April 2004

If it happens twice does that make it a tradition? Sure, why not. At the first BloggerCon last Fall, Gregor Rothfuss was in attendance from Switzerland. So, it seemed appropriate that a representative from his homeland would be in Boston this week for BloggerCon II. Bernhard Seefeld put up with my Cambridge tour guide/wanderings today. He runs search.ch, “The Swiss Search Engine” and is always on the lookout for a salsa dancing event. I managed to navigate him to the April On 2 event at Ryles in Inman Square tonight only after walking in the wrong direction for about 10 minutes down Hampshire Street.

Of all the Patron Saints of Graphic Design, I think I probably look to Saint Typo, the Patron of Spell Checking and Google Searches, the most. [via barkingmoose: daily leftovers]

I added an additional RSS feed for geek pals who requested that full entries of sooz.com be available in their newsreaders. So, if you want to read everything I’ve said in a particular entry, add the index.xml feed to your reader. If you want the introductory snippet, add excerpts.xml to your reader. There are a couple buttons over on the left. “Listen Up!” my music recommendations sideblog over on the right has its own feed with full entries, too.

Nokia finally has a new camera phone that works with my SprintPCS service. The Nokia 6225 is supposed to be out any day. I’d been thinking of switching carriers since my contract is up this week but I think I’ll stay put thanks to this new phone. My service works great but I really wanted a camera with a phone. I can’t get a decent deal on the phone until August when I can trade in my Sanyo 4900.

Michael is on a 7+ day road trip around the east coast and has been documenting it on his website at BunkoSquad.com. His latest installment last night talks about Pittsburgh and baseball.

When I was checking in on The So & So’s website they had a link to their upcoming performance at the Dewey Beach Popfest in Delaware. It’s free, two nights, seven stages and 60 bands from around the country. So far I recognize two bands: The So & So’s and Mappari.

Road trip?

I’ve been hibernating indoors the past few days thanks to this really awful cold that insists on lingering a little while longer. Several excellent CDs arrived in the mail today thanks to Ed V. at Q Division so I updated Exploit Boston! Radio with tunes from Boston bands including Gigolo Aunts, Brett Rosenberg and Senor Happy’s new album “I’m Sorry” that comes out on April 13th. To listen to the stream you need a fairly speedy Cable/DSL/T1 Internet connection and a free Live 365 listener account. To see what’s playing on the radio stream at this very moment, click on this link for the now playing console. At the moment while typing this, it’s “Like Being Alone” by Meghan Toohey’s band The So & So’s.

Were you there?