So much going on these days! I will be in Detroit today until Wednesday. If you’re around, give me a call.
In brief news, I quit my job at [BDNA](http://www.bdnacorp.com) and got a new one at [Linden Lab](http://lindenlab.com). I went to the [Maker Faire](http://makerfaire.com) and the [Bjork concert](http://bjork.com) last weekend. I’ll write soon!
[Thanks for watching!](http://thatconcludesourprogramfortheevening.com/)
Unless you’re a security nerd (or paranoiac… wait, is there a difference?), you probably haven’t heard of [Tor, The Onion-skin Router](http://tor.eff.org/). Brought to us by the freedom-loving [EFF](http://www.eff.org/), this program tries to do one-step better than a proxy: it actually randomly shuffles your packets around in its network so nobody can tell where they came from. It’s perfect for whistleblowing, government criticism, or keeping large corporations from building “[psycographic profiles](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychographic)” of you. You can use it for more than web browsing as well – for instance, you can anonymize chat if you want to talk in a rape survivor chatroom.
There were a lot of concerts in San Francisco Wednesday last week: Air, Rufus Wainwright, The Decemberists, Junior Boys, Adult., and a few others. Some called it a ["mini-Coachella"](http://sf.flavorpill.net/103485) – and so Gabe threw a [SonicLiving afterparty - with a bouncy castle](http://sonicliving.com/event/293185). Good times.
I would show pix, but I still need a good photo manager program to (safely and transparently!) handle my gigs and gigs of photos. Trying F-Spot… don’t hold your breath, viewers.
Hey! I’m on Second Life. I don’t have land, a cool avatar, or anything exciting just yet, but I’m on the grid. Check out my [website](http://pauloppenheim.com) for my avatar name, which I am proud of. I kinda wish I could just be Paul (and save the avatar for when I really need it). Anonymity by default doesn’t hurt *too* much, but it does tend to lead towards the [greater internet fuckwad theory](http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19).
Man, how do you bloggers do it? I try not to get too political, get too obscure, get too personal, get too nerdy, comment on anything at work or that I do all day, to write *at* work, and any of many other things. Know what happens? This blog gets seriously triflin on the double. This blog is already a chunk of effort, but I feel like it’s wasted by not going all the way.
I think it’s time for go big or [GTFO](http://silmaril.ie/cgi-bin/uncgi/acronyms?GTFO). Will it work?
