sunrise over ny
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Reviews, frankly, were mixed, but I enjoyed the past few days at CommunityOne and JavaOne. Critics highlighted a distinct lack of real news at the event, at least of the Java flavor, and there was the usual grumbling about the [...]
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hackety org » Sneaking Ruby Through Google App Engine (and Other Strictly Python Places)
just…wow
(tags: ruby python google appengine bytecode compiler via:rafe)
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redmonkone
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Things were dire. Perhaps not quite as dire as The Contrarian might argue, but suboptimal. Intending to lower the barriers to participation in a series of CommunityOne events, all of the tracks were housed under a single roof. A single roof over [...]
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Final reward - The Boston Globe
yes, i’d like this
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ESPN.com - Rockies sinking fast
“Matt Cain has allowed two earned runs or less in nine of his last 12 starts, and has two victories to show for it.” - wow, poor Cain. he lost a 2 hit game against us last summer, [...]
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Getting the most out of your computer system(s): Verizon DSL “Doesn’t Support Linux!!” It works just fine if you can connect to the modem.
yet another reason to dislike Verizon. no one’s asking for Linux help - we can do that ourselves - but why should the installation process be so complicated and require an installer? [...]
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Twitter / Tara missrogue Hunt: OH: Baby, sometimes I think…
amen
(tags: continuous-partial-attention disconnectionanxiety internet addiction)
soundamus - new and upcoming music releases from the artists you listen to
it’s amazing that it takes third parties to come up with this kind of hugely useful service, but perhaps it shouldn’t be: there are few industries less innovative and creative [...]
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For the curious, I made it. To Maine.
The journey wasn’t so fun, and I was unable to escape some minor claw damage, but Az and I made it. As the Twitter followers may already be aware, the experiment cooked up my highly recommended Denver vet, Dr. Cassie Todd, and myself to try [...]
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delicious blog » Firefox 3, del.icio.us, and you
nice to have this bookmark back, finally
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The Perfect Laptop - Unboxing the X300 - All Things Distributed
Werner digs his X300. much like i do.
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How Google Fuels Its Idea Factory
“The best programming team is a “telephone call,” which is two people, you and I, programming together. The second-best programming team is, everybody fits into a single room. [...]
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Joyeur: This is going to be big…
seems like a few folks are trying to conflate the development tools with the cloud; will be interesting to see how that’s received, as most of the web developers i know are fairly wedded to their editors/IDEs and want choice.
(tags: joyeur aptana cloud application-development tools)
Safe as Milk » Blog [...]
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x300 packaging
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It took a little bit longer than I had expected, but I have conquered the demons that were possessing my sound card, and the last remaining (software) reason not to run Ubuntu on an X300 has been addressed. That’s the good [...]
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Shipwreck Lane
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It’s just about that time again. Only this year, if I hadn’t planned to head back east, it’s possible that some folks would have taken matters into their own hands and deported me in hopes of better weather. The late April [...]
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louisgray.com: What’s Your Twitter Noise Ratio?
according to this formula, i’m wicked noisy
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LiveLeak.com - Golden Eagle Throws Goat off Cliff
never seen anything like this. crazy. just as a warning, there is animal on animal violence.
(tags: video nature animals golden eagle goat crazy)
The Official Site of Major League Baseball: News: A green Fenway is a better Fenway
the Red Sox go green
(tags: green energy conservation consumption baseball redsox earthday)
Red [...]
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FIRE JOE MORGAN: JoeChat, BillType
“I think there’s a chance Bill is trying to send us a message, that he is out there, somewhere, typing away. I’m here, he’s saying. I’m at the keyboard. I can’t speak out loud. He’ll hear me. Help me.” - FJM is written by geniuses
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VIVO BAREFOOT
anybody have these?
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x300 Screen
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Previously, on tecosystems: part 1 of our intrepid review of the X300, wherein we say nice things about Lenovo’s latest effort. Yes, the same effort that is tempting some to ponder a departure from the Mac attack.
Anyway, for those [...]
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As MySQL’s Zack Urlocker was kind enough to point out, and my colleagues have already noted, we at RedMonk will be running another unconference track at CommunityOne the day before JavaOne starts. Unlike JavaOne, it’s free. Also unlike JavaOne, we’ll all collectively be deciding on the agenda at the start, though we’re already queueing up [...]
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Discovery News : Discovery Channel
i’m not exactly a climate expert, but this strikes me as not good
(tags: environment weather jetstream climate change)
ongoing · Maxed
“I travel too much and it’s getting on my nerves and I’m looking for a sensible way to cut it back.” - likewise. more on this later.
