The other day I was trying to figure out a problem I was having with Google’s awesome Gmail, and whether to let Google know about their problem, when I remembered that Google thinks I (and Flock) hate them.
I actually own a Google shirt and enjoy wearing it. I admire the people of Google.
I dislike being called a “user” almost as much as I dislike being called a “consumer”.
I have had the pleasure of spending some of my time sitting with John “One Man’s Blog, Specialization is for Insects” Pozadzides today. He is the person of the hour, or will be, recording WordCamp 2007.
July 23rd Update: the brilliant Colin Devroe feeling better on day 2 has posted a few videos from WordCamp:
WordCamp 07: [...]
Anyone, that has gone to the University of Victoria in the last 30 years knows Peter Verin, maybe not by name, but by his presence. Last week the university banned him from campus.
“She’s high-maintenance with multiple personalities (read: distros) and expects you to be a mind reader when something goes wrong when you just met her. No Linux deserves better than that. Linux deserves the truth. Bring on a nerdy, brainy, hacker guy. No less will do.”
Comment by Sandra F
Unfortunately, Sandra is correct. “Linux is still regarded [...]
Northern Voice: the annual blogging conference for everyone held in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
It is sold-out, starts tonight with a fantastic feast, and runs through Satursday. Tomorrow is the unconference Moose Camp and Saturday is the “formal presentations“.
One more sleep for me. Julia and I will take the ferry over first thing in the morning.
If you [...]
I have updated my list of Computer Clubs in Victoria which I started as a discussion on VLUG’s mailing list.
Laughing Squid is celebrating the start of its second decade! Primary tentacle Scott Beale is one of the best features of San Francisco.
If you are in San Fran, be there this weekend! Even though Julia and I will not — we were very tempted to fly down for the weekend, but I am cheap.
James Currier, founder and CEO of GoodTree, got back to me after really putting it out here.
No, not talking butter.
Parakey: a service, a product, a platform to bring life to the web by Firefox wonderboys? A “Web operating system that can do everything an OS can do”? IEEE Spectrum article
Designing the Obvious: A Common Sense Approach to Web Application Design by Robert Hoekman Jr.
Testing Open Source