Open source and visible source
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NOSI, the Nonprofit Open Source
Initiative, announces the release of its
new guide "Choosing and Using Open
Source Software: A Primer for
Nonprofits."
NOSI, the Nonprofit Open Source
Initiative, announces the release of its
new guide "Choosing and Using Open
Source Software: A Primer for
Nonprofits."
02/17/2004 11:57 PMAs per a recent post, I love to see (and hope to one day do it myself)
Open Source Software in Non-Profits. Seems http://www.nosi.net found
my post:
http://thelostolive.net/tlo/comments.php?id=1786_0_1_0_C
And commented the release of its new guide "Choosing and Using Open
Source Software: A Primer for Nonprofits." And now in their own words:
___snip____
--
From: Katrin Verclas
Email: steering (a) nosi.net
Hi, Kevin -
NOSI actually just released a new...
Open-source activist Bruce Perens joins
open-source defense group
Open-source activist Bruce Perens joins
open-source defense group
05/07/2004 04:33 PMA key leader in the open-source software movement has been appointed
to the board of Open Source Risk Management, which is defending the
legal standing of open-source software.
Do You Suffer from Open Source Phobia? -
six reasons you might relent and be
ready for an extreme makeover - OPEN
SOURCE - Magazine - Darwin Magazine
Do You Suffer from Open Source Phobia? -
six reasons you might relent and be
ready for an extreme makeover - OPEN
SOURCE - Magazine - Darwin Magazine
03/08/2004 11:20 PMhttp://www.darwinmag.com/read/030104/open.html
ASK A GROUP OF corporate IT leaders whether they'd rather stick their
arms into a box of tarantulas or allow open source software (OSS) on
their networks, and odds are most would start rolling up their
sleeves. Not to do any downloading, either.
Slashdot on Open Source Ideas and Open
Source Life
Slashdot on Open Source Ideas and Open
Source Life
06/23/2004 08:27 PM As Canada protects the patents on genes, Download Aborted wonders
whether the genetic code should be considered Open Source. It's
slashdotted here. And as atonement for saying something positive about
the people at Microsoft — man, you folks are rough! —
here's some slashdottism about the anti-Open Source think tanks that
Microsoft is funding. (But I still like the Microsofties I've met. So
there.)...
Microsoft Depends On Shared Source, Dips
Toe In Open-Source Waters (TechWeb)
Microsoft Depends On Shared Source, Dips
Toe In Open-Source Waters (TechWeb)
04/08/2005 04:56 AMTechWeb - The software vendor will add to the 20 products it now
offers for source-code inspection under its Shared Source Initiative.
Microsoft releases source code to open
source community
Microsoft releases source code to open
source community
05/05/2004 04:06 AMAbout a month ago, Microsoft posted some of its source code to
SourceForge. SourceForge is a, if not the, major distribution point
for open source software. Microsoft's code was put there under the
terms of the Common Public License, which allows modification,
addition, redistribution - in short, it allows most of the rights and
privileges that we associate with open source software.
Open source process for closed source
development
Open source process for closed source
development
04/05/2005 11:50 AM IBM Adopts
Open Development Internally: "Following on the success of its
Eclipse open-source development platform, IBM has quietly been using a
form of open-source development internally to create technology the
company will sell commercially.
IBM calls its model Community Source, which it defines as a
collaborative, internal, open-source-style environment for developing
and testing new technology.
Danny Sabbah, vice president of strategy and technology for the IBM
Software Group, in Armonk, N.Y., said IBM is using its Community
Source model across 100 projects and 2,000 developers in the company.
These projects span the IBM Software Group, Systems Group, Research
and Global Services, he said."
Very interesting. I'd like to learn more about that. What parts of the
so called open source development process have they built into the
Community Source model? I've found that most developers have different
definitions of the open source development process (via
Ross
Gardler).
Advice to Microsoft: Open Source the
Leaked Source
Advice to Microsoft: Open Source the
Leaked Source
02/13/2004 02:37 PMWhat should Microsoft do, now that a chunk of its NT 4.0 and Windows
2000 source code have leaked onto the Web? Our guest columnist says
Microsoft should make lemonade out of lemons and just open source the
whole enchilada.
