I attended a number of talks this week, and in two cases heard statements being made that were never given critical reflection. I thought I'd lay them before you so you could fix that. First, on the topic of reading: There are only two reasons to read: pleasure and for…
After spending the day in the city yesterday, I was glad to get back home to the country. Tonight at dinner we were watching a group of Buffleheads on our lake outside the window, when I noticed one that was 4 times the size of the rest. "It's a…
I was invited to come to the University of Toronto and participate in a panel at KMDI called CODE: Building the New Agora. The event was looking at various virtual communities, presence vs. on-line, how open source informs new social networks (e.g., BarCamp/DemoCamp). I spoke on the Mozilla…
I'm taking heat for the theme/font I was using here (to be honest, I forgot what it looked like, since the page I write to looks nothing like the site). So I'm reverting to the standard WordPress look-and-feel until I can get proper permissions on shaver's box to upload/…
Yesterday we packed-up the family and drove to my parents' house for an Easter dinner. It was great to see the entire crew, watch my parents try to deal with so many grandchildren all at once, and to thoroughly trounce not one but two of my brothers at crokinole--overheard during…
Two of my students, Mark Paruzel (RealMarkP) and Eric Yi Shen, are just finishing-up their project work, which is explore building a declarative markup for drawing to canvas. The idea is to embed drawing primitives (e.g., line, circle, rotate, etc.) within canvas, allowing for simplified expressions of complex drawing…
I spent the day today following-up on things that came out of the Boston Dev Day, in particular working-up a grant proposal for a research project based on Vlad's canvas3d stuff (have you seen this? man!). That, and reading mfinkle's wrap-up, made me pause to reflect on what a great…
I'm in Boston just getting ready to head to breakfast before the DevDay activities get underway. Even though I'm only able to spend 24 hours here, it's already been a fabulous experience. Last night I took Vlad's recommendation and joined Beltzner and crew for dinner at "Mary's". The…
I'm one of the chairs of the Free Software and Open Source Symposium (FSOSS), and wanted to get the word out that we've opened the flood gates for talk and workshop proposals for fall 2007. Last year's line-up was fantastic, and if you missed it, you can grab the talks…
No sooner am I back home from Seneca than I see that not only is distcc done, but Stuart has landed apng for Andrew! What a day to celebrate great work. Andrew, Stuart, Vlad, congratulations. And it's only 9:30, I wonder what's coming next?…