Phillip Pearson - Second p0st

tech notes and web hackery from the guy that brought you bzero, python community server, the blogging ecosystem, the new zealand coffee review and the internet topic exchange

2006-1-19

Salim is on the air...

Salim Ismail (PubSub chairman / co-founder) is blogging, and badly needs some googlejuice for his new blog - "You've Got Ismail!"

He's just posted a mammoth post about the evolution of the internet, and different modes of communication: messaging, request/response and publish/subscribe. I expect he'll have more to say about the third mode in due course :-)

What happened to Mark Pilgrim's data store project?

I remember a widely-linked mail from Mark Pilgrim about a project he was working on to produce a personal database based on everything you do in Firefox. What happened to this? I don't remember hearing anything about it.

The year in cities

My 2005 list is a bit shorter than Kottke's:

  • Christchurch, New Zealand
  • San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Kanazawa, Japan
  • Tokyo, Japan
  • Wellington, New Zealand

Here's a guess at 2006:

  • Christchurch, New Zealand (of course)
  • Nelson, New Zealand (definitely)
  • New Delhi, India (very likely)
  • San Francisco, CA, USA (if we do another company offsite)
  • Tokyo, Japan (less likely)
  • Sydney, Australia (if it gets too cold in winter...)

How safe is it to publish a scan of your passport front page online?

Interesting to see that the front page of identity.toptensources.com, written by Irina Slutsky, includes a high-res scan of her passport front page.

(Yep - the image looks small when you see it on the page, but it hasn't actually been scaled down; click here for the full version.)

I notice that the passport number has been scratched out, at least. Hmm.