Budget Truck rental of Canada has some special promotions available when you reserve via their web site. However you actually can’t reserve trucks via the web site.  You have to call the locations. When you call the location it goes something like this. You: I would like to reserve a truck for next week.  I [...]

Mr. Unger of The Unger Report has outdone himself this time. “…Real Estate Amnesia (REA) is the leading cause of real estate anxiety, next to homelessness and foreclosure…” – A Cure For Real Estate Amnesia

Later today I’ll be giving a summit session on UX for Thunderbird.  The Thunderbird Dialog Invasion is one of the many topics to cover. non-flash formats available. ogg and wmv Watch it in a High Quality format. If you love Reggie and the Full Effect as much as I do you can grab his new [...]

Dear friendly neighbors to the north.  Only Defence Scheme No.1 can save you now for I will soon be en route. A Great Invention The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ranks Poutine as #10 in The 50 Greatest Canadian Inventions, impressive.  And I intend to eat a lot of poutine while I’m up in Montreal this weekend.  [...]

I’ve been out in Hamburg, Germany for the past couple days at this years Calendar Face to Face meeting which has been going very well. I did make my overnight trip and spent my first two days up in Copenhagen doing some touring around and checking out the nightlife. Busy Canal in Copenhagen While currently [...]

Jean Nouvel has received this years Pritzker Prize for his work in architecture.  An architect I admire for many reasons, one of which he is often criticized for and yet I believe is an amazing strength; he is not easily characterized.  There is no obvious signature to his work that he brings to each project [...]

After an achy day in a coffee shop chair yesterday I spent some time last night looking up co-working again.  Nothing new has happened on Co-Working Boston page since I was last there.  However the CSMonitor recently ran an article covering Betahouse, a local co-working facility, previous covered in this boston.com article. Lazy Cow (…) [...]

Today was my last day at Red Hat. I’ve had a really great time working here, it’s an amazing place full of really smart people; and I will miss them all. It was hard to say goodbye, but I’m excited about where I’m going.

Recently I found that the Huffington Post is running a site called FundRace 2008, which allows you to view campaign donation amounts from certain people, areas, job types, or employers. According to their website: FundRace makes it easy to search by name or address to see which presidential candidates your friends, family, co-workers, and neighbors [...]

After I got back from my trip to India I had over 1100 photos taken in my 3 weeks out there. Many of which were not great photos, or multiples taken to get a single good shot. This past week I finally got about half way through editing all the photos. (Note to others, current [...]

change In a difficult moment today I had to tell all my friends at Red Hat that I’m leaving after almost 4 years here. I’ve taken on a new position at a different company which should be announcing very soon… (tomorrow?). I’ll still be working at Red Hat until the end of the month, transitioning [...]

I’m off to India for a 3 week trip with some good friends who are leaving town (actually the two leaving are leaving the country). I’ll be back on Dec. 24th, just in time for Christmas with lots of pictures and hopefully lots of stories. View Map

I am angry with you! What could have been a really freakin’ sweet technology has turned out to be a real pain in the ass. I’m not even concerned about the problems that Bluetooth has running on Linux, I’m concerned with the core technology… and how busted it is.Lets make a couple of assumptions about [...]

Every time I’m working with a new install of MediaWiki I have to hunt down this same information. I don’t think I’ve even installed or customized that many MediaWiki instances. The time between setting up each new wiki has allowed me to forget what the answer is and searching for this fix is really hard [...]

I broke a rib or two over the weekend playing rugby. Just before passing an assist that scored I bounced off a gentleman who was a bit bigger than me trying to spear my kidneys. image from library of congress I haven’t gone to the doctors yet since there’s no treatment other than taking pain [...]

The LibraryThing article that Luis linked to really stuck with me over the weekend. And luckily I was in the WUNC radio area to hear this story about the book BookMarks: Reading in Black and White. In it Duke University professor Karla Holloway suggests that your reading list is a projection of your own identity, [...]

I caught an excellent Damien Rice concert last night at the Orpheum. The Swell Season were a funny and great opening act and Damien rocked out to a heavy metal version of The Blower’s Daughter that I thought was amazing. However by the look on the faces of most everyone else in the audience they [...]

Miguel: There’s possibly an economic solution to avoid your movie watching problem. Those are students who don’t have money and you’re a working professional who does. You might like to try the Premium Movie Theater out in Framingham. Ticket prices are 13 and 18 for Matinee and regular respectively. You need to be 21+ to [...]

‘No, no!’ cried Mrs. Gummidge, coming between them, in a fit of crying… I got spam the other day with snips of Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield in it which then prompted me to search to make sure those snips were really from David Copperfield. Once I actually found references for the quotes I received I [...]

Thursday I took the day off to meet with a good friend of mine who is in town for the week. He had a bike trip planned for us going from Mt. Washinton out to the seacoast. The trip was about 85 miles total and we rode it in under 6 hours with an hour [...]