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I picked up my new glasses today at the optometrist’s and love love LOVE them. Normally I do what most people do, and buy mine at the supermegaultrasavings optical department. But I’ve been doing that my whole life and it’s been, oh gee, about that long since I’ve had a …
Yet another example of why political toadies inevitably hurt the ones they love. Unfortunately, the political appointees I’ve personally known have, by and large, been people who were more concerned about appearance than substance, to the point of sacrificing personal and professional ethics in a misguided attempt to make their …
Holy moley, the servers at Red Hat are overloaded this evening. Ah, I know! It must be the enormous stampede to read my new article there. Enjoy… eventually!
After a 5+ hour flight, I was worn out and ragged. So I had only one thing on my mind when I rolled into the hotel — a very comfortable Residence Inn — and got my luggage put up. That’s right: sushi. There was a neat little “Umi Sushi Boat” …
Linux has rapidly become as easy to use as (or easier than) any other operating system, even on laptops like my ThinkPad T43. Today my WiFi is working at the snap of my fingers while waiting at the airport gate. “Thank you” to all the NetworkManager contributors for making it …
Battlestar Galactica, simply one of the best shows I’ve seen on TV, and one of the only ones I watch anymore. Clever, poignant, exciting, dramatic, intelligent, and powerful. Tonight’s episode rocked hard. Can they keep up this dizzy pace of even better shows practically every week?
My wife and I give to a number of charitable organizations, including many police charities that provide community support, like the Virginia State Police Association’s program that gives teddy bears to children involved in domestic abuse situations, and provides for families of officers killed or injured in the line of …
I got a comment just today from a fellow Fedora Project person (he pulls far more weight than I, and on a more continual basis, so the term “colleague” is, I think, inappropriate — anyone have a better one?). I wanted to respond here on the blog and have the …
Apparently Google employees had a whale of a good time with a rather large order of Silly Putty. I have to admit I’m a big fan of putty too, but I get mine from Crazy Aaron’s. Anyone want to go in for a few pounds?
Greg writes an interesting bit about the discrepancy between telco and cable regulation and what it means — or at least what Lawrence Lessig thinks it means — to the future of information flow and open content on the Internet. The same spirit of innovation that fueled the Internet revolution …