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links for 2008-01-04

The Futurist » Blog Archive » WOXY.com Google Calendar Now Live!
very progressive use of Google Calendar by the WOXY crew: kudos
(tags: google calendar woxy programming schedule)

The Scoble scuffle: Facebook, Plaxo at odds over data portability | The Social - CNET News.com
i’d be more sympathetic if it wasn’t Plaxo; while they’ve somewhat rehabilitated themselves from their [...]

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I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For

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You’d think it would be easier to find a laptop worth buying. There being many fish in the sea and all that. But I remain relatively unimpressed with the current options. MacBooks notwithstanding.
And yet I’m in desperate need of a hardware [...]

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links for 2008-01-03

Mystery ThinkPad surfaces, purportedly on track for 2008 release - Engadget
if this is true, book me for one now. 13 inch LED backlit screen? finally. i’ve been wondering why Lenovo was content to lag so far behind rivals, maybe they were just playing it close to the vest.
(tags: lenovo thinkpad x-series ledbacklit rumor engadget)

Damien Katz: [...]

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2007: The Year in Review, from Macro to Micro

As goals go, hozho is as good as any, and better than most. The balance it describes was no more easily achieved in this year than any other, but the highs and lows were navigated, I’d argue, more or less as prescribed by the approach itself. No permanent damage, at least, appears to have been [...]

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links for 2008-01-02

2007 in Review | alexking.org
2007, AKA the year that Alex blew things up. lord. i leave for a months and a burgeoning new business is created. also note that we found Crowd Favorite *before* AllThingsD. take that, Mossberg.
(tags: alexking 2007 review crowdfavorite allthingsd)

Surviving Grady: A Diary of Unhealthy Red Sox Obsession
“We started this thing back [...]

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links for 2007-12-31

VMware Communities: Iphone in Vmware workstation 6.0.2 …
no iPhone support in VMWare yet. unfortunate.

(tags: vmware workstation iphone device support)

Using an iPhone / iPod Touch with Ubuntu - Community Ubuntu Documentation
not sure i’m ready to jailbreak the device, particularly since folks who did this previously had their phones bricked (which is crap, obviously)
(tags: apple iphone ipod [...]

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links for 2007-12-30

Amazon SimpleDb
Alex on SimpleDB, the pro’s and con’s.
(tags: alexbosworth simpledb documentation api php)

links for 2007-12-29 [on Simon Phipps, SunMink]
“A welcome demise for a customer-hostile, DRM-infested, Windows-only product that no-one could love. Let’s hope the movie industry is paying close attention and learning the right lessons from this” - won’t hold my breath
(tags: drm wal-mart movies [...]

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links for 2007-12-29

MaineToday.com | News Update: EPA approves Northeast mercury plan
sweet! maybe now i won’t go crazy
(tags: epa mercury northeast fishing)

Futuretalk: ThruDB - Too-biased
“ThruDB, faster and cheaper than SimpleDB…The architecture sound incredible. Amongst others there is the rank and file of the high scalability open source software such as memcached, spread, CLucene and facebook’s newcomer thrift for [...]

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Three Days With an iPhone

headed uptown

Originally uploaded by sogrady

Ask and ye shall receive. John and Kevin asked for a review, so here are my initial reactions.
Of course I’ll spin it that way, as if I’m altruistically documenting my experience for others and wasn’t planning on posting it anyway. [...]

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links for 2007-12-28

Old School [dive into mark]
“So it’s not about language, and it’s not about “modeling the wrong behavior,” and it’s not about the color of your skin or your fur. It’s about class — the one subject that’s still taboo in America, after all these years.”

(tags: children class culture education learning pbs television tv sesamestreet)

Daily Kos: [...]

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links for 2007-12-27

Research In Motion: What Slowdown?
“Analysts figured cuts in corporate tech spending would hurt the BlackBerry maker’s earnings. But smart marketing to consumers has paid off.” - consumer markets matter. who’d a thunk it?
(tags: consumer markets businessweek rim phones data plans pearl)

Search forms should use the GET method - rc3.org
“GET and POST both have their place, [...]

