OSM(TM) Explained
Confused by the launch of OSM™? Well, have no fear, good citizen of the Internet[s], for Iowahawk is to your rescue! What is “Open Source Media?†Open Source Media is a new multi-aspect business concept in which many of the…
Doug
Husband & father with youngins; Presbyterian; Will devops for boardgames; Dadjoke Enthusiast; Longtime WordPress user; The failure mode of “clever” is...
By Way Of An Explanation
Posting today has been light due to two occurences: A “network problem” that brought down much of the Dreamhost network this morning. The arrival of my Palm TX handheld. The TX is nice, very nice – I’ve been monkeying around…
*BUURRRRP* ‘Scuse Me.
Sorry for the slow access/downtimes this morning. I’m unsure of what was going on, but it seems as if the entire Dreamhost system was unreachable for a bit there. Hopefully things have returned to normal (access seems a bit slow,…
Eric S. Raymond Infarction Watch: Pajamas Media Launches, Renames Self To “Open Source Media”
Disclaimer: I initially signed up for Pajamas Media and have been contacted by them several times, although I am not currently under any contract or obligation to them, as far as I know. I was invited, via email, to the…
The Obvious Next Step In The Evolution Of Consumer GPS Gear
Los Angeles-based Wanderlust Media has apparently discovered that many people are sick of being chided by an anonymous-sounding female voice when using their in-car GPS-based navigation systems. Accordingly, they have lined up celebrities to lend their pipes to the mass…
Huzzah! OSWD Returns
Many of you web design geeks out there were probably aware that Open Source Web Design (OSWD) had been down for a couple of months, due to some as-of-yet-unspecified reasons. I took the temporary loss of OSWD as a great…
This Just Gets Better And Better
Ahhhh, Sony BMG, how we love to hate thee! Not only have you been caught installing unauthorized rootkits on your customers’ PCs, but it’s been found that you’re illegally using LGPL’d software to do so. Tsk tsk. What’s the Japanese…
Now That’s Just Plain Idiotic
Bryan Williams needs to be smacked upside the head with a lead pipe for proposing Hurricane Katrina as Time‘s “Person of the Year”. I, just, wow, man. I mean, wow. Are we that unclear on the definition of “Person”? Yes,…
An Historical Comparison In Pictorial-Assisted Form
Mary Mapes, former CBS News/60 minutes producer responsible for greenlighting the bogus Bush National Guard Memos story, when asked during a Washington Post online chat “Who do you suppose actually forged this fake document?”: You are wrong to believe that…
Mac OS X Geekage Of The Day
In my experience, Mac OS X has largely been “UNIX Done Right™”, although there are quirks here and there, most of which one would never encounter in their day-to-day computer usage. One of those cases is changing a user’s shortname.…
