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your thoughts for Ashley, please
I don’t usually blog about personal matters, but a close friend of the family, a civil rights lawyer named Ashley, has been diagnosed with a fairly aggressive form of inoperable cancer. This is especially painful since she successfully fought off ovarian cancer not quite a year ago. I’m out of the country right now so [...]
Tagged cancerwordpress 2.5.1-5 for Ubuntu 8.04 (hardy heron)
I got un-lazy and built wordpress 2.5.1-5 from the Intrepid sources on a Hardy Heron system for Hardy target install. The package is here. If you’re familiar with pbuilder and have already used it to build packages from universe/multiverse, then you’ll have just a few easy steps to build this package yourself:
dget https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/intrepid/+source/wordpress/2.5.1-5ubuntu1/+files/wordpress_2.5.1-5ubuntu1.dsc # you [...]
OLPC sig within Fedora
Just got this from gdk:
The engineers at OLPC are busy building an educational experience for the
kids of the world. They are basing their excellent work on Fedora.
Their time is stretched perilously thin. Every hour an overworked OLPC
engineer spends doing Fedora work is an hour they could be spending doing
something else. We in the Fedora community [...]
anti-wiretapping in Dark Knight
Did anybody else notice the strong anti-wiretapping note that Morgan Freeman’s character hits in Dark Knight? I thought it was an interesting moment in a vigilante movie. I won’t spoil the scene for those of you who haven’t seen the movie yet, but Freeman’s character basically says he won’t stay as long as …. stuff [...]
nation of whiners
In case you missed it, IndyMac got taken over by the FDIC yesterday, and the bank’s failure will likely cost taxpayers between $4B and $8B. Yes, B as in Billion. Nation of whiners indeed.
video: Open Source, Open Access, Open Format, Open Content at SILS and UNC
We had a brown bag lunch where we talked about who we are and why we’re interested in Open Stuff. Google videos (approx 30 min each):
1st half:
2nd half (after replacing batteries ;):
Also see the wikipage Paul started on his wiki.
mccain=bush librarian ticketed
This sort of stunt is why I’ll still vote for Obama in November despite his disappointing FISA vote.
A 61-year-old woman, Carol Kreck, holding a sign that simply said “McCain=Bush” in large letters was standing in line to get into a McCain “town hall meeting” event. The line was outside the meeting space, in a plaza [...]
