An update of a post from earlier in the summer on the Swedish Pirate Party getting into the EU. It looks like Pirate Parties have been springing up all over Europe, and in some cases politicians are defecting from other parties to it. The emergence of the Pirate Party in the UK has gotten a [...]

Things I’m looking forward to in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala), which comes out in October. – Fast boot times – New boot loader – Firefox 3.5 and OpenOffice 3.1 – UbuntuOne integration – Empathy over Pidgin As I eagerly wait for the next Ubuntu release, I figured that I might as well post my current [...]

This post is a follow to an earlier one about Open Source programs for academics. In this post, I’m going to focus on “free” note taking programs. Note taking is an important part of academic work. How you do it can save you hundreds of hours of reviewing and shuffling months, days, and years down [...]