The Love Shack

Today’s Cool Find of the Day ™ goes to Gonéri Le Bouder. Reading through Planet Debian earlier today, I came across his post about Jamendo’s Spiral. Jamendo is an awesome site that provides music from independent artists under a Creative Commons license. They actually have a decent selection of music, and their site has all […]

Christian Perrier has been documenting the translation status of Debian packages on his blog for a while now, but he’s recently received a bit of lighthearted criticism from other Planet Debian members. Now while I personally rather enjoyed his daily percentages as I could just glance at them and be on my way, it seems […]

I still hate Comcast, but at least I can get some decent speed out of them every once in a while…

Photo hosted courtesy of Zooomr. It’s like Flickr, only better because they use OpenID.

Now that I’ve gotten over the initial hump of learning enough Ruby (on Rails) to get some productive work done, here’s my list of quite-possibly-essential tools for the job:

Ruby (and Rails, if you’re doing web stuff)
Ruby Interactive Reference - Currently v1.8 (ri1.8 package in Debian)
A good text editor. I prefer Emacs for heavy coding, vim […]

Not enough Indians… in a nutshell, that’s the problem with OpenID today. Everybody and their mother wants to be an OpenID provider. Technorati, LiveJournal, TypeKey, and plenty of others. And that’s fine. Variety is good; decentralized is good. But… and this is a big one (no pun intended )… having a dozen different OpenID’s […]

So I’m really happy to be seeing a lot more sites out there using OpenID. It’s great that there are lots of people really embracing the concept. What’s really getting on my nerves, is the half-a$$ed implementations of OpenID I’m seeing out there.
LiveJournal, the place where OpenID was born still won’t allow you to actually […]

I was looking at a PDF earlier, and I happened to open it gpdf and evince at the same time. And I noticed quite a quality difference between the two. I then opened up xpdf to see how it looked. First, lets take a look at each one:
Evince
 
gpdf
 
xpdf
 
And a zoomed-in, side-by-side comparison
 
Now, the fact that […]

Ok, this is just sad. Jim Samples, general manager and executive VP of Cartoon Network resigned today because of the fiasco surrounding the now-infamous Boston bomb-scare caused by their guerilla advertising campaign. After 13 years, he’s gone because we are afraid. Of what? Everything! Lets go and bomb somebody before they get us first! Run […]

The more I get into the whole OpenID the more I like it. Unfortunately, the more I get into it the more I hate not having it. For example, I just saw a great post on Simon Richter’s blog that I was going to comment on. So I go to post my comment, and I […]

Some more stuff has been put up at Groklaw in the Comes v. Microsoft case. Specifically, an expert report regarding (alleged) undocumented API’s in Windows, and the transcript of that expert’s deposition. I’d definitely suggest checking out one or both if you have the time and the geeky mindset to enjoy them.
I had originally intended […]