So, I love to run. If you didn’t know that about me, you should. But I really hate running on concrete. I do it, because when I want to run, I usually don’t want to drive some place first. And I do it because I no longer live next door …
I love deserts. Maybe it’s because I grew up in a swamp. Maybe it’s because of the rock, the hard-edged faces, the difficulty of the landscape. I think it’s because of the absolute silence in the desert. It is perfectly quiet, perfectly still. Not all the time, but most of …
I think this was a great conference. Thanks to the folks from Mozilla Europe for organizing it. I’ll have more to say about it later, but I wanted to dash down a few thoughts before running off into the internet free lands for vacation. We had an amazing audience of …
Yesterday was my first day in Spain. I walked through the Barri Gotic and Catalunya Square, and was completely lost from about 5PM to 7PM when I finally found my way to Sagrada Familia. I have never been in a big city where I’ve seen so many people laughing. Everywhere …
I’m dusting off this blog now. Over the last two weeks of traveling, I attended OSCON, and spoke several times at FossCoach, an “unconference” inside the OSCON conference. I talked a bit about building online communities, and about the pluses and minuses of getting started in QA (Quality Assurance) in …
This is a story of an adventure a little too outlandish to tell over and over again. So, I thought it might best serve to be written down. Like all good journey stories, this one has a map. I’m writing this for my own insight, but I thought I’d share …