An update of a project I work on, SAM (Spike Asset Manager) has been released. The major focus of the recent 0.21 release has been to up the number of components it looks for. It now finds 274 common Open Source components.

From the homepage:

Spike Asset Manager (SAM …

I actually don't read many blogs directly. One of the few that I read often is my buddy Matt Asay's (aka Fake Matt).

He's been pontificating for a while over there that the desktop is dead, and the only relevant operating system is the internet. And I guess my recent …

So I fell prey to Apple's marketing, and I bought a Nano for my wife's birthday. It's for her, I promise! (Sadly, the 2 day fedex shipping, turned into almost two weeks. It was stuck in China having a "shipment exception" for over 5 days.

Apple customer service claimed they …

This past weekend I was able to go on a very nice bike ride at Soquel Demonstration Forest. Braille trail is quite nice, and something that makes it pretty unique among most mountain biking trails is that this trail evolves. The half dozen times I've ridden it, it has been …

Our 5 year old inkjet printer has been making loud annoying noises and refusing to print midway through a page. So this last weekend I decided to replace it with a laser printer (we only really used color for printing photos, and since 1hour kiosks are common and cheap at …

A quick howto, since I recently had to do this. To create a digital photo for use with a passport you'll need the following:

• digital camera
• computer
• software (I used Gimp though photoshop may work too)
• tripod/or person to take picture
• white background

Heres a link the department of …

I have an issue with Foocamp, and it isn't because I (unlike some of my co-workers) wasn't invited. For that matter I have the same issue with Barcamp (which I may have attended if I wasn't out of state on vacation floating down the Snake River in Wyoming during that …

A few years ago Phish released the album Rift. One of the songs was Maze which had a chorus that went something like this:

You'll never get out of this maze, You'll never get out of this maze, You'll never get out of this maze, You'll never get out of …

We had a small meeting tonight. Hasan gave a short presentation on his Really Really Simple Rss browser (45 minute 80 line hack). Details found here.

Previous speakers were awarded their choice of various python books, whick led into a bit of discussion about python books. It seemed that people …

Calling all testers (and developers). In an effort to boost testing among open source components, my employer is offering $20,000 in awards (as well as O'Reilly books) to Open Source projects who compete in the SpikeSource Open Testing Contest.

Good luck squashing those bugs!