-- Vancouver
-- Personal
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<p>I just confirmed that I'll be on <a href="http://www.cknw.com/shows/show_christyclark.cfm">CKNW 980's The Christy Clark Show</a> tomorrow afternoon (Wednesday, October 3rd, at 1:30pm).</p>
-
-<p>I'll be talking about <a href="http://vancouver.freethenet.ca">Vancouver's FreeTheNet.ca</a> project. As <a href="http://www.darrenbarefoot.com">Darren</a> warned us, we're getting a fair bit of attention quite soon, which could be a bit problematic for a grass roots project. Incidentally, our second meeting is tonight (<a href="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/269672/">info on Upcoming</a>) -- please come out if you are interested in getting involved or finding out more.</p>
-
-<p>More background on Christy Clark and her show on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christy_Clark">Wikipedia</a> and her <a href="http://christyclark.ca/">website</a>.</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-10-05-democampvancouver03-first-iteration-of-battle-decks-fun-as-always.md b/_posts/archive/2007-10-05-democampvancouver03-first-iteration-of-battle-decks-fun-as-always.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 58cabd3..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-10-05-democampvancouver03-first-iteration-of-battle-decks-fun-as-always.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: DemoCampVancouver03 - first iteration of Battle Decks, fun as always
-created: 1191574720
-categories: 
-- DemoCampVancouver03
-- DemoCamp Vancouver
-- Miss 604
-- live blogger
-- Battle Decks
-- workspace
-- Vancouver
----
-<p>Well, I'm just getting home from a great night out. We polished off <a href=
-http://barcamp.org/DemoCampVancouver03">DemoCampVancouver03</a> to -- I think! -- great success.</p>
-
-<p>Our second one was moved to the Irish Heather across the street, and while it was still fun and had good presentations, it's just not the same vibe as doing it at <a href="http://www.abetterplacetowork.com">WorkSpace</a>. Thanks again to Bill, Dane, and the crew for letting us host there.</p>
-
-<p>We shook up the mix a little tonight by adding battle decks: "secret" slide decks that two volunteers have to "pitch" to the crowd, and go head to head to see who can put together the best spiel to the audience. Thanks to Megan, Kris, and Roland for pulling this off, as well as John from HandiMobility and Michael Fergusson from Kinzin / Are You Normal? for being our first contestants.</p>
-
-<p>The pitches and presenters were really hard to choose from: we keep getting more people out and more great ideas. I'm not going to go into massive detail other than to point to <a href="http://www.miss604.com/2007/10/democampvancouver03-live-blog.html">DemoCamp Vancouver's official live blogger, Miss 604</a>, as well as my friend Graham, who had <a href="http://gfair.livejournal.com/10689.html?view=4545">good comments / feedback for the presenters</a>.</p>
-
-<p>Yes, I'm missing a ton of links in this post. It's getting late, so I wanted to get this up for starters. Thanks to all for attending and participating -- it was amazing to hear about all the other upcoming events. There really is a lot happening in Vancouver, and events like this just help to highlight that.</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-10-11-media-appearance-tod-maffins-cbc-technology-column-more-on-freethenet-ca.md b/_posts/archive/2007-10-11-media-appearance-tod-maffins-cbc-technology-column-more-on-freethenet-ca.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 134b943..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-10-11-media-appearance-tod-maffins-cbc-technology-column-more-on-freethenet-ca.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Media appearance: Tod Maffin's CBC technology column - more on FreeTheNet.ca"
-created: 1192088303
-categories: 
-- FreeTheNet.ca
-- Tod Maffin
-- CBC
-- community wireless
-- Canada
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<p>I dropped by Tod Maffin's favourite alleyway on Tuesday morning, and he grabbed a few soundbites from me about the <a href="http://www.freethenet.ca">FreeTheNet.ca community wireless project</a>.</p>
-
-<p>The <a href="http://www.todmaffin.com/blog/freethenet">audio is online now</a>, and the clip will air tomorrow (Thursday, October 11th, 2007). The <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/spark/blog/2007/10/community_wifi.html">CBC's Spark blog has a short mention, too</a>.</p>
-
-<p>Overall I'm pretty happy with how the piece turned out. I didn't quite expect the whole thing to be about FreeTheNet -- Tod had originally mumbled something about additional wireless stuff, but turns out it's all about free wireless. The stress on "free" was a little strong...the interesting part really is when we can find a great ISP partner who sees the logic in promoting wider coverage, more customers, and the opportunity for additional applications by such coverage.</p>
-
-<p>Thanks for the opportunity, Tod!</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-10-11-speaking-web-directions-north-08-three-stages-of-content-management.md b/_posts/archive/2007-10-11-speaking-web-directions-north-08-three-stages-of-content-management.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c094643..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-10-11-speaking-web-directions-north-08-three-stages-of-content-management.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Speaking: Web Directions North 08 - Three Stages of Content Management"
-created: 1192139141
-categories: 
-- Web Directions North
-- WDN08
-- Vancouver
-- CMS
-- Web Development
-- WDN08
-- Web Directions North
-- Vancouver
-- CMS
-- Web Development
----
-<p>
-	I&#39;m happy to announce that I&#39;ll be <a href="http://north.webdirections.org/speakers/#mann">speaking</a> at <a href="http://www.mezzoblue.com">Dave Shea</a> and co&#39;s <a href="http://north.webdirections.org/">Web Directions North conference</a> this coming January, taking place January 29th through 31st here in Vancouver (with apres conference Whistler trip, of course).</p>
-<p>
-	I&#39;ll be talking about the <a href="http://north.webdirections.org/schedule/#threestagescms">3 Stages of Content Management</a>. I&#39;m tagging stuff in <a href="http://del.icio.us/borismann/wdn08">delicious with WDN08</a> -- please send me your links if you have something relevant to add. Yes, I&#39;ll be mentioning Drupal, but I&#39;ll mainly go through why/when/how you&#39;ll be diving into an actual content management &quot;system&quot; vs. straight up HTML pages (people still do that?!?) and some of the different tools and techniques, as well as the reason why you might want to go to a dynamic system.</p>
-<p>
-	<a href="http://north.webdirections.org/sponsorship/">WDN</a> is still looking for sponsorship, and of course you should definitely attend if building websites is at all in your future. Dave&#39;s presence here in Vancouver is finally starting to be felt (which Dave? oh, you mean <a href="http://www.csszengarden.com">the CSS Zen Garden guy?</a> He lives in Vancouver?!?) and the conference last year was excellent.</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-10-14-colours-of-fall-in-vancouver.md b/_posts/archive/2007-10-14-colours-of-fall-in-vancouver.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 66f6ee5..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-10-14-colours-of-fall-in-vancouver.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Colours of Fall in Vancouver
-created: 1192396189
-categories: 
-- Vancouver
-- Personal
----
-<p>I am feeling "behind" in my blog writing and updating...and GPS'ing...and cleaning...etc. etc. But, I did go for a fun walk through Granville Island and downtown where I got lots of <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/archives/date-taken/2007/10/13/">nice pictures of fall in Vancouver</a>. Lots of macro pictures at the end where I experimented with the still-new-to-me Canon S5.</p>
-
-<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/1571129623/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2009/1571129623_0262add673_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Fall walk in Vancouver - 16" align="left" style="padding: 5px;"/></a>
-
-<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/1572204202/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2163/1572204202_c14d620a60_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Fall walk in Vancouver - 64" align="left" style="padding: 5px;"/></a>
-
-<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/1572135226/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2259/1572135226_5a211838cb_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Turning red" align="left" style="padding: 5px;" /></a>
-
-<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/1571305589/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2178/1571305589_5e1ffe913c_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Fall walk in Vancouver - 61" style="padding: 5px;"/></a>
-
-<p>And I even managed a short post up on <a href="http://foodlikethat.com/blog/boris-mann/sweet-sour-dream-pork">FoodLikeThat.com about head cheese</a>.</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-10-15-alex-is-coming-to-town-and-needs-a-cool-apartment.md b/_posts/archive/2007-10-15-alex-is-coming-to-town-and-needs-a-cool-apartment.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f1a2990..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-10-15-alex-is-coming-to-town-and-needs-a-cool-apartment.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Alex is coming to town and needs a cool apartment
-created: 1192446461
-categories: 
-- Alex Rollin
-- Raincity Studios
-- Personal
----
-<p>I met <a href="http://www.peerproducers.com">Alex Rollin</a> at <a href="http://2007.oscms-summit.org/">OSCMS 2007</a> in Sunnyvale, talking Drupal of course. He's been diving in and kicking ass in all sorts of areas, and is going to be coming to Vancouver to work with the fine folks at <a href="http://www.raincitystudios.com">Raincity Studios</a>.</p>
-
-<p>He has made a <a href="http://vancouver.craigslist.org/hou/441355681.html">post to craigslist as to what he's looking for in an apartment</a>. If you have any suggestions, fling them his way...</p>
-
-<p>We had a fun discussion about getting set up with a Canadian cell phone plan. I'm looking forward to blogging the details of that little ordeal :P</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-10-15-more-digital-ethnography-information-r-evolution-video.md b/_posts/archive/2007-10-15-more-digital-ethnography-information-r-evolution-video.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 34d4115..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-10-15-more-digital-ethnography-information-r-evolution-video.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "More Digital Ethnography: Information R/Evolution Video"
-created: 1192489746
-categories: 
-- Digital Ethnography
-- Michael Wesch
-- Common Craft
-- video
-- Web 2.0
----
-<p>I don't think I ever posted the "Web 2.0" video created by <a href="http://www.ksu.edu/sasw/anthro/wesch.htm">Michael Wesch, a professor at Kansas State University doing "Digital Ethnography"</a>. I was really, well, I'd have to say *moved* by the <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE">original video</a>. Much like <a href="http://www.commoncraft.com">Lee and Sachi's Common Craft videos in plain English</a>, Michael seems to have taken many things that I've long thought instinctively and explained them a little more fully. Still way more geeky than CC's stuff, but I think understandable and interesting to watch.</p>
-
-<p>In any case, here is the follow up video, Information R/Evolution. It walks us through how we are still exploring how to break free from the concepts of physical organization. The summary seems to be that we participants on the web are helping to build this R/Evolution, and it's based around links and tags, and allow us to put "stuff" at multiple "locations". Take the time to watch the video (and the previous one if you haven't), and tell me what you think.</p>
-
-<object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-4CV05HyAbM"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-4CV05HyAbM" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-10-16-dave-olson-interviews-me-about-the-drupal-association-freethenet-ca-and-ham-in-barcelona.md b/_posts/archive/2007-10-16-dave-olson-interviews-me-about-the-drupal-association-freethenet-ca-and-ham-in-barcelona.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 9df56ca..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-10-16-dave-olson-interviews-me-about-the-drupal-association-freethenet-ca-and-ham-in-barcelona.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Dave Olson interviews me about the Drupal Association, FreeTheNet.ca, and ham in Barcelona
-created: 1192554504
-categories: 
-- Dave Olson
-- Drupal Association
-- Planet Drupal
-- podcast
-- Raincity Studios
-- Drupal
----
-<p>It's been great to be sharing an office with the folks at <a href="http://www.raincitystudios.com">Raincity Studios</a> -- they're now in the other side of our office, since <a href="http://www.nowpublic.com">NowPublic</a> moved out so they could grow their team.</p>
-
-<p>Raincity has been adding new people, including long time social media generator <a href="http://uncleweed.net">Dave Olson</a>. Dave sat down with me in the office and <a href="http://www.raincitystudios.com/thestandard/boris-mann-speaks-about-drupal-wi-fi-and-ham">captured a podcast</a> about the <a href="http://association.drupal.org">Drupal Association</a>, <a href="http://barcelona2007.drupalcon.org">Drupalcon Barcelona</a>, and the <a href="http://www.freethenet.ca">Free The Net.ca</a> project.</p>
-
-<p>Dave's a master of podcasts, and Raincity Studios is now part of <a href="http://drupal.org/planet">Planet Drupal</a>, so expect lots more quality Drupal-related content from there.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>Update: now with actual link to the <a href="http://www.raincitystudios.com/thestandard/boris-mann-speaks-about-drupal-wi-fi-and-ham">podcast</a>. Doh!</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-10-18-congrats-to-john-and-igor-at-handimobility-livevote-launched.md b/_posts/archive/2007-10-18-congrats-to-john-and-igor-at-handimobility-livevote-launched.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 6d9b5b5..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-10-18-congrats-to-john-and-igor-at-handimobility-livevote-launched.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Congrats to John and Igor at Handimobility - LiveVote launched
-created: 1192750281
-categories: 
-- Handimobility
-- LiveVote
-- LiveVote.ca
-- SMS
-- SMS polling
-- Canada
-- Vancouver
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<p>John and Igor at <a href="http://handimobility.ca">Handimobility</a> are following the mantra of ship early, ship often, and have <a href="http://blog.handimobility.ca/2007/10/15/livevote-launched/">launched LiveVote.ca</a>. It's a service that allows you to set up free SMS polling -- you sign up on the <a href="http://livevote.ca" title="Free SMS polls in Canada using the LiveVote system by Handimobility">LiveVote</a> website, and then you can create as many free polls as you like.</p>
-
-<p>I've been kicking the tires on this for a bit and already have some feedback in to them. If you click through and read this entry on the blog, you'll see that I've got a Flash widget embedded in the upper right where you can see the live results from SMS voting. The vote I'm running is "what are eggs cooked in bread called?", after the long <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/1572606034/">thread of comments that erupted on my Flickr picture</a>.</p>
-
-<p>So, if you come to the site here with your web browser and text one of the choices to 868464, you'll actually see the pie chart update in real time. Note: Canada only for now! You can change your vote at any time by just texting a different choice: your last choice before time runs out (you've got another 7 days) is what will count.</p>
-
-<p>Follow their progress on the new <a href="http://blog.handimobility.ca">Handimobility blog</a>. I'm looking forward to seeing LiveVote evolve, and also to see what else John and Igor have up their sleeves.</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-10-21-class-afloat-itinerary-on-google-maps.md b/_posts/archive/2007-10-21-class-afloat-itinerary-on-google-maps.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 5e6283b..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-10-21-class-afloat-itinerary-on-google-maps.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Class Afloat itinerary on Google Maps
-created: 1193023752
-categories: 
-- Google Maps
-- Class Afloat
-- Scan Cafe
-- Personal
----
-<p>I spent a little bit of time tonight plotting markers for the itinerary of my <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/class-afloat-1993-1994">Class Afloat 1993-1994 trip</a>, where I sailed around the North and South Pacific on a tall ship.</p>
-
-<p>The new "My Maps" feature of Google Maps is pretty easy to use, and I've been. Here's the <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?uid=106678119088828437419&hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=108403776136895878523.00043d0abf1f2178340aa">public view of the map</a> so far.</p>
-
-<p>I'm looking forward to do more with this, now that it looks like <a href="http://www.scancafe.com">Scan Cafe</a> (thanks, <a href="http://www.darrenbarefoot.com/archives/2007/10/scancafe-scan-your-photos-negatives-and-slides-cheaply.html">Darren</a>) can fairly cheaply scan my 600 slides from that trip. It will be great to have a digital representation online at last (it's been 14 years!). I do happen to have a couple of photos up of varying quality <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/tags/classafloat">tagged with 'class afloat' in my Flickr stream</a>.</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-10-21-the-future-of-facebook-q-and-a.md b/_posts/archive/2007-10-21-the-future-of-facebook-q-and-a.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e46ea6d..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-10-21-the-future-of-facebook-q-and-a.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: The Future of Facebook Q&A
-created: 1193034966
-categories: 
-- Attribute Exchange
-- Facebook
-- John Batelle
-- Mark Zuckerberg
-- OpenID
-- SXIP
-- Web 2.0 Summit
-- Vancouver
-- Social Media
-- Web 2.0
----
-<p>I'm helping out the local <a href="http://barcamp.org/FacebookCampVancouver">Vancouver Facebook Developer Garage</a> event this coming Tuesday by running a "Future of Facebook" Q&A. <a href="http://www.sxip.com/newsitem-future_facebook_portable_social_networks">Johnny Bufu of SXIP</a> will be on hand to lend expertise around portable social networks, especially regarding identity, OpenID, the OpenID Attribute Exchange extension, and related tech.</p>
-
-<p>The timing and title of this talk is interesting: there is an "all hands" meeting at Facebook on Tuesday, so the rep from Facebook that was supposed to attend can't make it. There is much speculation here, everything from "Microsoft will buy them" to "Facebook is worth $15 Billion". It will be fun to talk some of this through live at the event, but I'll mainly try and jockey live audience discussion, not do my own pontification.</p>
-
-<p>It has been most interesting, with the "rise of Facebook", to see its vast spread into "non techies". Indeed, that's where *I've* found it to add real utility: since so many people are on there, both organizing events and seeing what people are up to "in the real world" has become much simpler, and has led to more in person meetings, for me at least. Pointing the way what a ubiquitous, interoperable identity infrastructure on the web could enable?</p>
-
-<p>Some other preparatory material for such a discussion is this <a href="http://blip.tv/file/434852/">video of an interview of Mark Zuckerberg interviewed by John Batelle at the Web 2.0 Summit</a>.</p.
-
-<p>The event is this Tuesday at VFS starting at 5:30pm, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=4271473249">full event details on Facebook</a>, of course :P</p>
-<!--break-->
-
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-10-22-drupal-in-python.md b/_posts/archive/2007-10-22-drupal-in-python.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 7cd29c5..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-10-22-drupal-in-python.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Drupal in Python
-created: 1193080829
-categories: 
-- python
-- Drupal
-- PHP
----
-<p>A little birdie let me know that there are a group of folks that are going to take a run at using the Drupal project as a template to re-work the same system in Python.</p>
-
-<p>Do you have thoughts on what you would do differently in Python? Are there specific language features that would do interesting things? Any ideas on Drupal in Python (DIP?), please leave a reference in the comments.</p>
-
-<p>In kicking around this idea the other day, I was thinking about if there is a way to bridge to PHP from Python. That is, could you clone the Drupal APIs and then run a PHP-based (native) Drupal module in a Python framework?</p>
-
-<p>Note: the group is actually private, and doesn't want any publicity at this point. I'm hoping to use this blog post to draw some attention to different concepts, without flooding them with people.</p>
-
-<p>Update: this is a beginner project, so think of this more as exploratory coding than a hard core undertaking. *However* -- I think this will kick off some interesting discussion: I encourage people to do some research and tag stuff with "Drupal in Python" to keep the discussion going.</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-10-25-media-appearance-is-microsoft-doing-enough-to-reinvent-itself-on-business-news-network.md b/_posts/archive/2007-10-25-media-appearance-is-microsoft-doing-enough-to-reinvent-itself-on-business-news-network.md
deleted file mode 100644
index b665664..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-10-25-media-appearance-is-microsoft-doing-enough-to-reinvent-itself-on-business-news-network.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Media appearance: Is Microsoft doing enough to reinvent itself? on Business News Network"
-created: 1193332932
-categories: 
-- BNN
-- Business News Network
-- Facebook
-- Fred Vogelstein
-- Canada
-- Microsoft
----
-<p>I'm going to be on <a href="http://www.bnn.ca" title="BNN">Business News Network</a> this afternoon, 4pm PST / 7pm EST, talking about if Microsoft is still innovating? This is, of course, related in part to earnings announcements from a bunch of companies, and more directly, the Microsoft investment in Facebook. I'll be on a mini-panel with <a href="http://techblog.typepad.com/">Fred Vogelstein</a>.</p>
-
-<p>Some related links / thoughts below, I'll clean this up after the interview:</p>
-
-<ul>
-<li>John Battelle on <a href="http://battellemedia.com/archives/004054.php">Facebook and Microsoft</a></li>
-<li>Paul Kedrosky on <a href="http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2007/10/25/facebook_and_th.html">Facebook and the Microsoft Curse</a>:<blockquote>Do you believe that Microsoft knows its own strategic interests, and that it can act rationally and appropriately in their defense? Ten years ago I might have said yes, but today I have a much harder time. So when it comes to defending a large strategic premium over a credible competitor with a better basis for economic valuation, I have a hard time. </blockquote></li> 
-<li>Recent interview with <a href="http://blip.tv/file/438400">Steve Ballmer at the Web 2.0 Summit</a> -- from Ballmer on Windows Live search, "it's like a 6 year old playing hoops with the 12 year olds"</li>
-<li>Did Microsoft pay too much for Facebook? Well, Facebook might be overvalued, but it's small dollars for Microsoft and gives them potential insite into profile / social based advertising</li>
-<li>MSFT failures -- Zune, Windows Mobile (failure outside of the US), search</li>
-<li>MSFT wins and/or in progress -- Silverlight, an Adobe Flash competitor, casual gaming and home based social networks (XBox Live Arcade, Windows Media Center, etc.)</li>
-<li>innovation? Microsoft Research (PhotoSynth), new offices and working environments down in Redmond and elsewhere</li>
-<li>closing thought: competition is good, Microsoft isn't going anywhere; they *should* compete more on innovation rather than dollars and marketing</li>
-</ul>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-10-31-game-console-dilemma-xbox-360-or-sony-playstation-3.md b/_posts/archive/2007-10-31-game-console-dilemma-xbox-360-or-sony-playstation-3.md
deleted file mode 100644
index d94ea73..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-10-31-game-console-dilemma-xbox-360-or-sony-playstation-3.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Game console dilemma - Xbox 360 or Sony Playstation 3
-created: 1193865929
-categories: 
-- Xbox 360
-- Playstation 3
-- Wii
-- Mark Yuasa
-- Xbox LIVE
-- Connect360
-- UPnP
-- MediaTomb
-- NullRiver
-- Game
-- Microsoft
-- Personal
----
-<p>I've been recently going down the path of re-shuffling my home media environment. Since I'm also still kicking the tires on various PC games (the new <a href="http://steamcommunity.com/id/bmann/home">Steam community site is very interesting (link is my userid, you may need to be logged in)</a> -- for the record, all the other <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/blog/bmann/game-downloads-and-experimenting-online-games">games I mentioned</a> I'm no longer playing.</p>
-
-<p>Anyway, I've been thinking about a game console at home. The choice is really between the Xbox 360 and the PS3: the Nintendo Wii is a great supplementary machine with its very different interface options and social nature, but not such a great media center. I'm more likely to buy my own Wii controller and go over to friends that already have one.</p>
-
-<p>Both the Xbox 360 and PS3 seem to have solutions in place to easily share media from your Mac. There is <a href="http://www.nullriver.com/index/products/connect360">Nullriver's Connect360</a> and there is the open source <a href="http://mediatomb.cc/">MediaTomb</a> which can let you run an open source UPnP server to share to both platforms (<a href="http://www.applesource.com.au/how-to/how-to-stream-media-to-a-ps3-from-a-mac/210/">older how-to</a>).</p>
-
-<p>The Xbox LIVE and Xbox Live Arcade is compelling. Easily download small mini games. Get an account, earn achievements. Even playing "simple" games, you can compete with other people at home anywhere else online with you, and "invest" in an identity.</p>
-
-<p>But...</p>
-
-<p>...it's Microsoft. I acknowledge they've built a very interesting machine. It's much more of a market win than the PS3 by a long shot (at this stage of the game...). But it's optimized to work with Windows Media Center, and it's not really that hackable.</p>
-
-<p>The PS3 on the other, I love for its open-ness. It actually has "install other operating system" as a *menu item*. That's fantastic, and totally appeals to me wanting to tinker.</p>
-
-<p>But...</p>
-
-<p>...for the price of a PS3, I could buy both an Xbox 360 *and* a Wii. It's pricey. Am I buying into tomorrow's technology, today? Also...it does come down to the games. And to the social network. My social network mainly has Xbox 360s (aside from <a href="http://www.raincitystudios.com/thestandard/mark-yuasa">Mark Yuasa</a> who has a PS3 in addition), and some of the upcoming games that I'm interested in (e.g. <a href="http://masseffect.bioware.com/">Mass Effect</a>) are Xbox only.</p>
-
-<p>Hmmm...it seems like in writing this, I've convinced myself. My heart says I should get a PS3, but my head says Xbox 360.</p>
-
-<p>What would you get? Why? Do you have one already? What do you use it for?</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-10-31-google-announces-opensocial-open-api-for-connecting-social-networks.md b/_posts/archive/2007-10-31-google-announces-opensocial-open-api-for-connecting-social-networks.md
deleted file mode 100644
index b1fc9db..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-10-31-google-announces-opensocial-open-api-for-connecting-social-networks.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Google announces OpenSocial - open API for connecting social networks
-created: 1193846889
-categories: 
-- OpenSocial
-- marc canter
-- OpenID
-- Attribute Exchange
-- identity
-- Ning
-- LinkedIn
-- Plaxo
-- Drupal
-- Social Media
----
-<p>So, we now have Google's answer to Facebook's closed development platform: <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial">OpenSocial</a> (link goes live Thursday).</p>
-
-<p>Google has a good selection of launch partners for this -- Ning, LinkedIn (an API?! finally!), and Plaxo being the most interesting ones. RockYou and Slide are Facebook development companies that are also signed on, so we'll definitely see some launch apps, not just bare APIs.</p>
-
-<p>This is, of course, very encouraging and similar to the <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/blog/bmann/future-facebook-q">short discussion I lead at the Facebook Developer Garage</a>: integrate with systems other than Facebook, use open standards, and put your stuff out on the open web. <a href="http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2007/10/opensocial-and-socialads">Marc Canter has a gleeful post about all of this</a>, including linking back to standards and experiments that have already been underway. Be interesting to see how OpenID Attribute Exchange, which I have long been a fan of, fits into all this.</p>
-
-<p>I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw that there was already a Drupal module ready to go -- <a href="http://drupal.org/project/opensocial">here's the project page</a>. Except, it's just a placeholder for now :P But, nonetheless, this is an obvious set of APIs for Drupal to support and participate in this open web.</p>
-
-<p>Will it work? Well, we've got a whole other set of mashups and connections to be making. This code is brand new, and developers, designers, and business owners are going to have to spend time kicking the tires and just trying stuff. Just like Facebook and the Facebook platform has been a new thing which has seen an explosion of creativity and experimentation, I expect we'll see the same thing around these open APIs. It's going to be a fun ride...</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-11-02-movember-has-begun-and-im-behind.md b/_posts/archive/2007-11-02-movember-has-begun-and-im-behind.md
deleted file mode 100644
index b5d61b9..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-11-02-movember-has-begun-and-im-behind.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Movember has begun, and I'm behind
-created: 1194028766
-categories: 
-- Movember
-- Personal
----
-<p>We're in the month of <a href="http://www.movember.com">Movember</a>. What? Yep, Mo-vember:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-“During Movember (the month formerly known as November) I’ll be growing a Mo (slang for Moustache). That’s right I’m bringing the Mo back because I’m passionate about men’s health and the fight against prostate cancer.
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>And there is even a dedicated <a href="http://blog.prostatecancer.ca/'>Canadian Movember blog</a>. I signed up on the main site where you can <a href="https://www.movember.com/us/donate/donate-details.php?action=showrego&rego=145294">donate directly</a> -- all donations are made directly to the Prostate Cancer Research Foundation of Canada. This strikes pretty close to home: my dad has been having trouble with his prostate, so this means a lot to me.</p>
-
-<p>And, er, yeah: here's the thing...I haven't gone "mo free" yet. I still have a beardy face. So I'm behind in the race to grow the best mo. I'll get that taken care of this weekend...it needs special implements.</p>
-
-<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/trufflepig/1818472352/"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2267/1818472352_52dca90adb_s.jpg" align="left" vspace="5" hspace="5"/></a>
-
-<p>I'm especially impressed with <a href="http://www.stephanievacher.com/blog/?p=43">Stephanie</a>, who is being a "mo ho" (as opposed to "mo bro" for the men) -- she is going to fashion some sort of yarn moustache throughout the month. Andy Smith is inaugurating his first month at Google by <a href="http://term.ie/blog/movember/">going mo</a>. <a href="http://www.kriskrug.com">Kris</a> is off in China, so he hasn't been around to whip up support this year.</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-11-05-will-wrights-ted-talk-toys-that-make-worlds.md b/_posts/archive/2007-11-05-will-wrights-ted-talk-toys-that-make-worlds.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 7bada01..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-11-05-will-wrights-ted-talk-toys-that-make-worlds.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Will Wright's TED talk: Toys that make worlds"
-created: 1194291202
-categories: 
-- TED
-- Will Wright
-- Spore
-- Game
----
-<p>I got some feedback in Facebook thanking me for posting about <a href="http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/146">the video of Will Wright's talk at TED</a>. So, I thought I would post about it here to spread it a little farther rather than <a href="http://boris.jaiku.com/presence/16394515">hiding it in Jaiku</a>.</p>
-
-<p>Wright talks about his upcoming / much awaited game <a href="http://www.spore.com/">Spore</a> in the context of thinking about how "games" or rather tools that appear as games, can help us understand/explore the world around us. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Wright_(game_designer)">Will Wright</a>, for those who aren't gamers, is the creator of all of the "Sim" series of games, starting way back in 1989 with SimCity.</p>
-
-<!--cut and paste--><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0" width="432" height="285" id="VE_Player" align="middle"><param name="movie" value="http://static.videoegg.com/ted/flash/loader.swf"><PARAM NAME="FlashVars" VALUE="bgColor=FFFFFF&file=http://static.videoegg.com/ted/movies/WILLWRIGHT-2007_high.flv&autoPlay=false&fullscreenURL=http://static.videoegg.com/ted/flash/fullscreen.html&forcePlay=false&logo=&allowFullscreen=true"><param name="quality" value="high"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"><param name="scale" value="noscale"><param name="wmode" value="window"><embed src="http://static.videoegg.com/ted/flash/loader.swf" FlashVars="bgColor=FFFFFF&file=http://static.videoegg.com/ted/movies/WILLWRIGHT-2007_high.flv&autoPlay=false&fullscreenURL=http://static.videoegg.com/ted/flash/fullscreen.html&forcePlay=false&logo=&allowFullscreen=true" quality="high" allowScriptAccess="always" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" scale="noscale" wmode="window" width="432" height="285" name="VE_Player" align="middle" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></object>
-
-<p>To say that I'm looking forward to this "game" is a bit of an understatement.</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-11-05-xbox-360-ftw.md b/_posts/archive/2007-11-05-xbox-360-ftw.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 41ac1fc..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-11-05-xbox-360-ftw.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Xbox 360 FTW
-created: 1194290270
-categories: 
-- Cudgelsan
-- Xbox 360
-- Game
-- Personal
----
-<p>OK, so my <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/blog/bmann/game-console-dilemma-xbox-360-or-sony-playstation-3">last post</a> had pretty much already ended with me convincing myself that the Xbox 360 was probably the right game console for me. <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/blog/bmann/game-console-dilemma-xbox-360-or-sony-playstation-3#comment-136657">logicnazi's</a> <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/blog/bmann/game-console-dilemma-xbox-360-or-sony-playstation-3#comment-136657">post in the comments</a> pretty much sums up why I ended up going with the Xbox 360:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-However, if you are more concerned about immediate benefits or are willing to buy a PS3 in a couple years when they have better games and are cheaper AND don't have much desire for a blu-ray player then by all means buy an Xbox 360. I feel the pull of the PS3 as much as anyone but you just can't deny that at the moment the xbox has greater market penetration and better games. Hell, given that the xbox 360 is pretty close to commodity hardware it would be surprising if it hadn't come out of the gate stronger than the PS
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>I'll be writing up a few more thoughts as I kick the tires on different features, here are some quick hits:</p>
-<ul>
-<li>Unbox experience was nice and easy, aside from some sound issues -- I have a monitor with composite inputs, and then had to dig up RCA to mini stereo connector; I'm an edge case here, so no problem</li>
-<li>I had been warned that sign up process was long / awkward with controller (e.g. address / credit card sign up stuff) -- it wasn't that bad, and it's a "one time operation" ... went smoothly, connected to my existing boris_mann AT hotmail.com ID no problem</li>
-<li>some inconsistencies in UI (this is going to be vague, doing from memory) I end up in one section which has a listing which I click on, which then says, go to this other section to actually get to that feature...uh...just link me there directly :P</li>
-<li>set up <a href="http://www.nullriver.com/index/products/connect360">Connect 360</a> and am playing music etc. from my Mac no problem...very nice</li>
-<li>Xbox Live Arcade games seem somewhat expensive: maybe this is just an expectation thing...I expect "small" games to be much cheaper</li>
-<li>also, why can't I buy full-length games online? I've been spoiled by Steam, I guess...and thinking about this more, I guess the games are locked to that particular console? Or to my gamertag?</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>Thanks to everyone for the lengthy feedback on the last post. Much appreciated.</p>
-
-<p>P.S. my gamertag is "Cudgelsan" -- please add me if you are looking for someone to easily beat :P</p>
-
-<a href="http://profile.mygamercard.net/Cudgelsan">
-<img src="http://card.mygamercard.net/sig/Cudgelsan.png" border=0>
-</a>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-11-13-democampvancouver04-on-nov-22nd-now-with-more-beer.md b/_posts/archive/2007-11-13-democampvancouver04-on-nov-22nd-now-with-more-beer.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 9704724..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-11-13-democampvancouver04-on-nov-22nd-now-with-more-beer.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: DemoCampVancouver04 on Nov. 22nd, now with more beer
-created: 1194990082
-categories: 
-- DemoCampVancouver
-- DemoCampVancouver04
-- Communicate
-- TechVibes
-- Peer1
-- workspace
-- DemoCampToronto
-- David Crow
-- Vancouver
----
-<p>In just 9 days, <a href="http://barcamp.org/DemoCampVancouver04">DemoCampVancouver04</a> takes place at the usual location - <a href="http://www.abetterplacetowork.com">WorkSpace</a>.</p>
-
-<p>We've now grown to the point where any of the local watering holes or eating establishments in Gastown have trouble housing the hordes when we leave at the end of the evening, so we've arranged a set of sponsors to pay for some drinks and appetizers at <a href="http://www.fluxbistro.com">Flux Bistro</a>, just down the road along Water Street.</p>
-
-<p>I'd like to thank <a href="http://www.communicate.com">Communicate.com</a>, <a href="http://www.techvibes.com">TechVibes</a>, and <a href="http://www.peer1.com">Peer1</a> for sponsoring this post-DemoCamp gathering. At only our 4th event, we're already reaching out for sponsorship. In contrast, check out <a href="http://davidcrow.ca/article/1768/democamptoronto16-dec-3-2007">David Crow's update on the 2 year anniversary of DemoCampToronto</a> -- the space alone is $2000 per event! I can only hope we can continue growing our community over the next 18 months as they have in Toronto.</p> 
-
-<p>I'm really looking forward to more BattleDecks (well....along with a great set of people, ideas, and companies to present!). Please do spread the word to have people attend -- especially if they haven't attended an "unconference" style event before or are outside the tech industry: connect the tribes!</p>
-
-<p>Add this event on <a href="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/318495/">Upcoming</a> and on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=6561597194">Facebook</a>.</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-11-14-northern-voice-2008-is-up-and-rolling-in-classy-brown.md b/_posts/archive/2007-11-14-northern-voice-2008-is-up-and-rolling-in-classy-brown.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 138145d..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-11-14-northern-voice-2008-is-up-and-rolling-in-classy-brown.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Northern Voice 2008 is up and rolling in classy brown
-created: 1195071429
-categories: 
-- conference
-- northern voice
-- nv08
-- Vancouver
-- Social Media
----
-<img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2325/1964298283_290f8bac9c_o.jpg" align="left" vspace="5" hspace="5" /><p>Yes, <a href="http://2008.northernvoice.ca">Northern Voice 2008</a> is up and rolling!</p>
-
-<p>We're currently looking for both <a href="http://2008.northernvoice.ca/speaker-submission">speaker submissions</a> and <a href="http://2008.northernvoice.ca/ideas">speaker ideas</a>. I think I can honestly say that I'm at a bit of a loss on thinking about what the new new is. Or perhaps it is time to just refine and expand on previous threads and ideas? I do know that my thinking about geolocation was ahead of the curve from last year...I don't even think we'll quite be there for this year.</p>
-
-<p>What *will* be there? Lots of interesting people. How to's and getting started in various areas, from blogs to wikis to digital photos. Open and participatory discussions, and all sorts of fruitful hallway conversations and ad hoc meetings. Some parties, some travel bursaries. High bandwidth tech-people-idea overload. Looking forward to it, and hope you'll join us.</p>
-
-<p>Here are the obligatory <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=7155707537">Facebook</a> and <a href="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/312783">Upcoming</a> events that you can show your attendance with -- we'll be opening official registration in a couple of weeks.</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-11-16-switching-to-use-gmail-imap-great-for-mail-app-and-iphones-too.md b/_posts/archive/2007-11-16-switching-to-use-gmail-imap-great-for-mail-app-and-iphones-too.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 94600c0..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-11-16-switching-to-use-gmail-imap-great-for-mail-app-and-iphones-too.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Switching to use Gmail IMAP - great for Mail.app and iPhones, too
-created: 1195263359
-categories: 
-- email
-- Google
-- Gmail
-- IMAP
-- Mail.app
-- iPhone
-- Web 2.0
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/duanestorey/2037249836/"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2399/2037249836_b4592de0c6_m.jpg" align="left" hspace="5" vspace="5"/></a> <p><em>Me showing <A href="http://www.somisguided.com">Monique</a> the magic of flagging and unflagging and showing how it changes the starred / unstarred in the Gmail web interface. Photo by <a href="http://www.duanestorey.com">Duane Storey</a>, you can <a href="http://prints.duanestorey.com" title="Photo prints of downtown Vancouver, weddings, and other great images by Duane Storey">buy some great photos of Vancouver</a> from him.</em></p>
-
-<p>I've spent this past week or so having switched to using Gmail's new IMAP interface. I had switched to using the web-only interface for perhaps the last year or so, and it worked quite well for me. POP3 doesn't cut it when you have multiple machines (laptop and home desktop) and devices (Nokia smartphone, iPhone, etc.). And that's exactly what the IMAP protocol was invented to take care: keep folders, messages, and other status (read / unread, flagged, etc.) synced across multiple devices.</p>
-
-<p>I wasn't sure whether I would like going back to using a desktop email client. And it's been great. Email is fast, I can go back to having a couple of drafts open as separate windows to remind me to get to them today, and so on.</p>
-
-<p>Gmail's labels become folders....with a few funky side effects, in that thinking of them more as folders rather than things you might use multiple labels for will be less confusing.</p>
-
-<p>A big thing I miss: I'm so used to the Gmail search interface that I find myself typing "from:Some Name" in Mail.app's search box, rather than typing the name and then clicking the "From" button. I bet some enterprising soul could do a good job of an AppleScript or something that could change this to work Just Like Gmail Search.</p>
-
-<p>OK, enough just talking about the outlines. Head over <a href="http://5thirtyone.com/archives/862">here</a> for extended instructions on setting up Gmail IMAP for Mail.app or your iPhone, which has the excellent extra tips of "mapping" your Gmail Trash, Junk, Drafts, and Sent folders to the right folders in your local app, and everything "just works".</p>
-
-<p>Those of you with iPhones (or Nokia phones or any other device that can talk IMAP to get email) will want to go this method, so you can actually quickly manage email on the go and have all those changes reflected when you get back to some other device.</p>
-
-<p>Now what? Well, I need a way to sync my contacts in Gmail to my local Address Book. A <a href="http://www.plaxo.com">Plaxo</a> plugin already takes care of synching between machines, and the standard Bluetooth iSync syncs to mobile.</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-11-17-alqasim-electronics.md b/_posts/archive/2007-11-17-alqasim-electronics.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 260c367..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-11-17-alqasim-electronics.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Alqasim Electronics
-created: 1195302767
-categories: 
-- Information
-- Islam
-- Latest Mobiles
-- News
-- Chat
----
-Information,Islam,Latest Mobiles,News,Chat
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-11-17-blogroll.md b/_posts/archive/2007-11-17-blogroll.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 6c1e416..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-11-17-blogroll.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Blogroll
-created: 1195289196
-categories: 
-- Google Reader
-- blogroll
----
-<p>I use <a href="http://www.google.com/reader">Google Reader</a>. This is a selected list of the feeds I read -- technically all those tagged with &quot;blogroll&quot;. My <a href="http://www.google.com/reader/shared/borismann">public profile for shared items is here</a>, although the stuff I comment on is now integrated on this site directly as <a href="/asides">Asides</a>.</p>
-
-<!--break-->
-<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/reader/ui/publisher-en.js"></script>
-<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/reader/public/javascript-sub/user/09750022241426538111/label/blogroll?callback=GRC_p(%7Bc%3A%22-%22%2Ct%3A%22My%20%5C%22blogroll%5C%22%20Bundle%22%2Cb%3A%22true%22%7D)%3Bnew%20GRC"></script>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-11-21-bryght-and-raincity-are-joining-forces.md b/_posts/archive/2007-11-21-bryght-and-raincity-are-joining-forces.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 3327d6c..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-11-21-bryght-and-raincity-are-joining-forces.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Bryght and Raincity are joining forces
-created: 1195647510
-categories: 
-- Raincity Studios
-- Bryght
-- Drupal
----
-<p>Well, it looks like the <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/raincity-studios/acquires-bryght/prweb571216.htm">press release</a> is hitting the wires already, so I thought I would come over and <a href="http://drupal.org/node/194127">announce on Drupal.org directly</a>.</p>
-
-<p><a href="http://www.bryght.com">Bryght</a> and <a href="http://www.raincitystudios.com">Raincity Studios</a> are joining forces. The Raincity team is going to acquire Bryght, and we'll continue to apply the Bryght brand to (more coming soon) install profile "products" like our current Bryght Light, and also to our hosting solutions.</p>
-
-<p>It's been great to have Raincity sharing an office with us (they moved in at the end of September), and now we're one big happy family. Robert Scales, the leader of Raincity, is actually off in China making the company evening bigger -- we're opening an office in Shanghai!</p>
-
-<p>I'm excited to have a bigger team to work with, especially lots of designers (I love the cool <a href="http://www.badcamp07.org">BADCamp logo</a> that <a href="http://www.raincitystudios.com/our-team/hubert-florin">Hub</a> from Raincity did!). But, not just design, but a production team with which we hope to "lead by example" -- contributing to and supporting many of the key modules that get used for every client project, and jumping on the bandwagon of test cases and code reviews.</p>
-
-<p>So, from the entire 22-person Bryght-Raincity team, thanks to the whole Drupal community for building this shared space and shared project that we can continue to make better together.</p>
-
-<p>Remember, BBQs are open every Thursday starting at noon, so please stop by if you are in town :P</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-11-28-bell-launches-distances-based-billing-in-miles.md b/_posts/archive/2007-11-28-bell-launches-distances-based-billing-in-miles.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f02e6b5..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-11-28-bell-launches-distances-based-billing-in-miles.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Bell launches distances based billing...in miles
-created: 1196308817
-categories: 
-- Bell
-- long distance
-- billing
-- telecom
-- Canada
----
-<p>So, my friend Dave in Ottawa posted about how he received a flyer, showing <a href="http://smithdm3.com/what-bell-thinking-new-deregulated-long-distance">Bell's new deregulated long distance rates</a>, to go into effect at the end of January 2008. As I said in the comments on his post, you can practically "hear" his disbelief at this move: the base long distance rates rates are based on....distance. Using Canada's national unit of measure, the "mile" of course. Err...what?</p>
-
-<p>Here's the scan that Dave did of the new rates:</p>
-
-<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/smithdm3/2069577498/"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2068/2069577498_7a7d2a3f21.jpg" /></a>
-
-<p>I'm still checking to see if it's April Fools early this year or not...<a href="http://smithdm3.com/what-bell-thinking-new-deregulated-long-distance">read the full level of ridiculousness over at Dave's site</a>.</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-11-30-dries-announces-drupal-startup-acquia.md b/_posts/archive/2007-11-30-dries-announces-drupal-startup-acquia.md
deleted file mode 100644
index fa16f5a..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-11-30-dries-announces-drupal-startup-acquia.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Dries announces Drupal startup Acquia
-created: 1196473091
-categories: 
-- open source
-- Acquia
-- Dries Buytaert
-- Raincity Studios
-- Drupal
----
-<p>I just did my first post to the Raincity Studios blog, about <a href="http://www.raincitystudios.com/thestandard/dries-buytaert-announces-his-post-university-gig-acquia-a-drupal-startup">Dries announcing his Drupal startup Acquia</a>.</p>
-
-<p>I really am pleased for Dries. I know that he's had a number of different offers and ideas that he's had to think through. Doing your own thing is exciting. Doing it well-funded is even more exciting :P</p>
-
-<p>I think there are a number of different business models around open source that need more examples and experimentation. I've seen a lot of companies trying to make installing open source applications easier, but that's a "do once" operation that, to me, is not particularly high value.
-
-<p>Distilling the knowledge of lots of smart people into a focused distribution is a great thing, and upgrading / maintaining an installation over time is the much harder thing that I'd like to see more solutions around.</p>
-
-<p>So, Dries, <a href="http://buytaert.net/acquia-my-drupal-startup">congrats on Acquia</a>. I think we've got a few more adventures to go on together, and I'm looking forward to it.</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-11-30-tool-time-highrise-and-merlin.md b/_posts/archive/2007-11-30-tool-time-highrise-and-merlin.md
deleted file mode 100644
index da6bdd6..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-11-30-tool-time-highrise-and-merlin.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Tool time: Highrise and Merlin"
-created: 1196419334
-categories: 
-- Highrise
-- 37signals
-- Merlin2
-- project management
-- Raincity Studios
-- LDAP
-- Web 2.0
----
-<p>In <a href="http://www.raincitystudios.com">joining forces with RCS</a> and going from 7 people to 22 people, I'm diving back into tools and process. It's actually quite enjoyable, and I've got some partners in crime that it's been fun to work with.</p>
-
-<p><a href="http://highrisehq.com/">Highrise</a> is something that I'm warming to. Ostensibly it's a contact management tool, but it also does CRM and task management. I like it because it gets rid of giant CC chains in keeping multiple people "in the loop" -- you just BCC the dropbox in Highrise and everyone can follow along, including grabbing attachments sent in email and so on.</p>
-
-<p>But, it wouldn't be a 37 Signals product if it didn't have certain infuriating things about it. Well, maybe not infuriating, but it just leaves me scratching my head. Number one is having to hit "edit" to add an email to a Case (why isn't there just a nice big "Add to Case" button like there is for other activities?). The other is lack of LDAP. Adding LDAP support so that I could easily use my local mail client to get access to all shared contacts just seems a no brainer. I keep wondering when Gmail will do something like this (or, at least, a Plaxo-like "sync" functionality).</p>
-
-<p>Oh, right, and it lets me add new contacts with email addresses that are duplicates of existing contacts. Yeah, there are a couple of things that bug me about it :P</p>
-
-<p>Anyway, on a whole, Highrise is a plus. Lead tracking and pre-project business communications (contracts, scoping, hiring, etc.) are going to be its main tasks, plus "soft" tasks -- e.g. follow up with so-and-so, review this contract, give me your thoughts, etc. I call out soft tasks specifically because there is ALSO Basecamp which has to dos (but not dated to dos, which Highrise does do...oh 37S, how you confuse me and leave me in a puddle of love/hate...). Wonder to what use we can put <a href="http://developer.37signals.com/highrise/">the API</a>.</p>
-
-<p>The other tool is <a href="http://merlin2.net/>Merlin2</a> -- a Mac project management app that <a href="http://www.puregin.org">Djun</a> and I had settled on previously. Scoping, estimating, budgeting, resource allocation -- seems to do a pretty decent job in a nice intuitive way. I keep thinking it would be great to hook it directly into <a href="http://trac.edgewall.org/">trac</a> so you can easily get high level overviews of tasks. This MUST be scriptable in some way, but would need some dedicated time to sit down and work through...</p>
-
-<p>Oh, and what the heck, while we're naming tools, don't forget about <a href="http://unfuddle.com/">hosted SVN / ticket tracking with Unfuddle</a>. I think our trac install is going to go away and be replaced by per-project hosted Unfuddle (for easy hand off to clients -- main uses are developer-granularity tickets and client bug reporting) and an internal Drupal-based wiki/doc repository for the wiki component.</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-12-03-my-adhack-for-the-canon-s5-is.md b/_posts/archive/2007-12-03-my-adhack-for-the-canon-s5-is.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 2360565..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-12-03-my-adhack-for-the-canon-s5-is.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: My AdHack for the Canon S5 IS
-created: 1196750499
-categories: 
-- Canon S5 IS
-- digital camera
-- review
-- AdHack
-- Personal
----
-<p>This past weekend I did my first dedicated <a href="http://www.adhack.com">AdHack</a> session. <a href="http://www.upinontario.com">James</a> and I professed our love for our Canon S5 IS cameras (see my <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/blog/bmann/canon-s5-canon-powershot-s-series-still-my-favorite">initial write up after I bought it</a>). We ended up with 15 minutes of video, taking turns explaining different features of the camera. The video itself was taken with each of our cameras, and then just roughly spliced together -- we might post process it some more with some subtitles, and maybe even some example photos and/or stills of some of the functions, but it works pretty well for now. Shame on other potential AdHackers that didn't brave the snow to hang out and make social media with us! :P</p>
-
-<center>															<script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/scripts/pokkariPlayer.js?ver=2007111701"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://blip.tv/syndication/write_player?skin=js&posts_id=520496&source=3&autoplay=true&file_type=flv&player_width=&player_height="></script><div id="blip_movie_content_520496"><a rel="enclosure" href="http://blip.tv/file/get/Bmann-AdHackJamesAndBorisLoveTheCanonS5IS984.flv" onclick="play_blip_movie_520496(); return false;"><img title="Click to play" alt="Video thumbnail. Click to play"  src="http://blip.tv/file/get/Bmann-AdHackJamesAndBorisLoveTheCanonS5IS984.flv.jpg" border="0" title="Click To Play" /></a><br /><a rel="enclosure" href="http://blip.tv/file/get/Bmann-AdHackJamesAndBorisLoveTheCanonS5IS984.flv" onclick="play_blip_movie_520496(); return false;">Click To Play</a></div>										</center>
-
-<p>Oh, and I fiddled with the <a href="http://www.somisguided.com/weblog/new-brother-laser-printer-hl-4070cdw/">Brother printer that Monique is reviewing</a> and <a href="http://www.somisguided.com/weblog/comments/call-out-to-brother-printer-testers/">got the wireless working</a> (although this beast they call PictBridge is still pretty mystifying).</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-12-10-the-multi-week-summary-of-missed-blog-posts.md b/_posts/archive/2007-12-10-the-multi-week-summary-of-missed-blog-posts.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 047e6f5..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-12-10-the-multi-week-summary-of-missed-blog-posts.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: The multi week summary of missed blog posts
-created: 1197332140
-categories: 
-- DemoCampVancouver
-- DemoCampVancouver04
-- Launch Party
-- Sitemasher
-- northern voice
-- Twiistup
-- Shira Lazar
-- Vancouver
----
-<p>aka the "I am so far behind that I even had to <a href="http://megancole.org/2007/12/06/the-three-week-summary-of-missed-blog-posts/">steal the title of this post from Megan</a>"</p>
-
-<p>I was joking with Meg that I was just going to cut and paste her entire blog post. It's not that far off :P We're heading into Christmas break time, but still lots and lots of stuff on the go, and good things right in the New Year.</p>
-<!--break-->
-
-<hr />
-
-<p><a href="http://barcamp.org/DemoCampVancouver04">DemoCampVancouver04</a> had a great turnout...with surprisingly few presentations ready to go on deck! As it turned out, once we canvassed the crowd, we did end up with a great crew of people standing up. Special thanks to <a href="http://momentumplanet.com/">Amy Walker from Momentum magazine</a> -- I put her on the spot asking her to present and she did a super fantastic job.</p>
-
-<p>Battledecks were fun, and I think the mixer afterwards at <a href="http://www.fluxbistro.com">Flux Bistro</a> was a good way to continue the evening. TechVibes did a <a href="http://techvibesblog.com/adhack-presents-at-democampvancouver04/">good job of covering DC04</a> -- but they don't have a "tag" or other way to show all of the posts, you'll just have to click around. Next one? January, I guess...we'll have to start planning that!</p>
-
-<hr />
-
-<p>The second installment of <a href="http://www.launchpartyhq.com">Launch Party</a> was great. Go, Maura, go! I think we can still tweak the timing and the space, but there were a ton of people and I think a lot of connections got made.</p>
-
-<p>I probably spent too much time picking apart the <a href="http://www.sitemasher.com">Sitemasher</a> team -- I'm looking forward to talking more with them. The <a href="http://twiistup.com/">Twiistup</a> folks attended, and I'm debating going down to the <a href="http://twiistup3-widget.eventbrite.com/">Jan 16th event</a>. Got to meet <a href="http://shiralazar.com/">Shira Lazar</a> -- bugged her to submit as a speaker for <a href="http://2008.northernvoice.ca">Northern Voice</a> -- you should, too! (deadline is end of day....today!)</p>
-
-<hr />
-
-<p><a href="http://openid.net/2007/12/05/openid-2_0-final-ly/">OpenID 2.0 and Attribute Exchange 1.0 being finalized</a> are a big deal. Now we can go back and re-implement a bunch of stuff we had working 3 years ago, just on top of standards and extensible this time. And yes, <a href="http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/12/09/my-openid-shitlist-hitlist-and-wishlist-for-2008/">Messina</a>, Drupal.org and related properties providing AND accepting OpenID are on the "to do" list.</p>
-
-<p>Closely related to this is <a href="http://ralphm.net/blog/2007/12/06/fsn_workshop">RalphM's workshop on Federating social networks</a>. He's at <a href="http://www.mediamatic.nl/">Mediamatic</a> now (man, do I have fond memories of <a href="http://barcamp.org/BarcampAmsterdam">BarCamp Amsterdam</a> there!) and continue to think about how XMPP, identity, and websites intersect. There are <a href="http://bitlets.nl/20071208/fererating_social_networks/audio/">audio recordings</a> and other material that I need to set aside time to absorb and comment on.</p>
-
-<p>Summary thoughts: across-the-cloud integration using both poll (feeds) and push (XMPP) are definitely possible, we need to do some prototype implementations and do some interop testing.</p>
-
-<hr />
-
-<p>I should probably say "thanks!" to all the folks that left nice comments on my brief <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/blog/bmann/bryght-and-raincity-are-joining-forces">Bryght is joining Raincity</a> post. Yes, it's still a bit weird to be sending with an @raincitystudios.com email address. Yes, I'm stoked about the new situation and am really enjoying working with the bigger team.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-12-14-i-have-a-mission.md b/_posts/archive/2007-12-14-i-have-a-mission.md
deleted file mode 100644
index dee3f89..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-12-14-i-have-a-mission.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: I have a mission
-created: 1197627118
-categories: 
-- photos
-- Vivitar Ultra Wide & Slim
-- Personal
----
-<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/2109807337/" title="On assignment by bmann, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2139/2109807337_f1205c9f06_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="On assignment" /></a>
-
-<p>Apparently, I have a mission. It involves using <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/57074580@N00/">this camera</a> to take 5 great pictures. Or attempt to. How very arty. Feels fun :P</p>
-<!--break-->
-<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/2144184547/" title="Fluevog, Trees, and Crane by bmann, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2118/2144184547_fb300ff466_m.jpg" width="240" height="135" alt="Fluevog, Trees, and Crane" /></a>
-
-<p>Mission accomplished. This photo is the only one I'm really happy with. The rest are <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/tags/vivitarultrawideandslim/">here</a>.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-12-18-new-jacket.md b/_posts/archive/2007-12-18-new-jacket.md
deleted file mode 100644
index cf21f02..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-12-18-new-jacket.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: New jacket
-created: 1198011498
-categories: 
-- Process Clothing
-- Devil May Wear
-- Main Street
-- Vancouver
-- Personal
----
-<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/2121293788/" title="Tweed Skull Jacket - Process Clothing by bmann, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2408/2121293788_5a6bc2a60f.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="Tweed Skull Jacket - Process Clothing" align="left" hspace="5px" vspace="5px" /></a>
-
-<p>I went shopping along Main Street this past Saturday. All the cool indie fashion designers in Vancouver have shops along Main and/or stores that carry their designs. The one purchase I ended up making was this skull jacket. It's made by Process Clothing, and I bought it at <a href="http://www.devil-may-wear.com">Devil May Wear</a>. The guy takes thrift / vintage jackets and then does embroidery of different designs. This one is actual a wool "Harris Tweed" from Scotland. I like the skulls (pirates!) and it fit me perfectly. It's nice to have something unique. Other designs were an image of a spine along the back, and some jazz trumpet player scenes.</p>
-
-<p>He also makes t-shirts. Definitely something I'll be looking to get more of. One of these days I should probably get some more business attire rather than just funky / casual stuff :P</p> 
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-12-19-not-so-much-with-the-facebook-but-strong-on-mobile.md b/_posts/archive/2007-12-19-not-so-much-with-the-facebook-but-strong-on-mobile.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 8f8b0aa..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-12-19-not-so-much-with-the-facebook-but-strong-on-mobile.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Not so much with the Facebook, but strong on mobile
-created: 1198089314
-categories: 
-- Facebook
-- SMS
-- Jaiku
-- SpinVox
-- Rogers
-- Canada
-- Social Media
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<p>My usage of Facebook has dropped. At the same time, people messaging me / contacting me through there has increased. At least the message shows in email now.</p>
-
-<p>What I am still using quite a bit is the SMS integration for status messages. I know that updating my status sends out SMS notifications to a bunch of my friends, and vice versa. Yes, this is not new -- it's microblogging / Twitter / Jaiku, etc.</p>
-
-<p>The mobile integration grounds the social in the "real world". There is an element of serendipity in sending a ping out to the world, and wondering who might respond back, who else is wandering the streets, cellphone in hand, ready to go for a drink or join an activity.</p>
-
-<p>I imagine when Jaiku gets their US / Canadian mobile integration up and running, I'll use that more.</p>
-
-<p>What SMS services are you using in Canada? <a href="http://www.hopstudios.com/nep/unvarnished/item/playing_with_the_new_voicemail_to_text_message_service_from_rogers/">Travis' description of SpinVox sounds great</a> -- except for the whole Rogers is the devil and expense of it :P</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2007-12-28-help-me-find-out-what-vegetables-and-fruit-are-in-season-when.md b/_posts/archive/2007-12-28-help-me-find-out-what-vegetables-and-fruit-are-in-season-when.md
deleted file mode 100644
index cda1acd..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2007-12-28-help-me-find-out-what-vegetables-and-fruit-are-in-season-when.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Help me find out what vegetables and fruit are in season when
-created: 1198894456
-categories: 
-- foodlikethat.com
-- Bowen Island
-- Personal
-- Food
----
-<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/1435908498/" title="Boqueteria and cooking with NowPublic - 21 by bmann, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1224/1435908498_0b2430fdb4_m.jpg" width="240" height="203" alt="Boqueteria and cooking with NowPublic - 21" align="left" vspace="5" hspace="5"/></a>
-
-<p>I'm relaxing on Bowen for a couple of days and thinking about some fun little projects that I might be able to do. One idea I had was to get a list of in season produce for the Vancouver area, and then combine that list with pictures from Flickr and recipes to make a cool calendar. I wrote up what I found so far on my <a href="http://foodlikethat.com/blog/boris-mann/figuring-out-whats-season-when-vancouver">FoodLikeThat blog</a>.</p>
-
-<p>My funny joke is that meat, of course, is ALWAYS in season :P</p>
-
-<p>Oh, and yes, I have been doing a ton of Christmas cooking, so I posted a <a href="http://foodlikethat.com/blog/boris-mann/christmas-season-cooking-time">partial list of what's been cooked so far</a>.</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-01-07-remember-the-dg-100-it-works-on-the-mac-now.md b/_posts/archive/2008-01-07-remember-the-dg-100-it-works-on-the-mac-now.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f1e226c..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-01-07-remember-the-dg-100-it-works-on-the-mac-now.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Remember the DG-100? It works on the Mac now
-created: 1199735246
-categories: 
-- Globalsat
-- DG100-GPS
-- GPS
-- geolocation
-- geo
-- Flickr
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<p>Remember the DG-100-GPS? That cheap data logger that I&#39;ve been really bad at finding the time to use consistently? <a href="/blog/bmann/want-buy-gps-logging-device#comment-136704">Jaako left a comment</a> letting me know that he got the DG-100 working on the Mac:</p><blockquote><p>Hey Boris! Wanted to drop you a line and let you know that I managed to get a pretty decent solution to the DG-100 / Mac issue. The key lies in Mirko Parthey&#39;s dg100.c script he wrote as a basis for implementation into GPSBabel. I <a href="http://www.blog-shmog.com/2008/01/05/globalsat-dg-100-works-on-a-mac" target="_blank" title=" Globalsat DG-100 works on a mac">made some tweaks</a> to his original code and added a GPX output mode and have a pretty reliable command line interface for the DG-100. Check it out ( + the relaunch of my blog ) at <a href="http://www.blog-shmog.com/2008/01/05/globalsat-dg-100-works-on-a-mac" target="_blank" title=" Globalsat DG-100 works on a mac">Blog-Shmog.com</a> and let me know if you have any luck!</p></blockquote><p>I know that <a href="http://justagwailo.com/2008/01/03/dg-100-mac">Richard already followed his instructions and got it working</a> as well. Richard has been doing a great job of geo tagging his photos. Check out his <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sillygwailo/map/">map on Flickr</a>. Oh, and <a href="http://www.flickr.com/places/">Flickr&#39;s Places</a> feature is AMazing. And the only way to get your pictures in Places is to either geotag them up front, or use the map feature to place them. &quot;Manually&quot; placing can be done in bulk and the interface is quite friendly, so even if you don&#39;t have a GPS device you can easily geotag on Flickr.</p><p>Now I have to listen to my own &quot;call to arms&quot; and do more geotagging myself. I should go poke the LoadMyTracks guys again...it would be great if they could adapt this DG100 script so it &quot;just works&quot; rather than all the compiling and C-editing... </p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-01-10-sustainable-community-involvement-on-the-drupal-community-and-drupal-association.md b/_posts/archive/2008-01-10-sustainable-community-involvement-on-the-drupal-community-and-drupal-association.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 3d74906..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-01-10-sustainable-community-involvement-on-the-drupal-community-and-drupal-association.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Sustainable Community Involvement: on the Drupal community and Drupal Association"
-created: 1199956364
-categories: 
-- Bryght
-- drupal
-- Drupal Association
-- Raincity Studios
-- Drupal
-- Open Source
----
-<a href="http://association.drupal.org"><img src="http://bmannconsulting.com/sites/bmannconsulting.com/files/DA-board-120_0.png" align="left" hspace="7" vspace="5"></a>
-
-<p>Hi, you may remember me from such roles as the first <a href="http://association.drupal.org">Drupal Association</a> Board of Directors. This is a bit of a recap of my year's involvement with the Association, along with an explanation of my current feeling about it, and that I won't be applying for a Board position this next year. Oh, and if you're a current or prospective Permanent Member, you should probably read this.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>2007 was a tough, tough year. Lots of exciting things as well, but for me, lots of business and personal growth/changes/stress. The year ended with a business high (<a href="http://www.bryght.com/news/2007/11/21/raincity-studios-acquires-bryght">Raincity Studios acquired Bryght</a>) and a personal low.</p>
-
-<p>I struggled through the first half of 2007 to juggle my community commitments, both on the Association as well as the "regular" involvement of mailing lists, websites, user groups, and so on. <a href="http://2007.oscms-summit.org">OSCMS 2007 aka Drupalcon Yahoo 2007</a> just barely squeaked out the door, mainly thanks to some stellar folks at Yahoo and some last minute helping out from (among others, but she stands out) webchick. That was the last Drupalcon that I had a large hand in organizing, and it almost broke me. Maybe it actually did set some fractures in place :P</p>
-
-<p>I went to <a href="http://barcelona2008.drupalcon.org">Drupalcon Barcelona</a> with a head filled with swirling changes of all kinds, before we had made the decision to join forces with Raincity. On the Association panel, I outlined many big picture items that I (still) want to accomplish: endowing chairs in open source at Canadian universities, with Drupal as some of the course material. One of the other main things I said was that I wanted to see myself replaced on the Board as quickly as possible with people more experienced and more capable. Perhaps one of the things I meant was people with more time :P</p>
-
-<p>Barcelona was also the site of a knock down, dragged out, filled with passionate yelling Association discussion. webchick mentioned it as being one of the scariest meetings she had ever been in, but many of the other people, including myself, felt uplifted and cathartic. I left Barcelona ready to grab hold once again, do more delegation and organizing, and taking less tasks onto myself. But, it was not to be. I found myself again in a position of either following up with people constantly to "do" stuff, or just do it myself. Not sustainable. I couldn't do it.</p>
-
-<p>And that's one of my main points to make. Considering <a href="http://buytaert.net/applications/">applying to become a Permanent or Board Member of the Drupal Association</a>? My question to all of those applicants, and the current Permanent Members, is this: <strong>what is your plan for sustainable community involvement?</strong></p>
-
-<p>Just like the keyword "sustainability" has been applied to everything from economics to food to energy, I think it must apply to the work/life/community balance that MUST exist for each person. You currently contribute to the community. Where are the 2, 4, or 6 extra hours *per week* that you said you can commit to going to come from?</p>
-
-<p>OK, maybe I just have bad time management. I just want to underline, again, that we need people to actually *do* things. Just loading more tasks onto the already busiest members of the community isn't going to scale.</p>
-
-<p>I don't want to be all doom and gloom here -- many of these items are a reality check: commit to things and follow through at a level that you have time for. I believe the Drupal Association to be a necessary part of the Drupal ecosystem. We're only now beginning to understand what its evolving role will be. I see many of the current applications as being "more of the same", with a few exceptions. We need *less* development members, and more organizational, finance, and other soft skill roles. My kingdom for a project manager, and my kingdom for a wider set of people to delegate tasks to that *will have the time available to execute them*.</p>
-
-<p>2008 is a year where the Drupal landscape will continue to undergo change. There's the <a href="http://www.acquia.com">elephant in the room</a> that I continue to be very supportive of and excited by, and <a href="http://www.raincitystudios.com/blogs-and-pods/raincity-studios-opens-shanghai-office">Raincity has an office in Shanghai</a> where we are going to attempt some new new things with building ecosystems in China. Personally, I will practice saying "no" to more things, and kicking ass on all the things in the "yes" column.</p>
-
-<p>Tomorrow (today!), January 10th, is the deadline for applying as a member of the Drupal Association. Ask not what Drupal can do for you, but what you can do for Drupal, and remember that the Association is probably the last vehicle you need to "just do it". But if you really have the *time* and some good skills to contribute, check it out.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-01-16-drupal-association-general-assembly-2008.md b/_posts/archive/2008-01-16-drupal-association-general-assembly-2008.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 7b29a3c..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-01-16-drupal-association-general-assembly-2008.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Drupal Association General Assembly 2008
-created: 1200483650
-categories: 
-- Drupal Association
-- Drupal
----
-<p>As of yesterday, January 15th, 2008, the <a href="http://association.drupal.org">Drupal Association</a> had its first General Assembly. The Board of Directors (aside from the President and Treasurer -- these are two year positions) was dissolved and 11 new Permanent Members were elected from a <a href="http://buytaert.net/applications/applications">slate of almost 60 applications</a>. The combined set of now 25 Permanent Members then elected new Board Members -- see the <a href="http://association.drupal.org/about/staff">Association staff page</a> for details.</p>
-
-<p>This is a good thing.</p>
-
-<p>I'm looking forward to seeing how this new, larger Association evolves and settles into a working relationship. I fully expect the amount of work to expand to fill everyone's time :P</p>
-
-<p>My main piece of feedback for all applicants and community members is that being a Permanent Member just means more work. There is nothing blocking you from contributing -- especially in "non code" ways -- today. <a href="http://groups.drupal.org">Groups.Drupal.org</a> is an easy, friendly place to start posting ideas and asking for feedback, and the <a href="http://groups.drupal.org/drupal-marketing">Drupal Marketing</a> group in particular needs more participants.</p>
-
-<p>And Dries, in his usual sneaky way, managed to coordinate things so that the second year of the Drupal Association also marks <a href="http://buytaert.net/happy-seventh-birthday-drupal">Drupal's 7th birthday</a>. Happy birthday, Drupal, and congratulations to all the new members of the Association. As always, Drupal World Domination :P</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-01-16-i-think-i-might-become-an-rdf-fan-boy-again.md b/_posts/archive/2008-01-16-i-think-i-might-become-an-rdf-fan-boy-again.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 1ce9880..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-01-16-i-think-i-might-become-an-rdf-fan-boy-again.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: I think I might become an RDF fan boy (again)
-created: 1200479193
-categories: 
-- RDF
-- FOAF
-- Arto Bendiken
-- SPARQL
-- Geek Week 2
-- Drupal
-- Social Media
----
-<p>I'm currently in Stuttgart, Germany doing some Drupal client work in a gathering that we've come to call "Geek Week". We sit down and look at internal requirements and do 3/6/12 month planning, matched up with the state of the Drupal universe. But more on that later, probably over at <a href="http://www.raincitystudios.com">RCS</a> (the "In Drupal We Trust" t-shirts were popular).</p>
-
-<p>One of the "geeks" attending here is <a href="http://bendiken.net/">Arto Bendiken</a>. Check out his <a href="http://bendiken.net/projects">projects page</a> for an example of some of the stuff he's worked on. For Drupal folks, that would be <a href="http://drupal.org/project/timeline">timeline - AJAX widget for visualizing temporal information</a>, <a href="http://drupal.org/project/boost">boost - static page caching for Drupal</a>, <a href="http://drupal.org/project/drush">drush - command line shell for Drupal</a>, <a href="http://drupal.org/project/trace">trace - easy debugging for Drupal</a>, <a href="http://drupal.org/project/exhibit">exhibit - rich visualization and faceted browsing</a>. Yes, that is impressive :P</p>
-
-<p>So, Arto and I got to talking about RDF (<a href="http://rdfabout.com">rdfabout.com</a> is a good primer site), and how it's the new black. I admit that I've felt that XML vs. RDF is (almost?) a religious war. It seems to me that pointy haired bosses (PHBs) have memorized that RDF == slow and complex, and XML == fast and ubiquitous. Since in selling concepts I often interact with PHBs, RDF has felt like an uphill battle, especially as RSS/Atom grow more and more widespread.</p>
-
-<p>But.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>I think I'm almost convinced that the scales are tipping in favor of RDF for enabling new, distributed actions. Looking at new companies like <a href="http://novaspivack.typepad.com/">Nova Spivack's</a> <a href="http://www.twine.com">Twine</a> or <a href="http://www.freebase.com">MetaWeb's Freebase</a>, we are seeing new capabilities emerge based on using RDF.</p>
-
-<p>Actually, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARQL">SPARQL</a> is another new piece, in fact just <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-query/">ratified as W3C recommendation as of yesterday</a>. In short, a way to do queries across data at multiple sources, rather than having to rely on the aggregate-and-query-locally.</p>
-
-<p>Here's an image of the data that is currently available as RDF. Please ignore the FOAF bubble in the middle, we really do need to replace that with something better :P</p>
-
-<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Linking-Open-Data-diagram_2007-09.png"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89/Linking-Open-Data-diagram_2007-09.png"></a>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-01-21-rogers-gets-saner-data-plans.md b/_posts/archive/2008-01-21-rogers-gets-saner-data-plans.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f40bf97..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-01-21-rogers-gets-saner-data-plans.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Rogers gets sane(r) data plans
-created: 1200948709
-categories: 
-- Rogers
-- iPhone
-- John Biehler
-- Engadget
-- TorCamp Swarm
-- Canada
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<p>Since I've written about how <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/blog/bmann/the-travesty-of-canadian-mobile-data-rates">expensive mobile data plans in Canada are</a>, I should probably praise Rogers for finally getting some sane(r) pricing.</p>
-
-<p>I saw <a href="http://johnbiehler.com/2008/01/21/shocking-rogers-changes-its-data-plans/">via John Biehler</a> that <a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/20/rogers-breaks-out-new-data-plans-canadian-jaws-drop/">Engadget had posted rates from Rogers</a> as low as $65 / month for 1GB (recall that in comparison the chart in the previous link which shows 1GB at $4000 / month). Well, as Engadget mentions in the title, my jaw <strong>did</strong> drop, but it quickly snapped shut again when I looked closer and saw that this applies to PC Cards only ... not to the GSM or 3G phones we've been toting around for years.</p>
-
-<p>Per device pricing for data rates seems....well, it seems underhanded if not down right illegal. I wonder what the rules around pricing of telecommunications services have to say about this? Paging <a href="http://www.michaelgeist.ca/">Michael Geist</a>!</p>
-
-<p>Still...this hints that Rogers *could* offer prices like this for, say, the iPhone?</p>
-
-<p>Thanks to the <a href="http://tinyurl.com/2cwpx2">TorCamp Swarm on Skype</a> for discussion around this.</p> 
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-01-22-2008-events-are-go-for-launch.md b/_posts/archive/2008-01-22-2008-events-are-go-for-launch.md
deleted file mode 100644
index d816820..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-01-22-2008-events-are-go-for-launch.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: 2008 events are go for launch
-created: 1201019666
-categories: 
-- DemoCampVancouver
-- DemoCampVancouver05
-- CaseCamp
-- Founders and Funders
-- Sun
-- Toronto
-- Canada
-- Vancouver
----
-<p>Having just come back from the <a href="http://foundersandfunders.org">Founders and Funders Dinner in Toronto</a>, it's time to get ready for the big <a href="http://www.launchpartyhq.com/check-it-launch-party-vancouver-3">Launch Party Vancouver 3</a> event this Friday. Maura and crew have pulled this together in record time, and it looks like Sun is going to be doing a big kickoff. What with the purchase of MySQL and supporting local tech communities like this, I'm getting more and more interested in looking closely at Sun.</p>
-
-<p>Then, in 2 weeks time, we're doing <a href="http://barcamp.org/DemoCampVancouver05">DemoCamp Vancouver 05</a>. I'll get the Facebook event sent out today, so watch for that. We need both battledeck submissions and people to demo...fill out the wiki or <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/contact">get in touch</a>.</p>
-
-<p>Then it's <a href="http://north08.webdirections.org/">Web Directions North</a> next week, which I'll be <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/blog/bmann/speaking-web-directions-north-08-three-stages-content-management">speaking at</a>.</p>
-
-<p>Whew! 2008 events are off with a bang. Here's some other stuff I'm tracking -- in no way complete or comprehensive.</p>
-
-<ul>
-<li><a href="http://www.thirdtuesdayvancouver.com/">Third Tuesday Vancouver</a> is up on January 29th, starring Brian Oberkirch</li>
-<li>the inaugural <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=19415890596">NetSquared Net Tuesday</a> on February 5th</li>
-<li>the second <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=7237202028">Ajax and Beer</a> that krazy koder Brian Leroux is putting on February 6th (yes, that is going to be one crazy week)</li>
-<li>the wonderful <a href="http://www.eatcomm.ca/">Cinci Csere</a> is pulling together <a href="http://www.casecamp.org/home/show/CaseCampVancouver3">CaseCampVancouver3</a> -- an unconference for marketers (aka "case studies") on February 20th<li>
-<li>don't forget! <a href="http://2008.northernvoice.ca">Northern Voice 2008</a> is coming at the end of February...I am *so* looking forward to this...</li>
-<li>Duane is thinking we should do a <a href="http://duanestorey.com/2008/01/14/beer-camp/">Startup Weekend in Vancouver</a> -- he's thinking early April right now</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>I'll likely come back and update that event list in a bit...</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-01-22-a-person-who-is-above-all-things-enamoured-by-the-future.md b/_posts/archive/2008-01-22-a-person-who-is-above-all-things-enamoured-by-the-future.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 7e196ef..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-01-22-a-person-who-is-above-all-things-enamoured-by-the-future.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: a person who is, above all things, enamoured by the future
-created: 1201007483
-categories: 
-- Stephanie Vacher
-- Flickr
-- Photophlow
-- Personal
-- Social Media
----
-<p><a href="http://www.stephanievacher.com/blog/?p=67">Stephanie just posted</a> where her entry ends with the phrase that is the title of this post "a persona who is, above all things, enamoured by the future".</p>
-
-<p>I love the phrase. Maybe time to swap out the tagline for this blog.</p>
-
-<p>Oh, and, Steph actually posted about renewing her Flickr pro account. Related to that, I'm experimenting a bit with <a href="http://www.photophlow.com/">Photophlow</a> -- a real time interface for chatting about Flickr photos. Which, for those of us who remember the early days of Flickr, was actually the original implementation of Flickr. Thanks to <a href="http://www.rachaelashe.com">Rachael</a> for the invite -- I've still got a few to hand out if you're interested.</p>
-
-<p>Finally, great work on the blog, Steph -- I've really been enjoying reading it and enjoying your photos.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-01-26-fund-dww-and-hunmonk-and-the-further-development-of-drupal-itself.md b/_posts/archive/2008-01-26-fund-dww-and-hunmonk-and-the-further-development-of-drupal-itself.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 271346c..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-01-26-fund-dww-and-hunmonk-and-the-further-development-of-drupal-itself.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Fund dww and hunmonk and the further development of Drupal itself
-created: 1201337097
-categories: 
-- Chad Phillips
-- Derek Wright
-- Drupal Association
-- dww
-- hunmonk
-- project
-- project.module
-- aclight
-- Drupal
----
-<p>A long time ago, in a world far away, I had really hoped to work with a few other folks in funding <a href="http://drupal5.xcarnated.com/project-module-drupalcon-boston-2008">the fine people that maintain project module</a>. Actually, I think the <a href="http://association.drupal.org">Drupal Association</a> should step up and fund the project directly, but there is debate about how and under what circumstances the Association can fund development of code directly. In any case...</p>
-
-<p>What is project module? Well, you should bite your tongue! It is *the* piece of code that runs <a href="http://drupal.org">drupal.org</a>. Everything from the core download itself to the wealth of 1600 contributed modules depends on project module to track bugs and feature requests, create new releases, and make it easy to download the latest version of code without having to know arcane CVS commands (disclosure: I actually love arcane CVS commands, but that's another story).</p>
-
-<p>If you use Drupal, you should fund the further development of the project module and the attendance of these two fantastic developers at Drupalcon Boston. Use the Flash widget in this post, or visit any page on this site in the upper right hand corner.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Update:</strong> turns out that dww and hunmonk are now good to go, but our job isn't finished yet. aclight is another project contributor. I've swapped out the widget below for his. Read <a href="http://www.amacrine.com/drupalcon-2008">his pitch</a>.</p>
-
-<embed allowScriptAccess="always" src="http://widget.chipin.com/widget/id/8f22243eeb0a73b8" flashVars="color_scheme=blue" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="250" height="250"></embed>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-01-27-iphone-nano.md b/_posts/archive/2008-01-27-iphone-nano.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 9d753f5..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-01-27-iphone-nano.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: iPhone Nano
-created: 1201478541
-categories: 
-- Apple
-- iPhone
-- iPhone Nano
-- rumours
-- Mac
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<p>So...who else thinks there is going to be an iPhone Nano?</p>
-
-<p>The main complaint against the iPhone seems to be the price point. Looking at things like the widely popular Motorola RAZR, which ended up in the mass market price bracket, I just have to believe that Apple is thinking along the same lines.</p>
-
-<p>A similar form factor as the Nano, except screen taking the place of the click wheel. What else removed? Not sure, maybe no wifi? Limited storage?</p>
-
-<p>Anyway, just thought I would record this crazy idea. I have no inside information, only time will tell if I'm right. And without a photoshop mock up, I'm not going to get tons of traffic :P</p>
-
-<p><strong>Update:</strong> <a href="http://xalking.com">Alexa</a> <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/blog/bmann/iphone-nano#comment-136749">commented</a> and made a Photoshop of an iPod Touch Nano / iPhone Nano:</p>
-
-<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/xabooth/2226999870/"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2055/2226999870_1fe69635cf_m.jpg" /></a>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-01-31-web-directions-north-2008-3-stages-of-dynamic-systems-wrap-up.md b/_posts/archive/2008-01-31-web-directions-north-2008-3-stages-of-dynamic-systems-wrap-up.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 51bfbe3..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-01-31-web-directions-north-2008-3-stages-of-dynamic-systems-wrap-up.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Web Directions North 2008: 3 stages of dynamic systems, wrap up"
-created: 1201836891
-categories: 
-- Agentic
-- Expression Engine
-- nGen Works
-- OpenID
-- presentation
-- WDN08
-- Web Directions North
-- Vancouver
-- CMS
-- Agentic
-- Expression Engine
-- nGen Works
-- OpenID
-- presentation
-- WDN08
-- Web Directions North
-- Vancouver
-- CMS
----
-<p>Whew! What an intense couple of days. Today was my <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/blog/bmann/speaking-web-directions-north-08-three-stages-content-management">speaking day</a> for <a href="http://north.webdirections.org/">Web Directions North</a>. I was very pleased to be selected as a speaker by <a href="http://mezzoblue.com">Dave Shea</a> and the rest of the WDN08 team, and I was a bit nervous up until the last minute. At the same time, I was really glad that I had the first day to attend and absorb and talk to other participants and tailor my presentation to what I was hearing.</p>
-<p>I originally started with a "traditional" presentation. It ended up morphing into a pseudo Dick Hardt / Lessig style, with lots of slides with just a few words on each one. It may not make much sense without the audio, but <a href="http://agentic.ca/">Phil Djwa and the Agentic team</a> recorded the audio for everything, so I'm hoping to combine the two.</p>
-<div id="__ss_249072" style="width:425px;text-align:left"><object height="355" style="margin:0px" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=3stages-wdn08-v3-1201828595461741-4"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" height="355" src="http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=3stages-wdn08-v3-1201828595461741-4" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425"></object>
-	<div style="font-size:11px;font-family:tahoma,arial;height:26px;padding-top:2px;"><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/?src=embed"><img alt="SlideShare" src="http://static.slideshare.net/swf/logo_embd.png" style="border:0px none;margin-bottom:-5px"></a> | <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/bmann/3stages-wdn08-v3?src=embed" title="View '3stages Wdn08 V3' on SlideShare">View</a> | <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/upload?src=embed">Upload your own</a></div>
-</div>
-<p>I wish I had had a little more time to practice the timing a little more, and I definitely need to invest in a non line of sight presentation clicker: right when I was on a roll I would have to more carefully aim the remote control at my machine.</p>
-<p><!--break--></p>
-<p>Two presentations that connected with some of the themes I wanted to cover were <a href="http://brianoberkirch.com/">Brian Oberkirch's</a> <a href="http://north08.webdirections.org/schedule/#oberkirch">Plays Well with Others</a> and <a href="http://dashes.com/">Anil Dash's</a> <a href="http://north08.webdirections.org/schedule/#dash">Putting Social Media to Work</a>. In general, there was a lot of talk about OpenID and related themes. It seemed to me there was an even spread between people who knew about these themes and people who were taking careful notes and looking to follow up with more research later.</p>
-<p>I tried to look around and figure out what kinds of people were attending. Designers, developers, and business people for sure. The best label I could come up with was "Web Directions - For Web Professionals". So, whether you were a consulting firm (large or small), or a person working on web solutions inside educational institutions, enterprises, or governments, you were someone working with the web professionally.</p>
-<p>I'm glad that this event is happening in Vancouver, and I'm already looking forward to what the next gathering of web professionals will bring to town 12 months from now.</p>
-<p>Shout out to the <a href="http://www.ngenworks.com/">nGen Works</a> guys, all the way from Florida and purveyors of fine <a href="http://expressionengine.com/">Expression Engine</a> solutions (just like our own <a href="http://www.hopstudios.com/" title="Hop Studios will build you an awesome website using Expression Engine in Vancouver">local EE heroes, Hop Studios</a>. I've come to the conclusion that EE is an ally in "beyond the blog" solutions. Talking to design-centric attendees who were needing more data-powered structures, it's clear to me that a supported solution like EE is a good fit, and will be recommending it going forward. Of course, that's not to say that I don't think <a href="http://www.acquia.com/">some Drupal company</a> might provide and support a more designer-centric version of Drupal that meets the same goals. Bottom line: I'd love EE a lot more if they were open source.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-02-03-more-iphone-nokia-etc-thoughts.md b/_posts/archive/2008-02-03-more-iphone-nokia-etc-thoughts.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 91f5d50..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-02-03-more-iphone-nokia-etc-thoughts.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: More iPhone / Nokia / etc. thoughts
-created: 1202076613
-categories: 
-- iPhone
-- Nokia
-- Chris Bovard
-- Nuvifone
-- Garmin
-- Nokia N95
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<p>Chris Bovard just left a <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/blog/bmann/iphone-nano#comment-136760">great comment on the iPhone Nano thread</a> -- here's the closer on his post about why he's unlikely to get an iPhone and why he can't understand why everyone is so hyped about it:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-<p>My next phone purchase will be N95 8gig because I love my current N95. If I buy another bigger phone it will be a http://www8.garmin.com/nuvifone/ when it is out. I own an older Garmin GPS I use for mountaineering. You can drop it and it goes under water. If Garmin puts this much though into their phone well the iphone will be just another toy.</p>
-
-<p>Maybe time for everyone too look at the big picture instead of yet another Mac babysitter product for the mass.</p>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>"Mac babysitter product" is a great post. Except, well, the masses WANT babysitter products. I <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/blog/bmann/iphone-nano#comment-136761">replied in the same thread</a> -- here's the last bit of my comment:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-Food for thought. I am all for competition, so I hope that Nokia continues with Series 60 development and also innovates in their new Linux-based systems (ref: their purchase of Trolltech, which makes cross platform GUI stuff). What these other players MUST realize is that the time has come where the mobile phone is moving BEYOND the bounds of the walled garden telcos, into the open platform of the Internet, and all competitors MUST strive to engage with network and platform effects in order to succeed long term.
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>The mobile market is one of those areas where so much interesting stuff is happening. I'm glad that we're having these types of discussions.</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-02-03-sucking-in-delicious.md b/_posts/archive/2008-02-03-sucking-in-delicious.md
deleted file mode 100644
index fa8dac2..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-02-03-sucking-in-delicious.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Sucking in Delicious
-created: 1202064552
-categories: 
-- del.icio.us
-- FeedAPI
-- Jaiku
-- All Consuming
-- BMC
----
-<p>I finally took a little time to update to the latest <a href="http://drupal.org/project/feedapi">Feed API</a> and start sucking in my <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/feed-item/2218">Delicious links</a>. I'm not quite ready to mix it into my Feedburner feed, since I want to do mapping of the link field to my "native" weblink type, as well as the tags aren't transferring across.</p>
-
-<p>The big thing this enables is commenting on my delicious notes. Meta observations on the link in question. As <a href="http://justagwailo.com">Richard</a> has previously noted, my <a href="http://boris.jaiku.com">Jaiku</a> instance actually also provides this: a second permalink where comments are enabled.</p>
-
-<p><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net">All Consuming</a> is the other web service that I'm definitely interested in sucking back in here. I've been keeping it fairly up to date with my reading, and I know lots of people that also like to read similar books. RSS as the simplest systems integration format. Fun times!</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-02-10-federated-social-networks-at-barcamp-amsterdam-iii.md b/_posts/archive/2008-02-10-federated-social-networks-at-barcamp-amsterdam-iii.md
deleted file mode 100644
index af783db..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-02-10-federated-social-networks-at-barcamp-amsterdam-iii.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Federated Social Networks at Barcamp Amsterdam III
-created: 1202694376
-categories: 
-- barcamp amsterdam
-- DiSo
-- identity
-- jabber
-- OpenID
-- Ralph Meijer
-- XMPP
-- Social Media
----
-<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonz/54598173/in/set-1183388"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/31/54598173_ddfff1a9f2_m.jpg" align="left" hspace="5" vspace="5" border="0" /></a>
-<p>It doesn't seem that long ago, but the first <a href="http://barcamp.org/BarCampAmsterdam">Barcamp Amsterdam</a> was way back in October 2005, where <a href="http://ralphm.net/">RalphM</a> and I first schemed about Jabber World Domination. But in reality, a lot of time has passed -- Jabber is now called XMPP, there have been many more Barcamps outside of the US (yes, Amsterdam was first! <a hre="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonz/tags/barcampamsterdam/">picture from Ton's Flickr pictures</a>), and we've got a ton of interesting identity and social software standards / formats / tools to start integrating.</p>
-
-<p>Ralph did a <a href="http://ralphm.net/blog/2007/12/06/fsn_workshop">workshop on Federated Social Networks</a> at the beginning of December, which I unfortunately wasn't able to attend on short notice. Now Ralph has set the date for a <a href="http://www.mediamatic.net/artefact-30390-en.html">follow up event</a> to be held along with <a href="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/419129/">Barcamp Amsterdam III</a> on March 1st and 2nd.</p>
-
-<p>I will, unfortunately, once again be missing the event, since <a href="http://boston2008.drupalcon.org">Drupalcon Boston 2008</a> will be happening at the same time. I'm hoping that some co-conspirators on a couple of projects will be able to attend (I'm looking at <a href="http://bendiken.net">you</a> and <a href="http://www.zylstra.org">you</a>).</p>
-
-<p>I suspect the technology stack that will be discussed includes DiSo, OpenID, OpenID Attribute Exchange, and OAuth, so anyone interested in those items and how they relate to social networks should plan to attend. Note: although I have a reputation as a handwaver supreme, this will most likely be a down and dirty technology, specs, and implementation discussion at its core, so pack your developers and throw them into the capable hands of RalphM.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>Lastly, look to the <a href="http://blog.fourkitchens.com/2008/02/07/relaunching-getopenidcom-using-a-server-side-drupal-module/">Four Kitchens GetOpenID.com announcement</a> and the work that the Drupal community has already done around OpenID to be the basis for compatible work around this. We'll likely have a scrum around this in Boston.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-02-14-in-san-francisco-going-to-drupal-6-release-party-at-parisoma.md b/_posts/archive/2008-02-14-in-san-francisco-going-to-drupal-6-release-party-at-parisoma.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 3d093e9..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-02-14-in-san-francisco-going-to-drupal-6-release-party-at-parisoma.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: In San Francisco, going to Drupal 6 Release Party at PariSoMa
-created: 1203044348
-categories: 
-- Kieran Lal
-- PariSoMa
-- san francisco
-- Drupal
----
-<p>I've been in SF all week on short notice -- client meetings, training, etc. Friday evening is open, and I'm going to join <a href="http://drupal.org/user/18703">Kieran</a> at the <a href="http://groups.drupal.org/node/8903">Drupal 6 release party</a> (<a href="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/429198/">upcoming</a>) being held at <a href="http://parisoma.wordpress.com/">PariSoMa</a> (a cool coworking space, apparently).</p>
-
-<p>Don't wanna talk Drupal? That's fine, I'm up for DiSo, identity, Jabber, startups, whatever. I'll be in the one in the cowboy shirt holding a beer :P</p>
-
-<p>P.S. <a href="http://drupal.org/drupal-6.0">Drupal 6 got released</a>. It's going to be great. I'm stoked about working on some mega OpenID infrastructure.</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-02-24-northern-voice-2008-wrap.md b/_posts/archive/2008-02-24-northern-voice-2008-wrap.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 1783698..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-02-24-northern-voice-2008-wrap.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,46 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Northern Voice 2008 Wrap
-created: 1203855334
-categories: 
-- northern voice
-- Northern Voice 2008
-- nv08
-- CaseCamp
-- CaseCampVancouver3
-- Music Directions
-- Invoke Media
-- Vancouver
-- Social Media
----
-<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisheuer/2284675807/"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2285/2284675807_c021416ff6_m.jpg" border="0" align="left" hspace="5" vspace="5" /></a><p><a href="http://2008.northernvoice.ca">Northern Voice 2008</a> is <a href="http://2008.northernvoice.ca/blog/boris-mann/thats-wrap-give-us-feedback">wrapped</a>. Exhilarating. Fun. New faces. Old faces. Good discussions. Sore throat. Vitamin C. A bit too much beer. People. Talking. PEOPLE.</p> <p>Been a long couple of days starting way back on Wednesday night with the launch of <a href="http://www.musicdirection.com">Music Direction</a> supported by <a href="http://www.invokemedia.com">Invoke Media</a> and then <a href="http://www.casecamp.org/home/show/CaseCampVancouver3">CaseCampVancouver3</a>.</p>
-
-<p>The pic is <a href="http://www.megancole.org">Megan Cole</a> as captured by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisheuer/2284675807/">Chris Heuer</a>, leading a social media mecca. Inspiring.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>Thursday was work, tons of stuff on the go, but day flew by and then off to the tiki-themed kick off party. Roast pig! The blogger "open mic" was AMAZING. So many great writers. Big thanks to <a href="http://talkingtoair.com/">Airdrie</a> for organizing this, and to both of the Lipstick and Lipgloss gals for the fantastic door prizes of MAC cosmetics. Northern Voice: I go for the skincare products. I really do have to make it back to the Waldorf and their tiki awesomeness. Opa along for the ride, is chaperoned by some wonderful ladies.</p>
-
-<p>Friday was my birthday (33!) -- started it off with a free breakfast at Denny's with my dad, right across from my apartment. Been living here for 4 years and that's my first time in there :P</p>
-
-<p>I get in, hand out sheriff badges to the volunteers, and start playing with the grid. Stand on a chair and let peeps know how the day is going to go, someone leaks the birthday and I end up with a 100 person strong happy birthday song. Phone is beeping all day with Facebook wall posts for birthday. Thanks everyone, nice way to spend a birthday :P Did I go to sessions today? I did my usual man the front booth and talked to people all over the place. Beautiful, beautiful sunny day.</p>
-
-<p>Head down to <a href="http://www.fluxbistro.com">Flux Bistro</a> for some eats before my birthday get together at the Lamplighter. Beginning of too much beer, then stop in at Gallery Gachet, too. Home. Hydration and Vitamin C, feeling no pain.</p>
-
-<p>4 hours sleep. Up at 6:30am. Roll out the door, grab the bus, I'm the first person outside the doors. Mmmmm...chocolate croissant plus coffee. Prep for morning intro to everyone, run around doing organizer type things. Do the morning intro, goes reasonably well and I hand it over to <a href="http://ma.tt/2008/02/northern-voice/">Matt</a>. Am surprised when he goes into open source as the latter half of his presentation. Open source from code to processes, government. Yes! Very, very inspiring (<a href="http://atlargemedia.com/content/podcast-matt-mullenweg-keynote-northern-voice-2008">audio</a>).</p>
-
-<p>Got the <a href="http://wiki.northernvoice.ca/AskTheExpert2008">expert booth</a> up and running, <a href="http://www.darrenbarefoot.com">Darren</a> and Julie via video in Morocco. Good to see them, feels a bit empty here without them holding down the fort with us. Booth was tough, sessions were well attended, so not lots of people asking questions. Maybe submit ahead of time next time? Had a good time talking <a href="http://www.twemes.com">Twemes</a> and <a href="http://jaiku.com">Jaiku</a> with <a href="http://www.voxant.com">Voxant</a> peeps. Yeah, it's too complicated. Let's set up Facebook mobile instead. Set up <a href="http://www.victoriarevay.com">VictoriaRevay.com</a>, starting fiddling with <a href="http://drupal.org/project/image">Image</a> module for Drupal 6 for someone but called away to solve something or other.</p>
-
-<p>Caught some time with <a href="http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/">Marc Canter</a>. I don't know which one of us mellowed, but it kinda seems like we have. Or maybe we just went through a bunch of the same stuff and have ended up at the same place. He's still <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/blog/bmann/marc-canter-is-building-his-heart-out">building his heart out</a>.</p>
-
-<p>Talked to <a href="http://blame.ca/">Dick</a> about VEF and more tech stuff locally, along with leaning over watching the <a href="http://www.flock.com">Flock</a> guys demo to Marc and Dick. Interesting stuff there -- bunch of folks in Victoria. Good excuse to go over and visit, get <a href="http://barcamp.org/DemoCampVictoria">DemoCampVictoria</a> fired up.</p>
-
-<p>Ended up doing a session because of missing Net Neutrality presenter winging in from London. Think we'll do that one later next week at WorkSpace? <a href="http://todmaffin.com">Tod</a> helped wiki-fy a big feedback session into a <a href="http://wiki.northernvoice.ca/Northern+Voice+Post-Mortem">Northern Voice Post Mortem</a>. Stayed in the room to intro the Facebook 101 session. Still so much to work through with that. Open web wins, need to remember that, everything else is noise over the long term (ref. Matt's keynote).</p>
-
-<p>Saw dad off to his <a href="http://www.bowenfilm.com">Bowen Film</a> stuff. Didn't get much chance to spend real time with Opa, but lots of people were happy to meet him and he had a good time. Took pictures with my camera the whole time, I have a ton to sort through and upload tomorrow.</p>
-
-<p>End of day thanks and wrap up. Gave out posters, t-shirts, Flock bags. Did I mention <a href="http://www.flock.com">Flock</a> has some cool stuff going for it (again)?</p>
-
-<p>Figured out a dinner strategy so <a href="http://www.lancetracey.com">Lance</a> could meet Matt M. Went to Susie and Travis' with a bunch of people first to hang out, then cabbed to restaurant.</p>
-
-<p><a href="http://www.chrisheuer.com/">Chris Heuer</a> and <a href="http://kristiewells.com/">Kristie Wells</a> are SO AWESOME. Damn it, people, we need some frickin' teleporters or everyone just move to Vancouver, kthxbye! Marc Canter picks out dinner for us all at <a href="http://www.sunsuiwah.com/">Sun Sui Wah</a> ... Matt got an awesome picture of the giant Alaska King Crab. <a href="http://www.robertscales.org">Rob</a> and girlfriend join us too and then give me and Matt a ride back to Susie and Travis'. Lots of good talk about open source and collab and ecosystems and such (<a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/blog/bmann/web-directions-north-2008-3-stages-dynamic-systems-wrap">my WDN08 presentation</a> we talked about, still needs audio to make sense).</p>
-
-<p>Beer. Tales of the early days of <a href="http://chrispitality.com/">Chrispitality escapades</a>. He's moving to Cairo, hook him up with the Drupal peeps there. Played some Danger Wii Tennis. Drive home from James and Monique. Blogging here. Still keyed up. Need to sleep, gotta catch brunch tomorrow...</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-02-25-flock-1-1-beta-tire-kicking.md b/_posts/archive/2008-02-25-flock-1-1-beta-tire-kicking.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a9d7a47..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-02-25-flock-1-1-beta-tire-kicking.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Flock 1.1 beta tire kicking
-created: 1203931657
-categories: 
-- Clayton Stark
-- feedback
-- flock
-- Mark Lise
-- flockfeedback
-- Open Source
-- Web 2.0
----
-<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/60142746@N00/2286479033/" title="People Aggregator People">  <img src="http://static.flickr.com/2392/2286479033_99ab3ac630_m.jpg" border="0" alt="People Aggregator People" align="left" vspace="5" hspace="5" /></a><p><a href="http://www.flock.com/node/61210">Flock’s 1.1 Beta Has Arrived!</a> And so I&#39;m testing it (the <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/node/1534">last time</a> was August 2005). I met my first semi-local Flock&#39;er (<a href="http://www.digitalspace.ca/">Mark Lise</a>) at the last DemoCampVancouver. They came back in force from Victoria to storm the Northern Voice conference (Flock was a sponsor).</p>
-
-<p>At left, that&#39;s me watching <a href="http://www.flock.com/executive-team/clayton-stark">Clayton Stark</a>, the VP of Engineering, giving Marc Canter a demo, while myself, Rob Scales, and Dickt Hardt look on.  Initial impressions (on my desktop PowerMac G5)</p>
-
-<ul><li>Nice job on integrating Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, and del.icio.us</li><li>Oh, wait, I can set status message/tweet/whatever in the same predictable place??! Oh, um, please just build MoodBlast functionality in directly...and integrate Jaiku, of course</li><li>delicious has links sorted by tag...my usage is most often by reverse chrono...can I toggle between a tag view and a recently added bookmarks?</li><li>I added this Drupal aka Self hosted blog, but it seems I can&#39;t set the label of the blog (my username is the same on most sites, so a label like &quot;bmann: blog&quot; that is returned by auto discovery isn&#39;t going to help)</li><li>The media bar mini-bar at the top for searching and browsing Flickr, and for drag/dropping into this blog editor, RAWKS!</li><li>Yeah, I like the blog editor</li><li>Some loads seem a little slow...but really, everything on my ancient, low memory PMac are slow...media bar and other stuff are saving me time</li><li>OK, I&#39;m now doing three blog posts at the same time...I don&#39;t think I can let go of this</li><li>One more feature request: if I hit the &quot;add link&quot; button in the editor, and I&#39;ve got a URL in my clipboard, please auto-fill it...kthxbye</li></ul><p> If you hadn&#39;t heard of Flock the first time around, try it as a replacement (yep, replacement...) for Firefox. If you had gripes/crashes/etc. the first time, erase those memories and know that Canadian engineers are on the job and you should give it another try.  With Firefox, you can add a bazillion plugins and do lots of functionality. Flock has it all integrated and smoothed out for lots of the social media services that people use already. Firefox is to Flock, as Drupal is to WordPress? </p><p>Works for Mac, Linux, and Windows. Anyone else using it again / for the first time? I have some ideas of other things it COULD do, what do you think? </p><p>(slight snafu in posting, but blog posts got autosaved / recovered. yay!) </p><p><span style="font-style: italic">Disclaimer: </span><a style="font-style: italic" href="http://www.raincitystudios.com">my company</a><span style="font-style: italic"> may end up doing some work with Flock. Of course, we also just helped </span><a style="font-style: italic" href="http://www.raincitystudios.com/blog/spread-firefox-site-deployment">Spread Firefox</a><span style="font-style: italic"> recently</span></p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-02-27-i-utterz.md b/_posts/archive/2008-02-27-i-utterz.md
deleted file mode 100644
index aa82ae8..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-02-27-i-utterz.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: I Utterz
-created: 1204183104
-categories: 
-- Utterz
-- Twitter
-- Jaiku
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<p>I fully blame Chris Heuer. I signed up for an <a href="http://www.utterz.com">Utterz</a> account, after trashing him quite thoroughly over Skype some time back :P</p>
-
-<p>What is Utterz? Well, it's mobile blogging, sort of. The only capability I've taken advantage of so far is the audio. You get a local (yes, even in Canada!) phone number that you can call, hit a few buttons, record whatever you want to say, hit some more and your recording will get posted. It posts (within 10 minutes) to the Utterz site, but can then also be set up to auto post to a number of other different places, like your blog or send out a <a href="http://twitter.com/bmann/statuses/764338861">Twitter</a> notification. And yes, of course there is an <a href="http://www.utterz.com/~h-bmann/v-circle/r-1/rss.php">RSS feed of your Utterz</a>, so it's easy to <a href="http://boris.jaiku.com/presence/27465504">pipe into Jaiku</a> as well.</p>
-
-<p>Aside from audio, you can also send pictures, video, and text to a special email address, and it will associate that with any audio Utterz you made in a 10 minute period.</p>
-
-<p>So, you'll notice an Utterz widget in the sidebar top right, and I've also embedded a horizontal widget right in this post. Tonight, sore throat and all, I opened up my <a href="http://del.icio.us/borismann">delicious bookmarks page</a> and talked about the last 10 bookmarks I made.</p>
-
-<object width="400" height="35"><param name="movie" value="http://www.utterz.com/fp/embed_aud.swf?1203710302" /><param name="flashvars" value="utt_id=NTAzODk5NQ&amp;autoplay=0&amp;wu=NDk1OTIwNQ" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><embed src="http://www.utterz.com/fp/embed_aud.swf?1203710302" flashvars="utt_id=NTAzODk5NQ&amp;autoplay=0&amp;wu=NDk1OTIwNQ" width="400" height="35" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" /></object>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-02-28-utterz-rob-lewis-on-strutta-super-sekret-alpha-launch.md b/_posts/archive/2008-02-28-utterz-rob-lewis-on-strutta-super-sekret-alpha-launch.md
deleted file mode 100644
index fdb0ba8..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-02-28-utterz-rob-lewis-on-strutta-super-sekret-alpha-launch.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Utterz: Rob Lewis on Strutta Super Sekret Alpha Launch"
-created: 1204243730
-categories: 
-- Rob Lewis
-- Strutta
-- TechVibes
-- Vancouver
-- Video and Podcast
----
-<div class="utterz-entry"><object width="320" height="35"><param name="movie" value="http://www.utterz.com/fp/slimline.swf?" /><param name="flashvars" value="utt_id=NTAzOTQ1MA&amp;autoplay=0&amp;wu=NDk1OTIwNQ" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><embed src="http://www.utterz.com/fp/slimline.swf?" flashvars="utt_id=NTAzOTQ1MA&amp;autoplay=0&amp;wu=NDk1OTIwNQ" width="320" height="35" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" /></object><br/><br/><a target="_new" href="http://www.utterz.com/~u-NTAzOTQ1MA/utt.php">Mobile post</a> sent by <a target="_new" href="http://www.utterz.com/~h-bmann/list.php">bmann</a> using <a target="_new" href="http://www.utterz.com">Utterz</a>.&nbsp;<a target="_new" href="http://www.utterz.com/~u-NTAzOTQ1MA/utt.php"><img border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; border: none; padding: 0px;" src="http://www.utterz.com/~u-NTAzOTQ1MA/reply_count.php" /></a>&nbsp;<a target="_new" href="http://www.utterz.com/~u-NTAzOTQ1MA/utt.php">Replies</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.utterz.com/utts/b1/b1d107d36763496499e15f0cf3264c69.mp3">mp3</a></div>
-
-<p><a href="http://www.techvibes.com/blog">Rob Lewis from Techvibes</a> and I talk about the <a href="http://www.strutta.com">Strutta</a> launch. Or at least, the super sekret alpha launch. It's been fun to see the buzz build, and start to see the first initial pieces of the Strutta story come out. I'm looking forward to the whole story being revealed.</p>
-
-<p><em>Disclaimer: I'm an advisor to Strutta</em></p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-03-01-off-to-boston-for-drupalcon-see-you-on-jaiku-twemes-utterz-and-at-my-sessions.md b/_posts/archive/2008-03-01-off-to-boston-for-drupalcon-see-you-on-jaiku-twemes-utterz-and-at-my-sessions.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 0a3c8cf..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-03-01-off-to-boston-for-drupalcon-see-you-on-jaiku-twemes-utterz-and-at-my-sessions.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Off to Boston for Drupalcon, see you on Jaiku, Twemes, Utterz, and at my sessions
-created: 1204379050
-categories: 
-- Boston
-- drupal
-- DrupalCon
-- Drupalcon Boston 2008
-- Jaiku
-- Twemes
-- Utterz
-- Drupal
----
-<p>My cab should be here in minutes, so this is going to be a quick and dirty post. I'm just getting over a cold and trying to be in top shape for <a href="http://boston2008.drupalcon.org">Drupalcon Boston 2008</a> so apologies for the last minute posting.</p>
-
-<p>I'm running a session in the site building track on <a href="http://boston2008.drupalcon.org/session/mapping-business-requirements-drupal-modules-gap-fit-process">Mapping business requirements to Drupal modules - a gap - fit process</a>. This could as easily have fit into the business track, and really it will bridge both. I'm looking forward to making this, in part, an interactive session, a way to raise some interesting questions, and ideally to share best practices. Expect everything from project management, scoping, to Boris' gold star module development. Oh, and I'm going to yell at people for not expanding their business models.</p>
-
-<p>The good folks at <a href="http://palantir.net">Palantir</a> asked me to help sit on a panel to discuss <a href="http://boston2008.drupalcon.org/session/tips-and-tricks-getting-your-team-speed-drupal-and-staying-there">getting your team up to speed in Drupal</a>. I don't have a good outline of that yet, but I have lots of ideas around that concept. Anything new? Perhaps not, but working with the larger team at <a href="http://www.raincitystudios.com">Raincity Studios</a> has been a joy, especially in the mentoring department.</p>
-
-<p>Lastly, I'm moderating a birds of a feather (BoF) session on <a href="http://boston2008.drupalcon.org/session/rdf-and-semantic-web-drupal">RDF and the Semantic Web</a>...but really, I'll just be a remote mouthpiece for <a href="http://bendiken.net">Arto Bendiken</a> the architect and programmer behind this latest wave for Drupal.</p>
-
-<p>I'm using a couple of different tools to broadcast messages out about happenings at this event. <a href="http://boston2008.drupalcon.org/helpful-info-connecting-others">A forum post on the Drupalcon site talked about one way to use Pownce / Twitter</a>. I also like <a href="http://twemes.com">Twemes</a>, something built locally in Vancouver to track stuff on Twitter using hashtags. Simply use the hashtag #drupalcon and all your twitters will end up on this page: http://twemes.com/drupalcon -- there's also an RSS feed on that page. For Jaiku, I figure we can re-use the <a href="http://jaiku.com/channel/Drupal">#drupal channel</a>, since it's not that high volume in any case. Posts here on this blog will be using the <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/tags/drupalcon-boston-2008">Drupalcon Boston 2008</a> tag (again, there's a feed on that page). Any <a href="http://utterz.com">Utterz</a>* I will tag with that as well.</p>
-
-<p>I've posted also on the <a href="http://www.raincitystudios.com/blogs-and-pods/boris-mann/boston-drupalcon-bound">Raincity blog</a> and over on <a href="http://blog.bootuplabs.com/2008/03/01/heading-to-boston-for-drupalcon/" title="Bootup Labs is a Vancouver-based startup incubator">here</a>. See you soon!</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>* I talked about <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/blog/bmann/i-utterz">Utterz here</a>. I've also changed things so those posts don't auto-promote to the front page, so you'll have to be following my full feed to catch them, or subscribe to the Drupalcon Boston 2008 tag.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-03-01-post-leap-day-link-omnibus.md b/_posts/archive/2008-03-01-post-leap-day-link-omnibus.md
deleted file mode 100644
index b6452c9..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-03-01-post-leap-day-link-omnibus.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Post Leap Day Link Omnibus
-created: 1204378482
-categories: 
-- Leap Day
-- bacon
-- Aspecton
-- Personal
----
-<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/2290010733/" title="Brunch Walk - 03 by bmann, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3196/2290010733_f30112b961_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Brunch Walk - 03" align="left" vspace="5" hspace="5" /></a>
-
-<p>Well, we're almost 5 hours past Leap Day -- Feb 29th. I hope everyone celebrated in a manner appropriate to their nationality. I was talking with friends about various schemes to design Canadian Leap Day traditions, and all we settled on was that it should probably involve bacon in some way.</p>
-
-<p>I made it through Northern Voice (see my <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/blog/bmann/northern-voice-2008-wrap" title="2008 Northern Voice wrap up">stream-of-consciousness wrap up</a>) without getting sick, and even had an awesome relaxing day going for brunch and a photowalk on the Sunday afternoon, but Monday morning I succumbed to a sore throat and cold. I'm back in action (sort of) due to the much-Facebooked "crazy German medicine" called <a href="http://www.netdoktor.de/medikamente/100007150.htm">Aspecton</a> (it's sort of like the German equivalent of Buckley's, except no sugar or alcohol -- thanks, Mom!).</p>
-
-<p>So, that's a bit of an update from the recent events. I'm <a href="http://www.raincitystudios.com/blogs-and-pods/boris-mann/boston-drupalcon-bound">off to Boston for a Drupal event</a> in about 20 minutes, so here are links that I'm behind on:</p>
-
-<ul>
-<li>continuing the tradition of giving <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/blog/bmann/vancouver-seo-birthday-gift-alex-brabant-emarketing-101">links as birthday gifts</a>, <a href="http://www.emarketing101.net/blog/item/happy-birthday-to-boris-mann-from-boris-mann-consulting/">Vancouver SEO guy Alex Brabant sent some my way</a></li>
-<li>I'm <a href="http://convergence.confabb.com/conferences/cci2008/sessions/6567/details">speaking at the CCI2008 conference</a> March 12th to 14th here in Vancouver -- yes, this needs a longer post</li>
-<li>did I mention I have a new startup? this SO needs its own post, but I have purposefully not been promoting it here (and this is still a "Personal" category -- so not on the front page / in the main feed). It's called <a href="http://blog.bootuplabs.com" title="Startup incubator in Vancouver - helping you quit your day job">Bootup Labs, and it's a Vancouver-based incubator for startups</a> -- my partner is <a href="http://www.strutta.com">Danny Robinson of recent Strutta fame</a>. Missing some of my blogging? Yeah, I'm doing blogging over there as well.</li>
-<li>the <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/feeds">borisphere page</a> again contains links to external feeds that I'm aggregating</li>
-<li>don't forget about <a href="http://foodlikethat.com">Food Like That</a> -- just added a post about some fine eating in San Fran, and my mom is still busy adding recipes :P</li>
-<li>I swear I had more bullet points to add, but I bet that's the cab outside the door to take me to YVR....take care, see you after the 7th....</li>
-</ul>
-
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-03-01-utterz-leaving-yvr-for-drupalcon-boston.md b/_posts/archive/2008-03-01-utterz-leaving-yvr-for-drupalcon-boston.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 9b8e566..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-03-01-utterz-leaving-yvr-for-drupalcon-boston.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Utterz: Leaving YVR for Drupalcon Boston"
-created: 1204383206
-categories: 
-- Drupalcon Boston 2008
-- Raincity Studios
-- Video and Podcast
----
-<div class="utterz-entry"><object width="320" height="35"><param name="movie" value="http://www.utterz.com/fp/slimline.swf?" /><param name="flashvars" value="utt_id=NTA0MDI4NQ&amp;autoplay=0&amp;wu=NDk1OTIwNQ" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><embed src="http://www.utterz.com/fp/slimline.swf?" flashvars="utt_id=NTA0MDI4NQ&amp;autoplay=0&amp;wu=NDk1OTIwNQ" width="320" height="35" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" /></object><br/><br/><a target="_new" href="http://www.utterz.com/~u-NTA0MDI4NQ/utt.php">Mobile post</a> sent by <a target="_new" href="http://www.utterz.com/~h-bmann/list.php">bmann</a> using <a target="_new" href="http://www.utterz.com">Utterz</a>.&nbsp;<a target="_new" href="http://www.utterz.com/~u-NTA0MDI4NQ/utt.php"><img border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; border: none; padding: 0px;" src="http://www.utterz.com/~u-NTA0MDI4NQ/reply_count.php" /></a>&nbsp;<a target="_new" href="http://www.utterz.com/~u-NTA0MDI4NQ/utt.php">Replies</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.utterz.com/utts/e3/e3db8c4a0f0ab3918be4647624a8475a.mp3">mp3</a></div>
-
-<p>Update: so, yeah, if you type in JUST "Boston" into Apple's Accuweather widget, you'll get weather for Boston, <strong>Georgia</strong>. It's nice and warm there this time of year, apparently :P Turns out we're going to need to go to Target and buy some sweaters and stuff.</p>
-
-<p>Here's me in a snowbank in Boston, MA and a screencap of the Boston, GA, forecast:</p>
-
-<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/puregin/2304860076/in/photostream"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2132/2304860076_5d3881383a_m.jpg" hspace="5" vspace="5" alt="Accuweather Boston GA Forecast" /></a>
-
-<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/puregin/2304063333/"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3254/2304063333_a59e143be9_m.jpg" alt="Boris in a snow bank in Boston MA" hspace="5" vspace="5" /></a>
-
-
-
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-03-01-utterz-toronto-passing-us-customs.md b/_posts/archive/2008-03-01-utterz-toronto-passing-us-customs.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 8a2d6be..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-03-01-utterz-toronto-passing-us-customs.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Utterz: Toronto passing US Customs"
-created: 1204405758
-categories: 
-- Raincity Studios
-- Drupalcon Boston 2008
-- Video and Podcast
----
-<div class="utterz-entry"><object width="320" height="35"><param name="movie" value="http://www.utterz.com/fp/slimline.swf?" /><param name="flashvars" value="utt_id=NTA0MDQ2NQ&amp;autoplay=0&amp;wu=NDk1OTIwNQ" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><embed src="http://www.utterz.com/fp/slimline.swf?" flashvars="utt_id=NTA0MDQ2NQ&amp;autoplay=0&amp;wu=NDk1OTIwNQ" width="320" height="35" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" /></object><br/><br/><a target="_new" href="http://www.utterz.com/~u-NTA0MDQ2NQ/utt.php">Mobile post</a> sent by <a target="_new" href="http://www.utterz.com/~h-bmann/list.php">bmann</a> using <a target="_new" href="http://www.utterz.com">Utterz</a>.&nbsp;<a target="_new" href="http://www.utterz.com/~u-NTA0MDQ2NQ/utt.php"><img border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; border: none; padding: 0px;" src="http://www.utterz.com/~u-NTA0MDQ2NQ/reply_count.php" /></a>&nbsp;<a target="_new" href="http://www.utterz.com/~u-NTA0MDQ2NQ/utt.php">Replies</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.utterz.com/utts/11/11a798c518c87f7ea1f1f4b855954883.mp3">mp3</a></div>
-
-<p>We got cut off because my cell connection dropped, but I think we covered most of what we wanted to say in any case.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-03-08-dont-follow-a-brief-wrap-up.md b/_posts/archive/2008-03-08-dont-follow-a-brief-wrap-up.md
deleted file mode 100644
index baa90f3..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-03-08-dont-follow-a-brief-wrap-up.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Don't follow, a brief wrap up
-created: 1205027023
-categories: 
-- Drupalcon Boston 2008
-- Personal
----
-<p>So, after all my <a href="/blog/bmann/boston-drupalcon-see-you-jaiku-twemes-and-my-session">talk of following me</a>, I managed to lose my power adapter on the first day of the conference. Doh! I got an AT&amp;T SIM, but without computer access couldn&#39;t configure any of the services for the new phone number. Doh!</p>  <p>Perhaps it was for the best: I had many great one on one conversations with people, and in general did lots and lots of talking and meeting people. Here are some one liners about great experiences, in no particular order: </p>  <ul><li>Dancing to Jay from Acquia&#39;s tunes at Felt</li><li>DevSeed peeps and the many bits of code, business processes, and ideas we have in common<br /></li><li>Long lunch with the Ubercarters</li><li>Rising excitement about RDF</li><li>Placeblogger scheming with Lisa</li><li>Taking newer parts of the RCS team and throwing them into the Drupal community</li><li>People enjoying the pins and t-shirts we brought</li><li>Hanging out in the Courtyard Marriot lobby hacking and talking and laughing</li><li>Rock Band!</li><li>Sitting down with Ori and hasing out schemes on distributed social, XMPP, and so much more, then being told -- &quot;You and I have too much in common and are thinking about too many of the same things. You simply must come to Paris!&quot; -- OK, that sounds like fun :P</li><li>Buying warmer clothes because of Djun&#39;s weather widget mishap with Boston, GA</li><li>Seeing Adrian connect with a bunch of folks around hostmaster</li><li>Having a really great working session with the Drupal Association that was long...but still too short</li><li>Talking hosting evolution with Lior, Mosso, and Black Mesh folks</li><li>Getting time to sit and talk with Kieran and Dries</li><li>Scheming around a Newspaper and Magazine Summit (social publishing!) with Ken Rickard and others<br /></li></ul><p>It&#39;s amazing to see the Drupal community grow (and continue to grow!) but at the same time keep some of its core properties of openness, collaboration, and friendliness. There are lots of fantastic people and it is always great to reconnect with them.</p><p>Now I&#39;m back in Vancouver with a week of email to catch up on and lots of post conference follow ups. </p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-03-11-utterz-morning-green-phlegm.md b/_posts/archive/2008-03-11-utterz-morning-green-phlegm.md
deleted file mode 100644
index b834df9..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-03-11-utterz-morning-green-phlegm.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Utterz: Morning Green Phlegm"
-created: 1205256397
-categories: 
-- Utterz
-- Personal
----
-<div class="utterz-entry"><object width="320" height="35"><param name="movie" value="http://www.utterz.com/fp/slimline.swf?" /><param name="flashvars" value="utt_id=NTA0NjkyMg&amp;autoplay=0&amp;wu=NDk1OTIwNQ" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><embed src="http://www.utterz.com/fp/slimline.swf?" flashvars="utt_id=NTA0NjkyMg&amp;autoplay=0&amp;wu=NDk1OTIwNQ" width="320" height="35" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" /></object><br/><br/><a target="_new" href="http://www.utterz.com/~u-NTA0NjkyMg/utt.php">Mobile post</a> sent by <a target="_new" href="http://www.utterz.com/~h-bmann/list.php">bmann</a> using <a target="_new" href="http://www.utterz.com">Utterz</a>.&nbsp;<a target="_new" href="http://www.utterz.com/~u-NTA0NjkyMg/utt.php"><img border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; border: none; padding: 0px;" src="http://www.utterz.com/~u-NTA0NjkyMg/reply_count.php" /></a>&nbsp;<a target="_new" href="http://www.utterz.com/~u-NTA0NjkyMg/utt.php">Replies</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.utterz.com/utts/f6/f65a341246be321e8b6fd135a936ee1a.mp3">mp3</a></div>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-03-12-highlights-elsewhere-attending-cci2008-bnn-appearance.md b/_posts/archive/2008-03-12-highlights-elsewhere-attending-cci2008-bnn-appearance.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e46e40d..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-03-12-highlights-elsewhere-attending-cci2008-bnn-appearance.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Highlights elsewhere: Attending CCI2008, BNN appearance"
-created: 1205347859
-categories: 
-- BNN
-- Bootup Labs
-- cci2008
-- Raincity Studios
-- Canada
-- Vancouver
----
-<p>A few highlights from posts elsewhere. Yes, I have to figure out a combined feed strategy.</p>
-
-<p>I'm attending the <a href="http://convergence.confabb.com/conferences/cci2008">CCI2008 conference</a> here in Vancouver, and did a first post about it <a href="http://www.raincitystudios.com/blogs-and-pods/boris-mann/content-convergence-integration-conference-2008-day-1-content">on the Raincity Studios blog</a>. I'm speaking on Friday, covering <a href="http://convergence.confabb.com/conferences/cci2008/sessions/6567/details">data silos, content sharing, and open source</a>.</p>
-
-<p>Looks like I'll be on <a href="http://www.bnn.ca">BNN</a> tonight, with my first TV appearance representing Bootup Labs. See <a href="http://blog.bootuplabs.com/2008/03/12/press-appearance-bnn-with-howard-green-645pm-est-technology-makes-it-harder-to-cover-your-tracks/">the BUL blog for the details</a>, 6:45PM EST on cable.</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-03-12-utterz-vietnamese-on-broadway-with-opa.md b/_posts/archive/2008-03-12-utterz-vietnamese-on-broadway-with-opa.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 9c69be0..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-03-12-utterz-vietnamese-on-broadway-with-opa.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Utterz: Vietnamese on broadway with Opa"
-created: 1205369177
-categories: 
-- Utterz
-- Opa
-- Horst Mann
-- Personal
----
-<div class="utterz-entry"><object width="320" height="35"><param name="movie" value="http://www.utterz.com/fp/slimline.swf?" /><param name="flashvars" value="utt_id=NTA0Nzk5NQ&amp;autoplay=0&amp;wu=NDk1OTIwNQ" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><embed src="http://www.utterz.com/fp/slimline.swf?" flashvars="utt_id=NTA0Nzk5NQ&amp;autoplay=0&amp;wu=NDk1OTIwNQ" width="320" height="35" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" /></object><br/><br/><a target="_new" href="http://www.utterz.com/~u-NTA0Nzk5NQ/utt.php">Mobile post</a> sent by <a target="_new" href="http://www.utterz.com/~h-bmann/list.php">bmann</a> using <a target="_new" href="http://www.utterz.com">Utterz</a>.&nbsp;<a target="_new" href="http://www.utterz.com/~u-NTA0Nzk5NQ/utt.php"><img border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; border: none; padding: 0px;" src="http://www.utterz.com/~u-NTA0Nzk5NQ/reply_count.php" /></a>&nbsp;<a target="_new" href="http://www.utterz.com/~u-NTA0Nzk5NQ/utt.php">Replies</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.utterz.com/utts/45/4567189030d1f4706aa5cb46abc2ebe8.mp3">mp3</a></div>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-03-13-open-source-stands-together.md b/_posts/archive/2008-03-13-open-source-stands-together.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 712ec09..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-03-13-open-source-stands-together.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Open Source stands together
-created: 1205400257
-categories: 
-- Bryght
-- Hostmaster
-- install profiles
-- Joomla
-- Matt Mullenweg
-- Movable Type
-- Wordpress
-- Drupal
-- Open Source
----
-<p>Matt Mullenweg had to make a pretty clear statement that <a href="http://ma.tt/2008/03/wordpress-is-open-source/">WordPress is Open Source</a> in response to some sniping from MT.</p>
-
-<p>I already left a comment in support of Matt, and he <a href="http://ma.tt/2008/03/wordpress-is-open-source/#comment-439617">tossed it back my way</a>:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-Thanks Boris, I think the way Drupal and WordPress have co-existed is a great model to follow despite a few distractions along the way, and your role in facilitating that as an ambassador has been crucial. It’s rare for code for one project to be directly applicable to another, but ideas and values are contagious — in the good Isley Brothers way.