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links for 2007-12-26

ESPN - The wild and wacky from 2007 - MLB
“Maybe the Phillies should have traded for Mariners rookie Ryan Feierabend. He made three straight starts in June and July in which he gave up nine, zero, then 10 runs.” - the 0 game? my Sox. drove me absolutely crazy.
(tags: weird wacky baseball boston redsox ryanfeierabend)

The [...]

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Merry Christmas from Evil Santa

I’m Quite the Artist

Originally uploaded by sogrady

Technically, I’m not a liar. I said I wouldn’t buy an iPhone, but I never said anything about what would happen if I were given one. Which I was. By my brother. Whose year was apparently even better than [...]

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links for 2007-12-25

Chris Hedges on The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos on CBC
fundamentalism in any form terrifies me. maybe not as much as plagues or supervolcanoes, but close.
(tags: america books christianity chrishedges pulitzer newyorktimes ideology fundamentalism right intertolerance rationalism fascism religion)

This Could Be Next: Craigslist Integrates Social Networking with Listings « American Shelf Life
i’m seeing more such convergence [...]

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This Week: New York / Boston

Boston Skyline

Originally uploaded by sogrady

As documented in excruciating detail on Twitter, I did eventually manage to make it into LaGuardia last night for the annual holiday visit with the parents. Not without the roughest ride I’ve had in years, but given that delays peaked north [...]

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links for 2007-12-24

Asus announces U2 hotness - Engadget
no trackpoint, and the SSD is too small - the Dell 1330 offers a 64 GB option - but we’re getting closer to something i can use. LED backlit option is attractive.
(tags: trackpoint asus u2 laptop ssd ultralight)

Amazon Web Services Blog: EC2 Firefox Extension is now Open Source
wow, the Amazon [...]

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links for 2007-12-23

Mozilla Labs Blog » Blog Archive » Introducing Weave
fascinating, and potentially relevant to Luis’ open services discussion. from my initial read, however, it does seem as if they’re a bit ambitious.
(tags: mozilla weave open services standards online cloud)

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links for 2007-12-22

Guardian Unlimited: Arts blog - TV & radio: Last night’s TV: Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives
one of my favorite indie act frontmen, E, learns more about his famous physicist father, Hugh Everett
(tags: depression genius mre eels parallel worlds hugheverett)

Twitter / hober: @josephgrossberg Exactly. I…
totally agree. this is the number one reason i don’t follow some folks [...]

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The Vacation Before the Vacation

mmm…boat garages

Originally uploaded by sogrady

The key is to kill yourself just enough in the afternoon that the food and beverages taste deserved, and the sweeter for it. Or so I’m told.
After a barely white knuckle transit up to Grand Lake yesterday morning, a friend [...]

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links for 2007-12-21

Customers hate you - Business Filter - Boston.com
“A new report shows that about 62 percent of Americans say companies ‘don’t care much’ about their needs. That’s up from 52 percent in 2004.”
(tags: customers customerservice marketing customerrights)

Q&A: Going to the mat for photo copyrights | Underexposed - CNET News.com
a complex issue that i can see both [...]

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To the Mountains, Posthaste

On the Road to Grand Lake

Originally uploaded by sogrady

After a quick half day’s worth of work - insomnia isn’t all bad, just mostly - I’m about to hop in the car with a friend of mine and light out for the territories. The territories, in [...]

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links for 2007-12-20

[adult swim] | Adult Swim Video
absolute comedy. the Michell report as a Red Sox conspiracy, as seen from the eyes of a Yankee fan.
(tags: athf baseball redsox yankee mitchellreport humor)

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links for 2007-12-19

» WordPress vs. an army of clunky content management systems | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com
“Dennis Howlett pinged me about this post to point out that WordPress isn’t a CMS and is stretched beyond its capability.” - we use it as one. see redmonk.com.
(tags: wordpress contentmanagement dennishowlett zdnet buy-vs-build)

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Mobile Distractions: How to Kill Time w/ Your Web Enabled Phone

Everything’s coming up mobile this week, or so it would seem. Not so much on the news front - it’s been far too long since I saw a good Android conspiracy theory - but with everyone else: clients, friends, colleagues - everyone. Hell, I can’t say that I’d be terribly surprised if Az up and [...]

