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The Book of the Web

By david.humphrey | Published: October 12, 2010
Recently I had a free evening and decided to build a little experiment to recast Twitter as a book, written by The Web, without any reference to individual people.  I was partly inspired by Jay Hilgert’s Anatomy of a Really Old Book, and started working up from there.  Twitter is a different place without all [...]
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Why I don’t develop in .NET anymore

By david.humphrey | Published: December 17, 2009
I don’t usually give much credence to The Register, but this article on .NET’s 10 year anniversary was spot on.  The article asks whether .NET has lived up to its original promises from 2000.  Here’s a choice quotation from the conclusion: What if Microsoft used it? A long-standing gripe is that Microsoft itself has been slow to [...]
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Thought on Easter

By david.humphrey | Published: April 10, 2009
“Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.  No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.” (John [...]
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FSOSS Online Registration Closes TODAY!

By david.humphrey | Published: October 17, 2008
A quick note to let all you stragglers know that online registration for the Free Software and Open Source Symposium (FSOSS) ends TODAY.  Tickets will be available at the door, but will cost you an additional $25.  Don’t miss your chance to registered today and save.
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Hey, Gmail, what’s up with you?

By david.humphrey | Published: September 29, 2008
So I’m trying to get my wife set-up on her new Mac, and everything works great…except you, Gmail.  What’s your problem?  Supposedly you love Mac.  And yet when she tries to do the most basic of things, you feign ignorance.  I mean honestly, what’s up with that (and that)?  Unless of course your answer is, [...]
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One Big Library Unconference

By david.humphrey | Published: May 5, 2008
William Denton wrote to tell me about the One Big Library Unconference he’s organizing on Friday June 27 from 9-5 at the Centre for Social Innovation.  Both sides of my background, the literary and computer, are dominated by ideas about, and experiences with, libraries.  I think it’s great that York is taking another look at [...]
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I believe it

By david.humphrey | Published: April 16, 2008
I never win at Roll Up The Rim, but this year was particularly bleak.  Now I see that I’m not alone in thinking so.  What makes this story all the more sad is that we’re totally out of coffee at home today.  Something has to be done.
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Building Firefox trunk on win32 without the Vista SDK

By david.humphrey | Published: April 11, 2008
If you are on XP, and don’t have the Vista SDK installed, you can get around the new dependency by adding this to your .mozconfig: ac_add_options –disable-parental-controls And we’re back…(ya!)
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20 chapters

By david.humphrey | Published: March 16, 2008
Yesterday was a day to stay home and do nothing, while sick kids spent the day in their PJs slowing recovering from coughs, fevers, and other unmentionable symptoms.  Laura’s been reading the girls “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory“.  We decided to read some more…a lot more.  We ended-up finishing it, which meant reading 20 chapters [...]
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