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Dear lazy web,

I'm looking for a keyboard with the following :

• Bluetooth


• Mac Keys layout


• trackpad - as I hate moving my hand to get the mouse

If I can choose a french layout that would be a +. Google isn't really helping there.

Today my ISP was down for a few hours. I work from home - so having a connection is important for me and my work.
This is very annoying when some of the work you need to accomplish happens online. It's not the first time, but last time it was over six months ago and I had kind of forgotten.
Next time I'd like to have a backup plan. I have a few options :

• Add an ADSL line (cheapest as can be.).
• Get one of those 3G dongles.
• Figure out where I can get Free Wifi in my area and move there when my line as an issue.

I'm wondering which of these solutions I should adopt. Any ideas, sharing of experience is welcome.

I'm very happy with my monopod - but sometimes I want to shoot from the same place and aim at the same point. With the monopod this is tedious to achieve. I'm looking for a good tripod on which I'll be able to attach my monster lens. My aim is to shoot birds and other forms of wildlife. I also need to be able to shoot at a very low level, so it needs to be able to go low and does not need the column.
My monster lens weights 5+ kg so the tripod needs to be able to support it. Last but not least I need to be able to carry it while I'm on the move. I've briefly searched a few flickr groups - and did not find the answer I am looking for.

As a flickr user I add metadata to my pictures as much as I can. There's three way to achieve that on flickr (well four when you include geotagging). Using a title, adding some description on what the picture is about, and tagging. Tagging is the easiest way to describe a picture with a few simple word. You add keywords to you pictures when you tag them. Some of these tags are a bit specila as they may link your pictures with other websites or with data that does not reside on Flickr itself. Flickr uses special tags called machine tags - with these you can link to events that are posted on the upcoming service by yahoo or with concerts that are annonced on last.fm, tagging enhances the content and makes it findable. There is probably more use with other sites but I don't know it.

While I was on vacation in greenland and ended up in a concert in a bar in Ilulissat.I took a few pictures and really liked how the guys were performing. So I asked them if I could buy a CD to which the answer I was given a small piece of paper was an URL. Url Which I ended visiting and buying the their unique album which to my surprise dates from the beginning of the 90's.

I imported the CD into my music collection and started playing it - as I'm a last.fm user I had a look at the data that last.fm maintained on "Unnuaq Band". It was quite empty so I made the first two versions of the wiki page added a scan of the group's logo that I took from the album. Actually I needed to add wiki information before the upload of the scan was taken into account by last.fm's software. Then I made sure that the group was connected with the Greenland group.

After two weeks of playing the band's song I looked at my stats on last.fm and was suprise not to see the album name in what I was playing. So I kindly ask on the forums where the data came from, and the answer was musicbrainz. From time to time, last.fm synchs it's data from Musicbrainz. So I created an account and started adding data about the album. Using the taggers provided by last.fm did not do much because the music was unavailable on musicip. So I gave musicip a look and would have done sampling with Music IP if their software supported my os :
Thank you for visiting musicip.com. A Mac version of the iTunes plug-in is
planned but not currently in development. If you sign up for our beta testing
program you can be one of the first to try out the new plug-in.

http://www.musicip.com/beta-join.jsp

Let me know if you have any further questions.

So I can't provide all the data/metadata, and need to do that by hand, at the moment but will probably do.

So I'm having fun these days figuring out how I will tag my picture when I'm going to upload it to flickr. Shall I use machine tags like lastfm:band= or should I create musixbranz:MBID=, shall I use both ? I would rather use the later, so all sites using musicbrainz's data would benefit from my tagging and could, if wanted show my flickr pictures on their website.
Now I don't mind adding more than one tag, but was wondering what the best approach would be. Ideas, comments welcome.

I've been a linkedin user for almost two years now. I use it to maintain my resume online, and to keep in touch with people I work with or that I've worked with in the past. I also use it like a global profesionnal address book - so I don't clutter my phone nor my current address book with entries I'm not using. I've been looking at the other features offered by linkedin, you have question and answers, but I'm usually too late to give a proper answer, someone as probably replied before me. The other feature is that you can belong to groups, I'm a member of Fosdem attendee for instance. I got into the group after finding out that a friend was part of it - then I decided to see if I could fit in more groups and decided to look for groups.
There is no way I could search for groups in the linkedin interface (and if there is it very well hidden).
The only thing available is a group directory, but I can't even find the group I'm a member of in the directory - which seems to not display all groups.
I've tried serachnig for "group keyword site:linkedin.com" on google but was unable to find groups, the only thing I stumbled on was profiles.

Any idea how I could serch for groups on linkedin ?

so thanks to SvZ I got a more open listing at http://dallasblue.com/LinkedIn/groups.htm

Chers lecteurs,

je compte me rendre au groenland lors de mes prochaines vacances, je suis preneur de toute informations, truc ou astuce que je devrais connaître avant de m'y rendre, n'hésitez pas à laisser des commentaires.

Drear lazy web,

I have a few software issue that I would love to repport to nokia so they can make their products better next time I'm going to use. I've searched a bit and was unable to figure out where I should file bugs @ nokia. I understand that it is an issue for a company with a so big Market - but hey I can file bugs to Apple - so why couldn't I do the same thing for Nokia ?
If this needs to stay confidential please email me @ lhirlimann@yahoo.fr.

I like to tag my picture when I post them on flickr and I particularly love to geotag them - I think it's nice to be able to locate an area seen on a picture so you can visit it yourself at some point.
My workflow is pretty straight for now as I shoot in RAW, and import the raw files into Lightroom to develop them. I then upload them on flickr and use either the provided map, or tools like maps.yuan.cc (which permits using google maps instead of the one provided by yahoo.). This has three flaws , the first one is that I only geotag pictures that I upload on flickr, the information is only kept on flickr , so the day they die or the day I decide to move away from them my information is lost (well no - i can doanload a kml file and use it with google earth, but it would be a pain to regain that information).
What I would like is to geotag all my pictures, so either I find a GPS that directly plug-ins the camera and tags the pictures when I shoot (and I don't know of any solution to achieve this), the other one is to carry a GPS with me and then based on time stamps tag the RAW files by altering the EXIF data. The data matching seems to be easy to do.
My solve issue is finding the appropriate GPS hardware that will let me tracks my move. I am completely clueless on what my needs are - what I tend to do is go out for the day (maximum 10 hours) and shoot. Anyone willing to give me a recommendation on what piece of hardware I should buy ?