I put together the gnome is people headshots, finally. I had a lot of fun doing them, though admittedly they are a touch inconsistent. Cut me some slack- I’ve never really tried to take good portraits before, so you can see the progression over time as I get better with encouraging people to laugh, and [...]
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headshots! (from me, and a few of me)
26-Jul-06Berkman Center seeks another Sr. Hacker
25-Jul-06The Berkman Center is a fun place to work, with smart people and great stuff going on. As a bonus, if you have any interest in thinking big thoughts, the hallway conversations are the best you’ll ever have in any tech job, most likely. And they are hiring: they need a Sr. Engineer for a [...]
Are there any examples where someone created a broadly deployed standard and did not in time become either MS (high, expensive barriers to entry to use/support the standard, hence hated but wealthy) or Netscape (low barriers to entry, hence loved but dead?) I really can’t think of any, but I’d love to know of any [...]
lawyerly clothing (sort of)
18-Jul-06I do believe that I’ll be wearing this to my first day of intellectual property law, sometime in 2007. I imagine it’ll function like an IP Rorschach test…
GNOME is people^Wmosaics^Wpeople
17-Jul-06I’ve posted the mosaics from my ‘gnome is people’ slide deck. I’ll post the mugshots and ideally instructions on use of the totally awesome metapixel tomorrow.
people switching and other misc. links
18-Jun-06Totally awesome to see that a couple high profile tech doers and thinkers, Mark Pilgrim and Tim Bray, are switching back to Linux from OSX.
In his switching article, Mark makes the point that XCF (gimp’s format) is not particularly open, and is apparently undocumented. Norman Walsh expounds. I think this is a good example of [...]
More great moments in trolling
11-Jun-06By moving much of our flame-inducing conversation to planet, an inherently controlled environment, we’ve mostly killed the most serious GNOME trolls. Hence, we don’t get nearly as many quality moments like this anymore. That post was apparently the web’s first instance of the key phrase, but it was only one of many responses to the [...]
blast from le past
11-Jun-06I was skimming planet maemo this evening (the new software looks sexy, and I think the hardware may fill a role in my life, though sadly I did not avail myself of one of the developer units) when lo and behold, who is mentioned but… bowie j. poag. Wow. Blast from the past. For those [...]
Summer jobs at Berkman
17-May-06If you’re a web person, or a writer, and in the Boston area over the summer (so yeah, presumably a student) you might want to take a perk at the three summer jobs we have available. Cool beans.
Rainbows End- Vernor Vinge
05-May-06Having been a bit cranky and just wanting to get away from it all a bit, in the past two nights I’ve plowed through Rainbows End, by Vernor Vinge. It is typical Vinge in some senses (the renegades who want to stay free of government surveillance use the HURD), but very near-future- set in 2025, [...]