Let the ballot stuffing begin!

The FDSCo elections are now open! Voting continues for the three open seats until — if memory serves — 23:59 UTC, December 24th. Our nominees are a great group, so no matter the results, the holidays will be a cheerful time for the Docs project.

The FAmSCo elections should commence at some point very shortly afterward.

Happy burfday. U haz one.

To second what Jayson Rowe said, CentOS really does fill a gap. As a person who works on Fedora almost exclusively in his spare time, CentOS is the perfect way for me to experience performance equivalent to Red Hat Enterprise Linux — albeit without the support options — and take advantage of the very long horizon of platform durability. RHEL is the gold standard in Linux stability and performance, so there’s no better way for any hobbyist to run his own servers with zero financial impact than to use CentOS. CentOS is to the Internet homesteader what RHEL is to business.

FDSCo nominations underway.

According to our schedule, the Fedora Documentation Steering Committee (FDSCo) nominations are open. We have three seats up for election this cycle. Vigorous work is underway for more documentation for Fedora 8/9, and we want to see strong community leadership driving the development of these docs. A recent influx of community contributors has made this possible, and wrangling that elbow grease is serious work!

Circus of Dreams comes to town.

The gig last night at IOTA went great. A little wrung out this morning as a result, but the price must be paid to Bring the Rawk. Our crowd was very large and (thankfully) a little less chatty than the last show there, at which it was sometimes even hard to hear ourselves! The important thing is that they really got into the show, which made it so much more enjoyable from the stage.

The earlier half of the double-bill show was the simply incredible Gandalf Murphy and the Slambovian Circus of Dreams. I don’t know how to describe them except as maybe Loudon Wainwright III meets The Who, or maybe Sufjan Stevens meets Pink Floyd. They were AMAZING.

And as a bonus, they were the nicest folks imaginable. Three of the band members are family members (mom, dad, and son), which I think is as cool as it gets. And it is somewhat circus-like, the very unpretentious family atmosphere they create. We chatted with them for a while between sets and they were thrilled to have finally found a DC-area club that really seemed to get what they were doing. We loved them, and they said they would love to get together with us for another show. Any time!

I’m in ur phone booth changin my guise.

Stayed up late catching up on a little work and email. Woke up late this morning, sped out the door with daughter in tow to do some Christmas shopping for bandmates. Overspent and hope no one is shamed.

Now I need to move my amp and cab (ugh) up to the car, change my clothes, and become the rockstar I was meant to be. You know, the kind that drives a late-model Honda.

Manu Katché was my second choice.

And now, I am officially two-thirds of the way to a family power trio: