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Archive for June 2009

Painting by Elizabeth Schroeder in Frisco, TX City Hall

My Mom and I recently visited the Frisco, TX City Hall, because she said they had a lot of art on display. A lot of it was the cheesy folksy stuff that one might expect in a medium-size city’s City Hall, with a smattering of interesting photography and well-executed paintings here and there. This piece [...]

Interview with Karl Fogel

In September 2007, I sat down with Karl Fogel to talk about the history of Subversion, democratic open-source projects and why they are easy to run, and his thoughts on distributed version control systems (he likes them!). After many months in limbo, the venue which had previously expressed interest in publishing the piece informed me [...]

The Committee for a Unified Independent Party — good mission, stupid name

Just a quick note — I got a call from The Committee for a Unified Independent Party (CUIP), asking me for money. I think I’ve previously given them money for specific Obama-supporting efforts in swing states. I used to be heavily involved in various “third” party efforts — I was a huge Nader and Green [...]