On the downside:
Note the ‘feels like.’ That is -29C for the rest of the world.
On the upside: I posted that picture from the screenshooter applet by selecting ‘tieguy.org’ from the folder list dropdown and entering my keyring password. Pretty slick- no CLI involved at all.
I’m sitting here locked out of my apartment (forgot my keys when I left yesterday morning) so I finally had time to sit down and read Seth’s Experimental Culture piece. Seth’s topic isn’t particularly ‘news’- Nat talked about the same issues of stagnation and boredom during his ‘pendulum’ talk, and the mono/gtk-sharp community seems to [...]
Long day today. Was at the airport at 5am for my 6am flight to Miami. Got in, went straight to doctor’s appointment. Nothing critical, as far as I can tell; mostly stuff that could affect me in the far far future but appears to be panicing my family now. Well, that and slightly reduced liver [...]
I know I am traveling too much because I will not have the time or energy to unpack tonight before I start packing again to leave in the morning, and because I have redeemed two frequent buyer cards at the travel book store this month. There are worse problems to have.
Read Cluetrain Manifesto on the [...]
Have had a blast bumming around Paris with Krissa and Guy this weekend. Am making up for losing tomorrow to the plane by working on MLK day. Hopefully pictures up soon, but currently I’m borrowing Guy’s sister’s network connection and I don’t want to swamp it :)
Biggest pleasure so far today, after some big hugs [...]
It looks like I’ll be spending two months in Germany, from Jan. 31st to very late March. Nothing permanent, but it is about time one of us took the plunge and immersed ourselves. Hopefully it’ll give me enough German to be dangerous at GUADEC ;) I’ll continue to wrangle desktop stuff, but be closer to [...]
The big thing for me in Apple’s announcements yesterday- the new box is nice, and the new ipod is fun, but to me the significant and interesting announcement is that Apple is continuing to replace Office.
I find it fairly hard to be jealous of proprietary software developers. By and large, I love what I do [...]
While digesting lunch, a link: A few weeks ago I briefly pondered my feelings about the morality of Free Software. Ted Leung had an interesting, potentially related post about a completely alternative interpretation of ‘why I do what I do’. Money quote:
So, the next time you hear “open source development”, think “the most economically efficient [...]
I may just be totally wasted from lack of sleep[1], but I think I’m actually quite fond of downtown Nuremberg.
picture from the last trip.
Ran into Sandino and Bob downtown; it’s a small world :) We’re staying way outside of downtown this trip, unfortunately- I don’t want that to happen next time I come back.
Had [...]
Things that rule today:
Watched a bit of the Mars Rover PBS HD special. Very cool- shots of engineers celebrating after the landing reminded me a lot of how we felt/celebrated after the release of XD2. And they are using GNOME there at NASA. Very cool. :)
As if JB needed more ways to be cool, he [...]