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Recently, the audio on Flash movies viewed in all web browsers stopped playing on my iMac. And apparently, I’m not the only one. Starting GarageBand fixes the issue temporarily, so I’ve ruled out the problem being exclusively an Adobe-created one; upgrading to Flash Player 9.0.2 didn’t change things.

In fact, initially, installing the update created more problems. I ended up having to run a disk repair utility because the volume information on my boot drive was mangled, and some permissions on Flash files got hosed.

First, Dave Winer coded NY Times River (and BBC River) to give Blackberry and Treo users a better way to get headlines. (I wish I could check them out from my mobile, but it’s a WAP phone, and the sites don’t display. What can I say–I’m a poor journalist.) And now, Dave has create a blogging tool for the Blackberry.

Nuts. I’m stuck with “moblogging” through Flickr with my webcam. And that doesn’t do very well with papercasting. I guess I gotta find a way to shake down some cash from the Internet tree and get me a Crackberry.

I’ve been building a wiki of press contacts for the Linux industry, and I need your help to flesh it out, folks. If you have information about who to contact regarding Linux distros, Linux-related software and other projects, please register on the site and give me a hand.

I’m going to be collecting the same information for other technology areas as well; security and app dev are next on my list.

The Sun’s Tricia Bishop interviewed me for this article on RSS (unfortunately, it requires free registration to read it). It’s pretty good for a general news assessment of where syndication is going (of course, I was quoted for about a quarter of its contents, so I may be a little prejudiced).