So yeah, I have heard the news that Redmond will be paying a "percentage" of profits generated from the sales of the Zune to Universal Music Group, to "offset the revenue lost due to music piracy".

And I mean live.

Yes folks, if you use my notepad plugin there is a reason to rejoice.

From Sun.

And man am I tired.

Well not exactly, but close enough to warrant the title I would think.

I know that I was supposed to publish another tutorial before this one, but I hacked this up last week, and thought it was cool enough to preempt the other post.  So at work the new design we just launched called for a rotating, hyperlinked slideshow, with cross-fading.

Normally it would be "To the Flash Cave!", but I was feeling extra crotchety so I decided to basically recreate Slideshow Pro in PHP, CSS and some JS-foo.  Nothing to spectacular, but it is shiny.  Be warned, this is a very long tutorial... use at your own risk.

So the upside of arriving someplace early is that sometimes, just sometimes, you are awarded with wonderful suprises.

I have arrived here in Austin and have checked into my hotel.  Other than the hotel not having any record of a reservation in my name for today, things have been pretty smooth.  Well it looks like doing something out tonite is a bust, since …

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The rag-tag group of techy types from Wilmore have arrived (at least in part) in Columbus, and are readying themselves for the fun and penguins to be had tomorrow at Ohio Linuxfest!