Listening to the keynote right now, hey, you can download the v. 7.06.3 version of the Zebrafish genome from Ensembl. Woo. 😉 Everything I recorded yesterday is up. Fun bits include RMS at the Helix announcement, and Mozilla and Blog as KM BOF sessions.

Saw this the other day, but here’s a link: RealNetworks Shows Up at the Open Source Party. They’re going to be speaking at the conference tomorrow @ 1PM apparently. Here’s a list of some other things not in the print brochure, although I guess the grid is the canonical schedule.

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There is some OSCON Schedule data available in various formats (HTML, XML, Palm, etc.). Neet.

Also, noticed aaronsw online and it turns out he was right down the hall. Chatted a little w/ him. Also, he added my MP3 recordings to the list of Everything About All Sessions OSCon 2002 Grid, which I’m assuming eventually will have a list to all sorts of notes and whatnot.

OK, I have some temporary OSCON MP3’s up. This is way easier than typing notes.

Blogging from OSCON. Watch this space, link to presentation notes / MP3s should be going up shortly. I’ll be running noise reduction cleaning on those when I get back probably, as I don’t have anything to do that with on my TiBook.

All the Macs at the Apple Expo area (about 40 systems of all stripes) are running Jaguar Pre-Release. XDarwin has been thoughtfully installed to please the nerds, although Mozilla is conspicuously absent (yeah, I threw a copy of 1.1b on the machine I’m sitting on). I came down to check these out, and they run pretty damn fast. As well they should, considering I’m sitting on a top of the line dual-G4/1GHz (GF4MX, so it’s running Quartz Extreme). Some neat things I noticed: the Terminal.app is reworked, much better. It also includes a “delete key as backspace” in the emulation options (Apple-I). Thank goodness.

I drove down to San Diego yesterday (damn the 5 sucks). Sitting in Harbor Island I waiting for the PostgreSQL Performance Tuning tutorial to start.

FinkCommander – a GUI for fink. I thought fink already had a GUI – dselect, right? 😉

When a Crop Becomes King – this short opinion piece on corn dovetails w/ NYT’s previous diet and beef articles.

Jaron Lanier points out a few interesting tidbits and asks some good questsions in an article in 21C entitled A Minority within the Minority. (He was one of the futurists consulted for Minority Report)

Going into the DOM Inspector and manually changing the form height to make the input usable in Mozilla (Blogger Pro defaults to a 13px tall textarea) loses its novelty very quickly. It’d be nice if there was a way to customize Mozilla your own custom per-site preferences in Mozilla. Just let me attach URI-based pre/post loading CSS of JavaScript and I’d be happy as a clam. If someone added an interface where people could start centralizing / swapping these customizations. Well, you’d really have something there. Just imagine the possibilities here. (No, not the cross-site scripting attacks, I’m talking about the good things, not the bad)… Hmm, the Mozilla Evangelism Sidebars do some neat things by enalbing css (user_pref("signed.applets.codebase_principal_support", true);) in the prefs.

Related tangent, people bitch about MS all the time, but they often forget that MS won huge amounts of popularity and mindshare because they were really developer friendly. Oftentimes I find myself wishing that Mozilla had documentation as complete as the DHTML Reference at MSDN.