Clarifications on the Open Letter

It appears that there are some questions about the content in the open letter that I posted earlier this week. Simon Phipps (Sun’s chief open source officer) posted a comment on my blog that summarizes these questions, so I will use this post to reply to it. The original text from Simon’s post [...]

An Open Letter to the OpenDS Community and to Sun Microsystems

My name is Neil Wilson, and until recently I held the Owner and Committer roles in the open source OpenDS project. I helped found OpenDS, served as the project architect, and have contributed more code than anyone else. However, I must now regrettably inform you that I have been compelled [...]

The Mist

Tonight, I finally got a chance to see Stephen King’s “The Mist”, which also happened to be the 100th unique first-run movie that I’ve seen in the theater so far this year. I don’t think that there’s any possible way that I can adequately review the movie without any spoilers, so if you’re planning [...]

Movies for the Weekend of 11/23/2007

This weekend, I saw three movies, all of them at the Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek.
RoboCop: 7/10
The first was the mid-80s classic RoboCop, showing as the midnight movie this weekend. It had been quite a while since I had last seen it, and it was the first time I had seen it in a [...]