For who knows what reason, I present to you a complete list of the songs I listened to at the office today:

1. "Fresh Dog," MC Frontalot
2. "Bullets, Bombs & Bigotry," KMFDM
3. "Unchained," Great White & Dweezil Zappa, remixed by Slick Idiot
4. "Screenwriter's Blues," Soul Coughing
5. "Black Betty," Tom Jones
6. "Quick, Painless and Easy," Ivy
7. "Steppin' Out," Electric Light Orchestra
8. "Incipit Zarathustra," DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid & Dave Lombardo
9. "Ready to Blow," KMFDM
10. "I'm Confused," Handsome Furs
11. "The Veldt," Combustible Edison
12. "Hey Dude," Beatallica
13. "Every Little Bit," That Petrol Emotion
14. "Little Bombs," Aimee Mann
15. "Knights of Cydonia," Muse
16. "I Feel Fine," Slick Idiot
17. "Summertime," Bill Clinton et al.
18. "Is Chicago, Is Not Chicago," Soul Coughing
19. "Malambo #1," Yma Sumac
20. "Hau Ruck," KMFDM
21. "Timeless," Kate Havnevik
22. "Blast," Slick Idiot
23. "Demon Seed," Nine Inch Nails
24. "Lazybones," Soul Coughing
25. "The Incumbent," Soul Coughing

But now I'm late for a very important date.
So it's time to say hello goodbye I'm late I'm late I'm late.

Tags: music

If I hadn't been away from LiveJournal for so long, I would have noticed that they have official Facebook support now. It's not huge support, but it has the one most important thing, which is putting a note on Facebook whenever I update on LJ.

Haven't tried it yet, but I'm going to see how well it works... now.

Tags: facebook

No, I did not die.

I'm still spending most of my on-line social time on Facebook. And I'm still wrestling with how to have all of my activity show up in one place. Like most people care. :-)

The best I can do right now is FriendFeed. You can find me there and see most every piddly detail of my on-line activity except for Facebook. Apparently the nitwits at FB don't think it's worth it to have individual users' activity available via standard means of sharing—and come to think of it, maybe they're right. So if you really want to see what I'm doing on Facebook, you can look me up directly on there.

I like FriendFeed because it also works in the other direction, letting me group friends' public, on-line activity feeds together in a logical way. Friends don't even have to be FriendFeed users, but it makes things nicer if they are. (hint) ;-)

FriendFeed is still not the holy grail, though (to me). As mentioned, Facebook doesn't play well with it, and there's still no way to read friends-only things (like semi-private posts here on LiveJournal) without checking individual sites. Maybe Flock is good at this, but I wouldn't know because I haven't tried it, and since it is a browser and not a website, it must be installed before it can be used.

So, bottom line: find me on Facebook to see what I'm doing on Facebook, look at my FriendFeed feed to see everything else (everything that can be made public, anyway).

And I may yet get back into making big posts one of these days. It may or may not be here on LJ, but it will be made known here.

Tags: facebook, flock, friendfeed, friends, social networks

Happy birthday to my lovely wife nora_torious! (Our birthdays are four weeks apart. So now we're the same age again.) :-)

I've been pretty obsessed with Facebook lately. Don't ask me why.

They have new options for pulling in posts from other sites like Flickr, Pandora, etc., which I think is swell. I like the idea of a central place to show off all of my activity, which is scattered far and wide across a number of Web sites (some well-known, some more obscure). Other sites like Profilactic, iStalkr, and that one Red Hat thing (Mugshot?) have attempted to be the place for people to do this, but they haven't grabbed me. Someday I'd like to roll my own and put it on my personal Web site (now gathering dust bunnies), but I have been alternately too lazy and too scatter-brained to do this.

So Facebook is doing its feed-inclusion thing, and they have an option for adding your own custom RSS feed. Great, I thought, I can just load it up with a bunch of feeds. Nuh-uh. Facebook only gives me one slot for that.

Hmmm, okay. I decided to attack it by mixing all of my feeds together into one. And, again, I found a number of sites that want to make themselves the place to do this. But, again, I prefer having something that gives me a little more personal control.

So I'm revisiting something I haven't looked at in a while: Yahoo! Pipes, the Swiss-army knife of RSS feeds (or, if you prefer a less masculine metaphor, the KitchenAid of RSS feeds). I'm at a loss for words to describe it, other than to say that Mac OS X geeks who have used Quartz Composer will find some strong similarities. In any case, I'm finding it just powerful enough to do the kinds of things I need to do to blend my feeds together. I can add on the name of each feed to the title of each item so they are easily identified on my Facebook page. I should be able to do some fine-tuning on each feed, too, where the formatting as rendered by Facebook is lacking.

Wait, why am I doing this, again?

Tags: facebook, rss, yahoo, yahoo pipes

I don't remember if I mentioned this before: The Swami Sound System, a weird but excellent radio program that's on Saturday nights here in San Diego (94.9 FM, a.k.a. FM 94/9"). It's hosted by the Swami—really a member of Rocket From the Crypt under an alias—and it's three hours of whatever he feels like playing, usually a mix of garage rock from the '60s, punk and funk from the '70s, etc., virtually all from little-known or unknown bands (though he did dedicate his entire three hours to Electric Light Orchestra one night).

It's on from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. Pacific Time on Saturday nights. It's on right now as I write this, so if you're reading this shortly after I posted it, you can go tune in now. But don't despair if you got here late, because lucky for you, they've started archiving it as audio on demand; just follow the Swami Sound System link above.

Tags: radio

One of the products I work on earned the company a nice little feather in its cap from Network World.

I haven't worked here long enough to take any share of the credit for that, but I am working on the next revision of the software, so I'll be able to share some then, I hope.

Tags: digium, switchvox, work

HP TouchSmart PC

A whole new generation of geeks is about to become acquainted with the affliction known as "gorilla arm."

(P.S. Haven't found a good way to post to both LJ and Facebook at the same time. I may have to settle for posting to LJ and having generic "Larry has updated his LiveJournal" notices show up on Facebook, but I'm not quite satisfied with that.)

Testing, testing, is this thing on?

I'm trying this a new way now--updating my LiveJournal via Facebook. The FB app is by Six Apart, so I guess it is official...?

Happy Firefox 3 Download Day! Um... I think. At this writing, I'm not seeing that it's been officially released yet, even though it was scheduled to be so today.

Update (3:10 PM): It's out now. Go download it today and help Firefox break a world record.