Acts of Volition

This, the sixteenth session of Acts of Volition Radio is a collection of hidden gems. These are great songs that you have likely never heard before (most of them, at least). This session features a super-duper-quadruple-pack of a band you've almost certainly never heard of before, Chagall Guevera …

Growing up a couple hundred miles from the U.S. border in Canada’s smaller province, I’ve always had a sense that we in Canada have a unique vantage point on the United States of America. From here, we can see that America is a large beast, but we are too close to see the whole thing. Sleeping …

When I first heard of the idea for the latest community campaign to help promote Firefox, I was a little skeptical. The idea was (is) to ask for donations of $30 from people. With the money, they will buy an ad (hopefully full page) in the New York Times about the 1.0 release of Firefox (coming …

Hate Rays – (hät’ räz) noun.  •  An intense feeling of anger or hatred directed physically towards an individual, group, or object. Direction is often indicate with an intense stare, though eye contact is not necessary. Usage: She sent hate rays in his direction as he, oblivious, slurped his soup …

Does anyone know if there is a PC Card (PCMCIA) with USB2 and/or Firewire ports that doesn’t stick out of the side of your laptop? Something that ads the ports but stays flush with the side of your laptop so you can leave it in all the time.

I drove down to Boston this weekend for the Gnome Summit. I have posted my photos from the trip and collected some rough notes on the experience:  •  The who/what/where/when/why/how of marketing open source software to normal humans (non-developers) is uncharted territory. I’m skeptical that we …

I'm at the Gnome Summit at the Frank Gehry designed MIT Stata Center in Boston until tuesday. Check out the floorplan.

Since many of us use it every day, it is easy to lose sight of just how remarkable the internet can be. This morning, I had a quick chat with my friend Peter, who is usually downstairs in the building our companies share. Today, though, he is in Croatia.

I’m driving down to Boston for the Gnome Boston Summit this weekend. I’m looking for a place to stay near the MIT campus in Cambridge on the nights of Friday (Oct 8) to Monday (Oct 11) - leaving on Tuesday morning.  •  Hotels are booked or foolishly expensive (short notice, I guess). Anyone have …

I’m looking for some help with an issue I’m having with the Mozilla.org website and the Norton Personal Firewall product.  •  If you have the Norton Personal Firewall installed and a bit of knowledge about web-browsers (knowing what a web browser is should suffice), and are willing to help me test …

If you are walking from point A to point B in the rain, do you get more or less wet depending on how fast you walk?  •  Sounds stupidly simple, doesn’t it. Not so (for me, at least). Here are some things we can assume for the sake of the problem:  •  let’s assume you are rectangular - let’s say, 1 …

I have spent much of the last five years working with a fine team of like-minded people. Fools and geniuses, we have managed to accomplish quite a bit. It has been, and continues to be, an interesting ride. Here are some random highlights:  •  There was a time when our CEO IM’ed in late to work …