Confessions of a Digital Packrat

"I think you’re going to have your ass handed to you." -Chris Breen, September 2007 I was considering writing about NBC's deci...

While I was away from my computer, I got this IM from a friend of mine who's living in Beijing for a few years: Dude. I just had to say ...

As I'm sure you've heard by now, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has failed to pass Microsoft's Office ...

Yesterday was a pretty surreal day. Everything was fairly normal until late in the afternoon when John told me that Don King was coming ove...

If it wasn't enough that Stallman shot the Free Software Movement in the Foot last month, Eben Moglen (former general counsel of the Fr...

Schadenfreude n. German. Pleasure taken from someone else's misfortune. I'd be lying if I said that I wasn't jumping with joy ...

In 2000, when I first started hacking on Subversion, it took almost 10 minutes to build Subversion (way pre-0.17) on my weak old Pentium II ...

I had a blast at OSCON this year. Portland was, as always, a fantastic city, and I really enjoyed catching up with what I call my "sec...

The Chicago Sun Times interviewed me for their "What's my line" feature today. I'm pretty happy with how it came out exc...

For years, Richard Stallman has tirelessly worked to advance the Free Software movement, but I wonder if he understands just how much irresp...

It's been an amazing six days: I started with FOO Camp , flew back to Chicago, moved into our new office, and had the grand opening for...

Even though I've typed exclusively on a Maltron keyboard for almost ten years, I'm about to change to a different keyboard. While ...