Wednesday, February 17, 2010
In English we have a well-known confusion with the word/term “free”. It can refer either to something having no cost/price, or as a reference to essential matters of liberty.
Words such as “freedom” might work, but are a bit much to say each team, and to me have the effect of hyperbole — big words chosen [...]
Chris Dawson, I understand you are concerned about your school system being sued by the RIAA in your post, “Let me say it again: Stop sharing music!” But spreading nonsensical fear and misinformation isn’t the way to do it.
It seems an odd choice to restrict academic openness and freedom for the sake of bad actions [...]
Wow. It’s not just that the student-designed and -built OSWALD devices are innovative and cool (they are, and I saw the on-campus sweatshop to prove the student-built part.) The brilliance is the way the OSWALD is the linchpin in an OSU strategy that reinvents computer science teaching, while making room for disciplines outside of CS [...]
Thursday, February 26, 2009
It seems to me there are two fundamental world views that drive parenting. Depending on which you subscribe to, it says how you are going to make many choices from there.
Your goal is to prepare your child for a rich and abundant life in the real world.
Your goal is to let your individual child blossom [...]
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Because Spot in looking out for it. Aside from doing a fantastic job, he is brutally honest. He also has a great turn of phrase:
“There’s probably a Perl script running that company now …”
(No, I won’t say what company.)
Thanks Spot for always being way out front on legal and licensing issues. Fedora [...]
After my post, Why and where Fedora needs a CMS solution, which included a follow-up discussion on fedora-websites-list, there were questions and gentle dissent. I think those stemmed mainly from it not being clear what the intended scope is for a CMS solution. There were also calls for one or another specific CMS [...]
Some memes surround activities as does fog by the Bay. Flying over the Sierra, Lake Tahoe about to slip below, it’s the kind of time where a disconnected writer is tempted to journal even without a blog client. This infamous travelogue. That’s right, a plain text editor (/usr/bin/emacs for me) is all [...]
Howdy from your friendly Wiki Gardener crew. Saturday’s early-import of data from Moin Moin to MediaWiki went well, after the usual sunburn and problems with attachments. The new wiki is alive for work, but is subject to random outages as Ricky thinks of clever new things to make the final migration days go [...]
Last week I responded to an email sent to the webmaster@fp.org address. Most of the replies we make to those emails are stock-answers, such as http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ServerTestPage when they email that Fedora stole their website and replaced it with “your page,” or a pointer to the Fedora communicate and get help page. I [...]