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>I know how this can be. We flirted with dual licensing around Bryght's mass hosting system, Hostmaster. In hindsight, it probably delayed development by 2 years. Now hosted on Drupal.org, <a href="http://drupal.org/project/hostmaster">Hostmaster</a> has a couple of more developers buying in and it feels like we're developing some momentum.</p>
-
-<p>We made a Bryght "install profile" -- a bundle of code and configuration and a little custom module for doing some cool stuff with CSS overrides. From day one, it's been hosted on our <a href="https://svn.bryght.com/dev">public SVN repository</a>, and includes the original CVS tags from Drupal.org itself.</p>
-
-<p>It was amusing to watch that MT4 actually had as a feature that other systems had adopted their templating system -- namely a single contributed module in Drupal that can support MT themes for bloggy sites.</p>
-
-<p>Basically, sniping other open projects isn't cool. In the first meetings that the Drupal community ever had as a group, in Antwerp and Amsterdam, we had Joomla community members and senior devs. It was so fun playing with the Joomla guys and matching t-shirts and groups shots with Rasmus at OSCMS 2007. Amy Stephens +1 -- check out <a href="http://opensourcecommunity.org/">Open Source Community</a>.</p>
-
-<p>The "enemy" here is proprietary systems (and those really are quotes around enemy, as I recall having a great discussion with <a href="http://www.thelevel.com">a proprietary Java based system developer</a> this morning at CCI2008). They are not good for business, they are not good for communities, and they are not good for the growth of this interlinked web of data that is becoming truly useful.</p>
-
-<p>I ran a couple of not really that successful because they were TOO Drupal heavy "Open Source CMS Summits". I'd love to do more of them, because we have so much to learn from each other, but we are all so focused on growing our own communities, each bit of *friendly* rivalry pushing the others to get better. Like the Isley Brothers :P</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-03-13-utterz-on-the-way-to-the-northern-voice-2008-organizers-debrief-lunch.md b/_posts/archive/2008-03-13-utterz-on-the-way-to-the-northern-voice-2008-organizers-debrief-lunch.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a86d9d8..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-03-13-utterz-on-the-way-to-the-northern-voice-2008-organizers-debrief-lunch.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Utterz: On the way to the Northern Voice 2008 organizer's debrief lunch"
-created: 1205435817
-categories: 
-- northern voice
-- Northern Voice 2008
-- nv08
-- Utterz
-- Vancouver
----
-<div class="utterz-entry"><object width="320" height="35"><param name="movie" value="http://www.utterz.com/fp/slimline.swf?" /><param name="flashvars" value="utt_id=NTA0ODM4MA&amp;autoplay=0&amp;wu=NDk1OTIwNQ" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><embed src="http://www.utterz.com/fp/slimline.swf?" flashvars="utt_id=NTA0ODM4MA&amp;autoplay=0&amp;wu=NDk1OTIwNQ" width="320" height="35" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" /></object><br/><br/><a target="_new" href="http://www.utterz.com/~u-NTA0ODM4MA/utt.php">Mobile post</a> sent by <a target="_new" href="http://www.utterz.com/~h-bmann/list.php">bmann</a> using <a target="_new" href="http://www.utterz.com">Utterz</a>.&nbsp;<a target="_new" href="http://www.utterz.com/~u-NTA0ODM4MA/utt.php"><img border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; border: none; padding: 0px;" src="http://www.utterz.com/~u-NTA0ODM4MA/reply_count.php" /></a>&nbsp;<a target="_new" href="http://www.utterz.com/~u-NTA0ODM4MA/utt.php">Replies</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.utterz.com/utts/1b/1b2b0ad22569797a71837a5dee14a3cb.mp3">mp3</a></div>
-
-<p>I'm heading over to the <a href="http://2008.northernvoice.ca">Northern Voice 2008 organizer's debrief</a>.</p>
-
-<p>My take on our current attendee split: edu-bloggers, industry veterans coming to connect with their members and/or promote a new social media service, and a large contingent of personal bloggers, as was our original mission. Does this seem accurate to you?</p>
-
-<p>I mention <a href="http://2008.northernvoice.ca/session/f-stats-make-art">Dave Olson's F*** Stats, Make Art presentation</a>.</p>
-
-<p>Next year is going to be tough (well, it feels that way for *me* who has been overly busy and didn't contribute as much to the pre-organization), but we're now a registered society in BC. What will this let us accomplish? Not sure, but certainly could be interesting. I have some ideas for the 2010 "Olympics" edition of Northern Voice....</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-03-14-cci2008-wrap-going-offline.md b/_posts/archive/2008-03-14-cci2008-wrap-going-offline.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 7bc0a16..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-03-14-cci2008-wrap-going-offline.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: CCI2008 wrap, going offline
-created: 1205536514
-categories: 
-- cci2008
-- conference
-- presentation
-- Raincity Studios
-- Vancouver
----
-<p>I just wrapped up <a href="http://convergence.confabb.com/conferences/cci2008/sessions/6567/details">my presentation at the CCI2008</a>. Here's the slideshare for it:</p>
-
-<div style="width:425px;text-align:left" id="__ss_306921"><object style="margin:0px" width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=getting-out-of-silo-using-open-source-software-to-share-your-data-1205533835759510-5"/><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><embed src="http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=getting-out-of-silo-using-open-source-software-to-share-your-data-1205533835759510-5" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><div style="font-size:11px;font-family:tahoma,arial;height:26px;padding-top:2px;"><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/?src=embed"><img src="http://static.slideshare.net/swf/logo_embd.png" style="border:0px none;margin-bottom:-5px" alt="SlideShare"/></a> | <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/bmann/getting-out-of-silo-using-open-source-software-to-share-your-data?src=embed" title="View 'Getting out of Silo, Using Open Source Software to Share your Data' on SlideShare">View</a> | <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/upload?src=embed">Upload your own</a></div></div>
-
-<p>A much longer post is up at <a href="http://www.raincitystudios.com/blogs-and-pods/boris-mann/thanks-having-us-cci2008">Raincity Studios</a>.</p>
-
-<p>See you all on the other side of the weekend, I'm going completely <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=17098435002668892772,48.110880,-122.758700&saddr=1298+W.+10th+Avenue,+Vancouver,+BC&daddr=Port+Townsend-Keystone+Fry+%4048.110880,+-122.758700+to:47.622827,-122.507172+to:515+Madison+Street,+Seattle,+WA&mra=dpe&mrcr=0&mrsp=2&sz=10&via=1,2&sll=47.736553,-122.582703&sspn=0.443325,1.062927&ie=UTF8&ll=48.128518,-122.553864&spn=0.439978,1.062927&z=10">offline</a>...</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-03-14-npr-interview-with-bill-gates-on-the-microsoft-vancouver-dev-center.md b/_posts/archive/2008-03-14-npr-interview-with-bill-gates-on-the-microsoft-vancouver-dev-center.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 75f785f..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-03-14-npr-interview-with-bill-gates-on-the-microsoft-vancouver-dev-center.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: NPR interview with Bill Gates on the Microsoft Vancouver dev center
-created: 1205479094
-categories: 
-- Bill Gates
-- Microsoft
-- NPR
-- startup
-- Vancouver
-- Microsoft
----
-<p>I originally blogged about the local dev center <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/blog/bmann/microsoft-canada-opening-software-dev-center-vancouver-commentary">last July when I heard that Microsoft was opening it here in Vancouver</a>.</p>
-
-<p>A lot of this Vancouver / Canada startup / tech hub topics I'm now blogging about on the <a href="http://blog.bootuplabs.com" title="A Vancouver based incubator - we help you quit your day job">Bootup Labs blog</a>, which you should follow if you're interested in those topics: <a href="http://blog.bootuplabs.com/2008/03/13/bill-gates-talks-on-npr-about-the-vancouver-development-center/">Bill Gates talks on NPR about the Vancouver development center</a></p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-03-24-easter-on-bowen.md b/_posts/archive/2008-03-24-easter-on-bowen.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 277095c..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-03-24-easter-on-bowen.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Easter on Bowen
-created: 1206400152
-categories: 
-- easter
-- Bowen Island
-- Personal
----
-<style type="text/css">
-.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }
-.flickr-yourcomment { }
-.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }
-.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }
-</style>
-
-<div class="flickr-frame">
-	<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sevenhills/2356697072/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3158/2356697072_6b4e028a7e.jpg" class="flickr-photo" alt="" /></a>
-<br />
-	<span class="flickr-caption"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sevenhills/2356697072/">Easter 2008</a>, originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/sevenhills/">Anne_M</a>.</span>
-</div>
-				
-<p class="flickr-yourcomment">
-	I had a great time on Bowen over the weekend. Lori and Todd came over from Victoria and picked me up on Friday and we went over together. A nice hike over to Cape Roger Curtis (<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/sets/72157604207754761/">set</a>) and cooking and relaxing were the orders of the day.<br />
-<br />
-On Sunday, Lori and Todd headed back so that their cat Fritz wouldn't get lonely, and I welcomed the next crew from the mainland: Suzie, Travis, and Rachael.<br />
-<br />
-We set to work blowing out eggs (yep, it's as gross as it sounds) and then decorating them with various supplies I had picked up and others had brought. My mom took this picture of some of the results. Every year at Easter she makes "Easter egg trees" out of branches from the garden and various saved decorated eggs. Some of the eggs go back as much as 25 years -- it's one of the "traditions" that I really do value.<br />
-<br />
-I guess I specifically remember Wolfgang, using these "brush tipped" pens, to make really intricate designs on the eggs.<br />
-<br />
-And that's a weekend, with today (Monday) being some getting work done, albeit a day "off", so working from home and just relaxing...
-</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-03-24-upcoming-events-in-vancouver-april-2008-edition.md b/_posts/archive/2008-03-24-upcoming-events-in-vancouver-april-2008-edition.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a5de5ab..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-03-24-upcoming-events-in-vancouver-april-2008-edition.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Upcoming events in Vancouver, April 2008 edition
-created: 1206390726
-categories: 
-- Bootup Labs
-- DemoCamp
-- DemoCampVancouver
-- DemoCampVancouver06
-- DemoCampVictoria
-- Open Web Vancouver
-- Canada
-- Vancouver
----
-<p>Have I mentioned that most of these startup / tech events I'm posting full details on at the <a href="http://blog.bootuplabs.com">Bootup Labs blog</a>? For now, you'll have to suffer the cross posting:</p>
-<ul>
-<li><a href="http://barcamp.pbwiki.com/DemoCampVictoria01">April 3rd: DemoCampVictoria01</a>, with Mark Lise posting a <a href="http://www.digitalspace.ca/2008/03/20/buzz-buzz-around-democampvictoria">buzz summary on his blog</a> -- anyone else heading over to Victoria for this?</li>
-<li><a href="">April 10th: DemoCampVancouver06</a>, a full posting including <a href="http://blog.bootuplabs.com/2008/03/24/democampvancouver06-gaming-edition-on-april-10th-2008/">speaker details over on BUL</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://www.openwebvancouver.ca/">April 14th - 15th: Open Web Vancouver</a>, a great new event put on mainly by the Vancouver PHP crew that is expanding to cover the entire "open" web.</li>
-</ul>
-<p>A bit of an embarrassment of riches, really. We've got lots of great tech related events happening here in Vancouver, and more to come.</p>
-<p><strong>Update:</strong> oh, yeah, and of course <a href="http://bridging-media.com/">Bridging Media</a> is this coming weekend, March 29th, but I think they may already be full (I'm speaking).</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-03-26-chris-pirillo-of-lockergnome-announces-drupal-powered-community-participation-platform-hackfest-in-seattle.md b/_posts/archive/2008-03-26-chris-pirillo-of-lockergnome-announces-drupal-powered-community-participation-platform-hackfest-in-seattle.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c3fb879..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-03-26-chris-pirillo-of-lockergnome-announces-drupal-powered-community-participation-platform-hackfest-in-seattle.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Chris Pirillo of Lockergnome announces Drupal-powered Community Participation Platform, hackfest in Seattle
-created: 1206547048
-categories: 
-- chris pirillo
-- drupal
-- Friend Feed
-- install profile
-- Lockergnome
-- open source
-- seattle
-- social publishing
-- Drupal
----
-<p>Chris Pirillo is picking up the torch first raised by <a href="http://marc.blogs.it/">Marc Canter</a> over 4 years ago: <a href="http://chris.pirillo.com/2008/03/26/were-taking-an-open-direction-with-web-communities-are-you-in">open community platforms available for everyone</a>, powered by Drupal.</p>
-<p>Chris is a long time friend and colleague, and it's great to see him stepping up and saying that he wants to make an out-of-the-box install profile for social communities -- blogging, SEO, multimedia, content licensing. And the thing is, the pieces ARE there. It just needs some effort to put it all together and integrated, and that first run experience integrated into an install profile.</p>
-<p>Here's a short quote with some thoughts from Chris on what he wants -- a Community Participation Platform. I think this meshes with <a href="http://acquia.com">Acquia's meme on social publishing</a>:</p>
-<blockquote>
-<p>I don&rsquo;t want a social network, I want a socially *RELEVANT* network (both on-site and beyond). I don&rsquo;t want a community platform, I want a participation platform where members are rewarded and ranked appropriately. I don&rsquo;t want a place where people can just blog, because I&rsquo;m going well beyond the blog. It&rsquo;s not just about hosting videos, audio files, or any piece of random media - it&rsquo;s the discovery mechanisms between them that make them more relevant.</p>
-<p>It&rsquo;s discovery - no matter the community, no matter the type of content. Imagine coming to a site and not just reading about what other people are interested in, but what interests they SHARE with you! Imagine coming to a site and seeing how someone ranks in answers pertaining to your own questions! Oh, I&rsquo;m confident you may have seen these features elsewhere - but what about for your own site, what about for your own community, what about for your own ideas?</p>
-</blockquote>
-<p>And Chris isn't just shooting his mouth off: he's already been working on this for some time, with Adam Kalsey just recently releasing <a href="http://drupal.org/project/activitystream">Activity Stream</a> (a Friend Feed clone), is going to be at the <a href="http://groups.drupal.org/node/7689">Drupal co-working in Seattle</a>, and is hosting a Drupal hackfest all this weekend (March 29 - 30th). I won't be able to attend the whole thing, but I hope to drop in on Sunday (want to drive down to Seattle with me? leave a comment...).</p>
-<p>My interest? Well, easy to use install profiles &ndash; whether <a href="http://ubercart.org&quot;">brands of their own</a> or &quot;merely&quot; great <a href="http://drupal.org/project/Installation+profiles">bundles of expertise</a> put together to serve specific needs has been a long time interest and push of mine: it's the way we can make Drupal accessible and optimized for every web vertical and user community.</p>
-<p>In a more commercial vein, I hope that <a href="Http://www.raincitystudios.com">Raincity Studios</a> can be one of the first hosting providers to offer Chris' Community Participation Platform at the click of a button.</p>
-<p>I'm looking forward to the next exciting piece in this adventure, Chris. You've made an awesome statement of purpose, and like <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/blog/bmann/open-source-stands-together">all open source</a>, I'm behind you 100% of the way.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>Chris Pirillo is picking up the torch first raised by <a href="http://marc.blogs.it/">Marc Canter</a> over 4 years ago: <a href="http://chris.pirillo.com/2008/03/26/were-taking-an-open-direction-with-web-communities-are-you-in">open community platforms available for everyone</a>, powered by Drupal.</p>
-<p>Chris is a long time friend and colleague, and it's great to see him stepping up and saying that he wants to make an out-of-the-box install profile for social communities -- blogging, SEO, multimedia, content licensing. And the thing is, the pieces ARE there. It just needs some effort to put it all together and integrated, and that first run experience integrated into an install profile.</p>
-<p>Here's a short quote with some thoughts from Chris on what he wants -- a Community Participation Platform. I think this meshes with <a href="http://acquia.com">Acquia's meme on social publishing</a>:</p>
-<blockquote>
-<p>I don&rsquo;t want a social network, I want a socially *RELEVANT* network (both on-site and beyond). I don&rsquo;t want a community platform, I want a participation platform where members are rewarded and ranked appropriately. I don&rsquo;t want a place where people can just blog, because I&rsquo;m going well beyond the blog. It&rsquo;s not just about hosting videos, audio files, or any piece of random media - it&rsquo;s the discovery mechanisms between them that make them more relevant.</p>
-<p>It&rsquo;s discovery - no matter the community, no matter the type of content. Imagine coming to a site and not just reading about what other people are interested in, but what interests they SHARE with you! Imagine coming to a site and seeing how someone ranks in answers pertaining to your own questions! Oh, I&rsquo;m confident you may have seen these features elsewhere - but what about for your own site, what about for your own community, what about for your own ideas?</p>
-</blockquote>
-<p>And Chris isn't just shooting his mouth off: he's already been working on this for some time, with Adam Kalsey just recently releasing <a href="http://drupal.org/project/activitystream">Activity Stream</a> (a Friend Feed clone), is going to be at the <a href="http://groups.drupal.org/node/7689">Drupal co-working in Seattle</a>, and is hosting a Drupal hackfest all this weekend (March 29 - 30th). I won't be able to attend the whole thing, but I hope to drop in on Sunday (want to drive down to Seattle with me? leave a comment...).</p>
-<p>My interest? Well, easy to use install profiles &ndash; whether <a>brands of their own</a> or &quot;merely&quot; great <a href="http://drupal.org/project/Installation+profiles">bundles of expertise</a> put together to serve specific needs has been a long time interest and push of mine: it's the way we can make Drupal accessible and optimized for every web vertical and user community.</p>
-<p>In a more commercial vein, I hope that <a href="Http://www.raincitystudios.com">Raincity Studios</a> can be one of the first hosting providers to offer Chris' Community Participation Platform at the click of a button.</p>
-<p>I'm looking forward to the next exciting piece in this adventure, Chris. You've made an awesome statement of purpose, and like <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/blog/bmann/open-source-stands-together">all open source</a>, I'm behind you 100% of the way.</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-04-02-this-whole-community-platform-thing-might-have-some-legs.md b/_posts/archive/2008-04-02-this-whole-community-platform-thing-might-have-some-legs.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 3a7e37f..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-04-02-this-whole-community-platform-thing-might-have-some-legs.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: This whole community platform thing might have some legs
-created: 1207172218
-categories: 
-- chris pirillo
-- community platform
-- David Crow
-- Facebook
-- Gnomepal
-- Drupal
-- Open Source
-- Social Media
----
-<p>David Crow in Toronto picks up the <a href="http://davidcrow.ca/article/6699/community-platforms">community platform meme</a> and lists some other tools / platforms available in response to <a href="http://chris.pirillo.com/2008/03/26/were-taking-an-open-direction-with-web-communities-are-you-in/">Chris Pirillo&#39;s announcement</a> regarding the building of <a href="http://www.gnomepal.org/">Gnomepal on Drupal</a>.</p>  <p>I already <a href="/blog/bmann/chris-pirillo-lockergnome-announces-drupal-powered-community-participation-platform-hackfest-seattle">commented on Chris&#39; initiative here</a>, but here are some comments I made on David Crow&#39;s post:</p>  <blockquote> Now, which of those listed platforms have portable data? Which of them are a suitable platform for building the (invariably) custom pieces that each community may want as they grow?<br /><br />The tough part with many systems -- especially closed, hosted ones -- is that they provide great initial starting points, but then often lack in customization or growth options. And god forbid that your platform provider &quot;go away&quot; -- then you&#39;re completely stuck, and need to start over.<br /><br />This is why I have chosen to go with fully open systems, because they can grow with communities and can never be locked down or disappear.<br /><br />@Varun:<br />Facebook is ultimately closed and not a participant in the &quot;open web&quot;. And it&#39;s someone else&#39;s platform with someone else&#39;s rules. I would hope that we steer around such closed instances and strive to connect openly.<br /><br />@Peter Childs:<br />&quot;What I’d like to see is a platform that recognizes communities are networks of interests (people &amp; organizations) and doesn’t try to become a destination&quot;<br /><br />I think this is spot on -- don&#39;t try and a become a destination IN AND OF ITSELF -- but rather add value through various aggregation and hub features. This also seems to argue for mini-networks that cross sites. </blockquote>  <p>Open platforms are as important as open data or any other cross site initiatives. I don&#39;t care what you end up picking as your community platform, as long as your data and your users can seamlessly interwork with the other systems out there. The network is not the destination.</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-04-03-utterz-interview-with-sales-manager-of-juliet-development-venue-for-democampvictoria01.md b/_posts/archive/2008-04-03-utterz-interview-with-sales-manager-of-juliet-development-venue-for-democampvictoria01.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a4d0c8b..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-04-03-utterz-interview-with-sales-manager-of-juliet-development-venue-for-democampvictoria01.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Utterz: Interview with Sales Manager of Juliet Development, venue for DemoCampVictoria01"
-created: 1207269686
-categories: 
-- DemoCamp
-- DemoCampVictoria
-- DemoCampVictoria01
-- Utterz
-- Victoria
-- Canada
----
-<div class="utterz-entry"><object width="320" height="35"><param name="movie" value="http://www.utterz.com/fp/slimline.swf?" /><param name="flashvars" value="utt_id=NTA2MDM0Mw&amp;autoplay=0&amp;wu=NDk1OTIwNQ" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><embed src="http://www.utterz.com/fp/slimline.swf?" flashvars="utt_id=NTA2MDM0Mw&amp;autoplay=0&amp;wu=NDk1OTIwNQ" width="320" height="35" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" /></object><br/><br/><a target="_new" href="http://www.utterz.com/~u-NTA2MDM0Mw/utt.php">Mobile post</a> sent by <a target="_new" href="http://www.utterz.com/~h-bmann/list.php">bmann</a> using <a target="_new" href="http://www.utterz.com">Utterz</a>.&#160;<a target="_new" href="http://www.utterz.com/~u-NTA2MDM0Mw/utt.php"><img border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; border: none; padding: 0px;" src="http://www.utterz.com/~u-NTA2MDM0Mw/reply_count.php" /></a>&#160;<a target="_new" href="http://www.utterz.com/~u-NTA2MDM0Mw/utt.php">Replies</a>.&#160;&#160;<a href="http://www.utterz.com/utts/4c/4cf85b4a20353eebb7cdb0abb8c4f814.mp3">mp3</a></div>
-
-<p>Longer post on <a href="http://barcamp.org/DemoCampVictoria01">DemoCampVictoria01</a> forthcoming over on <a href="http://blog.bootuplabs.com">Bootup Labs</a>, but this was a short little interview I did about the <a href="http://www.julietliving.com/">Juliet condo development</a>, where the event was held.</p>
-
-<p>So far, they get the "fanciest DemoCamp ever" award for the nice selection of wine and cheese to kick things off....</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-04-06-social-graph-applications-why-not-for-every-community-website.md b/_posts/archive/2008-04-06-social-graph-applications-why-not-for-every-community-website.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 8ebf46a..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-04-06-social-graph-applications-why-not-for-every-community-website.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Social Graph applications: why not for every community website?"
-created: 1207551023
-categories: 
-- drupal
-- flock
-- FOAF
-- Gnomepal
-- marc canter
-- OAuth
-- People Aggregator
-- RDF
-- Semantic Web
-- social graph
-- Victoria
-- Drupal
-- Social Media
----
-<p>One of the outcomes from my trip to Victoria last week is some thinking about the social graph.</p>  <p>More specifically, you may recall that I&#39;ve been <a href="/blog/bmann/flock-1-1-beta-tire-kicking">using Flock</a>. As it turns out, I recently upgraded my laptop to Leopard, and made Flock my main browser. This has given me increased exposure to their &quot;people bar&quot; -- a side bar that supports a variety of big community websites, like Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, and so on.</p>  <p>As I&#39;ve been using this feature, and seeing the way that Flock &quot;detects&quot; features of different websites, I started thinking about how every community website could enable this functionality. Right now, the Flock team has to pre-integrate with the specific website&#39;s API to enable this functionality. But, just as they &quot;detect&quot; the presence of site-specific search engines, there is no reason that one couldn&#39;t expose a link header that indicates the presence of a social graph.</p>  <p>I know what you&#39;re thinking: &quot;But Boris, how many people use Flock? Isn&#39;t this just browser specific functionality?&quot; Well, no. First of all, Google has a <a href="http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2008/02/urls-are-people-too.html">Social Graph API</a> that is already being crawled -- looking at FOAF and XFN.</p>  <p>Secondly, I got to thinking about all these site-specific applications -- like <a href="http://www.scripting.com/stories/2008/04/04/whyDidSeesmicBuyTwhirl.html">Twhirl that was bought by Seesmic</a>. So, if we had some basic standards about this stuff, it would be simplistic to have one app that let us monitor / notify / update any of these systems. Yes, there will ALWAYS be websites that have more complex APIs with more features -- that are only accessible by implmenting *their* API to talk to them.</p>  <p>But for thousands of other community websites, built in Drupal, WordPress, Joomla, or what have you -- you suddenly have the same rich access to applications as the big guys. How many websites would encourage their users to install Flock or Twhirl if it supported *their* website?</p>  <p>Oh, and I&#39;m completely skipping the linked data / RDF / Semantic Web factor of having community websites expose some part of their social graph, or at least make it available for querying by people that have the right credentials.</p>  <p>OK, so how does this look to the end user? I&#39;ll use Flock as an example, since I&#39;ve got agreement in principle from them that they&#39;ll work with me on this, including help in defining some of the formats.</p>  <ol> <li>User surfs to community website where they already have an account (for simplicity&#39;s sake, we&#39;ll pretend a session is still open)</li> <li>Flock detects a website that has a social graph available because of a header link that looks something like this:<br /> &lt;link rel=&quot;socialgraph&quot; href=&quot;/user/4426/socialgraph.rdf&quot; type=&quot;application/rdf+xml&quot; /&gt; <br /> (Note the user ID in there, because the user already has a current session open)</li><li>Flock does it&#39;s fun in browser slide down that says something like &quot;This website supports a people bar. Would you like to add it?&quot;</li><li>If the user clicks on &quot;yes&quot;, then Flock initiates an OAuth request to be allowed to a) fetch the current user&#39;s social graph file and b) take actions on behalf of the user such as setting their status or sending a message/poking/whatever another user on the site</li><li>The user acknowledges the OAuth request and clicks some allow buttons</li><li>Voila! A fantastic site specific &quot;people bar&quot; right in your Flock browser</li> </ol>So, that was a VERY Flock specific flow, but as I mentioned with Twhirl up above, absolutely no reason that you couldn&#39;t do the same thing with those type of people notifier on your desktop apps / widgets / etc. -- just start by typing in the URL of the website, the app would go and discover the social graph link and/or initiate an OAuth request to authenticate, and all of a sudden you&#39;re directly monitoring the different community websites you&#39;re a part of directly. Bonus points to websites that expose the social graph as an XMPP Pub Sub endpoint so these apps don&#39;t need to poll constantly.<br />   <p>Now, I know the first thing we&#39;re going to have to do is fight a religious war over the format of the socialgraph file. I&#39;m going to suggest some minimal FOAF format, since I&#39;m a born again RDF fan.I don&#39;t want to go spraying email addresses all over the place, so perhaps either local unique user GUIDs or OpenID could be used as identifiers for each person. We actually don&#39;t need full &quot;person&quot; information -- a username, avatar, status message, and date stamp for last activity sorting should be the minimal set. Even status message could be option for smaller, less complex sites so almost anyone could support this out of the box: just show everyone on the site (yes, that&#39;s right...ignore any sort of &quot;friend&quot; connection) sorted by last active -- which could be a post / comment, or (again, simple support by many sites...) just date stamp of last login. </p><p>I&#39;d like to think that the choice of OAuth as credentials for acessing this info isn&#39;t controversial at all. Feel free to layer OpenID in here somehow, but for the action-at-a-distance on which cool functionality can be built, this kind of a token system looks to be ideal.</p><p>What next? Well, surprise, surprise, I&#39;m going to take a crack at getting this implemented in Drupal. <a href="http://www.raincitystudios.com">Raincity Studios</a> is already working on the <a href="http://drupal.org/project/oauth">OAuth module</a>, which would be one of the main pre-requisites. Once the format of the social graph file is defined (calling Joshua, Arto, and maybe RalphM...), building the next piece shouldn&#39;t be too hard.</p><p>Ideally, something like the <a href="http://www.gnomepal.org">Gnomepal</a> Drupal distribution would ship with this out of the box (for the really ambitious, Drupal 7 core!). And other systems like Marc Canter&#39;s <a href="http://www.peopleaggregator.net/">People Aggregator</a> could easily expose this social graph info as well.</p><p>I&#39;m excited at the continuing growth of every website as a dynamic web application, and also of the exposure of data and APIs by this web of sites. This feels like the right path we&#39;re travelling on to get everything a little bit more interconnected.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<div style="display:none;">1812617213</div>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-04-15-strutta-has-launched.md b/_posts/archive/2008-04-15-strutta-has-launched.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 34003cf..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-04-15-strutta-has-launched.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Strutta has launched
-created: 1208287774
-categories: 
-- Kevin Marks
-- Michael Arrington
-- startup
-- Strutta
-- TechCrunch
-- Vancouver
-- Drupal
----
-<p>Last night I ended up staying at the <a href="http://www.strutta.com" title="Strutta is online video competition">Strutta</a> offices until the wee hours of the morning, cheering the team on as they worked towards their launch today.</p>
-
-<p>I worked with Jordan Behan to do a fun <a href="http://www.strutta.com/video/behan-spoofs-arrington">spoof of Michael Arrington</a> (and yes, <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/15/strutta-im-the-best-around-nothings-ever-gonna-bring-me-down/">Strutta got a TechCrunch posting</a>) -- I did the Fox news guy voice over. The posting from Jordan is, of course, meant to kick off a <a href="http://www.strutta.com/play/best-michael-arrington-impression">competition for the best Michael Arrington impression</a>. Personally, I think someone should get out the sock puppets... :P</p>
-
-<object width="517" height="395"><param name="movie" value="http://www.strutta.com/flash/embed/VideoPlayer/VideoPlayer.swf"></param><param name="flashVars" value="id=2346"></param><embed src="http://www.strutta.com/flash/embed/VideoPlayer/VideoPlayer.swf?id=2346" width="517" height="395" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object>
-
-<p>We actually ended up dragging <a href="http://epeus.blogspot.com/">Kevin Marks</a> back to the Strutta HQ, in town for <a href="http://www.openwebvancouver.ca/">Open Web Vancouver</a>. It was great catching up with him in his new role as Developer Advocate at Google -- oh, and a kick ass paper airplane folder, so I expect him and his sons to <a href="http://www.strutta.com/play/paper-airplane">compete in the Strutta best paper airplane round</a>. Kevin, you wanted me to complain about Google's messed up identity system -- I did this <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/blog/bmann/googles-identity-infrastructure-is-messed-up-and-no-one-is-talking">last January</a> and some pieces are better, but the big thing is that I can't use any of my Google Apps for Domains accounts to sign into Google Groups. Since I don't want to use my personal Gmail account to be on random mailing list, this seriously hampers me pretty much every single day. Please fix :P</p>
-
-<p>Congrats to the Strutta team, I know you've got some Beta Bug-lets, but looks like people are having a lot of fun. We've been amusing ourselves flipping the little Flash widgets back and forth -- there are lots of nice touches like this all over the site.</p>
-
-<p>P.S. Yes, it's Drupal. And, oh, look it's multi-lingual: I predict many more interesting multi-lingual sites as people focus beyond North America.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>P.P.S. Yes, I am an advisor to Strutta, and Danny Robinson is my partner in <a href="http://blog.bootuplabs.com">Bootup Labs</a>.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-04-16-sun-labs-open-house-2008-first-post-acquisition-mysql-release.md b/_posts/archive/2008-04-16-sun-labs-open-house-2008-first-post-acquisition-mysql-release.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f964f02..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-04-16-sun-labs-open-house-2008-first-post-acquisition-mysql-release.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Sun Labs Open House 2008, first post acquisition MySQL release
-created: 1208361718
-categories: 
-- mysql
-- ComputerWorld Canada
-- Sun
-- Sun Microsystems
-- Sun Labs Open House
-- cloud computing
-- Sun Startup Essentials
-- Canada
-- Open Source
----
-<p>I just got contacted by <a href="http://www.itworldcanada.com">ComputerWorld Canada</a>, asking for my reaction to the new MySQL release:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-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 version as helping further drive adoption of the open source database, and help promote open source technology in general?
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Well, this is good timing. <a href="http://trevoro.ca">TrevorO</a> and I went down to the Sun Labs Open House (here's <a href="http://trevoro.ca/blog/2008/04/13/sun-labs-open-house-2008/" title="Trevor O and I attended Sun Labs Open House 2008 for Project Raincloud">Trevor's take on a few things we saw at Sun</a>). We were down looking at a lot of the "cloud" and related technologies that are coming up hot these days.</p>
-
-<p>But back to the MySQL release. I think Sun's acquisition and backing of MySQL is great. I like the fact that all across their product line, Sun is committing to open source. They have everything from services to hardware to back it up, which just makes it easier for large enterprises to adopt open source. Maybe I'm biased, because Sun has been supporting the Drupal community for some time now, and have shown a great willingness to learn from open source communities and get better. Open source databases in general (and perhaps MySQL in particular) still do struggle with marketing perception against Oracle and MS SQL, so anything that can help raise the profile is a good thing.</p>
-
-<p>But all is not great with MySQL 5.1. I don't follow the development that closely, but found an <a href="http://www.bitbybit.dk/carsten/blog/?p=169">interesting post pointing out that when 5.1 is released, it's only 6 months until 5.0 gets end of lifed (EOL)</a>.
-
-<p>Let me close by pointing out the three things that I have been consistently saying to any Sun people that I come across:</p>
-
-<ol>
-<li>Improve your social media marketing strategy: my feedback to the Sun Startup Essentials system has been that they should a) start a blog and b) publish weekly architectures of cool Sun software and hardware combinations. Yes, there is http://blogs.sun.com, and lots of high profile individuals from Sun like <a href="http://tbray.org/ongoing">Tim Bray</a> that are doing a great job, but it seems like next to none of this has trickled into the actual marketing departments. Give me an RSS subscribe widget and kill the email harvesting, people!</li>
-<li>Fix MySQL clustering: it's hard, it's cranky, it needs improvement so that regular people can snap this together.</li>
-<li>Open an engineering office in Vancouver: does this need a comment? Sure, it may be entirely self serving, but Microsoft is in town now, and I think you'll find a great base here on the left coast to find great people. Our concentration of open source experience in town will help, as well.</li>
-</ol>
-
-<p>Sun is by no means perfect (they are a big co with all that implies), but I'm still really interested in some of the technology they have coming out of the labs, as well as their move to increased openness.</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-04-19-snow-in-vancouver.md b/_posts/archive/2008-04-19-snow-in-vancouver.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 4fc092d..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-04-19-snow-in-vancouver.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Snow in Vancouver
-created: 1208630445
-categories: 
-- snow
-- video
-- Vancouver
-- Personal
----
-<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="300" data="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=1.173" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"> <param name="flashvars" value="intl_lang=en-us&amp;photo_secret=c6ac7f94b2&amp;photo_id=2424929526&amp;show_info_box=true"></param> <param name="movie" value="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=1.173"></param> <param name="bgcolor" value="#000000"></param> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=1.173" bgcolor="#000000" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="intl_lang=en-us&amp;photo_secret=c6ac7f94b2&amp;photo_id=2424929526&amp;flickr_show_info_box=true" height="300" width="400"></embed></object>
-
-<p>Just as spring is hitting the east coast, Mother Nature decides to play a trick on us here in Vancouver. I heard that this has been the coldest spring since sometime in the 1950s. This morning the snow is on hedges and building roofs, but has essentially all melted from the ground. But still...</p>
-
-<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/2421768283/" title="Pitt Lake by bmann, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2211/2421768283_1b4d8aa016_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Pitt Lake" align="left" vspace="5" hspace="5" /></a>
-
-<p>To put this in perspective for how wacky the weather has been, last weekend was spent wearing short sleeved shirts, getting a sunburn on my nose, and finding a place to stop for popsicles. Check out my <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/sets/72157604601085327/" title="Pitt Lake April 2008">Pitt Lake set</a> on Flickr to see more.</p>
-
-<p>And now some quotes to think about:</p>
-
-<p><a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/james_russell_lowell.html">James Russell Lowell</a> - "Fate loves the fearless."</p>
-
-<p><a href="http://www.freewillastrology.com/horoscopes/pisces.html" title="Lack of permalinks suck...">Free Will Astrology (Pisces, April 17th, 2008)</a> - "If you don't articulate your conscious desires, your unconscious patterns will come true."</p>
-
-<p>I hope your spring is going well, wherever in the world you are.</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-04-20-getting-chdk-working-on-the-canon-s5-is-from-mac-os-x.md b/_posts/archive/2008-04-20-getting-chdk-working-on-the-canon-s5-is-from-mac-os-x.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 8e57ed7..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-04-20-getting-chdk-working-on-the-canon-s5-is-from-mac-os-x.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,86 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Getting CHDK working on the Canon S5 IS from Mac OS X
-created: 1208740413
-categories: 
-- canon
-- Canon PowerShot
-- Canon S5 IS
-- CHDK
-- digital camera
-- firmware
-- RAW
-- Mac
-- Open Source
----
-<p>First, what the heck is <a href="http://chdk.wikia.com/">CHDK</a>??! Basically, it's a "firmware enhancement" for a whole list of Canon PowerShot cameras (supported <a href="http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/FAQ#Q._What_camera_models_are_supported_by_the_CHDK_program.3F">camera model list here</a>). You follow a process where you copy some files onto your memory card, and instead of your camera booting the "regular" operating system, it boots from the memory card instead.</p>
-
-<p>OK, so what does all THAT mean? Basically, today's digital cameras have operating systems -- software -- that runs many of their features. In fact, software is some times one of the main difference between "lower end" cameras and the higher end Digital SLRs. By loading this software onto your camera, you get access to a whole host of other features. The <a href="http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK_in_Brief#A_sampling_of_those_additional_features.2Ffunctionality.">CHDK in Brief page has a list of those additional features</a> -- the three of most interest to be so far are 1) enabling RAW mode, 2) exposure times as long as 65 seconds and 3)
-exposure times as little as 1/10,000 of a second. There are all sorts of other scripts that can actual be loaded and run on the camera as well. I'm interested in checking out the intervalometer aka timelapse scripts.</p>
-
-<p>So, I spent perhaps 3 hours on Friday, cursing and swearing after the first 30 minutes, swapping my SD card between my computer and my camera, trying to get this stuff working. Looks like most people that are messing with this are on Windows or Linux, and getting this working on the Mac presents some special challenges.</p>
-
-<p>Here are the steps (and yak shaving) that I had to do to get CHDK running on my Canon S5 IS. This assumes that you won't run screaming from using the Terminal, and are at least going to be OK cut and pasting commands in.</p>
-<!--break-->
-
-<p><strong>WORK IN PROGRESS for 4GB+ cards</strong> -- theoretically creating two partitions will mean that the CHDK software sees the second FAT32 partition with the majority of space, but Id didn't get this working. I bought a second 2GB card and it took me only 5 minutes to quickly hexedit it to be bootable and copy the files across.</p>
-
-<ol>
-<li><p>First, check to see what firmware your camera is running, so you know what file to download. This is nice and easy, and pretty much works 100% of the time. We'll also ease into the Terminal usage by having you navigate into your downloads folder.</p>
-<code>cd ~/Downloads</code>
-<p>If you're not on Leopard, you won't have a default Downloads folder, so go to your desktop instead -- we'll assume that you'll put all your temporary files there.</p>
-<code>cd ~/Desktop</code>
-<p>Next, create an empty file named 'vers.req'. This is easy!</p>
-<code>touch vers.req</code>
-<p>Now, copy this file to your memory card. You don't have to use the Terminal, you can go ahead and drag and drop it. Now the top level of your memory card will contain the 'vers.req' file. Eject it, and put it into your camera.</p>
-<p>Turn on your camera on (in "playback" mode). Hold down the "SET" button, then also hit the "DISP" button. You'll see a gray overlay on the screen with white lettering. In the middle of the screen it will saw something like "Firmware Ver GM1.01B" (assuming you have a Canon PowerShot S5 IS). If you keep hitting the "DISP" button, you'll get some more info, including total shots you've taken with the camera. I'm at 3590 pictures!</p>
-<p>OK, that's it for step 1.</p>
-</li>
-<li><p>Figure out which firmware enhancement your camera can / should use, based on the firmware detected in step 1 and this <a href="http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/Firmware_Comparisons">Firmware comparisons list</a>. Probably you'll end up using the <a href="http://malbe.nm.ru/chdk/">Allbest</a> version, so select the one for your camera and firmware version and download and unzip it. If you've got a newer camera, you'll have just one 'DISKBOOT.BIN' file in zip, otherwise you'll also have a 'PS.FIR' file. If you do have this second file, things are simple and you can <a href="http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/FAQ#Q._How_can_I_make_the_CHDK_program_load_automatically_at_startup.3F">follow instructions on how to make the CHDK program load automatically at startup</a>. If not, read on.</p></li>
-<li><p>If your card is 2GB or smaller, you can <em>skip this step</em>. You might want to format your card in your camera just to have a clean card.</p>
-<p>I have a 4GB card, so I went through this pain. In this step, we're going to partition your memory card.</p>
-
-<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/2429798754/" title="Getting CHDK working on the Mac - Disk Utility partition by bmann, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3280/2429798754_a1e6b5bc7e_m.jpg" width="240" height="215" alt="Getting CHDK working on the Mac - Disk Utility partition" /></a>
-
-<p>Open Disk Utility with your memory card inserted into a card reader on your system. Select the top level device (e.g. '3.8GB SanDisk SDDR-113' in my case), and you'll see a "Partition" tab in the right hand pane. Click on that, and in all likelihood you've the "Current" scheme is one partition. From the dropdown, select "2 Partitions", and make the "Untitled 1" that appears as small as possible. The right hand side, under Volume Information, will say some number like 536 MB next to size, and the default format will be set to Mac OS Extended. First, change the format to "MS-DOS (FAT)" (the name should switch to "UNTITLED 1" in all caps). Then, in the size box, type in "32". There will now be an asterisk next to the name. Go ahead and change it to something descriptive, like "BOOT".</p>
-<p>Now select the second partition, and also change the format to "MS-DOS (FAT)" -- the name will again change to be "UNTITLED 2". Go ahead and give it a descriptive name -- I call mine "4GB_BORIS". Once you're done and are happy with the names, click on the "Apply" button. Voila! You now have a memory card with 2 partitions, which should both be mounted on your desktop as "BOOT" and "4GB_BORIS" (or whatever names you gave them). Next step!</p>
-</li>
-<li><p>If you skipped the last step because you have a 2GB or smaller card, welcome back! Everyone needs to do this step, which involves installing the <a href="http://www.macports.org">MacPorts</a> program, which lets you have access to a bunch of Linux utilities and programs that have been ported to work on Mac OS X. It's actually relatively straightforward.</p>
-<p>Go ahead and follow the <a href="http://www.macports.org/install.php">MacPorts install instructions</a>. I went for the Leopard DMG file and installed the package.</p>
-<p>As it says in the install instructions, after the install completes, open a new Terminal window, and run the following command:</p>
-<code>sudo port -v selfupdate</code>
-<p>If it prompts you for a password, enter your Mac user password. A bunch of gobbledygook will run across the screen, and then it should end in a message something like:</p>
-<code>
-The MacPorts installation is not outdated and so was not updated
-selfupdate done!</code>
-<p>Yay! Now you're ready to install a truly scary program: hexedit!</p>
-</li>
-<li>Why MacPorts? So that we can do *this* step. Open the Terminal again, and type in the following command to install hexedit:</p>
-<code>sudo port install hexedit</code>
-<p>Again with the gobbledygook, and then hexedit should be successfully installed.</p>
-</li>
-<li>Now here comes scariness: you're going to edit the innards of your memory cards boot partition directly. First, back to Disk Utility. Select the small or "BOOT" partition and click on "Info". You'll get a pop up window. The Disk Identifier should say something like 'disk1s1', and the File System *must*say 'MS-DOS (FAT16)' -- go back and re-partition if needed until you can get the two partitions. If all is well, then, with the "BOOT" partition still selected, click on the "Unmount" button.</li>
-<li>Now, open a new Terminal window and type in:</p>
-<code>hexedit /dev/disk1s1</code>
-
-<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/2429798792/" title="Getting CHDK working on the Mac - hexedit by bmann, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2155/2429798792_78d59e5a4e.jpg" width="500" height="260" alt="Getting CHDK working on the Mac - hexedit" /></a>
-
-<p>Where 'disk1s1' should be whatever you found using the Info command. Now you've got a scary looking window filled with text. Use the arrow keys to move the cursor over until the bottom indicator displays '0x40'. Now hit tab, and the cursors will jump over to the right hand side (ASCII mode). Type in 'BOOTDISK', then hit 'Ctl-X', type in 'Y' when it asks to save, and you're done with crazy hexedit.</p>
-<p>Head back to Disk Utility, select the "BOOT" partition and hit the "Mount" button. The "BOOT" partition should again appear on your desktop.</p>
-</li>
-<li><p>Last step! Copy the "DISKBOOT.BIN" file onto your "BOOT" partition. Drag and drop works fine, and feel free to copy over the "vers.req" file, too. Now, eject your memory card and toggle the "Lock" switch on the side, and insert it back into your camera.</p>
-<p>If all has worked correctly, you'll see a blue splash screen that says "Allbest 50" among other things. You'll have a percentage battery indicator, a numbered indicator of how many RAW shots you can take (RAW takes up about 10MB+ of space per shot). Pressing the printer / ALT button next to the viewfinder will bring up an additional screen for working with scripts. You can now follow instructions on the <a href="http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/UBASIC">user scripting basics page</a> to add new features to your camera by copying different scripts. Good luck!</p>
-</li>
-</ol>
-
-<p>The info was compiled from blood, sweat, and tears of getting this onto my own camera. You'll want to check out the following links:</p>
-<ul>
-<li>The main <a href="http://chdk.wikia.com">CHDK wiki</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/Bootable_SD_card">Making a bootable SD card</a>, which lists Windows / Linux / Mac instructions, including the use of hexedit.</li>
-<li>The <a href="http://chdk.setepontos.com/">CHDK forums</a></li>
-<li>The <a href="http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/FAQ/Mac">CHDK Mac FAQ</a> -- this lists a bunch of stuff about strang settings on unzipped files, but I never had to follow these steps.</li>
-<li>Some advanced info on <a href="http://chdk.setepontos.com/index.php/topic,255.0/topicseen.html">autobooting for large card sizes</a>, which I'm hoping will eventually let us use the full 4GB / 8GB of space</li>
-<li>For Canon S5 IS owners, the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/canonpowershots5is/">Canon S5 IS Group on Flickr</a></li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>Comments, additional pointers, or a simple point-and-click Mac utility to make this process unnecessary highly welcomed :P</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-04-22-loadmytracks-now-supports-the-globalsat-dg-100-on-mac-os-x.md b/_posts/archive/2008-04-22-loadmytracks-now-supports-the-globalsat-dg-100-on-mac-os-x.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 5c2bf2a..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-04-22-loadmytracks-now-supports-the-globalsat-dg-100-on-mac-os-x.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: LoadMyTracks now supports the Globalsat DG-100 on Mac OS X
-created: 1208926356
-categories: 
-- geo
-- Globalsat
-- DG100-GPS
-- LoadMyTracks
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<p>After the jump, the email I received from <a href="http://www.cluetrust.com/loadmytracks.html">LoadMyTracks</a> -- saying that the Globalsat DG-100 is now supported on Mac OS X with their application. Here are my <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/tags/dg100-gps">previous posts about the DG-100</a>.</p>  <p>Yeah, I know, I&#39;ve been *really* bad about using it. I got busy right when I received it. Now it&#39;s time to re-invest some time into using it consistently. I want <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/map">my Flickr map<a/> to have more photos on it (I recently uploaded my <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/2421781033/">9000th photo</a>).</p> <!--break--> <p>Here&#39;s the email from ClueTrust / LoadMyTracks:</p> <blockquote> After Long Last, we are happy to announce support for the GlobalSat DG-100 GPS Datalogger.  To verify that this code works on computers that aren&#39;t here at ClueTrust, we&#39;d like for any of you who can to test this out within the next couple of days (we&#39;re hoping to release before the end of the week).</blockquote><blockquote>The pre-release version can be downloaded from: http://www.cluetrust.com/Downloads/LoadMyTracks_063.dmg</blockquote><blockquote>Please reply to this message so that it goes into our ticketing system and include your OS version and processor architecture along with any other information you may see fit.</blockquote><blockquote>Right now, we are detecting any serial port as a possibility of being the DG-100, since it identifies itself as a Prolific serial port and we&#39;re uncertain if this is consistent across OS releases or is specific to particular installations.  We are also curious to know if other GlobalSat devices use the same protocols and therefore might be able to use the same plug-in without modification.   If you get a chance to try with them, we&#39;d appreciate any feedback.</blockquote><blockquote>On our machines, the DG-100 shows up in System Profiler as &quot;USB-Serial Controller&quot; with a Vendor ID of 0x067b and a Product ID of 0x2303.   It is possible that we have installed compatible drivers for other purposes and that&#39;s what we&#39;re seeing.   If you do not see ProlificUsbSerial in the list of Extensions (in System Profiler), you may need to go to the Prolific web site and download the drivers: http://www.prolific.com.tw/eng/downloads.asp?ID=31</blockquote><blockquote>Once you have the drivers installed and working (and the device is recognized by System Profiler), then you&#39;re ready to run LoadMyTracks.  After launching, select GlobalSat.   If there is a menu for selecting the serial port, then select &quot;usbserial&quot; (which is what the prolific drivers identify themselves as).</blockquote><blockquote>NOTE: If you are trying a bluetooth device from GlobalSat, you might want to try using the BlueTooth serial port that you&#39;ve created for this purpose.   If you haven&#39;t done that yet, contact me and I&#39;ll send further instructions.</blockquote><blockquote>We don&#39;t have any of their BlueTooth devices, so we haven&#39;t tested with them.  Once you have selected usbserial (or if it&#39;s the only serial port on your machine, you won&#39;t have a menu), then you can click Acquire (make sure you select Tracks, or nothing will be downloaded).  The download process can take up to a minute or two, but shouldn&#39;t take much longer than that.   If the download process has resulted in a valid KML or GPX file, then great!</blockquote><blockquote>NOTE: we do know of a problem with the altitude readings and haven&#39;t been able to clarify with GlobalSat why we&#39;re seeing these clearly-bogus readings.  If you have problems with the download, please follow these steps with the GlobalSat device plugged in to your machine.</blockquote><blockquote><ol><li>Launch Terminal<br /></li><li>At the prompt, enter: <span style="font-family: Courier" class="Apple-style-span">defaults write com.ClueTrust.LoadMyTracks DebugLevel &#39;6&#39; <span style="font-family: Verdana" class="Apple-style-span">– followed by the return key (this will turn on debugging on, and the single quotes around the 6 are required)</span></span></li><li>Switch to the Console application and hit the Mark button (this will insert a line in the file that demarcates our new data)<br /></li><li>Launch LoadMyTracks<br /></li><li>Try your Acquire<br /></li><li>Quit LoadMyTracks<br /></li><li>In terminal, enter: <span style="font-family: Courier" class="Apple-style-span">defaults remove com.ClueTrust.LoadMyTracks DebugLevel <span style="font-family: Verdana" class="Apple-style-span">– (this will turn off debugging for the next time you run it)</span></span></li><li>Copy the text from the Console window (the text from the mark to the end)<br /></li><li>Attach the output file and the console window text to the return message.<br /></li><li>Also, look in your Home folder&#39;s Library folder and find the Log folder within it.  Here there may be a &quot;LoadMyTracks-GlobalSatGPS.ctbl&quot; file.   If there is one, please include it in your message.  For this debugging only, we&#39;d also like a copy of the System Profile for your machine if there are problems communicating with the GlobalSat device.   To get the System Profile, go to the Utilities folder in Applications and run System Profiler.   From here, do a Save As and include that file in your email.  If you have  problems sending the files because they are too large, please put them in a folder and compress them using the finder&#39;s Compress item in the File menu.<br /></li></ol></blockquote>  <p>Please reply to <a href="mailto:loadmytracks@rt.cluetrust.com">loadmytracks@rt.cluetrust.com</a>, with subject &quot;[cluetrust.com #358] FR: Request to support GlobalSat DG100 GPS&quot;, to help the guys track down any issues.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-04-24-microsoft-social-networking-patent-application-on-peer-to-patent.md b/_posts/archive/2008-04-24-microsoft-social-networking-patent-application-on-peer-to-patent.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 63bcd8f..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-04-24-microsoft-social-networking-patent-application-on-peer-to-patent.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Microsoft Social Networking Patent Application on Peer-to-Patent
-created: 1209077692
-categories: 
-- peer-to-patent
-- patent
-- Microsoft
-- Social Media
----
-<p>Via <a href="http://www.insna.org">INSNA</a> and <a href="http://commonspace.typepad.com">Mark Surman</a> (who is doing seriously cool things <a href="http://openeverything.net">with the Shuttleworth Foundation around Open Everything</a>), I was copied on a request to look at prior art around a Microsoft patent application:</p>  <hr />  <p>Microsoft has a <a href="http://www.peertopatent.org/patent/20080059576/activity">patent application posted on the Peer-to-Patent site for Recommending contacts in a social network</a>.</p>  <p>We are soliciting your help and that of the communities you know in finding prior art that will help the Patent Office to examine this application and determine if it deserves a twenty-year grant of rights to prevent all others from making, using, or selling this invention (this includes any research and R&amp;D that would touch upon the claims of the invention, if patented). Can you let people know about this opportunity? We invite them to submit:</p> <ol><li> prior art</li><li>to annotate the prior art submitted by others</li><li>to vote on the relevance of the public submissions, and</li><li>to suggest fruitful avenues for research for the USPTO when examining this application.</li></ol>  <p>Peer-to-Patent is not just another blog, wiki or website. It is an &quot;extension&quot; of the government institution! Posted information will be forwarded directly to the United States Patent and Trademark Office and be used in the examination process.</p>  <p>Here&#39;s a bit more detail about the application and about Peer-to-Patent:</p>  <blockquote> <p><strong>Recommending contacts in a social network</strong></p>  <p>A method and system for recommending potential contacts to a target user is provided. A recommendation system identifies users who are related to the target user through no more than a maximum degree of separation. The recommendation system identifies the users by starting with the contacts of the target user and identifying users who are contacts of the target user&#39;s contacts, contacts of those contacts, and so on. The recommendation system then ranks the identified users, who are potential contacts for the target user, based on a likelihood that the target user will want to have a direct relationship with the identified users. The recommendation system then presents to the target user a ranking of the users who have not been filtered out.</p> </blockquote> <!--break-->  <p>Peer-to-Patent is an initiative of New York Law School&#39;s Institute for Information Law and Policy in cooperation with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The pilot program allows for public participation in the patent examination process by inviting the public to submit annotated prior art relevant to examining computer and software-related patent applications.</p>  <p>The Peer-to-Patent Web site enables those who sign up to:</p><ul><li>  review and discuss posted patent applications</li><li>share research to locate references to relevant earlier publications</li><li>submit these prior art references with an explanation of relevance  annotate and</li><li>evaluate submitted prior art  winnow the top ten prior art references, which, together with commentary, will be forwarded directly to the USPTO  </li></ul><p>Reviewing patent applications is free and open to all via the Peer-to-Patent Web site at http://www.peertopatent.org. Bloggers are invited and encouraged to host their own conversations about pending patent applications and then submit prior art via the Peer-to-Patent website. Any assistance you can provide by encouraging participation in the Peer-to-Patent review process will be helpful.</p> 
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-04-29-rogers-is-bringing-the-iphone-to-canada-ctv-newsnet-edition.md b/_posts/archive/2008-04-29-rogers-is-bringing-the-iphone-to-canada-ctv-newsnet-edition.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 34f566c..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-04-29-rogers-is-bringing-the-iphone-to-canada-ctv-newsnet-edition.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Rogers is bringing the iPhone to Canada (CTV Newsnet edition)
-created: 1209486802
-categories: 
-- 3G
-- iPhone
-- Rogers
-- CTV
-- Canada
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<p>Looks like I'll be on <a href="http://www.ctv.ca">CTV Newsnet</a> at 12:15pm today, talking about <a href="http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080429/rogers_iphone_080429/20080429/">Rogers bringing the iPhone to Canada</a>.</p>
-
-<p>Of course, the funny thing here is that there are many many people in Canada who already have the iPhone, in its "unlocked" edition. <a href="http://johnbiehler.com/category/iphone/">John Biehler's iPhone category</a> is my source for all the latest in unlocking and cool applications.</p>
-
-<p>The rumour seems to think that part of the delay and secrecy is because of the possibility that we might get the "new" version of the iPhone, with 3G (which is a faster data network connection). The other rumours about the new model (or models? maybe a "business" version to compete with RIM's BlackBerry?) are things like a much upgraded camera, or even a front mounted camera for video calling.</p>
-
-<p>I'm genuinely happy that we're getting the iPhone "for real" in Canada, but I'm worried about a) the price of the contract and b) the length of any contract from Rogers. We're in a monopoly situation here, since there aren't any other GSM providers in Canada. Expect Telus and Bell to start heavily pushing the HTC Touch and various consumer BlackBerry devices like the Pearl.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Update:</strong> here's a <a href="http://watch.ctv.ca/news/latest/iphoning-it-in/#clip49511">direct link to my video clip</a>.</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-04-30-more-vancouver-events-thoughts-on-one-calendar-for-techcouver.md b/_posts/archive/2008-04-30-more-vancouver-events-thoughts-on-one-calendar-for-techcouver.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 1a86b2d..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-04-30-more-vancouver-events-thoughts-on-one-calendar-for-techcouver.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,49 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: More Vancouver events, thoughts on one calendar for TechCouver
-created: 1209578211
-categories: 
-- DemoCampVancouver
-- DemoCampVancouver07
-- DrupalCamp
-- DrupalCampVancouver
-- Launch Party
-- TechCouver
-- Wordpress
-- WordPress Camp
-- Vancouver
----
-<p>First up, I'm going to do the call out of upcoming Vancouver events:</p>
-
-<ul>
-<li>Wednesday, April 30th (tonight!) is <a href="http://blog.tazzu.com/2008/04/10/tazzu-wordpress-camp-in-vancouver/">WordPress Camp</a>, put on by the folks at <a href="http://tazzu.com">Tazzu</a> - I've got <a href="http://horst.wordpress.com">Dad</a> 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 this regularly? VanWUG!</li>
-<li>May 9th and 10th is <a href="http://drupalcampvancouver.org/">DrupalCamp Vancouver</a> - I'll be talking about install profiles and likely a "getting started with Drupal" talk where I go through all the core modules; more on this in a full post</li>
-<li></li>
-<li>early June date TBD <a href="http://barcamp.org/DemoCampVancouver07">DemoCampVancouver07</a> - back to the "regular" format of 30 second pitches and voting on stage for full talks; maybe we'll do this right after the F&F event</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>Check <a href="http://www.miss604.com/2008/04/vancouver-social-media-scene-wordcamp-drupalcamp-netsquared-launch-party-4.html">Miss 604</a> for another recent event round up.</p>
-
-<p>In general, I'll mostly be doing full descriptions of events that I'm hosting / help organize around startups will be over at the <a href="http://blog.bootuplabs.com" title="Vancouver startup incubator">Bootup Labs blog</a>. Coming soon there is a Vancouver <a href="http://foundersandfunders.org">Founders and Funders</a> in June after the Toronto event.</p>
-
-<p>OK, on to the topic of "one calendar". Or rather, a consolidated calendar. There really are a lot of events going on in Vancouver, and it's hard to schedule new ones, it's hard to get a central overview of them, and it's hard / annoying to cross post Upcoming / Facebook / wikis / etc. Several people coming to DemoCampVancouver have said something along the lines of "I'm new in town, how do I find out about more events". Answers like "read these 10 peoples' blogs isn't really a solution.</p>
-
-<p>I had lunch with Rob Lewis from <a href="http://www.techvibes.com">TechVibes</a> the other week. TechVibes continues to work on re-vamping their site (they'll be going through a major re-tooling over the summer) and we came around to the subject of events.</p>
-
-<p>TechVibes has an events calendar, but it's painful. Yeah, they know it :P We talked about adding value there, specifically getting the community involved and providing something of value that the wider community could get involved with and rally around (e.g. not a TechVibes direct "property" per se).</p>
-
-<p>I came up with two concepts.</p>
-
-<p>One is for TechVibes to enable cross posting from TechVibes to <a href="http://upcoming.yahoo.com">Upcoming</a> and other sites (Facebook? can anything post an event to Facebook using the API?). Post in one spot, get cross posting goodness "for free", which sounds like a good reason to post to TechVibes for those of us organizing and promoting events.</p>
-
-<p>In general, I'm a fan of Upcoming. As <a href="http://www.brendonwilson.com">Brendon</a> said, it's great to use in San Francisco, since it's got full coverage of everything from tech events to arts. Here in Vancouver, coverage is a little spotty. I try and enter everything there because it is on the public web with a permalink (as opposed to Facebook...).</p>
-
-<p>The second concept is around <a href="http://www.techcouver.com">TechCouver</a>. <a href="http://vancouver.24hrs.ca/News/2008/04/23/5362326-sun.html">Buzz Bishop is leading the media charge to make this another Vancouver nickname</a> - and that's great. So let's make TechCouver a local aggregator of tech-related blog posts and events.</p>
-
-<p>The map is great as well, and we could use both. Basically, have tech companies and bloggers enter a listing for themselves including an RSS feed. We aggregate all the feeds, and run our own TechMeme for Vancouver. Well, minus the secret algorithm -- I'd like to do voting so we can see "best of" posts as well as the "river of news" of recent stuff.</p>
-
-<p>So, one central spot for tech related postings and events, one central spot we can direct people to, to find out what's happening in TechCouver.</p>
-
-<p>What do you think? Is this interesting? Useful to you? Would you visit it? Would you subscribe to it and/or use the OPML file it would generate? Let's use this <a href="http://www.techcouver.com">TechCouver wiki page</a> to discuss features and such, or comment here.</p>
-<!--break-->
-
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-05-05-drupalcamp-vancouver-2008-this-week.md b/_posts/archive/2008-05-05-drupalcamp-vancouver-2008-this-week.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a39c884..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-05-05-drupalcamp-vancouver-2008-this-week.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: DrupalCamp Vancouver 2008 this week
-created: 1209978410
-categories: 
-- DCV08
-- DrupalCamp
-- DrupalCampVancouver
-- Vancouver
-- Drupal
----
-<img src="http://bmannconsulting.com/sites/bmannconsulting.com/files/drupal-camp-logo-trans.png"  align="left" vspace="5" hspace="5"/>
-
-<p>Well, before I knew it, <a href="http://www.drupalcampvancouver.org/">DrupalCamp Vancouver</a> has snuck up on me. I mean it when I say it snuck up on me: I had pretty much zero to do with organizing it -- massive kudos have to go to <a href="http://uncleweed.net">Dave Olson</a>, <a href="http://www.group42.ca">Dale McGladdery</a>, and <a href="http://www.westendgirl.ca">Ariane K</a> (I know there are others, like the guys from <a href="http://www.imagexmedia.com">Image X Media</a> and <a href="http://twitter.com/jkparker">jkparker</a> on kick off party duty and and and...).</p>
-
-<p>DrupalCamp Vancouver is this Friday and Saturday, May 9th and 10th, with a kick off party on Thursday night. As with all Drupal events, it's sold out (how are we ever going to fix this? more training!), and it looks like a great group of people are going to be gathering.</p>
-
-<p>I spent this morning with Dale and Ariane reviewing the session submissions. We have a nice mix of newcomer, developer, and soft topics, as well as 2+ double sessions: one on organic groups, and one on design and theming. I say "2+" because we tried to schedule the talks so they "fit" together nicely -- like the back to back views + arguments segueing into panels 2, or the intro to module development that then continues with forms API advanced development. The <a href="http://www.drupalcampvancouver.org/sessions">sessions are up</a> -- but the presenters are still "in progress" of being contacted.</p>
-
-<p>I'll be doing a talk on <a href="http://www.drupalcampvancouver.org/node/67">install profiles</a> with a couple of co-presenters, and leading a close out session on <a href="http://www.drupalcampvancouver.org/node/68">Drupal 6 and beyond</a>. Frankly, I'm more than a little worried about Drupal 6, while at the same time so looking forward to Drupal 7, testing frameworks, and more <a href="http://drupal.org/project/rdf">RDF</a>. It will be interesting to see how the discussion goes.</p>
-
-<p>There are lots of talks to look forward to (I know lots of people have been asking about an <a href="http://www.drupalcampvancouver.org/node/60">intro to SVN</a>). I've got my eye on the infamous <a href="http://heyrocker.com">heyrocker</a> -- he's coming up to talk about the gnarly issue of <a href="http://www.drupalcampvancouver.org/node/66">staging Drupal between servers</a>. It would be great if we could pool our solutions and get to more *code* in this area. I think drush is likely the proper building block.</p>
-
-<p>Again, thanks so much to the organizing team that pulled this together: we're lucky to have such a great group of motivated people.</p>
-
-<p>If you are missing DrupalCamp here in Vancouver, the next two I know of are <a href="http://2008.drupalcamptoronto.org/">DrupalCamp Toronto</a> May 23rd - 24th and <a href="http://groups.drupal.org/drupalcamp-seattle">DrupalCamp Seattle</a> June 26th - 27th.</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-05-15-http-zizaksy-com.md b/_posts/archive/2008-05-15-http-zizaksy-com.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f885aa0..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-05-15-http-zizaksy-com.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: http://zizaksy.com
-created: 1210868347
-categories: 
-- "\xD8\xA7\xD8\xB1\xD8\xB3\xD9\x84 \xD8\xB1\xD8\xB3\xD9\x84\xD8\xA9 \xD8\xA7\xD8\xB3 \xD8\xA7\xD9\x85 \xD8\xA7\xD8\xB3 \xD9\x84\xD9\x85\xD9\x86 \xD8\xAA\xD8\xAD\xD8\xA8"
----
-
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-05-26-testing-ad-bard-a-foss-friendly-ad-network.md b/_posts/archive/2008-05-26-testing-ad-bard-a-foss-friendly-ad-network.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 64f78be..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-05-26-testing-ad-bard-a-foss-friendly-ad-network.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Testing Ad Bard, a FOSS friendly ad network
-created: 1211847230
-categories: 
-- Ad Bard
-- ad.module
-- advertising network
-- Jeremy Andrews
-- Drupal
-- Open Source
----
-<p>I'm testing out a new advertising network built by <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/jeremy/">Jeremy Andrews</a>. Jeremy is a long time contributor to the Drupal project, mainly through switching his site <a href="http://kerneltrap.org">KernelTrap</a> over to it many years ago, and then being involved with many other Drupal businesses -- architecting major portions of <a href="http://www.civicspacelabs.org">CivicSpace</a> among other things. Jeremy's current "day job" aside from KernelTrap is <a href="http://tag1consulting.com">Tag1 Consulting</a>, who are Drupal performance experts. He also happens to have built the <a href="http://drupal.org/project/ad">Drupal Advertising module</a>.</p>
-
-<p>The new advertising network I'm testing is <a href="http://adbard.net">Ad Bard</a>. I'll excerpt the "what" from the <a href="http://adbard.net/about">about page</a>:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-Ad Bard's mission is to foster a friendly and useful advertising community. As a fellow Ad Bard, you will help to ensure that the advertisements in our network are useful, relevant, and non-obnoxious.
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>I've currently got the ad block running in the upper right hand corner of the sidebar. Yes, it doesn't look too different from any of a number of usual banner ad rotations. The current schtick is that Ad Bard is "Free and Open Source" (FOSS) friendly. It has categories of advertisers and websites in the network related to a variety of open source topics, so at this point both the advertisements and websites should be relevant to people interested in those topics. The whole site / system is </p>
-
-<p>Just to throw another concept into the mix, Jeremy recently put up a post <a href="http://tag1consulting.com/Why_Drupal_org_Should_Join_the_Ad_Bard_Network">advocating that Drupal.org should join Ad Bard</a>. The <a href="http://association.drupal.org">Drupal Association</a> has been testing ads on some of the forum pages on drupal.org for a while now, as a way to generate revenue to support the project. Google ads have been tested and are running now in the right sidebar of the <a href="http://drupal.org/hosting">hosting forum</a> (itself now hotly contested because of some of the content from hosting providers). This really brings up the issue of whether ads are appropriate for open source projects at all. If ads do have to be there, I'm much more in favor of daily / weekly / monthly sponsorship ads: they seem to be much less painful to end users, and I think more effective for advertisers, too.</p>
-
-<p>One of the thought experiments / questions that I often pose people is "How relevant does an ad have to be before it is no longer an ad?" One specific example would be someone looking to <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/blog/bmann/canon-s5-canon-powershot-s-series-still-my-favorite">buy a Canon S5 IS from my review</a> -- is an ad on that page on a place to buy them an ad ... or a useful, in context piece of information? All a matter of relevance, I believe.</p>
-
-<p>If you're an open source advocate (or project), you might want to kick the tires on <a href="http://adbard.net" title="Free and Open Source Software friendly advertising network">Ad Bard</a> -- I'll let you know what I think after I've had ads up for a while.</p>
-
-<p>Disclosure: <a href="http://www.raincitystudios.com">Raincity Studios</a> does work with Tag1, and I'm a big fan of Jeremy. I've also shoved over a boatload of ideas that I have around advertising networks that I've been itching to experiment with. We'll see :P</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>And yes, I know -- long time no post.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-05-29-from-bmann-to-boris-an-evolution-of-usernames.md b/_posts/archive/2008-05-29-from-bmann-to-boris-an-evolution-of-usernames.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 29cd413..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-05-29-from-bmann-to-boris-an-evolution-of-usernames.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: From bmann to boris - an evolution of usernames
-created: 1212051922
-categories: 
-- bmann
-- bopuc
-- boris
-- Boris Anthony
-- borismann
-- boris_mann
-- username
-- Personal
----
-<p>As I signed up for the umpteenth web service ever (<a href="http://g.ho.st/">g.ho.st</a>, if you must know), I was thinking about the username I was entering.</p>
-
-<p>Once upon a time, I used 'bmann' exclusively. What's the story? Well, at the <a href="http://www.uvic.ca">University of Victoria</a>, where I went to school, all students had a nice UNIX-y login that was first initial plus first 6 letters of the last name. Mine was nicely recognizable, and really, when you have a first name like Boris, something like "bee-mann" is nice and simple. And sometimes people even call you that. Personally, I liked my friend Mike Kerfoot's username: 'mkerfoo'.</p>
-
-<p>I continued to use 'bmann', but as this whole Internet thing took off, it was often already taken. There must be some Brian Mann's or other such more normal combinations out there scooping my username. So for a while I went with an underscore, and so I have a Yahoo and Hotmail account that are both 'boris_mann'.</p>
-
-<p>Then, as I began to be more heavily involved in online apps, I suddenly realized I might get a chance at just plain old 'boris'. As it turns out, I had a fierce competitor ... whose name only kinda was actually Boris. I'm talking about <a href="http://bopuc.levendis.com/weblog/">Montreal-based Bopuc aka Boris  Anthony</a>, of course. Since he's a friend of <a href="http://joi.ito.com">Joi Ito</a>, Bopuc got all the cool 'boris' usernames. I was happy to finally meet him by chance in San Francisco this year.</p>
-
-<p>But then, at some point, I managed to pull ahead! I was getting 'boris'! I think it was <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris">my Flickr account</a> where I realized that I could be shooting for the coveted first name only username (it probably helped that they were in my backyard here in Vancouver and that <a href="http://www.rolandtanglao.com">Roland</a> got me in on the first couple of hundred users). I mean, I'm not <a href="http://ma.tt" title="Matt Mullenweg -- not the dancing one">the number one Matt</a>, but maybe...</p>
-
-<p>These days, here is the order in which I try to get usernames:</p>
-<ul>
-<li>boris</li>
-<li>bmann</li>
-<li>borismann</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>What's your username? What's its story?</p>
-
-<p><strong>Update:</strong> Yowza! Lots of awesome posts in the comments. So far <a href="http://jeff.henshaw.org/">Jeff wins</a> for widest variety -- Jeff / Dingo / henshaj / jeff.henshaw / jeff_henshaw. I didn't mention username / domain name grabs. I think there might be some .ca variations that I could get (and I should really ditch bmannconsulting since it isn't really a consulting website anymore. I aspire to some friendly Icelanders helping me get bor.is ...</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-06-18-drupy-aka-drupal-in-python.md b/_posts/archive/2008-06-18-drupy-aka-drupal-in-python.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 8b6b33e..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-06-18-drupy-aka-drupal-in-python.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Drupy aka Drupal in Python
-created: 1213857455
-categories: 
-- drupal
-- python
-- Drupy
-- Drupal
----
-<p><a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/blog/bmann/drupal-python#comment-136984">BrendonC dropped by to leave a comment</a> mentioning that Drupal in Python -- aka <a href="http://drupy.net/">Drupy</a> -- is a real project.</p>
-
-<p>Here's the latest update (as of 6/17/2008):</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-Currently, Drupy can successfully run Drupal Bootstrap Phase 8. This means there is one more Drupal Bootstrap phase to be completed before alpha completion. For more details, check the <a href="http://drupy.net/status/current.html">Drupy diagnostic page</a>, which is updated regularily.
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Find the <a href="http://gitorious.org/projects/drupy/repos/mainline">code on Gitorius</a>, <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/drupy">news and bugtracking on Sourceforge</a>, and say 'hi' on freenode at #drupy.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-06-27-omnibus-bbq-jungle-disk-wordpress-etc.md b/_posts/archive/2008-06-27-omnibus-bbq-jungle-disk-wordpress-etc.md
deleted file mode 100644
index af2bcd7..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-06-27-omnibus-bbq-jungle-disk-wordpress-etc.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Omnibus: BBQ, Jungle Disk, WordPress etc."
-created: 1214595440
-categories: 
-- Raincity Studios
-- BBQ
-- Jungle Disk
-- backup
-- Amazon S3
-- Wordpress
-- Redwerks
-- Freshbooks
-- Vancouver
----
-<p>Well, contrary to the lack of posting here, I actually have a ton of stuff tumbling around my head right now. And so, an Omnibus post that covers a couple of different items.</p>
-
-<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ianivarieanna/2615299708/"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3262/2615299708_4561455082_m.jpg" align="left" vspace="5" hspace="5" /></a>
-
-<p>I've been heads down busy and haven't been attending (or organizing!) any social media type events lately. I did get out Wednesday night to attend the <a href="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/778517/">Freshbooks / Redwerks BBQ</a>. Look, there's me holding a puppy (photo by Ianiv)! It was a beautiful sunny evening and the <a href="http://redwerks.org">Redwerks</a> rooftop patio is awesome. I ended up manning the grill, my secret ploy to meet everyone (at least, everyone that was hungry). It was nice to meet some new people and catch up with a bunch of regulars.</p>
-
-<p>I'm trying <a href="http://www.jungledisk.com">Jungle Disk</a> for my personal backup. In short, it's a cross platform app that both serves as a kind of iDisk as well as some simple backup operations, except that your data is actually stored on Amazon's S3 service. You pay a one time license for the application (and you can install it on as many computers as you want), and you pay as you go for storage. And can get your files from any machine.</p>
-
-<p>I'm currently backing up my Documents folder to a Backup area, and then I also have a second "bucket" (that's actually Amazon tech talk, but it makes sense) that is a true archive -- I copy old stuff there and delete if off my local disk. I'm still debating whether it's worth it for me to put my entire iTunes collection online -- it would solve being able to get my music from anywhere, and it would cost about $12 / month (for 60GB). Not sure what the calculation is for streaming that music some of the time? And yes, this is like <a href="http://www.mp3tunes.com">MP3 Tunes music locker</a>.</p>
-
-<p>So that's my use, but Jungle Disk *also* launched the <a href="http://jungledisk.com/workgroup/how.aspx">WorkGroup edition</a> -- which is the same thing, but lets multiple users in a company use it from a single Amazon account, with things like their own storage space as well as granular user permissions. So you can have a Finance folder that only senior management can access. And if you don't have senior management, then just think about how great it would be to have a small business shared file system that you can access from any computer, anywhere. That's $2/month per employee, which I think is a good price.</p>
-
-<p><a href="http://wordpress.org">WordPress!</a> I've been mucking about in WordPress core and theme code. Once was with <a href="http://rachaelashe.com">Rachael's site</a>, which I upgraded using the FTP dance. I really hate not having command line access.... The second was for the <a href="http://blog.bootuplabs.com">Bootup Labs Blog</a>, which I moved off of WordPress.com so we could add some more plugins and do stuff like have a feed for every category / tag. Except, when I went digging around, it seems that the main feed is the only one that is ever injected into the link rel header. So, here's my feature request if you're interested in the gory details: http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7190 -- heck, I might even submit a patch :P</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>etc. There are so many things that could go in the etc. section. Should I talk about how Roger's iPhone pricing plans in Canada suck? Or about some thoughts on S3 and hosting shared files for the Drupal community? Or how my Raincity -- Bootup Labs transition is going? I've got lots going on, and I'll update here with extended posts on some of these topics. For now, it's summer, next week is Canada Day, and I'm going to spend time hanging out on Bowen with some of my favourite people.</p>
-
-<p>P.S. Thanks to everyone that <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/blog/bmann/bmann-boris-evolution-usernames">talked about their usernames</a> -- that's one of the longest comment threads I've had in a while, it was fun!</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-07-07-hypemachine-nokia-podcasting-client-constant-new-music.md b/_posts/archive/2008-07-07-hypemachine-nokia-podcasting-client-constant-new-music.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 50f261f..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-07-07-hypemachine-nokia-podcasting-client-constant-new-music.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Hypemachine + Nokia Podcasting client = constant new music
-created: 1215468592
-categories: 
-- Hypemachine
-- Nokia
-- Nokia Multimedia Transfer
-- Nokia Podcasting
-- podcast
-- Series 60
-- Music
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<p>After being really happy with the <a href="http://europe.nokia.com/A4423134">Nokia Multimedia Transfer app for OS X</a> to get music onto my phone, and photos off it onto iPhoto, I started looking to solve the "where to get new music" problem.</p>
-
-<p>Around the same time, I was playing with the <a href="http://europe.nokia.com/A4577366">Nokia Podcasting</a> app. Put simply, it is a podcast browser / downloader, which you can set to automatically connect to a network connection and download new podcast updates at a specified time. I set my phone to charge overnight, and set it up so that it would auto connect to my home wi-fi network.</p>
-
-<p>Then I found <a href="http://hypem.com/">Hypemachine</a>. Yeah, yeah, I'm not really a cool trendy new music guy, and I *had* heard about it before, I just never really used it: it's a giant blog aggregator that tracks mentions of music and links to MP3s. It also exposes all this music blog aggregation as a podcast, with enclosures to the MP3 links. Not a traditional podcast at all -- it's whatever the Hypemachine has auto aggregated during that time period.</p>
-
-<p>So, every morning, my phone is loaded with brand new music. It's eclectic to say the least -- last Friday featured lots of 4th of July-themed songs. The first time I set it up, I got some nice Catholic-rock-band tunes. Last night, I copied that music back to my computer after about 2 weeks of doing this. 63 songs survived my listening over that period, and I cut that down to about 40 that I would keep / give at least 3 stars to.</p>
-
-<p>I'm listening to a lot more music on the go with this setup, and am being exposed to lots of "new stuff". So far, I bought the new Cold Play "Viva la Vida" album (definitely not a "long tail" band), as well as Ra Ra Riot both as iTunes Plus downloads. But the majority of the bands seem to be ones that I need to point you to their MySpace page to listen to their songs -- see <a href="http://www.myspace.com/hoodedfang">Hooded Fang</a> for one example.</p> 
-
-<p>It's been a fun experience so far, and I always look forward to what the next night of downloading will bring me. This whole listening to music on the go thing might really take off one of these days :P</p>
-
-<p>Where do you find new music? Where do you listen to it? Where do you buy it?</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-07-09-ctv-newsnet-appearance-bell-and-telus-incoming-sms-charges-debacle.md b/_posts/archive/2008-07-09-ctv-newsnet-appearance-bell-and-telus-incoming-sms-charges-debacle.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 3fd478a..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-07-09-ctv-newsnet-appearance-bell-and-telus-incoming-sms-charges-debacle.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "CTV Newsnet appearance: Bell and Telus incoming SMS charges debacle"
-created: 1215639998
-categories: 
-- Bell
-- CTV
-- CTV Newsnet
-- SMS
-- Telus
-- Canada
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
-- Bell
-- CTV
-- CTV Newsnet
-- SMS
-- Telus
-- Ian Bell
-- Yule Heibel
-- Canada
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<p>
-	I&#39;m going to be on <a href="http://www.ctv.ca">CTV Newsnet</a> again, this afternoon at 3:15PM PST, live with Marcia MacMillan. Below are a few notes and links, I&#39;ll clean this up and post a link to the clip once it&#39;s wrapped. I <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/blog/bmann/rogers-bringing-iphone-canada-ctv-newsnet-edition">talked about the iPhone last time</a>, and somehow I think it&#39;s going to come up again.</p>
-<p>
-	in fact, Rogers is the only firm NOT charging for incoming texts, they now have a decent data plan, they have the high end Nokia phones, AND they have the iPhone.</p>
-<p>
-	Only North America charges for incoming text messages -- Europe and Asia have always been free.</p>
-<p>
-	via <a href="http://www.ianbell.com/2008/07/08/more-canadian-wireless-carrier-greed/">Ian Bell</a> - http://www.physorg.com/news129793047.html - &quot;SMS costs are, in the aggregate, 4x higher than getting data from the Hubble space telescope. Global SMS revenues are larger than the Hollywood movie, music and video game industries combined.&quot;</p>
-<p>
-	Lots more from Ian, like &quot;I could personally store-and-forward all of Canada&rsquo;s SMS traffic myself via my Novus broadband in Yaletown, and it would have limited impact on my BitTorrenting&quot;. Oh, right, and of course the fact that SMS effectively is NO extra load on carriers - &quot;As such it costs the network exactly nothing and uses no bandwidth that isn&rsquo;t already in use &mdash; traffic load is the same on the network even if no SMS messages are being transferred.&quot; - http://www.kenneyjacob.com/2007/06/19/how-sms-works/</p>
-<p>
-	via <a href="http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/yulelog/2008/07/09/hey-canada-and-canadian-telcoms-get-your-head-around-this-how-mobile-boosts-productivity">Yule Heibel</a> - Productivity is boosted by mobile - &quot;They say that by 2016 the value of the combined mobile wireless voice and broadband productivity gains to the US economy will equal $427 billion per year&quot; - http://www.psfk.com/2008/07/how-mobile-boosts-productivity.html</p>
-<p>
-	Bell and Telus being called before Jim Prentice, Minister of Industry - http://www.smstextnews.com/2008/07/bell_telus_called_before_federal_industry_minister.html - of course, I&#39;m going to mention C-61 and cellphone locking that Mr. Prentice has a hand in</p>
-<p>
-	<strong>Update:</strong> I was off at a photowalk this evening and am just getting back. My segment was quite short, but I&#39;m glad I got a C-61 mention in. Thanks to <a href="http://johnbiehler.com">Mr. iPhone John Biehler</a> for digging up the direct link to my clip: http://watch.ctv.ca/news/latest/text-charges/#clip65669</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-07-09-rogers-to-launch-iphone-in-canada-with-30-6gb-data-plan.md b/_posts/archive/2008-07-09-rogers-to-launch-iphone-in-canada-with-30-6gb-data-plan.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c639ac3..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-07-09-rogers-to-launch-iphone-in-canada-with-30-6gb-data-plan.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Rogers to launch iPhone in Canada with $30 6GB data plan
-created: 1215627397
-categories: 
-- iPhone
-- Rogers
-- Fido
-- Bell
-- Telus
-- Canada
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<p>I'm glad I waited in posting any sort of "the iPhone with Rogers will suck" commentary, as it seems they have somewhat come to their senses. As usual, <a href="http://johnbiehler.com/2008/07/09/hell-froze-over/">John Biehler was my iPhone news source</a>, and here's the link to the <a href="http://micro.newswire.ca/release.cgi?rkey=1607093105&view=5804-0&Start=0">Roger's press release</a>.</p>
-
-<p>A new "promotional" data plan is going to be available until August 31st (and I actually believe they'll extend it...), where you can bring your own voice plan, and add a 6GB data plan for only $30 / month. Hmm, maybe over <a href="http://www.ruinediphone.com">50K signatures at ruinediphone.com</a> changed their mind? No, it's not unlimited ... but in talking to <a href="http://www.rolandtanglao.com">Roland</a> -- who is the heaviest mobile app user I know -- he's never gone over 500MB. I think I used a couple of GBs when I was at the Olympics in Torino, and large megapixel camera phones and the fast 3G speeds could certainly eat bandwidth, but 6GB seems fair.</p>
-
-<p>So...am I getting an iPhone? Nope. I don't really like contracts, and I don't like locked phones. I imagine we'll be able to get an unlocked iPhone at some point, where I'll be able to swap out SIM cards when traveling as I do now.</p>
-
-<p>Meanwhile, looks like I'll be on CTV Newsnet talking about the other Canadian wireless barons -- Bell and Telus. They are going to start <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080708.wtext0708/BNStory/Technology/home">charging for incoming text messages</a>. Well, this should be a fun ride ... Rogers isn't charging for incoming, it has the iPhone and the latest Nokia phones, and now -- decent data plans. Really, what are Bell and Telus thinking?</p>
-
-<p><strong>Update:</strong> Looks like this is not just for iPhone -- you can add this plan to *any* phone, as long as you sign a 3 year contract, and it does apply to Fido as well. See the <a href="http://www.howardchui.com/2008/07/09/rogersfido-data-users-rejoice/">post on howard forums</a> for reference.</p>
-
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-07-09-sponsor-rachael-for-the-camp-moomba-yogathon.md b/_posts/archive/2008-07-09-sponsor-rachael-for-the-camp-moomba-yogathon.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f5d417e..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-07-09-sponsor-rachael-for-the-camp-moomba-yogathon.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Sponsor Rachael for the Camp Moomba Yogathon
-created: 1215589243
-categories: 
-- Camp Moomba Yogathon
-- sponsorship
-- yoga
-- Ghost Brothers
-- Gravitek Labs
-- Vancouver
-- Personal
----
-<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/2626394148/" title="Aggro Rachael by bmann, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3130/2626394148_18e2dfed28_m.jpg" border="0" alt="Aggro Rachael" width="180" height="240" align="left" hspace="10" vspace="10" /></a>  <p><a href="http://rachaelashe.com" title="Vancouver artist, photographer, Rachael Ashe">Rachael</a> is participating in the <a href="ttp://www.campmoombayogathon.com/">Camp Moomba Yogathon</a> this Saturday at Thunderbird Stadium. She&#39;s look for a few more <a href="http://www.gifttool.com/athon/MyFundraisingPage?ID=1237&amp;AID=230&amp;PID=36764">sponsor donations to reach her goal</a>. As you can see from the picture at left...you won&#39;t like her when she&#39;s angry, so please <a href="http://www.gifttool.com/athon/MyFundraisingPage?ID=1237&amp;AID=230&amp;PID=36764">donate</a>. I don&#39;t want to have to show you my bruises...</p>
-
-<p>What&#39;s a yogathon and what is this for? <a href="http://rachaelashe.com/2008/07/08/vancouver-yogathon-four-days-to-go/">Rachael blogged the 4 day countdown</a>, where she explains:</p>  <blockquote style="color: #4d5359; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 16px">The yogathon means a 108 minute long session of yoga for the thousands of people who participate. The funds raised through the event go towards sending children whose lives have been affected by HIV/AIDS to <a href="http://www.campmoomba.com/">Camp Moomba</a>, to give them a chance at a normal summer of fun. This will be my third time participating, and it’s something I look forward to taking part in every summer if I can. Last year we did the yogathon in heavy rain, which was not something I was expecting to <a  href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/goddess_spiral/870543850/">enjoy</a> as much as I did.
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>So there you go. I've done a short yoga session all about once, so I won't be yogathoning. I'm not sure what the support team does at these events. Eat hemp ice cream at the blissfest, I expect.</p>
-
-<p>And, of course, once again my personal life and Drupal community collide: the <a href="http://www.ghostbrothers.com">Ghost Brothers</a> are playing music at the yogathon, and I got given one of their CDs from <a href="http://graviteklabs.com/">Chris Bryant of Gravitek Labs</a>. Ha! And that new email I just got was a Facebook notification from Chris letting me know that <a href="http://www.facebook.com/n/?event.php&amp;eid=18363247479">the Ghost Brothers are playing with DNA6 on July 24th</a>. Small world...</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-07-14-updated-mass-virtual-hosting-how-to-for-mac-os-x-leopard.md b/_posts/archive/2008-07-14-updated-mass-virtual-hosting-how-to-for-mac-os-x-leopard.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 375b92a..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-07-14-updated-mass-virtual-hosting-how-to-for-mac-os-x-leopard.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Updated Mass Virtual Hosting How to for Mac OS X Leopard
-created: 1216021362
-categories: 
-- apache
-- mod_vhost_alias
-- vhost
-- Leopard
-- VirtualHost
-- Mac
----
-<p>I spent some time this weekend updating a long ago how to post on <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/macosx/howto/enable-dynamic-virtual-hosting">configuring mass virtual hosting for Apache on Mac OS X</a> -- the <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/node/1005/revisions/1973/view">original version</a> was from April 2004!</p>
-
-<p>I do lots of testing on my laptop, and while I'm now quite familiar with VirtualHost entries from the dedicated servers I work with, this is actually even easier: just create a directory with the name of the host and requests for that host will be served from the directory. It all comes down to good old <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_vhost_alias.html">mod_vhost_alias</a>. I probably should do some more direct examples of mixing and matching this with other host directives. As mentioned at the end of the article, aside from symlinking one directory to another, I don't know of another way to point multiple hosts at the same web root. I'll get to it if I end up needing it myself, it works for now.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-07-16-vinocamp-is-open-for-registration-august-16th-2008-at-ubc-botanical-gardens.md b/_posts/archive/2008-07-16-vinocamp-is-open-for-registration-august-16th-2008-at-ubc-botanical-gardens.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 2cbf43b..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-07-16-vinocamp-is-open-for-registration-august-16th-2008-at-ubc-botanical-gardens.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "VinoCamp is open for registration: August 16th, 2008 at UBC Botanical Gardens"
-created: 1216197170
-categories: 
-- event
-- VinoCamp
-- VinoCamp 2008
-- wine
-- WineCamp
-- Vancouver
----
-<p>Yes, I'm getting involved in yet-another-event. I was overjoyed when I heard that <a href="http://noboundaries.typepad.com/">Lori Pike</a> had made the jump out of tech and into a great marketing position with <a href="http://www.missionhillwinery.com/">Mission Hill</a>. I mumbled something about a <a href="http://winecamp.pbwiki.com/">WineCamp</a>, a similar-but-different* event that started down in San Francisco / Napa Valley.</p>
-
-<p>Lori took the idea, went off and got approval, and then came back and called me on actually helping organize this thing. A bunch more volunteer organizers were called out, meetings were had, and now, we bring you ... <a href="http://vinocamp.com" title="VinoCamp is a Vancouver wine unconference">VinoCamp</a>! Here's the blurb:</p>
-
-<a href="http://vinocamp.com" title="VinoCamp is a Vancouver wine unconference"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3078/2673789326_2003221d16_o.jpg" width="211" height="77" alt="VinoCamp Summer 2008 Logo" align="left" style="padding: 5 15 10 0;"/></a>
-
-<blockquote>
-<p>This is definitely not the wine festival. In a more unstructured form than a standard conference, VinoCampVancouver brings wine, people and technology together in one place, making wine accessible, educational and fun.  As a different type of conference, VinoCamp is designed for those interested in technology and wine, and people are expected to take photos of what's happening, and to blog or tweet or message about their experiences.</p>
-
-<p>Join us! Whether you're speaker, sponsor, or a wine-drinker, our aim is to make this day memorable, fun, and interesting. You will learn more about wine and viticulture, meet interesting people, and enjoy yourself in one of Vancouver's loveliest gardens.</p>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>It's a full day (approx. 10-4) and is being held on August 16th at UBC Botanical Garden.  We're expecting about 125 people. Registration is open now, and tickets are $50 for the full day event (t-shirt, lunch, wine, and food pairings included) please head on over to <a href="http://www.eventbrite.com/event/137449114/bmann">Eventbrite to register now</a>. I fully expect this to sell out as we push out the word this week, so get your tickets soon.</p>
-
-<p>We're also looking for <a href="http://vinocamp.com/vinocamp-sponsors">sponsors</a> and <a href="http://vinocamp.com/vinocamp-speakers">speakers</a>. </p>
-
-<p>Thanks to launch sponsors <a href="http://redwerks.com">Redwerks</a> for helping put together the website with their <a href="http://kommonwealth.com">Kommonwealth</a> tool, and to Artisan Wine Company for being the wine sponsor.</p>
-
-<p>And, of course, a tip of the corkscrew in the general direction of my co-organizers: <a href="http://ethniceats.ca">Degan</a>, <a href="http://netchick.ca">Tanya</a>, <a href="http://typeapr.com">Colleen</a>, <a href="http://megancole.org">Megan</a>, <a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0100115/">Cyprien</a> and <a href="http://www.laurenwood.org/">Lauren</a> (yes there are some <a href="http://www.northernvoice.ca">Northern Voice</a> co-conspirators in that list).</p>
-
-<p>* For the record, the WineCamp one liner description is "an ad-hoc gathering that brings together the best of the old world and the new... wine, non-profits and geeks!" -- connecting non-profits with technologists over wine. A great goal, but we really were interested in reaching out to wine and food enthusiasts and skip technology all together -- aside</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-07-19-site-specific-browsers-for-mobile.md b/_posts/archive/2008-07-19-site-specific-browsers-for-mobile.md
deleted file mode 100644
index d7d6db2..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-07-19-site-specific-browsers-for-mobile.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,44 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Site specific browsers for mobile?
-created: 1216496984
-categories: 
-- SSB
-- Fluid
-- Prism
-- Tim Bray
-- Dean Bubley
-- Roland Tanglao
-- iPhone
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<p>I'm catching up on some mobile-related blog reading today, and was spurred to write something by <a href="http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/07/18/Mobile-Net-Gloom">Tim Bray's Mobile Blues</a> and <a href="http://disruptivewireless.blogspot.com/2008/07/great-article-on-web-vs-native-mobile.html">Dean Bubley's re-post</a> of an <a href="http://www.dw2-0.com/2008/07/mobile-development-in-hurry.html">article by David Wood</a>. (And thanks to <a href="http://www.rolandtanglao.com">Roland's</a> <a href="http://www.google.com/reader/shared/02230306742891645763">Google Reader Shared Items</a>, where I am getting a wealth of mobile and food related links)</p>
-
-<p>Canada (and the world in general) is caught up in a storm of mobile imaginings based on the launch of the 3G iPhone. Recent results of app sales potentially point to a future where carriers *don't* have a chokehold on the mobile handset experience: for the first time, your average non-technical end users can easily buy and install applications for your mobile fun. Except, of course, it's just another kind of walled garden, just one run by a computer company instead of a carrier.</p>
-
-<p>Tim in particular has issues with that, as well as with having to learn yet another development environment to program native apps for the iPhone:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-<p>But there’s a little problem and a big problem. The little problem is that I don’t wanna learn Objective-C and I don’t wanna learn a whole new UI framework. I acknowledge that lots of smart people think Objective-C and Cocoa are both wonderful, and quite likely they’re right. I don’t care. I’m lazy; I know enough languages and enough frameworks. You’re free to disapprove, but there are a whole lot of people like me out there.</p>
-
-<p>The big problem is this: I don’t wanna be a sharecropper on Massa Steve’s plantation. I don’t want to write code for a platform where there’s someone else who gets to decide whether I get to play and what I’m allowed to sell, and who can flip my you’re-out-of-business-switch any time it furthers their business goals. …</p>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>OK, points taken. You don't *have* to learn another programming environment, but every experience I've had with Java on every single phone I've ever owned has been .... terrible. Use Java if you want to quickly prototype an app for your enterprise ... but the usability and UI for the average end user, never mind the install process, is terrible. Most people go to native platform code for that final bit of polish (IF that polish is needed for your target market).</p>
-
-<p>I don't have much to say on the locked platform aspects: you make your choices. In some ways, writing native apps for *any* platform is a level of lock in. That is, shouldn't we rail against OS X native only apps in the same way?</p>
-
-<p>And here we finally come to the punchline hinted at by the title. For desktop operating systems, there are now a couple of site specific browsers (SSBs <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site_Specific_Browser">[wikipedia link]</a>): you enter in the URL of a website / webapp and it is bundled into a separately clickable "application" that you can run like any other native program on your desktop. I use <a href="http://fluidapp.com">Fluid</a>, based on a WebKit engine, and there is also <a href="http://labs.mozilla.com/projects/prism/">Prism</a>, based on a Mozilla engine.</p>
-
-<p>So, somewhere between widgets and full blown native applications, can an SSB engine for mobile operating systems reign supreme? Bubley's summarized thoughts on this are:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-<p>…for <em>many</em> applications, Mobile Web will be the way to go, for ease of development, cross-platform support, rapid update and so on.</p>
-
-<p>But for some the most <em>important and demanding applications</em>, there will still be a need for native development, even if it comes with a dose of pain.</p>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>The mobile web, with advanced, compliant browsers available on smartphones like the iPhone or various Nokia phones, <strong>is</strong> the Internet. Various UI niceties and formatting to fit the screen factor aside, this is regular ol' HTML and AJAX, no new platform to learn here.</p>
-
-<p>So, I'm looking forward to "Fluid for iPhone" or "Prism for Series 60": I can think of a web app developer or three that would be VERY interested in exploring a potentially very quick way to have apps on these smartphone platforms, without the full pain of native app writing. Actually, paging <a href="http://www.handimobility.ca">Handimobility</a> -- there might be a very nice business in there...</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-07-23-quoted-in-24-hours-buzz-bishops-head-in-the-clouds-article.md b/_posts/archive/2008-07-23-quoted-in-24-hours-buzz-bishops-head-in-the-clouds-article.md
deleted file mode 100644
index aadb01b..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-07-23-quoted-in-24-hours-buzz-bishops-head-in-the-clouds-article.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Quoted in 24 hours - Buzz Bishop's "Head in the Clouds" article
-created: 1216839968
-categories: 
-- cloud computing
-- 24 Hours
-- Buzz Bishop
-- Vancouver
----
-<p><a href="http://buzzbishop.com">Buzz Bishop</a> put a <a href="http://twitter.com/buzzbishop/statuses/861453135">request for cloud computing experts</a>. I'm not exactly an expert, but it is something that I've been looking into more deeply lately (see my <a href="http://del.icio.us/borismann/cloudcomputing">cloud links on del.icio.us</a>). And, of course, I'm advising <a href="http://trevoro.ca">TrevorO's</a> startup, <a href="http://layerboom.com">Layerboom</a>, through <a href="http://bootuplabs.com">Bootup Labs</a>.</p>
-
-<p>Anyway, I ended up writing a fairly lengthy set of answers to questions that Buzz sent across, some of which made their way into his article in today's 24 Hours -- <a href="http://www.cyberbuzz.com/2008/07/23/head-in-the-clouds/">Head in the Clouds</a>. Thanks for the opportunity, Buzz!</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-07-30-ibibo.md b/_posts/archive/2008-07-30-ibibo.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 82aab6e..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-07-30-ibibo.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: ibibo
-created: 1217421743
-categories: 
-- <SMS>imobile.ibibo.com
----
-Hey!
-
-Just click on the link below and send unlimited SMS to anyone anywhere in the world for free! You may need to sign up or sign in first
-http://cafe.ibibo.com/Dashboard/Dashboard.aspx?cuserId=a9b4aeec-a3ac-44eb-917b-2c4690dff799%2526CFF%253Dtrue%2526uname%253DShalvin
-
-Cheers!
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-08-08-daveo-does-a-podcast-with-me-on-bryght-raincity-studios-and-bootup-labs.md b/_posts/archive/2008-08-08-daveo-does-a-podcast-with-me-on-bryght-raincity-studios-and-bootup-labs.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 76cd5ec..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-08-08-daveo-does-a-podcast-with-me-on-bryght-raincity-studios-and-bootup-labs.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: DaveO does a podcast with me on Bryght, Raincity Studios, and Bootup Labs
-created: 1218235975
-categories: 
-- Bootup Labs
-- Bryght
-- Dave Olson
-- podcast
-- Raincity Studios
-- Drupal
----
-<p><a href="http://uncleweed.com">Dave Olson</a> sat down with me at the beginning of this week and did a long (50 minutes) <a href="http://www.raincitystudios.com/raincity-radio/the-boris-speaks-bryght-drupal-boot-and-vancouver-raincity-radio">podcast over at Raincity Radio</a>.</p>
-
-<p>We covered a lot of ground. Here are some short notes with related links on what we talked about:</p>
-<!--break-->
-<ul>
-<li>I first met DaveO down in Seattle at <a href="http://www.gnomedex.com">Gnomedex</a> 2005</li>
-<li>DaveO asks me about the start of Bryght -- me, Adrian, Roland, and James, supported by funding from <a href="http://lancetracey.com">Lance Tracey</a></li>
-<li>The early days of my involvement with Drupal and how that moved into Bryght: hostmaster, install profiles (first created in D4.5, took all the way to D5 to get into core!)</li>
-<li>we decided at Bryght to support the organic growth of the community and helping to stimulate a business ecosystem. A good post is <a href="http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2008/04/24/organic-vs-non-organic-open-source/">organic vs. non organic open source</a></li>
-<li>one of the big questions was "Why did you sell Bryght?". The answer is two fold. One, it became a combined product (Drupal hosting) and services (R&D and contract consulting work) company, trending ever more towards services. This was just not something I was personally interested in. Two, I felt an itch to scratch about continuing to support the growth of the local Vancouver tech community, and ultimately it became clear that <a href="http://bootuplabs.com">Bootup Labs</a> was the right vehicle to do that with.</li>
-<li><a href="http://bryght.com">Bryght</a> re-launched. It looks beautiful and I had almost nothing to do with it. Oh, and you can now get Bryght Light in Chinese, or even pay nothing for it as an ad-supported version.</li>
-<li>Yes, there are more new services coming from Bryght, including Canadian based servers as an option. Much of it will be due to <a href="http://www.raincitystudios.com/about/team/narayan-newton">Narayan Newton</a>.</li>
-<li>there is a big chunk in the middle about what my new startup, <a href="http://bootuplabs.com">Bootup Labs</a></li>
- <li>there are Drupal events coming up that you should go to. In a couple of weeks there is <a href="http://szeged2008.drupalcon.org/">Drupalcon Szeged</a>, and in early September there is <a href="http://drupalcamp.northstudio.com/">Drupalcamp Victoria</a> ... combined with the Great Canadian Beerfest!</li>
-<li>The design firm for the Drupal.org redesign has been chosen. This is going to be a BIG job, but remember, Drupal.org is *our* home -- this is something that will benefit everyone, and everyone should be looking at how to help with this.</li>
-<li>Call to action: help get Drupal.org upgraded to Drupal 6. One of the (minor but important) patches near and dear to my heart is the <a href="http://drupal.org/node/157514">infamous XML patch to project*</a></li>
-<li>Shout out to <a href="http://drupal.org/user/72806">VeryMisunderstood</a> aka Kenn, who does a ton of work helping out in the forums</li>
-</ul>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-08-08-new-ventures-bc-mentor-panel-makes-my-brain-full.md b/_posts/archive/2008-08-08-new-ventures-bc-mentor-panel-makes-my-brain-full.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 9c6c13a..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-08-08-new-ventures-bc-mentor-panel-makes-my-brain-full.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: New Ventures BC mentor panel makes my brain full
-created: 1218233164
-categories: 
-- Bootup Labs
-- New Ventures BC
-- Vancouver
----
-<p>It seems that when I am working with a lot of different ideas and companies, that what I post here really dries up. And that's the case right now.</p>
-
-<p>I went through 8 startup presentations yesterday at <a href="http://www.newventuresbc.com">New Ventures BC</a>, check out my post at Bootup Labs: <a href="http://blog.bootuplabs.com/2008/08/08/new-ventures-bc-2008-mentor-panel-two/">
-New Ventures BC 2008 Mentor Panel Two</a></p>
-
-<p>So, between one day mind melting events like the NVBC mentor panel and all the new companies and founders I'm being exposed to at Bootup Labs, I'm processing lots of information and giving direct, "live" feedback. I've still got lots of ideas floating around, they're just not making their way into blog posts :P</p>
-
-<p>And yes, I really am not posting local Vancouver tech event stuff here anymore. Check out the <a href="http://bootuplabs.com/events" title="Vancouver technology events at Bootup Labs">Bootup Labs event listings page</a>.</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-08-16-at-vinocamp-2008-for-the-day.md b/_posts/archive/2008-08-16-at-vinocamp-2008-for-the-day.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 38f56e6..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-08-16-at-vinocamp-2008-for-the-day.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: At VinoCamp 2008 for the day
-created: 1218909166
-categories: 
-- VinoCamp
-- vinocamp08
-- wine
-- Twitter
-- scrumpy
-- Vancouver
----
-<p>I'm at <a href="http://www.vinocamp.com">VinoCamp</a> for the day, a fun wine event I helped organize. This is the first one we've done, and it all sort of came together at the last minute (I think). We're drinking our first set of wines, and listening to our second presentation. There are tech folks in the audience, posting to Twitter (<a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=vinocamp08">VinoCamp 2008</a> or <a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=vinocamp">vinocamp</a>).</p>
-<p>I think there's a good vibe in the room, the weather outside is beautiful, and the UBC Botanical Gardens space is beautifiul.</p>
-<p>I'll do some more updates later, and look for pictures on Flickr to add.</p>
-<hr />
-<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/2774176038/" title="Plastic tasting glasses - VinoCamp 2008 by bmann, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3265/2774176038_304479a035_m.jpg" width="240" height="180" alt="Plastic tasting glasses - VinoCamp 2008" align="left" hspace="10" vspace="10"/></a>
-<p>Later being the end of the next day :P I'm just in the midst of uploading my Flickr pics, which will be <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/vinocamp">tagged with VinoCamp</a>. Here are some bullet point thoughts still percolating a day and a bit later:</p>
-<ul>
-<li>10:30am is pretty early in the morning to start drinking wine</li>
-<li>a large portion of folks that were "techie" in some way (50%? not sure...)</li>
-<li>non-techies not quite sure what to make of laptops, iPhones, and interstitial techie comments</li>
-<li>a handful of people Twitter'ing an event gives it a real time feel to the outside world, and a sense of connectedness to the people in the room</li>
-<li>scrumpy is a type of strong British cider; apparently, it's <a href="http://www.devon-calling.com/food%20and%20drink/cider.htm">made with raw meat in some recipes</a> (don't ask ...)</li>
-<li><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/4/82/a37">David Sanders</a> talking (and really, demonstrating) about the shape / type of wine glass and how it affects the flavour made a believer out of me and 95% of the rest of the room...I think an event featuring *just* David and his magical set of <a href="http://riedel.com/">Riedel</a> glasses would be worth the price of admission</li>
-<li><a href="http://www.steepcreek.blogspot.com/">Bradley Cooper</a> is <a href="http://twitter.com/bradinator">Bradinator on Twitter</a>, and I was amazed and the amount of back and forth wine chat there is going on around the globe.</li>
-<li>14 tastings are rather a lot in one day; some how I didn't quite realize how much wine <a href="http://www.noboundaries.typepad.com/">Lori</a> managed to pull off; no, really, I was thinking maybe 8 wines throughout the whole day</li>
-<li>the first time you have an event, you have to "just do it" and hope you can set the tone for follow on events</li>
-</ul>
-<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/megs_pics/2769620014/"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3195/2769620014_15c9d5d4cb_m.jpg" align="right" hspace="10" vspace="10"/></a>
-<p>We'll be gathering together resources from the event (blog posts, pointers on the <a href="http://barcamp.org/VinoCamp2008">wiki page</a>, etc. etc.) and putting them in the email. Or at least a link to the wiki to look for all those resources. I'm especially looking forward to feedback from the event. I definitely had fun and would want to do it again, and the tone seemed to be positive ... we'll see what the entire crew had to say.</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-08-20-sendible.md b/_posts/archive/2008-08-20-sendible.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 317209e..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-08-20-sendible.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Sendible
-created: 1219268153
-categories: 
-- SMS
-- schedule
-- text message
-- email
-- social
----
-Sendible lets you send all sorts of messages to be delivered at a time in the future. Supported message types include: Email, SMS and Social Network messages. 
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-08-21-global-tv-blackberry-bold-launches-on-rogers.md b/_posts/archive/2008-08-21-global-tv-blackberry-bold-launches-on-rogers.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 75ce800..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-08-21-global-tv-blackberry-bold-launches-on-rogers.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Global TV: Blackberry Bold launches on Rogers"
-created: 1219349897
-categories: 
-- BMC
-tags:
-- Bell
-- Blackberry
-- Blackberry Bold
-- Global TV
-- GSM
-- interview
-- iPhone
-- RIM
-- Rogers
-- Telus
-- Blackberry Thunder
-- Canada
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<p>I'm going to be doing a short interview with Global TV with my thoughts on the <a href="http://your.rogers.com/business/productsservices/wireless/blackberrybold.asp">Blackberry Bold, which "launches" today on Rogers</a> (apparently, reports say that the product isn't actually available in stores).</p>
-
-<p>Of course, this is currently a GSM phone, so it's one more piece in Roger's arsenal vs. Telus and Bell, which both have the same set of CDMA phones. The newest phones are released on GSM first, and the CDMA versions lag by months, if they are available at all.</p>
-
-<p>I've never been a huge fan of the Blackberry… <strong>as a consumer phone</strong>. I think that's still the case. This is definitely a great upgrade, but unless your company is paying for it, you're more likely to get an iPhone for home use. In addition, the Bold is more expensive with Rogers - $600 without contract, $400 with 3 year contract, vs. $200 (8GB) or $300 (16GB) for the iPhone.</p>
-
-<p>If you're a current Blackberry users that loves the keyboard and scroll wheel, then you'll like this upgrade. Otherwise, we're waiting for the Blackberry Thunder (the touchscreen version) to potentially be "more like the iPhone".</p>
-
-<p>Related links:</p>
-<ul>
-<li><a href="http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2008/07/15/blackberry-bold-review-weve-been-rockin-it-for-a-month/">Boy Genius Report: Blackberry Bold review - we've been rockin' it for a month</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://www.mobilecomputermag.co.uk/20080819818/rim-blackberry-bold.html">Mobile Computer UK: RIM Blackberry Bold Review</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl7cqFQatP4">iPhone Blog: YouTube Video Review of iPhone vs. Blackberry Bold</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2008/05/13/blackberry-thunder-the-touchscreen-blackberry-weve-all-been-waiting-for/">Boy Genius Report: Blackberry thunder, touchscreen</a></li>
-</ul>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-08-25-speaking-at-net-tuesday-how-drupal-can-help-you-save-the-world.md b/_posts/archive/2008-08-25-speaking-at-net-tuesday-how-drupal-can-help-you-save-the-world.md
deleted file mode 100644
index b357ebc..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-08-25-speaking-at-net-tuesday-how-drupal-can-help-you-save-the-world.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Speaking at Net Tuesday - How Drupal can help you save the world
-created: 1219649149
-categories: 
-- Joe Solomon
-- Net Tuesday
-- open source
-- Vancouver
-- Drupal
-- Joe Solomon
-- Net Tuesday
-- open source
-- NGO
-- drupal
-- Vancouver
-- Drupal
----
-<p>
-	Just as <a href="http://szeged2008.drupalcon.org">Drupalcon Szeged</a> is kicking off, I&#39;ll be talking at this coming week&#39;s <a href="http://netsquared.meetup.com/15/calendar/8360780/">Net Tuesday event, &quot;How Drupal can help you save the world!&quot;</a>. Boy, that <a href="http://engagejoe.com">Joe Solomon</a> really does like catchy titles :P</p>
-<p>
-	I&#39;ll be kicking things off with an intro to Drupal. I&#39;ll talk a bit about open source and how it relates / meshes with the mission of non profits. Or rather, why the heck aren&#39;t you using your non profit DNA to work together with other organizations?! I&#39;ll also do lots of my &quot;question&quot; tactics -- asking people in the room to think about their strategy, their use of the web, their use of open source software, and their approach to engagement online.</p>
-<p>
-	Following me will be the folks from <a href="http://www.fearlesscity.ca/">Fearless City</a> and <a href="http://www.agentic.ca/">Agentic</a> talking about some case studies.</p>
-<p>
-	The event is this Tuesday, August 26th, at 5:30pm at <a href="http://abetterplacetowork.com">WorkSpace</a>. The Meetup event is now closed, but you can show your <a href="http://www.new.facebook.com/event.php?eid=27223426299">attendance on Facebook</a> or <a href="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1041412">upcoming</a>.</p>
-<p>
-	P.S. yeah, I said I wasn&#39;t really going to post event stuff here much anymore, putting most of it on the <a href="http://blog.bootuplabs.com" title="Vancouver startup accelerator">Bootup Labs blog</a>. Well, this is an event that I&#39;m doing &quot;solo&quot; as it were. And never fear, I&#39;m going to post over on Bootup about the <a href="http://www.eeroadshow.com">Expression Engine Roadshow</a><a>.</a></p>
-<p>
-	<a><!--break--></a></p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-08-30-nokia-n78-first-take-and-setup.md b/_posts/archive/2008-08-30-nokia-n78-first-take-and-setup.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 28964d0..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-08-30-nokia-n78-first-take-and-setup.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,46 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Nokia N78 First take and setup
-created: 1220128938
-categories: 
-- Nokia
-- S60
-- Series 60
-- Nokia N78
-- N78
-- Roland Tanglao
-- Dave Olson
-- Nokia N80
-- N80
-- AutoLock
-- iSync
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<img src="http://bmannconsulting.com/sites/bmannconsulting.com/files/Picture 17.png" align="left" hspace="10" vspace="10 />
-<p><a href="http://uncleweed.net">Dave Olson</a> caved and got an iPhone, so the Nokia N78 he was testing for <a href="http://rolandtanglao.com">Roland</a> has now made its way to me (my previous phone has been the Nokia N80). Thanks to both for making it available to me.</p>
-
-<p>Here is the <a href="http://europe.nokia.com/A4799134">Nokia N78</a> on Nokia's website for full tech specs etc.</p>
-
-<p>First reactions:</p>
-<ul>
-<li>much slimmer! almost half the height of the N80</li>
-<li>not a slider ... I had gotten used to the convenient / easy lock and unlock that the slider activates. Guess I'll be download <a href="http://s60addons.com/autolock/">AutoLock</a> again.</li>
-<li>wow, the keypad on this is incredibly annoying! bye bye high speed texting ... I feel like my fat German peasant fingers have to use the edge of my fingernail to use them</li>
-<li>speaker and sound is awesome. Regular headphone jack, yay! FM tuner, very cool, I'm going to make a lot of use of this. Dedicated volume buttons, also great. There is much more music functionality to explore here...</li>
-<li>comes with FM antenna headset thingie with remote volume and playback controls, as I said, music quality is very good, although the ear plugs are slightly small for my ears</li>
-<li>lightly tapping the back button seems to not close the app you are in, but bring you back to the menu. The menu / app switching seems easier, but at the same time confusing. Why not make the funny asterisk symbol the same as the Nokia "menu" button that is on all their phones?</li>
-<li>the camera is much fancier -- only slightly more megapixels, but all sorts of autofocus features that make it feel more like a "real" digital camera; the flash is three times the size of the N80's</li>
-<li>video much improved -- now at 640x480, with excellent focus and sound quality</li>
-<li>USB data connection -- yay! not using standard USB mini connection -- boo!</li>
-<li>can the USB connection also do charging? don't know, it did come with a charger</li>
-<li>comes with a 2GB even-smaller-format memory card (I've given up on remembering the names for different formats ... I have three or four different "mobile" memory cards, plus SD for my camera...)</li>
-<li>there is Share Online which lets you connect to Flickr, Ovi, and some other stuff out of the box. Not quite set up yet.</li>
-<li>GPS! Haven't wandered around outside to test yet, but first impression is that it is very slow to get a GPS lock. After installing Google Maps app, the cell tower only location put me in the middle of Howe Sound (I'm on Bowen at the moment) -- I actually still consider that pretty good. Definitely going to be doing more experimenting with this.</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>My other "first reaction" is that it's clear that I've been a Symbian S60 user for a long time: there are certain apps that I always download / setup. I'll be cataloging those in another post, in part for my own use so I can go to one page and quickly download all the apps that I want on every phone. Like my experience in setting up a fresh install / new Mac, this would seem to indicate a certain level of maturity in S60. Or perhaps a clear line of what they will include and won't with the base OS, so there are distinct areas where third party apps flourish.</p>
-
-<p>For those on the Mac, the N78 is not supported by default. You'll need to <a href="http://europe.nokia.com/mac/isync/">download the N78 iSync plugin from Nokia Europe</a> (thanks to <a href="http://craniumology404.blogspot.com/2008/08/nokia-n78-isync-mac.html">Carniumology404 for being the first hit for that</a>).</p>
-
-<p>Back to installing apps...</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-08-31-skype-turns-5.md b/_posts/archive/2008-08-31-skype-turns-5.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 0627872..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-08-31-skype-turns-5.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Skype turns 5
-created: 1220226286
-categories: 
-- Facebook
-- identity
-- Identity 2.0
-- Project Gizmo
-- SIP
-- Skype
-- Twitter
-- VoIP
----
-<p><a href="http://skypejournal.com/">Phil Wolff of Skype Journal</a> contacted me (over Skype, of course!) earlier in the week to ask about posting something for Skype's 5 year anniversary. I didn't get to it earlier in the week, but when I was chatting with him I had some ideas around Skype and the identity space that I've continued to think about. So, here is a belated birthday wish to Skype. Check out <a href="http://www.disruptivetelephony.com/2008/08/skypes-5-years.html">Dan York's post</a> for a lot of the same items that I'll be mentioning here.</p>
-
-<p>I was really annoyed with Skype when it launched. Annoyed because I had spent the previous 5 years working in the VoIP standards space at Nortel, having seen MEGACO and MGCP fall by the wayside so that my favourite, SIP, could reign supreme. And here was Skype, with its proprietary protocol. That just worked. And nary a cool SIP service to be seen (other than the <a href="http://www.gizmoproject.com/">Gizmo Project</a>, which is still the only cool SIP project around...).</p>
-
-<p>I wouldn't say that Skype is an integral part of my work flow today (lots of people use it much more heavily than I for all of their voice communications). But it is one of the communications channels that I do need to have open most of the time, primarily for group IM chats. 3 years ago at <a href="http://www.gnomedex.com">Gnomedex</a>, we started a Skype backchannel group chat, and it's still running today -- the "Vancouver Swarm". For various groups and companies, multi user chats are just an add to channel and bookmark away. Oh, and of course, the way that chat history "flows" to you if you've been offline for a while: persistent chat!</p>
-
-<p>And I'm still not talking about the audio and video features :P</p>
-
-<p>My dad is a heavy user of Skype, especially Skype Video. Whether it's sitting down and "sharing" a coffee with my sister in Italy, checking in with relatives in Germany, or showing off the snow up at the cabin at Deka Lake, he uses Skype all the time. He continues to "evangelize" Skype to people he comes across.</p>
-
-<p>I started by mentioning the concept of Skype and identity. With sites like Twitter and other social networks and services exploding into general consciousness and discussion, I'm (still) thinking about identity.</p>
-
-<p>Each of these services are an identity space. Systems like Facebook are rooted in your real identity -- you use your actual name and such -- while others like Twitter have you using nicknames or shortened forms. These nicknames become your identity within those spaces. <a href="http://www.windley.com/archives/2008/08/namespaces_twitter_and_federation.shtml">Phil Windley talks a bit about this namespace federation</a> -- in response to <a href="http://craigburton.com/2008/08/14/federated-twitter-look-alikesho-hum/">Craig Burton ho humming it</a>. Yes, there is a friction with federating so that a single namespace is very valuable.</p>
-
-<p>Are phone numbers, especially international phone numbers, a single or federated namespace?</p>
-
-<p>In the past, our phone number was a large part of our identity. e.g. my parents have had the same home phone number for 29 years. I still remember the last 4 digits of my childhood friend's phone number (the whole island has the same 6 beginning ones, so the "local" identity space only needed the last four...). Now, less so, in part defensively. I give out my Vonage VoIP number which rings all the numbers I need it to. Of course, when I then switch to text messaging, my cell number shows up (and shows up as "unknown" for those that know me by my home number). Traveling between countries and switching SIM cards, you have multiple numbers.</p>
-
-<p>Skype is a portable voice identity. It doesn't care what country you are in or what SIM card you happen to have inserted. It is Internet voice. One could argue that federation and open standards are needed (and I would agree ...), but no one else has reached the same "just works" level of functionality. Here's hoping that we get at least another 5 years of innovation and disruption out of the Skype juggernaut. Happy birthday!</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-09-04-iyouwe-com.md b/_posts/archive/2008-09-04-iyouwe-com.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 639f8a2..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-09-04-iyouwe-com.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: IYouWe.com
-created: 1220595029
-categories: 
-- free sms
-- social networking
----
-Send Unlimited Free SMS to any mobile in India.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-09-26-nowpublic-mostpublic-index-for-vancouver.md b/_posts/archive/2008-09-26-nowpublic-mostpublic-index-for-vancouver.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 0e6d7bc..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-09-26-nowpublic-mostpublic-index-for-vancouver.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: NowPublic MostPublic Index for Vancouver
-created: 1222472872
-categories: 
-- foodlikethat.com
-- LiveJournal
-- MostPublic
-- NowPublic
-- TechVibes
-- Vancouver Sun
-- Vancouver
----
-<p><a href="http://www.nowpublic.com">NowPublic</a> just released a <a href="http://www.nowpublic.com/mostpublic/list/vancouver">MostPublic Index for Vancouver</a> that lists 20 people ... and I come in at #3.  The background for how the list is calculated is <a href="http://www.nowpublic.com/mostpublic/list/info">here</a>, with the rough text below:</p>
-<blockquote>
-<p>NowPublic’s formula gauges influence and <strong>“publicness”</strong> across four categories, including:</p> <ul><li>Online Visibility</li><li>Presence on User-Generated Content and Social Networking Sites</li><li>Interactivity and Accessibility</li><li>The “R” Factor: Presence on Microblogging Platforms (Flickr, Twitter, Tumblr, etc.)</li></ul>
-</blockquote>
-<p>What do I think of this? Well, <a href="http://www.darrenbarefoot.com">Darren</a> (as the #1 spot) got interviewed for the <a href="http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=d7ea6747-7585-45f5-8e95-f97c30de66c2">article in the Vancouver Sun</a> and pointed out longevity: Darren figures he's been blogging since about 2002. I'm in that range, with my permanent presence occuring around that time, although I think I seriously started posting online about a year or so earlier, trying different systems (the <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/node/1">very first post on this site</a> is dated 2002-11-09).</p>
-
-<p>But wait, what do I think of this?</p>
-
-<p>Well, it just so happens that I still write this blog for me. Most of the topics here are about tech, or pointing at things I want to highlight or tell people about. People still come up to me in person and say "sometimes I don't know what you're talking about" -- this is my personal scratchpad, and it's for me. I've tried back and forth to be more personal here, but I tend not to be. I'm giving another kick at that can on a <a href="http://livejournal.com">LiveJournal</a> site and I write recipes and talk about cooking on my <a href="http://foodlikethat.com">FoodLikeThat.com</a> site.</p>
-
-<p>There are comments on the <a href="http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=d7ea6747-7585-45f5-8e95-f97c30de66c2">Vancouver Sun</a> and <a href="http://techvibes.com/blog/vancouver-20-most-visible-individuals-on-the-web">Techvibes</a> in the vein of "these people have no lives" and so on.</p>
-
-<p>No problem. I do this thing for me, and it sometimes has effects like connecting me to people that I would not otherwise have met. I'd like to do more exploratory writing and thinking here, but I've been finding it hard. I'll keep writing - or not writing - as I please. I hope that some of you find it interesting at times, and I enjoy any comments and interaction that I do get.</p>
-
-<p>Congrats to the other MostPublic'rs. See you online...</p>
-
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-09-27-sugar-on-drupal.md b/_posts/archive/2008-09-27-sugar-on-drupal.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 8bb5074..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-09-27-sugar-on-drupal.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Sugar On Drupal
-created: 1222498882
-categories: 
-- blogging
-- Brian Sugar
-- OnSugar
-- Sugar Inc.
