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This is an updated version of a how-to written for Intrepid (8.10) [/blog/2010/04/15/installing-cocoon-on-ubuntu/], now horrendously out-of-date. It was written for Maverick (10.10) but should also work on Lucid (10.04)... read more

After seeing a call for artwork for Ubuntu 10.10 wallpapers on OMG! Ubuntu [http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk], I submitted a handful of photos to the Ubuntu Artwork pool [http://www.flickr.com/groups/ubuntu-artwork/] on Flickr... read more

Chrono Trigger and SNesoid [http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4127/5018271353_5651a907e8_m.jpg]http://www.flickr.com/photos/quinnanya/5018271353/I was delighted to discover SNesoid for Android, which has let me relive my favorite childhood games... read more

2/24/11 UPDATE: The recent release of Frogr [http://live.gnome.org/Frogr] 0.4 makes this post obsolete. It's the Flickr uploader for Ubuntu I've been waiting for [/blog/2011/02/24/frogr-flickr-uploader-ubuntu-ive-been-waiting]... read more

Thanks to a clever Sprint employee who secretly stockpiled the coveted phone for new customers, I've had an Evo 4G since the day after it was released. Despite foolishly accepting the first OTA upgrade... read more

BIRCHBARK LETTER XML I have at least a first pass at the names-in-context data for documents 1-23, to supplement the proof-of-concept data I put together previously. MEDIEVAL SLAVIC WIKI I've put together a work plan [http://www.medievalslavic.org/Medieval_Slavic:Current_events] (subject to change) with the articles I'd like to try to incorporate into the wiki by October... read more

Yesterday, a friend made the mistake of asking me why I switched from iPhone to Android, on an afternoon when I had some time to kill at the airport. His response to my long e-mail was that I should publish it on a blog somewhere... read more

To enable a more interesting proof-of-concept for the birchbark letter XML project, I've spent the last week making a new, limited data set (all documents from 1100-1120, plus some documents with the same names from the 12th century... read more

The frustrating thing about attempting a proof-of-concept for the birchbark letters is that many of the calculations I find most interesting need to be run over the entire corpus-- which means a lot more data preparation than I currently have finished... read more

I was hoping to delay this until I had the Subversion repository ready to distribute the first versions of the XML, but setting it up is taking a bit longer than I anticipated. I'm working on a proof-of-concept for the kinds of analysis that can be done using the name and date indices together... read more