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Hack Week video

Teams from around the world have been posting video on the Idea Pool website.Here’s a video filmed and edited by Nat Friedman, and I’m featured at 1:46 into the video (at the end). </embed>Yes, I was very, very tired making sure that the site was ready to launch and also...

Photos from Hack Week, day 1

Check out my Hack Week photo set. Nat with a watermelon and a highly caffeinated cola during the first day of Hack WeekThey’re in the the Hack Week group pool too.I’ve also been posting a ton of photos to my flickr stream too, so check out the rest as well....

Hack Week and Ideas!

Hey everyone! Check out the brand new idea.opensuse.org website I’ve been working on (with the help of Jakub, Larry, and Nat)! We are officially launching it today, kicking off the first day of Hack Week. To see photos from around the globe of people participating in Hack Week, check out...

visual flickr treats (recent photos)

I’ve been taking a lot of pictures lately.</p> Here are a few I posted on my flickr page… (There are more there too.)     I have lots more pictures to post, too… so expect more (on my flickr page) soon. </div>

harvesting planets

If you like to read a lot of open source based planets, then check out my aggregation (and uniqification) RSS feed that I cobbled together in Yahoo! Pipes.Open Source Planets RSSCurrently, it grabs from the following: Planet GNOME Planet KDE Planet SUSE Graphics Planet Gimp Layers Planet InkscapeAny other good...

Helping out Microsoft

On the way out of my hotel this morning, I found a credit card near the front door. I picked it up and noticed that it was a corporate credit card, and that it belonged to Microsoft.…I brought it to the front desk and told them where I found it,...

Ancient Gecko widgets

On Linux: Why do Gecko / Firefox HTML widgets still look like non-native ones from 1995? Why has this been such a long-standing issue? When are modern widgets that look like the rest of the operating system (such as those in XUL) going to appear?Just curious; it would be nice...

Security work-around?

One thing I do miss about flights is bringing a big bottle of water with me. Today, I thought, “Well, what if I freeze the water and bring that through security?”It’s not a “dangerous” liquid if it’s actually a solid, right?