Until the moment I withdrew my sons from state education in the UK, I confused education with schooling. It’s a common mistake, and one which is easier to make if you have been through the state education machine yourself. The state spends considerable amounts of money – our money! – persuading us that the two […]
I crashed the BAFTA’s…
Tis’ the awards season for the film industry. The Oscars are considered the pinnacle event of the season for Hollywood. However, before the Academy Awards are handed out, the Brits have their own hullabaloo to honor this year’s films: The BAFTA’s (British Academy of Film and Television Arts). They were held the night of February 11th […]
Warnings for Obama
"If you will join me in this improbable quest, if you feel destiny calling, and see as I see, a future of endless possibility stretching before us; if you sense, as I sense, that the time is now to shake off our slumber, and slough off our fear, and make good on the debt we […]
AN ADIRONDACK STATE OF MIND
AN ADIRONDACK STATE OF MIND More years ago than I admit to, while on a cross country skiing adventure, I came to the shore of a lake in the Adirondack Mountains. Before me was an unbroken snow-field, untouched, unmarked, bathed in the soft red-gold glow cast by the last rays of […]
The 2007 PLUG Awards
This Saturday marks the 2007 PLUG Awards. Big news for indie music. Probably not huge news for you, since it’s been sold out for weeks. I attended last year for PopMatters, and despite a free ticket and drinks, still found myself submitting a fairly scathing review. I’m hoping this year’s will be better. I’m hoping […]
More than 20 Software Company CEOs attending Second Annual Open Source Think Tank March 8 – 10 in Ca
Premier event for open source, community and business draws leaders from Covalent, db4objects, EnterpriseDB, Funambol, Groundwork Open Source, HelmiTech, Intalio, JasperSoft, KnowledgeTree, Laszlo, Mulesource, MySQL, Ohloh, OpenLogic, rSmart, and SugarCRM PALO ALTO, Calif. – February 8, 2007 – Organizers of Open Source Think Tank 2007: The Future of Commercial Open Source, today announced […]