Open source process for open source
development
Open source process for open source
development
04/05/2005 11:50 AM
Sun has given every possible indication that Open Solaris will be run as a true
open source project. The latest indication is the make-up of the board
of directors:
Casper Dik,
Roy Fielding,
Al Hopper,
Simon Phipps, and
Rich Teer.
(via Simon Phipps - congrats Simon!)
Open source opportunity, open source
risk
Open source opportunity, open source
risk
09/22/2004 10:44 AM
I've been traveling more than usual lately, and while on the road I've
been working my way through the
ITConversations audio
archive. It's full of gems, and one of them is Doug Kaye's
interview
with Philip Greenspun. While discussing the
ArsDigita flameout,
Greenspun offers insightful perspectives on the opportunity, and the
risk, of open source as a business model.
...Why Microsoft Should Open Source the
Leaked Source
Why Microsoft Should Open Source the
Leaked Source
02/13/2004 02:37 PMANALYSIS: Redmond would be smart to make lemonade out of lemons by
releasing the rest of the Windows code and letting developers have at
it.
When Open Source doesn't open and source
doesn't matter
When Open Source doesn't open and source
doesn't matter
07/20/2004 11:14 AMOne frustration too many: time for a rant. When a bug in Mozilla
(keyboard focus is on the previously selected window) has remained
unfixed for at least 18 to 24 months, when XFree86 mouse interaction
with PS/2 or GPM remains hazardous and makes a system unusable and
that bug has been fobbed off to the kernel developers and not dealt
with for at least two years - when there are more examples like this
that make using Open Source software a pain, what do you do?
Are you one of the few people with the time and money and
expertise sufficient to delve into the source yourself to fix the
problem?
Do we have it "too good" and these niggles are, by comparison to
the rest of the world's computer users (Windows), absolute peanuts?
Second source, not open source, is the
key
Second source, not open source, is the
key
06/16/2004 09:56 AMZDNet UK Jun 16 2004 2:16PM GMT
Open Standards - Open Source. The
Business, Legal & Technical Challenges
Ahead.
Open Standards - Open Source. The
Business, Legal & Technical Challenges
Ahead.
10/28/2003 11:06 PM
The meeting comprised four panels: Business, Technical, Legal,
and Social and Ethical, each of which featured an introduction of the
issues and follow-up with an interactive discussion between the
speakers and the audience. The aim was to capture and publish the
issues discussed in order to raise the industry awareness of the
benefits of Open Source.
Pingtel Breaks Open VoIP Monopolies With
New Open Source Business Model.
Pingtel Breaks Open VoIP Monopolies With
New Open Source Business Model.
02/18/2004 10:41 PMPi
ngtel Breaks Open VoIP Monopolies With New Open Source Business
Model. Interesting.
Open source hackers release open fixes
for MSFT vulnerabilityware
Open source hackers release open fixes
for MSFT vulnerabilityware
12/19/2003 11:45 AMMSFT's apparent incapacity for patching MSIE vulnerabilities hasn't
deterred open-source hackers, who have released a free software patch
for a well-known Explorer vulnerability.
Update: Andrew sez, "...it contains buffer overflow exploits that are wide open for hax0r5 to take
advantage of. In addition, it redirects weird URL requests to -it's
own website-."
Update: Yoz points out
that the patch has been patched.
Link
(via /.)
Open-Xchange Server 5 Blends
Proprietary, Open-Source Perks
Open-Xchange Server 5 Blends
Proprietary, Open-Source Perks
04/12/2005 08:07 PMAccessible through common Web browsers, the collaboration platform
lets users share e-mail, calendar, tasks, threaded discussions and
documents originating from both proprietary and open-source systems.
More Than Open Data at the 2004 O'Reilly
Open Source Convention
More Than Open Data at the 2004 O'Reilly
Open Source Convention
08/09/2004 12:52 AMWi-Fi Technology Forum Aug 9 2004 5:11AM GMT
Linux Sees Open Field for Open Source
(washingtonpost.com)
Linux Sees Open Field for Open Source
(washingtonpost.com)
08/03/2004 10:28 AMwashingtonpost.com - Plenty of tech experts have spent years trying to
convince the general public that the Linux operating system is
becoming more of a threat to Microsoft's Windows. With the LinuxWorld
conference underway this week in San Francisco, there is finally a
sure-fire sign that this may be the case: Microsoft won't be there.
