New Jersey has really been a not so nice place to live this summer. I’m sure this has been true of several eastern seaboard states, but I’m not there, so I can only guess. For the past two months in NJ, it’s been either 95+ degrees with 100% humidity, or it’s been pouring buckets. Both…
Author: bkjones
Just got back from RI
Natasha and I were in Rhode Island for a few days. Good times. We went to Block Island, which is a really nice place. There’s a small town center with shops and stuff, and then a whole island’s worth of hiking, biking and all that sorta stuff. They rent mopeds by the beach to ride…
Anthropological Blues
I hate my anthropology class. Thank God it’s over soon (8/9). I’ve learned very close to nothing in that class, except for what my “professor” thinks about religion, race, culture, and the bleak future of our economy and society. The entire grade consists of a final exam and a paper which has not seen even…
I got a book deal!
You are now reading the blog of the co-author of the next edition of O’Reilly’s “Linux Server Hacks”. I don’t know if that’s what it’ll be called, but that’s the working title. What do you think they should call it? Leave a comment! I’m excited by the opportunity, and have been writing –ALOT– since things…
Free Guitar Tab Sucks
It’s true. Anyone who has played guitar for some extended period of time, who cut their teeth on the tablature found in “Guitar for the Practicing Musician”, or the later “Guitar One” will note the amazingly huge gap between the quality of those (usually flawless) transcriptions and the ones you find online for free. My…
Will Apple Get it Right?
I have had a Mac in my house, on loan from work, for a couple of years now. It’s a dual G4, and I recently updated it to OS X Tiger. Generally, I use Linux at work as well as at home, but I’ve slowly grown to love the Mac. It doesn’t aspire to run…
A Problem With Traditional Corporations
I’m not faking some deep knowledge of how decisions flow through huge organizations or anything, but I have certainly seen my fair share of middle- and upper-management decision making go on, fairly close up. Also, I’m not, in my little essay, professing knowledge so much as seeking responses from those who might be able to…
vimOS: the perfect operating system
Imagine an operating system that does away with the whole notion of a desktop. Why do we need this whole metaphoric thing applied to our computers, anyway? Sure, I can see why it existed before: we needed a metaphor so that we could teach the world, by analogy, how to think about computing. But now,…
Um… I’m in Vegas
I flew into Las Vegas yesterday for one of my best friend’s bachelor party. I had no desire to come to Vegas, but I have to say it’s cooler than I thought it would be. We’re staying at the MGM Grand, and I got to see a few other places yesterday and today. So far,…
The Media Problem
As I see it, there’s an inherent problem with the scenario that currently exists in the media, whereby people who go to school for… journalism, end up writing about everything else. For example, what exactly qualifies a writer to write about technology? Is it good enough that they once were considered a guru at their…