This weekend in Accordion City, the temperatures have dropped to -10 degrees Celsius (that’s 14 degrees for my American friends who insist on using Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit’s quaintly outdated system). If you’re in the area and are planning on stepping out (like Boss Ross, who’s going ice drink…er, fishing), bundle up!
Failing that, find a buddy to snuggle up with, like the two in the photo below:
Click the image below to get treated to the best mash-up of a bunch of pop culture concepts: Nintendo’s Duck Hunt cartridge (click here for a faithful Flash reproduction), the Dick Cheney hunting accident and Aerosmith’s song, Janie’s Got a Gun.
Albert Lai is the CEO of BubbleShare, a
software company that makes a web application bearing the same name. Albert’s and my path have crossed time and again ever since I graduated from Crazy Go Nuts University and entered the working world. We first met eleven years ago during the interactive CD-ROM boom at Mackerel Interactive Media, when he was still in high school and doing an internship there. We later met at during the P2P boom in 2000/2001 when we lived at the same Fillmore/Fulton townhouse complex in San Francisco and were working at our respective peer-to-peer projects (I was at OpenCola, and I can’t remember where Albert was working). We’ve recently crossed paths again, this time during the Web 2.0/web services boom, and BubbleShare is his project.
BubbleShare is a pretty nice photo-sharing web thingy, with the annoyances of many photo-sharing web thingies excised. You don’t have to register to start posting photos online, nor do you need to download software or pay a monthly fee. Photos on BubbleShare can be annotated with comments and even audio. It makes it easy to send email that says “Hey, look at my photos” to your friends and family, and it’s set up so that even the least technical of them — for most people, it’s “my mom”, but in my case, it’s Dad who’s the most technologically hopeless — can click a link and see your photos.
BubbleShare’s holding a contest and the company for whom I work, Tucows, is lending a hand. Click here for the details, and find out how to win some prizes. One of the prizes is an iPod Nano, and who knows — maybe my iPod Nano-luck will rub off on you.
Dad’s having angioplasty today. Wish him luck!
(Originally posted at Tucows Developer.)
DemoCamp 3.0 — the third in an ongoing series of gatherings of developers demonstrating projects on which they’re working — takes place on Monday, February 20th at the Tucows offices (96 Mowat Avenue, just east of King and Dufferin Streets in Toronto).
The first DemoCamp attracted about two dozen people, and the second drew in around 60. This third one promises to be every bit as good and as of this writing, will feature the following demonstrations:
DemoCamp will run from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., after which we’ll talk a short (a few blocks) walk to the Liberty Street Cafe (25 Liberty Street) for food, drinks and extended discussion.
There si no charge for attending DemoCamp — all we ask is that you sign up at its wiki page. Hope to see you there!
Okay, it’s really actor Andreas Katsulas who died on Monday at the age of 59. However, in spite of his other roles, including the recurring character of Romulan Commander Tomalak on Star Trek: The Next Generation, opposite Kurt Russell in Executive Decision, as the One-Armed Man in the movie version of The Fugitive and as Joey Venza in Someone to Watch Over Me, I’ll always remember him as Babylon 5’s Narn Ambassador G’Kar, one of the best characters and actors to appear on the series. He played the role well as the G’Kar character transformed from bitter and revenge-obsessed to enlightened and spiritual, and there was no better on Babylon 5 to administer the Warner Brothers cartoon “Nose in the Book Penalty” in live action than he.
Rest in peace, Mr. Katsulas. May you always get the best lines wherever you may be.