There are so many things in my daily feed that made me happy today, I had to categorise them:

Work and colleagues – education + accessibility

• Inspiring University students to “have a go at hacking and using APIs to build apps that make a change in their lives”:http://www.slideshare.net/cheilmann/hacking-for-innovation-presentation
• Friend and associate “Dirk Ginader”:http://ginader.de publishing his blog post on the YDN blog about “Making the Yahoo Currency Converter Screen Reader accessible”:http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2009/01/accessible_converter.html

That new fella in the white house

• “Bush street in San Francisco renamed to Obama Street”:http://laughingsquid.com/bush-street-renamed-obama-street-in-san-francisco/ – I love this city and its people
• Finding out that the new “whitehouse.gov is licensed Creative Commons”:http://www.whitehouse.gov/copyright/
  bq. Except where otherwise noted, third-party content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Visitors to this website agree to grant a non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free license to the rest of the world for their submissions to Whitehouse.gov under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Geek stuff

• “The elecronic playground”:http://www.tepg.se/ is a web site dedicated to listing cameos of arcade machines and consoles in film and TV
• “YouTube Street Fighter”:http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=LPQ1XrllZmA – another YouTube annotations game/hack. Let’s hope this one stays up, not like the Laserdisc Dragon’s Lair walkthrough.

Open source good news and things

• “Mozilla Labs going on with Test Pilot”:http://labs.mozilla.com/2009/01/test-pilot-vision/ – a usability testing platform in Mozilla that will analyze user’s behaviours and publish the findings. No matter how this works out the logo is full of win and I had a great time at the last Mozilla Labs monthly meetup. If you are in the Valley, make sure to visit them!
• “Crowbar”:http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/Crowbar – a powerful screen scraping library based on Mozilla used for rendering output before converting it (and a cool bar in Tottenham Court Road in London)

Misc

• The State of Georgia’s Department of Revenue “asking people to download Adobe Reader in a PDF file”:http://img.thedailywtf.com/images/200901/errord/install_adobe_reader.png – to be fair, it might be that version 8 is needed – still not the best place to ask
• “Jay’s friends”:http://jaysfriends.com/ – a way to announce friends that got made redundant and get them a new job.
• “How to learn any language in three months”:http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2009/01/20/learning-language/ – domo arregato