Open source cracks publishing wide open
Open source cracks publishing wide open
06/17/2004 11:24 AMOnce upon a time, publishing was the domain of large corporations.
Then came desktop publishing and the tools to produce a book shrank
from the cost of an aircraft carrier to the price tag of a PT boat.
Now, small publishers on the bleeding edge of technology are fomenting
a revolution that may change the publishing market forever. Open
source publishing tools, long derided as not being ready for battle,
are proving themselves in the trenches of small publishing.
Why open distribution is the real
promise of open source
Why open distribution is the real
promise of open source
06/16/2004 11:32 AM The White Rabbit has beckoned us down the wrong rabbit hole. Much has
been made about the open source revolution, and with good reason. The
open source development model produces superior software. But, in my
estimation, the real promise of open source lies not in open source,
but rather in open distribution. Here's why ...
From open source to open services to
open information
From open source to open services to
open information
03/29/2005 12:00 PM
My
March
21 entry about upcoming.org turned out to be an odd juxtaposition
because, on the same day, a new events database called
EVDB was announced and shown at PC
Forum. It's due out shortly in public beta but I haven't seen it, so
for now I only know what you can also learn from reading, among
others:
Dan
Farber,
Ross
Mayfield,
Om Malik,
David
Weinberger, and
Paul
Kedrosky (whose recent archive is missing this morning, yikes).
The consensus seems to be that EVDB will be a Web-2.0-style,
Wiki-style, RSS-friendly, Flickr-and-del.icio.us-like thingy. Sounds
promising! I'll certainly check it out when it's public.
...Open Arms for Open-Source News
Open Arms for Open-Source News
07/22/2004 06:17 AMA California newspaper is turning over the news to the people: If you
think it's news, it probably is to somebody, so write it up. By Daniel
Terdiman.
Open-Xchange Server goes open source
Open-Xchange Server goes open source
08/04/2004 09:46 AMLINUXWORLD -- Open-Xchange Server, the Microsoft Exchange Server
workalike, is being released under the GPL at the end of August.
Open-Xchange Server is the engine behind Novell/SUSE's Openexchange
Server, and is produced by Netline Internet Service. Netline CEO Frank
Hoberg will be in the Novell booth during most of the LinuxWorld
Conference & Expo, displaying what a company press release
describes as "the industry's top-selling Linux-based groupware,
collaboration, and messaging application."
Open Source Top Ten
Open Source Top Ten
08/27/2004 01:37 PMThe Letterman Show lets visitors to their Web site suggest Top Ten
entries for a weekly topic. This week the topic is "Top Ten Ways New
York Is Preparing For the Republican National Convention." Go make
merry....
CA looks to open source
CA looks to open source
05/06/2004 04:42 AMZDNet UK May 6 2004 9:27AM GMT
..::LvL Open Source
..::LvL Open Source
03/15/2003 07:15 AMEffortless FreeBSD updates
Open Source UIs
Open Source UIs
03/06/2004 01:49 AMImproving Open Source UI.
My response to Eric Raymond's rant on
the poor quality of open source UI is: No Kidding,
Sherlock. It shouldn't surprise anyone that open source UI
is crappy and I am surprised that it took Eric this long to notice the
problem. As to why, it's because:
- open source developers have little interest nor incentive to do it
right.
- most software developers lack the knowledge and experience to
design good UIs.
- UI design is hard and insanely tedious, even for the
professionals.
Frankly, I don't think it is realistic to expect open source
developers to build good UIs. Instead, open source software
should be designed to make it easier for others to change or replace
the UI without understanding the code underneath. Let a thousand
UIs bloom and may the best one win. In other words, leverage
evolution in pursuit of good UIs.
[Don Park's Daily
Habit]
In 1999 - when Dave Winer developed XML-RPC - we were the first
company to build a client side, browser based interface to it.
We did a 'broadband' version of Dave's 'Mail to the Future' service.
That mini-project proved that it was possible to de-couple the
front-end UI from the backend.
Here's a screen from that interface. We spent all of 1999,
2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003 - waiting for the world to catch up with
us. Now it looks like that time has come.
All I can say to Don Park is "you just wait - dude".
