Welcome to my site. Here you will find some info about me, the things I do and a listing of upcoming (and past) presentations and lectures. While I initially expected most of my posts to be about Open Source/Free Software (hence the name), these days it's mostly rants and ramblings about running.

Open Source/Free Sofware: What it is, how to use and defend it in your Union

Dec 6 2008 4:30 pm
Dec 6 2008 6:00 pm

more info to come soon, this is one of the two panels I'm on at the upcoming LaborTech conference. this one is another incarnation of my Introduction to Free Software Presentation. This time with a Labor Union focus.

Location

University of San Francisco
2130 Fulton St.
San Francisco, CA
United States

trying too hard can be a bad thing

A friend asked me to look at a the website of a hosting company, thinkhost, to evaluate if she should use them for her new website.

First warning sign was the really low price with everything 'unlimited'. No limit on bandwidth, no limit on storage space, no limit on how many sites, etc.. While that sounds great, from experience I have found that companies that boast no limit on anything for such a low price enforce a limit by simply overloading the servers. Sure you don't have any hard limit on bandwidth, but with 100 sites on one server I dare you to serve much data.

The last straw was what thinkhost does when you go to close a page. They hijack the browser with javascript "are you sure you want to close this page" warnings that require multiple clicks to get away from. Come on guys, that's just trying too hard.

ABC No Rio Gala and Art Auction

I know time are rough, but please come out and show your support for ABC No Rio.

Thank you Amanda, Jenna and Vikki for reminding me to post about the upcoming ABC No Rio fund raising event. Especially Amanda, who's html about the event I stole and reproduce below.

ABC NO RIO GALA & BENEFIT AUCTION
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 7 TO 10 PM
ANGEL ORENSANZ FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS
172 NORFOLK STREET

Thoughts on working for a Presidential Campaign that I don't intend to vote for.

[what follows is a rough draft/work in progress]

I have a confession to make: I'm working for Ralph Nader's 2008 Presidential Campaign.

Filestore2 files recovered

Finally after being lost in limbo since upgrading to drupal 5, I've managed to recover the old files uploaded to the radicalreference.info website.