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Monthly Archives: March 2010
Tweet My Time–Pittsburgh Marathon
In a few weeks I will fly to Pittsburgh for the Pittsburgh Marathon. I will compete in my third marathon, and the first since the large influx of social networking. While not truly open, you cannot argue with the popularity and potential of social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. Schools everywhere want to [...]
Ada Lovelace Day
So do you think Ada Lovelace would have been an Ubuntu or a Fedora? March 24th marked Ada Lovelace Day. For those of you not in the know, Ada Lovelace Day celebrates women who contribute to technology and science. Ada herself worked with Charles Babbage (of the mall-based video game store??), constructing the programming language [...]
Governments With No Clue
In a recent Linux Outlaws podcast (http://linuxoutlaws.com/podcast/142), they discussed the status of the ‘Three Strikes’ bill up in England. The bill, seeking to permanent remove internet access for people breaking Copyright three times, again shows either that government members should not be making these decisions due to their ignorance of the issues or that they [...]
Posted in literature, open source
Tagged cory doctorow, Creative Commons, education, internet, lessig, linux, media, MPAA, open source, RIAA, schools, zittrain
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Dell Vostro 1320
My quest for the perfect work laptop finally came to a conclusion Friday with the delivery of my Dell Vostro 1320. At home, we use a Dell 17″ Inspiron, so I wanted a smaller laptop, but one that I could move up to a 64bit OS. After a pretty long search, even trying to get [...]
My Opera Experiment Ends
No, not the Madame Butterfly type. In my quest for the perfect browser, I went on to check out Opera recently. While I really liked many of it’s features and its look, some basic functionality was missing. So…back to Google Chrome for now. I tried Firefox again on my new Vostro 1320, but it still [...]
Posted in open source, OSS Applications
Tagged browser, chrome, firefox, google, internet, open source, opera
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