Category Archives: Opinion

Firefox 3.5 Troll!

The other day my colleague Andy Peatling (BuddyPress lead) tweeted
“The lighter part of the Firefox 3.5 logo globe kinda looks like a zombie: http://bit.ly/Mn20l“.
Mozilla Firefox 3.5 includes a new logo. But now thanks to Andy, I can’t help but always see the water troll when I look at the logo.

Experience the troll, download Firefox 3.5 [...]

Book Ends

“Stop starting with hardcovers” eloquently argues Pat Holt. Many people respond on BoingBoing how much they love hardcovers. I don’t care if with the few years publishers have left that they keep starting with hardcovers, as long as they start with the paperbacks at the same time. I like to read in bed — comfortably. [...]

BC 2009, No Election In My Riding, Swan Lake

Advanced voting started today in the BC Provincial Election. I hope to get my vote in tomorrow. There is no contest in my riding Swan Lake. NDP candidate Rob Fleming’s election will be a land slide!
Liberal candidate Jesse McClinton, like party leader Gordon Campbell, appears to lack integrity.
McClinton admitted Friday he was the person behind [...]

BC Elections 2009, the Political Dance Is Over, the Political Circus Begins

British Columbia, the Canadian province where I live, is in the final weeks of elections. The general election is May 12th.
Everyone can vote in advance on their own schedule — which is pretty cool — from May 6th through 9th.
There is a referendum on what voting system to use as part of this election.
This week [...]

Starting my New Year’s Resolution in February

Foolish people know to wait to start their New Year’s Resolutions till February. Save yourself from the lines, and packed January gyms. Most important, most New Year’s Resolutions fail in January.

Today is a gift

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present.

First step in theming A Fool’s Wisdom blog?

Inspired by the incredible time I had at An Event Apart San Francisco, I’ve decided to learn a little bit of CSS to actually theme this blog. What should I do first?
The last couple of years I’ve had no real personalized experience on this blog at foolswisdom.com. Partly, because it greatly eases testing of the [...]

Happy Birthday GNU!

The GNU Project is 25 years young! And Richard Stallman and crew are working as hard as ever. Thank you!
The GNU Project is most famous for it’s versions of UNIX utilities and the GPL family of licenses. But whatever you think of Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation’s hard-line approaches and politics, everyone has [...]

WordCamp Kicking Ass Passionate Video

Any way I put together the title it was this long monstrosity, so I just removed the filler words and then some.
So, one of the WordCamp SF sessions that I was eagerly awaiting the video being available to share is Kathy Seirra’s “Kicking Ass and Creating Passionate Users”:

Kathy Seirra is one of my favorite speakers, [...]

Movable Type Pro, Setting Social Networking Free, Vaporware, WordPress, BuddyPress

Six Apart VP Anil’s response today on the official Six Apart blog to my Movable Type Pro Introduction video parody doesn’t surprise me, but where is the link love?