I saw a five on the bureau in the bedroom. "Leonard, you literally left a crumpled bill on the bureau... I'm trying to figure out what I'm being paid for." "You're not! It's my money! …
If you have a WordPress blog, the PhotoCommons plugin is an easy way to grab photos from Wikimedia Commons as graphics for your posts. We have a lot of job openings, including nonprofit-y, communication and …
Update 30 May 2011: Out of respect for my family's wishes, I have removed the essay from my weblog. Instead see my eulogy for Dad, and my memoir "Method of Loci."
Showering music for the past few days, melancholy and uplifting: Saturday: Jonathan Coulton, various Sunday: The Mountain Goats, The Life of the World to Come Monday: Neutral Milk Hotel, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea …
This week marks the ten-year anniversary of my first kiss with Leonard.* In May 2001, we took a drive together to help his mom move. I played Moxy Früvous for him. He played the Beatles' …
As of this month, I'm a full-time contractor for the Wikimedia Foundation, serving as Volunteer Development Coordinator. My boss at WMF, Rob Lanphier, has just posted a welcome note that makes me sound all fancy. …
I subscribe to maybe twenty email lists relating to open source software or free culture. One of these: the NYC InfoLaw list, which tells New York folks about upcoming talks and events. Last week's email …
My performance at the Professional IT Community Conference went all right. Consistent light laughter, some long belly laughs and several bits of applause. Sheeri Cabral and Tom Limoncelli really hit it out of the park …
Tomorrow night I keynote at PICC. Then the next night I get to see Quinn Norton's keynote! Wonder. I decided to take out a joke because it's too similar to the most recent XKCD. I …
As the organizational administrator for MediaWiki (thanks to my job for the Wikimedia Foundation), I am pleased to announce our Google Summer of Code students for 2011. Also delight-inducing: the number of rejected applicants who …
