Mt. Lyford Week

I am up here at Mt. Lyford – working through my To Do Lists – and getting more & more to the writing phase! Not many days left though.

The bandwidth is bad here right now, around 21 kbps – so editing stuff online is out, and I am doing these last few posts via email and not looking up links. I’ll go back and tidy up. I know I will as it is in my GTD system!!

The weather has been good and I have enjoyed a few walks. More of that! Also have been very enthused & stimulated by listening to Dave Winer, Adam Curry, and many IT conversations. So will keep up the comments.

And maybe send up some audio.

The Horse Whisperer Podcast

Hi Kate, Josh, Amy & Bex, Brian, Dan, Barry, Bona, all in the Trek
Guide Group! Edward, Vicky, Ali, Readers of Walter’s Blog, and Psyber-L

We have done it: Have a look at the link below and download the mp3.
I am now looking at how I can get this into an opml enclosure and
syndicate it with xml and rss – any ideas?

We will be making one of these – better quality, as we learn how –
every Monday.

We will ALSO make a Psybernet one, every Monday, So look out for that.

The Kate’s News blog:
http://www.katetapley.co.nz/news/

Or for future ref, the permanent link:
http://www.katetapley.co.nz/news/2005/01/horse-whispering-podcast-001-kate.html

Please leave comments and email us – send audio clips, we will play
them on the show.

The web is now gone talkie.

Love,

Walter

Laws of Identity

1. Technical identity systems must only reveal information identifying
a user with the user’s consent.

2. The solution which discloses the least identifying information is
the most stable, long-term solution.

3. Technical identity systems must be designed so the disclosure of
identifying information is limited to parties having a necessary and
justifiable place in a given identity relationship.

5. The Law of Pluralism:

A universal identity system MUST channel and enable the interworking
of multiple identity technologies run by multiple identity providers.

Must complete the list and get a grip on all this

All somewhere maybe on

Kim Cameron’s

http://www.identityblog.com/

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I heard a great IT conversations on this topic… Gilmore Gang

Link?

Beautiful Logos, again, this time from Flikr

Firefox

For some reason my linked image did not show up – so here it is via my new flikr account which lets me post pix. Lets see…

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Later – had to edit it quite a bit, but that is ok. It made a link back to my photos – sometimes that would be OK. But I want to try my Zope thing again, or maybe Picasa. The image is actually quite degraded from what I clipped.

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Later – the linked to from the artists website occasionally shows up. Now I am the trail for a decent server for photos. I want a system that will:

  • Store the photos
  • Ease of posting
  • Free
  • Reliable
  • No huge or ugly Logos

Monday, blow by blow account.

This is the day Kate and I have planned to be together in out hectic lives… a sabath, a sacred day but it was not like that!

I slept in till not too late – but Kate had started on the sacred practice without me (house cleaning). I came to in the bath… managed to get up & dressed. Replied to a few emails. Bought the paper at the garage across the road, had coffee and musli.

Major catastrophy with the Horse treks, nothing worked – phone calls came here and trek guides did not stick to their roster & kate had to go to work!

I did my share of the sacred practices (vacuuming & dishwasher etc) and then did some of my finances and went off to my hearing aid appointment and picked up these new Widex Diva Elan aids…

aids

So far they seem OK.

Then got a hair cut, went to the expensive place as the last cheap place did a lousy job! This one seems ok.

shop

Then had a nice night with Simon & Sara, sushi at their place. And yes we manages to do our dialogue event there… it went ok, Kate and I sorted out a few things too, later driving home.

Now, here, late at night on the inkernet.

Do I Need Therapy?

John M. Grohol, Psy.D. has a quiz. Quite good really. I scored a nice 28 and that means I could do with some! About right too. My whole life is one big therapy session really so it is in hand!

Another Day

Of course these days are *yesterday* by some standard… as it is already well past midnight as I write. A much more sleepy day but still did some stuff…

thunderbird

Just been importing mail from Forte Agent into Thunderbird. Works well, both share the same unix format… no that is not right, I can “Save messages as” in a unix format. Mozilla then makes its own additional files in the Profile. Nice. Before that added Mozilla Thunderbird to my Second Copy backup Profiles. Will do another backup after importing more mail.

Before that Kate & I listened to a Dawn & Drew Show that was fun.

Dawn & Drew

In the afternoon I did some errands and finished up sitting in the Merivale Coffee Culture listening to more Podcasts, the best one was The Dysons (though Esther was not there).

The Dysons

That Coffee Culture business impresses me – though the coffee at Merivale is not as good as at some of the other outlets – that must be a worry for the chain.

Back further in the day I did a mailout for Kate Tapley Horse Treks – our Christmas Special Voucher offer! We now have almost 300 people on our list – all opt in at the time of the ride plus a few who sub from the web. Woosh would not let me send it out! Had to log on to Ihug.

BTW – love that Woosh.