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Maybe it’s because I’ve been watching a lot of Star Trek recently, but I was disappointed earlier this week when I heard that Obama was killing the moon program.  Of course, along with that announcement came news that more money was going to be sent NASA’s way.  Their still going to work on really cool [...]

Well, you learn something new every day.  And this is what I learned today.  I originally posted this on the ifPeople blog.
Fixing cross-browser errors are always a pain for web developers.  Most of the time, this means fixing something that shows up incorrectly in Internet Explorer, but perfectly fine in Firefox.  I hit a bug [...]

Last night at the Atlanta Web Entrepreneurs group, I heard something that I found shocking.  The presentation last night was about Google Wave, a new colaboration platform that has not yet been released.  The Web Entrepreneurship group wanted to have a meeting about the technology now because the feeling was that the meetings they had [...]

My friend Cole suggested that I take part in the Google Summer of Code. On the surface it seems ideal. Become involved in an Open Source project and get paid for it. The only catch is that you have to be a student. Apparently aspiring open source coders with a lot [...]

I was feeling sick last week so, despite a nice comment on my blog encouraging me to go, I decided not to go to the Wifi Summit. I don’t regret not going. I probably would have felt miserable and, as can be expected, the event was well blogged.
I’m glad to see people talking [...]

As a follow up from my earlier post, I would like to post the solution to the problem with OpenOffice. Now anyone who googles: OpenOffice landscape portrait :will hit my page and find the solution to the problem. I won’t bother with the fix to the Outlook Express problem, that can be found [...]

Okay… A Microsoft/open source case study.
Last night, Susannah and Leah were working on their ethics paper. Susannah was using her Powerbook and Leah was using our desktop with Ubuntu and OpenOffice on it. OO Writer is easy enough to use and I have a book on it thanks to the Grassroots Use [...]

I found out about a Boston monthly networking meeting hosted by Planetwork. The meeting promises to include presentations made by “anyone who is working on software, digital media or communication technology specifically for ecological and/or social benefit.” This, of course, sounds very interesting.
The great irony here is that a meeting where people will [...]

The Grassroots Use of Technology Conference was held this weekend, hosted by the Organizer’s Collaborative and others. When I came to Boston a year ago, I was actively seeking out the techie activist community. Now, a year later, I can see that I was at least mildly successful in integrating myself into that [...]

A scientist at U Toronto has invented a material that’s sensitive to infrared radiation. The theory is that this could be used to create solar devices that are 30 percent efficient, which could be a huge source of clean energy. The article talks about using your shirt to charge your cell phone and [...]