OK. That title is wildly misquoted from Casa Blanca . As a Linux nut I'm still pretty thrilled when I see people putting it to use in amazing ways. In another of their whimsical slideshows, Infoworld gave us... [More]
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I recently attended a non-work-related conference outside. (Can you just imagine?) Since the majority of these presenters were artists and not sales people there was a variety of approaches to using slides. Many were the tired-and-true pages of bullets. Others were pretty dynamic. It got me to... [More]
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It's been a little while since I've had a chance to write here. My new job role has been a little disruptive, but I'm hoping to balance it all out soon. The big news has been that Apache OpenOffice 4.0 released. (If you don't count all the other big news that is... [More]
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First, I want to remind you that this blog contains my own thoughts and ideas and that those do not necessarily represent those of the IBM corporation. Second, I want to state that I do not intend this to be a political entry, though it will probably generate some emotion for you depending on... [More]
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"Now look at them yo-yos. That's the way you do it. You play the guitar on the MTV. That ain't workin. That's the way you do it. Money for nothin' and chicks for free." — Dire Straits (Lyrics from eLyrics.net ) Evolution is not easy. It's rough on the... [More]
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This morning I had a request from a colleague to help with a video that was refusing to upload to YouTube. The video would load and then die at 95% of processing. How frustrating! My first thought was to convert the video to a different format. It was already in a WMV format, which... [More]
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This is going to be unpleasant, so I'm going to start by offering you this light-hearted video from the musical Music Man to help take the edge off it. OK. Feeling good? Because I just read... [More]
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Here are some technology ideas to help keep you awake. As our cars have gotten smarter they have also become hackable. This Car and Driver article talks about demonstrations done by the Center for Automotive Embedded Systems Security (CAESS)which showed an... [More]
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Today's post is a little geeky. Sorry about that. I've been working a lot more with video techniques lately. Blender is the tool that I'm finding fascinating because it has just so much raw power and potential, if one can overcome the learning curve. I'm getting... [More]
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Are you being inundated with information about "being social"? Are you confused as you think that we worked that out thousands of years ago when we emerged from the caves? Humans are social. It's what we do. So, why is "social business" such a strange... [More]
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I have talked before about how my humble beginnings with technology put me in a quandary when I wanted to learn about technology that I could not afford. Fortunately, open-source software has been a boon to me and many others who are very curious about technology. In the past this... [More]
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According to a survey conducted by Black Duck Software and North Bridge Venture Partners Open source software is taking over the software world. (I read it in this NetworkWorld article .) To be fair, there were only 800 participants in the survey, which means that there... [More]
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The other day I wrote a blog entry, How can I improve my coding skills? Today I find in my email Programming Languages That Pay Big Bucks . It's another one of those little slide show thingies showing the results of research into job postings. It sites... [More]
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For the past few days when I went to look at my blog I was greeted with a message telling me that the software was being updated. Actually, since I'm on the inside of IBM, I knew that was going to happen and was not surprised, though I was a little impatient. The developerWorks... [More]
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I got the title of this article as a question through a private Facebook message. I decided that this is probably something that a lot of people are thinking about, so I figured I'd post my thoughts here. (I've also been very sparse at writing here so hopefully this will get me back on track.) My... [More]
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Chris Walden's thoughts and adventures as an open-source kind of guy. The ideas stated here are his own and don't necessarily represent the positions, strategies or opinions of IBM or its partners.