not waving but drowning

And here we are, my second post in which I mention twitter, and wonder aloud what open source software projects should be doing with twitter. I don’t have any well-formed thoughts to foist on you, but I’ll tell you about an experiment I’ve been doing. Last week I started using summize.com to search for conversations [...]

learning the 5 string banjo

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my new finger picks

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buttonwood campground, mexico, PA

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This week I’ve been thinking quite intently about what to do next in my career. I’m still employed at Canonical, currently managing part of the launchpad.net team, but I’m thinking about what I want to do now. As Canonical keeps growing, there are new opportunities, and I’ve really enjoyed work there - I love using [...]

This is the inevitably blog post abut twitter. I promise to keep it short. Rands explains twitter perfectly, explaining something that I had a hard time expressing to people not using twitter:
Where I used to use Google, I now use Twitter for questions, because not only do I get the answer, I also get the [...]

One of the people I met at BarCampMiami was Anthony Bryan of metalinker.org, and he taught me about metalinks. What are metalinks? The description from metalinker.org is pretty interesting:
Metalink was designed for describing the locations of large files that are multi-located (shared via many mirrors and with P2P) to increase usability, reliability, speed, and availability. [...]

I hate the dead zone

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