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In the Dream World, I’m a Total Dick

I got a response from the guy who had the dream in which I totally blew him off (which I covered in this entry). As I replied to him, there are no hard feelings — in fact, I find it kind of amusing that my dream-self is a bit of a beeyotch.

Then my friend and former OpenCola co-worker Justin “xiitone” Townsend wrote in, saying that he had a dream about me and blogged it a couple of years back. In that dream, I somehow managed to offend a large group of Japanese who kill me in retaliation and dump my corpse beside Seth Green’s.

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It Happened to Me Toronto (a.k.a. Accordion City)

Mesh Photos

We’re only a couple of hours into the Mesh conference, and there are already photos of the event online on Flickr. Tris Hussey of Qumana (and friend of Blogware) is leading the race to post photos.

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It Happened to Me

Sutha Polishes His Presentation

Here’s Sutha Kamal of Ambient Vector (and part of the DemoCamp brain trust) working on his “What to Expect from a VC” presentation during Om Malik’s keynote.

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Funny, In MY Dream, He Dropped His Trousers and Peed on My Accordion

I like to think of myself as a gregarious and friendly guy in real life, but in the dream world, I seem to be a bit of an ass, according to this dude:

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web celebs are jerks

I had a dream last night that I was at a symposium or conference or some other type of auditorium based presentation when I realized I was sitting a couple of seats down from The Accordian Guy. I was like “OMG OMG OMG” and finally, after the presentation was over, I leaned over to him and introduced myself and told him I read his site and blah blah blah, expecting that he would be totally cool and invite me out with him and his pals to a local hangout for drinks. Instead, he totally blew me off with one of those ‘cool guy’ head nod things and ignored me.

Defective Yeti, on the other hand, is totally cool and didn’t ignore my fanboy ravings at all.

You know we live in the future when people start having dreams about the bloggers they read.

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Toronto (a.k.a. Accordion City)

Mesh Conference

I’ll be at the Mesh conference — the “Web 2.0” conference taking place in Accordion City — today and tomorrow, filing blog entries every now and again. Thought leadership abounds! Watch this space! End of exclamation marks!

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Happy Mother’s Day!

Although Vanilla Ice’s catchphrase “Word to your mother” from Ice Ice baby actually means something along the lines of “keep it real, baby” — rather ironic, in the case of a rapper with completely falsified street cred — I offer it in the spirit of Mother’s Day. I’m sending all my love to the two women I call “Mom”: original recipe Mom, my mother, and to new mom, my mother-in-law.

Happy Mother’s Day, and remember to give your Mom (or if applicable, your baby mama) a hug.

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I Need Some RubyCocoa Help

I’m giving RubyCocoa a try, but I’m having some trouble. I’m asking if anyone out there has a fix.

For simplicity’s sake, I downloaded the .dmg file (RubyCocoa-0.4.3d2-OSX10.4universal.dmg) and ran the installer. So far, so good.

The problems happen when I actually require any of the RubyCocoa modules. I always get this error:


  in `require': no such file to load -- osx/cocoa (LoadError)

I’ve tried the usual fix — making sure that the RubyCocoa directory is included in my $PATH — but that doesn’t seem to help.

I’m running Mac OS X 10.4.6 and Ruby version 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [powerpc-darwin8.5.0]. Any guesses as to what’s happening?