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At Night, the Robot Slept

Blame it on Luis Villa. He wrote about his Roomba and got me thinking. I had also previously heard good things. Hmm…

Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto, doing the jobs that I don’t want to?

The wife was skeptical at first, but I mentioned the good things I was “hearing,” that the prices were coming down, and likewise got her thinking. If it works, it might be one of those things like TiVo that you wonder how you lived without. (Later we found out they offer a money-back guarantee after a month trial, including shipping charges in both directions, so it becomes much less risky to at least give it a try.) She came back a few days later with a model that she said I could buy. “Really? I can bring him …

Unbounded Freedom

The billblog pointed me to a new book and blog about Creative Commons licensing, by Rosemary Bechler.

I enjoyed contributing some scattered and rambling observations to discussions here and here. I enjoyed it for the chance to fire off some thoughts, but not so much as a debate. This is one of those debates where people on both sides are pretty well set with what they believe. (As are most debates. Tastes great! Less filling!) We’re all talking and no one is listening.

It occurs to me that for some time I’ve been reading and have been influenced by people with whom I very much agree. Now I’m reading …

Metapost

I’m stealing from the Comics Curmudgeon, although maybe he just stole the concept from someone else in turn. He differentiates his on-topic material (skewering the funny pages) from miscellaneous housekeeping chit-chat by labeling the chit-chat as metaposts. I like it as an early warning that you’re not getting the advertised goods. It’s hard to say what the topic of my blog really is, but this post just feels like a metapost.

This is mainly to comment on past and future posts. The past is this week’s Free Software Magazine blog entry, reprinted in the previous post. The future is that I’m working …