Just to avoid any misunderstandings. My audioscrobbler profile is not teemow. It’s timod. That never happened before, but another timo was faster. I still can’t believe and his taste in music is no compliment at all.

Mixed search Yagoohoo!gle via boing boing

Google’s april joke: Google Gulp

Google maps are now with satellite pictures. Last October Google bought keyhole who has satellite foto software products. “Fly from space to your home town”. Found here

On the faint page I just read that Orenda Fink from Now it’s overhead and Azure Ray married Todd Baechle from the faint. So anyway Saddlecreek is one big family, but this is a really cute girl and now it’s totally over

See the videos from last years Now it’s overhead concert:
Now it’s overhead - Reverse
Now it’s overhead - Wonderful Scar

On sunday I was on the Lesbians on Extasy and Le Tigre concert in Geb

You may have noticed that I changed the layout of my blog. And it’s changing every day. There is a yellow sun with a grey and cyan layout during day time (from 8 am to 6 pm) and a red sun with olive and green layout the rest of the time.

Thanks to Molly for the great layout.

Yesterday I wrote two perl scripts to check the functionality of Technorati’s and Flickr’s webservices. Now Technorati’s inbound links and the latest flickr photos are shown in the right column of my blog. Get the sample code here.

Have a look at audioscrobbler. I always wanted to have statistics about the music I listen to. But I listen to music at work, home and on my notebook, so the problem is how can I merge all the information. Audioscrobbler is the solution. There are plugins for mostly every player software (iTunes, Rhythmbox, XMMS, Winamp, Windows Media Player and even Music Player Daemon) and these plugins automatically send information to your audioscrobbler profile. This is great, but because it is social software there are even more features. Audioscrobbler calculates which people are similar in musical taste to you and there are suggestions of artists and music you might like similar to the amazon feature “People who like this music also like …”. And there is a audioscrobbler radio station (Last.fm) where you can listen to playlists of other users similar to you or to your own stream with your personal favorite songs.

A plugin for wordpress is also available.

Currently last.fm is down and you can’t register at audioscrobbler cause of essential server maintenance.

I also found upcoming:

“Upcoming.org is a social event calendar, completely driven by people like you. Manage your events, share events with friends and family, and syndicate your calendar to your own site.”

I still didn’t know how to show upcoming concerts on my blog and this is exactly what I wanted to have.

All this social software really helps you with your personal productivity, let other people help you tagging and organizing your stuff. And you can see the results of using tags, if you have a look at technoratis tag search (Cologne) you will find current blog posts, flickr images, furl and delicious links and even google ads

This morning we went to the zoo to have some practical perl programming. The camels told us how to deal with hashes and regular expressions. They also wrote a book together with their ghostwriters Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen and John Orwant.

Update: This was of course a joke. Foto was taken from the german perl workshop 2000.

I found a perl module for the technorati webservices. It is listed in the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN).