eric’s extremeboredom

I’d like to extend huge thanks to the hundreds and hundreds of people who have showed interested in Synapse these first few weeks. This project is a huge undertaking, and all the support really means a lot. I’ve read every tweet and nearly every comment on Reddit, Lifehacker, and other blogs, and the message is [...]

Today I’m extremely happy to officially announce the project I’ve been working on for the past few months. It’s called Synapse, and while it may look like just yet another instant messaging client, it’s actually much more than that. The web has changed a lot over the past few years. Web applications now offer rich [...]

I had a great time at SCALE, here’s a wrap-up of some of the things that went on: The first day had two tracks all about open source in healthcare. Speakers included Scott Shreeve (co-founder of Medsphere, and founder of Crossover Health) who gave a very motivating talk about the importance of transparency in healthcare, [...]

I’m heading down to LA tonight for SCALE, the Southern California Linux Expo. I’ll be volunteering at the GNOME booth in the Exhibition Hall, so if you’re in the area, stop by and say hi!

I’ve been to a lot of conferences over the past few months, here’s a short summary of them: May ’07: Toorcon Seattle (BETA) I wrote a separate post about this, see here. July ’07: Ubuntu Live I took the train down to Portland with Andy, which is so much more enjoyable than flying, I don’t [...]

I’ve been working with a few other people to resurrect GSLUG, the Greater Seattle Linux User’s group. The next meeting is this Saturday (September 1st, 2007) at 12:00pm, here’s the announcement that Ian sent out on the list: The September 2007, inaugural meeting of the Greater Seattle Linux Users Group (GSLUG) will be held on [...]

I have a Xen VM set up on my server that I give accounts to friends on, and I thought it would be nice to set up filesystem quotas, so one user couldn’t take down the server for everyone else by filling up the disk. Enabling quotas is easy, just add usrquota and grpquota to [...]

This past weekend was ToorCon Seattle (Beta), a weekend long free & invite-only get together of around 100 security professionals and hackers. It was a lot of fun! Talks were on Saturday at the Last Supper Club. A list including slides are up on the website. Saturday night’s party was at the Public N3rd Area, [...]

Due to intense fog at the launch site, we weren’t able to launch as planned. After a lot of consideration, we decided to do a tethered launch to test everything out. This was a huge success, and proved very valuable. The balloon got to around 250 feet and took lots of pictures. All of our [...]

Over this past week, I’ve been involved in an amazing project to build a weather balloon carrying a bunch of cameras and launch it into the edge of space. We’re just finishing up some last minute details right now, and plan to head out to middle of nowhere eastern washington very soon. We’re going to [...]