April Fools Day was maybe kind of fun for a while, but now it just bugs me.
There's no point in reading anything, because even if it's true, you can't believe it. I'm not even complaining about
the quality of the humour. There are some jokes--a very few--that are really clever and funny. But it's not worth the
frustration.
So I'm out. Tomorrow, April 1st, I am taking a day off from the World Wide Web. Blogs, Twitter, RSS feeds, all ignored
for the day. I'll still be accessible on email, IM and so on, but no content. If you post something momentous or cool
tomorrow, sorry, but you're going to have to tell me about it later. I'm fasting.
I'm actually finding myself looking forward to turning it all off for 24 hours. It's been a while since I disconnected
myself like this (with no intention of catching up later). I'm thinking it'll be kind of fun.
* Not that the Internet doesn't lie on other days, of course. April 1 is just the day when it's the most blatant and
annoying.
Which is awesome. But I can't believe I forgot to mention TriTAG.
The 100 is a podcast about local culture, events and issues (roughly in that order), coming out
of Ideas Transform. I know Bevan from Kwartzlab and I'd met the
other hosts through CultureCamp (in person, anyway).
They asked me to come chat about transportation and urban design issues, since I've been writing about that a lot
on WWBA lately:
I think it's a good chat, but I feel like I left a lot out. Ah well. Follow me on WWBA and maybe I'll flesh out the
ideas a bit more. I am happy I got a plug in for Richard's OpenStreetMap meetups.
The 100 is awesome. If
you'd like to subscribe to the podcast, Will Spaetzel's
fantastic Castroller service has automatically
generated a podcast feed. I'm prodding Hilary and Bevan to get it into the
iTunes store, hopefully in the next week or two.
The newly-formed Kitchener-Waterloo chapter of Ubuntu Canada is having
its first Jam, to be held at Kwartzlab. We're getting together to help make Ubuntu better: hang out, fix some bugs, test
the new release and work on
documentation. Txwikinger is going to show us how to do bug triage. I'm really
excited. It's going to be awesome.
Want to come? Sign up here. Yeah, you'll need a launchpad account, but
you need to create one to mess around with bugs anyway.
