February 2004
Maybe when I'm in San Francisco next week I'll add my ThinkPad to the Flashmob SuperComputer
Posted by on Sunday, February 22, 2004
Acts of Volition Radio: Session Seven
Posted by on Sunday, February 22, 2004 in - 19 comments
I was waiting for some CDs to arrive for my next planned Acts of Volition Radio playlist, but great songs just kept coming to mind. So, instead of waiting, I’ve put together another session in the interim. This session was recorded while hunkered down in my little house surround by a lot of snow …
Ralph Nader: Running for/from President
Posted by on Sunday, February 22, 2004 in - 15 comments
As you have probably already seen, Ralph Nader has announced that he will run for president in 2004. Lot’s of people seem to be saying that he shouldn’t run because he it will take votes from Democrats and in doing so, help the Replublicans (or the press talks about people you say that a lot, at …
Dude plays Mario Bros. tunes on the piano (it's an embedded quicktime, here's a direct link to the .mov file)
Posted by on Sunday, February 22, 2004
Talkin' 'bout the weather - February Snow Storm
Posted by on Saturday, February 21, 2004 - 5 comments
We had a hell of a snow storm this week here on Prince Edward Island (and in Nova Scotia). Lots of webloggers have been posting some great photos. Here's my best shot at assembling links to the various photo collections. Please add any other pertinent photos that come online or that I've missed in …
Posted by on Saturday, February 21, 2004
I love it when people talk about me in other languages. Other character sets is even cooler
Posted by on Monday, February 16, 2004
Thanks to the Creative Commons license, my old rock band provides the score for the credits in a campus film festival in Washington. Cool!
Posted by on Monday, February 16, 2004
Posted by on Saturday, February 14, 2004
Silicon Valley - You've never been?
Posted by on Thursday, February 12, 2004 - 4 comments
A few fellow silveroranges and I are taking a tech-mecca trek of sorts to the other side of the continent to Silicon Valley. I’ll be at the Mozilla Developer Day in Mountain View on Friday, February 27. • We’ll be in the San Francisco area until Tuesday evening. If you’re in the area and want to …
Posted by on Thursday, February 12, 2004
Link early, Link often
Posted by on Wednesday, February 11, 2004
My good friend and co-worker, Dan James, has declared himself the President of the Internet. Good for him. • Apparently, he and a rival net-presidential candidate have agreed that whoever is the #1 result in a Google search for "President of the Internet" is the true holder of the virtual office …
My car isn't going to be the smallest silver car you can buy in Canada for long
Posted by on Wednesday, February 11, 2004
What’s News
Posted by on Wednesday, February 11, 2004 - 8 comments
I’ve long been amused by CNN’s wacky mixture of • “human interest stories” and “real news” — neither of which are interesting to humans, or in any way real. They have a real knack for the most inappropriate segues. Yesterday, while at the dentist, I saw them segue from a mass-murder trial to a …
Posted by on Tuesday, February 10, 2004
We are bigger nerds than I thought: we had a Firefox cake party!
Posted by on Monday, February 9, 2004
Branding Mozilla: Towards Firefox 1.0
Posted by on Monday, February 9, 2004 in - 54 comments
Back in October of 2003, I wrote an article with a series of criticisms and recommendations for the branding and visual identity of the Mozilla software projects. Partially, I suspect, due to my cheap and somewhat inaccurate use of the “2.0” version in the title of the article, it got quite a bit …
Acts of Volition Radio: Session Six
Posted by on Sunday, February 8, 2004 in - 18 comments
Session six of Acts of Volition Radio done. This session doesn’t have a theme as some previous sessions have had. Rather, it’s just ten great songs. • Acts of Volition Radio: Session Six (42MB MP3) • Ten songs you’ll like. Recorded Sunday, February 8, 2004 by Steven Garrity. Run time: 52min …
Acts of Volition gets Slashdotted, again
Posted by on Sunday, February 8, 2004 in - 1 comment
Getting slashdotted is so 2003. It was cool the first time, but now it’s just a hassle! • The article about the Gnome Linux desktop was the victim this time. We’ll be forward to a static version of the article for a while to lighten the load on the servers. Bear with us in the meantime …
Spell checking in Mozilla Firebird for HTML forms - really nice - Thanks Steve
Posted by on Thursday, February 5, 2004
Posted by on Thursday, February 5, 2004
Cory Doctorow’s new novel is out and downloadable for free - I loved his last book and will write more soon
Posted by on Wednesday, February 4, 2004
Getting to Know Gnome
Posted by on Tuesday, February 3, 2004 in - 39 comments
For the last few months, I’ve been using Fedora, a Linux distribution, as my primary operating system along with the Gnome desktop environment. Linux as a desktop platform still has lots of weaknesses, but I’m generally pleased and am very much looking forward to the progress planned in the next …
Responsibility and Accountability in Software Development
Posted by on Sunday, February 1, 2004 in
Microsoft is being criticized by Amnesty International for supplying “goods and services” to China that was used to violate human rights. Cory Doctorow, of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (and an excellent sci-fi author), brings an interesting perspective to the situation. • Microsoft states …
Acts of Volition Radio: Session Five
Posted by on Sunday, February 1, 2004 in - 7 comments
Session five of Acts of Volition Radio is all about great guitar rock songs. This is a good one to burn to a CD and play in your car. • Acts of Volition Radio: Session Five (41MB MP3) • A collection of great guitar rocks songs. Recorded Sunday, February 2, 2004 by Steven Garrity. Run time …