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links for 2007-12-18

Rise or fall for Red Hat? | The Open Road - The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay - CNET Blogs
Savio’s right: the comments on this one are interesting, as it’s Matt’s read on the state of RHAT.
(tags: saviorodrigues mattasay opensource redhat jboss financials downgrade)

Photo Matt » Web Apps with Class
“It would [...]

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Death Knol for Wikipedia? Doubtful

Lots of chatter this week on Google’s planned Knol offering. Considered by many to be a potential Wikipedia killer, I’m both skeptical of that claim and disinterested generally. Oh, I’m quite sure that there will be sterling examples of individually authored research, but I find it difficult to believe that a single author - even [...]

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links for 2007-12-17

Surviving Grady: A Diary of Unhealthy Red Sox Obsession
“Doesn’t that feel better?” - yes, actuallly, it does.
(tags: daveroberts redsox 2004 standingovation)

NPR : Mystery Factor Gives Ganges a Clean Reputation
weird, but cool.
(tags: weird ganges water india mystery npr)

I Needed Help, Not Ostracism - washingtonpost.com
heard this guy speak on NPR the other day, and he made an [...]

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links for 2007-12-16

Chad Finn’s Touching All The Bases: I don’t like the drugs but the drugs like me
“Given what we now know about the era during which he was the most dominating pitcher we’ve ever witnessed, the accomplishments of 5-foot-11, 170-pound Pedro Jaime Martinez’s accomplishments grow more impressive by the year.” - yes they do
(tags: pedromartinez baseball [...]

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links for 2007-12-15

Steve Gillmor’s GestureLab » Overnight Success
can’t say that i successfully parsed this one
(tags: stevegillmor google apple microsoft rayozzie)

max spevack’s blog - drawing conclusions is left as an exercise to the reader
interesting Fedora community traction numbers
(tags: packages community fedora redhat via:jdub)

Sam Ruby: Eventual Consistency
“Amazon SimpleDB [via Simon Willison]. Erlang. Schemaless. Cool.” - agreed.
(tags: [...]

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Making Money With Software, or Because of It?

Three years ago, Doc Searls discussed the idea that “it’s far more important (and interesting) to make money because of our blogs, rather than with them.” The elephant in the room for that particular conversation was advertising, the implicit question being should the blog be a profit in and of itself, or merely a means [...]

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links for 2007-12-14

MaineToday.com | News Update: It’s time to pull out the shovels - again
“Then there’ll be a lull before another snowstorm, a classic Nor’easter, sweeps through Maine Saturday night and Sunday with strong winds and heavy snow.” - ah, wish i was there. love being curled up warm inside while the wind howls outside.
(tags: maine weather [...]

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links for 2007-12-13

OpenedHand » home
mallum pointed me to this, and i dig the new look. not just b/c i know who built it
(tags: openedhand site redesign mobile)

McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: A Routine Traffic Stop Can Change Everything in an Instant.
this is freaking hilarious
(tags: mcsweeneys speedracer comedy humor via:david)

Best compliment ever - rc3.org
there’s no way i could [...]

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Software Science vs Software Evolution, or Software Science and Software Evolution?

When I was in high school, and it came time to apply to college, my primary goal was as straightforward as it was unambitious: to get in. Obviously I had certain preferences, but like musical chairs I more or less didn’t want to be the one left standing. Most kids, I’m sure, are of the [...]

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links for 2007-12-12

Toshiba launching SCiB batteries in March: 5 min charge, 10 year lifespan - Engadget
this would be phenomenal: 90% charge in 5 minutes?
(tags: toshiba batteries scib)

Books: None of the Above: Books: The New Yorker
Gladwell on race and IQ; injecting sense into a nonsensical argument. worth reading as always.
(tags: newyorker malcolmgladwell iq race genetics intelligence)

MaineToday.com | News [...]

