#NaNoWriMo, Google Voice, StatusNet, Karmic Koala, Matlab in Joomla, Portfolio Analytics, Ad:Tech, Citizen Journalism conference, Trip to Virginia and to Cape Cod, proceedings in the Cablevision request, CEP, Doninger Case, making cider. The list seems to go on and on.

I often start each months’ blog posts with the old childhood saying, “Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit” meant to bring good luck for the month. Yet there is also an old saying, chase two rabbits, catch none. I feel more like a young kid in with ADHD in a field full of rabbits randomly running this way and that, sort of like Brownian motion.

I’ll keep this post short as short as I can, so I can start chapter one of Liza’s Party, my NaNoWriMo project. If you are interested in sharing ideas, or reading and commenting on my rough draft, please contact me directly.

When I’m not writing fiction, I’ll be busy writing and testing code, for both fun and profit. My Google Wave Federated Server is up. I’m working on setting up a second so I can actually test federation. If you have a federated server, let me know and we can collaborate. If you want to get text console access to a Google Wave server that is not connected yet to the main Google Wave servers, let me know. I’ve done some interesting hacking to make that possible. It isn’t as nice as the full Google experience, but it is a way to play with the technology.

Then, when I get a chance, I’ll continue my StatusNet migration. My previous installation was so old, that I’m planning on dumping what I had and starting from scratch. I’m partway through the installation, and I really want to connect it up to my XMPP server so that I can explore StatusNet to Google Wave integration options. Again, if you’re interested in this, ping me, but it may be a little while before I can really explore this.

In order to upgrade my laptop for testing with Google Wave, I’ve kicked off the upgrade to Ubuntu 9.10, also known as Karmic Koala. I left it running last night and it said it would take several hours to download all the updates. Now, it is sitting with the message fetching file 1295 of 1295 on the screen. It has been like that for a while, and not moved to the Installing the upgrades phase. I’ll keep glancing at that, and then eventually test some of my Google Wave Federation from that machine.

Of course all of this needs to happen in the background as I work on two paying projects involving Matlab. One is in the final phases of testing and hopefully will be completed soon. The other involves implementing a routine written with the Matlab Runtime Executable into a Joomla website. Most of the pieces are in place, and now I need to try putting them together to see how they work, and then fine tuning the result.

Then, there are the conferences. Ad:Tech is coming up this month, as is a conference on Citizen Journalism. It looks like the conference on Drama Therapy is likely to fall by the wayside. For other travels, there will be a trip to Virginia for a weekend at my daughters’ college, and a trip to Cape Cod for an extended family Thanksgiving celebration.

In legal and rules making activity, there is the Cablevision case, where their replies are due in about a week. There is the Citizens’ Election Program case, where replies are still being written, and there is the Doninger Case where I believe the replies are all written and we’re just waiting for oral arguments. This may involve another trip to blog from the Second Circuit in New York City before I know it.

Beyond all of this there are ongoing projects like the cider making, Fiona’s Radio Show, and who knows what else. Time to end this blog post, without spending time for editing and getting on with #NaNoWriMo 2009 – Word Count 0. Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit, indeed.