So blogger is no longer in beta. In launching their first non-beta version, however, Blogger has actually broken several things, several peoples’ blogs, and generally made a huge mess of things. After being prompted by shiny-clicky things to upgrade to the new version of Blogger, a great many bloggers were greeted with error pages, wrong…
Category: Technology
TUX shutting down
I’ve worked for various publishing houses in various capacities. Sure, I write a lot, but I also like to get into the back-end operations when I can. I think publishing is a lot of fun in general. It’s also very challenging. So there’s this company (SSC) that woke up one day and said “Let’s start…
Back to work!
Happy new year, all. Now back to work! Ok, so before I went back to work, I read my buddy’s blog (http://onefreevoice.com), and he started a Technorati Profile, which I didn’t know existed. I went to check it out, and created a profile myself. Technorati Profile Ok. NOW back to work 🙂
Great uses for old hardware
A friend of mine has found some good uses for hardware that was being thrown out…. rather prematurely I might add. It never ceases to amaze me what people throw out, and how much usefulness and life is often left in it. One thing I’m doing with my own old hardware is outfitting them with…
More CMS Requirements Than I Thought
I thought my needs were simple. When I started LinuxLaboratory.org, it was full of features. User forums, news categories, icons and emoticons everywhere, downloads, interviews… it was really all-singing and all-dancing. It was also too much for one guy to manage. I decided to trim the fat and get back to basics. LinuxLaboratory.org started as…
Giving a Presentation? Lose the Laser Pointer
You heard me. Put down the laser pointer and slowly step away. There are two things that a lot of presenters do that just drive me nuts: Reading the slides to me. I can read. I don’t need you to do it for me. And, if every single word you want to say fits on…
Yet another LinuxLaboratory overhaul in the works.
Well, it’s that time again. Time to suck it up and come to terms with yet another “conent management solution” that doesn’t fit the bill as far as Linuxlaboratory.org is concerned. The latest system is MediaWiki, and it’s not working out. There’s about a million things built into MediaWiki that I don’t use, and then…
Cory Doctorow’s toorcon speech
I just wanted to point out this Cory Doctorow blog entry which points to his speech at toorcon. This isn’t brand new (post is from Oct 6, 2006), but I only just found it, and figured others may not have seen it yet. Link directly to the video here. The short story is that it…
When Geek Conversations Go Bad
There’s this annoying trend in the geek culture that I can’t help but comment on, if for no other reason than to let people know about geek culture here in the early 21st century. The trend is this: At any given point in time, a group of geeks can be talking about just about anything…
…Hippies and Freaks
Many times over the past several years, I’ve heard the open source community referred to collectively as “hippies and freaks”, or “sandal-wearing, long-haired” whatevers. And for a long time I’ve shrugged it off. However, at OSCON ’06, there seemed to be an extremely large segment of the corporate crowd making similar statements… and to a…