Wikimania Day 2: What’s Cooking in MediaWiki
Brion Vibber is the CTO of the Wikimedia Foundation. OMG, there is a serious lack of women in this room! This talk was about improvements in the pipeline for MediaWiki,…
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Wikimania Day 1: Jimmy Wales
Our Movement: Past, Present, Future Jimmy first showed the "Wikiality" clip, which I highly recommend you check out for a laugh. Fundamental Mission statement: imagine a world in which every…
My (gulp) Speaking Schedule
It's funny for me to think back to one year ago when you couldn't have paid me to speak at a conference. Between now and November, I'm going to be…
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A big fat done stamp (and some advice)
I had a dream about Rachel Singer Gordon the other night... I told her I was done with my book and she shook her head and told me to keep…
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Request from a friend
Doug Geiger, a reader of Information Wants to be Free whom I've been IM-ing with since last year, IM-ed and asked if I would post this request my blog. While…
The book: progress report
Writing is going well in terms of quantity. I'm nearly halfway done in terms of words written, which I can hardly believe myself. However, given my ineptitude when it comes…
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Delta Gorran 1990-2005
My dog, Delta, died on Monday. She'd had heart problems for some time, but you wouldn't know it by looking at her. And she certainly never knew she was sick,…
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Happy Turkey Day!
I'm in South Florida to visit family and go to my 10-year high school reunion. The latter event ought to be quite the trip. I was a little... umm.... different…
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My year in blog
Today is the anniversary of my blog (Adam laughed at me when I used the word "blogiversary"). Part of me can't believe it's already been a year since I first…
My new love affair
I decided to stop agonizing over what sort of computer to buy and finally settled on the Sony A-250 I'd developed a major crush on. I couldn't deny the fact…
Site redesign
I just spent much of the day redesigning my site. The first time I designed my site, I was in school and my time was at a premium. I know…
Laptop hunt
Since I may be moving to a very tiny apartment in Chicago soon, I thought it best to trade in my old desktop for a swanky new laptop (the CPU…
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Happy New Year!
Sorry I didn't have time to post anything today (been working on cover letters ALL day) but I wanted to wish everyone a happy and safe New Year. I'm just…
What we have…
I don't know what I could say that hasn't already been said about the disaster in southeast Asia on Sunday. It is a tragedy beyond my comprehension -- easily the…
Ah but California…
My hubby and I got married in the Napa Valley about 4 months ago and spent our honeymoon travelling around the CA coast. My dream is to live out there,…
would you like cream cheese with that?
I see some interesting wildlife outside my office window, but this one had me running for the camera!
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Grrrrr…
Our servers were down for almost seven hours today. This is really unprecedented. At first I thought I'd somehow caused it, but fortunately (or not) it was not my fault.…
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Wilkommen
Welcome to my new and improved blog. I'd really wanted to keep the old one, but alas, I had to upgrade and am far too lazy to move my old…