(tags: travel life work balance)
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x300 w/ ubuntu
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As previously discussed, thanks to the kind attentions of a couple of the folks from Lenovo, I’ve managed to get my hands on one of the new Thinkpad X300’s for a few months of testing. This is what we in [...]
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Tip your cabbie | corey gilmore’s blog
“The moral is to tip at least 20% and remember that a few bucks makes a big difference.” - i always try and remember that a buck or even a few bucks is going to mean a lot more to them than it does to me later
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There are many possible justifications for the uptick we’re seeing in inquiries regarding the indemnification of open source software. It could be a natural consequence of the increasing role that open source is directly playing within traditional proprietary software businesses. It could be the public and private veiled threats regarding potential patent liability for vendors [...]
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Standalone Silverlight Applications - Miguel de Icaza
“I have no idea how extensive the AIR APIs are, whether they are sandboxed or whether they provide full access to all the APIs like our Moonlight Full API provides, but you can build some cute desktop applications with it.”
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AWS Service Health Dashboard [...]
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For the first time in several years I didn’t find myself in California for the MySQL conference; the vendor and project’s largest gathering of developers, ISVs, and users.
My absence should not be read as a lack of interest, of course. It was rather the consequence of a particularly brutal stretch of travel. Had I [...]
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Siphs | Getting Wordpress to Work in Tomcat (PHP in a Java Environment)
WP on Tomcat? i know some folks that might be interested.
(tags: php java wordpress tomcat caucho via:pmuellr)
CLEARly Disappointed | corey gilmore’s blog
like Corey, i’m disappointed with my CLEAR investment. it could still pay off if i encounter a situation where the normal security [...]
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I know Mark and Tim’s results are a bit more interesting than my own, but nonetheless:
sog@frost:~$ history|awk ‘{a[$2]++} END{for(i in a){printf “%5d\t%s \n”,a[i],i}}’|sort -rn|head
104 ps
66 kill
46 sudo
42 cd
41 ls
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Disapointed by the speed of the db backend … - Google App Engine | Google Groups
an interesting thread on GAE performance
(tags: gae google appengine database performance)
Google App Engine Blog: Getting your data on, and off, of Google App Engine
“One upcoming feature of Google App Engine that’s worth mentioning is large-scale data import and export.”
(tags: appengine [...]
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Using Appengine with Django, why it is pretty much unusable — The 42 Topics Blog
“The other flaws I can live with, but a dbshell not working and pdb breakpoints raising exceptions make this unusable for me. I guess I will stick with Django on a normal web host, and look at EC2, when we really [...]
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Google AppEngine - A Second Look | High Scalability
“What’s more the problem is developers will be acquiring a sort of learned helplessness. It’s not that developers can’t port to another environment, they simply won’t know how to anymore because they will have never had to do it themselves.”
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Unconfirmed: Lenovo’s Entire New ThinkPad Line Leaked, X300 Gets Siblings
outstanding news, if true. i’d probably stick with the X300 for the extra screen real estate, but an X200 would be tempting.
(tags: lenovo x300 leak laptops ssds hsdpa evdo wimax gps)
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the machine
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Another week in the books, another trip. This time to good old Austin, Texas, where the Mexican food is excellent, and the sharks are safely in the floor. The purpose this time around was the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit, which was [...]
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CO-ED Magazine » Sickest Beer Pong Skills Ever
note to others: this is called Beirut, not Beer Pong. Beer Pong is a totally different game played with paddles. note to self: do not play this guy under any circumstances in Beirut.
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The Thing About Git
Rafe is right: this piece by Ryan is outstanding.
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Because the blizzard of cloud computing news shows no signs of abating. This time, it’s some details on Microsoft’s plans in the area, which I discovered via David Young. As he says, this is the most interesting tidbit from the job listing:
The Cloud Infrastructure Services (CIS) team is responsible for creating the Microsoft Utility Computing [...]
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“If Amazon/eBay/Google/Yahoo offer platforms - and they will, I believe.” - me
That was Saturday. By Monday, Google App Engine had launched with much fanfare. When I said cloudy days were ahead, I obviously believed that to be the case. I just didn’t know that meant Monday.
Some forecaster I am.
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Yahoo Pipes adds support for serialized PHP « John Herren’s Blog
good on Yahoo for their behavior here
(tags: johnherren php pipes yahoo developers community)
If I Were a CTO at IBM - “Blue Cloud Stuff” | John M Willis ESM Blog
wow. pretty harsh indictment of the IBM Blue Cloud messaging.
(tags: ibm blue cloud johnwillis amazon tivoli)
Hurry, The [...]
