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This is embarrassing — I meant to post this more than half a year ago, and apparently forgot to click “publish” on the draft. Now it’s old news, but I’ll post it anyway. Maybe some people will go out and buy the book, which is a lot of fun to read. O’Reilly released a new [...]

Happy New Year! My New Year’s Resolution: Inbox Zero. 0 (Wish me luck.)

(Reposted from QuestionCopyright.org…) The award-winning (and freely licensed) film Sita Sings the Blues will have a week-long run in New York City’s IFC Film Center, December 25th – 31st! This is a full theatrical run, with 7-8 screenings a day. The filmmaker, Nina Paley (who is now Artist-in-Residence at QuestionCopyright.org), will be doing Q&A after the 8:25pm [...]

Sometimes I have to trade information with people I’ve never met. I know who they are, in the sense that I know what they’re working on, why we’re collaborating, etc. But I wouldn’t recognize their face or voice. Occasionally, the information we’re trading is sensitive — news of a software security vulnerability, for example, or the address [...]

       The Subversion project has applied to become part of the Apache Software Foundation — an application we all expect to suceed swimmingly, given that Subversion has been operating more or less along ASF guidelines for years anyway, and includes a number of ASF members and officers among its developers. The move isn’t that much of a [...]

If you’ve already seen Nina Paley’s excellent (and freely-distributed) feature film “Sita Sings the Blues”, then… tell someone else about this . YouTube is going to feature it on their home page starting at 9pm PST today. The full, feature-length video is already available from their site: If you like it, please consider donating to [...]

After fourteen years, my car has finally given up the ghost: I know it’s an inanimate object, but I still feel sad. 14 years is a long time. It was my first car, and hugely important to me both economically and emotionally (my parents bought it for me as a gift when I was 24 — thank [...]

The bike thief will probably never see it… but perhaps the thief isn’t the intended audience:

We’re brainstorming a grant application over at QuestionCopyright.org — lend a hand if you can. Here’s the paragraph from the foundation’s page that made me sit up and take notice (emphasis added): “Grants are also made to support efforts to strengthen areas that directly affect the context in which artists work. In 2006 the Foundation formally designated [...]

For those wondering what I’ve been so busy with the last couple of months: blog.launchpad.net/general/launchpad-is-now-open-source Everything I’d say here I’ve already said there .