On Thursday I wrapped up work and MJ and I headed down to Palo Alto for an Ubuntu Hour at Antonio’s Nut House. It ended up being a great venue for the meeting, we got a booth right near the door, it was relatively quiet, the food was good and we had plenty of space […]
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Review: ZaReason Strata Pro 15 Laptop
December 19th, 2010 by pleia2
With the exception of my netbook, I have never owned a new laptop. In the recent past I’ve tinkered with the beloved old Pentium 2 Inspiron 7000 series laptops, of which I ended up with 3 of in varying states of disrepair, and my current laptop is a Pentium 3 Compaq Presario, which primarily runs […]
Some recent tech meetups
September 27th, 2010 by pleia2
On September 15th, the Women Who Tech telesummit occurred. Work has been pretty busy for me lately, so I had to take care of obligations there and couldn’t participate in the summit, maybe next year. However, I was able to go to attend the San Francisco after party, which was delightfully held just a couple […]
Ubuntu at the Creative Arts Charter School
August 15th, 2010 by pleia2
One of the schools Partimus has been working with over the years is the Creative Arts Charter School in San Francisco. Today I finally had the opportunity to visit the school. I arrived around 12:30 this afternoon where I met Christian Einfeldt who gave me a quick tour of the school and introduced me to […]
Second San Francisco Ubuntu Hour
July 29th, 2010 by pleia2
On Tuesday I hosted the second San Francisco Ubuntu Hour. We had four people in attendance (thanks for dropping by James, Grant and Michelle!). It ended up being quite an evening for gadgets. As is typical, I brought along my mini9 and Grant showed up with his ever popular OLPC laptop. Then Michelle showed up […]
Painting, Partimus and Open Computing Showcase
June 13th, 2010 by pleia2
I’ve been on call this weekend, which was one of the busier ones I’ve had, but I still had time for other things. Saturday was spent finishing the major painting work of the storage units, I’m so glad that’s almost done, we just need to do some touch up later this week. From there it’s […]
New monitor and LinuxChix meetups
June 4th, 2010 by pleia2
I’ve been wandering up and down the peninsula quite a bit this week. First was Wednesday night when I finally met Terri Oda! We met at Shiva’s Indian Restaurant in Mountain View with John Hawley and BJ Wishinsky, both of whom are also locals but I hadn’t met yet. It was a really delightful dinner, […]
Ubuntu California Installfest at Noisebridge
June 1st, 2010 by pleia2
On Sunday MJ and I spent the day at Noisebridge for the Ubuntu California Lucid Installfest. Unfortunately our scheduling ended up to coincide with Carnaval San Francisco 2010, but aside from traffic woes in the area it made for some lively entertainment outside and quite the view for attendees. Leif Ryge was our gracious Noisebridge […]
Pink, jeweled, cat5e? I’ll take 2!
March 21st, 2010 by pleia2
MJ and I headed down to Fry’s last weekend. I didn’t actually need anything, it was more of a sight seeing tour – having lived on the east coast all these years I had to check out this great electronics store my west coast friends had talked so much about. While wandering through the aisles […]
Flowery new desktop
February 20th, 2010 by pleia2
A year and a half ago I put together a system built with some pieces I purchased from the Trenton Computer Festival. It was a server though, pretty loud, very heavy, and the hardware was a couple years old when I bought it so became out of date pretty quickly, and the Xeons were too […]