I’m off to Portland, Oregon next week for O’Reilly OSCON 2006. There’s so much stuff going on at that conference that I’m not even sure which sessions, tutorials, and BOFs I’ll be attending. I’m doing a bit of work with Python lately, but I’m also doing database design, LDAP, PHP coding, Perl, playing with cfengine,…
Category: Technology
Flockworthy
I hate to say that Flock is “a browser”. It’s true that you can surf the web with it and leave the rest of Flock’s features untouched. But I think of Flock as more of a tool to exploit the web; to integrate more of my life and my day’s work with the web. In…
Stop Bookmarking Stuff You Hate
I'm a part-time college student. As a result, I have to do research. I'm currently in a public speaking course where, for example, I have to give a persuasive speech. I have no idea what to write my speech on, but my wife did – drink more grape juice! Some number of years ago I…
Stop Bookmarking Stuff You Hate
I’m a part-time college student. As a result, I have to do research. I’m currently in a public speaking course where, for example, I have to give a persuasive speech. I have no idea what to write my speech on, but my wife did – drink more grape juice! Some number of years ago I…
Pandora.com rocks… or doesn’t. Your choice.
Pandora.com is a site that helps you find music you’re likely to enjoy by having you enter songs and artists that you like, analyzing the various attributes of your favorite songs and artists, and then creating a radio station made up of songs that match that set of attributes. So, for example, I started out…
Beer is your friend
I’m putting a bunch of posts here to catch up with everything that’s happened since I last posted two months ago. I should let everyone know that I have yet another blog that I maintain with my buddy Matt called bamfbeer.com The purpose is to keep up with our adventures in home brewing. There’s a…
Lack of competent Linux admins leads companies back to Windows
I was reading on ZDnet about some companies who migrated to Linux from Windows, and some of them migrated back to Windows! I’m not kidding. I was hoping to pull some deep insight from this set of stories about experiences in different data centers, the kinds of logistical problems that crept up, services deployed that…
My New Personal Analog Assistant
So I have a buddy who is a gadget geek. He got a Sony Clie when they arrived on the scene, he has an iPod or two (or three maybe), one of which does photos. His Clie takes pictures. He got one of the new latest cameras that fit in your pocket and is 5…
Berners-Lee Talks Semantic Web
Sir Tim Berners-Lee is the person who invented the world wide web, as well as some of the technologies that make it work. That was years ago, and yet a surprisingly large amount of technology that the web runs on is still in wide use today. See that "http://" up in your address bar? That's…
My yearly Konqueror Browser Test
Well, I’m just trying out using the konqueror browser with blogger to see if it works. Looks like it doesn’t. Even when I tell my browser to identify itself as mozilla it breaks. Some stuff works (I can write a post, for example), but I can only get the source view of things — so…