-- Drupal
----
-<p>Have you seen the new <a href="http://onsugar.com">OnSugar.com</a> hosted blogging platform? It&#39;s Drupal powered, built by the fashion / pop culture publishing empire that is <a href="http://sugarinc.com">Sugar, Inc.</a> (<a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/sugarinc">CrunchBase link for background info</a>).</p>  <p>In many ways, it is what I have often been waiting for. Drupal is a very good multi user system. This is not an install profile, spawning sites, nor is it as simple as &quot;one&quot; site. It is a very interesting implementation of a hosted blogging platform.</p>  <p>I would like people to look at it, and test it, and think about it, because this is the kind of stuff you can build with Drupal. You can theme the node forms, you can add AJAX popups / overlays, and you can add innovative features while stripping out the knob twiddling options for the person that just uses the thing.</p>  <p>There are two features that I see as truly innovative. The first is the image insertion.</p>  <img src="http://boris.onsugar.com/files/ons/207/2078783/39_2008/Picture_22.png" border="0" alt="OnSugar Image Insertion Screenshot" />  <p>You&#39;ve got your images, and upload and image...and then you&#39;ve got &quot;Search Getty&quot;. You know, the largest commercial database of images online. And then ShopStyle and FashionWeek, two other Sugar properties. Wow: a shared platform where any one user has easy access to images across the system. That&#39;s fantastic! I had previousy done some mockups of a Flickr Search button for TinyMCE -- one can easily see OnSugar expanding the images to include (or adding the functionality to the other insertion buttons? top links? top videos? quote the top blog posts, and so on...). A mass system built on sharing (or at least shared access), imagine that.</p><p>The second innovative feature is the themes. Well, sort of. Themes and control for end users is HARD. There are a list of shared themes that you can either use directly, or that you can copy. The copy part is magic. You can copy a theme, rename it, edit it, and then even share it back out again to have someone else use (or use as a base for their own copy/edit/share). There&#39;s that sharing again! The theme layer seems really comprehensive. That is, you can edit CSS, the page outline, post outlines, and even comment outlines. Seems a bit hard for the average end user, but it IS cut and paste simple ... so some people will build cool things, and others will cut and paste it into their own creations. The <a href="http://onsugar.com/manage/themes/help">template reference file</a> shows you the snippets you can use. Is this Smarty, or did they build their own engine? </p><p>Anyway, I hope you kick the tires on the system, and think about what it means. My <a href="http://bootuplabs.com">co-founder at Bootup</a>, Danny, met with Brian briefly while down in San Francisco, and I look forward to continuing the conversation. You can find me at http://boris.onsugar.com, and you&#39;ll find some other Drupal folks like <a href="http://walkah.onsugar.com">walkah</a> kicking the tires as well.</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-09-30-knight-news-challenge-prep-in-vancouver-digital-media-experiments-to-innovate-journalism.md b/_posts/archive/2008-09-30-knight-news-challenge-prep-in-vancouver-digital-media-experiments-to-innovate-journalism.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 31aee27..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-09-30-knight-news-challenge-prep-in-vancouver-digital-media-experiments-to-innovate-journalism.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Knight News Challenge prep in Vancouver: Digital Media Experiments to Innovate Journalism"
-created: 1222794124
-categories: 
-- Knight News Challenge
-- KDI
-- Raincity Studios
-- Vancouver
-- Drupal
----
-<img src="http://bmannconsulting.com/sites/bmannconsulting.com/files/resize_image.jpg" align="left" vspace="10" hspace="10"/>
-<p>Coming up next <a href="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1118914">Monday, October 6th at the Raincity Studios</a> offices is a Knight News Challenge info and prep session.What is the Knight News Challenge?</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-<p>Want to win funding for a cool online community project?
-The Knight News Challenge is in the third year of a program that gives away $5MM a year to innovative online projects that support online news, community discourse and social media in specific local communities. Come to this meet up to find out how to apply, share ideas, and get a chance to talk to KNC evangelists.</p>
-
-<p>This is an interactive, hands on discussion designed to give you the knowledge to apply with a great innovative idea. All ages welcomed.</p>
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>The <a href="http://www.knightfoundation.org/news/press_room/knight_press_releases/detail.dot?id=335831">press release from the beginning of September</a> details the program. $5M is available for "digital media experiments to innovate journalism".</p>
-
-<p>Long time blog friend <a href="http://www.susanmernit.com/blog/2008/09/knight-news-challenge-meet-up-1.html">Susan Mernit is running these prep sessions</a> -- Seattle and San Francisco are the next two places on the list. If you're accepted past the first stage, you can enter the <a href="http://garage.newschallenge.org/">News Challenge Garage</a> for further mentoring and feedback.</p>
-
-<p>A lot of code ends up being built in Drupal for this yearly challenge. Knight took notice of this, and also has the Drupal-specific <a href="http://groups.drupal.org/knight-drupal-initiative">Knight Drupal Initiative (KDI)</a>.</p>
-
-<p>This is a really good way to get some funding to try a true R&D-style idea, which might just be the beginning of a whole new startup. If you have ideas about the future of news, come to the <a href="http://www.raincitystudios.com">Raincity Studios</a> offices to find out more next week. (and yes, please sign up on <a href="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1118914">Upcoming</a> or <a href="http://www.new.facebook.com/event.php?eid=73319110202">Facebook</a>).</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-10-05-spanning-sync-for-mac-to-google-syncing.md b/_posts/archive/2008-10-05-spanning-sync-for-mac-to-google-syncing.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 8ae86a8..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-10-05-spanning-sync-for-mac-to-google-syncing.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Spanning Sync for Mac to Google syncing
-created: 1223210760
-categories: 
-- Series 60
-tags:
-- calendar
-- CalSyncS60
-- contact
-- Gmail
-- Google
-- Google Apps
-- iCal
-- Spanning Sync
-- sync
-- Mac
----
-<p><a href="http://spanningsync.com/?r=ERHJN8"><img width="150" height="150" border="0" align="left" vspace="10" hspace="10" alt="" src="http://spanningsync.com/s5m5-badge_150x150.gif" /></a></p>
-<p>I'm still using <a href="http://spanningsync.com/?r=ERHJN8">Spanning Sync</a> to sync my local calendars to Google. Calendaring is the main sync issue for me: my phone syncs with my local iCal, and then my local iCal syncs to multiple calendars that I have. This is still a bit tricky, since I have a personal Gmail account as well as multiple Google Apps for Domains accounts. My main request is to support multiple accounts and use the login from each one, rather than having to use one account to share access. For calendars only, if you have a Series 60 phone, there is also </a><a href="http://s60addons.com/forum/index.php?board=3.0">CalSyncS60</a>. This lets you sync directly from your phone to Google calendar. Except, I never got it to work quite right, and I don't have a data plan at the moment, so syncing would be mainly at the home or office where I have wifi.</p>
-
-<p>The reason I made this post now? <a href="http://brendonwilson.com">Brendon</a> pointed out to me that Spanning Sync has a refer a friend program, since he was about to buy a copy. So use <a href="http://spanningsync.com/?r=ERHJN8">this link</a> or click on the logo if you are planning on buying Spanning Sync and want to also push $5 my way (you also save $5).</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-10-23-interesting-vancouver-2008-ticket-giveaway.md b/_posts/archive/2008-10-23-interesting-vancouver-2008-ticket-giveaway.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 9155ef5..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-10-23-interesting-vancouver-2008-ticket-giveaway.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Interesting Vancouver 2008 Ticket giveaway
-created: 1224786687
-categories: 
-- Vancouver
-tags:
-- Interesting Vancouver
-- Interesting Vancouver 2008
-- Ducky Sherwood
-- Dustin Sacks
----
-<a href="http://interestingvancouver.com"><img src="/sites/bmannconsulting.com/files/146918437.gif" align="left" hspace="10" vspace="10"></a><a href="http://interestingvancouver.com/">Interesting Vancouver</a> is interesting! I <a href="http://interestingvancouver2008.eventbrite.com/">bought a ticket</a> some time ago, but as it turns out, a good friend is leaving for South America and it conflicts with his going away party.
-
-If you're interested in going to Interesting Vancouver and would like to use my ticket, <a href="/contact/">email</a> or <a href="http://twitter.com/bmann">Twitter</a> me.
-
-<strong>Update</strong> the ticket ended up going to <a href="http://webfoot.com/ducky.home.php">Ducky Sherwood</a> (who also happens to be looking for a programming job here in Vancouver, especially at a startup). I expect a blog report from her in exchange, and in the meantime, check out <a href="http://vorg.ca/2971-Interesting-Vancouver-2008-Recap">Dustin Sacks' excellent recap</a>… makes me sorry to have missed it…
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-10-26-look-ma-i-made-it-on-hiyaa-blog.md b/_posts/archive/2008-10-26-look-ma-i-made-it-on-hiyaa-blog.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 8789125..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-10-26-look-ma-i-made-it-on-hiyaa-blog.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Look ma, I made it on Hiyaa blog!
-created: 1225072086
-categories: 
-- Personal
-tags:
-- san francisco
-- hiyaa
-- ex-pat
-- United States
----
-<a href="http://hiyaablog.com/2008/10/winters-tale-canadians-economic-climate.html"><img src="http://hiyaablog.com/uploaded_images/canadian-756580.jpg" hspace="10" vspace="10"></a><p><a href="http://twitter.com/sherrett">James</a>, <a href="twitter.com/dannyrobinson">Danny</a> and I were down in San Francisco last week on <a href="http://bootuplabs.com">Bootup Labs</a> business -- attending a startup / incubator conference. I suppose I'll do a wrap up post on the business blog at some point this week.</p>
-
-<p>Anywho, we had an excellent time, especially when meeting with Canadian ex-pats <a href="http://danaoshiro.com/">Dana Oshiro</a> and <a href="http://www.rebecca-reeve.com/">Rebecca Reeve</a>.</p>
-
-<p>I've been reading <a href="http://hiyaablog.com/">Dana's other blog, hiyaa</a> for some time, and asked her to put us in it. The picture included here is what she came up with. Danny *does* look to be taking an unnatural interest in James' ear...</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-11-02-vancouver-akoha-decksgiving.md b/_posts/archive/2008-11-02-vancouver-akoha-decksgiving.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 902485e..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-11-02-vancouver-akoha-decksgiving.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Vancouver Akoha Decksgiving
-created: 1225649514
-categories: 
-- Vancouver
-tags:
-- Akoha
-- Decksgiving
-- event
-- Austin Hill
----
-<p><a href="http://akoha.com">Akoha</a> is a cool new "online gaming" startup based out of Montreal. I've traded emails with the founder, <a href="http://billionswithzeroknowledge.com/">Austin Hill</a>, for quite some time, and finally met him in person at the Banff Venture Forum at the beginning of October. At beers in Calgary, I got handed 30+ decks to recruit more people to the Akoha Beta.</p>
-
-<p>Here's the quote from Akoha's release at TechCrunch 50, and the accompanying video:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-Games for the Oprah crowd is how Akoha co-founder Austin Hill describes his online gaming system. The system uses “mission cards” that friends pass to each other along with a mission i.e. give someone a book or buy someone a meal. You then register that card and perform the mission. Using clever social networking tools you can see how your missions affect others, compete against friends, and generally do nice things for people.
-</blockquote>
-
-<p><center><object id="otv_o_674218" height="320" width="400" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"><param NAME="autoplay" VALUE="false"><param value="http://www.ustream.tv/flash/video/702411" name="movie" /><param value="true" name="allowFullScreen" /><param value="always" name="allowScriptAccess" /><param value="transparent" name="wmode" /><param value="viewcount=false&amp;autoplay=false&amp;brand=embed" name="flashvars" /><embed name="otv_e_597311" id="otv_e_28394" flashvars="viewcount=false&amp;autoplay=false&amp;brand=embed" width="400" height="320" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" wmode="transparent" src="http://www.ustream.tv/flash/video/702411" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" /></param></object></center></p>
-
-<p>So, if you're interested in experimenting with Akoha, come by on Wednesday night, November 5th. I only have a limited number of decks, so please do <a href="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1294181/">sign up on Upcoming</a> if you're planning on coming.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-11-05-odesk-down-the-virtual-global-company-and-collaboration-rabbit-hole.md b/_posts/archive/2008-11-05-odesk-down-the-virtual-global-company-and-collaboration-rabbit-hole.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 936625f..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-11-05-odesk-down-the-virtual-global-company-and-collaboration-rabbit-hole.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: oDesk - down the virtual, global company and collaboration rabbit hole
-created: 1225958301
-categories: 
-- Drupal
-tags:
-- Expert Rating
-- oDesk
-- outsourcing
-- Canada
----
-<p>I just created an account on <a href="http://www.odesk.com">oDesk</a> and, frankly, have fallen down a rabbit hole.</p>
-
-<p>Of course, Drupal was the vector once again: I had <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/archive/speaking-at-net-tuesday-how-drupal-can-help-you-save-the-world/#comment-137152">Daryl leave a comment, with his username linking to a </a><a href="http://www.odesk.com/trends/Drupal">trends page showing Drupal jobs on oDesk</a>. This intrigued me, so I dug into the system a little more.</p>
-
-<p>For starters, there is a <a href="http://www.odesk.com/tests/658">Drupal 5 test</a>. I haven't taken it yet, but I fully intend to kick the tires on it. The testing system is run through <a href="http://expertrating.com">Expert Rating</a>. I want to explore this more, maybe even to the degree of developing tests for modules and components ... this feels like a useful function that could kickstart a lot more items.</p>
-
-<p>Finishing up the Drupal bits, it looks like the <a href="http://odesk.com/community">oDesk Community section</a> is Drupal-powered. The <a href="http://www.odesk.com/community/oconomy">oConomy</a> section is particularly interesting -- you can see that $48M worth of work have flowed through oDesk, and that the odometer is part of a custom module that they've developed (view source shows you all this).</p>
-
-<p>The <a href="http://www.odesk.com/community/oconomy/global_provider_map">Global Provider Map</a> has tons of interesting information -- Canada has 3253 Providers, with an average hourly rate of $24.92, and average feedback score of 4.29. And then there's Iceland -- 24 providers, $50.19 an hour average. Where the hell is <a href="http://www.odesk.com/users/?search_button.x=1&amp;filter%5BProfileData%5D=%22Bouvet%20Island%20%22">Bouvet Island</a>? <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=3.202778,73.22068&amp;spn=1.0,1.0&amp;q=3.202778,73.22068%20%28Maldives%29&amp;t=h" title="Maldives" rel="geolocation" class="zem_slink">The Maldives</a>?! 11 providers...</p>
-
-<iframe src="http://fmatlas.com/view/odesk/20080930_odeskprovidernetwork" frameborder="0" height="375" scrolling="no" width="725"></iframe>
-
-<p>Do work, get paid. I'm excited to think about how this can be used by startups especially, or to prototype startup ideas. Or, for that matter, working with global communities to build their knowledge worker populations. Hey <a href="http://justwerks.com">Evan</a>, it's time to bring the world to to Whitehorse, and vice versa.</p>
-
-<p>I could go on to describe some details on how this works -- a crazy desktop app that monitors your "Activity" levels at the computer, takes screenshots and webcam shots (yes, webcam shots -- wearing pants is required), and creates your time log. But, I'm really just scratching the surface myself as I familiarize myself with the system. Has anyone out there used oDesk before? As a programmer or a buyer? I'm interested in feedback from people that have actually gone through the process...</p>
-
-<p>The rabbit hole? I can truly run and interact with teams, companies, and businesses all over the world. This is the ad hoc network of professionals with varying sets of skills that I've been thinking about since a bunch of university friends and I sat down in 1995 and thought about online pizza ordering for Toronto.</p>
-<a href="http://www.odesk.com/users/%7E%7E2678034135da2fcb"><img src="http://www.odesk.com/api/exams/249360/image" alt="oDesk Certified  Professional"></a>
-
-<p><strong>Update:</strong> OK, I took the Drupal test and got 92%. Not bad, and I was impressed by the depth of some of the questions. <a href="http://www.odesk.com/users/~~2678034135da2fcb"><img src="http://www.odesk.com/api/exams/249408/image" alt="oDesk Certified Drupal Administrator"/></a></p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-11-25-dropbox-vs-jungledisk.md b/_posts/archive/2008-11-25-dropbox-vs-jungledisk.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 3e0841a..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-11-25-dropbox-vs-jungledisk.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Dropbox vs. JungleDisk
-created: 1227677974
-categories: 
-- Review
-tags:
-- Amazon S3
-- cloud computing
-- Dropbox
-- Jungle Disk
-- storage
-- Web 2.0
----
-<p>I wrote a <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/archive/omnibus-bbq-jungle-disk-wordpress-etc/">bit about Jungle Disk in passing</a>. I am using it for personal archive and backup. It's been working great, and I decided to try out the <a href="http://www.jungledisk.com/workgroup/index.aspx">Workgroup edition</a>: you add additional accounts and can set permissions on different buckets / folders for each person / account. At $2 / account / month for the workgroup functionality, it's quite good.</p>
-
-<p>Except, you have to get people to install and setup Jungle Disk (the download link for Workgroup is a bit hidden). And ... it's not <a href="http://getdropbox.com">Dropbox</a>. I tried it for a bit, and it works as advertised, but you a) have to keep paying on a monthly basis and b) you have to do a fair bit of handholding and account management.</p>
-
-<p>Then I tried Dropbox today. Easy. Amazing. Amazingly easy. And it does shared files, too. Share a folder, add some email addresses to invite people, and you've got synced folders / documents on multiple computers. The public stuff is actually easier ... there is a default folder called Public, and files in there you can right click on and get a publicly accessible link directly to.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Update:</strong> <strong style="color: red;">CAUTION!</strong> -- I didn't realize this, but <a href="http://mjtsai.com/blog/2008/11/26/dropbox/">according to Michael Tsai, Dropbox doesn't support resource forks on Mac OS X</a> -- "If you use Dropbox, resource forks disappear, packages turn into folders and can no longer be double-clicked, etc. ". What this means is that some files will have issues. Basic files like Word docs and binaries shouldn't run into issues, but for applications, potentially Keynote files and others, your files may not work correctly any more.</p>
-
-<p>Currently, there is a 2GB storage limit to the accounts (free). This also sits on Amazon S3, although on their account, not yours like Jungle Disk. Dropbox is offering a <a href="https://db.tt/0HiQby3a">paid upgrade to 50GB of space</a> for $9.99 / month, or $99 / year. Hmmm....2GB still seems enough for now...</p>
-
-<p>I'll stick with the Jungle Disk Desktop edition for my backups and long term archives. I've paid the $20 for the Desktop edition and I can backup and store as much as I want on my own Amazon S3 account.</p>
-
-<p>For multi user sharing of documents, Dropbox is just so much simpler. The low end pricing is cheaper than Jungle Disk (free!) while the high end of 50GB is cheaper with Jungle Disk (0.15/GB/month with S3 x 50GB = $7.50).</p>
-
-<p>I think we're going to continue to see great innovation in better ways to share  / sync / collaborate on files, in part driven by cheap, reliable, API-driven storage options like S3. <a href="http://epdio.com/">Epd.io</a> is a local Vancouver startup to keep an eye on...</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-12-08-donating-to-the-fields-in-core-drupal-code-sprint-and-other-projects.md b/_posts/archive/2008-12-08-donating-to-the-fields-in-core-drupal-code-sprint-and-other-projects.md
deleted file mode 100644
index ac74747..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-12-08-donating-to-the-fields-in-core-drupal-code-sprint-and-other-projects.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,43 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Donating to the Fields in Core Drupal code sprint and other projects
-created: 1228761734
-categories: 
-- Drupal
-tags:
-- fundraising
-- Acquia
-- CCK
-- Bryght
-- Views
-- Privatemsg
-- SWFUpload
-- code sprint
-- Drupal
-- Acquia
-- Bryght
-- CCK
-- code sprint
-- fundraising
-- Privatemsg
-- SWFUpload
-- Views
-- community ROI
----
-<p>Dries recently wrote about <a href="http://buytaert.net/fields-in-drupal-core-code-sprint">funding a code sprint for Fields in core</a>. <a href="http://acquia.com">Acquia</a> is committed to funding various bits and pieces and supporting it directly. I know what that's like -- <a href="http://bryght.com">Bryght</a> and some of our clients funded many early Drupal improvements and gatherings directly.</p>
-
-<p><embed allowscriptaccess="always" flashvars="color_scheme=blue&amp;event_desc=Help%20us%20raise%20money%20to%20fund%20the%20Fields%20in%20Drupal%20core%20code%20sprint%2E&amp;event_title=Fields%20in%20core%20sprint" height="250" src="http://widget.chipin.com/widget/id/95d5a4ba2b9ac0f4" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="250" wmode="transparent"></p>
-
-<p>So why should you support this particular code sprint? Well, for one, it means we can ideally have one of the key innovations of CCK / Views directly in the core of Drupal, making it a more robust / scalable / flexible system. Me? I just want to <a href="http://drupal.org/node/141419">kill the profile module</a> and move a few other alternate field-light systems to a native field solution (e.g. <a href="http://drupal.org/project/webform">webform</a>). Don't have money to donate? That's OK, head on over to the <a href="http://groups.drupal.org/fields-core">Fields in Core group</a> and participate with golden code. Or golden UI mockups. Or golden patch testing. You get the picture...</p>
-
-<p>I, personally, have a history of trying to round up funding for various improvements. Since I can only code well enough to convince other people it should be done better, I try and spend my energies describing possible solutions or rallying money/resources behind such ideas.</p>
-
-<p>I actively encourage companies and individual contributors to put up donate buttons. I've recently been in need of large / multiple file uploads, so I approached the <a href="http://drupal.org/project/swfupload">SWFUpload</a> maintainers, helped clean up the issue queue, and set up a big chipin right on the project page. That money will go directly to developers working on making this solution better.</p>
-
-<p><a href="http://drupal.org/project/privatemsg">Privatemsg</a> is another module that has a donate button, but they are actually few and far between. I've made some <a href="http://groups.drupal.org/node/17304#comment-59376">comments on commercial interests on Drupal.org itself</a>, but at the same time, I absolutely want to help support a commercial ecosystem. One way of doing that is for module maintainers to put donate / contact me buttons directly on their module pages. Why, for instance, doesn't <a href="http://drupal.org/project/views">Earl put a donate button on the Views project page</a>?</p>
-
-<p>The danger, of course, is tying or expecting compensation. You share (primarily) for "community ROI" -- every piece of code, comment, design, support request that you interact with in a larger community is something that you are giving ... and the return on your invested time WILL come back to you many fold in a number of different ways. Increased exposure, increased business, better code, more connections. Direct participation in the community is worth MORE than money.</p>
-
-<p>But look at the code you use and the people behind it. If you feel you can't commit time or your own resources, money is a perfectly acceptable substitute. Any of the items I've mentioned here are things I consider worth funding. Pick one of them, or think about a donation directly to the maintainer of some module that you use regularly.</p>
-<hr>
-<p>Addendum: if you've read this far, and you're interested in what I have to say, consider <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/drupalcon-dc-2009">donating to my send Boris to Drupalcon DC 2009 chipin</a>. I have a proposal for <a href="http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/session/practical-semantic-web-and-why-you-should-care">Practical RDF and Semantic Web</a>, as well as a <a href="http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/node/1798">BoF on Drupal Entrepreneurs / Drupal for Startups</a>.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-12-15-google-friend-connect-paves-over-your-site-and-plonks-down-a-social-network.md b/_posts/archive/2008-12-15-google-friend-connect-paves-over-your-site-and-plonks-down-a-social-network.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 9145507..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-12-15-google-friend-connect-paves-over-your-site-and-plonks-down-a-social-network.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,88 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Google Friend Connect paves over your site and plonks down a social network
-created: 1229412591
-categories: 
-- Web 2.0
-tags:
-- distributed social networking
-- Farmstead Wines
-- Google
-- Google Friend Connect
-- Jim Pick
-- OpenSocial
-- Redanyway
-- Twitter
-- Social Media
----
-<p>Since my <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/archive/redanyway-a-distributed-social-network/">post on Redanyway</a>, I've gone a few steps further into experimenting with <a href="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/">Google Friend Connect</a>.</p>
-
-<p>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 inserted wherever you like. You create a new network / site at the Friend Connect home, and then go on to upload a couple of files to your server. Select some widget options, copy and paste code, and you've got a place where visitors to your site can join your site's network.</p>
-
-<p>Now, as opposed to creating yet-another-profile, visitors use their (presumably existing) Google Account to login. Google Accounts have Profiles attached to them (since about December 2007, although it's only recently that they are being talked about more). Here's my <a href="http://www.google.com/s2/profiles/106678119088828437419">Google Profile</a>.</p>
-
-<p>There aren't really any built in &quot;friends&quot; in your everyday Google Account / Profile (in fact, in Google Reader it's really hard -- I enjoy <a href="http://www.brendonwilson.com/blog/2008/06/06/google-reader-anti-social-software/">Brendon Wilson's rant on this</a>), so you can also activate several other networks to automatically connect with &quot;friends&quot; from those systems. Twitter and Plaxo are two that I experimented with. Orkut is also supported ... but when was the last time you signed into Orkut?</p>
-
-<p>Twitter does that oh-so-lovable enter your username and password trick that leaves me feeling more than a bit queasy, but since I have a good size network, it seems pretty useful. You can then post to Twitter from within the widget to invite other people to join the network you've just entered. Plaxo does the better looking remote authentication and works just fine ... except I don't really use Plaxo all that much anymore.</p>
-
-<p>OK, so now you're a &quot;member&quot; of a local &quot;network&quot;! What next? Well, on to the world of &quot;Social Gadgets&quot;. There are ratings and a comment wall, and also support for OpenSocial apps. The OpenSocial apps are, I guess, the interesting part of this in the future, sort of allowing bridging of different data with mashups unique to the members on your own site. Except there's not much there today. Comments and ratings are fairly uninteresting when dynamic sites powered by Drupal or WordPress either do these things out of the box or can add them easily with a couple of plugins.</p>
-
-<p>But....I'm not completely down on this system. In fact, I've been talking to <a href="http://farmsteadwines.com">Anthony of Farmstead Wines</a>, who is a heavy Twitter user, about adding Friend Connect to his website. He can use his large Twitter network to build a social network around his website. It doesn't do a lot of interesting things *today* ... but you can already see how member profiles on Google Maps and other mashups will be trivial to implement in the future. Adding full network functionality to his website would cost a lot of money and time if needing to be &quot;built in&quot; directly, whereas the Friend Connect route lets Anthony build his network today, centered around the permalink of his own website (as opposed to some other system like ye old Ning).</p>
-
-<p>I've included a Google Friend Connect network widget and wall widget after the jump. <a href="http://jimpick.com">Jim Pick</a> has also created one for the <a href="http://vanbase.jpick.user.dev.freebaseapps.com/">Vancouver Freebase</a>.</p>
-
-<p>Will you be adding Google Friend Connect to your site? Do you find it useful? Where is this heading?</p>
-
-<!-- Include the Google Friend Connect javascript library. --> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/script/friendconnect.js"></script>  <!-- Define the div tag where the gadget will be inserted. -->
-<div id="div-1229409770016" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); width: 400px;">&nbsp;</div>
-<!-- Render the gadget into a div. --> <script type="text/javascript">
-var skin = {};
-skin['HEIGHT'] = '400';
-skin['BORDER_COLOR'] = '#cccccc';
-skin['ENDCAP_BG_COLOR'] = '#e0ecff';
-skin['ENDCAP_TEXT_COLOR'] = '#333333';
-skin['ENDCAP_LINK_COLOR'] = '#0000cc';
-skin['ALTERNATE_BG_COLOR'] = '#ffffff';
-skin['CONTENT_BG_COLOR'] = '#ffffff';
-skin['CONTENT_LINK_COLOR'] = '#0000cc';
-skin['CONTENT_TEXT_COLOR'] = '#333333';
-skin['CONTENT_SECONDARY_LINK_COLOR'] = '#7777cc';
-skin['CONTENT_SECONDARY_TEXT_COLOR'] = '#666666';
-skin['CONTENT_HEADLINE_COLOR'] = '#333333';
-google.friendconnect.container.setParentUrl('/' /* location of rpc_relay.html and canvas.html */);
-google.friendconnect.container.renderMembersGadget(
- { id: 'div-1229409770016',
-   site: '16140604763994025116'},
-  skin);
-</script>
-<p>Below is the Google &quot;Wall Gadget&quot; -- it lets you post comments and post YouTube links. The scope of this wall is the &quot;entire site&quot; -- you can make one of these that apply to a particular page or a unique id.</p>
-<!-- Include the Google Friend Connect javascript library. --> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/friendconnect/script/friendconnect.js"></script>  <!-- Define the div tag where the gadget will be inserted. -->
-<div id="div-1229410260056" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); width: 400px;">&nbsp;</div>
-<!-- Render the gadget into a div. --> <script type="text/javascript">
-var skin = {};
-skin['BORDER_COLOR'] = '#cccccc';
-skin['ENDCAP_BG_COLOR'] = '#e0ecff';
-skin['ENDCAP_TEXT_COLOR'] = '#333333';
-skin['ENDCAP_LINK_COLOR'] = '#0000cc';
-skin['ALTERNATE_BG_COLOR'] = '#ffffff';
-skin['CONTENT_BG_COLOR'] = '#ffffff';
-skin['CONTENT_LINK_COLOR'] = '#0000cc';
-skin['CONTENT_TEXT_COLOR'] = '#333333';
-skin['CONTENT_SECONDARY_LINK_COLOR'] = '#7777cc';
-skin['CONTENT_SECONDARY_TEXT_COLOR'] = '#666666';
-skin['CONTENT_HEADLINE_COLOR'] = '#333333';
-skin['DEFAULT_COMMENT_TEXT'] = '- add your comment here -';
-skin['HEADER_TEXT'] = 'Comments';
-skin['POSTS_PER_PAGE'] = '10';
-google.friendconnect.container.setParentUrl('/' /* location of rpc_relay.html and canvas.html */);
-google.friendconnect.container.renderWallGadget(
- { id: 'div-1229410260056',
-   site: '16140604763994025116',
-   'view-params':{"scope":"SITE","features":"video,comment"}
-},
-  skin);
-</script>
-
-<p>So far, I continue to be underwhelmed. Come on Google, ride on top of OpenID, and plug this directly into a site's existing user account system...</p>
-
-<p><strong>Update:</strong> <a href="http://jimpick.com">Jim Pick</a> left a comment that went so far as <a href="http://blip.tv/file/1583359/">including a screencast showing OpenID support in Google Friend Connect</a>. So, my bad, Google Friend Connect <strong>does</strong> support OpenID directly. More correctly what I meant with my closing commentary was that, rather than logging into Google's infrastructure, that this should be tied into my sites existing account system. Which already supports OpenID.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-12-15-redanyway-a-distributed-social-network.md b/_posts/archive/2008-12-15-redanyway-a-distributed-social-network.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a5873a7..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-12-15-redanyway-a-distributed-social-network.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Redanyway, a distributed social network
-created: 1229374345
-categories: 
-- distributed social networking
-- Google Friend Connect
-- MyBlogLog
-- Redanyway
-- social networking
-- Social Media
-- Web 2.0
----
-<p><a href="http://www.redanyway.com">Redanyway</a> is one of a number of distributed social networks that is beginning to emerge. <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/12/04/google-friend-connect-now-open-to-all-websites/">Google Friend Connect</a> and <a href="http://www.facebook.com/news.php?blog=1&amp;story=108">Facebook Connect</a>. It was <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/12/08/redanyway-is-like-mybloglog-on-steroids-invites/">Techcrunch'd</a> last week so more people are likely to have seen it now.</p>
-<p>As TechCrunch says, it's a bit like &quot;<a href="http://mybloglog.com">MyBlogLog</a> on steroids&quot;. The concept of followers etc. is now more widely known from both MyBlogLog, Twitter, and so on. The &quot;asymmetric follow&quot; concept -- where people can be fans / followers / etc. is a good one, as it actually allows scale ... as opposed to Facebook, where both sides have to confirm a connection (and why they have groups and pages which are asymmetric).</p>
-<p>Like the other systems, it's currently widget / plugin based. Here is the widget embbeded in this post -- I may end up adding it to a sidebar on the site here as I experiment with Google and Facebook's offerings. MyBlogLog? Yeah, that widget is gone (another Yahoo early lead squandered...). Does anyone actively use MyBlogLog these days?</p>
-<!-- Begin: Redanyway --> <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
-var ra_no_of_membrs = 12;
-var ra_aboutme = 0;
-var ra_following = 1;
-var ra_style = "adapt";
-</script> <script language="JavaScript" src="http://www.redanyway.com/js/widget/ra.standard.widget.php?id=715" type="text/javascript"></script> <!-- End: Redanyway -->
-<p>Ultimately, my issue with these systems is that they don't semi-permeably integrate into any existing community. I define community pretty narrowly: sites that actually support full account logins with some level of customization that you can do once you have an account. That leaves out most blogging only platforms (e.g. WordPress), but includes larger Drupal sites that allow and encourage . I'm especially interested to see how <a href="http://buddypress.org/">BuddyPress</a> (a beta release today, I believe) might play into this space.</p>
-<p>We do have the component tech pieces to build this distributed system -- OAuth, OpenID, and so on. But, we don't have great UIs nor great uses cases that make people want to use this functionality today. It's going to be interesting to see how this space evolves. <a href="http://scobleizer.com/2008/12/15/the-facebookgoogle-war-over-your-blogs-friends/">Scobleizer calls it the &quot;war over your blog's friends&quot;</a>.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>Disclaimer: I am evaluating Redanyway as a potential candidate for <a href="http://bootuplabs.com">Bootup Labs</a>.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-12-15-redanyway.md b/_posts/archive/2008-12-15-redanyway.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f96a2a5..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-12-15-redanyway.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: RedAnyWay
-created: 1229374265
-categories: 
-- Redanyway
----
-
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2008-12-15-site-upgrade-acquia-drupal-6.md b/_posts/archive/2008-12-15-site-upgrade-acquia-drupal-6.md
deleted file mode 100644
index d7fdeaf..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2008-12-15-site-upgrade-acquia-drupal-6.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Site upgrade: Acquia Drupal 6"
-created: 1229383734
-categories: 
-- Acquia
-- Food Like That
-- Seven Hills Bed and Breakfast
-- BMC
----
-<p>As of yesterday evening, this site is now running Drupal 6 on a single Acquia codebase that also runs <a href="http://sevenhillsbnb.com">Seven Hills B&amp;B</a> (my parents' bed and breakfast site -- upgraded all the way from Drupal 4.6!) and <a href="http://foodlikethat.com">Food Like That</a> (my food / recipe site)</p>
-<p>I continue to recommend <a href="http://acquia.com">Acquia</a> for sites large and small. For smaller sites, if you've got some extra time around the holidays, the &quot;Community&quot; level of Acquia Network support is free until December 31st of this year. And once you sign up, you have that access for a full year. I have subscriptions for all the sites above that I've mentioned. You might have some non profit or smaller business sites that you help out with that would be a good fit.</p>
-<p>For larger sites, you may be customizing too much to take advantage of Acquia. But, for startups just building out their Drupal implementation, having the consulting team and &quot;backup support&quot; of Acquia makes the Standard or Pro levels definitely worthwhile.</p>
-<p>Anyway, end of the Acquia commercial :P I'm a fan of what those guys have done so far, but still would like to see a better install profile. This should directly lead to needing less of a Drupal developer to get somewhere fast. I used to joke about Cisco, which often gives out free / cheap hardware to non profits, that the equipment was worthless unless it had a Cisco Certified Engineer strapped to the top of it...</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>So, BMC&nbsp;is upgraded. A few highlights:</p>
-<ul>
-    <li>forums are nuked -- they hadn't been used in ages and there was limited valuable content in there</li>
-    <li>new theme -- <a href="http://drupal.org/project/marinelli">marinelli</a> - the header has rotating photos that are some of my personal favourite images that I've taken over the years.&nbsp;Watch for giant bacon! I'd like to see this built into a theme with imagecache one of these days. It's just manually selected and cropped images with a simple PHP rotator script.</li>
-    <li>twitter integration -- <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/user/1/tweets">see my profile for the tweets</a> from my personal account</li>
-    <li><a href="http://gravatar.com">gravatar</a> support -- when you comment, you'll have the picture associated with your email address displayed next to your comment</li>
-    <li>comment notify -- this is newly part of Acquia; simple email notification of follow ups on comments if you want to stay on top of something</li>
-    <li>ratings -- I don't know what I'm going to do this yet. I turned on user rating of articles. The vast majority of my traffic is &quot;anonymous&quot; -- searchers on Google ending up on this site. Maybe some of them will click a rating widget? We'll see. If you leave a comment or manually visit the site (as opposed to visiting through RSS), please do &quot;rate&quot; any of the posts that you feel are good.</li>
-</ul>
-<p>There is very likely stuff that's not working here and there. There are lots of things I'd still like to work on, like actually customizing the theme to give it some of my own personality.</p>
-<p>Big on my list is some sort of Google Reader integration, as my shared items is where I'm generating most of my daily content these days.</p>
-<p>Comments and feedback welcome</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2009-01-03-quick-audio-preview-of-upcoming-mobile-related-posts.md b/_posts/archive/2009-01-03-quick-audio-preview-of-upcoming-mobile-related-posts.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 4f45f8b..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2009-01-03-quick-audio-preview-of-upcoming-mobile-related-posts.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Quick audio preview of upcoming mobile related posts
-created: 1231023387
-categories: 
-- Stewart Marshall
-- Nokia
-- Nokia E71
-- Rogers
-- Fido
-- E71
-- Nokia N78
-- N78
-- Video and Podcast
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<p>Here's a quick audio preview of content for upcoming posts, that I&nbsp;recorded on a brand new <a href="http://europe.nokia.com/A41146122">Nokia E71</a>.</p>
-<ul>
-    <li>I'm OK with 3 year cell phone contracts here in Canada (this is going to be a post)</li>
-    <li>I like the E71 (this will be another post)</li>
-    <li><a href="http://www.hopstudios.com/nep/unvarnished/item/rogers_wireless_is_the_devil.html" title="According to Travis">Rogers is the devil</a>, Fido is the anti christ (and for hipsters)</li>
-    <li>&quot;They do have dogs, which is why I signed up for them in the first place&quot; - <a href="http://www.financialstoryteller.com/">Stewart Marshall</a>.</li>
-</ul>
-<p>Here's the <a href="http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/360398/Stewart_nokiae71_teaser.mp3">audio file</a>. <a href="http://horst.wordpress.com/">My dad</a> is heading back to Spain for another walk along the Camino, so he's learning his way around the E71 in wifi only mode, while I'm still on the Nokia N78, except now with a data plan. I need to also do a final review post of the N78.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>&nbsp;</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2009-01-05-adhack-theming-port-on-odesk.md b/_posts/archive/2009-01-05-adhack-theming-port-on-odesk.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 8de0391..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2009-01-05-adhack-theming-port-on-odesk.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,52 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: AdHack theming port on oDesk
-created: 1231202976
-categories: 
-- AdHack
-- Drupal 5
-- Drupal 6
-- theming
-- oDesk
-- Web Development
----
-<p>I just posted a <a href="http://www.odesk.com/jobs/Drupal-theme-port-from-Drupal_~~a3d74de0cacb6a5b?tot=1&amp;pos=0">job on oDesk looking for someone to help get AdHack from&nbsp;Drupal 5 to Drupal 6</a>. Here's the cut n paste of the description:</p>
-<blockquote>
-<p>We are migrating our existing website from Drupal 5 to Drupal 6 and need an expert Drupal themer to help with the conversion of the theme.<br />
-<br />
-The current live site is available for review at <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="You are about to go to a URL outside odesk.com" class="extlink" href="http://www.odesk.com/leaving_odesk.php?ref=http%3A%2F%2Fadhack.com">http://adhack.com</a><br />
-<br />
-It runs on Drupal 5 and uses common Drupal modules such as CCK and Views.<br />
-<br />
-We already have the Acquia version of Drupal 6 running on a development server. This is an initial port so we can migrate to Drupal 6 and add more features over time. This may lead to on going contract work in theming and light development.<br />
-<br />
-Skills required:</p>
-<ul>
-    <li>
-    <p>Existing portfolio and experience with Drupal 6 theming.</p>
-    </li>
-    <li>
-    <p>Drupal theming</p>
-    </li>
-    <li>
-    <p>HTML</p>
-    </li>
-    <li>
-    <p>CSS</p>
-    </li>
-    <li>
-    <p>PHP</p>
-    </li>
-    <li>
-    <p>custom work with the template.php file</p>
-    </li>
-    <li>
-    <p>customization with Views module</p>
-    </li>
-</ul>
-</blockquote>
-<p>The main skills needed here are familiarity with both the Drupal 5 theming system and the Drupal 6 theming differences.&nbsp;There are lots of custom views with accompanying snippets in the template.php. This is an initial port so that we can get everything running on D6, and then optimize from there.</p>
-<p>It's my estimation that this would be about 20 hours of work for someone that charges $25 an hour, or 10 hours of work for someone that charges $50 per hour :P This is an hourly job, that's just my estimate of what a first cut port would take.</p>
-<p>If you're a developer but know the theming layer, this would be a good fit: there is more development-centric work to be done on various custom bits and pieces.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>More info? Catch me on @bmann or leave a comment.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2009-01-05-apple-macworld-2009-rumours-macbook-ds-and-still-no-tablet.md b/_posts/archive/2009-01-05-apple-macworld-2009-rumours-macbook-ds-and-still-no-tablet.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 1e96b2f..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2009-01-05-apple-macworld-2009-rumours-macbook-ds-and-still-no-tablet.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Apple Macworld 2009 rumours - Macbook DS (and still no tablet)
-created: 1231197799
-categories: 
-- Apple
-- Apple Tablet
-- iPhone
-- iPod Touch
-- Mac Tablet
-- Macbook DS
-- Macworld
-- Macworld 2009
-- netbook
-- rumours
-- Mac
----
-<p>Tomorrow is the Macworld 2009 keynote, this time by Phil Schiller instead of Jobs. Regardless, it's that time of year again -- Apple rumour time! Mac Rumors is still my favourite site for this sort of thing -- here is their <a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2009/01/04/macworld-san-francisco-2009-rumor-roundup/">2009 rumor roundup</a>. They are on twitter now, so as well as the MacRumorsLive site, you can also follow them @macrumors.</p>
-<p>The rumors seem pretty believable. I'd like to think something more exciting is planned for the MacBook Pro 17&quot; than just a better battery. Maybe touchscreen instead of a keyboard? That's what I&nbsp;was thinking last time ... no keyboard, no trackpad, an entire touchscreen / tablet interface on the &quot;bottom half&quot;. Think what this would do for audio mixers, Photoshop tools, etc. etc. I call this crazy wild idea the &quot;Macbook DS&quot;&nbsp;(partial props to <a href="http://acko.net">UnConed</a> on that one). (you know, kind of like <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/blog/bmann/12-macbook-pro-with-touchscreen-keyboard">I predicted 2 years ago </a>:P)</p>
-<p>I've been &quot;predicting&quot; a <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/blog/bmann/mac-tablet-media-mac-itunes-movies-predictions">Mac Tablet</a> for 4 years now. Today, it would be more like a super iPhone or iPod Touch, with a 7&quot; screen. Hmm...the iMac Touch? I'd love to see this one, but it's probably a little early for this -- <a href="http://www.macrumors.com/2008/12/30/large-screen-ipod-touch-device-in-fall-of-2009/">Macrumors thinks we might see it this fall</a>. It's also sort of the netbook entry for Apple, at least as far as size goes.</p>
-<p>Any crazy hopeful rumours or dreams you'd like to see sooner rather than later from Apple?</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2009-01-08-the-3-stages-of-ecommerce-tools.md b/_posts/archive/2009-01-08-the-3-stages-of-ecommerce-tools.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 24853f7..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2009-01-08-the-3-stages-of-ecommerce-tools.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,115 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: The 3 Stages of Ecommerce Tools
-created: 1231451087
-categories: 
-- Drupal Ecommerce
-- ecommerce
-- Elastic Path
-- Etsy
-- Expression Engine
-- Foodzie
-- FoxEE
-- FoxyCart
-- Google Checkout
-- Hop Studios
-- Magento
-- osCommerce
-- PayPal
-- Travis Smith
-- Ubercart
-- Wordpress
-- Drupal
-- Open Source
-- Web Development
-- Drupal Ecommerce
-- ecommerce
-- Elastic Path
-- Etsy
-- Expression Engine
-- Foodzie
-- FoxEE
-- FoxyCart
-- Google Checkout
-- Hop Studios
-- Magento
-- osCommerce
-- PayPal
-- Travis Smith
-- Ubercart
-- Wordpress
-- Drupal
-- Open Source
-- Web Development
-- Drupal Ecommerce
-- ecommerce
-- Elastic Path
-- Etsy
-- Expression Engine
-- Foodzie
-- FoxEE
-- FoxyCart
-- Google Checkout
-- Hop Studios
-- Magento
-- osCommerce
-- PayPal
-- Travis Smith
-- Ubercart
-- Wordpress
-- Drupal
-- Open Source
-- Web Development
-- Drupal Ecommerce
-- ecommerce
-- Elastic Path
-- Etsy
-- Expression Engine
-- Foodzie
-- FoxEE
-- FoxyCart
-- Google Checkout
-- Hop Studios
-- Magento
-- osCommerce
-- PayPal
-- Travis Smith
-- Ubercart
-- Wordpress
-- Drupal
-- Open Source
-- Web Development
----
-<p>I've been having some discussions with <a href="http://unvarnished.com">Travis</a> from <a href="http://www.hopstudios.com">Hop&nbsp;Studios</a> about ecommerce. Hop Studios are <a href="http://www.expressionengine.com">ExpressionEngine</a> experts, and also good friends of mine. EE, as I've written about before, is a very capable CMS with a custom data builder much like Drupal's content construction kit (CCK). Its only failing is that it's not open source :P</p>
-<p>I've been <a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=&amp;ands=&amp;phrase=&amp;ors=ecommerce+magento&amp;nots=&amp;tag=&amp;lang=all&amp;from=bmann&amp;to=&amp;ref=&amp;near=&amp;within=15&amp;units=mi&amp;since=&amp;until=&amp;rpp=15">Twittering a bit about ecommerce</a>, so people have been asking what I'm up to. The motivation is that I've recently had occasion to dig into ecommerce with two clients -- one where it looks like their current 'store' will need to be replaced, the other has just some simple PayPal buttons today.</p>
-<p>I put 'store' in quotes, because it's not really a store today ... it's kind of a glorified cart. I did a presentation a year ago where I talked about the <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/blog/bmann/web-directions-north-2008-3-stages-dynamic-systems-wrap">3 Stages of Dynamic Web Sites</a>, and this got me to thinking about ecommerce tools. I have very little experience running or implementing ecommerce, but as I began to look around, it's clear that they roughly break down into 3 stages as well.</p>
-<h2>1) Hosted pay buttons</h2>
-<p>This is the <a href="http://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/xcl/rec/singleitem-intro-outside">PayPal &quot;Buy Now&quot;</a> or <a href="https://checkout.google.com/sell/">Google Checkout</a>. In those hosted systems, you define a &quot;product&quot; and it generates code you can stick on your site. No inventory, limited or no &quot;dynamic&quot; options, no ability to &quot;keep shopping&quot; or anything like that. The plus side is that it works everywhere and has little to no set up costs -- it's all per transaction.</p>
-<p>Use this if you have a handful of products. It's great to get up and running IMMEDIATELY -- if you have product to sell, don't wait: start trying to sell it and refine your techniques and workflow. Anything else like automation, fulfillment, etc. can wait -- start selling and shipping your stuff to see if it sells. If you have high traffic that you are overwhelmed...you've also got the money from selling to invest in better tools.</p>
-<h2>2) Carts</h2>
-<p>These can be little scripts you install locally, or be hosted as well (e.g. <a href="http://www.foxycart.com/">FoxyCart</a>, which is something I found through Travis because it <a href="http://www.hccdevelopment.com/Web-Based-Software/Product/FoxEE/">integrates with EE as FoxEE</a>). There are a probably hundreds of options, with integration with many different system. They are again different levels of integration into sites -- the critical factor is often trying to make sure there is one login rather than a dual login system. Carts that can support a single login or login integration with the &quot;host&quot; dynamic system (EE, WordPress, etc.) start edging up into the category of full stores.</p>
-<p>Use a cart if you have a larger number of products, especially complimentary products where you might want to buy two items together, or keep browsing the site and let people buy multiple items. The lower end carts are only a bit more sophisticated than pay now buttons, and as I mentioned, the higher end carts are similar to full stores. Carts don't usually have the full analytics, specials, inventory, and full member logins that stores do.</p>
-<h2>3) Stores</h2>
-<p>There are many full store scripts as well. I'm most interested in the mid range stores. They are open source or low cost, are relatively full featured with memberships, have good extensibility so you can customize them or integrate them as needed. They are platforms that can grow with you. Oh, and as per usual, I'm biased towards open source solutions :P</p>
-<p>I had heard lots of good things about <a href="http://elasticpath.com">Elastic Path</a> (they're a local Vancouver success story). So I headed over to their site. Luckily, they have a very good sales guide, and their <a href="http://www.elasticpath.com/ecommerce/cost/">cost page </a>answered all my questions in two easy sentences. One was &quot;If your annual online revenue is less than $5 million, Elastic  Path Commerce is probably too expensive for you&quot;, and secondly &quot;If you're looking for free (or nearly free) open-source platforms or entry-level hosted solutions, Elastic Path Commerce is probably not for you&quot;. Great -- I think it's fantastic when companies help you self select AWAY from them.</p>
-<p><a href="http://www.oscommerce.com/">osCommerce</a> is the grand daddy here -- it has had a bad rap for design and funky code. I think I can safely say its built with &quot;older&quot; techniques, and I don't see a from the ground rewrite happening any time soon. I've toyed with it in the past, and I just don't see it as anything other than a legacy app.</p>
-<p><a href="http://magentoecommerce.com">Magento Ecommerce</a> is the company / software I've had my eye on. The front page says &quot;fastest growing ecommerce package&quot; with 525K downloads. It's licensed under the <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/osl-3.0.php">Open Software License (OSL) 3.0</a>. And yep, I hadn't heard of it before either -- there's an <a href="http://www.rosenlaw.com/OSL3.0-explained.pdf">explanatory PDF with more info</a> if you're interested in open source licensing details.</p>
-<p>There's a <a href="http://www.magentocommerce.com/extension/296/lazzymonks-wordpress-integration">WordPress integration plugin</a>, and a large community of extensions from open source to commercial in the <a href="http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect">Magento Connect marketplace</a>. While Magento is open source, it's mixed license and stewardship by one commercial company may make less technical users feel more comfortable. You can even buy <a href="http://www.magentocommerce.com/support/overview">support contracts starting at $42 / month</a> -- this is a no brainer both for consultants deploying Magento, and for customers whose livelihood depends on the software.</p>
-<p>Lastly, Drupal-based solutions. Drupal's strength at a very high level has always been two things: 1) you can get a single login and access many different functions from community to ecommerce and 2) it's really extensible, so either through configuration or clean programming, you can customize the base solutions. Both of these are good features for ecommerce stores. There is the original <a href="http://drupalecommerce.org/">Drupal Ecommerce</a> package, and the newer <a href="http://www.ubercart.org/">Ubercart</a> team.</p>
-<p>The downside is that Drupal is not, at this point, a drop in and configure your store. I can see Ubercart edging in that direction. I've been bugging them for quite some time to do an install profile...the next piece of &quot;just&quot; an install profile would be an install profile &quot;wizard&quot; that walks you through setting up different types of stores. That being said, there are <a href="http://www.ubercart.org/site">lots of examples of Ubercart-powered stores</a>.</p>
-<p><strong>Update 2:</strong> I got lots of feedback from Drupal folks that read my site. <a href="http://twitter.com/gheydon">@gheydon</a>, author of the Drupal Ecommerce package, <a href="http://twitter.com/gheydon/statuses/1105446813">said on Twitter</a> &quot;I have been working a lot on e-Commerce and it is trimmed down a lot, and will have a very basic store by def ault, and expand on it&quot; There is also a <a href="http://drupalecommerce.org/content/showcase">list of Drupal Ecommerce showcase sites</a>.</p>
-<p><a href="http://twitter.com/mikey_p">@mikey_p</a> pointed out another advantage of a full Drupal solution <a href="http://twitter.com/mikey_p/statuses/1105484989">on Twitter</a> &quot;The downside as a developer 4 dual platform CMS + Store is learning 2 systems. w/ Drupal solutions, I cn theme th e store &amp; site both.&quot;</p>
-<p>In the <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/blog/bmann/3-stages-ecommerce-tools#comment-137272">comments</a>, <a href="http://www.topnotchthemes.com/">stephthegeek from Top Notch Themes</a> pointed to an <a href="http://www.ubercart.org/forum/ideas_and_suggestions/1284/ubercart_install_profile#comment-30489">Acquia + Ubercart install profile</a>...that's what *I* was thinking about, so I'll be watching it eagerly...</p>
-<hr />
-<p>When should you run a full store solution? Well, you've got a mix of content and community, you sell a larger number of products, you need inventory control, and you intend to keep investing in the technology that runs your store.</p>
-<hr />
-<p>In a&nbsp; fourth category, you've got many different ways to sell items on various hosted services. For examples, lots of artists and craftspeople use <a href="http://etsy.com">Etsy</a> to run a store and sell their products. The newly launched <a href="http://foodzie.com">Foodzie</a> specializes in being a sort of mall for &quot;artisanal&quot; food-related stores and products. Actually, there are probably again a couple of hundred more in this category -- <a href="http://www.shopify.com/">Shopify</a> in Calgary, etc. etc.</p>
-<p>I'm specifically not very interested in these types of hosted &quot;mall&quot; systems (in this article) unless you can map a CNAME or otherwise use a web address under your own control: ecommerce is all about driving web traffic across buy buttons, and pushing that traffic to someone else's domain may not be in your best interest. The best of these would offer APIs to have the benefits of a full store functionality that is maintained for you, as well as integration directly into your own site / domain.</p>
-<p><strong>Update: </strong>got some <a href="http://twitter.com/jbillingsley/status/1105366812">feedback</a> from <a href="http://twitter.com/jbillingsley">@jbillingsley</a> (thanks!) that I should probably include eBay and Amazon in this fourth area, since you can do a variety of hosted stores and other types of sales. Again, this area I'm specifically not really focusing on -- I want stuff that you can integrate extensively into your own site and domain.</p>
-<hr />
-<p>To me, ecommerce feels like there is still a lot of room for innovation. There is now little to no hesitancy about buying online (compared to earlier times). Once your store is up and running, you can use marketing and analytics to costly be tuning how much money you make: you are in control. It kind of feels like the early days of online advertising.</p>
-<p>I'm leaning towards Magento as something worthwhile to spend more time with. It's open source (although I really do need to know what exactly the OSL means to me), it is a full out of the box store solution (I installed it via their public SVN repository, which impressed me), and it has a history of integration with content management systems.</p>
-<p>I'd like to hear about other people's experience with ecommerce scripts, especially if they are open source stores.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<hr />
-<p>By the way, the PayPal &quot;Buy Now&quot;&nbsp;button that I was experimenting with is my friend Anthony's <a title="Delicious artisanal grown and produced wines and olive oils" href="http://farmsteadwines.com">Farmstead&nbsp;Wines</a>. My site here embedded the button at top right that sells his <a href="http://farmsteadwines.com/oliveoil/">Renato Fenocchio olive oil</a>.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2009-01-15-jaiku-is-going-open-source-on-google-app-engine.md b/_posts/archive/2009-01-15-jaiku-is-going-open-source-on-google-app-engine.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c6a5db8..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2009-01-15-jaiku-is-going-open-source-on-google-app-engine.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Jaiku is going open source on Google App Engine
-created: 1232013556
-categories: 
-- Google
-- Jaiku
-- Jaiku Engine
-- microblogging
-- Google App Engine
-- OAuth
-- Presently
-- Identi.ca
-- Montreal Startup Fund
-- Yammer
-- Stowe Boyd
-- Open Source
-- Web 2.0
----
-<p>As <a href="http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2009/01/changes-for-jaiku-and-farewell-to.html">announced on the Google Code blog</a> / <a href="http://www.jaiku.com/blog/2009/01/15/were-going-open-source/">cross-posted to the Jaiku blog</a>, Jaiku is going open source:</p>
-<blockquote>
-<p>As we mentioned last April, we are in the process of porting Jaiku over to Google App Engine. After the migration is complete, we will release the new open source Jaiku Engine project on Google Code under the Apache License. While Google will no longer actively develop the Jaiku codebase, the service itself will live on thanks to a dedicated and passionate volunteer team of Googlers.     With the open source Jaiku Engine project, organizations, groups and individuals will be able to roll-their-own microblogging services and deploy them on Google App Engine. The new Jaiku Engine will include support for OAuth, and we're excited about developers using this proven code as a starting point in creating a freely available and federated, open source microblogging platform.</p>
-</blockquote>
-<p>The rest of the Google Code announcement actual mentions the end of <a href="http://dodgeball.com">Dodgeball</a> (also similar to Jaiku and <a href="http://brightkite.com">Brightkite</a>) plus the <a href="http://editor.googlemashups.com/">Mashup&nbsp;Editor</a> (which I had never heard of). Technically, the Mashup&nbsp;Editor is also moving to the App Engine infrastructure.</p>
-<p>I had heard rumours of the coming open source nature of Jaiku, but didn't think it would extend to Google itself essentially not further developing it. There has been talk of a tightening of focus, which is fine, but I think real time, Jaiku-like services (and really, Jaiku was first ... Twitter, Friendfeed, etc. came later) are going to become more important, not less.</p>
-<p>The open sourcing of Jaiku should make one wonder about the <a href="http://gigaom.com/2009/01/14/identica-gets-funding-to-make-open-source-twitter-variant/">recent funding for Identi.ca</a>. I think what the Montreal Startup Fund guys are doing is fantastic, but don't know that I agree with putting money into open source projects before they've shown real traction.</p>
-<p>That funding link points to a GigaOm post that also points to Twitter for Enterprise &quot;clones&quot; <a href="http://yammer.com">Yammer</a> and <a href="http://present.ly">Presently</a>. I like both of those tools, and think they work great for internal / group communicatons. <a href="http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/2008/12/presently---cre.html">Stowe Boyd's write up of Presently</a> is what made me go try it, plus we had a need for shared / private groups for Bootup Labs.</p>
-<p>So, the open sourcing of Jaiku is one thing. The BIG thing is that this allows turn key public / private microblogging on a scalable infrastructure. No fail whale, you just get more resources via the underlying Google App Engine. And by turnkey, I mean anyone with a Google Apps for Domains account can follow a few steps to run their own instance, on their own domain.</p>
-<p>Oh right, and by the BIG thing, I mean that this instantly catapults microblogging into a fully federated system: I set up jaiku.bootuplabs.com, which can federate with all the other Jaiku instances on Google App Engine. It's open source, so allowing one to map identities to Twitter, Identi.ca, or other systems is certainly possible as well. Or, as Presently does it, by pre-pending a special tag for posts you want to show up on other systems.</p>
-<p>OK, I don't know if that last bit is true, I'm just hoping it is: will federation be turned on out of the box? Or an option? In any case, it's open source, so it would definitely be possible to add this feature.</p>
-<p>One final question I have is where the centralized discussion of future features / development / etc. for Jaiku Engine?</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>I guess a code.google.com site will be going up, in the meantime there is the <a href="http://getsatisfaction.com/jaiku/">Get Satisfaction</a> site. If we can, it might be useful to start a new &quot;product&quot; there called Jaiku Engine to differentiate it from jaiku.com (which theoretically will stay up).</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2009-01-18-side-loading-pre-fetching-and-cloud-storage.md b/_posts/archive/2009-01-18-side-loading-pre-fetching-and-cloud-storage.md
deleted file mode 100644
index dde7f0e..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2009-01-18-side-loading-pre-fetching-and-cloud-storage.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Side loading, pre-fetching, and cloud storage
-created: 1232344030
-categories: 
-- sideloading
-- cloud computing
-- cloud storage
-- Dropbox
-- Jungle Disk
-- LiveMesh
-- ZumoDrive
-- Wesabe
-- Steam
-- Valve
-- Direct2Drive
-- prefetching
-- Web 2.0
----
-<p>I recently wrote about <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/blog/bmann/dropbox-vs-jungledisk">Dropbox vs. Jungle Disk</a>. I'm a happy user of both. In the last little while, people have also talked about Microsoft's <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/livemesh/">LiveMesh</a>, plus <a href="http://zumodrive.com">ZumoDrive</a>.</p>
-<p>Reactions to LiveMesh have been mixed - it's clear they're still working on the service, and it's not as smooth as some of the others.</p>
-<p>ZumoDrive is very very very close to DropBox ... except it does some interesting things with not actually having to have all your files on disk. This is pretty amazing, since it delivers on the promise of an expandable, infinite drive. <a href="http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2009/01/zumodrive_is_going_to_change_everything.html">Ewan at Mobile Industry Review thinks that ZumoDrive &quot;is going to change EVERYTHING</a>&quot; -- I disagree only in that I don't think a clear winner can be identified at this point: each separate startup brings new features and new business model tweaks to the table. The comments on Ewan's post are great: lots of people thinking that cloud storage / storing stuff in the cloud is complete bollocks, and say so loudly, or that it's been done for years. I single out Ewan's post because he's thinking about the mobile angle on things. Already we require our desktop apps to have a web component, or to be able to sync with our mobile devices. We should demand the same from our storage.</p>
-<p>What I'm more interested in is the concept of sideloading and pre-fetching as they relate to these continued innovations in cloud storage. Keep in mind that I'm going to take the liberty to come up with my own definitions, so let's start with those.</p>
-<p>Sideloading: data is transferred from one Internet location directly to another Internet-hosted storage space rather than having to be downloaded to the user's / requester's desktop and then re-uploaded to some other storage space.</p>
-<p>When you put it like that, moving bits onto your desktop just so that you can move them back up to the Internet is clearly a collosal waste. First, you are using constrained bandwidth. The bandwidth from one server to another is going to be much higher and more reliable than down whatever access pipe you have to your computer. Second, you are using double the bandwidth. Download it, then upload it.</p>
-<p>Much like I can use PayPal or other forms of payment to make purchases that go direct from my bank account to another's, I should be able to make digital content requests that go directly into &quot;my&quot; cloud storage. Who will be the first to implement this on a broad scale? I've already seen Wesabe do something a bit like this with their Firefox plugin and bank statement downloads.</p>
-<p>By the way, I came upon this use case because I use <a href="http://store.steampowered.com/">Valve's Steam</a> and <a href="http://www.direct2drive.com/">Direct2Drive</a> game purchase / downloading servicse. I semi-regularly do 6GB downloads, use them to install, and then have to backup the &quot;originals&quot;, which I usually archive on Jungle Disk. What a pain! Steam does this a bit better, because a download is an install, rather than the Direct2Drive 2 step process of downloading the installer, then installing. But, Steam still has the &quot;backup game files&quot; option -- you want to uninstall (perhaps to put on another machine), but you don't want to have to pay the &quot;download penalty&quot; of fetching all 6GB of files from the source server again.</p>
-<p>I'll continue to use the Steam example to illustrate my next concept, pre-fetching.</p>
-<p>Pre-fetching: like TiVo, using a client / service to trickle downloads in the background of digital content that you are likely to be interested in. You can then immediately use / activate / purchase digital content without having to wait for a download.</p>
-<p>XBox 360 already does this, to a degree. You can choose to have all new content downloaded to your console automatically. This isn't yet done on a widespread scale on PCs, and could be applied to many forms of content. There used to be plugins and services that did this for webpages, back in the days of dial up. It doesn't make sense for content that is considered so small, but 6GB games or perhaps raw video footage are examples of the type of content where without a pre-fetch step, you could be waiting days to actually interact with content locally.</p>
-<p>If anyone has examples of services that implement some of these concepts, I'd be interested in hearing about them.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>Regardless, I'm looking forward to further innovation in these areas. I've joked about prefetching being applied to physical products: send me books and clothes on a pre-determined budget on a regular basis, much as I <a href="http://spud.ca">order my groceries</a> today ($20 fresh produce boxes).</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2009-02-20-northern-voice-2009.md b/_posts/archive/2009-02-20-northern-voice-2009.md
deleted file mode 100644
index d0b292d..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2009-02-20-northern-voice-2009.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Northern Voice 2009
-created: 1235119390
-categories: 
-- northern voice
-- Northern Voice 2009
-- conference
-- event
-- Vancouver
----
-<p>Tomorrow is <a href="http://2009.northernvoice.ca">Northern Voice 2009</a>. This is the first year where I was not an organizer. I've been feeling highly ... conflicted about it this year, for no particular good reason. I guess it's a combination of missing the organizing / the people, and feeling guilty about not helping more. And maybe just that I've had a host of changes in the past year and they're still catching up with me.</p>
-
-<p>I'll still be using my "megaphone" voice to help run the <a href="http://2009.northernvoice.ca/friday">morning MooseCamp wrangling</a>. We have much fewer open slots than in years past, but I'll suggest meeting in the open table area and other ad hoc corners to fill people's wants for that.</p>
-
-<p>The dinner party tonight at <a href="http://www.federicossupperclub.com/">Federico's Supper Club</a> was amazing. It was a whirlwind of briefly catching up with folks, talking Semantic Web / RDf with skud from <a href="http://freebase.com">Freebase</a>, and a whirlwind of dancing and singing. There are <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/nv09/">many pictures already</a>.</p>
-
-<p>It feels right and good and enjoyable to be among these fine folks.</p>
-
-<p>I hope to see and talk to many more people over the next couple of days. I will enjoy catching up, brain storming the future, and just learning more about people.</p>
-
-<p>I've set up a <a href="http://friendfeed.com/rooms/northernvoice09">Friendfeed room for Northern Voice 2009</a>. If you join it, you'll be able to use the Share on Friendfeed bookmarklet to easily send links images, etc. directly to the room. Or, you can just set it to realtime mode and watch the content unfold.</p>
-
-<iframe style="border: 1px solid rgb(67, 126, 199);" src="http://friendfeed.com/rooms/northernvoice09/realtime?embed=1&amp;title=NV09%20Friendfeed" frameborder="0" height="600" width="400"></iframe>
-
-<p>As before every Northern Voice, I'm up late and need to get up early and I've already talked too much. Off to sleep, see you all tomorrow.</p>
-
-<p>P.S. Since so many people like the "epic" version of my hair, I will repeat it over the next couple of days.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2009-03-08-dc-drupalcon-2009.md b/_posts/archive/2009-03-08-dc-drupalcon-2009.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 1494f81..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2009-03-08-dc-drupalcon-2009.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: DC Drupalcon 2009
-created: 1236547134
-categories: 
-- DrupalCon
-- DrupalCon DC 2009
-- Knight Foundation
-- Drupal Association
-- Rob Loach
-- install profiles
-- drupal
-- Drupal
----
-<a href="http://dc2009.drupalcon.org"><img src="http://www.grabup.com/uploads/f173edbbd307876cfbbc878c0eddada8.png" alt="Grabup Image" align="left" hspace="5" vspace="5" /></a><p>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 <a href="http://developmentseed.org">Development Seed</a> have done a fantastic job. Everything from the venue to the identity design of the whole conference have been most excellently pulled together. They've set a new bar for organization and professionalism. And a new high of almost 1500 attendees, up from 900 in Boston a year ago.</p>
-
-<p>For me, I've really enjoyed &quot;coming back&quot;. I didn't make it to <a href="http://szeged2008.drupalcon.org/">Szeged</a> in the fall, and I've spent the past 8 months not having Drupal as a day job. That has, in fact, re-energized me about being involved in the Drupal community in the context that I feel like being involved. I&nbsp;can work on concepts and projects that interest and excite me, without any ties to clients or projects or commercial interests.</p>
-
-<p>This time around, I didn't give a presentation around <a href="http://drupal.org/project/installation+profiles">install profiles</a>, although I did sit in on the session. I think we ended up with the catalyzation of having lots of the different overlapping solutions work together. Oh, and by the way, any bitching about install profiles not doing packages or post install stuff or any of a host of other things -- we know, we've always known that, it was hard enough to get them in, never mind boil the ocean and have them do everything else. It took from 4.5 through to Drupal 5 to get them in at all! Anyway, core hooks for import / export sounds like a very achievable goal for D7.</p>
-
-<p>The presentation I did give -- Practical Semantic Web (and Why You Should Care) is up on <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/bmann/practical-semantic-web-and-why-you-should-care-drupalcon-dc-2009">SlideShare</a> and also available as <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/DrupalconDc2009-PracticalSemanticWebAndWhyYouShouldCare">video on the Internet Archive</a>. More on that in a complete post.</p>
-
-<p>I said at the end of my presentation that Drupal's mission is to "evolve the web". I'd like to be a part of evolving the web, and I see my involvement in Drupal as keeping in touch with that.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>Here are a few of things that I am going to be working on:</p>
-
-<ul>
-<li>OpenID needs more work -- in Drupal and in a broader sense. It will be implemented as part of the redesign. I chatted briefly with @chrismessina about this, and I hope we can get some external companies interested in helping with a best practices implementation. The infrastructure team is a bit nervous about support for this at scale -- it definitely does need testing and additional security review.</li>
-
-<li>My work with install profiles is not over. I mentioned import / export above, and that looks like it will move ahead and not need any prodding from me. I don't have a pointer to the issue for this year, but will be monitoring it. Instead, I jumped back into working on an <a href="http://groups.drupal.org/node/19812">expanded default install profile for core</a>. @walkah made an interesting point that "Drupal is not a product" (to which I sort of agree) but at the same time showcasing features out of the box is a worthwhile goal.</li>
-
-<li>I'm going to tackle a few marketing items and other tasks within the <a href="http://association.drupal.org">Drupal Association</a>. More soon on this as we start publishing some of the working groups and tasks and ask for more help from the community.</li>
-
-<li>I spent some time talking to Jose from the <a href="http://drupal.org/node/393554">Knight Foundation that awarded almost $500K to the Drupal project</a>, and also to <a href="http://robloach.net/">Rob Loach</a>, who was one of the grant recipients to build micro blogging in Drupal. I'd like to help make sure that the grants are maximized. One main idea is to architect all of each project, but allocate some money to bounty additional features, but only fund half of them. This will encourage buy in from the community as well as incent developers to engage clients to fund the other half.</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>As always, I am both exhausted and energized by my time amongst the Drupaleers.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2009-03-11-om-thinks-the-mac-tablet-is-imminent.md b/_posts/archive/2009-03-11-om-thinks-the-mac-tablet-is-imminent.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e6a74f3..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2009-03-11-om-thinks-the-mac-tablet-is-imminent.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Om thinks the Mac Tablet is imminent
-created: 1236798820
-categories: 
-- touchscreen
-- Mac Tablet
-- rumours
-- ebook
-- Mac
----
-<p>As my last foray into <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/blog/bmann/apple-macworld-2009-rumours-macbook-ds-and-still-no-tablet">Apple rumour land</a> states:</p>
-<blockquote>
-<p>I've been &quot;predicting&quot; a <a href="../../../../../../blog/bmann/mac-tablet-media-mac-itunes-movies-predictions">Mac Tablet</a> for 4 years now. Today, it would be more like a super iPhone or iPod Touch, with a 7&quot; screen.</p>
-</blockquote>
-<p>Now <a href="http://gigaom.com/2009/03/09/why-i-think-apple-touchscreen-netbook-is-real">Om has been reading the tea leaves</a> and finally thinks that a Mac Tablet / Netbook / Super iPhone is something we might see from Apple soon:</p>
-<blockquote>
-<p>First of all, people are looking for a cheap, connected Internet device that is &ldquo;not a laptop.&rdquo; I was recently watching an interview with Amazon&rsquo;s Jeff Bezos on Charlie Rose, in which he talked about the Kindle being flexible enough to encourage new kinds of media consumption, including multimedia books and newspapers with immersive content and interactivity. I think he is spot on &mdash; and just from that perspective, Apple has to be thinking really hard about this looming opportunity.</p>
-<p>Secondly, I think the emergence of the iPod touch/iPhone is changing how we perceive and interact with computers. My friend Antonio Rodriguez, who founded and sold his startup Tabblo to Hewlett Packard, <a href="http://www.theonda.org/articles/2008/12/27/lets-turn-those-itouch-devices-into-first-class-content-creators-please">thinks that a whole generation of kids is now growing up</a> with keyboardless computing as a default way to interact with machines.</p>
-</blockquote>
-<p>I carry around a paper notebook for a couple of reasons. One is that I &quot;think better&quot; when I'm scribbling, and it stays in my brain. Secondly, I can engage someone directly and still take notes, rather than create a barrier with a laptop screen. I can see a tablet-like device being a good fit here.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>At home, I've always seen this in between spot where I&nbsp;have a simple controller / browser that gives me a 1 ft interface for the screen that is 10 ft away. A great UI for local browsing / manipulation / editing, and then throw it up on the big screen to share with everyone.</p>
-<p>With Apple, I don't think the question has ever been of &quot;if&quot;, but rather of &quot;when&quot; the right mix of materials, technology, UI, and the price of these would be at the right point to share with the masses.</p>
-<p>Oh, and just for kicks ... it will probably make a great ebook reader, too :P</p>
-<p>I think I'd buy one, with a max price point somewhere around $500. Would you buy one? What could you see yourself using it for?</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2009-04-04-web-apps-should-let-me-bring-my-own-storage.md b/_posts/archive/2009-04-04-web-apps-should-let-me-bring-my-own-storage.md
deleted file mode 100644
index b92a620..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2009-04-04-web-apps-should-let-me-bring-my-own-storage.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,49 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Web apps should let me "Bring my own storage"
-created: 1238890738
-categories: 
-- Amazon S3
-- Batchbook
-- cloud storage
-- Dropbox
-- Highrise
-- Huddle
-- Joyent
-- Jungle Disk
-- Nirvanix
-- Rackspace
-- side loading
-- Web 2.0
-- Amazon S3
-- Batchbook
-- cloud storage
-- Dropbox
-- Highrise
-- Huddle
-- Joyent
-- Jungle Disk
-- Nirvanix
-- Rackspace
-- side loading
-- Web 2.0
----
-<p>I've written up <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/blog/bmann/dropbox-vs-jungledisk">Dropbox vs.&nbsp;Jungle Disk</a> before, and then followed up with the concept of <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/blog/bmann/side-loading-pre-fetching-and-cloud-storage">side loading</a> - having software assets (purchased or otherwise) be moved from one online location to a cloud storage location owned by you.</p>
-<p>The guys at <a href="http://blog.jungledisk.com/2009/04/04/jungle-disk-roadmap-update/">Jungle Disk are looking to add features to their service</a>, asking people to vote between public/private file sharing, multi-computer sync, and network drive offline access. Since this is exactly what I&nbsp;use <a href="https://www.getdropbox.com/referrals/NTM2MDM5ODk">Dropbox</a> for (I use Jungle Disk for backup and long term archive), I really would love to see them add all three.</p>
-<p>Dropbox still only has two downsides for me. First, it's reselling Amazon S3 storage to me at a premium, and I resent that. Secondly, because of it's sync model, I have to have enough room for all my files on every computer I enable it. I'm storing all my files in the cloud so I don't *have* to have unlimited storage. Like <a href="http://zumodrive.com/">ZumoDrive</a> does, there should be some smart caching to keep some stuff local, and make all of it available when needed.</p>
-<p>I can't really blame Dropbox - they're doing the same thing countless other web app companies are doing. Amazon S3 is one of the biggest, cheapest, and most reliable options out there. <a href="http://www.joyent.com/connector/bingodisk/">Joyent's BingoDisk</a>, <a href="http://www.mosso.com/cloudfs/">Rackspace's CloudFS</a>, and <a href="http://www.nirvanix.com/">Nirvanix</a> are three examples of somewhat equivalent offerings with slightly differing price points, so let's assume those are included in the concept of reselling cloud storage. But here's the thing I realized, and <a href="http://twitter.com/bmann/status/1428370165">posted on Twitter</a> the other day:</p>
-<blockquote>
-	<p><span class="status-body"><span class="entry-content">Lots of online apps differentiate pricing based on storage. I'd much rather they didn't offer storage, and let me plugin S3 / Dropbox / etc.</span></span></p>
-</blockquote>
-<p>&nbsp;</p>
-<p><!--break--></p>
-<p>I was realizing this as I was looking at the <a href="http://www.huddle.net/huddle-price-plans/">pricing plan for Huddle</a> (which is project management sorta like Basecamp):</p>
-<p class="rtecenter"><a alt="View the image at QuickSnapper.com" href="http://www.quicksnapper.com/borismann/image/huddle"><img src="http://www.quicksnapper.com/files/4037/84165451349D7F4A92AE5D_m.png" style="width: 481px; height: 325px;" title="Hosted by QuickSnapper.com"></a></p>
-<p>Storage seems to be one of the major items of differentiation. But I *know* what the "floor" of pricing is: It's 10¢ / GB. So the actual cost, from left to right, is 10¢, 25¢, $1, $2. OK, OK -- a few handful of cents more for bandwidth transfer, but it comes down to ... not much. So, dear web app provider, please don't over value the storage you are so graciously marking up in price.</p>
-<p>And in fact, offering document storage in your web app is actually a *pain in the a$$*. You have files on your desktop, you have files attached to certain messages in Basecamp, in you have file revisioning (or whatever) in web app X. It's the forwarding documents over email problem all over - which is the newest copy, where is the file, who can edit the original, etc. Let me give you an example.</p>
-<p>At <a href="http://bootuplabs.com" title="Bootup Labs - startup venture funding and incubator in Vancouver">work</a>, we're happy users of&nbsp; <a href="http://batchblue.com">Batchblue's Batchbook</a> - it's CRM a bit like <a href="http://highrisehq.com">37 Signals' Highrise</a>, with some niceties. One of the things you can do is forward email into it, including with attachments, and it will sit in there. So, a workflow where someone sends you a presentation, that you'd like attached / organized with that person, works really nicely. Except, when I want to actually read that presentation, I have to download it to my computer, and read it there. Every other person in my work group that wants to read it? Also has to separately and manually download it. Same goes for editing. Download, edit, re-upload.</p>
-<p>So, we stick that document in Dropbox. And it gets synced automatically, and everyone has it on their desktop, easy to read in full binary document format, be it Word, Powerpoint, or whatever. And everyone can add notes, or edit it as needed. That's how I expect seamless cloud storage / document sharing to work.</p>
-<p>Here's my call to action:</p>
-<p><strong>When you're designing your next web app, please allow me to enter my existing Amazon S3 or Dropbox account as part of setup.</strong></p>
-<p>Call it "<em>Bring your own Storage</em>", and lower your prices appropriately.</p>
-<p>P.S. Of course, there is a <a href="http://drupal.org/project/dropbox/">Dropbox API module for Drupal</a> already.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2009-04-15-semantic-web-community-barn-raising-in-vancouver.md b/_posts/archive/2009-04-15-semantic-web-community-barn-raising-in-vancouver.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a60aaf3..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2009-04-15-semantic-web-community-barn-raising-in-vancouver.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Semantic Web Community Barn Raising in Vancouver
-created: 1239786523
-categories: 
-- Semantic Web
-- Freebase
-- Linked Data
-- vanbase
-- Jim Pick
-- RDF
-- Canada
-- Vancouver
-- Web 2.0
----
-<p>Or, how I got a tasted of Linked Data and wanted more.</p><p>I've been noodling about with a variety of semantic web / open data concepts for some time. Most recently, I spoke at <a href="http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/session/practical-semantic-web-and-why-you-should-care">Drupalcon DC 2009 on Practical Semantic Web (and why you should care)</a>. There's a video of the presentation embedded in that last link, and the <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/bmann/practical-semantic-web-and-why-you-should-care-drupalcon-dc-2009">presentation is available on SlideShare</a>.</p><p>I think I can explain things even more simply: we can place a simple piece of data on a web page - like an address, or marking something as a person. From those source pieces of data, we can link it to ever more pieces of information. Except, instead of just &quot;bare links&quot;, these links carry meaning, creating a richer web of content. In my presentation, I used the phrase &quot;RDF is food for robots&quot; - a way to share more info about the visible, human readable information that is already there.</p><p>From my point of view, that's already cool enough. But it's still not very *practical*. Why should you care, today? That leads me to open data, in general. The <a href="http://developmentseed.org">Dev Seed</a> guys in DC have a great example of this in their <a href="http://stumblesafely.com">StumbleSafely</a> site -- it mashes up bars in Washington DC with crime statistics, cross-referenced with time for day, night, and evening data.</p><p><a href="http://stumblesafely.com"><img vspace="10" hspace="10" border="0" align="center" title="Hosted by QuickSnapper.com" src="http://www.quicksnapper.com/files/4037/190787295449E59DD67A716_m.png" alt="StumbleSafely.com screenshot" /></a></p><p>We don't have anything like this in Vancouver. What we do have is some interesting data that is beginning to be gathered in <a href="http://freebase.com">Freebase</a>, and more specifically in the Vancouver-specific corner of it, known as <a href="http://vancouver.freebase.com">vanbase</a>.  Looking at the StumbleSafely application, and thinking about some data that I hate to see duplicated over and over again, I came up with the idea of restaurants, and extra information about them.</p> <!--break--> <p>The concept: patios, beer, and breakfast. Wouldn't you like to know where the best patios, beer, and breakfast restaurants are in Vancouver? So, in the morning, the site will show strips of bacon highlighting breakfast places. As it gets later in the day, umbrellas will pop open on the map, showcasing patios. Later at night, as the site goes dark, glowing beer steins appear, showcasing great beers on tap around the city. Through linked data, we can go on to surf the <a href="http://www.freebase.com/view/food/brewery_brand_of_beer">mass of information about brands of beer</a>.</p><p>There are dozens of restaurant sites, in various stages of overlap. None of them share data, and they're not really about data in any case -- they succeed or fail because of SEO, or because of user features on their sites. And anyone can get the data -- pay a couple of thousand and you can get all the restaurants across Canada.</p><p>Linked Open Data is all about having shared information sources and building value on top of them, through those linkages.</p><p>The concept will be to fill in vanbase with restaurant information, starting with this <a href="http://vancouver.freebase.com/view/base/vancouver/views/vancouver_restaurants">list of Vancouver restaurants</a>. Then we'll work with a Drupal (and possibly other) front end to do display of this rich semantic web data in different interesting ways. Why Drupal? It's got a really great set of <a href="http://groups.drupal.org/semantic-web">semantic web tech</a> already implemented, and can then show how an out of the box CMS can participate in a web of linked data. But hopefully (since this is also about open data) we can get other front ends to the data, or even have some of these existing restaurant sites contribute their data sets to Freebase.</p><p>Now, all that is quite a lot to think about and do. I started the title of this post by calling it a Semantic Web Community Barn Raising - I hope to see many people locally get involved in everything from data entry, to development, to design in building out a semantic data set, and then showcasing what we can do with it.</p><p>So, I'm calling an initial brainstorming meeting this Thursday morning over breakfast, 8:30am at Deacon's Corner. Here's an <a href="http://uqevents.com/event/vanbase--drupal-breakfast-meetup/deacons-corner/apr-16-09/3744/">event entry on UQ Events</a> to help you remember. @notmatt, @dale42, and @jimpick will be there, hope to see some of you as well.  For more info, check out the <a href="http://sites.google.com/site/semwebrestaurants/">Google Site SemWeb Restaurants</a>, where we'll be posting notes and ideas as the project progresses.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2009-04-15-site-moved-to-rimu-hosting.md b/_posts/archive/2009-04-15-site-moved-to-rimu-hosting.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 864e109..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2009-04-15-site-moved-to-rimu-hosting.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: SIte moved to Rimu Hosting
-created: 1239782644
-categories: 
-- Rimu Hosting
-- Bryght
-- VPS
-- Xen
-- CentOS
-- BMC
----
-<a href="http://bryght.com">Bryght</a> is shutting down hosting, so I moved to <a href="http://rimuhosting.com">Rimu Hosting</a>. I already run the <a href="http://bootuplabs.com">Bootup Labs</a> site there, and have recommended it to a number of other people. Do I have more to say about Bryght? Not right now, although it feels like I've got a lot of stories tucked away that need to get told at some point.
-
-I've got a <a href="http://rimuhosting.com/order/startorder1.jsp?hom=t-vps">Miro VPS 2</a> - $30 / month, 400MB memory, 4GB of storage. I never get a control panel - it's running Webmin on CentOS, and I asked for the newest version of PHP, plus Apache and MySQL set to run at startup.
-
-It's actually been a pleasure to "move in" to a new server. The old system had been running for a long time, and various failed experiments at different upgrades -- most around PHP and accelerator versions. Also various different test installs of a variety of sites.
-
-So, just like a fresh operating system install on a computer, I had this brand new server to work on, including how I would set up my SVN check outs, different projects, and so on. I'll document my exact SVN setup in another post -- I've got a small <a href="http://unfuddle.com">Unfuddle</a> account where everything is stored. Suffice to say that there is some great svn:externals stuff going on - nice work, <a href="http://acquia.com/documentation/getting-started/fresh-install/svn">Acquia in SVN</a>.
-
-I've only got one configuration note so far for fresh CentOS servers that are running PHP -- enable the "remi" repo: http://blog.famillecollet.com/pages/Config-en
-
-You'll want to install APC (bunch of dependencies, then use pear - see <a href="http://maisonbisson.com/blog/post/12589/installing-php-apc-on-rhel-centos/" title="Installing APC on RHEL/CentOS">here for CentOS instructions</a>) plus GD and mbstring.
-
-One note: whether it's Rimu Hosting or some other factor (i.e. Drupal), I haven't been able to get email to send to Google Apps for Domains hosted email addresses. Regular Gmail addresses work fine, just not Google Apps.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2009-04-19-microplaza-shows-you-links-from-people-you-follow-on-twitter.md b/_posts/archive/2009-04-19-microplaza-shows-you-links-from-people-you-follow-on-twitter.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 8edf5b6..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2009-04-19-microplaza-shows-you-links-from-people-you-follow-on-twitter.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: MicroPlaza shows you links from people you follow on Twitter
-created: 1240188553
-categories: 
-- MicroPlaza
-- Twitter
-- OAuth
-- Knowledge Plaza
-- Whatever Company
-- Social Media
-- Web 2.0
----
-<p>I don't know that I can give a *really* short description of <a href="http://microplaza.com">MicroPlaza</a> that does it justice, but I'll start by saying that it takes the links - short or otherwise - that the people you follow in Twitter post, and creates thumbnails out of them. MicroPlaza supports OAuth, so you can connect your Twitter account to it without giving away your Twitter password. You login and it shows you all the posts from the people that you follow that contain links. It also shows you any other Twitter posts that also link to that same item. You'll note from the screenshot below that multiple short URLs are being used, but MicroPlaza follows them all and figures out that they refer to the same page:</p>
-
-<p><a href='http://www.quicksnapper.com/borismann/image/microplaza' alt='View the image at QuickSnapper.com'><img src='http://www.quicksnapper.com/files/4037/158045579149EBBDB20617F_m.png' title='Hosted by QuickSnapper.com' /></a></p>
-
-<p>As I overlaid onto the image, @lauras is the person I follow on that list - MicroPlaza has included the rest of the people because they've pointed to the same thing Laura has.</p>
-
-<p>Since it only includes Twitter posts with links, it's like a high intensity stream of information goodness. I very rarely go to the website, choosing instead to subscribe to an RSS feed of my public timeline. I first found out about MicroPlaza when <a href="http://rolandtanglao.com">Roland</a> started sharing MicroPlaza entries in Google Reader - there was good stuff being shared, and the screenshot of the web page (plus the full title of the linked to page instead of just another short URL) made it easy to decide if the whole thing was worth reading. The commentary of all the people linking to the item makes for even more context.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>With <a href="http://microplaza.com/bookmarks">bookmarks</a> (and including a javascript bookmarklet to "add to Microplaza"), MP also can replace Delicious or other link bookmarking services. You can then go back to your bookmarks and see all of the people that have ever posted a Twitter item linking to that URL. While I have a <a href="http://delicious.com/borismann">Delicious account</a>, I stopped using it when <a href="http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2008/05/share-anything-anytime-anywhere.html">Google Reader added the Note in Reader bookmarklet functionality</a>. I'm not feeling comfortable enough with Microplaza to switch to its bookmarks (maybe when it imports Delicious?), but seeing the stream of high quality links I'm getting from it, I have high hopes.</p>
-
-<p>Lastly there are tribes, where you can set up your own (private) groups of people in whatever orderings you want. For example, I created a Bootup Labs Tribe for the people and companies that are related to startups and entrepeneurism. This then groups the same links you're already seeing into these arbitrary groups. You do need to be following the accounts you want to group, since MicroPlaza has to have access through your own Twitter account. MicroPlaza is also creating its own public tribes, such as @topopensource, which follows a number of people and then lets you <a href="http://microplaza.com/being/topopensource">see the top open source links</a>.</p>
-
-<p>The <a href="http://microplaza.com/faq">FAQ</a> has more info, including that MicroPlaza grew out of <a href="http://www.knowledgeplaza.be/">Knowledge Plaza</a>, an enterprise product. The company behind both is called the <a href="http://www.whatever-company.com/">Whatever Company</a> and is based out of Belgium.</p>
-
-<p>You'll need to follow @microplaza to get an invite code, or request one from me (@bmann). I'd love to hear your thoughts on your experience with MicroPlaza.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2009-04-19-trying-out-nokia-sports-tracker.md b/_posts/archive/2009-04-19-trying-out-nokia-sports-tracker.md
deleted file mode 100644
index b882ce9..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2009-04-19-trying-out-nokia-sports-tracker.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Trying out Nokia Sports Tracker
-created: 1240186733
-categories: 
-- KML
-- N95
-- Nokia
-- Nokia N95
-- Nokia Sports Tracker
-- S60
-- Canada
-- Vancouver
-- Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile
----
-<p>I finally tried out <a href="https://sportstracker.nokia.com/">Nokia Sports Tracker</a>. Here's a screenshot of my workout:</p>
-
-<a href="https://sportstracker.nokia.com/nts/workoutdetail/index.do?id=880452"><img alt="Nokia Sports Tracker - Boris' Workout" src="http://www.quicksnapper.com/files/4037/84649652949EBB86EBFF2B_m.png" /></a>
-
-<p>Yes, screenshot. Nokia, in their ever loving wisdom, don't have embeds. You can download a version of your &quot;workout&quot; in KML, but you can't embed your route. <strong>Update</strong> added this suggestion to <a href=http://getsatisfaction.com/nokia/topics/enable_embedding_of_workouts">Get Satisfaction</a>.</p>
-
-<p>This is a really interesting service that works well - it's got a great S60 app for your phone with various different modes, and pretty much updates your location in real time both on a map on your phone, as well as beaming it online.</p>
-
-<p>The one issue is that it absolutely *drained* the battery on my N95. We actually spent 6 hours biking around for the <a href="http://www.slowfoodvancouver.com/index.php/BikeBlossoms/">Vancouver Bike the Blossoms event</a>, and it would have been great to have a log of the whole event. I charged the phone the night before, so I have no idea why it got so completely drained. Oh, right, and there are the usual Nokia-can't-really-make-web-apps issues, like the fact that I can't share a link to a map of the Vancouver area, showing that there are a dozen or so people using it in this area.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>My other comment to Nokia is that if you called this GPS tracker or location tracker rather than Sports Tracker, then a lot more people would use it. I'm tempted to keep it turned on most of the time, just to see GPS tracks of my travels, especially with photos embedded on top of the trip.</p>
-
-<p>You should be able to download the Sports Tracker app from the "Downloads" catalog on your Nokia phone (make sure you get the newest version). It will be easier to set up a <a href="http://accounts.nokia.com">Nokia Account</a> (whatever that is) and *then* a Sports Tracker account from your web browser, and then you can enter the Sports Tracker account username / pass into the app on your phone. Mine are the same, since I couldn't figure out a reason why I would want them to be different?</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2009-04-19-tweetlens-is-the-google-reader-of-twitter-clients.md b/_posts/archive/2009-04-19-tweetlens-is-the-google-reader-of-twitter-clients.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 561f45f..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2009-04-19-tweetlens-is-the-google-reader-of-twitter-clients.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: TweetLens is the Google Reader of Twitter clients
-created: 1240190313
-categories: 
-- TweetLens
-- Twitter
-- Benson Wong
-- twhirl
-- twibble
-- Web 2.0
----
-<p><a href="http://tweetlens.com">TweetLens</a> is a web-based Twitter client. Built by <a href="http://mostlygeek.com">Benson Wong</a> aka @mostlygeek here in Vancouver, I find myself using it to browse my main account when I want to catch up on reading. Note that it is most definitely in alpha, and that you do need to enter your Twitter user / pass to login. I expect Ben to implement OAuth real soon :P</p>
-
-<p>I use <a href="http://twhirl.org">twhirl</a> as my main desktop client, open to multiple accounts and with all notifications turned off except for @ replies and direct messages. This means that most of the time, the posts of the people that I follow just kind of scroll by in the background, and I only switch to it when I have something to post. This means that I don't actually read the majority of posts (sorry...but I *do* notice all mentions of @bmann); scrolling backwards through the twhirl interface (while new stuff is still coming in) doesn't work that well ... and, I'm really just scrolling, not really reading.</p>
-
-<img src='http://www.quicksnapper.com/files/4037/207794965149EBCB2BAB380_m.png' title='TweetLens Hot Keys' align="left" hspace="5" vspace="5" />
-
-<p>I think you could call TweetLens the Google Reader of Twitter clients. It has keyboard shortcuts for reading through and acting on posts. Like Google Reader, I can hit spacebar and "close" individual posts, visually indicating that I have actually read something. Like I said, I find this super useful when I'm taking the time to actually sit and "catch up" on reading through posts. I use <a href="http://twibble.de">twibble</a> on my Nokia phone on the go, and just like Google Reader, it would be great if a mobile version of TweetLens saved my read / unread state.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>When Ben first told me he was building a web-based Twitter client, I thought he was more than a bit crazy. But, I do find TweetLens interesting, and I'm looking forward to seeing it evolve. It's very much in alpha right now, and Ben is actively working on it, so expect some bugs or outages at times. See <a href="http://code.google.com/p/tweetlens/issues/list">Google Code for the issues / features list</a>, and follow @tweetlens for updates.</a>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2009-04-27-open-web-vancouver-open-restaurants-open-data.md b/_posts/archive/2009-04-27-open-web-vancouver-open-restaurants-open-data.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c25dcfb..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2009-04-27-open-web-vancouver-open-restaurants-open-data.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Open Web Vancouver, Open Restaurants, Open Data
-created: 1240820399
-categories: 
-- Open Web Vancouver
-- Open Web Vancouver 2009
-- owv09
-- Open Restaurants
-- Semantic Web
-- BaconPatioBeer
-- RDF
-- RDFa
-- Food for Robots
-- Vancouver
-- Web 2.0
----
-<p><a href="http://openwebvancouver2009.eventbrite.com/"><img vspace="10" hspace="10" align="left" alt="Open Web Technology Conference in Vancouver, June 11th and 12th 2009" style="border: 0px none ; padding: 5px;" src="http://www.openwebvancouver.ca/sites/default/files/openweb_pilgrimage.gif" /></a></p>
-<p>I got notice this weekend that my talk submission to <a href="http://openwebvancouver.ca">Open Web Vancouver 2009</a> got accepted.</p>
-<p>Open Web Vancouver runs June 11th and 12th and the brand new Vancouver Convention Center, and <a href="http://openwebvancouver2009.eventbrite.com/">registration is now open</a>.</p>
-<p>Here's the blurb from the registration page:</p>
-<blockquote>
-<p>This year's conference promises to be at least as exciting as last year's. So far we have an exciting speaker roster confirmed, including keynote sessions with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickard_Falkvinge">Rickard Falvinge</a>, leader of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party">Sweden's Pirate Party</a>, and Angela 'webchick' Byron, <a href="http://buytaert.net/angela-webchick-byron">Drupal 7 co-maintainer</a> and <a href="http://www.lullabot.com/">Lullabot</a>. Other confirmed speakers include:</p>
-<ul>
-    <li><a href="factoryjoe.com">Chris Messina</a> ( OAuth / Citizen Agency )</li>
-    <li><a href="http://www.google.ca/search?q=jacob+appelbaum">Jacob Applebaum</a> ( Tor )</li>
-    <li><a href="http://ascher.ca/">David Ascher</a> ( Mozilla Messenging )</li>
-    <li><a href="http://www.identi.ca/">Evan Prodromou ( identi.ca )</a></li>
-</ul>
-</blockquote>
-<p>(BTW Open Web Van peeps - I'm tagging this <a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=&amp;tag=owv09">#owv09</a>, please post this somewhere as the &quot;official&quot; tag)</p>
-<p>I posted my talk submission to the <a href="http://wiki.openrestaurants.org/announcements/talksubmittedtoopenwebvancouver">Open Restaurants wiki</a>. What's Open Restaurants? Well, it's the namespace for that <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/blog/bmann/semantic-web-community-barn-raising-vancouver">Semantic Web Community Barn Raising</a> that I blogged about a while back. We had our breakfast meeting, 8 people came, and we've got a great cross section of Drupal devs, Freebase / semweb schema nerds, open data policy enthusiasts, and NLP experts that want to use Twitter posts to create Skynet :P</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>I said namespace, because we'll go about creating some schemas and hopefully bootstrap local communities, web apps, and other producers / consumers to adopt this schema and use it to build interesting things. I have some ideas about doing supply chain modeling for a <a href="http://farmfed.com">Farmfed</a> project that <a href="http://farmsteadwines.com">Anthony at Farmstead Wines</a> has gotten me roped into.</p>
-<p>I joked about the codename for the mashup we're going to create being called BaconPatioBeer. Except, the more I thought about it &hellip; the more I liked it and couldn't find another URL that seemed perfect. Hence, http://baconpatiobeer.com (which currently redirects to the Open Restaurants wiki). There'll be a blog up, soon~ish. Oh, look, there's this Twitter account, too @openrestaurants</p>
-<p>I'm excited about getting the chance to work together with a group of people exploring <a href="http://linkeddata.org">Linked Data</a> concepts directly. The &quot;open data&quot; part is also fascinating, and it looks like we'll actually get a chance to speak to Vancouver's city council in support of the concept - nice work, <a href="http://countablyinfinite.ca">Karen</a>.</p>
-<p>So it looks like the &quot;food for robots&quot; phrase that I suggested at Drupalcon is becoming literal, since we're starting with food-related data. In fact, the Lullabots posted an <a href="http://www.lullabot.com/drupal-voices/drupal-voices-17-boris-manns-intro-semantic-web-drupal">audio interview of me talking Drupal + Semantic Web</a>. I, uh, haven't gotten up the nerve to listen to it yet -- it was during the day of my all nighter, and I kind of remember looking up into space and monologuing. For more on Semantic Web/RDF in Drupal, try the next <a href="http://www.lullabot.com/drupal-voices/drupal-voices-18-st%C3%A9phane-corlosquet-semantic-web-drupal">interview with St&eacute;phane Corlosquet</a>.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2009-06-03-questions-for-backbone-magazine-fixing-a-stale-web-site.md b/_posts/archive/2009-06-03-questions-for-backbone-magazine-fixing-a-stale-web-site.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 2c1a612..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2009-06-03-questions-for-backbone-magazine-fixing-a-stale-web-site.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,67 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Questions for Backbone Magazine - Fixing a stale web site
-created: 1244097227
-categories: 
-- 2Paths
-- Andrew Rideout
-- Backbone Magazine
-- Bryght
-- Freshbooks
-- Get Satisfaction
-- Mobify
-- QCDocs
-- Struta
-- Tender
-- Wordpress
-- Web 2.0
-- Web Development
----
-<p>Back in September 2008 I got contacted by <a href="http://backbonemag.com">Backbone Magazine</a> to answer a couple of questions about, well, corporate websites and business usage of the web in general. I forgot all about it, until my friend <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/laura-bradley/1/113/528">Laura</a> in Ottawa was reading it and saw my name. It's apparently in the current issue (which I haven't seen the print version of). It's on the site as <a href="http://www.backbonemag.com/Magazine/Executive_Overview05270901.asp">&quot;Fixing a stale web site&quot;, by Andrew Rideout</a>.  Below are the original questions and my answers. I've added a few notes in parentheses and added links to things.</p>
-<!--break--> <hr />
-<p>&nbsp;</p>
-<p>1. What specific things do you think separate a good corporate website from a bad one?</p>
-<ol>
-    <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Not built in heavy amounts of Flash</span> - Flash is also essentially invisible to Google, so you're not doing yourself any favours here</li>
-    <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">On the front page, have a way for people to stay in touch</span> - that means subscribe by email AND an RSS feed</li>
-    <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Don't use stock clip art of smiling diverse people</span> - if you MUST use such stock photos, then buy the rights so those same people don't show up on other websites hawking other businesses</li>
-</ol>
-<p>2. What type of applications or coding languages are out there that you think are underused by traditional business or SMBs?</p>
-<p>&nbsp;</p>
-<div style="margin-left: 40px;">We're currently undergoing a dramatic shift. In the past, the entire web has been composed of individual, static pages, that a third party web designer or PR agency would manually update on behalf of the company. Today, every single page is being shifted to run on top of a content management or blogging system. Every page has interactivity and personalization. We're still at the very start of this phenomenon. (NOTE: I have lots more to say on this, but I haven't boiled it down into an article yet) (BM: I still haven't written this article :P)</div>
-<div style="margin-left: 40px;">&nbsp;</div>
-<div style="margin-left: 40px;">The other shift is the use of many distributed online services. As I mention in the doing more with less section below, there are many applications you can now access online. Take this a step further and think about what parts of your business you can outsource or distribute. One company I was talking to was thinking of working with stay at home book keepers in PEI to process bills and accounting overnight in time for west coast clients to access first thing in the morning. Another company dramatically reduced the size of their office to mainly a customer and company meeting space, gave everyone laptops, and had a happier, more productive team that had the flexibility to work from everywhere. (BM: the former company is <a href="http://qcdocs.com">QCDocs</a>, the latter company is Aaron Gladstone's team at <a href="http://2paths.com">2Paths</a>)</div>
-<div style="margin-left: 40px;">&nbsp;</div>
-<p>3. What three things do you think every company's website needs to accomplish?</p>
-<ul>
-    <li>Communicate</li>
-    <li>Engage</li>
-    <li>Sell!</li>
-</ul>
-<p>4. Can you name a web element or application that irritates the piss out of you every time you see it?</p>
-<p>&nbsp;</p>
-<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Autoplaying music. Enough said.</div>
-<div style="margin-left: 40px;">&nbsp;</div>
-<p>5. Seeing as though start-ups more often than not have to do more with less, what type of things do you think traditional businesses could learn from web start-ups?</p>
-<p>&nbsp;</p>
-<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Spending time on web-based / digital media and marketing has a much lower cost (or rather, a much higher ROI) than offline PR. And it can also serve two purposes: connecting with customers and potentially helping you define your product / service through that interaction.</div>
-<div style="margin-left: 40px;">&nbsp;</div>
-<div style="margin-left: 40px;">As well, there are a host of web-based services that range from free to low monthly costs that can replace expensive internal IT investment, or just work better and more simply than a roll your own solution. Everything from shared calendars and document collaboration (<a href="http://calendar.google.com">Google Calendar</a> &amp; <a href="http://docs.google.com">Docs</a>) to invoicing (<a href="http://freshbooks.com">Freshbooks</a>) can easily be setup and used securely from anywhere you have an Internet connection.</div>
-<div style="margin-left: 40px;">&nbsp;</div>
-<div style="margin-left: 40px;">If you're a small business, you could even consider that expensive self-hosted website that you pay someone else to maintain, and switch to a hosted blog solution like <a href="http://wordpress.com">WordPress</a> or <a href="http://bryght.com">Bryght</a> (BM - this was September 2008, before Bryght, er &hellip; went away).</div>
-<div style="margin-left: 40px;">&nbsp;</div>
-<div style="margin-left: 40px;">One tool that I've been falling in love with more and more is <a href="http://getsatisfaction.com">Get Satisfaction</a>. It's a hosted service that lets you run a space for customer feedback and problem resolution. (BM: another really awesome tool that both <a href="http://mobify.me">Mobify</a> and <a href="http://strutta.com">Strutta</a> use is <a href="http://tenderapp.com">Tender</a> for support / feedback / knowledgebase)</div>
-<div style="margin-left: 40px;">&nbsp;</div>
-<p>6. If a company has an e-mail newsletter, how can they make it stand out from the rest of the crap that piles up in people's inboxes?</p>
-<ol>
-    <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Archive it!</span> Every piece of content you create should be available as a separate piece of content on your website, with its own unique URL. This will allow you to build up more content over time, which is great for natural search engine ranking that will make it easier for people to find you / your product online.</li>
-    <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Publish to the web first:</span> allow &quot;subscribe by email&quot;, but publish articles, how tos, customer case studies and other material to your website directly. It's a single point of contact that people can come back to.</li>
-    <li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Natural tone:</span> just like people are allergic to &quot;PR speak&quot; in traditional press releases, many newsletters can suffer from the same thing. The advent of social media like blogging has led to a much more natural tone, that people respond to.</li>
-</ol>
-<p>7. What type of small things do you find enterprises and SMB's generally overlook when putting together their sites?</p>
-<p>&nbsp;</p>
-<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Websites are not something you redo every 2 years. They are a major channel for engagement. What is the #1 hit for phrases related to your business? To your business name itself? Design for search as well as for &quot;human&quot; visitors.</div>
-<div style="margin-left: 40px;">&nbsp;</div>
-<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Give ways to give feedback -- if you don't provide a place for it, someone else will, and it's better to control / monitor / be aware of that feedback.</div>
-<div style="margin-left: 40px;">&nbsp;</div>
-<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Back to the &quot;websites are not a project that finishes&quot;. Always be thinking of what you can do to improve your web channel. And actively track metrics related to it. If you can't sell directly through the web, track where your leads / hits are coming from. How many contacts through your &quot;web channel&quot; turn into either positive PR or an actual sale?</div>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2009-06-12-drupal-out-of-the-box-lets-make-a-community.md b/_posts/archive/2009-06-12-drupal-out-of-the-box-lets-make-a-community.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 57181af..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2009-06-12-drupal-out-of-the-box-lets-make-a-community.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Drupal out of the box: let's make a community"
-created: 1244840104
-categories: 
-- Community in a Box
-- Drupal 7
-- drupaloob
-- install profiles
-- OOB
-- out of box
-- Drupal
----
-<p>First off, I need to apologize to @webchick for being called away from the Drupal BoF at <a href="http://openwebvancouver.ca">Open Web Vancouver</a> last night. It was great to have her here to do a run through with @chx1975 of where we're at with Drupal 7.  I was around just long enough to once again raise the issue of what the default install profile will do.</p>
-<p>We've come quite far in major core improvements, but we don't have a story for what Drupal is when you do a default install.  What should Drupal do &quot;out of the box&quot;?</p>
-<p>There is a placeholder issue for this now: <a href="http://drupal.org/node/483987">#483987 Decide on direction for default install profile</a>.  As I've seen the UX process continue, I still see us focusing on building and constructing. The changes there have been excellent, but I think we're missing an opportunity to have a truly great out of the box experience. My codename for this is &quot;drupaloob&quot;.</p>
-<p>The first step is deciding the story for this. WordPress is a blog. We are not a blog. We are a multi user system. Can we turn on a minimal OOB experience that showcases some of our multi user and other strengths? In the words of President Obama, &quot;Yes We Can!&quot;</p>
-<p>My personal opinion and outline for this is that we should ship with a &quot;Community in a Box&quot;. I've documented it on <a title="Default install Community in a Box" href="http://groups.drupal.org/node/21013">groups.drupal.org</a>. Regardless of the details of comments on or off, promoted by default, and other finer points, here is my user story for this Community in a Box:</p>
-<blockquote> A community site with front page articles, a community blogging section, discussion forums, and shared image galleries.<br />
-</blockquote><blockquote>Anyone is welcome to sign up for an account and participate in the forums. After some time in the forums, users are invited to become contributors, and can post blog posts and photos, as well as submit unpublished articles.<br />
-</blockquote><blockquote>The blogging functionality is a community multi user blog. It is not meant as one users blog, but rather a large community that can post quick thoughts responding to each other and sharing their ideas. (Note: this is in here because people get confused about &quot;blog&quot; functionality -- this is meant to highlight that having a community blog is not the same as a single user blog, so don't expect to be able to change titles and designs etc. -- your blog posts are in a shared, community space)<br />
-</blockquote><blockquote>Editors are around and police the forums, as well as reviewing and publishing articles and other material for the front page.<br />
-</blockquote><blockquote>The photo galleries are shared galleries: like the forum and the community blogs, users upload them to share, rather than in their own space. There are weekly suggestions for new gallery categories, and users can also tag photos with whatever they like to mix and match how the photos are grouped. </blockquote>
-<p>While I'm piling wishes on top of dreams, I'd even like to use the wizard that has been in core since Drupal 6 to make several parts of this OOB experience optional. That is, right at the beginning, users would have two options.</p>
-<p>One would be to do an &quot;express install&quot; that would install everything with the defaults as I've outlined above.</p>
-<p>The second would be to engage the wizard and answer a series of questions and options:</p>
-<p>Do you want forums? yes/no<br />
-Do you want a community blog for contributors? yes/no<br />
-Do you want a community photo gallery? yes/no etc.</p>
-<p>What do you think? What would you want people to experience when they first install Drupal 7?  <a href="http://groups.drupal.org/node/21013">Edit the wiki</a>, leave comments, or create some patches against <a href="http://drupal.org/project/issues/search/drupal?issue_tags=default.profile">default.profile</a>.</p>
-<!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2009-06-17-social-media-is.md b/_posts/archive/2009-06-17-social-media-is.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 3656c36..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2009-06-17-social-media-is.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Social media is\xE2\x80\xA6"
-created: 1245265972
-categories: 
-- cake
-- Twitter
-- Social Media
-- Web 2.0
----
-<p>&hellip;cake. Sort of. <a href="http://twitter.com/jounpuu/status/2183575825">John Ounpuu made an interesting comment</a> the other day that I <a href="http://twitter.com/bmann/status/2183682445">re-tweeted</a>:</p>
-<p><span style="font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 29px; color: rgb(57, 70, 58); line-height: 36px; ">Social is not a new type of icing. It's a new way of thinking about your cake.</span></p>
-<p>I then got a number of good responses. From <a href="http://twitter.com/nep/statuses/2183772128">Travis</a>:</p>
-<p><span style="font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 29px; color: rgb(57, 70, 58); line-height: 36px; ">Actually, social is a new way of deciding what to make -- as Marie Antoinette found, the people might not want to eat cake.</span></p>
-<p>And then from <a href="http://twitter.com/hoosteeno/statuses/2184462078">Justin</a>:</p>
-<p><span style="font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 29px; color: rgb(57, 70, 58); line-height: 36px; ">Social is a cake fight. Everyone has a cake, and they're all throwing it at each other and trying to dodge.</span></p>
-<p>Fun stuff, and a good excuse to make a summary blog post.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2009-06-19-flow-based-organizations-can-grow-an-archive-with-microblogging.md b/_posts/archive/2009-06-19-flow-based-organizations-can-grow-an-archive-with-microblogging.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a53c699..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2009-06-19-flow-based-organizations-can-grow-an-archive-with-microblogging.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,61 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Flow-based organizations can grow an archive with microblogging
-created: 1245401397
-categories: 
-- archive
-- flow
-- microblogging
-- radio
-- AdHack
-- permalink
-- permalinks
-- Friendfeed
-- Facebook
-- Twitter
-- Laconi.ca
-- microblog
-- Evan Prodromou
-- Open Micro Blogging
-- Leo Laporte
-- TWiT
-- Social Media
-- Web 2.0
----
-<p>My friend <a href="http://twitter.com/sherrett">James</a> at <a href="http://adhack.com">AdHack</a> introduced me to the concept of <a href="http://blog.adhack.com/2009/03/02/skittles-widget-all-flow-no-archive/">Archive vs. Flow</a>:</p>
-<blockquote>
-<p>The web works in two &rsquo;states&rsquo; (for lack of a better word): flow and archive.</p>
-<ul>
-    <li>Flow: all the new content coming onto the web and its parsing, aggregation, recombination, etc. For short, consider this the new stuff. New blog posts. New Twitter tweets. New YouTube videos. Access is by RSS, browsing, email, IM, alerts.</li>
-    <li>Archive: all the content that&rsquo;s no longer new but is still accessible and indexed for retrieval. For short, this is the culmination of not-new stuff. Old stuff organized and accessed by tags, categories, searches and links.</li>
-</ul>
-<p>Most folks only get the archive aspect of the web once they&rsquo;ve used it and managed websites for a number of years. It&rsquo;s a little counterintuitive and different from all other media types.</p>
-<p>Flow is short-term candy to fire people up. Archive is long-term value that ages and improves over time.</p>
-</blockquote>
-<p>Once I started thinking like this - about content and experiences as Archive or Flow (or a combination, of course, if done right), it has permeated my thinking.</p>
-<p>More recently, I've been thinking about organizations and their activities using this same model. And how many traditional, broadcast media organizations are all flow. They don't even *think* about archive. And this is epitomized by what I&nbsp;think is the very basis for all web-based Archive concepts: the permalink. If your piece of content, your experience, does not have a permalink, there is precious little I can do with it (including find my way back to it).</p>
-<p>Two examples of media organization that are pretty much all flow: TV and radio (especially the news and/or local versions). Neither have permalinks in their &quot;native&quot; format. Their companion websites are slowly evolving some archive functionality, but it's not very good. Even worse, their websites do a bad job of showcasing the inherent flow nature of the organization and the content they serve.</p>
-<p>Hulu is an example of a TV-related website that is starting to provide a great archive functionality. More like this, please!</p>
-<p>Other TV sites do have some clips after the fact, and ways to link to them, but these are divorced from the native medium. You have to remember to go back to the website, somehow find the piece of content you were watching, and even then you might not have a permalink (think hour long clips, mini clips, or mystery meat javascript navigation that doesn't let you link directly to items).</p>
-<p>Radio is the example that I think is:</p>
-<ol>
-    <li>in the most dire need of showcasing the &quot;flow&quot; nature of their content on their companion website and</li>
-    <li>has done a terrible job of doing anything to grow an archive that, as James says, has &quot;long-term value that ages and improves over time&quot;.</li>
-</ol>
-<p>A counter example is actually <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/radio/">CBC Radio</a> - they're growing an archive at a furious rate for most of their shows in the form of podcasts and interactive shows like <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/spark/">Spark</a> that blur radio and web and interactivity. But, I think the local &quot;news&quot; radio doesn't do nearly as good a job of moving from flow to archive on the web, arguably where it is the most important. The produced &quot;shows&quot; just happen to currently be broadcast over the air - but they are discrete chunks of content that can probably be better delivered via the web.</p>
-<p>Last.FM is an example of a site that is tangentially related to this discussion, at least as regards music. They turn your &quot;flow&quot; of music listening into your own personal archive. And it grows richer over time. Radio doesn't do this for you, even on their own website. You can't favourite a song, or share it, or tell other people to tune in to a particular frequency RIGHT&nbsp;NOW if they want to hear it. It probably should.</p>
-<p>So, how do flow-based organizations grow an archive? I think the prime example of native flow tools on the web today are all based on microblogging: Twitter, Friendfeed, and Facebook status messages. By looking at these native flow tools, media organizations can do several things at the same time:</p>
-<ol>
-    <li><span style="font-size: medium;">Leverage the flow based, real time nature of their content and business - every item from their native medium becomes the basis for a microblog post coming from their own brand.<br />
-    </span></li>
-    <li><span style="font-size: medium;">Build interactivity around this web-based flow version. What if your radio or TV station tweeted back at you? What if it used hashtag #traffic? or #news? or #contest?<br />
-    </span></li>
-    <li><span style="font-size: medium;">Use all of this activity to automatically create permalinks which can be shared, rated, commented and in general, grow value over time. Since every microblog has a permalink &quot;for free&quot;, there's the basis of your archive. Layer on other tools to remix, analyze, mashup, and visualize the depth of your archive over time.</span></li>
-</ol>
-<p>Oh, and you probably shouldn't cede all of this great archive content exclusively to Twitter or any other third party network. Like cross-posting to YouTube, you definitely want to reach the audience on Twitter (and Facebook, and so on), but you first want to post to your &quot;own&quot; microblog. How do you get your microblogging network? I'm glad you asked!</p>
-<p>There are a number of tools evolving to support the <a href="http://openmicroblogging.com">Open&nbsp;Micro Blogging standard</a> that will let a number of different sites all talk to each other. This means that platforms like Drupal or WordPress can easily support implementations of microblogging.</p>
-<p>More simply, <a href="http://laconi.ca">Laconi.ca</a> is an open source project designed to be a turnkey microblogging platform. The biggest single example is the <a href="http://identi.ca">Identi.ca</a> site, and a good example of a community using it is <a href="http://army.twit.tv">Leo Laporte's TWiT Army</a>. <a href="http://identi.ca/evan">Evan&nbsp;Prodromou</a> of Laconi.ca / Identi.ca recently shared with me that he's also working on a fully hosted option. Watch <a href="http://status.net">status.net</a> to keep up to date with that option.</p>
-<p>Much of the growth of the web has come from its Archive nature, rooted in the permalink and being able to instantly get back to a single piece of content. Google and Wikipedia are two prime examples of this. Flow and real time are more recent entrants, but they are making the web grow even faster <sup><a href="#1">[1]</a></sup>.</p>
-<p>How is <strong>your</strong> flow based organization going to participate in both?</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p><sup><a name="1">[1]</a></sup> Blogging is perhaps unique in that it embodies both Archive and Flow at the same time. We just never noticed its Flow aspect because interaction and &quot;newness&quot; spread out over hours or days rather than the minutes or seconds we can visually see with microblogging.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2009-07-11-from-the-drupal-archives.md b/_posts/archive/2009-07-11-from-the-drupal-archives.md
deleted file mode 100644
index ab0e3c0..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2009-07-11-from-the-drupal-archives.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: From the Drupal archives
-created: 1247339650
-categories: 
-- archives
-- chris messina
-- Steven Peck
-- Charlie Lowe
-- drupal
-- Personal
----
-<p>I'm cleaning up and archiving lots of things. Here's a little Drupal-related snippet of text I found in an archived hard disk, from October 2005.</p>
-<blockquote> There certainly are a few assigned positions: Dries is benevolent dictator for life, Charlie Lowe is the documentation czar, Chris Messina is an &quot;official&quot; evangelist and Grand High Usability Poo-Bah, I consider myself an official evangelist, and Steve Peck is the closest thing we have to head of support and top forum troll tamer. </blockquote>
-<p>Times have changed…</p>
-<p>I also went through and removed myself as member / group admin from a lot of the groups on http://groups.drupal.org. I still wish there was a &quot;mark all as read&quot; function on the site.</p>
-<p>I'm looking to only be involved in those areas where I am truly interested, and/or truly effective.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2009-07-28-nameless-homeless.md b/_posts/archive/2009-07-28-nameless-homeless.md
deleted file mode 100644
index de72873..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2009-07-28-nameless-homeless.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Nameless homeless
-created: 1248839603
-categories: 
-- vancouver
-- homeless
-- Personal
----
-<p>I took the bus in to work this morning as I do every day. I tend to spend the time &quot;plugged in&quot; -- either listening to music from Hype Machine, or scrolling through news from my Google Reader as I&nbsp;catch up on my day. This morning, I spent the ride listening and exchanging a few words with a homeless man on the bus with me.</p>
-<p>He first entered my consciousness when&nbsp;I almost took his seat. He had been sitting on the step from the back door to the back section of the bus. I could see he needed the seat more than I&nbsp;did, and apologized for accidentally trying to grab it ahead of him.</p>
-<p>That was enough of an opening for him to start talking. Memories of @trevoro having &quot;garbage juice&quot; dripping on his leg didn't necessarily make me want to engage. But I unplugged one ear and prepared to humour him. He began to tell a tale of suffering from summer allergies - no sleep, no money for anti-histamines, but needing anti-histamines so he could live. In this case, iiving meaning finding empties to collect.</p>
-<p>He was coming from my neck of the woods somewhere - Granville &amp;&nbsp;Broadway. Why was he on the 98, headed downtown? Well, the only bottle depot that takes unlimited bottles is at Main &amp;&nbsp;Hastings. AKA grand central station of the homeless / drug / etc. &quot;problem&quot; in Vancouver. The Safeway? They grudgingly take 6 empties as returns, never mind 2 bags full.</p>
-<p>Back to the anti-histamines. In Canada socialist healthcare land, we get our basics taken care of, at low prices, since generic drugs etc. are stocked and prescribed. But, some time ago, our current premier turned allergy drugs into over the counter drugs.&nbsp;This means that they aren't covered, so this homeless man has to come up with the money to pay for them himself.</p>
-<p>He was burned a deep nut brown by the sun. We'll all look like this when the apocalypse hits and we have to eak out a living among the burned out shells of buildings. My generation still did nuclear drills in elementary school, knowing that obliteration was just a mis-translated word away. I've been feeling for a long while that this is the same sort of thin ice we've been skating on for some time. That perhaps, the answer is to head back to the hills. A pre-emptive strike of back to the land.</p>
-<p>The man continued his story. He gets hassled by police whenever he heads down to Downtown&nbsp;Eastside ground zero. Police dump out his bag, steal his new Army &amp;&nbsp;Navy socks, because he doesn't have proof of purchase. He's only there to get his bottle deposit, because he has no where else that will turn this aluminum gold into portable cash. And what he's got is a stack of &quot;panhandling&quot; tickets, at $120 a piece, and he owes transit fines, and the government takes it off his dole, where he's paying off his fines at $35 a month.</p>
-<p>I've been feeling pretty deep in a hole for a long time. The sides of it aren't getting any shallower. I knew what this man was feeling. Half plugged into my cellphone, it isn't the same world at all. But at the same time, I&nbsp;felt where he's at. The deck stacked against him, and pretty much no way out.</p>
-<p>I had a twenty in my pocket, and that's it. It felt like a lot to just hand out. Maybe I would buy him breakfast at Tim&nbsp;Horton's, and assuage my guilt. Or connect a little deeper, share my name, tell him to call me if the police hassled him. But then he was getting out, and he was gone, and I&nbsp;shouted a &quot;good luck&quot; after him.</p>
-<p>And I still don't know his name.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2009-08-22-federated-micro-blogging-for-canadian-startup-networking.md b/_posts/archive/2009-08-22-federated-micro-blogging-for-canadian-startup-networking.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 6e1f1f7..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2009-08-22-federated-micro-blogging-for-canadian-startup-networking.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Federated micro-blogging for Canadian startup networking?
