Tag: advogato
Three Reptiles and a Gato
April 7th, 2000, No Comments
The weather has improved a bit here in TX. Now that the spring rains seem to have stopped, Susan and I have been able to resume our habitual late-night walks. The neighborhood wildlife count for last nights walk: three reptiles. A sleeping green anole in a tree, a mediterranean gecko out for a nocturnal snack, [...]
Loaner Cars and Vorbis
April 5th, 2000, No Comments
I got my car back from the service center today – along with the repair bill. :-( Oh well, at least it’s nice to be driving a standard again. The only loaner cars they had were automatics which I find downright frightening to drive. They’re always shifting up and down when you don’t want them [...]
Advogato First Post
March 6th, 2000, No Comments
Assuming my patches to newslog and to mod_virgule work, this will be my first post to go to both my home page and to my advogato.org diary simultaneously. If nothing blows up, I’ll probably post a freshmeat announcement later tonight in case anyone else wants to sync up news/diary entries on their personal home pages [...]
Discovering Advogato
March 3rd, 2000, No Comments
I’ve been reading an open source news portal called Advogato fairly regularly and decided to sign up for an account. I’m usually just a spectator at these things – I don’t even have a slashdot account. But Advogato is fairly interesting in that it uses a group trust metric system to rate each member and [...]
