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Monthly Archives: November 2008
Doesn’t everyone do it like this?
I’ve been fixing bugs all week as I gear-up for a new round of marking on the students’ 0.2 releases. It’s been a welcome change hacking my email application (Thunderbird) instead of spending all day replying to mail inside it.
Whenever I can I try to practice what I preach, and since I preach “open source [...]
Fire Tweet
Here’s a thought: why don’t the buildbots report to Twitter? If the mars lander can twitter, why can’t the Mozilla tree? It would be cool to have it report with some wit:
“Um, John Smith, you totally broke the tree! [links]”
Why not?
Make it go zOOom
As Fardad gears up to start teaching OpenOffice.org development in the winter, he’s doing a bunch of work on the code right now. What he’s finding is that OOo builds are slOOow, like 8 hours slow for a clobber build. Yesterday, as I walked past all our quad-core machines in CDOT, it occured to me: [...]
I Remember – Dulce Et Decorum Est
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of disappointed shells [...]
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Return of the White Whale
Last night at dinner my girls got us talking about octopai, which led to cuttlefish, which led to squid and giant squid. Well, it wasn’t long until we were talking about Sperm Whales, at which point it was pretty much a foregone conclusion that I’d be reading Moby Dick after I got them to bed.
I [...]
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Context and Correction
While I wait for a build to finish, I have time to share a story about something I learned yesterday. First, I have to gloat: our girls are reading! It’s been incredible to watch them suddenly get it, and become ravenous readers (“Dad, what does it say on the bottom of your socks? I thought [...]
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Change might need to change
Like most people I know, I’m thrilled that Change has come to the US. I’ve been somewhat obsessed with US politics of late, following it on-line via blogs, twitter, youtube, and such. I think one of the most emotional moments for me was watching a video of Obama vote with his family. I have two [...]
“Canada’s open source school”
Yesterday Shaver and I were interviewed about the work we’ve done together at Seneca, and the article was published in Computer World Canada. It was written on the occasion of Mozilla winning a Seneca Partnership Award for its incredible work with us to transform education and get students deeply involved in open source. I’ve written [...]
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