Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder

Posts for 2011

11 Sep 2011, 17:05 p.m.

You Can't Miss The Point When There's No Point To Be Missed

I went to San Francisco last week to work with my colleagues at the Wikimedia Foundation. Some highlights from the past week: looking at the Red Umbrellas art gallery displayed in Union Square while tango …

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01 Sep 2011, 20:09 p.m.

Cooking

Leonard and I are making dinner: pasta with mushrooms and kale. I was frying the mushrooms in the cast-iron skillet. Sumana: Do you ever make up stories about the mushrooms as you move them around? …

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01 Sep 2011, 18:22 p.m.

Everybody's Doing It: Some Hackathon Tips

I'm helping arrange some developers' events at work. They're meant for open source software developers, testers, documenters, and other contributors to get together, talk, and collaborate. We often call them hackathons. I'm directly planning, with …

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29 Aug 2011, 10:48 a.m.

We're Fine

My household had no hurricane-related problems. Electricity, natural gas, water, mobile phone, and internet service continued without interruption. We're very lucky that Hurricane Irene did not substantially affect us. (And that we're well-off enough to …

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27 Aug 2011, 7:52 a.m.

Don't Worry About Me

Leonard and I are not in a hurricane evacuation zone. Our apartment is not on a basement or first floor so we're not at risk of flooding. We're preparing sensibly in case Hurricane Irene knocks …

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18 Aug 2011, 13:13 p.m.

Friends Who Make Things

Leonard's been just amazingly interesting lately. He's analyzing board game catalogs, movie reviews, and cooler ways to mash up and generate text. Our pal Beth Lerman has a painting blog. Want to see Princess Leia …

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14 Aug 2011, 22:42 p.m.

The Touch of a Vanished Hand

Before going to Wikimania, I printed out a bunch of stuff: my registration confirmation email, an FAQ about the conference, a list of other colleagues who were attending, my flight itinerary, and so on. I …

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11 Aug 2011, 16:58 p.m.

From Rush To Hush

I have been travelling so much in the past month that my nap today included a travel anxiety dream where I accidentally got on a plane back home in the middle of a conference and …

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23 Jul 2011, 1:31 a.m.

CLS/OSCON

I'm in Portland, Oregon, for Community Leadership Summit and OSCON. If you are here, too, you will be able to recognize me because I will be the one who's very tired.

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18 Jul 2011, 11:31 a.m.

An (NCSA) Mosaic Of Colorful Little Bits

I looked at my past, like, eight blog entries and saw that they were pretty thinky pieces. When did my blog turn into Crooked Timber? So, a little miscellany. Saturday I went to the beach! …

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