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Got this by email yesterday: From: maka konan <maka3030@hotmail.com> Subject: hi To: maka3030@hotmail.com Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 09:32:44 -1200 Hi, my name is Maka, I visited (http://sucs.org/~rohan/git/linux-3.0/CREDITS) while searching for relationship, I found your contact there. I’m interested in a love relationship with you. I would like to know more about you and if [...]

This post is for people who use Redmine; others are welcome to stay for the ride if they wish. I’m writing this post mainly so it will turn up in results when people do a web search to find out how to edit multiple issues at once in Redmine (e.g., search://redmine batch edit multiple issues/). I recently did that [...]

Happy Dennis Ritchie Day! (It’s the day before Halloween, so we decided to leave the spooky dog in the picture.) Here’s the close up: If you don’t know who Dennis Ritchie was, or why he has a day, this post by Tim O’Reilly is a good place to start. Ritchie, who died this October 12th, [...]

Now that I have your attention… Recently a friend posted to a mailing list about Yet Another Cold Fusion Experiment whose results will soon be in. Unlike most people, my worry is not that these experiments will all fail, but rather that one will succeed. As the amount of energy available per dollar goes up, [...]

Yo, Bay Area peeps! Will Franken, this Saturday, September 10th, at the Purple Onion in San Francisco, at 8pm. You already know how I feel about Will Franken. His shows are not to be missed. If I were in San Francisco right now, I wouldn’t be writing this blog post — I’d be buying tickets. View Larger [...]

Update 2011-07-21:I’m leaving the original post unchanged below, for reference, but I just got an email from Jon Trowbridge saying he gets different search results with “Google” and “Google+”. I do too, but not in the way I would expect, at least for more complex searches. When I first try the search I want, Google [...]

I just got back from a wonderful three-week vacation in China. The trip did, however, further my worry as a patriotic American that the Chinese are rapidly overtaking us — not just in industrial technologies and renewable energy production and the like, but even in the service economy areas where we might hitherto have presumed ourselves to [...]

Why you should be reading more of Ben Collins-Sussman: I usually find it easier to encode my home videos into the immutable portion of some custom-fabricated DNA, which I then implant into bacteria and launch into the stars. I figure that in billions of years, they may evolve into sentient life forms, examine their DNA, [...]

The folks at Framabook graciously sent me some copies of the print version of their French translation of my book (in French, “Produire Logiciels Libres“, in English, “Producing Open Source Software“). They also sent some questions for an online interview to accompany the release, and Olivier Rosseler translated my responses. The French version of the [...]