I mentioned the other day that I wanted to drink 100 cups of coffee in 48 hours. Diego was down with it. And we’ve been encouraged, insulted, applauded, and dismissed in Russ’s comments. It’s stupi...

I started using 43Things finally, and one of my goals is to drink 100 cups of coffee. This is in homage to the Futurama episode where Fry drinks 100 cups of coffee and reaches some kind of enlighte...

I just updated to WordPress 2.0 for this blog. Normally the next thing people say is “great, now update the templates!” You know what? No. I’m not even going to try this time. Normally I say to my...

I fooled around with ffmpeg for a while trying to convert a few videos for use on my iPod Video, and managed to get something working after using using this description of video conversion. While t...

Getting audio on to the iPod using Linux was a snap. Getting videos on took a bit more doing, but also worked out quite well. I’m listing the info here cause it took a little searching around to fi...

I was gifted a video iPod, my first real iPod device (I have a shuffle that I used for podcasts and occasionally a mix for running). I’m a Linux only user, and I’m accustomed to paying for the conv...

Jon Aquino and Matt Webb have been working on some interesting stuff on Ning. They put together a relatively simple component system that generates dynamic images representing the state of Ning ap...

Doug Engelbart is going to be at the Future Salon on Nov 30th. He’s gotten some money to pursue the Large Scale Collective IQ project, and is going to be talking about what some of the first steps ...

Following up again on the Ciscogate thread, Lynn now has a job at Juniper networks. Yay!!

Nothing like a handgrenade of doubt to cause the venture capitalists to scuttle for cover. Is the investment in open source a bubble? Fuck no. $144 million into open source based companies is nothi...