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I misplaced my mouse at Super Happy Dev House. I went shopping for a replacement on Friday and found that the combination of the:
N800 and 850 GSM phone + unlimited data plan = perfect price checker and shopping companion.

The 850 means that unlike GSM 1900 phones it basically works anywhere except a Faraday shielded bunker :-) ! A bit geeky but it was fun being able to take notes and check out the websites of the mouse I was considering as well as verifying that contrary to the label on the box, the mouse I bought, a Microsoft Wireless Bluetooth Mouse 8000, actually works with Macs (inaccurate MS 8000 mouse review - works fine for me out of the box with latest MS drivers - I luv MS mice; I think this is the 4th I've bought with my own money!) !

And I guess maybe not so geeky since I didn't get any second looks and I see "normal" people playing around with their Sony PSPs and Nintendo DS's all the time these days.

Mark my words, shopping and checking prices and taking photos and sharing media back and forth about what you are buying with friends while shopping will become just as normal as playing games on mobile devices!

At shdhvan on Friday, Liz Henry (who is most excellent and knowledgeable by the way!) and I started riffing on forums and communities and came up with the following pseudo-manifesto for social software:

1. everything must be subscribable by RSS and email: i) author ii) tags iii) topics
2. google like search of all the text
3. everything must have permalinks with clean urls
4. all urls must be hackable e.g. coolwiki.com/food/restaurants/vancouver/dona-cata - I should be able to remove 'dona-cata' and get a list of all Vancouver restaurants

Surprise, surprise, most wikis and most content management systems and blog systems like Socialtext, Drupal and Wordpress do most of the above things; most forums don't. Which is why forums make me uncomfortable; lots of forums have great content but they are impossible to follow, ugly and have really bad 1990s style URLs replete with question marks and ampersands which are not hackable.

Anybody up for some impromptu Nokia N800 hacking at the Vancouver Super Happy Dev House on Friday? I am in as long as:
i) it's less than a 1000 lines of code; I am an old man and can't keep more than 1000 lines in my head at once :-)
ii) we use a dynamic language like PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, etc. Sorry I am done with C++, Java, C# etc and refuse to program in them ever again!

[Cross posted from groups.drupal.org/vancouver]

Socialtext'ers are descending on Vancouver as part of their annual migration to meet, hack, and plan. They came up with the idea of bringing the Bay Area-based Super Happy Dev House to Vancouver.

Bryght is providing the venue and BBQ space. Edit the wiki page to let us know you're coming (also, upcoming.org).

Come one come all! There will be lots of hacking of all languages and environments and fun including Drupal hacking and making and improving some Drupal websites!

Calling all hacker types. Interested in videoblogging? Come to Super Happy Dev House and we'll do a mini super happy vlog house (inspired by the recent super happy vlog house) and vlog the hackers. RSVP by editing the wiki. See you there!

FROM Super Happy Grow-Op Dev House / Socialtext Open Source Wiki:

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SHGODH is a community hackathon-type-event in Vancouver on Friday, May 11th, 1pm to 1am. All hacker-types are welcome! Please RSVP below so we have an idea of how many are coming.

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