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Join NASA's Return to the Moon!

http://lunar.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Peoples names will be collected and placed onboard the LRO spacecraft for its historic mission bringing NASA back to the moon. You will receive a certificate showcasing your support of the mission.

http://lro.jhuapl.edu/NameToMoon/index.php

geoFlock gives you a suite of in-built maps and mapping tools for your web browser (now based on Minimap Firefox version, but retaining geotag dialogs).

Create and save a sidebar map using the addresses or address links you find on web pages, or by manually adding locations. View traffic Info, drag and drop kml files, Geotag Flickr photos within the Flock photo uploader, geotag blog posts within the blog editor (including microformat geo class values, view in google maps/google earth links and insertion of quikmaps.com maps).

http://flock.spatialviews.com/geoflock_features.html

http://flock.spatialviews.com/

Geeks of Greek Street

Today is Friday. 

Every Friday there is a little thing that happens in London, just round the corner from Soho (here we go again), above The Coach & Horses Pub on Greek Street
Over there look ---------------------->

It's official name of this thing is The Social Media Cafe, but - to it's regulars - it's fondly referred to as The Tuttle Club.

It's a lovely place. Everyone is welcome. People come, people go, and the great thing is everyone is so, for want of a better descriptor, nice .
:)

It's great - You turn up, have coffee and occasional croissants, chat to like-minded folk, meet interesting people and generally have a bloody good time.

Lloyd Davis, Chief Proprietor and all round nice chap, set the place up as a prototype with a genuine vision to one day soon have a proper space, coffee an' all, set up and running like a Cafe should. For us geeks innit.

So far it, in my opinion, has been a resounding success. I went along and met OH so many folk that I had been chatting to over Twitter/Seesmic and also a whole bunch of new people too. All of them lovely. I loved it so much that I took my friends along.

I even managed to get SpinVox along one day to sponsor the coffees et al in exchange for a discussion about The Future of Voice (but you can read about that elsewhere)

Anywhoo - The thing is, I've been a regular at the SMC now for a good 6-8 weeks - would that be fair to say? Has it been that long? Probably. Time goes so fast these days. Yes. Well. Today I had to miss it and miss it I did.
I'm pretty sure it looked something like this:

Tuttle Club 25/04/08

Lots of folk chatting around - having a good time - learning from each other - making contacts - developing new ideas  - sharing stories - catching up etc...all of that kind of thing - Top stuff.

Lonely Tuttler

Don't get me wrong - it was good that I spent today in the office. Can't go into it. I'm just happy I was there.

On the flip side however I really missed the hustle and bustle of my friends at the Coach & Horses.

Boo.

I'll be back next week, that's for certain.

And hopefully that will stop Lloyd looking so glum -->

Hehehe...

In the meanwhile however? What else has been going on? Well - I'm still making inroads to getting off my backside and moving this here blog you're reading.
Got some lovely folk to help me out with the techie stuff. Just waiting for the go ahead and I can start the big move.

Everso excited.

What else?

I think I've managed to get through the last list that I wrote - oop, no. Tell a lie.
Still need to cover - SF, T-Shirts , 6mths with SpinVox aaaaaaaaand The BBC. Balls.

Ok - Parking all that for now. First, something MUCH more exciting...

This Sunday I'm taking part in a Blogger Cook-off aka Food 2.0 aka Nom Nom Nom.

Can't wait.

More to follow very soon - but I did a post about it over here along with a fun slide show, (just go for the pictures)...

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Bye for now...

PS - My friend Roger got an Xbox. I am NOT a Happy Bunny.

Standards Based Linux Instrumentation for Manageability SBLIM (pronounced "sublime") is an IBM-initiated Open Source project, intended to enhance the manageability of GNU/Linux systems by enabling WBEM, Web Based Enterprise Management.

See also

• http://www.openpegasus.org/
• http://wbemservices.sourceforge.net/

I think I've just worked out why this happens ! Maybe it's because the text font size (in the CSS file) has been specified in pixels (px) instead of points (pt) !

i.e.

body { font-size: 12px; }

instead of

body { font-size: 12pt; }

This seems to be the problem with the WikkaWiki CSS style sheets so i've created a ticket http://wush.net/trac/wikka/ticket/764 and fixed my own WikkaWiki sites !

