Monthly Archives: April 2009

Edward James Olmos just brought tears to my eyes

locke61dv calls EJO president and I just agree. It’s a video. A speech. 3 minutes.
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Got angry. Joined Pirate Party

She joined Piratpartiet. I did, too. Mejla folket i ITRE, om Telekompaketet är det viktiga du ska göra idag måndag. OK, tack. Joining Piratpartiet is free. Yes, without cost. (I just learned: The women’s section in the party is called Nätstrumporna.)
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Bespin: Accepting patches in style

Just received a messenger bag and a t-shirt from a UPS delivery person. The were sent to me as a thank-you for a few patches I did in the Mozilla Labs Bespin project. Those guys know how to accept a patch in style. Thanks!
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Fastaval 2009 report

I loved it. This Easter I spent smiling almost all the time. People noticed, and told me. It was that great. My scenario got played, and people loved playing it. Currently, it is only available in Danish. But, Luisa’s started a project to fix all that. Her project Gnavpotveksler will translate roleplaying scenarios to new languages, which [...]
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Warsaw story

Attended a Bootstrap.pl meeting in Warsaw, where me and Kugg from Forskningsavdelningen chatted about Hackerspaces in a couch on a stage. Hardware hackers presented their stuff, and everyone was kind and smart. After the meeting, one guy introduced himself as Tomek, and said “I’m an architect, and I want to help design packaging for your [...]
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Got a CueCat

I am picking up one of these babies — CueCats — at the post office (which is in a food store) Read the wikipedia story about them. It’s a wonderful Open Source world, which can help products after they’re abandoned by failed companies.
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Thorn presentation at JAOO

Perhaps your next programming language? Thorn. (A JVM scripting language.) John Field’s talk at JAOO in Århus 2009 is about that. Here is the interesting blurb from that page: Scripting languages are justifiably popular because of their support for rapid and exploratory development. However, scripts are notoriously hard to compose and to evolve. Additionallly, though more and [...]
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