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Calling All Concert Photographers!

Ray
11 hours ago
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You may already have done this, but if not, you need to check out Todd OwYoung and his website, ishootshows.com.
He has given all of us who shoot live music an opportunity for some free advertising by posting links to our websites, blogs, Flickr accounts and were ever else we may post our best live music shots. It's a great way for all of us to discover each others work, as well as build up a network of great photographers, so check it out! And if you haven't yet done so, check out my new website, raymondahner.com!

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Happy Birthday Julie!

Krissy
Yesterday
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The gorgeous tart (the dessert, not Julie) was made with love by Colleen.

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Geographic Tart

Nick
Yesterday
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You can clearly see the Blueberry Iron Curtain surrounding both East Tart, West Tart and the Strawberry-Kiwi ghetto. To the west, the Mandarin of Good Hope and the Fjords of Raspberry.

I won the White Camel Award at OSCON 2008

miyagawa
Yesterday
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Me, Larry and the White Camel award

As reported on my Twitter and use.perl, I received the Perl White Camel Award at OSCON 2008.

The TPF guys were probably surprised that I'm here, like I myself was surprised to receive the award (I wasn't notified about that at all), because they think I actually live in Japan for organizing such a wonderful conference YAPC::Asia 2008. I didn't have a chance to speak using the microphone so instead I'm gonna blog this:

I really want to say thanks to the YAPC::Asia core organizers team, especially Takesako-san, Daiba-san, Taichi and Oyama-san as well as all the staff at volunteering team (I'm really sorry I don't have a space for all names). And also to Dan-san and Pauley's for providing their house as a guest house for the great speakers like Larry Wall, Damian Conway, Audrey Tang, Jesse Vincent, clkao, Ingy dot net, Michael Schwern, Casey West, to name a few. Huge thanks to Eric Cholet for writing a great conference software Act, and also hosting me in his nice Paris apartment for a weekend for the great productive Hackathon.

I would also like to thank Simon Wistow, Dave Cross, Leon Brocard and other early London.pm-ers for starting up London.pm, doing very interesting tech talks series and also London Perl Workshop because that, not sure if he knows or not, inspired me to start up Shibuya.pm and YAPC::Asia, ripping off a lot of practices to organize technical talks and all that.

Finally I want to say thanks to my employer Six Apart and Six Apart KK for giving me such a wonderful work environment and the opportunity to get back to Tokyo this often so remotely organizing the conference in Tokyo from San Francisco is made actually possible.

We (Six Apart) have a booth in the Exhibitor hall in OSCON so please come by and say hi!

P.S. Jos pointed out in the drinking tonight that the Award trophy has such a sharp edge that it could be treated as a weapon on the airplane and maybe I should check in. I might need to figure it out :)

iPhone wallpaper

Krissy
2 days ago
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These are the most recent photos I've used as wallpaper on my iPhone:

Currently, my wallpaper is this:

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I took it at my birthday party this year at The Homestead, probably one of my favorite bars in San Francisco. You can see the little "H" stamped on my wrist. I had just moved back to the city about five days prior. The beer I was drinking was dark with coffee and chocolate flavors in it - in short: delicious. I played a bunch of songs on the jukebox that night. Even though you can't see them, lots of my friends were there. This photo makes me really happy.

Chico's Sense of Humor

Beau Smith
2 days ago
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Speed Hump Me?

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Surprise Visitors

Robin
2 days ago
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Friday was a day filled with fun and surprises. For the first time since their move to Seattle, Ryan and Steph were back in SF to celebrate Julie's birthday on Friday night. The look on Julie's face when Ryan and Steph walked into her kitchen was of complete shock. It was a priceless moment.

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blow out your candle, little lady. The rest of the night...well, I'm just glad we took pictures for clarification.

Happy Birthday, Jules. I hope you enjoyed the weekend! Ryan and Steph, i'll see you in Seattle this November! xoxox

90s Music Mondays

Cast your mind back to 1992 - Boutros Boutros-Ghali has just become Secretary-General of the United Nations, Windows 3.1 has just been released and the Manic Streets Preachers haven't started their determined spiral into bloated, pompous crapitude.

In fact, they have just released this rather catchy cover of the M*A*S*H theme song "Suicide is Painless"

Manic Street Preachers - Suicide Is Painless

This single (which reached number 10 in the UK charts) was the first I ever bought. Originally recorded as a track for an album named "Ruby Trax" it was released as a double A-side with a discordant cover of Bryan Adam's "Everything I do (I do it for you)" by the Fatima Mansions and both the album and the single were in aid of The Spastics Society charity.

Another interesting factoid about the song - the lyrics were written by Mike Altman, Robert Altman's song who was 14 at the time and who earned over a $1,000,000 in royalties whilst Altman himself only received $70,000 for directing the movie.

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Ok, I find it an interesting factoid but then again I revel in that kind of deliciously nerdy factoid. Which may explain why my nights are a lonely procession of gaping emptyness punctuated by obsessive reordering of my bully button lint collection.

Miku's Saihate, covered by kz of livetune

miyagawa
4 days ago
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初音ミクがカヴァー曲を歌ってくれました「サイハテ」

I so <3 this song and the remix.

Roller Derby: Behind the scenes

From current.com, a nicely put together collection of interviews and stories from early days of Bay Area Derby Girls and derby life in general. Not only do I love the women being interviewed, I appreciate the focus on what derby really is to the players, not just the cheap-shots and cheesecake poses that is so often portrayed in media (don't get me wrong - that part is fun too!).