I just took the Subway (the "T" here in Boston) home from work and ran into Richard Stallman.  I saw the big RMS beard flowing and I flagged him down.  The next train was running late so we got to chat for a while about GPLv3 adoption and some other Free Software issues.

It's pretty cool to have a conversation with somebody who has influenced my life and ideals so very strongly.

It wasn't the first time I had met him, but it was the longest and most pleasant conversation I have had with him.

Good stuff!

O'Toole's Corollary of Finagle's Law: “The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum”

(no i didn't take his freakin picture today :)

Goodbye my trusty Dell 600M:

You served me well for 2+ years in all your single-core glory.  Thousands and thousands of lines of code.. music.. movies.. entertainment.. information.. communication.

Unfortunately your keyboard broke and this is where we part ways.

You have been replaced by a shiny new Dell Vostro 1500 (Core 2 Duo).

Snow day today in Boston...

They declared a Snow Emergency last night and we are getting dumped on as I write this.

Here are some pics of the Boston city plows and salters/sanders getting going:

Just ordered a new laptop... so my new year's resolution will be:

1680 x 1050 (WSXGA+)