brainstorms

Wednesday May 04, 2005

notes about content

some notes about this blog content [also answering some questions that came up recently]

copyright: all text in my blog entries are covered under a creative commons attribution-noncommercial-noderivs license. [i do not care for the poorly designed by-nc-nd logo, so it is not displayed here.]

photography: unless i note otherwise, all photographs on my blog entries are my work, either scanned from my slide images, or recently made with a nikon d100 or d70. if asked, i would consider providing high-resolution versions of these images for not-for-profit uses. i do sell art prints from time to time.

books: i talk a lot about books in this blog, but only about books i have in my library and have read, have been reading, or have skimmed [sometimes called pre-reading] in some detail. [alas, too many good books, not enough time.]

links: all my book links go to barnes & noble in the US. this is not because i care more about b&n (i do not), but because everyone seems to link to amazon out of inertia, which annoys me. i am not convinced amazon deserves the strange free ride it has been getting through reviews, lists and links as if it was a national public library.

music: all recommended music is from my admittedly limited cd library; jazz and classical tends to be dominant. [as i am writing this, i am listening to a track from nicholas payton's gumbo nouveau]

name: the blog username is plan9 which probably looks odd. i wish it was oz but that was taken. yes i do run plan9 at my home lab. [badly needs an upgrade] alas, i do not do much development with plan9. [i once wrote a haiku about plan9 on my vaio.]

poetry: i am quite serious about haiku [eg. basho entry] but (with few exceptions) much less serious about western poetry. poets are always tempted to say too much -- lee gurga [many programmers are like poets]

case: as may be obvious, i intensely dislike uppercase. i will use them where i have to, eg. in formal writing, but in my blog space, anything i have to type is lowercase only.

misc: this blog content is revision controlled. i use bitkeeper and i have a real license. i believe in using the best tools i can efford for the job, not the second or third best tool. [cvs is to source code control as horse and buggy are to transportation -- anon]

must read: innovation happens elsewhere

goldman and gabriel's new book innovation happens elsewhere: open source as business strategy is now available. i hope it will be widely read in the industry. [i do not have a copy yet, but soon] here is the table of contents (excluding appendices):

[musical recommendation: tbd]