A musical birthday present to you

Posted on January 13, 2009 by Thomas Purves

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Thanks for all the facebook birthday love! I was overawed by so many taking the time to say happy birthday. Yay for social media. Here is my return present to you! Pirate radio free dingo is now live, streaming the very best of 33 years and one half dog years. By limited engagement through to Saturday night. 200 tracks curated so far and counting. Imagine these coneheads broadcasting direct to your heart by pirate satellite.

If anyone is curious I can post later a how-to on how to convert an iTunes playlist to a live streaming radio station. (At least the way I eventually figured it out) there’s a few steps to the process.

Recently played (or reload page for updates):

Next up? tune in to find out…

Click on this link to listen: http://bluedog.wavestreamer.com:9155/listen.pls
or http://public.wavepanel.net/CG68ERU7VH5QPBEG/listen/m3u

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New Year’s resolutions

Posted on January 5, 2009 by Thomas Purves

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consume less
make more
make time
focus on what’s important
tackle new challenges
learn a new skill
teach a young dog new tricks
launch a new product
stay solvent
get rich (why not?)
visit a new country
win a sailing race
drive a dog sled
relearn an old language (even if it’s javascript)
read less reddit (starting tomorrow I mean)
eat food, not too much, mostly plants
gain weight
keep blogging
don’t taunt a happy fun ball
have patience with those who walk more slower than me
be humble
be generous
try to make people smile

moar?

photo credit: simonk

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Conferences to watch in 2009

Posted on January 4, 2009 by Thomas Purves

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lift_128x128 Lift, the amazing European (and now Global) tech conference isn’t really a tech conference at all it’s really an inspiration conference. Think a TED talks meets Barcamp meets a cirque du soleil production. Hard core techies beware though, Lift is a lot more abstract, design and human-oriented than you may be used to. Nonetheless, highly recommended. Unfortunately, though I haven’t missed a single Lift in Switzerland since the first one, this is likely to be the first year I don’t make it =( I would love, to see some of my Canadian friends represent however. Can you make it? 25-27 Feb 2009 Geneva. EDIT: if you are a Canadian who is thinking of buying a Lift ticket this year you should really give me a ping first.

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I had the pleasure of being invited down to Ecomm last year by Lee Dryburgh the organizer. Ecomm is about what comes next in telecom (think disruption, wireless, telco2.0, from carrier business strategy to homebrew cell phone hackery) is a hell of a show with a nearly-preposterous amount of content crammed into just a few days. If this is your industry, you should be there, you may need an extra baggage allotment to carry-on your grossly overstuffed brain on flight home. San Francisco.

sxsw_ia_iconSXSW Interactive. Lastly SXSW, M and I are planning to be there for this one Mid-March. I have yet to go attend this famous “woodstock” of US tech (un)conferences. Given the current meldown 2.0 will still likely be in full swing (if not even swingier), should be an extra wonderfully weird time to be there.

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