• What is Blogging All About?

    Posted on December 23, 2003

    There’s an Entry in Seth Finkelstein’s blog pondering why it is that people keep blogs. He mentions some of the common reasons in there, like exposure to a new audience if you’re running a business related blog, and the simple need to communicate which is fulfilled by a daily diary.... [Read More]

  • Excellent Linux 2.6 Changes Summary

    Posted on December 23, 2003

    There’s a great document titled The Wonderful World of Linux 2.6 that I just got finished reading over. An excellent summary of all the things to look for (and to look out for) in the new kernel release. I’ve been running the 2.6test series for a while and I’ve had... [Read More]

  • Linus Responds to SCO Evidence Files

    Posted on December 22, 2003

    There’s a post over at Groklaw with Linus’s response to the files that SCO says were coppied. Basically, it looks like bunk. Which is what a lot of us expected. SCO has tried sighting files which are so heavily standardized that any implementation would look the same. But still, there... [Read More]

  • Vagablog 1.7

    Posted on December 22, 2003

    I’ve released verion 1.7 of Vagablog, although I suspect the change won’t really affect most people. I expanded the amount of memory available for processing the blog list. There used to be a limit of 10 blogs, now it’ll use a lot more (31 is the limit of my testing... [Read More]

  • McLuhan Analysis of Mobile Telephony

    Posted on December 22, 2003

    There’s a post about applying McLuhan’s “Laws of Media” to the mobile telephone. I hadn’t heard of these questions before, and both the article and the discussion around it are very interesting. In the comments there are links to some good sites and papers, so don’t read just the article... [Read More]

  • Yep, Earthquake

    Posted on December 22, 2003

    I finally found the location on the USGS site that has realtime maps of earthquake activity, so I was able to verify the shaking that I felt. It still hasn’t shown up on the list of quakes, but at least the map there told me there was a big quake... [Read More]

  • Earthquake?

    Posted on December 22, 2003

    I’m sitting here reading news and suddenly my monitor start swaying from side to side. Afraid my cheap cardtable/desk is about to give way I hop up, but feel unsteady on my feet. The blinds are swaying back and forth, and I can see the sliding doors on the closets... [Read More]

  • How to Get a Book Deal with Your Blog

    Posted on December 22, 2003

    Biz has a new article up at Blogger.com about how to get a book deal with your blog. It’s a great tongue in cheek article that makes for an amusing read, yet brings up some really relevant points at the same time. According to Biz he doesn’t have a real... [Read More]

  • Microcommunities

    Posted on December 21, 2003

    There’s an interesting entry in John Battelle’s blog about adding a blogging mechanism that allows readers to optionally expose their reading habbits so that others can somewhat “read over their shoulder” (my own term for it). I’ve been interested in this for a while, mostly looking it from the knowledge... [Read More]

  • ussp-push .deb and Bluetooth in General

    Posted on December 21, 2003

    Jim Bray hacked up the ussp-push tool I have up on unrooted.net and made a .deb out of it, should be a nice easy install path now. I made that available a long time ago, and apparently it’s still what people pick up pretty frequently. [Read More]