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links for 2007-12-11

Red Sox Nation, Florida - Extra Bases - Red Sox blog
if i’m ever in Bonita Springs, i’m going
(tags: bonitasprings florida redsox baseball)

YouTube - The Nutty Buddy
a new cup, designed by an ex-MLBer. words fail me.
(tags: nuttybuddy humor comedy mlb via:buster)

» Before buying an HD display, read this lowdown on 720p vs. 1080i vs 1080p | [...]

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links for 2007-12-09

Comparing “open source” projects? Start by asking why does the project exist.
very interesting piece by mdolan; a bit cynical towards Sun, as usual, and i do think comparisons are possible b/twn projects managed under different governance models, but there’s a lot in here that i agree with. be interesting if he went introspective.
(tags: mdolan linux [...]

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links for 2007-12-08

The dish » BBWAA.
The Baseball Writers Association of America has done little to distinguish itself, but after years of fighting it, they finally gave in and allowed internet only writers in. sadly, two of my favorites, Law and Neyer, were denied entry. for no reason.
(tags: baseball keithlaw robneyer bbwaa)

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Friday Grab Bag

One more week in the books, and more importantly one week closer to my annual Christmas and New Year’s two week shutdown and overhaul. While this week was blessedly yet strangely travel free, we’re getting moderately crushed with a few end of year projects, contracts, and other fun stuff. Well, to own the truth, some [...]

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VMWare: Coming Out of the Cloud?

No VMWare from Rackspace

Originally uploaded by sogrady

“Red Hat on Wednesday announced a significant departure from its current business plan, saying its flagship Linux product will be available on Amazon.com’s Elastic Computing Cloud online service.” - Stephen Shankland
That was one month ago today. Buried under the [...]

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links for 2007-12-07

Kitty Wigs! The Wigs
two words: high. larious.
(tags: cats humor pets random wigs via:bree)

NPR : Romney Hopes to Reassure Voters Over His Faith
“The effort to establish an anti-religion in America, the anti-religion of secularism, has got to come to an end…We are a nation under God. And we do place our trust in Him.” - so [...]

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links for 2007-12-06

Verizon Embraces Google’s Android
Verizon? open? would be great news, and actually could compel me to switch back, but i’ll believe it when i see it. of all the carriers, they’ve been the most closed and most likely to cripple their own devices. which is why i’m now an AT&T customer.
(tags: verizon google android mobile open)

Open [...]

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Fedora 8: Close, But No Cigar

Fedora’s Virtualization Manager

Originally uploaded by sogrady

Fedora had a chance - a real chance - to unseat Ubuntu last week. Not for my primary machine, the Thinkpad, but for the Ultra 20 workstation. And just to address the rumors, no one’s switching back to Windows. The [...]

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links for 2007-12-05

Now you can donate to Eclipse « Ian Skerrett
will be interested to see how this fares. not just for analysis purposes, either.
(tags: eclipse ianskerrett donations funding community)

LG’s 13.3-inch P300 series of LED-backlit laptops - Engadget
no trackpad, but otherwise a good potential replacement for the Thinkpad. speaking of, anybody have any idea when Lenovo’s releasing an [...]

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“Hybrid” Source, MySQL, and the Economics of Open Source

As is typical, I’m late with the news, but given that we’re still getting inquiries on the subject, it’s worth taking a look at the MySQL Workbench news. Particularly in light of the fact that it’s closely tied to another frequent line of questioning from our clients: hybrid source. In an effort to kill the [...]

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links for 2007-12-04

Don’t Know Their Yahoo From Their YouTube - washingtonpost.com
“So why is it so funny that the octogenarian Stevens, the top Republican senator on the committee that regulates the Web, doesn’t know the difference between the Internet and an e-mail?” - an excellent question
(tags: technology politics policy via:luis)

Album2007
vote for NPR’s Albums of 2007. my own selections: [...]

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To Be Here, Or Not To Be? Can’t It Be Both?

