First podcast
Today, I had the new experience of helping out with a podcast. Like most people, I hate hearing my voice (it always sounds clumsy and over-precise), and any wishful belief in my own eloquence wilts...
View ArticleConspiracy theorists and free software
No one can be involved in the free software community to any extent without stumbling across conspiracy theorists. Like the mad wife in the attic, they’re an embarrassment to the community, clinging...
View ArticleWriting about conspiracies
The fallout from my blog entry, “Conspiracy theorists and free software” continues. With all the people baying for my blood – some of whom, frankly, sound disingenuous in their demands for proof – the...
View ArticleSpeaking at Open Web Vancouver
Once you’ve been an instructor, the habit of teaching is hard to break. That fact, as much as anything, explains why I am not only attending the Open Web Vancouver conference this year, but giving a...
View ArticleMassive Trade Show? Not So Much
The large IT trade show is in decline all over North America. Comdex disappeared a few years ago, and, despite the thriving market for GNU/Linux, LinuxWorld Expo cut back from twice a year to one....
View ArticleA humbling moment
I like to think that I’m at home on the computer. Not on Windows – ask me to solve a problem there, and (assuming I don’t refuse to approach it), I’m relying on common sense, Internet searches, and my...
View ArticleBoycott Novell’s Free Software Credibility List and me
A correspondent tells me that Boycott Novell’s Free Software Credibility List gave me a rating of three on a six point scale (I could link, but I don’t want to give the site any more hits than I have...
View ArticleTrue GNU
It’s tough being pure GNU, especially when hardware is involved. All my workstation computers are custom-built; I like to know exactly what goes into them, and would do the same for laptops, if I...
View ArticleRichard Stallman: Up close and impersonal
I have interviewed Richard Stallman and other members of the Free Software Foundation often enough that he remembers my name (no small feat, I’m sure, considering the hundreds he meets each year). Once...
View ArticleThe promise of Pong
The first time I saw Pong, I knew that massive change was coming – and that I would spend my life against the background of that change. I was a high school junior at the time. I was in Yakima,...
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