These Things Matter To Me

Next month is the PostgreSQL Conference Fall 2007. $60, free for students. A deal my friends. Tending the Garden is among the organizers, so it’s awesome by association.
Be there or be a flat file.

• GNOME Specimen, a great way to preview fonts, has been updated.
• You already know about the Fake Steve Jobs. But do you know about Fake Jonathan Schwartz?
• Miguel de Icaza nicely summarizes, and highlights an interesting question regarding the Network Appliance/ Sun lawsuit.
• The anatomy of a Drupal Installation Profile
  
• Delicious: Extreme. Makeover. Preview.

• I didn’t intend on being the 5,000,000th person to talk about the iphone/ipod updates today, but I ran across this in a delicious feed:
  
  

  Schadenfreude: iPhone Price Chopped Already, 8GB $200 Cheaper – Consumerist
  Whatever. I was an iPhone-carrying rock star all summer and you know it
  by werty to gadgets iphone … saved by 1 other person … 1 hour ago

• An extremely interesting talk by Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz about emerging markets (video)
• Leetspeak: as legit as Kitty Pidgin
• Another big media company is using Drupal. This time LifetimeTV. (They join mtv, WarnerMusic, among others)
• You didn’t hear it from me, but Google may announce a presentation program (PowerPoint-ish) and wiki to go along with GoogleDocs and Google Spreadsheet at the Office 2.0 conference this week