Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder

Posts for 2009

30 Jun 2009, 19:57 p.m.

Gran Canaria Talks by Collaborans

I think this is the complete schedule of talks that my colleagues are giving at the Desktop Summit this year. Sat. 4 July "QtScript bindings for Telepathy" - lightning talk by Ian Monroe, 15:30-16:30 Sun. …

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29 Jun 2009, 23:19 p.m.

Poker Tells & Sideshows

I nearly laughed out loud just now at some dialogue I wrote: "Yes! Tell me more!" "Show, don't tell."

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29 Jun 2009, 16:15 p.m.

Getting (Irrelevant) Things Done

I am bikeshedding my own yak-shaving. This should win an award.

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29 Jun 2009, 15:04 p.m.

Travel Schedule

I'm going to the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit next week. Developers, managers, and other free software enthusiasts in the GNOME and KDE communities get together on the Canary Islands, which are technically part of Spain …

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28 Jun 2009, 15:46 p.m.

Four Cool Stories

Tim Pratt's genre-subverting Another End of the Empire, Jeff Soesbe's quiet and moving Apologies All Around, Jennifer Linnea's eerie glimpse Second-Hand Information, and Sergey Gerasimov's hella Russian The Most Dangerous Profession.

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27 Jun 2009, 9:44 a.m.

Nuts On My Pocky Like Grains Of Sand

There are party games and then there are game parties. Last night: played Cartagena and Settlers of Catan for the first time, and got people addicted to Catfishing. Met Neil Sinhababu, who last year created …

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26 Jun 2009, 16:33 p.m.

More Anthology Notes

Two weeks ago I posted a long entry about Thoughtcrime Experiments (a scifi/fantasy anthology Leonard and I edited), the market for and marketing of short speculative fiction, and my interests in future projects. I mentioned …

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24 Jun 2009, 17:29 p.m.

Distractions & Discoveries

Dave Bort, a friend of a friend of a friend, used to do these awesome comics. A selection of my favorites: Do-you-want-paper-or-plastic? Need to add this one to my slang dictionary since Leonard and I …

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20 Jun 2009, 21:45 p.m.

LiveJournal People, I'm Ten Years Late To Your Party

Update to this entry: if you are on LiveJournal and want me to be able to read your friendslocked Google/Microsoft slash or whatever, you can add my externally created fake LJ account id to your …

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19 Jun 2009, 18:05 p.m.

"...if I could make it stay..."

Hugo Schwyzer today posted a short poem that struck me, "One of the Butterflies" by W.S. Merwin. When you're Surprised By Joy(TM) it passes through you, and you're always everlastingly too late to cherish that …

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