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Tech News – Canonical Bringing Music to Ubuntu, LH Strikes Again & Affero GPL Can’t Fix the Cloud
Canonical Launching a Music Store? Rumours on the world wild web point to the possibility of Canonical building an iTunes-like music store. Works for U thinks such a move would add another viable revenue stream for Canonical, even if it seems to stretch the resources of the firm. If this music store comes to Ubuntu,…
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Writer’s Block – Echoes in the Endless Returns & Totally Unknown Writers Festival
Last week I mentioned that I restarted writing of my novel. Well actually I’ve restarted the writing of TWO novels. Yes, I’m writing TWO novels in tandem. And while it sounds like a bad idea, this can work since I can switch between the novels depending on the mood I’m in. If I’m in the…
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Update – A Week in Review
This has been quite a busy week in hindsight. I managed to build up my portfolio and work on my professional image. I managed to restart my coding and writing projects. And I’ve finished up on my correspondences. I look back and I’m quite proud of my achievements. I just wish I could move such…
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News – Chromium OS is Here
Chromium OS is Here Google just announced their Chromium OS project. This will act as the open source precursor to Chrome OS. And the folks at Canonical are helping Google build it. Exciting times ahead, especially for netbooks users and cloud computing advocates. Thanks to the 451 Group‘s Matthew Aslett team for posting about this.
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News – The Future of Nokia N-Series Phones, IP for Libertarians, Animating the Death Star
Once again, Dorian has dropped off the side of the Internet to work on stuff. So instead of an update, Dorian sends some interesting bits of news he found on the Internet. Maemo is the Future of the Nokia N-Series Just when you thought Nokia planned on using Maemo only for their experimental line of…
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The Totally Unknown Writer’s Festival
Tonight I’ll be going to the Sixteenth Totally Unknown Writers Festival. I highly recommend it, especially if you would like to hear aspiring young and young-at-heart writers in Toronto.
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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…