-created: 1250980803
-categories: 
-- Laconi.ca
-- Identi.ca
-- startups
-- microblogging
-- Twitter
-- Crowdvine
-- Status.net
-- federation
-- Canada
-- Vancouver
-- Social Media
----
-<p>Some of you may have heard that Twitter was down the week before last. This kicked out all sorts of thinking and discussion that, perhaps, one company shouldn't be a single point of failure.</p>
-<p>The other item that has been coming up again and again is a request that the <a href="http://bootup.ca">Bootup Entrepreneurial Society</a> run a &quot;social network&quot; of some kind. People really enjoy <a href="http://launchpartyhq.com">Launch Party</a> and other events, and have found them a great place to network.</p>
-<p>More specifically, running <a href="http://bootup.ca/events/co-founder-speed-dating-june-2-2009/">Co-Founder Speed Dating</a>, we set up <a href="http://crowdvine.com">Crowdvine</a> as a <a href="http://crowd7.launchpartyhq.com">mini social network</a>. What we found is that it was heavily used - lots of people used it to check out the backgrounds of other people and it continued to be used after the fact. People who couldn't make it to the event checked in and contacted people, some of which actually resulted in companies being founded.</p>
-<p>Back to Twitter. Or, more specifically, <a href="http://laconi.ca">Laconi.ca</a>, an open source &quot;clone&quot; of Twitter. The company behind it is launching <a href="http://status.net">Status.net</a> - basically, a fully hosted *version* similar to (and interoperable with) Twitter. It also supports a few extras that Twitter doesn't -- like tagging of user profiles (great to do stuff like #cofounder_wanted or #mentor to show lists of users) and groups (great for setting up more &quot;channelized&quot; communications or question / answer about specific topics -- e.g. a &quot;Legal&quot; group).</p>
-<p>So, the concept is to run this at something like yvr.bootup.ca, parlez.montrealstartup.com, somecooltorontodomain.com, talk.calgarytechnologies.com, etc. etc. - one in any region that wants to take responsibility to run such a thing.</p>
-<p>Each site would serve as a mini social network / hub -- listing profiles of entrepreneurs, mentors, service providers, and anyone else from the regional technology areas that wants to participate.</p>
-<p>I'm most definitely not ready to just go ahead with this. Running infrastructure like this is something that has to stay up. Picking a domain is important -- the &quot;namespace&quot; is what defines the community, in part. And, if we go with Laconi.ca as a base, it's actually less interesting if we just stand up one instance - we need at least one other network to commit to setting up and federating with us.</p>
-<p>So, those of you have said that Vancouver / Bootup should set up &quot;yet another social network&quot;, what do you think? Is this type of federated microblogging a good choice? Go kick the tires on <a href="http://identi.ca">Identi.ca</a> - set up an account, fill out your profile, tag yourself, and start searching for other people.</p>
-<p>Other suggestions for tools or requirements for such a system? I'm still not convinced we need something, but I do feel that we need to connect more, to tell the stories that are happening all over Vancouver, and all over Canada.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2009-08-22-gnomedex-2009-on-first-timers.md b/_posts/archive/2009-08-22-gnomedex-2009-on-first-timers.md
deleted file mode 100644
index b616ce1..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2009-08-22-gnomedex-2009-on-first-timers.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Gnomedex 2009 - On First timers
-created: 1250977467
-categories: 
-- Events
-tags:
-- gnomedex
-- Gnomedex 2009
----
-<p>I'm here at <a href="http://gnomedex.com">Gnomedex</a> in Seattle. It's been a couple of years since I've attended, for a variety of reasons, but I love the participants and have made many great connections here over the years. I made the decision last minute and picked up an extra ticket from the <a title="Vancouver web design and developer Expression Engine experts" href="http://hopstudios.com">Hop Studios</a>. The experience - as always - has been great: thanks to @chrispirillo and the rest of the Gnomedex team.</p>
-<p>I want to talk a bit something I've been thinking about for a while, which is &quot;first timers&quot;.  The thinking behind growing <a href="http://barcamp.org/BarCampVancouver">BarCamp Vancouver</a> to ~300 participants last year was simple math. If we have about 50% new people every year, that means only 75 new people experiencing the unconference format and BarCamp experience. Growing it to 300, meant we double the &quot;new experiences&quot; we can enable every year.</p>
-<p>But &quot;new&quot; is constantly shifting.  At <a href="http://northernvoice.com">Northern Voice</a> this year, the conference sold out in just a couple of weeks. And yet, when we informally polled the audience, they were again about 50% new people. Here at Gnomedex, the &quot;show of hands&quot; of new people seemed <strong>higher</strong> than 50%.</p>
-<p>My hypothesis is that, in part, the adoption of new technologies, people discovering them, and connecting with other people using them, is what drives this shifting of new.  With Northern Voice, it was the bomb of Twitter adoption in late 2008 - everyone &quot;saw&quot; people they knew through Twitter buying tickets. They felt a sense of blogging because they &quot;knew&quot; these people from Twitter, and so Northern Voice was the conference where they met a bunch of people from Twitter in real life.</p>
-<p>Here at Gnomedex, @bre talked about his <a href="http://makerbot.com">MakerBot</a>. As part of it, he talked about his history. He did stuff on the Internet, but didn't really know anyone else. So in 2005 he came to his first Gnomedex and met the other people from the Internet.</p>
-<p>In 2009, 4 years later, he's on stage presenting, telling us about @makerbot.</p>
-<p>The <a href="http://giantantmedia.com">Giant Ant Media</a> team (go buy the <a href="http://bongothefilm.com">Bongo Film</a> <a href="http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/wakaliwadowntown">album</a>!) talked about something similar. 2 years ago, @jaygrandin didn't have a home computer, and he thought Hotmail was the best ever. Oh, and they used MySpace.</p>
-<p>Whatever conference you're at, especially if you're there for the first time, think about that. The new is always shifting, and your challenge is to participate, and to chart your future so that in 4 years, you're up on stage.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2009-08-27-barcamp-and-every-conference-is-what-you-make-of-it.md b/_posts/archive/2009-08-27-barcamp-and-every-conference-is-what-you-make-of-it.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 4929e1d..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2009-08-27-barcamp-and-every-conference-is-what-you-make-of-it.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: BarCamp (and EVERY conference) is what YOU make of it
-created: 1251413466
-categories: 
-- Events
-- Vancouver
-tags:
-- barcamp
-- barcamp vancouver
-- BCV09
-- BazCamp
-- lobbycon
-- unconference
----
-<p>What I've learned - and relearned with every conference and event I attend - is that every event is what you make of it. You are there, and you can participate. Nothing says you have to sit in the audience - get outside and network in the &quot;lobbycon&quot;. Most especially with unconferences, the people that are there are those that make the event.</p>
-<p>I'm one of the <a href="http://barcamp.org/BarCampVancouver2009">BarCamp Vancouver 2009</a> volunteers this year. Yes, you read that right: <em>volunteers</em>. In Vancouver, this has always been a community, grass roots event. You'll see some of the same names and faces involved with other events, but every year you'll also see new people that step up and GSD.</p>
-<p><a href="http://www.infil00p.org/blog/?p=294">Joe is grumpy</a> that we don't have more makers presenting. I would LOVE&nbsp;to see more makers. And I hope everyone with connections to makers encourages them to attend and present and share and make the entire community richer for it.</p>
-<p>Here's the comment that I left on Joe's post:</p>
-<blockquote>
-<p>Blatant shilling? That would get you yanked off stage.<br />
-<br />
-1) It was $20 last year &mdash; it just got paid at the door and caused untold amounts of work. And this year it includes coffee AND lunch AND the party (last year, party only, no food).<br />
-<br />
-Anyone that has issues with paying can get a pass.<br />
-<br />
-2) Last year&rsquo;s sessions reflect who came and wanted to talk. Bring other people to talk about different things if you want different topics.<br />
-<br />
-3) I don&rsquo;t understand the not paying comment. You paid last year?<br />
-<br />
-I would much rather keep *Camp inclusive, rather than further splinter our community.<br />
-<br />
-Get in touch borismann AT gmail.com &mdash; I&rsquo;d love to have you come to the next meeting, or just give kick ass presentations.<br />
-<br />
-P.S. I&rsquo;m going to be participating in sessions on food and food policy. Because that&rsquo;s what I care about. Remember, the people that are at BarCamp is what shape it: so bring more people and talk about what YOU want to talk about.</p>
-</blockquote>
-<p>Buy your<a href="http://barcampvancouver2009.eventbrite.com"> ticket for BarCamp Vancouver 2009</a> now. It's going to be a blast &hellip; if you make it one.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2009-10-01-form-follows-function-the-growth-of-drupal-themes-will-directly-mirror-the-growth-of-custom-distributions.md b/_posts/archive/2009-10-01-form-follows-function-the-growth-of-drupal-themes-will-directly-mirror-the-growth-of-custom-distributions.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 468cdd8..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2009-10-01-form-follows-function-the-growth-of-drupal-themes-will-directly-mirror-the-growth-of-custom-distributions.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Form follows function: the growth of Drupal themes will directly mirror the growth of custom distributions"
-created: 1254443938
-categories: 
-- Drupal
-tags:
-- design 4 drupal
-- themes
-- Open Atrium
-- Prose Point
-- install profiles
----
-Yes, I've also read <a href="http://morten.dk/blog/cvs...-hmm-me-stupid%3F">Morten</a>, <a href="http://fourkitchens.com/blog/2009/09/30/why-drupalorg-lacks-good-themes">Todd</a>, and now <a href="http://www.alldrupalthemes.com/drupal-blog/why-drupal-doesn’t-have-great-themes-yet">All Drupal Themes</a>. Here's my take:
-
-The growth of Drupal themes will directly mirror the growth of custom distributions. We are currently in the "it's so easy, we click together lots of Drupal modules from scratch" phase. Once there are more <a href="http://openatrium.org">Open Atrium</a> and <a href="http://prosepoint.org">ProsePoint</a> type of distributions, with known modules / module options and features, then you can build great themes to support those functions.
-
-Form follows function. I've tried to explain this a million times in the D7 process. Having a "great" core theme is impossible when we don't decide what kind of site Drupal should be optimized for out of the box. This same holds true for trying to build and market a theme that will apply and work well with the many vastly different kind of sites that one can build with Drupal.
-
-Yes, CVS is "hard". Yes, all GPL is "hard". I would argue that the overhead of trying to create infinitely flexible themes for any possible view, module, and block layout is the hardest part. Define your functions, and we'll have the beautifully formed themes to match.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2009-10-05-barcamp-vancouver-2009-wrapped.md b/_posts/archive/2009-10-05-barcamp-vancouver-2009-wrapped.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 86264e1..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2009-10-05-barcamp-vancouver-2009-wrapped.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,82 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: BarCamp Vancouver 2009 wrapped
-created: 1254738292
-categories: 
-- Events
-- Vancouver
-tags:
-- BCV09
-- barcamp
-- barcamp vancouver
-- BarCamp Vancouver 2009
-- VHS
-- Dustin Sacks
-- Mark Busse
-- Burning Man
-- BazCamp
-- BazCamp Vancouver
-- Makerbot
-- coworking
-- workspace
-- BES
-- Bootup Entrepreneurial Society
----
-<p>So, that's a wrap: <a href="http://www.barcamp.org/BarCampVancouver2009">BarCamp Vancouver 2009</a> is "in the can". I really enjoyed this year's event -- I even went to and gave some sessions! (yes, that's worthy of note - as an organizer, it can be hard to relax and get into the flow)</p>
-
-<p>I attended a great talk by <a href="http://randomdude.com/">Dustin Sacks</a> on the <a href="http://www.burningman.com/whatisburningman/about_burningman/principles.html">10 principles of Burning Man</a> and how they compare / contrast with BarCamp. It was great, and made me think about a ton of things.</p>
-
-<p>One thing that stood out for me is that I think that BarCamp has "moved on" from its original core focus on making code -- in part because of the principle of "radical inclusion". We kept making it more inclusive until lots of people that weren't at the same "level" started coming (in tech, in background, etc. etc.). It's not a problem, per se, it's just evolution.</p>
-
-<p>I used the phrase "Know when to fork" in a later session: and a bunch of local tech "makers" have done just that, with <a href="http://bazcampyvr.pbworks.com">BazCamp Vancouver</a>. Looks like it will be in early November - I'm looking forward to it, and I'm definitely going to have to follow up on the @MakerBot angle (blog post asking for "expressions of interest" forthcoming).</p>
-
-<p>In any case, thanks to Dustin for leading this - I know we could have spent more time diving into these topics in even more depth. I definitely want to explore / focus / highlight some of these principles in future events. Gifting, civic responsibility, radical self-reliance -- all seem to resonate highly.</p>
-
-<h3><a name="passion" href="#passion">Passion and Frustration</a></h3>
-
-<p>I was further moved when <a href="http://twitter.com/MarkBusse">Mark Busse</a> pulled me into running a session with him on <a href="http://barcamp.org/Balancing-Frustration-and-Passion">Balancing Frustration and Passion</a>. The session took a lot out of me, as it is a line that I walk *all the time*. We ended up in all sorts of interesting places - many of which were themselves frustrating! :P Mark is an incredible person, and I really enjoyed tossing discussion points back and forth with him and other participants.
-
-<p>I think passion and frustration are two sides of the same coin. It's funny, but I've often told people - I bitch because I care. If I send you 18 usability issues with your website (frustration) it means that I care (passion). If I didn't care, I wouldn't bother writing up the email and sending it to you.</p>
-
-<p>My main recommendation for tackling any project - that is, actually deciding that you will work on it - is that you ideally need to recruit a total of three people. Yourself, plus two others. With only two, each person needs to be aware of all the details in case the other person needs to take a break / gets run over by a bus / whatever. With three, the load is spread a bit more easily. Of course, if you're high on passion, you'll just go ahead all by yourself, but it's something to keep in mind for longer term / larger projects.</p>
-
-<hr />
-<h3><a name="coworking" href="#coworking">Co Working</a></h3>
-
-<p>Right after the "Passion" session was the <a href="http://barcamp.org/Coworking-In-Vancouver">co-working session</a>. It ended up being mainly an information sharing and level set session, but judging from the amount of different initiatives we heard about, it was a necessary first step.</p>
-
-<p>I started by talking a bit about <a href="http://bootup.ca/332/workspace-closes-thoughts-on-co-working-space-in-vancouver/">WorkSpace closing down</a> - the exact details aren't clear, but ultimately it wasn't financially sustainable as a for profit business. Then I covered the planning / idea stage that the <a href="http://bootup.ca">Bootup Entrepreneurial Society</a> is at - we'd love to solve the pain of flexible space for software startups, and to provide a core gathering space for entrepreneurs in the downtown core.</p>
-
-<p>I had just met @NickMolnar the week before and compared a few notes, and invited him to participate as well. He is looking into building a commercial hack/maker/builder space. Nick wrote up a post on <a href="http://tumblr.com/xoi3d454k">what he's thinking / planning</a>. I think some of the existing <a href="http://vancouver.hackerspace.ca">Vancouver Hack Space</a> folks got a bit miffed by Nick being new to the scene / misappropriating the term "hackerspace". I believe Nick's focus is perhaps similar to <a href="http://techshop.ws">Tech Shop</a> - which has a strong commercial component. Of course, VHS is growing as well, so this could concievably be something that existed "next door" to each other.<p>
-
-<p>Next, we heard from Irwin a bit about the <a href="http://creativetechnology.org">W2 Community Media Arts</a> organization / space that is going into the Woodwards complex. If you want to volunteer, there is a <a href="http://www.creativetechnology.org/events/w2-volunteer-meet-greet">Volunteer Meet and Greet tomorrow</a>.</p>
-
-<p>I would really liked to have gotten into some more needs and wants of individuals of potential spaces, but we ran out of time - hopefully we'll get to some of that in further face to face meetings, as well as via survey as described below.</p>
-
-<p>The two main next steps are:</p>
-
-<p>1) re-factoring and extending the <a href="http://barcamp.org/Coworking-In-Vancouver">notes on the wiki</a> (thanks to <a href="http://hummingbird604.com/2009/10/03/coworking-and-shared-spaces-barcampvancouver-09-bcv09/">Raul for liveblogging</a>).</p>
-
-<p>In particular, I'd like to see each initiative listed there with mission, capacity, cost, and current needs. For example, Irwin of W2 will have incubator space targeted at social enterprise - his example was getting an aboriginal film festival off the ground. This would need to be captured as part of the mission / goal of each space. The needs section is also supremely important. For example, the Bootup Society currently needs space and funding. The Network Hub is currently full, so their needs might also include "more space". If we can get a good overview of shared goals and needs, then we know where we can work together, and where we need to apply the principle of "know when to fork".</p>
-
-<p>This might be a useful jumping off point for also listing spaces that are available for community meetups of various kinds - both <a href="http://kontentcreative.com">James of Kontent Creative</a> and <a href="http://industrialbrand.com">Mark of Industrial Brand</a> spoke up, offering space for ~30 people. The Society has a <a href="http://bootup.ca/events/vancouver-venues/">Vancouver Venues page / Google Spreadsheet</a> that might be extended.<p>
-
-<p>2) run a survey gathering information from people interested in co-working / shared office space / community space / incubator space etc. etc.</p>
-
-<p>This is the main action item that I am taking on. I have a draft survey, which I will post to the BarCamp wiki. I would like to get everyone's input on what questions need to be included, and then we can ideally send this survey out once, to the broadest number of people, to get lots of useful information and feedback to help guide everyone's decision making process.</p>
-
-(Turns out <a href="http://tweetmic.com/p/ow1xgtfu9ml">Roland recorded the session, too</a>)
-
-<hr />
-
-<h3><a name="nextsteps" href="#nextsteps">Next Steps</a></h3>
-
-<p>The rest of the day is a bit of a blur. There are lots of sessions that overlapped and I'm sorry to have missed (esp. the Design Charette by @awesome). Lunch was good (we even had snacks in the morning, when all I thought we had was coffee). I think the space worked great, and I hope that <a href="http://www.discoveryparks.com/listings/dpv_overview.php">Discovery Parks Vancouver</a> gets a bunch of inquiries out of it (here's a direct link to the <a href="http://www.discoveryparks.com/listings/DPV_Commercializaton.pdf">commercialization centre PDF</a>). Vancouver Open Data was great. Clean up was quick. Yes, I'm fading here in the middle of the night. Go <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/tags/bcv09">look</a> <a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=&tag=bcv09">here</a> and <a href="http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=barcamp+vancouver&btnG=Search+Blogs">there</a> and you'll find more wrap ups a plenty.</p>
-
-<p>What's next? Well, the organizers will send a <a href="http://barcamp.pbworks.com/BarCampVancouver2009WrapUp">wrapup email</a> - please add links to upcoming events, much as we discussed verbally in the wrap up session. We'll also be meeting to debrief about the event. After the debrief, we'll be doing a "call for 2010 organizers".</p>
-
-<p>If you haven't already, please continuing blogging, tweeting, uploading, tagging, wiki-ing and otherwise documenting the event. There is a long list of links right on the front page of talks with lots of links, so please continue to flesh them out. As well, if you have a blog post about the event you want to highlight, please start a new section on the front page - something like "Related Blog Posts".</p>
-
-<p>Most importantly: take action. Documenting and sharing the knowledge is one thing, but the next is to take actions. I know I have a ton of follow ups to do, and I hope you all do as well.</p>
-
-<p>Thanks to everyone for attending - and most importantly, participating. And a final note: be excellent to each other.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2009-11-02-speaking-acct-canada-2009-conference.md b/_posts/archive/2009-11-02-speaking-acct-canada-2009-conference.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 9625cce..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2009-11-02-speaking-acct-canada-2009-conference.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Speaking: ACCT Canada 2009 Conference"
-created: 1257235083
-categories: 
-- Speaking
-tags:
-- ACCT Canada
-- commercialization
-- conference
-- incubators
-- speaking
-- tech transfer
-- Victoria
-- UILO
-- Canada
-- Open Source
----
-<p>
-	I am speaking at the <a href="https://carosch.gobigevent.com:443/prothos/onware.x/conference/web/agenda/index.p?!=public=12572329883146=1=24785274&amp;Conference=17339">ACCT Canada 2009 Conference</a> on November 10th. The <a href="http://www.acctcanada.ca/">Alliance for Commercialization of Canadian Technologies</a> is the &quot;national advocate for the value created by academic technology transfer and commercialization&quot;. The short form of that mouthful is that they primarily represent the tech transfer offices of universities. In university lingo, this is often done by the University Industry Liason Office (UILO). Yes, acronyms are fun :P</p>
-<p>
-	As part of my role at <a href="http://bootuplabs.com" title="Vancouver startup accelerator">Bootup</a>, I&#39;ll be first participating in the <em>&quot;Innovation Clusters, Incubators and Accelerators&quot;</em> panel. We&#39;ll be getting on a call to discuss the format and talking points for the panel tomorrow, but I expect I&#39;m going to be the private industry / capitalist viewpoint. This is a free form panel discussion, so it should be interesting to see where it goes.</p>
-<p>
-	Wearing my Drupal and open source startup hat, I&#39;ll also be on the <em>&quot;Are you Open or Closed ? Selecting the Right Software Commercialization Model For You (Product Innovation Forum)&quot;</em>. I&#39;ll be talking about my experiences with Drupal and Bryght, and about licensing choices. I think I&#39;ll sneak in some discussion about how web businesses choose open source, and how more about open source needs to be taught in schools. I may have a handful of slides for this talk as an intro to a panel / Q&amp;A discussion.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2010-01-01-jolicloud-http-jolicloud-com.md b/_posts/archive/2010-01-01-jolicloud-http-jolicloud-com.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 0be9027..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2010-01-01-jolicloud-http-jolicloud-com.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Jolicloud - http://jolicloud.com
-link: http://jolicloud.com
-categories: 
-- Link
-tags:
-- Jolicloud
-- Linux
-- netbook
----
-<img height="333" src="/images/jolicloud.png" width="500" />
-
-My <a href="http://horst.wordpress.com">dad</a> has an Acer Aspire that has Windows on it that he suffers with pretty regularly. I&#39;m tempted to try and experiment with Jolicloud on his machine.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2010-01-06-global-mobile-content-music-movies-gaming-all.md b/_posts/archive/2010-01-06-global-mobile-content-music-movies-gaming-all.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 923b6f4..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2010-01-06-global-mobile-content-music-movies-gaming-all.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-title: "Tomi Ahonen: app stores are tiny compared to global telecom revenue"
-description: "The future is Internet + identity + payment, and app stores will figure heavily in that future."
-link: http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2010/01/the-apps-stores-are-as-irrelevant-to-mobile-telecoms-as-seguay-is-to-cars.html
-categories:
-- Mobile
-tags:
-- app stores
-- Tomi Ahonen
-- telecom
----
-> In 2009, Portio Research counted the global value of 'non messaging' premium content (music, gaming, news, etc)&nbsp;downloaded or consumed on phones and sold to them worldwide,&nbsp;to be&nbsp;worth 85 Billion dollars. Yes, 250 times bigger opportunity for any content owner like say a Disney or TimeWarner or Turner etc to make money today, on ALL phones, not those few iPhones that are in pockets of&nbsp;some 4% of Americans and less than half of one percent of the rest of the world.&nbsp;Understand how enormous this number is. Just 'premium' mobile data income (I am excluding messaging) is bigger than ALL internet content revenues, and all internet advertising income - added together! (Morgan Stanley said they totalled 64B dollars in 2009). Mobile content alone, is worth more than all global cinema box office revenues, and all global videogaming industry software income, and all global music industry income - PUT TOGETHER. Again? Mobile data&nbsp;paid content industry is&nbsp;bigger that music, hollywood and videogames, all added together. Its that big. And some crazy journalists&nbsp;count free downloads on App Stores and think&nbsp;this is&nbsp;the mobile data opportunity for the industry.&nbsp;Now in our zoo we&nbsp;are obsessing about the standard field mouse rather&nbsp;than the&nbsp;elephant.
->
-> But even this is not the real comparison. I just said, that Portio measured 'non messaging' premium content revenues for mobile. What of the total mobile data industry? It is now worth over 284 BILLION dollars globally, including messaging income (says Morgan Stanley). Thats <strong>825 times bigger in value than all apps stores</strong>. Its not mouse to an elephant in our zoo, it is&nbsp;focusing on the ant and ignoring the elephant.
-
-<cite>via [Tomi Ahonen: communities-dominate.blogs.com](http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2010/01/the-apps-stores-are-as-irrelevant-to-mobile-telecoms-as-seguay-is-to-cars.html)</cite>
-
-I kept trying to figure out different parts of Tomi's article to quote, and realized I was selecting the whole thing. You really do need to read the whole thing to understand where the mobile industry is *today* (and it is gigantic).
-
-*However*, I think Tomi (who is fantastically smart and knowledgeable about the _global_ mobile telecoms industry) is missing where this is all heading. I saw the same thing happen at Nortel when the bitheads (me and other people in the IP everywhere camp - death of scarcity) bumped into the bellheads (telecoms thinking, more similarities to railroads, supply &amp; demand).
-
-App stores are small from a global perspective, from a total industry perspective, even though on a micro scale many individual developers and services are making millions of dollars. It is, however, an Internet based business. There is flat ground in all directions, and anyone can build there. There are no bottlenecks, there are no checkpoints or speed traps to slow you down (aka mobile operators, government regulation, or even worse, government-run mobile operators).
-
-The future is not mobile telecoms, which is the picture that Tomi paints today. __The future is Internet + identity + payment, and app stores will figure heavily in that future__.
-
-But, if you can figure out a way to sell into the GIGANTIC mobile telecoms market today - go do it, just focus on the Internet end goal that I believe is inevitable.
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2010-01-06-press-cbc-paid-to-blog-segment-regarding-ftc-blogger-disclosure-rules.md b/_posts/archive/2010-01-06-press-cbc-paid-to-blog-segment-regarding-ftc-blogger-disclosure-rules.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 18a69ef..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2010-01-06-press-cbc-paid-to-blog-segment-regarding-ftc-blogger-disclosure-rules.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Press: CBC \"Paid to Blog\" segment regarding FTC blogger disclosure rules"
-created: 1262767226
-categories: 
-- Speaking
-tags:
-- blogging
-- Bootup Labs
-- CBC
-- CMP.ly
-- disclosure
-- FTC
-- FTC Endorsement Guidelines
-- John Chow
-- Miss 604
-- press
-- Rebecca Bollwitt
-- Vancouver
----
-<p>
-	The New Year is kicking off with a bang. Bootup Labs moved into our new offices on Sunday (Cambie at Hastings, the Flack Block - come visit!) On Monday morning <a href="http://blog.bootuplabs.com/2010/01/04/danny-in-the-financial-post/">Danny was in the Financial Post</a> (actually, @trevoro from @layerboom has much longer quotes on <a href="http://www.financialpost.com/small-business/business-solutions/story.html?id=2403106&amp;p=2">page 2</a>). Then on Tuesday (technically yesterday as I&#39;m posting this), I got a call from @lalondetcbc and ended up with a <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/News/Canada/BC/ID=137792113">short CBC TV segment</a> talking about whether bloggers should be legally required to disclose payments and other bonuses they receive. I was &quot;opposite&quot; <a href="http://www.miss604.com">Rebecca / Miss 604</a>. That is, it was supposed to be opposing view points. <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/News/Canada/BC/ID=137792113"><img alt="CBC Video is not embeddable so all I could do was give you this crappy screenshot" src="http://bmannconsulting.com/sites/bmannconsulting.com/files/Screen shot 2010-01-06 at 12.37.05 AM.png" style="margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; float: left; width: 400px; height: 359px; " /></a> Rebecca is an excellent blogger. She is a professional blogger (i.e. makes her living from her blogging activities). It&#39;s great that <a href="http://www.miss604.com/2010/01/disclosure-statements-for-bloggers.html">she&#39;s decided to use CMP.ly to indicate her disclosures</a>: it shows the kind of honesty and transparency that makes her a great blogger. Do we need a law for it? Well, the FTC in the US thinks it does, but the guidelines seem over broad - a $5 discount at a restaurant and a positive review could net you an $11K fine? Of course, they say it will be on a case by case basis. Hmmm ... a law that is hard to enforce and is applied inconsistently? Sounds like trouble to me! I like <a href="http://www.johnchow.com/about/my-disclosure-policy/">John Chow&#39;s disclosure policy</a> -- everything he posts he&#39;s making money from. This is a pure case of media literacy - people need to learn about the sources they are consuming and make their own decisions. Of course, journalists aren&#39;t covered under these laws at all. Why not? Good question, and <a href="http://reason.com/blog/2009/10/05/shut-your-mouth-if-your-experi">quotes like this one in a Reason Magazine article</a> don&#39;t inspire confidence: &quot;Yet I don&#39;t remember any reviewer in any print publication ever disclosing that the record, the movie, the meal or the vacation was free.&quot; Lastly, it seems like Rebecca and I were set up to have opposing viewpoints, since we <a href="http://twitter.com/Miss604/statuses/7436305318">seem to be on the same page</a>. Oh well, at least they spelled my name right :P I have a few quotes bookmarked under the tag <a href="http://asides.bmannconsulting.com/tag/ftcendorsementguidelines">FTC Endorsement Guidelines</a> for further reading.<!--break--></p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2010-01-10-associates.md b/_posts/archive/2010-01-10-associates.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 9d9d136..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2010-01-10-associates.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Associates
-created: 1263155281
-categories: 
-- Associates
----
-<p>
-	The sub pages below list individuals and companies that I&#39;ve worked with and can recommend. Feel free to <a href="/contact/">contact me</a> if you would like more information, references, or any other information about them. None of the companies are ones that I have any direct financial interest in, except as noted below.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2010-01-10-travis-smith-hop-studios.md b/_posts/archive/2010-01-10-travis-smith-hop-studios.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 472d3af..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2010-01-10-travis-smith-hop-studios.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Travis Smith, Hop Studios
-created: 1263155483
-categories: 
-- Associate
-tags:
-- Expression Engine
-- Hop Studios
-- Service Provider
-- Travis Smith
-- web developer
----
-<p>
-	<a href="http://www.hopstudios.com/nep/unvarnished/" title="Travis Smith, Web developer">Travis Smith is a web developer</a> and one of the principles of <a href="http://hopstudios.com">Hop Studios</a>. <a href="http://expressionengine.com">Expression Engine</a> is the content management system of choice for Travis and the Hop Studios team, and they&#39;ve <a href="http://www.hopstudios.com/software/" title="Expression Engine modules, extensions, and plugins built by Hop Studios">built several extensions, modules, and plugins</a>.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2010-02-14-we-failed-at-making-the-vancouver-2010-olympi.md b/_posts/archive/2010-02-14-we-failed-at-making-the-vancouver-2010-olympi.md
deleted file mode 100644
index ec542d5..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2010-02-14-we-failed-at-making-the-vancouver-2010-olympi.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-title: We failed at making the Vancouver 2010 Olympics an Internet showcase
-description: 4 years to prepare plus great tools like Flickr and Twitter
-categories:
-- Vancouver
-tags:
-- Olympics
-- CBC
-- Twitter
-- Flickr
-comments: false
----
-There, I said it. I really needed to get that off my chest. It's 2010. We don't have hoverboards, but we sure as heck should know how to run large scale interactive websites.
-
-<!-- more -->
-
-I think I have some unique perspective on this. I'm a technologist that has been experimenting with cutting edge code and devices for over a decade. I was at the 2006 Olympics in Torino, where we put on a symposium around "The Olympics and Web 2.0".
-
-The ticket sales site crashed in Torino back in 2006. I didn't expect that it would <a href="http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Olympic+ticket+site+suffers+epic+fail/2197791/story.html">crash horribly in 2010</a>.
-
-<div style="float: left; padding: 0 10px 10px 0"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/raincitystudios/100749891/in/set-72057594070354810/"><img src="https://farm1.static.flickr.com/19/100749891_3f94eefab7_m.jpg" alt="" /></a><br />
-<em><span style="font-size:x-small;">Photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/raincitystudios/100749891/in/set-72057594070354810/">Robert Scales</a></span></em></div>
-
-In Torino, we were using Nokia phones, ShoZu, and cheap Italian 3G connectivity to take pictures and upload them to Flickr in realtime. I remember <a href="http://www.darrenbarefoot.com/archives/2006/02/lucky-bastards-in-torino.html">Darren Barefoot watching from back home</a>. These were isolated incidents.
-
-Today, just hit reload on the <a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=&amp;tag=van2010">#van2010 tag on Twitter</a>, and you'll get a constant stream of on the ground and watching from afar commentary. With links, photos, and hashtags a plenty. This may very well go down as the first "Internet" Olympics with this kind of activity.
-
-But I think we blew it. The "we" being CTV, CBC, and most definitely VANOC initiatives. OK, perhaps I shouldn't expect much from top down IOC controlled bodies who believe in the "magic of television".
-
-But CBC, for 4 years, has known this is coming. What kind of infrastructure have they put in place? <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/bc/features/roadtothegames/blog/">A "blog" called The Hub</a>, where they invite comments (I put blog in quotes because there is no RSS). No aggregation of activity, no submission of news stories, no geo-tagged map of interesting stories / photos / tweets happening across the Vancouver region.
-
-And that's just a beginning. I thought those would be table stakes. Single services like Twitter or Flickr cover the majority of those technology needs out of the box. It's not like CBC would have had to invent a bunch of this from scratch!
-
-Why am I so annoyed? Well, I've personally been talking to people about the possibilities since I came back from Torino. CBC lost the bid for official coverage rights, meaning that they had almost $1B that they wouldn't be spending on licensing. They could _own_ the Internet experience while CTV was doing traditional broadcast like suckers. Instead: a handful of Twitter accounts and an interactive web presence that simply isn't up to today's standards.
-
-Anything else I have to add would just end up being more of a rant. I'm writing this commentary singling out CBC because I actually _care_ that our Canadian public broadcaster evolve.
-
-Will the Summer Olympics in 2012 be any different? What would you build to help support and highlight Internet coverage in coming years?
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2010-03-02-jobs.md b/_posts/archive/2010-03-02-jobs.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 3abbaf2..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2010-03-02-jobs.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Jobs
-created: 1267554137
-categories: 
-- Drupal
-tags:
-- jobs
----
-<p>I'm running a simple <a href="http://indeed.com">Indeed-powered</a> job board here. If you are looking for a job, especially related to Drupal, please <a href="/contact">contact me</a>. I highly recommend using <a href="http://joblink.tw">Joblink.tw</a>, a Twitter-powered site to create "short, anonymous URLs to refer job listings and job seekers". I am happy to retweet relevant Drupal or startup-related job postings.</p>
-<script type="text/javascript">
-var indeed_publisher_id = '3011168910968224';
-</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.indeed.com/p/jobsite.js"></script><noscript><a href="http://www.indeed.com/p/?pid=3011168910968224">Job Search</a></noscript>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2010-03-08-on-demand-book-printing-bits-come-to-the-real-world.md b/_posts/archive/2010-03-08-on-demand-book-printing-bits-come-to-the-real-world.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e0cce2e..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2010-03-08-on-demand-book-printing-bits-come-to-the-real-world.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: On demand book printing - bits come to the real world
-created: 1268089171
-categories: 
-- Personal Publishing
-tags:
-- Espresso Book Machine
-- EBM
-- publishing
-- Oscar's Art Books
-- On Demand Books
----
-<div>
-	<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/4410606896/" title="Espresso 2.0 Book Printing Machine @ Oscar's by bmann, on Flickr"><img alt="Espresso 2.0 Book Printing Machine @ Oscar's" height="180" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2710/4410606896_83d11179b6_m.jpg" style="float: right; padding: 10px;" width="240" /></a></div>
-<p>
-	I&#39;m fascinated by tools and experiences that let us &quot;DIY&quot;. Whether it&#39;s using blogging tools to easily put content online, or cooking things from scratch, I like the fact that many things that seem hard or specialized are in fact things that anyone can do. With the <a href="http://www.ondemandbooks.com/hardware.htm">Espresso Book Printing Machine</a>, publishing a printed copy of a book has just joined that list.</p>
-<p>
-	<a href="http://www.oscarsartbookstore.com/">Oscar&#39;s Art Books</a> in Vancouver is one of only a handful of places in Canada that has an &quot;EBM&quot;. The Espresso is made by a company called <a href="http://www.ondemandbooks.com/">On Demand Books</a>. They&#39;re looking to sell the machines to bookstores, universities, and other places where &quot;like minded&quot; people gather.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<blockquote style="margin: 10px;">
-	<p>
-		<span style="font-size: medium;">&hellip;agreements made with Ingram Book Company, Google, and other aggregators expanded the catalog of books that can be printed to nearly 800,000 in-copyright titles from 8,000 publishers and millions of public-domain titles</span></p>
-	<cite><a href="http://blogs.whattheythink.com/going-green/2010/02/third-place-books-hot-off-the-press">Third Place Books - Hot Off the Press</a></cite></blockquote>
-<p>
-	One of the use cases aside from self-publishing is to get &quot;just in time&quot; books. Out of stock? No problem, it takes about an hour to print up a book. This starts to put independents on the same footing as chain bookstores or other distributors that have vast warehouses filled with books. As the quote above states, there are 800K copyrighted titles plus the vast array of public domain books (never mind other printed material like Wikipedia, open source documentation, and so on).</p>
-<p>
-	<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/4410607026/" title="Samples of Espresso 2.0 Printed Books @ Oscar's by bmann, on Flickr"><img alt="Samples of Espresso 2.0 Printed Books @ Oscar's" height="240" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2681/4410607026_7d2ff4eaee_m.jpg" style="float: left; padding: 10px;" width="180" /></a></p>
-<p>
-	I asked Oscar&#39;s Books what the pricing would be. At the low end, this starts at $99, which includes setup on the machine and your first copy. After that, your book is on file in the network - not just on the local machine. All the EBMs are connected into a network, so someone can print your book anywhere one of the machines is. Printing costs 7&cent; per page, and the minimum book size is 100 pages. Doing the math, that&#39;s about $8 / book if you were to print 100 copies. For higher prices, your book will get an official <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number">ISBN</a> and they&#39;ll help you register it for copyright etc. etc. All in all, a very cheap price considering you could sell the book for $20 or more and keep more than 50% of the profit.</p>
-<p>
-	We&#39;ve seen <a href="http://www.straight.com/article-281190/vancouver/independent-bookstore-duthie-books-set-close">independent book stores in Vancouver close</a> - the EBMs are one possible way that they can transition to a world of bits. The &quot;big bookstores&quot; continue to service people looking for best sellers, but their large footprint and warehouses actually start to work against them: they just add to their costs. Or maybe bookstores and independent cafes continue to transition to being &quot;third places&quot; - gathering spots where people meet and discuss.</p>
-<p>
-	Along with low cost 3D printers like the <a href="http://makerbot.com/">Makerbot</a>, I&#39;m excited about the continuing move of bits coming to the real world.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2010-03-13-cloud-camp-vancouver.md b/_posts/archive/2010-03-13-cloud-camp-vancouver.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 72d6fec..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2010-03-13-cloud-camp-vancouver.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Cloud Camp Vancouver
-created: 1268500361
-categories: 
-- Events
-tags:
-- Cloud Camp
-- Cloud Camp Vancouver
-- ccyvr
-- Discovery Parks Vancouver
-- Tropo
-- RightScale
-- Animoto
-- Vancouver
----
-<p>
-	I&#39;m at <a href="http://cloudcamp.org/vancouver">Cloud Camp Vancouver</a> today. It&#39;s at the <a href="http://www.discoveryparks.com/listings/dpv_overview.php">Discovery Parks Vancouver</a> venue where we had <a href="http://barcamp.org/BarCampVancouver2009">Barcamp Vancouver 2009</a>. The Twitter hashtag is <a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=+%23cloudcamp+%23vancouver">#cloudcamp #vancouver</a>. I&#39;ll be doing updates throughout the day.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>
-	Cool, <a href="http://twitter.com/akalsey">Adam Kalsey</a> flew up from Sacramento to attend (he&#39;s with <a href="http://tropo.com">Tropo</a> now). First time I&#39;ve met him in person, been following his <a href="http://kalsey.com/">blog</a> for many many years.</p>
-<p>
-	Questions from <a href="http://twitter.com/troyangrignon">Troy</a> to kick off the day: How many are business oriented? 1/3&nbsp;How many are technical oriented? 2/3</p>
-<p>
-	<a href="http://twitter.com/davenielsen">Dave Nielsen</a>, CloudCamp founder, kicking off the day, talking about unconferences, Open Space concept, etc. Only about 1/3 of people have attended an &quot;unconference&quot; before.</p>
-<p>
-	Troy kicking things off with a <a href="http://www.rightscale.com/">RightScale</a> lightning talk. <a href="http://animoto.com/">Animoto</a> launched on Facebook using RightScale scaling: &quot;try and run around provisioning 4700 physical servers in 2 days&quot; - no way to do it without cloud.</p>
-<p>
-	Took part in an expert panel to kick off the day. I talked about the question of what companies are doing &quot;cloud&quot; in Vancouver. I ended up putting up a wiki page - <a href="http://barcamp.org/VancouverCloudProjects">Vancouver Cloud Projects</a>. Please add your own links to companies.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2010-03-25-bc-apps-for-climate-action-announcement.md b/_posts/archive/2010-03-25-bc-apps-for-climate-action-announcement.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 62b22c8..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2010-03-25-bc-apps-for-climate-action-announcement.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,59 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: BC Apps for Climate Action Announcement
-created: 1269581625
-categories: 
-- Vancouver
-tags:
-- BC
-- climate change
-- contest
-- John Yap
-- David Eaves
-- Globe 2010
-- FTW
-- Make Web Not War
-- open data
-- Canada
----
-<p>
-	I&#39;ll be at the press announcement tomorrow where the BC Apps for Climate Change contest is announced. From the invite:</p>
-<blockquote>
-	<p>
-		<span lang="en-ca"><font face="Courier New" size="2">Join <a href="http://www.gov.bc.ca/env/climate_action.html">Minister of State for Climate Action John Yap</a> to see</font></span><span lang="en-ca">&nbsp;<font face="Courier New" size="2">how the Province is challenging the software community to find new ways</font></span><span lang="en-ca">&nbsp;<font face="Courier New" size="2">to tackle climate change using the world of online and mobile apps.</font></span></p>
-</blockquote>
-<p>
-	David Eaves has <a href="http://eaves.ca/2010/03/23/bc-apps-for-climate-change-contest-to-be-announced/">some more background information available</a>.</p>
-<p>
-	Interestingly, Microsoft is also running an apps contest as part of their &quot;For the Web&quot; FTW coding competition. For that contest, the <a href="http://www.webnotwar.ca/terms-conditions/">terms and conditions</a> include requirements to host on some form of Windows or Azure hosting, but they are also trying to push some open government data.</p>
-<p>
-	I have hopes that the province contest uses some standard app contest platform (the one I&#39;ve seen recently is <a href="http://challengepost.com">ChallengePost</a>), but somehow I doubt it.</p>
-<p>
-	I&#39;ll be posting updates as I get them. Not sure if I&#39;ll be able to ask questions, but leave comments if there is anything particular you&#39;re interested in and I&#39;ll see what info I can get.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>
-	Updates to start after 9:30am, Friday March 26th. Follow hashtag <a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=&amp;tag=bcapps4climatechange">#bcapps4climatechange</a>.</p>
-<p>
-	Here is the video I took of of the announcement:</p>
-<p>
-	<object height="300" width="400"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=10465076&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1" /><embed allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" height="300" src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=10465076&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400"></embed></object></p>
-<p>
-	<a href="http://vimeo.com/10465076">BC Apps 4 Climate Action</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/bmann">Boris Mann</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
-<p>
-	The announcement was pretty bare bones. Apparently, <a href="http://www.pm.gc.ca/eng/media_gallery.asp?media_category_id=20&amp;pageId=65&amp;featureId=11#tag">Prime Minister Harper being on Youtube</a> is a sign of the times, and so the province is jumping on this bandwagon.</p>
-<p>
-	The contest site is at&nbsp;<a href="http://apps4climateaction.gov.bc.ca/" style="color: rgb(45, 118, 158); ">apps4climateaction.gov.bc.ca</a>&nbsp;and has all of the details. The contest &quot;launched&quot; today, but submissions don&#39;t start until April 19th.</p>
-<p>
-	The $40K in prizes translates to 5 categories with a top prize of only $3K. The comment from Minister Yap about software developers doing it for their &quot;professional pride&quot; underscores the lack of understanding here. In contrast, the <a href="http://www.appsfordemocracy.org/">Apps for Democracy</a> (a contest for only one city, as opposed to an entire province), had a top prize of $16K.</p>
-<p>
-	I asked a question about the license of the data. Looking at the <a href="http://apps4climateaction.gov.bc.ca/contest_rules.aspx#entry">contest rules</a>, it&#39;s not &quot;open data&quot;, it&#39;s a 1 year license to use the data. Ouch, there&#39;s another big problem.</p>
-<p>
-	The data catalogue of &quot;over 500 sets of data&quot; appears to actually be up now at <a href="http://data.gov.bc.ca/data.html">data.gov.bc.ca</a>. There is no indication of the license of the data on the site, and downloaded data doesn&#39;t include license info either.</p>
-<p>
-	There are a number of corporate sponsors (which I can&#39;t link to, they just rotate in the footer of the contest site) - Microsoft and SAP being the gold sponsors, Telus and Eaves.ca being silver sponsors. I hadn&#39;t realized that David was an actual sponsor.</p>
-<p>
-	The actual rules for qualifying are very light - you have to use at least one of the provided datasets, and you have to &quot;raise awareness of climate change and climate action issues by making the Data more accessible and understandable to the general public&quot;.</p>
-<p>
-	There seem to be a lot of details that still remain to be worked out. The license of the data itself is the big one for me - the whole point of open data is the license under which it is offered. On the other hand, you grant the Province a full license to your application, including the ability to &quot;distribute&quot; it, for an entire year.</p>
-<p>
-	Expect some more thoughts / links on this as I find out more information and provide feedback to the folks running this contest.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2010-03-30-speaking.md b/_posts/archive/2010-03-30-speaking.md
deleted file mode 100644
index cd21f7d..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2010-03-30-speaking.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Speaking
-created: 1270011047
-categories: 
-- Speaking
----
-<p>
-	I speak &amp; lecture at a variety of conferences and events. If you are interested in having me speak or put together a custom training session, lecture, or workshop, please <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/contact">contact me</a>.</p>
-<p>
-	Here is a sample of some of the topics that I generally speak on:</p>
-<ul>
-	<li>
-		Open source: the whats &amp; whys, building community, community ROI, open source and business</li>
-	<li>
-		Open data: the whats &amp; whys, licensing (this is an emerging space, but one I am increasingly passionate about)</li>
-	<li>
-		Drupal: community guide, use Drupal modules, architecture &amp; best practices</li>
-	<li>
-		Web strategy: we used to call it blogging, now it&#39;s called social media - what pieces of emerging technology are affecting your business? what tools can you use? what new social norms are being built and discovered?</li>
-	<li>
-		Entrepreneurship: web startups: building knowledge worker skills, ecosystems, role of universities &amp; academics</li>
-</ul>
-<p>
-	See the links below for a selection of past speaking events.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2010-04-15-keep-calm-and-carry-on.md b/_posts/archive/2010-04-15-keep-calm-and-carry-on.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 72d31c4..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2010-04-15-keep-calm-and-carry-on.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Keep Calm and Carry On
-created: 1271319742
-categories: 
-- Personal
-tags:
-- Bootup Labs
----
-<p>
-	The seed accelerator I helped found, <a href="http://bootuplabs.com">Bootup Labs</a>, is getting lambasted in a number of public forums this evening / early morning.</p>
-<p>
-	It all started with <a href="http://livejamie.com/post/522093261/booted-out-of-bootup-labs">Jamie of Status.ly&#39;s post</a>. I&#39;m disappointed in lots of the original wording, and that it could have been written in a more factual tone.</p>
-<p>
-	I worked with Danny to put up some <a href="http://blog.bootuplabs.com/2010/04/14/wertz-joins-board-first-funding-completed-portfolio-reduced/">combined news / background</a>. It&#39;s not a direct response to Jamie&#39;s post, but has some added commentary since we weren&#39;t planning on posting the other news until tomorrow.</p>
-<p>
-	I appreciate the balanced response from a number of people who actually know us and the situation.</p>
-<p>
-	I read a number of comments / response to me directly that suggested that we should have been more apologetic. We leaned towards the factual. I can say that I know I broke a personal commitment and that I feel like shit about it and have already said my &#39;sorrys&#39; in person.</p>
-<p>
-	I read another round of comments that said that we shouldn&#39;t be commenting in public at all. I kind of know how to use these tools, and engaging where the discussion is taking place seems to be the right thing to do. Our instinctive response is not to call in the lawyers &hellip; because, you know, we&#39;re actually entrepreneurs / startup guys ourselves.</p>
-<p>
-	On the other hand, there are many commenters that should probably stop throwing around the word &quot;legally&quot; about the situation without knowing the details or, you know, being lawyers.</p>
-<p>
-	Here are some of the threads you can read (other than the posts above) with discussion / commentary to form your own opinion.</p>
-<ul>
-	<li>
-		<a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1266723">Hacker News</a> - lots of angry startup devs wielding pitchforks, but I&#39;m apparently a biz guy, and have only ever gotten downvoted there</li>
-	<li>
-		<a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/start/2010/04/how-to-burn-bridges.php">Read Write Web</a> - main opinion here is that Jamie burned a lot of bridges today - I actually don&#39;t think that&#39;s true, but this has been relatively public and messy, which never reflects well on anyone involved from an outsider&#39;s perspective</li>
-	<li>
-		<a href="http://www.techvibes.com/blog/bootup-labs-20-now-with-more-money-and-less-startups">Techvibes</a> - for completeness, and because Jamie left a very nice complimentary post - <a href="http://twitter.com/statusly/status/8211704871">&quot;There&#39;s no doubt in our minds that we&#39;re sitting with the future web in this room right now, it&#39;s beyond exciting. This is groundbreaking.&quot;</a>&nbsp;- a post on his first day at Bootup</li>
-</ul>
-<!--break-->
-<p>
-	I think that&#39;s enough for tonight.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2010-04-24-speaking-social-media-for-social-change-social-media-primer.md b/_posts/archive/2010-04-24-speaking-social-media-for-social-change-social-media-primer.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 8c0ca2a..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2010-04-24-speaking-social-media-for-social-change-social-media-primer.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Speaking: Social Media for Social Change - Social Media Primer"
-created: 1272162546
-categories: 
-- Speaking
-- Social Media
-tags:
-- Social Media for Social Change
-- Hollyhock
-- Octopus Strategies
-- training
-- Common Craft
-- RSS in Plain English
-- Vancouver
----
-<p>
-	I&#39;ve been asked to replace a speaker for an upcoming <a href="http://www.hollyhock.ca/cms/index.cfm?Group_ID=4653">Hollyhock training series on Social Media</a>, presented in partnership with <a href="http://www.octopusstrategies.com/default.htm">Octopus Strategies</a>.</p>
-<p>
-	I&#39;ll be giving a &quot;social media primer&quot; this coming Thursday. Here&#39;s what it currently says on the box:</p>
-<blockquote>
-	Wondering what, exactly, a &#39;Yelp&#39; is? Curious whether Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter can help you move your mission forward? Join [Boris Mann] for an enlightening and entertaining look into the changing landscape of social media tools, techniques and practices. You&#39;ll leave with a clear understanding of all the opportunities social media presents, and insights into how to take advantage of this burgeoning medium.</blockquote>
-<p>
-	There really is a lot of depth to cover here -- back in the day we only had to cover Blogs and RSS, and now I have to get all the way through microblogging, location based services and iPhone apps, with social networks in between.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>
-	I&#39;ll be picking up presenter licenses for a couple of <a href="http://commoncraft.com">Common Craft</a> videos. Hard to believe that <a href="http://commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english">RSS in Plain English</a> just had its three year anniversary.</p>
-<p>
-	I&#39;ll be posting the outline after the session. The big question: will I skip wikis or include them? :P</p>
-<p>
-	If you know of someone that&#39;s interested in attending (best for those in non profits / NGOs or larger organizations) you can <a href="https://www.hollyhock.ca/cms/page1528.cfm?group_id=4615:2010.04.29:2010.04.29"><strong>register here &raquo;</strong></a></p>
-<p>
-	Show your interest / attendance on the <a href="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/5628767/BC/Vancouver/Social-Media-for-Social-Change-1st-of-4-part-series/Hollyhock/"><strong>entry in Upcoming &raquo;</strong></a></p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2010-05-03-roller-coaster.md b/_posts/archive/2010-05-03-roller-coaster.md
deleted file mode 100644
index aeec027..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2010-05-03-roller-coaster.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Roller Coaster
-created: 1272914624
-categories: 
-- Personal
-tags:
-- Bootup Labs
-- Bryght
-- 100 Mile Client Roster
----
-<p>
-	As you may have seen on the <a href="http://blog.bootuplabs.com/2010/05/03/boris-getting-off-the-roller-coaster">Bootup Labs blog</a>, I&#39;m &quot;getting off the roller coaster&quot; - I&#39;m leaving my &quot;day job&quot; activities at Bootup and am moving on.</p>
-<p>
-	As Danny said, we&#39;ve been pushing on this seed accelerator piece of string for 2 years now. I jumped into it right after parking Bryght with <a href="http://raincitystudios.com">Raincity Studios</a> and helping with the transition there, from one unfunded startup to another.</p>
-<p>
-	Of course, Bryght is the main reason that I felt that I had to create something like Bootup. While I&#39;m still very proud of what the team and I accomplished with Bryght (I only have to look at the 3000 person Drupalcon in San Francisco or the Aegir mass deployment tool for Drupal to see some of that legacy), we could have done so much more within the right environment.</p>
-<p>
-	The design for Bootup is to fix the main two things that were (and still are) missing from the ecosystem in Vancouver / Canada: mentorship and funding. I still believe in this mission 100%. My moving on has everything to do with needing to earn more money for myself, today.&nbsp;</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>
-	Now, I&#39;ve been helping to build the local community for 6 years, and have been working on a &quot;ramen&quot; level salary at two startups in a row. I&#39;ve burned through a lot of energy and pocket money.</p>
-<p>
-	What this means in the short term is that I am reaching out to people to see what (paying!) opportunities are available while continuing to work with the 2009 and 2010 Bootup cohorts, as well as other startups that I advise. I&#39;ll be in the Bootup office every Wednesday.</p>
-<p>
-	As far as community goes, I&#39;m stepping back from organizing or taking an active role. Maura and Sonia have created a great &quot;backbone&quot; with the Bootup Entrepreneurial Society, and there are people that are stepping up to organize and run events like <a href="http://mentors.bootup.ca">Mentor Speed Dating</a>. There are a couple of projects that I think are important, but I will take them on a case by case basis rather than a general energy burn in keeping things moving.</p>
-<p>
-	What, exactly, will I be doing?</p>
-<p>
-	In all likelihood, I will end up going back to my roots in technical architecture and web strategy. There are interesting things afoot with mobile, open data, and even the semantic web is starting to pop up again.</p>
-<p>
-	I&#39;m also going to ramp up my <a href="/speaking/">speaking &amp; training</a>. I&#39;ve got a trip to PEI that I&#39;m still working the details out around, and a recent trip to Galiano Island has given me an itch about exploring <a href="http://emmajane.net">Emma Jane Hogbin&#39;s</a> concepts around a<a href="http://www.100mileclientroster.com/"> 100 Mile Client Roster</a>&nbsp;and what that means for the evolution of a knowledge worker economy in Canada&#39;s rural areas.</p>
-<p>
-	If you&#39;ve got something interesting you&#39;d like to talk about, I&#39;m <a href="/contact/">all ears</a>.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2010-05-05-rachael-ashe-artist.md b/_posts/archive/2010-05-05-rachael-ashe-artist.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 5e2816b..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2010-05-05-rachael-ashe-artist.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Rachael Ashe, Artist
-created: 1273123261
-categories: 
-- Associate
-tags:
-- artist
-- Rachael Ashe
----
-<p>
-	<a href="http://rachaelashe.com">Rachael Ashe</a> is a talented artist and photographer. Here is an example of some her work available on her <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/rashe">store on Etsy</a>&nbsp;(remember - buy her art, and she <a href="http://twitter.com/RachaelAshe/status/11902665973">buys me meat</a>!)</p>
-<script type='text/javascript' src='http://www.etsy.com/etsy_mini.js'></script><script type='text/javascript'>new EtsyNameSpace.Mini(5092109,'shop','gallery',4,2).renderIframe();</script>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2010-05-12-tungle-and-batchbook-now-integrated.md b/_posts/archive/2010-05-12-tungle-and-batchbook-now-integrated.md
deleted file mode 100644
index d69c8e8..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2010-05-12-tungle-and-batchbook-now-integrated.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Tungle and Batchbook now integrated
-created: 1273678552
-categories: 
-- Startup
-- Web 2.0
-tags:
-- Tungle
-- Batchbook
-- calendar
-- social CRM
-- CRM
-- Mailchimp
----
-<p>
-	I&#39;m very happy to see that two of my favourite tools are now working together. I provided a <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/05/prweb3986974.htm">quote to the press release</a>, since <a href="http://twitter.com/bmann/status/12074032895">my Twitter of my GetSatisfaction post</a> kicked off the discussion between the companies. BatchBook also has a <a href="http://blog.batchblue.com/batchbook-launches-easy-scheduling-with-tungle/">blog post up</a>.</p>
-<p>
-	&nbsp;</p>
-<p>
-	Want to book a meeting with me / check my availability ? Head over to my <a href="http://tungle.me/boris">Tungle profile</a>.</p>
-<p>
-	Tungle helps me keep my sanity by making meeting booking not my problem. I don&#39;t have to juggle lots of different back-and-forth email threads as I try and schedule my next week&#39;s worth of meetings &ndash; it&#39;s up to people that want to meet with me to suggest times in slots that are available.</p>
-<p>
-	It doesn&#39;t hurt that they&#39;re a Canadian startup on a roll. Why don&#39;t I have more to rave about with Tungle? They handle my multiple business and personal calendars and &quot;just do it&quot;.&nbsp;</p>
-<p>
-	Want to get in touch or need a referral? Fill out my <a href="http://batchblue.com">Batchbook</a>-powered <a href="/contact/">contact form</a> or ask me to search my contact database for people and firms with specific skillsets.</p>
-<p>
-	Batchbook is in the class of &quot;social CRMs&quot;. I guess that means it&#39;s interface is from the current decade, and it integrates things like Twitter profiles and RSS feeds as part of each contact. But I have much more to say about Batchbook.</p>
-<!--break-->
-<p>
-	I was going to say &quot;my favourite part&hellip;&quot;, but in reality I use a ton of different features that Batchbook has. Tags for contacts make it easy to slice and dice, but it&#39;s &quot;Super Tags&quot; that are really awesome. Tag someone with a previously defined Super Tag, and you can add additional fields of data. For example, I have a &quot;drupal person&quot; tag that lets me add a person&#39;s nickname in the Drupal community, a direct link to their d.o. user account, and a yes/no on if they are part of the Drupal Association. I also have a Partner tag, that lets me check off specific skillsets that people or companies have, as well as their usual hourly rate / typical project size.</p>
-<p>
-	From these tags and Super Tag fields, you can then create custom reports and lists, to easily browse collections of people or companies.</p>
-<p>
-	From *there*, you can do cool integration-y things like set up a <a href="http://mailchimp.com">Mailchimp</a>&nbsp;mailing lists which stays in sync just by tagging contacts. And yes, it syncs with Google Contacts, too.</p>
-<p>
-	Deal tracking and much more are all possible. Check out the <a href="http://batchblue.com/screencasts.html">extensive list of Batchbook screencasts</a> to get more of an idea of what&#39;s possible.</p>
-<p>
-	I&#39;m thinking of doing a Batchbook intro / user group / sharing session in Vancouver in the coming weeks. Leave a comment if you&#39;re interested, and I&#39;ll let you know when and where.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2010-06-06-first-feature-silent-auction.md b/_posts/archive/2010-06-06-first-feature-silent-auction.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a5be1c1..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2010-06-06-first-feature-silent-auction.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,43 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "First feature: Silent Auction"
-created: 1275890252
-categories: 
-- Drupal
-tags:
-- git
-- Github
-- Features
-- silent auction
-- exportables
----
-<p>
-	I finally got around to making a &quot;real&quot; feature rather than just playing around with the functionality.</p>
-<p>
-	I had left a comment a while back on <a href="http://ruk.ca/content/how-run-a-silent-auction-using-drupal">Peter Rukavina&#39;s post &#39;How to run a silent auction using Drupal&#39;</a> about how this would be perfect as a feature. So, I installed a new site, grabbed the necessary modules, and turned Peter&#39;s description into a silent_auction feature.</p>
-<p>
-	The code is available from my (also brand new) <a href="http://github.com/bmann/Silent-Auction/">Silent Auction Github repo</a>.</p>
-<p>
-	This was a very easy process. I&#39;m familiar with Drupal site building, so I point and clicked my way through the content type and manage fields screens as the main component of the project. Peter did a very good job of documenting the steps he took, so it was easy to do.</p>
-<p>
-	I then added his custom code to the silent_auction.module file to override comment displays. I didn&#39;t quite complete the &quot;amount raised&quot; block - my buggy custom block code needs some help, Github collaborators welcome :P</p>
-<p>
-	This was also my first experience sitting down and getting into git / <a href="http://github.com">Github</a>. It&#39;s pretty amazing how great the experience of git is when you&#39;re having your hand held by Github.</p>
-<p>
-	The nice thing to see about features like this is that it supports a builders point of view: a certain way of building something - no user signups / accounts, using comments as bids directly, etc., plus the choice of certain modules to put it together.</p>
-<p>
-	Node to node relations, making a full module, enabling paypal, requiring user accounts -- all are different ways one COULD choose to build a silent auction feature. If such a silentauction.module were to be built, we&#39;d surely find a simple_silentauction.module not far behind.</p>
-<p>
-	Features nicely encapsulates a starting point, but with overrides being as easy as changing a few settings, it makes it simple to continue the lego block building tradition of Drupal, as opposed to the much heavier full module or full install profile. Nice!</p>
-<p>
-	Now, where do I go to bang people over the head to make sure all their contrib modules are exportable&hellip;</p>
-<p>
-	Useful links:</p>
-<ul>
-	<li>
-		Direct download of silent auction master branch code: http://github.com/bmann/Silent-Auction/tarball/master</li>
-	<li>
-		<a href="https://community.openatrium.com/documentation-en/node/449">How to Build a New Feature</a> - this has extended information for making an Open Atrium specific feature, but the basics are still there, especially the non-UI methods for making a new feature.</li>
-	<li>
-		Demo site: http://silentauction.bmannconsulting.com</li>
-</ul>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2010-06-06-pei-trip-unconference.md b/_posts/archive/2010-06-06-pei-trip-unconference.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c66e9db..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2010-06-06-pei-trip-unconference.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: PEI Trip, Unconference?
-created: 1275873525
-categories: 
-- Personal
-tags:
-- PEI
-- speaking
-- unconference
-- UPEI
-- Islandora
-- Canada
----
-<p>I&#39;m going to be heading to PEI for the week of July 19th.</p><p>I&#39;ll be speaking to local small businesses at the Charlottetown Chamber of Commerce. My working title and summary are as follows:</p><blockquote><p><strong>The Web, Open Source &amp; Your Business: Leveraging digital to meet your business goals</strong></p><p>We are in the middle of the hype cycle of social media -- everyone is talking about tools from Facebook to Twitter. While these can potentially help with marketing, the average widget manufacturer that sells to other businesses has trouble understanding what they mean to their business. Which tools are important? Which aren&#39;t?</p><p>Local communities, including their business ecosystem, need to work together to use digital tools and build knowledge worker economies through sharing, education, and experimentation.</p><p>Open source and related concepts like Creative Commons licensing for content and open data can help with this.</p><p>We&#39;ll explore some digital tools, and discuss which ones can help meet your business goals.</p></blockquote><p><strong>Update:</strong> this talk has now been scheduled with the <a href="http://www.charlottetownchamber.com/index.php?mact=CGCalendar,cntnt01,default,0&amp;cntnt01event_id=49&amp;cntnt01display=event&amp;cntnt01detailpage=&amp;cntnt01return_id=94&amp;cntnt01returnid=94">Charlottetown Chamber of Commerce</a>&nbsp;for Friday morning at 8am (also here on&nbsp;<a href="">Plancast</a>)</p>
-<meta charset="utf-8" />
-<p>I&#39;ll also be addressing the <a href="http://upei.ca">UPEI</a> community, where the focus will be more on my Drupal community experiences, open source, and innovation. The <a href="http://islandora.ca">Islandora</a> team have built a digital repository stack that includes Drupal on the front end for web integration. This will also build on my talk at the <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/archive/speaking-acct-canada-2009-conference/">ACCT Canada 2009 conference</a>.</p><p>I know (through the Internet) lots of great digital thinkers in the area like <a href="http://smartpei.typepad.com/">Rob Paterson</a>, <a href="http://ruk.ca/">Peter Rukavina</a>, the team at <a href="http://www.silverorange.com/">Silver Orange</a>, and I recently met <a href="http://davecormier.com">Dave Cormier</a> at this year&#39;s Northern Voice. During my time, I hope at the very least to organize a geek dinner, if not a half day unconference to meet with these folks and others in person. I&#39;m still finalizing my schedule, but it looks like Saturday, July 24th would be a completely open day.&nbsp;</p><p>Perhaps PEI ex-pats <a href="http://www.willpate.org/">Will Pate</a> and <a href="http://www.deltatangobravo.com/">Daniel Burkha</a>&nbsp;would be interested in coordinating trip timing to join in?</p><p>In any case, if you&#39;re interested in meeting up while I&#39;m in PEI, leave a comment below or track the <a href="http://plancast.com/a/3iha">PEI Unconference on Plancast</a>.</p><!--break-->
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2010-06-08-batchbook-user-group-and-intro-june-15th-2010.md b/_posts/archive/2010-06-08-batchbook-user-group-and-intro-june-15th-2010.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 5c6aa67..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2010-06-08-batchbook-user-group-and-intro-june-15th-2010.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Batchbook User Group & Intro June 15th, 2010
-created: 1276036926
-categories: 
-- Event
-tags:
-- Batchbook
-- RedRovr
-- social CRM
-- CRM
-- Highrise
-- Salesforce
-- Vancouver
----
-<p>
-	Having completed my move and gotten a little breathing room, I&#39;ve decided to schedule the Batchbook intro / user group sharing session for Tuesday, June 15th, for 6pm at the Bootup Labs offices.</p>
-<p>
-	Batchbook is a social CRM tool useful for managing contacts, deal flow, sales leads, and many other things related to people and companies.</p>
-<p>
-	I&#39;m a big fan of the tool, and will be explaining how *I* use it, and some of its major features. It&#39;s in a similar space as <a href="http://highrisehq.com/">37Signals&#39; Highrise</a>, and is probably a better choice for smaller / web based organizations than the big daddy <a href="http://salesforce.com">Salesforce</a>.</p>
-<p>
-	If you&#39;re an existing user of Batchbook, please come and share your experiences - for example, a particular way that it fits in your workflow, some of your custom SuperTags, etc.</p>
-<p>
-	See <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/archive/tungle-and-batchbook-now-integrated/">my previous post about Tungle and Batchbook</a> for more info. Head over to&nbsp;<a href="http://redrovr.com/events/167">RedRovr for the event entry</a>&nbsp;and to let me know you&#39;re coming using your Twitter account.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2010-06-17-evolving-drupal-ux-by-building-products.md b/_posts/archive/2010-06-17-evolving-drupal-ux-by-building-products.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 2671b56..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2010-06-17-evolving-drupal-ux-by-building-products.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Evolving Drupal UX by building Products
-created: 1276805068
-date: 2010-06-17
-categories: 
-- Drupal
-tags:
-- lego
-- WordPress
-- UX
-- drupaloob
----
-<p>
-	With the release of WordPress 3, there&#39;s a whole new set of discussions about Drupal vs. WordPress.</p>
-<p>
-	I&#39;m going to try and explain my views on UX in Drupal, once again using the lego analogy.</p>
-<p>
-	First, I propose that you need a defined purpose to build great UX. WordPress focuses on blogging, and thus has an excellent blogging product.</p>
-<p>
-	With WP3, they&#39;ve even integrated their version of multisite / Aegir out of the box. BuddyPress is an example of a product that sits on top of this base infrastructure. So now WP does blogs as well as multi-user social groups / communities.</p>
-<p>
-	In Drupal, we&#39;ve optimized for a big box of lego. And there are a LOT of pieces in there. Pirate bits, space ship bits, viking bits. And lots of blocks that fit together pretty well if you&#39;re creative and pick through looking for ones that match in colour and so on.</p>
-<p>
-	I could talk about the WYSIWYG editor that ships with WP as an example. They took the base piece, customized it, and now have a rich text editor piece that fits exactly into the blogging product. It&#39;s not even a block! It can&#39;t get re-used easily with all these pirate bits! Sometimes, it&#39;s OK to plug in that perfectly shaped lego piece that isn&#39;t really a block at all.</p>
-<p>
-	But that&#39;s really hard to do if you don&#39;t have a defined purpose. Because something that is perfect for a large community site isn&#39;t going to be great for running an intranet. And an open everything access &amp; permissions model is great for the former, and dangerous for the latter.</p>
-<p>
-	So, if we want to improve Drupal UX, we can&#39;t just take out a big UX brush and improve everything. There are certainly base building blocks and flows that we can improve, but on top of that, it will be need to be optimized for different use cases.</p>
-<p>
-	Just over a year ago, I proposed that<a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/archive/drupal-out-of-the-box-lets-make-a-community/"> Drupal could be a great social community out of the box</a> (as in, core install profile). I&#39;m not so sure anymore, but I think we should continue to have the discussion &quot;What should Drupal do out of the box?&quot; so that a) new users have a reason to use core to accomplish a task beyond &quot;it can build anything&quot; and b) we can experiment with optimizing UX for that purpose. This will teach us lessons that can be re-used and rolled into all Drupal-based products.</p>
-<p>
-	And, in general, I would like to see more people trying to build nicely polished products that have a defined purpose: this is what will move us forward in the UX department. <a href="http://buytaert.net/on-business-models-for-drupal-distributions">Dries has a discussion on the business model of products / distributions</a> that is important - because we&#39;ll need to fund development over time.</p>
-<p>
-	Thanks to <a href="http://twitter.com/mattfarina">@mattfarina</a> for kicking this loose from my brain on Twitter.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2010-07-02-distributed-commenting-disqus-echo-and-intensedebate.md b/_posts/archive/2010-07-02-distributed-commenting-disqus-echo-and-intensedebate.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f12fa68..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2010-07-02-distributed-commenting-disqus-echo-and-intensedebate.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,43 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "Distributed commenting: Disqus, Echo and IntenseDebate"
-created: 1278092773
-categories: 
-- Web 2.0
-- Social Media
-tags:
-- comments
-- Echo
-- Disqus
-- IntenseDebate
-- Posterous
-- JanRain
-- identity
-
----
-<p>
-	I start a lot of my posts these days with a reblog using <a href="http://posterous.com">Posterous</a>. Thus, a lot of permalinks end up over on <a href="http://asides.bmannconsulting.com">my &quot;asides&quot; blog</a>, because a lot of the &quot;comment&quot; activity ends up either over there, or on Twitter.</p>
-<p>
-	My particular dual website problem might not be solved by this, but it&#39;s clear that keeping track of the discussion around blog posts is very much a distributed issue. Don&#39;t even get me started on the &quot;Share with Note&quot; in Google Reader that leaves comments stranded over in Reader where post authors are unlikely to to see them :P</p>
-<p>
-	The three big systems that I&#39;m aware of at the moment are <a href="http://disqus.com">Disqus</a>, <a href="http://aboutecho.com">Echo</a>, and <a href="http://intensedebate.com">IntenseDebate</a>.</p>
-<p>
-	On the <a href="http://blog.bootuplabs.com">Bootup Labs</a> and <a href="http://bootup.ca">Bootup Entrepreneurial Society</a> WordPress blogs, I went with IntenseDebate. It&#39;s my favourite system mainly because I know the <a href="http://automattic.com">Automattic</a> team and I trust them to do what&#39;s right for the web long term. Being part of Automattic also removes the (immediate) need to monetize heavily, so they can focus on features and support.</p>
-<p>
-	<a href="http://disqus.com">Disqus</a> is very similar to IntenseDebate. In fact, I think it&#39;s great that they were being developed at around the same time, because I think the teams competing against each other spurred development and features. Disqus is VC funded, and so is trying a number of different monetization strategies. They have a<a href="http://disqus.com/vip/"> paid VIP program</a>, although pricing isn&#39;t disclosed.</p>
-<p>
-	I found a great <a href="http://tomuse.com/comment-system-compare-wordpress-intense-debate-disqus/">compare and contrast blog post between Disqus and IntenseDebate that goes feature by feature</a>. At the time (May 2009), IntenseDebate didn&#39;t support Facebook or Twitter logins, although they added them both. I have a hard time telling the two systems apart - any passionate users of either system want to point out killer features (or missing ones)?</p>
-<p>
-	Echo is the only system without a free option: you can get a 30 day free trial and then switch to either a <a href="http://aboutecho.com/pricing.html">$10 or $100 month version</a>. Of course, it is fundamentally a very different system. While they do have &quot;JS Kit&quot; (their former name) accounts, this is very much de-emphasized in favour of only using distributed logins from other systems. As well, it aggregates &quot;comments&quot; from elsewhere - whether the comment is a link on Delicious, Friendfeed, Facebook, etc. etc. This has more in common with Trackbacks, but in the Echo system, it is highly integrated and seems more natural than the other two that are &quot;comments first&quot;. Finally, Echo doesn&#39;t currently write back to the native comment system, using only a JavaScript plugin. This has implications for SEO, and implications for me really wanting to have my own copy of the comment should the service in the sky &quot;go away&quot; :P</p>
-<p>
-	On the Drupal side of things, only Disqus and Echo have plugins available, at&nbsp;<a href="http://drupal.org/project/disqus">http://drupal.org/project/disqus</a> and&nbsp;<a href="http://drupal.org/project/jskitcomments">http://drupal.org/project/jskitcomments</a> respectively. From a technology perspective, I like the real time nature of Echo and the general direction that it is heading -- it&#39;s almost like having Friendfeed embedded under each post. But, the JavaScript only plugin and the lack of free option for personal bloggers makes it a no go. Since there currently isn&#39;t an IntenseDebate plugin for Drupal, I&#39;m going to go with Disqus for now, even though I would rather support the Automattic team.</p>
-<hr />
-<p>
-	<strong>UPDATE:</strong> I just realized after re-reading the Disqus module description, that it will *import* comments from Drupal, but it does not then write those comments back to the native comment system. So, in Drupal, we have zero options for a distributed comment system that writes back / syncs with native comments.</p>
-<hr />
-<p>
-	Lastly, the interesting thing about all these comment systems is that in reality, they are about identity. Rather than using an account on one site, or commenting anonymously, it&#39;s about re-using identifiers from widely used systems. Whether it is the commenting profile itself, or a third party like Facebook or Twitter.</p>
-<p>
-	Since this is the case, tools like <a href="http://www.janrain.com/products/engage">Janrain Engage</a>&nbsp;(<a href="http://drupal.org/project/rpx">Drupal module here</a>) should also be considered if you are trying to &quot;solve&quot; getting more comments, and in particular more authenticated comments.</p>
-<p>
-	I&#39;m using it here on this site, and just turned off anonymous commenting to experiment more fully with it. This means it should be easy for you to use the &quot;native&quot; comments, but still allow people to easily login and start commenting. You do have to allow unmoderated account creation on the site you intend to use it.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2010-07-02-drupalcon-copenhagen-2010.md b/_posts/archive/2010-07-02-drupalcon-copenhagen-2010.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 45ea16e..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2010-07-02-drupalcon-copenhagen-2010.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Drupalcon Copenhagen 2010
-created: 1278110409
-link: http://cph2010.drupal.org/
-categories: 
-- Events
-- Drupal
-tags:
-- Copenhagen
-- Drupalcon
----
-<p>Drupalcon Copenhagen 2010 takes place August 23rd to 27th in Copenhagen, Denmark.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2010-07-02-grow-conference-2010.md b/_posts/archive/2010-07-02-grow-conference-2010.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f845552..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2010-07-02-grow-conference-2010.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Grow Conference 2010
-created: 1278109556
-link: http://growconf.com
-categories: 
-- Events
-- Vancouver
-tags:
-- GrowConf
----
-<p>The Grow Conference is August 19th - 21st in Vancouver, BC.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2010-07-02-pacific-northwest-drupal-summit-2010.md b/_posts/archive/2010-07-02-pacific-northwest-drupal-summit-2010.md
deleted file mode 100644
index df60cd6..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2010-07-02-pacific-northwest-drupal-summit-2010.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit 2010
-created: 1278109901
-link: https://www.drupal.org/node/865444
-categories: 
-- Events
-- Drupal
-tags:
-- Vancouver
----
-<p>
-	The Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit takes place October 2nd &amp; 3rd in Vancouver, BC.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2010-07-09-private-code-repo-hosting-with-beanstalk-and-repositoryhosting-com.md b/_posts/archive/2010-07-09-private-code-repo-hosting-with-beanstalk-and-repositoryhosting-com.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 1004e9c..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2010-07-09-private-code-repo-hosting-with-beanstalk-and-repositoryhosting-com.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Private code repo hosting with Beanstalk and RepositoryHosting.com
-created: 1278708578
-categories: 
-- Web Development
-tags:
-- Unfuddle
-- SVN
-- git
-- GitHub
-- version control
-- Repository Hosting
-- WebDAV
-- project management
-- Trac
-- Basecamp
-- DVCS
-- Amazon S3
-- Beanstalk
----
-<p>For many years, I&#39;ve settled on <a href="http://unfuddle.com">Unfuddle</a> as my hosted tool of choice for development-focused project management and version control repo hosting. It&#39;s a great tool if you want all in one development ticketing / bug tracking (which is what I mean when I say &quot;dev focused&quot; PM) plus your code repository all in one place.</p><p>However, I&#39;ve been moving away from using Unfuddle for this type of project management, or been called into other projects where an existing PM tool is already in place -- most notable, either <a href="http://basecamphq.com">Basecamp</a> or <a href="http://openatrium.com">Open Atrium</a>, with the Drupal-based Atrium being something I&#39;m very keen on supporting (interested in seeing more hosted tools integrated with Open Atrium? <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/contact">contact me</a>).</p><p>In cases like this, I really ONLY need a (private) hosted code repository*. I saw an article recently <a href="http://journal.uggedal.com/private-dvcs-hosting">comparing various options for private DVCS hosting</a> (DVCS = distributed version control systems like Git or Mercurial) which nicely complimented some of the research/experimentation that I&#39;ve been doing.</p><p>The review states its goals very clearly: lowest cost-per-repository, with storage used as a secondary consideration. Everyone will have their own needs to rank providers across.</p><p>For me, I&#39;m interested in a mix between features and pricing, especially using it on a consulting basis with lots of clients, and different kinds of clients (from those that don&#39;t use version control at all, to those that have in house developers already).</p><p style="text-align: center; "><img alt="" class="imagecache-fullpost lightbox" src="/sites/bmannconsulting.com/files/imagecache/fullpost/postimages/Screen shot 2010-07-13 at 10.59.48 AM.png" title="" /></p><p><a href="http://repositoryhosting.com/">RepositoryHosting.com</a> is clearly the lowest price-per-repository: it&#39;s $6 / month for unlimited repos with a bundled 2GB of storage, plus $1 per additional GB of storage. No &quot;cost per project&quot; means I can generate a project per client / idea / whatever and not have to worry about it. There is bundled ticketing in the form of Trac, and it&#39;s likely OK / has evolved since I got sick of it when we used it at Bryght -- I&#39;m not giving points in this review for PM tools in any case. The WebDAV shares is a very cool feature, especially for integrating clients, designers, and other folks into the mix that will find it hard to adopt the version control system directly.</p><p style="text-align: center; "><img alt="" class="imagecache-fullpost lightbox" src="/sites/bmannconsulting.com/files/imagecache/fullpost/postimages/ss-integrations.png" title="" /></p><p>On the features side of things, my pick goes to <a href="http://beanstalkapp.com/">Beanstalk</a>. It starts with a free plan so you can check it out right away with 1 private repo. The first paid plan is $15 per month, and I&#39;m fine with their 10 repository limit, but I&#39;m always annoyed at limited user counts. Regardless, it is a super clean interface that people will find very easy to use and it integrates with a ton of different tools (Twitter, Basecamp, Harvest, etc.). But the main reason it is a choice that I&#39;m going to be using more and more is that it offers direct FTP / SFTP deployment. I think this makes it a perfect tool for design-centric shops -- they can continue to use FTP-based hosting services and workflows, while starting to adopt best practices version control.</p><p><strong>Bottom line:</strong> <a href="http://unfuddle.com">Unfuddle</a> is a great all in one solution and one that I recommend to clients over and over again if they have no PM or development management tools in place, but for just repo hosting, you should consider <a href="http://repositoryhosting.com">RepositoryHosting.com</a> and <a href="http://beanstalkapp.com">Beanstalk</a>.</p>
-<p>*yes, <a href="http://github.com/bmann">I&#39;m using GitHub</a>. It&#39;s awesome, end of story.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2010-07-13-how-to-setup-gravity-to-post-to-your-flickr-account.md b/_posts/archive/2010-07-13-how-to-setup-gravity-to-post-to-your-flickr-account.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 5d98639..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2010-07-13-how-to-setup-gravity-to-post-to-your-flickr-account.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: How to setup Gravity to post to your Flickr account
-created: 1279042373
-categories: 
-- How To
-- Series 60
-- Mobile
-tags:
-- Gravity
-- Flickr
-- Twitter
----
-<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-fullpost lightbox" src="/sites/bmannconsulting.com/files/imagecache/fullpost/postimages/441fe6bcdfb4b058c023d16dbbb67644.jpg" style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; float: left; " title="">Gravity is still the best Twitter client for Nokia / Symbian S60 phones. A recent update (it gets a ton of alpha / beta updates all the time, and they're super simple to upgrade to directly from within the app) added direct posting to Flickr. There is a spot within the app where it asks for the "Flickr code". I couldn't for the life of me figure out where to get this code.</p>
-<p>The answer is (sort of) simple. The first time you attempt to post an image, a dialog pops up with a URL in the title. That URL is http://mobileways.de/flickr</p>
-<p>It's easiest if you visit the URL with your desktop browser, which will then end up in the standard Flickr authorize dialog, and once you give permission, you'll get a 9 digit code to enter. Take this code and save it in the settings when you are looking at the images section of Gravity, and you'll now be able to post directly to your Flickr account.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2010-07-14-the-facebook-economy.md b/_posts/archive/2010-07-14-the-facebook-economy.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 7f1fd4f..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2010-07-14-the-facebook-economy.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: The Facebook Economy
-created: 1279146697
-link: http://www.visualeconomics.com/the-republic-of-facebook_2010-06-29/
-categories: 
-- Social Media
-tags:
-- Facebook
-- Zynga
-- apps
-- app stores
-- fan pages
----
-<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-fullpost lightbox" src="/sites/bmannconsulting.com/files/imagecache/fullpost/postimages/facebook-economy.jpg" title="" /></p><p>On <strong>Apps</strong>:</p><blockquote><p>&quot;<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">There are 550,000+ apps that are used on Facebook. Seventy percent of users engage with apps each month. There are one million app developers. Zynga, the top app developer, made $250 million in 2009. Of that amount, $80-$150 million is estimated to be profit, more net profit than Facebook itself made.&quot;</span></p></blockquote><p>On <strong>Pages</strong>:</p><blockquote><p>&quot;<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px; ">There are 1,500,000 active Facebook pages. The average value per fan is $136.38. Extrapolating on that, many celebrity pages would be worth enormous sums:</span></p></blockquote><blockquote><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: normal; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px; ">Michael Jackson, with 13.3 million fans, would have a page worth $1.8 billion. Family Guy has 9.5 million fans for a worth of $1.3 billion. Lady Gaga and Barack Obama each have 9.1 million fans, worth $1.2 billion each. Vin Diesel has nine million fans, worth $1.1 billion. Starbucks has 8.2 million fans, worth $1.1 billion. South Park has 6.2 million fans for a worth of $845 million.&quot;</span></p></blockquote><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: normal; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Via <a href="http://www.visualeconomics.com/the-republic-of-facebook_2010-06-29/">VisualEconomics.com</a></p><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; line-height: normal; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">I would love to see something similar for the Android and Apple app store economies.</p>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2010-07-15-bandcamp-has-a-business-model.md b/_posts/archive/2010-07-15-bandcamp-has-a-business-model.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 1732e76..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2010-07-15-bandcamp-has-a-business-model.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Bandcamp has a business model
-created: 1279177561
-link: http://blog.bandcamp.com/2010/07/14/its-a-business-model/
-categories: 
-- Startup
-tags:
-- Bandcamp
-- business model
-- music
----
-<p style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://bandcamp.com"><img alt="" class="imagecache-fullpost lightbox" src="http://bmannconsulting.com/sites/bmannconsulting.com/files/imagecache/fullpost/postimages/biglogo.png" title="" /></a></p><blockquote>Bandcamp only makes money when you make money. We considered building the business around advertising, but&hellip;well, OK, we never really considered that. We&nbsp;<em>did</em>&nbsp;consider building it around subscriptions, but under that model, given the option of either developing a feature to increase your sales by 20%, or dinking around with service tiers to try to boost our subscriptions by 20%, we&rsquo;d have to choose the latter. By building the business on a revenue share, our interests are perfectly aligned with yours: we only succeed when you succeed.</blockquote><p>from <a href="http://blog.bandcamp.com/2010/07/14/its-a-business-model/">bandcamp.com</a> via <a href="http://twitter.com/cbrumelle/status/18556357222">@cbrumelle</a></p><p>This is the post announcing <a href="http://blog.bandcamp.com/2010/07/14/its-a-business-model/">Bandcamp&#39;s business model</a> (15% of sales). Bandcamp is the go to solution for putting a band&#39;s music / discography online, and their statement above just makes so much sense: their needs / means of success as a business are 100% aligned with their customers.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2010-07-15-themes-and-modules-are-derivatives-and-should-be-licensed-under-the-gpl.md b/_posts/archive/2010-07-15-themes-and-modules-are-derivatives-and-should-be-licensed-under-the-gpl.md
deleted file mode 100644
index b23c3fe..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2010-07-15-themes-and-modules-are-derivatives-and-should-be-licensed-under-the-gpl.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Themes and modules are derivatives and should be licensed under the GPL
-created: 1279181809
-categories: 
-- Open Source
-- Drupal
-tags:
-- GPL
-- Matt Mullenweg
-- WordPress
-- premium themes
-- licensing
-- thesiswp
-- BraveNewCode
-- WPTouchPro
-- premium plugins
----
-<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-thumb lightbox" src="http://bmannconsulting.com/sites/bmannconsulting.com/files/imagecache/thumb/postimages/gpl_logo.jpg" style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; float: left; " title="">I've spoken out in support of <a href="http://ma.tt">Matt Mullenweg</a>, WordPress, the GPL, and general open source community principles <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/2473/drupal/open-source-stands-together">before</a>. It seems like we keep having this discussion, and that it often degenerates into a battle of personalities.</p>
-<p>Here's what I continue to believe about licensing and the GPL, which started as a comment on <a href="http://perpetualbeta.com/release/2009/11/why-the-gpl-does-not-apply-to-premium-wordpress-themes/">Why the GPL does not apply to Premium WordPress themes</a>, which is part of the #<a href="http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23thesiswp">thesiswp</a> running battle. For context, you may also want to <a href="http://mixergy.com/chris-pearson-matt-mullenweg/">watch the Chris Pearson / Matt Mullenweg interview</a>.</p>
-<p><strong>Bottom line:</strong>&nbsp;Themes and modules are derivatives and should be licensed under the GPL. You can use trademark and other non-code protections that will let you sell them and limit distribution if that is your chosen business model.</p>
-<p>The rest of this is the <a href="http://perpetualbeta.com/release/2009/11/why-the-gpl-does-not-apply-to-premium-wordpress-themes/#comment-62338419">comment I posted</a>.</p>
-<hr>
-<p>The way that PHP is executed means that everything runs together in the same space, with no separation (this is a simplification, but essentially correct). So, not the same as the red herring about software apps and operating systems (this comes up all the time).</p>
-<p>The Drupal community generally agrees with WordPress in that all themes and modules are derivatives and thus must be licensed as GPL *if* you distribute.</p>
-<p><!--break--></p>
-<p>Luckily, themes have CSS, images, and other pieces which can by copyrighted/trademarked and licensed in whatever way you see fit. The <a href="http://www.topnotchthemes.com/legal">legal page on the Drupal-focused TopNotchThemes site</a> makes this nice and clear:</p>
-<blockquote>
-	<ul>
-		<li>Drupal is open source software covered by the GPL. Portions of our themes (typically the .php files) that interact with Drupal are thus covered by the GPL and may be freely distributed</li>
-		<li>The “look and feel” of our themes which includes files not dependent on Drupal (typically graphics and CSS) are not subject to the GPL and are the intellectual property of TopNotchThemes and licensed to you upon purchase via our website.</li>
-		<li>You may not redistribute these files or use them for more than one production website</li>
-		<li>We have no liability for and make no warranty for our themes</li>
-	</ul>
-</blockquote>
-<p>Great, plain, simple language. Go ahead and sell custom / premium / whatever themes day in and day out. The code bits of the PHP are a derivative work, and must be licensed under the GPL.</p>
-<hr>
-<p>I've been looking for an excuse to dig into premium plugins as well (as a signpost towards thinking about such things in Drupal, especially as one digs into the many trademarked products / distributions that abound).</p>
-<p>I think my friends at WordPress development shop <a href="http://bravenewcode.com">BraveNewCode</a> are doing excellent, pioneering work with <a href="http://www.bravenewcode.com/products/wptouch-pro/">WPTouch Pro</a>. Read their <a href="http://www.bravenewcode.com/general/terms/">Terms and Conditions</a> for an example of how well done "premium" WordPress plugins / Drupal modules might be successful, all in accordance with the GPL.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2010-07-17-contributing-to-drupal-radar.md b/_posts/archive/2010-07-17-contributing-to-drupal-radar.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 53acc62..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2010-07-17-contributing-to-drupal-radar.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Contributing to Drupal Radar
-created: 1279393196
-categories: 
-- Drupal
-tags:
-- Drupal Radar
-- Pilot Internet
-- Radar Database
----
-<p><a href="http://drupalradar.com"><img alt="" class="lightbox" height="55" src="/sites/bmannconsulting.com/files/postimages/Screen shot 2010-07-17 at 11.58.13 AM.png" title="" width="204"></a></p>
-<blockquote>
-	<p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; ">One more before we go - Boris Mann is joining Drupal Radar as a contributor. He’ll be writing articles and helping to grow our Radar Database feature and make it more useful for other sites via&nbsp;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; "><span class="caps" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 0.9em; ">RDF</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; ">&nbsp;or an&nbsp;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; "><span class="caps" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 0.9em; ">API</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, 'Bitstream Vera Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; ">. Watch out for his byline&nbsp;soon!</span></p>
-	<p>via <a href="http://drupalradar.com/radar-17th-july-2010">DrupalRadar.com</a></p>
-</blockquote>
-<p>That's the quote buried at the end of <a href="http://drupalradar.com/radar-17th-july-2010">On The Radar: 17th July 2010</a>.</p>
-<p>I talked to Steve Parks, founder of <a href="http://drupalradar.com">Drupal Radar</a>, on Friday morning. He's based out of the UK where he runs <a href="http://pilotinternet.com">Pilot Internet</a>, and comes from a journalistic background. Steve started out as a BBC Radio Journalist and started way back in the Drupal 4.6 days.</p>
-<p>Steve says:</p>
-<blockquote>
-	<p>"it got to the stage where I wanted to give something back to the community, and I thought I could this in two ways:</p>
-	<ol>
-		<li>Documentation</li>
-		<li>Helping the community stay cohesive, even as it gets really large, by having a good trade publication to keep everyone up to date, with independent but informed journalism. That's the aim for Drupal Radar".</li>
-	</ol>
-</blockquote>
-<p>I was planning my own Drupal information related project, and when I saw what Steve had already put together, I reached out to see if we could work together.</p>
-<p>This is very much Steve's baby (perhaps we'll call him a Benevolent Editor rather than Dictator), but he's hoping to build DR in an open collaborative way, much like the Drupal community itself. This means CC licensed comment, including the "Radar Database" which will be information about the people and companies in the Drupal ecosystem. Sort of a Crunchbase for Drupal.</p>
-<p>I've really enjoyed Steve's writing so far, and hoping to get a little bit of editing or guidance around some of my scribblings. And, of course, fitting open data together.</p>
-<p>Want to get involved? Leave a comment, and know that we're not quite ready to open the floodgates, but do want to start hearing from people that may be thinking of similar initiatives.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2010-07-20-arrived-in-pei-visited-casa-mia-cafe.md b/_posts/archive/2010-07-20-arrived-in-pei-visited-casa-mia-cafe.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 3f66a69..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2010-07-20-arrived-in-pei-visited-casa-mia-cafe.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Arrived in PEI, visited Casa Mia Cafe
-created: 1279620000
-categories: 
-- Personal
-tags:
-- PEI
-- Charlottetown
-- Bluetooth
-- Great George Hotel
-- Casa Mia Cafe
-- Canada
----
-<p style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.tourismpei.com/"><img alt="" class="imagecache-fullpost lightbox" src="/sites/bmannconsulting.com/files/imagecache/fullpost/postimages/Screen shot 2010-07-21 at 10.13.14 AM.png" title=""></a></p>
-<p>I'm going to try and keep a few short notes in my asides section on this trip to PEI.</p>
-<p>This was my first "red eye" traveling in North America. That is, I intentionally chose an overnight flight as opposed to Europe, where you're usually losing a day in some way because of the time change.</p>
-<p>PEI is Atlantic time (4 hours time difference from Pacific), so leaving at 11:30pm from Vancouver on Monday night meant that I got here around 10:30am on Tuesday morning after a transfer in Montreal.</p>
-<p>I'm not sure how I feel about the overnight flight -- spending a whole day flying (once you add in the 4 hours you lose) isn't great, so I decided to use that "wasted" time overnight, making sure that I still had a day to get rested before I started my events here.</p>
-<p>In any case, I made it safe and sound if a little groggy and emerged into the sunlight on the tarmac of the Charlottetown airport. It's a small airport where you walk off the plane and directly into the arrivals / exit. I got set up with a rental car and made the short drive to town.</p>
-<p>My hosts are putting me up at the Great George Hotel -- some times also called the Inns on Great George (plural) because it's a number of separate buildings with different kinds of apartments and rooms. The person at the front desk ("Frankie", which somehow smacks of PEI) led me 2 blocks from the lobby to where I would be staying. I've got a kitchen, so I might see about getting fresh ingredients and putting a meal together while I'm here.</p>
-<p>Aside from having a long nap and doing some work on my presentations, I did make it to <a href="http://casamiacafe.ca/">Casa Mia Cafe</a>, the <a href="http://bmannconsulting.com/2882/social-media/bluetooth-lastfm-making-caf%C3%A9-react-its-customers-ruk-cc-rtanglao-termie">Bluetooth scanning cafe of legend</a>. It had an entry on Yelp, but no reviews, so I <a href="http://www.yelp.ca/biz/casa-mia-cafe-charlottetown">wrote one</a> about my lunch + coffee. <a href="http://twitter.com/ruk/status/19010864988">Peter Rukavina confirmed that I was scanned by the system</a> while I was there, so I'm glad to have checked that off my list. Sadly, no message pushed to my phone or other acknowledgment.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2010-07-20-tv-watching-vs-time-to-create-wikipedia.md b/_posts/archive/2010-07-20-tv-watching-vs-time-to-create-wikipedia.md
deleted file mode 100644
index dc5ed6d..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2010-07-20-tv-watching-vs-time-to-create-wikipedia.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: TV watching vs. time to create Wikipedia
-created: 1279672433
-link: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/cognitive-surplus-visualized/
-categories: 
-- Web 2.0
-tags:
-- cognitive surplus
-- infographic
-- David McCandless
-- Clay Shirky
-- TV
-- Wikipedia
-
----
-<p><a href="http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/cognitive-surplus-visualized/#"><img alt="" class="imagecache-fullpost lightbox" src="http://bmannconsulting.com/sites/bmannconsulting.com/files/imagecache/fullpost/postimages/goggle_boxes.png" title="" /></a></p><p>from&nbsp;<a href="http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/cognitive-surplus-visualized/#">informationisbeautiful.net</a>&nbsp;(via <a href="http://twitter.com/MackFlavelle ">@MackFlavelle</a>)</p><p>Just &hellip; wow. <a href="http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/cognitive-surplus-visualized/#">David McCandless</a> visualizes a year of TV watching by US adults vs. 100 million hours to create Wikipedia, based around the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1594202532/?tag=titb-20">Clay Shirky notion of cognitive surplus</a>.</p><p>Now let&#39;s add the hours that kids spend watching TV, and what they might create.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2010-07-21-pei-visitors-from-silicon-valley.md b/_posts/archive/2010-07-21-pei-visitors-from-silicon-valley.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 52d461d..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2010-07-21-pei-visitors-from-silicon-valley.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: "PEI: Visitors from Silicon Valley"
-created: 1279720669
-categories: 
-- Personal
-tags:
-- PEI
-- Great George Hotel
-- Yelp
-- Canada
----
-<p style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.thegreatgeorge.com/"><img alt="" class="imagecache-fullpost lightbox" src="/sites/bmannconsulting.com/files/imagecache/fullpost/postimages/Screen shot 2010-07-21 at 10.40.17 AM.png" title=""></a></p>
-<p>Had a great breakfast at the Great George Hotel. You sit in armchairs and sofas in the lobby and have little tray tables in front of them. Standard "continental" breakfast - toast, yogurt, and some hot quiches.</p>
-<p>As I sat down, I walked into the middle of a discussion by two women about different types of careers that you can "go to school for", and pick directly (vs. ending up in a job/career through circumstance). They talked about engineering and becoming a lawyer and mentioned computer science, but then also talked about how artists and musicians often end up in computer science.</p>
-<p>Turns out they were visiting as part of a group getaway from Silicon Valley. Mainly for golfing, but they were part of the "non golfing" spouses. I told them about some of the speaking I would be doing while I was here, and quizzed them a bit about Yelp and so on.</p>
-<p>My take away from the discussion was that there is lots of desire for more information about building for the web. They definitely did use "technology" to do research and so on before coming, but their next step was to ask the front desk about certain things. Good old word of mouth.</p>
-<p>They had heard of the <a href="http://www.tourismpei.com/regis-kelly-pei">Regis &amp; Kelly shows on PEI</a> that had happened a week ago, but their decision to come was before that (and they were glad that they were potentially missing a wave of visitors who were inspired by watching the shows).</p>
-<p>I talked a little bit about building websites. One of the women shared a story about a non profit she was involved with getting a website built for $500. I tried to have a discussion about what the needs of the website were, but mainly just got to talking about how it should be "easy to use" and that they could update it themselves (and that the "donate" button worked!)</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2010-07-31-being-involved-in-the-issue-queue-as-a-normal-part-of-development.md b/_posts/archive/2010-07-31-being-involved-in-the-issue-queue-as-a-normal-part-of-development.md
deleted file mode 100644
index b4f4cc7..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2010-07-31-being-involved-in-the-issue-queue-as-a-normal-part-of-development.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Being involved in the issue queue as a normal part of development
-created: 1280600997
-categories: 
-- Drupal
-tags:
-- drush_make
-- Development Seed
-- patch
-- open source
----
-<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/drumm/1427977653/"><img alt="" class="imagecache-thumb lightbox" src="/sites/bmannconsulting.com/files/imagecache/thumb/postimages/1427977653_fee7de8eca_d.jpg" style="margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; float: right; " title=""></a></p>
-<blockquote>Patches that we write for drupal.org modules are submitted to the issue queue, and we refer to the patch’s location on drupal.org in the make file. This has made us much better contributors to other people projects as it makes being involved in the issue queue a normal part of development, and it encourages us to only patch contrib modules where it’s likely that the patch will be accepted. When a patch gets a review, we make changes, upload a newer version of the patch to drupal.org, and update our make file.</blockquote>
-<p>via <a href="http://developmentseed.org/blog/2010/jul/27/drush-make-files-production-drupal-sites">developmentseed.org</a></p>
-<p>This is actually a quote from <a href="http://developmentseed.org/blog/2010/jul/27/drush-make-files-production-drupal-sites#comment-5288">Jeff in the comments on the article Drush Make Files for Production Drupal sites</a>, but I thought it was definitely worth highlighting on its own.</p>
-<p>In this particular case, using make files actually codifies the decision to integrate closely with contrib modules and actively improve them / add features as needed for a particular project.</p>
-<p>I've followed this practice for years, albeit without make files. Patches go in a "patches" directory in version control, with the patch file named with both the name of the module and the node number of the issue on Drupal.org.</p>
-<p>An additional process is that if a patch is needed, you run it in the issue queue on Drupal.org, but you also have an internal ticket that links to that issue. You don't close the issue until the patch has been accepted into the mainline of the module. Then you can remove the patch, update the version of the module you're using, and your clients' website is one step closer to easier long term maintenance and updates.</p>
-<p>And yes, being involved in the issue queue SHOULD be a normal part of developing Drupal websites.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2010-08-01-applications-found-while-not-finding-a-real-web-design-application.md b/_posts/archive/2010-08-01-applications-found-while-not-finding-a-real-web-design-application.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 7307e65..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2010-08-01-applications-found-while-not-finding-a-real-web-design-application.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Applications found while not finding a real web design application
-created: 1280722013
-categories: 
-- Web Development
-tags:
-- Dreamweaver
-- Dreamweaver CS5
-- Antetype
-- Flux
-- OmniGraffle
-- Balsamiq
-- Smultron
----
-<p><a href="http://jasonsantamaria.com/articles/a-real-web-design-application/">Jason Santa Maria wrote a long post called A Real Web Design Application</a>, where he talks about searching for a tool that has the creativity of Photoshop with more of a native understanding of the web. It's a good read, and the comments are over 250 and counting.</p>
-<p>I remember talking about how Dreamweaver is dead as part of my <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/archive/web-directions-north-2008-3-stages-of-dynamic-systems-wrap-up/">3 Stages of Dynamic Systems talk at Web Directions North 2008</a>. And yet, just the other day I met with someone that was doing a content-based startup and had built hundreds of pages with Dreamweaver templates.</p>
-<p>&nbsp;</p>
-
-<p>Today, I tend to still reach for&nbsp;<a href="">OmniGraffle</a>&nbsp;for prototyping, site maps, and so on. On the other end of things, I'm still using a basic text editor for coding (<a href="">Smultron</a>). I love the team at&nbsp;<a href="">Balsamiq</a>, but I just haven't been able to get over my distaste for AIR apps. I don't use Photoshop, because I'm design-disabled :P</p>
-<p>In any case, I found two interesting tools in the comment thread that might at the very least be Dreamweaver killers.</p>
-<p><!--break--></p>
-<p>I'm still interested in a "tool" that will make it easy for all those people using static-HTML-making desktop apps to switch to working with web apps like WordPress, Drupal, etc. (static HTML.... why? why??! <a href="http://www.google.ca/search?sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=khaaaaan">KhAAAAAAANNNNN!</a>)</p>
-<p>The first is <a href="http://www.theescapers.com/flux/">Flux</a>. The front page does, indeed, have a quote calling it a Dreamweaver killer. I was immediately intrigued by the fact that it has "plugins". These are standard JavaScript libraries and effects bundled in a special packaging format so they can be handled by the WYSIWYG editor / inspector. Wait… a tool thingie that uses the same libraries we use all the time when hand coding? Great!</p>
-<p style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.theescapers.com/flux/"><img alt="" class="imagecache-fullpost lightbox" src="/sites/bmannconsulting.com/files/imagecache/fullpost/postimages/Screen shot 2010-08-01 at 8.14.13 PM.png" title=""></a></p>
-<p>I poked around the Flux forums a bit and didn't find anything about CMS support other than <a href="http://www.theescapers.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=2&amp;t=1386">a thread where everyone asks them to support their favourite CMS</a>. A link found there talks about some of the <a href="http://foundationphp.com/blog/2010/04/12/dreamweaver-cs5-is-good-news-for-php-devs/">code abilities in Dreamweaver CS5 over at foundationphp.com</a>.</p>
-<p>The second tool is <a href="http://www.antetype.com">Antetype</a>. This is definitely much more in the direction of a prototype builder, and not exclusively targeted at only web design. It's not publicly available yet, but the widget libraries and web viewer export make it very intriguing. More of a potential OmniGraffle replacement than anything to do with HTML.</p>
-<p style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://www.antetype.com"><img alt="" class="imagecache-fullpost lightbox" src="/sites/bmannconsulting.com/files/imagecache/fullpost/postimages/Screen shot 2010-08-01 at 8.13.36 PM.png" title=""></a></p>
-<p>So, will a code editor grow design abilities or will a design tool grow code abilities? I see what Jason is looking for as a design-centric tool that can manipulate chunks of code as objects tied to design elements, with of course CSS abilities for applying styling to text across projects (aka cascading, of course).</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2010-08-01-elephants-like-community-roi-too.md b/_posts/archive/2010-08-01-elephants-like-community-roi-too.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 7697468..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2010-08-01-elephants-like-community-roi-too.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Elephants like community ROI too
-created: 1280685931
-categories: 
-- Drupal
-tags:
-- Drupal Radar
-- Capgemini
-- community ROI
-- Open Source
----
-<p>Steve Parks wrote an <a href="http://drupalradar.com/elephants-are-coming">article over at Drupal Radar</a> about "elephants" (aka large global IT / services / consulting) shops like Capgemini starting to adopt Drupal and what that means for smaller shops.</p>
-<p>Jo Wouters from <a href="http://krimson.be">Krimson</a> left a comment that made a couple of good points. The first part of his comment was that adopting Drupal is a strategic choice, where community was part of the value of adopting Drupal in the first place. I'm quoting the last bit of his comment directly:</p>
-<blockquote>
-	<p>Some anecdotal evidence: we are working on a proof of concept for one of the elephants. The spreadsheet they provide us to calculate budgets, has fields for all traditional costs (debugging, project management, contingency, …) and<strong> for this project they added an extra field with the label “Community 10%”</strong>.</p>
-	<p style="text-align: right; ">via <a href="http://drupalradar.com/elephants-are-coming#comment-36">drupalradar.com by Jo Wouters, Krimson</a></p>
-</blockquote>
-<p>(emphasis mine)</p>
-<p>Budgeting for "community" is absolutely the right thing to do. I've spoken for years about the concept of "Community ROI" (return on investment).</p>
-<p>It's very much the language of business - that investing in the community will see a return. Many from the community side find the language of business problematic - we do this because we love it. I've tried to be more pragmatic: having a sustainable business means that you can be funded to continue to do the things you love. In any case, it's clear that these strategic decisions see the value of the community, and see the return in investing in it.</p>
-<p>There are, of course, many shops that don't contribute to Drupal. Sorry, writing case studies doesn't cut it - I'm looking for links to patches, module maintainership, contributing handbook documentation, and so on. That, and as <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/archive/being-involved-in-the-issue-queue-as-a-normal-part-of-development/">I just wrote</a>, actively contributing patches back as part of the client development process. I honestly believe that any shop that doesn't follow community practices as part of developing a site is doing their client a disservice.</p>
-<p>Of course, if you don't have experience doing this, it can be hard to get started. Especially, it can be hard to "sell" to clients. One concept I've been tossing around is a line item labeled "Platform Maintenance". If your shop absolutely can't get past the mental hurdle of selling community involvement, then explain to clients that you add (some percentage / some hours) in order to keep their website future proof, secure, more maintainable, etc. Take this time and follow best practices for patching / features for contrib as part of development. Take the time and bundle a module or feature and post it to Drupal.org (the client gets a sponsored by link on the page -- Drupal being a high traffic website, this counts for a lot).</p>
-<p>Back to the elephants. We've been lucky to build a critical mass of community <strong>before</strong> larger players arrived. The Drupal community has always been an ecosystem. There are larger players and smaller players, but we all orbit around the Drupal.org community space. The actions of Capgemini and others are showing that they are stepping up to be part of the ecosystem, which is fantastic. It means, for smaller players, that they need to step up their game when it comes to business planning and other aspects that many have just "grown into".</p>
-<p>I'm interested in how you / your shop "sell" Drupal community and/or open source. Many shops have a standard "what is Drupal / why is it awesome", but it tends to focus on features or perhaps low cost. What are the specific open source points that you sell? How do you budget it - do you just work it into your cost, or show line items to clients?</p>
-<p><!--break--></p>
-<p>Related to this discussion, I recommend reading <a href="http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/">The 451 Group blog on enterprise open source</a>. I also really like <a href="http://stephesblog.blogs.com/my_weblog/2010/05/open-source-communities-and-customers-in-pictures.html">Stephen Walli's post on Open Source Communities and Customers in Pictures</a>. I've included Stephen's final graphic on how community and sales pipeline for enterprise customers interact:</p>
-<p style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://stephesblog.blogs.com/my_weblog/2010/05/open-source-communities-and-customers-in-pictures.html"><img alt="" class="imagecache-fullpost lightbox" src="/sites/bmannconsulting.com/files/imagecache/fullpost/postimages/BetterDetail.gif" title=""></a></p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2010-08-01-were-not-teaching-programming-and-we-should-be.md b/_posts/archive/2010-08-01-were-not-teaching-programming-and-we-should-be.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e41c7fc..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2010-08-01-were-not-teaching-programming-and-we-should-be.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: We're not teaching programming and we should be
-created: 1280689915
-link: http://scripting.com/stories/2010/08/01/debugging101.html
-categories: 
-- Web Development
-tags:
-- computer science
-- education
-- university
-- Dave Winer
----
-<blockquote>
-	<p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: georgia; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; ">One of the things I talk about with everyone I meet at NYU if they're willing to listen is that we're not teaching programming and we should be. I think every person who graduates with a bachelor's degree should have one semester of programming, just as they should have one semester of journalism.</span></p>
-	<p style="text-align: right; ">via <a href="http://scripting.com/stories/2010/08/01/debugging101.html">scripting.com</a></p>
-</blockquote>
-<p>Dave Winer talks about some strategies for building a tech center. I agree with him on programming, or perhaps technical literacy. Just like journalism would teach many skills around critical thinking, writing, and so on.</p>
-<p>Computer Science, of course, is not actually a programming degree. Depending on which institution you go to, it will lean more towards math &amp; algorithms or towards a software engineering direction.</p>
-<p>I ended up knowing how to program with my computer science degree from UVic, but I learned more during my co-op terms and afterwards on my own time about the craft of programming.</p>
-<p>And that's the problem: we haven't decided whether programming is something technicians do (and thus, not taught at university), that engineers do (not yet enough predictability or bridge-building-like stability, I would say), or simply math &amp; algorithms (the current state of computer science).</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2010-08-05-android-developers-in-vancouver.md b/_posts/archive/2010-08-05-android-developers-in-vancouver.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f95e94a..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2010-08-05-android-developers-in-vancouver.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: Android Developers in Vancouver
-created: 1281057600
-categories: 
-- Vancouver
-tags:
-- Android
-- developers
-- mobile
-- Vancouver
----
-<p>I continually get asked for recommendations for developers who can do Android development here in Vancouver.</p>
-<p>I love the <a href="http://nitobi.com">Nitobi team</a>, who are development experts across all platforms, and also the brains behind the cross-platform <a href="http://phonegap.com">Phonegap</a> project. But, they tend to be busy with global clients.</p>
-<p>So, if you're an Android developer, please fill out the form below. Once I've got a couple of listings, I'll put together a public directory of local Android freelancers and development shops.</p>
-<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="480" src="https://bmannca.batchbook.com/lists/form/3620" width="640"></iframe></p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2010-08-05-wordpress-is-a-yacht-drupal-is-an-aircraft-carrier.md b/_posts/archive/2010-08-05-wordpress-is-a-yacht-drupal-is-an-aircraft-carrier.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 48a26bc..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2010-08-05-wordpress-is-a-yacht-drupal-is-an-aircraft-carrier.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: WordPress is a yacht, Drupal is an aircraft carrier
-created: 1281052412
-categories: 
-- Drupal
-tags:
-- TYPO3
-- WordPress
-- Expression Engine
-- CMS
----
-<a href="http://sonspring.com/journal/why-drupal">Why Drupal?</a> is a great article by designer <a href="http://twitter.com/nathansmith">Nathan Smith @nathansmith</a> on why he's moving to Drupal. He's written a book about [[Textpattern]], and used [[Expression Engine]] extensively, and also mentions [[TYPO3]].
-
-I've snipped only this very small section on (essentially) why not WordPress, which is similar to what I was trying to get at with my [[Evolving Drupal UX by Building Products]] post:
-
-> In fact, WP is so tailored to blogging that I liken it to a yacht. It is streamlined for that particular task. It allows people with varying levels of technical savvy to get a site installed and online posthaste. Or, via <a href="http://wordpress.com/">WordPress.com</a> you can skip the install process altogether and opt for a hosted blog. While a sharp focus on blogging ensures that the famed “5 minute install” will continue to be a selling point, it also means that WP at its core isn’t meant for big sites.
-> Note: I mean “big” from an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_architecture">information architecture</a> standpoint. I realize that with proper caching plugins and a good hosting setup WP can power sites with tons of traffic and an abuncance of blog posts. While that’s all well and good, I’m interested in building sites and/or web applications that have both breadth and depth.
-> Continuing with the WP as yacht analogy, I’d say Drupal is an aircraft carrier. A ship that big can carry fighters, bombers, supplies, or even refugees in a humanitarian relief effort. What I see far too often is people trying to strap things onto their yachts and then wondering why they run into difficulties. Custom fields do not make for an ideal CMS workflow. I learned this with Textpattern.
-> [Why Drupal? by Nathan Smith](http://sonspring.com/journal/why-drupal)
-
-Nathan has done a great job by unpacking what "scales well" means from a design perspective. His side trip(s) into discussing major Drupal shops and focusing on a base language like PHP instead of template lingots are excellent as well.
-
-Nathan doesn't mention <a href="http://drupal.org/project/features">Features</a>, but it is a path forward for small or large Drupal shops to avoid having to "just" skin another Drupal site, without moving in the direction of templates.
