Nancy picked up the Norhwest Arkansas Music Award (NAMA) for “best new band” last night. The event was held at the Walton Arts Center in Fayetteville and was actually quite a big affair. We’re very happy to have been recognized. (Now if all of you would write me in next year for best bassist, I’d [...]
More response to Microsoft exec Jim Allchin’s statement about open source and intellectual property, this time from the good folks at RedHat. Here’s a quote from RedHat’s CEO Matthew J. Szulik: “I’d argue that a worldwide monopoly, enforced by business practices that a federal judge has found to be predatory and anti-competitive, probably has more [...]
Matt Jones’s excelent site frownland is one that I surf most every day. He’s a designer who lives in London. His blog is insightful and fun. His designs are clean and efficient. There are too many good sites out there right now. Once upon a time, I’d read the daily report at Zeldman’s site and [...]
I just finished installing PHP4 on my laptop. I already had Apache installed. So now I can work on PHP-related things even when I don’t have access to my servers (and I can test things out w/o having to upload them to he server). The PHP installer is dead simple. And, as I recall, installing [...]
I found two great educational sites to add to the ETS page. One is greatbuildings.com–a very nice architecture site with pictures of just about everything. The other is loggia.com, which is devoted to the humanities in general.
I’ve honestly been too busy this week to post much at all, so this will be a bit of a recap. The Pre-College Newsletter has left the building, and I couldn’t be happier. Printing Services at the University of Arkansas was kind enough to rush the print job through for us, but their lack of [...]
Just finished a quick interview with NewsForge (a good opensource news site). It was a fairly short interview and I was nervous as hell. I think it went okay. I’m waiting to see if they’ll end up quoting me. I’m about to make final changes to the newsletter and walk it over to the printer [...]
When I started using NuSphere MySQL on our two Linux servers, I liked it so much that I flashed the company an email telling them thanks for making such a good product (their installer takes 98% of the trouble out of getting MySQL, PHP, and Apache to play nicely together). A few days later, I [...]
Jesus: I’ve been busy as hell for three weeks now. I finally got that 6th-8th grade workshop project off my desk. So now it’s full-speed-forward with the Pre-College Programs newsletter (print media–yuck!). I have it layed out in Adobe PageMaker. It’s ten pages. We’re at the copy editing and last-minute layout tweaking phase. I’d like [...]
The sysadmin nonsense will never end. I’ve started upgrading everyone in the office to Norton AntiVirus 6.0 (2000). It’s a fine product and I highly reccomend it. But I guess I’m going to have to do some training on how to upgrade your virus definitions. Even though Norton makes that a fairly automated process, the [...]