Randal L. Schwartz

On turning "30"

2009-11-22T22:13:58Z

Well, not actually 30. Today's my birthday, and I'm turning 30 only if you measure it in hexadecimal, a milestone I've been looking forward to for the past 6 years. (It gives away the secret if you say "I'm 2D years old".) It's not only my bir...

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I'm on fire, bay-bee!

2009-11-22T06:53:40Z

In the past 10 days, I've delivered a talk I call "Karaoke for Fun and Profit" not once, but twice, at two separate "ignite" events: IgnitePortland and IgniteSalem. I pitched the talk a bit as an afterthought... I had originally pitched a talk a...

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My analysis of the FOSSLC debate: "Which Open Source License is Best?"

2009-09-01T19:26:26Z

I was asked to judge a debate on the merits of the EPL, GPL, and BSD licenses. Note that I'm not judging the licenses themselves, but rather how well each representative presented their position. In brief, David Maxwell made the best case for B...

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Happy 69th Birthday, Mom!

2009-08-25T23:24:07Z

Mom eats her birthday dessert Originally uploaded by randal-schwartz. Mom visited me (down from Olympia Washington) for her 69th birthday. Together, we visited her childhood home in Portland (on Gladstone Street) and her next home, my chi...

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Commanding the crowd

2009-08-08T02:55:39Z

I had a dream a few nights ago. I don't remember most of my dreams, so this one stuck out, because I remembered it. Maybe it was also because I woke up "in the middle" of this part of the dream, but I can't tell. I don't remember the exact me...

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Holley Thompson - 29 Dec 1962 to 22 Mar 2009

2009-06-08T03:18:31Z

I've been meaning to catch up with my friend Holley, whom I first met around 1990 when she started handling my travel arrangements for my frequent business trips. The short "I'm flying to New York" conversations got longer as we chatted and flirte...

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No longer metal man -- second surgery successful

2009-03-27T16:21:08Z

In case you haven't been following my twitter feed, let me bring you up to date. I went into surgery eight days ago to remove the metal plate from my left arm, the one that was inserted during my previous surgery five months ago. Ironically, this...

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Ray Schwartz - Oct 7 1918 to Dec 25 2008 - goodbye, Dad

2009-01-26T02:33:55Z

It's been a month now since my dad passed away, and I think I have enough objectivity to be able to write something up here. This won't be a comprehensive account of his life or what he means to me... just a brief note so that I can refer others ...

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Recovering from surgery

2008-10-31T17:40:32Z

If you haven't been following my twitter feed, you might not know that I broke my left arm last week while I was having a barbecue party at the house of my friend, Neil Bauman. Neil took me to Stanford Medical Center, where I was diagnosed having ...

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Interviewed by Mac Developer Roundtable

2008-10-11T20:45:28Z

Last week, I was interviewed by the Mac Developer Roundtable, and apparently the show has been published. I haven't listened to it yet, so if they made me sound foolish, I'm sure it's completely authentic. {grin} I was quite impressed by the pr...

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