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Overheard at an airport within the last seven calendar days. Cletus and Earl are not their given names, mostly because I don’t know the real ones.
Cletus: Dude, you’ve gotta check this new, uh, internet thing out.
Earl: What is it?
Cletus: Fox-something, and it’s awesome.
Earl: Better than what I got?
Cletus: Oh yeah. Hell yeah. Let me [...]
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minnesota sky
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It’s been a cloudy few weeks. Literally, of course, because of the storms that perpetually stalk me on my peripatetic wanderings, but figuratively as well. In between the UFOs on the History Channel and the Orange County Choppers on Discovery served [...]
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Git’s avalanche
“I think they’re going to get it. Killer apps makes or breaks any platform. With Github, I think the Git hub just scored one. Rails is going to be hosted there for the launch. Capistrano, Prototype, and Scriptaculous already moved there.”
(tags: git dhh distributed scm subversion svn)
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Official Google Data APIs Blog: Google Data APIs patent license
“Well, those concerns end today as we are giving a no-charge, royalty-free license to any patents we have that you would need to implement Atom, AtomPub, or any of those extensions.” - more of this, please
(tags: joegregorio api atom gdata google patents)
eBay’s power sell: Skype to [...]
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Firefox 4 will push out the edges of the browser | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone
interesting piece on where Firefox is headed
(tags: firefox ria browser technology web weave)
Music 2.0 models beginning to work | Future Of Music
and despite that, the music industry continues to fight them
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Ubuntu chief picks panda [...]
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» JetBlue engages in real conversation on Twitter
i’ll admit to being more or less in the bag for JetBlue already, but their usage of Twitter would impress even if i hated them as much as i hate United. the fact that i can communicate with their folks via a tool i use that’s not email? [...]
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Adobe AIR installation Process
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This belated Friday Grab Bag on a Monday is coming to you live from the Westin Waterfront in Boston. While there’s very little of the waterfront about it, it’s a good place to stay.
Of the dominant hotel chains, [...]
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Luis Villa’s Blog / Microsoft Technology Summit- mts08
excellent MTS wrapup from Senor Villa. not that i expected anything less.
(tags: luisvilla microsoft microsofttechnologysummit mts)
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Cottages in Snow
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So the snow’s not as bad as pictured. Really. I’ll admit to some concern when the morning forecasts called for six inches - concern enough that I went up from a Kia Spectra to a Ford Explorer. But the snow [...]
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Amazon Web Services reads my mind at Pensieri di un lunatico minore
Chris on the AWS updates. the verdict? thumbs up
(tags: amazon aws ec2 s3 cloud computing)
MaineToday.com | News Update: I-295 closure proposal on the Web
“The Maine Department of Transportation has established a Web site dedicated to providing information on a proposal to shut down both [...]
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Back in November of 2005, when polled on application areas that they would be reluctant to trust to open source, the following group of individuals - nearly to a person - pointed to mission critical databases:
Gary J. Beach (Editor, CIO Magazine)
Ameet Patel (Former CTO, LabMorgan (JP Morgan Chase))
Don Haile (President & CIO, Fidelity Investments)
Ron Rose [...]
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In my presentation (PDF, ODF, PPT) to an audience of open source ISVs contemplating relationships with Microsoft - the long time standards bearer for proprietary software - I likened the relationship between the firm and the movement to the Odd Couple. Though I declined to cast the respective parties.
After the past few days at [...]
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I’ll get to the Microsoft Open Source ISV event wrapup hopefully sometime tomorrow, but before I embark on a full slate of evening activities I wanted to remind everyone that the baseball season, and more importantly the Red Sox season, opens tomorrow morning.
Excessively early tomorrow morning, in fact, thanks to the fact that the [...]
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Ray jumps, kills boater off Florida Keys | U.S. | Reuters
tragic. never seen a ray breach before.
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As some of the Twitter folken are aware, I’m in the process of finalizing details for my forthcoming transition back to the East Coast for my usual summer of Sox. At some point between May 1 and, say, May 15th, I’ll be pulling up stakes and migrating from Denver to the family place in Georgetown, [...]
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open social at mashup camp
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With the exception of one Mountain View iteration and the Dublin experience, I’ve been to every Mashup Camp iteration to date. And while it’s clearly evolved, it hasn’t evolved out of being one of the more interesting conferences [...]
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David Siegel - The Plenitude of Arboreal Beauty » Blog Archive » GNOME Do 0.4
big fan of GNOME Do, as are many of the folks that i know
(tags: launcher linux gnome do davidsiegel plugins)
Abyss & Apex : Fourth Quarter 2007: Wikihistory
hilarious.