Wait till you meet Jim Collins.
New Open SOurce C++
New Open SOurce C++
07/29/2004 02:59 AMRedcellX chooses to open source C++ embedded projects. Developers of
key Internet technologies RedcellX confirm advantages of open source
development process and agree to cooperate in opening the source code
to the Cherry ++ OS and Networking Stack. [PRWEB Jul 29, 2004]
What has IBM done lately for open
source?
What has IBM done lately for open
source?
07/07/2004 09:00 PMListening to the Gillmor Gang's excellent interview with Sun's
Jonathan Schwartz, I found a question for IBM's Bob Sutor which I
didn't ask during my initial IT Conversations interview, now posted,
with Sutor. The question: Precisely which technologies has IBM...
Open Source for my Mom
Open Source for my Mom
01/03/2003 12:49 AMI wish I could convert the Linux box that sits in my old bedroom in
Ohio into a "workstation" for my parents. Right now they share my
Dad's Gateway notebook from work. It runs Windows 98. It came with
Windows...
Open Source Kit
Open Source Kit
08/03/2004 07:44 PMRe-packaging Open Source for the SMB Enterprise
The war against open source
The war against open source
12/28/2004 12:50 PMZDNet Dec 28 2004 4:02PM GMT
Microsoft to Offer Office Source Code
Under Shared Source
Microsoft to Offer Office Source Code
Under Shared Source
09/20/2004 10:45 AMMicrosoft is releasing its Microsoft Office desktop source code to
qualifying international governments and agencies via the company's
Shared Source licensing program.
The Open Source Government
The Open Source Government
05/14/2004 01:42 PMOpen-Source Excitement
Open-Source Excitement
05/17/2004 07:33 AMFor those who are interested, Frontier, the underlying engine of Radio
Userland, may be going down the
open
source route soon. And that's a good thing.
CherryOS to Go Open Source
CherryOS to Go Open Source
04/07/2005 09:42 AMAfter initially announcing that its product was put on hold
indefinitely, the makers of CherryOS posted a note Wednesday saying
that, "Due to Overwhelming Demand, CherryOS Open Source Project,
Launches 5.1.2005." CherryOS is a Mac emulator for PCs that allows the
user to run Mac OS X in a Windows environment.
Even the Viruses are Open Source Now
Even the Viruses are Open Source Now
07/06/2004 10:17 AMZDNet
states that the latest variants of the Bagle worm include the
original assembler source code of the virus as an attachment to the
emails it sends. Security experts worry that this will produce a lot
more variants, and make it harder to prosecute the author.
"On Friday, the perfect evidence against the author of
Bagle was that his computer contained the original source code. Today,
that is no longer the case," said Hyppönen.
I finally convinced my wife to give up IE and Outlook this weekend,
and got her set up with Thunderbird and Firefox. She's the one who
most often accesses our financial info via the web, and I sleep better
knowing she's not using IE for that any more.
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Open Source Awards
Open Source Awards
01/04/2004 01:09 PMThe
2003 OSDir.com Editor's Choice Awards in Open Source: Here's a
great survey of all that is good in the open source world. Movable Type made the list for
Perl (even though it's not technically open source), and I was
surprised to see Ruby in
there as a Perl alternative.
It does, however, prove a theory of mine: the adoption of a new
language or software is directly proportional to the amount of shelf
space it gets at the local Barnes and Noble. Ruby's real estate has
been increasing.
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Grok Description matches for Open source and visible source
GrokA matches for Open source and visible source
Ssangyong Motor to sign MOU with SAIC
Ssangyong Motor to sign MOU with SAIC
07/26/2004 07:29 AMMaekyung Internet Jul 26 2004 11:46AM GMT
SAIC 'pulls out' of MG Rover deal
SAIC 'pulls out' of MG Rover deal
04/15/2005 04:44 AMChina's SAIC does not want to continue with talks to form a
partnership with MG Rover, the TGWU union says.
SAIC telecom unit on the block
(TheDeal.com)
SAIC telecom unit on the block
(TheDeal.com)
07/22/2004 04:26 AMTheDeal.com - Bids for Telcordia Technologies, a telecom networking
and operations software company, could range between $1 billion
and $2 billion.
