Sony’s DRMed CDs install spyware on Windows. Hurrah! [icbm: work]
Status of the book
The book has been written for a while, along with the technical editing and review. The copy edits have been done since last week. There are only two chapters left for page layout. The process has been interesting, educational, and in some parts long. The hardest part though? Ironically, it’s filling in the marketing questionnaire….
All airline tickets now booked…
Not that it was such a pain that I now feel I’ve really achieved something or anything.
Hacking a webcam to be an IR camera
Hacking webcams to work in IR land, again open in my browser too long. [icbm: work]
Paul Graham pages on startups
These have been open in my browser long enough for me to “link” to them from here: How to start a startup, and Ideas for startups. [icbm: work]
So, how am I getting to the US?
Well, I just booked my flights to the US… The flight there is on 18 November 2005, and goes from Canberra, to Sydney, to Los Angeles, to San Francisco with Qantas. At least I get club access along the way.
What are we doing with the pets?
We own a dog and a cat. We’ve had the cat, Taffy, for a long time and he’s quite old now. The dog, Spike, on the other hand hasn’t been with us for very long. So, when we move to the US, what are we going to do with the pets? Well, the cat is…
Two weeks of being sick
And 31km travelled. Not too shabby given I couldn’t breathe and had goo coming out of my head. I feel quite unfit riding now though, so I need to put some work into getting back into things. James talks about commuting to Google, which is currently of interest to me so I’d like to hear…
Meet the life hackers
A nice online article about personal productivity, and why I feel I never get much done. [icbm: work]
The book process continues
Despite my lack of posting here in the last couple of weeks, and the death of my laptop (which I believe is traditional when you write a book), the book process continues. This is the first time I’ve written a book, and the process itself is pretty interesting. At the moment I’m looking through edits…