“I think [defining BSD as 'free because it has no restrictions' and GPL as 'not free because it has restrictions'] confuses freedom with anarchy.” –James Vasile. As concise and correct a refutation of this position as I’ve seen.
Obama on patriotism:
I love this country not because it’s perfect, but because we’ve always been able to move [...]
For future reference: if you’re in an organization with a lawyer, this is how you do April Fool’s.
As I’ve mentioned before, I live in Tracks, a web-based Getting Things Done-like tool. For quite a while I’ve been living out of the unreleased preview version, because of the load of new features in there, like the ability to hide actions that don’t need to be seen yet and the rough-but-functional mobile view.
You no [...]
The idea of blogging for 2 1/2 days sounded brutal; so I decided I’d experiment with ‘blogging with constraints’, aka ‘resisting my urge to write paragraphs by forcing myself to only write 140 characters at a time.’ Only tool I have for that (unfortunately) is twitter, which is imperfect, but I’m giving it a go…
This led the evening news on both local CBS and ABC affiliates, including interviews with workers at the local aquarium who were asked (seriously) if boaters should be “afraid” of repeat occurences. I remain speechless.
stiltsville by sam garza. License:
Several weeks of backlog from my feed reader:
shakespeare on entrepreneurship: ‘Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we might oft win, by fearing to attempt!’ So true. Via.
I’m always on the lookout for examples that Hollywood is shooting itself in the foot, but I’m not sure this is one of them, since [...]
BTW, people may have noticed that I’m using a lot more flickr pictures of late; the reason is that I found (and modified to my taste) Patrick Mueller’s ‘get flickr with attribution (gfwa)‘ greasemonkey script, and it makes posting cc-licensed flickr pictures easy.
Firefox Cookies by Amit Agarwal. License:
GFWA is one of the many little [...]
I got an email today from Evangelia Berdou, who came to a couple guadecs to meet, greet, and pick GNOME-y brains. Turns out she’s published the fruits of her GNOME research- her PhD thesis. I haven’t had time to read it yet, but I’m sure it is interesting- she had a habit of asking very [...]
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For those interesting in playing with tracks, you might want to look at tracks.tra.in- it is the stable branch plus a few tweaks, rather than the (totally awesome) trunk, but still gives you a good sense of what the tool does.
