September 2005
Find the term "Web 2.0" embarrasing? Me too - so we call it "web twenny"
Posted by on Tuesday, September 27, 2005
Brad Sucks has a new remix album online - track #4 is particularly good
Posted by on Thursday, September 22, 2005
Slashdot has switched to a CSS-based design/layout. Still just as ugly as ever though.
Posted by on Thursday, September 22, 2005
Switchfoot Laments the Copy Protection on their CD
Posted by on Monday, September 19, 2005 in - 23 comments
In the forums on the Sony Music website, Tim Foreman of the band Switchfoot talks about the copy protection on their CD: • “Hello friends, • my heart is heavy with this whole copy-protection thing. Many PC users have posted problems that they have had importing the new songs (regular disc only …
What I did Last Summer (London & Paris)
Posted by on Saturday, September 17, 2005 - 4 comments
After we got married this summer my wife and I quickly fled the country and headed to the Olde Continent. We spent about a week in London and about a week in Paris. We took over 900 photos of all of the beautiful and touristy sites with our wedding-gift-new Canon SD300 digital camera. • From …
Fedora Logo Development Process
Posted by on Thursday, September 15, 2005 in - 16 comments
Matt Munoz, a designer at Red Hat, has posted an interested walk-through of the development of a logo/visual-identity concept for Fedora Linux. It’s fascinating to see the process and justification behind a logo idea like this. • This isn’t an official logo yet. It has been proposed and is being …
CBC Radio 3 Podcast in Ogg Vorbis
Posted by on Monday, September 12, 2005 in - 1 comment
Despite having locked-out their employees, the CBC continues to do cool things (somehow). • The CBC Radio 3 Podcast features Canadian emerging artists who have given the CBC the ok to share their music online. If that wasn’t cool enough, the show is now available in the free and open-source … read more »
Using MediaWiki to Build a “normal” Website
Posted by on Friday, September 9, 2005 in - 22 comments
Despite the misleading title, this is not a tutorial on how to use MediaWiki to build a website. Rather, it is an observation that MediaWiki can be used to build sites that look and feel like tradition (non-Wiki) websites. • What the heck is a “wiki”? • First, some background. A wiki is a …
I'll be at the Boston 2005 Gnome Summit in October
Posted by on Wednesday, September 7, 2005