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Monthly Archives: May 2007

first veronica mars gets canceled, now this

30 May 2007

Has anyone else been getting absolutely slammed with trackback spam lately? Usually I get two or three spams caught up in my moderation queue a day, but since the weekend I’ve been getting at least 20. I was running Akismet 1.2 and upgrading to 2.0 didn’t help. As it stands right now, [...]

i try not to use the word ‘blogosphere’

29 May 2007

Gary Richmond has written a nice blog post about Beagle over at freesoftwaremagazine.com. In addition to covering the basics, he also lists a number of applications which integrate Beagle search and covers the gamut of small utility programs included and even some of the power user settings to customize it for your environment. [...]

travel ahead

24 May 2007

This should be a fun July. I’ll be attending LugRadio Live in Wolverhampton on the 7th and 8th and I’m looking forward to seeing folks like Ted, Jono, and Aq again. I’m not giving a talk there, but maybe I can think of a demo for a lightning or lightbulb or whatever short [...]

now i just gotta get the ‘center of the world’ photo up

8 May 2007

I just released Beagle 0.2.17, which is a bug fix release. Over the past couple of months I had been quietly releasing 0.2.16.x releases which fixed some serious bugs, mostly for the releases of SLED 10 Service Pack 1, Ubuntu Feisty, and the new Gentoo. This version obviously contains all of those fixes [...]

he truly is some sort of wolf

4 May 2007

Haha. Slashdot comments are so lame. This one is amusing (and clueless). Nerdiest and creepiest? I’ll have to go with this one:

Balmer sits comfortably.
Remember, a Developers’s strength flows from the Code.
But beware. Anger, fear, aggression. The MS side are they. Once you start down the MS path, forever will it dominate [...]