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The instant classic party scene from Mad Men’s season 5 debut:

Zou Bisou, Bisou

Jackie goes solo, while Cary continues to grab the camera from me

Jackie plays piano, and Cary quits mid-way to play with the camera

Ok, let’s try this again.

Jackie plays the piano, and Cary rocks out to Rudolph

Jackie’s Recital

Jordan Mantha, aka LaserJock, gave 2 great talks at The UbuCon, both on how to contribute to the Ubuntu project. One was more technical going into detail regarding the various aspects of Launchpad, and the other […]

What a weekend. The UbuCon turned out better than I could have possibly imagined. With little promotion, not to mention a minimum of planning, at least 60 and possibly up to 70 total showed up to discuss various […]

Here’s a list of the fine companies that are supporting this event:Google – They’re hosting the event. ’nuff said. Kudos to Chris and Leslie for being the champions there.Canonical – aka the Ubuntu company. […]

Forbes magazine online has been publishing a series of articles on open source. Most of them have been decent, but Daniel Lyons continues, annoyingly, to persistently get certain things wrong. Today’s article is […]

So after being too drunk/stoned/busy/tired/out-of-town, I let this project lie fallow for a bit too long. But now that I’ve come back to my senses and started working on this again, I’m very very happy to report […]

The Ubucon (rhymes with Rubicon) is a free conference for Ubuntuusers, developers and admins. Many many thanks to Google for hosting this.The Ubucon will be held at Google headquarters in Mountain View, CA, August […]

Hello all, if you’re going to The UbuCon please visit the RSVP page.

As a follow-up to my thoughts on Ubuntu, I posted my thoughts on Red Hat.Basically, Red Hat is the standard-bearer for commercial open source, and they appear to be stumbling in that role, suffering from an acute […]

Now I know why someone asked if I knew this was a Blog of Note. Hey, it was only on the right-hand side of blogger.com under the big heading “Blogs of Note”. Nope, don’t know how I could have known that :(Thanks […]

You know you want to do it… Here’s a page where you can start.”Edgy Edge” will be the next version of Ubuntu, and it’s scheduled to ship this month. Kudos to the Ubuntu folks for sticking with the original […]

Matt Asay had a mild critique of Mark Shuttleworth to which I responded in the comments. Read Matt’s critique first, and then I’ll repost below what I wrote there:

I think his [Mark's] main point is that it’s […]

More details coming very, very soon. Rest assured, this will happen, and things are coming together rather quickly.

I’m happy to say that things are moving forward on the ubucon planned for February 16 at Google’s offices in Manhattan. It will be a mixture of un-conference, installfest and user group meeting for Ubuntu users, […]