Oct 29, 2009 Posted by john

Need An Open Source Programmer Or Two (Beginners Welcome)

Over the past few months, I’ve been working with Rediviva Magazine on a special (somewhat secret) community project.  We’re getting closer to a possible launch and I’d like to get some more people involved so I thought I’d put the word out there to see whether there are any local programmers interested in working on it with me. Feel free to pass this around. Overview Ideally,... read more

Oct 20, 2009 Posted by john

Snow Leopard & AFP: Access The Volume And Files Locally

This is a quick write-up on an error I’ve been having with my MacBook and a drive connected to Airport Extreme. It’s really only here so that Google will index it and the info will hopefully be one step in a solution for others with the same problem. The issue is with my Free Agent drive when connected to an Airport Extreme via USB and accessed with my MacBook Pro, running Snow Leopard, using... read more

Oct 15, 2009 Posted by john

How The Web Was Won

Rant meter: HIGH This is a bit of a rant centered around a piece of recent news that seriously bugs me. Actually, it’s not the news itself that bugs me, it’s the truth that the news represents. The truth that the Web basically sucks. The news was detailed in an Opinion column in Nature about a new “Massively collaborative mathematics” project. Called “The Polymath... read more

Oct 9, 2009 Posted by john

The Price Of Being Undeserving

In the beginning of my 6th grade year, I had the worst experience ever. I was having one of those long-term, knock-down, drag-out battles with another kid, Rocky Hill. It was the stereotypical school-yard battle, where each of us were evenly matched and it was a daily standoff between mutually respectable adversaries. And by “daily standoff between mutually respectable adversaries,” I mean,... read more