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Updates – justCheckers Open for Business
An update from the justCheckers website: Cleaned Up and Open for Business 2009, November 17 – 18:02 — Dorian Pula It took a while. A much needed upgrade, some changes to bring this site back into the larger multi-site effort I’m involved and some re-integration work back into SourceForge… and justCheckers is back! Finally there…
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Hectic Day
I guess this comes of procrastination and of enjoying one’s weekend. All that work that accumulates, and now I look in fear at the height of the pile. What can I say, inbox anxiety is a very real syndrome even if the inbox is virtualized. The cost of adding to the pile has decreased thanks…
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The Joys of Seamless Upgrades
Upgrades often is a naughty word in programming and system administration. When a system admin or programmer starts an upgrade, often it is with clenched teeth and an expectation something will break, explode or spontaneously combust. So congrats to the WordPress guys for releasing another seamless, non-breaking, and easy to do upgrade. And yes this…
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News Flash – Matthias Ettrich Gets a Medal, the N900 Gets Reviewed
Dorian continues his quest in pursuit of sanity, salvation and free time under the combined mountains of e-mail and code. He sents his regards and asks yet again for patience. As a token, he gives you his take on the latest cool developments in the consumer Linux space. Matthias Ettrich Awarded the German Medal of…
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Lest We Forget
Today is Remembrance Day. Take a moment of silence for all those who have fallen or crippled by that most horrendous of man’s machinations: war. Thank for those who fought for freedom and end to tyranny. And promise them and future generation, that we shall fight the good fight, that will remember are veterans and…
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News Flash – Linux Desktop Suck, Android is Not Linux and the Nokia N900s Dropping Out of Orbit
These past few days have seen Dorian scrambling to catchup and not blogging. Dorian still feels the need to fight his e-mails, update his “other” sites and organize his cluttered life, rather than update his readers on exciting developments he has worked on. Instead Dorian will continue writing in the third person, and highlight the…
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Review of Ontario Linux Fest 2009
Two weekends ago I went to Ontario Linux Fest 2009, held here in chilly Toronto for the third year in a row. And for such a young conference, it was quite good. In fact good enough, that longer review of the event is in order: Morning Keynote – Changes to the GPL The day started…
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Its Been a While
Wow, its amazing much one can do if one sits down and just concentrates on a single task. Yesterday proved a rather productive day, in terms of writing correspondences. Also I managed to get a fair bit of writing and coding done too. I apologize for everyone who expected me to answer back sooner. Some…
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A Brief History About Google
Check it out! A brief history about Google Co.: Thanks to Andre Noel for the discovery: http://en.andrenoel.com.br/?p=130