Hula & Debian
If, like me, you have a Debian box and are itching to try out Hula, last week Hula packages made it into the Unstable branch.
September 2005
IE developer switches to Firefox
Scott Berkun, who designed and worked on the development of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer versions 1 to 5, explains why he switched to Firefox. He has great praise for the design team, particularly those who have kept the browser focused on appealing to the mainstream user. “Firefox feels to me like what IE 6.0 should have
Free 40 hour tivo after rebate
Now’s your chance, Ecost has 40 hour tivo’s free after $150 rebate. You can then get the lifetime registrations ($299 i think) if you’re like me and don’t like recurring bills. Or else pay $12/month. If you get one, please use this email address when registering your tivo: regis AT oscarm DOT org. Update: Sandy
Back from California
We flew in Friday with enough time to grab lunch and get ready for the Rehearsal and Rehearsal dinner. I messed up the google map directions and instead of being on North California Ave we ended up on California Ave, on the wrong side of the Caltrain rails. We were half an hour late to
Buster is ok so far
Buster, Patty’s beagle, went in for surgery last week to remove a tumor. Patty has the biopsy results and has to decide what to do next.
Airplane reading
I used the time on the airplane to devour Freakonomics and the Tipping Point. I found Freakonomics a much more informative book, and although the authors claimed that there was no unifying theme for it, all the stories reinforced quite well their notion that looking at datasets in new, unexpected ways can reveal some startling