Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder

Posts for 2009

23 Apr 2009, 6:45 a.m.

Learning

In the last two weeks, I have learned rather a lot about configuring and troubleshooting usage of Empathy, Telepathy, Synaptic, PPAs, git, TeX/LaTeX/dvi, gtimelog, IRC and bip, RSA SSH, and XMPP. Well, it was a …

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18 Apr 2009, 8:04 a.m.

Ramping Up

In my first week at Collabora, I've learned that I can stand to poke at .conf, .rc, and similar files for at most two hours out of my working day. I've also learned that the …

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17 Apr 2009, 8:43 a.m.

Joke, Joke

Perhaps wearing my oldest, most beat-up Electronic Frontier Foundation shirt to a party full of new-to-copyright law students is not as effective a dominance/status display as I'd hoped.

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15 Apr 2009, 8:31 a.m.

Well, this anxiety is a familiar bouquet.…

Well, this anxiety is a familiar bouquet.

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13 Apr 2009, 21:13 p.m.

Nearly-Modern Superstitions

Am I the only person who finds it especially auspicious when a person's first and last name combined count 8 or fewer letters, since then they could use it in an 8.3 DOS-style filename? (example: …

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13 Apr 2009, 19:10 p.m.

Words And Constraints

I am not yet ready to publicly join the conversation on cultural appropriation in fiction. However I wish to draw your attention to Rachel Chalmers's warm, smart, funny book reviews, which she posts in a …

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13 Apr 2009, 14:24 p.m.

On Realizing That I Am A Veritable Switchboard Of Buttons To Be Pressed

As Father Brown would say: "Lord, what a turnip I am...Lord, what a turnip."

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12 Apr 2009, 13:14 p.m.

Bluths as Bartlett's

Some lines from Arrested Development stick in my mind as incisive embodiments of some less-acknowledged fallacies, afflictions, and distinctions. To wit: Should the Fünkes try an open marriage? Tobias notes that many couples he counseled …

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11 Apr 2009, 19:50 p.m.

This Retrospective, In Retrospect, Has A Theme

An abbreviated diary of the past few days, mostly for future Sumana's use: Wednesday I went to Supper and the Sci-Fi Screening Room with a journalist who opines that it's his God-given right to drink …

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10 Apr 2009, 9:58 a.m.

The Latter Link Includes Dick Van Dyke Non-Pun Joke

Today, looking at the tax documents, I saw Leonard's name next to mine and felt awe again that we're really seriously married. Mega-married! proclaimed Leonard. We conjectured that maybe the government should let same-sex couples …

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