/blog is unsleepable – theme update

I’ve gotten a hold of Ben Gray’s unsleepable Wordpress theme, and been playing with this blog’s layout and plugins since. A perpetual work-in-progress, but I’m pretty excited with the improvements so far.

So I’m looking for any kind of feedback – am I missing something? too much of another? I know my about page is empty [...]

Web 2.0 in just under 5 minutes

What is Web 2.0? A buzzword, still not strictly defined. Michael Wesch, an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University has put together an interesting video – Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us. The idea is that by separating the content from formatting restrains, we can better use, exchange, connect… just [...]

French students to get open source software on USB key

A recent InfoWorld story has caught my attention: open source software to be distributed to students.

French authorities will give out 175,000 USB memory sticks loaded with open-source software to Parisian high-school students at the start of the next school year.

What student doesn’t like free stuff? Though the concept of “free software” might be slightly lost [...]