After Robert posted that unflattering image, I’d like to link to a much sexier picture of myself. Thanks, phlog, for helping out at the LWE booth and posting the pic.
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Sat, 14 Aug 2004
14-Aug-04Sat, 14 Aug 2004
14-Aug-04Just gave Garrett my old stereo and old VA Research box, clearing out a lot of floor space and helping Julia find a job here in Boston. Nice to see so much new space on the floor- hopefully I’ll get more when I finish ripping and can hide the CDs and server tower in a [...]
Fri, 13 Aug 2004
13-Aug-04I’m fascinated by change in large groups which are deeply committed to something or another, and spelling changes in a large language are a pretty great example of that. Apparently such a thing is happening in Germany, with mixed reactions. Interesting read.
(Link from the almost-always-interesting Crooked Timber, which also has some interesting commentary [...]
Mon, 09 Aug 2004
09-Aug-04I just got spam from newoemsoft.biz for … linux software. Truly, we have arrived.
Mon, 09 Aug 2004
09-Aug-04Elijah: awesome.
Sun, 08 Aug 2004
08-Aug-04The cult of Lebowski has gone mainstream enough to be written up in the NYT. I eagerly await insightful commentary on this from Dave.
Sun, 08 Aug 2004
08-Aug-04In 48 hours of furious reading on the plane and in the park, I read The Confusion, which I enjoyed a lot more than Quicksilver. I’m seriously considering re-reading War and Peace now- I don’t think I was really equipped to do it when I first read it, and I gave it up about 100 [...]
Fri, 06 Aug 2004
06-Aug-04Had a good LWE, despite waking up at 7am today for an east coast meeting. Met a lot of potential customers who mostly seemed pretty impressed with the product, and more importantly, met a big chunk of the mozilla guys and saw the GNOME booth. Big hi to the guys and gals who were staffing [...]
Wed, 04 Aug 2004
04-Aug-04Edd: I’ve long wanted to do something like that, but have always sort of been stopped by my own internal requirement that it be a full liveCD for it to be worthwhile. I guess if you’re already going to a lot of conferences, you can do it on one laptop, and still have a lot [...]
Tue, 03 Aug 2004
03-Aug-04Quick! How many of your favorite large companies are running open wireless at LWE? Many thanks to the fine people at Sun for giving me the connection to post this on.