First off, if you haven’t already read Greg Grossmeier’s post regarding the kerfluffle between Canonical and Banshee, please read it. Greg has a lot of salient points in his post. On a more personal note, if you’ve got Greg Grossmeier (who is the most even-keeled and laid-back person that I know) writing a post to [...]

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They say that you should make your goals public, so here goes: I’m going to try something a little different for my reading habits. For far too long have I had a book collection, but not necessarily a collection that I’ve read through all of the way. No more. I’m going to make a conscious [...]

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I’m going to stretch a few travel analogies in this article, so for those of you who can’t stand to see analogies stretched to their near-breaking point, you might want to skip this article. Having recently reacquainted myself with the culture of airports, I feel there are some parallels between my recent experiences with airport [...]

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Received this little gem in the mail today: Hi, Various unknown facts are listed on the website [REDACTED] . The unknown facts are really good and I have found it very useful, so thought to share the same with you. They are categorized as 1.    Unknown facts 2.    Health Facts 3.    [REDACTED] Facts (I’d rather [...]

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Microsoft recently released their Windows Phone 7 and XBox App store licenses (seems all of the cool kids are getting into this app store model these days). Normally that wouldn’t even register a blip on my radar, save for the veritable Internet shit-storm that followed when folks like Jan Wildeboer read the license and noticed [...]

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Yay, you found the new server! Congratulations! This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported.

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This is a review for Python 3 Object Oriented Programming by Dusty Phillips. First, the good: this is a fine place to get into the nitty gritty of object oriented programming in Python. The author really knows his stuff, and it’s quite apparent in the book. This book would be one of the first that [...]

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About a year ago, I deleted my Facebook account. This was just after Facebook introduced the “like” button on other sites. It didn’t take me long to figure out that what Facebook was doing was moving from beyond their little walled garden, and instead were moving into tracking my movements on various sites. I found [...]

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