Monthly Archives: June 2007

Transformers

June 30, 2007 – 17:53

Wow. Is it possible that Michael Bay’s reputation could be… uh… transformed by his new film? A whole two thirds of the film went by before his trademark gratuitous slo-mo action shot!
It turned out to be a solid, popcorn-worthy action/comedy flick, with lots of amusing homage to the original Transformers. There was a smattering of […]

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Mako joins the FSF Board!

June 27, 2007 – 04:05

A very welcome surprise: Mako will be reducing the average age of the Free Software Foundation Board of Directors, after the recent resignation of long-serving director Eben Moglen (and the likely departure of Lawrence Lessig in the near future).

Sadly, Mako will be leaving the SFI board, but I’m sure his involvement in the FSF will […]

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Freedom of Automation

June 19, 2007 – 00:29

Jon Udell links to → his interview with Jeannette Wing about computational thinking → which reminds me of Conrad Parker’s Freedom of Automation talk (Ogg, 19M) at our Software Freedom Day event in Sydney last year.

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Ocean’s Tax

June 18, 2007 – 23:41

If the Ocean’s films are the culture tax I have to pay for Clooney’s other work, roll on Ocean’s Fourteen!

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Speaking with customers

June 18, 2007 – 21:23

Today, Pipka came home with a story about a customer who was considering moving to a 100% Windows environment because he was merely unfamiliar with Linux.
Now, I wouldn’t recommend the strategy she used in the general case — in fact, I’d find it hard to recommend it under many circumstances at all — but here’s how she began her […]

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Measuring Blackouts with Cacti

June 18, 2007 – 07:09

Every zero point on this graph — which represents the last two months of uptime on my laser printer (!) — is the result of a blackout.
The first was kind of disappointing. The rest have just been annoying: Getting up late with 05:14 flashing on the alarm clock, asking Pipka to set the time on the microwave (because I […]

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GNOME in The 5th Wave

June 18, 2007 – 00:55

Shreyas noticed that the The 5th Wave’s June 17, 2007 strip includes a homage to GNOME! Rocking!

Update: Melissa points out that UserFriendly was pretty awesome on the 17th too.

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Filing Google bugs… but where?

June 17, 2007 – 17:51

Is there a place to file Google bugs? I couldn’t find one, so here is a report I uploaded to the cloud.
Description of the problem: Google returns feed URLs in search results. These are rarely helpful to searchers in general, but downright mystifying to those who don’t know or care what feeds are […]

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Firefox: Still Saving the Web!

June 17, 2007 – 02:11

Steve Jobs’ vision for the web, rendered as a pie chart.

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Preview as Screenshot

June 16, 2007 – 18:24

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