Let’s just get this straight. Jodi and I went on an extended business trip. That’s right, a fabulous business trip to Milan. It just so happens, we spent the first week working in Milan, and then the next week meandering on over to Rome, up the coast of Italy, and to Paris for a few days.

We hopped on a plane ….
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We made it to Italy. Jodi and I are here for the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milano. Basically, it’s like the International Contemporary (and non-contemporary) Furniture Fair that happens every year in NY, but of course, better.

We’re having a blast, and have already gotten in trouble with fashion and furniture shopping in the fashion and furniture capital of the world. Stay tuned for updates and blogging on the event, and some pictures, of course, lots of pictures….

ciao!

XML is not cool. Nor are XSLT transformations that don’t friggin’ work all because of a mis-named namespace.

Son of a …. I mean, I get it guys, let’s come up with this “extra” name-space tag so that you can add one extra layer of naming on top of XML, right. So instead of saying:

<worthless>data</worthless>

you say:

<evenmore:worthless>data</evenmore:worthless>

but do we have to have this much explanation?

It’s been a while since I’ve praised MythTV. I’d just like everyone to know how much I love it!

Last night I was watching (yet another) Law & Order with Jodi, in “time-stretch” mode (adjusting the playback speed to 1.1x - 1.2x normal speed, but keeping audio at the same pitch), and we were able to get through two episodes (skipping right throught the commercials, and pausing/re-winding to go to the kitchen) in, well, ummm, 1.2 times faster than we normally do!

We have about 10 or so movies saved up that we want to watch, all kinds of Independent Film Channel stuff, The Office episodes, and tons of other junk (all 50+ Law & Orders per day). It really makes TV actually enjoyable — TV on my time. I could imagine myself actually watching a Reality-show now, with the ability to time-stretch to 1.3, or even more, and fast-forwarding, commercial-skipping and long-dramatic-drawn-out-dialog skipping….

And did I mention that the Mac OS X binary for version 0.17 is simply brilliant? I simply downloaded a “MythTV” frontend binary for Mac, and double-clicked on it. Boom, another client in the kitchen on Jodi’s Powerbook. I knew I ran Cat-5 (Cat-6 actually) to the kitchen for a good reason.

However, this scares me.

Everyone hurry! The bandwagon is almost full! Yahoo 360 went live! If you’re not one of the lucky ones to get an invite, you’re out. How will you ever catch up?

Just went on a blogrolling spree, that started on a yahoo 360 preview, went through the rankings of yahoo employees, saw some friends in the Valley (troutgirl, ifindkarma), and then down into flickr-dom…. I also found this great parody of all the “social-networking” sites that is all too funny:

http://www.ryanschultz.com/blog/images/sixfoo.html