June 2009
Trying to fix an IE bug I know I’ve seen before. If only I remembered what I did last time.
Wrap-around Mailing Labels →
Spruce up your snail mail with these free wrap-around envelope mailing labels (dot pattern or multi-color pattern) by Melissa of A Very Chocolate Wedding. [ via iDiY ]
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"Still Thriving and Excelling Long After... →
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Doggies! Working doggies, no less. And: “This visit was not and should not be viewed as a sympathetic thing for the President to do. Rather, it reflects this President’s…
Thatch Tiki Mug Release Party 7/1! →
It’s the perfect weather for tiki drinks, isn’t it?
I wouldn’t have said that a year or so ago (I’ve developed a taste for drinks I’ve considered a bit more ‘grown up’ - bourbon,…
Rick’s Wild Seafood →
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One of those days. You wander and you wander by 10, then 20, then 30 different food carts and nothing strikes your fancy. You just about to…
Why childcare matters at tech events →
A few weeks ago, I co-hosted a Ruby on Rails workshop for women in San Francisco. High on my list of requirements, even before free lunch, was available childcare.
In the spirit of doing the…
Sleepy kitty: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ame/3671456295/
Yay 4-0 Timbers win. Boo weekend almost over.
Videos from talks on JRuby and Drizzle at @osbridge are live now: http://osbridge.blip.tv/
Pondering the best way to aggregate twitter feeds around a subject.
Reboot into Action →
So I just finished attending my first Reboot – and as many people tried to explain before hand, “it’s weird”. Not just European Conference weird with completely different crowd, most…
Wondering who ordered a 1G SD card at Ritz Camera but left my # to call about pickup.
Getting really tired of deleting venues named “michael jackson died” from Calagator. Took the spambots less than a day to come up w/this one
Okay, this is lame: my video failed to encode to flash because free accounts are locked to 1hr of processing time. Not enouraging me to pay.
Blueberry applesauce cupcakes http://flic.kr/p/6zJ8f4
Posted video of @missrogue at Souk in May, talking about #whuffie: http://lifeofaudrey.blip.tv/file/2290487/
In case you were wondering, blueberry-apple-chocolate is a good flavor combo.
The cupcakes with frosting http://flic.kr/p/6zP4sm
And, because I’m being a productive #LOFNOTC member, a recipe: http://bit.ly/ICC29
Recipe: Blueberry Applesauce Cupcakes →
I’ve been trying to figure out what to do with the surplus of applesauce I made last fall. And the half-gallon of blueberries in the freezer, left over from last summer. All the…
A Do-It-Yourself Open Source Conference: +1 →
You can trace the entire history of our industry by its enthusiast-generated events. The microcomputer revolution was begun by volunteer, community organizations (such as the Homebrew Computing…
Four crowdsourcing lessons from the Guardian’s... →
Okay, question time: Imagine you’re a major national newspaper whose crosstown archrival has somehow obtained two million pages of explosive documents that outed your country’s biggest…
It’s clearly a sign of post-conference exhaustion when I forget to put my own event on Calagator.
Tonight: broccoli cheese casserole. With spring onions and whole wheat panko.
Chocolate applesauce blueberry cupcakes: bad idea? good idea? Should I just stick with chocolate frosting?
Today’s plan: keep working on this site redesign. Continue to punt on email. Hope @missrogue video finishes encoding. Make cupcakes.
This is so awesome: http://www.sockmuseum.com/
Open Source Bridge: the aftermath | End Point Blog →
I’ve been planning the Open Source Bridge conference in my spare time over the past 9 months here in Portland, OR. We finally made it happen June 17-19, 2009 at the Oregon Convention Center. I…
glass box voting →
Open Source Digital Voting is a digital public works project, pulling together a community of developers and designers to make it so we have software and hardware that we can trust to support all…
Dye For Glory →
Back when this whole Sock Summit thing started, everybody had their thing. While everybody on the team is really invested in all aspects of the Summit, we’ve all got facets of it that really sing…
Dinner: sautéd veggies, rice, salad, beer. With lots of hazlenuts and homemade dressing.
WhereCamp PDX planning kicks off next week: http://bit.ly/xuCMD
Noticing an increase in people offering jobhunting services (some of which cost money).
Evan Prodromou, Don Park →
jslabovitz posted a photo:
Photographed in the Hacker Lounge at the Open Source Bridge conference (opensourcebridge.org) on June 17-19, 2009 in Portland, Oregon.
A Day of Soccer and Family Fun in the Rose City →
Sunday June 28: Timbers, Timbers and more Timbers.
1:00 PM – Portland Timbers U23 vs Vancouver Whitecaps Residency @ PGE Park
Tickets for this match are $8, and can be bought at the…
The Open Source Open Source Conference →
Portland, OR open source advocates took the loss of OSCON in stride: They launched their own open source conference. How did it stack up against the heavyweight, top-down competition?
Fixing Airport Security →
It’s been months since the Transportation Security Administration has had a permanent director. If, during the job interview (no, I didn’t get one), President Obama asked me how I’d fix airport…
ongoing · Test-Driven Heresy →
I’ve been thinking about test-driven development a lot lately,observing myself veering between TDD virtue and occasional lapses into sin.Here’s my thesis: As a profession, we do a lot more software…
Trip Report: Open Source Bridge - jasonmauer.com →
One of my duties as a Developer Evangelist at Microsoft is to document things. Someone once said the main difference between a journalist and a spy is a journalist reports on government for the…
Videos for @osbridge sessions on configuration... →
Videos for @osbridge sessions on configuration management and advanced git are now online: http://osbridge.blip.tv/
Overheard at OSBridge: Open source succeeds not... →
Overheard at OSBridge: Open source succeeds not because of smarter people or free tools, but by allowing and learning from failure.
I am so, so over this random nosebleed thing.
Wondering how long the Campaign Monitor review team will take to review this email and conclude I’m not a spammer.
One of my favorite things about The Hit List is how easy it is to add future todos that stay hidden till their date is up.
Trying to come up with ways to use several quarts of applesauce. I sort of overestimated how much we’d be eating on our own.
Videos for @osbridge sessions on configuration management and advanced git are now online: http://osbridge.blip.tv/
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