Lots More of This

Originally uploaded by sogrady

It’s no secret - to the few that are interested, anyhow - that I was back East for longer than was anticipated this summer. Quite a bit longer, actually. As in mid-May through mid-November, up from June through September [...]

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links for 2007-12-03

tow.com » blog » Decluttering
in the process of doing this to my entire apartment. it’s lot of work, unfortunately.
(tags: decluttering stuff simplify livesimply via:alex)

Eighth wonder of the world? The stunning temples secretly carved out below ground by ‘paranormal’ eccentric | the Daily Mail
i love weird stuff like this
(tags: cathedral underground italy temple interesting via:alex)

Piecing together [...]

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links for 2007-12-02

Health and the Aspen Institute « Adam Bosworth’s Weblog
fascinating look at the state of health care and potential approaches
(tags: healthcare adambosworth)

AppleInsider | Ultra-portable Apple notebook to splash down at Macworld Expo
give me this, with two mouse buttons and a trackpoint and i’m in. except for the OS X part, of course. i can’t get over [...]

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links for 2007-12-01

» OpenDocument Format community steadfast despite theatrics of now impotent ‘Foundation’ | Berlind’s Testbed | ZDNet.com
i’ve heard quite a bit about this, and despite knowing both Gary and Sam, i can’t say i really understand what’s going on.
(tags: odf foundation cdf politics ibm sun)

Vegas Watch: Bill Simmons Isn’t Even Trying Anymore
i’m a Simmons fan, mostly, [...]

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With Friends Like These - GNOME, OOXML, and ODF: A Q&A

On the first of this month, after reading about the original dispute between ODF advocates and representatives from the GNOME community, I had this to say:
Wasted almost an hour today watching this trainwreck of a line of commentary. Unfortunate, and unproductive.
It may not comes as a surprise, then, to hear that in the month that [...]

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links for 2007-11-30

Coming in 2008: GPS-enabled cameras? | Underexposed - CNET News.com
GPS enabling and embedding wifi would change cameras profoundly for the better. except, in all likelihood, in terms of battery life.
(tags: gps cameras stephenshankland)

OpenSolaris Soon to Run on IBM Mainframes
count me as interested in this
(tags: mainframe opensolaris solaris sun ibm)

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links for 2007-11-29

Luis Villa’s Blog / gnome is humans; jeff is human; murray is violating the no asshole rule
good to see Luis outline his position on the GNOME flap in more depth, and condemn the approach taken by Murray. disagreement and criticism are fine things, as Luis says, and no one is perfect. but there is no [...]

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Pulling the Ripcord on San Francisco

Cancelling the flight and hotel for tomorrow night was easy. Lunch with Dave, dinner with Preston, and a RedMonk evening with the Joyeurs and other friends at the new 83 Proof: considerably harder.
But when I learned earlier this evening that my last remaining client gig in San Francisco had been moved from Thursday to [...]

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IBM’s Analyst Conference: Software Group in a SaaS World

As the interviews that are beginning to make their way up onto RedMonk TV can attest, our stay in Stamford for IBM’s annual analyst get together was something of a free for all of information. A bit of concurrency and dynamic languages here, some analyst relations chat there, the requisite Web 2.0 discussion, and more. [...]

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links for 2007-11-28

Universal’s CEO Once Called iPod Users Thieves. Now He’s Giving Songs Away.
unsurprising portrait of a music industry exec who’s technology ignorant, and rather proud of it. if i was a shareholder, i’d be appalled.
(tags: sethmnookin universal riaa drm mp3 music wired)

Boston Red Sox - Loyalty not an act for this Red Sox fan - The [...]

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links for 2007-11-27

A response to the cacophony
“If you’re reading this, and you are feeling ongoing…despair…please see someone about it..It’s the only way to help…and the saddest things happen when people don’t” - kudos for dealing openly w/ this. i’ve got his back, and thank Jebus for Pia
(tags: jdub gnome depression mentalhealth)

Murray’s Blog » Blog Archive » GNOME [...]

