At the moment, all kinds of hell are raining down on Michael Moore and Keith Olbermann on Twitter over remarks Moore made on Olbermann's show regarding the rape allegations against Julian Assange. This all started when blogger Sady Doyle of Tiger Beatdown called Moore and Olbermann out, and escalated after Olbermann engaged and Moore ignored it. ( Read more... )

Courtesy vatine, I now have a Dreamwidth account. I've copied all my previous posts and comments over to it already, and over the next few weeks I'll be deciding whether to migrate over there entirely. That largely depends on things like site performance -- for some reason it's not answering me right now -- but given LJ's recent decline (as mutiny pointed out ( Read more... )

The box that thesmartpolitenerd.com sits on appears to have fallen off the internet. (DNS believes it exists, but it's not answering pings.) It may be a little bit before it's fixed, as one of the lovely and talented folks who maintains it is currently in the hospital with an icky case of cellulitis, and I don't expect him or his equally lovely and ( Read more... )

Yes, I am ignoring you. September and October are when the early-spring conferences have their deadlines, and I have somewhere between four and six papers to finish between now and Halloween. You do the math. (The research is done, I just have to get it out of my head and my notes and into LaTeX in a form that other people can recognise.) Yes, you ( Read more... )

Whoever came up with apport -- the Ubuntu crash-reporting system -- is an unsung genius. Crash reporting isn't anything new, of course, but crash reporting that opens up a ticket in Launchpad and lets you, the user, customise the report and follow the problem-remediation on the web is elegant brilliance. Quality assurance that provides some level ( Read more... )

For some reason which is beyond my ken, my entire AIM buddy list has deleted itself.

If you're still using AIM and have me on your contact list, would you be so kind as to ping me so that I can re-add you? Thanks muchly.

ETA: Yeah, my "do not disturb" flag is up. For this, go ahead and ping me anyway, it's cool.

What's the deal with people using Facebook messaging in lieu of email these days? I don't understand this phenomenon, and I don't like it.

Just so everyone knows: I rarely use Facebook. My account there exists only because I needed one to do some development there for work. It might look like I use Facebook, but that's only because I have my ( Read more... )

Dear everyone ( Read more... )