October 2003
Do we all need a personal system administrator?
Posted by on Tuesday, October 28, 2003 in - 27 comments
My family has embraced the home computer. They use Hotmail to keep in touch with relatives. They use a scanner, despite absolutely terrible software that came with it (Canon). They use MSN Messenger to chat with friends (a lot). They use Microsoft Word to write papers, letters, and memos and print …
Hypocritical Greenery
Posted by on Monday, October 27, 2003 in - 3 comments
Two semi-random environmental notes from a complete evironmental hypocrite (me): • First, Tessa Blake, who shared her fantastic soon-to-be-release film, The Pink House at the Zap Your PRAM conference mentioned the weekly Chicago radio show This American Life. When I saw the link to This American …
Acts of Volition gets Slashdotted!
Posted by on Thursday, October 23, 2003 in - 9 comments
I have reached uber-geek nirvana: our Branding Mozilla article has been Slashdotted.
Branding Mozilla: Towards Mozilla 2.0
Posted by on Thursday, October 23, 2003 in - 14 comments
I’ve been using and enjoying the products of the Mozilla project more and more lately. I’ve been hooked on Mozilla Firebird for a while, and my recent Mozilla Thunderbird theme was my first real contribution (if you could call it that) to the movement. • I’m very interested in the success of the …
Free/Open Rock & Roll
Posted by on Thursday, October 23, 2003 in - 2 comments
The Creative Commons project has released a CD of music available under the Creative Commons lisences. I'm honoured to see that two tracks by Horton’s Choice, my now defunct rock band, have been included. • If someone ever did a Horton’s Choice remix, it would blow my mind.
God, Satan, on CNN
Posted by on Friday, October 17, 2003 in - 4 comments
The front page of CNN.com often seems to be as hilarious and absurd as the front page of The Onion. My friend Dan James point today’s particularly notable list of “top stories” (see the full screenshot):
Six Degrees of Zap
Posted by on Wednesday, October 15, 2003 in
Our Zap Your PRAM conference is coming up next weekend and it’s really starting to come together. We’ve got a great lineup of participants, a great venue, and good eats. • I got an email this morning from Peter Rukavina, one of our Zap organizers, who is on the road to New York today. Apparently …
Does 1.0 Matter Anymore?
Posted by on Sunday, October 5, 2003 in - 9 comments
More and more of the software I’ve been using lately has been open source. With this shift comes a different approach to releasing updates and to version numbering. Following the “release early, release often” mantra canonized by Eric Raymond in The Cathedral and the Bazaar, many major open source …