Tag Archives: Programming

Simon Law OSS Presentation

Simon Law gave an OSS presentation to the Computer Science Club of the University of Waterloo that was fantasitc. I was actually most impressed with the question and answer part of his talk. First of all, the Waterloo CS club asked some awesome questions. Questions that really deserve good answers but usually get much less [...]

Creative Commons Internship

After meeting with Nathan Yergler and having a phone interview with Mike Linksvayer, I was accepted for an internship position with the Creative Commons. I am very excited about this but my excitement was quickly squelched when I was informed that I would only make $2,000 for the summer. It would cost more for me [...]

Open Season on Open Source?

I was sent this article and just had to laugh when I read it: Open Season on Open Source? This seems like a bunch of corporate propaganda to me. The author completely fails to make the distinction between the open-source definition and the definition she used for this article. Open-source does not just mean any [...]

Future Job Posibilities

Last night, PLUG and Csociety co-hosted a CC presentation with Nathan Yergler as the presenter. By nature, I am a very artistic and creative person. I see programming as an art form just as I see my music, drawings, and photography so the CC presentation really appealed to me. I had many questions to ask [...]

Linux to the Rescue

My roommate uses a PDA to act as his portable media player. For some reason, Windows corrupted his SD card so that he could not lod songs on or off. Also, it was so badly corrupted that Windows could not even format it. He asked me if I’d be able to read it and see [...]