“Free Upgrade!”

See the cover of this book? That black circle that contains the words “Ubuntu 8.04 on DVD” and some smaller writing that you can’t really read in that image? I saw it in the bookstore today. It says “Free upgrade to 8.10.” Earth to publisher: Ubuntu is free software. That means that they’re all free …

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“Please Don’t Block Us. (Please?)”

LifeHacker.com ran a poll of their readers last week to determine what their “must-have” Firefox extensions are. Surprise, surprise — AdBlock was at the top of the list. LifeHacker is an ad-supported site, so the title for the post reporting the results is no shock. (I don’t see any need to block ads, myself — …

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“How Hard Could It Be?: How I Learned to Love Middle Managers”

Joel Spolsky has a new Inc. article online now, about how he was kind of forced into implementing middle management at Fog Creek Software, the company he co-founded and runs. I must admit, I greeted the title of the article with some skepticism. Like him, I have unpleasant memories of middle managers. I worked for …

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