Apparently Linden labs (makers of Second Life) and IBM are collaborating to let people take their online identity and avatar between virtual worlds. It’s about time, but I really hope they pay attention to things that already exist like OpenID.

This is all I’m saying. I spent ages trying to work out how to change the default application a file is opened with (in Gnome, for nautilus, Ubuntu fiesty).
You’d think system->preference->”preferred applications” would be the place to go. Or failing that, you’d go “right-click on a file”->”open with…” and then when you select an application […]

I finally got around to (mostly) finishing my portal page. I still have to write my bio, and add an up to date resume, but it’s some progress at least!
This also means I fixed the lifestream link on the menubar. For those who haven’t heard the term before, a lifestream conglomerates RSS feeds from various […]

The article linked below calls for the general public and policy makers to talk about drugs openly, and stop negative rhetoric about them, and actually discuss the issues instead of fear-mongering (via Tatjna).

In particular, the comparison to mountaineering is quite nice:
The truth is that recreational drug taking is like mountaineering. When all goes well, as […]

Today is the International Bloggers’ Day for Burma. More than three thousand bloggers around the world are participating to raise awareness of the Burmese junta and its oppression of Burma’s people. The protests may have been stamped out,and the monks murdered or imprisoned, but the international community must continue to pressure the Burmese regime […]