14 Feb 2010, 15:26 p.m.

Lazyweb

I'm thinking about buying a new laptop computer to aid in my volunteering and consulting. I'd run some flavor of Linux on it, probably Debian, Ubuntu, or Fedora. I welcome suggestions for laptops with the …

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11 Feb 2010, 8:16 a.m.

Sometimes Things Get Turned Around And No One's Spared

I made it back to New York City just fine, and in time to catch our own snowfall. Leonard & I have again been using the infinite uploads of the mysterious bobtwcatlanta for entertainment. "This …

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07 Feb 2010, 21:09 p.m.

Travel Plans

I'm setting up travel plans for the rest of the year. I'm about 95% certain I'm going to WisCon in Madison, Wisconsin in late May, although I need to find someone to room with (anyone …

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05 Feb 2010, 22:48 p.m.

Another Change

I'm no longer working with Collabora Ltd. In the first several months after I joined Collabora in April 2009, I served as lead project manager, got the new website up, and started putting some new …

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03 Feb 2010, 15:18 p.m.

Change of Plans

Image nicked from Leo Antunes. (I thought about creating some sort of Belgian-waffle-with-a-NO-sign-on-it but this services.) I'm not going to FOSDEM this year; change of plans. Perhaps next year.

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30 Jan 2010, 13:41 p.m.

Insta-RSS Feeds: A Case Study In Freedom

If you use Google Reader, now you can subscribe to any webpage as though it had a feed and thus automatically get alerted whenever it changes. When the Colbert Report free tickets page opens up …

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29 Jan 2010, 11:18 a.m.

"Of The Other Insectoid Worlds, I Shall Say Nothing"

Just finished Olaf Stapledon's Star Maker after a year or two. I was reading it at about two pages a day. But more happens in two paragraphs of Stapledon than happens in most entire novels. …

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28 Jan 2010, 22:06 p.m.

Grace

Comfort music: Tally Hall's Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum, They Might Be Giants' "Thunderbird" (from Spine). There's a moment in "Thunderbird" that always snatches my heart and holds it up to the light -- Linnell's "am" …

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27 Jan 2010, 8:52 a.m.

A Reminder

Amanda Marcotte, thinking about the phrase "pro-life" (the rest of the post is much more controversial): ...Life, for most people, is about being in this world. It’s about enjoying food, enjoying sex, having goals, making …

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26 Jan 2010, 17:11 p.m.

Tacky, Metacity, Encryption, tp-qt4, and Maemo

A few things Collabora folks have been working on recently (along with the constant stream of Telepathy-related releases): Daf Harries released tacky, a simple python-based paste web app. Basically it's like a simpler version of …

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