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Why resurrect old blog posts?
I forget much of what I don't reflect on. Reviving old blog posts and related content gives me a chance to both reflect and remember.
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Posts that have been gingerly restored from the depths of the Wayback Machine.
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I̶̶ ̶R̶o̶c̶k̶!̶ ̶Doc Rocks! :)
Notes on Doc Searl's ca. 2004 ruminations on how the software industry might develop.
Presentations
Go Open 2008 Keynote
"FLOSS: What & Why?" is a keynote that I wrote for the Go Open 2008 conference in Norway.
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PHP Vikinger Invitations Emailed
I just sent out the invitations for the PHP Vikinger event. My method for choosing who to invite was pretty simple - I chose people listed in the the PHP and PEAR credits who I had written personal email to in the last few years. Nepotistic? “Nay”, say I, “Nepotastic!
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Good Old Times
Andrei’s Good Old Times post got me curious enough to look up my first post that MARC archived for the PHP general list. The earliest post I spotted was this, but I am pretty sure I was asking stupid questions at least a few weeks before then.
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PHP Vikinger site online
After far too long, a quick-and-dirty site for the PHP Vikinger event is online. What are you waiting for? Go visit http://phpvikinger.org (and, yes, it will redirect to a Backpack URL - that is intentional :)
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GPLv3 Process Definition
The FSF just announced guidelines for reviewing version 3 of the GPL. To participate in the process, visit http://gplv3.fsf.org/. To learn more, visit http://gplv3.fsf.org/process-definition.
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... and the "Best Quote of the Week" award goes to:
Andrei Zmievski, for the following inspired snippet: "Oh, if you are using a mail reader that screws up message threading, I will hunt you down and stuff you full of Perl internals until you look like a camel." 2024-09-22 Postscript—My standards for quote of the week seem
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Firefox 1.5 Released
Firefox 1.5 has been released! If you've been using Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 3, congratulations: you already have Firefox 1.5. Power users upgrading from Firefox 1.0.7 will appreciate draggable tabs, a much faster Back button, and the replacement of many error dialogs with
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Free/Open CMS and Blogging Tools Summit
Avatar of awesomeness (and fellow Vancouverite) Boris Mann just announced the Open Source CMS and Blogging Tools Summit. The summit provides a time and place for developers of the various Free Software CMS (and blog tools) to meet and share as peers. The event is scheduled from February 7 -
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Creating iCal events from messages in Mail.app
I just wrote a small bit of AppleScript that creates one iCal event for every selected email in Mail.app. Installation * Download the file at https://github.com/zakgreant/misc/blob/704167b2138275f8cc523241a3fbb713a435d8f3/mail2ical.scpt * Open it in Script Editor * Skim the comments for an overview of how the script works
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Grumble, grumble, grumble
While the idea of using my FSFE fellowship blog as my main blog is all fine and well, the slight complication is that it is not nearly easy enough to customize - many of the things that I would like to change are simply not accessible. Also, after a few