[Edited for clarity] Those of you who know me know that I have an amazing fetish for music, most notably for compact discs. I love to discover new music, and browsing through used CD stores is my idea of a great way to kill an afternoon (and, notably, also a great way to kill off [...]

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Feel that in the air? That somewhat chilly feeling of back-to-school and fall weather. It can only mean one thing (well, besides the fact that summer is over, and the kids are almost back to school, and I’ll have to re-learn how to drive in Michigan winters). Yes, it means that Ohio Linuxfest is right [...]

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We’re less than two weeks away from the Michigan Loco Ubuntu Global Jam, happening on September 3rd in downtown Ann Arbor at the lovely, and graciously provided-to-us offices of SRT Solutions. The Ubuntu Global Jam is a great way to spend an afternoon helping out the Ubuntu Community. The last jam in April was particularly great because [...]

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JoDee mentioned that Jodie Foster gave SETI some cash keep going in their search for extra-terrestrial activity. That got me thinking: if the UFO conspiracy and ancient alien “theorists” wanted to shut everyone up about alien contact, I can think of no better way to do it than to fund SETI. Instead of bellerin’ and [...]

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JoDee and I rode down with Rick to PyOhio 2011 (which was near the end of July this year). I always have a great time during PyOhio, and look forward to meeting up with everyone down there in Columbus. Yes, we vacation in Ohio. PyOhio has been growing by leaps and bounds since it’s inception, [...]

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This morning I got up and mowed the lawn. It really needed it, and the push mower was having all it could do to make it through the damp morning dew-covered grass. But, the sun was shining, Five-Finger Death Punch and Iron Thrones were on the Sansa, and I plowed through it. And now I’m [...]

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Whatever it is, I’m pretty sure we’ll need a bigger vacuum. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported.

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Recently there was a “study” published that claimed that Internet Explorer users were dumber than users of other browsers. It was a wild claim at best, but of course the media ran with it. Even the normally stoic BBC got caught in the hullabaloo. It was an outrageous claim, but it made for a good [...]

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You’ll be free, hackers. You’ll be free. echochasm – libre (mp3) echochasm – libre (ogg) (Based off of Jono Bacon’s “Free Software Song“, written using LMMS and Audacity)     This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported.

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