tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-212629282011-07-07T21:16:03.231-05:00Musings and ruminations of a geek poet in residence.Naomi Butterfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00236717503089255143noreply@blogger.comBlogger161100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21262928.post-44451816569880475442009-03-18T17:27:00.002-05:002009-03-18T17:33:36.824-05:00

I'll soon be leaving Atlantic Dominion Solutions as a full-time gig. This means pulling all the independent contracting skills back out of the earth where they've been getting buried under two years of distraction.With that comes the return of my blog posts! Keep an eye out, I'll be updating this site soon. Until then,"Be well, do good work, and keep in touch!" (shamelessly stolen from Garrison

Naomi Butterfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00236717503089255143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21262928.post-46987414148302670252007-10-05T16:40:00.000-05:002007-10-05T16:50:12.929-05:00

We've just made public the acts_as_conference Rails conference website at http://actsasconference.com/. Orlando FL, February 8th and 9th, 2008. Go there, you know you want to. Think Florida in balmy winter, light sweater and tolerable swimming for the cold-hardy. Think regional Rails conference, geekery fun, MacBook apples lighting the room like spirits of a finer technical bend. Think evenings

Naomi Butterfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00236717503089255143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21262928.post-58071859528473333512007-09-24T23:13:00.000-05:002007-09-24T23:23:05.034-05:00

You know that moment when you've thrown everything up in the air because you're tired of juggling or tired of holding it all, and you have that perfect moment when time slows and you stand to watch everything still to suspension in that space between rising and falling?That's the moment when you try to remember to breathe. You quiet the frayed synapses of your mind well enough to find the focus

Naomi Butterfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00236717503089255143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21262928.post-57462305290657245972007-08-31T21:34:00.000-05:002007-08-31T21:40:07.852-05:00

I'm registered for Blog Orlando, and just made public the new domain name I've registered, ItinerantPoet.com -- looks like I'll be motivated to get something up and running there now!Woot.

Naomi Butterfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00236717503089255143noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21262928.post-82155878471087522262007-08-30T20:22:00.000-05:002007-08-30T20:34:32.864-05:00

One of the most aurally interesting takes on Google I've heard in quite some time:Emergence on RadioLab

Naomi Butterfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00236717503089255143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21262928.post-31162935445661111612007-08-23T23:33:00.000-05:002007-08-31T21:44:58.552-05:00

It's often not so much what you put in, as what you leaveout.

Naomi Butterfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00236717503089255143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21262928.post-30653516860063305972007-08-21T23:26:00.000-05:002007-08-24T00:09:35.747-05:00

Sometimes distance seems a bitter pill and I scream and cry for just a bit of sugar.Yet to watch the landscape with this new perspective gives me peaceuntil I wonder what the fuss was all about?- - - He goes to breeze and back again from mist finds following an older ether young to wrap his senses round.- - -Does tension hold the world aloft?The breath of breeze to fill the sails and kiss

Naomi Butterfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00236717503089255143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21262928.post-1160323381432759902006-10-08T09:31:00.000-05:002006-10-08T11:34:14.176-05:00

Just call me 'Eve.'Why? Because I've taken a bite of the apple and found the truth fascinating!Now, I remember when Mac OS X came out, and being a bit of a Linux geek, I remember being pretty excited that OS X was based on Unix. And being maybe more than a bit of a Linux geek, I endorse any alternative operating system. You know, free code, free speech, and free beer to foment the seeds of

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My recent exit from my full-time job has gotten me thinking about the way corporations seem to be handling their bottom lines. I left the company because after a year of promises of pay raises never realized, always footnoted with 'after the new management takes hold, after we reach the numbers, after the start of the fiscal year', yadda yadda yadda, I lost my patience and my ability to suspend

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I've started working on a couple of Ruby on Rails projects of late, moving toward doing contract web programming full-time. I must be showing my true geek factor when, sitting here near midnight on a Friday I'm bouncing in my chair at getting htmldoc to properly print user-defined pages to pdf, the words 'hack and slash' slipping through my mind as the best descriptor of having just taken one

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*cough* *cough* *sputter* *sputter*The fine Florida post-winter weather has passed on into heat, humidity, and hurricane hell, so I'm back to while away the hours in air-conditioned and monitor-lit solitude.Wow, do I love MIT! In my dream of dreams, I thought of going to MIT for Cognitive Science back when I was noticing their work on wearable computers and nanotechnology (both science-fictiony

Naomi Butterfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00236717503089255143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21262928.post-1140030333665086372006-02-15T13:57:00.000-05:002006-02-21T20:11:53.916-05:00

We were asked in class if we rememebered Y2K. Boy do I! I dredged this up from an old website post, something I wrote about December 31, 1999 turned January 1, 2000. Total fluff, not really IT related (other than brief mentionings), but it captured my mood of that night in Athens, GA, just over 6 years ago.Turning TimeNew year's eve: so this is the last day of 1999, and chances are tomorrow will

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Marc works for the UPS helpdesk. Or rather, he did before they got closed down. While this was not a complete surprise (they had been shrinking the desk's workforce through attrition for the last 9 months or so, going from an ensemble of about 20 employees down to their current count of 3), what was a surprise was when he showed up for work yesterday to find no body there.That's right -- they'd

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How we rolled our own ERP over time using open source code, ingenuity, one IT guy and a paper clip.I used to imagine the existence of an entire underground civilization of computers locked away in dusty, damp, inhumane back room conditions, streaked with grease-monkey fingerprints, caked with flour and jammed with crumbs, or hiding amidst the junk just on the other side of the drip falling from

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As an 8 year Linux user, I've long (at least by IT technology standards) been immersed in the mentality of the free-speech and free-beer software idealism of the GPL (GNU's Not Unix!). But in the last 3 years working in a Windows-pc office where at the start, most of my time was spent resetting people's various passwords and showing them how they can retrieve their Outlook send mail button when

Naomi Butterfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00236717503089255143noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21262928.post-1137887282848961012006-01-21T18:37:00.000-05:002006-02-21T20:59:17.510-05:00

Greetings fellow classmates and wanderers of the web! As a quick intro, I'm posting some ruminations I had a few months back on my other journal space. While I'll generally be posting thoughts on school-related topics (I'm a Masters MIS student at UCF), I'll occasionally venture into other areas. I look forward to your comments.Contextual Personality DisorderI'm suddenly feeling intrigued at the

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