Author: C.J. Collier

  • My kind of conservative

    I was reading through my plog and came across this interview with Andrew Sullivan. I liked it, but it seems that I’m in the minority. :) http://xrl.us/tgd6 Take a look and let me know what you think. Here’s an excerpt to whet your apetite: Amazon.com: What’s your idea of faith? Sullivan: I do not believe…

  • EricLippert01.wmv (video/x-ms-wvx Object)

    EricLippert01.wmv (video/x-ms-wvx Object) So… a while ago, I took arjen_lentz to Microsoft to meet with eric_lippert and talk about MySQL and Microsoft together-workingness. Eric talked about his work on LiNQ (if that’s how it’s spelled) and I took pictures. I didn’t really follow, but I bet the data folks in the audience will find this…

  • AIGLX – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    AIGLX – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Bling.

  • Edgy

    Edgy’s working well for me now that I stopped attempting to get beryl & xgl working. It’s not production ready yet, folks :)

  • Mono stuff

    1) A.J. is writing unit tests against Microsoft.Xna. We’ll use these unit tests as a sort of specification for Mono.Xna. Same as the perl6 smoke tests. 2) Speaking of perl6, I saw Audrey Tang at work the other day. She’s traveling around working on the bits. She’s planning to visit Boston and Ximian on May…

  • Etch is nearly done

    Unlike another major operating system planned to release in the next couple of months, Debian is no longer in the development phase and is floating gently through QA. From debian.org: Upcoming Release of Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 July 24th, 2006 The Debian project confirms December 2006 as the date for the next release of its distribution…

  • Hmmmm….

    http://genforum.genealogy.com/wheller/messages/1.html

  • Move On asked me to post this…

    You should vote. It’s good to do. Even if you don’t agree with what Move On is suggesting. I think it’s good when people make a choice, be it what I believe or not. So make sure you get that ballot sent in, or stop by the polling office. Democrat, Republican, Commie, Anarchist, Facist, Independent…

  • My former CEO answers questions on Slashdot

    It was my pleasure to work with MÃ¥rten Mickos, CEO of MySQL for about a year during 2005 and 2006. I was astounded by how involved he is with the employees and how well he keeps abreast of the goings-on in the company. He seems to be of the rare set who are not only…

  • A student from Scottland wants some sponsorship

    16:36 < paranoid> Hey this is an offchance, but I’m pretty bored… anyone know of any companys etc that would be interested in sponsoring a car to go accross europe in a chairty event next year? http://www.studentgumballrally.com/ http://www.teamdentists.co.uk/photos/viewphoto.php?photo=240