Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder

Posts for 2009

08 Nov 2009, 3:14 a.m.

Also, I'm Only Two Degrees From Stephenie Meyer

Quotes from the Utah visit included: What does a Maggie say? No! "Go to sleep / go to sleep / or we'll sell you on eBay." "eBay sucks. I'll sell you on Etsy. You're a …

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03 Nov 2009, 23:22 p.m.

Near-term Travel Plans

I'm going to be in Salt Lake City tomorrow night through Saturday evening visiting John & Susie. Then on Saturday the 7th I start a Bay Area swing, then return to New York City on …

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31 Oct 2009, 8:36 a.m.

More brainwanage

I decided to pony up my $5 and join MetaFilter. So far I seem to be answering a lot of questions about technology. You'd think I was a geek or something.

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26 Oct 2009, 21:27 p.m.

Seemlier Sumana

I use Ubuntu Linux for most of my computing these days; it's what runs on my work laptop. Each version of Ubuntu has a codename consisting of an adjective and an animal name (e.g., Breezy …

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24 Oct 2009, 10:41 a.m.

Foremost

Leonard and I have been together for eight and a half years, and today was the first time he took me through his high school yearbook. (Triggered by me reminiscing about various unusual academic experiences …

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20 Oct 2009, 17:51 p.m.

Collabora Open Source Development Overview, 4-20 October 2009

Collabora, my company, does open source development. We don't just build on top of open source frameworks; every day, Collabora developers are hacking in the open on multiple projects. I decided to blog about some …

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18 Oct 2009, 18:22 p.m.

Happy Deepavali

As Leonard suggests, celebrate by reading Jeff Soesbe's near-future scifi story, "The Very Difficult Diwali of Sub-Inspector Gurushankar Rajaram." I'm surprised at how much it meant to me, emotionally, that President Obama personally celebrated Diwali …

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17 Oct 2009, 11:06 a.m.

My Go-To New York Tourist Attractions

It's a cross-blog event! Leonard took Will to museums on Thursday and yesterday I took him & his friend Martin to the New York City Transit Museum and Roosevelt Island. At the Transit Museum, they …

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15 Oct 2009, 13:04 p.m.

Postmortem

Four of my coworkers gave up a night when they could have been eating or hacking and came to an open mic night to watch me perform. I knew a goodly proportion of the other …

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13 Oct 2009, 18:35 p.m.

Le Line Du Punch

I'm planning on doing an open mic comedy show tomorrow night. sumanah: I'm thinking scrum humor sumanah: comparing the 3 questions of scrum to the 4 questions of passover sumanah: it'll be a riot sumanah: …

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