-
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2010-08-12-postrank-has-some-really-great-engagement-analytics.md b/_posts/archive/2010-08-12-postrank-has-some-really-great-engagement-analytics.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 542c001..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2010-08-12-postrank-has-some-really-great-engagement-analytics.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
---- 
-layout: post
-title: PostRank has some really great engagement analytics
-created: 1281650576
-categories: 
-- Startup
-tags:
-- analytics
-- PostRank
-- AideRSS
-- Summify
-- social news reader
-- Google Analytics
-- Empire Avenue
-- Social Media
----
-<p>I've played with <a href="http://postrank.com">PostRank</a> in the past (probably back when they were called Aide RSS). They're a Canadian company, based out of Waterloo, founded back in 2007 (<a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/aiderss">CrunchBase entry</a>). They're best known for their "PR" - ranking on blog posts to see if it is important. Since this is similar to what <a href="http://summify.com">Summify is doing with their social news reader</a>, I'm hoping there might be a connection here.</p>
-<p>I dived back into it in the last couple of days because I got notification about <a href="https://connect.postrank.com/about">PostRank Connect</a>, which is a brand / influencer connector / tracker (as near as I can tell - it's not really "turned on" at the moment).</p>
-<p>But PostRank analytics is what is live now, and it's <strong>great</strong>. Here's a screenshot of the front page of this blog, the default "Overview" tab in PostRank:</p>
-<p style="text-align: center; "><img alt="" class="imagecache-fullpost lightbox" src="http://bmannconsulting.com/sites/bmannconsulting.com/files/imagecache/fullpost/postimages/Screen shot 2010-08-12 at 11.04.34 AM.png" title=""></p>
-<p>The top is the engagement value as tracked by PostRank - comments, tweets, delicious bookmarks, and so on that that post has generated. The bottom are page views from Google Analytics - you click a button, do the OAuth dance, and then connect in your existing Google Analytics account.</p>
-<p>Most of the traffic to my blog is organic search from being around for 10 years, so you don't see massive spikes of pageviews correlated to engagement.</p>
-<p>Here's another screen shot from the "analyze" tab, which shows you a compact view of posts to your blog, with engagement events and engagement points to give you an overview of how impactful each post is:</p>
-<p style="text-align: center; "><img alt="" class="imagecache-fullpost lightbox" src="http://bmannconsulting.com/sites/bmannconsulting.com/files/imagecache/fullpost/postimages/Screen shot 2010-08-12 at 11.04.55 AM.png" title=""></p>
-<p>If you look carefully, you can see that the Twitter and Delicious links are underlined - you can click through and see more info about who has tweeted / bookmarked your posts. I'd like to see click throughs and info for all of them.</p>
-<p>You can see more details about the PostRank Analytics service on the <a href="https://analytics.postrank.com/tour">tour</a> page, where you'll also find that it is $9 / month or $99 / year, although I've been told that with a "Connect" account, you'll get a free Analytics account.</p>
-<p><!--break--></p>
-<p>The Connect / Brand / Influencer model seems to be hot again: when I heard about<a href="http://www.wmediaventures.com/news/new-investment-empire-avenue-the-worlds-first-influence-stock-market/"> Boris Wertz's investment in Empire Avenue</a>, I spent some time kicking the tires as well. Feel free to <a href="http://www.empireavenue.com/BMANN">buy some shares in ticker symbol BMANN</a>.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2010-08-18-joining-iqmetrix.md b/_posts/archive/2010-08-18-joining-iqmetrix.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 877c443..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2010-08-18-joining-iqmetrix.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
----
-title: "Joining iQmetrix"
----
-<!-- image: /sites/bmannconsulting.com/files/imagecache/fullpost/postimages/Screen%20shot%202010-08-18%20at%201.00.34%20AM.png -->
-
-Let's get straight to the meat of this post: I accepted an offer letter earlier this week, and as of September 1st, I'll be joining the team at [iQmetrix](http://www.iqmetrix.com).
-
-Now, most of you won't have heard of iQmetrix. I think they're going to be known as a great Canadian success story. Here's a bit of background about the organization.
-
-The company is privately held, around 10 years old, and started in Regina, Saskatchewan. They scratched their own itch at <a href="http://jump.ca">Jump.ca</a> – a wireless retailer AKA store that sells cellphones / mobile plans / accessories etc. – and wrote their own software for CRM, point-of-sale, and so on. The productized version of this became iQmetrix, and they went on to grow until today, there are wireless&nbsp;retailers using the software in every major mall in North America.
-
-So the entire executive team packed their bags back in Saskatchewan, pulled up stakes, and moved out to Vancouver with their families to found the&nbsp;<a href="http://foursquare.com/venue/2217091" title="iQMetrix Vancouver on Foursquare - of course I'm the mayor already">corporate head office</a>&nbsp;here.&nbsp;And now it's time for iQmetrix to kick into growth mode.
-
-We're seeing the first non-phone devices like the iPad coming into wireless retailers, and the app store model for software sales is going crazy. There will only be more devices, more accessories, and more things that your wireless retailer will be selling, and that Main Street America will want to know more about.
-
-Is the wireless retailer going to become like the local computer store? Perhaps - that didn't exactly turn out well. And the story is different in Europe of course, where many countries already have many more wireless retailers or SIM card vendors than we do here.
-
-The other angle that iQmetrix has is around interactive retail. This is another new term to me, and as I've been digesting what it means and how to explain it, the analogy I've come up with is this:
-<hr />
-
-<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181689/"><img alt="" class="imagecache-thumb lightbox" src="http://bmannconsulting.com/sites/bmannconsulting.com/files/imagecache/thumb/postimages/20060727-minority_report_gestural_ui.jpg" style="margin: 10px; float: right; " title=""></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/31216636@N00/3253842434/in/photostream/"><img alt="" class="imagecache-thumb lightbox" src="http://bmannconsulting.com/sites/bmannconsulting.com/files/imagecache/thumb/postimages/3253842434_b84d76ab72_b.jpg" style="margin: 10px; float: left" title=""></a>
-
-Right now, advertising in the offline world is on a <strong>continuum somewhere between billboards and Minority Report</strong>.
-
-That is, a range of technologies and products from physical billboards and signage in malls and along highways at one end, to the future of personalized, digital, local offers as seen in Minority Report (touch interfaces included, of course) at the other end.
-
-<hr/>
-
-At the billboard end, there is relatively boring evolutionary technology like digital billboards that aren't interactive and are still broadcast.&nbsp;
-
-Closer to the MR, revolutionary end of things, we have personalized, direct offers, with the<a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/16/best-buy-shopkick-257-stores/"> recent news of the Shopkick install into Best Buy stores</a> perhaps being one example. Sites like Foursquare and Twitter might be something that we include on the right hand side of the continuum - there is lots of revolutionary change &amp; experimentation happening here (the <a href="http://www.foundrygroup.com/wp/2008/03/theme-human-computer-interaction-hci/" title="Foundry Group Human Computer Interaction investment theme">Foundry Group's HCI Theme</a> fits in this space).
-
-I think that the current buzz-tag "O2O" (Online 2 Offline) is related - <a href="http://groupon.com">Groupon</a> is held up as one example in a <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/07/why-online2offline-commerce-is-a-trillion-dollar-opportunity/">recent Techcrunch article</a>, but I actually believe this is just a (rising) trend of small businesses adopting technology / advertising solutions that are web-based, and so we are seeing a shift of dollars.
-
-In any case, it should be obvious that I'm excited about the opportunity. I have a lot to learn about this new space, but it feels like an area that is starting a decade long change that mirrors the growth of the web in the mid-90s. I will be bringing some startup, web native, and community experience to the table, and to continue to tell the iQmetrix story.
-
-Thanks to <a href="http://www.codingventures.com/">Kerem Karatal</a> for reaching out to me while I was sitting on the bench after <a href="http://bootuplabs.com">Bootup</a>, and thanks to the exec team at iQmetrix for hiring "title TBD". I'm looking forward to what we can all accomplish together, and I'm happy to be keeping the Vancouver community as my home base.</p>
-<!-- more -->
-And yes, we're <a href="http://iqmetrix.com/careers">hiring</a>. Want to catch up? I'm at a lot of <a href="http://growconf.com">Growconf</a> events this week, but check my <a href="http://tungle.me/boris">Tungle</a> and <a href="http://plancast.com/boris">Plancast</a> if you want to connect privately or publicly in the coming weeks.
-
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2010-08-26-automatic-wordpress-backup-using-amazon-s3.md b/_posts/archive/2010-08-26-automatic-wordpress-backup-using-amazon-s3.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 53f4e36..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2010-08-26-automatic-wordpress-backup-using-amazon-s3.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
----
-title: Automatic WordPress Backup using Amazon S3
----
-<p>I mentioned the <a href="http://www.webdesigncompany.net/automatic-wordpress-backup/">Automatic WordPress Backup plugin</a> briefly in my post about Standing Cloud. I've now installed and configured it, and aside from a few UI issues, it's great.</p>
-<p>You'll need an [[AWS]] / [[Amazon S3]] account to get started. Grab your access key and security key from the security credentials part of your account. Download / install the backup plugin (here it is <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/automatic-wordpress-backup/">on wordpress.org</a> - search inside WP for "automatic wordpress backup" and it should come up).</p>
-<p>You choose what to backup. You really do want to check all the boxes -- your database, all your files, plugins, themes, uploaded content, etc. On the site in which I have it installed, each backup is about 100MB.</p>
-<p>Backups are kept for a month and then deleted, and monthly backups are kept for a year. At 100MB / backup, that's about 3GB (plus a bit more for keeping those monthly backups). At Amazon S3's <a href="http://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/">pricing</a> of 15¢ / GB, that's.... under 50¢ / month to have your site backed up every single day.</p>
-<p>You can restore directly from within the interface as well, so this is a pretty turn key system. The UI is all in one page and a little clunky, and I did make some comments on what could be improved:</p>
-<ul>
-	<li>In general, I would split the one big page into several tabs. A backups tab, a restore tab, and so on.</li>
-	<li>if you add a progress indicator, or in general display a floating message that says “backup in progress”, then people will understand that a backup is happening.</li>
-	<li>I would also do an immediate check against the access key / secret key and put in a green checkmark to indicate that it has connected correctly – with the secret key hidden, I’m always unsure if I’ve cut / pasted it correctly.</li>
-</ul>
-<p>Of course, what about <a href="http://vaultpress.com">VaultPress</a>, the commercial service? Well, in beta, they're charging $15 / month per blog at the Basic level, $40 / month for Premium. Or, um, 30x - 80x more expensive than doing it yourself with this plugin and Amazon S3. Their FAQ says that they are also doing security monitoring -- aka figuring out when your blog is hacked. And yes, most people are going to have to spend some time figuring out the Amazon interface and so on. But I really can't see how they can keep pricing at this level with this kind of free plugin available.</p>
-
-<p>The <a href="http://drupal.org/project/backup_migrate">Backup Migrate</a> and <a href="http://drupal.org/project/backup_migrate_files">Backup Migrate Files</a> module are the equivalent solution for Drupal, although I've always had trouble getting the files version to work with its PEAR dependency.</p>
-<p><strong>Update:</strong> <a href="/sillygwailo" class="internal-link">Richard</a> let me know that there is a <a href="http://drupal.org/node/715470">patch that fixes Backup Migrate Files</a>. Excellent, thanks!</p>
-<p>Are you backing up your site automatically? Amazon S3 and plugins like those above make it automatic and inexpensive.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2010-09-06-twitter-mentionmap-by-asterisq.md b/_posts/archive/2010-09-06-twitter-mentionmap-by-asterisq.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 31f8223..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2010-09-06-twitter-mentionmap-by-asterisq.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
---- 
-title: Twitter Mentionmap by Asterisq
-created: 1283797161
-categories: 
-- Startup
-tags:
-- Twitter
-- data visualization
-- Asterisq
-- Vancouver
----
-<p><object height="480" width="580"><embed allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="sameDomain" height="480" src="http://apps.asterisq.com/mentionmap/main.swf?username=bmann" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="580"></object></p>
-<p>This is a "mention map" of people and hashtags that I mention on Twitter. You can <a href="http://asterisq.com/blog/2010/07/08/embed-mentionmap-in-your-website">get your own embed code</a>.</p>
-<p><a href="http://asterisq.com">Asterisq</a> is a local Vancouver company that is doing really interesting things with data visualization. Data visualization is an increasingly hot area, going from "neat!" to "wow, I would never have had this insight without seeing it like this".</p>
-<p>The guys at Asterisq are looking for big data sets and partners to work with, so contact them if this sounds interesting. They've got a <a href="http://asterisq.com/products/constellation/custom/implementations">gallery of some other custom implementations of graphs</a>. Bonus points for <a href="http://asterisq.com/blog/2009/08/31/editable-graph-visualization-for-csis">Drupal integration</a> and also some <a href="http://asterisq.com/blog/2009/05/15/ultimate-movie-site-using-framework-for-facebook">Facebook integration</a>.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2010-09-08-grow-conference-video-interview.md b/_posts/archive/2010-09-08-grow-conference-video-interview.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 052bb26..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2010-09-08-grow-conference-video-interview.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
---- 
-title: GROW Conference video interview
-created: 1283930907
-categories: 
-- Personal
-tags:
-- video
-- Michelle Sklar
-- TechVibes
-- GROWconf
-- interview
-- Dealmaker Media
-- Debbie Landa
----
-<p>Thanks to <a href="http://www.techvibes.com/blog/techvibes-tv-boris-mann-of-bootup-labs-and-iqmetrix">Techvibes</a> and wonderful interviewer <a href="http://ca.linkedin.com/in/michellesklar">Michelle Sklar</a> for cornering me at <a href="http://growconf.com">GROWconf</a> for a quick chat about <a href="http://bootuplabs.com">Bootup</a>, the Vancouver startup scene, and my new role at <a href="http://iqmetrix.com">iQmetrix</a>.</p>
-<p><object height="338" width="500"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=14443385&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=ff9933&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;autoplay=0&amp;loop=0"><embed allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" height="338" src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=14443385&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=ff9933&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;autoplay=0&amp;loop=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="500"></object></p>
-<p>Looking back, I realize I never posted anything about GROW here. Let me just say - it was fantastic. Thank you to the always fantastic Debbie Landa and the rest of the <a href="http://dealmakermedia.com/">Dealmaker Media</a> team for putting this together. Thank you to all the folks in from Toronto to Montreal to the Valley who got on planes and came. It was great to get the Canadian startup family together in one place for a few short days.</p>
-<p><!--break--></p>
-<p>I'll come back and pull in a few bullet points of a transcript. For now, I'm off to Regina to meet with more of the iQmetrix team.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2010-11-02-movember-2010-and-iqmetrix-moustache-alliance.md b/_posts/archive/2010-11-02-movember-2010-and-iqmetrix-moustache-alliance.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 3770755..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2010-11-02-movember-2010-and-iqmetrix-moustache-alliance.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
---- 
-title: Movember 2010 and iQmetrix Moustache Alliance
-created: 1288764615
-categories: 
-- Personal
-tags:
-- cancer
-- Prostate Cancer
-- Movember
-- Movember 2010
-- iQmetrix Moustache Alliance
-- iQmetrix
----
-<p style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://iqmetrixmovember2010.eventbrite.com/"><img alt="" class="imagecache-fullpost lightbox" src="http://bmannconsulting.com/sites/bmannconsulting.com/files/imagecache/fullpost/postimages/iqmetrixmoustachealliance.jpg" title=""></a></p>
-<p>For the first time, I'm fully participating in <a href="http://ca.movember.com/">Movember</a>.</p>
-<p>What is Movember? Movember is an annual event to raise awareness about and research funds for prostate cancer. The "Mo" refers to the fact that participants commit to starting the month clean shaven, and growing a moustache for the entire month of November. Along the way, funds are raised through a variety of activities to donate to Prostate Cancer Canada.</p>
-<p>This is the first time I've been completely clean shaven for perhaps 4 or 5 years. One of the things that motivated me was that I now <a href="http://www.iqmetrix.com/article/2010/10/movember-2010-support-iqmetrix-moustache-alliance">work for a company/with co-workers that actively participates in and helps supports charitable giving and fundraising</a>. It's great to be surround by this type of energy, and I'm proud to be part of the <a href="http://ca.movember.com/mospace/22421/">iQmetrix Moustache Alliance</a>.</p>
-<p>The second, and much more important reason, that I'm fully participating is to support my <a href="http://horst.wordpress.com">dad</a>. A couple of years ago he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. It was a hard and scary time for everyone, him most especially. It was diagnosed early, the cancer was treated, and he made a full recovery. In fact, he went on to <a href="http://horst.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/my-el-camino-a-view-from-today/">walk the Camino for the second time</a> (an 800km long walk that crosses most of Spain). I'm very glad to still have my dad in my life, and I hope everyone gets tested often and that better cures can be found.</p>
-<p><img alt="" class="imagecache-thumb lightbox" src="http://bmannconsulting.com/sites/bmannconsulting.com/files/imagecache/thumb/postimages/a9edb96e17b48ed82947ded6e8c93eac_9784559.jpg" style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; float: right; " title=""></p>
-<p style="text-align: center; "><strong>You can help by&nbsp;donating to <a href="http://ca.movember.com/mospace/566572/">my MoSpace page »</a></strong></p>
-<p>Myself and the rest of the iQmetrix Moustache Alliance are putting on a fundraiser at our Vancouver office. You pay $20, and we will feed you, pour you a couple of beers from Howe Sound Brewing, and we'll have some moustache related fun. This Thursday, 6pm - 9pm, <a href="http://iqmetrixmovember2010.eventbrite.com/">register on Eventbrite »</a></p>
-<p style="text-align: center; "><a href="http://iqmetrixmovember2010.eventbrite.com?ref=ebtn" target="_blank"><img alt="Register for iQmetrix Moustache Alliance Fundraiser in Vancouver, British Columbia  on Eventbrite" border="0" src="http://www.eventbrite.com/registerbutton?eid=990696199"></a></p>
-<p><!--break--></p>
-<p>For more further pictures of my adventures in non-beardiness, I'm <a href="http://dailybooth.com/bmann">posting pictures to DailyBooth »</a></p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2011-01-28-buying-ponies-from-a-drupal-app-store.md b/_posts/archive/2011-01-28-buying-ponies-from-a-drupal-app-store.md
deleted file mode 100644
index d9c3b84..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2011-01-28-buying-ponies-from-a-drupal-app-store.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,67 +0,0 @@
---- 
-title: Buying ponies from a Drupal App Store
-created: 1296245397
-categories: 
-- Drupal
-tags:
-- app stores
-- Drupal App Store
-- drupalappstore
-- GPL
-- open source
-- community ROI
----
-<p style="text-align: center; "><img alt="" class="imagecache-fullpost lightbox" src="/sites/bmannconsulting.com/files/imagecache/fullpost/postimages/800px-Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa2.jpg" title=""></p>
-<p style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-size:10px;"><em>Is the Drupal App Store idea a great wave that will lift the Drupal community to new heights, or will it crush the community of code collaborators?</em></span></p>
-<p>I'm glad we've gone beyond talking about whether <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/archive/themes-and-modules-are-derivatives-and-should-be-licensed-under-the-gpl/">themes and modules should be GPL or not</a>. I think the <a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=&amp;tag=drupalappstore&amp;lang=all">drupalappstore</a> discussion is about being able to "fund developers" in a way that goes beyond their hours.</p>
-<p>I encourage virtually every business I talk to – whether Drupal focused or not – to figure out a way to make revenue that goes beyond billing for hours. It's the only way to truly scale a business without the boom-and-bust cycles of consulting work.</p>
-<p>The main thing that has people scared about the concept of a Drupal App Store (in its theoretical sense) is the fear that Drupal's open, collaborative nature will somehow go away. Counter examples like the Joomla community are held up as the way things will end up if we open this Pandora's Box of commercial tyranny.</p>
-<p>In my never ending quest to see Drupal move in a more product-like direction, I think a Drupal App Store would be great for developers and great for end users. But let's define what we mean (or at least, what *I* mean), when I say Drupal App Store.</p>
-<p><!--break--></p>
-<h2>Funding new modules</h2>
-<p>I don't want to talk about funding the creation of new modules. This is a solved problem.</p>
-<p>I did the <a href="http://drupal.org/node/20301">first reverse bounty way back in 2005</a>, and there is a <a href="http://drupal.org/node/110998">raising money / reverse bounty page on Drupal.org</a> with links to various platforms that can help you do this. If you want to write a new module and need to get funded to buy yourself the time, then go this route.</p>
-<p>For developers who aren't good at marketing, I recommend you build a team that can help you with that side of things. These days, there are larger companies that would be willing to fund the creation of modules "done right" so I don't see an issue raising (literally) tens of thousands of dollars this way.</p>
-<p>With that out of the way, let's get to a few other points.</p>
-<h2>You can sell GPL code</h2>
-<p>See Drupal theme stores as one example. You use a combination of copyrighted material (graphics, CSS, etc.) along with GPL PHP code and you can set whatever terms you like around the copyrighted material. Read the <a href="http://fusiondrupalthemes.com/license">Fusion Drupal Themes license</a> for an example of how to do this.</p>
-<p>The other great example that I point to over and over again is <a href="https://www.bravenewcode.com/store/plugins/wptouch-pro/">BraveNewCode's WPtouch Pro™</a>. Once you've read about their product (or "app", if you will), read their <a href="http://www.bravenewcode.com/general/terms/">terms and conditions</a>. In essence, they are using the trademarked name of their WordPress plugin to protect their brand and reputation (which is ultimately what they are selling).</p>
-<p>Conveniently, they are even using Drupal as an example – someone could take their code, adapt it to work with Drupal, change all the references to WPTouch Pro™, and so on.</p>
-<p>I think this model would work for Drupal with virtually no changes, in terms of the legal pieces of "selling code". What customers are buying is some set of upgrade and support. The customer does this because they value the stability, function, features and so on of this piece of code, and want to support it.</p>
-<h2>You need to be selling a complete piece of functionality (a pony)</h2>
-<p>I think of the issues that people run into when thinking about what would be *in* a Drupal App Store, is they immediately think about Views or something similar. Some foundational piece of tech that they use all the time to build sites with.</p>
-<p>I agree that this piecemeal approach to having to buy foundational elements to get the functionality that you need is not the right type of thing that would be easy to sell in an app store.</p>
-<p>(on the other hand, I think someone could set up a Views support or site building support private forum and charge good money for it – this isn't that different from some of the paid training or video tutorial elements that are available today)</p>
-<p>But I digress. What someone sells in a Drupal App Store needs to be a complete piece of functionality.</p>
-<p>Eric Gundersen of Development Seed <a href="http://twitter.com/ericg/status/30613434223558656">mentioned</a> "I'd buy a map feature for my news site or photo gallery feature for wedding site". This is exactly the sort of drop in functionality that has high value for end users and can be relatively self contained.</p>
-<p>And I use the term "end users" here rather loosely. The clients for a Drupal App Store will range from self-hosting enthusiasts who just want to complete their wedding site to design agencies that have limited in-house development resources and want to pay to have a supported solution for a client.</p>
-<p>Everyone wants to be able to buy a pony. A set of functionality bundled up with a neat little bow in exactly the color you want is exactly what end users like.</p>
-<p>How you bundle / deliver / update / ship this complete piece of functionality is up for discussion. It is a thorny technical issue that is … totally solvable. I happen to think that something like <a href="http://drupal.org/project/features">Features</a> actually *is* a much better fit for an "app" than selling a module.</p>
-<h2>What about selling distributions and install profiles?</h2>
-<p>I can't even tell you how overjoyed I am that <a href="http://angrylittletree.com/11/01/drupal-8-road-ahead">Eaton is proposing a push towards building a Drupal product codenamed 'Tsunami' for Drupal 8</a>. For one, I'm envisioning the Great Wave image above, only with unicorns instead of horses…</p>
-<p>(again with the tangent)</p>
-<p>To maintain and update great distributions over time, non-hourly client revenue needs to start coming from distributions.</p>
-<p>Distributions are definitely NOT apps. They are both easier and harder. They are a single product that doesn't have to rely on a "host" Drupal site. On the harder side, the distribution developers need to track, test, and continually integrate a host of shifting module dependencies, make sure they're picking the "right" modules, and keep custom themes and functions up to date.</p>
-<p>I would like to see the developers of distributions charge for something. Maybe it's a bundle of the distribution and some third party, proprietary web services bundled together. Maybe it's a private support forum. You're not really "selling" the distribution, but it mimics the traditional software model, so a lot of traditional organizations could actually pay for it (when they can't, for example, pay a donation).</p>
-<h2>How do we "pay for the plumbing"?</h2>
-<p>I swear I've also talked about this a million times. It probably needs a microsite, a manifesto to sign up for, and its own Twitter hashtag to really drive the point home.</p>
-<p>Do you get paid to develop Drupal-powered websites for clients? Do you use contributed modules to build those sites?</p>
-<p>I don't care if you are building a <a href="http://davehall.com.au/tags/100-drupal-site">$100 site</a> or a $100,000 site. If you are using contributed modules, set aside time or money to give back to the maintainers of those contributed modules.</p>
-<p>It will save you money in the long run by investing in the modules that you've built code and themes around. Yes, if you fix a bug / submit a patch, that's paying as well, but it would be great to see actual dollars flowing into the contrib ecosystem.</p>
-<p><strong>Everyone that uses Drupal to do paid work should have a costing model and internal policy that includes donating to the maintainers of every contributed module that they use on every site.</strong></p>
-<p>What's a good formula to use for this? A percentage might be the most logical. 10% for Drupal contrib has a nice ring to it…</p>
-<h2>Is a Drupal App Store a good idea?</h2>
-<p>For me, the answer is actually…"no".</p>
-<p>That is, I can tell you categorically that I *definitely* don't think it is a good idea to get the Drupal Association enmeshed in some sort of commercial venture to run such a store on drupal.org community infrastructure. We don't want to mix in commercial concerns directly in our community home.</p>
-<p>But…</p>
-<p>I think the concept of individual developers selling "apps" is a great idea. This may end up with someone deciding there is enough volume / value to set up some centralized store infrastructure, but that's kind of beside the point.</p>
-<p>I think there are Drupal businesses out there, whether they are one person developers or full shops, who could make money selling Drupal apps in a model similar (if not identical) to how BraveNewCode sells WPtouch Pro™.</p>
-<p>It still involves investment. It means doing marketing. It means creating and maintaining a great product (that basically comes first). But it also holds out the promise of value that end users are willing to pay for, and for a stream of revenue that is not directly tied to hours.</p>
-<h2>Didn't you skip the whole discussion about how the Drupal community will collapse when money enters the picture?</h2>
-<p>I think the centralized nature of modules and code collaboration on drupal.org is a very good thing. I don't think paid modules have a place there, and that is up to each vendor of apps to build their own reputation and show value for what they are selling on sites of their own.</p>
-<p>I think a lot of the support load will actually go down.</p>
-<p>Are you an end user having trouble with patches, development releases, etc.? Go grab the pro version that is fully supported.</p>
-<p>Instead, issue queues can be filled with people doing what they always do: developers scratching itches together and evolving the code.</p>
-<p>Remember: our underlying approach to this CMS that we've been building for over 10 years together has always been "let's build something that sucks less".</p>
-<p>Even with apps for sale, this doesn't change. The developers of those apps will still get a better <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/tags/#community ROI">community ROI</a> by investing in the framework layers that everyone can benefit from, and that end users don't care about anyway.</p>
-<p>And like a Great Wave, that community investment will continue to raise us to new heights.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/archive/2012-05-21-migration.md b/_posts/archive/2012-05-21-migration.md
deleted file mode 100644
index b2c8de7..0000000
--- a/_posts/archive/2012-05-21-migration.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
----
-title: Migration
----
-
-The first post -- [[Welcome to B Mann Consulting]] -- on this site running [[Drupal]] was November 9th, [[2002]]. The next post was asking for a [[Dream CMS]]. I don't think I've found it with [Octopress](http://octopress.org), but I'm having fun learning the ins and outs.
-
-As of May 21st, I've migrated the bulk of the BMC site to Octopress, and am hosting it directly on Amazon S3. The source Drupal site is still up and running at [Omega8.cc](http://omega8.cc), which is still my recommendation for managed Drupal hosting that is relatively low on custom code (e.g. custom theme + a couple of modules or an install profile). [Pantheon](http://www.getpantheon.com) or one of [Acquia's](http://www.acquia.com) hosting options are probably your best bet for larger scale custom Drupal web-app hosting.
-
-<!-- more -->
-
-I setup the Amazon S3 hosting some time ago, using [a couple of blog articles](http://links.bmannconsulting.com/how-to-install-configure-octopress-on-a-mac-and-host-your-static-website-on-amazon-s3-1) to configure an Amazon S3 bucket to serve up HTML pages directly, and to modify Octopress to include a rake command that deploys directly to S3.
-
-Exporting the posts in Drupal to Octopress-compatible files was both difficult and easy. I fiddled around trying to get a proper local install that would work with the Jekyll / Ruby mysql gems and such. Long story short, here's what you need to do:
-
-1. Export your Drupal database (e.g. via [Backup & Migrate module](http://drupal.org/project/backup_migrate))
-2. Install mysql on your local machine - I used [Homebrew](http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/)
-3. Import your database - create a local database and import your exported one
-4. Run the Jekyll Drupal migrator
-```ruby -rubygems -e 'require "jekyll/migrators/drupal"; Jekyll::Drupal.process("database", "user", "password")'```
-
-Here is the modified Jekyll drupal.rb migrator I used. I've removed the refresh / redirect related generation on nodes, and I've added pulling tags / categories from Drupal:
-
-<!-- gist 2766017 -->
-
-Note that this is for Drupal 6. See [walkah's write-up](http://walkah.net/blog/new-year-new-blog/) and [drupal.rb](https://github.com/walkah/walkah.net/blob/master/_import/drupal.rb) for getting this to work in Drupal 7.
-
-You'll now have all of your posts in the `_posts` folder (in my case, over 2200 of them over 10 years!). I did all this in a "clean" Jekyll codebase, and then just copied the posts over into the Octopress install I already had running / deploying to S3.
-
-I have lots of cleanup to do, but I've had lots of "collateral damage" over the years of moving between Drupal versions and hosts — meaning I've already left a trail of tears and broken links in my wake. I spent some time cross-posting between Posterous and my BMC Drupal site, so there is likely to be some back and forth shuffling.
-
-I intend for this site to serve the following purposes:
-
-* a front page that showcases / points to active content: currently, this is [my blog](http://blog.bmannconsulting.com), [link blog](http://links.bmannconsulting.com), and [recent Twitter posts](http://twitter.com/bmann)
-* a long term archive of content
-* special projects: I currently have a couple of pages hanging out on the blog, but this will likely be a better home
-
-With Flickr starting to look a bit wobbly, I'm going to look at hosting images here directly as well, but that's for future exploration.
-
-### Update July 24, 2014:
-
-I moved off of Octopress and onto "plain" [[Jekyll]], using the [So Simple Theme](http://mmistakes.github.io/so-simple-theme/). I'm using [Dploy](http://dploy.io) connected to a [[Bitbucket]] private git repo to maintain the generated site on [[Amazon S3]].
- 
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2011-04-11-how-to-play-instagram.md b/_posts/blog/2011-04-11-how-to-play-instagram.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 77688b3..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2011-04-11-how-to-play-instagram.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,60 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-title: How to Play Instagram
-description: For me, Instagram has become the most fun and engaging online community experience since I started using Flickr
-date: 2012-12-19
-categories:
-- Community
-tags:
-- Instagram
-- photos
----
-<blockquote>
-	Gowalla is like Lego used to be&mdash;it&rsquo;s a tool without any rules.<br /><cite>Travis Smith</cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<img src="https://distillery.s3.amazonaws.com/static/home/images/instagramTitle.png" alt="" />
-
-<p>Inspired by <a href="http://www.hopstudios.com/nep/unvarnished/item/gowalla_rules_ie_how_to_play_gowalla/">Travis' post about How To Play Gowalla</a>, I present you with my version for <a href="http://instagr.am/">Instagram</a>.</p>
-
-What is Instagram? It's an app for the iPhone that lets you apply effects to pictures you take and post them online. As well, it's very easy to share those pictures on other social networks.
-
-For me, Instagram has become the most fun and engaging online community experience since I started using Flickr just as it was getting started.
-
-I think it's no accident that both center around photos.
-
-So, here are some of my dos and don'ts for Instagram. This is not meant to be a "UR DOING IT WRONG" list, but rather some guidelines on what I've found to be a fun way to use it, in no particular order.
-
-<ol>
-<li><strong>Post lots of pictures of yourself:</strong> please don't. There are other places like <a href="http://dailybooth.com/">Dailybooth</a> that are literally designed just for this.</li>
-<li><strong>Like is your friend:</strong> the like button is easy to use. Don't think about it. See a photo you like - like it. Want to encourage someone to post "more like this"? Hit the like button. We're on Instagram for the positive feedback loops. Hit that like button, it's a renewable resource.</li>
-<li><strong>Nothing but food:</strong> I'm known for posting food photos, but I try and stay away from dimly lit / grainy pictures of food and cocktails. Yes, Instagram is a super easy way to share photos onto e.g. Twitter, but think of the "native" viewers of your Instagram stream: we're looking for interesting pictures.</li>
-<li><strong>Post pictures of your kids:</strong> this is a actually a do! Since I'm not a heavy user of Facebook, Instagram has been a great way to see pictures of kids (and pets) of friends.</li>
-<li><strong>Ignore the cool crowd:</strong> yes, popular photos are prominent within the app. I suggest you ignore them and find your own crew to hang out with until there is some version of popular-with-your-friends. While popular can be amusing to browse for cute pictures of cats, it's not going to help you on the community angle.</li>
-<li><strong>Push the @:</strong> turn on push notifications. You'll get likes, follows, and comments directly to your phone. Even better, you can use the @-syntax to mention people in comments, which is kind of like tapping them on the shoulder to let them know they should look at a particular photo.</li>
-<li><strong>Share-a-holic:</strong> don't share multiple versions of the same / similar shot. Be picky and just share one. Also don't "flood" the stream by sharing lots of pictures in a row / too many photos in one day. OK, maybe two in a row, but only if they're different and you just got onto free wi-fi after taking some really cool shots earlier. Pace yourself, there's no pressure - one awesome photo per day is all we ask.</li>
-<li><strong>Friends get friends to use Instagram:</strong> I'll admit it, I'm an Instagram pusher. Got an iPhone? Get on Instagram. It's that simple. The bigger picture (ha!) with this statement is that you really do need to follow a larger group of people to get a good level of interaction. The new "what is your network doing" feature of the news feed makes it easy to follow what people you follow are liking, and just lets you "surf" from one set of likes and comments to others.</li>
-<li><strong>Post one photo a day:</strong> like a silent blog, posting only every week or weeks isn't going to get your Instagram momentum going. I try and aim for one photo per day, and it actually becomes a goal to find this one photo that is worth sharing.</li>
-<li><strong>Use other apps:</strong> do use other apps. <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/diptic/id377989827?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4">Diptic</a> is a way to share multiple shots in a more interesting way by combining them into a diptic / tryptich / whatever-four-tic is called. <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/camera+/id329670577?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4">Camera+</a> is an advanced camera app that has lots of editing options, including filters of its own.</li>
-<li><strong>#Nofilter:</strong> not every photo needs a filter applied. In fact, some are better without filters.</li>
-<li><strong>Black bars of DOOM:</strong> Instagram photos are square. Resize / scale / crop your photo so it fits into the Instagram square. There! No more black bars on the top and bottom of your photo.</li>
-<li><strong>Don't worry, be happy:</strong> like Twitter, Instagram uses the "follow" system. So, people can follow you without them following you back, and vice versa. The follow and unfollow button is always there for you, so no matter what I or anybody else says, just use them and enjoy using Instagram any way you like.</li>
-</ol>
-
-<p>That's my take on Instagram. I'd love to hear what other people have to add to my dos and don'ts. And I'm looking forward to an explosion of sites that use the <a href="http://instagr.am/blog/42/realtime-api">Instagram API</a> to do even more interesting things.</p>
-
-### Addendum: Inspiration with Instagram
-
-<blockquote>
-	Instagram is my favorite app for sharing these photos, and also my motivation for taking them most of the time.<br /><cite>Rachael Ashe</cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-Rachael is also a heavy Instagram user, and did up her own <a href="http://rachaelashe.com/2011/03/25/inspiration-with-instagram/">post about how it actually encourages inspiration</a>.
-
-I think looking at Instagram as a source of inspiration and goals to aim for is what I actually enjoy about it most. It encourages me to walk through the world with my head up, trying to keep my "fresh eyes" on even if I'm following the same route to work or home.
-
-### Update December 19th, 2012
-
-This was originally posted to my long ago and far away Posterous blog, and just re-posted today. I needed it for a [comment on Brian Lamb's blog](http://abject.ca/harbinger-of-my-irrelevance/).
-
-Many people never experienced the awesome-ness of the early Instagram community (i.e. no, it's not all about the filters), so the recent ToS nightmare has caused some _Schadenfreude_. I'm not as heavy an Instagram user as I once was, and I'm delighted with the [new Flickr app](http://blog.flickr.net/en/2012/12/18/the-top-10-flickr-for-iphone-tips-2/), but I do want to remark that the early Instagram community really was a great thing.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2011-08-06-on-coworking-you-cannot-make-a-profit-selling.md b/_posts/blog/2011-08-06-on-coworking-you-cannot-make-a-profit-selling.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 59a595d..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2011-08-06-on-coworking-you-cannot-make-a-profit-selling.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-title: "On coworking: you cannot make a profit selling community"
-description: "Riffing on William Tozier's post"
-categories:
-- Community
-tags:
-- coworking
-- seed accelerator
----
-<blockquote class="posterous_long_quote">
-	That last one&rsquo;s important. We&rsquo;re not communists, we&rsquo;re not anti-capitalists and we&rsquo;re not running some kind of pep club. <strong>It&rsquo;s just that we&rsquo;ve thought about it.</strong> You cannot make a profit <em>selling</em> community.
-</blockquote>
-
-<cite>via <a href="http://williamtozier.com/slurry/2011/07/12/the-only-thing-coworking-needs-to-be">williamtozier.com</a></cite>
-
-I saw this via <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/118432652629200965858/posts/FzkMGiLb1w1">Dave Pollard on G+</a> and nodded my head most violently as I read through the whole thing.
-
-(I could spend a week just posting each of the paragraphs of of <a href="http://williamtozier.com/slurry/2011/07/12/the-only-thing-coworking-needs-to-be">Tozier's post</a>)
-
-Tozier starts by talking about how different labels / terminology start getting corrupted in a mass market to mean different things. It has happened to coworking, and it is happening to startup accelerators.
-
-I had meant to write earlier about Ben Yoskovitz's post <a href="http://www.instigatorblog.com/startup-accelerator-making-money/2011/07/29/">The Sole Purpose of a Startup Accelerator Should Be Making Money</a>, which has similar thoughts as Tozier.
-
-To anyone that has studied (or lived through!) the model of startups and seed acceleration, it's a no brainer. Everyone with a stake in the accelerator needs to be making money for it to continue.
-
-If the money isn't there, whether it is for a coworking space or a seed accelerator, then it's a signal that the environment / people aren't ready for it. And you can't artificially prop it up with government.
-
-Thinking more about this concept of community, I feel a whole other post coming on exploring the role of money in open source communities. My own experience has been that no matter the non-monetary activities that power them, the open source communities haven't really flourished or grown to a large degree without initiatives involving substantial amounts of money.
-
-I have to end this piece with a tip of the hat to <a href="http://www.billmacewen.com/">Bill MacEwen</a> who founded Vancouver's WorkSpace. I was convinced that a coworking space - which I called the <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/archive/innovation-commons-must-get-built-in-vancouver/">Innovation Commons</a> - needed to be non-profit, because I couldn't figure out how to make the numbers work in a sustainable way.
-
-I was wrong. I've written that before, and done my mea culpa's to Bill in the past.
-
-Vote to have something exist by supporting it beyond a retweet: with blood, sweat, and tears, or with cold, hard cash.
-
-Good luck, <a href="http://workantile.com/">Workantile</a>.
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2011-10-11-turning-the-corner-on-ebook-buying.md b/_posts/blog/2011-10-11-turning-the-corner-on-ebook-buying.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 86ba010..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2011-10-11-turning-the-corner-on-ebook-buying.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-title: "Turning the corner on ebook buying"
-description: "Advantages of the digital format now outweigh considerations of even lower priced physical books"
-categories:
-- Publishing
-tags:
-- ebook
----
-<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Reamde-ebook/dp/B004XVN0WW"><img class="image image-left" src="/images/2011/10/reamde-amazon.jpg" /></a>
-
-I am a voracious reader. When I am in "reading mode", I can consume 3 books a week. I'm not reading that much right now, which means I "only" read about a book a week or so.
-
-When I first got my iPhone 4 (a little less than a year ago), I experimented with all the different ebook stores. Eventually, due mainly to availability, I settled on the Amazon Kindle store as the main place where I buy ebooks.
-
-I've bought a handful of 99¢ books as experiments. I find reading on my iPhone convenient: the Retina-quality screen, auto-dimming when I'm reading at night, and having always-on access to my library.
-
-More recently, I've shifted my paperback buying (used to be at the $7 - $10 level) to $3 - $6 ebooks. The paperback format is of zero value to me – it really is all about the content.
-
-I link above to Neal Stephenson's newest book, <em>Reamde</em>. It's the first book I've bought at the "hardcover price" level of $16 (it's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Reamde-Novel-Neal-Stephenson/dp/0061977969">$19 for the physical hardcover from Amazon</a>).
-
-I don't care that I can get it for the same or lower price at a Chapters or other big box bookstore.
-
-I've turned the corner on ebook buying: the advantages of the digital format now outweigh considerations of even lower priced physical books.
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2011-11-26-we-do-need-another-rss-hero.md b/_posts/blog/2011-11-26-we-do-need-another-rss-hero.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 6fa2557..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2011-11-26-we-do-need-another-rss-hero.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-title: "We DO need another RSS Hero"
-description: "Announcing RSS Hero, a social feed reader I'm building with @kalv"
-categories:
-- Announcement
-tags:
-- RSS
-- RSS Hero
-- Google Reader
-- Kalv Sandhu
----
-I wrote a couple of weeks ago asking whether Google's <a href="http://blog.bmannconsulting.com/will-google-destroy-the-google-reader-ecosyst">changes to Google Reader were going to destroy an entire ecosystem</a>.
-
-Many others wrote articles about their usage of the Google Reader social features. From meetups to marriages, a whole world of stories were uncovered about the personal connections that people had made through Reader.
-
-I got emails and Twitter messages from a number of people in response to my own post. One of those messages lead to a meeting where many ideas were shared, and a desire to scratch our own itch.
-
-What if there was a Google Reader like feed reader? One that kept those social features? What if we added some features, like X, Y, and Z?
-
-In short, what if feed reading had some innovation applied to it again?
-
-That night, <a href="http://www.rsshero.com">RSS Hero</a> was born.
-
-I've been using RSS Hero to read items from the 500+ feeds I am subscribed to for the last two weeks. It's good enough, which means it's time to let other people in the door and start giving some feedback.
-
-Other people's accounts are being activated starting today. If you were already on the Alpha list, you're first in line.&nbsp;If you're a news junkie who relies on RSS as part of your workflow, <a href="http://www.rsshero.com">go sign up</a>.
-
-I've written a few other things about what you can expect from <a href="http://blog.rsshero.com/post/13336796211/alpha-launch">RSS Hero today as part of the alpha launch</a>.
-
-I've been a heavy cheerleader and eager consumer of features, but mainly a strong advisor to RSS Hero. The founder and technical brains behind it is someone new to the Vancouver area, <a href="http://kalv.co.uk/">Kalvir Sandhu</a> aka <a href="http://www.twitter.com/kalv">@kalv</a>.
-
-Kalv is a fantastic technologist who has been a pleasure to work with. I've enjoyed riffing on ideas and then seeing them come to life a day or two later.
-
-I'm waiting with baited breath as other people slowly start coming into the RSS Hero app and I again start to see that familiar flow of shared items from other people add to the feeds that I consume, and as we as a community of early adopters decide the direction that we want the app to take.
-
-Bonus link: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8W4DEMUSeM">Tina Turner</a>.
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2011-12-02-struggles-of-an-infovore-that-likes-to-share.md b/_posts/blog/2011-12-02-struggles-of-an-infovore-that-likes-to-share.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 48d4323..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2011-12-02-struggles-of-an-infovore-that-likes-to-share.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,65 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-title: "Struggles of an infovore that likes to share"
-description: "Shifting tools for link blogging & sharing"
-categories:
-- Blogging
-tags:
-- linkblog
-- RSS
-- Tumblr
-- RSS Hero
----
-Since mid-September, I've gone through several rapid changes in how I share links, how I blog about them, and how I tweet those links.
-
-In mid September <a href="http://blog.bmannconsulting.com/link-blogging-with-if-this-then-that-iftttcom">I wired up If This Then That</a> (IFTTT.com) to Twitter favorites and Google Reader shared items. At first I thought I'd push them here, to my Posterous-powered blog, but I would then never get around to expanding them. As well, the links were "lost" in the main body of the blog post.
-
-(aside: remember mid-September? Google Reader still had social waaaay back then)
-
-I went back and pretty much immediately rejigged things to post to <a href="http://links.bmannconsulting.com">a new link blog at <a href="http://links.bmannconsulting.com">links.bmannconsulting.com</a></a> powered by Tumblr. Tumblr is interesting because it is sort of the reincarnation of structured blogging in some ways - the links are separate, there are some nice "via source" fields as well.
-
-That worked for a while, but I was never very happy with the format of the Twitter favorites that I captured. I wanted to go read those articles, but in the end they were sometimes not worth sharing, and they made for weirdly formatted posts.
-
-I got feedback from <a href="http://foolswisdom.com/">Lloyd</a> in particular that he liked it when I posted an excerpt from an article and posted some commentary (visually and functionally very similar to shares in Google Reader).
-
-And then, of course, <a href="http://blog.bmannconsulting.com/will-google-destroy-the-google-reader-ecosyst">Google Reader shares went away</a>, and <a href="http://rsshero.com">RSS Hero</a> was born.
-
-So, this has turned me into even more of a lean, mean, feed reading machine. But it also meant re-jigging my workflow.
-
-So: consumption of items for sharing / link blogging comes from RSS Hero and from people I follow on Twitter.
-
-For RSS Hero, if I don't have much to add, I just hit 's' and share the item. If I do want to add some commentary or quote a particularly good phrase (which I enjoy doing and people seem to enjoy reading as well), I hit 'v' and open it in a new tab for capture + commentary by Tumblr bookmarklet.
-
-For Twitter, I spawn links into new tabs and read.
-
-In parallel, I still have <a href="http://packrati.us">Packratius</a> sending favorites over to <a href="http://diigo.com">Diigo</a>. When I am reading Twitter on mobile, a simple favorite means I can then see the article by subscribing to my Diigo feed in RSS Hero, and spawning links into a new tab from there.
-
-(I've never really gotten around to figuring out Instapaper or ReadItLater, although I guess a lot of people use those tools)
-
-On the output side, I've added my link blog RSS feed as a <a href="http://blog.rsshero.com/post/13413025548/share-feeds">share feed</a> on my RSS Hero account, so all the items there show up as native <a href="http://blog.rsshero.com/post/13388765211/feature-shared-items">shared items</a> on <a href="http://www.rsshero.com/users/boris/shared_items">my profile</a>.
-
-So, lots of separate, juicy RSS feeds that you can choose to subscribe to, in order to follow my shares. BUT, sadly, there are many people that do the majority of their link consuming only / primarily through Twitter.
-
-(Isn't it great to be indulging in a little blogging-about-blogging and blogging-about-tweeting? Feels like the olden days!)
-
-I've also felt that while my link sharing has gone up, my being-a-source-for-cool-links-on-Twitter has gone down.
-
-I experimented with <a href="http://bufferapp.com/">BufferApp</a>. Very interesting - distribute links out over the day that I am already sharing, so that my "sharing blitzes" get spread out more evenly.
-
-Then, since I am a n00b at Tumblr, I discovered the queue feature there, which does basically the same thing as BufferApp.
-
-Then, since I am doing mainly quote posts to satisfy Lloyd's request for excerpts of articles, I realized that the tweets are somewhat nonsensical, whether run through Buffer or through Tumblr.
-
-The final straw was <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/corvustweets/status/142480502492889089">seeing Todd's retweet of @DouglasWhite</a>:
-
-<blockquote>
-	<p><span style="color:#444444;font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:28px;line-height:36px;">Is Twitter becoming the social media dumping ground? Too many truncated rss and secondary FB posts&nbsp;</span><a href="https://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23disrespect" class="  twitter-hashtag pretty-link" title="#disrespect" rel="nofollow" style="color:#de791c;text-decoration:none;font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:28px;line-height:36px;text-align:left;padding:0;margin:0;">#<strong style="padding:0;margin:0;">disrespect</strong></a></p>
-</blockquote>
-
-The missing link here is that Tumblr quote posts don't have a separate title field, which would let me hand craft what goes out in a tweet. I *could* switch to link posts, where the title is editable, but I am enjoying selecting an excerpt.
-
-I've got posts in Tumblr queued up until Saturday, so you'll see a few more truncated excerpt sentences going out until then. We'll see if the link post type makes more sense going forward.
-
-As per the title, so much for the struggles of an infovore that likes to share ;)
-
-(Yes, this does sound a lot like <a href="http://decafbad.com/blog/2011/11/04/social-media-cyborg">Les Orchard's "Social Media Cyborg" post</a>, because we're actually using a lot of the same ingredients.)
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2011-12-04-focus-on-the-extras-on-your-site-rather-than.md b/_posts/blog/2011-12-04-focus-on-the-extras-on-your-site-rather-than.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 38b7579..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2011-12-04-focus-on-the-extras-on-your-site-rather-than.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,44 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-title: "Focus on the extras on your site, rather than what platform it runs on"
-description: "Make it easy for people to subscribe to your stuff, and to interact with you"
-categories:
-- Blogging
-tags:
-- CMS
----
-<blockquote class="posterous_short_quote">
-	This may be obvious to many nerds, but another huge advantage of running your own site, and choosing your own CMS carefully is how you can optimize for readability and page load performance.
-</blockquote>
-<cite>via <a href="http://zerodistraction.com/blog/2011/12/3/part-2-why-are-you-using-google-plus-for-blogging.html">zerodistraction.com</a></cite>
-
-Any platform you choose really only needs to support two things:
-
-<ol>
-	<li>Using your own domain name</li>
-	<li>Ability to export</li>
-</ol>
-
-I'm not too concerned about hosted platforms - fact is, they make it exponentially easier and faster for many more people to be publishing.
-
-(aside: you're talking about choosing your own CMS and you're using URLs that end in .html?)
-
-The concept of readability is interesting: the major hosted platforms all have non-painful templates, and the best you can customize extensively.
-
-I *have* been wanting to get a personal brand and actually have design applied to this blog and my link blog: for readability. And properly export / flatten my <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com">archived Drupal site</a>.
-
-But on readability: since I *will* be reading the majority of your content <a href="http://www.rsshero.com">using RSS</a>, I don't REALLY care that much about the design of your site.
-
-So it becomes about the "extras" that you implement on your site.
-
-Starting with RSS, if I've come to your site, you should probably make it easy to subscribe to "you" - your RSS feed, your Twitter, anywhere else you put "good stuff" that I might be interested in.
-
-I think the commenting system is important. That will be one of the reasons I'm visiting your site, that I feel strongly enough to leave a comment.
-
-This blog post is a comment, or a reaction to <a href="http://zerodistraction.com/blog/2011/12/3/part-2-why-are-you-using-google-plus-for-blogging.html">the original post</a>. I think that would be interesting, to show the web of links that come in and out of your site and individual pages.
-
-Exploring your site, surfacing other good things to read, would be another extra.
-
-(this is ANOTHER blogging-about-blogging entry! is this a trend?)
-
-I'm not sure what other extras I want on your personal blog or site. Thoughts?
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2011-12-04-help-startups-by-getting-sht-done-or-get-out.md b/_posts/blog/2011-12-04-help-startups-by-getting-sht-done-or-get-out.md
deleted file mode 100644
index d2e2b3b..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2011-12-04-help-startups-by-getting-sht-done-or-get-out.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,56 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-title: "Help startups by getting sh*t done (or get out of the way)"
-description: "You need to build an environment in which smart, motivated people want to stick around and build things in"
-categories:
-- Startups
-tags:
-- seed accelerator
-- incubator
----
-<blockquote class="posterous_long_quote">
-	Sadly, no matter how much you might want it, you can&rsquo;t will an innovative eco-system that generates new companies into existence, you have to let one grow. As Dave ten Have <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/davetenhave/status/129829972872404992">said recently</a>,&nbsp;entrepreneurial&nbsp;activity doesn&rsquo;t come from central planning. So, while it seems like a lot is being done, in my opinion at least, it is mostly <a href="http://rowansimpson.com/2011/10/26/flailing/">splashing and thrashing</a>and not much forward momentum for the people that all of this is supposed to be helping.
-</blockquote>
-<div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://rowansimpson.com/2011/12/04/being-founder-centric/">rowansimpson.com</a></div>
-
-<p>I agree with virtually everything stated in this article. Some particularly good parts to expand on:</p>
-
-<p>Both incubators and accelerators have good definitions.</p>
-
-<p>It's exactly what I've always said about incubators - a sheltered, safe place to grow is not the right environment for startups, who need to learn how to fight for their lives. The various options on how to fund incubators are all problems I've looked into.</p>
-
-<p>The starting accelerator phrase is "Accelerators are the exact opposite of incubators. They are all about speed!" - yep. As well, the issue of "local" accelerators vs. Y-Combinator / TechStars / the very very few top tier accelerators is stated well:</p>
-
-<blockquote class="posterous_short_quote">
-	Unfortunately for local programs, as more smart founders realise they can do this it just accentuates the problem by further lowering the volume and quality that they have to select from.
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Everyone applies to the top tier programs as well as local programs. If you don't get in to the top tier, then you look farther afield. By definition, every program that isn't top tier will get at best second-class teams.</p>
-
-<p>On government funding:</p>
-
-<ul>
-	<li>Government programs fund the wrong thing/team: "I have no issue with pouring fuel on existing fires. Unfortunately, most of the time, it&rsquo;s the exact opposite."</li>
-
-	<li>Jumping through the various hoops and paper work is a waste of time: "the best founders often don&rsquo;t bother to apply because the benefit doesn&rsquo;t justify the time spent"</li>
-
-	<li>Risks and rewards need to be aligned: "Not to [have the government as a shareholder or creditor] is to privatise profits and capital gains but socialise the up-front risk."</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p>What should the government do? At this point, I can't think of anything other than get out of the way. I am not smart enough about policy or tax programs or whatever to figure out what this means.</p>
-
-<p>I have had some serious discussions around whether it is worthwhile to help build a better startup ecosystem in Vancouver / Canada. This quote also stands out for me:</p>
-
-<blockquote class="posterous_short_quote">
-	Rather than trying to solve meta-problems, like how to create an eco-system, why not get your hands dirty and help directly?
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>I will continue to advise a small number of startups, and to take a lot of no harm / no foul coffee meetings to try and help make introductions and connections that can help startups move.</p>
-
-<p>I am largely un-interested in building an ecosystem beyond introducing people, and supporting people who want to do events, or build community, or do meetups that they would be interested in doing anyway.</p>
-
-<p>In short, actively building an ecosystem is likely a waste of time. You need to build an environment in which smart, motivated people want to stick around and build things in, that they have a competitive advantage in in some way.</p>
-
-<p>This can happen by having great companies grow / anchor here - which will attract smart people, some of whom will spin out and do their own thing, attracting more smart people: some with tech skills, some with money for funding.</p>
-
-<p>This can also happen by getting behind startups that are winning, and having them succeed - with follow in funding, with growth to become an anchor, and yes, with acquisition. All of these items put money in the pockets of founders (first time or otherwise), who can then go on to become the next generation of angel funders and serial founders.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2011-12-14-what-support-feedback-service-should-you-use.md b/_posts/blog/2011-12-14-what-support-feedback-service-should-you-use.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c44f331..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2011-12-14-what-support-feedback-service-should-you-use.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,110 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-title: "What Support / Feedback Service Should You Use For Your Small Company"
-description: "An analysis and comparison of 5 different tools"
-date: 2012-04-30
-categories:
-- Startups
-tags:
-- tools
-- UserVoice
-- support
-- Intercom
-- Get Satisfaction
-- Tender
-- Desk.com
-- Assistly
----
-Let me start by saying that it feels like we're actually in a golden age of great online support &amp; feedback tools. I'm sure there are more than the ones that I'm listing here. Also, at different times, I've recommended each of these tools for a specific purpose - many of them have broad feature sets.
-
-With that in mind, I recently did a mini-analysis of 5 different services that provide support &amp; feedback functionality. I was analyzing from the perspective of a small company that is just starting out, for a mainly B2C product, with desired features covering both support (email / widget / etc.) and public feedback / user suggestions. Low cost growing to a projected small number of support people (say: 5 people) was also a factor.
-<!-- more -->
-
-In addition, domain aliasing aka CNAME support to be able to use the domain name of my choice was a must have (I'm not going to build web traffic to somebody elses domain). In other words, I don't care if you have cheap starting plans, I'm going to care about the level at which I can do domain aliasing, otherwise I won't use you.</p>
-
-I actually started with Assistly, and really liked the system. But the deeper into it I got, the more confusing it was, and the more it was clear that it was built / optimized for much larger organizations. It is a relatively new service, so it may be going through some growing pains.
-
--------
-
-Testing all of these other services again&nbsp;<sup>[*](#exceptgs)</sup>, it was clear that all of them were built around per-agent pricing, which seems to be optimized for the way larger companies work: there are support people, and there are the rest of the organization. Assistly's Flex Agent plan does a good job of recognizing that everyone in an organization needs to do some form of support, but at it's core, it also had the per agent pricing.
-
-_<sup><a name="exceptgs">*</a></sup>&nbsp;I didn't re-test Get Satisfaction, which I've used in the past. It doesn't offer domain aliasing (or private email support) until their $99 plan either so didn't meet my needs in terms of price. I think it's a great community support system and the one you should look at if you're mainly doing public community management._
-
-And so, we come to Tender, which seems explicitly geared to small company support. It starts at $24, but includes 3 agents and pretty much everything you need to do support and public feedback / knowledge base out of the box.
-
-Its next tier adds (more) custom branding and more agents, but in both price and features seems to be designed to be something you grow into (rather than the infinite progression of per agent pricing of the other services).
-
-Tender is optimized for email. Notifications are sent out, and you can then either reply or perform administrative actions via email. Technically, it's also optimized for RSS, since it has both unauthenticated and authenticated RSS feeds which let you consume everything in it from the comfort of your RSS reader.
-
-Perhaps more broadly I should say that Tender seems to be optimized for conversation. Which also seems to be a fit for how smaller companies help their customers, rather than "support".
-
-Below, the table with notes on all the contestants.
-
-<table border="1" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3" class="style1">
-<tbody>
-<tr>
-<th width="120px">Name / Pricing Plan Link</th> <th width="90px">Starting Price</th> <th width="50px">Users</th> <th width="220px">Domain Aliasing</th> <th>Notes</th>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td><a href="http://getsatisfaction.com/plans/index">Get Satisfaction</a></td>
-<td>$19</td>
-<td>1</td>
-<td>No<br />(starts at Connect $99 w/5 agents)</td>
-<td>
-<p>Focused on public community.</p>
-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td><a href="http://www.zendesk.com/product/pricing/">Zendesk</a></td>
-<td>$9</td>
-<td>1</td>
-<td>No<br />(starts at Regular $29/agent)</td>
-<td>
-<p>Has extensive email support ticketing, decent Twitter integration. My pick for larger companies.</p>
-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td><a href="http://tenderapp.com/plans/">Tender Support</a></td>
-<td>$24</td>
-<td>3</td>
-<td>Yes!</td>
-<td>
-<p>My recommendation for small companies.</p>
-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td><a href="http://uservoice.com/plans">UserVoice</a></td>
-<td>$5</td>
-<td>1</td>
-<td>No<br />(starts at Plus $25/agent)</td>
-<td>
-<p>Only recently added support. My recommendation if you want to focus on voting / feature suggestions.</p>
-</td>
-</tr>
-<tr>
-<td><a href="http://www.assistly.com/pricing">Assistly</a></td>
-<td>$0</td>
-<td>1</td>
-<td>Yes!</td>
-<td>
-<p>Bonus points for $0 plan, great Twitter feedback integration.</p>
-</td>
-</tr>
-</tbody>
-</table>
-
-Got other suggestions for great support &amp; feedback services? Please add them in the comments.
-
---------
-
-###Update April 30th, 2012
-
-I manually ported this entry over from Posterous.
-
-Assistly was acquired by Salesforce and rebranded as [Desk.com](http://www.desk.com).
-
-I know that our own plan at Goodbits for Tender was grandfathered, and I suspect many of the other pricing plans have changed as well.
-
-One other item to add to the list (although it's not really support, per se) is [Intercom](http://intercom.io). It's an awesome customer dashboard and communication tool. See [Kalv's write up about Intercom](http://kalv.co.uk/2012/04/12/engaging-with-early-users-to-learn-habits/).
-
-__Further update:__ My answer today is Intercom - read the longer post on the [Full Stack tools section »](http://fullstack.ca/tools/help-desk)
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2012-02-02-reinventing-the-wheel-one-directory-at-a-time.md b/_posts/blog/2012-02-02-reinventing-the-wheel-one-directory-at-a-time.md
deleted file mode 100644
index d4a0b85..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2012-02-02-reinventing-the-wheel-one-directory-at-a-time.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,53 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-title: "Reinventing the wheel one directory at a time"
-description: "Any data gathered should be open data, and Startup Genome is the best choice for open startup data"
-date: 2013-05-04
-categories:
-- Community
-- Vancouver
-- Open Data
-tags:
-- Startup Genome
-- Crunchbase
-- AngelList
-- StartupNorth
----
-I just saw this <a href="http://www.growlab.ca/blog/growlab-proudly-supports-made-in-vancouver">GrowLab post</a> about an initiative to get local companies to get listed and link to a <a href="http://www.vanmade.ca">directory of Vancouver companies</a>.
-
-Now, I definitely think we can do more to celebrate being based here in Vancouver, as we digital creatives go out to sell to the entire world, but I hate seeing us once again starting yet another directory from scratch!
-<!-- more -->
-What other directories could we re-use the data from?
-
-How about <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/maps/search?range=20&amp;geo=Vancouver">Crunchbase</a> (143 companies listed)?
-
-Or <a href="http://angel.co/vancouver">AngelList</a> (172 startups listed in just Vancouver)?
-
-Or the <a href="http://startupnorth.ca/index/index/companies/index/page:1/region:british-columbia">StartupNorth Index</a>?
-
-Even <a href="http://www.techvibes.com/company-directory/vancouver">Techvibes has a company directory</a>!
-
-Now, of the four, I think only CrunchBase has a Creative Commons license that easily encourages re-use of the data. (And yes, I'm still waiting for StartupIndex.ca to publish what their license is, and I've bitched &hellip; err, "suggested" &hellip; to Techvibes that they should have an open license, too).
-
-But it means that companies have an incentive to fill out and keep the information up to date. Both StartupIndex and CrunchBase are wiki-style, meaning anyone can help keep the information up to date.
-
-So, let's re-think creating directories from scratch. Talk to some of these existing sites, and by all means make <a href="http://www.vanmade.ca">www.vanmade.ca</a> an interesting hub to tell the stories of these companies.
-
-But more stale directories is not what we need.
-
-(ironically, this might have been just a brief comment on the GrowLab site, but comments are turned off)
-
-------
-
-## Footnotes
-__May 4, 2013:__ I originally posted this in February 2012, so the listings of startups in those other directories has only gone up.
-
-StartupNorth did the right thing and now have a CC-By Attribution NC License on their index (still need to have that listed somewhere other than [a comment](http://startupnorth.ca/2012/02/22/toronto-startup-heatmap/#comment-447151397), and non-commercial is less free than just going ahead and making it by attribution).
-
-My pick for a startup-focused open data repository is [StartupGenome](http://startupgenome.com) (Vancouver list [here](http://www.startupgenome.com/city/vancouver-bc-ca)). Their mission on their [about page](http://www.startupgenome.com/about/) perfectly syncs with my thoughts on city/region level startup data:
-
-<blockquote>
-We want to enable local startup communities to collect, curate and display their city's data anyway they want.
-</blockquote>
-
-I’m working on a couple of things with Vancouver startup open data and Startup Genome, and had a super encouraging meeting with the Vancouver Economic Commission. Stay tuned!
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2012-02-05-i-want-to-vote-with-my-dollars-that-the-vanco.md b/_posts/blog/2012-02-05-i-want-to-vote-with-my-dollars-that-the-vanco.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 656c7ae..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2012-02-05-i-want-to-vote-with-my-dollars-that-the-vanco.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,46 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-title: "I want to vote with my dollars that the Vancouver tech community is important"
-description: "Vote to have something exist by supporting it beyond a retweet: with blood, sweat, and tears, or with cold, hard cash."
-date: 2012-05-04
-categories:
-- Community
-- Vancouver
-- Startups
-tags:
-- The Network Hub
-- The Hive
-- coworking
----
-Allen Pike posts about how important homes for startups are and what his experience has been like here in Vancouver. Here's the closing sentence:
-
-<blockquote author="Allen Pike" href="http://www.allenpike.com/2012/homes-for-vancouver-startups/">
-Bringing startups close to one another is, dollar for dollar, more helpful to the Vancouver ecosystem than tax breaks ever could be.<br />
-<cite>Allen Pike, <a href="http://www.allenpike.com/2012/homes-for-vancouver-startups/">Homes for Vancouver Startups</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-Once again, I realize that my gut agrees with this 1000%, and it has for years.
-<!-- more -->
-In May 2006 I wrote about what I called the <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/archive/innovation-commons-must-get-built-in-vancouver/">Innovation Commons</a>; at the time, I didn't think coworking / community spaces could / should be for-profit. Last summer I referenced that post again in <a href="/on-coworking-you-cannot-make-a-profit-selling">writing about coworking and supporting it with dollars</a> and wrote this:
-
-<blockquote author="Boris Mann">
-	Vote to have something exist by supporting it beyond a retweet: with blood, sweat, and tears, or with cold, hard cash.
-</blockquote>
-
-I think shared spaces are fantastic, and deserving of your dollar votes.
-
-We are lucky to have spaces like <a href="http://www.thenetworkhub.ca/">The Network Hub</a> and <a href="http://www.hivevancouver.com/">The Hive</a>. If the economics of those spaces work for you, then pay for them.
-
-If you can find a shared space and shack up with other startups: do it.
-
-The <a href="http://williamtozier.com/slurry/2011/07/12/the-only-thing-coworking-needs-to-be">article I was riffing on</a> said "You cannot make a profit selling community". And there is a whole bunch of other stuff in there about what coworking MEANS.
-
-So, all of us that have an irrational desire to have the Vancouver tech community be, and happen, and grow - we need to go beyond the dollars.
-
-I'm thinking back to an idea that we had in the early days of the <a href="http://bootup.ca">Bootup Society</a>, about a membership based program. About paying to have the Vancouver tech community exist.
-
-I'm saying right here: let's do this. I'm in for $50 / month or $500 per year. Maybe you can let me into some sort of space on evenings or weekends, but really, __I just want to vote with my dollars that the Vancouver tech community is important__.
-
-----------------
-
-__Update May 2012:__ I've ported this piece over to my new blog. At the time, <a href="http://www.hackhut.ca/">Hack Hut</a> was not yet in full swing, and I didn't mention <a href="http://vancouver.hackspace.ca/" title="Vancouver Hack Space">VHS</a>. 
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2012-02-06-build-more-startups-in-vancouver.md b/_posts/blog/2012-02-06-build-more-startups-in-vancouver.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 22205e2..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2012-02-06-build-more-startups-in-vancouver.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,75 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-title: "Build more startups in Vancouver"
-description: "Danny Robinson said it best: The only way to get more anchor companies is to start more companies."
-date: 2013-05-04
-categories:
-- Community
-- Vancouver
-- Startups
-tags:
-- Jesse Heaslip
----
-Last Thursday, [Jesse Heaslip wrote 'Two Problems with (Vancouver's tech community) and Three Ways to Fix it'](http://id8.ca/two-problems-with-vancouver-and-three-ways-to-fix-it). If you don't know Jesse, know this: he's crazy-irrational-passionate about the Vancouver tech community. For proof, I offer the fact that he organized 40 tech events that were attended by 1600 people in 2011. Talk about impact!
-
-Jesse lists the two problems as:
-
-__1. How do we get companies to the stage where there is interest from acquirers?__
-
-and
-
-__2. How do we get those companies to stay?__
-
-First of all, for a really great backgrounder on startups in Vancouver and the various funnels that are in place, read [Greg Aasen and Danny Robinson's post on the BCIC blog](http://www.bcic.ca/blog/191-general/1449-the-rationale-for-bcics-support-of-startups)[<sup>1</sup>](#bcicfunnel). Money quote:
-
-<blockquote>The only way to get more anchor companies is to start more companies. Some fail, some exit and some anchor. There is no shortcut.</blockquote>
-
-For Problem #1, I first want to re-state the problem as "How do we get more companies to the Series A and/or acquire stage?".
-
-I added "more" to the statement, since I think that's what we want.
-
-Secondly, focusing on only acquirers is probably the wrong goal. Series A (before everything turned into super seed rounds etc.) used to be the first step of going big. Large VC funds[<sup>2</sup>](#largevc) earmark millions not only for Series A, but to support companies in their Series B, and so on. We definitely do want anchor companies that grow big right here in Vancouver.
-
-Jesse's answer is "build a better community", phrased as weaving the threads we have together very tightly. Allen Pike's response focusing on <a href="http://www.allenpike.com/2012/homes-for-vancouver-startups/">homes for startups</a> goes one step further and suggests shared spaces as the tactic to get us there.
-
-I think the answer is simpler, and more like web traffic or a funnel as Greg and Danny wrote about: build more startups. Will a tighter community help us get there? I'm sure that is part of the puzzle.
-
-Problem #2 is "How do we get them to stay?". Jesse's answers here are really three problem areas with suggestions on how to work on them. Academic-industry ties, #WeAreYVR community pride, and Hack Hut (a new coworking space).
-
-I'm not convinced on school / industry issues, other than promoting startups as a place to work for new grads. As far as I am aware, new grads are not the main creator of new startups. As a counter-example, instead of accepting offers with Google / MSFT / Facebook etc. Cristian &amp; Mircea turned down offers with those companies to do their own thing.
-
-However, A Thinking Ape took those offers after graduating in Canada, moved away, then did their own thing, and then ended up in Vancouver. Time will tell if they stay.
-
-I left after graduation in 1999 because the local opportunities that I could find in Vancouver were small and sleepy. I came back in 2004 because it was my home, and it just so happened that things were looking up.
-
-Do we need to raise the profile of startups as a career option to keep some of this great talent in the local pool? You bet!
-
-WeAreYVR. This seems to have the same goals as #MadeInVan. As I said in my [blog post in response to that effort](/reinventing-the-wheel-one-directory-at-a-time) - great idea, how about we not re-invent the wheel - AGAIN.
-
-This has been done badly again and again and again. A non profit entity like [Vancouver Is Awesome](http://vancouverisawesome.com/) could be the long running entity that might make a good home for this effort. But focus on the brand, on telling the story of local companies, not on the directory-done-badly.
-
-On [Hack Hut](http://hackhut.ca/). [Allen's comments on this are excellent](http://www.allenpike.com/2012/homes-for-vancouver-startups/). Allen mentions [The Hive](http://www.hivevancouver.com/). They look like an interesting organization, and I think working with them might accelerate this initiative. Also as Allen said, WorkSpace was the first hub, and it worked. I wish it was still here. [Let's vote with our dollars](http://blog.bmannconsulting.com/i-want-to-vote-with-my-dollars-that-the-vanco) and support the spaces we already HAVE before deciding we need to create a new one.
-
-Lastly (still on problem #2), I also don't think "getting them to stay" is an issue. We need them to COME BACK. Stewart Butterfield and Avi Bryant are coming back. A Thinking Ape came back. We need experiences (and money and connections) from elsewhere to come back. So we can close the loop and do it all over again.
-
-OK, now that I've made lots of commentary on Jesse's post, let me say &hellip; I agree with him!
-
-I think working together to raise awareness of the community and having shared spaces are the two strongest areas where the community itself can make an impact.
-
-Other than that, the only thing I can suggest is to __build more startups in Vancouver__.
-
-----------
-
-### Footnotes
-
-<a name="bcicfunnel">BCIC Funnel <sup>1</sup></a> It looks like the original Greg Aasen & Danny Robinson blog post has been truncated / removed / edited. I am going to try and find the original, since it clearly spelled out the stages and support systems of the BC tech ecosystem.
-
-__Update Sept 2013:__ here's the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20110206141840/http://www.bcic.ca/blog/191-general/1449-the-rationale-for-bcics-support-of-startups">full length original, via the Wayback Machine</a>.
-
-<a name="largevc">Large VC <sup>2</sup></a> I had a brief chat with someone from a large VC fund the other day. Accelerators and the collection of angels and super-angels around them are often focused on acquisition as an outcome: turning a couple of hundred thousand dollars into a couple of million dollars is a big win. For large VC funds, they NEED companies that want to go it alone, so they can put in millions that turn into 10s or 100s of millions.
-
-I give larger VC funds a bad rap most of the time, but in this case the goals are aligned: they want companies to go big.
-
--------
-
-__May 4, 2013:__ This was first posted in February of 2012. In the meantime, Hack Hut is now [Launch Academy](http://launchacademy.ca/), which is over a year old. It is a non-profit, and so a great home for all sorts of initiatives. My [Reinventing the Wheel One Directory at a Time post](/reinventing-the-wheel-one-directory-at-a-time) has also been updated and has more details.
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2012-02-12-what-is-an-unconference.md b/_posts/blog/2012-02-12-what-is-an-unconference.md
deleted file mode 100644
index bb7b583..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2012-02-12-what-is-an-unconference.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,64 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-title: "What is an unconference?"
-description: "Responding to Mitch Joel - my definition of an unconference."
-categories:
-- Community
-tags:
-- unconference
-- open space
-- PolyglotConf
----
-<a href="http://www.twistimage.com/blog/archives/the-death-of-the-unconference/">Mitch Joel laments the 'Death of the Unconference'</a>, saying <q>"This past month, I've seen a handful of events that are billing themselves as unconferences when, in reality, they're just very shabby and cheap events."</q>
-
-I don't doubt that the term unconference has been co-opted. But I disagree with Mitch's take on what the one, true unconference actually is and means.
-
-Maybe we should backup at this point and actually explain the core concept of an unconference. An unconference typically starts the day by gathering all the participants in one room, and those that want to lead talks pitch their sessions. From there, the grid of rooms and time slots are filled up, thus setting the agenda for the day.
-
-This entire concept is based on&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Space_Technology">open-space technology (Wikipedia)</a>, which you can read more about. It is the basis for the marketing term of 'unconference'.
-
-No broadcast-mode speakers and listeners, everyone is a participant, rather than an attendee.
-
-Mitch has a list of items that an unconference can't do, in his opinion, if they want to claim to be an unconference.
-
-<strong>Update: </strong>Allen Pike had this to say:
-
-<a href="https://twitter.com/apike/status/168968007102640128"></a><a href="https://twitter.com/apike/status/168968007102640128"></a>
-
-<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
-	<p>@<a href="https://twitter.com/bmann">bmann</a> Any term defined by what it isn't is doomed to meaninglessness. Maybe Ad-Hoc Conference? BarCamp-Style?</p>&mdash; Allen Pike (@apike) <a href="https://twitter.com/apike/status/168968007102640128">February 13, 2012</a>
-</blockquote>
-
-A good point - let's talk about the expectations we DO have of unconferences. In any case, below my comments on the "negated items" from Mitch that I disagree with or have some thoughts to add.
-
-### There is a pre-set agenda
-
-I agree with Joel that setting the <em>entire</em> agenda ahead of time means it's not an unconference. <strong>But</strong>, I have set some sessions or topic blocks ahead of time.
-
-For instance, for the upcoming <a href="http://www.polyglotconf.com">Polyglot Conference</a>, we want to have a focus on getting female developer participants. We're not sure exactly how we're going to set aside time for this (maybe a track or room dedicated to it).
-
-### Charging for an unconference
-
-Mitch has this to say:
-
-<blockquote class="posterous_medium_quote">
-	This will be a contentious issue, but the best unconferences I have been to, have been the ones where everyone took both individual and group responsibility for the event. If the venue requires a fee, everyone chips in equally to pay for it. If you're hungry and want to eat, either bring food or go out and buy some.
-</blockquote>
-
-Sure, I agree that completely spontaneous community-funded events are great, and probably the best of their kind. In my experience, very few unconferences would even <strong>happen</strong> unless some smaller group of organizers willed them into existence.
-
-I tend to charge for events not only to help cover costs, but because it makes people "buy in" to the event that much more strongly. I actually think that the unconference concept has become too <em>accessible</em> for want of a better word, meaning that people who come to free events tend to have an attendee rather than participant mindset.
-
-I've seen ugly discussions on Twitter, with accusations of "you're corrupting the movement!" or similar said to well-intentioned organizers who charge for events.
-
-I think of this in the same way that I see the concepts "agile" or "lean" being used. They are new things that go through adoption, and refinement, and, frankly, <em>changes</em>. No one wants to see their core principles co-opted, but at the same time, you need to remember that you were part of change, part of something that made things different. Lashing out at further changes, further evolution is usually not the right response. Keep an open mind to further refinements, and engage in discussion on whether those core principles could be evolving.
-
-And if you find an event isn't a good fit for you, don't worry about it. Use the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Space_Technology#Law_of_two_feet">law of two feet</a>:
-
-<blockquote class="posterous_short_quote">
-	If at any time you find yourself in any situation where you are neither learning nor contributing: Give greetings, use your two feet, and go do something useful. Responsibility resides with you.
-</blockquote>
-
-Ideally, that doing something useful includes organizing an unconference event yourself. I recently wrote "build more startups" as the conclusion to problems in the startup ecosystem.
-
-I think the same applies to unconferences: organize more of them.
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2012-03-15-cataloging-city-neighbourhood-assets-love-my.md b/_posts/blog/2012-03-15-cataloging-city-neighbourhood-assets-love-my.md
deleted file mode 100644
index bb2a04e..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2012-03-15-cataloging-city-neighbourhood-assets-love-my.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,45 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-title: Cataloging city neighbourhood assets - Love My Hood
-description: A recipe for using Flickr to get citizens cataloging their neighbourhood loves
-categories:
-- Vancouver
-- Open Data
-tags:
-- Flickr
-- hackathon
----
-I'm the host at the <a href="http://www.iqmetrix.com">iQmetrix</a> offices today for the <a href="http://opendatahackaton.eventbrite.ca/">Open Data Hackathon</a> put on by <a href="http://twitter.com/jonovision">Jesse Heaslip</a> and company. I'm also a judge at the endy of the day, so I'm mainly hacking on a few things of my own.
-
-<p><a href="http://twitter.com/andreareimer">Andrea Reimer</a> helped pitch the city ideas at the beginning of the day, and will be a judge at the end of the day as well.</p>
-
-<p>One of the ideas contributed by the city was the concept of cataloging a neighbourhood's assets. That is, why do people love living in an area? Is it heritage homes, some cool retail stores, green space, or the proximity of a community center?</p>
-
-<p>In other words, why does someone "Love Their Hood'?</p>
-
-<p>This is the sort of social data that is hidden, and only uncovered by living in an area for a while. The city can use this information to uncover the things and places in a neighbourhood that the residents and visitors care about.</p>
-
-<p>The concept is that people can take a picture of something that people care about in their 'hood, geocode it, and then tag it with "heritage", "retail", "greenspace", etc.</p>
-
-<p>One of the things I suggested was that rathering than building something, to just leverage some existing sources of open data. Since no one decided to run with the idea, here's the concept in leveraging Flickr to accomplish this.</p>
-
-<p>First, Flickr already has an excellent "Places" and geo-coding layer. I'm not sure if all the <a href="http://vancouver.ca/community_profiles/CommunityList.htm">official Vancouver community areas</a> are in Flickr, but you can see an example for <a href="http://www.flickr.com/places/Canada/British+Columbia/Vancouver/Grandview-Woodland">Grandview-Woodland</a> or <a href="http://www.flickr.com/places/Canada/British+Columbia/Vancouver/Downtown">Downtown</a>.</p>
-
-<p>But, just to keep the data as open and re-usable as possible, it's probably best to add a tag for the neighbourhood manually as well.</p>
-
-<p>The last piece is to come up with a list of some common / consistent tags, like those I've mentioned above.</p>
-
-<p>Then, using feeds of searches on Twitter, you can get a list of photos. Flickr makes searches available as both a geoFeed and KML, so it's easy to visualize.</p>
-
-<p>Here's an example search (just containing my photos at the moment) for the "lovemyhood" tag:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/tags/lovemyhood/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/tags/lovemyhood/</a>&nbsp;- that's Max's Deli in the Fairview community.</p>
-
-<p>Want to contribute? Here are the steps in one easy list:</p>
-
-<ol>
-	<li>Take a picture of something you care about in your community</li>
-	<li>Upload it to Flickr</li>
-	<li>Tag it with "lovemyhood", "Vancouver" (your city name), "Grandview-Woodlands" (your neighbourhood community name), and a descriptive tag of what you care about (e.g. "greenspace", "retail")</li>
-	<li>Manually geocode the photo if you're using a device that doesn't geocode automatically, and also make sure the photo is under a Creative Commons license that means it can be used. I usually use CC-BY or CC-BY-SA as the "most open" licenses making it easy for individuals and businesses to re-use and share the data.</li>
-</ol>
-
-<p>And you're done! I'll leave visualizations and promotion as an excercise for the reader.</p>
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2012-03-30-octopress-all-the-things.md b/_posts/blog/2012-03-30-octopress-all-the-things.md
deleted file mode 100644
index ac519d8..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2012-03-30-octopress-all-the-things.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-title: "Octopress all the things"
-description: "Moving off Posterous and Drupal"
-categories:
-- Blogging
-tags:
-- Octopress
-- Posterous
-- Drupal
----
-I need to migrate my [old blog posts off Posterous](http://bmcasides.posterous.com). I need to migrate [my Drupal](http://bmannconsulting.com) off Drupal. All will likely end up here.
-
-Current thinking is that I will run three sites:
-<!-- more -->
-
-* __bmannconsulting.com__ - likely to be a simple landing page + a static exported-to-Octopress archive of the current BMC; perhaps hosted on Amazon S3 via rsync
-* __blog.bmannconsulting.com__ - runs Octopress, hosted on Heroku (this site); long form posts, project pages, and so on.
-* __links.bmannconsulting.com__ - running on Tumblr, high volume links + short commentary
-
-Err… three sites for the main, public "tech" brand of me, which is the 10+ year old bmannconsulting.com domain. I have recently moved [bmann.ca](http://bmann.ca) to Tumblr as well.
-
-I'm going to likely outsource some of the work of moving posts around. I need a Posterous-to-Octopress script. The archive of Drupal posts need to be turned into markdown files as well. Not sure where to put those, might just go onto Github Pages as well.
-
-__Update__: OK, I've got this running nicely. I've got a git checkout out sitting in my Dropbox, meaning I can use [WriteUp](http://bit.ly/writeup-bmann) or [Byword](http://bit.ly/bywordapp-bmann) to create / edit posts on the go. But, I have to be at a computer that has both my Dropbox and the full Ruby stack setup to generate the Octopress files.
-
-So: how do I save updates to Dropbox and then have those updates generated and pushed to Heroku? I'm thinking it involves running another server just to do this and then involve the Dropbox API in some way. Thoughts?
-
-Also, I have a job post on [oDesk to write a Posterous Export](https://www.odesk.com/jobs/Ruby-Script-for-Posterous-Export_%7E%7E2314ad1a303742d2) - if you know anyone that could do this, point them at the listing, or look at [project page](/projects/posterous-export/).
-
-### Update September 2013
-
-This site now runs on [Harp](http://harp.io). See the [colophon](/colophon) for details. _bmann.ca_ (the root domain) is running the [Katana URL shortener](http://links.bmannconsulting.com/link/katana-ready-to-go-heroku-hosted-url-shortener) and [links](http://links.bmannconsulting.com) is running on [Postachio](http://postach.io "Evernote blogging platform").
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2012-04-20-vancouver-tech-needs-to-wake-up.md b/_posts/blog/2012-04-20-vancouver-tech-needs-to-wake-up.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e6d4bd6..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2012-04-20-vancouver-tech-needs-to-wake-up.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,44 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-title: "Vancouver tech needs to wake up"
-description: "Get involved with the community, and shout about our successes"
-categories:
-- Startups
-- Vancouver
-tags:
-- Brent Holliday
-- Pixel Crafters
----
-Brent Holliday writes about <a href="http://corporate.bc.ca/news/corporate-recruiters-news-letter/2012/spring/blueprint-for-tech-industry-success">what is needed for BC's technology industry to succeed</a>, which is itself a follow on to <a href="http://startupnorth.ca/2012/04/09/canadas-next-five-years-2">Jevon's StartupNorth post on Canada's next 5 years</a>. I have some further thoughts on the five areas that Brent discusses:
-<!-- more -->
-
-<h2>Education</h2>
-
-<p>I have heard this "start 'em young" story before. But I don't think this is the battle that the startup tech community should be fighting. Absolutely we want web-literate youth, and Mozilla (as one example) is an organization that is doing amazing work here. But the pain the startup community faces is talent.</p>
-
-<p>Let's build more hackers. Intern, mentor, hire juniors. Code (and design) as craft, and move people up the ladder (rather than moving away because you've hit the ceiling in Vancouver). <a href="https://www.hackerschool.com/">Hacker School</a> is something that New York is doing that we could emulate locally. Promoting a startup as your first stop after university. Connecting with university co-op programs. But this is most appropriate for companies that are already heading up their growth curve, of which there are few at the moment.</p>
-
-<h2>Community as the framework</h2>
-
-<p>I agree with Brent a 100% here. But the web entrepreneurs don't yet have a voice that is listened to by policy makers. Again, not something I feel like fighting, so let's just double down and continue to work together without creating unnecessary bureaucracy. Let's try lots of things and do more of what works. If it isn't sustainable or doesn't work, it's just not meant to be. Danny Robinson's proposed model for BCIC, with a UserVoice forum of the community voting for initiatives, and a model of early small investments leading to long term sustaining investments is perfect. Let's clone that out in the open in the community, not run through some government entity.</p>
-
-<h2>Tighter Silicon Valley links</h2>
-
-<p>I think Vancouver is doing a good job here, but I don't think Silicon Valley is the right answer. Rather, let's build tighter links all over the world. Turkey, Romania, and the UK are three areas that have come up in recent conversations. We can be an excellent launch pad for those countries to connect with the North American market, as well as a convenient point to connect with Silicon Valley.</p>
-
-<h2>Policy</h2>
-
-<p>I see this as a supporting piece to make Vancouver-as-landing-pad succeed.</p>
-
-<h2>Grow like hell and don’t stop</h2>
-
-<p>The message is, make big bets and don't cash in early. Still a tough thing to see for people going through their first startup loop. I believe we should be doing it, but it's currently harder than it needs to be to follow this path. I don't see enough Canadian investors on board with this model.</p>
-
-<p>Brent ends with: "Shout about it or be proactively involved through the various organizations that are available. Right now". Well, <a href="http://vantechia.tumblr.com">vantechia</a>&nbsp;<a href="#vantechia"><sup>*</sup></a> is my attempt at shouting about it. None of the current organizations are ones that I feel represent me as a web entrepreneur, so there is nothing that I can get behind and push. So, I'll keep helping to grow companies, and spend a little bit of time shouting.</p>
-
------
-
-<a name="vantechia"><sup>*</sup>vantechia:</a>&nbsp;Short for "Vancouver Tech Is Awesome" - this is what is now <a href="http://www.pixelcrafters.ca">Pixel Crafters</a> and the <a href="http://meetups.pixelcrafters.ca">Pixel Crafters Meetup group</a>.
-
-
-
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2012-04-25-what-im-obsessed-about.md b/_posts/blog/2012-04-25-what-im-obsessed-about.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 18466e1..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2012-04-25-what-im-obsessed-about.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-title: "What I'm obsessed about"
-description: "Death of binary docs, collaborative flow, re-invention of email, signal vs. noise"
-categories:
-- Startups
-tags:
-- Brad Feld
-- tools
-- collaboration
-- ebook
----
-Brad Feld is finding a lot of noise in the system, saying he is noticing:
-
-<blockquote author="Brad Feld" href="http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2012/04/what-im-obsessed-about-at-work.html">
-…lots of drama that has nothing to do with innovation, creating great companies, or doing things that matter. I expect this noise will increase for a while as it always does whenever enthusiasm for startups and entrepreneurship increases. When that happens, I’ve learned that I need to go even deeper into the things I care about.
-<cite>Brad Feld <a href="http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2012/04/what-im-obsessed-about-at-work.html">What I'm Obsessed About At Work</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-So, he identifies areas that he is obsessed about, and is going to dive deeper into them.
-
-It's pretty easy to tell what I'm obsessed about. It shows up in my tag clouds and the theme of my [link blog](http://links.bmannconsulting.com). But it's useful to reflect and broadcast these areas as well.
-
-Here's what I'm obsessed about:
-
-<!-- more -->
-
-* <p>__death of binary documents__: Evernote is a more powerful platform than Dropbox if you consider that native apps aren't needed at all; Evernote is a giant distributed database with some layers on top of it that make it look like a notepad. Data flows seamlessly and can be mutated easily. Binary docs are flies in amber. This is a long arc that will take a while to complete. A supporting arc is the move to paperless for all things.</p>
-* <p>__collaborative flow__: [Flowdock](http://www.flowdock.com), [Hojoki](http://hojoki.com), [Grove.io](http://grove.io), [Ginger](http://gingerhq.com), and [HipChat](http://hipchat.com) are examples of this; this means both real-time "chat" rooms as well as connecting in various bots and agents to feed information and alerts into an always-on challenge. Tools like [Yammer](http://yammer.com) also fit, but are meant for company wide usage, while the tools I list are targeted more at dev teams</p>
-* <p>__re-invention of email / inboxes__: we can't quite leave email behind, but look for ways to either offload traditional email comms (like the previous "flow" tools), or different approaches to "the inbox"</p>
-* <p>__signal vs. noise__: this is a long time obsession. It's a common phrase, across industries, and across activities. These days social is adding to both sides of the equation. While I think algorithms are doing ever more interesting things in this space, I like the concept of curation, agents, and simply better tools for people to use directly (again, the previous two likely connect into this as well)</p>
-* <p>__ebooks__: the rise of the media rich EPUB3 format plus the social adoption of digital reading plus the recent move to DRM-free ebooks is opening up a lot of interesting opportunities</p>
-* <p>__business data platforms__: we see many small businesses or departmental teams adopting web SaaS tools; but, start looking at multiple tools and it becomes much more difficult - how do we not re-enter data? how do we create workflows that span multiple tools? how do we manage identity & billing across apps? we have several early solutions in this space, but there is only going to be an accelerating need for these types of tools. [Chris Devore has written about this as well](http://www.crashdev.com/2012/04/request-for-startups-open-federation.html).</p>
-
-I probably can't finish off this post without admitting that I'm still obsessed about startup ecosystems, specifically what it means to build more (and more successful) startups in Canada and Vancouver.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2012-05-07-services-to-product.md b/_posts/blog/2012-05-07-services-to-product.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 7720f9d..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2012-05-07-services-to-product.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,106 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-title: "Moving from selling services to selling product"
-description: "Products are hard, but you should be trying to move past hourly-based billing"
-categories:
-- Startups
-tags:
-- consulting
-- bootstrapping
-- PolyglotConf
-- MetaLab
-- GroupTalent
-- product
-- Makalu Media
----
-Moving from services work to having a successful product is probably one of the hardest things to do. Well, perhaps no harder than doing any startup from scratch, but the benefit in doing it from a services company is that you have a built-in way to bootstrap yourself.
-
-As a single consultant or small development shop, you work for a number of clients on different projects. You might become known as an "X" shop, where X is some particular framework or programming language, being the go-to team when the complex or large projects come up. You get to learn about different verticals and different problems, coming up with technical and design solutions to fit. And you make consistent income <sup>[1](#1 "Or not - read Jason Cohen's post on consulting company math")</sup> with a high flexibility around work hours and location.
-
-With a product of your own, you get to invest in the things that matter to you - the design, the vision, the care given to the technical smoothing, or perhaps the user experience of contacting support. Really, you can invest in whatever parts of the product that you'd like. There is no client to wreck the design or insist on the wrong features or really, any of that other complicated dealing-with-clients stuff.
-<!-- more -->
-There is a fantastic recent post by the makers of Harvest, a time tracking app, that really speaks to the pride that a team can have in building a product:
-
-<blockquote source="Harvest Blog" href="http://www.getharvest.com/blog/2012/05/on-craftsmanship/ On Craftsmanship">
-Our team is comprised of people who believe in crafting beautiful code, sweating the details and pixels, and working hard to find the right words to express our ideas. At the end of each day, we want to take a step back and say, “that’s our best work yet.”<br />
-<cite>Harvest Blog <a href="http://www.getharvest.com/blog/2012/05/on-craftsmanship/">On Craftsmanship</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-It's somewhat ironic that a time tracking web app – likely an essential tool in the profitability of service companies – is referenced in the context of building a product instead. 
-
-## Buying your time back
-<!-- pullquote -->
-
-One of the things I've started using in my discussion with services companies is the concept of making the first $10,000 with their product. That's $10K per __month__.
-
-I came up with that number as short hand for two intermediate developers working on it full time. That's usually when it hits home that products are hard. Because I'm not adding in the cost of offices, or hosting, or, you know, stuff like _marketing_.
-
-The math for startup founders is a bit easier. Even in high-cost-of-living Vancouver, my standard back of envelope assigns $2K / month for founder salaries <sup>[2](#2)</sup>. <span class="pullquote">As a single developer, any product that makes you $2K per month means you have an unlimited runway.</span> Do you try and build another product to see if it's easier or harder to get customers? Do you add new features or add new distribution channels – you've got lots of options, since your base cost of living needs are met.
-
-In any case, that first X dollar amount can be something that focuses your effort. In essence, you are buying your time back, by having customers who are funding your product.
-<!-- endpullquote -->
-
-##Productizing Your Services
-One of the discussions I have with many people is how to productize themselves and their services. This doesn't apply just to software developers, but anybody who is being paid for their expertise on an hourly basis.
-
-What I mean by productize is to have standard packages and pricing. Even if you translate those packages back into hours, this gives you the freedom to look at investing in tooling & automation – in building products inside your business that aren't just hours.
-
-Hourly billing is a fools game. It misaligns the motives of clients and consulting shops. You, as consulting shop, are driven to equate billing more hours with making more money. When instead you should focus on becoming more awesome at what you do, while continuing to rent that awesomeness to your clients. My friends at [Denim & Steel](http://denimandsteel.com) call it "invention for hire".
-
-The switch to agile makes things a little bit better, especially with custom software development. You can set a flat rate per iteration for your team, perhaps with a flat rate "on boarding" with the client to set the features and timelines. An interesting new startup that is helping connect teams and clients who want to practice this method is [Group Talent](http://grouptalent.com). I haven't had any direct experience with the site yet, but anything that moves us away from RFP responses and hourly billing is a good thing.
-
-## Investing in your product
-Every startup blog under the sun talks about customer development, lean, and various other ways to go through the process of building a startup product. This doesn't change when you are doing it from inside a services company, but you should consider the time as an investment.
-
-I started by talking about buying your time back. You should track the time you put into your product, just as if it was another client. If you're lucky enough to have high margins on client work, you might just be able to buy back big chunks of time to invest. This could be a time period for the whole company, or having individuals dedicated to the product full time.
-
-<!-- pullquote -->
-One note about building a product that scratches your own itch. If you are spinning out a tool that you are using yourself internally, you'll need to work extra hard to be objective about the customers for the product. There are many many MANY project management, time tracking, and proprietary CMS platforms out there: why will yours succeed where so many have failed? As always, the test is will customers buy it? And I do mean "buy it" – having your clients use it as part of your consulting work is not a good enough test.
-
-<span class="pullquote">To get real feedback on whether this is a viable business, you have to actually attempt to sell it to people.</span> It can be tough to flip the switch and attempt this. It also means that actual non-development hours (and potentially non-developer people!) are going to be needed to spread the word, get feedback, and generally dedicate time to making the product a business, with all that entails.
-
-As a service company, you can trick yourself into carrying the cost for a product that simply isn't making money. Setting sales goals – such as X paying customers after Y months – can be a good trigger to do further investment on your own, like dedicating a full time person before the product is bringing in a full salary. But, this can't continue forever: the product has to be showing enough traction that your investment pays off.
-<!-- endpullquote -->
-
-## No VC money required
-I think this is one of the big things that people aspire to – to say they didn't need a VC (or angel). 
-
-The recent story of MetaLab, a Victoria-based company, entitled [Build the rocket first: From $0 to $500K in 1 year with no VC money](http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2012/05/01/build-the-rocket-first-from-0-to-500k-in-1-year-with-no-vc-money/) had all sorts of attention. There are some great stats that make for interesting reference points:
-
-* three people were dedicated to the project for nine months
-* 25% of the team's time was allocated to client work
-* the estimate of the cost of their product, [Flow](http://getflow.com/r/Hkqy), came in at $300K
-* there are now 10 people working on Flow full time
-
-The article says "We broke all the rules". Well, not really – I think they did all the right things in doing a services to product move. So the stories about the MetaLab team focusing is, I think, more about making a plan and sticking to it until they literally bought all of their time back (and more!).
-
-## Focus
-I've been looking for an excuse to spread this post by [Matt Henderson](http://twitter.com/mhenders "@mhenders") of [Makalu Media](http://www.makalumedia.com/) more widely.
-
-Matt wrote a post on [How to schedule focus](http://www.thisux.com/2011/11/23/how-to-schedule-focus/), suggesting that all of their projects get planned in blocks of a week. This means the entire team can be working on one thing - so everyone can be in this flow of having context and riffing off each others' ideas, problems, and solutions. Versus the context switching overhead of juggling multiple clients, multiple project teams, and so on.
-
-If you're able to "buy" an entire iteration of work for your entire team, this would be the ideal way to move a product forward.
-
-Consider this both a recommendation to follow more of what Matt & Makalu are up to, as well as a prompt for Matt to get us an update of how it's working out!
-
-## Let's Talk
-I've been having all sorts of discussions with teams on both sides of the services vs. product equation. The title of this post specifically says "services to product" – since I believe that you _should_ be investing some of your services time into trying to make a product.
-
-I'll be at the 2012 Polyglot Conference on May 26th, where I hope you'll join me for a live discussion. Bring your own experiences and questions. Track the talk on the [Polyglot Session Suggestions site](http://polyglotconf.uservoice.com/forums/156120-session-suggestions/suggestions/2727581-from-software-consulting-to-product-startup), as well as adding your own comments and links.
-
------------
-
-##Footnotes
-
-<a name='1'><sup>1</sup> Consulting realities:</a> Most of [@ASmartBear](http://twitter.com/ASmartBear)'s post focuses on the difficulties / painful realities, but he ends with this quote:
-<blockquote author="Jason Cohen" href="http://blog.asmartbear.com/consulting-company-accounting.html The unfortunate math behind consulting companies">
-
-Most consulting companies don’t make much profit, and it’s one in a thousand that has the discipline to launch a successful product during off-hours. If you’re going to make it happen, you yourself need to be serious, disciplined, and relentless.
-
-<strong>But you can do it.</strong>
-
-And if you do, you’ve just self-financed a startup, made a nice living, mitigated much of the risk of product-only startups, and built a great team in the process.<br />
-<cite>Jason Cohen <a href="http://blog.asmartbear.com/consulting-company-accounting.html">The unfortunate math behind consulting companies</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-<a name='2'><sup>2</sup> Founder salaries:</a> I have heard some gripes recently that barely funded companies are having their founders take home a "regular" salary of that $5K / month mark, or higher. I agree that that's too high, barring special circumstances. Your payoff from a successful startup should be a lot more than a couple of thousand per month. With two founders, dialing back your take home pay means you can pay another person to be full time.
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2012-05-27-new-hack-stack.md b/_posts/blog/2012-05-27-new-hack-stack.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 0770060..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2012-05-27-new-hack-stack.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,74 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-title: "The New Hack Stack"
-description: "Shared hosting sucks, LAMP is waning, new projects start on PaaS with Python, Ruby, or Node"
-categories:
-- Web Development
-tags:
-- LAMP
-- Github
-- PaaS
-- Ruby
-- Python
-- Rails
-- Flask
-- Node.js
-- web hosting
-- git
----
-
-In the past, the starter stack for web programming was <acronym title="Linux, Apache, MySQL, and Perl/PHP/Python">LAMP.</acronym> The 'P' originally stood for Perl, and then became mainly PHP.
-
-Today, with $5/month shared web hosting and thousands of PHP-based scripts & applications, this success is hard to argue with.
-
-But the truth is, managing even a shared hosting account is hard, never mind an entire VPS. You need to know the OS, the web server, the language, and the database.
-
-Revision control? Especially because of PHP's ease of deployment and editing, revision control is an advanced topic. This leads to things like "just edit it on the server", lack of updates, and even lack of upstream contributions.
-
-So what do we teach beginners? what is the stack we should be promoting to web makers?
-
-I think the new hack stack is already here. Git, Ruby or Node, and a PaaS for hosting.
-<!-- more -->
-
-## Revision control as best practice
-
-Git - and more specifically, the social community around GitHub - teaches both revision control, working together on code, and the concept of contributing back.
-
-Rather than teaching revision control as an advanced topic, we should teach it as a best practice from day one. Part of the kata of code should be your own local commits. this also means you have a built in safety net from 'wrecking' or 'screwing up' your code that causes anxiety for beginners.
-
-The availability of graphical clients for Git that are highly visual and actually quite friendly to use is another bonus. Even Windows users now have a great option in the [GitHub for Windows client](http://windows.github.com/).
-
-## Ruby and Node are the new 'P'
-
-I am singling out Ruby and Node as beginner choices for several reasons.
-
-One is clearly momentum. Ruby, and more specifically, the Rails framework, has gained huge mindshare and usage. Node has also been getting lots of mindshare, although the use of JavaScript and the evented model takes some getting used to.
-
-Both Ruby and Node have strong package / library management. Finding and installing various features into your app is easy and fun.
-
-Setting aside the install / setup of your initial environment, both do a great job of running locally. And this is built into the frameworks, and not a matter of configuring 2 or 3 other servers to get your code working.
-
-### Why not Python?
-
-Python might rightly take its place as the third member in the middle of the stack. But my feeling is that it doesn't have the same 'beginner mind' community as do Ruby and Node. This is likely because Python is an older language and has much broader application than being focused on web programming.
-
-I think this is easily fixable with some blog posts, tutorials, and evangelism. Perhaps something the Django community could focus on.
-
-## The Power of PaaS
-
-The different platforms often tout auto-scaling or various other performance-related features. but ease of deployment and no configuration required is what makes them perfect for beginners.
-
-I remember having a [Twitter discussion with Anil Dash](http://www.exquisitetweets.com/tweets?eids=mu7TPZom7M.mu74IKsZQy.mu76XdSsXR.mu8icylqym.mu8FPSPG7F.mu8O33Cj2y.mu8M5Z6qqH), trying to explain that I thought that focusing on PaaS as the beginner option was a better choice than the pain of shared hosting. Specifically, my main point was:
-
-<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en" author="@bmann">
-	<p lang="en" dir="ltr">…the mythical non-technical user who installs on shared hosting will usually get their fingers burned</p>&mdash; Boris Mann (@bmann) <a href="https://twitter.com/bmann/status/167025460759371776">February 7, 2012</a>
-</blockquote>
-<script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
-
-I, personally, have now completely moved away from running any servers whatsoever. This could be seen as a downside – I can't install arbitrary bits of scripts. But, I __can__ deploy self-contained chunks of code / services as separate apps, which is arguably a better practice in any case.
-
-I've had great experiences with [Nodejitsu](http://nodejitsu.com/) and [Heroku](http://heroku.com). With something like AppFog supporting even PHP apps (they've got a [JumpStart program](http://blog.appfog.com/announcing-express-jumpstarts/)), the benefits of PaaS can be applied to those apps which would have required shared hosting or a VPS in the past.
-
-## Hacking for beginners
-
-The new hack stack makes it incredibly easy for beginners to get started to write their own custom apps. There are easier ways to get a CMS-powered website up and running, but for writing code with custom functionality from scratch, it's hard to beat the killer combos of GitHub, Node or Rails, and a PaaS to host it publicly.
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2012-06-02-node-static-site-generators.md b/_posts/blog/2012-06-02-node-static-site-generators.md
deleted file mode 100644
index ac14707..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2012-06-02-node-static-site-generators.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,114 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-title: "Node based static site generators"
-description: "A review of available node.js based tools"
-categories:
-- Web Development
-- Blogging
-tags:
-- Octopress
-- Markdown
-- Node.js
-- Harp
-- static site generator
----
-My first experience with node.js was following the ['hello world' tutorial on the front page](http://nodejs.org), which I then extended to experiment with writing in Markdown and creating HTML pages on the fly. Not quite a static site generator, but a [fun experiment in learning during the Mozilla Polyglot Hackathon](http://projects.bmannconsulting.com/nodejs-getting-started/).
-
-I'm currently using Octopress to power this site as well as bmannconsulting.com (see my [migration write up](http://www.bmannconsulting.com/archive/migration/)), but one of the things I'd like is the ability to not have to have access to my dev environment in order to publish pages. That is, right now I can create/edit Markdown files anywhere<sup>[1](#markdown-editors)</sup> since my blog source is in Dropbox, but to compile / publish it, I need access to a machine that has the development environment installed.
-
-I am hoping to use a node.js-based static site generator running on Heroku or Nodejitsu to have the best of both worlds. A minimal http server to serve up  the baked HTML static files, plus the ability to connect to a Dropbox folder with Markdown posts in it and bake them on demand.
-<!-- more -->
-My first stop was to look at the existing node.js-based static site generators. I was looking for something with the simplicity and elegance of Octopress. To me, that means simple, one file posts with included metadata plus simple, as close-to-HTML as possible templating. Here's the list of projects I found, with a few notes on each one.
-
-##[Wintersmith](http://jnordberg.github.com/wintersmith/)
-
-* Source Link: [github.com/jnordberg/wintersmith](https://github.com/jnordberg/wintersmith)
-* Last Updated: < 1 month ago
-* Pros:
-	* Small, discrete code base, including [plugin architecture](https://github.com/jnordberg/wintersmith/wiki/Plugins)
-	* Under active development
-* Cons:
-	* Jade-based templates
-	* Written in CoffeeScript
-
-## DocPad
-
-* Source Link: [github.com/bevry/docpad](https://github.com/bevry/docpad)
-* < 1 month ago
-* Pros:
-	* Does a LOT.
-	* Under active development
-* Cons:
-	* Overkill - support for the many templating options plus using CoffeeScript makes it hard to start hacking on
-
-##[Blacksmith](http://blacksmith.jit.su/)
-
-* Source Link: [github.com/flatiron/blacksmith](https://github.com/flatiron/blacksmith)
-* Last Updated: ~ 2 months ago
-* Pros:
-	* Has a generator and a server
-	* HTML-based templates
-* Cons:
-	* Metadata for posts in separate json file & each post in a separate folder
-	* _Updated:_ incorrectly stated Jade-based templates - actually uses HTML-based templates
-
-## Scotch
-
-* Source Link: [github.com/techwraith/scotch](https://github.com/techwraith/scotch)
-* Last Updated: ~ 3 months
-* Pros:
-	* Comes with a redis-based cache, but can also compile to static files
-* Cons:
-	* Needs geddy and redis running
-	* Couldn't get it working
-
-## Wheat
-
-* Source Link: [github.com/creationix/wheat](https://github.com/creationix/wheat)
-* Last Updated: ~ 6 months
-* Pros:
-	* Serves files from a git repo
-	* Runs the the [howtonode.org](http://howtonode.org) website
-* Cons:
-	* Couldn't get it running
-	* HAML templates
-
-## Petrify
-
-* Source Link: [github.com/caolan/petrify](https://github.com/caolan/petrify)
-* Last Updated: 11 months
-* Pros
-	* Interesting JSON templates
-* Cons:
-	* Generator only
-	* Couldn't get it running (outdated "require path" syntax)
-
-Wintersmith comes closest to being what I want. It's maintained, works well out of the box, and has a minimal codebase. But, the double whammy of being written in CoffeeScript and using Jade-based templates by default makes it a no go. There is a plugin for [Swig templates](https://github.com/paularmstrong/swig), so perhaps I'll keep experimenting with it.
-
-After all of that, none of the existing node.js-based SSGs seem like a great fit for adding Dropbox support for. So, I'm going to attempt to write one myself. To recap what I'm looking for:
-
-* Site generator plus simple server for local previews + easy PaaS hosting
-* Minimal, close-to-HTML-based templating
-* Single file posts that include metadata
-* Easily hackable for node beginners (i.e. not written in CoffeeScript)
-* Killer feature will be Dropbox integration where a folder is watched and files are auto-published
-
-I think the on-disk format and general feature set of Octopress is excellent, so a secondary goal will be to try and follow the guidelines of source files & metadata that Octopress supports as much as possible.
-
-If anyone has pointers to code or libraries that might be a good starting point, please leave a comment.
-
---------------
-
-###<a name="markdown-editors"><sup>1</sup> Markdown editors:</a>
-
-I currently have three different Markdown editors on my iPhone.
-
-* [WriteUp](http://writeup.prasannag.com/) ([app](http://bit.ly/writeup-bmann)): This is the app I started with. Great Markdown and Dropbox support. Cool new feature is support for Versions.
-* [Byword](http://bywordapp.com/) ([app](http://bit.ly/bywordapp-bmann)): Focused on distraction free writing in Markdown, and that's it. I'm also using it on my desktop for full screen writing.
-* [Writing Kit](http://getwritingkit.com/) ([app](http://bit.ly/writingkit-bmann)): I've just added this app, which features the ability to do research with a built in web browser / search. I'll likely be using this to do research & grab links, and then do the majority of my writing in Byword.
-
-### Update September 8, 2013
-
-<a href="http://harp.io"><img src="/images/harp-logo-dark.png" align="left" style="padding: 10px 10px 10px 0px" /></a>This blog is now running on the [Harp Platform](http://harp.io), which is a node.js-based web server with pre-processing built in, and you upload files via Dropbox. Check out the [open source HarpJS site](http://harpjs.com) if you want to run it on your own. _Disclaimer: I am working with the Harp team and couldn't be happier at using it._
-
-
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2012-06-19-reactions-microsoft-surface.md b/_posts/blog/2012-06-19-reactions-microsoft-surface.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e7127ae..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2012-06-19-reactions-microsoft-surface.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,93 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-title: "Reactions to Microsoft Surface"
-description: "It's been fascinating to see the story of the Microsoft Surface evolve"
-categories:
-- Analysis
-tags:
-- Microsoft
-- Microsoft Surface
-- tablet
-- Storify
----
-I used Storify to collect a number of the reactions that have been ricocheting around the web in response to Microsoft's announcement of the all new [Surface tablet](http://www.microsoft.com/surface/). I am puzzled by their pre-announcement, happy to see more competition in this space, and really hope they succeed in shipping.
-<!--more-->
-
-> Welcome to @Microsoft #Surface. Coming Soon. http://www.Surface.com https://pic.twitter.com/rLYDtge7 Windows
-
-_It's been fascinating to see the story of the "all new" Microsoft Surface evolve since yesterday afternoon. I posted a short link blog this morning._
-
-> Boris Mann's Link Blog Awesome. This is MSFT stepping up to the plate. There are many (many, many, many) questionable / weird things about the launch, the marke...
-
->Kevin Tofel / GigaOm:
->"Spec sheets, press releases, videos and a product demo do not a successful product make. The experience of using Windows 8 on the Surface devices is far more important. And _that’s_&nbsp;the big unknown right now. What is known, however, is that Monday will likely be considered a huge turning point in the history of Microsoft. For three decades, it was content to deliver software for a price to any hardware maker willing to pay. Now it seems that **no price is enough for Microsoft to fully trust its future to computer makers**."
-
-_(emphasis mine)_
-
-> Microsoft Surface: A new tablet and a bold strategy Microsoft did Monday what many would consider unthinkable: It introduced Surface, a new 10.6-inch tablet with two different models design...
-
-> Mark Hachman / RWW:
->"Apple’s iPad evokes a feeling of luxury, while top-of-the-line Android tablets like the Galaxy Tab feel fast and efficient, but not overly polished. The Surface feels like a Cadillac: powerful, luxurious… solid. There’s nothing flimsy about it."
-
->Hands On with Microsoft's New Surface Tablet: A few minutes spent actually handling a prototype of Microsoft's new Surface tablet reveals a solid device, combining a slightly bulky ch...
-
-> Steve Ballmer, quoted in the AllThingsD article:
-> “If you look at the bulk of the 375 million machines that get sold (next year), they probably aren’t going to be Surfaces,” Ballmer told&nbsp;AllThingsD. “On the other hand, we could have a sizeable business.”
-
-> Scratching the Surface With Windows Chief Steven Sinofsky: Windows chief Steven Sinofsky said Monday that Microsoft certainly had a tablet like the Surface in mind when it started doing Windows 8....
-
-> Evidence MS is only half-serious about Surface. Steve saying &quot;prime the pump&quot; and MS Store/online only. This is about leading, not winning. Charlie Kindel
-
-_I think everyone is excited that Microsoft is stepping up to the plate. Long time mobile expert Brian Fling:_
-
-> I wouldn’t call the Microsoft Surface a slam dunk but it is a solid tablet entry from Redmond Brian Fling
-
-_Ethan is not so optimistic. I agree with this stance - until you ship, and you ship with some sort of ecosystem, the prettiness of the hardware won't mean much. Although, I think the lack of combined hardware / software **excellence** is what forced Microsoft to do this device themselves._
-
-> Reminder: no apps, no price, no date, no app ecosystem. Let's not get ahead of ourselves in the rush to get ahead of others. Ethan Kaplan
-
-> A world changing device! Release date, specs, price are tbd. So is the “world changing” Ethan Kaplan
-
-> Best part of http://surface.com - &quot;Images are design renderings and not photographs.&quot; No wonder it's called Vapor Mg.Ken Schafer
-
-> so why was MS in such a hurry to show that? could've shown it closer to WinRT launch. announcing way ahead of availability is ALWAYS bad. Chris Ziegler
-
-_Brad puts it even more succinctly - it's not the hardware:_
-
-> It's not about the device. #MicrosoftSurfaceTablet http://post.ly/7qcs3 Brad Ovenell-Carter
-
-_Some think you can't succeed in the tablet market unless you own the OS._
-
-> There's now a velvet rope around the tablet market. If you own an OS, you're in. If you don't, enjoy the view. Lessien
-
-> The <a target="_blank" href="http://www.microsoft.com/global/surface/en/us/renderingassets/surfacespecsheet.pdf">spec sheet</a> makes it clear that while there are two "versions", they really are very different. The WinRT / ARM version is the consumer version. The Windows 8 / Intel version is the pro, enterprise version. Must Microsoft's licensing strategy infect everything?
-
-> It just dawned on me that Windows RT could be a huge failure due to consumer confusion, and cause massive collateral damage across PCs... Russell Beattie
-
-_Brian has interesting thoughts on how the mobile web fits into such a new launch. Windows 8, with it's focus on web technologies, is going to be very interesting._
-
-> A new form factor AND two processor architectures. Thank web we have media queries. xnoɹǝʃ uɐıɹq
-
-> Also note: Windows 8 runs NodeJS. Google IO should prove interesting. Facebook is in over their heads. They need a browser and a phone. xnoɹǝʃ uɐıɹq</div>
-
-> @brianleroux Win8/x64 runs Node but haven't built it yet for Win8/ARM (since MSFT hasn't release an arm iso) theoretically it should work... Ryan Dahl</div>
-
-_I feel for Nokia. But perhaps that chapter is simply closed._
-
-<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I can't be the only one that noticed Microsoft is using Nokia's shades of cyan and magenta for its Surface Touch Cover <a href="https://twitter.com/vladsavov/status/215012375127011330/photo/1">pbs.twimg.com/media/AvvgnbJCMAETk9u.jpg:large</a></p>&mdash; Vlad Savov (@vladsavov) <a href="https://twitter.com/vladsavov/status/215012375127011330/">June 19, 2012</a></blockquote>
-<script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
-
-
-_The PC industry that currently exists by selling Windows computers? They're in an interesting spot, to say the least._
-
-> So, er, I'm not bullish on the tablet strategy of, oh, HP, Dell, Lenovo and Acer, and apparently neither is Microsoft. Ashlee Vance
-
-> Microsoft now making hardware that will directly compete with its PC licensees. Should be interesting. Jason Snell
-
-> Don't focus too much on Microsoft competing with other PC vendors. They all have the same main competitor in Apple. Ross Rubin
-
-> This is a total flip of MSFTs business model of software licensing. Michael Gartenberg
-
-_Wondering where the "old" Microsoft Surface went? The technology is called Microsoft PixelSense, and the new hardware is made by Samsung, and called the SUR40._
-
-> Welcome to Microsoft PixelSense
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2012-06-29-posts-you-dont-write.md b/_posts/blog/2012-06-29-posts-you-dont-write.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 33b39de..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2012-06-29-posts-you-dont-write.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-title: "The Posts that You Don't Write"
-description: "Long form writing, excuses, and not getting personal"
-categories:
-- Blogging
-tags:
-- personal
----
-
-I had a great discussion yesterday where the phrase "the post I didn't write" came up. This is a fantastic phrase, and led me down the route of examining why and when I don't publish posts, and thinking about why others – especially in the context of working for an organization – don't publish posts.
-<!-- more -->
-In one instance, I still haven't finished writing my post discussing the Northern Voice web literacy session. The "I haven't had the time" excuse comes up all the time, but the things we make time for and the things we don't say something. I think my main worry is that I won't do the topic justice.
-
-I know I've been struggling a bit with this new blog. I have only a few posts here, they're all quite long, and I post every 3 - 4 weeks. I have some other "posts I haven't written" that haven't made it here, for a number of reasons.
-
-One reason is this pressure that the next post is "on message". That it's long, has links, and has some level of research, editing, and so on behind it. Should I be less emotional here? Should I write on my [personal blog](http://blog.bmann.ca)? or maybe my [link blog](http://links.bmannconsulting.com) if it's not long enough (or not good enough)?
-
-I am not a very personal writer. I have lots of technology opinions, thoughts about the evolution of tech & industries. I post a bit about cooking & recipes on my personal blog, but writing about feelings or doing introspection in public is not something that I feel comfortable doing, and do so _very_ rarely.
-
-When you're attached to an organization, not posting has many other overtones. Is this story I'm telling mine to tell? Will other people in the organization agree or disagree with my version? Does telling this story expose too much? (again, that I'm not empowered or allowed to be telling).
-
-Fear, uncertainty, and doubt lead to us closing up, to be less transparent, to protect ourselves by not exposing our thoughts. But not posting just means that you're not opening yourself to help and feedback as well.
-
-What posts have you not written, or are you struggling to write?
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2012-07-01-setting-up-macbook-air-osx-lion.md b/_posts/blog/2012-07-01-setting-up-macbook-air-osx-lion.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 392980f..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2012-07-01-setting-up-macbook-air-osx-lion.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,64 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-title: "Setting up a new MacBook Air plus Lion"
-description: "Why I got the 11inch Air, must-have apps, and setting up Ruby"
-categories:
-- Mac OS X
-- How To
-tags:
-- OS X Lion
-- Ruby
-- MacBook Air
-- Evernote
-- Byword
-- Dropbox
----
-
-I've long used [Norse Mythology](http://www.akasha.demon.co.uk/norse.htm) to name my computers. The tiny but powerful 11" Macbook Air got named after _Skidbladnir_, Freyr's collapsible ship.
-<!-- more -->
-## Why I got the 11" Air
-
-I was looking for a home computer. One that would sit on my desk and be used for personal projects and some gaming. I wanted something low cost but that would handle anything I threw at it.
-
-I was considering a Mac Mini or an iMac as my non-laptop choices. Having a laptop means being able to use it for personal travel as well, although that was not a huge factor in making the decision.
-
-The Mac Mini came very close, but the graphics card seemed a little weak. When thinking about using FaceTime or Skype, I realized that I'd also have to invest in a separate webcam, which was one too many strikes against the Mini.
-
-The iMacs are great machines to have sitting on your desk. You need to get higher end versions to get the "better" graphics card, but they are all great choices. The more I looked at the different iMac configurations, the knowledge that there was an upgrade somewhere not too far away for the entire iMac line up meant it wasn't the right choice.
-
-So it was back to looking at laptops. I knew I didn't need a fully tricked out machine, and that I had a 22" monitor sitting at my desk, so screen size wasn't an issue. I also have a large 1TB external drive, so lots of storage wasn't important either.
-
-With all that, the [MacBook Air 11"](http://www.apple.com/macbookair/specs.html) ended up being a great choice. I bumped up the memory to 8GB and decided to spring for the faster i7 processor, and I think it's going to be a great machine. Being able to write this post with the machine on my lap on a crowded 257 bus headed to Horseshoe Bay just underlines what a nice portable machine this is.
-
-## Apps
-
-I mainly do email, Internet, photo processing, and some web development tinkering with my personal machine.
-
-I've had a BootCamp partition and run Windows on my last couple of my machines, pretty much exclusively to run [Steam](http://store.steampowered.com) and Windows-only games. Since I've got Diablo 3 to suck up what little gaming time I have, I'll keep this machine Windows free for the moment.
-
-Most of the desktop apps I end up installing over time are mainly for experimentation – few of them seem to stick. I expect this trend to continue, although I think that "local" clients – either through sync or APIs – will appear more often as well.
-
-The first couple of must have desktop apps that I've installed are:
-
-* Evernote - all my notes are here, available on all devices
-* [Byword](http://bit.ly/bywordapp-bmann) - since switching my blog over, I've experimented with different ways of writing Markdown; Byword has been great, especially in full screen mode, for long form writing
-* [Dropbox](http://db.tt/ntZKNydx) - I'm lucky enough to have just over 7GB of free space. Aside from photos and code repos, all of my files are here.
