I finally upgraded my Thinkpad X201 from Kubuntu Lucid to Maverick over the weekend. I’m pleased to report that the process was nearly flawless using KPackageKit. Despite segfaults in KPackageKit which didn’t seem to deter it, the upgrade process went very smoothly and took about an hour. I’ve only encountered three minor problems: There were…
Continue reading →Overheard: “The path of least resistance is only paved for the first 200 yards.” @tferriss (via @davetenhave)
Continue reading →Civilisation may be two meals away from barbarism, but it’s only one coffee way from whining. @thomasbeagle (via @ThisCJ and @saniac)
Continue reading →Some things just take time – especially recognition. My Free and Open Source Freelex / Mātāpuna Dictionary Writing System was just reviewed by Oumar Bah in Language Documentation and Conservation. (Download the PDF of the article). Bah writes: It is a DWS much like Toolbox, iLex or TshwaneLex, but uninke the others, it is entirely…
Continue reading →I was one of the judges this year at the NZ Open Source Awards, and presented the award for the Open Source Contributor of the year, which was won by Tabitha Roder for her work on the One Laptop Per Child project. Watch the YouTube Video, including my now-famous quote, “We cannot afford to have…
Continue reading →The Bright Ideas Challenge was born out of a conversation that I had almost exactly a year ago with Nigel Kirkpatrick, the CEO of Grow Wellington at an event designed to address the problem of how to better commercialise IP coming out of our region. Mark Clare helped whip the original concept into something that…
Continue reading →A couple of months ago, the great people from MyFirstCompany.co.nz interviewed me to collect my sage advice for budding entrepreneurs. Here is what I told them: What is WebFund all about? What’s the difference between a good idea and a good business idea? What should I think about before approaching an investor? How important is…
Continue reading →Everything you do today is an investment – or divestment – in the future. The same is true of the things you don’t do. -DM
Continue reading →I was reported Wednesday in a New Zealand Herald article entitled “Minister slammed over racially tinged jokes”: The comments prompted Dave Moscovitz [sic], a member of the NZ Council of Christians and Jews, to complain to Mr Williamson. “I was disgusted by your comments making jokes at the expense of Muslims and Pacific Islanders,” he…
Continue reading →Dear Greens, I have written to you on a number of occasions pleading with you to stop sending me snail mail. I have now moved house, and yet you continue to send mail to my old address which the Post Office then redirects to my new house, inconveniencing even more people and causing the wastage…
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