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A serious case of pulp friction - The Boston Globe
“The [...]
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Packers Tell Fans They Gave Favre To A Nice Farm Family | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
high-larious. bless the Onion.
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woxy.com > Lounge Acts
if you want to hear a non-Radiohead artist talk about what it’s like to distribute their music digitally, listen to the interview with Eric Elbogen in [...]
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Due to an unfortunate combination of vacations, conflicting travel schedules, and other obligations, I’ve missed the past few Mashup Camps, including one in Dublin. I still haven’t moments where I break down and cry about that one.
Anyhow, that lamentable streak is poised to come to an end tomorrow morning, when I catch an early [...]
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St. Patty’s Day Parade
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Not everyone’s lucky enough to be in Southie for the St Patrick’s day parade, it’s true. Which is a shame, because outside of Ireland, there are few areas more fiercely proud of their heritage and last names than my [...]
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Life is so good, it gets better every day » Blog Archive » Thoughts on a probable opensolaris.com
a look at some of the ideas for opensolaris.com; i think some of the top level nav elements are a bit abstract, but it’s otherwise pretty good
(tags: opensolaris.com glynnfoster informationarchitecture)
When standards ain’t standards - Perspectives - Opinion - [...]
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dtrace.conf
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Perhaps it was the fact that one of the attendees was a former Enron IT employee (very bright guy), but a few minutes into dtrace.conf I was more than somewhat concerned about being exposed not as one of the smartest guys in [...]
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Once besieged by basic questions ranging from “is it open source?” to “will it make money?,” the open source world is increasingly facing more mature, nuanced questions and assertions.
One such that has been picking up steam of late is that open source licensing is less important than commonly assumed. Reacting to a piece from [...]
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Zac Bowling’s Blog » Blog Archive » iPhone developer program is a joke
one of the Mono guys is…less than fired up about the iPhone SDK
(tags: mono opensource iphone apple sdk)
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Chad Finn’s Touching All The Bases: Changes in latitudes
congrats to Bath’s own Chad Finn for his move to the Boston Globe: great move on their part
(tags: chadfinn blogging sports redsox bostonglobe blogger)
The Goldfish Chronicles » Blog Archive » Open Source recruiting: Users vs Committers
“I continue to grapple with the concept of how to treat users [...]
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Discovery News : Discovery Channel
“”What the communication was I do not know, and I was not aware dolphins could communicate with pygmy sperm whales, but something happened that allowed Moko to guide those two whales to safety.” - my guess? “what’s wrong with you two? this way”
(tags: dolphins whales communication animals interaction)
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Bob Sutor: Open Blog | Tweet, tweet
“Alex is a star of Web 2.0, in my opinion, and his code is incredibly high quality. It’s always a pleasure to be able to use more of it!” - kudos from Bob for my office mate
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FlyClear+Diagram.jpg (image)
this is hilarious: check out the [...]
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Foggy San Francisco
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San Francisco. Seriously. I know, I can’t believe it either. I’m only there two dozen times a year. So much that an apartment would be far more economical than all the hotels.
Well, maybe not. It is San Francisco, after [...]
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ESPN.com - Long-term cost of MLB’s prices
“MLB can make a few pennies every year, selling all the old stuff. I suspect it can more dollars, down the road, by giving away the old stuff to anybody who cares enough to want it.”
(tags: mlb free commons lossleader economics businessmodels)
Creepy Gnome terrorises town in General Guemes, Salta, [...]
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Yes, my grandma can run Ubuntu Linux | The Open Road - The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay - CNET Blogs
very tempted to say “i told you so”
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The Blog of Ben Rockwood
don’t agree with all of this - particularly the affection for parliamentary procedure, [...]
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Whether he’s damning Apple with faint praise, threatening open source, or denigrating former employees, I’ve long argued that Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer generally does more damage than good when he speaks in public. Nor am I alone in this opinion. Hell, even the market agrees.
The benefits of silence, apparently, are one of the few lessons [...]
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Baseball Taps Wisdom of Fans - WSJ.com
Rob Neyer raised some legitimate objections to this in his blog, but i still think it can’t hurt, even if it can’t help. there are some very, very smart fans out there (e.g. the USS Mariner’s Cameron); the challenge is identifying them and their work.
(tags: wisdomofthecrowds community metrics scouting [...]
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Vodkatrain
i don’t even like vodka, and this looks cool
(tags: vodkatrain travel rail train russia mongolia vietnam china)
FireEagle Officially Launched :: High Earth Orbit
best take i’ve read yet on fire eagle
(tags: fireeagle andrewturner location gps)
Official Google Data APIs Blog: 3. 2. 1. Contact. The API has landed
the official (and long awaited) Google Contact API
(tags: api contacts [...]
