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 [...]
Tagged balisageConference08, Vancouver, vinocampIt’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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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