Ontario Linux Fest - Announced!

Formally announced recently, the Ontario Linux fest will re-appear this year. From their site:

Ontario Linux Fest will be held on Saturday, 25 October 2008, in Toronto. We couldn't be more excited about our plans. We expect to build on the success of our 2007 event (Hey! We're annual now!) with more presentations in more tracks, the return of our popular Hands-on software demo room, and all of the Birds of a Feather, dot-org pavilion, exhibition hall and meet-space social networking you've come to expect.

We've opened a suggestion page so that you can tell us about the topics and presenters that you would love to see and hear at Ontario Linux Fest 2008. We know what we want to do for 2008 and we want even more ideas from you. Tell us about that awesome but little known F/LOSS project. Tell us about the perfect keynote speaker.

Look for MORE interesting news about this Fest in the coming weeks.

Sorry for the Ads

Yes - I suck.

I have succumb to the ads mongrel. I'm sorry. If an ad actually interests you, please click - otherwise, ignore them. I'm only trying to make a little change to help offset the costs of the site.

Thanks.

Massive Tech Show

I've been confirmed to assist in representing The Joomla! Users Group - Toronto. I'll be at booth 816 
(www.massivetechshow.com/tor08/documents/floorplan_tor08.pdf). Please, come by and say hello. 

AND - just for visiting my site, I have an evite for you. (www.massivetechshow.com/evites/tor08/joomla.html)

Enjoy!

The Top 17 Google Gags, Hoaxes, and Easter Eggs: Gmail Paper, Languages and Google Gulp

Got an email from PCWorld - The Top 17 Google Gags, Hoaxes, and Easter Eggs: Gmail Paper, Languages and Google Gulp.

It's actually funny to read all the different Google gags from past years.

Check it out at PCWorld.

The ID3 Tag Quest

I've got a fair collection of mp3's most were acquired before ID3 tags were popular and I'm darned if I'm going to redo them all. So I used musicbrainz to retag all my mp3.. Wow - it got most of them but I found one flaw - there doesn't seem to be a standard for the genre's.

One might be: "Rock", or "rock" or even "Rock and Roll" or "Rock & Roll", All of which show up as different genre's on my IPod. I'm a big fan of genre's only because I may be in the mode for rock, dance, classic, or metal depending on my mood.

So - I'm on a quest to find some way to resolve my multi-genre predicament. One note so far, some applications I've found use last.fm to pull tags - this seems like an interesting idea, but may leave me in the same predicament as before.

I'll keep you updated!