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Attaining High-Earth Orbit
Welcome to my new blog. After fighting it out with Drupal, I decided to go with WordPress instead. I’m quite impressed the ease of install, permalinks work and everything. I can’t say the same about Drupal. But then again, these are two different tools for different purposes. Enjoy the new blog.
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Moving House and Home…
Please excuse the past few days of silence. But I’ll moving this blog/journal/collection of incohesive rants yet again. The new home will be at my new brand new domain: https://dorianpula.ca/ Now at the moment of posting this message, the domain is not up. CIRA, you fail again. So for the next few days I’ll be…
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Retro-gaming: Torus Trooper
In the mood for a bit of retro-gaming? Try out this amazing abstract shooter. Torus Trooper is a fantastic game, where you fly a fighter through a twisted torus filled with enemies. The art brings you back to the era of wireframe graphics. The trancy, techno music provides an excellent, motivating yet relaxing ambience. The…
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The Filter Problem
Recently, Matt Asay blogged about Clay Shirky’s keynote on Web 2.0 Expo. I must agree that many problematic aspects of my web experience hinge on the concept of filtering. Now I realize that ultimately everyone on the web can read my content. However, I would prefer different people to get different content at different times. …
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Hard Crash
Yesterday I realized I need more sleep. Basically living the life of a rockstar: 5 hours sleep and then 1.5-2 hours of a catnaps just doesn’t work for me. Initially I became more productive with more time in my day. But it seems that illness and tiredness caught up with me. And I get irritated,…
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How Not to Run a Community-Project: justCheckers Post-Mortem
So the day before yesterday, Aaron Seigo wrote up a brilliant piece on running a community-driven project. Since I stole^H^H^H^H^Hborrowed his post, I want to contribute back my own experiences. The justCheckers project is currently in a semi-active state at the moment. But in its heyday, we had a group of 5 active developers. But…
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Building a Community
Ok. Aaron Seigo of the KDE project is a genius. He really is. Not only does he lead the absolutely revolutionary Plasma project in KDE, but he also knows what he is talking about. Anyway he wrote a kickass article about how to build a community in open source. And I’m too lazy to write…
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Dear Lazyweb: How Do You Deal with Blockers?
After reading a number of post on the Ubuntu and KDE planets, addressed to Dear Lazyweb. I’m not going to be lazy and not do research on this topic. Rather I am interested in hearing how people deal with certain problems. So I’m going to turn the blog over to you guys and gal, and…
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A Short Paper on Snowfall and its Effects on a Northerly People
We take a break from our regularly scheduled program on technology, gaming, freedom, life management and progress updates; for a totally pointless post. Up in the frigid northern regions called Canada, there lives a nation of people who well… basically live there. The very thought that someone would want to north of the 49th parallel,…
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A Week into the Year, and Back to Writing
A non-calendar week (7 days) passed already for this year. And I can say that I’m about 1/52 or less than 2% in completing this year’s goals. One goals is to finish writing and publishing my first science fiction novel, Echoes in the Endless. Thanks to my good friend Domenic’s suggestions I am reworking the…