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    • The Bizarre Cathedral - 60 November 24, 2009
      Shared by Douglas I really hate it when people take this attitude about things. Latest from the Bizarre Cathedral. read more
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    • The Really Traditional Socratic Method November 22, 2009
      You ask people hard questions. Then they kill you. Copyright © 2009 This feed is for personal, non-commercial use only. The use of this feed on other websites breaches copyright. If this content is not in your news reader, it makes the page you are viewing an infringement of the copyright. (Digital Fingerprint: )
      Eugene Volokh
    • Wind Power Could be Stored as Ice November 21, 2009
      A perfect way of storing electricity generated by wind turbines has been elusive so far.  Ideas like super-sized batteries, compressed air and hydroelectric storage have all been floated.  One company though thinks the answer could be as simple as making ice. Calmac has come up with a storage system called IceBank that uses the energy generated at off-peak n […]
      Megan Treacy
    • Polar Bear Robots Replace Dead Bears at St. Louis Zoo November 24, 2009
      Shared by Douglas um, how about just not having Polar Bears? thanks St. Louis. Officials at the St. Louis Zoo are preparing for their holiday Wild Lights exhibit by installing electronic polar bear proxies in place of the deceased polar bears who died in their captivity. The gesture is rife with social commentary, given the fact that polar bears have become […]
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    • DRM-free top-flight horror novels November 20, 2009
      Brett from small-press horror publisher Chizine sez, "ChiZine Publications (CZP) is an independent publisher of weird, surreal, subtle, and disturbing dark literary fiction hand-picked by Brett Alexander Savory and Sandra Kasturi, Bram Stoker Award-winning editors of ChiZine: Treatments of Light and Shade in Words. You've seen us mentioned recently […]
      Cory Doctorow
    • Google Chrome OS Event November 20, 2009
      Shared by Douglas Ha. Google makes Linux a Mac! Google will announce more information about Chrome OS at a press event that starts at 10:00am PST. Google will offer "an update on Google Chrome OS and provide at the work that has been done thus far, an overview of the technology, and launch plans for next year. Speakers will include Sundar Pichai, Vice P […]
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    • EFF Tackles Bogus Podcasting Patent - And We Need Your Help November 19, 2009
      Patenting podcasting? You've got to be kidding. Yet a company called Volomedia just got the Patent Office to grant them such exclusive rights. EFF and the law firm of Howrey, LLP aren’t willing to just sit by and watch. This patent could threaten the vibrant community of podcasters and millions of podcast listeners. We want to put a stop to it, but we n […]
      rebecca
    • Texas Accidentally Bans All Marriage November 19, 2009
      Shared by Douglas I like Dave, my uncle-in-law, but seriously, Texas, you are a collection of idiots. I favorited a YouTube video: Vote for TYT every day at http://www.podcastawards.com/index.php?option=index (through 11/30/09) & http://www.mashable.com/owa/ (through 12/13/09) For more details visit www.TheYoungTurks.com and follow us on Twitter at http: […]
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    • On keeping up with modern technology November 17, 2009
      Shared by Douglas I don't find this particularly funny, except for the 2Girls1Cup reference and picture. On keeping up with modern technologyA couple of years ago, I went round the house of some relatives, to see them sitting at the dining room table with his'n'hers laptops doing their Christmas shopping.I laughed.I told some other people, the […]
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    • OVC Presentation at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Washington D.C. November 13, 2009
      One of our top programmers, Parker Abercrombie, represented OVC at the National Institute of Standards and Technology workshop on Common Data Formats, OCT 30. OVC has been pushing for Open Source and Open Standards for some years now. By all accounts, our presentation there was very well received. The slides used are available here in PDF format. You can fin […]
      Alan
    • Get two free audiobooks from Audible November 16, 2009
      No strings attached! Well, you do have to sign up for a 30-day trial membership, but you can cancel it before the billing cycle kicks in--and keep your two freebies.
      Rick Broida
    • On crap-o-vision, again November 16, 2009
      On crap-o-vision, againTypical.You go a whole year without anything truly, truly bad on television, and then two gems come along in a week.And bugger my luck - I go and miss both of them.Regular readers know that I'm a big fan of rubbish, and last year's Demons on ITV was a true turd on the otherwise white tablecloth of British television which I t […]
      Scaryduck
    • Get a 42-inch Panasonic plasma TV for $499 November 13, 2009
      Whoa, did Black Friday come early this year? Whatever the case, this is a seriously awesome deal on a 720p plasma. Just make sure to act fast, because it expires today.
      Rick Broida
    • Brazil to Allow Private Copying and Mashups November 11, 2009
      I always said Brazil was a civilised country:O MinC proporá que a cópia privada de qualquer tipo de obra digital seja permitida sem a autorização expressa ou remuneração ao titular para uso privado e desde que seja apenas um exemplar, além de permitir o uso do conteúdo original em outra mídia que não aquela que o consumidor comprou originalmente.Na prática, […]
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    • You know what else is an abomination, Maine? Lobster November 4, 2009
      Dear 53% of Maine,Today you decided that homosexuals are lesser human beings who don't deserve the same rights as heterosexuals. You have just illustrated to the nation that you, like California, believe popular vote is a valid and moral way to decide human rights. I'm really glad we didn't use this method back when legalizing interracial marr […]
      Jen
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    • Open messaging for the Open Web: Installing and configuring Mozilla Raindrop on Ubuntu 9.10 November 12, 2009
      Shared by Douglas call me when there's a repo...the ubuntu version of "pics or it didn't happen" By the time you read this Karmic Koala will have been released to a waiting world, but I couldn’t wait. A felicitous combination of a desire to do a distribution upgrade to the release candidate and a Twitter arriving on my laptop giving me a […]
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    • The Too Big to Fail, Too Big to Exist Act of 2009 November 9, 2009
      A BILL To address the concept of ‘‘Too Big To Fail’’ with respect to certain financial entities. 1     Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- 2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 4     This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Too Big to Fail, Too 5 Big to Exist Act’’. 6 SEC. 2. REPORT TO CONGRESS ON INS […]
      James Kwak
    • GNOME roadmap updated, version 3 pushed back to late 2010 November 11, 2009
      Shared by Douglas I'm not sure how I feel about this. My hope is GNOME does it, but Ubuntu doesn't pick it up for a while. Fedora, of course, will, because of their hemorrhagic-edge nature, which has it's place. The GNOME desktop environment is undergoing a significant transformation. The developers behind the open source project are working o […]
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    • Kaplan: Civil Society Requires Perpetual War November 11, 2009
      Shared by Douglas HELL YEAH! BLACK METAL! One of the best things about not working at The Atlantic anymore is not counting Robert Kaplan among my professional colleagues. Here’s his take on modern-day Europe: Europe, having been liberated from nuclear terror at the conclusion of the Cold War, proved unable to muster the gumption to deal with Yugoslavia on it […]
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Posts Tagged ‘bucketworks’

