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SXSW – tiring. At the airport right now, and online having discovered two wireless access points, Mobilestar and Wayport. I paid $6.95 for 1 day’s service for the latter, which isn’t too bad considering the convenience factor.

Moving notes on to http://randomfoo.net/sxsw/ at the moment. Eventual links on SXSWbaby! Notes Exchange to come.

Woo, back online. Blogging from AustinWireless-BoothL1 courtesy of the Austin Wireless Internet Users Group.

Going through the airport wasn’t the ordeal that it could have been. Not having luggage to check in helps, I imagine.

Last post before I head out tomorrow morning for Austin. Ta.

Glen Murphy has a new design up, which he already hates. The non-flash motion graphics are nice and wizzy. With Moz 1.0 coming out soon, I’ve begun renewing my interest in DHTML (primarily for interfaces though, and I’m still not convinced I shouldn’t be going with XUL or XWT).

Speaking of which, sure everyone (me among them) hates frames in web pages, but they’re damn useful for web applications, much more intuitive than the combination of iframes/CSS/DOM manipulation that’s otherwise required. So, yeah, I’ll probably continue using them for that purpose, even if frames are officially dead.

My friend in Austin has been going conspiracy nutty recently, however this is rather interesting. Try to Hunt the Boeing!

Sure I’ll be at SXSW. And as of today, I even have a room. So much left to do, so little time.

[Of the sites I went to for getting hotel information, Expedia had by far the best interface. Of course, doodads worked better in IE and you can’t bookmark very effectively, but the number maps and clean listing of hotels when searching for hotels near a location (in this case, the Austin Convention Center, of course) was pleasantly useful. Even the zooming doodad for the map worked better than expected.]

Why must OS X Server be so difficult? It shouldn’t take 3 hours to frickin compile Apache. Another hour for PHP right now (got tired so I’ve just been removing options until configure stopped failing, although even with the suggested hacks, the linker is still busting my balls). This is certainly one of the singularly unpleasant experiences with server maintenance that I’ve had in quite a while. (spoiled by stuff that actually works, I know)

Moses Avalon Royalty Calculator helps you figure out how much you’re getting bilked (how many albums you have to sell to break even). Wow, it turns out that if you diy, you don’t have to worry about selling a million copies, or even 40,000.

Bnetd & Pacman @ Penny Arcade

Succintly put by Jeffrey Baker:

The biggest problem with Disney’s worldview — and by association the worldview of the RIAA, MPAA, Vivendi, et al — is that they assume no private person can create anything. All art comes from the generous people at Disney. There are no independent aritsts.

People like Macs in part because they can rip, mix, and burn their purchased CD collection, or tote it around on their iPods. They also like Macs because they come with the tools necessary to put your own videos on DVD and send them to your pals. The latter is a power Disney does not want you to have. All video entertainment must come from the corporate empire. None of it must come from regular people.

A good follow up on young professional artists’ ability to do business independently. (Completely on target)