One of my coworkers just told me that his laptop tries to automatically connect to the olpc-mesh network and then crashes. This just happened twice in a row. I am thoroughly amused. I doubt this is how the OLPC project was expected to subvert the industry.

Slashdot has a link to a blog post about Microsoft's anti-Linux campaign, Get The Facts.

In summary, insert massive flamewar in the comments.

A website often referenced in the pro-windows comments is Promotinglinux.com, which is heavily anti-linux and pro-windows. I was amused that pro-Windows people spent so much time saying bad things about ( Read more... )

I've recently become infatuated with Steampunk. I bought vintage goggles and vintage radio earphones on ebay, should be fun to mod!

Today I met radix and itamar from #twisted! For the first time, after years of knowing them on irc. w00!
Ed, Amy and Chris were also there. We talked about Python, Haskell, old times on irc, and all that sort of thing. It was lots of fun! If you're in Boston and would like to meet up and talk about geeky stuff, contact me!

I finally got stereo bluetooth audio playing from my Linux desktop to my new nokia BH-501 headphones, it's great ( Read more... )