Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder

Posts for 2009

13 Oct 2009, 17:31 p.m.

Presence & Status

I learned recently: Empathy is an IRC client but does not (yet?) support slash-commands. Gobby is a really cool tool to let multiple people read, write, and chat about a document collaboratively from different computers. …

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09 Oct 2009, 15:19 p.m.

Travel Plans For The Next Week

I'm visiting Boston Saturday the 10th till late Monday the 12th (to see colleagues in town to talk about the GNOME Linux desktop), then in Montreal till Thursday the 15th.

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08 Oct 2009, 23:44 p.m.

An Oversimplified Cliffs Notes To Telepathy

Lots of people have never heard of my company or its projects -- even fairly plugged-in geeks often say "who?" or say "Oh yeah, the Subversion people." (No, that's Collabnet, where Leonard used to work.) …

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07 Oct 2009, 21:10 p.m.

"The Life Of The World To Come"

For about the next 2 hours, if you hit the Colbert Nation website, you can stream the entire new album by The Mountain Goats. (Might be US-only.) I'm listening now. No doubt I'll buy it. …

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06 Oct 2009, 22:12 p.m.

Half-Sentence Reviews

Tricked (graphic novel) by Alex Robinson and Whip It (film) are more gripping & fun than they have any right to be.

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03 Oct 2009, 9:04 a.m.

"Not Ordinarily Borrowable: Or, Unwelcome Advice" by Thomas Thurman

My colleague Thomas Thurman wrote a light fantasy story called Not Ordinarily Borrowable. It's 106 pages, available as a print-on-demand book via CreateSpace (like Thoughtcrime Experiments), and delightful. You can read the first chapter online …

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01 Oct 2009, 15:18 p.m.

Useful Links

MediaBugs, Scott Rosenberg's awesome new nonprofit, is hiring a Drupal designer and an associate director/community manager. My pal Stuart Sierra [who's an expert on The Cloud and graduates from Columbia next year with a master's …

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29 Sep 2009, 13:48 p.m.

Rubbernecking

One reason for Mondayness: reading other people's family memoirs.

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29 Sep 2009, 11:38 a.m.

Buy In Bulk And Save

"I think my case of the Mondays arrived a day late." "Well, your first step should be to stop ordering Mondays by the case. Most of us just take one dose a week."

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27 Sep 2009, 17:25 p.m.

Intertainment

John Joseph Adams at Tor.com led me to Slaughter of the Bluegrass, which completely made my day when I needed it. "Punish My Heaven" is also available as MP3. Slaughter of the Bluegrass is a …

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