I found Robert Harris' op-ed in Saturday's New York Times interesting. It focuses on the fall of the Roman Republic, an event that Harris believes was caused by Roman overreaction to a pirate raid on Rome's port at Ostia in 68 BC:
An intelligent, skeptical American would no doubt scoff at the thought that what has [...]
I wanted to write something about how Gaim's communication problems might be solved by Sean Egan's new blog (which, at the time of writing, only has one post), but then I remembered that I have not written anything about Gregarius lately. Since the last post written about features in the next version of Gregarius is [...]
I have noticed that every couple of months, I need to reinstall in order for my computer to feel fresh and new. Since the only alternative solution I could think of was to buy a MacBook, I dumped all of my data to my external hard drive and did a fresh installation of Edgy Beta.
Before [...]
An essay on why I am not going to buy another iPod in the near future. First in a series on the state of Linux support (or lack thereof) in the digital audio player market today.
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
TechWorld reports that OpenOffice.org will soon be bundled with Mozilla Thunderbird and Lightning, but I think that the news that OpenOffice plans to support plugins to extends its feature set is just as important.
OpenOffice will get "Firefox-like" extension capabilities by version 2.0.4, due this month, Schulz said. The suite's existing extensions platform will get a [...]
Starting in June 2005, I decided that I would no longer purchase music from bands who released albums on record labels that belonged to the RIAA. I have broken that promise, mostly because the RIAA is everywhere.
Take Downtown Records. On the "About" section of their official website, immediately after claiming that they are an "independent [...]
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
After my dinner plans fell through last night, I found myself in Harvard Square with a bit of wanderlust and $1.25 burning a hole in my pocket. I rode down the Red Line to Park Street, ate at McDonald's (first "restaurant" I saw), and then headed to Loews Boston Common to see what movies were [...]