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links for 2007-11-26

Linux.com :: GNOME Foundation defends OOXML involvement
i was hoping i could skip this one, as it seem clear cut from where i sit, but i guess it’s more nebulous than i’d hoped
(tags: gnome microsoft novell odf ooxml standards)

ESPN Page 2 - Gallo: Advice for Weis
this has been an excruciating season for the Irish, but [...]

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Out of the Refrigerator and Into the Fire

camden

Originally uploaded by sogrady

Though my Nokia N75 is unable to properly relay it (really should have brought the real camera), the view of Camden from the summit of Mount Battie was as clear as it was brisk. After walking up the quote unquote mountain - [...]

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links for 2007-11-23

stevenf.com: Android, With More Optimism
“And that’s why, despite all my grumping and flailing about of hands, I wish Google the best of luck with Android, and I’m looking forward to seeing it run on some actual hardware, and what happens after that.”
(tags: android google apple palm windows iphone via:alex)

Why Guiness tastes better in Ireland « [...]

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I Do Not Sound Like That

“Contrary to popular belief, I’m not actually from Boston (though most of my family is).” - Me
Usually, it’s the hat. As just about anyone who’s seen me outside of a formal venue can tell you, a Red Sox hat is a staple of my existence. Has been since my first visit to Fenway. [1] [...]

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The Five Year Thank You Plan

According to our incorporation paperwork, RedMonk’s five year birthday is yet two Sundays away. But practically speaking, it was this same time five years ago that saw James and I embark on the journey that brought us - and, if we’re doing anything at all correctly, you - RedMonk.
It’s true that I have a [...]

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links for 2007-11-22

Report: Billions of jellyfish wipe out salmon farm | Underexposed - CNET News.com
jellyfish are becoming hugely (and newly) problematic in waters they’ve never been an issue in previously. the answer probably isn’t as simple as global warming, but if folks think something massive and dangerous isn’t at work, they’re fooling themselves.
(tags: jellyfish salmon globalwarming ireland)

Open [...]

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links for 2007-11-21

Comcast Must Die - Advertising Age - News
“Traditional marketing no longer works. The most important marketing vehicle right now is the consumer. Things have pretty much gone bottom up at Dell.”
(tags: comcast dell marketing bottomup consumer via:david)

25 Great Calvin and Hobbes Strips.
nothing beats Calvin and Hobbes. nothing.
(tags: art humor nostalgia calvin&hobbes)

23andMe - Variations: Speed Gene: [...]

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Where Do Virtualization and HaaS Meet Backup?

If you spend enough time talking with fans or purveyors of the various virtualization technologies, eventually the conversation will shift around to the migration of “live workloads” - the movement, in other words, of running software. VMWare talks about this quite a bit, and Red Hat hastened to point out this feature in its latest [...]

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links for 2007-11-20

John Sequeira’s Weblog
John ponders the possibility of a Mono/virtualization story
(tags: mono virtualization johnsequeira appliance microsoft .net silvernight moonlight)

Boston Red Sox - Sorry A-Rod, MVP stands for Most Valuable Papi - Boston.com
the numbers are interesting, but only the most ardent homers would vote for Papi this year. A-Rod carried that team in the early going.
(tags: arod [...]

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Aiming for the Clouds: The Red Hat Q&A

Given my travel schedule of late (the very same one that prompted more than one “are you dead?” pings), I’m operating on a bit of a time delay, so if you’re wondering whether something has gone terribly wrong considering that I’m covering “news” dating back to early November, do not adjust your dial. I’ve just [...]

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links for 2007-11-19

Digg - “If I see a child or a pre-teen crying on the beach I change my direction”
sad, but understandable in the current climate
(tags: children culture adults help)

Google engineer explains Android choices
“We have our own APIs [and] a better flavor of Java,” - is the fragmenting of Java beginning?
(tags: java android harmony apache google sun)

Red [...]

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links for 2007-11-17

Stefano’s Linotype ~ Dalvik: how Google routed around Sun’s IP-based licensing restrictions on Java ME
very interesting look at the IP issues around and behind Android
(tags: android dalvik ip google sun java jvm vm)

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To My Anonymous Benefactor

Lest I forget, I’d like to take this opportunity to thank whomever it was - no note was included - that sent me this t-shirt (if you’re religious or easily offended, don’t click). It’s a couple of sizes too big, but I’ve already worn it. Really appreciated.
And on a similar note, if you’re a [...]