Jonathan Franzen
Jonathan Franzen
03/13/2003 10:23 AM When the furor over Oprah selecting The Corrections and the author's
disdain for being lumped with other books of...
"Jonathan Schwartz"
"Jonathan Schwartz"
08/02/2004 03:12 PMJonathan James
Jonathan James
09/10/2004 01:32 AMTechTree Sep 10 2004 5:48AM GMT
Jonathan Schwartz
Jonathan Schwartz
06/25/2004 11:57 AM
I just asked Jonathan
Schwartz a question about Eclipse and SWT and what Sun thought of
that.
He said that Java 1.5 was teh solution. He admitted that Sun
had dropped the ball on the client side - but that there were 350M
cell phone out there running Java.
I say "Right On!" get Java to
work!
Liberal Jonathan Chait
Liberal Jonathan Chait
02/07/2005 01:27 AMRead the whole thing .. suicidal vainglory .. spills the
beans
latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-chait4feb04,0,471433
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Jonathan Ive Is 'Best In The Business'
Jonathan Ive Is 'Best In The Business'
09/24/2004 09:25 AMApple's head of industrial design Jonathan Ive has once again been
voted 'the best in the business' in the annual Peer Poll devised by
Creative Review magazine. By Nick Spence, Macworld UK (via
MyAppleMenu)
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
09/24/2004 04:12 PMJonathan Schwartz's Webl0g
Jonathan Schwartz's Webl0g
08/02/2004 01:58 PMJonathan Schwartz .. "too strong" ..
post
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Master Of Design: Jonathan Ive
Master Of Design: Jonathan Ive
06/04/2004 11:34 PM"It's all about removing the unncessary."
By Fast Company (via MyAppleMenu)
Jonathan Deneau Hyndman
Jonathan Deneau Hyndman
12/19/2004 02:52 PM I think the only appropriate way to follow up my last post would be
with this wonderful news... Jonathan Deneau Hyndman was born today at
5:58pm. And so far he's exceeded expectations. Nicky and Jonathan are
both doing well....
Jonathan Hardwick's SMS and MOM Webl0g
Jonathan Hardwick's SMS and MOM Webl0g
07/13/2004 10:13 AMJonathan King told to 'shut up'
Jonathan King told to 'shut up'
03/29/2005 11:17 AMSex offender Jonathan King is told to "shut up" after he protests his
innocence as he is released from jail.
Jonathan King fails to win costs
Jonathan King fails to win costs
04/04/2005 06:25 AMSex offender Jonathan King fails in a bid to recover costs over a case
in which he was acquitted.
Jonathan King set to leave prison
Jonathan King set to leave prison
03/28/2005 06:27 PMDisgraced pop mogul Jonathan King is due to be released from prison on
Tuesday.
16-year-old hacker Jonathan James was
16-year-old hacker Jonathan James was
09/10/2004 01:32 AMTechTree Sep 10 2004 5:48AM GMT
Supernova '05: "Perspective: Jonathan
Schwartz"
Supernova '05: "Perspective: Jonathan
Schwartz"
06/24/2005 09:23 PMSince yesterday morning I've been hanging around at Supernova and I've been
taking some fairly intensive notes, but I've not yet had the
opportunity to write any of it up. Over the next hour or so, I hope to
put up some of my reactions from the last day and a half of the
conference. I'm a little unclear as yet whether I'll be posting the
full notes that I've been making for each part of the conference. I
guess we'll see. They're not always of the most enormous value.
For people who don't know, the core idea behind Supernova and the
concept of the conference i decentralisation and the effects of
network. I guess the metaphor is of the aftermath of the exploded
centre, where top-down governance and control gives up its power (by
choice or by force) to the new many-to-many network where power and
agency operates at the edges. The conference takes that fundamental
concept and looks at its application across a whole range of different
subject areas - from social software and personal publishing, search,
telecoms, gaming, business, media as well as around meta-areas like
how individuals deal with this radically different vision of the
world. I think by necessity this creates a kind of weirdly diverse
conference that attracts radically different types of people whose
relationship to each other isn't always easy. So you've got the
business people, the alpha geeks, the legislators, the military, the
policy people and the academics talking about things from very
different angles. Which means that any individual part of the audience
is likely to be frustrated at some points, bored at other points and
insanely fascinated for the rest of the time.
