• Cherry Blossom Festival and Bluebottle Coffee

    Posted on April 18, 2005

    Niall, Elle, and I went to the Cherry Blossom Festival in Japantown in San Francisco yesterday. I have some images to upload, but I’ll have to do it later. We made it there in time to catch the Taiko drummers, and they were letting people up on stage to try... [Read More]

  • Rebooting OS X as Problem Resolution Considered Acceptable?

    Posted on April 14, 2005

    I’ve been using a PowerBook G4 for just about a month. It’s pretty nice actually, I like the environment quite a bit. And it’s the first time I’ve had a nice modern laptop to use. Normally I have some rejected hardware kept alive through the necromantic power of Linux. Today... [Read More]

  • Cleaner Notes from Recent Innovations in Search Panel

    Posted on April 13, 2005

    I posted raw notes yesterday for this event, here’s the cleaned up version. The event was “Recent Innovations in Search and Other Ways of Finding Information”. There’s going to be audio of the event posted, I’m not sure if it’s going to be to the BayCHI site or somewhere else.... [Read More]

  • Patents and Innovation in the Mobile Space

    Posted on April 8, 2005

    Just a quick note, I need to get back to work after having a late lunch but didn’t want to let this slip through the cracks. Patently Absurd: How New Wireless Technologies Get Strangled By Patents is worth a read. Here’s an excerpt: [Read More]

  • Open Source Business - Meet the Community

    Posted on April 7, 2005

    Yesterday there was a session during the Open Source Business Conference titled Meet the Community. The lineup of speakers was stellar. Ross Mayfield posted a transcript and Niall Kennedy posted some commentary. I think my favorite comment was from Brian Behlendorf, who said that he never really considered companies special... [Read More]

  • SBC Filtering Port 25

    Posted on April 5, 2005

    When Elle and I got home from New Orleans our phone wasn’t working and our DSL connection was bouncing up and down. They got that fixed up during the day, thanks to some poking and prodding from Elle. But this evening when I went to send email I kept getting... [Read More]