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habari is a new cms co-developed by Chris J. Davis of wordpress acclaim.
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habari is born
Entries from January 2007 ↓
links for 2007-01-20
January 19th, 2007 — Daily NetTrek
habari, a new state-of-the-art cms from Chris J. Davis
January 18th, 2007 — Blogs, Technology
I heard about Chris J. Davis originally when I fell in love with a theme called k2 that he helped design. Just a few minutes ago I was checking out the latest k2 when I clicked on Chris’s name to see what his site was looking like these days. Design gods like Davis are certainly inspiration for someone like me who appreciates the aesthetic but is just learning how to write css and deal with web standards.
I was surprised to learn that Chris has been very busy lately making a new blogging platform called habari. It’s not out for public consumption yet but given the state-of-the-art underlying technology being used like php 5, the full ATOM publishing protocol (er, next gen RSS) and promised Ajaxiness implementation that is simple is as simple does. Looking forward to future releases and installing a version on one of my servers. For now, I am left to ponder why we have so many open source projects named after African words.
“The Swahili word habari translates to ‘news’, as in ‘what’s the news?’ Blogs — personal and professional — are all about spreading the news, so what better name to apply to blogging software?”
I mean ubuntu, Joomla and Mambo and now habari. Gimme a break already.
And I have to end by pointing out the obvious, that Chris is just one of the developers. Ja, Ja we get it ya know.
[tags]habari, Chris J. Davis, WordPress[/tags]
I’ll throw out my Windows machine AND my Mac
January 18th, 2007 — Computers, Technology
Why would I do such a thing?
Because both Microsoft and Apple are both in system lock down mode around music and movie content. Copy protection in the extreme. On the Apple side, they use DRM with iTunes that applies to any music you buy off the iTunes music store. If you don’t have an iPod and you want to listen to the music you purchased on iTunes, you’re out of luck. There’s an answer to that: open source music. Look for solutions to come from the same people who bring us linux and offshoots like ubuntu. As a consumer I dropped Apple once before due to their arrogance and proprietary infringement on me being able to do what I want with my computer and accessories,
including listening to music that I own. Piss off Apple DRM. Here’s more on the subject.
Cory Doctorow of boing boing reports here
The New York Times report is here.
ars technica reports here.
On the windows Vista front things may even be a bit worse. The Music and Movie industry (especially the movie biz) has managed to get Microsoft to be the fall guy in creating new software (and by extension hardware that the vendors make to be compatible with Vista) that will be highly sensitive to pirated movies. Again, I should be allowed to copy movies I own so when my kids trash them, I don’t lose the $20 to $30 I plopped down for a DVD. Beyond that, these changes will impact Vista users in the form of impeded system performance and instability that have never before been seen from an outside agent like copy protection. Hear about it on the Security Now podcast on twit.tv or do a search for Peter Gutmann and Vista and you’ll see about a 100 links on this story – like this one. Here’s the original content as published on Gutmann’s blog. Credit Gutmann for bringing attention to this and bloggers for amplifying it a hundred times over. Here’s the executive summary from Gutmann.
“Windows Vista includes an extensive reworking of core OS elements in order to provide content protection for so-called “premium content”, typically HD data from Blu-Ray and HD-DVD sources. Providing this protection incurs considerable costs in terms of system performance, system stability, technical support overhead, and hardware and software cost. These issues affect not only users of Vista but the entire PC industry, since the effects of the protection measures extend to cover all hardware and software that will ever come into contact with Vista, even if it’s not used directly with Vista (for example hardware in a Macintosh computer or on a Linux server). This document analyses the cost involved in Vista’s content protection, and the collateral damage that this incurs throughout the computer industry.”
And what will I buy when I throw out my old PC and Mac? Well, maybe there will be an Apache laptop by then… 
links for 2007-01-18
January 17th, 2007 — Daily NetTrek
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an interesting read on the latest with CareerBuilder and Tribune sale.
Happy Anniversary
January 17th, 2007 — Shannon
On this day six years ago I had the most fantastic luck and privilege to meet Shannon. Although we later married on the 27th of September in New York City we honor this day as our true anniversary. We fell in love in the midst of the Arizona sun, somewhere southwest of Phoenix, in a conference room, a bowling alley, a restaurant and some other places I won’t mention. I feel now as I did then, that we had found each other again, through different lives, in different bodies, in a different age. Shannon is the most spectacular person I could imaging being with, and I celebrate this day in my heart and rejoice at our good fortune.
I love you Shannon!
∞
Can you get fit playing a video game?
January 17th, 2007 — Cool, Gadgets, Health, Technology
If you don’t already know, Nintendo released their latest game console late last year and despite its lack of graphics capability and sophistication (as compared to the Microsoft Xbox and new Sony Playstation 3) the console has taken off in sales. Most attribute its success to good value, FUN games and a new interface that lets users move their hands and arms about to control games. I haven’t tried out the Wii yet but I’ve heard of sword fighting and boxing as examples of using the new controls.
Now this article from Three Minds, the blog made by my fellow Interactive marketing geeks Organic:
“Six weeks ago, a Philadelphia man decided to see what types of physical gains he can make by playing Wii sports for 30 minutes a day. Today he published his results and pictures. He was able to drop 9lbs, 2% body fat, and 3.5” in his waistline. Does Nintendo have the next Jared?
Frank Ribitch”
links for 2007-01-17
January 16th, 2007 — Daily NetTrek
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This post relates to moving a WordPress blog from one host to another. A very handy plugin made by tehnosailor allows you to migrate the content without messing with either 1) the wp backup tool 2) any database import issues you may encounter 3) having to
links for 2007-01-16
January 15th, 2007 — Daily NetTrek
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use Google trends to track relative…trends of course
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diggnation and other podcasts
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compassdesign for Joomla work
Solid state storage – death to the hard drive?
January 15th, 2007 — Gadgets, Technology
I was looking at a cool laptop site made by a guy who’s well known in in Internet space that I first began reading back ‘in the day.’ In any event, his laptop site featured a post on backup storage solutions. Most interesting of all is a solid state 32GB drive. That’s solid state as in no moving parts that can break. On top of that, the Sandisk SSD UATA 5000 features a “sustained read rate of 62MBps, 100x faster than most hard disks.” No moving parts to effect reliability and no moving parts to…move, making the drive a hell of a lot faster. At $600 these are far from a viable mainstream solution for backups but with expected price deflation and storage size inflation it won’t be too long until these devices are viable and powering everything from mobile devices like the Apple iPhone to some laptops to fast backup devices.
links for 2007-01-13
January 12th, 2007 — Daily NetTrek
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interesting tool for blogging that is xplatform. Found it on a joomla site. Creates standards-compliant code.