I'm going to start with a brief bit of coverage of a discussion
between Jonathan Schwartz of Sun Microsystems and Kevin Werbach of
Supernova. The two major areas of this discussion were really about
about whether or not Web 2.0 was a reality (the answers to
which were relatively anodyne) and a much more interesting discussion
about future business communication with weblogs.
I kind of take my life in my hands a bit every time I go off on a
discussion about weblogs after six years of writing this site, but
sometimes it really does seem that there genuinely still more that can
still be said around the edges. Here are a few really telling quotes
(probably mistranscribed) from Schwartz that I noted down during his
piece:
I've learned a lot of things. If you think about what a
leader does, you're fundamentally a communicator. You have to be able
to communicate to the marketplace to the people who report to you -
there is no efficient way of doing that than using the network - using
the internet. If you want to be a leader, I can't see you surviving
without a blog. It's like being a leader without having e-mail or a
mobile phone. You still find them very occasionally, but it's moving
away. It's very rare.
Authenticity is absolutely paramount. Getting poeple to
write your blogs is ridiculous. It's like hiring people to read your
e-mail. You might be able to get away with it, but it's kind of
like pushing a rock up a hill...
When I first heard Schwartz talking in these directions, I
genuinely didn't know what I thought about it. In my experience
weblogs inside organisations don't tend to be terribly interesting or
useful and only a limited number of people participate with them. I
was going ready to treat his comments with a similar scepticism
(particularly given some of his earlier comments about authentication
and the future of the web which were pretty banal), but he blew my
suspions out of the water with some of his later comments. When
challenged about whether he was only talking about communicating with
the company internally or doing it in full view of the public, he said
something really interesting.
For a start, he said that in the near future he wanted to start
doing all his communications via his weblog. Then he moved on to
addressing this internal / external dichotomy. He mentioned a
particular case where particularly good employees had their names and
photos put up on an intranet celebrating their achievements. Instead
of this he suggested that it should be done completely in public. He
said that some people had suggested that this might mean that the
staff concerned would just be poached by other companies but he
responded that good people would always be open for poaching. And
here's the interesting bit - he said he had no interest in an
internal weblog, that he wants it to be completely
transparent and that while he was aware that this approach and
celebrating his employees achievements in public might to his
competitors knowing what he was doing, it also meant that their
employees could see it too - and they can then use that to decide
if he's a more attractive leader with better policies and a vetter
vision of the future.
This is a view of the world that I really like - it doesn't limit
your ability to have particular specific projects operating under the
radar, but it's an acceptance that large-scale strategy and
communications about your company as a whole is never secret.
And rather than treating that as a weakness or as a problem, it turns
and faces it directly. It let's people see the way you run your
company and encourages people to question and interrogate it -
creating a virtuous circle of improvement and self-awareness inside
organisations that raises the whole level of the debate. For
everything else you might say about Sun, this is a noble idealistic
and inspiring aspiration. Very cool.
[You can read my very rough notes on this interview as it happened
her
e.]
Jonathan Lethem's "My Marvel Years"
Jonathan Lethem's "My Marvel Years"
04/30/2004 07:37 AMGEEKS OUT
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Jonathan Schwartz starts a bl0g
Jonathan Schwartz starts a bl0g
06/30/2004 05:48 PMJonathan Schwartz, the President and COO of Sun Microsystems, now has
a
weblog.
I've known Jonathan for several years, and he's one of the smartest,
most with-it executives in high-tech. All you need to know about
him is that he was thrilled when I introduced him at
Supernova last
week as a "maverick." At the same time, he's totally focused on
returning Sun to its former glory, and reinvigorating the IT sector
along the way. We had a great conversation at the conference -- check
out Heath Row's
transcript.
I fully expect that the blog will reflect the man himself, not some PR
scribe.
Jonathan Hardwick's Tablet PC Webl0g
Jonathan Hardwick's Tablet PC Webl0g
07/15/2004 12:02 PMCollector's Collections Gallery:
Jonathan Norris
Collector's Collections Gallery:
Jonathan Norris
08/03/2004 03:41 AMToday's
Collector's
Collections update features and update to the the collection of
Jonathan Norris from
Elizabethton, Tennessee.
