Just wanted to take a quick moment to thank folks on this first inaugural Ubuntu Community Appreciation Day. There’s a lot of folks that work tirelessly to help make the community what it is, and we don’t say thank you nearly enough to those folks who give their time willingly to help bring Ubuntu the physical product, [...]

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(These are somoe lyrics that I came up for a Monty-Python-esque march. If someone wants to put them to music, please feel free.) If you think your job’s a joke Well, blame Obama If your state won’t let you toke Well, blame Obama If your pension’s up in smoke or your grandma had a stroke [...]

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Rick and I spent last weekend at the 1DevDay Detroit conference, held at the beautiful Compuware building in Downtown Detroit. Unlike conferences like PyOhio, Pycon, or Ohio Linuxfest, the conference wasn’t centered around one particular piece of technology, but was instead focused on the craft of developing software. On Friday, after a quick bite provided [...]

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Here’s a quick little ditty I wrote to the spammers at Information Week / Techweb to attempt once again to get off of their e-mail mailing lists: Hello, I’m not sure what I need to do in order to never ever hear from your company ever again, but apparently unsubscribing from everything under your handy [...]

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With the recent changes to identi.ca, and the arrival of Google Plus, I think it’s time for me to rethink how I use social media. If you’re one of those folks who hates the navel-gazing that people can do when it comes to social-media platforms, please feel free to safely skip this post. identi.ca: I’m [...]

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Kid: “Trick or Treat” JoDee: “You’re one lucky ghost. You know why?” Kid: “Why?” JoDee proceeds to dump the rest of the candy into his sack JoDee: “Here you go.” Kid: “Are you serious?” JoDee: “Yep.” Kid: “Happy Halloween, like, a Trillion times over” (off in the distance, once he leaves “ARE YOU SERIOUS?”) This [...]

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