I greatly enjoyed Zak Greant's keynote talk at OpenWeb 2008 on The Age of Literate Machines in which he reminded us of the many attempts by rulers and government over the ages to curtail freedoms such as the ones defining "Free" sof...read more

I just checked in again at Ohloh, a site which gathers, analyses and presents information about various open source projects on the web. Dries blogged about this a few months ago in his post on CMS codebase comparisons.

Something that seems to be new at Ohloh since my last visit is a box that presents an estimate of the cost of a given project's codebase (using the basic COCOMO model of software costing). ...read more

I walked down the street to our local park yesterday after dinner and thought to take along my boomerang, which I'd just unearthed in the process of packing up house.

Fun!

I'd totally forgotten how much fun it is to just be outdoors for half an hour throwing things (and hoping they come back!) I suppose it will get to be less exercise when I get better at this and the boomerang actually comes back to me, but for now, it's great to just be outdoors, having fun, without spending money, consuming or being part of some kind of movement...read more

I arrived just before the ambulence left from the scene of yet another accident involving a cyclist struck by a car on a bicycle route. This was just a couple of blocks from home, at 10th Avenue west (a cycle route) and Manitoba (also a cycle route, if I'm not mistaken?).
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So says Pamela, after discovering how much (read: little) money I'd earned in ...read more