eric’s extremeboredom

Earlier this month I had the great opportunity to become the first person to join the growing team at BillMonk.com! BillMonk is a free service that makes it easy to track expenses between friends, and to settle them up instantly online. Particularly popular with roommates, young professionals, and college students, it has been used for [...]

The Wall Street Journal published a spot-on article a few days ago about the Novell+Microsoft arrangement. It’s only available online to subscribers, so I scanned it: And making the news yesterday, The CEO of Microsoft has straight up said that every (with the exception of Novell/SuSE of course!) linux company, developer, and user is violating [...]

Lots of talk about the Novell+Microsoft agreement. I don’t have much to say, but wanted to post something. From the Microsoft Press Release: Novell will also make running royalty payments based on a percentage of its revenues from open source products. I find this particularly disturbing, considering that all of the compatibility problems between Windows [...]

Saturday’s field day was a success! The alki group got together around 11:30 and quickly had a link to the folks at magnolia. The primary form of communication between sites was FRS, which was absolutely horrible. Apparently everyone else could here us fine, but we could barely hear anything, and had to constantly ask the [...]

This Saturday (October 28th, 2006), SeattleWireless is holding our second Field Day. From the website: Field day is a free hands-on, all-day exercise for those interested in learning about wireless networking and community wireless networks. We will be setting up a mesh network at three parks around Seattle: Alki, Magnolia and Gasworks; as well as [...]

A photoshop developer named Chris Cox over at Adobe had this to say (Bugmenot Required) about the linux desktop, in response to a user’s request for a linux port: Is the time approaching when Linux has standards for fonts, color management, printing, etc.? What’s all this then? Fonts: Freetype Color Manaegment: OpenIcc Printing: CUPS Is [...]

Tuesday was the official Day Against DRM. I met up with a few people downtown at pike place market and handed out lots of stickers and flyers.

The Wii is going to come with a pretty cool looking photo viewer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyWyDABjlxs This slightly reminds me of lowfat (video).

Today I’m attempting to kick off a new project called SavageSVG, a complete SVG library for Mono/.NET. First of all, what is SVG? From Wikipedia: Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML markup language for describing two-dimensional vector graphics, both static and animated, and either declarative or scripted. It is an open standard created by [...]

The goal of the SeattleWireless project is to create a community owned and maintained wireless network around the city. The network is being built using standard protocols and open-source mesh routing software, making it easy for anybody to participate using inexpensive off-the-shelf hardware. SeattleWireless is completely free to use, and does not rely on the [...]