Chris Anderson, author of The Long Tail, is pirating his own book.

I’ve been holding off posting about the “Bomb Scare” in Boston yesterday because I wanted to see what Bruce Schneier would say about it. Most of the time he articulates my position on these sorts of things much better than I could. Schneier just posted his reaction. The first sentence of his post is “The story is almost too funny to write about seriously.” Thankfully, the folks who the Boston Police arrested have the right attitude:

As is apparent if you read any of my older posts, which you surely haven’t, I have a motorcycle. It’s a 1978 BMW, so it’s in need of periodic maintenance and repair. Thankfully there’s a wonderful resource – the Airheads Beemer Club – which, along with the airheads mailing list, provides a vast amount of advice and instruction from many people who have more knowledge of these machines than anyone else who does not work for BMW (and perhaps more than most who do). Read more

A while back Amazon released their S3 service to provide unlimited, reasonably priced, on demand web services based storage space. At $0.15 per GB space used and $0.20 per GB transferred (both per month) it’s rather a good deal. JungleDisk claims to provide a DAV interface to an S3 account for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. I’m contemplating giving it a go, just to see what it’s like. It would certainly make a nice off-site backup solution, if it isn’t too expensive. Read more

It’s so hard to post regularly. Let’s sing a song about waitin for Amazon to let me pay them lots of money for EC2: La La La! Waiting for EC2! La La La! I’m way lamer than you! La La La. Please don’t hit me with your shoe! La La La! I want to spend all my money on EC2! Thank you, I’ll be here all week.

In regards to the previous post, where I mentioned being able to edit regions of a Hobix post with different modes, MMM Mode looks very promising. More to come.

A quick hobix.el idea: Allow for unfinished posts in something like blog-root/drafts and only copy them over when the user says they’re finished. Create the created field at that point, so that the blog shows the post being posted when it was finished instead of when it was started. Thanks to Org-Mode/Org-Blog for the idea!

I’ve started using Last.fm for music. It seems like a great service, with recommendations like Pandora. The difference is that Last.fm uses other people’s tastes instead of Pandora’s “music genome.” To make the best of the service, it seems, I should always be hooked into Last.fm when I’m listening to music. At home, it’s easy: they have an iTunes plugin that pings the servers whenever I listen to a song. It will even update with what I listened to on my iPod while I’m away. Read more

Hobix uses Textile for post formatting, which is fine, but I prefer Markdown myself. Sometime “real soon now” I’ll figure out how to change that…

Hooray! The bike works! I had to replace a ton of wiring and connectors and make lots of things play nice with each other and then I want for a ride last night for two hours! Hooray! Really, I just wanted to post something to the blog. Hooray!