Here is what print / print preview should look like after you've fixed your CSS !

linux.die.net

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Gobuntu

The new "Free software only" installation option in the normal Ubuntu (press F6 in the boot menu twice) basically achieves what Gobuntu is aiming for, as long as the general goal of having "clean" main and universe repositories is fulfilled (which is goal of the Ubuntu as a whole).

Given that many goals Gobuntu has are goals of Ubuntu in general also, and the fact that gNewSense is anyway doing the work that can also benefit Ubuntu (knowledge of problematic packages), the mission of Gobuntu is a bit up in the air.

Mark Shuttleworth on Rethinking Gobuntu

The "current and future" thread on this list has got me thinking. 
Perhaps we really are on the wrong track, that the only way to meet the 
needs of the gNewSense folks is to have completely different source 
packages to Ubuntu. If that is the case, then I think it would be better 
to channel the energy from Gobuntu into gNewSense.

Grab your helmet, check the air in your tires, and hop on your bike because in many U.S. cities, May 12 - 16 is Bike to Work Week! Six Apart has a lot of biking enthusiasts, so we're very excited to support this event by encouraging all of our employees to bike to work this week. San Francisco's Bike to Work Day is tomorrow, Thursday, May 15th, and New York's is Friday, May 16th.

Bike to Work Week

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Six Apart is helping out its employees by providing maps (shaded according to steepness - a must in SF!) to help everyone plan out his/her route, as well as finding first-time riders buddies to commute with. We're also supporting ALL SF riders who pass the front of our office by handing out coffee, juice and snacks from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. tomorrow morning. If you're in our neighborhood, look for the sign that says "Six Apart Supports Bike to Work Day" and stop by to say hi and get energized!

Improve your health, financial status, productivity, and happiness by joining thousands - maybe even millions - of commuters around the country who are hopping on their bikes to get to work. Visit the Bike to Work Week website to find out more about events in your area.

Support the two-wheeled way of life with the "Passing Left" theme found in "Photo-Based" in the Design Area. Planning on cycling to work this week? Let us know in the comments!

Passing Left

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The .ME top level domain (TLD) sunrise has started http://www.domain.me/index.php?page=1

The Government of Montenegro recognized the potential worldwide appeal that .ME could have and decided it should be operated as a generic name space to gain the maximum benefit for Montenegro. The Government issued a public RFP in November 2007. The goal of the RFP was to find a Registration Agent that could operate an international registry, provide world class backend registry services, and provide the marketing and promotional muscle needed to make .ME a worldwide success. Ultimately, we believe they made an excellent choice!

Calendar (http://www.domain.me/index.php?page=15#1)

• May 6 17:00 UTC - May 20 17:00 UTC: General Sunrise
• May 20 17:00 UTC - June 6 15:00 UTC: Quiet Period
• June 6 15:00 UTC - June 26 17:00 UTC: Land Rush

• June 26 17:00 UTC - July 17 15:00 UTC: Quiet Period

• July 17 15:00 UTC: Open Registration

As we mentioned last week, we had to postpone the maintenance that was due to occur on Thursday, May 8th.

We have rescheduled the maintenance for tonight, Tuesday, May 13th, starting at 6:00 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time (that's 1:00 A.M. UTC/GMT). We'll be taking Vox offline for a bit in order to move the service to a brand new home in some bright, shiny new server racks. We don't expect to be offline for more than an hour or two, but we apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause.

Again, thank you for your patience as we continue to invest in Vox's infrastructure!

dot.mobi web pages have some special conventions, standards and styles (some of them mandatory) that might be different to other web standards and conventions you find on the rest of the web:

• http://dev.mobi/
• http://dev.mobi/styleguides
• http://dev.mobi/files/dotMobi_Domain_Naming_Guidelines_1.0.html
• http://dev.mobi/files/dotmobi_Switch_On_Web_Developer_Guide.html

for example:

URLS:

DotMobi rules stipulate that there should be a site at the second level domain. This means that mobile users can enter the URL as example.mobi instead of www.example.mobi, thereby saving keystrokes.

Identify national variations of dotMobi sites by using the corresponding country code top level domain identifier (ccTLD) as the third level domain identifier.ie uk.mydomain.mobi !

For XHTML-MP, the recommended MIME type is application/vnd.wap.xhtml+xml or application/xhtml+xml. Unlike HTML, XHTML-MP should not be served as text/html.

• http://dev.mobi/topic/tools
• http://ready.mobi/launch.jsp?locale=en_EN