At the Songbird office, we have a standing appointment at ~3:30pm to walk around the corner to our neighbourhood Caffe Trieste (warning, music auto-play at their website). We do this for two reasons: They make a viciously good Africano The metered parking there becomes a tow-away zone from 3p-7p We ...

Dear Sun, I feel like we have trust issues.  Everytime I think we start to be good, and do good things… you go and do something to turn a good thing bad.  Let’s take this latest case of your “Free CD” button at the top of the OpenSolaris.org homepage.  I know you meant wel...

… I was tagged!  (by way of @SaraD (blog), who came from @sogrady (blog), and an undoubtedly longer (and more famous) path from there…) So, 7 things you may or may not know about me….  I believe in open communication and transparency… especially when I’m drunk, so it&...

After yesterday’s Ubuntu Developer Summit, I headed over to the Mozilla Open House w/ the Ubuntu Mozilla-team guys. T’was good to hang out with the Moz folks… there was some interesting conversation over add-on versioning, the FF3.1 release train, AMO policies, and backwards/forwar...

Aside from 2 hours spent idling on 880 today, I spent most of the day at FOSSCamp… congrats to Jorge of Ubuntu for putting together a great unconference. I sat in on a session led by Jono regarding how distributions (with a bias towards Ubuntu of course) could facilitate less fearful (my empha...

I just installed a new Wordpress theme (Miniml). It’s considerably fatter (as in ‘wider’) than my previous theme… so hopefully all y’all who complained about the previous one being too skinny will stop hassling me now. It also integrates my photo gallery and Twitter str...

I’ve been futzing around and exploring MTV Music’s new APIs lately. In a testament to how easy both the MTV Music and the mashTape Provider API is (okay, granted, I’m biased on the mashTape one… but still)… I threw together an MTV Music Video mashTape add-on. This add-o...

We went to see Angèle Dubeau & La Pietà at Yoshi’s Jazz Club last night as part of KDFC’s classical concerts in nightclubs series. T’was a fantastic show… she played a concert she called Myths & Legends, with pieces inspired by or based on legends dating back to 200...

Installing & Running Songbird on OpenSolaris b99 Upon seeing comay’s tweet, I updated my OpenSolaris machine to the newly posted b99 packages and had the pleasure of typing: $ pfexec pkg install SUNWsongbird joyous day. This is our first distribution to carry Songbird in its package reposi...

or rather, i guess i should be saying “good to see you again”. the OpenSolaris fan inside of me is sad to see my good friend Patrick Finch leave Sun. having seen his expertise and impact from both inside Sun and outside Sun, he will be missed greatly. Patrick has always been one of the m...