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Here’s my tentative SXSW 2008 daytime schedule. It was put together using SXSW’s calendar feature, but it wasn’t very helpful. Mostly just a bunch of copy/pasting and HTML munging. Someone should really do an awesome conference scheduling web app with block layout visualization, conflict management, preferred speakers, etc.
My favorite or “can’t miss” sessions are highlighted.

Friday, [...]

Does it bother anyone else that CNN hasn’t updated their money statistics on the 2008 election candidates since September 30, 2007? That’s over three months ago.
The resulting disparity is so great that their negligence has reached the point of being irresponsible and unethical. The people who read CNN are being misinformed of statistics that otherwise [...]

Following Ted following Kottke following Hanna, here is the list of cities in which I spent at least one night in 2007:

San Diego, CA
Richardson, TX
Vancouver, BC
Malibu, CA
Santa Clarita, CA
Fallon, NV
Carpinteria, CA
Sunnyvale, CA
Mountain View, CA
Big Sur, CA
Woodland Hills, CA
Kennedy Meadows, CA
San Francisco, CA
Berkeley, CA
Walnut Creek, CA
Beaver Creek, CO

So I woke up today to MySQL barfing all over my site:
WordPress database error: [Incorrect key file for table './mydb/wp_posts.MYI'; try to repair it]
Googling the error pushed me toward the myisamchk tool. So I went into MySQL’s data dir on my server as root and tried to run a repair on my files:
myisamchk *.MYI
But I [...]

So I’m leaving San Diego and Eventful to join a startup in Berkeley and work on Project Agape. Instead of trying to regurgitate my own elevator pitch on what they do, I’ll let them say it (get your buzzword bingo card out):
The goal of all this is what we call “equal opportunity activism.” We’re trying [...]

This is a brief follow-up to Faulty Firing (see that post for the description of the tests) with updated results in the latest browsers.
Firefox 2.0.0.7 (Mozilla 1.8.1.7) & Firefox 3.0a9 (“Minefield”)

mousedown, focus, mouseup, click, change
focus, click, change
blur, focus, click

Internet Explorer 7

mousedown, focus, mouseup, click
click, focus
change, blur, click, focus

Safari 3.0.3 Beta

mousedown, mouseup, change, click
change, click
click

Opera 9.5 [...]

I’m going to keep this short and sweet. 9rules, the community I was admitted to based on the quality of my site content, has recently made a change in policy. This quote sums it up:
…participation in either the new member area or my.9rules is required for all members…

Tyme White
Essentially, in the interest of “fairness”, only [...]

The separation of Church and State shall be inviolable.

Article 2, Section 6 of The Constitution of The Republic of The Philippines
I suppose it would be wishful thinking to hope for the US to follow a sensible Filipino lead in this respect. Though it would also be good if Filipinos actually followed their constitution.

Bank of America requires that your password be only alphanumeric.

Wait. Let me get this straight. You want me to supply a password that consists of only letters and numbers, thereby increasing the likelihood of simple dictionary attacks? And this is “to make sure [my] passcode is sufficiently secure”? Apparently there are “invalid symbols” that I [...]