-
-My long time favourite basic programmer's text editor is [Smultron](http://www.peterborgapps.com/smultron/). It's now gone closed source and available in a [classic version](http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/smultron/id408831307?mt=12&ls=1) and a Lion-only [4.x version](http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/smultron-4/id450194894?ls=1&mt=12). I'm thinking of attempting another try at learning & committing to a real UNIX-y editor. For now, emacs (the [AquaMacs version](http://aquamacs.org/)) is what I'll try.
-
-## Command Line
-
-Ruby and Jekyll / Octopress are the first things I need to get up and running on the command line so that I can get this blog post published ;) As well as setting up a new machine, this is my first time on OS X Lion, so it was interesting to see what I had to do to get my development environment up and running.
-
-* Create / copy over <code>.bash_profile</code> to my home directory
-* If you've already installed XCode, then run Preferences > Downloads, click on Components and install the command line tools
-* Otherwise, just install [OS X GCC Installer](https://github.com/kennethreitz/osx-gcc-installer) (which you may need for certain code builds regardless)
-* Install [Homebrew](http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/), then edit <code>.bash_profile</code> to include <code>export PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH"</code>
-* Install newest Ruby <code>brew install ruby</code>, then edit <code>.bash_profile</code> to include <code>export PATH="/usr/local/Cellar/ruby/1.9.3-p194/bin:$PATH"</code>
-* Install Jekyll <code>gem install jekyll</code>
-* Install Octopress - follow the [docs](http://octopress.org/docs/setup/); I have the source already in DropBox, so just need to install the various dependencies via <code>gem</code>. You may have trouble installing <code>rb-fsevent</code>, in which case you'll need this [magic incantation](https://github.com/thibaudgg/rb-fsevent/issues/26#issuecomment-4050279): <code>sudo xcode-select -switch /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/</code>
-* I'm hosting on Heroku, so I also needed <code>gem install heroku</code>
-
-That's it for the first couple of hours with the new machine. I'm sure there are some Lion-only apps and features that I need to dive into. Trackpad gestures + Mission Control + multiple desktops on this small screen is great so far.
-
-*I'm very new to Ruby still – I ended up installing _rbenv_ to manage different versions, but I don't know that I'll even need to get into that
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2012-07-02-nv12-web-literacy.md b/_posts/blog/2012-07-02-nv12-web-literacy.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f1f12af..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2012-07-02-nv12-web-literacy.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,81 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-title: "Northern Voice 2012 - Web Literacy"
-description: "What does it mean to be web literate? We need to teach more of it to save the Internet"
-categories:
-- Event
-tags:
-- Northern Voice
-- nv12
-- web literacy
----
-[I attended day 1 of Northern Voice 2012](http://blog.bmann.ca/2012/06/16/northern-voice-2012/), including Moose Camp, which is a block of time that is run unconference style. 
-
-I hosted a discussion on the concept of web literacy. I went into the discussion thinking along the lines of being a web maker - being able to understand HTML and code. But as we tossed concepts back and forth, it's clear that web literacy is a very broad term, and that there are different levels of literacy.
-
-I've added a link to this blog post on the [Northern Voice wiki](http://wiki.northernvoice.ca/w/page/55086916/Web%20Literacy) – please add your own notes and links relevant to web literacy.
-<!-- more -->
-
-## What does web literacy even mean?
-I came into the discussion thinking about web literacy from a very how-does-the-Internet-work perspective. I envisioned people caring about the difference between a domain registrar, a <acronym title="Domain Name System">DNS</acronym> host, and web hosting<sup>[1](#DNS)</sup>.
-
-The group quickly disabused me of that notion. Owning your own domain name and what the consequences of that are is several levels away from the basics.
-
-The prevailing opinion was that web literacy begins with something more akin to media literacy: understanding where the information that you're looking at comes from, knowing how to search, being able to differentiate between sponsored links and search results, and so on. Critical thinking about the source & context of the web page you are looking at, whether or not to trust that information, and perhaps some understanding of the bias of different kinds of web content – is this a news source, is this trying to sell me something, do I have some indication of what person or organization this page is being hosted by.
-
-I think that's an excellent starting point for __anyone__ using the Internet.
-
-## Creating Content
-<!-- pullquote 
-But to me, even if we include these concepts as part of web literacy, it's pure consumption. {"I think of the web as being what the name implies – a back and forth weave of pages and links, and unless you're part of that weave, you aren't web literate"}. -->
-
-[Blaine](http://twitter.com/blaine) shared a story of how a friend of his was approached to help put a web page up. His friend turned to the person who asked this and said "You're illiterate".
-
-Having moved off of my techie, protocol centric view, I feel good about saying that one definition of Level 1 of web literacy is understanding how to put your own content online. But this doesn't mean hand coding an HTML page and FTP'ing it to a server somewhere.
-<!-- endpullquote -->
-
-I don't think posting photos to Facebook or using an app to post to Twitter qualifies as putting your own content online. Creating a WordPress.com, Tumblr, or Blogger account and making your first post certainly does.
-
-## (Internet) Avengers, Assemble!
-[Brian Lamb](http://twitter.com/brlamb) described feeling himself getting shrill whenever he tried to explain why people should care about owning their own domain and hosting their own content. It simply doesn't matter to the vast majority that their TwitPic photos have ads being sold next to them or that they don't have their own domain name mapped to Tumblr.
-
-I jotted down a few of the phrases that people said as we talked.
-
-"A lot of people who could care, do care" – the fact that we had a group of people having this discussion at Northern Voice was heartening. To me, this says, hang out with your tribe who cares, but also look for opportunities to recruit people who want to care.
-
-"There is a stigma against people who can't read. Digital il-literacy doesn't have a stigma" – almost the reverse is true, with people waving off the fact that they can't do that "web stuff" or "don't understand the Internet". We should celebrate knowing more about the Internet and understanding web stuff.
-
-While I have increasingly felt farther away from Northern Voice's focus on the personal use of social media and blogging, this discussion really made me savour this end user-centric view.
-
-## Quantifying Levels of Web Literacy
-Putting aside whether people should care about their level of web literacy – and about wanting to achieve a higher level of such literacy – I think some discussion about the different levels is useful.
-
-### Level 1: Web Media Literacy
-This could just be media literacy with a focus on web media, plus search & browser best practices. This also means knowing what a browser and a search engine are, so I could be convinced to set my bar lower and make this Level 1 rather than the Level 0 that I _want_ to assign it.
-
-### Level 2: Web Creator
-An understanding of web pages and domains (typing in web addresses instead of just searching for everything). Knowledge of various blogging tools and platforms as a user, and being able to create new posts.
-
-### Level 3: Web & Internet Foundations
-A basic understanding of HTML & CSS. Can edit HTML in the "view source" mode of rich text editors. IP addresses and domain names. Understands how to register a domain and then link that domain to a hosting account or hosted service.
-
-### Level 4: Self Hosting
-Knows about web hosting, databases, and FTP. Can install and do basic setup of WordPress and other tools using a web hosting admin panel. Has access to a basic HTML editor and can create individual web pages from scratch.
-
--------------
-
-Are these the right levels? This whole area seems like such a patchwork of systems, where you have to understand the whole stack and how it interoperates.
-
-I've focused on web & Internet concepts, but completely skipped anything to do with images, video, or audio. Also skipped are anything related to web etiquette / legal topics, such as links as attribution, basics of quoting, fair use, copyright, etc.
-
-## Saving the Internet
-I'm quite passionate about the Internet, mostly because of all the great people I've met that live there. Open source, open data, and just the basic human nature of communication, sharing, and connecting online are great things, and we should try and get better at it. Ironically, I've spent a lot of time taking online connections and trying to move them to offline in-person events.
-
-I'm going to try and "level up" a few people, perhaps by running a [Mozilla "Kitchen Table" event](https://wiki.mozilla.org/Webmakers/events/kitchen_table) in the next couple of months.
-
-I'd also like to continue the discussion about what web literacy means. How and where should we be teaching it? Libraries and universities both some like institutions that should be taking part in this. Are these types of levels useful? I've enjoyed [Peter Rawsthorne's explorations into Mozilla's Open Badges](http://criticaltechnology.blogspot.ca/search/label/openbadges) – could we define and create badges for web literacy?
-
-Echoing both [Reilly's Friday morning talk](http://2012.northernvoice.ca/using-internet-save-internet-slacktivism-interactivism) and [Blaine's Saturday keynote](http://2012.northernvoice.ca/wild-future), the Internet does need our help. At the center, it needs civility, discourse, and education. At its edges, it needs wildness and experimentation.
-
-## Footnotes
-<a name="DNS"><sup>1</sup>Registrars, DNS, and Web Hosting</a>: I keep meaning to write up a simple explanation of this, but it seems like a mini tutorial on its own when you consider diving down into things like IP addresses and sideways to concepts like domainers, typo squatters, and more. I just tell people to not use GoDaddy and use [NameCheap](http://namecheap.com) instead and consider it a win for now.
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2012-07-08-ssg-lightning-talk.md b/_posts/blog/2012-07-08-ssg-lightning-talk.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 43b31a6..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2012-07-08-ssg-lightning-talk.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-title: "Static Site Generators Lightning Talk at HTML5 Vancouver Meetup"
-description: "Intro to static site generators"
-categories:
-- Event
-tags:
-- static site generator
-- presentation
-- HTML5 Vancouver
-comments: false
----
-I gave a quick 10 minute lightning talk at the [HTML5 Vancouver Meetup group](http://www.meetup.com/Vancouver-HTML5/events/67866502/) about static site generators (SSGs).
-
-I ended up putting the presentation together using [Hekyll](http://brianmcmurray.com/blog/2012/02/07/hekyll-for-awesome-easy-presentations/), which is, itself, an SSG for making presentations using [impress.js](http://bartaz.github.com/impress.js). impress.js is an HTML5-based clone of Prezi, the panning / zooming presentation app; I just opted for simple presentation mode.
-
-Check out the [SSG Lightning Talk](http://projects.bmannconsulting.com/ssg-lightning-talk) or view it in the iframe below (use arrow keys to advance).
-<!--more-->
-<iframe src="https://projects.bmannconsulting.com/ssg-lightning-talk/preso.html"
-  width="800" height="600"
-></iframe>
-
-This presentation needs work (never mind the fact that using my new machine to do a presentation caused a bit of a fumble). I spent a lot of time futzing with the tech, which should've gone into tuning the content. I'm finding a bit of a problem determining the right level to cover with SSGs. There are a lot of moving pieces around generators, layouts, and hosting, plus trying to explore the "why" of SSGs and what kind of solutions they apply to.
-
-Hekyll was an interesting experiment. I like that I can keep my presentations on GitHub directly. Theming needs work - or my design + CSS skills need work, depending on how you think about it :)
-
-I also ended up demo'ing [Prose.io](http://prose.io) (read [Development Seed's intro blog post](http://developmentseed.org/blog/2012/june/25/prose-a-content-editor-for-github/)), which is a web-based content editor for GitHub. So, if you're creating / hosting content using GitHub's native pages functionality (which uses the Jekyll static site generator), it means you can edit your content online in a friendly, Markdown-aware environment in your browser.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2012-07-27-tracking-qr-codes.md b/_posts/blog/2012-07-27-tracking-qr-codes.md
deleted file mode 100644
index b9e9ed1..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2012-07-27-tracking-qr-codes.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,99 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-title: "Best practices for tracking QR Codes"
-description: "Cut out third parties and just use Google Analytics"
-categories:
-- How To
-tags:
-- Common Craft
-- QR code
-- Google Analytics
-- Boxcar Marketing
-- marketing
-- analytics
----
-My friends at [Common Craft](http://www.commoncraft.com) have a book called [The Art of Explanation](http://artofexplanation.com) coming out this fall, and it will include QR codes. In the book, there are multiple references to Common Craft videos, and Lee wanted to make it easy for people to go from reading a page in the book and then easily viewing the referenced video. These QR codes link to the explanation videos on their website. Since there is only one chance to get the codes right before they get printed, we talked about different ways to generate & track QR codes<sup>[1](#qrcode-explained)</sup>.
-
-<!--more-->
-
-## Short URLs and QR Codes
-
-I've used a handful of link shortening and QR code generating services in the past, so we looked at which of them might be appropriate for generating codes and tracking. Link shortening services offer statistics on how many people have clicked on a link, which is a way to get tracking information even if you don't own the domain you are linking to (and thus don't have access to the analytics).
-
-Many link shortening services also generate QR codes. Since the QR codes are generated based on the short URL, this also means that you can edit the link that the QR code points to after the fact. Useful if you have some QR codes in the wild in a permanent form (posters, t-shirts, books, etc.), but you want to link to different destination URLs over time.
-
-There are two big downsides to using short URLs. One is relying on a third-party service, and the second is to add one more step between the QR code and the link you want people to actually end up on. If you are going to rely on a third party service, then you should at least use your own domain name. Then, even if the service goes down, you can run your own redirects, rather than risk having your QR codes break<sup>[2](#futureproof-urlshortener)</sup>.
-
-Lastly, while not really a downside, you're not really tracking the the QR code, but rather the short link. This means if you use the link anywhere else publicly, you won't necessarily be able to tell the difference between someone clicking on the link vs. scanning the QR code.
-
-Here are three link shortening / sharing services that also create QR codes from those links:
-
-### bit.ly
-
-While [bit.ly](http://bit.ly) has recently changed quite a bit, it is the original URL shortener that many people still use today. Using your own domain used to be a pro service, but is now free. You can go to the advanced tab of your bitly settings and [set your custom domain](https://bitly.com/a/custom_domain_settings).
-
-Getting QR codes out of bitly is done by appending <code>.qrcode</code> to the end of any bitly URL. More details in the [bitly documentation](http://dev.bitly.com/qr_codes.html). Note: it looks like [you can't redirect your root domain](http://bitly.com/pro/help#root) unless you're using Bitly Enterprise<sup>[3](#bitly-enterprise)</sup>.
-
-### Short Switch
-
-[ShortSwitch](http://shortswitch.com) is a simple custom URL shortening service where the only option is to use your own domain. It starts at free for 1 user and 15 links per month, with the first paid plan being $4 / month for a single user account.
-
-Each link you shorten also generates a QR code, and you can edit the URL the short link points to after the fact.
-
-### awe.sm
-
-While [awe.sm](http://awe.sm) does shorten links, it's design and strength is in social share tracking. It does [generate QR codes](http://blog.awe.sm/2011/08/26/create-qr-codes-with-awe-sm/), but these are done through the [Google Charts API](https://developers.google.com/chart/infographics/docs/qr_codes).
-
-The basic account is $19 / month for a single user, and is definitely something you want to look at to get data on your social media conversion. Looking at it in more detail, it's not the right solution if you are looking for QR-code related tracking, although it can be used to do it.
-
-## QR Code Tracking
-
-The previous tools and the technique of creating short URLs with QR codes generated from those is more about tracking the links than tracking the QR codes. There are different ways to "track" the usage of QR codes directly.
-
-### Esponce
-
-[Esponce](http://esponce.com) was a tool that [Lee](http://leelefever.com) had found that is specifically designed to track various uses of QR codes. Under the covers, it actually does create it's own short links for tracking links, but Esponce also supports generating and tracking different kinds of content, such as contacts, phone numbers, geo locations, etc.
-
-Looking closer, Esponce uses its own domain for the short links it creates. This means that you need to either trust that Esponce will be around for a while, or to pay for a white label solution at $600+ per year so you can use your own domain for link shortening.
-
-Still, there are lots of interesting features in this platform, and the white label solution could be very interesting for agencies that want to offer these sorts of services in house.
-
-### Tracking using Google Analytics
-
-The solution we finally settled on was to track QR code usage by using Google Analytics. 
-
-Using the [Google Analytics URL Builder](http://support.google.com/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1033867), you can build. For Lee & Common Craft, the QR codes are going to be in a [printed book](http://artofexplanation.com), so we fill the builder out as follows:
-
-* Campaign Source: <code>book</code>
-* Campaign Medium: <code>qrcode</code>
-* Campaign Name: <code>NameOfVideoBeingLinked</code>
-
-The generated URL will then look something like this:
-
-<code style="padding: 5px;">http://www.commoncraft.com/video/wikis?utm_source=book&utm_medium=qrcode&utm_campaign=wiki</code>
-
-Once you've built your URL, you can use any QR code generator to create your QR code. Be careful __not__ to use one that generates the code based on a short link, since the whole point is to remove that step completely. I recommend the [ZXing generator](http://zxing.appspot.com/generator/), which is also great for things other than URLs<sup>[4](#zxing)</sup>.
-
-Now, when you use these QR codes out in the field, you know that people visiting your website using that URL are definitely coming from a scan of that QR code. If you continue to follow this pattern for all of your QR codes, you can run different campaigns and then build reports in Google Analytics to slice and dice in different ways.
-
-The advantage of this approach is that you are not relying on a third party service of any kind. You need to generate QR codes once (which are always the same for the same URL) and they will work forever. As well, since you're likely using Google Analytics to do reporting on your website traffic in any case, you can do all of your reporting including QR tracking in one place.
-
-## Why use QR codes?
-
-I'm going to skip the long discussion of why-or-why-not to use QR codes. I think they have their place, and if you do use them, you should have tracking in place. I think the same goes for social media, and link shorteners and some of the tools I've mentioned above can help you figure out which of your channels are working for you.
-
-Many people have suggested that educating people about QR codes is a waste, and that we should rather focus on just displaying web addresses directly. I'm personally fascinated by QR codes because they are one of the few tools that are available to us to link the "real world" with online. They work today, and let us experiment while Google Goggles, NFC, and other more elegant solutions become widely adopted by the mass market.
-
-Hat tip to [Monique at Boxcar Marketing](http://boxcarmarketing.com) who put us on the right track, and in general is a Google Analytics Jedi Master.
-
----------
-
-## Footnotes
-
-<sup><a name="qrcode-explained">1</sup>QR Codes Explained:</a>&nbsp;If you want an easy way to explain QR codes, check out [Common Craft's video explanation](http://www.commoncraft.com/video/qr-codes).
-
-<sup><a name="futureproof-urlshortener">2</sup>Future Proof URL Shortener:</a>&nbsp;Dave Winer wrote about using meta-refresh to [run your own future proof "static" URL shortener](http://scripting.com/stories/2009/04/27/adjixHasABreakthroughIdeaI.html). Phil Windley has a more [detailed write up using a Perl script and the correct Apache settings](http://www.windley.com/archives/2012/07/my_own_url_shortener.shtml).
-
-<sup><a name="bitly-enterprise">3</sup>Bitly Enterprise:</a>&nbsp;[Bitly Enterprise](http://www.bitlyenterprise.com/) is a completely different level of tool, with pricing starting at $995 / month.
-
-<sup><a name="zxing">4</sup>ZXing:</a>&nbsp;The [ZXing project](http://code.google.com/p/zxing/) (pronounced "Zebra crossing") is an open source project for encoding and decoding barcode images of all kinds. You can [use the generator online](http://zxing.appspot.com/generator/) to create QR codes that support all kinds of content, including "just" URLs. There is also code available for you to use in any custom application where you need to generate or decode barcodes.
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2012-08-10-calendaring-tools.md b/_posts/blog/2012-08-10-calendaring-tools.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f04bec4..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2012-08-10-calendaring-tools.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-title: "Calendaring & Meeting Tools"
-description: "We need smart calendar agents"
-categories:
-- Analysis
-tags:
-- tools
-- TimeBridge
-- Tungle
-- calendaring
-- meetings
----
-As I'm sitting here manually adding blocks of "break" time to my calendar around meetings I've booked, I'm getting a little frustrated.
-
-I've used [Tungle](http://tungle.me) for several years now, and it's quite a good tool. Rather than playing the are-you-free-on-Wednesday dance (or as I like to call it, "Calendar Tetris") with multiple people, you can quickly find time when everyone is free to meet.
-<!-- more -->
-I've been worried about Tungle since they were bought by <acronym title="Research in Motion - makers of the BlackBerry smartphone">RIM</acronym>. A bit of a face lift, but nothing much in the way of new features, and certainly no communications or marketing (the [blog](http://www.tungle.me/Home/blog/) is frozen in time, to the date of the acquisition in May 2011). I think this a *great* ecosystem tool for BlackBerry - it addresses a core function of their user base: business users going to meetings.
-
-Since I find what Tungle does very useful, I've started to look around for other calendaring / meeting tools that can solve Calendar Tetris.
-
-I tried [Boomerang Calendar](http://boomerangcalendar.com/) for a bit, but it just copy-pastes free slots into email. That still puts the effort on me to juggle different slots in my calendar, and frankly the cut/paste is not that much of a win.
-
-[Adam Kalsey](http://twitter.com/akalsey) pointed out [TimeBridge](http://timebridge.com) to me (acquired by MerchantCircle in 2010, no news on blog since then - uh oh). I've worked with it a little bit, but the fact that their [meetwith.me](http://meetwith.me) domain is showing as expired AND hosted on GoDaddy doesn't inspire confidence.
-
-What I want is a calendaring agent. An agent that I can program to automatically add 30 minutes of blocked off time on either side of a meeting. A software agent that can know I prioritize meetings with significant others, paying clients, and long-time mentors. I'm seeing tools like [IFTTT](http://ifttt.com) or [Cloudsnap](http://cloudsnap.com) arise that let us program some of the many tools at our disposal. But I don't want to program. I want an agent that learns from me, and improves automatically.
-
-As my friend [Alen](http://www.alenpuaca.com/) likes to say, think about __Surface vs. Purpose__. The Surface: organizing meetings. The Purpose: staying organized and efficient, and living a life where you get more of the right things done.
-
-I would love to hear suggestions for other tools that solve the Purpose aspect of calendaring. For now, you can find my availability online at [tungle.me/boris](http://tungle.me/boris).
-
-### Update August 25th, 2013
-
-Tungle is dead. There are no replacements that come close.
-
-Gmail lets you [insert calendar invitations](https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/161776?hl=en), which doesn't solve the let's-find-a-time-to-meet dance, but it's part of the offensive technique I've developed in suggesting a time that I know is free for me. This sometimes shortcuts the back and forth if it works for the other person.
-
-At [Full Stack](http://fullstack.ca), I set aside [office hours most Thursdays](http://ohours.org/borismann), using a tool called [Ohours](http://ohours.org). This at least has the benefit that I have known time slots I can point people towards, who can then pick the time that fits them.
-
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2012-08-11-startupriot-seattle-2012.md b/_posts/blog/2012-08-11-startupriot-seattle-2012.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 17a8421..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2012-08-11-startupriot-seattle-2012.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,55 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-title: "Startup Riot Seattle 2012"
-description: "Vancouver invades a great event, but we need more pitch mentors"
-categories:
-- Startups
-tags:
-- StartupRiot
-- Seattle
-comments: false
----
-I'm just getting back from 2 days in Seattle. In general, I'm trying to spend more time there, getting to know what's happening in the Seattle community and seeing if Vancouver can connect more regularly (Cascadia!).
-
-Startup Riot is actually run by a team from Atlanta, with [Sanjay Parekh](https://twitter.com/sanjay) playing the front man. The event is run as a pitch contest, including feedback from experienced entrepreneurs as judges, plus several keynote talks and lots of opportunity for connecting with other attendees. Here's the [description and agenda for the day](http://startupriot.com/show/seattle).
-
-I loved the event. It was well run, it was curated[^curated] (no service providers allowed), it had great sponsors ([MailChimp](http://mailchimp.com), [Gist](http://gist.com), [Twilio](http://twilio.com), etc.), and there was a great crowd of people there. I was surprised to meet one entrepreneur who flew in all the way from the Ukraine to attend, but having attended one Startup Riot, I can definitely see why.
-<!--more-->
-
-## Vancouver Invades
-There ended up being 10 companies from Vancouver attending. It was amazingly energizing to be in Seattle with this big Vancouver crew, and absolutely underlines that we should be spending more time working together to connect the Cascadia startup communities of Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver.
-
-This was also the one area where I wish things had been run differently.
-
-The Startup Riot team selects the startups that are allowed to present, and then swears them to secrecy: no one is publicly allowed to announce they are presenting. I heard about the event privately from a few startups from Vancouver who had been selected, but I never expected to show up and be immersed in a sea of Canadians.
-
-I love & respect the cone of silence approach. It means that to find out more about the startups who are presenting, you have to make the effort to attend in person. And then the startups each have a booth as well as their pitch time, meaning you can spend time asking more questions and getting to know the team.
-
-But the feedback I sent suggested that somehow the startups in each region be notified of who else was going.
-
-If more people had known, I think the Vancouver area attendance would have been even higher, and would have let us organize group rides and shared accomodations and such.
-
-## The Presenting Companies
-I tweeted about each of the companies whom I saw present, which ended up being the first 10 of the day, and the last 10 of the day. I missed the middle 10 pitches because I was in deep discussion with Red Russak, who labels himself a startup concierge and runs [StartupSeattle](http://startupseattle.com).
-
-I have tweets about the pitches I did see, as well as the two keynotes, [over on Storify][^notstorify], as well as embedded as a slideshow here:
-
-[^notstorify]: No more Storify. Consider it a TODO to go look up the original tweets. And maybe link to the [archived version I host myself](https://tweets.bmannconsulting.com/).
-
-## Pitch Quality
-One thing I can say is that the pitches were for the most part not very good. Startup pitches are relatively formulaic, especially with such a short amount of time. I first heard the tip from Paul Kedrosky to cover three broad areas -- why you? why this? why now? Show the product that you've built. Tell your customer stories. Say that you __have__ paying customers (*cough* [QuoteRobot](http://quoterobot.com) *cough*).
-
-The startup pitches I saw were missing a lot of these basic items. My sense is they were under-prepared, and had clearly not had much help / feedback from people who have done early stage startup pitches before. Of course I have opinions on which of the startups seemed to have "big ideas" or were likely to succeed. Others were more vicious in their complaints[^complaints].
-
-Ultimately, the story is about people trying to do their best to build a company, to get paid to be involved in solving a problem they are passionate about. Should all companies be big ideas? Should we all be building businesses focused on clean tech or nanotechnology? I'd rather see individuals doing startups of any kind – and learning from them – rather than working for a big company that is in need of replacing or at least reinvention.
-
-No blame should attach to StartupRiot for this. All of those startups need to get better at explaining their story, at selling to customers, and about making people care. And they should ask for help, both from their community at large and from their peers.
-
-StartupRiot was a chance for startups to stand up, tell their story, get some feedback from judges, and (hopefully) get some publicity and connect with people they wouldn't have met otherwise. It definitely delivered.
-
-## See you in Atlanta
-Congratulations to Sanjay and the entire team for putting on a great event. The next event is in February 2013 in Atlanta. I'm going to try and organize a group trip to attend. If you're a Canadian startup and are interested, drop a line in the comments.
-
-[^curated]: Curated: This is what [StartupRiot](http://startupriot.com/) says about curating their attendees: _We prescreen all applicants before allowing them into our events. For our main events that means we screen out all service providers. We do this because it leads to a better event for you, our sponsors, and us._ I love curated events, and I think this is a great policy.
-
-[^complaints]: Complaints: &nbsp;There was a particularly harsh article written up in Seattle's alternative news weekly, _The Stranger_. I captured my [comments on my link blog](http://links.bmannconsulting.com/post/29156449195/paul-constant-slags-startup-riot).
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2012-09-04-working-contractually.md b/_posts/blog/2012-09-04-working-contractually.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 34bd45d..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2012-09-04-working-contractually.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,48 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-title: "Working with Contractually"
-description: "Helping instrument & grow B2B startups"
-categories:
-- Personal
-tags:
-- Contractually
----
-I've been working with [Contractually](http://www.contractual.ly) for the past 2 weeks<sup>[1](#working)</sup>. I've always loved Martin's vision for Contractually<sup>[2](#bootuplabs)</sup> – both the concept of moving past "digital representations of paper" to more fluid, data-native documents, as well as modernization of the legal business. 
-
-<!--more-->
-
-Broadly speaking, I'm doing Business Development. I've been trying the role title "growth hacker" on for size, but the phrase is a bit problematic. It has gone from a useful description for a role that understands digital tools & metrics and pairs them with more traditional marketing and business development straight to a buzz word akin to "social media guru". That is, if someone is using the label "growth hacker", there is a good chance that they don't know what the hell they are talking about.
-
-Still, I find the term interesting. I've spent a lot of time talking to [Ian Walker](https://twitter.com/walkerian) over at [Perch](http://www.perch.co) about a variety of "glue" roles within growing web startups. We put on a [Business Tools Hacking event](https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cb04acs1p9n9jvjioj8na0fg37c/115428955497675100505) that had about 20 people attend and share both what tools they used and what process they were supporting. More on this in a wrap up post about the event.
-
-In any case, some of the first results of my work are now visible as the [new Contractually marketing site is up](http://www.contractual.ly). We ended up selecting Unbounce<sup>[3](#unbounce)</sup> to run the handful of front page landing pages that describe the product and lead people to the sign up page. This is by no means finished, but we now have a framework for testing various hypotheses about different markets and channels. Stay tuned for further updates and new Contractually features.
-
-##Connection Karma
-
-What else have I been doing? I spent a good chunk of time taking some time off with some trips down to Seattle, figuring out what I wanted to be spending my time on, and an assortment of startup meetings & events. For me, meetings, introductions, and seeing what happens when you spend time getting to know people fall under the broad heading of *Connection Karma*.
-
-I've decided to focus on consulting contracts like the one with Contractually, as well as smaller projects that focus on strategic advice, marketing & business development projects, and in general helping companies to build learning organizations. What does that mean? Culture, tools, testing & experimentation across all parts of an organization – as well as the processes to gather everything together and make that information available to the people that need it<sup>[4](#km)</sup>.
-
-This is actually the first time in 8 years that I've had time in my schedule for projects of opportunity. I can't shake the drive to be involved in helping to build the startup ecosystem here in my home town of Vancouver, so you'll see some events & projects related to that. I've got some ideas of my own, but they're (purposefully) not big ideas, more like an excuse to work with people & technologies that I enjoy working with.
-
-I'm talking to a handful of other organizations and people about working together. For now, you can find out a bit more about working with me at my [Connection Karma](http://www.connectionkarma.com) site.
-
-##Back to Contractually
-
-<a href="http://www.contractual.ly"><img src="/images/contractually_300px.jpg" class="image" /></a>
-
-Contractually is a great tool for anyone that needs to deal with contracts – freelancers that either don't use contracts as often as they should (or at all!), companies that find the dance of emailing Word documents back and forth a pain, or even your HR department, that needs to keep track of employment agreements, IP assignment, and the handful of other documents that every employee needs to sign. __Simplify your contracts process. Create, negotiate and e-sign your contracts online.__
-
-If you're a web developer, a growing mid-size company, a photographer, or anyone else that works with contracts, I'd love to [talk to you about how you use contracts today](http://www.contractual.ly/contact-us/).
-
----------
-
-##Footnotes
-
-<sup><a name="working">1</sup> Working with Contractually:</a>&nbsp;I've been telling people that I left iQmetrix back at the beginning of July in person, but haven't made a big announcement about it. Although if you watch my [LinkedIn](http://www.linkedin.com/in/boris/) or [Twitter](http://twitter.com/bmann/) profiles, I did flip the switch and change my profile descriptions back then. Note that this is a contract position - I'm consulting for a number of teams.
-
-<sup><a name="bootuplabs">2</sup> Bootup Labs:</a>&nbsp;Martin & Contractually were part of the first cohort of startups at [Bootup Labs](http://bootuplabs.com).
-
-<sup><a name="unbounce">3</sup> Unbounce:</a>&nbsp;I love both [Unbounce](http://unbounce.com) the tool, and Unbounce the local Vancouver startup team. Designed for landing pages, I'm increasingly seeing it as a great tool to match with one-off domains, events, and even creating the 4 - 6 pages that make up the front end marketing pages of many web apps.
-
-<sup><a name="km">4</sup> KM: </a>&nbsp;I'll do everything I can to avoid uttering the phrase "knowledge management", since I fundamentally don't believe that knowledge can be managed. More recently, we've seen the emergence of streams/flows, which more clearly shows that knowledge is not something that is locked away somewhere. At the same time, it feels like lots of organizations need to learn that [email is where information goes to die](http://www.bmannconsulting.com/archive/email-is-the-place-where-information-goes-to-die/) the hard way.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2012-11-09-ship-your-first-version.md b/_posts/blog/2012-11-09-ship-your-first-version.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a9a979b..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2012-11-09-ship-your-first-version.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,58 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-title: Ship Your First Version (Fail Money)
-description: I think more fail money should be flowing through Canada
-date: 2012-06-14
-categories:
-- Startups
-tags:
-- investing
-- Canada
-- Eric Woodward
----
-<blockquote author="Matt Mullenweg" href="http://ma.tt/2010/11/one-point-oh/">
-If you&rsquo;re not embarrassed when you ship your first version you waited too long.
-<cite><a href="http://ma.tt/2010/11/one-point-oh/">Matt Mullenweg</a></cite>
-</blockquote>
-
-I had a great off-the-mic talk with <a href="http://twitter.com/ericwoodward">Eric Woodward</a>. We're really aimed at the same thing, just that I try and encourage people in public and crush their dreams in private.
-
-Eric is right about fast follow / barrier to entry, but I think this tension of shipping quickly and iterating is still important.
-
-I remember a time when <a href="http://twitter.com/lbrody">Leonard Brody</a> suggested getting a bunch of engineers together in a room and coming out 18 months later. This was, of course, something like 5 years ago. My gut said it was wrong then, and I think it's still the wrong thing today.
-<!-- more -->
-
-I *hate* that a lot of great entrepreneurs in Canada aren't getting a chance to fail quickly because money is so tight. For many, it puts them on the downward spiral that leads to consulting revenue and minuscule incremental growth and most definitely no investment. For some, like <a href="http://freshbooks.com">Freshbooks</a>, it turns them into an overnight 6 year success.
-
-Yes, I think more "fail money" should be flowing through Canada, because ultimately I think this will make for more experienced entrepreneurs and richer investors, which ideally makes the whole thing go round.
-
-I asked Eric what we should tell startups / startup hopefuls in Canada. He's not a fan of going crawling down to the Valley. Ultimately, neither am I. We have to get the crank turning up here, and figure out what we're going to be when we grow up. As Brad Feld says, it takes time to build these ecosystems. My gut says we are 10 years out from having our own cranking ecosystem.
-
-Eric says "pay your dues at a startup". Except, of course, there are very few startups in Canada with money to pay people, and so we are stuck back at the Catch 22. I see some signs that people truly do want to come back to live in Canada and build things here, but there is usually a Valley umbilical cord involved.
-
-There is a lot of suck out there, but I don't feel for angels / VCs / whatever. __THAT'S YOUR JOB__ sifting through a lot of crap ideas. Also: being an investor means __INVESTING__. I see very little of that in Canada.
-
-I am (still) excited about the startup ecosystem in Vancouver.
-
-<a href="http://twitter.com/mackflavelle">Mack Flavelle</a> says he's going to start doing Vancouver startup tours - from HootSuite, Bootup, W Media Ventures to the Raven and all stops in between (<a href="http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/3530822107858675883/">ref</a>).
-
-Oh, and there are immigrants! Go go <a href="http://twitter.com/alextoul">Alex</a> and please bring the rest of France with you! Go go <a href="http://twitter.com/summify">Summify</a> and let's have some more Romanian colleagues! Even ol' <a href="http://twitter.com/dshanahan">Derek</a> picked up and moved from Chicago.
-
-There are some new faces in town that look like they are going to put money into a few startups. The angel piece of the ecosystem has been a gaping hole for some time, so that's likely something we're going to have to build from scratch - import them, grow our own, or just wait for some of the successes to come back and become investors themselves.
-
-Thanks for having me at [Facebook Developer Garage](http://plancast.com/p/2iug/facebook-developer-garage-vancouver). I don't think I did <a href="http://startuplessonslearned.com">lean startup</a> and/or <a href="http://twitter.com/ericries">Eric Ries</a> justice. I think Mischa probably helped to sell some of <a href="http://steveblank.com">Steve Blank's</a> book at least!
-
-Pro Tip: If any of the above doesn't make sense, try adding the modifier "for web startups" to some of the sentences. I still think hardware / biotech / cleantech should/could be moving faster than they are, and I would look for signs of that in any investments in those spaces.
-
-Oh, and <a href="http://ma.tt/2010/11/one-point-oh/">Matt Mullenweg – great post</a>.
-
-----------
-
-### Republished June 14, 2012
-This post came up in conversation at lunch today, so I decided to publish it on the new blog. I had a hard time finding it, because while I coined the term "fail money" in the body, it wasn't in the original title. And really, it had only a tenuous connection to Matt's post about shipping your first version.
-
-In 2012, my opinions haven't really changed: we need more people to be writing $50K checks in Vancouver, so that in year 2, we can write some $500K checks.
-
-This fail money pays for itself in the incredible amount of education that comes with it*. This levels up our entire ecosystem: from founders, to early employees, and most especially investors. If you're waiting around on the sidelines with $500K checks, where do you think those companies are going to come from?
-
-<sup>*</sup>So maybe I'll try calling it _education money_ instead.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2012-11-24-flickr-question.md b/_posts/blog/2012-11-24-flickr-question.md
deleted file mode 100644
index dcd9471..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2012-11-24-flickr-question.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,73 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-title: "The Flickr Question"
-description: "Is paying for Flickr still worth it? What self-hosting options are available for photos?"
-categories:
-- Analysis
-tags:
-- Flickr
-- self hosting
-- photos
-modified: '2018-08-19T19:50:34-07:00'
----
-
-It's that time of year again, when I face the same question: my Flickr Pro subscription has expired, and I need to pay so that all my photos are accessible online. But maybe I should self host? Is paying for a [Flickr](http://flickr.com) Pro subscription still worth it?
-<!--more-->
-Don't get me wrong - I think the "Flickr deal" is still fantastic: about $2 per month for unlimited storage of all my photos. From a pure storage perspective, even Amazon S3 would cost me more than that.
-
-Flickr was one of my first loves when it came to online community. When I could finally give the company money, it felt that much better: I was supporting something great by paying for it.
-
-On top of just photo storage, I get a great API, thumbnail generation, maps, tagging, and so on and so on.
-
-Community? Not so much, anymore, although perhaps that's also a function of me taking less photos and more iPhone snaps. I do miss the great community that built up there, but I'm used to the ebb and flow of taste and online fashion. Heck, I'm even [posting to G+ these days](https://plus.google.com/115428955497675100505/posts)!
-
-What options do I have outside of Flickr?
-
-## OpenPhoto
-
-[OpenPhoto](http://openphoto.me) looks promising – and in fact, they [overheard a discussion on Twitter between myself and Darren Barefoot](http://bitly.com/XOsX3M)[^twitterconvo].
-
-OpenPhoto is both a desire by people to self host (own their data), to use their own domains (own their permalinks), and in general not to be beholden to advertising or commercial entities.
-
-But it has a couple of issues. The first is the permalink issue (here's [OpenPhoto's blog post on the subject](http://blog.theopenphotoproject.org/post/10537443380/namespacing-the-web-for-your-photos)). All of that is great - I would much rather have my images available at photos.bmann.ca/photo/1234 than on Flickr or Facebook.
-
-But what a LOT of people love Flickr for, is using it as the place where they upload source images, and then they embed the Flickr thumbnails in their blog. And that's where the OpenPhoto "bug" with their permalinks story is: the thumbnails they generate (and it looks like they only generate one size right now?) are hosted on a separate server with an address that is not your own.
-
-My test site is at [boris.openphoto.me](http://boris.openphoto.me). The original image embedded below is [here](http://boris.openphoto.me/p/1), but the [thumbnail is on the awesomeness subdomain](https://awesomeness.openphoto.me/custom/201211/hidef_bacon-12a74d_870x550.jpg).
-
-<img src="https://awesomeness.openphoto.me/custom/201211/hidef_bacon-12a74d_870x550.jpg" height="275px" width="435px" />
-
-Of course, OpenPhoto is committed to open-ness and hosting your own data, so I assume they'll fix this at some point. This [GitHub issue thread on writing metadata (favorites, comments, etc.) directly into the photo file itself](https://github.com/photo/frontend/issues/680) is a great example of some forward thinking around this.
-
-## Self Hosting
-The other issue I have with OpenPhoto is their approach to even writing the software. Or rather, their assumptions.
-
-It used to be that self hosting meant running a Linux box / LAMP stack off behind your own cable or DSL connection. Perhaps a cheap managed server or (more common these days) a VPS of some kind.
-
-But I don't think that's the path forward. The expertise needed to manage the entire stack of an operating system, a web server, a database server, AND the programming language you've chosen is too much complexity.
-
-As I wrote in [The New Hack Stack](https://blog.bmannconsulting.com/new-hack-stack), I see the way forward being <acronym title="Platform-as-a-Service">PaaS</acronym>: choose a programming language, choose a PaaS. The database should be fully managed as well.
-
-In short: I don't want to take a step backward and have to run a full server stack just to have to run OpenPhoto. I'd love to see an alternate approach from the team where a git clone, some basic config file editing, followed by a push to Heroku / Staccato / PaaS of your choice (which probably means ditching PHP - I had to get a language dig in here somewhere!).
-
-Heck, maybe a central photo management app that keeps your account, settings, lets you uploads centrally, but publishes the photos / thumbnails / etc. to relatively flat files on your own storage space on S3, Dropbox, etc. is an interesting way to make this even easier.
-
-## What's the answer to the question?
-For now, I'll keep paying for Flickr Pro.
-
-1. It's cheaper than any other storage option
-2. No one else has solved the permalink issue
-3. I want great user-supported web services to exist
-
-I am not worried about my photos or the portability of the data there: Flickr was one of the very first of the new breed of websites to have a really great API, and there are tons of end user friendly export systems.
-
-I _am_ worried that Flickr will continue to slide along with the rest of Yahoo, but with Marissa Mayer at the helm, all sorts of changes are coming, that on balance look to be good.
-
-I'll keep experimenting with OpenPhoto and other solutions. I really like having my main site on Amazon S3 and this blog on Heroku, and paying for the storage on my own.
-
-You can find me and my photos on [Flickr as boris](http://flickr.com/boris), and on [Instagram as bmann](http://instagram.com/bmann).[^notonflickrorig]
-
-[^twitterconvo]: Originally embedded via Storify, and the content did exist in their ```noscript``` tag in the source for this blog post, but is more easily read on the [Exquisite Tweets website](http://www.exquisitetweets.com/tweets?eids=ud7thVAIXA.uegUTg9g4a.ueg2hHTuj7.uehfZXkoxw.uehAw7FaqP.uehOMmPftC.uehZcNHy6S.ueiGOFa2a4.uej7OtV8vc.uekRK6ympo.uemGfUCsQU.uemNXDwuTk.uesE2wXgEm.ueuO4bp8ge.ue4WIcvKvJ.ue434rRjMW.ugRtyAD9PM.ugRQh6Gvqm.ugTmerFE7M.ugU5wYL4Wi.ug0tL8N3AW), which is what that previous bitly link linked to in any case. That was probably more than you needed to know.
-
-[^notonflickrorig]: And of course, while those links still work, I don't actually put new content on those services anymore.
-
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2013-03-17-raw-resources.md b/_posts/blog/2013-03-17-raw-resources.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 051ce9d..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2013-03-17-raw-resources.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,50 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-title: "Vancouver's Talent Are Like Raw Resources"
-description: "We need to invest in our talent to keep them here with both competitive salaries and great career opportunities."
-categories:
-- Startups
-- Community
-- Vancouver
-tags:
-- Facebook
-- talent
-- Global TV
-- press
----
-
-I had a brief clip air on Global TV BC this evening, commenting on the news that Facebook is opening a temporary office in Vancouver. Here's a [link to the written article](http://www.globaltvbc.com/is+facebook+coming+to+vancouver/6442830146/story.html). Thanks to [Greg](http://twitter.com/gregeh) for tracking down the [Global TV News Hour clip (starts at 15:20)](http://www.globaltvbc.com/video/index.html?v=OFOuqmbdhn_CEE_jipgaxS4Bu1ITTCJG#newscasts).
-
-I do think that the difficulty in getting a US Visa is a contributing factor to make Canada / Vancouver an attractive place to put an office. It was back in [July 2007 that the Microsoft opening an office news broke](http://www.bmannconsulting.com/archive/microsoft-canada-opening-software-dev-center-in-vancouver-commentary/). Looking back, the Microsoft office out in Richmond was basically a non-impact on the local community. So, where Facebook puts its office and how much it interacts with the local community will be the determining factor on the potential impact of having them here.
-
-I'd like to talk about local Vancouver talent. My general feeling is that the developer and designer talent that Vancouver does have are treated like raw resources. Like our logs and other natural resources, we do very little "secondary processing", and the best are shipped off elsewhere.
-
-<!--more-->
-
-Igor Faletski, CEO & Co-founder of [Mobify](http://mobify.com), did a great write up right after the news broke: [What the new Facebook office means for the Vancouver tech scene](http://igor.posthaven.com/what-the-new-facebook-office-means-for-the-vancouver-tech-scene)
-
-I agree with his summary, that this is a good thing - Facebook will bring talent from around the world to Vancouver (and some will stay), and that another strong link between here and the Valley is a good thing for the community.
-
-The main downside is the hiring pressure. Mobify is a growing company, and in his [last blog post covering what startups should focus on](http://igor.posthaven.com/the-rule-of-three-attention-focus-in-a-startup), Igor said "Companies - and people - that don't master hiring can't scale, so spend at least a quarter of your time on it."
-
-My observation on "talent in Vancouver" has always been three fold:
-
-1. There are few companies for top / senior talent to work at in Vancouver. This is changing (HootSuite, Mobify – and as of recently, Salesforce and Amazon)
-1. People are underpaid here compared to the rest of Canada, and **really** underpaid compared to anywhere in the US. More local competition will raise the bar here.
-1. We have lots of great juniors who come from our local universities and other institutions. Many get better paying jobs elsewhere (#2), or leave once they're intermediate since there is limited room for career growth (see #1).
-
-Also, with generally smaller companies and/or "branch office" locations (and so nowhere for people in the following disciplines to gain experience), Vancouver is in dire need of soft skills in marketing, business development, sales, product management, recruiting, etc. etc. etc.
-
-Since these are **the** critical factors in scaling a company past a couple of co-founders, this is likely an even bigger issue than "I can't find a Ruby programmer to hire".
-
-Also related to being underpaid, this has had an interesting side effect - since salaries are low/career opportunities are few, doing a startup feels less risky. However, since we **also** have very limited angel capital, the best startup teams again head south where there is more angel capital at higher valuations.
-
-Is there lots of "great" talent in Vancouver already? I'd say that there are many talented juniors, but in general it's hard to find people who are more senior / have lots of relevant experience. However, because of the generally low pay, hiring people away from existing companies (that likely also have less interesting career paths available) is going to be easy for new entrants like Facebook, Salesforce, and Amazon.
-
-Comments on Twitter (see full [collected responses on Storify](http://storify.com/borismann/facebook-to-open-temporary-office-in-vancouver)) underline this:
-
-[Dan Udey: "after I was hired, I watched the founders interview for six months without hiring"](https://twitter.com/danudey/status/313429680382423041)
-
-Dan works at [A Thinking Ape](http://athinkingape.com) (aka _ATA_), which is a company that relocated to Vancouver from Silicon Valley. ATA has done a great job of running new grad focused job fairs across Canada. And that's the point (again): hiring great people is hard, and we need to a) invest in getting good at it and b) great people are everywhere, and we have to go looking for them.
-
-We need to invest in our talent to keep them here with both competitive salaries and great career opportunities. Or they will leave. Just like the raw logs that we export.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2014-01-01-you-cant-outsource-product.md b/_posts/blog/2014-01-01-you-cant-outsource-product.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 2fe8ffe..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2014-01-01-you-cant-outsource-product.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,95 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-title: "You Can't Outsource Product"
-description: "The rise of product consulting"
-categories:
-- Startups
-tags:
-- product
-- consulting
-- outsourcing
----
-One of the many tricky things about building a web startup is that you can't outsource product. As a web startup, your web or mobile app __is__ your company, your sole purpose for existing. Why do you think you can outsource it?
-
-When you outsource building your product, your company is missing out on most of the important things that go into building a successful company. Sure, you can hire freelancers or a consulting shop to build you something. And that's what you'll get: something. As long as you keep paying the bills, the typical consulting shop will write code and position pixels for you.
-
-But, you won't learn:
-
-1. What the (potential) customers of your app actually want
-1. How to prioritize the features and functions that should be in your app
-1. How to work with an integrated marketing, product, and development team to attract more of the type of people that like your app, learn from the people using your app, and consistently ship bug-free features that your customers really want
-
-The core methodology of the [Lean Startup][lean] is build&nbsp;-&nbsp;measure&nbsp;-&nbsp;learn. A product __is__ this loop, so the more of this you keep outside the walls of your company, the less you'll learn. Or rather, the less you'll _learn how to learn_.
-<!-- more -->
-___
-
-First, let's set the stage.
-
-"You" are an early stage business. Your business does not have any technical co-founders on the team. No one has previous experience in running a modern web app. No one has experience in marketing a modern web app.
-
-You have some money, somewhere between $30K and $150K. You have some ideas for an app. You think building an app is the best way to launch your business and see if there is a market for it.
-
-An app is a web app (accessed through a desktop or mobile browser) and/or a native mobile app (an iOS or Android installable app). Presumably, you are going to make money selling to businesses (B2B) or consumers (B2C). Let's ignore marketplaces for now, they're infinitely harder.
-
-## Any shop in town can build you an app
-
-This is a truism in virtually every city or town. There is a local development shop or design agency that can build you an app. Using Ruby on Rails or Drupal or some other framework, these consulting shops will build a web app – or native mobile app – for you.
-
-In fact, they'll build exactly what you ask for. Whether you draw up requirements ahead of time, or you have some more ideas about features as you go, they will build exactly what you ask for. As long as you're paying the bills, why not?
-
-At the same time, this team of consultants will also want to be done with you at some point. They will want to scope out a Phase 1, or figure out when "1.0" is finished. Maybe there will be an acceptance period, or a bug fixing period, or something like that, but your app (at least, the 1.0 version), is done.
-
-##You know all of the requirements for the 1.0 version of your app
-
-Actually, you do know the features that **you** would like to have in the app you would like to build. But it is unlikely that the wider customer base that you are building for has the same needs. Most of the time, you will also over-prioritize a variety of can't-live-without features and functionality.
-
-Even the terminology of talking about a 1.0 or 2.0 is a tell that you haven't worked on a modern web product. The app that you're building is in a constant state of flux. You add features and improve usability all the time. You release changes daily or weekly. These changes and future improvements are driven by engagement with your customers. As you get better at understanding who your customers are and what their needs are, 
-
-At some future date, you might indeed do a "2.0" version of your app. This will come about because of the framework that you've built -- both technologically and from a design / usability standpoint -- can no longer contain the future features that the market wants. It might be driven by an outside force -- like a major operating system update, new hardware capability, or even a desire to have a marketing "launch". And then the marathon of making your product better will continue.
-
-## Always be launching
-
-Releasing a first version of your online product, _aka_ "launching", is exactly when you need a great product & development team the most.
-
-This is your first chance to really engage with the people that will be using your product. And they will give you great feedback. And to reward them for being early adopters, for being enthused with such an early version of your product, you're going to want to set time aside to add features, fix bugs, and otherwise improve your product.
-
-When planning outsourced development, I recommend that people plan not for a 1.0, but past it. Make sure you "launch" early, and then keep launching features as the first people that use your product ask for them and give you feedback.
-
-In fact, I say you should adopt the motto _Always Be Launching_ – release features, spread the word, ask people to use them and give you feedback, improve them. Rinse, repeat.
-
-##What should I be doing?
-
-"OK", you say, "I give up". "I won't outsource product development. I won't hire a bunch of developers to write code, I won't hire a bunch of designers to make pretty pixels. But I need help! Where do I get it?! And what should **I** be doing?"
-
-Great. I've convinced you to not outsource everything! And here comes the tough part: getting help to build and launch your product, or more correctly, your _business_, is really hard. On the flip side, this is an area that is constantly changing (which means that there are few experts), and you can learn how to do a lot of it yourself.
-
-What should you be doing? You should become an expert in the problem you're trying to solve. Which means talking to the people that have the problem that you're trying to solve. Your entire team should spend lots of time talking directly to customers and potential customers, learning all about them.
-
-## Product Consulting
-
-There _are_ an emerging class of multi-disciplinary consultants, with skills that bridge marketing, product, and the technical aspects of app building. I'm calling them product consulting teams, to indicate that they don't just ship code, they help equip you with a product process.
-
-I still point at the [Made By Many 5 year retrospective][madebymany], and this [launch announcement of Bud Caddell's Inventionist][inventionist] as examples of product development agencies. Both arose out of digital ad agencies servicing larger companies and brands.
-
-Classically we might think of [frog][frog] and [IDEO][ideo] as doing product consulting, although software is not what they are best known for.
-
-On the other hand, I can point you to [ENTP][entp], who say they are a "consultancy and web incubator collective…[who] specialize in implementing big ideas". In addition to their [services][entpservices], they have two SaaS products of their own. Another hybrid is [Pollenizer][pollenizer], a kind of incubator that actually steps in to co-found companies.
-
-I'm still collecting [product][prodlinks] and [product consulting][prodclinks] links, trying to track and make sense of these emerging practices. This is something that I've been following for about 2 years now, and I think 2014 is the year that we're going to see the concept of product consulting gain prominence. 
-
-## Next up, Insourcing
-
-Think of consultants that you hire to work with your company to be personal trainers, not hired labourers that do the work for you.
-
-As much as possible, you want to insource knowledge and process, and get better at learning how to learn inside your business. And that will be our next topic: a blended model of building strength within your team, while leaning on experts to get you there faster.
-
-[lean]:http://theleanstartup.com/principles
-[madebymany]:http://madebymany.com/blog/we-are-five-years-old-here-is-what-we-learnt
-[inventionist]:http://www.fastcocreate.com/1681749/deutsch-la-launches-product-development-unit-inventionist
-[frog]:http://www.frogdesign.com/
-[ideo]:http://www.ideo.com/
-[entp]:http://entp.com/
-[entpservices]:http://entp.com/services/
-[pollenizer]:http://pollenizer.com/homepage
-[prodlinks]:http://links.bmannconsulting.com/tag/product
-[prodclinks]:http://links.bmannconsulting.com/tag/product-consulting
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2014-06-04-early-stage-tech-startup-investing.md b/_posts/blog/2014-06-04-early-stage-tech-startup-investing.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 440b998..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2014-06-04-early-stage-tech-startup-investing.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,50 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-title: "Stages of early stage tech investing"
-description: "Typical amounts, progress and runway for web tech startups in Canada"
-categories:
-- Startups
-tags:
-- Canada
-- investing
-modified: 2014-08-13
----
-How much to raise and what stage your company is at is a constant question asked by founders and investors alike. Describing the stages of tech investing is my attempt to categorize what I am seeing in the market today. For any new business, traction will trump everything, with lots of customers using the product on a daily or monthly basis being a great indicator.
-
-There are many "it depends" for these stages and dollar amounts, and they also reflect common numbers in Vancouver / Canada. For example, a business model that focuses on Enterprise sales is going to need more money and a longer runway in order to sell to and launch in production for its first 1 to 3 customers. It is also biased to a recurring revenue, SaaS B2B / <abbr title="Business to Developer">B2D</abbr> business model. A B2C or marketplace model would likely be much more focused on growth / usage, with limited monetization.
-
-### Pre-launch / pre-product: $150K
-Typical runway: 6 months
-
-At this stage, the founding team has done validation by interviewing and/or pre-signing up a number of potential customers. This is not an idea or PowerPoint only stage: I expect the founding team to have spent months interviewing users and honing their concept. 6 months of validation would not be an unreasonable time frame done part-time.
-
-Pre-launch most often applies to mobile-first startups, as signing up users to a mobile app can be very difficult: you're going to need to spend marketing dollars to get your app installed. For a pre-product company, you should be very sure that you understand that the team can ship a product.
-
-This first cash in is often to get the founding team working on the product full time or to hire a critical developer team member.
-
-### Seed1: $300K - $500K
-Typical runway: 9 - 12 months
-
-There is a software product that is up and running, and customers are using it. The product is instrumented to track user behaviour, and initial numbers around monthly active users (MAU) are available. There isn't enough incoming traffic to optimize conversion yet. The process for finding and signing up customers, and what type of customer that is, is quite unsophisticated / manual.
-
-There is commitment to experimenting with sales & marketing techniques and different distribution channels. The product is instrumented and one of the primary goals is customer engagement: what customers are using the product? What do they like? What do they not like?
-
-### Seed2: $700K - $1.xM
-Typical runway: 12months+
-
-At this stage, the product has product/market fit with one large potential group of customers, and there is a known distribution strategy that is working. The team is adding sales & marketing members and spending more on marketing. Product development is adding features to unlock new customer segments, tuning retention and usability, and implementing integrations into large networks to help with growth.
-
-----
-
-The angel investor and venture capital markets are changing rapidly, and future regulation changes around equity crowdfunding and the [rise of syndicates](https://angel.co/syndicates) are likely to change it even further.
-
-I try and explain that the days of $500K raises on nothing but a presentation are over for software businesses.
-
-There are starting to be venture creation / foundry models[^1] that optimize for working with founders from start to finish, but I don't think this is a good fit for individual angel investments that don't have other support structures in place.
-
-_This article was [originally posted to LinkedIn][LinkedIn] on June 4, 2014._
-
-[^1]: [betaworks](http://betaworks.com/) is one example, and we did something similar with [CommandWear](http://www.commandwear.com) at Full Stack. Stefano Bernardi has a (dated) [list of startup foundries](http://bernardi.me/list-of-venture-studios-and-startup-foundries/).
-
-
-[LinkedIn]:https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140604151202-1746-stages-of-early-stage-tech-investing
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2014-08-05-mavericks-brew-cask.md b/_posts/blog/2014-08-05-mavericks-brew-cask.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 59cc592..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2014-08-05-mavericks-brew-cask.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,143 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-title: "Setting up OS X Mavericks with Homebrew, Cask, and rbenv"
-description: "Automating new system setup"
-image:
-  feature: 2014/homebrew_bottlecaps_daveshea.jpg
-  credit: Dave Shea
-  creditlink: https://www.flickr.com/photos/mezzoblue/6171620368/in/photostream/
-categories:
-- Mac OS X
-- How To
-tags:
-- Ruby
-- Homebrew
-- rbenv
-- Mavericks
-- Node.js
----
-You've got a freshly built OS X Mavericks 10.9 system and it's time to start loading up the usual apps you use and setup your development environment.
-
-Luckily, there are lots of great developer tools for automating this task.
-
-I learned some new tricks (e.g. Homebrew Cask) from [Tadej Murovec's post](https://coderwall.com/p/y1dqra). And, my [Macbook Air is now 2 years old](/setting-up-macbook-air-osx-lion/) and all the command line tools / versions have changed, so I needed to re-document this for myself.
-
-## App Store
-
-Your first stop is the App Store, where you can visit the Purchases tab and re-download items you've bought.
-
-You're going to need Xcode[^1] for your development environment (and it's a big download), so get it going.
-
- * Xcode
- * Evernote
- * Tweetbot
- * Keynote
- * Pages
- * Slack
- * Byword
-
-I used to use NeoOffice, which has now [moved to the App Store](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/neooffice/id639210716?mt=12&uo=4). I will likely end up paying $30 and buying it.
-
-Also: launch and sign in to Evernote right away. If you have a lot of info in Evernote, it will need to download and cache a lot of metadata (for me it was 4GB).
-
-## Xcode
-
-In Xcode[^1], under the main Xcode menu, select _Open Developer Tools > More Developer Tools_. This will open a browser load the [Apple developer site](https://developer.apple.com/downloads/index.action?name=for%20Xcode%20-).
-
-[^1]: If you don't need all of Xcode, you can now just run this on the terminal: <code>xcode-select --install</code>
-
-Download command line tools & install them.
-
-## Homebrew
-
-[Homebrew](http://brew.sh/) lets you manage and install a number of command line development tools. Copy and paste the [one liner listed on the home page](http://brew.sh/) to download and get it running.
-
-To check if everything is OK after it's installed, you run this:
-
-``brew doctor``
-
-## Homebrew Cask
-
-[Homebrew Cask](http://caskroom.io/) is a new add-on to Homebrew that lets you install Mac apps from the commandline as well. I'm just getting started with it and am still learning.
-
-``brew install caskroom/cask/brew-cask``
-
-## Mac Apps
-
-Here are the apps you can use Cask to install. You can run ``brew cask search`` to see if a desktop app is available.
-
-Get Dropbox installed right away so it can start syncing your files in the background as well.
-
-I'm actually starting to do more experimentation with [Barrucada's Copy.com](https://copy.com?r=QR3QTg), a very similar competing service. One of the interesting differences is simple [company accounts](https://www.copy.com/companies).
-
-[Use my link to signup for Copy and both of us will get an extra 5GB »](https://copy.com?r=QR3QTg)
-
-``brew cask install dropbox``
-
-``brew cask install google-chrome``
-
-I have a couple of games that I've purchased directly, but most I buy and install via Steam.
-
-``brew cask install steam``
-
-OmniGraffle is still my go-to tool for professional diagraming, from marketecture to wireframes and site maps.
-
-``brew cask install omnigraffle``
-
-I switched off of Sublime Text and am trying [Atom](http://atom.io).
-
-``brew cask install atom``
-
-## Heroku Toolbelt
-
-[Heroku Toolbelt](https://toolbelt.heroku.com/) is what you'll need to manage your Heroku apps.
-
-``brew install heroku-toolbelt``
-
-## Postgres.app
-
-Heroku are also the maintainers of [Postgres.app](http://postgresapp.com/), a Mac-friendly Postgres database install.
-
-``brew cask install postgres``
-
-_When run, it will want to move itself to the Applications directory_
-
-You're still going to want to install the command line version of Postgres, since other apps want the libraries it installs with.
-
-``brew install postgres``
-
-## Ruby
-
-Now it's time for the rubys! I use _rbenv_ as my Ruby version manager, so I start there.
-
-``brew install rbenv``
-
-``brew install rbenv-gem-rehash``
-
-``brew install ruby-build``
-
-Now install a newer version of Ruby and set it as the default.
-
-``rbenv install 2.1.2``
-
-``rbenv global 2.1.2``
-
-Update the gem system and install the Rails / Ruby basics.
-
-``gem update --system``
-
-``gem install bundler jekyll rails``
-
-## Node
-
-Compared to the drama of getting a local Ruby environment up and running, Node seems to still be a lot simpler.
-
-``brew install node``
-
-### Update January 2015
-
-These instructions work just fine on Yosemite as well.
-
-I removed the Homebrew one-liner, since it has changed in the mean time, and added the footnote about the Terminal commmand for Xcode.
-
-I've also finally gotten around to maintaining some [dotfiles](https://dotfiles.github.io/), which I keep in Dropbox and symlink into my home folder.
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2014-08-06-30-more-years.md b/_posts/blog/2014-08-06-30-more-years.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 0a9d3fa..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2014-08-06-30-more-years.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,59 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-title: "Committed to building Vancouver's startup community"
-description: "Join #teamvancouver"
-image: 
-  feature: 2014/vancouver_cranes.jpg
-  credit: Boris Mann
-  creditlink: https://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/2290843332
-categories:
-- Community
-- Vancouver
-- Startups
-tags:
-- Brad Feld
-- ecosystem
----
-I've been in an introspective mood lately. It's 2014, 10 year since I returned to Vancouver. 10 years of working with web technology and community building. What has changed about Vancouver, and where is it heading? How long does it take to level up a startup ecosystem?
-<!-- more -->
-
-I was recently at a talk at [Hot Art Wet City][HAWT], where [Chris Tyrell Loranger spoke](http://hotartwetcity.com/hottalks-christyrell/). Chris has been part of Vancouver's arts community for many years, and has been a part of and helped build associations, art galleries, and shared spaces.
-
-In fact, Chris stated that he's been working as a visual artist locally since 1976.
-
-That happens to be the year _after_ I was born, so it really got me thinking. I've been an entrepreneur, a community member, and an investor here in Vancouver for 10 years. So what?
-
-It takes time to build and level up local communities. It takes a long time. We forget this, because the technology industry we are all involved with seems to move so quickly.
-
-I remember [Roland Tanglao] and  [Avi Bryant] organizing a [geek dinner way back in February 2004](http://www.bmannconsulting.com/archive/roland-tanglao-vancouver-geek-dinner/) at Hon's on Robson[^1]. I think something like 7 or 8 people attended. Flickr was just going into more public beta testing, and Roland had beta access codes for everyone. I was connected both to people locally, as well as to online community technology that was being _built_ here, but was part of a worldwide community.
-
-Let's pause and think about how far we've come. Any night of the week you can check out a variety of [events & meetups](http://www.weareyvr.ca/events/), usually with 5 to 20 times as many people as that little geek dinner meetup.
-
-But we've got more to do.
-
-Reflecting again on what Chris had to say about the arts community, it struck me that art has been around for a while. There are national, provincial, and local associations for a variety of disciplines - the Canada Council for the Arts, the BC Craft Council, or the Eastside Culture Crawl. Oh sure, there are arguments about art vs. craft, and the painters are in one corner and the potters in another, but these practices have actually been around long enough to have some history and accumulated learnings.
-
-In tech, we can hardly come up with a working definition for web designer, decide whether programming is best suited for apprenticeship training vs. a university degree, or figure out what skills a front-end developer should have.
-
-In that view, 10 years is not a lot of time. Heck, [Amazon's AWS cloud servers only launched in 2006](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Web_Services), which has triggered a whole host of new developments and practices that continue to evolve.
-
-[Brad Feld](http://feld.com) has literally [written the book on Startup Communities](http://www.startuprev.com/books-communities/). I remember meeting him in person the first time 5 years ago, when he visited Vancouver[^2], and him telling us that it takes a long time – as in decades. On good days, I wake up thinking that we've moved Vancouver quite far along the path of a sustainable tech ecosystem. On bad days, I think we've still got decades more to go.
-
-Brad was interviewed in the MIT Technology Review for an article that was titled [It’s Up to You, Entrepreneurs][UpToYou], and had this to say in response to what the 'most important step an entrepreneur can take to create a startup community':
-
-<blockquote author="Brad Feld">
-The goal is start finding the other entrepreneurial leaders who are committed to being in your city over the next 20 years. Then, as a group, get very focused on knowing each other, working together, being inclusive of anyone else who wants to engage, doing things that help recruit people to that geography, and doing selfish stuff for your company that also drives your startup community.
-</blockquote>
-
-The [entire article][UpToYou] is great, and has more directives in it – like the fact that entrepreneurs _should_ be thinking along 20 year time frames and commitments to the place they live in.
-
-I'm committed to being in Vancouver, I figure I've got at least 30 more years in me if that's how long it takes, and I look forward to making it the best community we can.
-
-[HAWT]:http://hotartwetcity.com/
-[Roland Tanglao]:http://rolandtanglao.com/
-[Avi Bryant]:http://avibryant.com
-[UpToYou]:http://www.technologyreview.com/news/516521/its-up-to-you-entrepreneurs/
-
-[^1]: I even found the [Upcoming.org event on the Wayback machine](http://web.archive.org/web/20050311064029/http://upcoming.org:80/event/3116/)
-
-[^2]: I actually did find the Upcoming event for Brad's talk on Wayback as well, but [Brad's wrap up post](http://www.feld.com/archives/2009/04/vancouver-entrepreneurial-energy.html), the [Eventbrite page that shows attendees](https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/beers-with-brad-feld-yvr-tickets-312858769), and [Parveen Kaler's write up](http://parveenkaler.com/posts/beers-with-brad-feld-in-vancouver/) are much better links to share. And that was only 5 years ago!
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2014-08-07-taking-equity-startups-consulting.md b/_posts/blog/2014-08-07-taking-equity-startups-consulting.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 743214a..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2014-08-07-taking-equity-startups-consulting.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,111 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-title: "Taking equity in startups as a consulting firm"
-description: "What's the best way to invest in a startup with in-kind services, and how do you structure such an investment"
-image: 
-  feature: 2014/dog_money.jpg
-  credit: Boris Mann
-  creditlink: https://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/2773346915
-categories:
-- Startups
-tags:
-- product
-- equity
-- design
-- consulting
----
-I've been asked by a number of design agencies, development shops, and other consultants how they can work with startups. Part of this is understanding what types of services startups need and what their budget is. The other part is these firms thinking of themselves as investors, and wanting to have a piece of a product company that may pay off beyond just hourly consulting fees.
-
-Much of the material is slanted towards design services, but is generally applicable to any service provider.
-
-Early stage tech startups don't have a large budget for brand design, and since their customers and concept is in flux, a delivered "final" brand is not the right approach. I've heard some talk about _lean branding_ and local agency [Skyrocket talks about a "minimum viable brand"][SkyRocketMVB].
-
-Too often, people hear startup and think about it as a company that is just about to get a cheque from an investor for $1M – they have lots of money to spend! That's where I introduce my overview of [early stage tech investing stages][InvestmentStages] – most of that money goes directly to salaries, travel, and some paid marketing.
-
-For very early stage startups, saving money on their design is of primary concern. I like to share this [guide to budget design by Folyo][FolyoBudgetDesign] to help service providers understand the types of dollars that companies are thinking about.
-
----
-
-Below are questions that I was asked[^1] that I thought it would be useful to answer publicly:
-
-### What are the creative/design/marketing services startups are most in need of or currently lacking?
-
-Every new startup needs help with branding and identity. They at least need a placeholder or "starter" brand that they can evolve and grow with. This means a full basic brand package of logo, colour palette, style guide, business cards,  etc. Often _more_ valuable is the process of actually bringing together the story of the company.
-
-Next up is a marketing website. This is the rarely edited but highly tracked marketing face of the company – perhaps 3 - 5 pages or one long single page design that works well on desktops and mobile. The site talks about the company, features, and pricing, but mainly it's there to drive towards a signup or further customer conversation.
-
-I usually recommend that a blog is run separately, and is kept as simple as possible – e.g. Tumblr, SquareSpace, WordPress - and just lightly branded.
-
-Unless one of the founders is a designer, UI/UX is the other area where startups could use more help, including the actual process of customer research and interviews.
-
-Lastly, marketing. Yes, startups need help here. Hiring a junior marketing person at best gets them tactics, not strategy. 
-
-Design and UX are the areas that are most often outsourced at the beginning, since it typically happens before development and the (small) development team will be playing catchup on implementing features.
-
-### What are the typical metrics of success for an equity deal?
-
-I think the main metric is did you make your investment back and what sort of return did you make, calculated over the years it took. Since that money could have been invested in something "safe" and earned perhaps 5% per year, you should think of your return as being how much you made above that.
-
-You also need to think about portfolio theory: that you are making investments not just in one startup, but that you're investing in several over time to build out your portfolio. The general accepted minimum number of startup investments is somewhere around 10. [Paul Singh's Moneyball Angel Investing presentation][Moneyball] covers some of these concepts.
-
-### What percentage of startups are successful (very generally speaking)?
-
-10% is a completely made up number that might be close to correct.
-
-Technically, one of the only ways to get money out of an equity investment is for the startup to get acquired. Even then, acquisitions are often a mix of stock and cash, so it then depends on the stock of the acquiring company being able to be sold.
-
-There are also multiple paths towards success. A company might pay dividends over time to shareholders, without being acquired.
-
-### What kind of timeframe (duration) would an equity deal be structured over?
-
-Continuing on from talking about acquisition as one of the main ways to get money back out (the other being an IPO, which takes even longer), 5 years is an average time frame.
-
-### How much of a break on pricing might be expected to gain an equity share?
-
-I don't recommend that people discount their pricing for equity or for other reasons. Rather, figure out what your investment is going to be.
-
-I always recommend a mix of cash and equity. If a company has literally no cash to pay you, it means one of two things. Either they have hardly any money at all, in which case how are they going to stay alive. Or, they don't have a budget for design or whatever your services are: they don't value what you're selling.
-
-What the balance is between cash and equity comes down to the service providers margins and business model. You might think about investing in a startup as a breakeven proposition, where the cash you charge covers your costs, and you invest your margin as equity.
-
-To take an example, let's say you propose to do $150K worth of work. Your margin is 30%, so you propose $100K in cash, and the remaining $50K will be your investment.
-
-(In reality, very early stage startups don't have that kind of cash, so either you're talking to a company that is farther along, **or** the numbers should be adjusted to be much smaller)
-
-If you think the startup is going to do well, you might choose to actively invest in the company, and do 50/50 cash/equity, or even 30/70. I probably wouldn't go any lower than 30% cash compensation.
-
-Now, having said all that, I actually think that a convertible debt investment mechanism is probably the best fit for protecting service providers and startups. Explaining the ins and outs of what convertible debt is and how to implement it is out of scope of this article, but it's something I want to cover in the [event I'm planning][PlaceholderMeetup].
-
-### Are there any unique aspects of IP that might be present in working with a startup?
-
-Not really. Many web startups use open source tooling (e.g. the Bootstrap design framework, or Wordpress for their marketing website), but they actually do want to fully own their brand and identity or other services they are paying for.
-
-If you are a development firm, a tech startup is going to likely understand the concept of paying you to build open source components. Something I've recommended in the past is to have the discussion up front if you, as the consultant, can retain the copyright on open source code you write. That can be another consideration in doing work at a discount, since you are investing in code you can use again.
-
-### Do there tend to be additional levels of approval and input with funders/investors/mentors being involved in the process? Basically – does there tend to be more stakeholders involved in decision making?
-
-No, yes, and maybe :) In a healthy investor / founder relationship, the founding team might involve their investors in a branding or design exercise (since they know the story of the company well), but the founders are the owners and ones in control.
-
-----
-
-## Event: How to structure part-equity consulting deals
-
-Since these types of questions keep coming up, I put up a [suggested meetup][PlaceholderMeetup] to see how many people are interested in talking more about this. As well as the questions and concepts above, this is what I wrote to set the stage for the event:
-
-This will be an agency / consulting centric discussion on when, how, and why to enter into contracts with clients that involve equity.
-
-As an agency that mainly charges hourly fees, is this a way for you to get a piece of potential upside?
-
-When should you agree to an equity deal? How do you structure it? What kind of return can I expect from being an investor in a product company?
-
-We'll start with a brief overview of [early stage startup investing][InvestmentStages] and some of the basic terminology, and then we'll get into the trickier questions of when it makes sense to do an equity deal.
-
-[Signup on the PixelCrafters meetup if you're interested in participating »][PlaceholderMeetup]
-
-[^1]: I was sent these questions by a group of designers, which spurred writing up the whole article. I wrote previously on [moving from services to product](/services-to-product), which is a bit more slanted towards development.
-
-[Moneyball]:http://www.slideshare.net/paulsingh/moneyball-a-quantitative-approach-to-angel-investing-india-aug-2012
-[PlaceholderMeetup]:http://www.meetup.com/Vancouver-Tech-Co-Founders/events/194412882/
-[InvestmentStages]:http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140604151202-1746-stages-of-early-stage-tech-investing
-[FolyoBudgetDesign]:http://blog.folyo.me/the-startups-guide-to-budget-design/
-[SkyRocketMVB]:http://skyrocket.is/services/minimum-viable-brand/
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2014-08-15-harvesting-knowledge.md b/_posts/blog/2014-08-15-harvesting-knowledge.md
deleted file mode 100644
index cca709b..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2014-08-15-harvesting-knowledge.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,119 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-title: "Harvesting knowledge"
-description: "How to capture everything you learn & make your future self love you"
-image: 
-  feature: 2014/rastin_2014-Aug-14.jpg
-  credit: Rastin Mehr
-  creditlink: http://instagram.com/p/rsl3UUEorN/
-categories:
-- Blogging
-tags:
-- knowledge management
-- linkblog
-- speaking
-- Lighthouse Labs
----
-
-We are always learning. Whether we search for the answer to a question we have or an error we're having in a piece of code, that practice of what to search for and sifting through the results is learning. Some of the time the answer might be obvious, we solve our current problem and move on. Other times, we have to look in 2 or three different places, synthesize the answer, and apply it. What are you doing to capture that type of learning? How do you share it with others, including your future self?
-
-----
-The above is the outline for the talk I gave as part of the [Lighthouse Labs Speaker Series](http://www.lighthouselabs.ca/blog/lighthouse-speaker-series-boris-mann) on August 14, 2004.
-
-While the context of my talk was about building a personal information and knowledge practice, I firmly believe in the same concepts for building knowledge within a company. I saw this article today by [Tomasz Tunguz on The Most Important Investment a Startup Can Make](http://www.tomtunguz.com/continuing-education-picasso/) talking about this company level investment in education:
-
-> As a startup grows and scales, it's easy to forget about deepening employee education. But the enrichment both in knowledge and network building is invaluable. Furthermore, it's a terrific investment in the business' competitive advantage, its people.
-
-
-Thanks to the [Lighthouse Labs](http://www.lighthouselabs.ca/) crew for having me, and to [Hans Peter Meyer for live tweeting](http://www.hanspetermeyer.com/p/hpm-digital-content-creative-services.html) some of the things I said.
-
-Below is the outline that I spoke from, which won't necessarily make a ton of sense without me speaking to it, but it gives me something to link to.
-
----
-
-### Ancient History
-
-* 2002, started blogging
-* 2004, I moved back to Vancouver
-  * Flickr launched!
-* 2005, Northern Voice Blogging Conference - first conference to use tags / have an [official tag](https://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/northernvoice/interesting/)
-* Launched Bryght, first commercial Drupal company, on 80 leased servers, running Xen VMs
-  * Amazon AWS cloud launched in 2006
-
-### More history
-
-* Skype launched August 2003
-* Most people still using AOL, MSN Messenger (until 2005 —> Windows Live Messenger)
-* CVS was being replaced by SVN
-  * 2010 - drupal.org moves from CVS —> git
-* Twitter & Jaiku launched in 2006
-* 2007 when Chris Messina first proposed the hashtag
-* <abbr title="Internet Relay Chat">IRC</abbr> will never die! (except, [Slack](http://slack.com) is built on top of it and is awesome)
-
-### 10,000 hours
-
-* [Malcolm Gladwell reference](http://www.businessinsider.com/malcolm-gladwell-explains-the-10000-hour-rule-2014-6)
-* What does it mean to be an expert at “the web”?
-* What does “web literacy” mean?
-* You all are learning code literacy. Maybe programming is a new type of literacy?
-  * FTP, servers, HTML, CSS, DNS, SSH, version control, command line, etc. etc. etc.
-
-### How are you capturing knowledge?
-
-* Notes: for yourself, privately, as reminders, to get it stuck in your brain
-* Reflection: reviewing notes, acting on them, thinking about what you've learned on a daily, weekly basis
-* Self-study: what sources of information are you looking at to get better at what you're currently interested in?
-* Sharing: fully capture that knowledge by teaching it to others - share it!
-
-### Link blogging
-
-* Delicious is ancient history. Mag.nol.ia was in part built locally here in Vancouver, and lost everyone’s bookmarks.
-* [Evernote](http://www.evernote.com) - has a web clipper, great for 
-* [Postachio](http://postach.io) <— this is an [investment](http://fullstack.ca/companies/), but it is also awesome. You hook it up to your Evernote account and can then publish a blog directly from Evernote.
-* [Tumblr](http://tumblr.com) - not just for cat blogs, has a great bookmarklet for capturing links
-* [Pinboard](http://pinboard.in/) - Maciej runs this "Social bookmarking for Introverts" service. He is an excellent writer and you should [read this thing he wrote about the Internet](http://idlewords.com/bt14.htm). It's inspiring and worrying.
-
-### Link Blogging II
-* It’s easy to get started - just link blog instead of bookmarking
-* You’re doing it for future self, not for an audience
-* You have all this stuff on a website that you can get to from any computer
-* Other people can leave comments and tell you you’re wrong
-* You can use Google to search your past brain
-
-I wrote about how [I use Postachio for link blogging][postlinkblog].
-
-### Tags
-* What do you care about right now?
-* How many things would you tag with “Ruby” or “Rails”, how many would you tag with “Git”, how many would you tag with “product”, or “startup”?
-* You can then point to a list of articles about “Ruby” or “product”. Here's an example of all of my collected "product consulting" articles [links.bmannconsulting.com/tag/product-consulting](http://links.bmannconsulting.com/tag/product-consulting)
-* You can look back and see what you’re tagging stuff with. What are you interested in over time? How does those interests change.
-
-We had a good discussion with people who said - "tags are BS!". Someone else pointed out that adding tags was like extra "votes" for those topics / terms with the text.
-
-I really really wish I had my own text / knowledge / search clustering algorithm that I could run on my own content!
-
-### Boris’ Current Tags
-* Product, [Product Consulting](http://links.bmannconsulting.com/tag/product-consulting), Future of Work
-* Tools
-* [Full Stack](http://fullstack.ca), angel investing, AngelList, syndicates, foundry, venture studio, convertible debt, equity, bootstrapping
-* Vancouver, Canada, [weareyvr](http://www.weareyvr.ca), ecosystem
-* Ruby, OS X, Heroku, S3, Jekyll, Harp, brew, git
-* Past: Drupal, PHP, SVN, personal publishing, Barcamp, Northern Voice, Bootup Labs (etc. etc. etc.) 
-
-### Blogging
-
-* Don’t stress about topics
-* Get it out of your brain
-* If someone asks you something twice, write it up and send out links
-* Other good topics: How Tos, Reviews, Rants/Flame Bait
-  * If you’re going to go to the trouble to figure something out, compare different solutions, or have a strong opinion about something - share it!
-
----
-
-## Storify
-
-Here's the [Storify of tweets](http://storify.com/lighthouse_labs/lighthouse-speaker-series-boris-mann) from the event:
-
-<div class="storify"><script src="//storify.com/lighthouse_labs/lighthouse-speaker-series-boris-mann.js"></script><noscript>[<a href="//storify.com/lighthouse_labs/lighthouse-speaker-series-boris-mann" target="_blank">View the story "Lighthouse Speaker Series: Boris Mann" on Storify</a>]</noscript></div>
-
-[postlinkblog]:/postachio-link-blogging
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2014-11-09-vancouver-tech-civic-election.md b/_posts/blog/2014-11-09-vancouver-tech-civic-election.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 7ec0b71..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2014-11-09-vancouver-tech-civic-election.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,68 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-title: "Vancouver tech and the civic election"
-description: "What can the city do for tech? What does tech want from the city?"
-categories:
-- Vancouver
-tags:
-- government
----
-I've been asked by a number of people what I think the "tech platform" should be for parties running for the City of Vancouver's November 2014 municipal election.
-
-I feel under-equipped to tease out the intricacies of economic and civic policy, so I can only speak to what I've observed, what my gut says.
-
-At the same time, I'm not sure what municipal-level policies can actually do for tech ecosystems, other than many of the things that anyone working in any industry wants from a livable, vibrant city. Can the City of Vancouver help with increasing the salaries that private tech companies pay?
-
-Finally, some of the thoughts below are the sort of things I want from all of our Canadian government systems in being modern, efficient, and making effective use of technology.
-
-I've sent the notes below privately to people involved with both [Vision Vancouver](http://www.votevision.ca) and the [NPA](http://www.npavancouver2014.ca), so I thought it would be good to also share this publicly in lightly edited format from the original email.
-
-I intend to hold whoever gets elected accountable, and advocate for further support of the Vancouver tech community.
-
-_Read my disclaimer on potential conflicts of interest [^1]_
-
-## Fund community systems
-
-Communitech in Waterloo is entrepreneur led and has a $6M annual budget. There are _no_ full time funded positions in Vancouver dedicated to ecosystem growth.
-
-There are a number of local tech-focused industry organizations. They are all primarily membership based organizations, thus have to put their membership first, and the entire ecosystem second. So — no full time funded positions.
-
-Pixel Crafters has [2800+ people in a meetup group](http://meetups.pixelcrafters.ca), [WeAreYVR](http://www.weareyvr.ca) is completely volunteer run with no budget. WeAreYVR has managed to get all the other organizations in town as data partners, and is doing a lot of the work of cataloging the data around companies and people in Vancouver, giving us an actual base to track how we're doing[^2].
-
-Examples: [Startup Seattle](http://startupseattle.com/about/) powered by the City’s Office of Economic Development, [Startup Edmonton acquired by the Edmonton Economic Development Commission](https://medium.com/@kenbautista/the-next-five-years-b1176c7256a8)
-
-## Work together with other municipalities.
-
-Most of us think of it as Greater Vancouver, not City of Vancouver, Burnaby, North Vancouver, etc. Each part of the region has its own economic development department. Their budgets are laughably small compared to other Canadian cities AND the first thing they do is all invest in their own offices, CEOs, and admin staff, thus making their budgets even smaller. In Edmonton and Calgary, the EcDev departments have about $40M annually in funding, and take a regional approach.
-
-## Fix licensing / zoning so that shared offices are legal for city business licensing.
-
-Right now, the "main" tenant at a business address needs to be a co-working space or similar to have multiple businesses registered with the same physical address. So, the upshot is all those people that share offices never get local business licenses. This also means under-counting of tech businesses.
-
-## We should be an API city
-
-Open data isn't enough (it's "dead" data unless it has an API that reads & writes). [API first](http://www.api-first.com) is a modern approach to building systems and data.
-
-Look at using [BasicGov](http://basicgov.com) (a local Vancouver company) to help modernize and bring city services online.
-
-## Hire a CTO
-
-[Jessie Adcock](https://twitter.com/vancouvercdo) the <acronym title="Chief Digital Officer" style="text-decoration: underline;">CDO</acronym> is doing a great job, but having a <acronym title="Chief Technical Officer" style="text-decoration: underline;">CTO</acronym> as a partner would help set technical vision and actually develop new technology at the city, including API first techniques as mentioned previously.
-
-## Open source new systems
-
-If we're going to spend money writing custom software for the city, let's open source it.
-
-An example is that the recent website redesign also built a swimming lesson registration system. How many cities across Canada need to run a swimming lesson registration system? Of course it makes sense to write this once and improve and customize it for any city.
-
----
-
-As a member of that tech community, what do **you** want from your civic government?
-
-(and of course, [go vote on November 15th, 2014](http://vancouver.ca/your-government/2014-municipal-election.aspx)!)
-
----
-
-[^1]: **Disclaimer**: I have a good working relationship with the [Vancouver Economic Commission (VEC)](http://www.vancouvereconomic.com), and they have sponsored a number of projects I'm involved with, including WeAreYVR and Startup Week Vancouver, neither of which I get paid to work on.  Over the years, I've met members of the Vision Vancouver team, including Gregor Robertson and Andrea Reimer. Through VEC, I was asked for input on the so-called [Entrepreneurs Fund](http://www.mayorofvancouver.ca/entrepreneurfund), and I advised against running a fund.
-
-[^2]: Pixel Crafters is a community brand that a number of us, including myself, Jesse Heaslip, and [Mack Flavelle](https://twitter.com/mackflavelle), help run. It's mainly a shared meetup group where we cross-post / highlight events. I am the project lead for WeAreYVR, which I think is important to actually track how the community is doing, and to provide a central aggregator for information about the region.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2016-06-13-personal-crm.md b/_posts/blog/2016-06-13-personal-crm.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 3e58b0e..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2016-06-13-personal-crm.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,83 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-title: Personal CRM
-date: '2016-06-13T12:34:34-07:00'
-excerpt: "I’ve been once again looking for a personal CRM. Something that gets to do’s out of my inbox, collects data and messages on the people that I’m interacting with, and generally keeps me informed and up to date in my communications. Here's a review of past tools and analysis of my choice."
-categories:
-- Review
-tags:
-- CRM
-- Highrise
-- Streak
-- Insightly
-- Pipedrive
-comments: true
----
-I’ve been once again looking for a personal CRM. Something that gets to do’s out of my inbox, collects data and messages on the people that I’m interacting with, and generally keeps me informed and up to date in my communications.
-
-Google is the system that runs my personal and work email accounts & stores my contacts, but it continues to have terrible support for anything other than just storing contacts. And randomly adding someone you email to “My Contacts”.
-
-Apple as well doesn’t do much other than a basic flat file storage of contacts, albeit with some basic linking of contacts stored in different back ends, thus guaranteeing that you’ll have bits and pieces of contact data scattered all over the place.
-
-I call it a Personal CRM, because I want it to work for me, whether I’m freelancing and doing consulting as an individual, working on a community project while I’ve got a day job, or any other combination.
-
-Picking a CRM for your business is a team affair, and balances different needs. What works best for one person?
-
-## All the CRMs
-In the past, I’ve used the highly social media integrated Nimble. I’ve used Batchbook for its extensive tagging and custom data fields. I have a Full Contact account, but it really only syncs contacts, and does nothing with messaging or activities.
-
-I recommend Pipedrive as the CRM that startups and small businesses should use for running their sales pipeline. It also has a great NodeJS API if you need to extend it.
-
-Streak is a Gmail plugin that works well in support of raising a round or lightweight mail merge tasks, great for people like me that run their email in the browser on the desktop.
-
-Capsule CRM has a free forever plan, will automatically look up social accounts, and like Batchbook has the concept of custom fields that you can attach to tags.
-
-Insightly. Sigh. Insightly, I really want to pick you. My database-social-graph-loving tendencies love the fact that you can basically link anything to anything, and even define your own relationships between objects (Organization X is the Accelerator of Startup Y, Startup Y is Accelerated By Organization X). But your user interface is pretty terrible, you won’t even do basic mail merge, and you seem to have way too many Projects and Opportunities and Tasks that are overkill for even groups of people, never mind one person. And your mobile app is bad, too. But I still use you for some things, because that link-everything-together is pretty amazing.
-
-Why yes, I do try a lot of tools. And there are even some that I haven’t listed that aren’t terrible. But the list above are all ones that I might recommend for particular use cases. And then there are tools like Airtable, which are excellent for building ad hoc databases or custom data trackers.
-
-## Picking Highrise
-I’ve attempted to use Highrise many times over the years. Recently, as the-company-formerly-known-as-37Signals rebranded as Basecamp, they kicked out all their other apps into separate companies. The whole purpose of doing this is so those other apps could get the attention they needed.
-
-It was great to kick the tires on Highrise and realize that their philosophy was a good match for what I wanted out of a Personal CRM:
-
-Your address book doesn’t do enough, CRM software tries to do too much. Stay connected with simple contact management.
-Highrise has a free-forever plan that includes 2 users, 250 contacts, 3 cases, and no file storage. The fact that they have a Solo plan clearly means they understand that some people will use them as individuals. I ended up on the Basic plan, because I don’t need more than 10 deals and it’s $5 cheaper than the Solo. None of their plans have per-user fees, showing that it’s designed for smaller groups.
-
-Highrise is not a traditional sales pipeline CRM, which is likely why it makes a good Personal CRM.
-
-It has People and Organizations as Contacts, and you can add Custom Fields to them (which will apply to both kinds of contacts). You can also add different custom fields to Deals. Highrise probably has the most simplistic custom fields compared to the other tools listed above.
-
-Like most CRMs, you can BCC or forward email into Highrise. You can also add Gmail accounts directly to Highrise, and send email directly from within the app. This means that while you’re reviewing your tasks, you can send email to complete that task, without getting drowned in your inbox. I’m going to experiment further with sending business email directly to Highrise. There’s a whole page in the help system on Autoforwarding emails from Gmail »
-
-There’s also the Broadcast mass email tool, which you can use as a lightweight mailing list. I really like Streak’s amazing & easy mail merge, which sends the same-but-personalized message to multiple people, which is a feature I’d like to see in Highrise.
-
-Deals are what I’m using to track / follow up on things that might or might not happen, but that need to come to a close. This could be a consulting gig, a speaking engagement, or confirming sponsorships. Another less obvious use case is for tracking down and confirming speakers for an event.
-
-I’m using Cases as projects. They’re a different kind of container that — unlike a Deal — can be more topical and ever present, and doesn’t need to end. I have a handful of longer term Cases related to mentoring and advising companies, and the rest are projects I need to finish in the next couple of months. I am itching to add a couple more Cases, but that’s likely too much to commit to. This is a good thing!
-
-I’ve always loved Tags. You can slice and dice your Contacts (People and Organizations) in lots of different ways. Company tags will show up on People entries, which is great to see next to each other. I wish that Deals and Cases could be tagged as well, since I’m kind of tag crazy, but especially for a single user, having an easily scannable number of each of those is probably the right way to go.
-
-I mentioned Gmail accounts and email forwarding earlier. Emails are objects within the system that are linked to the people involved, and attachments will be uploaded and included.
-
-Notes are text entries with optional Files attached. They can be placed within Cases or Deals, or attached to People or Organizations.
-
-You can add Comments to both Emails and Notes.
-
-There is a full text search of Emails, Notes, and Comments, another area where I’d love to potentially use Tags rather than hope that the full text search is up to the job. I’m still using Quip as my primary note taking and document creation & collaboration tool, so I’ll continue to use that for “stock” content, and really just use Notes for what they are — short snippets of text that are useful in the moment or as a reminder, not a long term place to store text information.
-
-## Highrise Feature Requests
-As I mentioned before, Highrise’s Custom Fields are pretty simple. They recently added pre-defined values — aka dropdown lists — for fields. But really, everything is just a plain text field. There are some nice touches, like if you put a URL like http://example.com into a Custom Field, it will automatically change it into a clickable link when it is displayed.
-
-I’d like to see Custom Fields support People and Organizations. This means the “Referred By” field, for example, becomes a link to the Person or Organization.
-
-As well, multiple entries rather than a plain text field open up interesting relationships. For example, link to multiple People or Organizations with a “Customers” field.
-
-This also solves the problem of only being able to associate a Person with one, current Organization. If you want to track multiple relationships, whether a Person linked through an “Advisor” field, or a “Used to Work At” field continuing previous companies, this opens up that ability.
-
-## Smarter Tools
-I’m wanting to commit to a Personal CRM so I can work smarter, not harder. In the world of Contacts, Calendaring, To Dos, and Email, I’m still not getting as much smarts as I want out of my tools.
-
-And of course, it’s all about process. I’m pretty good at Inbox Zero (as of writing, ~10 emails across 3 accounts), and I look forward to Highrise helping me get To Dos out of email even more.
-
-We can talk about agents and AI, but in many cases the reality of the interfaces and the silo-ized data models are still holding us back.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2016-06-14-flickr-to-self-hosted.md b/_posts/blog/2016-06-14-flickr-to-self-hosted.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 087a1d7..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2016-06-14-flickr-to-self-hosted.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,95 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-title: "From Flickr to Self-hosted Photos"
-date: '2016-06-14T12:34:34-07:00'
-excerpt: "A response to Doc Searls on moving on from Flickr to think about self-hosting photos."
-categories:
-- Blog
-tags:
-- AWS
-- Flickr
-- photos
-- Dropbox
-comments: true
----
-_This was originally posted to Medium, as a response to [Doc Searls' post 'Dear Adobe, Please buy Flickr'](https://medium.com/swlh/dear-adobe-please-buy-flickr-4f88dcd16ee0). I'm porting this post to my blog at the very end of 2018, just days before Flickr's acquirer makes changes to free accounts[^smugmug]. I'm in the midst of downloading my archive, and will actually need to deal with this in 2019. Of course, I'm thinking a lot more about web3 solutions and new protocols like IPFS, but there aren't easy answers._
-
-Other than cost, why don’t you want to self-host your pictures Doc Searls?
-
-I still haven’t done much about it, but I very much think my post-Flickr plan will be to self host.
-
-The main problem _has_ been cost, for me.
-
-## Cost of File Storage
-
-I long ago made the calculation that Flickr was a better, more cost effective backup of my full resolution photos, than anything else.
-
-Even at 0.10 per GB, 100GB is $10 per month.
-
-## Cost of Hosting & Maintenance
-
-From hosting a server to pretty much any time spent on maintenance, security updates, and so on, this is really the biggie. Do I have enough interest – or skills! – to confidently host & backup all of my digital photos?
-
-Bandwidth costs could be big as well, especially if you don’t run anti-hot linking on your server.
-
-## Loss of Social
-
-Flickr hasn’t been a social site for me in a long time. I run Disqus (another third party…) across several sites and could see myself using it for photos as well. Or cross posting (some? all?) to Tumblr or Instagram or Twitter.
-
-Part two of social is perhaps the simple Public/Friends/Family/Private permissions that Flickr has. I think for my photos, I’d end up going all public. Password-protected album sharing would be nice to have, but not critical.
-
-## A Formula for Self Hosted Static Photos
-
-I think I know pretty well the tool chain of services and features.
-
-### Amazon S3
-
-Static website hosting of all my photos with a public web facing interface on my own domain.
-
-Web friendly thumbnails in various sizes. This saves on cost.
-
-Interactive elements through JavaScript and third party services as desired / needed. Disqus for comments, Algolia for search, Mapbox for maps, etc.
-
-### Amazon Glacier
-
-Long term backup of original / full resolution images. Lowest cost.
-
-Needed: Admin interface for selecting and requesting retrieval of batches of images.
-
-### Dropbox
-
-Photo syncing from your phone or desktop.
-
-Nice to have: multiple people syncing to the same Dropbox folder.
-
-### Photo Router
-
-This is where some chunks of custom code come in.
-
-Running a whole server of your own where you have to maintain the entire stack from operating system updates to web server defeats the purpose of making this simple, low cost, and low maintenance.
-
-Some of this code could be running on Heroku, or even better, AWS Lambda functions fired as needed.
-
----
-
-So, how this would work is as follows:
-
-1. Take photos on your phone, or plug your camera into your computer. Dropbox automatically syncs all photos
-1. Your Photo Router gets notified of new photos by the Dropbox API. It creates thumbnails and copies the originals to Amazon Glacier. Your photos are published to your static website.
-1. You have an interface to work on albums, metadata, tags, privacy, etc. Technically this is managing your static website, so this might be done simply in Markdown / YAML (like Jekyll), or a separate Photo Editor chunk of code that helps manage your static website.
-
-Of course, #3 is where all the complexity is. Can someone write code that does these things (not that hard) AND make it easy enough for web tinkerers to self-host on Heroku or AWS (this is the hard part)?
-
-## Do I still care about photos?
-
-I feel like I’ve written some variant of the above maybe half a dozen times.
-
-I haven’t actively taken photos and edited and posted them for years. Part of that is the move to iPhone only pictures, but part of it feels like with the vast mass of photos, I care less about each individual one.
-
-Regardless, at some point I figure I have enough of an obligation to keep my public photos online to do the Flickr export dance and host all my photos myself.
-
----
-
-For the record, I think that Wikipedia or the Internet Archive would be much better homes than Adobe. Thinking about the Flickr Commons alone, never mind the people who set permissive licenses on their personal photos, we probably need to be thinking of these digital artifacts as legacies that should be part of a commons.
-
-[^smugmug]: [SmugMug acquired Flickr in April 2018](https://blog.flickr.net/en/2018/04/20/together-smugmug-flickr/). [As of January 8th, 2019](https://blog.flickr.net/en/2018/12/17/important-service-updates-and-dates-to-remember/), free accounts are limited to 1,000 photos / videos. Then, as of February 4, 2019, any items over the 1,000 item limit will be deleted. Interestingly enough, since all of my photos are Creative Commons licensed, it seems they will stay up. Regardless -- it's time to move my photos from Flickr's domain to something that
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2016-08-01-self-hosting-doesnt-help-self-publish.md b/_posts/blog/2016-08-01-self-hosting-doesnt-help-self-publish.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 4f76f02..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2016-08-01-self-hosting-doesnt-help-self-publish.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,49 +0,0 @@
----
-title: Self-hosting doesn’t help more people self-publish
-date: 2016-08-01
-category: Reply
-tags:
-  - selfhosting
----
-
-(This was a reply to something on Medium)
-
-From my point-of-view, anything with an API that I can map my own domain name to meets the bar of a resilient service.
-
-<p name="0559" id="0559" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p"><a href="https://medium.com/u/3ede57240cdf" data-href="https://medium.com/u/3ede57240cdf" data-anchor-type="2" data-user-id="3ede57240cdf" data-action-value="3ede57240cdf" data-action="show-user-card" data-action-type="hover" class="markup--user markup--p-user" target="_blank">D'Arcy Norman</a> didn’t agree with me on that:</p>
-<figure name="ed3a" id="ed3a" class="graf graf--figure graf--iframe graf-after--p"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><a href="https://twitter.com/dlnorman/status/759043575782871042"></a></blockquote>
-<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></figure><p name="072c" id="072c" class="graf graf--p graf-after--figure">(hopefully that link still works. I mean, we don’t own Twitter, so that content could go away at any time)</p>
-<p name="768b" id="768b" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p">I actually did export my Posterous content, and put it on my l<a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/archive/" data-href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/archive/" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="noopener" target="_blank">ong term archive</a>, which is self-hosted. Well, sort of. It’s not running on a server underneath my desk at home. It’s running on AWS. Is that self-hosting?</p>
-<p name="f1d3" id="f1d3" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p">From my point of view,</p>
-<figure name="c9c8" id="c9c8" class="graf graf--figure graf--iframe graf-after--p"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><a href="https://twitter.com/bmann/status/759043924014931968"></a></blockquote>
-<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></figure><p name="2d4e" id="2d4e" class="graf graf--p graf-after--figure">I feel worse about the many many many people with SOMEBLOG.wordpress.com. You’re going to have to <a href="https://en.support.wordpress.com/site-redirect/" data-href="https://en.support.wordpress.com/site-redirect/" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="noopener" target="_blank">pay WP $13 per year (forever?) to redirect</a>. If only they had mapped a domain name right away, their site would have been much more portable.</p>
-<p name="7379" id="7379" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p">I recently <a href="http://medium.bmannconsulting.com" data-href="http://medium.bmannconsulting.com" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="noopener" target="_blank">added my own domain to Medium</a>. I feel pretty good about my chances of exporting. And I feel great about doing the thing that we all worked on for so long — making it really easy to self-publish on the Internet. I’m writing more. I’m enjoying writing.</p>
-<h4 name="df03" id="df03" class="graf graf--h4 graf-after--p">Moving the Goal Posts</h4>
-<figure name="4705" id="4705" class="graf graf--figure graf--iframe graf-after--h4"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><a href="https://twitter.com/bmann/status/738944858912489473"></a></blockquote>
-<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></figure><p name="8fce" id="8fce" class="graf graf--p graf-after--figure">Just today, <a href="https://medium.com/u/7ae2822fb046" data-href="https://medium.com/u/7ae2822fb046" data-anchor-type="2" data-user-id="7ae2822fb046" data-action-value="7ae2822fb046" data-action="show-user-card" data-action-type="hover" class="markup--user markup--p-user" target="_blank">Albert Wenger</a> wrote about <a href="http://continuations.com/post/148294791800/thinking-about-leaving-tumblr-looking-for-a" data-href="http://continuations.com/post/148294791800/thinking-about-leaving-tumblr-looking-for-a" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="noopener" target="_blank">looking for a decentralized blog network:</a></p>
-<blockquote name="b2ed" id="b2ed" class="graf graf--blockquote graf-after--p">But it is 2016 and if I am going to make the effort to move Continuations, it will be to something that I control entirely…ideally the platform I move to would include a decentralized network. Fred and I have been writing about <a href="http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Favc.com%2F2016%2F07%2Fthe-golden-age-of-open-protocols%2F&t=ODk4ZjM0NzA0N2U0M2M0YmMzN2ViYzgwM2UzZmQ2MjdjMjQyNGJkYSxFbjJ2Wjc5eA%3D%3D" data-href="http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Favc.com%2F2016%2F07%2Fthe-golden-age-of-open-protocols%2F&t=ODk4ZjM0NzA0N2U0M2M0YmMzN2ViYzgwM2UzZmQ2MjdjMjQyNGJkYSxFbjJ2Wjc5eA%3D%3D" class="markup--anchor markup--blockquote-anchor" rel="noopener" target="_blank">protocol</a> <a href="http://continuations.com/post/148098927445/crypto-tokens-and-the-coming-age-of-protocol" data-href="http://continuations.com/post/148098927445/crypto-tokens-and-the-coming-age-of-protocol" class="markup--anchor markup--blockquote-anchor" rel="noopener" target="_blank">innovation</a> and blog publishing seems to be one area that is perfect for such a system. In functionality my ideal system would be quite similar to Tumblr + Disqus but would use something like <a href="http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fonename.com%2F&t=YjIzZmY5Yjk2MGFkYWUzMmFjYWEyYTZmOGQ3YTI3YTgxZDhlOWIzMixFbjJ2Wjc5eA%3D%3D" data-href="http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fonename.com%2F&t=YjIzZmY5Yjk2MGFkYWUzMmFjYWEyYTZmOGQ3YTI3YTgxZDhlOWIzMixFbjJ2Wjc5eA%3D%3D" class="markup--anchor markup--blockquote-anchor" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Onename</a> as its identity system. Every post (and comment) would be signed with an identity and it would be possible to follow content based on identity independent of publishing location. For content storage it should be possible to plug in a decentralized file system via <a href="http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fipfs.io&t=ODA3MmU2NWJkMWVkZWFmNjlkNzcwN2FlNDc2MzhhZjU3ZWJjNTYyOSxFbjJ2Wjc5eA%3D%3D" data-href="http://t.umblr.com/redirect?z=http%3A%2F%2Fipfs.io&t=ODA3MmU2NWJkMWVkZWFmNjlkNzcwN2FlNDc2MzhhZjU3ZWJjNTYyOSxFbjJ2Wjc5eA%3D%3D" class="markup--anchor markup--blockquote-anchor" rel="noopener" target="_blank">IPFS</a>.</blockquote>
-<p name="1612" id="1612" class="graf graf--p graf-after--blockquote">Absolutely! That’s what we should be working on next. Easy self-publishing? Check! Let’s move on to something that is even more resilient. A fully decentralized system.</p>
-<figure name="af08" id="af08" class="graf graf--figure graf--iframe graf-after--p"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><a href="https://twitter.com/bmann/status/759048526257016832"></a></blockquote>
-<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></figure><p name="ebb6" id="ebb6" class="graf graf--p graf-after--figure">We don’t even own our domain names — we rent them. And for the next 1 Billion, $10 per year is too much to pay to rent a domain name.</p>
-<p name="6ec6" id="6ec6" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p">So here are my proposed rules for a decentralized, self-publishing system of the future:</p>
-<ol class="postList">
-<li name="7d72" id="7d72" class="graf graf--li graf-after--p">
-<strong class="markup--strong markup--li-strong">Publish from a smartphone:</strong> someone with nothing but a smartphone should be able to publish.<br>This might be a full blown app (which could connect to the decentralized network directly, or even “host” from the phone) or just a mobile web page (which someone would need to run as a proxy / gateway into a decentralized system).</li>
-<li name="6148" id="6148" class="graf graf--li graf-after--li">
-<strong class="markup--strong markup--li-strong">No server hosting:</strong> you don’t need to run a server under your desk or rent servers. Hit publish and your content is truly in the cloud — posted to a decentralized network.</li>
-<li name="295e" id="295e" class="graf graf--li graf-after--li">
-<strong class="markup--strong markup--li-strong">No domain names:</strong> you don’t need to rent an identifier from anyone else to have the content be “yours”.<br>Remembering 0xA8C7372dC993d7510C9c45425807d463967cbb12 as my username isn’t going to be very usable, so there will be various user interface or even proxy systems that won’t be fully decentralized.</li>
-</ol>
-<p name="9fcd" id="9fcd" class="graf graf--p graf-after--li">Consider this a first draft, and a way to start the discussion about where we should move the goal posts to.</p>
-<figure name="1715" id="1715" class="graf graf--figure graf-after--p"><div class="aspectRatioPlaceholder is-locked" style="max-width: 411px; max-height: 259px;"><img class="graf-image" data-image-id="1*qntxZstr7BlkF8XPxSHNtA.png" data-width="411" data-height="259" src="https://microblog.bmannconsulting.com/uploads/2020/9ca31795cc.jpg"></div>
-<figcaption class="imageCaption">From the IPFS.io home page</figcaption></figure><p name="39cf" id="39cf" class="graf graf--p graf-after--figure">I’m looking forward to a new wave of innovation around this. The <a href="http://continuations.com/post/148294791800/thinking-about-leaving-tumblr-looking-for-a" data-href="http://continuations.com/post/148294791800/thinking-about-leaving-tumblr-looking-for-a" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="noopener" target="_blank">discussion on Albert Wenger’s blog</a> has a list of links that I’m checking out for experimenting with.</p>
-<p name="283f" id="283f" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p">In the mean time, you can find me at <a href="http://tumblr.bmannconsulting.com" data-href="http://tumblr.bmannconsulting.com" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="noopener" target="_blank">tumblr.bmannconsulting.com</a> and <a href="http://medium.bmannconsulting.com" data-href="http://medium.bmannconsulting.com" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="noopener" target="_blank">medium.bmannconsulting.com</a>, my long term archive at <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com" data-href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="noopener" target="_blank">bmannconsulting.com</a>, and as <a href="http://twitter.com/bmann" data-href="http://twitter.com/bmann" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="noopener" target="_blank">bmann</a> on the centralized corporate global messaging platform known as Twitter.</p>
-<h4 name="da56" id="da56" class="graf graf--h4 graf-after--p">Further Reading</h4>
-<ul class="postList">
-<li name="a0ee" id="a0ee" class="graf graf--li graf-after--h4">Vinay Gupta’s Ethereum intro, <a href="https://medium.com/@ConsenSys/programmable-blockchains-in-context-ethereum-s-future-cd8451eb421e#.h6tmxqntb" data-href="https://medium.com/@ConsenSys/programmable-blockchains-in-context-ethereum-s-future-cd8451eb421e#.h6tmxqntb" class="markup--anchor markup--li-anchor" target="_blank">Programmable Blockchains in Context</a>
-</li>
-<li name="0ad3" id="0ad3" class="graf graf--li graf-after--li">
-<a href="http://ipfs.io" data-href="http://ipfs.io" class="markup--anchor markup--li-anchor" rel="noopener" target="_blank">IPFS</a>, the InterPlanetary File System.</li>
-<li name="ac90" id="ac90" class="graf graf--li graf-after--li graf--trailing">More technical reading on trade-offs in decentralized systems, by <a href="https://medium.com/u/f1cb98e196bc" data-href="https://medium.com/u/f1cb98e196bc" data-anchor-type="2" data-user-id="f1cb98e196bc" data-action-value="f1cb98e196bc" data-action="show-user-card" data-action-type="hover" class="markup--user markup--li-user" target="_blank">Trent McConaghy,</a> <a href="https://medium.com/the-bigchaindb-blog/the-dcs-triangle-5ce0e9e0f1dc#.8psg2s3mh" data-href="https://medium.com/the-bigchaindb-blog/the-dcs-triangle-5ce0e9e0f1dc#.8psg2s3mh" class="markup--anchor markup--li-anchor" target="_blank">The DCS Triangle</a>
-</li>
-</ul>
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2017-02-13-akasha-cross-post-planting-tag-flag-vancouver-bowen-canada.md b/_posts/blog/2017-02-13-akasha-cross-post-planting-tag-flag-vancouver-bowen-canada.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 08ed0c1..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2017-02-13-akasha-cross-post-planting-tag-flag-vancouver-bowen-canada.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
----
-title: 'Akasha Cross-post: Planting the tag-flag for Vancouver, Bowen Island, and Canada'
-date: 2017-02-13
-category: Web3
-tags:
-  - Akasha
-  - tagging
-  - blogging
----
-
-*actually my second post, since I posted a simple one about tagging in order to troubleshoot why this post wasn’t working. I’ve been saving regularly, and it seems like I can no longer save as soon as I add a link of any kind. The lesson is: save often, and don’t add any links.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2017-02-19-archiving-photos-ios-amazon-s3.md b/_posts/blog/2017-02-19-archiving-photos-ios-amazon-s3.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 45baa7a..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2017-02-19-archiving-photos-ios-amazon-s3.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,128 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-title: 'Archiving photos from iOS to Amazon S3'
-categories:
-  - How To
-tags:
-  - Amazon S3
-  - photos
-  - iOS
-  - mobile
-  - IPFS
-  - Flickr
-  - AKASHA
-  - Web3
-comments: true
-excerpt: "How To setup an Amazon S3 account and use it to backup photos from your iPhone iOS device directly, all hosted on your own domain."
----
-
-I’ve wanted to have photos that I take – which at this point are all from my iPhone – uploaded to some place under my control. I also want to be able to share them on the web, including embedding them in blog posts.
-
-I also need to export my 13 years of photos on Flickr (I previously [wrote a response to Doc Searls about Flickr & photo management](/flickr-to-self-hosted/)). My long term goal is still to get all of these photos onto a blockchain[^web3].
-
-[^web3]: OK, not photos _on_ the blockchain. Editing this in January 2019, I'll say the goal is to get the photos onto the decentralized web, aka Web3.
-
-I used the [Mediachain deployment page](http://deploy.mediachain.io/) to get my own server up on Digital Ocean. But I’m stuck at the “how do I get files added”. Plus I’m stuck running my own server, and potentially backing it up separately.
-
-With [AKASHA](http://akasha.world/), I have an [IPFS](http://ipfs.io/) server running on my desktop at home. Images added to AKASHA posts get added to IPFS automatically. The AKASHA blockchain is currently a test net, and it doesn’t help get photos from my phone uploaded.
-
-<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Screenshot of IPFS peers serving up the pics from my AKASHA post. @valanchee no pins in Africa, I expect you to be first! <a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C4uYk-OUoAAxfrq.jpg:largen">pbs.twimg.com/media/C4uYk-OUoAAxfrq.jpg:large</a></p>&mdash; Boris Mann (@bmann) <a href="https://twitter.com/bmann/status/831926321081044992">February 15, 2017</a></blockquote>
-<script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
-
-So in the meantime, what’s an easy way to upload / archive photos from your iPhone to a domain you control?
-
-The short answer is get an Amazon S3 account, and then use The Archivist and/or Dropshare apps.
-
-The longer instructions are below.
-
-Seeing as the question “how do I make room on my iPhone / backup photos on iCloud” was the first tech question asked me in Uganda, I think a mobile blockchain / IPFS client is something I will continue to explore.
-
----
-
-This assumes you have an AWS account and that you have your own domain name. I recommend [Namecheap](https://namecheap.com) or [Hover](https://www.hover.com/) for registering domains and hosting DNS.
-
-You’ll also need to create a new IAM user that has full control of S3, and note down the access and secret keys. If you don’t copy the secret key, you can just add a new credential for the user, which will give you a new key and secret.
-
-You can do all of these things through the AWS console.
-
-## Setup a new S3 bucket with the name of the domain you will point at it.
-
-Something like images.example.com.
-
-You can choose a region, and I ended up picking the new Canada / Montreal region.
-
-Lots of S3 apps haven’t been updated to support new regions yet, so this may cause issues for you.
-
-Specifically, Dropshare is supposed to get an update a week or so from when I’m posting this, according to the reply I got from support.
-
-## Setup static web hosting and add a policy
-
-For the properties of the bucket you just created, click the enabled checkbox of the Static Web Hosting section.
-
-You can put in _index.html_ and _error.html_ as the index and error pages. I haven’t done anything with these yet, but you can upload simple HTML pages and have them display whatever you like.
-
-Next you’ll need a policy that allows anonymous users to view images. Under the Permissions section, you can add a policy that looks like [this gist](https://gist.github.com/bmann/fb47baf90dfc276844d1941f30d45711#file-s3-public-bucket-policy-json).
-
-The one line that lists the name of your bucket (images.example.com) is what needs editing to include your value.
-
-While you’re in here, you can see what the Amazon endpoint is, which is listed under the Static Website Hosting section of the properties.
-
-## Map your own domain name
-
-Create a CNAME that points your domain (_images.example.com_) to the Amazon endpoint (mine is ```images.bmann.ca.s3-website.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com```). You’ll need to go into the Advanced DNS management of your registrar to do this.
-
-Now, uploaded images can be accessed through ```images.example.com/path/to/image```[^nohttps].
-
-[^nohttps]: You can't access files over HTTPS with this initial setup, so if you're embedding your images somewhere that does use HTTPS, it will complain about mixed insecure content. It's a long series of steps to get Amazon setup with Cloudfront, so instead just use [Cloudflare](https://cloudflare.com) -- you'll need to use them as your DNS registrar.
-
-## Install and configure apps
-
-You’re basically done at this point as far as backend configuration. There are a variety of desktop tools (e.g. Cyberduck) that will let you browse, upload, and manage files in your S3 bucket. Anything you upload will be publicly available at your own images.example.com domain.
-
-But I want to do this from my phone, and ideally I want it to be relatively automatic, much like Flickr, Google Photos, or Dropbox Camera Uploads.
-
-### Archivist App
-* [Facebook Page](https://www.facebook.com/archivist.ios/)
-* [$2.79 on iTunes](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/archivist/id1180291253)
-
-This app was just released at the beginning of December 2016, and it’s pretty close to exactly what I want so I bought it immediately.
-
-I do wish the Archivist would allow an option to configure web hosting and policy settings for you. Maybe another option for size of thumbnails.
-
-You can choose which parts of your camera roll to auto archive. With the policy setup that I’ve recommended, all your photos are public. I have a tendency to take pictures of whiteboards, so you may not want to archive your entire camera roll.
-
-I’m still experimenting since the app is really not designed to be public, but to be an archive. Shares and copies from within the app grab the image for using in other photo apps, not the S3 URL path. But absolutely recommended so far.
-
-### Dropshare
-* [getdropsha.re](https://getdropsha.re/)
-* [freemium on iTunes](https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/dropshare-powerful-file-sharing/id932316817?mt=8)
-
-I used Dropshare in the past, and it was good, but you’re uploading one image at a time. It also has a Mac desktop app so you can do uploads from there.
-
-It understands custom domains and can add the direct URL to your upload to your clipboard.
-
-I purchased it previously, but you’ll need a one time $9.99 in app purchase to use S3. As mentioned above, I need to wait for Canada/Montreal region support to properly try it again[^dropshareca].
-
-[^dropshareca]: Dropshare does support the Canada region now. This is a decent way to upload quick individual files, and I continue to use it.
-
-### Owncloud
-* [owncloud.org](https://owncloud.org/)
-* [free on iTunes](https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/owncloud/id543672169?mt=8)
-
-Not relevant for what I’m trying to do, but the [Owncloud app seems to do auto photo uploads](https://github.com/owncloud/ios/issues/13). I really don’t like to have to run & maintain (and backup!) my own server, so S3's ability to map your own domain and have an API is a better fit.
-
----
-
-I’m surprised that there aren’t more simple S3 apps on mobile, but this just underlines that most people don’t care about storing files under their own control. And of those that do, many would give me grief about using S3 rather than running my own server!
-
-## Future directions
-
-Storing the full size images from an iPhone 7 takes up a lot of room. Even at only 10¢ per GB per month, this can add up.
-
-There are options under the Lifecycle properties section of S3 to automate moving items that haven’t been accessed to Glacier, Amazon’s long term archival system. It costs 1/10th of S3, and so is a good fit for backup of originals.
-
-Feels like something the Archivist could add an interface for, but in the meantime I may be able to do this directly.
-
----
-
-_How do you manage photos on your phone? Do you bother backing them up or storing them somewhere? Is sharing or embedding them on the web even a concern for you? I’d love to hear more about apps, techniques, and other pains and concerns you have about your photos._
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2017-04-09-run-your-own-mastodon-instance.md b/_posts/blog/2017-04-09-run-your-own-mastodon-instance.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 377c9b0..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2017-04-09-run-your-own-mastodon-instance.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
----
-title: Run your own Mastodon instance
-category: Reply
-tags:
-  - Mastodon
-  - selfhosting
-date: 2017-04-19
----
-(A reply to [Mastodon is dead in the water](https://hackernoon.com/mastodon-is-dead-in-the-water-888c10e8abb1))
-
-The problems you mention come mainly from a single large instance. You seem to mention an answer but then gloss over it.
-
-Why not have people run <em class="markup--em markup--p-em">custom.website</em> using their own domain name?
-
-A Heroku instance and AWS S3 account, plus a domain name, and you’re up and running.
-
-Just like at the dawn of blogging, running your own federated social instance isn’t for everyone. But you don’t need to be particularly technical to get things up and running. The <a href="https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/blob/master/docs/Running-Mastodon/Heroku-guide.md" data-href="https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/blob/master/docs/Running-Mastodon/Heroku-guide.md" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Deploy to Heroku experience</a> is cut and paste.
-
-Will it be hard to – as a community – help people setup their own instances? Sure. It was hard to bootstrap blogging, too.
-
-What’s dead in the water is continually relying on centralized solutions.
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2017-04-15-notes-on-running-mastodon-heroku.md b/_posts/blog/2017-04-15-notes-on-running-mastodon-heroku.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a63e97d..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2017-04-15-notes-on-running-mastodon-heroku.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,80 +0,0 @@
----
-title: Notes on running your own Mastodon instance on Heroku
-date: '2017-04-15T15:34:34-07:00'
-tags:
-  - Heroku
-  - Mastodon
----
-
-Darren Barefoot kicked off a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/dbarefoot/posts/10155060142235600" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/dbarefoot/posts/10155060142235600" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="noopener" target="_blank">discussion on Facebook</a> asking if people wanted to run Mastodon locally:
-
-> Who wants to help me set up a Mastodon instance for Vancouver-related stuff? I’ll provide the moral support, promotion and pay for hosting if someone wants to do the hard technical bits.
-> Or maybe that’s the wrong vector. Maybe we should set up an NGO tech and digital instance. Or maybe both?
-
-I responded that maybe everyone should run their own instance:</p>
-
-<img class="graf-image" data-image-id="1*IWD5lyPAqw8NibZPfvHDNA.png" data-width="479" data-height="376" src="https://microblog.bmannconsulting.com/uploads/2020/c339a4e9e1.jpg">
-
-Does it make sense for a community or group to run their own install? As much as I love open source, running an entire software stack securely — and not losing everyone’s data because you don’t have good backups — is a big job. I tend to discourage people from running their own software, instead mapping a domain name to Medium or Tumblr.
