Monday, June 27th Going to be a really busy week. Lots of work already laid out and meetings scheduled for… everyday but Saturday. Haha. Well at least I’m enjoying all of this! I missed breakfast this morning… and I swear sometime around lunch I heard someone whisper “Patrick”. I looked around and bet I looked [...]
Obligatory XKCD. I got an invite from my friend and co-worker Matt yesterday to join Google+. Once I logged in I was mildly surprised to see my information from Google Buzz and my Google Profile already imported/integrated. This is where I think Google+ has a definite advantage over Facebook: Google+ readily integrates into heavily used [...]
Programming Things I Wish I Knew Earlier. He makes very valid points, and I couldn’t agree more with a quote from “Hardware matters”: Hardware is one of the best places to put capital to work. It is far more efficient to buy your way out of a performance problem than it is to rewrite software. [...]
Slashdot Your Rights Online Story | Anti-Google Video Runs In Times Square. Consumer Watchdog really dropped the ball on this one. The analogy in their (potentially creepy) advertisement fails on a level that hurts their cause. Supposedly, Google is handing out ice cream and requesting full body scans in return? What Google provides isn’t akin [...]
This is my look at the latest stable Ubuntu release: Lucid Lynx 10.04 LTS. It has long-term support from Canonical and is considered a major accomplishment in the world of FOSS. I’ve checked out several distros and although I continue to use others for specific purposes I often choose Ubuntu for general usage.