foo fotos

Better late than never. Some random Treo-shots from Foo Camp two weeks ago (has a Web Year already passed since Foo Camp? Amazing.):

Someone from Microsoft distributed these squishy, nerf-like figurines on the dinner tables at Foo. At first I thought they were number 9's that you'd buy to decorate a child's 9th birthday cake. But actually they were for "Channel 9", Microsoft's internal blog thingie for Microsoft developers. Of course, it took about 0.02 seconds for Foo Campers to tear the heads off and arrange the Microsoft numbers not as 9's in a row, but as "666"... If life gives you Channel 9 figurines, destroy them as quickly as you can. What else would you expect from an Open Source crowd?

Here's a random shot with a rather interesting collection of individuals (how many can you identify?):

Battlin' Zithromax w/ The Kleptones

I was out of town yesterday on a short business trip, and when I got up this morning I discovered my blogs had been bombarded with comment spam once again --- over seven hundred messages, almost entirely about something called Zithromax.

After cursing and contemplating the value of continuing to blog when the spam's so bad I can't keep up (I already 900+ spams a day in email, and now I get 100's a day in my blogs) I decided it was finally time to upgrade to Movable Type 3.11 and the latest MT-Blacklist, something I've already done for one of my other blogs, Nettle.

Upgrading MovableType is a pain. Not only is it a pain because it's a pain, but it's a pain because this problem is so fixable. I wish SixApart would dedicate some resources to creating a reliable installer that completely automates the upgrade process, from uncompressing the tarball to installing all the plugins.

Where is InstallShield for MT?

While I battle the forces of Zithromax, I'm groovin' to the Kleptones thanks to Andy Baio. Over at Waxy, Andy is blogging about and hosting The Kleptones' new mash-up album, A Night At the Hip Hopera in its entirety. I've been a fan of plunderphonics, Negativland, remixes, and mash-ups for years, and I agree with Andy that this is a pretty remarkable mash-up. I love reinterpretations of familiar music and the way technology is letting us "rearrange the bits", as Cory might say. (Just wait until we start seeing movie mash-ups.)