Last night I was told that if you read Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France side by side with Paine's Rights of Man you get two different perspectives on the French Revolution and it's …
When I'm in a bad mood, sometimes I forget to do the things that will help me feel better. (A short list: Tea, a funny podcast or short story or TV show or blog, sunshine, …
Columbo is still amazing. My parents were right to love it! The sixth and seventh seasons (1978-1978) are great; "Old Fashioned Murder", "The Bye-Bye Sky High IQ Murder Case", and "Make Me a Perfect Murder" …
Yesterday around 1:30pm I thought, "Oh, I'm already in Manhattan and have some free time. I should stop by Midtown Comics and catch up on my trades." (New DMZ and Ex Machina, new MAD and …
While I was gallivanting around to conferences, a new GNOME Journal came out, shepherded by new Editor-in-Chief Paul Cutler. Paul has his first Letter from the Editor. Stormy Peters interviews Quim Gil of Nokia. The …
Today, when I was really glad to have made someone else laugh, I thought about how important that is to me. I think my values might go something like: integrity compassion independence making people laugh …
A few Foo Camp-related notes and links. Leigh suggests this Twitter search should you like to look through that particular collective stream of consciousness. (Cuttingly funny link I found via that search: It Must Be …
I spent this past weekend at Foo Camp, an unconference for/by/of makers, leaders, and generally interesting hacker-ish people. Thanks to O'Reilly Media (the tech publisher with the woodcuts on the covers, not the blowhard FOX …
At the excellent Open Source Bridge conference earlier this month, people seemed to enjoy my talk. The one-liner: Even at pro-FLOSS businesses, logistical obstacles and incentive problems get in the way of giving back. I’ll …
Guess who's mildly radioactive! Hmm, I should back up. I've been traveling a LOT. About a week ago, I was on a plane back to New York City when I started feeling some discomfort in …
