David Ascher

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I was getting lousy performance out of pyblosxom, for reasons that I'm sure have nothing to do with pyblosxom, but with my abuse of it, and my lack of a deep enough understanding of how pingbacks, trackbacks, etc. worked. Also, I didn't really have the energy to build my own...

You know when you’re in Canada when a co-worker sends an email explaining that he’ll be late today because:

First-time visitor: “Hi, my name is David, and for years I didn’t really understand the power of web apps.”

I remember back in the late 80’s walking around saying things like “someone should write a sociology thesis about this internet stuff.” Lo and behold, people did. Similarly in the last decade, open source seemed to all involved as something worthy of academic study. So when I read Siobhan O’Mahony’s...