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Prism within Firefox
Originally uploaded by sogrady
Tough week for the planned posts. One on Lotus is bogged down, another on the iPhone got derailed by the SDK announcement this week, and two more - screencasts both - are in a holding pattern until I can get [...]
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MaineToday.com | News Update: Spring salmon season approved
sweet. if i’m back, i may try to get up there.
(tags: salmon fishing maine may)
ActiveState - Free the dragon! - Dynamic Tools for Dynamic Languages
interesting, and not just because of the tri-license hoice. hell, i’ll try it.
(tags: activestate komodo opensource editor dynamiclanguages)
Ballmer on the hot seat at Mix [...]
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fire eagle Screenshot
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It is true, what you have heard: I’m a huge fan of GPS. It successfully navigates me up to the Chops and around Westport Island, and it fetches me back to the car even when the visibility’s not so good. [...]
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Who are these models and what have they done with Steve Ballmer? | The Social - CNET News.com
“Oh, well–thanks for the invite and the free Stella Artois, Microsoft. I had a decent time, and I know you guys in Redmond like to put on a big spectacle, but seriously it’s OK to invite nerds to [...]
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Amazon MP3 Downloader
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Given that I’ve been waiting months for its release, you’d think that I’d be more excited about the availability of the Amazon MP3 Downloader client for Linux. And I was, initially.
For the one or two of you that don’t [...]
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Peep - an Open Twitter Server - RussellBeattie.com
interesting little project. as senor aqualung mentions, it might be useful for some of the use cases we’re noodling around internally.
(tags: jabber python server twitter russellbeattie via:aqualung)
hyku | blog - Why I Sold Out - by business blog and social media consultant Josh Hallett
a nice explanation from Josh [...]
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Let’s get a couple of things out of the way before I begin. I know Matt Asay, I like Matt Asay, and I respect Matt Asay. I am, in fact, slated to moderate a panel for him at his upcoming OSBC conference.
But the one area in which we’ve never seen eye to eye is [...]
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Too big to use utility computing ?
precisely. computing as a continuum.
(tags: amazon aws cloud utility computing ec2 enterprise s3)
Stating the obvious at Churbuck.com
i agree. though it depends, of course, on context, these are not impossible questions. interesting discussion too. not entirely sure how Churbuck became Chuck, though.
(tags: davidchurbuck dialogue enterprise listening feedback)
So, That’s Why Safari’s [...]
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cool sky
Originally uploaded by sogrady
Been a long, complicated week here at the home office. Some highs, some lows, the usual.
The good news is that it’s Friday, the Sox are on TV tonight, and I don’t have to get on a plane tomorrow morning. In other [...]
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Andi Gutmans’ Weblog: Zend Framework to be part of Ubuntu!
should be interesting to see what this does for Zend’s uptake
(tags: zend framework andigutmans ubuntu multiverse)
Boycott Novell » Mark Shuttleworth’s Stance on Mono Inside Ubuntu
Mark on the situation with respect to Mono and patents
(tags: markshuttleworth mono patents ubuntu)
rc3.org — The future of the exurbs
interesting piece. i’ve [...]
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SXSW Showcasing Music Torrents
sweet - 3GBs of fresh new music. can’t wait to bring this down.
(tags: music torrent sxsw mp3 bittorrent via:simon austin)
AWS, uptime, downtime and information at Pensieri di un lunatico minore
wherein Chris essentially says exactly what i would have re: the Amazon outage, only more succinctly and eloquently
(tags: chrispetrilli amazon outage sla uptime [...]
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Back in January, I publicly lamented what I regarded as the sorry state of laptop computing. In a continuation of a running theme, I pondered the lack of true premium notebooks; hardware that commanded a premium price in return for premium features.
More specifically, I took aim at the gang over at Lenovo, saying:
What of [...]
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Conspiracy buffs may feast on JFK documents | Oddly Enough | Reuters
coming soon to a theater near you
(tags: jfk conspiracy documents history)
“Improving” Twitter | alexking.org
obviously i agree. as i’ve written before, i wish more Twitterers were less verbose in their communication, but Twitter still encourages the opposite.
(tags: twitter mevthee alexking)
Planning for Ubuntu 8.10ish - The [...]
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vegas = lines
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A few weeks back, I arrived at SFO even earlier than normal (read > 2 HRs) in a effort that failed miserably to stand by on an earlier flight back to Denver. Facing several down hou