Monthly Archives: February 2009

Rules and reward in voluntary communities

I’ve been involved with various voluntary communities and societies over the years, and have always been interested in how they regulate and reward their members without there being any sort of financial reward mechanism. I’m quite lucky to move in … Continue reading

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Bugs and how to hug them

I think this is still the best guide on how to report bugs that exists. There are also a lot of useful standard replies here. Now go hug some bugs!

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Planet Localhost

Today I’ve played around with Planet (the software behind Planet Gnome, Planet Debian and lots of other planets), and installed a demo version on our home server. It’s actually quite straightforward, and I think I could theoretically get something up … Continue reading

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Inbox Zero

I get a fair bit of email (up to 100 messages a day), and I think it could be quite easy to get swamped, and to miss something important. Over the last year or so I’ve been looking at methods … Continue reading

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More productivity

This afternoon I did a bit more work on our home server (the one I built from bits of my old dead PC). It’s now running: A full installation of Mediawiki, with a few extensions, which Steph is using a … Continue reading

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Buying music in 2009

A couple of things have changed about the way I buy music: The iTunes store now sells DRM free music, so I can actually play everything I buy on all my computers and my iPod. I’ve got a 50 songs … Continue reading

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Discovering Free Music

So where do you start? There are obviously thousands of hours of recorded sound available legally for free, but it is quite easy to get lost, and to end up with a large amount of downloaded music that is not … Continue reading

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