Hooray! A year and two months after my last journal entry, in which I noted my desire for a mac, I finally purchased one. A brand new 12" PowerBook is now at home on my coffee table, waiting for me to play more with it. :) I'm excited - can't wait to start using Xcode and AppleScript. :)

So, I've become a bit obsessed with the Sony Picturebook. While I was wandering around Linuxtag over the weekend, I saw a few people with them, and every time I think about them, they just seem like exactly what I'm looking for right now. I really want something small and portable that I could sit and type random stuff with (class notes, bits of code, e-mail, journal, etc.) while also being able to ssh into whatever machine I feel like to do random things (check web server status, e-mail, z

Just returned from Linuxtag. Quite fun, I have to say. Even if my German is a bit slow... :P

It's always cool to see so many people all interested in a common topic in one place. It's also nice to see that not only small-ish companies supporting Linux, but also large ones (HP, Sun, etc.). You read about it all the time on Slashdot and stuff, but to actually see them at a convention dedicated specifically to linux is just cool.

When I first started working in this field, i became concerned that the children growing up in the next generation would understand computers at a profoundly deep level, since they had been playing with them since very early childhood in many cases. My peer group has a very good handle on the nature of all the parts that make up computers and the software that makes them useful, as well as the connections between those bits. Since we hadn't gotten the opportunity, in most cases, to play and

Ok, so my comments on the whole War - Sites Being Hacked thread weren't as cogent as i'd like them to have been.

Perhaps i've been sitting in front of this thing for too many hours in a row.