Patrick’s weblog, featuring posts dating back to 2002 on topics including technology, open source, networking, and various technical adventures.
Today was the day for my yearly homepage update. The full diff of which appears below. :::diff --- index.xml.old Wed Jul 27 13:00:03 2005 +++ index.xml Wed Jul 27 13:00:16 2005 @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ <my:infobox title="A Little About Me" minheight="255"> <p> <img src="resources/images/me.jpg" align="left"…
Recently I’ve been trying to keep my blog out of the political realm. I’m perfectly aware that there are much better pundits and analysts with much better connections that a lowly Ph.D. candidate. Also, I sort of agree with Jon Stewart, partisan bickering is just…
I spent last week in sunny Genoa, Italy attending the First International Conference on Open Source Systems. Overall it was a great trip, and I’ll describe it in a few blog entries here. This should keep my readers from lamenting about my lack of content…
Yeah, so knowing my luck no one will get a chance to read this. I’m going out of town for a week or so. With any luck I won’t have internet access while I’m gone. This means that scissors will be on autopilot. This also…
It appears that Google is well on it’s path to complete world domination. Earlier this year they released the excellent Google Maps. About a week ago they came out with Google Earth. And today I see that they’ve finally come up with a suitable home…
So we thought that we had won the battle against the Broadcast Flag. The court decision said that FCC had overstepped their bounds. Unfortunately this left the possibility for congressional action on the issue. We had at first thought that it was going to be…
Well, it looks like Senator Santorum (aka Senator Man-On-Dog in the street) sold out to AccuWeather with senate bill 786. The basic gist is this: AccuWeather provides the same data that National Weather Service does, but for a fee, so the NWS shouldn’t be able…
In the mail yesterday I received a claim form to take part in the class action settlement against Apple regarding their iPod batteries. Basically, Apple claimed their batteries lasted longer than they did, and many people were angry about this. Especially when they saw that…
Slides for my WPLUG talk tomorrow on MythTV are now online. Feel free to peruse before the meeting if you’re reading this over on WPLUG planet. Hope to see everyone there tomorrow.
This is just a little post to pimp my own talk at WPLUG this weekend. On Saturday I’ll be giving a talk about MythTV and the alphabet soup of standards and regulations that accompany it, including NSTC, ATSC, MPEG, and more! I’ll also talk a little bit about the…