Monthly Archives: June 2004

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 … Continue reading →

Where was Howard’s political machine with its instant polling and focus groups when he named Beds are Burning as his favourite Oils song? You gutless, gutless bastard.

Don’s right. Don’t give them the air time. Don’t give them your air time. Good hands are better spent doing good. Thanks, Don.

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 … Continue reading →

I’m considering writing a rebuttal to this article about responsibility of Open Source projects: “All of this adds up to an organisation [The GNOME Project] providing software used by hundreds of thousands of users (and major Linux distributors want to … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

Mind-boggling: “CD burning speed in Xandros File Manager is limited to the minimum burning speed of your CD burner. To get the maximum burning speed out of your hardware you can either become a Premium subscriber to Xandros Networks or … Continue reading →

“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 … Continue reading →

Here’s a thought: A yelp-based plugin for search/indexer frameworks like Medusa and Beagle. Lets you search all the documentation on your system, whether it’s man, info, registered with scrollkeeper, whatever.