January, 2008
Jan 92008
Wow — when did Pidgin get such an awesome logo? Most companies don’t have a wordmark this artful. And most open-source software projects have either a dreadful logo or none at all. (Then again, the Disney-cartoonish detail on the pigeon clashes horribly with the wordmark.)
It is not our intent to eliminate debate or disagreement, but rather to programmatically enforce a certain quality of expression. Put another way: The StupidFilter will cheerfully approve an eloquent, properly-capitalized defense of mandatory, state-subsidized rocket-launcher ownership for all schoolchildren.
Jan 52008
There is a meme beginning to go around that he is vague and empty. If you do not know what Obama is proposing in many areas, it’s only because you don’t know how to use Google.
Jan 32008
I’ve been working hard on RKelly lately. RKelly is a Ruby implementation of Kelly. Kelly is a fictional project that I made up so that I could name my project RKelly.
For a while I’ve been thinking about writing a Greasemonkey script to hide any del.icio.us/popular links that begin with a number, but I think this is the last meta-straw: 7 Types of Blog Posts Which Always Seem to Get Links and Traffic. Blog will eat itself.
(1)Jan 22008
What [the Iowa Caucus] does is give the whip hand to the moneyed political professionals, to the full-time party hacks and manipulators, to the shady pollsters and the cynical media boosters, and to the supporters of fringe and crackpot candidates… It is an absolutely terrible way in which to select candidates for the presidency, and it makes the United States look and feel like a banana republic both at home and overseas.
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