http://merlyn.vox.com/library/posts/page/1/ "Just another Perl hacker" en Vox Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:13:58 -0800 Copyright 2009 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://merlyn.vox.com/library/post/on-turning-30.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Randal Schwartz) http://merlyn.vox.com/library/post/on-turning-30.html?_c=feed-rss http://merlyn.vox.com/library/post/on-turning-30.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:13:58 -0800 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://merlyn.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c2251f4a21549d0123ddc16506860b.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a6.vox.com/6a00c2251f4a21549d0123ddc16506860b-50si" alt="Mariel Hemingway Twitter Exchange 2" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://merlyn.vox.com/library/post/on-turning-30.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2251f4a21549d0123ddd655e9860c?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> birthday passport twitter floss weekly mariel hemingway insightcruises http://merlyn.vox.com/library/post/im-on-fire-bay-bee.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Randal Schwartz) http://merlyn.vox.com/library/post/im-on-fire-bay-bee.html?_c=feed-rss http://merlyn.vox.com/library/post/im-on-fire-bay-bee.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:53:40 -0800 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://merlyn.vox.com/library/post/im-on-fire-bay-bee.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2251f4a21549d0123dde9c426860d?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> karaoke floss weekly ignitesalem igniteportland http://merlyn.vox.com/library/post/my-analysis-of-the-fosslc-debate-which-open-source-license-is-best.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Randal Schwartz) http://merlyn.vox.com/library/post/my-analysis-of-the-fosslc-debate-which-open-source-license-is-best.html?_c=feed-rss http://merlyn.vox.com/library/post/my-analysis-of-the-fosslc-debate-which-open-source-license-is-best.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:26:26 -0700 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://merlyn.vox.com/library/post/my-analysis-of-the-fosslc-debate-which-open-source-license-is-best.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2251f4a21549d0110186a8045860f?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> open source debate epl ottawa gpl bsd fosslc mike milinkovich matt asay david maxwell http://merlyn.vox.com/library/post/happy-69th-birthday-mom.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Randal Schwartz) http://merlyn.vox.com/library/post/happy-69th-birthday-mom.html?_c=feed-rss http://merlyn.vox.com/library/post/happy-69th-birthday-mom.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:24:07 -0700 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://merlyn.vox.com/library/post/happy-69th-birthday-mom.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2251f4a21549d011018672af2860f?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> mom childhood home gladstone tebos http://merlyn.vox.com/library/post/commanding-the-crowd.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Randal Schwartz) http://merlyn.vox.com/library/post/commanding-the-crowd.html?_c=feed-rss http://merlyn.vox.com/library/post/commanding-the-crowd.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 07 Aug 2009 19:55:39 -0700 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://merlyn.vox.com/library/post/commanding-the-crowd.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2251f4a21549d011016842bc2860c?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> public crowds performance speaking http://merlyn.vox.com/library/post/holley-thompson---29-dec-1962-to-22-mar-2009.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Randal Schwartz) http://merlyn.vox.com/library/post/holley-thompson---29-dec-1962-to-22-mar-2009.html?_c=feed-rss http://merlyn.vox.com/library/post/holley-thompson---29-dec-1962-to-22-mar-2009.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 07 Jun 2009 20:18:31 -0700 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://merlyn.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c2251f4a21549d011016580be4860c.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a4.vox.com/6a00c2251f4a21549d011016580be4860c-50si" alt="Holley Thompson - Racing on Skis" /></a> <a href="http://merlyn.vox.com/library/photo/6a00c2251f4a21549d011017d38d32860e.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a2.vox.com/6a00c2251f4a21549d011017d38d32860e-50si" alt="Randal Schwartz - GS Racing Nationals" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://merlyn.vox.com/library/post/holley-thompson---29-dec-1962-to-22-mar-2009.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2251f4a21549d01101692e3b6860d?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> holley thompson http://merlyn.vox.com/library/post/no-longer-metal-man----second-surgery-successful.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Randal Schwartz) http://merlyn.vox.com/library/post/no-longer-metal-man----second-surgery-successful.html?_c=feed-rss http://merlyn.vox.com/library/post/no-longer-metal-man----second-surgery-successful.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:21:08 -0700 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://merlyn.vox.com/library/post/no-longer-metal-man----second-surgery-successful.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2251f4a21549d0110181479a0860f?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> surgery leo laporte floss weekly http://merlyn.vox.com/library/post/ray-schwartz---oct-7-1918-to-dec-25-2008---goodbye-dad.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Randal Schwartz) http://merlyn.vox.com/library/post/ray-schwartz---oct-7-1918-to-dec-25-2008---goodbye-dad.html?_c=feed-rss http://merlyn.vox.com/library/post/ray-schwartz---oct-7-1918-to-dec-25-2008---goodbye-dad.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 25 Jan 2009 18:33:55 -0800 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 ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://merlyn.vox.com/library/post/ray-schwartz---oct-7-1918-to-dec-25-2008---goodbye-dad.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2251f4a21549d01101628e1c2860c?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> death dad columbia gorge ray schwartz earl pickett http://merlyn.vox.com/library/post/recovering-from-surgery.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Randal Schwartz) http://merlyn.vox.com/library/post/recovering-from-surgery.html?_c=feed-rss http://merlyn.vox.com/library/post/recovering-from-surgery.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:40:32 -0700 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 ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://merlyn.vox.com/library/post/recovering-from-surgery.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2251f4a21549d010980b228ad000b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> rome broken arm macmania8 http://merlyn.vox.com/library/post/interviewed-by-mac-developer-roundtable.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Randal Schwartz) http://merlyn.vox.com/library/post/interviewed-by-mac-developer-roundtable.html?_c=feed-rss http://merlyn.vox.com/library/post/interviewed-by-mac-developer-roundtable.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:45:28 -0700 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://merlyn.vox.com/library/post/interviewed-by-mac-developer-roundtable.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2251f4a21549d00fad6b39f800005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> skype mac developer roundtable double-ender