Monthly Archives: June 2004

Scott noted today’s Dilbert, and laughed at me. I think he was only laughing about the no-pants comment. Little does my new co-worker know… Mu-ha-ha!

jimmac, who is now on Planet GNOME, had a totally rad idea about notification icons, which I was compelled to post. The world needs to know.

Hint, hint.

Whoa! Nokia is running a Python workshop. Only, it’s in Espoo, Finland. Which is not very close to Sydney, Australia. Bugger. Oh well, it sounds good: “Join Guido van Rossum, creator and “benevolent dictator” of the Python programming language, for … Continue reading →

Don Marti uses Planet, for the same reason we ran with it in the first place! “It’s really fast and easy to do, and now I can watch people’s innermost thoughts and bug them for articles. Bwah ha ha. Somehow … Continue reading →

“In its search for market share, dominance, and profits, Microsoft lost the ultimate battle for our hearts and minds.” That’s HEARTS AND MINDS, people. Listen up!

Schwartz does it again! This guy is incredible. “Sun and Fujitsu have an operating system in Solaris that runs on any Intel Xeon, Opteron or SPARC system and as far as we all know, we’re the only operating system in … Continue reading →

Each year at GUADEC, we have three face-to-face Foundation meetings for the board, our members and the advisory board. I mailed foundation-list the other day, asking for input on the agenda for these meetings. Didn’t get much of a reponse. … Continue reading →

This is the freakiest story I have read for ages: “A 15-year-old British grammar school boy has been convicted of inciting an internet friend to murder him. The boy, who can be identified only by the pseudonym John, invented a … Continue reading →

“The United States is a martial nation. It accounts for 5 per cent of the world’s population, 20 per cent of the world economy, and fully 50 per cent of global defence spending. It is structured for war. [...] In … Continue reading →