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Monthly Archives: November 2007

lots of new facebook friend requests, though

22 November 2007

From Valleywag, my favorite tech gossip rag:
Take poor Joe Shaw from UC-Davis for example. “I bought some ‘enlargement’ pills online,” he writes in the group’s forum. “The next thing you know, boom, it shows up on my news-feed for all my friends to see. The worst part about it: they were breast-enlargement pills!” What a [...]

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home alone hasn’t even aired yet

18 November 2007

The following companies have begun advertising Christmas stuff to me before Thanksgiving, thereby earning themselves a blacklist from my patronage:

Lowe’s
Best Buy
Garmin
Dunkin’ Donuts

On the other hand, Nordstrom’s is awesome.

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day 2

13 November 2007

My second day at ITA has been a little bit of a challenge so far:

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
21136 root 25 0 1168g 2.9g 2.9g R [...]

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patently stupid

8 November 2007

Dear Lazyweb,
One of the ways Microsoft threatens the Linux community is by telling customers they’re liable for patent infringement if they run it in their data centers, on workstations, etc. Can someone explain to me how and why customers are liable for patent infringement when another party provided them with the infringing product? [...]

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not that i ever did this

7 November 2007

Kids these days. In my day you’d get a can of Reddi-wip from the supermarket. It’d get you high and you didn’t have the taste of feces in your mouth. Of course, now it’s harder to get since they moved it behind the counter.

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you just made me vomit in my own mouth

5 November 2007

It’s old news that every episode of the Daily Show since Jon Stewart took over is online, but here’s a link (and alternate spelling) to all of the awesome Even Stevphen segments with Steve Carell and Stephen Colbert.
Also, this Android Google phone thingy looks neat. It’s built on top of Linux and Apache licensed. [...]

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major life changes, pt. 2

2 November 2007

Two months shy of my 8 year anniversary at Novell, I’ve decided that it’s time to move on. My last day is today.
I was only 19 when I moved to Boston to work for a startup (later) called Ximian. I’ve had the pleasure to work with and learn from some truly brilliant people, [...]

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maybe a different example would have been more effective

1 November 2007

Funny thing about Matt Asay’s blog post about Miguel, Mono, and Moonlight:
You [Miguel], personally, would convince more by going back to the innovation in GNOME that originally made you one of the most interesting developers on the planet. I want the old Miguel (and Nat - where has Nat Friedman been?) back, the one who [...]

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