Confessions of a Digital Packrat

I went to Zurich this week and thanks to a massive brainfart, I forgot to bring socks. Fortunately, a Puma store was less than 20 feet fro...

I was in an Apple Store the other day to pick up an iPhone belt clip, and I was totally flabbergasted by the sheer number of people in there...

Wordle is a great way to waste an hour or two creating pretty word clouds from a given corpus. Since somehow or other Red Bean has become...

A few years ago I lamented the state of the Olympics on television , and while NBC hasn't done a whole lot to improve their televising o...

I spent last weekend in Mountain View at Sci Foo 2008, and it was incredible. I attended some excellent sessions, talked with a lot of inte...

I was pretty happy last week when Dewitt sent me the article that Marc Benioff wrote entitled Welcome to Web 3.0: Now Your Other Computer ...

Tron has always been my favorite "computer" movie. I don't remember if I saw it in the theater, but I do remember that my fri...

At OSCON this year, Ben and I are giving three talks and sitting on a panel, including: Do You Believe in the Users? : This is our latest ...

Google has open sourced protocol buffers , our data interchange format that we use for, well, just about everything we store. Protocol buff...

[Before I explain who Louis and Jim are, and why congratulations are in order, indulge me as I tell the story of how I met them] Ever since ...

Lately, I've been encountering more and more people who want to participate in open source communities (and other online communities) bu...

It's been almost a year and a half since our Chicagoist interview was published, and a lot has changed since then. The Google Chicago...