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Big and small things I’m working on.
This year, I've been on over a 120 airplanes and travelled nearly 100,000 miles. I am on a first-name basis with gate agents. It's been like this for the last seven years. I am perversely proud of it. Here's what I've learned. Marry Your Vendors Don't spread your love around like a strumpet. Pick an … Continue reading How to Travel Like a Neurotic Pro
Whether my Galaxy Nexus phone is plugged in or not, it always thinks it's charging. At the same time, I'm losing 20% of my battery life every hour. Visions of having to re-Jelly Bean a replacement unit wake me in the middle of the night. Everything turns black. Then it occurs to me that I … Continue reading Galaxy Nexus is always charging.
Here's a quick re-creation of my "History of Open Source in Government" talk from OSCON.
Take a company's IT strategy. Now remove any and all references to a choice of a specific vendor as these are purchasing decisions e.g. we will use SAP to ... Now remove any and all references to implementation details e.g. we will build a private cloud to ... Now remove any and all references to operational … Continue reading What’s my IT strategy?
I didn't want one, and didn't like the look of it, and thought the form factor was a joke. I was surprised to get one as a gift about a month ago, and I haven't touched my Asus Transformer since.
Campus Technology's August 2012 issue has a great piece on the questions you should be asking your open source vendor. It's a good orientation, doesn't do any fear-mongering, and includes answers from me, so it's at least a little sensible.
"Actually, the 1965 Moore's Law seems to be a special case of Wright's Law, spelled out by Theodore P. Wright in a 1936 paper, 'Factors affecting the costs of airplanes.' In fact, Wright's Law seems to describe technological evolution a bit better than Moore's – not just in electronics, but in dozens of industries." [via … Continue reading Wright’s Law Beats Moore’s Law
Apparently, Shake it Up, a Disney kid's show, has an over-the-top stereotype nerd dispensing computer security advice: Nerd: Did you use open-source code to save time, and the virus was hidden in it? Stupid: Maybe? Nerd: Rookie mistake. Slashdot will, of course, lose its mind, but the real headline is that open source was mentioned in the first … Continue reading Disney sitcom says open source is insecure
Gibson CEO Henry Juszkiewicz rightly calls his company’s legal odyssey “a matter that could have been addressed with a simple contact by a caring human being representing the government. Instead, the Government used violent and hostile means with the full force of the U.S. government and several armed law enforcement agencies costing the taxpayer millions … Continue reading Gibson Guitar v. U.S. DOJ
Some very, very sound (and super-quotable!) advice for anyone interested in starting an open source project. http://www.slideshare.net/bcantrill/corporate-open-source-antipatterns
a technology job is no excuse 