• 10:20 reading about Drupal 6 theme development with the puppy in my lap. #
• 11:16 thinking this slogan is awesome: "System Change not climate change" www.indymedia.org/en/2009/12/932387.shtml #
• 11:35 icio.us/malc4q #
• 15:05 reading lastest newsletter email from Participant Films. Wow they are a truly inspiring production company. #
• 17:29 still thinking abt the hacked dronefeeds. tinyurl.com/ylez9ns reminds me of awsm webcomic called Spiders: tinyurl.com/yh7ltmh #

• 12:01 doing annoying paperwork. i wish i could get paid for all the paperwork i've every filled out neccessary to start work for someone. #
• 13:03 unfollowing someone for banality. #
• 14:32 on a conference call.. #
• 16:41 drinking a latte i just made, but kind of wanting a glass of wine instead. oh boy now look who's being banal. sigh. #
• 16:45 looking at sad but beautiful pics of a ghostbike in brooklyn. tinyurl.com/y949mzj - thinking of the many here in tucson. via @rxanna #
• 18:19 getting ready to go to "Gathering of the Greens" annual tucson enviro holiday party... #
• 21:01 realizing OMG, i have 68 photos/videos on my camera and all of them are either of a puppy, a baby, or both. #

This past week roughly (depending on how you count it) marked the 10 years since the start of the Independent Media Center, as part of the seemingly sudden outpouring of anti-capitalist, anti-corporate, anti-globalization activism that erupted in Seattle during the WTO ministerial there.  The IMC was really a part of that "movement of movements": there, a small group of media activists put into first serious use a new web platform called "Active" in November 1999 that allowed anyone to report on what was going on in the streets of Seatle and otherwise. The idea and the tools and the energy spread like wildfire and in a few years there were about 200 local IMC collectives and sites around the world. Read more>>>

• 16:59 just heard this great band on npr called The Wooden Arms, they made up a song on the spot using some cereal boxes, a vase, and an air pump. #

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• 10:14 I don't really mind nbc-comcast merger. Read more>>>

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A few years ago I wrote a blog entry about subtitling and a little text-processing tool I wrote for preparing text so that it could be imported into DVD Studio Pro.  I wrote it because often someone doing translation for you is not putting timecode start and end times in, not to mention chopping things up into lines short enough to fit on the screen.  My program simply made up some rough timecodes based on the time offset at which you'd like subtitles to start and a constant duration for each subtitle, then inserted them before each line in the STL format. Read more>>>