Nov 30, 2004: A Long and Winding Road
It's happened again. I set off to investigate one specific thing, and wind up learning a whole lot about things in which I wasn't the least bit interested originally....
Oct 12, 2004: Global Village
One of the things I most enjoy about participating in the Free Software movement, and something that is uniquely facilitated by the internet, is the global scope of conversation. Just today a fellow from the Estonian Literary Museum sent me an email enquiring about my NeoMail modification. It took literally no time at all for me to answer his question in the affirmative, but in that time my world has been greatly expanded! I'd never heard of the Estonian Literary Museum before, but now I know that...
Oct 3, 2004: OhioLinux
Yesterday was the second annual OhioLinux conference. This was my first time at this event, but my second Linux / Open Source conference. The very first conference I attended was OSCON 2002, in San Diego. That was an awesome experience, but I didn't get as much out of it as I could because I didn't really know anyone there. I didn't do much social networking, and didn't really go out of my way to meet people....
Jun 11, 2004: Blogs and Wikis
Krzysztof Kowalczyk makes an argument for bundling a wiki with a blog. I agree wholeheartedly with his endorsement of wikis. I've used a few, and installed two of them myself, and I think they're terrific. But I don't think that wikis should be bundled with blogs (especially WordPress) by default....