September 2007 archive

Flowers at an Antique Shop

Full-size original: 2112 x 2816 pixels

Taken with: 6 mega-pixel Canon SD600

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Michel Bauwens comments on the dark side of peer to peer

I first became aware of the P2P Foundation last year after Michel Bauwens sent me a nice email in response to “Free software is a weak mode of production?” I’ve since followed the P2P Foundation blog in my feed reader.

It is delightfully information-dense with good pointers and commentary about peer production. It can also be hard to keep up with, given my scattershot approach to information absorption. I should take more time to read and think about the ideas presented there by Michel and others.

An entry by Michel today is typically thoughtful and thought-provoking. He apparently has a deep well of enthusiasm and energy to draw from for this subject, and I’m glad someone is saying these things so eloquently. I love reading stuff like this, conveying so …

A Silly Post Brought to You by the Letters E and F

My daughter has a set of Sea & Learn Bath Shapes that are very entertaining for her and me and the wife alike. (The wife might not want to admit that. But for me I can say that they engage my brain more than a typical work-related meeting.)

I happened to notice that the “e” looks very Microsoft Internet Explorerish. It’s a small letter. It’s blue. So I looked around for the “f” and found that by an amazing coincidence, it is Firefox red!

(Ok, so the Firefox logo is predominantly orange and this is mostly red. Just play along, ok? The stars are orange. Take it or leave it.)

How about that? The forces of good and evil arrayed against each …

The Kid

Camping

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WordPress Plugin Binge

In an episode of extreme writing avoidance yesterday, I installed several new plugins for the site. I probably have too many plugins. (First we admitted we were powerless over our plugin habit, and appealed to… oh, never mind.)

I like my plugins, and love how WordPress has so many plugin writers and plugins to choose from. You can tune things endlessly to your liking. But they create additional maintenance overhead. Especially when upgrading the WordPress core. Your plugins may be supported more or less and quickly or slowly over time and new versions of WP.

In addition to things breaking in an obvious way when you upgrade, small things may not work and you might not catch them right away, giving a bad impression of your site to users who find the …

The Dog

A dog named Tory

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