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{ Monthly Archives } July 2008

A Week in August

It seems that August is con­fer­ence sea­son, at least for me. More pre­cisely, one week in August. First Bal­is­age in Mon­tréal (for which the online regis­tra­tion is clos­ing next Fri­day) August 12–15, and then Vinocamp here in Van­couver, at the UBC Botan­ical Garden, on August 16th. I’m speak­ing at the former, and help­ing organ­ise the […]

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2008 07 24 Conference
Food and Wine
Technology
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UE/UR/UI

It’s not often that I have a blog title that’s only acronyms (in fact, I think this is a first), and it’s also a first in that I’m post­ing look­ing for someone to join the team and pro­ject I’m on. I can’t write much about the pro­ject itself here, since we’re still in stealth mode, […]

2008 07 22 Technology Comments (0)

Using Wikis

The idea of wikis, the whole concept of col­lab­or­at­ive author­ing, is so enti­cing that it seems like it should be the default (at least if you don’t need more struc­tured markup behind it), even in the enter­prise. At least, that’s what I thought some years ago. People still like to send around office doc­u­ments with […]

2008 07 16 Technology Comments (3)

Meditation by another name?

Every now and then I think I should med­it­ate for a few minutes a day. Some­how I sel­dom do, although I find listen­ing to a med­it­a­tion track when fly­ing is a good way to tune out the stand­ard air­plane unpleas­ant­ness. Hav­ing read When Dis­trac­tion is Good, it seems to me as if med­it­a­tion and “receptive […]

2008 07 15 General Comments (1)

Reworking the network

Up till now I’ve been run­ning the home fire­wall and a couple of minor web­sites from an old (1996 or there­abouts) Pen­tium 3 box in the base­ment, that uses Debian. It seems to work reas­on­ably well, and has been fend­ing off bots and other threats with adequate fero­city. There seems no reason, how­ever, to think […]

2008 07 10 Technology Comments (5)