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>the personal blog of david n wallace
[aka Dave the Lifekludger]

• Reading review of Bruce Cockburn’s latest album #
• reading feeds as a distraction to what I should be doing because I’m not really sure what *that* is. #
• wondering if the HP Touchsmart has a restive or capacitive touch screen. #
• watching videos of nifty glass experingmenting #
• reading postsecret http://tinyurl.com/cl6zlo #
• @SilkCharm *laughs* As everybody on Facebook would be aware. Gee has it been a year already? I still never saw last gift in reply to SilkCharm #
• drink time. #
• @fang *looks at clock* Hi .. better start packing up to go home mate in reply to fang #
• @fang Toss anything my way if need a hand. in reply to fang #
• can someone who’s not me please tell me if they can see this feed of my clippings from NetNewsWire http://tinyurl.com/d2f7je #
• @Robbyc @Bosun_McShiny Thanks ppl. Nothing special. Just discovered how to publish public shared feed in NNW. What was its title shown as? in reply to Robbyc #
• Shoot, has @kentnewsome totally left Twitter? Just had a dm fail …. #
• @Robbyc Ok. Thanks mate. Will need to investigate how to change the feed title. in reply to Robbyc #
• @dnwallace #Lifekludger QR Code – http://is.gd/ov4I #
• @SilkCharm *grins* Well I had to think of something special for my favourite Pixie. Have a fantasmagorical Birthday! *hugs* in reply to SilkCharm #
• @PremierMikeRann How about people with a disability? They able to as well..or do we have to wait till we’re old? in reply to PremierMikeRann #
• @ranmasaotomes Does @PremierMikeRann ever respond to tweets from us lowly plebs or are we just more eyeballs for his pleasure? in reply to ranmasaotomes #
• Just got notification my new iMac is being shipped. Should have it by weekend. Yaah. #
• tuning my twitter-follower radar #
• @royblumenthal Don’t rekon Kawasaki ever has. He sees us as eyeballs for his wares -1 way. Spoke ages ago on podcast saying that. Pity in reply to royblumenthal #
• @fang Quack! in reply to fang #
• @kentnewsome sent you em re podcast or not Thurs. Mike can’t do. in reply to kentnewsome #
• pipe munging for @fang’s smoking pleasure #
• @fang uofa pipe smokin #
• Woohoo…my new iMac was just delivered! Pity have to go out for rest day/afternoon. Oh well, playtime tomorrow! #
• @kentnewsome dude. are you getting my emails mate? in reply to kentnewsome #
• Well, I’m off to see me boy. No longer any net access on my phone, so going dark .. #
• Back home. Buggered. #
• @scenariogirl W4A looks good. Hope you get there. IMHO Accessibility is a *part* of UX not *is* in reply to scenariogirl #
• @cameronreilly might be interested in this “Compass 29 March 2009 22:05 The Atheists” http://www.abc.net.au/compass/comingup.htm #
• “Let us be lovers we’ll marry our fortunes together” #
• @scenariogirl Not sure I’d go as far to say accessibility *is* a user exp.. my experience of something is enhanced by it being accessible. in reply to scenariogirl #
• @scenariogirl but we’re only splitting hairs. in reply to scenariogirl #
• Wonder why we name horses anyway ? http://blip.fm/~3dyon #
• Let us be lovers…. ? http://blip.fm/~3dyuf #
• JCM has a knack of hitting that sweetspot in your soul that screams “yeah!” ? http://blip.fm/~3dz1t #
• ? http://blip.fm/~3dzhe #
• in one of those strange mind states where thoughts become lucid…usually occuring with lack of sleep and feeling of solitude. Quite good. #
• @aqualung yes. very sparse in visitation also. in reply to aqualung #
• Teeing up a surprise guest cohost for #eels podcast later. #
• @kanter Hi Beth. Thanks. Not employment brighter but I’m brighter in self, thanks. in reply to kanter #
• waiting for mr @kentnewsome to come online #
• @Tarale There’s some ripper stuff in that bundle. in reply to Tarale #
• oohh..bbooyy…this thing is fast. bright. huge. #
• @mickyj putt it this way, I might need my sunnies in reply to mickyj #
• @mickyj I’ll but an outline of a BAT on it… in reply to mickyj #
• @Tarale …but being distracted by twitter eh? in reply to Tarale #
• http://twitpic.com/2hk6m – what happened when trying to fix mates win xp box #
• @fang hehe posted my photo before you got home http://is.gd/pefE in reply to fang #
• picking up where left off listening to podcast from yesterday so can complete the notes. #eel061 #eels #
• still not happy about the audio on my podcast. thinking of getting a Rode podcaster mic. Wondering what @the_rooster uses for a mic #
• oops, forgot there was a phone call in middle of the podcast. must snip that out. #
• @Downes Bring a torch. Its dark down here at moment .. have a nice loooong flight. in reply to Downes #
• Latest Extraordinary Everyday Lives podcast is up – eel061, a laid back chat with @delin : http://is.gd/plts #
• @delin brose flickr friends recentuploads. also, mac coverflow is visual tool. in reply to delin #
• @The_Rooster turn it up a bit in reply to The_Rooster #

