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In the mid-ninties, I went from a single, heartsick, nervous and twitchy young geek who ran about 30 minutes a day (and that weighted in at about 70 kilos) to a much happier and well-loved geek who spent a lot more time snuggling on the couch.
I also went from cooking to live to cooking for [...]

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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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Party Planning with Bugzilla

Last month, I noticed that Syd Logan filed an interesting blocker-level bug in Bugzilla (For the less geekily inclined who read this blog, a blocker-level bug is rather important - the show does not go on unless said bug is fixed.)
The bug in question is Mozilla.org needs to throw a 10 year anniversary party for [...]

Free as in Independent: Norway's Progressive Stance on Free Software and Open Source

In a few hours Heidi Grande Røys, the surprising Norwegian Minister of Government Administration and Reform, will be in the city of Drammen to launch the first of what will be several national centres of expertise for Free Software and Open Source.
This first centre is meant to provide public bodies - especially Norwegian municipalities - [...]

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VASHIKOL: A Bad Acronym for (Hopefully) Good Food

At last years BarCamp Vancouver I prepared food inspired by the Sikh practice of Langar. You can read more about it in post Borrowing Great Idea from the Sikhs.
This year, I'll do the same, but I'm going to use local food that is organic. This might be a bit tougher - especially as I am [...]

Lightning Talks on TV?

A few months ago, Ryan Yewell from the Lab with Leo Laporte dropped me a note to see if I was interested in presenting a segment on the show. Each segment is about six minutes - about the same length as a lightning talk.
While I've been mostly out of town when they've been shooting, I [...]

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Quicksilver + Adium + Hiveminder

Jesse and the gang at Best Practical have cooked up a slick IM interface for Hiveminder. Now, with a bit of AppleScript and the help of Adium, it is easy to hook Quicksilver up to Hiveminder.

If this is all a bunch of jabberwocky, then you probably aren't using a Mac. Move along, nothing to [...]

MoFo Weekly Report 2007-07-06

Sorry for the missing reports (for the June 22nd and 29th) - I'll catch up in this report.
June 22nd and 29th were quiet on for Mozilla-related activities. I did what I could to keep the ball rolling for our organization of the Internet as a Public Good Symposium, but my real focus was taken up [...]

Slides from eLiberatica 2007 online

For the curious, the slides for the eLiberatica 2007 presentations are now up at http://eliberatica.ro/2007/ - the slides include presentations from eZ CEO Aleksander Farstad, Brian Behlendorf, FSF Europe President Georg Greve, Ubuntist Kurt von Finck and MySQL co-founder Monty Widenius (and yours truly, but the slides are a bit weak - check out my [...]

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Hacking Business Models

This weekend, Monty and I got together for a different kind of hacking session.
Instead of developing software, we were working on developing a set of rough principles and rules for running a Free Software/Open Source business. We both have a good amount of experience working with various FLOSS projects (like Mozilla, MySQL, PHP, etc.) and [...]

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