Anybody in the UK with slow connections - I've got a DVD burner and am perfectly happy to burn and send DVD-R's of the WTH/HAL conference video at little or no cost. I may also get involved in setting up a big torrent of all the stuff. 

I'm just downloading a tens of gigs of data off the network - all the video files of the conference so far. Since I'm going home in the morning, this is a good investment. There will be more files to get, but I might as well fill my hard drive up with lots of it here, so that I don't have to download as much when I get home (since I get 600k a second here and a measly 40k a second at home, this is a significant time saving). Later I'll also get it to pull lots of the Hackers at Large video. 

CNN have put up the AP article on What The Hack. 

James Campion: "I’m 42 and impersonating a Christian activist at a NYC porn expo for a thousand word column." 

Brian 'Aimee Plumley' Bernbaum on the late Jacques Derrida: "But seriously, I just wanted to say that without you college really would have sucked. I never would have started dropping acid to write my critical theory papers. Come to think of it, I might never have majored in English at all. I probably would have gone for something more practical, like business. But just look at me now. Yeah, thanks a lot asshole." I'm late, but I get the story. Eventually. 

Okay, that's odd. Comments appear as posts. They would be a natural thing for 'draft', no? 

Dewayne Mikkelson: "What is Shift-Enter supposed to do in the Open today's outline window? I have a new non wedge widget underneath this entry." That would be a comment line. Quite useful for posting stuff that you don't want others to see. I'm not sure whether it works as a kind of 'draft mode'. 

Sorry, everybody. Lost my connection for a while. Had a nice lazy day today. 

The new header logo is from a picture of one of my three dogs, Leo, standing lookout on the front door of a holiday cottage down in Cornwall. Picture must be from at least a few years back. Probably 1999, but perhaps earlier. 

Today, I am going to go to: Censorship technology in China, Literature wants to be free!, CC Netherlands and perhaps some other stuff. Last night's Speedgeek was fun. We need more of them. Some of the talks were fantastic, some were just bizarre. But it certainly gets people talking. That's a good thing. Plus there was a guy who really knew his stuff regarding reputation systems. 

This is the best bit of the What The Hack morning. Absolute silence (except my PC whirring away), warm and light, but not sweaty or uncomfortable. We need a British version of WTH. I think it's Danny O'Brien who had his byline for MacUser as something like he imagines a bunch of geeks sitting at iBook's naked in the New Forest. I dunno about naked (We are British, After All!), but lots of nerds make outside very much acceptable, in my opinion. 

FeedTagger is almost perfect. Almost! 

Come to Podcastcon UK, everybody! 

Some feature requests for y'all. 

I think I've pulled some bit of my leg. Woke up with it in a funny position a few minutes ago, caused searing pain.