December 2006 archive

Page 123 (doing the meme thing)

Book the 1st:

He is a great waver of his arms over his head as he makes pronouncements like "There is nothing certain but taxes"---conspicuously excluding death.
--Joel Garreau, Radical Evolution

Google Blog Search tells me this has been going on for a while, but I just saw it for the first time at Peter Saint-Andre's blog. [...]

Microsoft Money to GnuCash

Update, 10 January 2008: I ended up going with KMyMoney. See "Moving from MS Money to KMyMoney". I had to give up classifications as described below, but still, KMyMoney is an excellent replacement for Money.

One of my bigger challenges with moving to GNU/Linux from Windows will be to migrate eleven years worth of [...]

Friday Photopost: More Minnesota Aspens in Fall

Taken with my two-megapixel Olympus camera. Linked to a 1600x1200 version suitable for framing or wallpaper.
Please feel free to copy, rip, mix, burn, and make use of this picture under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license.
Culture and (published) digital information should be free!

Related:

Autumn in Northern Minnesota
Minnesota Aspens in Summer

Laying Claim to the Public Domain

We recently bought The Real Mother Goose book for our daughter, who is home from the hospital now and doing fine. I was reading some rhymes from it this evening and happened to turn to the copyright page in the front.
One thing interesting about this page is that there isn't actually a copyright notice. [...]

How dumb can GNU/Linux users be?

Originally published in Free Software Magazine, 28 November 2006. This one picked up some diggs and I thought would make it to the front page with resulting praise, adulation, and scathing condemnation, but then it was cruelly buried. I suppose my provocative, attention-getting headline may have been frowned on. I paid the price [...]

Still Here

Hi, Everyone. I'm still here. I seem to have a few regular readers, and I appreciate your continued interest. I've mentioned before that my goal at a minimum here is to post once a week. I've tried doing more than that because I crave attention and the statistics that say people [...]

Slashdot Copyright Discussion (re: Gowers Report and Dead Artist Petition)

Slashdot has a story picked up from Lawrence Lessig about the Gowers report and resulting petition signed in part by dead artists. There is this comment by "Toby the Economist":

If I'm a painter, and I create a great work of art, does it pass into the public domain after n years?
If I'm a programmer, and [...]

You're a Mean One, Mr. GIMP

In one of my "moving to freedom in stages" projects, I've started to use the GIMP on Windows XP. GIMP is the free software counterpart of Adobe Photoshop.
I've mentioned previously my bewilderment when faced with its amazing power and feature list. I have to confess that I often just fire up MS Paint [...]

Late Friday Photopost: Sedona, Arizona

I wasn't going to do a photopost this week because I haven't written much and I don't want photoposts to outweigh wordier entries. (Although it is a lot of fun to share pictures!)
I have things I want to write about, but one of the reasons I'm not getting to them is I'm doing this [...]

SEO Song: 'Google Loves Me'

Google loves me, yes I know,
for the search results tell me so.
Little sites to them belong,
we are weak and they are strong.
Yes, Google loves me,
yes, Google loves me,
yes, Google loves me,
the search results tell me so.

There is nothing new under the sun. I thought of that little ditty and was pleased with my cleverness, [...]