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Thoughts on Mozilla Community 12 Feb 2011 | 05:00 am
Jamie Zawinski's 1999 post on leaving AOL/Netscape/mozilla.org This bit of history was linked today on Hacker News, and re-reading it touched on some points that I have been carefully considering the...
Kspice is a useful technology for BI and Hadoop 2 Jun 2010 | 06:13 am
Having infrastructure that is completely redundant and easy to bring down for Linux kernel upgrades is a wonderful thing, but it is pretty hard and frequently you end up with systems that still requir...
Harry Potter meets SCIENCE! 29 May 2010 | 09:38 am
I enjoyed reading the Harry Potter series, but at times found myself quite despising Harry as a kid with too big of an ego who didn't listen and didn't think. I really loved the Ender's Game series be...
Mozilla has at least four sites in the Google top 1000 sites list 29 May 2010 | 02:20 am
I just found out about Google's top 1000 websites list from a post on the fseek.me blog. I expected to find mozilla.com near the top (it's position #10), but when, on a whim, I did a text search for g...
Book Review - Pentaho Data Integration 3.2: Beginner's Guide 22 May 2010 | 10:46 am
Pentaho Data Integration 3.2: Beginner's Guide On my plane flight yesterday, I was finally able to crack this book open and I ended up reading it from cover to cover in one sitting! I highly recommen...
Microsoft's random browser ballot 1 Mar 2010 | 12:48 pm
When I saw what the page was supposed to do, (first five and last five sets displayed in random order) the first thing I thought was, "Man, I hope they tested the fool out of that or someone will make...
Dear LazyWeb 5 Jan 2010 | 02:51 am
I'd like to help the Thunderbird community out by posting a series of quick video demonstrations of how I use Thunderbird + Lightning in my daily work. In order to do this though, I need an extension...
SSH magic 9 Dec 2009 | 09:34 am
I use SSH on a daily basis. Most of the machines I connect to can be accessed in one of two ways: OpenSSL VPN SSH to a jumphost then SSH from there to the desired machine I wanted to share the conf...
Performance of Rhino JS engine and Janino library in Kettle 17 Nov 2009 | 07:26 pm
My friend Roland Bouman made an interesting blog post regarding the performance of a bit of JavaScript for Kettle that he saw on a different blog. Given the large amounts of data that I am shoving th...
Advice regarding using Travelex Cash Passport cards for travel 25 Sep 2009 | 08:10 am
If you are a traveling to Europe and considering getting one of these debit cards to make life easier for you while there, my advice is don't! Figure out which of your credit cards charges the least a...
