Notes In The Margin

August 30, 2026 Wood House (Woold Homé) Agbodrafo, Togo (Read more about the Wood House here.)

FOSSY (Free and Open Source Software Yearly) just wrapped its fourth year — this time at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC.

This article was just fascinating to me. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/john-kennedy-trump-anxious-unexpressed-thought_n_6a6f91e2e4b03026f4f00de1 “He grows anxious when he has an unexpressed thought,” When my son was little he struggled with keeping his i…

I also recorded a video version of this post if you’d prefer to watch rather than read: https://youtu.be/VPIf6dUKwKA Last week I was at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City for UN Open Source Week — a gathering that, even just by its name, tel…

When figuring out my read order for Bradbury Summer, I discovered a book that not only have I not read, I’ve never even heard of.

The preface to The Martian Chronicles says I should also read Winesburg, Ohio, by Sherwood Anderson.

I just finished The Illustrated Man, which I haven’t read in decades.

I started reading Ray Bradbury today.

I wrote a new book.

Whenever I hear Winds of Change, by the Scorpions, I get a little misty-eyed.