Remembering November, 2008

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WordPress Stickers | 17th Nov 2008

I’ve been a big fan of WordPress since I started using it in about 2004. It has grown into such a great blogging platform since those early days, and they’re continuing to push the limits of how blogging software should run. Whether you have your own private blog like I do or you [...]

Windows 7 finally catching Ubuntu? | 16th Nov 2008

There’s been a lot of talk since Microsoft’s PDC about what to expect from Windows 7. It’s due out in late 2009 or 2010, but MS gave a taste of what’s to come at their PDC. Gina Trapani over at Lifehacker posted a good list of the new features they’re working on for [...]

Now an OpenID | 14th Nov 2008

I used a nice piece of PHP software called phpMyID to make encephalosponge.com an OpenID.
If you’re not sure what that means or if you never understood OpenID, you’re not alone. Up until recently, I didn’t either. I always saw the opportunities to use them, but I never had a full grasp of what [...]

If there’s a Penguin inside, | 10th Nov 2008

Debian will be on it in a matter of days: Debian ported to G1.

A Doctor, a Mutation and a Potential Cure for AIDS | 9th Nov 2008

A Doctor, a Mutation and a Potential Cure for AIDS - WSJ.com.

Of Freedom and Trademarks | 9th Nov 2008

I read an article this past weekend that brought up some interesting issues that I tend to forget about concerning free software. Most people these days are familiar with Firefox. While Firefox is open-source and “essentially” free software, the key area that makes it non-free is in its trademark and copyright. [...]

Change.gov | 7th Nov 2008

Change.gov you can believe in?. It looks like the President-elect is planning to keep his word about making government more transparent. This is great. Feel free to share your ideas if you have any. It looks like they’ve even got a blog to keep track of everything the transition team is [...]

Congrats, Theora | 4th Nov 2008

Xiph.Org announced the release of the Theora 1.0 video codec yesterday. A video “codec” is a program that allows you to play a particular type of video file on your computer. Theora is significant because it is free and unencumbered by patents, which would require developers to pay patent owners large sums of [...]

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