JD over at The UI Thread approached me months ago about interviewing me about my experience redesigning the AbiWord word processor for the OLPC educational laptop as part of Google’s Summer of Code program. I took my sweet time actually responding to his questions, but the the interview finally went up today..
Archive for January, 2008
deaths
30Jan08An article about the violence in Kenya caught my eye this afternoon. Things there are very serious.
The core of the conflict is that many Kenyans feel that the recent elections, which kept president Mwai Kibaki in office, were rigged. Mr. Kibaki belongs to the Kikuyu tribe, the largest in Kenya with about 20% [...]
chat
30Jan08Jane: what’s been up with your sad twitters and blog posts?
Me: i don’t know, sometimes it just seems like the most noteworthy things that happen to me are sad :)
Me: my life is overwhelmingly happy. if I wrote about all the good stuff it’d get boring.
Feminist sentenced to death
24Jan08Afghan journalist Sayed Parwez Kaambakhsh, 23, has been sentenced to death for printing out and distributing an article asking why men are allowed four wives, but women cannot have multiple husbands.
Sentenced to death.
This is a country in which George W. Bush has declared victory over terrorism. Bush called Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan’s current leader a [...]
Let Go
23Jan08So, I felt like crap Monday and Tuesday, and then sometime Tuesday got my feet under me and I’ve been feeling mostly OK since then.
I’m finding my happiness isn’t so much a function of how well things are going, but how much I’m trying to control the world. Ironically, the less I try to control [...]
Last rights
22Jan08Today, José Padilla, an American citizen who was detained by the government for 4 years before being charged with a crime, was sentenced to 17 years in prison.
This is scary to me for two reasons. First, the constitution grants us the right to a speedy trial, and the right to be informed of the [...]
Love, labours, lost.
22Jan08This was a very difficult Martin Luther King Day. Someone very important to me needed to tear me up this morning. Maybe I needed to be torn up. Truths needed to be told; screws tightened.
I spent the day surrounded by beautiful things: the words of Dr. King. People who love me. [...]
The Raw Vegan One-At-A-Time Diet
05Jan08Lilly left a comment on my post about gourmet food asking what the alternative is. As far as I can tell…
It’s just eating stuff. Carrots, bananas, avocados, walnuts, tahini, blah blah blah blah blah. No preparation, no cooking, just clean the crud off that plant and chew on it!
Sounds appetizing, huh?
Well maybe [...]
Is gourmet good?
04Jan08I’ve been thinking a lot about the way we eat. Cuisine, I’ve noticed, is about creating well-balanced foods. We eat guacamole, which balances the sweetness of avocado, onion and tomato with the tasty fats in avocado and olive oil. It balances the tartness of lime with the saltiness from salt. It [...]
