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This video of Leo going off on the Microsoft Zune MP3 player is priceless.

I have a blog that I moved from one host to another, and from Movable Type to WordPress. I just realized that posts that link to other posts on the new blog still use the url format from the old blog.

Clicking on a link like this breaks due to the new url format.

http://onlinedatingpost.com/archives/2005/12/20/vivox_the_next_big_thing_in_online_dating.php

I want to redirect to this:

http://onlinedatingpost.com/archives/2005/12/vivox_the_next_big_thing_in_online_dating/

What I don’t get is how to remove the day of the month. Removing .php suffix and adding the trailing slash is simple.

Anyone know how to do this?

Google is finally shutting down and killing off some of it’s weaker acquisitions. Supposedly Dodgeball is next. I was a user since day one, but never liked the manual nature of the service. Once everyone has usable GPS in the mobile, then we’ll start to see some useful apps. Until then the Location Based Entertainment stuff is mostly hype.

Verizon has the best network in Boston.

I have the Razr 3M.

I have pix on my phone and and $5.00 250 txt/pix messaging plan.

I try to send pix to PixPlace, which only hold 75 images. You have to upgrade to another $1.99 per month to use the full 75 slots.

Every time I reload a Pix Place page, The menu has to fully reload, which slooows the page down to a crawl. A first year Comp Sci student could design something easier to use. In case you didn’t know, I despise Verizon. But they have the best network in Boston. Rinse, repeat.

Interesting information about what makes eBay hum along in the background.

Today I rode my bike over to Cambridge to check out Collision Collectiveten (CX) at Art Interactive. I was 1st Finder on HeyLetsGo and figured I better have a look. Today was the last day of the show and it’s supposed to snow for the first time in Boston tonight.

I always visit interactive art shows with low expectations. This comes from not seeing many that really do it for me, with the notable exception of some robot stuff and downtown Guggenheim shows that blew me away.

I want to see live feeds of internet data remixed with touchpads, video sensors and other interactive functions. As for Collision Collective, when I hear the phrase Interactive Technology, I don’t think of vibrating washers, fuzzy boxes that whisper, a box that when approached has a video of another fuzzy animal inside that screams and makes the box shake. And what’s with the static images hung on the wall?

The stuff was cool to check out for a few minutes, but this is what is coming out of the kids at the MIT Media Lab?

I actually look up to people who can meld technology with art, and I’m not trying to be too harsh, but the only technology at the show was a wall of LED lights they bragged used a lot of power (nice selling point!) and another where I could switch my head, torso and legs with other people via three wheels. sure there was some other stuff, which didn’t work, or I just didn’t get how to make it to what it was supposed to do.

The high point of the show for me was Michael Epstein’s walking tour. I really like guided tours, a few weeks ago I took the Boston Harborwalk Tour. I traded my license for an “iRiver Clix mobile device, donned a set of comfortable headphones and started off on my adventure. I chose the short version instead of the full 60 minute trek. A virtual Cambridge mailman walked me around downtown Cambridge, showing me various locations and the theme was the sheer number of arrows around us all the time. Strange concept but after a while all I could see were pointy Verizon logos, churches steeples, the top of the Municipal building and other places I won’t mention in case you want to take the walk. There was one point during the tour where I was looking at a house and laughing out loud, while people walked by looking at me like I was crazy.

Here are a few phonecam pix I took of the show:

I’m going to write more about interactive art installations, especially the amazng Flickr stuff I’m seeing on the net and how that could be displayed in a live space.

You think tech execs are boring? Check out a freewheeling interview with Seagate’s Bill Watkins, who might be Silicon Valley’s most outspoken CEO.

The Apple Blog has a great list of applications that make your Mac that much sweeter.

I made a change to the configuration which resulted in a blank page when trying to submit comments. I’ll be more careful about testing changes in the future, the comments here are incredible, keep ‘em coming.