Aug

3

Wordpress for iPhone

August 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment

This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series iPhoneThis is my first post written via my iPhone. More accurately, it’s my first post ’started’ on the iPhone. I still don’t have enough patience or facility with the iPhone keyboard to create a text intensive post that way.
When Steve Jobs featured [...]

Jun

17

Plugins as Handmade Gifts

June 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Wordpress PluginsWe have certain rights as consumers and, by and large, we exercise those rights. If I buy something I have certain expectations of my purchase. First and foremost, I expect it to work as advertised. If it’s a toaster, I expect [...]

Jun

1

Plugins: Another Reason to Love Wordpress

June 1, 2008 | 3 Comments

This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Wordpress PluginsWordpress is an open source blogging platform. One of the most exciting aspects of this is the large number of interesting and useful plugins that developers have created to make Wordpress more suited to their own needs and, consequently, the needs of the [...]

Apr

30

What does Linux Look Like?

April 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Back in the good ol’ days of 2006 I got to wondering, what with all the “I’m a Mac. I’m a PC” ads out there, just what the Ubuntu Linux guy might look like. It turns out that, at least for Novell, the Linux guy turns out to be a gal. You need [...]

Nov

13

Google’s Android: An Open Source Nightmare

November 13, 2007 | 1 Comment

The youtube video you see here has been produced by Google. It starts out, innocently enough, as a demo of some of the features that have been developed for Android (Google’s mobile phone operating system).
Spoiler Alert!!: If you are a fan or devotee of open source software this video ends badly with Sergey Brin [...]

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