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It's Ada Lovelace Day

Michael Forrest

Wed 24 Mar 2010

I've always liked Ada. She was the first to see the musical potential of computers. Here, look at this old blog post in which I mention her. As proof! Homebrew Adventures ;)

A tip of my hat to Ada then. And tips all round to that small elite of nerdy girls who hold their own in a man's world.

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OS X Ubuntu USB Creator

Michael Forrest

Tue 09 Mar 2010

I've spent some time attempting to make a Cocoa that lets you burn an Ubuntu ISO to a USB memory stick on OS X.

I think I've got as far as I'm gonna get with it now, sadly.

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Making the computer work for YOU

Michael Forrest

Fri 05 Mar 2010

Yukihiro Matsumoto put it better than I ever could:

Often people, especially computer engineers, focus on the machines. They think, "By doing this, the machine will run faster. By doing this, the machine will run more effectively. By doing this, the machine will something something something." They are focusing on machines. But in fact we need to focus on humans, on how humans care about doing programming or operating the application of the machines. We are the masters. They are the slaves.

Ubuntu developers take note.

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