Monthly Archives: June 2007

Time for a break

By david.humphrey | Published: June 29, 2007
After two years of non-stop work, it’s time for me to take off for a bit. For the remainder of the summer, I’ll be spending time at home with my family. If you need me, you can send mail; but I don’t promise you a quick response. Anything requiring immediate attention should [...]
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Overcoming InErtia

By david.humphrey | Published: June 25, 2007
Last Friday I had lunch with some colleagues, one of which researches health informatics. He told us about a system he’s working on to add federated information to the web, such that healthcare professionals can both catalog/annotate and verify the quality of the information they are looking at. I gave him some ideas about how [...]
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On being comfortable not knowing

By david.humphrey | Published: June 23, 2007
This morning as I was cleaning-up over a hundred channels of irc spam (thanks to z5f6dz4n4y and friends, very informative!), I read this: I’m a student, on my final year in a college in India, and I have been using GNU/Linux for quite sometime now. Though I’m from a Computer Science background, getting into a project [...]
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The End

By david.humphrey | Published: June 21, 2007
After nearly a decade without watching TV, I find myself suddenly back in front of the tube.  Actually, this thing has no tube at all, and everything I thought I knew about television is completely outdated.  I’m a dinosaur.  The manual for the PVR is beyond thick.  This is the end of something.  Wish me [...]
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The Mythical-Mail Client and a Plan for Email

By david.humphrey | Published: June 20, 2007
I receive a lot of email. I send even more. I’ll go so far as to say that I send too much mail. While I’m confessing, let’s get it all out in the open: these days I spend more time in my email editor than I do writing code. When I’m not writing email I’m [...]
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CDOT Reception a Success

By david.humphrey | Published: June 15, 2007
Last Thursday we had a reception and technology demo at Seneca’s Centre for Development of Open Technology. On display were open source research and academic projects that were completed during the past year, including lots of the Mozilla stuff our students have been doing. It was great to be able to celebrate this work and [...]
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Andrew Smith interviewed on Linux Reality

By david.humphrey | Published: June 13, 2007
Our very own Andrew Smith was interviewed on Linux Reality about his open source/Linux work.  Andrew has some nice things to say about his former school (we miss you already, Andrew!).  Nice to see his hard work getting noticed.
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APNG Editor

By david.humphrey | Published: June 11, 2007
There’s so much going on in the Mozilla community that it’s easy to miss something that would otherwise get more attention.  Take Justin Dolske’s APNG Editor extension.  Andrew was asking the other day on IRC if anyone had seen/used it.  I had, and he and I agreed more people should know about it.  To that [...]
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