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Adelaide Oval

Got an email this morning from Schmap – recognition is always nice. The Scmap ppl do an excellent job of integrating Creative Commons licensing.

:: Schmap: Adelaide Photo Inclusion

Hi David,

I am delighted to let you know that one of your photos with
a Creative Commons license has been selected for inclusion
in the newly released seventh edition of our Schmap Adelaide
Guide:

Adelaide Oval
http://www.schmap.com/adelaide/toppicks_attractions/p=135116/i=135116_18.jpg

New iMac arrived. Still gotta plug it in and try it. Here’s specs and first images (as if you’ve never seen one before).

IMAC 24″/SD
2.93GHZ INTEL CORE 2 DUO
4GB 1066MHZ DDR3 SDRAM-2X2GB
NVIDIA GEFORCE GT 130 512MB
640GB SERIAL ATA DRIVE
APPLE MIGHTY MOUSE
WL KYBD & USER’S GUIDE-X
COUNTRY KIT,IMAC 24-AUS

DSCN0643.JPG

Originally uploaded by dnwallace

Went to footy, up on the hill under a tree for shade. Bad move, got a puncture.

Doc Searls while talking about the Advertising Bubble writes:

In fact, last May I reported how Mike Arrington of TechCrunch was “outraged” by my suggestion that advertising was a bubble (or something to that effect… it’s in this podcast somewhere… maybe one of ya’ll can hunt down the quote).

Well, there’s a few quotes in there so I just snipped out the relevant section for you to listen to.

doc on gillmor gang

• Ahah.. just noticing some podcasts are starting to emminate from #SXSW into me itunes – http://feeds.feedburner.com/SXSWinteractive #
• grrr…the sxsw feed is coming through ok in reader but in itunes the enclosures are failing. suspect google getting in way of feedburner. #
• Ahhh… it seems the #sxsw guys are putting out 0length enclosures in the sxswinteractive feed. #
• just sent webmaster at #sxsw email re broken links to enclosures. hopefully we’ll see them flow soon. #
• searching for parts for my van #
• The broken podcast feed out of sxsw I found last night is now fixed http://feeds2.feedburner.com/SXSWinteractive #
• @fang grrr…audible says I’ve already downloaded tribes. won’t let me get it again. buggered if I remember downloading it before. #
• grr.. #audible sends me a email thanking me for my purchase THAT FAILED. pity couldn’t have noticed that bit and sent me email. #
• made a diff acct, now listening to Tribes #
• setting up a wiki #
• @davemac does it hurt being a Belpharon? in reply to davemac #
• @dnwallace Motivate, Connect, Leverage #
• @jobsworth Morning JP. Would you mind reminding me the name of the wiki project bt are involved with? in reply to jobsworth #
• @Jase88 He visiting your place too..? in reply to Jase88 #
• @jobsworth Thanks mate. It goes slow. Taking opportunity to do some stuff with #Lifekludger…hence the wiki question. Hope you’re well. in reply to jobsworth #
• jumping through hoops trying to get my old ms outlook .pst emails into mac mail app #
• just get one part on wheelchair fixed and another breaks :/ #
• @NickHodge Poor Penny wouldn’t understand, too young in reply to NickHodge #
• @cblake *waving g’night* in reply to cblake #
• Blog post: Preserving Digital Identity in my Will – http://is.gd/nZ3C #
• updating blog so only keeps weekly twitter digest rather than daily. #
• Prof Susan Greenfield (past atir) on 7:30 report #
• Lifekludger New post: A myriad of relay controls for Makers incl USB http://cli.gs/HV0875 #
• @bronwen Well done Bron. Great synthesis in the idea around http://cutyourownscene.com. in reply to bronwen #
• @dnwallace “Leadership is a choice to not do nothing” #
• Listening to “Tribes” while browsing feeds. #
• Blog post: A Clue for The Information Economy Directorate – http://is.gd/obma #
• now, back to actually reading the feeds #
• @scenariogirl *yawns* morning in reply to scenariogirl #
• @kanter Ahh..so I am. Right next to @silkcharm – http://is.gd/ogvl in reply to kanter #

