not waving but drowning

Cool chair

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Elliot Murphy

I’m looking for some more unstoppable hackers to work with at Canonical, and doing the usual thing of going through CV/resume submissions. What’s different from when I was doing this last year? YouTube! In the past I’ve been impressed when someone not only had a resume but links to a personal site or profile that [...]

Found or rediscovered a bunch of nice software this week

Spreed.com web-based meetings, with shared whiteboarding, application sharing, video, and soon mindmaps.  Why is it noteworthy? They explicitly support linux, even for whiteboarding and app sharing. The whiteboard is geared toward making notes on top of a presentation, and participants can easily generate a PDF of [...]

podcasting

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my podcast rig

BazaarX

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This is a native OS X bazaar GUI! Still in the early stages of development, but making rapid progress towards an alpha release. If you’re rocking bzr on a Mac, go give Martin a hand: https://launchpad.net/bazaarx

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 [...]