-
-Quoting myself:
-<blockquote name="a11d" id="a11d" class="graf graf--pullquote graf-after--p">From my point of view, anything with an API that I can map my own domain to meets the bar of a resilient service <a href="https://medium.bmannconsulting.com/self-hosting-doesnt-help-more-people-self-publish-b6bde64d2bcb" data-href="https://medium.bmannconsulting.com/self-hosting-doesnt-help-more-people-self-publish-b6bde64d2bcb" class="markup--anchor markup--pullquote-anchor" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Self-hosting doesn’t help more people self-publish</a>
-</blockquote>
-
-Kind of contrary to that, I wrote a response to <a href="https://hackernoon.com/mastodon-is-dead-in-the-water-888c10e8abb1">Mastodon is Dead in the Water</a> saying that people should <a href="{% link _posts/blog/2017-04-09-run-your-own-mastodon-instance.md %}">run their own Mastodon instance</a>.
-
-I was still in Toronto at the time, and actually got Mastodon setup using just the browser on my phone with the <a href="https://github.com/tootsuite/documentation/blob/master/Running-Mastodon/Heroku-guide.md">Deploy to Heroku button</a>. This is a feature of Heroku I love, and I’ve created several of these buttons of my own to help people get apps up and running.
-
-This Easter weekend (it took me a solid half a day yesterday) I finally did the work to fully setup a Mastodon instance. I set one up for [[Frontier Foundry]] my new venture. I thought we might use it for links and tweet-length commentary for us and our portfolio companies. Or it might just be something to experiment with for a couple of weeks.[[This Mastodon server is no longer around, so it was a relatively short lived experiment.::rmn]]
-
-<img class="graf-image" width="700" height="340" src="https://microblog.bmannconsulting.com/uploads/2020/8831df6ccf.jpg">
-
-My profile on the Frontier Foundry Mastodon instance lives at `mastodon.frontierfoundry.co/@boris`. There’s even an RSS feed for each user which enables interesting re-use — I’ve setup an IFTTT recipe that posts anything from that feed to my Twitter account if it contains the keyword “share”.
-
-## Setting up Mastodon on Heroku
-
-Here are the things you’re going to need to have accounts on / be comfortable working with:
-
-* a domain name and a registrar where you can edit DNS settings: I tend to use [[Namecheap]], while [[Hover]] is my “regular user” recommendation that also happens to be Canadian. Domains tend to be about $10USD per year, although there are also much cheaper ones and specials.
-* an Amazon AWS account: accounts are free although you will have to have a credit card attached. The S3 file storage here will cost perhaps $1USD per month at most.
-* Heroku account: accounts are free, you’ll need a credit card attached to your account, and I am currently paying what will amount to $14USD per month for hosting
-
-Next, you may very well need to have a desktop computer setup with Ruby, Node, git, and a full suite of developer tools to be successful in getting everything working.
-
-Reading <a href="https://ashfurrow.com/blog/running-mastodon-on-heroku/">Ash Furrow’s Running Mastodon on Heroku</a> meant that someone had hit many roadblocks ahead of me and figured out some of the workarounds, which was great. The setup I ended up following was two Heroku installs to get the Streaming API working, as per the <a href="https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/1119#issuecomment-292816340">comment in this issue by ecmendenhall</a> (thanks Connor Mendenhall!).
-
-I wasted a lot of time setting things up from scratch with a fresh clone of mMstodon, when starting with the Deploy to Heroku and just adding the second streaming server would have probably been a better decision.
-
-The other thing that took a lot of time was setting up the Heroku Mailgun add-on. After you add it, you need to verify yourself, and then take a whole bunch of other steps in both Mailgun and your DNS / MX settings for it to be fully working. Do this right at the beginning.
-
-I’ve still got one piece of troubleshooting / bug to figure out with Amazon S3 settings where S3_BUCKET and S3_HOSTNAME duplicate each other (and even there I’m not going to bother doing SSL with Cloudfront, which means there is a mix of secure content and insecure images).
-
-## Should people run their own software?
-
-In short, the answer is no. The level of expertise — and I’m not even talking digital literacy, I’m talking learned, professional expertise — that someone requires to run, maintains, and secure software is very high.</p>
-
-That’s one of the reasons I run as many things as I can on Heroku. I don’t have to worry about the lower levels of an operating system at all.
-
-Docker is the other newest kid on the block, and Mastodon is setup to work well with Docker. But Docker and various places where you can host docker containers don’t solve the fact that you are still exposed to the entire operating system stack of a server, which is where many security and backup issues lie.
-
-With Heroku, database backups are included, it’s just a snapshot of code and configuration, and Amazon S3 backs up the files automatically, too. Heroku even handles SSL certificates automatically for paid accounts.
-
-The folks building mMstodon are helpful to a point in getting things running on Heroku, but ultimately are focused on maintaining a more traditional software stack that they use for their own development and deployment. I think that going forward, applications need to be designed to be deployed in simpler fashion, with less of a “stack” and more pluggable components.
-
-What would a Mastodon that was designed to be run “serverless” look like?
-
-## Decentralized and P2P apps of the future
-
-I’ve been working a lot with blockchain and other decentralized / P2P applications lately. I wrote about the [Akasha decentralized blogging platform]({% link _posts/blog/2017-02-13-akasha-cross-post-planting-tag-flag-vancouver-bowen-canada.md %}) that runs on the Ethereum blockchain, and I’ve also poked about with [[Beaker Browser]], which runs on [[Dat Protocol]] underneath.
-
-It was a lot of work to setup an instance of Mastodon on Heroku. For someone that has tinkered with open source tech and servers for 15+ years and has a computer science degree.
-
-And with that, I’m still paying a relatively high amount (I don’t think I could justify $15/month or $180 years for just my personal usage), never mind “renting” a domain name from the DNS system. Mastodon works in a mobile web browser or with some iOS or Android apps, but I don’t think I could have completed the entire setup and install from my phone.
-
-[As I wrote before]({% link _posts/blog/2016-08-01-self-hosting-doesnt-help-self-publish.md %}), I think the list of things we need to aim for with these future decentralized apps is:</p>
-
-1. **Publish from a smartphone:** the smartphone will be the only computing device for most of the world going forward. Focus on it.
-2. **No server hosting:** fully decentralized / peer-to-peer. There may still be various semi- or fully-centralized services for discovery, naming, trust, or other convenience functions.
-3. **No domain names:** let’s not rent our identifiers, and let’s not build financial barriers to anyone “owning” their content online
-
-I’m going to continue exploring in this space. In the meantime, it’s great to see Mastodon bringing a bunch of discussion forward, and for us all to think about federation, decentralization, and what that means for designing interactions.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2017-08-19-blockchain-open-source-definitions.md b/_posts/blog/2017-08-19-blockchain-open-source-definitions.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 2e986fd..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2017-08-19-blockchain-open-source-definitions.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,55 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-title: 'Blockchain & Open Source Definitions'
-date: '2017-08-19T07:34:34-07:00'
-modified: '2018-10-11T08:34:34-07:00'
-categories:
-  - Commons
-tags:
-  - "open source"
-  - blockchain
-comments: true
----
-
-This post was written as a response to [Trent McConaghy's post, Blockchain as a Field](https://blog.bigchaindb.com/blockchain-as-a-field-47c9f4589418).
-
-He starts with this statement:
-> “blockchain” is best used as a label for a field, just like “AI” is the label for the field of artificial intelligence.
-
-It was Lisa Cheng[^lisacheng], who opened my eyes to the multiple definitions of blockchain.
-
-Roughly paraphrased, here’s what Lisa used as a framework for defining blockchain:
-<!-- more -->
-### The Three Definitions of Blockchain
-1. **Blockchain as Innovation:** the cryptographic / computer science innovation of Merkle Trees and organizing into an immutable chain using math.
-1. **Blockchain as Public Chain**: A collective label for instances of public chains, such as Bitcoin or Ethereum.
-1. **Blockchain as Ethos**: The believe and support for certain attributes of blockchains, such as decentralization, trustlessness, or immutability.
-
-So I agree with [Trent McConaghy](https://medium.com/@trentmc0) that blockchain is a field, closely related to decentralized web.
-
-I know some people interested in the decentralized web & p2p networks – who have a similar belief in ethos – but who don’t like blockchain’s currency / store of value attributes. Or perhaps they don’t like the technical underpinnings – we use to argue more strenuously about the merits of Programming Language A vs B, too.
-
-## Would blockchain be possible without the previous innovation and beliefs of open source?
-
-I tried to think about how multiple definitions might apply to the concept of Open Source:
-
-### Three Definitions of Open Source
-1. **Open Source as Legal Innovation:** the creation of licenses that enabled source code to be open, including copy left which forced contribution of changes.
-1. **Open Source as Collaboration Method:** the process of working out in the open with a distributed group of contributors jointly making changes to a central code base.
-1. **Open Source as Ethos**: a belief that code should be open for inspection and free as in freedom. That code that runs applications should be available and changeable. That many eyes make all bugs shallow.
-
-Open Source has gone through changes in the 15 years I’ve been involved. Highly centralized groups, which actively tried to prevent forks, was my experience when I started. And I had bad habits of tribalism supported by this approach.
-
-Was it the rise of GitHub as a collaboration tool that led to changes of “many forks”? Was the shift to wider usage of the MIT license rather than GPL because of these tools, or was it an evolution of ethos by the wider open source community?
-
-Blockchains’ ethos of trustlessness and decentralization is in part what drives interest in it, especially by people who don’t have the background to build the technology directly.
-
-People like Trent may subscribe to some of these beliefs, but are also highly accomplished technologists, computer scientists, and/or cryptographers, actively working on innovations which power different tools.
-
-Josh Stark’s recent article [Making Sense of Cryptoeconomics](https://www.coindesk.com/making-sense-cryptoeconomics/) explores similar thinking around the cross-disciplinary nature of the field:
-
-> Cryptoeconomic systems like bitcoin feel like magic to someone who views them only as a product of computer science, because bitcoin can do things that computer-science alone could never accomplish. Cryptoeconomics isn’t magic – it’s just interdisciplinary.
-
-I’m looking forward to further evolutions and enhancements around the fields of blockchain, crypto-economics, and decentralized web, and how we apply our ethos to these capabilities.
-
-[^lisacheng]: Lisa is co-founder of [Vanbex](http://vanbex.com/); I was an advisor & early investor there.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2017-09-11-firesideconf-barcamp-spirit.md b/_posts/blog/2017-09-11-firesideconf-barcamp-spirit.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a602319..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2017-09-11-firesideconf-barcamp-spirit.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
----
-title: FiresideConf brings the spirit of BarCamp to the woods of Ontario
-date: '2017-06-14T01:34:34-07:00'
-tags:
-  - FiresideConf
-  - barcamp
----
-
-<p name="6845" id="6845" class="graf graf--p graf--leading">Want to carry on the spirit of FiresideConf? Here are a bunch of ways you can take action <strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong">RIGHT NOW</strong>:</p>
-<p name="9254" id="9254" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p">You can pledge equity of your startup to a charity of your choice when you have an exit? Go <a href="http://upsidefoundation.ca/" data-href="http://upsidefoundation.ca/" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="noopener" target="_blank">sign up for the Upside Foundation</a>. In Vancouver, let’s get together to talk Upside during Startup Week.</p>
-<p name="88a7" id="88a7" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p"><a href="http://stopgap.ca/" data-href="http://stopgap.ca/" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Stop Gap</a> is happy to accept your <a href="http://stopgap.ca/donate-today/" data-href="http://stopgap.ca/donate-today/" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="noopener" target="_blank">charitable donations here</a>. What they could use even more is some business coaching, marketing support, and general brainstorming on how to use innovation to be financially sustainable beyond one off donations. Maybe get them on Patreon? <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/contact/" data-href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com/contact/" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Please contact me</a> if you’d like to get involved.</p>
-<p name="8f47" id="8f47" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p">Love <a href="https://medium.com/u/999f9d47984d" data-href="https://medium.com/u/999f9d47984d" data-anchor-type="2" data-user-id="999f9d47984d" data-action-value="999f9d47984d" data-action="show-user-card" data-action-type="hover" class="markup--user markup--p-user" target="_blank">Jonathan Mann</a>’s Song A Day? Send him some Ether for a great music + blockchain project he’s looking to get started: 0x3d9456ad6463a77bd77123cb4836e463030bfab4</p>
-<p name="1ccb" id="1ccb" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p">You can read about the Early Stage Venture camp that I helped facilitate over on the <a href="https://www.nacocanada.com" data-href="https://www.nacocanada.com" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="noopener" target="_blank">NACO blog</a> (which I’ll update with direct a link here later when it’s posted).</p>
-<p name="b008" id="b008" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p graf--trailing">Thanks Fireside 2017. Go dig into what other people are feeling and thinking after their experience <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%40firesideconf%20OR%20from%3A%40firesideconf%20OR%20%23firesideconf&src=typd" data-href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%40firesideconf%20OR%20from%3A%40firesideconf%20OR%20%23firesideconf&src=typd" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="noopener" target="_blank">#firesideconf »</a></p>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2018-06-14-algiers-smart-city-leapfrog-tech.md b/_posts/blog/2018-06-14-algiers-smart-city-leapfrog-tech.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 5f2e166..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2018-06-14-algiers-smart-city-leapfrog-tech.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
----
-title: The Algiers Smart City and Leapfrog Technologies
-date: '2017-06-14T01:34:34-07:00'
-tags:
-  - Algiers
----
-
-<p name="6bac" id="6bac" class="graf graf--p graf-after--h3">I am speaking at the [[Smart City Algiers Summit]] http://www.smartcityalgiers.com/ at the end of June. Along with Dr. [[Riad Hartani]], I was asked about some of the thoughts on the Algiers Smart City project and their leapfrog tech approach.</p>
-<p name="f6df" id="f6df" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p">Dr. Riad wrote previously about the “cascading technology trap” that cities find themselves in. In essence, the innovation and iteration speed of cities is much slower than the development of technology. By the time a technology has been assessed and approved — the next technology has come along. Or, a brand new technology is put in place at a stage where it is not yet ready for deployment.</p>
-<blockquote name="4d46" id="4d46" class="graf graf--blockquote graf-after--p">Cities plan over the long term and expectation for mature technologies and validated business case. Modern technologies have a short lifespan relative to what cities seek. Often, the business case is not validated for wide-scale deployment. Validating the return on investment is a time-consuming activity. Moreover, the organizational structure of cities, the decision-making cycle, the process of evaluation and deployment is slow to assimilate complex modern technologies that cut across vertical silos around which city functions have developed.</blockquote>
-<p name="7968" id="7968" class="graf graf--p graf-after--blockquote"><a href="https://enterpriseiotinsights.com/20171220/channels/cascading-technology-trap-smart-city-deployments-reader-forum" data-href="https://enterpriseiotinsights.com/20171220/channels/cascading-technology-trap-smart-city-deployments-reader-forum" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The Cascading Technology Trap in Smart City Deployments</a>, Riad Hartani & Frank Rayal</p>
-<p name="4919" id="4919" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p">In what way can cities — especially those in the developing world — lean into “leapfrog” technologies, to be ahead of the iteration and learning curve?</p>
-<p name="1d77" id="1d77" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p">Rather than waiting to be sold a solution by vendors or Internet giants, how does home grown local talent gain skills combined with the local context of a city or region?</p>
-</div>
-<div class="section-inner sectionLayout--outsetColumn"><figure name="9faf" id="9faf" class="graf graf--figure graf--layoutOutsetCenter graf-after--p"><div class="aspectRatioPlaceholder is-locked" style="max-width: 1192px; max-height: 671px;"><img class="graf-image" data-image-id="1*VYXn8Q0bHqZz1IIsKkHTqg.jpeg" data-width="2048" data-height="1152" src="https://microblog.bmannconsulting.com/uploads/2020/02246b3eaa.jpg"></div>
-<figcaption class="imageCaption">Photo by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/jaysen/102751070/" data-href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/jaysen/102751070/" class="markup--anchor markup--figure-anchor" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Jaysen Naidoo</a></figcaption></figure></div>
-<div class="section-inner sectionLayout--insetColumn">
-<h4 name="d578" id="d578" class="graf graf--h4 graf-after--figure">The Algiers Smart City (ASC) project considers as fundamental that growth is based on leapfrog technologies and new, non-linear methodologies. How can this approach be transformed into reality in your opinion?</h4>
-<p name="053c" id="053c" class="graf graf--p graf-after--h4">One has to go back to the main premise behind leapfrog technologies. They are technologies that are fairly new, disruptive, fast moving and in most cases, widely accessible given their open source and global collaborative nature.</p>
-<p name="f3c9" id="f3c9" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p">They are also a direct consequence of the stage at which we are in terms of Internet evolution, where a few technology giants significantly dominate and aggressively pushing such technologies, to ensure more dominance versus legacy players.</p>
-<p name="7fa9" id="7fa9" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p">In the Algiers project, a careful well thought through choice has been made to leverage these aspects. We believe it’s a wise approach, exploiting disruptions and narrow windows of opportunities. The other way to look at it would be to ask about alternative ways of achieving technology development goals. We don’t see any viable alternative, so it seems to be the best choice out there.</p>
-<h4 name="d070" id="d070" class="graf graf--h4 graf-after--p">What elements will be key for the ASC, or another analogous projects, to be exported and replicated anywhere?</h4>
-<p name="5a03" id="5a03" class="graf graf--p graf-after--h4">Smart city projects are all unique and all very specific to the context in which they are applied. Yet, we believe that the challenges the ASC project is going after, namely those of isolation, dependency and lack of confidence are common throughout the emerging world, to different extents.</p>
-<p name="5778" id="5778" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p">As such, elements of the approach are repeatable and adaptable to other cities. In fact, efforts are under way to expose the model developed in Algiers — in particular when it comes to jump-starting, funding and growing high tech startups, as well as models of technology experimentation and partnerships with global technology players — to other cities, in Africa in particular.</p>
-<h4 name="9f41" id="9f41" class="graf graf--h4 graf-after--p">The implementation of new technologies will surely bring new challenges in the regulatory field. To what degree is a country like Algeria ready for such changes?</h4>
-<p name="836c" id="836c" class="graf graf--p graf-after--h4">The Algiers Smart City project has been initiated with one consideration in mind — that technologies are developing way faster than regulations, and this is one of the key challenges to overcome. The project has put together specific initiatives to address this challenge.</p>
-<p name="3075" id="3075" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p">The best illustration of this is the launch of the large scale live Smart City experimental lab in Algiers, where new advanced technologies can be experimented with, within a relaxed regulatory framework. We believe that this is a very creative way, not only to understand how such technologies will be deployed, but also how regulators can see, learn and understand the consequences of deploying such technologies, and through that, adapt and evolve regulations on a broader scale.</p>
-<h4 name="c5a2" id="c5a2" class="graf graf--h4 graf-after--p">Startups in Algiers have claimed that revenue is the priority issue to tackle, and not funding. How could the ASC contribute to build on sustainable revenue models in your view?</h4>
-<p name="0cf1" id="0cf1" class="graf graf--p graf-after--h4">Funding is important, but its not necessarily the most important thing. Access to customers and customers’ revenue is the most important thing. That would drive funding. Not having a path to that not only will make funding difficult but also bring in a very low return on investment. As such, the Algiers Smart City strategy in linking startups to the demand side, and to customers with a goal of fast tracking funding is the right strategy.</p>
-<p name="c587" id="c587" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p">In fact, this is the most important thing for startups and not only in Algiers, but everywhere. It is more of a need in Algiers and regions of the world where venture capital are still nascent. We don’t see any other option than working with startups in having them get access to revenue. Funding will follow. The recent startups launched within the Smart City project follow this model. Time will tell if this is the right approach, but as of now, all indications show that it’s an approach that is worth executing on.</p>
-<h4 name="8437" id="8437" class="graf graf--h4 graf-after--p">What else is needed for entrepreneurs to succeed under the wave of new technological paradigms?</h4>
-<p name="a9bd" id="a9bd" class="graf graf--p graf-after--h4">What is needed is risk, or more risk taking. Startups are about risk management. There is little risk taken in Algiers and a lot of the world when it comes to risk taking, early stage technology and business risk taking in particular. It is a difficult thing to do. It involves culture, society, ability and many other factors. Yet, without such risk taking, there is little chance of developing tech giants. Algiers has taken a very pragmatic approach in addressing this.</p>
-<p name="e445" id="e445" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p">Basically, significantly help those taking risks, with the goal of increasing their chances of success. Why? Because risk taking levels will go up if risk is perceived as bringing returns on investments. It’s a natural phenomenon. Seeing risk rewarded, over time, will ensure there is more risk taking by newer generation. This takes time, years, tens of years. Yet, there is no way around it.</p>
-<h4 name="2455" id="2455" class="graf graf--h4 graf-after--p">What’s your assessment on the progress made by the ASC by the time being?</h4>
-<p name="bfe2" id="bfe2" class="graf graf--p graf-after--h4">It is very early stage in the process. I think the Algiers Smart City project’s main credit is in having clearly identified its strategic goals and executed on tactical goals based on that. It’s a thesis being laid out, and it’s a thesis being defended, not in theory but in practice. In the field.</p>
-<p name="1cfc" id="1cfc" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p graf--trailing">Of course, one can draw an anti thesis to any thesis. In fact, that is what Algiers aimed at doing — developing a thesis, exposing it and listening to anti thesis, then carefully and proactively adapting. It’s all about adapting, and doing so smartly. Understanding that is in itself good progress. The rest will take years, and much longer to judge. It is a hard task at hand. Very hard in fact, but one begs the question: what else can be done?</p>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2018-07-01-berlin-observations.md b/_posts/blog/2018-07-01-berlin-observations.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 4e88ec6..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2018-07-01-berlin-observations.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,138 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-title: Berlin Observations
-date: '2018-07-01T01:43:24+02:00'
-modified: '2018-07-02T13:23:00+02:00'
-categories:
-  - Travel
-tags:
-  - Berlin
-header:
-  overlay_color: "#000"
-  overlay_filter: "0.5"
-  caption: 'Schnitzel for me, spaetzle for Rachael, at Mirika in Kreuzberg'
-  overlay_image: /images/uploads/schnitzel.jpg
-excerpt: "I've been in Berlin for about a month now, minus a side trip to Rotterdam and a conference in Algiers. Here are some of the notes and observations I've made about the city that have stood out to me."
-toc: true
-comments: true
----
-
-_All of these are just noticings -- they are interesting to me because I've noticed them, become aware of them as different from what I'm used to. That is -- these things may be obvious, they may not be a trend, or are otherwise banal :)_
-
-## A Berlin Blockchain Sabbatical
-
-First, why am I in Berlin, when my usual home is Vancouver? I recently [wrapped up a year of building my startp Finhaven](https://frontierfoundry.co/post/back-to-the-future-frontier-foundry) and both [Rachael](http://rachaelashe.com) and I felt the need for a bit of a reboot.
-
-I've been starting to get even more involved in blockchain & decentralized web tech, with a particular focus on the Ethereum open source community. Berlin has a ton of community activity, including dedicated coworking co-spaces like [Full Node](https://www.fullnode.berlin/).
-
-For Rachael, tons of arts and culture here as well, so something for both of us.
-
-I'm calling it a sabbatical, although we've both been working on a variety of self-directed projects.
-
-We stayed in an AirBnB in Kreuzberg near the Landwehr Canal for the first couple of weeks, in the south / south east of Berlin. We then went to Rotterdam for 5 days because we had to switch apartments anyway and Rachael had found a Paper Art Biennale in Rijswijk. Coming back, our apartment for the rest of the time is in Wedding, in the north west of the city.
-
-## Imposter German
-
-I grew up speaking German at home -- my parents are actually from Germany, having moved to Vancouver a few years before I was born.
-
-What I mean by imposter is that while I look German and speak it fluently, I don't _know_ anything about Germany or Berlin. So in many cases, if I start talking to someone in German, they assume that I'm German. But since I don't have any context of the country or the city, it can lead to confusing conversations.
-
-I've taken to either very quickly explaining that we're visiting from Canada and that Rachael only speaks English, or even to just speak English if I think "playing dumb" will be better for the situation.
-
-## Fashion
-
-I see lots of nose rings — specifically, septum rings on women.
-
-Wide pants on women.
-
-Lots of tattoos, both men & women. Individual arm & leg tattoos as well as sleeves.
-
-Man buns everywhere.
-
-Round glasses on men and women, from small to oversized. Many "mirrored" sun glasses.
-
-More what I think of as "hippie" clothing, even going back to things like tie die on clothing and bags. There are stores like Guru or Chapati that have locally designed in Berlin clothes, manufactured in India or Indonesia which take cloth and patterns from those places with Europeanized cuts.
-
-## Mobile
-
-We got [O2](http://o2online.de) SIM cards for 10EU at MediaMarkt (big box store like Best Buy). Even ended up being 2-for-1 and included a month of service with 1.5GB of data and 300 minutes. The service itself has been mediocre -- 3G with spotty instances of LTE. It did mean we could roam to the Netherlands with no extra charges and were included in the plan.
-
-There are QR codes in lots of places. They don’t necessarily do anything interesting other than encode a website.
-
-In one case, a flyer for a local Japanese festival had the QR code link to a Facebook event... for last year’s event.
-
-## Transit
-
-We initially got 7 day transit passes in Berlin, which cost 30EU each. These work across U-Bahn, S-Bahn, and buses. There are no gates or barriers. The bus driver may glance at your pass, or you might enter a rear door.
-
-I had one ticket check on a U-Bahn, where plainclothes people pull out badges and check everyone.
-
-In Rotterdam, there are chip cards you load with cash. You tag in and tag out of every ride. In city rides seem to be 1.30EU, slightly cheaper for shorter ones. We were even able to take the subway between two cities (Rotterdam to The Hague), which was surprising to us.
-
-Rotterdam has separated bike paths everywhere, which are red pavement. Sidewalks for people, red paths for bikes, and roads for cars.
-
-When we came back from Rotterdam, we got a month long transit pass for Berlin which is 80EU.
-
-Our first apartment was in a U-Bahn parallelogram -- it was equally between 4 different U-Bahn stations with a 10 minute walk to each. In retrospect, look for this: you would rather be very close (< 5 minute walk) to any station. Our Wedding apartment is a < 5 minute walk and it's great.
-
-## Dockless Bikes
-
-There are dockless bike shares everywhere. Berlin has some dock bikes, too, but the docks look abandoned.
-
-[Mobike](https://mobike.com/) and [Ofo](https://www.ofo.com) are the two brands I see the most, with Mobike having the widest distribution. I wasn't able to get my Mobike signup working, Ofo was 0.80EU for 20 minutes and I hopped on it several times.
-
-## Payment
-
-Many restaurants have smartphone or tablet ordering. Plus some dedicated order pad hardware.
-
-We see little of this in North America — at the table sever digital ordering. Instead, North America has had Server <> Kitchen digital ordering for a long time.
-
-My theory is this is a leapfrog: restaurants are going from no systems, cash only, to a full system with digital POS integrated with online ordering.
-
-Smaller corner stores are cash only. Market stalls and food trucks are predominantly cash only (maybe 1 in 20 takes some form of electronic payment?). Lots of room for [Square](https://squareup.com/) to grow in Europe (or be leapfrogged by mobile-to-mobile solutions without credit card readers).
-
-Rotterdam has “PIN” terminals for debit cards only (which doesn’t work with my Vancity card). Only larger stores and museums take credit cards.
-
-We find ourselves with lots of change. I am mostly cashless in Canada (since Canada's banks have the Interac debit card system which even corner stores have adopted), so am not used to carrying change. And of course, Canada got rid of the penny, and here there are 1 and 2 euro-cent pieces.
-
-We've found tipping hard. If you are paying with card, there is no prompt for tipping, so you have to calculate the amount ahead of time. If you are paying with cash, you again either ask for the change you want or leave the tip on the table, with ~10% seeming to be the amount you aim for.
-
-## Language
-
-Rachael has been using Duolingo to learn more German. She understands various words already from being around me and my family, and can puzzle out a lot of words if they are written down.
-
-The majority of the people we've met who live in Berlin and are originally from elsewhere have not learned German. They work in tech and so their "day job" at the office uses English. Still, it was surprising that a lot of people didn't feel the urge to learn more German, even after 4 - 5 years here (!!!).
-
-Most people speak some English. English is very much intertwined into lots of signage and phrases everywhere.
-
-We've been listening to local radio in the mornings. Commercial top-40 radio announcers are seemingly identical the world over, with the same over-the-top cadences no matter the language.
-
-Lots of Turkish and Turkish signage on cafes and stores in different neighbourhoods.
-
-## Food
-
-Meat, cheese, and bread is what Germany is all about. Every neighbourhood has bakeries with fresh buns and bread baked every day. Most of these places will also do sandwiches and a coffee.
-
-Currywurst (a bratwurst with a tomato ketchup + curry spices) is a very Berlin thing.
-
-Doner Kebab -- or just doner -- is the other item that is very Berlin. Our place in Wedding
-
-It was Spargel (white asparagus) season when we arrived, and many places had Spargel specials. Local strawberries and blueberries are in season now too.
-
-There are lots of general grocery stores, which tend to be smaller and more local than the giant grocery stores that you drive to in North America.
-
-In Berlin, we also went to lots of Turkish grocery stores.
-
-The average coffee is terrible. There are really good independent coffee shops, but they aren't in every neighbourhood. Whether chain store or independent bakery, your coffee
-
-I asked for cortados in various places. Half of them gave me espresso with sweetened condensed milk, half of them gave me what I think of when I order a cortado in Vancouver. The [Cortado wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortado) does mention that with condensed milk is a thing.
-
-"Coffee to go" is something that is advertised. That is, it is not common to have take out cups rather than to sit down and drink your coffee. I saw one sign
-
-<!-- TO DO: picture of the kneipe with anti-to-go-sign -->
-
-I find the average restaurant / cafe to be not very good compared to Vancouver. I've known this for a while, that the "average" meal in Vancouver is very good, but it hits home when you research Google / Foursquare and go to a place here that has 4 - 5 star ratings and have a mediocre meal.
-
-The feature image above is a lunch at [MIRIKA](https://www.mirikaberlin.com/), a cafe in Kreuzberg. I had schnitzel and Rachael had spaetzle, both of which are very traditional German cuisines (although neither are local to Berlin) -- and it was among the best experiences we had.
-
-We had a super disappointing [Indonesian Rijsttafel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rijsttafel) in Rotterdam. White table cloths and "fancy", but was 100EU for two of us with one drink each, and it was just average. In Vancouver, there are half a dozen places (at least) with better beef rendang, for $10CAD per person.
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2018-07-02-conferences-as-community-gathering.md b/_posts/blog/2018-07-02-conferences-as-community-gathering.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e84a5fa..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2018-07-02-conferences-as-community-gathering.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,120 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-title: Conferences as Community Gathering
-date: '2018-07-02T20:34:34+02:00'
-modified: '2018-07-02T20:34:34+02:00'
-categories:
-  - Community
-tags:
-  - open source
-  - unconference
-  - BoF
-  - Ethereum
-  - conference
-header:
-  caption: "2016 Polyglot Organizing Sticky Notes, <a href='https://twitter.com/tavisrudd/status/736621944980701184'>Tavis Rudd</a>"
-  overlay_color: "#000"
-  overlay_filter: "0.5"
-  overlay_image: /images/uploads/tavis_polyglot_stickies.jpg
-excerpt: "Rather than treating attendees just as an audience for lectures, conferences should be a community gathering that invites people to make it an awesome experience. Here are some thoughts on how to include community in your traditional conference format, starting with a bit of history about unconferences."
-toc: true
-comments: true
----
-
-I wrote this post as I started thinking about all the blockchain conferences that were very expensive and yet were supposedly designed for the community. As communities, we also have to think about the design of conferences and other in-person gatherings, and if they meet the goals we have as a community.
-
-## Unconferences
-
-The initial rise of unconferences[^1] in the early 2000s was a reaction to several things. One was breaking down the walls of exclusivity. BarCamp (Bay Area Rejects) said to FooCamp  (Friends of O’Reilly) that “the crowd” could self organize and everyone was welcome.
-
-The other part of the reaction was that there were seemingly no experts. No one had a degree in blogging or open source, so any audience was at least as knowledgeable as the speaker at the front of the room.
-
-As well, communities ended up building around professional conferences ahead of the ability or size to do their own conferences. The [second BarCamp in Amsterdam](https://factoryjoe.com/2005/09/22/bar-camp-amsterdam/), which I helped organize, was a reaction to a lack of space at the formal Euro OSCON event. It was so novel in 2005, the [BBC sent someone to do a story on it](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/4382626.stm).
-
-Using Open Space Technology and related group facilitation techniques[^2], tech-focused Barcamps spread around the world.
-
-Later on, the format jumped out of tech and “camp” style events of all kinds were put on. These were typically put on by volunteers with no event professionals involved, with tickets being free or low cost to break even on expenses. Many of them took place on weekends or evenings outside of the regular work week, because the events were not part of the organizers’ day jobs. This also made them accessible to attendees who didn’t have this as their day job.
-
-## Inviting Community into Your Conference
-
-I didn't know how a conference was _supposed_ to be organized, and we _were_ the community, so we built it in from the beginning.
-
-I helped found a blogging & social media conference in Vancouver called Northern Voice. It ended up mixing a traditional speaker track with an unconference track (called MooseCamp), The traditional format was good for new attendees looking to learn, and the unconference meant that small groups of experts could talk about what was brand new and relevant to them.
-
-Fast forward to today. Unconferences are not something that a lot of people have ever experienced, and the vast majority of conferences are still organized organized with front of the room, lecture-style presentations by single speakers. Maybe a Q&A session, maybe a panel or two where a moderator lobs questions to the panelists.
-
-And yet, some of the very best part of conferences are the hallway conversations[^3] or a spirited audience Q&A after a formal talk.
-
-People will come back to your conference if they had an awesome time connecting with other people, and community is a great way to accomplish this.
-
-## Birds of a Feather
-
-The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), which is a technical organization with a formal process and formal meetings. It's where I first heard the term "birds of a feather" (BoFs), and they describe it as part of the process of [how the IETF functions](http://www.ietf.org/how/bofs/):
-
-> Birds of a Feather sessions (BoFs) are initial discussions about a particular topic of interest to the IETF community. BoFs are usually held at IETF meetings, and requests to hold a BoF must be made significantly in advance of the meeting.
-
-As is traditional with the IETF, there are even two Request-for-Comments (RFCs) written in 2009 and 2012 on how to be successful in hosting & running BoFs:
-- [RFC 5434 - Considerations for Having a Successful Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) Session](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc5434/?include_text=1)
-- [RFC 6771 - Considerations for Having a Successful "Bar BOF" Side Meeting](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc6771/?include_text=1)
-
-This should be required reading to understand how to mix formal and informal practices.
-
-Getting to know [Greg Colvin @greg_colvin](https://twitter.com/greg_colvin), one of the founders of the Magi, he very much expressed how both the Ethereum EIP process and the Magi meetings are inspired by the IETF process.
-
-## Evolving Ethereum Conferences & Community
-
-I was inspired to write this article from my involvement in the Ethereum community. I went to Toronto at the same time as [EDCON](http://edcon.io) and ended up participating in a shoulder event, WalletConf.
-
-I say "at the same time as EDCON" because I didn't have a ticket -- it was sold out before I could buy one. And, with regular tickets starting at USD$350, I couldn't justify it: I wasn't going for the talks, I was going there for community. And the conference was wall-to-wall talks, with little built in room for community.
-
-WalletConf was a side meeting that was separately organized[^4], but was also overly planned. It was a fantastic event, but the best part of it was meeting everyone, and talks from 10am to 8pm left little time for more ad-hoc meetings. As a follow up to that, I wrote up [How to Run a Working Group Event](https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/how-to-run-a-working-group-event/318) on the Fellowship of Ethereum Magicians forum.
-
-Next thing you know, I'm helping to organize the all volunteer [Magicians Summer Council in Berlin](https://ethereum-magicians.github.io/berlin-council/). The first meeting was at EthCC in Paris, and the next will be at Devcon4, so very much holding to the spirit of connecting with existing conferences.
-
-We are in a strange space where community is just getting started, and yet at the same time there are high ticket cost events around the globe (never mind travel costs for any of these events -- regardless of ticket cost!).
-
-My plea to professional conference organizers is to include space for community alongside your conferences. We really don't want to be in the event organizing business, but we have to be if you don't move beyond lectures.
-
-## Tips for Conference Organizers
-
-Professional conferences which involve 100s or 1000s of people take months to plan and often have very large budgets. Work with your community, and build out your process for how you're going to include them. Will you include side meetings or after hours events in your "official" schedule? Will you include links and promotion? Will you have meeting room space that can be scheduled?
-
-1. **Connect:** Reach out to related groups and invite them to help organize a track, invite their community, and help get the word out. Discount codes for community attendees can grow your ticket sales.
-1. **Gather:** Direct people to a wiki or sign up form to help share topics of interest and showcase who else is coming, and what they're interested in.
-1. **Space:** Set aside one or more rooms, as well as gathering places (a foyer or lobby with couches works great) and include them on the conference map as community spaces. People can meet during networking breaks and before and after formal sessions.
-1. **Communicate:** include announcements and updates ahead of the conference and even during the conference as the topics evolve.
-
-There are a number of different ways to officially or unofficially include community in your event. Think about what is easy for you and hard for volunteer organizers (logistics, space, accounting) and which of those you can offer to the community. In turn, the community can offer positive word of mouth and cutting edge content. It can even be an opportunity to have sponsors step up to make space available, cover tickets & travel bursaries, and so on.
-
-## Going Beyond Conferences
-
-Is "conference" the right label and format for how we want to meet in person?
-
-An article I keep coming back to describes community in the context of the particular needs of scientists: [Moving Beyond Community Engagement for Online Science Collectives](https://medium.com/@junanaguy/moving-beyond-community-engagement-for-online-science-collectives-fb5f01fbf06b). While not scientists, the core community of open source projects seems very aligned with the descriptions.
-
-The organizing points of the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) group that are described are particularly good. Point 3 says "On-line asynchronous collaborations as the norm". We got this one, and we raise you with _synchronous_ Twitter, Telegram, Slack, and Riot messaging rooms[^5]!
-
-Point 4 describes how ESIP designs their two annual in person meetings, "with an emphasis on social interaction and interpersonal time":
-
-> These are where ESIPers become friends and learn to laugh together. No papers are presented. Breakouts are for information sharing and learning. Networking is intense at ESIP meetings. With several thousands years of Earth data experience in the room, it’s the best place on the planet to get connected to others who have similar problems or interests. Two meetings a year keep the whole group more active throughout the year.
-
-From Working Groups to Summer Councils, we must decide how we want to spend our precious resources of time, energy, and money. As distributed communities, we need to mix strong ties of in-person experiences with the weak ties of online only interactions.
-
-<hr />
-
-### Footnotes
-
-[^1]: Turns out I wrote about unconferences before: [What is an unconference?](https://blog.bmannconsulting.com/what-is-an-unconference)
-
-[^2]: See [Open Space Technology wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Space_Technology) for a full definition. What is now called an unconference is most directly related to open space organizing principles. Another technique is Fishbowl: a talk format that invites participants to come to the center of a room to speak, and then rotate back out to be a listener. See the [Fishbowl wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishbowl_(conversation)) for a longer description.
-
-[^3]: the [Polyglot Unconference](http://polyglotconf.com) starts the day by suggesting everyone default to Fishbowl-style group discussions. Organizer [Kyle Young @ksgyoung](http://twitter.com/ksgyoung) shared his [Intro to Fishbowl talks & how to hallway](https://www.dropbox.com/s/dxpjsffva817nst/polyglot.pdf?dl=0) -- which also describes how to have better, more inclusive hallway conversations!
-
-[^4]: I helped write the [wrap up notes for WalletConf on the Magicians forum](https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/thoughts-and-findings-from-the-web3-uxunconf/311)
-
-[^5]: I think the rise of [Discourse-powered forums](http://discourse.org) in the Ethereum community is a reaction to the short, noisy, and synchronous overload of messaging platforms.
-
-
-
-
-
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2018-09-03-hello-spade.md b/_posts/blog/2018-09-03-hello-spade.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 0764167..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2018-09-03-hello-spade.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,61 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-title: 'Hello SPADE'
-date: '2018-09-04T07:34:34-07:00'
-modified: '2018-09-04T08:34:34-07:00'
-categories:
-  - SPADE
-  - Personal
-tags:
-  - open source
-excerpt: "I'm going back to my roots in open source and co-founding the Special Projects & Decentralized Engineering Company, or SPADE for short."
-comments: true
----
-It's September, which is that time when everything ramps up again. It's back to school, it's starting-new-things, it's looking at all the "stuff" that's filling the calendar between now and the end of the year.
-
-And so, I get to say "Hello" and introduce the [Special Projects and Decentralized Engineering Company, or SPADE for short](https://spade.builders). Together with [Brooke Zelenka](https://twitter.com/expede), we have founded SPADE as a Delaware Public Benefit Corporation[^delawarepbc], and will be running a variety of technology, open source, and community projects through it.
-
-[^delawarepbc]: via [Clerky](https://www.clerky.com/public-benefit-corporations), which we used to register our PBC: "Delaware public benefit corporations must balance stockholder value with one or more specified public benefits, as well as the interests of anyone materially affected by its conduct."
-
-## Making Open Source Work
-
-"Making Open Source Work" is the big headline you'll see on the [spade.builders](https://spade.builders/) website. It has multiple meanings, and we mean all of them :)
-
-We want to have companies, projects, and individuals as our partners and customers. We want to deliver back-office and community support. We want to help make projects successful. And sustainable.
-
-We want to be a friendly, aligned corporate wrapper that lets projects of all kinds plug in to the "real world", and supports individuals around the world to make open source their work.
-
-## The arc of the universe bends towards open source
-
-My first startup was Bryght, a company working on commercializing Drupal, an open source CMS. I helped grow the Drupal community, was part of founding the Drupal Association, and learned a lot from Open Source 1.0.
-
-For my next decade, I worked on founding & funding, creating Bootup Labs, Canada's first modern startup accelerator, running Full Stack, a small seed fund, and more projects and companies around frontier tech.
-
-In just the past week, I've been excited by novel approaches to [open source licensing & social contracts](https://medium.com/@adamhjk/introducing-the-community-compact-431c61ab978f), the [economics of OSS](https://medium.com/@mattklein123/the-broken-economics-of-oss-5a1b31fc0182), and [tons of activity around smart contract powered bounty systems](https://our.status.im/start-your-web3-journey-with-embarks-new-bounties/).
-
-We've gone from CVS to SVN to git and GitHub, and our old foe Microsoft that spread so much <acronym title='Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt'>FUD</acronym> around Open Source 1.0 aims to be the most open source company in the world.
-
-## BUIDL for Ethereum
-
-The [Ethereum Status Codes](https://ethereumstatus.codes) initiative (aka ERC1066, that Brooke began work on when we were both at Finhaven) was the trigger for getting started, and that's where our first efforts will go into.
-
-We've applied for a number of grants and programs and hope to add some team members and integrate into lots of other projects in the Ethereum ecosystem.
-
-I've spent the summer getting more engaged with Ethereum, pouring a fair bit of energy into the [Fellowship of Ethereum Magicians](https://ethereum-magicians.org). I think there's lots more to do here, and areas where my mix of community, operations, and business skills can be helpful.
-
-## Mission Driven
-
-I discovered my personal mission was enabling anyone to publish online, through open source, self-hosting, and increased digital literacy. It's been a long road, and it's time to continue that mission.
-
-From SPADE's corporate charter, our purpose is to[^tweetpurpose]:
-
-> support individuals and teams who are working on open source software to run successful and sustainable projects
-
-[^tweetpurpose]: I [tweeted this](https://twitter.com/bmann/status/1034239614045716480) as we were filling out the paperwork. So pleased it got approved!
-
-Please do check out the [SPADE About page](https://spade.builders/about), which is the beginnings of what will become our Public Benefit Corporation Charter[^kickstartercharter].
-
-Drop by the [#lobby of the SPADE Discord server](https://discord.gg/daDMAjE) if you're interested in chatting further about these type of topics.
-
-[^kickstartercharter]: Did you know that [Kickstarter is a Public Benefit Corporation](https://www.kickstarter.com/blog/kickstarter-is-now-a-benefit-corporation)? Their [charter is inspiring](https://www.kickstarter.com/charter).
-
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2018-09-16-time-crm-tool-update.md b/_posts/blog/2018-09-16-time-crm-tool-update.md
deleted file mode 100644
index b02c14d..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2018-09-16-time-crm-tool-update.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-title: 'CRM updates'
-date: '2018-09-16T09:10:34-07:00'
-categories:
-  - Tools
-tags:
-  - CRM
-  - Monica CRM
-  - Capsule CRM
-  - Missive
-  - Fruux
-comments: true
----
-I got asked about my [personal CRM post](https://medium.bmannconsulting.com/a-personal-crm-1596213ad42c) on LinkedIn:
-
->I stumbled across your blog today, specifically a post about choosing a personal CRM from 2016. As a fellow tool junkie it was really exciting to see the different options available at the time broken down that way. It also made me curious about your current workflow. Has anything changed?
-
-I'm always changing up tools that I use or trying to get better with the ones I keep using. A lot of it is based on a deeper understanding of how I work best, and the rest of it is the changing context of the work I'm doing and the people I'm doing it with.
-<!-- more -->
-I've moved from Highrise to [Capsule CRM](https://capsulecrm.com/) as the tool I use for just me. I'll probably cancel it today.
-
-I've been reflecting a lot on how I want decades long tools, and the ability to improve them, so I have an instance of [Monica CRM](https://www.monicahq.com/) running. It's open source and is actually a personal CRM -- not focused on deals or sales pipeline, but on staying up to date with people. It might be a nice home for my long term contact database and be all I need personally. No bcc'ing Monica, so you'd have to be mindful about doing a sort of journaling in noting interactions with people.
-
-[fruux](https://fruux.com/) is still my contact database backup -- open source vCard support & syncing with my phone FTW!
-
-I guess I'll add [Missive](https://missiveapp.com) as a new tool that I'm just adopting. It turns email into a team sport[^emailteam] -- you can share inboxes, triage together, and assign things. I like it so far!
-
-[^emailteam]: I wrote a [presentation about email at companies](https://speakerdeck.com/bmann/email-is-a-team-sport-vdpm-meetup-october-2016) that I should revisit and add Missive to.
-
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2018-09-29-micro-blog-jekyll-micro-pub-and-indie-web.md b/_posts/blog/2018-09-29-micro-blog-jekyll-micro-pub-and-indie-web.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 68f57b8..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2018-09-29-micro-blog-jekyll-micro-pub-and-indie-web.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,94 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-date: '2018-09-29T18:24:04.304Z'
-modified: 2021-01-24
-title: 'MicroBlog, Jekyll, MicroPub and IndieWeb'
-tags:
-  - indieweb
-  - micropub
-  - jekyll
-mf-mp-slug:
-  - microblog-jekyll-micropub-indieweb
-slug: micro-blog-jekyll-micro-pub-and-indie-web
----
-As part of my dive back into open source, I took a look at my blog, social networks, and other tools I'm using.
-
-Well, maybe that's not quite true. I've been tinkering with my blog for 16 years, I doubt I'll ever stop, regardless of how I'm spending my time!
-
-## Twitter all the things
-
-I've stopped using Facebook, Tumblr, Medium, and Instagram and doubled down on using Twitter for my "whole self". Which in my case means posting cooking storms, long threads on travel, as well as lots and lots of tech.
-
-For this post I'm not going to get into why I'm off other platforms. With Twitter, I've always seen it as of the web, at the very least -- a link for every post. And, thanks to a long ago setup, I have an [automatically updated archive of all my tweets](http://tweets.bmannconsulting.com/).
-
-Twitter once again made changes to their API for third-party apps. I've used Tweetbot for years with aggressive filtering to make using Twitter much much better. And Tweetbot still does that, but I'm worried for when that's no longer possible.
-
-And then Twitter locked my account and wanted to send an SMS to my Canadian number while I was in the US.
-
-And that was a good reminder that that I should work on being less dependent on Twitter[^twitter-failure] as well.
-
-[^twitter-failure]: There's a whole other story about how Twitter's usernames are the de facto global namespace linking offline to online. I consider this a personal failure, as there was a window in time where these systems might have been at least federated rather than in one single commercial system, and I was working on bits and pieces of identity at the time.
-
-## Using MicroBlog
-
-I've had my eye on [[Micro.blog]] for a long time. I reserved the handle [@boris](http://micro.blog/boris) there right at the beginning, but didn't do anything with it.
-
-I have great admiration for [Pat Dryburgh](https://patdryburgh.com) and saw him working on a Jekyll theme and [using MicroBlog](https://micro.blog/pat) so all his content is on his own site.
-
-MicroBlog is free to use. You sign up and then link in one or more feeds, either RSS/Atom or JSON, and it will publish these to your timeline, linking back to the original. It's centralized in its namespace, but aggregates content.
-
-You can pay for a few different things. If you don't want to run your own blog, MicroBlog will run one for you. What I pay for is cross posting, which is only $2/month. This enables, on a per feed basis, linking in your Twitter, Medium, or LinkedIn accounts, and posting content to them. Facebook Pages are supported, but I haven't been able to get that working, and that isn't really what I want to spend time on.
-
-## Jekyll and Git
-
-Since I use [Jekyll](https://jekyllrb.com/) for my blog, all of the content is text/HTML/Markdown files. I store them in Git, and have used a variety of tools to generate and serve up the static HTML site.
-
-Currently I have the blog source in a private repo on GitHub and use a free account on Netlify to build and serve it[^colophon].
-
-[^colophon]:My [[Colophon]] and [[Blog Colophon]] have documented my blog travels over the years.
-
-But, with a static site, I need to run a separate server if I wanted to accept short posts on mobile. Specifically, with MicroBlog's iOS client, it talks to either a Wordpress site or to anything that can accept [[Micropub]][^micropub] posts.
-
-[^micropub]: The [IndieWeb site talks Micropub](https://indieweb.org/Micropub), which is in fact a [W3C Recommendation](https://www.w3.org/TR/micropub/). It's been a while since I paid attention to this -- great to see the spec matured and formalized.
-
-## Microglue
-
-I talked to Pat, who was already doing interesting things with podcasts and Git to get things on MicroBlog, about what a little Microglue server would look like.
-
-I'd want it to run on Heroku, talk to the GitHub API, understand Jekyll front matter and markdown, and speak Micropub.
-
-I wrote this up as a [series of issues in a GitHub repo](https://github.com/bmann/microglue) with feedback from Pat, intending to place a couple of bounties. Time passed, I added a large BorisCoin[^boriscoin] bounty via [Gitcoin](http://gitcoin.co), and then had [ozkan leave me a note about an existing implementation](https://github.com/bmann/microglue/issues/1#issuecomment-425262713).
-
-[^boriscoin]: My experimental Ethereum token.
-
-## Rube Goldberg IndieWeb
-
-And so I dove into Pelle's [webpage-micropub-to-github](https://github.com/voxpelli/webpage-micropub-to-github). He pretty much wrote it exactly how I had hoped to have such a thing built.
-
-It's built in Node and has a [[Deploy to Heroku ]]button which can get you up and running in minutes.
-
-Of course, minutes turned into _slightly_ longer as I worked on getting the entire IndieWeb toolchain configured and setup on my blog and various other places.
-
-I documented the process in a [Github issue](https://github.com/bmann/microglue/issues/5#issuecomment-425662101) and will likely fork Pelle's code so I can experiment, bounty some issues, and generally make it work for me. And then contribute fixes upstream of course!
-
-## Is it working?
-
-Since I was using live accounts for all of this, various messages made it through to different systems.
-
-This one [made it to twitter](https://twitter.com/bmann/status/1045576992270295040):
-
-> I may quite possibly be posting this via [micropublish.net](https://micropublish.net), to my own micropub server on Heroku, which turns it into Jekyll compatible md file and posts it to Github, which sends it to Netlify, which creates a feed for MicroBlog.
-
-Which got me a ["Saw what?" from @jimgroom](https://twitter.com/jimgroom/status/1045577439752196097).
-
-But my favourite was the ["It's past midnight, is it working yet?"](https://blog.bmannconsulting.com/26600/) which made it all the way to [Medium](https://medium.com/@bmann/its-past-midnight-is-it-working-yet-430789104731) and [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6451342693070176256).
-
-## Next Up
-
-I'm now trying out a bunch of [MicroPub Clients](https://indieweb.org/Micropub/Clients), and also documenting that in [issues](https://github.com/bmann/microglue/issues?utf8=✓&q=is%3Aissue+label%3Amicropubclients+).
-
-I'll turn a bunch of these things into issues and see how much farther I get.
-
-I don't have the MicroBlog iOS client working yet, and neither is the [OwnYourGram](https://ownyourgram.com/) site (which is really great for walking you through every step of getting your IndieWeb / MicroPub setup). Both need some upgrades to the server to work with media handling.
-
-I also need to share the micro and full JSON feed templates that I made for Jekyll to syndicate to Microblog with. Stay tuned, and perhaps I'll have time to actually organize a fun IndieWeb meetup in Vancouver soon.
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2018-09-30-blockchain-governance-101-vlad.md b/_posts/blog/2018-09-30-blockchain-governance-101-vlad.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 0362f96..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2018-09-30-blockchain-governance-101-vlad.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-date: '2018-09-30T06:21:05.521Z'
-title: Blockchain Governance 101 - Vlad Zamfir
-mf-bookmark-of:
-  - 'https://medium.com/@Vlad_Zamfir/blockchain-governance-101-eea5201d7992'
-tags: blockchain governance
-slug: blockchain-governance-101-vlad
-category: social
----
-[Blockchain Governance 101](https://medium.com/@Vlad_Zamfir/blockchain-governance-101-eea5201d7992) - Vlad Zamfir’s current thinking on the topic of blockchain governance, with a couple of different flavours possible. “if a coordination mechanism is legitimate, people will (justifiably) act like it’s a fact that people will use it”
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2018-10-06-further-thoughts-on-the-fair.md b/_posts/blog/2018-10-06-further-thoughts-on-the-fair.md
deleted file mode 100644
index df65698..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2018-10-06-further-thoughts-on-the-fair.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-date: '2018-10-06T20:48:02.234Z'
-title: Further Thoughts on the Fair Share Clause
-categories:
- - SPADE
-tags:
- - "open source"
- - "Fair Share Clause"
- - "Moloch"
-mf-mp-slug:
-  - further-thoughts-fair-share-open-source
-slug: further-thoughts-on-the-fair
----
-_This started as a short reply to [Erlend S. Heggen's "The Fair Share Clause - A thought experiment for sustainable open source"](https://blog.erlend.sh/the-fair-share-clause-d891c5c2dc30), and got long enough that I really did want to capture it in its own blog post. [Heggen @erlend_sh](https://twitter.com/erlend_sh) is a Community Advocate at [Discourse](https://discourse.org/), the open source forum software. The description of [Discourse's end of 2017 donations to open source projects they depend on](https://blog.discourse.org/2017/12/discourse-gives-back-2017/) is also a great read. [Kyle Mitchell's writing](https://writing.kemitchell.com/) and his [License Zero](https://licensezero.com/) project are name checked, and I have posted about them briefly recently, but consider this another reminder that you should look at them closely._
-
-This is a great thought experiment to write up — thank you for sharing. This is definitely something we are digging into and trying to figure out as we work on low-level Ethereum infrastructure at .
-
-I need to do a longer write up on our thinking, but just yesterday we came up with the idea that maybe there is a model that is like Carbon Credits. This would also mean that a company like Discourse might “equal out” because of the investment in producing open source software. But perhaps everyone committing to building giving back into their business model really is the best path.
-
-There are the beginnings of some experiments such as [Moloch](https://github.com/MolochVentures/moloch) in Ethereum that are related. It is more of a guild / membership structure, which is not really what you describe.
-
-One thing not addressed by your Fair Share model is the “getting started” model. What is the equivalent of friends & family or investor funding to get a piece of infrastructure built?
-
-Other labels we are considering are tithing, sponsorship, and patronage. We think of sponsorship as ongoing, and patronage being a one off grant that gets new projects or major features built. Your model is closest to tithing, with a better analogy than a religion :)
-
-I think our biggest challenge is education: that tragedy of the commons is a real thing, and that we should attempt to fight against it. That all businesses benefit from open source infrastructure, and that with funding, more & better software gets built and maintained.
-
-The other challenge is deciding what we’re selling. Deciding what to sell also means figuring out who your customers are, of course. In the Ethereum ecosystem especially, contributions to base infrastructure make an impact to the entire running public blockchain very directly.
-
-We want to sell the past AND the future[^kemitchell-tidelift], so how many sponsor/patron benefits do we need to include beyond a logo in order to make the sale? And how many of those benefits slide into something that actually looks like consulting? And, if we want to be akin to something like a private research institution, is consulting something we should consider?
-
-More writing and thinking, and many more customer discovery calls in our future. I also look forward to digging into these topics during the [Business Model Ring at the EthMagicians' Council of Prague](https://hackmd.io/DaJhrasLQteUk3IwX5bQAg#8-Business-Models-Ring).
-
----
-
-The [Special Projects & Decentralized Engineering Company](https://spade.builders) is a Delaware Public Benefit Corporation dedicated to support individuals and small teams building sustainable open source projects. Our first project is [FISSION](https://fission.codes), starting with FISSION Codes and FISSION Translate. They are both initially targeted at the Ethereum smart contract ecosystem, although the design is portable to any smart contract system.
-
-[^kemitchell-tidelift]: That's a reference to [Kyle on Tidelift's model](https://writing.kemitchell.com/2018/09/18/Lifting-Agreement.html) of selling software support for open source projects, aka "the future". Being able to monetize software you've already built is a stronger model than "just" maintenance.
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2018-10-11-commons-based-peer-production.md b/_posts/blog/2018-10-11-commons-based-peer-production.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 7537ce8..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2018-10-11-commons-based-peer-production.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-title: 'Commons Based Peer Production'
-date: '2018-10-11T14:00:34-07:00'
-categories:
-  - Commons
-tags:
-  - "open source"
-  - Coase
-comments: true
----
-I was reminded today after speaking to [Ted Leung](twleung) that he uses the phrase "commons based peer production" rather than "open source", because:
-> The problem with the term open source is that everyone means something different when they use it. Some people just mean licensing. Some people think of a particular community’s set of practices. Others think that it means some kind of fuzzy democracy and mob rule.
-
-Which of course is exactly what I was trying to capture in my post from last year on [Blockchain & Open Source Definitions](https://blog.bmannconsulting.com/blockchain-open-source-definitions/).
-
-Researching that phrase further brought me to a bunch more posts from Ted that make for good reading to see what parts of them apply to today.
-<!-- more -->
-
-This early post was where we were all still trying to explain open source as it came out of the shadows a bit, in the shallows of Web 2.0 and open APIs: [Explaining Commons Based Peer Production, er, Open Source (2005)](https://www.sauria.com/py-bin/pyblosxom/pyblosxom.cgi/computers/open_source/1233.html).
-
->This is not communism, it's about preserving the freedom/openness of the web at a basic level, since the software in the commons will be available to anyone, and not controlled by a corporation with a profit motive. It's about fostering innovation by providing a base that can easily adapted or used as a ground for experimentation. We foster innovation by lowering the threshold so that passionate, talented people can get involved right where they can help the most.
-
-The topic of [Design and Commons Based Peer Production (2009)](https://www.sauria.com/blog/2009/08/27/design-and-commons-based-peer-production/) is still being wrestled with today:
-> Can we actually do design using the commonly accepted tools of e-mail, version control, wiki’s and bug trackers? The design process relies very heavily on visual communications. The code (including design and architecture of code) process is predominantly a text based process. It is very difficult to do design efficiently in a distributed setting using the existing stable of tools. This is going to be a challenge not just for designers but for many other problem domains that could benefit from commons-based peer production.
-
-In various open source projects, we talk about "Core Devs", but we do not talk about "Core Designers". And maybe we should be. Or maybe, in 2018 where we may be able to have a single "backend" of a blockchain, and multiple front-ends, then benevolent design dictators may be able to more appropriately fund themselves.
-
-
-Further reading leads me to [Yochai Benkler's](http://www.benkler.org/) [Coase's Penguin, or Linux and the Nature of the Firm (2002)](http://www.benkler.org/CoasesPenguin.html), which is where Ted got the phrase "commons based peer production".
-
->In this paper I explain that while free software is highly visible, it is in fact only one example of a much broader social-economic phenomenon. I suggest that we are seeing is the broad and deep emergence of a new, third mode of production in the digitally networked environment. I call this mode "commons-based peer-production," to distinguish it from the property- and contract-based models of firms and markets. Its central characteristic is that groups of individuals successfully collaborate on large-scale projects following a diverse cluster of motivational drives and social signals, rather than either market prices or managerial commands.
-
-Full paper lives on the [Yale Law Journal](http://www.yalelawjournal.org/article/coases-penguin-or-linux-and-the-nature-of-the-firm), or [PDF](https://www.yalelawjournal.org/pdf/354_t5aih5i1.pdf). Not sure if this make's sense for our [SPADE Whitepaper Club](https://github.com/spadebuilders/distech-paper-club/issues) to review as well. Coase is of course something that is talked about a lot these days with DAOs and fully distributed teams.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2019-01-01-flickr-exports-jekyll.md b/_posts/blog/2019-01-01-flickr-exports-jekyll.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 3bb577b..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2019-01-01-flickr-exports-jekyll.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,258 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-title: 'Flickr Exports in Jekyll'
-categories:
-  - Web3
-tags:
-  - Flickr
-  - Jekyll
-  - Textile
-  - IPFS
-  - Web3
-comments: true
-excerpt: "I'm exporting my photos off of Flickr ahead of their limits for free accounts. This is an initial experiment of the export files, and how to display them in Jekyll."
----
-
-The deadline for deletions of photos from free Flickr accounts is early February[^flickrdates], so I've requested the backup of my account[^flickrrequiem].
-
-The two "Account Data" files are 13MB and 5MB each, and are filled with ```photo_#########.json``` files -- one for each photo.
-
-![](/images/flickr_account_export.png)
-
-The photo and video zip files vary in size from ~300MB to ~1GB. I figure that's about ~23GB of photos, total.
-
-My intent is to self-host these photos. Ideally the photos themselves will be have "permanent" addresses on IPFS -- but I'll still want to display them, and ideally with the original Flickr metadata. This will involve an IPFS to web gateway so I can just include the images directly. The folks from [Textile](https://www.textile.photos/) already have a bunch of IPFS tools specifically for photos that I'll be looking into[^textile]. Plus [Cloudflare is running an IPFS gateway](https://blog.cloudflare.com/distributed-web-gateway/) that may come in useful.
-
-Seeing as the metadata has individual JSON files, I figured I'd take advantage of the Jekyll ```_data``` folder feature: any JSON files placed in that special folder are transformed into a special ```site.data.path.to.file``` variable.
-
-I made a folder ```_data/flickr``` and can put the photo JSON files in there, and then loop through ```site.data.flickr``` to access them all.
-
-For now, I'm just going to experiment with dropping a couple of JSON files in there, and manually uploading the related original photos to the Jekyll site as well. From my old Nokia N80 (and Shozu[^shozu]!) the files are ~1.6MB, and from my Canon S5, ~5MB.
-
-[^shozu]: Shozu was an auto photo uploader for early smartphones that [Roland](http://rolandtanglao.com/) and I and many other Nokia phone geeks used.
-
-You can view the [Flickr page](/flickr/) to see the output. Not very exciting, but I'll pull some more photos, perhaps some with lots of comments, and see where I get to.
-
-Among many other issues around dealing with ~14 years of photos, Jekyll doesn't (natively) support paginating data files. This obviously isn't a final solution in any way.
-
-For now, I'm backing up the Flickr zip archives in my Google Drive account, and will be writing more about what I see as an ideal path to getting these photos permanently into Web3, plus a Web2 front end.
-
-Get in touch if you're interested in this as well!
-
----
-
-Here's the very simple code for [my Flickr page](/flickr/):
-
-```liquid
-{% raw %}
-{% for photo_hash in site.data.flickr %}
-{% comment %}
-<!--
-* Loops through all the photos_nnnnnn.json files in the _data/flickr folder
-* Each is turned into an object "photo"
-* The image original is hardcoded to be in the images/flickr folder
-* BUG: Geo seems to be very off?
-* BUG: license is "null" -- but on Flickr it's clearly CC
-* TO DO:
-  ** Tags
-  ** Comments
-  ** Groups
-  ** Albums
--->
-{% endcomment %}
-{% assign photo = photo_hash[1] %}
-
-  {% if photo.privacy == "public" %}
-    <div class="{{ include.type | default: "list" }}__item">
-      <article class="archive__item" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/CreativeWork">
-        <h2>{{ photo.name }}</h2>
-        <img src="/images/flickr/{{ photo.original | split: '/' | last }}" style="padding-top: 20px" />
-        <p class="archive__item-title" itemprop="description">
-        {{ photo.description | remove: "<p>" | remove: "</p>" }}{% if photo.geo %} @&nbsp;<span class="place"><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/search?query=#map=14/{{ photo.geo.latitude | divided_by: 1000000.00 }}/{{ photo.geo.longitude | divided_by: 1000000.00 }}">OpenStreetMap</a></span>{% endif %}
-        </p>
-        <p class="page__date"><strong><i class="fas fa-fw fa-calendar-alt" aria-hidden="true"></i>Photo Taken: </strong> <time datetime="{{ photo.date_taken | date_to_xmlschema }}">{{ photo.date_taken | date: "%B %d, %Y" }}</time></p>
-      </article>
-    </div>
-  {% endif %}
-{% endfor %}
-{% endraw %}
-```
-
-And here's an example photo JSON file. The [original photo page this metadata is related to is still on Flickr here](https://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/2634391576/). Yes, that is a ton of EXIF data!
-
-```json
-{
-	"id": "2634391576",
-	"name": "Killarney Lake",
-	"description": "\n - Camera phone upload powered by <a href=\"http://www.shozu.com/?utm_source=upload&amp;utm_medium=graphic&amp;utm_campaign=upload_graphic/\" target=\"_newwindow\">ShoZu</a>",
-	"count_views": "53",
-	"count_faves": "0",
-	"count_comments": "0",
-	"date_taken": "2008-07-01 13:04:18",
-	"count_tags": "1",
-	"count_notes": "0",
-	"date_imported": "2008-07-03 09:48:30",
-	"photopage": "https://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/2634391576/",
-	"original": "http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3008/2634391576_6ab6f1017f_o.jpg",
-	"license": null,
-	"geo": {
-		"latitude": "49696401",
-		"longitude": "-123159753",
-		"accuracy": "15"
-	},
-	"exif": {
-		"IFD0:Orientation": {
-			"full": "IFD0:Orientation",
-			"label": "Orientation",
-			"value": "Horizontal (normal)",
-			"raw_value": "Horizontal (normal)"
-		},
-		"IFD0:XResolution": {
-			"full": "IFD0:XResolution",
-			"label": "X-Resolution",
-			"value": "300 dpi",
-			"raw_value": "300"
-		},
-		"IFD0:YResolution": {
-			"full": "IFD0:YResolution",
-			"label": "Y-Resolution",
-			"value": "300 dpi",
-			"raw_value": "300"
-		},
-		"IFD0:YCbCrPositioning": {
-			"full": "IFD0:YCbCrPositioning",
-			"label": "YCbCr Positioning",
-			"value": "Centered",
-			"raw_value": "Centered"
-		},
-		"ExifIFD:ExposureTime": {
-			"full": "ExifIFD:ExposureTime",
-			"label": "Exposure",
-			"value": "0.005 sec (1/200)",
-			"raw_value": "1/200"
-		},
-		"ExifIFD:FNumber": {
-			"full": "ExifIFD:FNumber",
-			"label": "Aperture",
-			"value": "f/3.5",
-			"raw_value": "3.5"
-		},
-		"ExifIFD:ISO": {
-			"full": "ExifIFD:ISO",
-			"label": "ISO Speed",
-			"value": "20",
-			"raw_value": "20"
-		},
-		"ExifIFD:DateTimeOriginal": {
-			"full": "ExifIFD:DateTimeOriginal",
-			"label": "Date and Time (Original)",
-			"value": "2008:07:01 13:04:18",
-			"raw_value": "2008:07:01 13:04:18"
-		},
-		"ExifIFD:CreateDate": {
-			"full": "ExifIFD:CreateDate",
-			"label": "Date and Time (Digitized)",
-			"value": "2008:07:01 13:04:18",
-			"raw_value": "2008:07:01 13:04:18"
-		},
-		"ExifIFD:LightSource": {
-			"full": "ExifIFD:LightSource",
-			"label": "Light Source",
-			"value": "Unknown",
-			"raw_value": "Unknown"
-		},
-		"ExifIFD:Flash": {
-			"full": "ExifIFD:Flash",
-			"label": "Flash",
-			"value": "No Flash",
-			"raw_value": "No Flash"
-		},
-		"ExifIFD:FocalLength": {
-			"full": "ExifIFD:FocalLength",
-			"label": "Focal Length",
-			"value": "4.7 mm",
-			"raw_value": "4.7 mm"
-		},
-		"ExifIFD:ColorSpace": {
-			"full": "ExifIFD:ColorSpace",
-			"label": "Color Space",
-			"value": "sRGB",
-			"raw_value": "sRGB"
-		},
-		"ExifIFD:CustomRendered": {
-			"full": "ExifIFD:CustomRendered",
-			"label": "Custom Rendered",
-			"value": "Normal",
-			"raw_value": "Normal"
-		},
-		"ExifIFD:ExposureMode": {
-			"full": "ExifIFD:ExposureMode",
-			"label": "Exposure Mode",
-			"value": "Auto",
-			"raw_value": "Auto"
-		},
-		"ExifIFD:WhiteBalance": {
-			"full": "ExifIFD:WhiteBalance",
-			"label": "White Balance",
-			"value": "Auto",
-			"raw_value": "Auto"
-		},
-		"ExifIFD:DigitalZoomRatio": {
-			"full": "ExifIFD:DigitalZoomRatio",
-			"label": "Digital Zoom Ratio",
-			"value": "1",
-			"raw_value": "1"
-		},
-		"ExifIFD:SceneCaptureType": {
-			"full": "ExifIFD:SceneCaptureType",
-			"label": "Scene Capture Type",
-			"value": "Standard",
-			"raw_value": "Standard"
-		},
-		"ExifIFD:GainControl": {
-			"full": "ExifIFD:GainControl",
-			"label": "Gain Control",
-			"value": "None",
-			"raw_value": "None"
-		},
-		"IFD1:Compression": {
-			"full": "IFD1:Compression",
-			"label": "Compression",
-			"value": "JPEG (old-style)",
-			"raw_value": "JPEG (old-style)"
-		}
-	},
-	"groups": [
-
-	],
-	"albums": [
-
-	],
-	"tags": [
-		{
-			"tag": "ShoZu",
-			"user": "https://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/",
-			"date_create": "2008-07-03 09:48:30"
-		}
-	],
-	"people": [
-
-	],
-	"notes": [
-
-	],
-	"privacy": "public",
-	"comment_permissions": "any flickr member",
-	"tagging_permissions": "people you follow",
-	"safety": "safe",
-	"comments": [
-
-	]
-}
-```
-
-[^flickrdates]: There are a number of [important Flickr dates](https://blog.flickr.net/en/2018/12/17/important-service-updates-and-dates-to-remember/). Theoretically, I will have all my photos over the 1,000 limit deleted. Except those that are CC-licensed, and since I've always licensed them all CC, maybe they will never be deleted? Early February is going to be an interesting ride!
-
-[^textile]: I [tweeted at](https://twitter.com/bmann/status/1079813719729659907) the folks from Textile, who pointed me at their [custom metadata](https://medium.com/textileio/quick-look-textile-files-and-schemas-36e9d131f229). I'll be dropping into their [Slack](https://slack.textile.io) to talk more about this.
-
-[^flickrrequiem]: I'm not mad or upset at SmugMug, the new owners of Flickr. My last uploads to Flickr were from 2 years ago, and I've been experimenting with other solutions since 2012, as evidenced by my write up of <a href="/flickr-question/">The Flickr Question</a>.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2019-01-06-ethnews-interview-security-token-standards.md b/_posts/blog/2019-01-06-ethnews-interview-security-token-standards.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c0868f1..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2019-01-06-ethnews-interview-security-token-standards.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,96 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-categories:
-  - Interview
-tags:
-  - ETHNews
-  - security tokens
-  - Ethereum
-  - ERC1400
-comments: true
-title: "ETHNews Email Interview about Security Token Standards"
-excerpt: "Trent Rhode from ETHNews sent me some questions around security token standards, so I wrote up a bunch of background."
----
-_[Trent Rhode from ETHNews](https://www.ethnews.com/author/trent-rhode) emailed me a bunch of questions around security token standards. I wrote up a bunch of background and answered his questions_
-
-_The article was published on January 1st with a few quotes from what I wrote: [Moving Digital Securities Forward In 2019: Addressing Standards Interoperability](https://www.ethnews.com/moving-digital-securities-forward-in-2019-addressing-standards-interoperability)_
-
-_A correction to that article -- Polymath may be using ST20 as a marketing term, but are spearheading the ERC1400 described below_
-
----
-
-> Can you please spell your full name and professional title you'd like to be referred to as?
-
-Boris Mann, Co-founder, Head of Community & Operations, [Special Projects & Decentralized Engineering Company](https://spade.builders)
- 
-> What is your interest and experience with security tokens, and what is your experience with securities and investments in general?
-
-My previous company, [Finhaven](https://finhaven.com), is building a security token issuance platform. I did early work starting in 2017 around security tokens on Ethereum, including workshops and regulatory feedback in Canada.
-
-I have a history around investing & advising early stage startups. I founded the first startup accelerator in Canada, ran a small seed fund for several years, and helped create a [standard set of startup investment documents for Canada](https://www.nacocanada.com/commondocs) with the National Angel Capital Organization.
-
-Today, working on low-level standards and infrastructure for the Ethereum ecosystem, I'm mainly interested in supporting the standardization process.
-
-Several security token standards have been proposed, including ones such as the ERC1400 family (see [thesecuritytokenstandard.org](https://thesecuritytokenstandard.org/)), that rely on the [FISSION Codes](https://fission.codes) standard that my cofounder Brooke has proposed.
-
-> Jamie Finn, co-founder and president of Securitize, said we only need ERC-20 for security tokens. How is this possible? Don't we need other capabilities beyond what ERC-20 can do, which would create a new standard?
-
-ERC20 is an example of an application layer smart contract standard. These application layer standards rely mainly on convention and adoption, as they are not enforced by Ethereum clients. The true EIPs generally define changes to the Ethereum system that require coordination and a hard fork to deploy. _(Note: this is an aside but may be important to understand. The last sentence about EIPs could be cut)._
-
-The way that application layer standards are currently defined in the Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) process, many of them can be combined. So, you can have a token that conforms to the ERC20 standard, but includes additional features that make it compliant with other standards. As an example, the ERC1400 proposal uses ERC20[^erc1400erc20] as its base (which it recently decided to do rather than the more modern & secure ERC777 which hasn't been widely adopted yet, and whose standard isn't final).
-
-I don't know if Securitize has submitted any proposed standards. They might be looking for technical standards outside of the Ethereum ecosystem, which is certainly possible.
-
-[^erc1400erc20]: for reference, this is the [very technical EIP process illustrated by ERC1400 being based on ERC20](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/1411#issuecomment-445898706) but may be useful background for you in understanding how EIPs can depend on each other and tokens can be composed of several standards.
-
-> Regarding this thread: [ethmagicians//erc-1462-base-security-token/1501](https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/erc-1462-base-security-token/1501)
->
-> You wrote it is your belief that "there is going to need to be broad technical interoperability, as well as regulatory interoperability."
->
-> Could you please explain this a bit further? What do you see as the key technical interoperability that is needed, and how would you explain this in more detail to a lay person?
-
-Just like the ERC20 standard caused an explosion of tokens because of support in development tools, exchanges, wallets, and everything in between, broad technical interoperability of security tokens would mean that many users and market participants would work with the standard.
-
-Today, stock markets are effectively defined stock exchange by stock exchange, or at most country by country. I think the most interesting role for tokenized securities is when they are global day one. Half of the issue is technical interoperability, the other half is regulatory.
-
-I wish it were as simple as VHS vs Betamax, but it's like we have 100 versions of Betamax, across multiple different public blockchains. The forward momentum in security token standards for Ethereum really only heated up in September of this year with the submission of ERC1400. Seeing the activity, various other players quickly also submitted standards proposals. Some of them ended up joining the ERC1400, others still want something simpler or different.
-
-> You also said that you agree on keeping regulatory things separate. Can you explain what you mean by this?
-
-I've heard stories of lawyers defining token interfaces, and so far security tokens have been hand built code by code, and regulatory country by country. I think that regulatory needs and use cases should inform the technical design, but that technical interoperability will be helpful in defining regulatory interactions.
-
-> Regarding: "I still think that over-focusing on ERC20 is a mistake – vs. pulling the bandaid off and getting broad movement to 777 along with standards like this".
->
-> Why do you think focusing on ERC20 is a mistake? What would it look like to use standards like 777 for security tokens?
-
-Many people outside of technical working groups have been exposed to ERC20 -- and other standards like the ERC721 Non-Fungible Token made famous by Crypto Kitties.
-
-I've seen a number of people name standards after a particular Ethereum ERC. This is a mistake. We are always upgrading and improving technology, and need to keep track of versions -- but we can't have innovation stop at a single number.
-
-It would be like calling HTTP from May 1996 after its IETF RFC 1945[^ietf1945] -- which has in turn has had dozens of improvements in the form of other RFCs, and today Google and others are working on HTTP2 and HTTP3.
-
-[^ietf1945]: The [original RFC where HTTP was defined, RFC 1945](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1945).
-
-This is of course hard to explain to non technical users, especially those who haven't been exposed to open source or standards work.
-
-So the message is, ERC20 is a particular standard created very early in the development of the Ethereum smart contract and blockchain system. It became a marketing term.
-
-Newer standards like ERC777 will continue to evolve. We've learned already, and will continue to learn, so I want to see more focus on newer standards.
-
-And, kind of an aside, players in the ecosystem like exchanges have been underinvesting in technology. It hasn't been in their interest to have to upgrade their systems to support new standards. And wallets and so on -- in a system that's still evolving very quickly, everyone has to do work together. And, the vast majority of the code is open source, so it's not like we're asking these ecosystem players to have to invent this new technology, just implement it.
-
-> Do you feel there at too many security standards popping up? Please briefly elaborate on what you would see as a solution, if so. If not, please elaborate on why not.
-
-As I mentioned above, there has now been a "land rush" of submitting standards. Do I wish people would wake up and figure out how to work together? Yes.
-
-What I have realized is that there was an early rush of people releasing open source code. But open source code is not the same thing as a standard. What forum is being used to add a little bit of governance to evolve standards jointly? Can different companies implement the standard without having to copy and paste the code? If yes, then you've written up a specification that can be used as a standard.
-
-The ERC process in Ethereum does not mandate usage, but it is does have a basic model of governance that a group of people and companies can collaborate around.
-
-I think the various groups offering up security token standards need to understand that this isn't a business or marketing win. The entire industry will win when they understand that a standards process is the most important.
-
-Especially if we want this to fit into #DeFi -- having it work just on one issuance platform or one exchange isn't going to work. And that "winning" doesn't look like "owning" ERC20, but rather partnerships, interoperability, and regulatory alignment.
-
-Lots of the finance people in the space don't understand open source, never mind standards, so I expect this to shake out over time.
-
-Winning looks more like developer relations at the technical layer. Producing high quality standards, supported by reference open source implementations that can be plugged into wallets and exchanges. Of course there will be competition even around winning standards, but we are going to have to get to a standard.
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2019-01-06-more-flickr-file-experiments.md b/_posts/blog/2019-01-06-more-flickr-file-experiments.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 2bda8bc..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2019-01-06-more-flickr-file-experiments.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,120 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-title: 'More Flickr export & photo experiments'
-categories:
-  - How To
-tags:
-  - Flickr
-  - Cloudflare
-  - IPFS
-  - photos
-  - "Web 2.5"
-  - Web3
-  - barcamp
-  - Roland Tanglao
-comments: true
-excerpt: "Experimenting with various services for dealing with my Flickr export backup and moving photos around, resulting in documenting a grab bag of cloud services, protocols, articles and other research."
----
-
-My last post was about [dealing with my Flickr photo exports and experimenting with them in Jekyll](/flickr-exports-jekyll/). Now that I've got the zip files all backed up in Google Drive, I started looking at getting them all in one spot. Ideally, this would happen without having to download, unzip, and then move again somewhere else.
-
-As well, I currently auto-upload photos from my phone to Dropbox, and then as Dropbox fills up (I don't have a paid account), I archive them elsewhere -- in my Google Drive account (paid for, runs my personal email, holds my main working GDoc files) or OneDrive (paid, the "family" account, includes 1TB of storage, my "long term" archive / backup).
-
-Right now, this is mainly a purely archive function. I'm not organizing the photos. They're not available online anywhere unless I put them on my blog here or [wiki](https://wiki.bmann.ca).
-
-On to the snippets of research!
-
----
-
-## Storing (and serving) photos from Amazon S3
-
-I realized that 20GB of photos -- that is, at full resolution -- today would only cost about 50 cents per month (2.5 cents per GB). That's perfectly reasonable to effectively pay forever. And way cheaper than the ~$10 per month of Dropbox or comparable paid plans.
-
-I already have ```images.bmann.ca``` that I've used on and off, and I [wrote about how to archive photos from iOS to S3](/archiving-photos-ios-amazon-s3) previously.
-
-This means using the centralized Amazon S3 service as long term storage. As I move to IPFS, the files still need to be "stored" somewhere.
-
-Using S3 with my own domain name, I get "regular" web URLs that I control. Importing the photos to IPFS will give each file a permanent content address -- essentially a "native" Web3 address to reach them at. And, I can move where the files are stored, like storing them on a home server, or even on my phone.
-
-## Zapier for Dropbox to Amazon S3
-
-A Zapier Premium account [supports Amazon S3](https://zapier.com/apps/amazon-s3). Unfortunately, they don't currently support the Canada Central zone, so this doesn't actually work at the moment.
-
-I was testing automating my Dropbox auto-uploads to my own S3 account. This is definitely a good option, and probably better than the apps I researched before.
-
-## MultCloud Cloud Drive Syncing
-
-The next thing I found was [MultCloud](https:://multcloud.com). It lets you connect multiple different cloud services.
-
-!['Multcloud Services'](/images/multicloud_screenshot.png)
-
-I was pleasantly surprised that it actually supports Flickr directly! So, although I have all my Flickr exports backed up, it may actually be easier to move them from Flickr to S3 using Multcloud.
-
-The free accounts limit the speed of transfers, doesn't allowing for scheduled transfers, and only supports two kinds of sync -- One Way and Two Way.
-
-It also has an option to delete files from source once they are transferred. So, this is a pretty perfect solution for archiving photos from iOS. I can enable Camera Uploads in Dropbox on mobile, and then periodically use Multcloud to copy them to my S3 account. Other than having to manually trigger the sync, the 50GB of transfer per month of the free account would be more than enough.
-
-Advanced sync modes include:
-* Mirror -- target directory has files deleted to keep it the same as the source
-* Move -- source files deleted after target transfer
-* Cumulative - target directory files are not deleted even if deleted from source
-* Update -- target files are deleted, and then everything from source is transferred
-* Incremental Backup -- a new subdirectory is created on the target for each source transfer of added / modified files
-* Full Backup -- a new subdirectory on the target where the current state of source is synced to on transfer
-
-I don't know enough about the company behind MultCloud to give advice on trusting them long term. You are giving a lot of access to your accounts, that potentially hold a lot of sensitive information. I'm going to use it to shuffle around some files and then disconnect my account authorization.
-
-## RClone
-
-[Rclone](https://rclone.org/) is open source software that calls itself "rsync for cloud storage". It's a command line tool to do various file and directory transfers. I haven't investigated it further, but would use this long term rather than a service like MultCloud.
-
-## MultCloud Flickr to S3 Test
-
-I synced an Album from Flickr to S3 as a test. What better one to use than some history from the beginning of Web2. Here's my original Flickr album for [Barcamp and Mesh in Toronto](https://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/albums/72057594138250222).
-
-The files are now all on my, like this photo of [Roland](https://rolandtanglao.com) at Liberty Cafe ([Flickr original here](https://www.flickr.com/photos/boris/146293250/in/album-72057594138250222/)):
-
-![Roland at Liberty Cafe](https://images.bmann.ca/flickr/Barcamp%20and%20Mesh%20in%20Toronto/Roland%20at%20Liberty%20Cafe.jpg)
-
-The photos are relatively terrible in quality because they were taken with a Nokia 6630 cameraphone. I guess I have to still blame bad composition on me!
-
-Since the metadata export from Flickr is one JSON file per photo -- and in this MultCloud transfer mode I only have the title of the file, not its unique Flickr ID -- there isn't much I can do with this.
-
-## WeServ Image Cache & Resize
-
-I found [weserv](https://images.weserv.nl/) previously, a service that enables on-the-fly image caching and resizing.
-
-Since my ```images.bmann.ca``` S3 bucket didn't have S3 enabled, I was getting mixed content errors on older content in my Netlify builds.
-
-I temporarily went through and just changed to the image source to be served up through weserv:
-
-```html
-<img src="http://images.weserv.nl/?url=images.bmann.ca/dropshare/illustrator-bizcards-front.jpg" class="full" />
-```
-
-Another third party in the loop isn't great long term, which is why I'm fixing this with Cloudflare.
-
-However, this solves another problem I had identified previously. Over the last 20 years, the digital photos in my archive have gotten bigger and bigger, and embedding the originals in a web page isn't feasible. So, generating thumbnails with weserv
-
-I wonder if there is something photo-specific in IPFS that could link or associate generated thumbnails with an original. I think thumbnail generation is somewhat non-deterministic, meaning unique hashes, meaning different content addresses depending on how the thumbnail was generated.
-
-The [weserv code is open source and available on Github](https://github.com/weserv/images), so you can run your own instance if you need this capability. The team is from [a small Dutch town called Sneek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneek) which I learned from the README on Github :)
-
-## HTTPS for Amazon S3 Buckets with Cloudflare
-
-<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Enabling SSL on an Amazon S3 bucket is easier with Cloudflare than it is with Amazon's own tools. There is a ton of room for great tools on lower level systems.</p>&mdash; Boris Mann (@bmann) <a href="https://twitter.com/bmann/status/1081987317517021184">January 6, 2019</a></blockquote>
-<script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
-
-Basic instructions are, transfer your DNS to [Cloudflare](https://cloudflare.com) and change your Crypto > SSL settings to "Flexible" -- and your S3 content should be delivered over HTTPS. You can also set a Page Rule to automatically forward HTTP to HTTPS, but I'm just going to use HTTPS for new content for now.
-
-Here's a [blog post on full S3 bucket setup and Cloudflare](https://wsvincent.com/static-site-hosting-with-s3-and-cloudflare/) if you want to follow some steps.
-
-## IPFS gateway with Cloudflare
-
-I did a little bit of research previously, but other than running a whole cloud server, it's not currently easy to run your own IPFS gateway. Meaning, accessing files on IPFS through a regular web browser at your own domain.
-
-But Cloudflare is [running an IPFS gateway](https://www.cloudflare.com/distributed-web-gateway/#connectingyourwebsite). They let you [connect your own domain with a CNAME](https://www.cloudflare.com/distributed-web-gateway/#connectingyourwebsite), which means you can upload / serve content using IPFS but still have it accessed using your own ```mystuff.example.com```.
-
-A static site generator that is IPFS aware is something I'll be researching. It "works today" with relative URLs, but I think there's an opportunity for more here.
-
-I label this kind of stuff as Web 2.5 -- using "regular" DNS, browsers, and standard web requests to access decentralized web content.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2019-03-31-ethereum-governance.md b/_posts/blog/2019-03-31-ethereum-governance.md
deleted file mode 100644
index e193835..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2019-03-31-ethereum-governance.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,214 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-title: "Ethereum Governance"
-excerpt: "An explanation of different layers of Ethereum Governance: open source collaboration, protocol standards governance, Core Dev coordination, nodes running client software, plus extended reading and links."
-modified: '2019-04-01T10:48:34-07:00'
-categories:
-- Commons
-tags:
-- "open source"
-- governance
-- Ethereum
-- blockchain
-- EthMagicians
-comments: true
----
-This is my attempt to write up an overview of the different layers of governance that applies to Ethereum. The core concepts and further discussion are also [posted to the Ethereum Magicians forum](https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/definitions-of-governance-layers/3054).
-
-You can [read about my journey into the Ethereum Community](#boriseth) at the end of the article if you would like some context. I'm relatively new, but have a long experience with open source collaboration, including having helped form the Drupal Association that helps support the Drupal CMS.
-
-Ethereum is a number of different things:
-
-1. There is the [Ethereum Foundation](https://ethereum.foundation/)[^efdated], aka Stiftung Ethereum, which is a Swiss foundation that was formed to help run the crowdsale and initially boot up the network. It holds the trademark for Ethereum. It manages a number of pieces of community infrastructure and employs / contracts several teams working on major software for Ethereum, from [testing frameworks](https://github.com/ethereum/testing) to the [Geth client](https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum). Currently it employs or invests in researchers and teams doing the primary cryptographic / blockchain research for future innovations, now mainly focused on ETH2[^efresearch]. It also runs the "official" developer conference ("DevCon") that happens annually. The Ethereum Foundation does _not_ control the technical direction of the network.
-1. Ethereum is a set of protocols, from the [Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)](https://en.ethereum.wiki/evm) that underlies the smart contract system and many core features, to the [devp2p](https://github.com/ethereum/devp2p) peer communications protocol, to the [JSON-RPC middleware](https://github.com/spadebuilders/ethereum-json-rpc-spec) for getting data in and out of nodes.
-1. Ethereum is a main-net global public blockchain, operated by 1000s of nodes worldwide, transactions processed & secured in exchange for a block reward by miners calculating a proof-of-work algorithm with hash power. It has the ETH ticker symbol for its core cryptocurrency which is used to pay for gas charges on smart contracts and transactions, and as value within the network. The network can be reached with chain id 1 and network id 1[^chainid].
-1. Ethereum is a community, which wants to keep building on the Ethereum protocols, distributed applications on top, and related decentralized web protocols. It congregates mainly on main-net, but over time increasingly also builds side-chains, layer 2 protocols, and more.
-
-Now that we've got some foundational information in place, let's look at the layers of governance. These are listed roughly in order, although higher layers do loop back to lower level layers.
-
-[^efresearch]: Thanks to [Tim Beiko for suggesting I add research as an EF activity](https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/definitions-of-governance-layers/3054/3). Clearly spelling out what the community thinks the EF does / is responsible would be a very valuable discussion to have, but is not the core thrust of this post.
-
-[^efdated]: The material on the [Ethereum Foundation site](https://ethereum.foundation/) is out of date, but I link to it as the primary reference that refers only to the foundation. The ethereum.org is considered more of a community resource, although sadly at time of writing it, too, is several years out of date.
-
-[^chainid]: Visit [chainid.network](https://chainid.network) for more information on all the chains that run Ethereum protocols and their corresponding chain- and network-ids. I help maintain this site.
-
-## Open Source Collaboration
-
-Open source is in reality a shorthand phrase that means a couple of things: a license, a way of working, and an ideology, as covered by me in [Blockchain & Open Source Definitions](/blockchain-open-source-definitions/). My follow up on [Commons Based Peer Production](/commons-based-peer-production/) uses the long form of how to describe the way that open source licensed code is managed: maintainers, issues, pull requests, forks (the good kind and the bad kind), and a global community of users and contributors.
-
-The Ethereum wiki has a [list of the ETH1 clients](https://en.ethereum.wiki/eth1/clients)[^ethwiki] -- as you can see, the majority today are managed by the Ethereum Foundation, although in practice the individual teams and contributors run the projects on their own, relatively independently, although many of them are paid by the EF as employees or contractors. The Parity Ethereum client (owned by Parity Technologies) and the new PegaSys Pantheon client (owned by ConsenSys) are the two notable exceptions. These other two clients are also considered "major" clients, as they are actively maintained and are used to run nodes that connect to the main-net. The Nimbus client by Status is on its way as well, so we can see that diversity of ownership is increasing. The [early list of ETH2 Beacon Chain implementations](https://en.ethereum.wiki/eth2/clients) highlights this as well.
-
-All of the Ethereum clients are managed as open source projects, with varying amounts of organic contributor contributions. When we say "managed as open source", this means that issues representing bugs or feature requests can be filed by anyone, anyone can submit code fixes or new features using pull requests, and a group of maintainers manage these processes. Maintainers are those that have write access to the code repository and/or can help with management of the issue queue. Maintainers may be paid by a single organization, or unpaid volunteers.
-
-The software license does matter, and much of the Ethereum stack today is strong copy-left. This limits the interest and/or ability of many corporate organizations to participate directly. On the other hand, if the main copyright holder of the software sells licenses to corporations, this may provide a stream of funding. This is something the entire open source software ecosystem is currently wrestling with[^kemitchell].
-
-My recommendation in this area is to move to Apache2, as it is broadly permissive in a way that is compatible with corporations, and includes patent protections.
-
-In many ways, those of us in open source for a long time have "won" -- Microsoft bought Github and aims to be the most open company in the world -- but at the same time, many of the core norms of open source are no longer being taught, even to developers. I think we can do more here, and would love to work on onboarding more new developers to become valuable developers to the core Ethereum stack, as well as the emerging ETH2 stack to build our next generation of experts.
-
-In summary, if you are a business person or other non-technical role, having an understanding of the norms and processes around open source software development is critical. Open source software powers not only virtually all blockchain technology, but the vast majority of the software that runs the world at this point.
-
-[^ethwiki]: I help maintain that particular page, but the whole thing is editable by anyone, and the [code](https://github.com/ethresearch/en-ethereum-wiki) is managed by [Virgil Griffith @virgilgr](https://twitter.com/virgilgr), who works for the EthResearch arm of the Ethereum Foundation.
-
-[^kemitchell]: If you really want to go down this rabbit hole, [read expert software licensing lawyer Kyle Mitchell](https://writing.kemitchell.com), who himself has proposed a number of new licenses.
-
-## Protocol Standards Governance
-
-The Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) process is what is used to propose and agree on standards. Broadly speaking, protocol standards governance. These standards apply at both the Ethereum software level (clients implementing interoperable software) and also at the network layer. When I say network layer -- that means the Ethereum network -- but also other Ethereum networks. Other networks may follow Ethereum main-nets inclusion and adoption of EIPs directly (most do, today), or also extend the process with their own improvement process.
-
-For now, lets consider the EIP process as targeted at making standards that are primarily designed for the Ethereum main-net. Whether or not they are developer and deployed to the main-net is another matter.
-
-You can browse all published EIPs on the [EIPs website eips.ethereum.org](https://eips.ethereum.org)[^eipswebsite]. The process for submitting EIPs and the stages they go through for Core EIPs (those that would change consensus on the network, and need to be agreed upon to be deployed) and all other types is documented in [EIP-1](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-1).
-
-There are also application-layer standards in the EIPs repo, known as Ethereum Request for Comments (ERCs). These ERCs may be split out into a separate repo and process (something that I am in favour of).
-
-Very roughly, the process of creating and submitting an EIP is open to everyone and relatively simple, although it does require some knowledge of GitHub. No coding is required. One uses the template, creates a text document formatted with Markdown, and submits a pull request on GitHub to suggest it as a Draft. If the EIP is formatted correctly, it is merged into the repo, which generates a web page for that EIP, and further discussion can continue. Some EIP editor discretion is available, but so far there hasn't been much in the way of "spam" -- plainly ridiculous EIPs. Getting the formatting right and learning GitHub have been a high enough barrier.
-
-A lot of that is very process focused. An important thing to understand is that this process and some of the technical processes around it are informed by the Internet Engineering Task Force, or [IETF](#ietf) (that link leads to more reading and links that I've included below). Building one -- or several! -- global networks is a similar task, so it is likely that similar techniques are part of best practices for moving protocol standards around blockchain networks forward.
-
-I think the EIPs process works quite well, and is only improving. More education, especially for technically proficient developers who can add value to the network, would still be better.
-
-[^eipswebsite]: The EIPs website is generated from the [GitHub repo ethereum/EIPs](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPS) and hosted on GitHub Pages, which is powered by the [Jekyll](https://jekyllrb.org) static site generator.
-
----
-
-[Andrew @cyber_hokie](https://twitter.com/cyber_hokie) has been participating as long as I started dropping in to [Gitter ethereum/governance](https://gitter.im/ethereum/governance): right before the EthMagicians Council of Berlin in June 2018, when some pre-emptive blog posts went up about fund recovery.
-
-He's been very active again recently, and wrote up a really great tweetstorm that is an excellent overview of how the EIPs process isn't itself overall network governance, but rather part of the standards process.
-
-I'm going to include his tweetstorm here directly:
-
-<div id="tttt_1112305608047427584" data-option="1"><strong><a href="https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1112305608047427584.html">Thread by @cyber_hokie: "1/ Ok I think I sort of get it now. Thanks @nicksdjohnson for bearing with me. A longish thread. […]" #eipsarentgovernance #eipsaretechnicalstandards #META</a></strong></div><script async src="https://threadreaderapp.com/embed/1112305608047427584.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
-
-
----
-
-The EIPs process is for standardization -- for making sure that software is developed that is interoperable and can be implemented by multiple groups. With Ethereum having a number of different clients, this is crucial. In fact, it's more crucial than the license of the software. If there is a good standard, then anyone can implement it and know they are interoperable.
-
-There is a movement that is just beginning to have dedicated maintainers and repositories for different parts of the Ethereum stack -- the EVM, devp2p, the JSON-RPC interface, and so on. This means that even more collaborators can work together, even beyond the boundaries of Ethereum main-net, to improve and be interoperable.
-
-## Core Devs Coordination
-
-Andrew's thread covers the AllCoreDev calls, as a place where coordination happens among the developers of major client implementations. These happen every two weeks, facilitated by Hudson Jamieson, who works for the Ethereum Foundation full time.
-
-The same core agenda is made in a Github repo, [ethereum/PM](https://github.com/ethereum/pm), as an issue. Anyone can make a comment in the issue suggesting that they have time to speak and bring up an issue or share something with the group.
-
-On the day of the calls, the link to join the call directly is posted in the [AllCoreDevs Gitter](https://gitter.im/ethereum/AllCoreDevs), and the whole call is also livestreamed and recorded.
-
-As a whole, this process is meant to be technically focused. The concern of the Core Devs are the technical correctness of a particular EIP, as well as on a broader scale certain "health of the network" features. Of course, every technical decision can have non-technical implications, and this fuzzy line is where problems have started.
-
-Core Devs have indicated that they don't want to make decisions that are non-technical. The people involved are mainly highly technical, interested in the challenges around global blockchain network development. They aren't facilitation experts or community engagement experts. Even as open source maintainers, we haven't seen the client code be very active.
-
-Having spoken with individual client teams, the feedback is that code implementation really doesn't take a lot of time: forward progress is being limited by non-technical decisions making and roadmap arguments _today_.
-
-What process is used for Core Devs to make decisions? Well, it's kind of a "live" version of the EIP process, except with the nuance of a live discussion every two weeks. What I mean by this is that IETF-style, rough consensus and running code, is what constitutes agreement. Recent discussions indicate that adding a bit more formality -- calling for consensus and recording discussions -- may be needed to remove uncertainty.
-
-Useful to understand the EIP and Core Dev flows is [Dan Finlay's process flow diagram](https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/strange-loop-an-ethereum-governance-framework-proposal/268). I've included it directly here:
-
-![](/images/2019-03-31/danfinlay_governance_flow.png)
-
-## Network Governance
-
-I'm going to use the term "network governance" to indicate governance that applies to the entire main-net Ethereum network. This is espressly bigger than "just technical".
-
-From all of the previous methods -- open Source collaboration to protocol standards to Core Dev coordination -- these are all quite technical processes. There is a limit to how much you can contribute without writing lines of code, or pooling funds and hiring developers.
-
-What is the responsibility of the Ethereum network to stakeholder engagement? If "we" want broader stakeholder participation, how do we accomplish that?
-
-A note on "we": I'll define this as the broad set of people that define themselves as part of the Ethereum ecosystem, and care about its functioning and further evolution. **ALL** of the methods of interaction are currently on a step-up-and-get-it-done, volunteer basis (as is natural for open source communities). As far as I know, Hudson Jamieson is the only full time paid person in the entire ecosystem dedicated to community. And even there, the majority of his time is spent around Core Devs Coordination.
-
-A lot of the recent friction has been about understanding where network governance sits in the process, how it gets implemented, and who gets to participate / how voices get heard.
-
-One point of view is that "stakeholders should self organize". I believe in this, but I also believe that we can welcome people to use some existing infrastructure and channels.
-
-The smallest unit of decision making we have at this point are Core EIPs: EIPs that affect the core functioning of the network, that major clients must implement if it is to be deployed, and must be proposed to be included in a hardfork in order to be active on the network. This seems like the best place to gather sentiment around. The [Tennagraph tennagraph.com](https://tennagraph.com) app is the first place where broader feedback can be gathered on a per-EIP basis. It, too, is open source software that got a little grant to get started, but welcomes help and participation. Check out the [issue queue on Github](https://github.com/TennaGraph/TennaGraph/issues) -- even going through and leaving a comment on items that are important to you (or hearting them!) helps the contributors prioritize and learn from users.
-
-I don't think placing network governance "before" protocol standards or Core Devs makes sense. It's much more of a simultaneous process. We as a technical community can do better at indicating what upcoming Core EIPs are, so a wider group of stakeholders can inform themselves. The Ethereum Magicians forum now as a [Core EIPs category](https://ethereum-magicians.org/c/eips/core-eips). I still have some work to do to upgrade the EIPs website so it can have a feed of just Core EIPs.
-
-From what I can see, right now network governance mainly occurs by sowing doubt in the minds of Core Devs. Since Core Devs care about the health of the network -- including not wanting to necessarily have a contentious hard fork -- they can then speak up and break consensus. However, this mainly just means that EIPs are not implemented: saying "yes" is a lot harder.
-
-I think the discussions around broader stakeholder interactions around network governance are just beginning. For now, the other processes will move along, and unless stakeholders raise their voices on a per EIP basis, that process will continue. I am happy to assist in network governance efforts by educating, assisting with events, and translating from technical to non-technical, but this is not an area I am interested in leading efforts on directly. (just to make my own stance clear!)
-
-## Nodes Running Client Software
-
-Ultimately, the core of decentralized blockchain networks today is that anyone can run a node, and anyone can choose which version of open source client software to run. This includes forking the client codebase to make your own, or running an old version or patched version that differs from "the majority".
-
-From there, hashpower of miners and node operators may determine what the consensus chain is, which may cause a split into more than one "viable" chain.
-
-## Ethereum Roadmap
-
-The other issue beyond individual EIPs is the roadmap for Ethereum. This was first brought up at the EthMagicians Council of Berlin, and increasingly there have been events, calls, and discussions where long term roadmap discussions are held.
-
-No one is "in charge" of the Ethereum roadmap, as it is composed of all of the previous items once again.
-
-But, it is important to highlight what has become known as ETH1x and ETH2.
-
-The next version of the Etherem network, ETH2 for short, is meant to be fully built on proof-of-stake rather than miner hashpower operating on a proof-of-work algorithm. It also features sharding, with multiple shards that make up the entire network, leading to much greater scalability of the network as a whole. This is still primarily driven by researchers, funded primarily by the Ethereum Foundation. There are initial implementors that are working on Phase 0, the Beacon Chain, with Phases 1 and 2 still to come. There is no EIP process, mainly implementors and researchers coordinating on the specification.
-
-Initially, the narrative was that ETH2 and proof-of-stake were right around the corner. Now, I don't think it's controversial for me to say that it is likely 3 years away from a full production roll out, as there are still multiple unknowns and open research questions in Phases 1 & 2.
-
-In the meantime, attention kind of fell away from the current chain. But it's the only chain we've got, and it _is_ the network until there is another one to migrate to or integrate with. Hence, a movement beginning in Prague around DevCon in November 2018, and now momentum of its own, to improve and evolve the ETH1x chain. I am a proponent of making these improvements now -- and learning how to make them -- in order to take those learnings and apply them to future chains as well.
-
-One of the upcoming meta-discussions is whether many small hardforks should be planned, or fewer larger ones. Right now, consensus seems to be leaning towards more frequent, smaller hardforks.
-
-For more info, see the Ethereum wiki [Roadmap page](https://en.ethereum.wiki/roadmap) and the upcoming [Istanbul October 2019 hardfork](https://en.ethereum.wiki/roadmap/istanbul).
-
-## How to get Involved
-
-If you've read all this, you might want to get involved in the Ethereum community!
-
-I spend the vast majority of my time in the [EthMagicians Discourse Forum](https://ethereum-magicians.org), which has the benefit of long form writing and threaded discussion. It has also become a hub for discussion around EIPs -- moving out of GitHub Issues which are less accessible, and don't support threaded discussion.
-
-I also organize community calls, events, and work on standards, including improving the EIPs repo and making connections to wider users of the Ethereum protocol stack, such as the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance or the [RUN EVM](https://runevm.com) event I'm organizing in Berlin.
-
-Even as a person with a non-technical background, learning Github is a useful super power. Issues and project tools are pretty much like a shared to do / project management system that anyone comfortable with web apps can learn. I am trying to collaborate with more people on using the [EthMagicians Issue Queue](https://github.com/ethereum-magicians/scrolls/issues) to make calls for volunteers and to get work done.
-
-Bottom line: lots of ways to move beyond Twitter or other social media short posts to longer discussion, collaboration, and -- most importantly! -- filing issues, asking for accountability, and getting stuff done!
-
----
-
-## Boris in the Ethereum Community
-<a name="boriseth"/>
-
-[Bob Summerwill](https://twitter.com/bobsummerwill) sat me down and explained the Ethereum world computer to me when he was working for the Ethereum Foundation in early 2016. I got intrigued, bought some ETH on Coinbase (because I needed it for launching contracts via Mist) and started tinkering a bit. In 2017 I founded a company and worked on a variety of things, including a security token issuance platform.
-
-I dove into the deep end of the core Ethereum community starting May 2018. I had been talking to [Richard Burton](https://twitter.com/ricburton) from Balance and others about getting together discussion around wallets and wallet standards, that I was calling [WalletConf](https://twitter.com/WalletConf).
-
-Conveniently, I bumped into the Kyokan and Thunder Token folks who were thinking the same thing, and so I got to attend and then [help document the proceedings](https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/thoughts-and-findings-from-the-web3-uxunconf/311).
-
-That documentation on EthMagicians meant that I "met" a bunch of other people that were interested in the same thing. Having met a number of people in person at the WalletConf event in Toronto meant that I already had some "social proof" that carried over to my online interactions. I had previously attempted to enter the [Ethereum Reddit community /r/ethereum](https://reddit.com/r/ethereum), but had been unable to get comments or posts approved and couldn't figure out how Reddit karma worked, so I ignored it. I'm also from a pre-Reddit age, so I never really spend much time on that system.
-
-I then went on to help organize the EthMagicians Council of Berlin and generally used it as a way to meet and learn more about the community. I was in transition from my previous company and spending the summer in Berlin, so I had free time to commit to this. And, my background in open source projects and organizing unconferences meant that I had some familiarity with the subject matter.
-
-In Q4 of last year, I [cofounded a company dedicated to working on open source, SPADE](/hello-spade/). The open source standards and products we work on we call [FISSION](https://fission.codes). We were lucky enough to get an open source grant as part of the [ConsenSys Tachyon accelerator](https://fission.codes/post/consensys-tachyon), which has given my cofounder Brooke & I some funding to work on open source and community. We make money through software R&D consulting and some [hosted services we're planning to launch](https://www.producthunt.com/upcoming/fission-tools/). We continue to apply for grants, as this allows us to work on open source projects that are valuable to the community, rather than client consulting.
-
----
-
-## Further Reading
-
-Vlad Zamfir's [Blockchain Governance 101](https://blog.goodaudience.com/blockchain-governance-101-eea5201d7992) and then the follow up where he [admits to his own intentions](https://medium.com/@Vlad_Zamfir/my-intentions-for-blockchain-governance-801d19d378e5) are good reading for thinking about the landscape of possible blockchain governance directions.
-
-I read it and recognized that Ethereum is headed for "dev capture", and that I could work to help prevent that.
-
-### IETF
-<a name="ietf"/>
-
-If you don't know much about the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), finding out how it governs and manages the development of core Internet standards is useful reading. The [About page](https://www.ietf.org/about/) is a good starting point. From there, [Getting Started in the IETF](https://www.ietf.org/about/participate/get-started/), where I'll quote the opening paragraph:
-
-> The IETF's mission is "to make the Internet work better," but it is the Internet _Engineering_ Task Force, so this means: make the Internet work better from an engineering point of view. **We try to avoid policy and business questions, as much as possible.** Most participants in the IETF are engineers with knowledge of networking protocols and software. Many of them know a lot about networking hardware too.
-
-Emphasis mine, and now some of the background of the EIP process -- and the Core Dev Calls -- should be clearer.
-
-A motto of the IETF is "rough consensus and running code". There is an RFC published in 2014 called [On Consensus and Humming in the IETF](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7282) that expands on this.
-
-### NANOG
-
-[NANOG](https://www.nanog.org/) stands for "North American Network Operators Group". It has been around almost as long as the IETF has. From the about page:
-
->The North American Network Operators Group (NANOG), is the professional association for Internet engineering, architecture and operations. Our core focus is on continuous improvement of the data transmission technologies, practices, and facilities that make the Internet function.
->
->NANOG is a membership organization organized as an 501(c)3 non-profit.
->
->Our members are typically drawn from the core engineering and product staffs of the major North American carriers, content providers, hosting and cloud companies, multi-tenant data centers, and interconnection service providers. NANOG is governed by the NANOG Board of Directors, elected by the membership, every two years.
-
-This might be equivalent to people who run node clients, in an understanding of how such groups might organize as a stakeholder group.
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2019-05-19-run-your-own-web-mentions.md b/_posts/blog/2019-05-19-run-your-own-web-mentions.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c387f9a..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2019-05-19-run-your-own-web-mentions.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-date: '2019-05-19T20:00:14.667Z'
-title: Run your own WebMentions
-tags: IndieWeb Heroku opensource WebMention
-slug: run-your-own-web-mentions
-categories: Commons
-comments: true
----
-I’m continuing down the road of adding Deploy to Heroku support to various apps, and using my site as a test case for [[IndieWeb]] stuff. I went down the rabbit hole today because [infominer was looking at the Jekyll IndieWeb template](https://github.com/infominer33/indieweb), and I found @voxpelli’s WebMention’s server at [voxpelli/webpage-webmentions](https://github.com/voxpelli/webpage-webmentions).
-
-I forked it [bmann/webpage-webmentions](https://github.com/bmann/webpage-webmentions) and got Deploy to Heroku working by just adding an `app.json`.
-<!-- more -->
-This post is going to be for testing receiving webmentions. More writing / documentation to follow.
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2019-05-21-model-t-indieweb.md b/_posts/blog/2019-05-21-model-t-indieweb.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a0cc6c9..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2019-05-21-model-t-indieweb.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-date: '2019-05-21T10:00:14.667Z'
-title: Model T IndieWeb
-tags: IndieWeb Heroku opensource
-categories: Commons
-comments: true
----
-Continuing the discussion of how IndieWeb needs to evolve in order to see adoption.
-
-<!-- more -->
-
-[Chris Aldrich responds to my question "What does a Model T assembly line look like for IndieWeb?"](https://boffosocko.com/2019/05/21/scale-and-scope-jim-luke/#Boris%20is%20asking%20a%20problematic%20question%20not%20remembering%20early%20issues%20with%20the%20Model%20T,%20which%20Jim%20Luke%20reminds%20us%20of%20in%20his%20article:) by first asserting that that's what Twitter and Facebook already are.
-
-So I guess I'll need to explain what I meant by asking that. No, I don't think "Model T Assembly Line" equals Facebook. And one large MicroBlog instance isn't it, either.
-
-How does an end user -- I'll call this person a tinkerer, because you're going to at least need to copy and paste some tech instructions -- deploy a site for just them, that works out of the box? And, where is the list of different "just works" solutions that they can choose from?
-
-> The answer to Boris is that the IndieWeb has been working on the scope problem first knowing that once the interoperable kinks between systems can be worked out to a reasonable level that scale will be the easy part of the problem. Obviously micro.blog has been able to productize IndieWeb principles (with several thousands of users) and still work relatively flawlessly with a huge number of other platforms.  There have been tremendous strides towards shoehorning IndieWeb principles into major CMSes like WordPress (~500+ active users currently) and Drupal (~50+ active users) not to mention several dozens of others including Known, Perch, Craft CMS, Hugo, Kirby, etc., etc.
-
-Plugins to existing systems are great! But: in many cases, the base system has a high technical complexity. I personally wouldn't feel comfortable telling people to run their own WordPress or Drupal instances -- you need hosting experience and security maintenance. So right away that's a relatively high cost.
-
-I've spent quite some time looking at this stuff, especially just recently. I just [added a PR to Pelle Wessman @voxpelli's webmentions server](https://github.com/voxpelli/webpage-webmentions/pull/106) so that it can be one-click "Deployed to Heroku". Pelle wants to go further and have it work in "single user mode", but for now anyone can host their own webmentions server.
-
-Known is the best of the bunch that Chris lists, in terms of being fully integrated and setup out of the box. Except I think you still need to setup [Bridgy](https://brid.gy/) separately? Bridgy seems to do everything that people actually need in terms of communicating with today's social media world, so I don't understand why that functionality isn't baked in to more systems? I originally got Known working on Heroku shortly after it launched (notice a theme?) and it's on my list to set it up this way again.
-
-This "Deploy to Heroku" modality (or [Zeit](https://zeit.co/) or other serverless style) is a simpler, turn key model for both developers and end users. Especially for distributed systems, we can't think in a mode of old school LAMP stack systems where the "user" is hand updating the operating system layer. Even Docker deploys just sort
-
-I want to see distributed systems where users are hosting from mobile phones to Raspberry Pis, and every mode in between. IndieWeb has the right spirit for this, and absolutely needs to work on protocols and interoperability, but it also has an issue where a lot of this code is simply stale.
-
-So: how do we encourage more Manton's and Pelle's to build Model-Ts that are one-click-deploy simple for both tinkerers and other developers?
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2019-05-22-drupal-past-predictions.md b/_posts/blog/2019-05-22-drupal-past-predictions.md
deleted file mode 100644
index c6b9ebd..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2019-05-22-drupal-past-predictions.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-date: '2019-05-22T10:00:14.667Z'
-title: Drupal Past Predictions
-tags: Drupal
-categories: Commons
-comments: true
----
-Dries Buytaert sent an email to core contributors in August 2010 asking what we though Drupal would look like if it was 10x bigger:
-<!-- more -->
-> I'm thinking about topics to talk about for my DrupalCon keynote. In my keynote, I'd like to paint a picture of how the world would look like if Drupal were 10 times bigger.
->
-> For example, I think it would mean we'd have one or more mobile solutions for Drupal (because for Drupal to grow 10 times bigger we'd need to have one).
->
-> If you try to fast forward in your brain, and imagine a Drupal world that is 10 times bigger, what would it look like?
->
-> What else would we have?What would the ecosystem look like? What would that your world look like as a developer/designer?
->
-> How would Drupal have adopted to the changing web/internet?
-
-Here was my answer:
-
-How does Drupal play in a world where we will do data design first, and display == mobile touch across multiple screens? How do we stay relevant in that world?
-
-The next frontier is not LAMP or any stack at all but Google App Engine and from the ground up web apps written on top of node.js and other server-side JavaScript. Quercus is a kludge. Where is the line from where Drupal is today to that non-LAMP future?
-
-Say we power 10% of the web, and that's where the 10x. How do we federate automatically? How do we build the open web? How do we CREATE standards and get others to adopt them, rather than being the first to "build a module for that".
-
-How can Drupal sites re-use data on a more massive scale? Have you seen http://scratchpads.eu/ (next round of funding is 20M EU)? That is the sound of Drupal powering a "knowledge sphere" that (again) has a straight line to the early days and John VanDyk's entomology site.
-
-How do we promote our culture of sharing / give back by default in a world where every regional web shop takes Drupal off the shelf, adds a design, and could care less about core? aka the WordPress model
-
----
-
-That was almost 9 years ago. I'm still thinking about these same topics, reflected in the last part of [FISSION's](https://fission.codes) mission: "exploring fundamental shifts in the way we host, deploy, and run software for humans."
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2019-06-11-ipad-tools.md b/_posts/blog/2019-06-11-ipad-tools.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 262854d..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2019-06-11-ipad-tools.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,153 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-date: '2019-06-10T10:00:14.667Z'
-title: iPad Tools
-tags: iPad, iOS, mobile, development
-categories: "How To"
-comments: true
----
-I’ve been using an iPad Pro 11" as my daily machine for about 2 months now. Here are some of the tools I've been finding useful.
-
-After using a Chromebook for a year, the thing that made me want to do this is Keynote. My cofounder Brooke and I have been working on one pagers and presentations, and nothing else is better than Keynote.
-
-I mean, I know this. In my career, I’ve been an expert at both PowerPoint and Keynote, but really Keynote is just a pleasure to use. I’m productive, quick, and end up with better presentations.
-
-I mean, I _also_ do stuff like use Markdown in HackMD to create presentations, so don’t take away my geek cred quite yet.
-
-I bought the iPad with the new Apple Pencil, and then separately got a third party case and a Logitech Bluetooth keyboard. The all in one cases from Apple or Logitech didn't seem like a fit for me, and having the keyboard separate means I can get a great kyeboard which is still small, and position it so it's good for typing.
-
-In using the iPad, I’m also looking at it through the lens of using it as a professional creation device. With that in mind, paying for apps that make working easier is a no brainer. And when I say paying for apps, I don't mean 99¢: business apps that are one time purchases can easily charge a lot for the value they deliver.
-
-On the other side, I'm also looking to understand which apps I'm committing to which aren't open source and/or don't use open source protocols. That deserves a blog post of its own.
-
-## Coding Apps for iPad
-
-Aside from lots of email, presentations, and working inside a number of different web apps, my first step was to see about getting the iPad setup for coding. At least, my kind of coding, which is connecting to remote shells, editing some wikis and Jekyll sites via git. 
-
-### Working Copy
-I have paid for [Working Copy](https://workingcopyapp.com/) on my iPhone, which is an incredible full featured git client that pushes and pulls from other apps on iOS with deep integrations. But I’ve barely used it on the iPad since I found...
-
-### Buffer Editor
-I hadn’t heard about [Buffer Editor](https://buffereditor.com/), but decided to give it a try. It’s got Git integration, syntax highlighting, multiple open editor tabs. 
-
-It can open files from many different remote locations, and then save them back to that location.
-
-![](https://images.bmann.ca/blog/IMG_0064-1560040454.PNG)
-
-In writing this up, I just found out that it will open an SSH terminal window, too. Now I just need it to support Mosh.
-
-I don't have much more to write about it, because it pretty much just works. I wrote this article in it and committed it via Git, which then published this blog post.
-
-### Blink Terminal
-
-[Blink](http://www.blink.sh/) is a terminal that runs on your iOS devices. Like, with shell utilities and Python and TeX and Lua even. MoSH support with keys and everything.
-
-And it’s open source. It’s a one time payment. Purchased!
-
-The [home page](https://www.blink.sh) has lots of info and App Store download links. The [GitHub README `blinksh/blink`](https://github.com/blinksh/blink) goes into more detail on what shell programs you have access to.
-
-
-Here I'm connected to an ubuntu system. Not very exciting, it is a full screen terminal after all!
-
-![](https://images.bmann.ca/blog/IMG_0062-1560040455.PNG)
-
----
-
-BTW, [MoSH](https://mosh.org) aka "Mobile Shell" is an SSH replacement that’s made for on-the-go connections that never drop. It connects over SSH and then uses a Mosh app that you can easily install on your server.
-
-### Termius
-Termius is an SSH/SFTP/Mosh/Telnet client ... and it does a lot more, like [Port Forwarding](https://docs.termius.com/termius-handbook/port-forwarding).
-
-I used it originally on my iPhone, and it recently got an upgrade and a number of Premium / paid subscription features. Without a subscription, your server settings don’t sync between devices. For now, for my purposes, the free / Basic version works just fine.
-
-I am going to do some Port Forwarding experiments, since this may be the final piece in being able to develop on a remote server, which has a preview app running in the browser, which I can then forward to my local iPad? We’ll see!
-
-![](https://images.bmann.ca/blog/IMG_0061-1560040455.PNG)
-
-
-### Amazon Lightsail VPS with xrdp and Jump Desktop
-
-There are still many apps that are desktop only, especially the crop of decentralized p2p apps I am experimenting with. So along with a remote machine for full shell access, I [installed xrdp for Ubuntu using this article](https://medium.com/@vivekteega/how-to-setup-an-xrdp-server-on-ubuntu-18-04-89f7e205bd4e). This boils down to the following:
-
-```
-sudo apt-get install xrdp
-sudo apt-get install xfce4
-sudo sed -i.bak '/fi/a #xrdp multiple users configuration \n xfce-session \n' /etc/xrdp/startwm.sh
-```
-
-The one tweak (once I sorted some username / password issues from creating a new user) was to edit the `/etc/X11/Xwrapper.config` allowed users setting from console to anybody.
-
-[Jump Desktop](https://jumpdesktop.com/) is an RDP / VNC client that lets you connect to these remote desktops, and it even has support for Apple Pencil as a pointing device.
-
-Here's Jump Desktop connected to Ubuntu running Xfce:
-
-![](https://images.bmann.ca/blog/IMG_0063-1560040454.PNG)
-
-The Microsoft RDP client may work for you as well -- it has fewer features, but is free.
-
-_Note: I’m running this on an Amazon Lightsail VPS instance, so you do need to edit firewall settings to allow RDP connections._
-
-## New to Me Apps
-
-Other than coding specific apps, there are a handful of other apps that I've dug into recently.
