I wonder if you could do some old skool Phone Phreaking with this. "Alu"Boxing anyone?

Now however they changed this. In a big way, see the Band program from MooCowMusic. You can use multiple instruments, samples, layouts and record all instruments on different tracks. You can not save or load your work yet, but once that has been added a true community with artists will surely arise around this program.

There are already a lot of instruments that you can add via a repo on installer ut you can also d/l some instruments via the forum.

See a demo video for yourself, cool oder?

It is funny to see that the audience of Twitter is a rather niche one, look for example at Drupal vs Joomla on twist. Drupal is always mentioned a lot more. Now take a look at Drupal vs Joomla "in the real world" on Google Trend; Joomla outranks Drupal at least 5 times.

Conclusion: Twitter peopel are more intelligent.

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After having spend 5 days in bed being ill, I am now on less then one cigar a day (unless I drink), far less then the 10+ I was on 3 weeks ago. Want to quit? Follow these instructions!

Ik heb een huis, sinds een paar weken minder boom en twee honden thuis. Huisje, iets minder boompje, beestjes dus voor mij.

Wel een leuke vorm van stencil graffiti, zi google images voor veel mooiere voorbeelden.

It seems that the newspaper sector is waiting for the result of The Record Industry versus The Internet and will decide after that has been settled (in a year or 5 ) what they will do online. In the mean time, there is -or so I have been told- something going on on the Internet that is called UGC. Based upon the old credo If You Don't Like the News...Go Out and Make Some of Your Own, these blogs, wikis and other 2.0media are far cheaper to produce and have more knowledge on the subject; hard to believe for Mr. Journalist but true.

But the newspaper industry is still looking at their own navel. At my former employer, I had nearly all Dutch newspapers as a customer and I also visited some "independent" newspapers from the UK and "world" newspapers from Germany. And while all these newspapers where experimenting with new technologies and ways to generated income and bind readers (and let them become writers) at the lower levels in the business units, at the corporate level, the CTO's and CIO's were still full of the proprietary nonsense CMS-es. And they had to be, since they were taking on boat trips with lots of beer and "no cameras" by the proprietary CMS vendors. I once saw a very ugly site that was rather expensive; around 500K euros (800k dollars) that could have been made in Drupal for less then 1/10 and more then that, be a lot better, faster and hipper.

Recently however, I see lots of old media switch towards Drupal. And not just as a CMS or even CMFramework, but as an Enterprise Service Bus. A central hub were all data is aggregated, enriched and send towards another medium.

If you read the news, three things striked me:

NEW YORK The New York Sun has begun using WoodWing's Smart Connection Enterprise editorial solution from WoodWing, headquartered in Zaandam, the Netherlands, with U.S. offices in Detroit.

The paper's WoodWing editorial content-management system has been used in conjunction with Drupal, an open-source Web application framework, as the publishing platform.

Launched in 2002 as New York City's first new general-interest newspaper in two generations, and with a Web site designed by Danilo Black, the Sun now claims an online and print readership of more than one million.

And the three things were:

1. The NYSun is indeed running an old version of Drupal. Good for them! (well, good for them running Drupal, they might want to upgrade)
2. There is a Dutch company Woodwing (running Drupal) that is rather big in the media and has 4 offices worldwide
3. They actually have a rather good slution for the media.

Although their 3 tier graph on this page is a lot of BS!

It is not that the NYSun is a very big site but the cracks in the proprietary CMS world are getting bigger by the day and every newspaper switching towards Drupal, is a good thing. Because in 3 years time, there will be a lot of action, jobs and money to be made in the combination of Drupal and old skool newspapers.

Today I got a "follow" from Podblanc on my twitter account. I get dayly followers I do not know, mosty stupid bots disguised as attractive girls that folow 5k people and have 20 followers (extreem stupid people who fail the Turning test ).

I always checkout my followers before follwing them, and it looked that this podblanc was human and ... is running a Drupal site at podblanc.com.

There are days that I feel proud. Proud to be part of a community that builds software that helps people to communicate. Proud to be in that community from the early days. So I have seen the tech communities that embraced Drupal as a tool to communicate. And then gave the media companies -new and old media- that had a good and cheap option to facilitate users. And then came the (from US PoV liberal) political parties in the US that enabled relativly unknown persons to run for president-candidate. Then the small local communities around churches, local red cross organisations and even the big ones like Amnesty. And I am proud that I was a very very small part in the world that enabled this.

But I never NEVER have been "proud" to be white. I never thought that one race, religion or sex is superiour above another. I have the luck to have old parents, who have been through what in central Europe is called "The War" (World War II) and have told me about the horrors. I have had the luck to have travelled around the world to see other people, get in touch with other cultures and to have visited Auschwitz. I know the horrors, I know the pain, I know about the waste of lifes.

I am not the hating kind of person, but somewhere deep in me, I hate people who hate people. And yes I do understand the paradox there. But I am not to keen on right winged Neo Nazi's who refuse to learn from the past, or even to accept the past.

So I am not proud that this white-site is using Drupal. I am sad that we created something that can be misused in this way. But like any tool, it can be used for good and bad. It is the person holding the knife that decides to create a sculpture or go for the kill, not the maker of the knife.

Sometime.. just like now. I wish the GPL was "a bit discriminating" for who it was legal to use and for who not. But you can not have a "bit of freedom"; you have it or you dont. And if that is what we are facing, I am proud that I am part of a freedom where stupid white (or black) people can say stupid things about (white or) black people ... using Drupal.

Proud but with a bad taste in my mouth.

1. import jabber / gtalk friends and chat with them via Jabber
2. import friends from other Instant Messaging service and use the service. I do not use these but think MSN, Y!, ICQ etc
3. setup your twitter account and have a multitasking twitter client in the background (keyword: background)
4. Import Skype contact, sign in and USE skype over Wifi!
5. Setup SIP and use your iPhone to make real VOIP calls over wifi over the internet

As you can see, a switch army knife. Skype by itself would have been cool enough for me, SIP a great much needed add on. But this is an application that communicates with all services I use and acts as the information hub between my twitter, my XS4ALL VOIP, my Skype and my jabber friends. I think it it the best application available on the iPhone. Installation is a 10 seconds job once you are in "installer" (you do have a jailbroken phone I hope?). Simpley ad the repository to installer, tab on fring and you are ready! This is great.