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I really wish the Information Economy Directorate, part of the SA Govt. Dept. DFEEST, would at very least put a link to their Newsletter in their RSS feed so I can get to it from the feed …

rather than make me click through to their website to find the link …

That’s called providing options, which is the major part of accessibility, not to mention usability and effective distribution.

Dave

I made a decision yesterday while travelling home – I’m going to make allowance in my will towards the ongoing existence of my digital identity.

Now, don’t panic, I’m not ill and don’t intend on dying anytime soon. But it will happen. And it so happens that with recent changes in living arrangements I’ve been in the updating Will mode for a while. (Read there – I’ve been slack in finalising it.)

Anyhow, I was thinking about how we talk about how the things we do digitally are so more ‘sticky’ or permanent and how one should be careful of what we put online as it will be ‘searchable forever’. But will they? Forever is a long time and while I understand the sentiment in such arguments, the fact is that if I let my domains expire that a lot of what I do would be inaccesible. And someday even the information from them that is stored in google’s cache will be expired. Then, it will be gone. Much is said about how to not do things personally online that might jeopordise opportunities in the future, but I don’t see much about what to do if you actually do want to ensure the ongoing nature of the opportunities you have taken.

Now it might not be so bad for things to disappear, really, when it comes to anything personally I do. However I thought of Lifekludger as an entity and how I believe in what its potential is and how such potential might not be realised in my time. Lifekludger will depend on the increasing nature of online connetedness between people and so while progress and time might be on it’s side, time and progress isn’t for individual human beings.

So I thought about how much of what I do online is important to me and how much I value what it is I’m building oline – whether personally or otherwise. And I figured that if I was serious about it then I should do something to help it survive after me. Hence I thought of the Will.

Here’s my plan. I’m going to put in my Will that a certain sum of money be taken from my estate and put in an interest bearing account with responsibility of maintaining given domains and hosting company fees falling to a pre-determined and informed trusted person. I figure all these online cost are likely to get cheaper in future anyway so the outlay won’t be huge and interest might even account for most of it. At current prices I’d only be looking at about a $3-5k amount. And if Lifekludger finds legs before then well and good, my personal domain will survive even longer … FWIW

So there you have it. Have you thought about the longevity of your digital identity?

Dave – Lifekludger

PS: As would happen, after writing I see there’s a startup called Legacy Locker that deals with the distibution of passwords to online accounts. This doesn’t however allow for ongoing expenses involved but I might consider using a service like that in conjunction. That said, who will guarantee survival of a Third party online service?

• 10:05 The broken podcast feed out of sxsw I found last night is now fixed feeds2.feedburner.com/SXSWinteractive #
• 19:32 @fang grrr…audible says I’ve already downloaded tribes. won’t let me get it again. buggered if I remember downloading it before. #
• 22:14 grr.. #audible sends me a email thanking me for my purchase THAT FAILED. pity couldn’t have noticed that bit and sent me email. #
• 22:53 made a diff acct, now listening to Tribes #
• 23:00 setting up a wiki #
• 23:02 @davemac does it hurt being a Belpharon? #
• 23:26 @dnwallace Motivate, Connect, Leverage #

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• 17:39 shit of a day. just got home after probs with van wheels that held me up 4hours. now gonna cost more money for new wheels. #
• 18:07 @SilkCharm "you’ve got mail" #
• 21:23 @mickyj glad you aren’t actually *watching* it. *shudders* #
• 21:30 checking me feeds #
• 21:43 Ahah.. just noticing some podcasts are starting to emminate from #SXSW into me itunes – feeds.feedburner.com/SXSWinteractive #
• 21:47 grrr…the sxsw feed is coming through ok in reader but in itunes the enclosures are failing. suspect google getting in way of feedburner. #
• 21:53 Ahhh… it seems the #sxsw guys are putting out 0length enclosures in the sxswinteractive feed. #
• 22:09 just sent webmaster at #sxsw email re broken links to enclosures. hopefully we’ll see them flow soon. #
• 22:36 searching for parts for my van #

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