Yesterday Shannon and I signed a notarial contract, Shannon spills the beans
Cocktail fun
Posted by sean
on October 02, 2003
Although I’ve never visited Havana, one of the appeals of the Mojito is the taste of Cuba – c.f. Die Another Day. However one tip for the wise: order only one of this fine minty cocktail in any one bar. The second invariably fails to live up to the promise of the first; in particular the quantity of mint leaf drops quite dramatically, as though my drinking tokens only qualify me for a handful.
Bloody Marys, on the other hand, should be ordered in merry abundance – even on low quality flights such as this lumbering NWA (yo yo) DC-10 flying San Francisco to Tokyo. Shannon and I have just made our way through several, and my only concern is that the Mr&Mrs T’s can warns that “Separation is normal”. Fortunately our relationship has survived thus far, albeit a little shaken.
(written a little while back on my Palm)
Ex-Novell VP on SCO and open source
Posted by sean
on October 02, 2003
The usually rather tacky cnet has an excellent piece by Joe Firmage, who I’ve never previously heard of but is apparently an ex-VP of Novell who was involved in a key part of the whole SCO 0wns Linux debacle.
The model of open science is “communistic” in the sense of community ownership–or rather community stewardship. But innumerable highly successful organizations and institutions in America are founded upon the ideal of community stewardship–including our democracy itself.
The downfall of communism was due to state control by totalitarians–an attribute embodied by today’s commercial software industry far more than by the emergent open-source science of information technology.
