Acts of Volition

For slice of readership to whom this type of thing is relevant, I have compiled an overview of of the inconsistencies in file-save confirmation dialogs in Gnome. There is also a page with screenshots of the dialogs in question. I’ve posted the overview to the Gnome desktop development mailing list …

I have a rule for evaluating new TV shows: All tv shows are bad unless proven otherwise.  •  This “guilty-until-proven-innovent” policy has served me well. Occasionally I miss out on a good show until years later, but it’s a worthwhile sacrifice.  •  This past year, I became aware of the …

Earlier this month, those of us at silverorange retreated to a beautiful cottage on the north shore of Prince Edward Island to take stock of the year past and plan for the year to come.  •  Dan James, the CEO of silverorange, has posted his keynote address from our summit. Don’t be fooled, though …

As has been publish on a zillion weblogs today, a group of the most significant search engines (Google, Yahoo, and MSN Search) and weblog tool publishers (Sixapart, Blogger, WordPress, LiveJournal, etc.) have agreed to implement a new tool to prevent weblog comment spam.  •  The idea is simple …

I’ve noticed that there are certain types of items that I never seem to have to purchase. They just appear. No matter how many of these objects I lose, discard, or give away, there will always be more lying around somewhere.  •  Pens  •  Mugs  •  T-Shirts  •  Mouse Pads  •  This has to do, I think …

The eighteenth session of Acts of Volition Radio is a collection of some old songs, some new songs, and an appeal to help me track down the composer of one of the songs.  •  Acts of Volition Radio: Session Eighteen (42MB MP3)  •  A collection of songs old and new. Recorded Thursday, January 13 …

Spurred on by a recent weekend full of hot-tub induced dehydration, beer, and lack of sleep, some friends of mine discovered an interesting (I think, I at least) capability of the command line computer interface. Prepare to be really geeked-out.  •  As I wrote briefly about last year, on the Linux …

In an interview with News.com, Bill Gates explains why he hasn’t started a weblog (yet):  •  “  •  “I’ve toyed with doing one myself, but I don’t want to be one of those people who start and then don’t finish it, and again I’m thinking maybe I could do one a month or one every six weeks—something …

The Gnome Outliner project was dreamed up and got started here on this weblog last May. Gnome Outliner is a simple application to write and edit outlines for the Gnome desktop environment for Linux.  •  There was some nice buzz when the project got started - lots of people were proposing ideas and …

It started innocently. I started using a free/open-source web browser, then called Phoenix (now Firefox). It seemed to me to be faster, easier, and generally better than Internet Explorer on my Windows XP powered laptop. Soon after, having been unhappy with the performance of Microsoft Outlook …