Confessions of a Digital Packrat

One of Ben and my latest Google tech talks is now up on YouTube . It's not as fun as our Poisonous People talk, but it's sort of ...

I love stories. When I choose books or authors, I lean towards science fiction, but if I know that an author is a good storyteller , I'...

The Marina City Towers Condo Association in Chicago aims to require permission for anyone to use the likeness of their building : "Beca...

My fellow conspirator Ben does an excellent analysis of a poisonous person who showed up on our doorstep just a few days ago.

"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...