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I think we've crossed the line on safety. The inconvenience to safety ratio has gotten way out of control.  Pretty soon we'll all be wearing body armour to leave the house just in case an acorn is going to fall on us. 1.  Car seats for kids until they are six! You can't tell me […]

Tomorrow I'm also moderating a panel at OpenSource World, The State of Installed Desktops and Netbooks 2009. What would you ask these guys?   Todd Finch, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Dell Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier, Community Manager, Novell Jono Bacon, Community Manager, Canonical Rao Yeleswarapu, Marketing Manager for Moblin, Intel  As a reminder: Intel, a hardware

Wednesday I'll be speaking at OpenSource World on The Desktop or the Browser: Is the Netbook Escalating the Battle? One of the things that has worried me is how people are living more and more in their browser. I myself am guilty of this. I use the browser to check my mail, calendar, read news,

Last Saturday Mario had a tamale making party at his house. (And I've been told that officially it should be tamal singular and tamales plural but I think in English it's now officially or unofficially tamale in singular.) About 20 people showed up to help make tamales. Most of us novice cooks but expert tamale

My name is Stormy Peters. You can contact me by sending email to stormyscorner — at — gmail.com. You can also leave a comment on any post where you have something to say! I currently work as the executive director of the GNOME Foundation. I also am an advisor for HFOSS, OpenSource World, IntraHealth Open

This is what I ran into this morning. Only the cows I ran into were white. And there were more than 30 of them. And they were running. (I really have to start carrying my camera with me!) Photo by Cameron Maddux. I ended up driving slowly through the cows to pull up to the

When Daddy and Jacob go hunting, and Mommy won't let you go with them, this is what you feel like: Luckily for Mommy, this is what you feel like when you see cows "MOO!"

I’ve been thinking about setting up a program where a school in the States gets a laptop for every child in the school and a school in Mexico gets a laptop for ever child. They’d then be sister schools and you could set up email penpals and so on.  I’ve had several computer savvy teachers

Here’s a business idea I think will work because I was looking for one and thought about starting it myself.  It’s social networking for babies. Mothers create profiles for themselves and their babies. They can connect to friends and record milestones like first step, first solid food, etc. I bet moms will love comparing their

Psychology Today has a really interesting article about a theory of dreaming that’s gaining populartiy.  We dream to prepare for dangerous situations.  When you have a nightmare, you are rehearsing, in case it ever happens in real life.  The dreaming brain, explains Revonsuo, scans emotional memories. When it detects a memory trace with a strong