this is sippey.com

I can’t tell you how disappointed I am that a search for wifi “disco ball” doesn’t have anything from boingboing.net in its first few pages of results.  You’d think that such a device (which would be a fantastic addition to any workspace) would be right up their alley.

Two items of advice, yours for the taking.

1. When you pack your cellphone charging cord in your suitcase, and then check said suitcase for travel from one major city to another, don’t expect said charging cord to arrive safely at its intended destination.  Actually, don’t expect for it to arrive at all.  Instead, expect that the helpful sticker from the Department of Homeland Security that indicates that your bag has been “inspected” will actually signify that in the name of “safety” said item has been “liberated” from its dark and crowded home next to your travel-sized can of shaving cream.

2. When you call the manufacturer of this particular model of cellphone charging cord and order a replacement, and pay for overnight shipping, and receive the earnest (and repeated) confirmation from the service representative that it will indeed ship today for delivery tomorrow at your work address (where you spend your day) and not your home address (where you don’t spend your day), you shouldn’t actually expect it to actually be shipped on that day, to that address.  Instead, expect it to be shipped later, to somewhere else entirely.

You know, in case you were needing such advice.

Conferences, and, more importantly, releases.

(Enjoyed the afternoon at Supernova yesterday; good to run in to the “conference friends” that you only see at things like that. Also enjoyed having the last word in Janice’s session about “A Whole New Internet,” where the point I was trying to make (obliquely) is that just because the cost of content production and distribution is going down, it doesn’t mean that everyone’s personal information consumption habits will change overnight.  Over “the long run” (where we’re all dead) the market as a whole will experience a shift in the aggregate supply/demand curve for attention, but in the near term there will be stickiness in behavior.  Not everyone has a need to blog in public, not everyone needs to read 150 feeds at once.  Some people will still get their news from their local newscast.)

The BBC will make their broadcasts of all nine Beethoven symphonies available for download as MP3s.  They’ll only be available for a limited time, starting the day after each symphony is broadcast.

(In my dream world of hyper integration, the beeb would have an iCal file or equivalent one-click method available to put events / tasks into my calendar, or, better yet, to create scheduled tasks / crons on my machine at home.)