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I’m a fan of Snapfish, mainly because I can get digital prints at $0.10 per 4 x 6 if I prepay for 1000 prints ($100.00). Even after shipping, it works out a little cheaper than Costco or other local cheap digital developers. I like the prints truly developed like traditional film, not printed, […]

Care of KPFK’s Digital Village, come an interview with Robert W. McChesney, President of Free Press. They’ve posted a good informational essay from the San-Jose Mercury News here: Free Press : Saving Internet Equality. From that piece:
The choice facing lawmakers is stark: keep the Internet as a decentralized network that no […]

I haven’t stopped to look back very often since leaving Windows behind a year and a half ago. I’m not one to bash Microsoft at every opportunity. The fresh air of freedom of choice that I’ve experienced since moving into the Free Open Source Software side of tech-life is too good […]

I just finished reading The Cathedral and the Bazaar (Wikipedia | O’Reilly ) by Eric S. Raymond (Wikipedia) . The original essay was released in 1997 and the book which includes 4 other related essays was released in 1999. I found it was a quite enjoyable and interesting read. The complete text of all of […]

Amarok has kept me quite busy over the last 24 hours. It’s the nicest jukebox/ music player I’ve ever used. A year ago before I broke off my relationship with Windows, I used iTunes and Winamp, and since switching over to linux have pretty much stuck with Xmms which was very slim and […]

I’ve been using Ubuntu Linux for 99% of my computer needs since January, and am quite content to not depend upon Windows for anything. One of the nice features that comes with Ubuntu is the ‘gnome-volume-manager’ daemon that auto-mounts usb and firewire devices when they’re connected. I need to start that ($gnome-volume-manager &) once […]

After a couple of days playing around with my Wordpress blogging system, I’ve forgotten to write! From the forums to the irc channel (#wordpress on freenode.net), to the amazing documentation written by all sorts of people around the world, the Wordpress community is more vibrant today than ever.
Yesterday a friend […]

Long live Brazil my friend! The New York Times today (password) runs a nice piece on Brazil and their increasing promotion of opensource software, that many in the open source community have been following closely. (mirror: Int’l Herald Tribune)
They credit “President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva [with turning] Brazil into a tropical outpost […]

Sometimes it seems that from the moment I wake to the moment I lay down to sleep I am racing to accomplish tasks and learn things. The cycle is worsened when I miss the mark, and get less than the required 8 hours of sleep (which is usually). Although I frequently fall back […]

My latest obsession? Linux. Class I’m taking this quarter (after 2 years away from school)? Intro to Unix/Linux. Online lessons I’m following? Linux.org/lessons Ok, so I’m a latecomer to the geeky realm of one of the world’s most efficient, powerful, customizable, and innovative operating systems. Until I downloaded […]