Since I now have a continuously-running media center at home and a 20/3Mbit cable connection, I decided to revive this website. Don’t know for how long, but I got regular requests especially for the Yashica/Contax content so I thought it worth the half hour effort to restore a backup and tweak the media center’s Apache […]

I sorta had it with running my own server, my own site, hunting down spammers on my wikis all over the place, etcetera. I got better things to do. So, please expect this site to go away or at least turn into some static content hosted on a free server.
In the meantime, I won’t […]

Well, the OLPC project finally has some production hardware to show. And - frankly, it gets me more drooling than yet another sleek Apple design. It’s quirky (that always scores brownie points with me), it’s cool (what is cooler than connecting kids), and running a simulation under VMware shows something that is, well… different in […]

1. Do not show people designs in the pub
While I was doing that, someone passed a basket of chicken wings over my keyboard. Nothing bad, except for the fact that the bowl with sauce in the basked wasn’t level and thus leaked over the wings and, through the basket, on my keyboard. Result: a very […]

Take a cucumber, some tomatos, and a capsicum from the fridge (the veggies must be cold). Go to your garden/balcony[1] and cut a nice handful of herbs (basil, thyme, coriander/cilantro and marjoran formed my catch). Cut the lot, add olive oil, balsamico, a bit of honey or sugar and some salt and pepper. Blend so […]

A quickie - we are busy putting Squeak out under an OSI compliant license, solving at last the whole mess around the original Squeak license.

The baseline version has been re-licensed by Apple, so now the task is to find all contributors since the very first version of Squeak, and ask them to sign a […]

I’ve been toying with the idea of buying the SMC Skype WiFi phone but never had a real reason for it apart from the obvious gadgetness (gadgetosity? ) of the thing. However, eBay internally uses Skype quite a bit so I went for it. It’s a nice little phone, I now have Skype in […]

Well… April 1st, no kidding, I’m starting a new job. Some of you might have heard of my new employer who’s logo you can admire here on the left
At the moment I am at a new employee training in London. What I’ve seen so far is a company with clear goals […]

The election results are in, which means that we have a new board. With some luck this’ll be the board that will take SqF to some “official” form, now that we have the budget and the decision to start incorporating in California.

In any case - I’m happy to serve another term. The Squeak Community […]

Well, a bit more than doodling -Oekaki is wildly popular and I take my hat off to the artists. Since I have a Wacom tablet, drawing and playing with the Gimp has become loads more fun, but I still can’t produce anything decent .

Anyway, I was chatting with someone and text wasn’t enough, […]