A few times in the past year, I've taken the risk of leaning over to an English-speaking stranger in the airport, one who's wearing a suit or the like, and saying, "Ah, the glamor of …
I went to the beach. Lots of people do it all the time, I suppose, but I don't, usually. Seemed pleasant at the time*, but now there's sand everywhere, on the floor, on the back …
As I said on his blog when he commemorated the end of his twenties: Happy birthday, sweetie. I trust you'll be even more awesome in the next decade than you were during the decade when …
The votes all request the New York As Religion hypothesis. So here goes some analogizing. Actual ethnographers, please correct the hell out of me. The phenomena I wish to explain: New Yorkers feel at home …
In Moon: what's the song playing on Sam's alarm clock? Is it by The Strokes (video directed awesomely by Warren Fu)? In old email: when and why did Leonard and I start using the endearment …
The Amazon Kindle and Garmin GPS navigators use GStreamer, a piece of software that my company, Collabora, maintains. (As colleague Youness El Alaoui describes, "GStreamer is a multimedia framework for constructing graphs of media-handling components. …
I think this is the complete schedule of talks that my colleagues are giving at the Desktop Summit this year. Sat. 4 July "QtScript bindings for Telepathy" - lightning talk by Ian Monroe, 15:30-16:30 Sun. …
I nearly laughed out loud just now at some dialogue I wrote: "Yes! Tell me more!" "Show, don't tell."
I am bikeshedding my own yak-shaving. This should win an award.
