Regarding Matt Asay’s interview of the new Red Hat CEO, I’d just like to say, is it really so surprising that he’s an open source true believer? I don’t naively think that a current CEO gets to simply hand-pick and transplant a replacement, but certainly they get to weigh in …
Allergies have taken their toll today. Current histamine attack commenced at 0900 and continues unabated. Voice scratchy, exacerbated by too much phone conversation today. To cap off all the ignominy, there’s currently no hospitable place to set up our general use workstation at home, so I “gallantly volunteered” the supersexy …
spot’s last post hit home with me for a number of reasons. Before I left work on vacation a couple weeks ago, I made a super-large-print version of this quotation and hung it at my desk (from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, act II, scene 2): Cowards die many times before their …
Phase Five completed this afternoon. There’s a spot of cleanup left to do in the basement, but the basement great room has now been converted to a pretty decent media room. We need to do something about the furnishing situation, but there’s a recliner and a papasan chair that make …
Phase Four (modified) of the Big House Reboot is now complete. Today we went and got a little desk for the little ones (and Eleya) to use up on the main floor, an unfinished real wood piece that we are going to stain to something resembling rosewood. Please wish us …
I realized that I didn’t really include any shots from Christmastime here, so let me take care of that problem. This first one was completely unstaged, right before coming downstairs: Revolting, isn’t it? I wish this was a one-time occurrence and they could just beat each other up like normal …
Finally Eleya and I are getting our plan on the road for rearranging our house. Now the kids are older, and we don’t have to worry so much about where they are — now it’s usually about why they can’t be quieter wherever that is. We kicked off The Big …
One of the gifts I gave Eleya for Christmas was a DVD of the superb ultra-low budget indie film Primer, a film we saw a couple years ago which made a very strong impact. Made by Texan engineer-turned-auteur Shane Carruth, who also starred, edited, scored, and so on, it’s a …
Courtesy of the inimitable Karsten Wade, and in response to Allen’s post, I’d like to add It’s All Text! to the list of good Firefox extensions. Karsten and I use this to call Emacs for doing editing of wiki pages — so important when you have a twitchy touchpad.
I knew that when we ordered a G1G1 XO laptop for my daughter, it would either hit it big, or go down in smoke and flames. As I’m sure the OLPC folks could have guessed, it’s an ENORMOUS smash. Evie hasn’t spent more than a few minutes away from it …