Author Archives: Nathan Y.

OSCON 2008

I’m in Portland, Oregon this week for OSCON 2008. Asheesh and I are speaking tomorrow on ccREL and liblicense.
Things I’m hoping to see this week:

lots of attention paid to identi.ca, not just as an alternative to Twitter but as a first step towards truly open services,
lots of discussion about how free software can enable [...]

First World Problems

I did a closet purge today and wound up with four garbage bags of clothes to donate. Four bags of clothes I haven’t worn since moving to San Francisco a year ago. My problems are obviously first world, problems of luxury.
Yet another reminder of how fortunate I am.

Unicode output from Zope 3

The Creative Commons licene engine has gone through several iterations, the most recent being a Zope 3 / Grok application. This has actually been a great implementation for us1, but since the day it was deployed there’s been a warning in README.txt:

If you get a UnicodeDecodeError from the cc.engine (you’ll see this if it’s
running in [...]

Ubuntu Netbook Remix on the Eee PC

Last year when Asus released the original Eee PC 7xx series, a colleage and I made a lunch-time trek to Central Computers down the street and each picked up a 701 with 4 GB SSD and Linux. The stock distribution is Xandros based. That’s great since Xandros is Debian based itself, but not [...]

Readonly Attachments for Thunderbird 2

Last seen here two years ago, I’ve just updated Readonly Attachments for Thunderbird 2. It still does pretty much exactly what the last post describes, bugs and all.
Right now I’m just releasing a preview. At this point I’ve only tested it with Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 on Mac OS X 10.5.3; I’ll test [...]

Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States