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 [...]
Yesterday was the first ever Creative Commons Technology Summit, hosted at Google. My photos and better ones taken by Joi.
I drove the Nerd Van (myself, Asheesh and the interns) to Google.
I’m still recovering (and inflicting pain—CC board meeting today) and collecting feedback, but I think it was a really successful day. We learned [...]
In an attempt to prevent additional git (or maybe just git-svn?) induced PTSD, Asheesh kindly created a git phrasebook. If you, too, are a Subversion deserter and want to figure out how the whole branching thing works in git, this may be useful to you.
Someday I’ll write up my thoughts on distributed [...]
I really love task lists—especially the crossing off part—but lately they haven’t really been helping me out. Between the day job, consulting work, dating, and a more active social life than I had in Indiana, it seems like I never quite get to the crossing off part. This has become particularly clear at work where [...]