Karmic Koala, PhotoCampMKE and new space in Madison

Posted by douglasawh on May 3, 2009

Some quick news and notes.

1) ZOMG is simple and buggy, but effective.  If you want it to work with both http://libre.fm and http://last.fm, you’ve got to use the version at http://packages.debian.org/sid/i386/zomg/download.  Woe be to you if you don’t have a Debian based system.  Thankfully my two main home systems run Ubuntu (at work I have Ubuntu, Fedora and Vista [likely to move to Win7 Beta soon]).

2) PhotoCampMKE was great.  I was distracted by upgrading my Android phone, but you can check some of my stuff on flickr (I’m dawhitfield there).

3) A few people are working on getting some co-working space set up in Madison.  Let me know if you’re interested!

4) I’m going to upgrade a second partition to Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10 right after this post.  Good times.
Ugh, release early, release often.  Seriously, if you want to know what’s up, you should follow me on http://identi.ca.

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I fail at the Internet; GLUE, OEMKE, etc

Posted by douglasawh on March 14, 2009

There are a few points of failure here.  No Internet at LOPSA or GLUE and then just my lack of time.

From the 6th, never posted: “Things have been super-busy lately, as I mentioned in the last blog post.

Yesterday, at the LUG meeting we determined to to have meetings….

Thursday night at LOPSA there was no wifi.  This is a major fail for a tech event, but in the end wasn’t really a big deal.”

This past week was an odd one at work.  Things should get mostly back to normal Monday, except for the monthly staff meeting.

Today I was at GLUE (Great Lakes Urban Exchange), completely a week of screwed up sleep, I plan to get back on track tonight.  I will post my GLUE notes in the near future. Usually, when I go to tech events (which GLUE isn’t) I am re-energized to get stuff done.  GLUE had no such effect on me.  Perhaps it’s lack of sleep?  Perhaps it’s because I already have enough going on?  I guess I’ll find out tomorrow after I finish some of my to-do list.  Right now (as soon as I hit publish), I am going to get some much needed sleep.

Also, I spent time with the leaders of MadTech, Web608 and the Madison Drupal User Group tonight (as well as a couple other Madison techies) at “Not at SxSW”.

In between those to events, I met with Jenn of Bucketworks.  Aside from learning a bit about Milwaukee and Bucketworks, the meeting was productive in that we picked a tentative date for Open Everything Milwaukee.  I don’t want to say when yet, because I haven’t spoken to the others involved, but if you joing the mailing list you’ll find out tomorrow instead of whenever I decide to put it here.

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Live Blog from MKEDH3 (aka MilwaukeeDevHouse3)

Posted by douglasawh on November 22, 2008

So, I’m being slightly anti-social…a slightly impressive feat given this is a tech event with the usual geeks, nerds, whatever you want to us.

Those of you on Twitter have already heard some about the event.  I wish the music was a little more rockin’, but at least now it has more energy.

This week was the week from hell.  This is about me and my thoughts about technology and where the industry is headed and where I see myself in it.  Let me pause for a second to say WOAH.  Nothing particularly bad happened.  A server didn’t come up at work after I rebooted it last night, but I didn’t care all that much about it.  It was fixed by the time I came back to work.  I think the broken arm is really gettingto me.  Not being able to type properly or exercise is driving me nuts…and I’m not really exaggerating.  I’ve got to keep it pulled together until December 6th though.  UK and Bama both have byes this week, which should allow me to get a lot of work done.  Conversation with Jason in the car on the way to DevHouse was interesting.  Well worth the time away from work.  Despite no one responding to my last blog post, I’m leaning toward law, but still very confused about where I might want to go.  Northwestern and Marquette are both on my radar due to my current location and the going “home” for Christmas has me thinking hard about schools in KY too.  And, if I’m serious about going back to school soon, should I really be going to Sweden next summer?  I really want to go, but I also really want to go ahead and schedule it and and being 8 hours away from my potential travel partner doesn’t help.  Anyway, on to a report of MKEDH3:

There was pizza provided by http://www.paladinweb.net/.

ok, looks like the party is dieing.  Not really “done”. Whatever. Release early, release often…

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