June, 25, 2004 archives

the apachecon 2004 call for participation is out. submission deadline is 23 july 2004, right before oscon. perhaps i’ll submit the follow-up to my oscon talk. (which would be talking about the i18n features of mysql 4.1 and php5, which i plan on only mentioning briefly in my oscon talk.)

attending home entertainment 2004 (the video industry trade show) would cost about $1000. ($500 for the show, $300 for the air and hotel, and $200 for incidentals, more or less.)

i’ve certainly spent similar amounts of money on more frivolous things but i’d still give the likelihood of me ever going through with this video store idea pretty long odds.

jeremy pointed out the spurt in investments of RSS-related companies lately (although i think blogging-related would be a better data set). if i can just convince some venture capital that opening a video store is part of the overall strategy for blo.gs, maybe i’ve solved the start-up capital problem.