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And open source! (My 7 things...)
In my 7 things post, I notice that I said: "I’m pretty sure that Road Runner cartoons are the pinnacle of Western Civilization, along with The Beatles and Douglas Adams."
Duh, I forgot to say "open source" -- perhaps because open source is no longer limited to "Western Civilization" but belongs to the entire world now.
But, [...]
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Comcast digital voice?
Once again, I turn to the lazyweb for help.
Got a solicitation for Comcast digital voice the other day... and I was seriously considering giving it a try, as I've never been too thrilled with Qwest, and I suffer from a bit of line noise from time to time here.
Anyone have any experience with this? Sound [...]
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Weekend linkage
Scott James Remnant on having left Debian and Matthew Garrett's post on having resigned from Debian -- also, Bruce Byfield's story about Garrett's resignation and the implications for Debian.
The Biology of B-Movie monsters. [Via BoingBoing.]
Ubuntu Edgy "Knot 2" released. Note, this isn't a stable version, so use only if you're interested in the development [...]
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Serendipity now!
Over the past few years, I've become a fairly devoted fan of WordPress -- it works well, it's so easy to set up I could practically do it in my sleep, and it's free as in speech and as in beer.
But, I also like to check out the competition. A few weeks ago, I [...]
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Knowing the difference between a blog and an article...
I used to blog about open source for ZDNet before taking the full-time gig with Linux.com, and one of the things that alternately amused and concerned me was the comments that criticized ZDNet and myself for biased articles, when it was -- in my mind at least -- clear that what I was writing was [...]
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Shared blogging format
Wrote up a short commentary for NewsForge on content management formats, "We need a shared blog format."
Basically, I've been doing this blog for many years now -- I've run it using Slashcode, Blosxom, phpWeblog, and (now) WordPress. Each time I've moved from one to the other, I've had to decide "do I really want to [...]
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