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MoFo Weekly Report 2007-11-02

Most of this week focused on events and task triage. I was holed up in a small, comfortable hotel in Slovenia with good Net access. This, combined with a chest cold, kept me nicely focused on doing lots of small tasks.
Events

Missed our bi-weekly MoCo/MoFo events triage call - the call was a bit late and, [...]

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Dear Lazyweb: Esperanto and Gmail

A friend of a friend has done the work needed to localize Gmail in Esperanto. The FOAF has pitched it to Google (no strings attached), but they didn't seem very interested - at least, the Googlist he talked to didn't seem so interested. I tried to help by putting the FOAF in touch with one [...]

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Hiveminder For Consultants

I was chatting with a friend a few days ago about task management. He has a small consulting shop and uses a simple and effective method for keeping on top of his activities and billable hourse: lists of tasks get written into a small notebook. As they get done, he crosses them out and marks [...]

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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