There’s a great story of Jonathan Coulton on Yahoo: How To Become a Rockstar. Jonathan is a kindred spirit in that he’s a software geek … and he quit his job to be a rock star. He eventually self-made himself into an artist making more money as a musician than he did at his software [...]
I am in Portland for OSCON (O’Reilly Open Source Conference). Beware non-geek readers … there may be some geeky posts over the next few days! Right know I am sitting in the keynote sessions, and honestly, given my interests, I would call most of the talks BOOOOOOORRRRRRING! Intel and Microsoft peddled some stuff that I [...]
I’m on the road, en route to a fun and exiting family Easter gathering in spectacular downstate Illinois. I got a Blackberry Pearl a few months ago and I can use it as a modem to get “the internets” on my MacBook. I know that this is nothing new, but I’ve never done it and [...]
I am a geek. I’ll admit it. I love computer and internet history. You should see my bookshelf. I went to the U of I in the early nineties in the golden days of the internet when Mosaic was born there at the NCSA; I look fondly upon those early days of surfing the web [...]
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