Sun 28 May 2006
It’s a small one, but the Buzz has awarded Scott Farrell the first Campaign Gumption Award.
There are 6 positive comments already on the blog, the last one makes mention of an online “Town Hall Meeting.”
True? You Might Say That, I Couldn’t Possibly Comment.
Mon 8 May 2006
7 Days until Novell releases its Q2 Earnings. It’s fitting that I’ll be in Las Vegas for the conference call. The market has a love/hate relationship with Novell (leaning towards hate at the moment)
Now, I’ve never been much of a SuSE man, favoring Debian, Gentoo or some derivative of those, Ubuntu being my fanboy distro of the year. That being said, I think Novell has really made SuSE into a distro for the masses.
If you’re still skeptical and have 33 minutes to spare, check out Nat Friedman’s test drive of the new SuSE.
If you have less time, but still want to see how XGL can make life better, check out this video of Dapper in action. (Soundtrack by Andre Benjamin).
Mon 8 May 2006
Google maps are great at finding the quickest path between two points of interest, but sometimes that’s not what you’re looking for. On a bike, sometimes you’d like to take the “long way” made up of slow, meandering roads where traffic is scarce and drivers know the meaning of “share the road.” Hence, I’ve long wanted the ability to plot out my own routes on something like Google Maps. With routebuilder, I can.
The interface is slick and snazzy, and doesn’t try to implement too many features. A set of input elements keep a running total of miles, kilometers, and feet. It’s very useful for plotting out alternate routes and measuring distance before you get out on the road. This one I’ve done twice: at 32 miles one way, I call it the fun kind of muscle pain.