Archive for November, 2007

November 18, 2007

NaNoWriMo

by Josh at 6:21 pm

I wanted to write an update on NaNoWriMo halfway through the month. Better late than never.
The good news is that there is something to update on and, as of right now, I am more or less on pace. (I have not yet completed the 1667 words required to keep me on pace for [...]

November 11, 2007

Holiday Ale

by Josh at 11:31 pm

My fourth batch of beer was a holiday ale recipe that I devised on my own.  It’s the first batch that I’ve made with a recipe of my own.  The goal for this batch was to get the yeast working better. I used the White Labs California ale yeast which is easier to use than [...]

November 6, 2007

Five reasons why geeks lean libertarian

by Josh at 6:42 pm

There’s been a lot of talk today about Ron Paul breaking the single day fund-raising record for his presidential campaign. Over at Salon, there’s an article that attempts to explain the connection between geeks and libertarianism. The analysis in this article is lacking, so I decided to come up with my own list [...]

New ifPeople site launch

by Josh at 10:58 am

We launched a new web site for ifPeople this week and I thought people might like to take a look.  It’s a good introduction to the way I spend most of my time.  There’s good information here about the different projects we’ve been involved with.

November 4, 2007

I got my calendar back

by Josh at 7:45 pm

Though it appeared not to work at first.  Changing the email address for my old Google account brought back my calendar.  This solution will still cause me a few problems in the coming week, but basically everything has worked out.  Now, I can prepare to try to move to Google Apps again next weekend.

November 3, 2007

How not to sign up for Google Apps

by Josh at 7:10 pm

I’ve been looking for a while for a good open source webmail application. I’ve been checking out Roundcube a little bit, but it’s still a pretty young product. Of course, all webmail applications tend to suck except for gmail. But, up until now, I’ve been uninterested in getting a gmail account because [...]