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.
I'm going to the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit next week. Developers, managers, and other free software enthusiasts in the GNOME and KDE communities get together on the Canary Islands, which are technically part of Spain …