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…
Category: Technology
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…
Going to OSCON
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,…
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…