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Otakon, if you didn’t know, is a gathering of Anime fans down in Baltimore.
While I wouldn’t say I’m an “anime fan” or fanatic of any sort I’ve been known to appreciate the full length animated feature, usually Japanese, on occasion. On more occasions than a full length non-animated feature, in fact.
Which is what led […]

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The semi-annual (these days, leastways) HOPE conference (Hackers Over Planet Earth? HOtel PEnnsylvania? Who knows!) is coming up and I’ll once again be working network setup. Which is generally a fairly good time…
I’m intent on impressing upon whoever does the wireless this year that those little antenna thingies? They go up […]

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So I’ve ditched the live blogging idea (because the laptops wireless proved to be pretty unusable under Ubuntu 5.04) and am going with a more journalized approach.
Dell’s CTO proved to be a fairly good speaker. Even if they don’t have a huge R&D section he apparently comes up with some interesting things to do with […]

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BostonWorlds wrapping up for the first day. The second keynote by the Athena Health CTO Bob Gatewood was a bit of a letdown. Not that there was much to be said for it.. basically they use Linux to some extent and that’s about it. There’s not really much of a contribution back aside from that […]

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Only not as much as I had hoped.  Still, I’ll get the laptop working at some point for some live coverage of.. er.. something.  Otherwise we’ll have to stick to the classic post-happenings write-ups so popular in the pulpier media (a point of heated debate in their own right over the past few days).
So I’ll […]

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