Standing on the Toes of Giants at Mozilla24

In 2002, a short while after I started at MySQL, I saw Lawrence Lessig present at OSCON. The presentation was extraordinarily good and Lessig is a tremendously passionate, genuine and compelling orator.
I immediately revised my presentation style. I stole what ideas and style I could. While I was mostly presenting about MySQL and PHP at [...]

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MoFo Weekly Report 2007-08-31

During the week ending on Friday August 31th, I did the following things:

Events

Attended FrOSCon (which was awesome) - need to write report. Briefly, I - gave a session, met and discussed with another FLOSS Foundations member and caught up with a few CACert folks. More later.
Did some followup work for the Internet as a Public [...]

Vacation-fueled ramblings

OSCON, LinuxTag and LinuxWorld SF were all great. The FSF licensing seminar at Stanford was awesome and it was very nice to connect with the community at each of these events. Unfortunately, all of these rather intense events at the end of a busy schedule has kind of burned me out. Badly in need [...]