Monthly Archives: October 2007

i like monkeys gets a new home

I hear this a lot: Hey, you’re the monkey guy, right? Indeed, I have gotten far too much mileage out of a simple text file that I got off the Internet in the mid-90s that I did not write. Nor … Continue reading

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and now everything will be different

Today is my last day working at Red Hat. I’ve been there for nearly nine years – most of my adult life – and I have a lot of fond memories. In some ways I would say that Red Hat … Continue reading

Posted in Fedora, GNOME, Mozilla, Red Hat | 34 Comments

curious baby is curious

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random links for 2007-10-18

Design is Arrogance. Design is Humility. Indeed, I feel that I fight this battle inside myself all the time. When do you assert? When do you listen? When do you draw out what people are feeling when you think they … Continue reading

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random links for 2007-10-15

Lots of random stuff is showing on the Intertron today. A random sampling: Lessons about failure. Talking about the importance of failing fast. Try and avoid the success bias if you can. Corollary is that the way to succeed is … Continue reading

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delight

I have no idea if this is a verbatim quote or not, but I loved this little snippit on boingboing about Yahoo! talking to record execs. (If nothing else it aligns with what little I know about how Yahoo! fanatically … Continue reading

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