March 2009
Heading home after QR code pendant-making, late lunch, and shoe shopping. Sad I missed the MLS rally.
February 2009
Making QR code jewelry with Peter.
Now I’m watching BSG and trying to guess the backstory. I watched the original as a kid but this is not quite the same.
So are Cylons good or bad now? I’ve seen about five episodes in the last year and I’m still confused.
Really liking Dollhouse.
Rally to get the Timbers into MLS! →
Join Portland soccer fans this Saturday as we march and rally to build support to bring a Major League Soccer franchise to Portland. Imagine all the bombast and joy of a Timbers game as you know it,…
Transit and waiting time: 1 hour. Actual appointment: 5 minutes.
Can I sign up to work from the back of the Clear truck?
Construction on the bus mall means it’s taking ten minutes to go five blocks.
Future of White Boys’ Clubs Redux #fowaspeak →
In September of 2006, I wrote a piece called The Future of White Boy Clubs taking to task Ryan Carson for putting together a speaker lineup for his Future of Web Apps conference made…
Good morning world.
Resisting the urge to pick up the laptop and write code (more neo-Portland), when I really need sleep.
Listening to merritt paulson talk about what’s coming up for the timbers this season.
I poured myself a glass of water, but then Mudshark walked up and sneezed in it. He’s now muffined out on the floor ignoring me.
Facebook Management Has Lost Its Grip on Reality -... →
Facebook made one of the most important announcements in the young company’s history today. It has proposed a set of foundational documents, including the first official statement of …
I really like the Open Source Bridge (@osbridge)... →
I really like the Open Source Bridge (@osbridge) logo. just sayin’!
Open Source Bridge Registration Open Now →
Last night, Reid launched an update of the Open Source Bridge site, now with links to attendee information like registration and booking a hotel room in our block. Conference passes are $175…
Why is intense debate showing a little red bubble with (6) next to comments, but when I click there’s nothing to review?
Meet Shadow (aka @invisicat) →
I finally managed to get photos of Shadow. Not because she decided to come out, but because Eva and I finally decided that we’d had it with a cat who was a freeloader in our house and didn’t even…
Having a very interesting conversation about oauth and pants.
The Open Source Bridge site has been updated with shiny new “register now” and “book a room” buttons: http://opensourcebridge.org/attend/
OSCON- -, Open Source Bridge++ « Seek Nuance →
Well. Into the vacuum comes Open Source Bridge, a result of Portland geek natives taking matters into their own hands and creating an OSS conference to replace OSCON. It’s being held June 17 – 19,…
I imported tech events from meetup, upcoming and... →
I imported tech events from meetup, upcoming and techvibes. importing ical feeds FTW! Calagator++ http://cal.wikrad.com - pass it on!
lukec (Luke Closs):@bmann - but #Calagator is 100%... →
@bmann - but #Calagator is 100% free range, organic open source code from Portland! Support local software! :)
Trying to strike a compromise with Mudshark where he sits next to me and I still have room for the laptop.
design is no place for democracy (things we... →
Continuing in the series of ‘Things we learned from the Drupal.org project‘, this post actually starts off in the comments of the last post (design by committee vs design by community) where …
Transparency and dependability for external... →
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It’s good when your users can see that you’re actually responding to concerns and fixing things.
Open source software-based business models research
I imported tech events from meetup, upcoming and... →
I imported tech events from meetup, upcoming and techvibes. importing ical feeds FTW! Calagator++ http://cal.wikrad.com - pass it on!
Trying to figure out what I’m forgetting to do. Oh, maybe I should check my todo list.
Kindle →
lukec (Luke Closs):@bmann - but #Calagator is 100%... →
@bmann - but #Calagator is 100% free range, organic open source code from Portland! Support local software! :)
Orange You Sorry About Tropicana? →
Tropicana’s recent reversal on their new, poorly received packaging for their orange juice products — on Monday they announced that they would be reverting to the old look for these products…
Family news gets worse and worse. Bah.
The art of being late →
A minor shit-storm has lately been brewing in the world of SF/F writing: George R. R. Martin, who is rather more famous than I am — and rather more overdue on his latest book, by a couple of years —…
There seem to be a lot of competing SXSW event trackers.
Mar 6, 2009: PDX Pre-SXSW Party Part Two: The... →
We had a great pre-sxsw party here in Portland on January 19 organized by the official staff of the sxsw interactive event. We had such a great time, that we decided to do a community organized,…
Home Prices in Selected Cities - Interactive... →
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Very cool visualization. Portland seems to be running 6mo. behind the curve.
The Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller 20-city housing index fell by a record 18.6 percent from December…
May need help composing notes on neo-portland from #pdxcritique. I was too busy talking to keep track…
OLPC-toting Rwandan students flock to airport for... →
OLPC may be facing some tough times as of late, but there’s no denying that the little-laptop-that-could has made an impact where it’s been distributed, as evidenced by this latest…
Amusement at this discussion is probably a sign that you, too are a location geek: http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackbeltjones/3284171116/
Working on an open source conference bridge! →
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Perhaps he could discuss open source conference bridges at the Open Source Bridge conference…
Working on an open source conference bridge!
Wondering if I should bring recent QR code enabled experiments to tonight’s Mobile Portland meeting.
Building and Scaling a Startup on Rails: 12 Things... →
There are a bunch of basic functional elements to building out a popular Rails app that I’ve never really seen explained in one place, but we had to learn the hard way while building Posterous….
Comic for February 23, 2009 →
Startups in 13 Sentences →
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Good advice.
One of the things I always tell startups is a principle I learned from Paul Buchheit: it’s better to make a few people really happy than to make a lot of people…
Reflections on a complaint from a frustrated git... →
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Interesting comments on git workflow and collaboration.
Last week, Scott James Remnant posted a series of “Git Sucks” on his blog, starting with this one here, with follow up…
Monday morning means a flurry of osbridge email. Have you submitted your proposal yet? http://opensourcebridge.org/events/2009/proposals/
Trying to figure out the best way to search a set of locations for ones nearest a given set of points. Seems easy but I’m blanking.
Neo-portland knows where you are. It’s almost to the point where I can start adding story.
