Monthly Archives: March 2011

No Summer of Code for Pidgin This Year

Pidgin/Finch/libpurple/Instant Messaging Freedom, Inc. didn’t apply to be an organization in Google’s Summer of Code (GSoC) this year. Why not? The short answer is that I didn’t feel we had enough developers willing to mentor students for it to be … Continue reading

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Memory of a Fluorescent Light

When I was growing up the bedroom closet in my grandparents’ house had a fluorescent light. Not the modern compact fluorescent type, either—this was a long tube. The light was slow to turn on. You’d flip the switch and it … Continue reading

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