Archive for April, 2008
Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Due to unavoidable circumstances, I was unable to make it to the con (in Michigan) until Saturday night, but I did make it to the Giant Singing Tesla Coil and the Hampster Dance, and then was able to assist with the making of 6 liquid nitrogen ice cream flavors that night. From midnight until past 2 am :
mint irish cream
triple chocolate
cinammon orange creamsicle
vanilla raspberry
another chocolate
soda slushies
Sunday, ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
The LJ feed problems appear to have been fixed by my deactivating the Bookmarkify plugin for ConFigures. Although it looked ok here, I noticed it was a BIG graph at the bottom of the display per entry in Google Reader. After turning it off, the entries are showing up in ...
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Saturday, April 12th, 2008
I've used the tag "sustainability" (on Connotea) for close on to two years to organize and track articles about ecology, esources, and other matters concerning living on the earth in the future. A few days ago, without thinking about that, the phrase "sustainable development" popped into my head during a discussion of the future of OLPC. I like my use of that phrase, ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Penguicon 2008 is almost here! Guests of Honor include Jono Bacon (Ubuntu Community Manager for Canonical), Benjamin Mako Hill (Debian/GNU, MIT Media Lab, Free Software Foundation, Ubuntu, Wikimedia), and Vernor Vinge (multiple-Hugo-winning science fiction author, computing visionary). I'll be participating, too! I'm on two panels, both on Sunday, April ...
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
I know about 6 people are reading my ConFigures blog through the syndicated feed on LiveJournal. However, I just noticed today that the syndication hasn't picked up my last few entries, and it said the last time it checked, it (the last entry?) was "too big". I'm not sure if ...
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Sunday, April 6th, 2008
This Thursday, I helped out at the Tux.org booth at FOSE. Tux is the name of the Linux mascot penguin. TUX is a network of Linux User Groups (like the Northern Virginia group to whom I presented the OLPC XO user interface, journal system, etc. in February). FOSE is the ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Summary: love the predictive texting; some quibbles with routing, usability, street name pronunciation
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