Congratulations to Ben and Tempe Vierck on the birth of their baby Rebecca. This event is made more special by knowing how hard and how long Ben and Tempe have been trying to have this little sweetheart. A little peek into the archives from about a year ago says it all. Then, Ben wrote: we will have children. it’s been […]
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Here come da Librarian
Congratulations to my favorite librarian-to-be, Dorothea Salo, for getting accepted into the UW-Madison School of Library, starting Fall, 2003. Enjoy Dorothea’s weblog now, while you can. Come this fall, the writings going to dry up for sure when she has to hit the books. Congrats, Dorothea!
The discussion about copyright, generally, and Creative Commons, specifically is continuing elsewhere, and I’m extremely pleased to see others speak out with their concerns, opinions, and questions. In particular, I loved what Phil Ringnalda wrote today: What strikes me as uproariously funny about the rush to CC license weblogs, though, is that probably the most useful feature […]
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How not to create software
If you develop open source software, or software that you give to the public out of the kindness of your heart, document it. I know people will say, “But it’s free! How can you add more demands on the caring, giving person who wrote it?” Easily. Software that requires one to edit C makefiles because […]
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Ahhh Factor test
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Pretty good looking for a lady in her middle years, isn’t she?