Remembering June, 2008

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Summer Reading 2008 | 23rd Jun 2008

I kind of fell back in love with reading during my year off from school. I started around Christmas of 2006 and actually got quite a few books read before school started this past Fall. Unfortunately, as you might expect I don’t have a lot of time for leisure reading. Actually, I say that, but [...]

Freedom 0 | 21st Jun 2008

I found this old post on Dive Into Mark about why he chose WordPress to run his blog. I started reading his blog regularly a few weeks ago, and I really like it. That post gives a concrete example of why the GPL rocks: because it gives you, the user, all the rights.

Where has all the traffic gone? | 15th Jun 2008

Apparently my blog has taken a turn for the worse . I guess my content hasn’t been very interesting over the past few months or something. I should have time to work on better stuff this summer hopefully. If you’re reading this and have any suggestions on new stuff I could write about or stuff [...]

Change Congress | 10th Jun 2008

Lawrence Lessig gave a great speech at the National Conference for Media Reform a few days ago. It was a very insightful look at the way our government runs and how we can address its problems. He uses a bunch of great examples. It’s kind of long (~30 minutes), but take the time to watch [...]

Liquid Rescale | 6th Jun 2008

So check this out. There’s a new(ish) plug-in for The GIMP that allows you to do some pretty awesome stuff when resizing photos. You can ignore the guy talking if you want and just watch. The GIMP is kind of like Adobe Photoshop, if you’re not familiar with GNU-linux.

The Perfect Storm | 5th Jun 2008

In my hurry to finish Monday’s post on Ubuntu’s Netbook Remix, I failed to fully grasp the announcement of Dell’s new “mini-Inspiron” netbook/UMPC/MID/subnotebook/whathaveyou. It’s going to ship running the new Ubuntu software (or WinXP) by the end of the month. We’re talking about a main-stream, awesome subnotebook that a ton of people already want (including [...]

Portable Apps | 4th Jun 2008

Have you ever wanted to take Firefox with you to another computer that doesn’t have it installed? Ever needed to chat on a computer that doesn’t have an instant messaging client installed? Do you have a flash drive? If so, PortableApps may very well be for you [hat tip Srinu]. PortableApps is a free/open-source application [...]

Ubuntu Netbook Remix | 3rd Jun 2008

As was expected, Ubuntu announced a new version of its operating system specifically targeted toward netbooks [via Engadget]. This is following the success of OLPC XO laptop in bringing about subnotebooks such as the now famous Asus Eee PC and a number of followers including the HP MiniNote, Elonex ONE, Everex Cloudbook, MSI Wind, the [...]

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