The Story of Linux: Commemorating 20 Years

From a Finnish student's hobby project to the backbone of the digital world—how Linux transformed computing and sparked a movement The Linux penguin mascot, Tux, has become an iconic symbol of the open source movement Twenty years ago, a Finnish computer science student named Linus Torvalds made a seemingly modest announcement on an internet newsgroup: he was working on a free operating system as a hobby project. Little did he know that his creation would...

Qwiki In The Enterprise

LinkedIn Discussion The Future of Interactive Content in Corporate Communication I commented on a LinkedIn discussion board comment/question today and wanted to share it. A: The Future of Interactive Technology The other interesting thing I like about Qwiki is they are using it as a platform. I was fascinated by what they are looking at as a future alarm clock (see video link below). I'd imagine it won't be too many more years before our...

My 2011 Resolutions

My 2011 Resolutions A Focus on Happiness and Creation My 2011 resolutions this year aren't going to be my typical resolutions. Here are my 2009 and 2010 resolutions. Not that I haven't done this in years past, but in 2011 I'm going to focus on continuing to just being happy. If something doesn't make someone happy, chances are they won't do it. At work I create themes for each year and I think I said...

Portland Trip 2010 Days 1 and 2

Tyler and I made it to Portland for another Person Family Christmas.  Our flight was delayed a little, but Tyler was really excited to fly in an airplane again and was in an especially good mood.  Yesterday, we went to Best Buy to get a new phone as a belated birthday gift (really nice, huh).  I have been researching new phones for the past few months. As of yesterday I had it narrowed down to...

My Boxee Review

My Boxee Review

I had some time over the holiday break to "geek out" and get some things done I never seem to have time to do.  One of the things I finally got around to was connect Boxee to my living room TV.  You may have heard about the Boxee Box which was recently released by D-Link and sells on Amazon.com for $199 at the time of writing.  I'm running the Boxee software which is based on...

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