Be the signal

Today, I announced my change of affiliation to the Foundation membership and Board. We’ve hired some cool GNOME dudes. I’m pretty excited, mostly because I never thought I’d get a Free Software gig based on my “soft” (y’know, non-code) contributions to the community, but also because we’re doing some deeply cool stuff.
A whole new adventure […]

Howard and Bush in the blue corner, Latham and Garrett in the red corner. There has not been a more important Australian election in my life. Some context on the “Beds are Burning” election:
In 2001 the fear politics was headlined “WE will decide who comes to this country and the circumstances in which they come”. […]

A lioness hath whelped in the streets;
And graves have yawn’d, and yielded up their dead;
Fierce fiery warriors fought upon the clouds,
In ranks and squadrons and right form of war,
Which drizzled blood upon the Capitol;
The noise of battle hurtled in the air,
Horses did neigh, and dying men did groan,
And ghosts did shriek and squeal about the […]

Planet Sun and blogs.sun.com are rocketing along. Found this funny first entry by Man-Ching Wong: “Pressed with anxiety of what am I gonna write about, the first thought, ‘blah blah blah!’ [lightbulb] There you go, no framework, no boundaries, no agenda.”

“Microsoft has patented a glorified form of the to-do list. Issued Tuesday, the patent covers the use of a ‘task list’ generated from ‘TODO’ comments in source code.” If you don’t really understand what that means, here’s an example for you! Life is so much easier with examples.