Sun's Jonathan Schwartz Takes on
Longhorn
Sun's Jonathan Schwartz Takes on
Longhorn
11/19/2003 02:15 PMJonathan Schwartz, Sun Microsystems Inc.'s executive vice president of
software, took time after his quarterly Town Hall in San Francisco to
sit down with eWEEK Contributing Editor Steve Gillmor in a
conversation about Microsoft Corp.'s Longhorn Wave and the market
challenges and opportunities it may present for Sun.
Jonathan Ive to speak at London's Design
Museum
Jonathan Ive to speak at London's Design
Museum
09/23/2004 04:36 AMJonathan Ive, Apple's vice president of design and winner of the most
influential person in British culture award this year, will be giving
a speech at London's Design museum on October 28th, reports Macworld
UK...
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel
by Susanna Clarke
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel
by Susanna Clarke
03/30/2005 09:05 PMJanuary was a rough month for me and I needed a break from all the
"heavy" nonfiction I usually read, so I picked up Susanna Clarke's
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, a well-received fantasy novel. I'm
normally not much of a fantasy reader, but I was in the mood for
something fanciful and besides, JS&MN isn't really fantasy. It
contains fantastic things like magicians, Raven Kings, and faeries but
belongs more to the 19th century British novel genre...more Jane
Austen than JRR Tolkien. (Clarke lists Austen as
her favorite author on the book's site.)
And it's just plain good, whatever the genre. The simple bold cover
drew me in (it looks like the font used is a close cousin to Caslon Antique), but the
plot kept me in "I can't put it down" mode until I had finished. A
surprise was how clever and funny Clarke's writing was...I found
myself laughing out loud several times at the book's cutting deadpan
wit. The book weighs in at ~780 pages, but my only disappointment upon
finishing was that the story was over...I felt like I'd just gotten to
know the characters and wanted to follow them on all sorts of
adventures. Luckily, Clarke is working on a sequel of sorts, according to the
book's web site:
The next book will be set in the same world and will
probably start a few years after Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
finishes. I feel very much at home in the early nineteenth century and
am not inclined to leave it. I doubt that the new book will be a
sequel in the strictest sense. There are new characters to be
introduced, though probably some old friends will appear too. I'd like
to move down the social scale a bit. Strange and Norrell were both
rich, with pots of money and big estates. Some of the characters in
the second book have to struggle a bit harder to keep body and soul
together. I expect there'll be more about John Uskglass, the Raven
King, and about how magic develops in England.
The first chapter is online if you'd like to read it and
Metacritic has several reviews.
P.S. For fun, here are Amazon's Statistically Improbable
Phrases for this book: new manservant, madhouse attendants, fairy
roads, practical magician.
(
View @ Amazon) (with comments)
Jonathan Schwartz Shows 32-Way
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Jonathan Schwartz Shows 32-Way
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09/14/2004 07:22 AMDrunkenBlog: Behind the Red Shed, with
Jonathan 'The Wolf' Rentzsch
DrunkenBlog: Behind the Red Shed, with
Jonathan 'The Wolf' Rentzsch
03/29/2005 06:54 AMDrunkenBlog: Behind the Red Shed, with Jonathan 'The Wolf' Rentzsch ..
yet another great developer interview ..
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Behind the Red Shed, with Jonathan
‘The Wolf’ Rentzsch
Behind the Red Shed, with Jonathan
‘The Wolf’ Rentzsch
03/27/2005 04:16 PMDru
nkenBlog interviews Jonathan Rentzsch on mach_inject, garbage
collection, WebObjects, the OS X Finder, and plenty more.
“Finder X is the compromise between the Mac OS folks and the
NeXT folks. Neither won, everybody lost.
Oh my god, the entire
bastardized notion of switching from metal to aqua and hiding the
sidebar when clicking on the toolbar chiclet in the upper right-hand
corner.”
"Follow the Money" by David Sirota and
Jonathan Baskin
"Follow the Money" by David Sirota and
Jonathan Baskin
08/22/2004 08:57 PM"Follow the Money" by David Sirota and Jonathan Baskin .. How John
Kerry busted the terrorists' favorite bank .. fought in the War on
Terror .. tells us all about it .. busting
BCCI,
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