-
-### iA Writer
-
-I had heard lots of good things about [iA Writer](https://ia.net/writer) but was fine with Byword for Markdown editing for a long time, since it was mainly quick on the go stuff. For longer writing and lots of it, iA Writer is great.
-
-A pleasant surprise was direct support for the [Ghost blogging app](https://ghost.org), which [runs the FISSION blog](https://blog.fission.codes). You can write in iA writer and then push drafts to your Ghost blog.
-
-I’m missing image support, but this will be tricky to integrate. An open source Markdown editor with configurable image file upload support and connections to different systems? Yes please!
-
-Between Joplin and iA Writer as native apps, and Ghost and Discourse in the browser, I’m writing a lot of Markdown. Never mind editing blog posts or wiki pages which are all Markdown too.
-
-### GoodNotes 
-
-I went looking for apps that work with Pencil. I’ve always **wanted** to go all digital with notes and scribbling, and it looks like [GoodNotes](https://www.goodnotes.com/) is the best fit for what I want.
-
-I’ve used it for some personal tasks, like importing a PDF of RPG character sheets, which you can then fill out by writing or typing on top, and re-use infinitely.
-
-Currently GoodNotes syncs automatically using iCloud. I’d love to see it support configurable document storage.
-
-I’d love more recommendations on Pencil-friendly apps that are worthwhile.
-
-### Brave
-
-On iOS, you’re using the same WebKit engine for all browsers, but I still thought it was a good idea to have [Brave on my iPad](https://brave.com/ios/). I do less browser-y things on my iPhone, so just use Safari there. As well, with the iPad SplitView, it means I can have one or both browsers docked into different apps.
-
-Other than committing to different sync / identity systems, it would be interesting to see what the differences for the iOS browser implementations truly are. Anyone have insight on big differences?
-
-### AWS S3 Manager
-I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while, so it’s going to get shoved into this iOS apps article :)
-
-I wrote a post a while back about syncing files from iOS to S3. The Archivist was never perfect, and it now crashes on launch on all my devices. Doesn’t look like it’s getting a lot of updates. Dropshare works, but really only for individual files.
-
-I tested a ton of different apps that claimed to work with S3, didn’t have a monthly subscription, and I can’t believe this is the only app that even sort of works, but it does, and if you want to upload files to S3 from your iOS device, this is the one to get: [AWS S3 Manager](https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/aws-s3-manager/id1352683230?mt=8.)
-
-## A note on Files
-
-Amusingly, while Brooke is all Apple, she doesn’t use iCloud, so Keynote shared editing was a little bit more painful than it needed to be. I did find that you can actually set the default Document Storage for Keynote (and other apps that have implemented this), so you can use any file storage system that hooks into this API. 
-
-![](https://images.bmann.ca/blog/IMG_0066-1560280244.PNG)
-
-So yes, I’m definitely going to have a long discussion with the [Textile](https://textile.io) team about collaborating on an IPFS files plugin for iOS.
-
-## Other Apps
-
-Some of the other apps that I use personally / [at work](https://fission.codes) include: 
-
-* [Tweetbot](https://tapbots.com/tweetbot/): I couldn’t use Twitter without this app. I pay for it whenever they have a paid upgrade, and recently added an in-app "tip"
-* [Missive](https://missiveapp.com/): it’s the email client that turns email into a team sport; we use it to share, delegate, copy edit, and comment on email at work. Works really nicely on Chromebooks as well as native apps for desktop and mobile.
-* [Joplin](https://joplinapp.org/): a personal notes / to-do app that is meant to be a clone of Evernote, but under your own control. It’s open source, and you bring your own backend to store notes in, which are encrypted with your own keys / password. I use Dropbox to store my files. 
-* [Discord](https://discordapp.com/): the community + internal company chat messaging system we’ve settled on. It’s not open source, but it has a full API and features specifically built for access control and moderation. Of course I have every other messaging platform client in the known universe installed as well, but Discord is the one we settled on. I’m looking forward to integration and more long form content on our [FISSION Discourse forum talk.fission.codes](https://talk.fission.codes)
-* [GitHawk](http://githawk.com/): open source GitHub client, so you can look through all your notifications, respond, triage issues, and so on, on mobile
-
-## Next
-
-Whether it's a Chromebook or an iPad, I can get work done anywhere. I'm still interested in a new Chromebook in the [ASUS Flip C434 series](https://www.asus.com/ca-en/Laptops/ASUS-Chromebook-Flip-C434TA/). 
-
-With iPadOS being announced, we'll see what direction that takes iPads. With touch, pencil, **and** the ability for external connectivity through USB-C and Bluetooth, there are a lot of options.
-
-I'm inspired by [Ink & Switch's Muse prototype iPad app](https://www.inkandswitch.com/muse-studio-for-ideas.html), while at the same time trying to get basic 1970s terminal functionality on the same device.
-
-Tell me what is and isn't working for you on iPad, and what your favourite apps and workflows are!:
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2020-01-03-cyberboats.md b/_posts/blog/2020-01-03-cyberboats.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 041f905..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2020-01-03-cyberboats.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-date: '2020-01-03T16:07:19.755Z'
-title: Cyberboats
-tags: electricboat blog
-mf-mp-slug:
-  - electric-cyberboats
-slug: cyberboats
----
-We've got the [Tesla Cybertruck](https://www.tesla.com/cybertruck), so I was wondering about the state of "cyberboats": all electric boats.
-
-The [Electric boat entry on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_boat) is a useful starting point for the history, including that the invention of the internal combustion engine put a stop to early electric boat experiments.
-
-The [Canadian Electric Boat Company](https://www.electricboats.ca/) has 15-20ft launches for sale, powered by BMW batteries.
-
-[X Shore](https://www.xshore.com/), based in Sweden, crowd-funded an investment round, and won a 2020 German Design award.
-
-[Torqueedo](https://www.torqeedo.com/) makes various electric powered outboards for power and sail boats.
-
-The [Boat Trader Hybrid and Electric Boats Guide](https://www.boattrader.com/resources/hybrid-and-electric-boats-2019-guide/) is a good overview of the topic.
-
-A November 2019 article covers the [electrification of Washington State Ferries](https://www.heraldnet.com/news/washington-state-ferries-aiming-for-a-fleet-energy-sea-change/):
-
->To accomplish this ambitious plan, the agency is starting by converting the three largest ferries in the fleet from diesel to hybrid-electric propulsion. The three Jumbo Mark II boats — the Tacoma, Puyallup and Wenatchee — are the biggest fuel consumers, burning together 14,000 gallons of diesel a day. They usually run on the Seattle-to-Bainbridge and Edmonds-to-Kingston routes.
->
->At the same time, the state has contracted Seattle-based Vigor to build up to five electric-hybrid Olympic class ferry boats, which the state hopes to put into service from 2022 through 2028. They are smaller than the Jumbo Mark II boats and are estimated to cost between $140 million to $180 million per vessel.
->
->This is all part of Gov. Jay Inslee’s goal of moving toward a zero-emissions fleet, which today is the largest consumer of diesel fuel in the state, using over 18 million gallons of diesel a year, according to the state.
-
-CBC covers the [BC Ferries hybrid electric ferries going through the Panama Canal at the end of December 2019](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-hybrid-electric-ferries-1.5409697). They should be arriving in Victoria this month:
-
->The two ships are part of BC Ferries' long-term plan to have an entire fleet that's powered by electricity. Both vessels are expected to be in operation by mid-2020 following a final inspection and crew training.   
-
-&nbsp;
-
->All six vessels have the capacity to be fully electrical, but until the right infrastructure is in place, BC Ferries says the ships will operate as hybrids.   
-
-A [September 2019 article](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-ferries-hybrid-vessel-launch-1.5296957) has more info.
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2020-01-05-mennonites.md b/_posts/blog/2020-01-05-mennonites.md
deleted file mode 100644
index fc82afa..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2020-01-05-mennonites.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,41 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-date: '2020-01-05T21:53:44.341Z'
-title: Mennonites
-tags: Blog Family German
-mf-mp-slug:
-  - mennonites
-mf-post-status:
-  - draft
-slug: mennonites
----
-I met some people of German descent over New Years and we did the usual thing of talking about where our families are from.
-
-My [dad @opahorst](https://twitter.com/opahorst) is from Berlin.
-
-My [mom @anneonbowen](https://twitter.com/anneonbowen) is from a small village called Limburgerhof, which is in the [Rheinland-Pfalz](https://wikitravel.org/en/Rhineland-Palatinate) province of Germany. She was raised Mennonite, which got us into a discussion if Mennonites were all like the Amish (not using certain forms of technology).
-
-I wasn’t actually raised religious at all and I don’t really know anything about Mennonites. When my mom’s mother, my grandmother, was still alive and came to visit us, I remember going to a Mennonite church out in the Fraser Valley.
-
-So today I fell down the [Mennonites Wikipedia rabbit hole](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mennonites) and found a bunch of interesting things which I’ve paraphrased below.   
-
-
-Being a Mennonite seems to be pretty broad — “its most distinguishing feature is the rejection of infant baptism” — related faiths are called Anabaptists. The Mennonite name comes from Menno Simons, who was from the Low Countries now part of the Netherlands.
-
-Amish split off (Jakob Amman being the founder where the name came from), as did the Hutterites (Jakob Hutter).
-
-> **requiring church membership beginning at birth** was inconsistent with the New Testament example. They believed that the **church should be completely removed from government** (the proto–free church tradition), and that individuals should join only when willing to publicly acknowledge belief in Jesus and the desire to live in accordance with his teachings
-
-(Emphasis mine) — sound like great basic principles!
-
-There are only about 1.6M Mennonites worldwide, with only 65K left in Europe. This got me wondering about the community where my mom grew up:
-
-> The 19th century also brought to the region of Limburgerhof the Mennonites from Switzerland. Mennonites have remained in the area since then; and Limburgerhof has the only Mennonite Church in the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis. — [MyGermanCity.com](https://www.mygermancity.com/limburgerhof)
-
-So, my mother’s family is part of a very small group in the entire area. My great uncle kept a family tree, and apparently we can trace our ancestry back to Martin Luther. Yet another religious figure who disagreed with how things were at the time :)
-
-The “Pfalz” as it is called in German is “Palatinate” in English. And it turns out everybody left there and went to the US:
-
-> In the early 18th century, 100,000 Germans from the Palatinate emigrated to Pennsylvania, where they became known collectively as the Pennsylvania Dutch (from the Anglicization of Deutsch or German.)
-
-This “Pennsylvania Dutch” which really should be “Pennsylvania Germans” is something that I brought up during my New Years Eve discussion.
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2020-01-10-founder-notes-tam-kbeili-at.md b/_posts/blog/2020-01-10-founder-notes-tam-kbeili-at.md
deleted file mode 100644
index a85aea4..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2020-01-10-founder-notes-tam-kbeili-at.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-date: '2020-01-10T02:06:37.513Z'
-title: 'Founder Notes, Tam Kbeili at CodeCast'
-categories:
-  - "Founder Notes"
-tags:
-  - codecast
-  - tamkbeili
-slug: founder-notes-tam-kbeili-at-codecast
----
-This is the first "Founder Notes" -- I share some links and highlights of a discussion with a founder as we talk about their business. As with many things I do, it's an experiment in "working out loud". I've spent many years in Vancouver working with early stage startup founders, and I enjoy workshopping ideas and sharing useful resources.   
-
-
-This morning I sat down to catch up with [Tam Kbeili](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tkbeili/) @tammam, founder & CEO of [CodeCast](<https://www.codecast.io/>). People in Vancouver may also remember Tam as cofounder of [CodeCore](https://codecore.ca), one of the first coding bootcamps locally. He sold the school in October of 2018.   
-
-
-CodeCast is aiming to be the Twitch for livestreaming coding. One of the things that Tam said is that he believes this is a new category of business he calls "developer media". It's not really a devtool (aka B2D aka "business-to-developer" services), it's not really education / edtech. I like this term -- I'm going to start using it.
-
-This made me think about [Stewart Butterfield's "We Don't Sell Saddles Here" company memo about Slack](<https://talk.fission.codes/t/we-don-t-sell-saddles-here-stewart-butterfield-2014/44>). Defining a new category and promoting it can be very powerful.
-
-As I do to everyone, I recommend Brad Feld's [Venture Deals](<https://www.venturedeals.com/>) book if you're considering raising money for your company. Related, I also have a set of [Pitch Deck Resources](<https://talk.fission.codes/t/pitch-deck-resources/308>) that are a useful starting point for thinking about how to tell the story of your company and big idea.
-
-We talked about bootstrapping vs. venture funding, and talked about [Christoph Janz's "Five Million ways to build a $100M business](<https://talk.fission.codes/t/five-ways-to-build-a-100-million-business-christoph-janz-2014/440>) -- either lots and lots of users whose data you sell to generate advertising, or customers that pay progressively more, and then of course need more "effort" in doing sales.
-
-Tam is looking for developers to do some livestreams or workshops on the platform, which is ready to use now. Aside from individual developers, the platform would also be interesting for coding bootcamps or corporate training. If this sounds interesting, [get in touch with Tam at CodeCast](<https://www.codecast.io/contacts/new>).
-
-We talked about having @expede do a Haskell or Elixir session to try it out, and Tam said he could kick the tires on building something with @FissionCodes.
-
-Fun fact: CodeCast is built on Elixir, and @expede has written a lot of Elixir and is the creator of several Elixir libraries, including [Witchcraft](https://hexdocs.pm/witchcraft) and [Exceptional](https://hexdocs.pm/exceptional).
-
-Tam asked, are there any pitch competitions in Vancouver that are worth attending? My answer is that pitch competitions generally are a waste of time.
-
-We'll organize a peer pitch deck review at the end of Feb 2020. If you're a Vancouver founder/investor/advisor interested in participating, slide into my DMs. I've run these before, where a handful of founders present their business and get feedback / questions from their peers to help improve how they tell the story of their company.
-
-For CodeCast, it feels like a company with a global customer base, so there's nothing that ties it in particular to Vancouver or Canada for an investor base. I generally recommend to use $USD as the default "global" currency when you're mentioning numbers in pitches about your company.
-
-I nominated Tam to be invited to _#ehlist_. EhList is a Canadian founders group, roughly organized by cities around the world, and its main interface is a shared Slack channel. In Vancouver Steve Lionais @slionais of [Dr. Bill](<https://www.dr-bill.ca/>) is the main coffee organizer, which meets roughly monthly, usually at Lost & Found Cafe on Hastings.
-
-And that's it for the first edition of Founder Notes!
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2020-01-13-the-midlife-crisis-of-the.md b/_posts/blog/2020-01-13-the-midlife-crisis-of-the.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 4175a2d..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2020-01-13-the-midlife-crisis-of-the.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-date: '2020-01-13T20:56:01.804Z'
-title: The midlife crisis of the American restaurant review
-category: Blog
-tags: food Vancouver
-slug: the-midlife-crisis-of-the
----
-Via Vancouver’s @ScoutMagazine, “An essay in the LA Review of Books on [the midlife crisis of the American restaurant review](https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/midlife-crisis-american-restaurant-review/)”
-
-A lot of this ring true for me. Here in Vancouver’s heavily Asian-influenced dining, most restaurants understand that share plates are a thing. An appetizer-to-dessert review doesn’t make much sense for this.
-
-When traveling elsewhere — it has happened to me in Toronto (farm to table small plates) and Berlin (high end Turkish) — I’ve had servers explain sharing plates to me. It never occurred to me that this is something that needs to be experienced or taught, having grown up with it.
-
-The big media company paid staff writer thing is of course itself something in transition. Food bloggers who don’t reveal when they’re being comped are an even bigger issue.
-
-And then there’s the Chicken Fingers vs Tentacles issue — a “Safe” eater isn’t going to be helpful in recommendations for an “Adventurous” eater. But that heads off into peer recommendations which is a whole other thing ;)
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2020-01-22-founder-notes-ehlist-jan-2020-vancouver.md b/_posts/blog/2020-01-22-founder-notes-ehlist-jan-2020-vancouver.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f8405a8..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2020-01-22-founder-notes-ehlist-jan-2020-vancouver.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,73 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-title: 'Founder Notes, EhList Coffee Jan 2020 Vancouver'
-categories:
-  - "Founder Notes"
-tags:
-  - ehlist
-  - Vancouver
-excerpt: "Notes from #ehlist founder coffee at Lost & Found Cafe in Vancouver, January 22, 2020."
----
-Turns out I intend to blog some more in the Founder Notes category! 
-
-From my [notes about Tam at CodeCast](../founder-notes-tam-kbeili-at-codecast/), I covered what #ehlist is:
-
-> EhList is a Canadian founders group, roughly organized by cities around the world, and its main interface is a shared Slack channel. In Vancouver Steve Lionais @slionais of [Dr. Bill](<https://www.dr-bill.ca/>) is the main coffee organizer, which meets roughly monthly, usually at Lost & Found Cafe on Hastings.
-
-These are some rough notes about topics, links, and people that were discussed around the table. We usually invite people to talk about challenges, asks for help, or really help and feedback with anything that is on their mind.
-
-This is roughly written up from my notes in third-person.
-
-<hr />
-
-Ilya @ilyabrotzky, founder of [VanHack](https://vanhack.com/), talked about working on delegating better. He's looking for a part time finance / operations person, uses Quickbooks currently. Boris might have someone to intro.
-
-Ilya also talked about moving to using [Atlassian's Confluence wiki](https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence) from a collection of Google Docs. Everyone agrees that search in Google Drive is broken and completely mystifying.
-
-Miranda @mirandal at [Thinkific](https://www.thinkific.com) is going through this discussion about adopting something in this wiki category. There is a strong Notion vs. Confluence camp.
-
-Lots of nods towards Notion, Confluence has better Slack integration and seems to be better for bigger / whole company usage.
-
-Thinkific has roughly [40 open jobs](https://www.thinkific.com/careers), including looking for a VP of Product.
-
-Steve @slionais mentioned using [Codetree](https://codetree.com/), a Kanban / project management tool on top of Github. Turns out, this is built by another EhList founder, @kareem.
-
-Eesmyal @eesmyal, who among many other serial entrepreneur pursuits was the original founder of Vancouver's [Hive Social Impact Coworking](https://www.hivevancouver.com/), dropped by for the first time. He's looking to connect and get peer feedback. He's working on [Quantified Citizen](https://quantifiedcitizen.com/).
-
-Boris announced that he's going to run a peer pitch review at the end of February. Founders present their investment decks that they're using to raise to other founders, advisors, and investors, and get broad feedback. By invitation only.
-
-Mohsen @mossibat came to his first ehlist. He moved to Vancouver from London almost exactly a year ago. He previously worked in Venture Capital, knows Boris from attending Open Angel investment nights. Now building autonomous vehicle insurtech startup.
-
-We ended up in the usual discussion about hire and pay and salary expectations going up in Vancouver.
-
-Boris mentioned that he was annoyed by the Province of BC's Chief Digital Officer Jaimie Boyd @jaimieboyd
- tweeting about Vancouver's low wages:
-
-<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Many of us in tech see this as a BAD sign. It may be attractive to employers, but we need to coach companies to pay competitively.<br/>  
-<br/>
-Many of our best people continue to leave and/or stay in BC and work remotely.<br/>
-<br/>
-Government should be aligned in salaries going UP.</p>&mdash; Boris Mann (bmann) <a href="https://twitter.com/bmann/status/1217471993035067394">Jan 15, 2020</a></blockquote>
-<script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
-
-Turns out, @evanwillms knows her, and we could potentially have some local tech founders meet with her and give feedback. Early march? Stay tuned!
-
-Souishant @soushiant is originally from Vancouver, was living/working in UAE, and moved back a year ago. He is the founder of [Swae](http://swae.io/).
-
-Back to "Hiring is hard". Steve shared that [Dover](https://www.dover.io/) was a useful tool that had seen success in top-of-funnel hiring prospects.
-
-For customer lead gen on LinkedIn, Ilya shared [Dux Soup](https://www.dux-soup.com/), that could also be used for certain types of hiring.
-
-Question: experience / feedback on working with [Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC)](https://www.bdc.ca/)? _Specifically: does taking a growth loan from them make sense?_
-
-"The easiest / cheapest / best terms on non-dilutive capital in Canada". A "regular" bank loan is the only thing with better terms, although Canadian banks haven't done much of this.
-
-Steve founded [Dr. Bill](https://www.dr-bill.ca/) with funding from a small group of doctors, who. General discussion that there are lots of emerging non-dilutive funding options.
-
-Boris mentioned a good post / discussion that was kicked off on LinkedIn by Maxine @mmcunnin from [Pick My Brain](https://pickmybrain.world/) on alternative funding / corporate structures where users can participate in ownership of companies:
-
-<iframe src="https://www.linkedin.com/embed/feed/update/urn:li:ugcPost:6625185885493301248" height="1101" width="504" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" title="Embedded post"></iframe>
-
-<hr />
-
-Contact any of the founders mentioned here if you are a Canadian founder and would like to be part of #ehlist -- they can nominate you to join the group.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2020-01-23-german-startup-ecosystem-challenges-canadian.md b/_posts/blog/2020-01-23-german-startup-ecosystem-challenges-canadian.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 6b573a0..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2020-01-23-german-startup-ecosystem-challenges-canadian.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-date: '2020-01-23T03:57:25.096Z'
-title: 'German startup ecosystem challenges, Canadian similarities'
-tags: Germany Canada
-slug: german-startup-ecosystem-challenges-canadian
----
-[Robin Dechant wrote about the Germany startup / innovation ecosystem](https://medium.com/@robindchnt/germany-we-have-a-structural-problem-and-we-need-to-solve-it-together-c0dbafff24bb).
-
-Lots of great reading about the specifics of the problem, from distributed cities, universities, and big company headquarters:
-
-> While Germany is a powerhouse for research and technology with its scientists and engineers, it’s incredibly challenging to connect all these people and to build bridges.
-
-This, of course, sounds incredibly familiar to someone in Canada.
-
-I could probably write the same article about the Canadian market and the tension between Vancouver/Toronto/Montreal (never mind smaller cities and regions).
-
-Totally agree that each country / region has to figure out how to succeed uniquely -- while ALSO cross pollinating with the global startup / venture community that has lots in common.
-
-_Especially_ when we see a rising trend in fully distributed teams. I feel like Berlin is probably Top 3 in the world in "digital nomads" that more could be done with.
-
-I posted this as a [comment on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6625678513166921728?commentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A%28activity%3A6625678513166921728%2C6625938769734324224%29).
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2020-01-27-photo-backup-for-geeks-i-os.md b/_posts/blog/2020-01-27-photo-backup-for-geeks-i-os.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 1a312f7..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2020-01-27-photo-backup-for-geeks-i-os.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,58 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-date: '2020-01-27T16:18:36.422Z'
-title: 'Photo Backup for Geeks, iOS and S3 Revisited'
-tags:
-  - photos
-  - ios
-  - mobile
-  - Fission
-  - "Amazon S3"
-  - Flickr
-categories:
-  - Blog
-slug: photo-backup-for-geeks-ios-s3
----
-I wrote a blog post back in 2017 about my [method of archiving iPhone photos to Amazon S3](https://blog.bmannconsulting.com/archiving-photos-ios-amazon-s3/). Today, I had someone ask me about what my current workflow is, since _The Archivist_ iOS app doesn’t work any more.
-
-I use the Dropbox app to sync photos from my iPhone, and then periodically use [Multcloud](https://www.multcloud.com/) to copy the photos to my own Amazon S3 bucket. Multcloud is fine, but completely handing over your cloud login credentials to a service like this isn't great.
-
-And then I don’t do anything with them, so they really are just backup at this point.
-
-I'm calling this post "for Geeks", because most people will just use a paid iCloud, Google, or Dropbox account and be done with it.
-
-Here are some further thoughts on photo sharing related items:
-
----
-
-I [linked](https://blog.bmannconsulting.com/61957/) to [Ferdy Christant's The rise, fall and resurrection of Flickr](https://ferdychristant.com/the-rise-fall-and-resurrection-of-flickr-ca1850410ee1) which does a great job of defining some tiers of photo sharing:
-
-* Tier 0, Personal local storage: _"source" material on your local computer or smartphone_
-
-* Tier 1, Personal online storage: _"backup" storage, such as Dropbox or iCloud, not for sharing_
-
-* Tier 2, Public online sharing: _this is the tier I'm interested in for self-hosting under my own domain name_
-
-* Tier 3, Exposure and community: _amateur and professional sharing on a larger platform for distribution, from Instagram to Twitter and everything else in between_
-
-* Tier 4, Portfolio: _for professional usage_
-
-_Notes added by me_
-
-It is overly focused on amateur-to-professional photographers, and I don't really agree with the conclusion about shuffling physical hard drives. Given the expense, time, manual nature, and general complexity, I believe that paid cloud backups -- or multiple clouds -- is going to be a better solution for anyone other than professional photographers.
-
----
-
-My most prolific photos (that I actually share publicly) are probably still food and cooking pictures. Since I run [allthebest.recipes as a Discourse forum](https://allthebest.recipes), photo uploading from mobile works quite well.
-
----
-
-I am in the midst of updating my blog with a Micropub endpoint that supports media uploads ([IndieKit](https://github.com/bmann/indiekit)), so I can easily upload photos for short blog posts. It supports multiple photos, I'll need to add some "gallery" styles so they display nicely.
-
----
-
-Dropshare, mentioned in the original post, [supports S3](https://dropshare.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115003135729-How-to-set-up-Amazon-S3), but you can only upload one photo at a time, otherwise it will compress multiple files and upload a single Zip file. So not ideal for albums.
-
----
-
-My company, [Fission](https://fission.codes), is going to be launching **Fission Drive**, which will provide end-to-end encrypted files and support for public web hosting and apps. I'm looking at support for Dropbox sync directly. People really liked my post on [exporting from Facebook to Fission](https://blog.fission.codes/exporting-your-facebook-photos-to-fission/) so that's another app to consider.
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2020-02-21-tools-for-home-cooking.md b/_posts/blog/2020-02-21-tools-for-home-cooking.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 81fc78b..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2020-02-21-tools-for-home-cooking.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,89 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-date: '2020-02-21T10:53:12.210Z'
-title: Tools for home cooking
-tags: programming heroku ton-zijlstra roland-tanglao hypercard
-mf-mp-slug:
-  - tools-for-home-cooking-sloan
-slug: tools-for-home-cooking
-categories:
-  - Blog
----
-I do write about cooking here, but this is a long post comparing programming to cooking. If you haven't read it already, go read [Robin Sloan's "An app can be a home cooked meal"](https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/). Sloan wrote an iOS app for himself, his sister, and their parents, and considers himself a "home cook" equivalent programmer.
-
-Ton and Roland beat me to a write up with their thoughts on the post. I knew as soon as I read the article that they'd both have thoughts on it.
-
-[Roland](http://rolandtanglao.com/2020/02/16/p1-robin-sloan-an-app-home-cooked-meal/) picked out all of the juicy quotes. I'll plus one the first two:   
-
-
-> In a better world, I would have built this in a day using some kind of modern, flexible HyperCard for iOS, exporting a sturdy, standalone app that did exactly what I wanted and nothing else. — Robin Sloan
-
-Search for a [recent tweet of mine about HyperCard](https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3Abmann%20hypercard&src=typed_query), I found another thread from 2018 that [points at HyperCard plus IPFS plus blockchain](https://twitter.com/bmann/status/1046448784731832320) that is roughly where I'm pointed at these days. Including mobile devices as a creation and deployment platform for apps. And upthread has a quote from @patrickc:
-
-> End user computing is becoming less a bicycle and more a monorail for the mind. — Patrick Collison
-
-This is a call back to [Steve Jobs' computer as bicycle for the mind](https://talk.fission.codes/t/bicycle-for-the-mind-steve-jobs/490).
-
-> In our actual world, I built it in about a week, and roughly half of that time was spent wrestling with different kinds of code-signing and identity provisioning and I don’t even know what. I waved some incense and threw some stones and the gods of Xcode allowed me to pass — Robin Sloan
-
-The developer experience of building software locally, on your desktop or laptop, is very good in 2020. Live reloading, a mobile emulator, debugging tools, your code editor checking things as you type. But as soon as you get to deployment — to launching this thing into the world without turning your screen to show someone else — is an incredibly difficult learning curve, immediately.
-
-Roland's [part 2 commentary](http://rolandtanglao.com/2020/02/20/p1-programming-feels-like-home-comfy-chesterfield/) finds [Eugene Wallingford's Programming feels like home](http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2020-02.html#e2020-02-18T16_00_24.htm):
-
-> Sloan reminds us that programming can be – is – more than a line on a resume. It is something that everyone can do, and want to do, for a lot of different reasons. It would be great if programming “were marbled deeply into domesticity and comfort, nerdiness and curiosity, health and love” in the way that cooking is. That is what makes Computing for All **really** worth doing. — Eugene Wallingford
-
----
-
-Ton writes [I am the programming equivalent of a home cook](https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2020/02/i-am-the-programming-equivalent-of-a-home-cook/).
-
-> I would never call myself a ‘real’ programmer, or a programmer at all really. Yet, I’ve been programming stuff since I was 12. — Ton Zijlstra
-
-I have a degree in Computer Science, earned in an era where Java and then a few academic programming languages were taught. I graduated with classmates who couldn't really program at all. And so I have the same feeling: Am I actually a 'programmer'?
-
-Talking to [Brooke](https://twitter.com/expede) at our team retreat last week, she learned 22 programming languages in a handful of months.   
-
-
-As I thought about programming languages, I wasn't really sure which languages I could say I "know", or can actually write new code in from scratch. This will turn into a separate blog post with a little trip down memory lane. Brooke has assured me that if I actually coded full time, I'd be a solid intermediate developer — although mainly because of my systems experience in servers and DNS and general abilities in tracing down error messages with web searches.
-
-Ton included a [lovely picture of he and I home cooking side by side in my old Vancouver apartment](https://www.flickr.com/photos/tonz/2675261471/), way back in 2008.
-
----
-
-Let's loop back to Sloan's article:
-
-> …my app doesn’t need a login system. It doesn’t need an interface to create and manage contacts. It already knows exactly who’s using it.
-
-He then goes on to reference [Clay Shirky's Situated Software from 2004](https://web.archive.org/web/20040411202042/http://www.shirky.com/writings/situated_software.html) — "Situated software, by contrast, doesn’t need to be personalized—it is personal from its inception".
-
-Sloan (Ton quoted this too):
-
-> And, when you free programming from the requirement to be general and professional and scalable, it becomes a different activity altogether, just as cooking at home is really nothing like cooking in a commercial kitchen.   
-
-
-If we expect home cooking to happen, we must build tools designed for home cooking. Home cooking from inception.
-
-That gas-powered apartment stove that Ton and I cooked at, it was "designed" for landlords to supply the narrowest, cheapest stove possible to buy.
-
-At the same time, I distinctly remember [The Black Hoof in Toronto](http://theblackhoof.com/) having two electric coil "apartment" stoves as their main cooking implements.
-
-Masterpieces can be made with home tools, but an industrial oven cannot be moved into an apartment. And that's how software is designed and deployed today.   
-
-
----
-
-I am supremely annoyed that Drupal or WordPress can't easily be self-hosted by average users: the amount of experience and maintenance required to keep an entire LAMP stack running — and more importantly, secure! — means that you have to pay someone else to host it for you. I consider this to be a failure on my part: I poured a lot of energy into the Drupal code and community so that people could self-host, and self-publish, and blogging and groups and communities arose out of this. And now we're back to needing to pay someone, probably at least $10-$20 per month, just to keep the lights on.
-
-We've been writing LAMP stack applications for 30 years or so. Linux (operating system), Apache (web server), MySQL (database), and PHP/Python/Perl (application code). Some of the initials have changed (NodeJS, Ruby on Rails), but the pattern remains the same: care and feeding from operating system to web server.
-
-I wrote an article called [The New Hack Stack](https://blog.bmannconsulting.com/new-hack-stack/) in 2012. In it, I advocated for Platforms-as-a-Service (PaaS). The provider takes care of maintaining the operating system and the web server, provides plugins for many different add-ons including databases, and then you're left only needing to maintain or update application code.
-
-My particular favourite in this category is Heroku. In my general quest to not have to maintain operating systems or web servers, I've spent a lot of time hacking on open source applications so they can be one-click deployed to Heroku.
-
-I have to give up on some of them: these applications are not _designed_ in such a way that it is easy to deploy them to Heroku. They are designed such that step one is "login to your Linux server, mess around with the operating system, and configure your web server". Perhaps OK for another developer, but _why_ are they designing them this way, to not make it easy for "users" to deploy?!?
-
-I didn't know it at the time, but the design pattern of the [12 Factor App](https://12factor.net/) had just been authored in 2011, by the Heroku founders.   
-
-
-Not so coincidentally, many of the members of the original Heroku team are doing very interesting things at industrial research lab @inkandswitch, including writing last year about [Local first software](https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first.html) that goes all the way to insisting that software should work for users locally, under their control.
-
-I can see these new shifts beginning to happen. We **can** build tools for home cooking. But we have to design them that way from the beginning.
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2020-02-25-laptop-choices.md b/_posts/blog/2020-02-25-laptop-choices.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 54cf36d..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2020-02-25-laptop-choices.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,94 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-date: '2020-02-25T10:53:12.210Z'
-title: Laptop Choices
-tags:
-  - chromebook
-  - ASUS
-  - ScreenPad
-categories:
-  - Blog
----
-I've been using Chromebooks for several years, have a desktop iMac and iPad Pro that I use, and am considering a new Windows laptop. Here's what I've learned so far and the general options I'm considering. I would love to hear feedback and opinions on what options others are considering!
-
-## Background Notes and Use Cases
-
-For [work](https://fission.codes) I need a command line terminal and access to a browser.
-
-I've been using a Chromebook for several years (more details below), working with either ChromeOS on the command line, or the new Linux app container support to also install Ubuntu.
-
-I went [iPad-only last year](https://blog.bmannconsulting.com/ipad-tools/), including coding.
-
-Personally, I enjoy being able to cloud game, using [NVidia's GeForce NOW service](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce-now/). Playing things offline / locally is not really required, but is a nice to have.
-
-I have a desktop iMac at home, but find a laptop that lets me work from anywhere to be most convenient.
-
-I experiment with various Linux-y things, but don't really need or want a Linux desktop as my main interface. I do need a Linux-y command line terminal.
-
-Pricing is in Canadian Dollars $CAD before taxes or shipping, unless I refer to $USD specifically. I'm sure there are all sorts of specials and sales -- shill me your deals!
-
-## Mac Laptop
-
-The default case for me is that I get a Macbook Air. The 11" Air with an i7 processor is still my most favourite laptop ever. It's still in use by my mom after 7 years.
-
-The 13" Macbook Air with 16GB of RAM is either ~$1700CAD with 128GB hard drive or ~$1900 with 256GB hard drive. To align it with other specs below, i5/8GB/128GB or 256GB is what that would look like.
-
-I know I can be productive, have access to one-of-a-kind apps like Keynote, and in general have a very usable machine. I can _also_ dual-boot Windows (would need the larger hard drive for sure). No need to dual-boot into Linux, dev tools work great from MacOS command line.
-
-I don't need the power / expense of a Macbook Pro (never mind keyboards or touchbars). 
-
-Apple closing down what can be installed on MacOS and generally lower quality hardware is one of the reasons to continue exploring. What's my Mac exit plan?
-
-## Chromebook
-
-If I'm going to get a Chromebook, it should be inexpensive. That means -- I see no reason to pay as much as I would for a Macbook Air to get something with less app and software support. Yes, I'm looking at you, Google Pixelbook. Even the "cheaper" Go is $850 to $1800CAD, depending on specs. My target recommendation is $500 - $800CAD to still get enough power and build quality.
-
-I used what was [Wirecutter's Chromebook recommendation](https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-chromebook/) for, I think, 3 years? -- the [ASUS Flip C302CA](https://www.asus.com/ca-en/Laptops/ASUS-Chromebook-Flip-C302CA/), an 12.5" laptop. I think I paid around $400CAD for the m3 /4GB RAM / 32GB storage. There are now upgraded versions including one with an Intel m7 processor/8GB RAM/64GB storage that looks to be priced around $800CAD. The version I had with 4GB RAM was a little too minimal for lots of browser tabs (the [Great Suspender Extension](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-suspender/klbibkeccnjlkjkiokjodocebajanakg?hl=en) helps with this). Using ChromeOS' native command line is efficient, but you will have to be in developer mode to use it. [Chromebrew](https://skycocker.github.io/chromebrew/) is a pretty great experience for having various popular programming languages and command line tools just work. If something is **not** in Chromebrew, there aren't that many others using this option, so you're deep in the bowels of Make files if you can get things working at all.
-
-I upgraded to an [ASUS Flip C434TA](https://www.asus.com/ca-en/Laptops/ASUS-Chromebook-Flip-C434TA/) from the C302, it was ~$800CAD back in October 2019, and I've seen some prices around ~$650CAD recently. The reasons to upgrade were 8GB RAM / faster m3 processor / a USB-A port, and (main reason) because it shipped with an upgraded kernel with support for containers (aka Linux apps aka [Crostini](https://www.reddit.com/r/Crostini/)). 
-
-This means a full container (or multiple containers!) running whatever flavour of Linux you want, visually integrated into the same GUI as ChromeOS. When I got it, the default container was an old version of Debian. [I replaced it with Ubuntu 18](/62009/) and things have been pretty good, other than the "standard" Linux yak shaving of various apps having different packaging needs, font / emoji support for Discord, and some quirks about how apps run in containerized networking.
-
-Fun fact: if you want to run Linux-y-things -- and apps that run in the browser -- an Intel processor is going to have best performance. Android apps tend to be optimized for ARM processors. Aside from a few things here and there, the web app version of services have ended up working better for me than the Android app version.
-
-I've never really used the "flip" aspect of these models btw -- where it's a hinge that you can fully "flip" the machine into tablet mode. ChromeOS and Android app support for "tablet" mode is pretty mediocre, and I haven't found any must have tablet mode apps.
-
-My experience with the ASUS C434 has been just as good as with the C302 previously. People had been waiting for a C302 successor for some time. Apparently others have been having issues with that model, and the **new** recommended successor is the [ASUS Flip C436FA](https://www.asus.com/ca-en/2-in-1-PCs/ASUS-Chromebook-Flip-C436FA/). It doesn't appear to be fully available for sale yet, and is more higher end, with costs looking like $1000CAD.
-
-My full-time usage of a Chromebook that started as an experiment has essentially been proven. I can be productive on a laptop with good build quality and do everything I need to do, especially with the addition of Linux container support (that is technically still in beta). It's about half to a third the price of a brand new Macbook Air.
-
-[Chrome Apps are being killed March 2020](https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/15/21067907/google-chrome-apps-end-support-lune-windows-macos-linux), and Android apps work but are mediocre at best -- so essentially you've got a solid, secure, Linux-based operating system, plus a browser environment that just works.
-
-There are many other Chromebooks. Be extremely suspicious of low prices and the performance on non-Intel processors. I don't know how I feel about [Wirecutter's current HP Chromebook top pick](https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-chromebook/) -- I don't have fond memories of HP. ASUS seems to continue making these very solid all metal bodies that I can recommend.
-
-## Windows Laptop
-
-At work, we've got the beginnings of Windows support, but don't have anyone on the team using it full time. After my Chromebook and iPad experiments, should I commit to running a Windows 10 plus [Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/about)?
-
-I don't think running Windows is a good idea on low end hardware, so I'm arbitrarily picking $1500CAD as the target pricing range I'm willing to spend.
-
-I've dreaded doing the research on this because Wirecutter doesn't have a "developer friendly laptop that doesn't need to do gaming but isn't underpowered" category. Their top level best laptops page says: ["For most people: The best ultrabook"](https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-laptops/#for-most-people-the-best-ultrabook) is probably the closest, and links to an $1100USD Dell as the top pick.
-
-The Dell XPS 13 is around $1600CAD for a very solid i7/16GB RAM/512GB hard drive. The one with Ubuntu installed seems to be called the "New XPS 13"](https://www.dell.com/en-ca/shop/dell-laptops/new-xps-13-laptop/spd/xps-13-7390-laptop/nxps137390i_h6096ce). The [Windows Dell XPS 13 with i7/8GB/256GB](https://www.dell.com/en-ca/shop/dell-laptops/xps-13-laptop/spd/xps-13-7390-laptop/nxps137390i_h704b1e) is around $1500CAD, assuming I want Windows 10 Pro for +$100 (and +$50 for a 512GB hard drive seems a no brainer).
-
-Digging into [Wirecutter's Best Windows Ultrabook recommendations](https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/the-best-windows-ultrabook/), the Budget Pick is an [ASUS ZenBook 13 UX333FA](https://www.asus.com/ca-en/Laptops/ASUS-ZenBook-13-UX333FA/). The version with i5/8GB/256GB looks to be about $1000CAD.
-
-Given my good experience with build quality with my ASUS Chromebooks, I looked at some more ASUS options. The [ASUS ZenBook 13 UX334FL](https://www.asus.com/Laptops/ASUS-ZenBook-13-UX334FL/) has i7/16GB/512GB and comes with two notable features. You can optionally choose a version with a dedicated mobile graphics card, the GeForce MX250. The second is a gimmick, but I kind of love it: the "ScreenPad", where the touchpad is also a screen. Look at this glorious rendering of flipping apps on your touchpad!
-
-![ASUS Zenbook with Screenpad Rendering](/images/2020-02-25/asus-zenbook-screenpad.jpg)
-
-It looks to be about $1600CAD for this version.
-
-I've heard good things about Surface Books, but they seem expensive: start at around $1700CAD for i5/8GB/256GB, and are $2700CAD for i7/16GB/512GB (ouch!). The Surface Pros (more portable, less power) look good as well, and are a little bit cheaper -- but I think also with less power.
-
-The [Razer 13" Stealth Blade](https://www.razer.com/ca-en/gaming-laptops/razer-blade-stealth/shop) with i7/8GB/256GB starts at $1400CAD. With i7/16GB/256GB and a GeForce MX150 it's listed at ~$1600CAD -- in Quartz Pink, which I would totally rock! _(and all those prices seem to be listed with ~$300 - $500CAD discounts at the moment)_
-
-I think that's all the Windows laptops I want to keep digging through :)
-
-## Conclusion
-
-I think I'm going to run the Windows laptop experiment. And the Zenbook with ScreenPad seems to be a good price/performance/build quality/novelty trade off.
-
-Wish me luck, send recommendations on your favourite Windows apps!
-
-I still want to run other experiments like [connecting a RPi4 to my iPad Pro over USB-C](https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/connect-your-raspberry-pi-4-to-an-ipad-pro/). And [Intel NUCs](https://www.intel.ca/content/www/ca/en/products/boards-kits/nuc.html) seem cool.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2020-03-14-on-instagram-off-facebook.md b/_posts/blog/2020-03-14-on-instagram-off-facebook.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f54b418..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2020-03-14-on-instagram-off-facebook.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-date: '2020-03-14T20:12:53.438Z'
-title: 'On Instagram, off Facebook'
-tags: MicroBlog instagram Facebook all-the-best-recipes Twitter
-slug: on-instagram-off-facebook
----
-The Own Your Gram tool that helped cross post from Instagram to your own site stopped working with recent Instagram changes, which made me not want to have stuff “stuck” in Instagram. I have decided to keep posting on Instagram, but only after I’ve already posted photos to [All The Best Recipes](https://allthebest.recipes) — my food / travel forum. I also cross-post to Facebook from Instagram.
-<!-- more -->
-I’m not really “on” Facebook any more. I’ll login every couple of days to look for comments, but I don’t have any of the apps installed. At most, I’ll use it when I want to share a message to people that I know that are mainly on here.
-
-You can follow [my blog via RSS](https://blog.bmannconsulting.com), or sign up to the All the Best Recipes forum and get email updates, or follow the @ATBRecipes Twitter account. And post your own stuff if you like!
-
-I can recommend the [Micro.blog service](https://micro.blog) if you want a fun tool for posting Twitter length short posts and images, as well as long posts. The team makes it easy to export if you want to move elsewhere. I host my own blog but pay Micro.blog $2/month to help with cross-posting to Twitter and other services.
-
-Other than replies or re-sharing content from my company account, I post to Twitter by creating a short post on my blog, so all my content is here under my control. Twitter is more directly part of the web, so it’s a service I’m more comfortable using. Especially using Tweetbot, an iOS app that shows me posts in chronological order (no algorithm!), and has extensive mute and filter features so I can avoid seeing a lot of content.
-
-I think of all of this as being intentional about the tools you use, and the “information diet” you take part in.
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2020-03-15-covid19-personal.md b/_posts/blog/2020-03-15-covid19-personal.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 4d99ffe..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2020-03-15-covid19-personal.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,111 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-title: "COVID-19: Personal Perspective"
-tags:
-  - covid19
-  - Vancouver
-  - Canada
-  - WFH
-categories:
-  - Blog
----
-I'm writing this to capture my personal perspective on the COVID-19 pandemic.
-
-It's definitely been stressful trying to figure out fact from fiction. Being in Canada, I have high confidence in our federal and provincial health systems. What can I do to support the experts?
-
-I can lead by example and support others in my community. Here are the actions I'm personally taking, feedback for some local organizations, and some links to further resources at the end.
-<!-- more -->
-If you'd like to discuss any of this live, contact me in the [#vancouver or #canada channels in our company Discord chat](https://discord.gg/BNWXQYz).
-
-# Business
-
-## Working from Home
-
-[My company](https://fission.codes) is a distributed team. Brooke and I here in Vancouver, Daniel in Missouri, and Steven in Belgium.
-
-Usually I go in to the live/work space where Brooke is on Main Street. She's young and in good health. But, I need to take two buses to get there.
-
-**Action: I will be working from home. If I go work with Brooke, I'll walk or bike.**
-
-## Meetings
-
-We already do remote video calls to talk to people all over the world. I usually do 2 - 3 in person meetings per week locally in the Vancouver area, often more focused on supporting local entrepreneurs (that is, not my "day job").
-
-**Action: all meetings virtual.**
-
-## Feedback to Vancity
-
-I got an email from Vancity, my local credit union:
-
-> Our goal is to keep all Vancity branches open and available to serve our members.
-
-No, your goal is to serve members, and keep your staff and members healthy. Maybe I'm being picky, but the _goal_ shouldn't be to keep branches open. You've got phone banking and online capabilities. If there are individuals who have trouble using those modes, put dedicated agents on and communicate how those individuals should get in touch with you.
-
-I'd like to see them lead by example and close down virtually all branches. Any that need to stay open, implement procedures of checking people before they come in.
-
-## Feedback to the City of Vancouver
-
-I saw my friend @catthekin post that the Vancouver Aquarium is open, and various Spring Break activities will see hordes of children go through there.
-
-I [signal boosted her plea for closure](https://twitter.com/bmann/status/1239426441856593921), and while we're at it, swimming pools and community centres need to be shut down as well:
-
-The mayor of Calgary @nenshi just [announced a state of local emergency](https://twitter.com/nenshi/status/1239397848426242048) shutting down the various City-owned facilities. I'm hoping that we see announcements from the city and province tomorrow.
-
-# Personal
-
-I don't think of myself as being at-risk, but actually, I likely am.
-
-When I was a pre-teen, I had a bad case of pneumonia. In general, growing up I had a number of respiratory illnesses like bronchitis, multiple times. As far as I know, I have reduced lung capacity in one lung from that childhood pneumonia.
-
-And, I'm 45 years old this year. I'm not a young invincible, I'm a grizzled forgotten Gen-X-er.
-
-I'm going to practice social isolation. That means staying at home.
-
-What can you do? I believe going outside, going for walks or bike rides, is fine. If you're going to go to areas (eg Stanley Park) that are likely to be crowded, stay away.
-
-We're lucky to have many small local stores within walking distance. We did a bit of a grocery shop, bought an extra carton of eggs. 
-
-This weekend, Rachael and I went to [The Pie Shoppe for Pi Day](https://allthebest.recipes/t/the-pie-shoppe-in-port-town/348/2).
-
-We also had dinner with another couple at their apartment. Small gatherings are OK (for now, in Vancouver / BC), but you need to be really sure that the other people aren't sick. Meeting friends and family in outdoor spaces is likely to be the safest going forward.
-
-**Action: stay close to home. Small local shops, and outdoor walks are OK.**
-
-## Apartment
-
-I live in a low rise apartment building with 10 units. I'm going to finally setup a shared email list with the others in the building to be able to support each other. And, to let us know if anyone has symptoms, or needs anything.
-
-I'm going to call on the property management of my building to do extra cleaning, especially wiping down of shared surfaces.
-
-If they don't do this, I'll look to do this myself with the other building residents.
-
-**Action: connect with those living close to you and make communication channels and ways to support each other**
-
-# Useful Resources
-
-For Vancouver and BC, I think [#vanpoli](https://twitter.com/search?q=%23vanpoli&src=typed_query&f=live) and [#bcpoli](https://twitter.com/search?q=%23bcpoli&src=typed_query&f=live) are existing Twitter hashtags (this _is_ the most important political discussion at the moment!) perhaps combined with [#COVIDCanada](https://twitter.com/search?q=%23covidcanada&src=typed_query&f=live) -- I'll be using these going forward.
-
-Blocking / muting is important. If you're on Mac or iOS, [Tweetbot](https://tapbots.com/tweetbot/) has excellent built in tools. [Tweetdeck](https://tweetdeck.twitter.com) is web-based, also works on mobile, and can be used for advanced filtering.
-
----
-
-Via Brooke @expede, a [post on the /r/Canada Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/fghd23/psa_regarding_covid19_a_warning/) appears well-researched, and is being updated.
-
----
-
-@timbray writes [Plague Advice](https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/03/14/Social-Distance), with a personal visit to the farmers market:
-
-Like Tim, I trust Dr. Henry:
-> Here in BC we’re not in hard-lockdown where you have to stay inside and order your food. I and many others here put a lot of weight on words from our Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry (no Twitter of her own but she has a fan club). As of this writing, she says that for now, it’s OK to shop for food and basics, to eat out, and especially to do things that are outside. Farmers markets offer two out of three.
->
->Just because that’s OK for us doesn’t mean it’s OK for you. BC seems to have got lucky with early containment; it helps that anybody with Those Symptoms can have a COVID-19 test for the asking.
->
->I suppose the containment will break down at some point and Dr Henry will bring the hard-lockdown hammer. Because she knows her shit and speaks the truth, she’ll bring the populace along with her.
-
----
-
-This is what is meant by flattening the curve:
-
-> When agents move widely, the disease spreads very fast, and lots of them are infected at the same time. For this simulation, the maximum infection rate for widely mobile agents was 78%. For the exact same disease, with the same transmission rate and recovery rate, restricting agents to narrow mobility not only stretched out the time course of the epidemic, it also substantially reduced the maximum infection rate to only 25.6% — less than a third of what it was under widely mobile agents.
-> -- [Paul E. Smaldino, Cognitive and Information Sciences
-Quantitative and Systems Biology, University of California, Merced](http://smaldino.com/wp/covid-19-modeling-the-flattening-of-the-curve/)
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2020-03-21-renting-in-pandemics.md b/_posts/blog/2020-03-21-renting-in-pandemics.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 5d18f12..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2020-03-21-renting-in-pandemics.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,125 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-title: "Renting in the time of Pandemics"
-tags:
-  - covid19
-  - Vancouver
-  - Canada
-  - renting
-categories:
-  - Blog
----
-This week, I helped setup the apartment where we live in East Vancouver with an email group. It's really been something I've been meaning to do for a long time, and of course the pandemic ended up being the thing to make it happen.
-
-I want to talk about what we're doing, ask some questions about support for renters during this time, and make a call for more shared communication around the topic of **Renting in the time of Pandemics** (yes, that's a [call back](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_in_the_Time_of_Cholera)).
-<!-- more -->
-
-## Shared Communication
-
-I thought of a bunch of different ways that we might communicate. I didn't seriously consider anything other than email or some sort of text group, but here are some tools that could work.
-
-Bonus: we're all a little more connected and aware of each other -- including the names of all of the cute indoor cats!
-
-The actual feeling that you have a group of people that you can potentially lean on and get support from is very powerful.
-
-### Google Groups
-
-This is what I ended up choosing. I set this up as a mailing list, made it so anyone can post (with moderation) and that members post without moderation. This meant that I could just post the `NAMEOFGROUP@googlegroups.com`, have tenants email it, I'd moderate it to allow it through, and then add their email address to the group as members. After that, they would receive all messages and be able to reply without moderation.
-
-It also means that you can give that email address to an external service provider or property management or landlord and have them send messages to the group, without having them be members of the group.
-
-You can also share documents in Google Drive by giving access to the group address, and then all of the members of the group can share / edit documents as needed.
-
-### Basecamp
-
-[Basecamp Personal](https://basecamp.com/personal) is a free version of the Basecamp project management and communication tool. It can be used almost exclusively just through email, while more advanced members who run it can collaborate using the app or website.
-
-### Next Door
-
-I wouldn't actually recommend using this for communications for a building, but I just [signed up for it](https://ca.nextdoor.com) to try it out.
-
-It's a local neighbourhood based social network that has been around for a long time in the US, and is now available in Canada, but not as highly used here yet. It does mean that you see a broad section of neighbours. It added me to Lynn Valley as well as more local Commercial Drive areas, so I think it's tuned for car-centric US cities :)
-
-Downside? It has an advertising based business model, and you really are very directly telling this app where you live.
-
----
-
-**Action: setup a digital communication system with your apartment or strata building for just the tenants to discuss supporting each other.**
-
-## Social Distancing
-
-We met in front of the building the other evening and sat around discussing.
-
-We talked about restricting any visitors to the building. So no visitors or dinner parties. As far as the tenants go, we are constantly moving through shared spaces, so we have to treat the combined health of the whole building as one unit.
-
-We will keep in touch with each other and let each other know if anyone gets sick. If they do, we’ll help support them while they quarantine in their own unit.
-
-If the building is having any outside workers into the shared spaces, they should practice social distancing, and ideally wear masks and gloves. This goes double for property managers and cleaners, who are presumably moving between buildings.
-
-## Cleaning
-
-It's the responsibility of your landlord to clean the building. Ask if they are going to increase cleaning, and insist that cleaning staff wear personal protective equipment (PPE) -- gloves and mask -- while they are cleaning. You don't need MORE vectors of potential infection coming into your building.
-
-At the same time, we're all in this together. If you're opening the front door of your building or laundry room door or any other shared spaces (hand rails! elevator buttons!), you're basically high fiving everyone who lives in or enters your building with a sweaty palm.
-
-We're just 10 units on 3 floors, so we made a day by day, floor by floor schedule (thanks Danielle for whipping that up!).
-
-Larger buildings might organize with just their local floor or wing, but really multiple daily cleanings by professional cleaners is probably justified.
-
-Hydrogen Peroxide or Bleach diluted 1:9 is the guidance I've seen for what to use. Sorry, "natural" cleaners aren't going to be helpful here.
-
-**Action: For smaller buildings, organize a cleaning schedule to disinfect shared spaces. Communicate with building management about increased cleaning and what the plan is.**
-
-## Communication with Property Management / Owners
-
-If you're in a small building, you may have quite basic property management. For a lot of these topics, you want to make sure the owners of the building are looped in. Ultimately, property managers are service providers, but your agreement is with the owners / landlords, especially when it comes to financial topics around required services and rent.
-
-**Action: I would love to see the Residential Tenancy Board of BC and/or health authorities issue directives directly to multi-family homes (MFH) -- whether strata-owned councils or rental apartment units -- especially about cleaning and service providers.**
-
-## Rent Relief
-
-In Vancouver, which has extremely unaffordable housing, and many food services, film & TV, and other workers who are laid off and can't "work from home", AND a high percentage of renters, we're very directly impacted by anything around rent.
-
-This [Twitter thread from Jon Shell, a landlord in Toronto, is very inspiring](https://twitter.com/jonrshell/status/1241165950055038981?s=20) -- landlords, if you can #waiveaprilrent, by all means do so!
-
-But:
-
-> To be clear, the mortgage relief currently offered by the big five banks is NOT ENOUGH! It will help some owners of property, but it will not help renters, who are most in danger in this crisis. We need to target temporary reduction or elimination of all rent. #waiveaprilrent
-> -- [Jon Shell @jonrshell](https://twitter.com/jonrshell/status/1241165956895903744?s=20)
-
-Unfortunately, all of the communications I've seen cover two ends of the housing spectrum. Those in extreme poverty and different kinds of supportive/social housing, and home owners. I guess in the Vancouver area that would be both single family home owners and lots of strata condo owners.
-
-What about the vast middle of people who ... just don't own homes, and would prefer non-precarious rental?
-
-In BC, the opposition leader made some comments a while back about how renting is for that wacky time when you're a student or young.
-
-Well, back in reality land, many renters in Vancouver pay more than the 30% of monthly income, and do live paycheque to paycheque. If they've been out of work since last week, they either may literally not have enough to cover rent (since they missed two weeks of work), and/or it would leave them critically short of being able to buy food and other necessities.
-
-### Suggested Action for Rent Relief in Vancouver / BC
-
-* Immediate "no evictions" for anyone, not just those who are already in social housing. Landlords can apply to the Rental Tenancy Board for special cases, but the default is, evictions are no longer valid until this is lifted.
-
-* Rental Tenancy Board provides standard documents that renters and landlords sign regarding any rent relief. These need to be completely standardized and extremely clear.
-
-* Government (provincial / federal are likely the only ones that can do anything about this) provides directives to landlords to document mortage relief. This could be done through local banks. In Vancouver, perhaps Vancity, our local credit union, can spin up a task force to run the whole thing.
-
-I know there are all sorts of issues with mortgage deferral (does interest still go up?), but now is the time to keep people safe.
-
-What we know so far is that the [latest announcement from BC's housing minister was that "help is on the way"](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-housing-coronavirus-1.5505626), so it sounds like there will be an announcement this coming week (week of March 23rd).
-
-The [Vancouver Tenants Union is also looking to collect information](https://www.vancouvertenantsunion.ca/bcrentcrisis) from anyone that doesn't think they will be able to pay rent on April 1st.
-
-# Update March 26th, 2020 - Province of BC Rent Relieft
-
-Yesterday, on Wednesday March 25th, the [Province of BC made their announcements for rent relief](https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2020MAH0048-000561). I had to life that the title of the release is **Support for renters and landlords** -- as I don't actually see landlords taking any risks here.
-
-My commentary:
-
-Rent freeze & eviction moratorium are great. Neutral actions which give landlords cover to not have to proceed with eviction based on non-payment.
-
-$500 per month per renter, eligibility based on federal EI — links into same rules at fed level, which includes freelancers and all the extended EI support categories. Good, although that just puts more on the choke point of federal processing and rules. The province of BC then needs to wait on the feds.
-
-$500 goes direct to landlords. Bad. So it’s 100% on the renters to uphold the entire system. Landlords are doing ... nothing?
-
-Talk to your landlords about getting mortgage deferral and waiving rent completely. Not deferring. Waiving. That would be true shared risk. Or something nominal that covers operating costs.
-
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2020-03-22-oscms-sunnyvale-drupal.md b/_posts/blog/2020-03-22-oscms-sunnyvale-drupal.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 00fa42a..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2020-03-22-oscms-sunnyvale-drupal.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,55 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-title: "On This Day: March 22nd"
-tags:
-  - Drupal
-  - Open Source CMS Summit
-  - Yahoo
-  - Sunnyvale
-categories:
-  - On This Day
----
-On this day, back in March 22nd, 2007, the Open Source CMS Summit that I helped organize was taking place in Sunnyvale at the Yahoo campus. While we had some participation from other communities, the core of it was the Drupal community I was part of.
-<!-- more -->
-
-@KarenStevenson and @merlinofchaos
-
-![Karen Stevenson and Earl Miles](https://ipfs.runfission.com/ipfs/QmSgPowo9xNr9NFbeXZEizc2pGy8daJFAjaph1LBKKXpjR/2020-03-22_09-17-57_935.jpeg)
-
-@mortendk and @cbrumelle
-
-![Morten and Colin Brumelle](https://ipfs.runfission.com/ipfs/QmSgPowo9xNr9NFbeXZEizc2pGy8daJFAjaph1LBKKXpjR/2020-03-22_09-17-57_951.jpeg)
-
-me with crazy hair and @jlambert
-
-![Boris and Jonathan Lambert](https://ipfs.runfission.com/ipfs/QmSgPowo9xNr9NFbeXZEizc2pGy8daJFAjaph1LBKKXpjR/2020-03-22_09-17-57_963.jpeg)
-
-@termie, ["in those halcyon days when he could still process dairy"](https://twitter.com/termie/status/1242139688489512963)
-
-![Andy Smith with milkshake](https://ipfs.runfission.com/ipfs/QmSgPowo9xNr9NFbeXZEizc2pGy8daJFAjaph1LBKKXpjR/2020-03-22_09-17-57_905.jpeg)
-
-
-Bonus after party picture of @mortendk, thanks to @lhawthorn's trunk. I think this later in the week or at least after midnight :)
-
-![Late night Morten](https://ipfs.runfission.com/ipfs/QmSgPowo9xNr9NFbeXZEizc2pGy8daJFAjaph1LBKKXpjR/late-night-in-sunnyvale_mortendk.jpg)
-
-Follow the thread on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/bmann/status/1241765691201589250)
-
----
-
-The website is unforunately malware / domain squatted.
-
-This was a tough time for me. I had a lot of different things going on. I didn't do a good job of delegating or asking for help, and organizing this event pretty much burnt me out. I never really recovered, and I think it was the last Drupal event I organized.
-
-[Dries' announcement post](https://dri.es/open-source-cms-summit-at-yahoo), just a month and a half before the conference date. Hence the burn out. Dries also has a [great photo archive from the event](https://dri.es/album/drupalcon-sunnyvale-2007/). Mainly photos of many lovely community members.
-
-Acquia was founded at OSCMS:
-
-> In March of 2007, I flew from Belgium to California to attend Yahoo's Open Source CMS Summit, where I also helped host DrupalCon Sunnyvale. It was at DrupalCon Sunnyvale where Jay first introduced himself to me. He explained that he was interested in building a company that could provide enterprise organizations supplementary services and support for a number of open source projects, including Drupal and Apache Solr. Initially, I was hesitant to meet with Jay. I was focused on getting Drupal 5 released, and I wasn't ready to start a company until I finished my PhD. Eventually I agreed to breakfast.
-> [Acquia's First Decade Founding Story](https://www.acquia.com/blog/dries/acquias-first-decade-founding-story/29/06/2017/3307006)
-
-[Upcoming.org was still a thing](https://archive.upcoming.org/event/2007-oscms-summit-at-yahoo-150576). Found on @kitt's (archived) user page.
-
-[Walkah was there](https://walkah.net/blog/walkah/open-source-cms-summit-yahoo/) and gave a talk on OpenID. Apparently we were calling this part of the Identity 2.0 movement.
-
-No links I can find right now, but I remember @kellan came in from the city and gave a talk about the Flickr API. He was with @stewart and friends at the Yahoo Brickhouse innovation lab.
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2020-03-31-onthisday-wa-state-roadtrip.md b/_posts/blog/2020-03-31-onthisday-wa-state-roadtrip.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 6683e23..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2020-03-31-onthisday-wa-state-roadtrip.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,73 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-title: "On This Day: March 31st"
-tags:
-  - Washington
-  - Edison
-  - roadtrip
-  - Padilla Bay
-  - gallery
-categories:
-  - On This Day
-gallery:
-  - image_path: https://ipfs.runfission.com/ipfs/Qmans2VqfTrApnRwxLaMir6pZGUmar2jMyAQE9XTtpdYC9/daffodils-and-espresso_7044004329_o_512.jpg
-    url: https://ipfs.runfission.com/ipfs/Qmans2VqfTrApnRwxLaMir6pZGUmar2jMyAQE9XTtpdYC9/daffodils-and-espresso_7044004329_o.jpg
-    title: "Daffodils and Espresso"
-    alt: "Daffodils, with a sign in background that says espresso"
-  - image_path: https://ipfs.runfission.com/ipfs/Qmans2VqfTrApnRwxLaMir6pZGUmar2jMyAQE9XTtpdYC9/tweets_6897908702_o.jpg
-    url: https://ipfs.runfission.com/ipfs/Qmans2VqfTrApnRwxLaMir6pZGUmar2jMyAQE9XTtpdYC9/tweets_6897908702_o.jpg
-    title: "Tweets, Edison, WA"
-  - image_path: https://ipfs.runfission.com/ipfs/Qmans2VqfTrApnRwxLaMir6pZGUmar2jMyAQE9XTtpdYC9/dried-chilies-at-tweets-edison-wa_6897907162_o.jpg
-    url: https://ipfs.runfission.com/ipfs/Qmans2VqfTrApnRwxLaMir6pZGUmar2jMyAQE9XTtpdYC9/dried-chilies-at-tweets-edison-wa_6897907162_o.jpg
-    title: "Dried chilies at Tweets, Edison, WA"
-    alt: "Dried chiles"
-  - image_path: https://ipfs.runfission.com/ipfs/Qmans2VqfTrApnRwxLaMir6pZGUmar2jMyAQE9XTtpdYC9/edison-tea-cakes-at-tweets-edison-wa_6897906858_o.jpg
-    url: https://ipfs.runfission.com/ipfs/Qmans2VqfTrApnRwxLaMir6pZGUmar2jMyAQE9XTtpdYC9/edison-tea-cakes-at-tweets-edison-wa_6897906858_o.jpg
-    alt: "Pyramid of tea cakes"
-    title: "Edison Tea Cakes at Tweets, Edison, WA"
-  - image_path: https://ipfs.runfission.com/ipfs/Qmans2VqfTrApnRwxLaMir6pZGUmar2jMyAQE9XTtpdYC9/edward-r-murrow-mural-in-edison-wa_7044004853_o.jpg
-    url: https://ipfs.runfission.com/ipfs/Qmans2VqfTrApnRwxLaMir6pZGUmar2jMyAQE9XTtpdYC9/edward-r-murrow-mural-in-edison-wa_7044004853_o.jpg
-    title: "Edward R Murrow Mural, Edison, WA"
-    alt: "Mural says - Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation"
-  - image_path: https://ipfs.runfission.com/ipfs/Qmans2VqfTrApnRwxLaMir6pZGUmar2jMyAQE9XTtpdYC9/pastries-at-tweets-edison-wa_7044002497_o.jpg
-    url: https://ipfs.runfission.com/ipfs/Qmans2VqfTrApnRwxLaMir6pZGUmar2jMyAQE9XTtpdYC9/pastries-at-tweets-edison-wa_7044002497_o.jpg
-    title: "Pastries, Tweets, Edison, WA"
-    alt: "pastries"
-  - image_path: https://ipfs.runfission.com/ipfs/Qmans2VqfTrApnRwxLaMir6pZGUmar2jMyAQE9XTtpdYC9/rustica-strata-at-tweets-edison-wa_7044003751_o.jpg
-    url: https://ipfs.runfission.com/ipfs/Qmans2VqfTrApnRwxLaMir6pZGUmar2jMyAQE9XTtpdYC9/rustica-strata-at-tweets-edison-wa_7044003751_o.jpg
-    title: "Rustica strata, Tweets, Edison, WA"
-  - image_path: https://ipfs.runfission.com/ipfs/Qmans2VqfTrApnRwxLaMir6pZGUmar2jMyAQE9XTtpdYC9/straw-flowers-at-tweets-edison-wa_6897907644_o.jpg
-    url: https://ipfs.runfission.com/ipfs/Qmans2VqfTrApnRwxLaMir6pZGUmar2jMyAQE9XTtpdYC9/straw-flowers-at-tweets-edison-wa_6897907644_o.jpg
-    title: "Straw flowers, Tweets, Edison, WA"
-  - image_path: https://ipfs.runfission.com/ipfs/Qmans2VqfTrApnRwxLaMir6pZGUmar2jMyAQE9XTtpdYC9/straw-flowers-at-tweets-edison-wa_7044003287_o.jpg
-    url: https://ipfs.runfission.com/ipfs/Qmans2VqfTrApnRwxLaMir6pZGUmar2jMyAQE9XTtpdYC9/straw-flowers-at-tweets-edison-wa_7044003287_o.jpg
-    title: "Straw flowers and chilies, Tweets, Edison, WA"
-  - image_path: https://ipfs.runfission.com/ipfs/Qmans2VqfTrApnRwxLaMir6pZGUmar2jMyAQE9XTtpdYC9/shotgun-shell-collage-at-the-lucky-dumpster_7044005509_o.jpg
-    url: https://ipfs.runfission.com/ipfs/Qmans2VqfTrApnRwxLaMir6pZGUmar2jMyAQE9XTtpdYC9/shotgun-shell-collage-at-the-lucky-dumpster_7044005509_o.jpg
-    title: "Shotgun shell collage at The Lucky Dumpster, Edison, WA"
-  - image_path: https://ipfs.runfission.com/ipfs/Qmans2VqfTrApnRwxLaMir6pZGUmar2jMyAQE9XTtpdYC9/the-lucky-dumpster_7044005067_o.jpg
-    url: https://ipfs.runfission.com/ipfs/Qmans2VqfTrApnRwxLaMir6pZGUmar2jMyAQE9XTtpdYC9/the-lucky-dumpster_7044005067_o.jpg
-    title: "The Lucky Dumpster, Edison, WA"
-  - image_path: https://ipfs.runfission.com/ipfs/Qmans2VqfTrApnRwxLaMir6pZGUmar2jMyAQE9XTtpdYC9/the-sherretts-at-the-padilla-bay-dike_7044005971_o.jpg
-    url: https://ipfs.runfission.com/ipfs/Qmans2VqfTrApnRwxLaMir6pZGUmar2jMyAQE9XTtpdYC9/the-sherretts-at-the-padilla-bay-dike_7044005971_o.jpg
-    title: "Sherretts at Padilla Bay Dike"
-  - image_path: https://ipfs.runfission.com/ipfs/Qmans2VqfTrApnRwxLaMir6pZGUmar2jMyAQE9XTtpdYC9/padilla-bay_6897912400_o.jpg
-    url: https://ipfs.runfission.com/ipfs/Qmans2VqfTrApnRwxLaMir6pZGUmar2jMyAQE9XTtpdYC9/padilla-bay_6897912400_o.jpg
-  - image_path: https://ipfs.runfission.com/ipfs/Qmans2VqfTrApnRwxLaMir6pZGUmar2jMyAQE9XTtpdYC9/padilla-bay_6897910346_o.jpg
-    url: https://ipfs.runfission.com/ipfs/Qmans2VqfTrApnRwxLaMir6pZGUmar2jMyAQE9XTtpdYC9/padilla-bay_6897910346_o.jpg
-  - image_path: https://ipfs.runfission.com/ipfs/Qmans2VqfTrApnRwxLaMir6pZGUmar2jMyAQE9XTtpdYC9/padilla-bay_6897910812_o.jpg
-    url: https://ipfs.runfission.com/ipfs/Qmans2VqfTrApnRwxLaMir6pZGUmar2jMyAQE9XTtpdYC9/padilla-bay_6897910812_o.jpg
----
-Photos from a roadtrip in Washington with Monique @somisguided and James @sherrett. You can see a @rachaelashe reflection in the mirror behind the tea cakes :)
-
-We drove around various places in Washington State, including Edison and Padilla Bay.
-
-James reminded me that this was the trip where we followed some signs we saw on the road and discovered the Golden Distillery (which no longer exists). This [2010 Skagit Valley Herald article talks about](https://www.goskagit.com/news/pair-of-retired-restaurateurs-launch-samish-island-distillery/article_187b39a2-bf67-5629-82f2-7af1f65d4752.html)
-
-
-
-<div class="gallery">
-{% for photo in page.gallery %}
-  <a href="{{ photo.url }}"><img class="photo" alt="{{ photo.title }}" src="{{ photo.image_path }}"/></a><br />
-{% endfor %}
-</div>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2020-04-20-readwriteweb-wayback.md b/_posts/blog/2020-04-20-readwriteweb-wayback.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 407c886..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2020-04-20-readwriteweb-wayback.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,41 +0,0 @@
----
-layout: post
-title: "Read/Write Web 17 years ago"
-tags:
-  - Richard MacManus
-  - Wayback Machine
-  - blogging
-  - SARS
-  - Dave Smith
-categories:
-  - On This Day
-excerpt: "Richard MacManus writes about starting his Read/Write Web blog back in 2003. This gets me browsing my own site and a few links to explore what the time was like. Including discovering a post by Dave Smith about SARS from around the same time."
----
-Richard MacManus writes about starting his Read/Write Web blog:
-
-<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en" author="@bmann">
-	<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Today 17 years ago, I started a blog called Read/Write Web. Nobody celebrating this anniversary but me, but it’ll always be a big part of my life. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20030809061335/http://www.readwriteweb.com:80/2003/04/20.html">web.archive.org/web/20030809061335/http://www.readwriteweb.com:80/2003/04/20.html</a></p>&mdash; @ricmac <a href="https://twitter.com/ricmac/status/1252135125460021250">April 20, 2020</a>
-</blockquote>
-<script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
-
-There were very few people reading AND writing back then. The "Two Way Web" was just getting started with open source and blogging software and virtual hosts making it so people could publish more easily. MacManus was definitely one of the must reads at the time, although even finding new sources meant following links in blogs that you already read.
-
-Here's a screenshot of his link to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine:
-
-<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20030809061335/http://www.readwriteweb.com:80/2003/04/20.html"><img src="https://ipfs.runfission.com/ipfs/QmfBVCvn5p7YMes3czn9pSW1jb4qej2fcZdpBzcr9jwD9u/readwriteweb-wayback-2003-08-09.png" /></a>
-
-Which, of course, got me to thinking about what my blog looked like at the time. I was still living in Ottawa, but was about 4-5 months away from moving back to the west coast.
-
-I was running Drupal, had a theme I had customized myself, including a custom header image for 'B. Mann Consulting' by my friend Troy. Yeah yeah -- I really should have picked a better domain name!
-
-Here's the [front page of bmannconsulting.com on April 22nd, 2003](http://web.archive.org/web/20030422105837/http://www.bmannconsulting.com/):
-
-<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20030422105837/http://www.bmannconsulting.com/"><img src="https://ipfs.runfission.com/ipfs/QmfBVCvn5p7YMes3czn9pSW1jb4qej2fcZdpBzcr9jwD9u/bmannconsulting-wayback-2003-04-22.png" /></a>
-
-(and clearly I didn't know enough CSS to figure out how to fix that image overflow!)
-
-Because hosting was complicated, a few friends blogged on my site. On the sidebar, various RSS feeds and blogs got sucked into the site. In part for using as a casual feed reader, which then also made it really easy to "reblog" directly on the site.
-
-That link to SARS on the sidebar looked interesting. Turns out Dave Smith blogged about SARS. Good for him, [his post from April 17th, 2003, is still online](http://www.smithdm3.com/archives/000070.html) (no longer running Drupal, but archived as an HTML export).
-
-Strange to be seeing comments from me and others in there on this very relatable topic.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2020-05-10-upgraded-to-indiekit-micropub-server.md b/_posts/blog/2020-05-10-upgraded-to-indiekit-micropub-server.md
deleted file mode 100644
index b96b91b..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2020-05-10-upgraded-to-indiekit-micropub-server.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
----
-title: 'Upgraded to IndieKit Micropub Server, Feed Tweaks'
-date: 2020-05-10T15:43:01.897-07:00
-category: "Blog"
-tag:
-- blogging
-- IndieWeb
-- IndieKit
-- micropub
----
-I should be all switched over to using [IndieKit](https://bmann-indiekit.herokuapp.com/), a micropub server that lets me use various IndieWeb technologies to easily publish to my blog.
-<!-- more -->
-One of the main features this gives me is media uploads. I can create a short note (aka Twitter posts) and attach one or more images, like this [mural and ebike rides post from yesterday](https://blog.bmannconsulting.com/zpmpn/).
-
-For those following along via RSS -- sorry! [Ton noted that my feed was a bit messed up](https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2020/05/14095/), which was theoretically the last thing to fix.
-
-You can see [Pat and I making faces in a previous test post](https://blog.bmannconsulting.com/testing-a-full-blog-post/) on Wednesday night. But as happens, there was much tweaking to be done.
-
-With my custom post types where I glue in a gallery of images, everything wasn't really working right any more with the jekyll-feeds automatic feed creator.
-
-I implemented an Atom feed manually, which theoretically requires a title for each post. Then, just now, I switched it to an RSS feed, and also found useful templates at [snaptortoise/jekyll-rss-feeds](https://github.com/snaptortoise/jekyll-rss-feeds) -- which also links to JSON feed templates at [snaptortoise/jekyll-json-feeds](https://github.com/snaptortoise/jekyll-json-feeds).
-
-For those that want to dive even deeper into my setup, I tend to keep my [colophon](https://blog.bmannconsulting.com/colophon) up to date, and took the opportunity to put in an entry about the current state of things.
-
-Please let me know if feeds or anything else seems broken or wrong!
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2020-05-14-so-if-all-goes-well.md b/_posts/blog/2020-05-14-so-if-all-goes-well.md
deleted file mode 100644
index fcd2531..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2020-05-14-so-if-all-goes-well.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
----
-title: 'So, if all goes well, I am posting this from iA Writer'
-date: 2020-05-14T13:39:19.233-07:00
-category:
-- Blog
-tag:
-- micropub
-- iAWriter
-- IndieKit
-- IndieAuth
----
-So, if all goes well, I am posting this from @iAWriter. I saw the news from [Manton’s post that this works with @MicroDotBlog](https://www.manton.org/2020/05/13/ia-writer-adds.html). Micropub as a posting API is picking up!
-<!-- more -->
-It initially didn't work:
-
-<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">this is great. Saw the news from 
-@mantonsblog that you've got Micropublish support.<br />
-<br />
-Tried it with my custom endpoint, and you're not requesting "create" or "media" scopes https://indieweb.org/scope</p>&mdash; Boris Mann (@bmann) <a href="https://twitter.com/bmann/status/1260639598419550208">May 13, 2020</a></blockquote>
-<script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
-
-Reading further into the IndieAuth spec, scope is not required. If you have a token, then "create" scope is the default minimal scope.
-
-I had to [patch IndieKit](https://github.com/paulrobertlloyd/indiekit/issues/222) (which is the micropub server I run to publish here) to get this working. But it did work!
-
-This posts full length Article (aka Blog) posts by default, not microblog sized posts, which probably makes sense. Worst case, I can come in and remove the title and add a "social" tag and it would turn into a social post.
-
-Finally, this isn't just about Micropub, but rather the success of [IndieAuth](https://indieauth.com/). We had @aaronpk come on to our [Fission Thursday video chat and we talked about this](https://talk.fission.codes/t/indieauth-indielogin-and-all-the-indiewebs-with-aaron-parecki/629).
-
-I can run my own site with my own identity, and a third-party app like iAWriter can ship support for standards, and all of a sudden I have my choice of apps, without having to give up control of my data or my identity. Yay!
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2020-07-04-new-blog-microblog.md b/_posts/blog/2020-07-04-new-blog-microblog.md
deleted file mode 100644
index f7dfc12..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2020-07-04-new-blog-microblog.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,151 +0,0 @@
----
-title: Setting up a new blog and domain on Micro.blog
-date: '2020-07-04T17:39:34-07:00'
-tags:
-  - blogging
----
-
-I've decided to use [[Micro.blog]] directly for my short form, social posting. I'm happy with Micro.blog's approach to owning your content -- you can take an export of your Markdown content and images and run it in many static site generators. Having my own domain name means in the future I can redirect wherever I need.
-
-I was already paying for simple cross posting, and I've realized that I am posting less in part because of my rather fragile setup.
-
-So the plan is to do short form posts here, and keep long form content (other than posts like this one!) on `blog.bmannconsulting.com`. 
-
-A few notes on setting up a new blog, and getting used to how things work here on Micro.blog (Mb). I'll update as I go, and put suggestions in **bold** for the Mb team:
-
----
-
-Because of how cross-posting works, I'm going to set things up so I can choose which short form posts get sent to Twitter, LinkedIn, or other places. Each category has a separate feed, meaning you can use the feeds attached to a category to control that cross-posting.
-
-Speaking of categories, I really like tags, where I can create them on the fly as I post. This may actually work with an external Micropub posting service, but in the Mb interface, you only get the categories you previously created.
-
-Even if you're going to use a custom domain name, you need to initially pick a "short" name. I had forgotten that [other Boris](https://boris.micro.blog) is squatting on the `boris` microblog...although I do have the [@boris](https://micro.blog/boris) username. So, `bmann` it is.
-
-I switched over DNS, creating a subdomain CNAME that points `microblog.bmannconsulting.com` to `bmann.micro.blog`. It seemed to be taking a while for Mb to pick up the custom domain. It's quite annoying that you can't save the page, and that the message is a drop down modal, until the DNS is working. I had a hunch, and turned off "Proxying" in Cloudflare, and then Mb saved the custom domain right away. **If your domain is on Cloudflare, turn off Proxying for your Mb CNAME**
-
-I looked at my sample posts I had made. `bmann.micro.blog` was showing in a number of places, including the link to the test post image I made. I edited the post and linked to an off-site image post. This is great: while Mb includes image uploads to make it simple, it's also happy for you to just add links to images posted anywhere.
-
-Basically, the take away here is, wait patiently until your custom domain is accepted, and until your https status is confirmed. Everything will work, and your custom domain is shown everywhere, without "leaking" any Mb-specific links, other than of course your Mb username (which you keep and can use even if you no longer host here).
-
-How images are handled ends up not being perfect for me. This [bike photo](https://microblog.bmannconsulting.com/uploads/2020/a28194eb67.jpg) got resized by Mb to an ~883KB JPEG. The original from my phone is ~5.1MB. I now have to think about making sure that that original is somewhere else. Also: no other sizes are created, other than for the Timeline, where Mb seems to run a resizing proxy. [Example of same biking photo](https://micro.blog/photos/1000x/https://microblog.bmannconsulting.com/uploads/2020/a28194eb67.jpg). **Feature request: Ideal for me would be a "keep original photo size" option (likely with a $ increase, same as for podcasts and videos), as well as having some other standard sizes generated to be used in templates.**
-
-I selected `@boris@microblog.bmannconsulting.com` as my Mastodon username. This means that if you're on Mastodon, you can "follow" that account and you'll get all my posts. [@manton](https://micro.blog/manton) [wrote about Micro.blog + Mastodon](https://manton.org/2018/11/07/microblog-mastodon.html) back in November 2018.
-
-As far as I can tell, from the Design page you can't easily get to full size previews of the themes. I found them on [Mb's GitHub organization](https://github.com/microdotblog) which was easier to browse the full size screenshots. **Suggestion: make thumbnails of designs clickable to full site previews**
-
-There's still no "export" page anywhere in [Help](https://help.micro.blog/).  Here's what you can get when you search:
-
-<img src="{% link assets/microblog/ae1324bcbf.png %}" width="568" height="495" alt="" />
-
-Github is the closest, which is currently not an active feature, but it does tell you that you can go to _Posts_ and click on the _Export_ link at the top of the page, which is where you'll get links for export formats of WordPress and Blog Archive:
-
-<img src="{% link assets/microblog/ba76d7ee41.png %}" width="287" height="154" alt="" />
-
-**Suggestion: Make an export page in Help, and include this screenshot and describe WordPress and bar**. Maybe link to [Manton's blog post about Blog archive format](https://www.manton.org/2017/11/24/blog-archive-format.html).
-
-Having tried a test export of `.bar` (rename it to `.zip` and you can open it and browse), this isn't very useful to me. I'd prefer individual Markdown files. I understand there are lots of different kinds and getting them to work with a particular static site generator is going to take _some_ work, but they also feel a lot more standard than `.bar`. I'll have to think about whether this is a dealbreaker for me. It's close to one, since WordPress is then the only other system that people could relatively seamlessly switch to. **Feature request: include a Markdown export format**
-
-Looks like [per category archive links are broken on the Lanyon them](https://microblog.bmannconsulting.com/categories/biking/). I'll be experimenting with different themes and customizing them, so that link may show something different. Here's a screenshot:
-
-<img src="{% link assets/microblog/999d04337d.png %}" width="277" height="194" alt="" />
-
----
-
-## Update 1
-
-I'm writing these notes up for me, and ideally in a way that it's helpful for others. I'm trying to be clear about feedback to Mb.
-
-Suggestions are maybe design or documentation.
-
-Feature requests are asking for new things and why they would be valuable to me. Balancing the feature requests of many users is very hard, so please consider these just out loud notes. And -- I'm happy to help with testing!
-
----
-
-I thought about bringing together a few bits and pieces of stranded content. I was pleasantly surprised at all the import options!
-
-I imported both Medium and a long ago WordPress account `boris.wordpress.com`. Wow, both worked great -- including bringing in Medium drafts that I had long forgotten about.
-
-With so many posts, I ended up buying a license to [MarsEdit](https://www.red-sweater.com/marsedit/), a desktop blog editor. Works great!
-
-One issue with the import is that in the web editor, Categories become unusable. Here's a screenshot from my phone:
-
-<img src="{% link assets/microblog/eee291fd35.png %}" width="250" height="444" alt="" />
-
-I'd like to see tags be supported, where you type and add a comma to create tags as you go. Categories are useful too, but also need to scale. **Feature Request: add Tags and/or let people use Categories with a tagging interface that scales to large numbers.**
-
-I'm struggling a bit to figure out how to do selective cross posting. I thought I could use Twitter and LinkedIn category feeds and only enable cross posting of those categories, but its not currently working as expected. I'll experiment more and write this up.
-
-I do a lot of creation on my phone. In the past, I had a full Micropub workflow using lots of different clients.
-
-I setup [Quill](https://quill.p3k.io/), a web based Micropub client that works great on mobile.
-
-Mb supports Micropub, advertising support for the following types:
-
-* Post (note)
-* Article (article)
-* Photo (photo)
-* Reply (reply)
-* Favorite (bookmark)
-
-The Mb label comes first, followed by the Micropub type in brackets.
-
-Photos are Posts with images attached, and Articles are long form with titles.
-
-I had used Bookmarks to create a mini directory of websites I want to share and organize by category.
-
-On Mb, it turns out these really are Favorites. I thought I had found a bug, but posting a "Bookmark" adds a website entry and shows up in your account's Favorites (same as you favoriting another user's post). See screenshot:
-
-<img src="{% link assets/microblog/cffa790d90.png %}" width="250" height="444" alt="" />
-
----
-
-## Update 2 - July 6th
-
-I turned on Replies showing up on the microblog. They [appear on a separate Replies page](/replies).
-
-They don't appear to be able to be downloaded via MarsEdit MetaWeblogAPI, and they don't appear in the Posts web interface. Which means that Replies can't be edited. Don't know if they show up in an export, will have to test that.
-
-I did a [reply](https://microblog.bmannconsulting.com/replies/2020/07/06/9893803.html) directly via the Mb feed to [Ton's post](https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2020/07/the-network-effect-by-martha-wells/). Remotely, the Webmention points to `micro.blog/boris`, which I consider to be a bug when I have a custom domain set (but I did initiate it from within the Mb timeline, so...).
-
-Used Quill to make a Micropub reply to [Ton's other post](https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2020/07/quotebacks-block-quotes/). As of this writing, wasn't displaying yet -- the previous one showed up right away, but might be spam control on Ton's side. It initially redirected me to a [reply on the micro.blog timeline](https://micro.blog/boris/9893953) -- including some markdown that didn't get translated.
-
-But I do get a [permalink on my custom domain](https://microblog.bmannconsulting.com/replies/2020/07/06/9893953.html), with the markdown now properly transformed.
-
-**Feature requests: make replies available via MetaWeblogAPI and in exports. Should probably be available in Posts as well.**
-
-**Bug: can't edit Replies.** If we consider it an advanced feature, maybe it's OK to only be editable via MetaWebAPI. This would be another dealbreaker for me: I need to be able to edit all the content I post to my site. I could work around it by only posting _Posts_ and not using Replies (which I'm already going to do for Favorites / Bookmarks, which is fine).
-
----
-
-<a name="crosspost"></a>I thought I had Twitter cross posting working, but it seems inconsistent. What I did was turn off cross-posting for the main feed -- and also didn't "attach" any of those accounts for cross-posting. Screenshot shows "enable crossposting" because it is turned off :)
-
-<img src="{% link assets/microblog/5e6fe2c90b.png %}" width="516" height="134" alt="" />
-
-Then I added two other feeds for a Twitter category `https://microblog.bmannconsulting.com/categories/twitter/feed.xml` and a LinkedIn category`https://microblog.bmannconsulting.com/categories/linkedin/feed.xml`. On each feed, only the respective social account is linked / enabled.
-
-So my thinking is, whenever I add either of those categories to a post, they will show up in those feeds, and then cross-post. Anything else will show up in my "main" Mb feed / blog feed but not cross post.
-
-Twitter cross-posting [worked](https://twitter.com/bmann/status/1279868513402982400) for [this biking photo post](https://microblog.bmannconsulting.com/2020/07/05/a-test-ride.html). But then didn't work for [this second post](https://microblog.bmannconsulting.com/2020/07/05/digital-spaces-generally.html). I forget if I used the web interface or Gluon to post both / either of these, which may have something to do with it.
-
-This [music post I just made today](https://microblog.bmannconsulting.com/2020/07/06/what-year-is.html), using the Posts web interface here, and tagged it with music and Twitter, and didn't cross-post to Twitter.
-
-I haven't tried LinkedIn yet.
-
-I guess this is sort of a **bug report**, I'm not sure if looping back category feeds into Mb is an expected use case. Since I can't control cross-posting behaviour through Micropub (and not through the Posts web interface here), it's my solution that if it works reliably would be really great and be very flexible.
-
----
-
-Turns out there is a [@help thread](https://micro.blog/help/9896693) that covers this. I went ahead and removed the "main" feed, so it looks I should be able to add a LinkedIn tag _or_ Twitter tag and things will work how I want, but that adding _both_ won't work? I'll try them individually for now and see how it goes :)
-
-I tried a LinkedIn-tagged post, authored it through Quill (in part, because the Mb Post editor was giving wildly inaccurate character counts?). [Worked!](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6686317602719055873/) Looks like links / HTML gets stripped, and you get a link back to [your post here on Mb](https://microblog.bmannconsulting.com/2020/07/07/via-davidcrow-the.html). The theme I have doesn't have social metatags, so I'll add that to my TODO.
-
----
-
-Posted [a from scratch post](https://microblog.bmannconsulting.com/2020/07/07/its-ottawaera-boris.html) via MarsEdit (only made edits before). Post didn't make it to the Mb feed. Is this because I deleted the "main" feed? Not a big deal really, I'm either cross posting or posting for feed subscribers mostly.
-
-Also, this post itself doesn't seem to show up in MarsEdit at all?
-
----
-
-To be continued...
-
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2020-10-08-joining-social-coop.md b/_posts/blog/2020-10-08-joining-social-coop.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 7a75014..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2020-10-08-joining-social-coop.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,63 +0,0 @@
----
-title: Joining Social.Coop
-date: '2020-10-09T09:39:34-07:00'
-categories:
-  - Commons
-tags:
-  - Mastodon
-  - co-op
----
-
-[![]({% link assets/2020/10/socialcoop.png %})](https://social.coop)
-
-I've just finished getting onboarded into [[Social.Coop]] https://social.coop, a cooperative that maintains social media technology together, supported by member funding.
-
-In particular, the main thing the co-op runs is a [[Mastodon]] instance. You can think of Mastodon as an open source Twitter, except spread across multiple individual servers. I've been meaning to setup an active Mastodon account again[[I ran my own single user <a href='{% link _posts/blog/2017-04-15-notes-on-running-mastodon-heroku.md %}'>Mastodon on Heroku</a> for a while. Ultimately I want to see these sorts of social software systems scale down to the individual, but they way they are architected has to fit that model. Mastodon is too complex, and thus costly, for an individual to run.::lsn]], and I want to more directly explore collective governance and funding models, so Social Co-op seems like a great fit.
-
-Here's what the [Social.Coop wiki has to say](https://wiki.social.coop/home.html):
-
-> **What?:** Social.coop is is an experiment in user-controlled social media. It is a community hub for people interested in co-ops and development of free/libre social media - these define the common core field of discussion, though they are far from the only things discussed.
->
->We primarily run a [[Mastodon]] social media server: one node in the [[Fediverse]], a federated network of social media applications which communicate using the [[Activity Pub]] and [[OStatus]] protocols.
->
-> **Why?:** What distinguishes us from most other social media there is that [[we are both funded and governed by our members: we are a co-operative::highlight]]. The organisation and running of the site is accountable to its members, and not only will we not be monetising our users by selling their data to third parties, but they decide what we do.
-
-They use [Open Collective to collect monthly or annual funds](https://opencollective.com/socialcoop), where the member can choose what amount to fund. The goal is to be as accessible as possible, so the minimum member tier is just £1 / month.
-
-[[Loomio]] is what is used for discussion, governance, and operations, with Community, Tech, and Finance Working Groups. You need to be a member to post, but the [discussions are public in the main Loomio group](https://www.loomio.org/socialcoop/).
-
-## How to sign up
-
-To sign up for Social.Coop, start by [filling out the application form](https://wiki.social.coop/registration-form.html). The main thing it asks for:
-
-> In up to 500 characters (the maximum length of a toot on Mastodon), can you tell us a bit about yourself? For instance, why you wish to join social.coop, and what hopes or aspirations you have for the site and/or your participation? We’d like to build a picture of how our members want to use the site.
-
-Here's what I submitted:
-
-> I’m interested in supporting and learning more about co-op structures, especially as they relate to software infrastructure and open source.
-> 
-> I don’t have a current Mastodon account, and if I’m not going to run my own server, I’d like to support a group like this.
-
-## What to use Mastodon for?
-
-My account is [bmann@social.coop](https://social.coop/@bmann). The way Mastodon works, Social.Coop is my "home server", but I can follow people on any Mastodon server, and anyone can follow me.[[aka a 'Federated' model, where there are central servers and some features within just that server, but protocols that allow servers to talk to each other, which supports people being able to communicate between servers. Versus peer-to-peer (p2p) where people would directly connect to each other without a server in the middle.::rmn]] Please do follow me / introduce yourself so I can follow you! It's been great to start from scratch in exploring the people on the [[Fediverse]] as it is called.
-
-![]({%link assets/2020/10/mastodon-bmann-screenshot.png %})
-
-This is a screenshot of the logged in web interface. There are mobile apps, I'm currently using the open source [[Amaroq]] for iOS[[Direct <a href='https://appsto.re/us/OfFxib.i'>link to Amaroq in the Appstore</a>.::lsn]]. As you can see, it pretty much looks like Twitter and many other modern feed based social media sites.
-
-So what am I going to use this account for? It's definitely an overlap with [[Micro.blog]] in the sense of sharing short notes and images. I've got things setup so I can cross post from Micro.blog to my Mastodon account[[This is a bit of a work in progress, but microblog.bmannconsulting.com will change to just blog.bmannconsulting.com, and where this blog is posted is going to become my main long-form blog posting area::rmn]], and I already do that to post to Twitter.
-
-I think I'll do more cooking content there, but I'm not really going to focus on a bunch of output there.
-
-There are conversations happening in the Fediverse that aren't happening on centralized social media, so I'm definitely interested in that. And, in this emerging area of software co-ops. 
-
-## Collectives Everywhere
-
-From Social.Coop, I learned about [[Meet.Coop]], which is a coop for running video conferencing software that is an alternative to Zoom. I may end up with a personal account through Social.Coop, and I'm considering buying a company account for [[Fission]].
-
-It's great to see that there is a rise in collective infrastructure like this. Ideally, it should result in more commons infrastructure at various levels. We need to fund the open source code behind apps[[Mastodon has a <a href='https://www.patreon.com/mastodon'>Patreon</a> that just covers the lead developer working on it full time::lsn]], **and** we need to fund the operations and hosting of these apps.
-
-What I continue to work on is apps that are intentionally designed to be as simple as possible to host, so that it is much easier for individuals to run it, rather than having to form collectives. That way, we can focus on building out more features and functions at the code, design, and UX layers.
-
-This changes the economic model of building and running software.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2021-02-13-drop-in-audio.md b/_posts/blog/2021-02-13-drop-in-audio.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 9d0c813..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2021-02-13-drop-in-audio.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,90 +0,0 @@
----
-title: Drop in Audio
-date: '2021-02-13T23:34:34-07:00'
-modified: 2021-02-22
-categories:
-  - Commons
-tags:
-  - Clubhouse
-  - social network
----
-
-I finally signed up for [Clubhouse](https://www.joinclubhouse.com/), the new drop in audio based social network. Mainly, it was so that the flood of invites would stop.[^clubhouseinvite]
-
-[^clubhouseinvite]: Yes, I have invites, yes I'm happy to invite you if you want to try it out.
-
-But my first drop in audio experience was actually with [Soapbox](https://soapbox.social), an app built by some Berlin based friends. I had a great chat with Mike in Chicago, and a few others wandered in and we ended up talking about BBQ sauces. There's also an "audio stories" feature, where you can record messages that followers can listen to. 
-
-Soapbox founder Dean Eigenmann says he wants it to be more like your favourite bar, rather than Clubhouse which he says feels more like attending a conference. The elitism of Clubhouse definitely is another thing that turned me off, but of course that has just made people want to get in even more.
-
-It's great to watch this flood of interest in new social networks. Trying out new features, experimenting, meeting new people. Especially with the pandemic ongoing, it's something that many people want to feel.
-
-I was grumpy about it at one point. I got social network fatigue in the first big wave of social networks in the early 2000s. But it is great to see people being excited about being part of new networks, and learning and trying new things.
-
-What I _am_ grumpy about is that people aren't thinking about the same old issues:
-* Whose platform is it?
-* Who owns the content?
-* Are you building connections and forming groups that you'll have to rebuild from scratch when you leave?
-
-Oh, and as it turns out, the [Stanford Internet Observatory determined](https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/news/clubhouse-china) that the way data is transmitted means that information about who is talking to who is pretty easy to figure out ... among other concerns about Clubhouse's backend provider potentially even making raw audio data available to the Chinese government...
-
-We've seen an understanding of having your own platform emerge around blogs & newsletters. As an example, [Ghost is a great open source competitor to Substack](https://ghost.org/vs/substack/).
-
-Can we get there quickly with drop in audio? Technology wise: yes. You can even make this work in a web browser: WebRTC lets us do audio (and video) right in the browser.
-
-Feross' [Speakeasy](https://speakeasy.co) lets anyone create rooms, and anyone who drops in is connected into a video chat with others, along with a 5 minute timer to move on to the next person.
-
-Big Blue Button (BBB) is a platform I've been experimenting with, which is a more full featured web conference platform that competes with Zoom, and is open source. The [Meet.Coop](https://meet.coop) collective hosts BBB for you. It has rooms, starts with audio only, and each room can have an invite link. Visitors connect directly through their browser. Boom - you've got drop in audio chat rooms.
-
-Discord servers have great multi-person voice channels, Twilio has long had programmable audio for building these types of experiences, and this [TechCrunch article from back in April 2020 covers a host of other audio first startups](https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/18/clubhouse-app-chat-rooms/).
-
-## Social Networks Aren't About Tech
-
-But of course, social networks aren't primarily about the technology powering them.
-
-After trying out Soapbox ([here's my profile](https://soapbox.social/user/boris)), my friend [Claire Atkin @catthekin](https://twitter.com/catthekin) gave me a demo of what she had learned about Clubhouse so far (she was an early adopter last year). Mute when you're not talking "on stage", "flick" the mute button when you agree with the current speaker (rather than saying anything audible), the 🎉 on your profile means you're new and people will cut you some slack for the first couple of days.
-
-The day after Claire gave me a tour, I went for a walk and decided to explore a little more on my own. I dropped in and "pinged" [Carter Rabasa @crtr0](https://twitter.com/crtr0). Carter was one of the people that had initially invited me and has been having some fun experiences.
-
-We had a good chat about how web-based drop in audio has a real disadvantage us. native mobile app notifications drawing you back in.[^carter]
-
-Carter pointed out that "where your friends are" really drives early network formation. This is a good point, and Clubhouse itself leans into Twitter and Instagram (and your phone's address book of contact phone numbers).
-
-[^carter]: Plus a bunch of other topics, like pandemic & US politics being a downer, Pacific North West snow, DevRel evolution. It was definitely nice that Carter "picked up" and we could just chat for a bit and catch up.
-
-Twitter login for web based drop in audio (or Mastodon or other existing social networks) is key for making it easy to grow your network.
-
-So, can you "own your own drop in audio"? Yes! Just like running a newsletter or a forum, we have the tech. Building your own club takes time - and moderation and welcoming new people and so on. Consider whether your existing community could benefit from adding audio.
-
-Will I keep using Clubhouse? Sure, I'll keep an eye on it and experiment a little, and enjoy the novelty of a new network.
-
-In fact, join me on ~~February 23rd~~ March 3rd, 9:30am PST / 12:30pm EST / 18:30 CET for a discussion on Decentralized Open Networks. I'll also be joined by [Simona Pop @Sim_Pop](https://twitter.com/sim_pop), who will be co-hosting with me. [Find the event on Clubhouse](https://www.joinclubhouse.com/event/PvNo69XP), or register on Luma:
-
-<br /><br />
-<a href="https://lu.ma/event/evt-4hubOg6pSTUk3jS" class="luma-checkout--button" data-luma-action="checkout" data-luma-event-id="evt-4hubOg6pSTUk3jS">Sign up for Decentralized Open Networks, Mar 3rd</a>
-<script id="luma-checkout" src="https://embed.lu.ma/checkout-button.js"></script>
-<br />
-I'll also drop a link to some BBB and Speakeasy rooms [on Twitter](https://twitter.com/bmann) to experiment with those platforms.
-
-## Ideas & Links
-
-Drop in Audio for Ghost Members: build a plugin for Ghost that ties into the Members system, and do public or private rooms.
-
-[Speakeasy](https://speakeasy.co) is currently video, make an option to configure rooms to be audio-only
-
-[Big Blue Button](https://bigbluebutton.org/) originally started as. The Greenlight add on [github.com/bigbluebutton/greenlight](https://github.com/bigbluebutton/greenlight) makes for a simpler user interface, which you can [checkout in the Meet.coop demo](https://demo.meet.coop/). It's written in Rails
-soap box. Social
-
-[Twilio](https://www.twilio.com/) is the king of programmable audio. Here's a recent [tutorial on building a Twilio Video chat app with React](https://www.twilio.com/blog/build-a-custom-video-chat-app-with-react-and-twilio-programmable-video) -- would be simple for them to make an audio chat tutorial as well. 
-
-[Matrix](https://matrix.org) supports voice and video already, as well as rooms with various permissions. Building a Matrix based drop in audio client is probably the closest fit in terms of having a full stack of social network features already -- and it's already decentralized and federated, where you can run your own home server.
-
-A Discord bot and built in voice channels could probably do something interesting.
-
-I didn't mention [@TwitterSpaces](https://twitter.com/TwitterSpaces), audio chat being built into Twitter directly. I think it will do well, and I'm much more likely to use it, since I think of Twitter as a platform native to the web (as opposed to mobile app). What will they do to add APIs & make it open & programmable?
-
-_Fun fact: this was the first blog post that started out as handwritten pages on my new [[reMarkable]] paper tablet_
-
----
-
-_Update 2021-02-22:_ The Decentralized Open Networks talk is being re-scheduled to March 3rd. Links and registration above are all correct, just changed the date and added Simona as co-host. I also found [[Jam]] which very directly calls itself an open source alternative. 
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2021-02-14-remarkable-tablet-first-usage.md b/_posts/blog/2021-02-14-remarkable-tablet-first-usage.md
deleted file mode 100644
index b65c556..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2021-02-14-remarkable-tablet-first-usage.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,112 +0,0 @@
----
-title: reMarkable Tablet First Usage
-date: '2021-02-14T17:24:34-07:00'
-categories:
-  - Review
-tags:
-  - reMarkable
-  - tablet
----
-This is the second blog post I am writing on my new [[reMarkable]] tablet. 
-
-![First blog post at the breakfast table - reMarkable Tablet](https://blog.bmannconsulting.com/uploads/2021/850c830ed2.jpg)
-
-It's not quite a review, since I'm only a few days into using it, and haven't explored any of the community tools for it yet.
-
-It's an e-ink "paper" tablet. I think the paper part is meant to talk about how it feels (like writing on a pad of paper), but also its capabilities. No web browser!
-
-Here's a picture of the templates selection screen:
-
-![Remarkable Template Selection Screen]({% link assets/2021/02/remarkable-templates.png %})
-
-I'm still investigating how to make my own and upload them. The blank one works just fine for me. Further down, there are music bars and guitar chord notation, and all sorts of stuff.
-
-The [Specifications page](https://remarkable.com/#Specifications) will give you all the speeds and feeds.
- 
-## Why did I buy the reMarkable?
-
-In part, retail therapy. Call it an early birthday gift to myself. 
-
-Spending a lot of time at home in my "Zoom room" means that I want to spend time with different interfaces than screens and keyboards.
-
-The reMarkable means I can sit at the breakfast table or the couch, on a device that isn't a distraction machine like my smartphone or iPad is. Right now, I see it as a deep work device for me. I can read, highlight, and take notes on white papers, books, and long articles. I can do the kind of diagram drawing and note taking that is thinking out loud with myself.
-
-
-And I can write blog posts like this one, writing several pages in one go.
-
-Of course, a device doesn't make you do deep work, habits and patterns do. So we'll see which patterns stick for me.
-
-## How open is the device?
-
-I haven't explored it, but I read enough ahead of time to see that you can `ssh` into the device and there is a community of open software around it.
-
-Various people turn off the cloud sync, and just use the USB connection or connect their computer to it over local WiFi.
-
-I think the company could go a lot farther in actively supporting openness, but some of that may be against their philosophy of simplicity for the device.
-
-## Should you buy one?
-
-Well, several people have already messaged me that they have bought one, after seeing my breakfast table blogging post! I'm going to try and talk about use cases here, and how you might make this decision.
-
-[Dries](https://dri.es) messaged me after seeing the [picture of the tablet](https://blog.bmannconsulting.com/2021/02/13/sitting-at-the.html) and we chatted about his process and tools. He uses an iPad and [Notability](https://www.gingerlabs.com) for note taking and research, including refering to things online and using colour for different types of notes.
-
-For starters, when I say I'm reading a paper, that's it, I'm reading, using the highlighter tool, and scribbling some notes in the margins. The remarkable has wifi (or USB) for syncing, but there isn't a web browser on it. So if you want to refer to web resources while reading, this won't work for you. I still have to figure out how to get highlights back out of a PDF.
-
-If you don't have an iPad or a Kindle, the remarkable might be a stronger fit for you, as it can be used as an e-reader. I've been meaning to convert my mostly Kindle ebook library to an open EPUB format, so stay tuned for further experiments.
-
-## Paper Replacement
-
-I quite like writing on paper, especially nice pens and notebooks. Even in my Zoom room I've been occasionally using a notebook for notes during meetings.
-
-Two things happened. One, I filled up my notebook. And two, I'm extensively using Roam for daily work logging and personal TODOS and follow ups, especially from meeting notes.
-
-I haven't yet used the reMarkable for meeting notes during Zoom calls. Other than note taky, sketching diagrams, systems, user flows and more is what I would fill my paper notebooks with, and I can definitely do all of that with the reMarkable.
-
-In fact, the remarkable is awesome for this type of sketching and diagraming that I would mostly do on paper before. I've said before that big white boards is one of the main things I miss from shared office spaces. This isn't really the same thing, but I do see many more quick sketches in my future.
-
-At work, we use [Whimsical](https://whimsical.com) for collaboratory on diagrams and user flows. I don't know if these low fidelity sketches will end up being a first version directly, or just help me locally define my thinking. Same thing for presentations: dropping in some sketches is much faster than creating them with drawing tools.
-
-To round out this paper replacement section, the stylus works well, including the feel of writing on screen. Dries told me he uses the [Paperlike](https://paperlike.com/) screen protector for the iPad to help with this, and [Rachael](https://rachaelashe.com) just ordered it as well.
-
-## Handwriting to text
-
-The first blog post worked out well, with just one or two mistakes. You select a page or pages and choose "convert to text and send", and the tablet shows it as editable text before sending. You can use the on screen keyboard to make edits, but the main next step is to send the text as email.
-
-I still end up spending quite some time doing editing, researching links, and adding Markdown formatting before publishing. But that's always the case: writing long form takes a while.
-
-Since I'm on blog post number two (two long form posts in 2 days!), I'll say that so far reMarkable helps make the time for dedicated long form writing.
-
-## Remarkable Apps
-
-This section is the one that is going to be mediocre at best in opinion.
-
-The smartphone app seems mostly useless?
-
-I can view all the synced notes and drawings, but I can't figure out how to, for example, export a page to my photos. I ended up taking a screen shot! It also doesn't show up as a "share" target on iOS, so saving a web page as PDF & sending it doesn't work, and neither does sending any PDFs you come across.
-
-I used the desktop app to add a couple of PDFs and it was fine. I'm not sure what the desktop should do? I guess it's just basic file management.
-
-## More remarkable adventures
-
-The [[reMarkable]] notes page is where I'll continue to link resources as I explore. Lots of open source tools and community pages there that I've found so far.
-
-With the cloud sync capabilities, I immediately think about how I can get this connected to my [Fission](https://fission.codes) file system. Your notes, sketches, PDFs, ebooks and more instantly available online, plus the ability to publish them to the web? Yes, please!
-
-If you're an existing remarkable user, I'd love to hear your tips and tricks.
-
-And I'm happy to answer questions that anyone has -- it's a good opportunity to research the answers!
-
-## Addendum: Other Apps & Tools
-
-Especially when I mention deep work, note taking by hand is a "tool for thought". [Muse App](https://museapp.com) for iPad has a wonderful array of gestures and infinite canvases on iPad.[^musevideo]
-
-[^musevideo]: Adam Wiggins presented on Muse back in August 2020 right as it was launching. [See the video on Vimeo »](https://vimeo.com/479944545)
-
-I have used [GoodNotes](https://www.goodnotes.com) on iPad. I don't remember why I liked it better than Dries' pick, Notability.
-
-Not a tool for thought, but I need to once again figure out the [[calibre]] tool chain for my ebooks.
-
-
-
-
-
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2021-03-07-back-to-indiekit.md b/_posts/blog/2021-03-07-back-to-indiekit.md
deleted file mode 100644
index d130654..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2021-03-07-back-to-indiekit.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,105 +0,0 @@
----
-date: 2021-03-07T17:52:10.268-08:00
-title: Back to Indiekit
-categories:
-    - Second Brain
-tags:
-    - blogging
-    - Micropub
-    - IndieWeb
-    - IndieKit
----
-
-I’m back to using [[IndieKit]] with this site, a personal [[Micropub]] server that lets me publish to the Git repo where the source of this site lives. 
-
-Micropub support means I can use any tool which supports this standard, of which recently there have been more and more. 
-
-Previously there was the MetaWeblog API or AtomPub which lead to an explosion of blog clients. But it also meant passing username and passwords around. Micropub is based on OAuth, and authorizes with your site without sharing a password. 
-
-In fact, [[IndieAuth]] means that my site is what I use for a login. 
-
-But the thing I wanted to enable is posting on the go. While I have been spending a lot of time at my desktop, using my [[VSCode]] or [[Obsidian]] editor apps, I do a lot of reading on my phone. 
-
-I wanted to quickly post a note, bookmark, or journal item directly to my [[Second Brain]] site.
-
-Running IndieKit as a Micropub server enables this. 
-
-I used [[iA Writer]]’s iOS app to write this post. iA Writer has a [[Micropub]] publishing feature, so with [[IndieKit]] I can publish a note directly to the site.[^notevsarticles]
-
-[^notevsarticles]: The IndieWeb “Articles” type is what I’m mapping to my local “Notes”. So iA posts Markdown articles which are then processed as new notes. Even more confusingly, I expect that I’ll actually sit down and use my desktop editor to turn this into a Blog post.
-
-## Daily Journal Logs
-
-But the main use for posting on the go is to power my [Daily Journal Logs](/journal/).
-
-I’ve gotten used to having a daily work log that I write privately in [[Roam Research]]. Those are private internal notes, meeting notes, and personal TODOs[^personaltodo].
-
-[^personaltodo]: Personal in the sense that they are TODOs that I need to track just for myself: my internal TODO system for work and life. As opposed to a shared TODO system like [[Trello]] or GitHub Issues that I am maintaining with other people.
-
-And I have my [[Micro.blog]] powered personal blog, which I really enjoy. But, every post there gets cross posted to Twitter and Mastodon. 
-
-In the reboot of this site I’ve always had Journals, but they were this weird mix of blog posts and notes.
-
-So I made Journal Logs: smaller pieces of text that are more situated around capturing a thought, a web page, or something to flesh out as full notes and research later. 
-
-I’ve been enjoying it. It’s like [[RSS Club]]: without broadcasting on social, people can [subscribe to these journal logs](/feed/journal.xml), but these posts are very much just little chunks of text out of my brain. I’m writing them **for me**. People are welcome to follow along, but they will likely lack context.
-
-## Bookmarks
-
-Since IndieKit supports many of the different [[Micropub]] post types, I ended up enabling [[Bookmarks]] too. 
-
-They are styled a little differently and are a good way to capture links to tools or code. I don’t use Bookmarks for articles or other people’s blog posts — I’ll write a short journal log if I want to do that. 
-
-This is probably the closest to overlapping with my existing Notes, where I do have optional `link` and/or `git` properties. The difference being, they just flow into the Daily Logs and aren’t captured as a first class note, on purpose. 
-
-If I later do more with the Bookmarked item, it can become a full Note. 
-
-## Other Post Types 
-
-I looked at “Likes” as well but that got to be too many items to choose between: should this be a Like or a Bookmark?
-
-Reply, RSVP, and [other Micropub post types](https://indieweb.org/Micropub#Examples_of_Creating_Objects) I’m not planning on using. 
-
-In part because I have to build custom templates for them, and also because of inconsistent support in Micropub clients
-
-## Micropub Clients
-
-[[Indigenous]] for iOS is what I used to use but it is no longer maintained and doesn’t work any more. 
-
-I use [[Gluon]] to post to [[Micro.blog]]... but it’s an Mb client, not a general purpose Micropub one. 
-
-So I use @aaronpk’s web based [[Quill]]. Works great on my phone, works great on my desktop. 
-
-In fact, I use Quill even on my desktop, when I’m a click away from my [[VSCode]] editor that usually has some page on this site open. 
-
-Constrained interface, type a few things, and post. Don’t get distracted by immediately defining all the [[wikilinks]] you just added to the log item. 
-
-I think I might like to build a simple web-based [[Micropub Client]]. I’d like to see more of them, to have people tinker with editing interfaces as much as they tinker with the content publishing & display systems of their blogs.
-
-## On This Day
-
-I might try and implement some sort of On This Day feature. This would be generated when I build the site, so it’s a display format for me: if I make at least one post on a day, my site would pull in any other posts made on that day. 
-
-This one way to be reminded of content on the site, and further extend and refer to it. 
-
-## Errata
-
-I still need to troubleshoot uploading images. There have been a couple of times where I wanted to post a screenshot, which I think would be the main use case. 
-
-I also haven’t figured out full templating. Bookmarks use a `bookmark-of` front matter property, and it would make templating simpler to just use the `link` property I use for notes. `categories` is the default 
-
-And feeds. All my feeds need some work I think. 
-
-## Recommending IndieKit
-
-This post is sort of a weird mix of workflow, notes to self, and pointers to the tools I used.
-
-If you’re reading via RSS, you need to read the article on my site to follow the [[wikilinks]] (or hover over them to get a preview).
-
-I configured IndieKit to power this strange journal log system, that works for me when things like Roam Research have them built in. I switched all my personal stuff to Micro.blog because I just wanted to post pictures of food or blog about music. But that just means that this site becomes the place where I experiment!
-
-If you want to tinker with your digital garden or personal blog publishing, I can recommend [[IndieKit]]. It’s a single `index.js` file that runs great on the free Hobby tier of Heroku. My [source code is on GitHub](https://github.com/bmann/indiekit-bmcgarden).
-
-Do you have a convoluted workflow or quirky IndieWeb integration into your site? Tell me about it!
-
-
diff --git a/_posts/blog/2021-03-14-moa-party.md b/_posts/blog/2021-03-14-moa-party.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 682474a..0000000
--- a/_posts/blog/2021-03-14-moa-party.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,82 +0,0 @@
----
-date: 2021-03-14T22:12:10.268-08:00
-title: Running Moa Party as a public utility
-categories:
-    - Commons
-tags:
-    - Moa Party
-    - opensource
----
-As of a couple of days ago, I'm helping to run Moa, a Mastodon and Twitter cross-posting service. It's live at [moa.party](https://moa.party).
-
-It started out with me looking for a way to cross-post to Instagram. Moa used to be able to do this, but the Instagram API changed. I left a comment on a Github issue for the project, and the creator replied that they weren't spending a lot of time on the project any more. 
-
-From there, this seemed like a good opportunity to work on a project as a public utility, and to have people interested in existing and new functionality to support it.
-
-## Forming a Squad
-
-Separately, I've been hanging out with various people interested in inter-connecting knowledge graphs. [@flancian](https://twitter.com/flancian) has been convening people to work on the [[Anagora]] project: using git to pull in the source of peoples' digital gardens. We decided to work on this together, and were quickly joined by [@vera](https://freethinkers.lgbt/@vera), who jumped right into writing new functionality.
-
-Figuring out tools and communication was the first thing, as is the case with most groups. We're using GitLab as the home base, and set up a meta project [[FedStoa]] at https://gitlab.com/fedstoa.
-
-## Side Project Learning
-
-All of us are doing this as a side project, which means fitting in tasks as we can.
-
-But, it also means the flexibility of trying new tools and techniques, to experiment and learn new things. I mostly use GitHub, but as a basic place to keep code and file issues, GitLab works great. The original Moa repo is on GitHub, and we've [kept it there](https://github.com/fedstoa/moa) plus set up mirroring from the main GitLab code base.
-
-Using GitLab aligns more with our open source principles. But there's no denying that GitHub is the code social network. With all the same baggage of other centralized social networks.
-
-It also led me to experiment with [[git-bug]] but it's not quite ready to work reliably.
-
-## Growing the Party 
-
-We just completed the switch over to running [moa.party](https://moa.party). The original creator [James](https://jmoore.me) advised and assisted in doing this in a way that should appear seamless for the people currently using the service, of which there are about 1500.
-
-Now it's time to reach out to existing and new users to explain how the new Moa is going to be run as a public utility, and ask them how they want to participate & contribute.
-
-## Open Collective
-
-I'm a big fan of [[Open Collective]]. It enables communities to gather funds, list expenses publicly, and pay people all without having to create a formal company or non- profit.
-
-I'm inspired by [[Social.Coop]] [^socialcoop] a co-op I am a member of, which uses Open Collective to have people band together to run shared tech services.
-
-[^socialcoop]: I wrote a blog post about [[Joining Social.Coop]]. @flancian and I are both members, and "met" partly on the Mastodon server that it runs.
-
-I want to do the same thing for Moa, plus go one step further, funding new features.
-
-Regular contributions are a "vote" to keep the base service maintained: running well, secure and useful, and adding improvements over time. The costs are minimal -- a couple of domain name renewals per year, and a small server in Europe for hosting.
-
-For bigger features such as cross-posting to new networks, we want to gather support partially in the form of financial contributions. Then, we'll look to pay designers & developers to work on these features. For me, and for @flancian and @vera, we're privileged to have some time to contribute to side projects like writing open source code, running a community, and hosting a server as a public utility.
-
-But that's not true for everyone.
-
-So, the hope is that by enabling some opportunities to do these things as a paid project, this pays it forward to others. I've spent a lot of time thinking about my early career in open source -- and, indeed, my career today. I've always wanted to help get open source creators paid, now I'd like to flip it around: pay people so that they can produce open source creations.
-
-## Bring Back Instagram Cross Posting
-
-We're asking for contributions from people who are active users of the service. Getting the Instagram cross-posting working again will be one of the first larger features to collect contributions for. I've started by setting $1000 as the amount that we want to gather, and I've personally put in $500 to get things going.
-
-Whatever is raised will be used to pay people to work on code for the project. Not as a bounty, but rather as an hourly paid engagement to work on the code.
-
-If you'd like to cross-post your pictures from Mastodon or Twitter to Instagram [^igcrosspost], please [contribute on the Moa Open Collective »](https://opencollective.com/moa)
-
-[^igcrosspost]: We need to research if we need to become some sort of verified Instagram developer or if this is possible at all. We'll keep the [moaparty.com page updated](https://moaparty.com/bring-back-instagram/) as we find out more. It may not be possible, in which case we'll look at other features that people decide they want to support.
- 
-## Contributions
-
-Of course, the project is still open to contributions of all kinds, @vera already has code to push posts to GitLab.[^gitsiphon] This will be available on a dev server soon. 
-
-[^gitsiphon]: [Cross posting to git](https://moaparty.com/cross-posting-to-git/) using [[wikilinks]]. People use Twitter or Mastodon clients to post a lot. By siphoning in content, especially enriched with wikilinks, people can build their digital gardens from right where they already post.
-
-Documentation on the [moaparty.com website](https://moaparty.com), promotion, and writing down suggestions of new features -- and reporting bugs or other issues! -- are all welcome contributions.
-
----
-
-You can find more info and follow status updates on [moaparty.com](https://moaparty.com) and follow [@moaparty on Twitter](https://twitter.com/moaparty) and/or [@moaparty@fosstodon.org](https://fosstodon.org/@moaparty).
-
-To chat with us live, join the matrix channel [#moaparty:matrix.org](https://matrix.to/#/!zPwMsygFdoMjtdrDfo:matrix.org)
-
-And finally, try out [moa.party](https://moa.party)! [^joinmasto]
-
-[^joinmasto]: Don't have a Mastodon account? If you're interested in open source, <https://fosstodon.org> might be an easy home server for you to get started with. Trying out different home servers and checking out their local style is definitely part of the charm of a distributed social network like Mastodon.
\ No newline at end of file
-- 
2.51.2