One of the goals of writing a community how-to book was to write it by a community using the methods described in the book. This includes using 100% free and open source software to create and maintain the book, do the work of the community, and run the web presences. Of course, the source for [...]
Feeling 3x worse than before I hammered on the kids. Build up and relief of anger rarely feels good. I KNOW the girls can see the build up, as I move, sometimes over the course of _days_ from reasonable, nice, conciliatory, consensus seeking to upset, sad, frustrated, and vocally angry. Temper still as short as [...]
I picked five because then I wouldn’t be at this all day, but it’s clearly a lot more than that. And I’m sure I know people have “reasons they hate”, and they are welcome to go somewhere they love more than they hate, I’m sure, yes. These are the sort of things I find myself [...]
(This article arose from my sitting on an open source round table on Monday 08 June in Santa Clara, CA at ConnectivityWeek 2009. My slides with full speaker notes are available.) For those who’ve never heard of building automation systems (BAS) and the smart grid, you have my pardon to take a few minutes to [...]
One of my favorite things about writing this blog is that I get to talk about me. See, it’s right there in the name: “i, quaid.” If you don’t figure it’s all about me, you are just not paying attention. This week we went through the pleasurable experience of anointing the awesome Eric ‘Sparks’ Christensen [...]
One (of the many) things I appreciated about the last Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit was the immediate availability of session notes on the wiki. For each session, people wrote a wiki page and linked to it from the main schedule. I may even have started this practice two years ago, when only the [...]
