| Grrrr. Open Source Software.

About Me

I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us — don't tell!
They'd banish us, you know.

How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!
—Emily Dickinson

Grrrr. Open Source Software.

I was reminded today of my love/hate relationship with Open Source. I couldn’t find any software to do what I wanted except TWiki (an open source structured wiki), so finally, I go to all the work of getting it installed, setting it up. It’s so lovely. So perfect. So powerful. So customizable.

Then it breaks, and I have no idea what to do.

Posted on November 24, 2007