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Archive for March, 2007

rebelutionary: Life Is A Hire Way: 5 Tips For Startup Hiring

Thursday, March 15th, 2007

rebelutionary: Life Is A Hire Way: 5 Tips For Startup Hiring
Lately, I’ve been wishing I lived in Australia, because this guy seems to get it and Atlassian sounds like a great place to work (plus, he gets Open Source, and what makes it great.) Not that I am looking for a job, b/c I [...]

Donating Licenses to Open Source Projects

Wednesday, March 7th, 2007

Not sure if I’m noticing this trend a wee bit late, but it seems like more and more software tool vendors are bending over backwards to give away their development tools to the open source community. Atlassian does this for JIRA, it’s issue tracking software, Jet Brains does for IntelliJ, Cenqua Clover for test [...]

Waiting for PC

Sunday, March 4th, 2007

Hmmm, I started rebooting my new Dell laptop running XP 30 minutes ago (Powerpoint had crashed) and it still has not finished the shutdown process.  Nice.  Beautiful computer, crappy Operating System.
Funny thing is, I’m a Mac guy.  I tried to get work to send me a new Macbook Pro, but the IT guys wouldn’t hear [...]

Personal Kyoto: Achieve Your Own Personal Kyoto Protocol!

Friday, March 2nd, 2007

Personal Kyoto: Achieve Your Own Personal Kyoto Protocol!
Really cool idea!  Wish they had it for North Carolina.
Of course, from the sounds of Duke Energy and Progress Energy lately, they don’t care too much about you reducing your energy usage, they just want to build more coal plants.  I forget, when did the powers that be [...]