You know IP issues are becoming more mainstream when they make ESPN. [It isn't just the wire story; it was on one of the news roundup shows this evening.] The silliness of the trademarking of the phrase ‘12th man’ is just… spectacular. ‘12th man’ and ‘6th man’ are about as generic as they come. I’m [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2006
Tue, 31 Jan 2006
31-Jan-06Mon, 30 Jan 2006
31-Jan-06GNOME should have an award for ‘oldest bug fixed in this release cycle.’ bug 43311 (nautilus sidebar) crossed my inbox today, which was pretty impressive (filed 2000-09-26) but it looks like at least three older bugs have been fixed this cycle- one in nautilus (42087) and two in gnome-vfs (41139 and 40644). Big thanks to [...]
Mon, 30 Jan 2006
30-Jan-06I invited Nathan Yergler of Creative Commons to the GNOME Summit in the fall, hoping for cross-pollination to occur. I didn’t expect that one of the impacts would be mono and hula getting cited for their wikis, but hey… I’ll take every bit I can get :)
I read What The Dormouse Said this weekend. It [...]
Wed, 25 Jan 2006
25-Jan-06Whee! We’re in the New York Times. And lots of other places, it seems.
Wed, 25 Jan 2006
25-Jan-06Woot. I’ve spent the past couple weeks crashing on StopBadware.org, the new project here at work. There is still a long way to go to get to the functionality we want to have, but I think it should be a fun project- some of the ideas bouncing around about where we want to go have [...]
Tue, 24 Jan 2006
25-Jan-06Something I did for the first time just now: IM with someone who was on a train. Yay for the future…
Sun, 22 Jan 2006
23-Jan-06Mr. Yum has discovered the real reason Jeff doesn’t wear pants.
Sun, 22 Jan 2006
22-Jan-06IBM’s classic (but slightly creepy) Linux ad is available on Google Video. Very cool. We need to get some screencasts up there :)
Sat, 21 Jan 2006
22-Jan-06I was in the office for about 17 hours yesterday; I woke up this morning feeling energized and refreshed and in a better mood than I’ve been in quite some time. Probably not a coincidence.
Fri, 20 Jan 2006
20-Jan-06Good, short summary on how PR people can get involved in the community without being a putz. Everyone on the corporate side of open source communities (and other online communities, like the bloggers I mentioned in the last post should read it and ask the questions she poses.