Archive for October 2007
MoFo Weekly Report 2007-10-26
Traveled to Ljubljana, Slovenia to attend LinuX dan 10:
Presented the Age of Literate Machines as a keynote
Chatted with attendees
Interviewed with local journalist Damjan Franz Lu from NeDeljski (which I think is the major Slovenian daily)
Traveled to Zagreb, Croatia to attend LinuX dan 5.
Pondered the naming convention for the events
Presented the Age of Literate Machines as [...]
LCBN Euro Open Source Business Awards 2007
The Linux Business Campus Nuremberg (LBCN) presents annual awards for innovative ideas, well-considered concepts and promising business plans in the field of Open Source and Free Software.
The European Open Source Business Award is presented for innovative business concepts after detailed examination by an expert jury comprising LBCN campus coaches and selected figures from the venture [...]
Keynoting linuxdan.si: Great Food, Mild Discomfit & a Castle
LinuX dan Slovenia was held in Ljubljana castle (which, as one might guess, overlooks Ljubljana from a hill called Castle Hill.)
Conference organizers: Want to improve the next conference that you host? Hold it in a castle - everything is more interesting in a large stone building that has arrow slits. Also, when if the wireless [...]
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What happens if one uses a MAC to read a ppt made on Windows?
I received an email today with the following subject, "What happens if one uses a MAC to read a ppt made on Windows?"
As far as I know, this is roughly what happens:
The angel GUIbriel shall sound the Mac OS X start noise and Steve Jobs (called JEHOBA by some), adorned with a mighty beard of [...]
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Recipe: Cornbread Crème Brûlée
My wife loves cornbread and crème brûlée. This dish combines both (much, I am sure, to the horror of many.) I made it as a part of our 11th anniversary meal.
Serves: 4
Preparation time: 20 minutes of work, 5 hours of waiting.
Ingredients
1/4 cup coarse corn meal
1/2 cup water
1 cup heavy cream
1/4 cup brown sugar
4 egg [...]
A French (Culinary) Invasion of the Deep South
Last night, Mandy and I celebrated eleven awesome years of being together.
I cooked us a dinner that combined two cuisines that are very important to me, but that I almost never cook any more - French (or, at least, the codified version that I was taught in cooking school) and home-style cooking from Texas, Oklahoma, [...]
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Conference Report: OpenMind & MindTrek 2007
OpenMind 2007 and MindTrek 2007 were excellent mid-sized (400+ participants) tech events that brought together a great mix of people - academics, working developers, activists, senior IT management, public servants, industry veterans, innovators and even pirates [0].
Some presentations were lackluster, but the informal discussions were awesome. There [...]
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MoFo Weekly Report 2007-10-05
For the week ending Friday, October 5th, I attended OpenMind 2007 (and its sister conference MindTrek). Both events were excellent. While I live-blogged much of the first day of OpenMind sessions (visit the Openmind category for this blog to read the posts), I found that I got the most from the event by discussing with [...]
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MoFo Weekly Report 2007-09-28
For the week ending Friday, September 28th, I:
Worked out a plan for attending OpenMind 2007
Had a good chat with David Ascher about MailCo
Traveled to Finland for OpenMind
Next Week
Attend OpenMind - present The Age of Literate Machines as a keynote and network.
Tags: Age of Literate Machines, David Ascher, David Boswell, Finland, Frank Hecker, Gerv, Gervase Markham, [...]
MoFo Weekly Report 2007-09-21
For the week ending Friday, September 21st, most of my time went into:
Wiki gardening on the private Mozilla Corporation and Mozilla Foundation wikis
Event planning and followup
Cleaning up minor dangling tasks (like handing some XUL community stuff over to David and (unsuccessfully) chasing after Seth about FOSS.in)
Next Week
Working on plans for Mozilla Foundation outreach the upcoming [...]