March 2004
Using the future to sell the present
Posted by on Wednesday, March 31, 2004 in - 6 comments
During a recent conversation about software upgrades (to which I am a confessed addict), a friend made the profound statement that “everyone loves the future.” • Perhaps you’ve seen the recent television advertisements in which GM promotes their oddly-spelled “hy-wire” concept car. As Wired News …
Community-produced audio recording of Laurence Lessig’s New Book
Posted by on Saturday, March 27, 2004 in - 3 comments
Having enjoyed Laurence Lessig’s previous book, The Future of Ideas, I was looking forward to his latest book, Free Culture. The text of the book is available for free online. While I have read long works from my laptop LCD, this 352-page PDF file didn’t seem very appealing on screen. • I … read more »
Posted by on Friday, March 26, 2004
Profanity in the source code: the Linux kernel and Mozilla - Anyone do a count on the leaked Windows code?
Posted by on Thursday, March 25, 2004
Posted by on Wednesday, March 24, 2004
The Nanode - a really small computer - very slick
Posted by on Monday, March 22, 2004
Posted by on Monday, March 22, 2004
Weblogs and the future of Linux desktop development
Posted by on Sunday, March 21, 2004 in - 5 comments
The future of development on the Linux desktop is being debated and deliberated on the weblogs of key developers this week. • If you are interested in computing platform decisions and open source software, then you may be interested in the debate. However, even if you are not at all interested … read more »
Interesting photos of the peace march in New York by Jason Kottke (from last year - not the one this week)
Posted by on Sunday, March 21, 2004
Acts of Volition Radio: Session Eight
Posted by on Friday, March 19, 2004 in - 12 comments
After being vocally out of commision for a while due to a bad cold, Acts of Volition Radio is back. This is a special session dedicated to the late Gene Eugene. If you haven’t heard of Gene Eugene, that is why I do this. His songs are among the most important to me of any I have known. • Acts of …
Is it just me, or does the singer from Switchfoot sound a lot like the dude from Toad the Wet Sprocket? Here's an MP3 of their single
Posted by on Friday, March 19, 2004
Here's a scan of a guest opinion in our local newspaper by a former philosophy prof of mine (572KB)
Posted by on Friday, March 19, 2004
My thoughts about the connecting and geography-busting power of weblogs in response to a post about the the local power of weblogs
Posted by on Thursday, March 18, 2004
Backwoods Nation, by Pedro the Lion
Posted by on Monday, March 15, 2004 in - 5 comments
I had the good fortune of seeing Pedro the Lion play while in San Francisco last month (I got one blurry photo). After a great set, they held the collective breath of the room with their encore, a B-side released on a label compilation: • Pedro the Lion - Backwoods Nation • 4.3MB MP3 file
Posted by on Monday, March 15, 2004
Panoramas from the Left Coast
Posted by on Saturday, March 13, 2004 in - 1 comment
While on a recent trip to San Francisco, I took about 400 photos with my digital camera. A few of these were adjacent shots intented to be stitched together with panoramic photo software. • All kinds of software packages are available to stitch photos together into panoramas. My friend Nathan …
Echo Hatchback Fuel Efficiency Correction
Posted by on Tuesday, March 9, 2004 - 3 comments
Back in August of 2003, I wrote about my new Echo Hatchback and how it’s fuel effeciency was surprisingly good when compared to hybrid vehicles (and way cheaper). It turns out I was comparing miles per US gallon with miles per Imperial gallon. • A unit conversion problem caused the crash of a …
George Bush - He'll cut you! (RealVideo) - a great parody ad from Rick Mercer's Monday Report
Posted by on Monday, March 8, 2004
Monday Night on CBC Television
Posted by on Monday, March 8, 2004 - 3 comments
Though I’ve been known in the past as the annoying guy who frequently mentions that that he doesn’t own a tv, I got a TV for Christmas (and even bought myself a GameCube to go with it). I’ve since been enjoying some fine CBC TV. • 8:00PM — Rick Mercer’s Monday Report • Sure, maybe it’s a …
Download video of speakers/sessions from the PopTech! conference from last year - these have probably been up for a while, but still worth watching
Posted by on Sunday, March 7, 2004
Posted by on Sunday, March 7, 2004
Learning to Love the Command Line
Posted by on Saturday, March 6, 2004 in - 10 comments
Having been living in Linux for a while (and to a lesser extent, Mac OS X), I’ve had to learn a bit about the ways of the command line. As someone who’s only other experience with a command line interface was with DOS (with which I was about as adept as one could be), I was skeptical of the value …
Acts of Volition Radio F.A.Q.
Posted by on Saturday, March 6, 2004 in - 9 comments
I’ve been getting quite a few emails asking about various aspects of Acts of Volition Radio. Also, I’ve been glad to see that a few other sites seems to have taken to the voice-annotated downloadable compilation format (LugRadio and Mathcaddy Radio). Whether or not it was inspired by this humble …
Outline of a trip to Silicon Valley
Posted by on Thursday, March 4, 2004 - 5 comments
Still recovering from the red-eye flight back home, here is the PowerPoint summary of my trip to San Francisco. Beware of blatant and shameless namedropping. • Though my itinerary varied somewhat from his, one of my travelling companions, Stephen DesRoches, posted a great overview of the trip … read more »
Logo Speculation
Posted by on Thursday, March 4, 2004 in - 12 comments
Here’s a prediction for you: At some point in the next few years Apple will return to the original colored-stripe Apple logo. It will be heralded as a great return to their “roots”. • Remember, you heard it here first.