Blogbloxes - widgets for your blog (or website). Smells like Konfabulator, et al. What will they think of next? (2)

Larry the cow

November 29th, 2004

Larry the cow is one domesticated animal you probably haven’t heard of (though you may have heard of our beloved South Park cows). He is the mascot of Gentoo Linux and there’s a headshot of him over at Gentoo’s About page (see “Gentoo Linux… in a poster”).

Larry the cow being abducted


Now, I came across this amusing bug today, bug 27727 - bug Lary (sic) can NOT be a Cow, that insists that Larry cannot be a cow but should rather have been a bull, being male. Dictionary.com says a cow is “a domesticated bovine of either sex or any age” so that was why the bug was left as WONTFIX. Still it is weird to see Larry with udders in this thread in the Gentoo forums. Larry is probably one of the first transgender/sexually ambiguous animal mascots in Linux history.

Posted by Chu Yeow at November 29, 2004 SGT | Permalink | Comments and TrackBacks (8) | Category: Fun, Operating Systems

Job ads: Product Evangelist and Web Developer/Webmaster

November 24th, 2004

The company I’m working for, muvee Technologies, is on the lookout for a Product Evangelist in the US for our core product, muvee autoProducer. If you’re a fan of muvee autoProducer (like Chris Pirillo is), and fit the requirements nicely, why not find out more about it - drop Tania (our Communications and PR manager) an email (find it over at the job spec).

The other position is that of a Web Developer cum Webmaster. This will be a replacement for yours truly. If you’re competent in PHP and SQL, comfortable with Linux and the command line, have lots of ideas on website promotion, apply for the job or write me to find out more (see also the JobStreet listing).

Posted by Chu Yeow at November 24, 2004 SGT | Permalink | Comments and TrackBacks (4) | Category: Personal

Open to ads on your blog?

November 23rd, 2004

If you’re open to advertisements on your blog, the enterprising Jeremy Wright is looking to gather a, um, gathering of bloggers (GOB, usage mine) for an informal blog advertising network.

The story goes something like this:

Jeremy knows advertisers. Advertisers want to put ads on other blogs (other then Jeremy’s, that is). Jeremy gets bright idea. Jeremy posts on blog. Now he’s aiming for 50 bloggers for a combined 10 million pageviews a month. Advertisers pay bloggers for ad spots. Everybody’s happy because we took out the middleman ad networks (and replaced it with Jeremy, who should be a lesser evil ;-)).

I’m pretty sure Jeremy will take a fair cut for his work and he should be able to get higher prices for ads. Frankly, I don’t think I want to do BlogAds anymore, because of those annoying pictures that advertisers keep changing and because they pay late and take a 20% cut. If this goes well, we should get nicer looking, unobtrusive ads. These ads pay for my VPS hosting but recently I’ve been tempted to approve more ads than the number that actually covers hosting. Gah I feel like a sneaky sell-out, though I probably needn’t be, because if I’m not wrong, most of you would be reading via RSS aggregators. Show of hands, how many of you hate the ads here? How many don’t care?

Ah I digress… So, if you’re looking for a little something to pay for hosting or earn a little pocket money, why not hook up with Jeremy by writing him an email.

Posted by Chu Yeow at November 23, 2004 SGT | Permalink | Comments and TrackBacks (11) | Category: Blogging

New iPod Updater - finally, something for iPod mini owners

November 22nd, 2004

Apple has released iPod Updater 2004-11-15, the software that updates your iPod’s firmware. Notable in this release is a whole bunch of features for the iPod mini that were previously only available to iPod users. Nothing for G3 iPod owners though.

Stuff like Delete songs from On-The-Go playlists and Create multiple On-The-Go playlists should have been there out-of-the-box, while Hear Click Wheel clicker through headphones is nice to have. Can’t wait to try it out tommorrow when syncing in the office.

Ugh. You need to use the charger (the Firewire one) to flash the firmware. Now I’m stuck with a useless iPod mini for the rest of today and the long commute home.

Posted by Chu Yeow at November 22, 2004 SGT | Permalink | Comments and TrackBacks (3) | Category: Neat Stuff
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