Callum’s musings on the world at large…
My street is missing from OpenStreetMap. Outrageous. If I’d known this when I was at home I would have take a GPS trace and added it myself.
OpenStreetMap is a wonderful concept. It’s wiki-like map which users can edit. It’s all shared under a Creative Commons Share-Alike licence. Beautiful.
In my continuing efforts to escape the plague that is dairy, I’ve started taking my breakfast cereal (Rice Krispies this week) with water. It took a day or two to adapt, but it’s working out rather well now. It has a plainer, simpler feeling to it. Rather like drinking hot water instead of tea.
I figure rice, soy or oat milk is probably better than the real thing, but can they really be good for you? Apparently too much processed soy is bad for you. What isn’t bad for you these days? I reckon water’s probably not, so water it is. 
It looks like I’ll be in San Francisco for Christmas this year. I’ve tried to wangle a few invitations for Christmas dinner, but as yet, none have materialised. I had two lined up in Toronto, perhaps I mis-timed my exit!
So if anyone reading this is in San Francisco and knows of something awesome going on, or wants to invite me to join their xmas celebrations, drop me a line!
I’m leaving my laptop here and going down to Mexico. If I’m not back by Wednesday, I may never return!
I got drunk and I got pierced.
Viva Las Vegas!
I missed my train from Toronto to Montreal yesterday for the office xmas party. So I booked a flight instead (remarkably cheaply at short notice). I debated a taxi versus the bus from the airport. I was short on time, I landed about 5pm, the meal was at 6pm. I decided to go with a taxi, and see if I could share.
I met a very friendly Japanese man in the queue, we agreed to share a cab. It turned out I had to take the taxi to his hotel and then get another taxi to my destination to avoid some other fee. So he paid for it as his company was picking up the bill. Nice.
Anyway, as we got into the taxi, the driver “popped the trunk” and as I opened it I spotted a shovel. I suddenly had flashes of CSI, The Sopranos, Dexter, etc and thought, what kind of “taxi” is this. Then I looked around at the mountains of snow on the road, and I figured it was probably harmless.
Miro is an awesome program. It’s a very simple concept. You download the player and subscribe to “channels”. Those channels are simply RSS feeds which include videos. The videos are downloaded automatically for you, and the program tracks what you’ve watched and what you haven’t. So it tells you when you’ve got new stuff to watch.
It even supports torrents, and the channels are simply RSS, so with a little effort (or probably searching) you could set it up to download your favourite TV programs by torrent.
There are currently over 3′000 channels, all of them free. My favourite thus far is The Onion News Network.
The best part is, the player runs on Linux, Mac and Windows. Here’s a screenshot from my lovely new Fedora 8 desktop.
Here’s the most recent Onion News instalment which inspired this post.
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