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Denver. Again.

The Faithful Steed

Originally uploaded by sogrady

You can call off the search parties. Unlike Flight 19, I was never destined to stay lost.
2114 miles, 1 speeding ticket [1], and I really don’t even want to think about how much gas later, I find myself returned [...]

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It’s About That Time

Almost Home

Originally uploaded by sogrady

While it was an absurd September travel schedule that initially prevented my return to Denver, the Red Sox are the real reason I’m still in Maine as of today.
But tomorrow is my last morning here. Well, at least until Thanksgiving. [...]

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The Preemptive Thursday Grab Bag

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Originally uploaded by sogrady

Having spent the bulk of the evening either driving aimlessly around Western Connecticut in my rented Subaru Outback (thanks so much, Google Maps) or preparing for tomorrow’s consult, I haven’t managed to complete either my Red Hat Q&A (sorry, mjw) or my [...]

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links for 2007-11-09

Releases/8/ReleaseSummary - Fedora Project Wiki
this may be my new host OS for drake (the workstation)
(tags: fedora wiki virtualization fedora8)

Amazon to host Red Hat Linux online | Underexposed - CNET News.com
this is big news, for several reasons (yes, a Q&A is in the works)
(tags: amazon redhat rhel haas cloud hosted)

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links for 2007-11-08

The Arusha Project home page
this is interesting, if seemingly abandoned. this would be fundamentally enabling technology for the “network offering” i’ve been talking about for a few years, enabling as it does collaborative administration
(tags: arusha administration configuration server license management sysadmin via:trs81)

Matusow’s Blog : 12 Years…Feels Like Dog Years
congratulations to Senor Matusow. while he’s [...]

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OpenSocial? Google Cortés

Subsequent to the announcement of the API, we’ve seen a fairly steady stream of requests for a reaction to Google’s OpenSocial. The comments in my del.icio.us stream - “open standards, as always, favor the laggards” and “Google’s strategy for competing w/ Facebook and MySpace: commoditize the API, recruit the competitors of those two, press play” [...]

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links for 2007-11-07

Google’s open-source mobile platform: the best of the blog chatter | The Open Road - The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay - CNET Blogs
“I guess I don’t see the conflict here. At all. The stack runs on top of Linux. Linux is GPL. The stack is not.” - the question is [...]

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links for 2007-11-06

Bob Sutor: Open Blog | Facebook: How open should they be?
i think the real question is how open will Facebook be forced to be? Facebook forced LinkedIn into an API, and now in turn will be forced to respond
(tags: facebook linkedin open apis bobsutor)

PCs Losing Their Relevance in Japan: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance
lots of [...]

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Android, the GPL, and Java: The Q’s with No A’s

So the gPhone is finally here. Only it’s not called the gPhone. And there is no actual phone, just something called Android.
Still, I’m intrigued as an analyst and potentially excited as a consumer. More on the why later, but as a hint it’s got very little to do with technology. Before I get there [...]

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Where in the World Am I?

At the moment, San Juan, Puerto Rico. But in two hours or so, I’ll be hopping a puddle jumper over to St Croix. And before you ask, no, I couldn’t pick it out on a map.
Anyway, I know this sounds like I’m gloating, but it’s not quite as glamorous as it sounds. First, I’m [...]

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links for 2007-11-02

Everex launches $198 Ubuntu Linux gPC at Wal-Mart
does this look something like an Online Desktop to anyone else?
(tags: everex google hardware linux ubuntu gos wal-mart onlinedesktop)

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links for 2007-11-01

Ars at FOSSCamp: revolutionizing the command line with Hotwire
this is very interesting
(tags: foss python linux shell powershell)

blog.pmarca.com: Open Social: a new universe of social applications all over the web
open standards, as always, favor the laggards
(tags: open social apis networking ning google containers applications widgets)

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