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Voting with your dollar

<rant>There are many ways you can support open source projects. You can write code, you can help out other users, submit bug reports. Ubuntu has a great wiki page as to how you can contribute and many other open source projects do as well. And really the best way you can contribute is to get [...]

Alive and Well (Just Busy)!

It has been ages since I last posted, and for that I am sorry, but I have kept up with my twitter and identica accounts. Things have been moving really fast for me of late and as a result my blogging has slipped. So whats new in the world of earobinson? I am now working [...]

Ubuntu Shirts

Hot off the press, get yours now at the Ubuntu store. Congratulations to everyone on the release of the Karmic Koala (late I know but I wanted to wait till I got my shirt)! And here is a picture of me modeling my Ubuntu shirts (and I know I look grumpy I was focusing on [...]

Using Firefox + NoRedirect Extension to Avoid DNS Hijacking

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Tweet Flow

With all the posts on planet ubuntu lately about twitter it got me thinking about my micro-blogging habits and how I update my online status in general. I started using twitter about a year ago, and since then I have become quite the huge micro-blogger. However a while ago I stopped thinking about it as [...]

earobinson.org is back up

earobinson.org went down for a bit tonight but it is now back up. Please let me know if you find any problems.

A reddit neutral vote!

A lot of this post could also be applied to the Ubuntu Brainstorm but since I use reddit (an open source social news site)  a lot more I will make this post about reddit, yet it could apply to any voting site. I use mainly reddit, and google reader to get my news online. Google [...]

New wireless mouse

This message was going to be on twitter but it got to long (due to links), and so this is my first post of the new year! (Happy new year everyone) My old mouse finally crapped out on me, I loved that old school microsoft mouse, and it is the only microsoft product that I [...]

Me(me)

Well here is another one. Take a picture of yourself right now. Don’t change your clothes, don’t fix your hair…just take a picture. Post that picture with NO editing. Post these instructions with your picture. Full discloser the picture was taken yesterday morning when I read about this post but I only am just uploading [...]

My name is…

Well there is another meme on planet ubuntu and this one is about the name of your computers. I typically name my computers after different ways of saying NULL in different programing languages. I currently have: MinusOne – This is my main computer. -1 is a way sometimes used to mark an int as NULL. [...]