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Monthly Archives: October 2007

while i’m on a roll

29 October 2007

I just want to throw a “shout out” for Google Docs. I love Google Docs.
Brette and I did all our wedding planning using it. We created a spreadsheet containing all the people we wanted to invite, and shared that document with our parents. This was great because our parents filled out the [...]

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monotonous

28 October 2007

On Aaron’s post about PodSleuth, there was this comment by Søren Hauberg:
I think you (and many others) are missing one of the main mono problems. From the outside it looks a lot like Novell is pushing mono much harder then is healthy. Mono gets used in places where its the wrong _technical_ choice. Beagle is [...]

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major life changes, pt. 1

28 October 2007

Last Saturday I got married to the most wonderful woman in the world, Brette Luck.

After taking photos in the Public Garden on a beautiful and unseasonably warm day, we had a lovely ceremony in downtown Boston with an amazing view of the harbor with many family members and close friends.

I had a wonderful time, and [...]

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another moment of yuppy self-realization

17 October 2007

I had to pause the KEXP podcast I was listening to on my iPhone so that I concentrate on extending the Zipcar reservation I was using so that I had enough time to drive back to Cambridge from Arlington, which is where I pick up my meat CSA share.

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now that you feel it you don’t

10 October 2007

Also: the new Radiohead album is fantastic, if a bit shorter than I would like.

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if only there were a threaded means of communication

10 October 2007

Hi Luis! First off, personal blog, opinions don’t represent that of my employer, not a corporate shill, blah blah blah.
Which is why they are going after Linux users, most of whom have no patents of their own to retaliate with. Besides the original Fortune article, check out this latest Ballmer quote, where he carefully [...]

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9 October 2007

For as irritating as Steve Ballmer’s saber-rattling is about Linux and patents, I think he is right about one thing:
He predicted that firms like Eolas will soon come after open source vendors or users. Microsoft paid $521m to settle a patent claim by Eolas in August.
“Every time an Eolas comes to Microsoft and says: ‘Pay [...]

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obligatory “fresh air” plug

2 October 2007

Miguel: You might be interested in an episode of Fresh Air about The Israel Lobby. Terry Gross interviews Stephen Walt, one of the co-authors, and although I haven’t read the book yet, he makes his argument in a well-reasoned and balanced way and responds to the criticism he and his co-author have received. [...]

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