Wireless enthusiast intercepts government secret radio band.

My newest loved one is a Palm Tungsten C. redcountess scored one for £55 off evilBay. It's got the screen whine endemic to the model badly enough that I wanted to smash it with a hammer, so I swapped with arkady, who could hear the whine on hers at all times, but I could only hear it close up. So now I have a PDA with wifi. I can browse from it on our network and I can sync to J-Pilot on my Ubuntu laptop over wifi!

Given the fragility of the screen (we still have Arkady's old Tungsten C here, which I broke the screen on, that's otherwise in perfect working order ... I was willing to pay up to £50 just for a known good replacement screen), I've adopted Arkady's RhinoSkin aluminium shell.

I am the 'l33ti3st nerd in the whole USA and have the best loved ones ever.

Once I get it doing a few basic things — and throw books and stuff on — I'll probably be spending actual money on essential software. The web browser is complete shit. It needs an mp3 player. But I have Keith Packard's card game app!

Tomorrow I go to the bank, wait far too long to get what is after all my own bloody money, take said money to estate agent, sign my life away and collect keys. Cross fingers!

I'm on Channel 4 news tonight regarding the Microsoft-Wikipedia thing.

I'm just getting ready for Channel 4 to pick me up, take me to their office and interview me for tonight's news (7pm, apparently) re: the Microsoft-Wikipedia issue. If someone could record it and throw us an MPEG afterwards, that would be most helpful! C4 apparently do live video streaming with some playback afterwards as well, if you can find it on their site.

Now to get tarted up for the camera ... suit looks like a truck ran over it, so leather jacket and Rollins shirt, looks like. Where the hell did all my clean geek shirts go ...

Cola and baby birds ahoy!

Sit down, camera rolls.
"Okay. What was Microsoft's crime?"
"Well, I wouldn't call it a crime ..."

Talked about how it was a conflict of interest and that's bad, that "I said this can only damage their good name and then it damaged their good name." What OOXML is (the Office 2007 file format) and why it's greatly contentious (competition from OpenDocument and OpenOffice.org). How Doug Mahugh is on the talk page now and that's good and Rick Jelliffe will hopefully contribute his expertise and that's good. So that's the current problem pretty much dealt with.

They have no idea how much will be used tonight, "between five seconds and five minutes." It depends whether e.g. John Reid said something particularly stupid in the few hours before broadcast.

The issue now, the real problem, is how Wikipedia deals with this sort of thing in the future. We have procedures for actual legal problems, but not yet for this sort of editorial problem. Something where companies with issues with content can say so, and where the regular volunteers will actually take an interest and look into improving articles based on that.

We don't have that yet. I said, to television, that we'd probably work out something over the weekend. So we're committed now ...