The 4 for the rest of us.
Fedora Core 4 is released today! Join the torrent if you have some spare bandwidth, and remember to leave it open to help others.
Music masters.
I’m glad Chris agrees with me about not only George Lucas, but Ben Folds and my all-time favorites Del Amitri. The Dels bottomed out sales-wise with their adventurous and occasionally brilliant electronica-laced Can You Do Me Good?, and then unceremoniously broke up with a mid-2002 announcement from lead singer Justin …
The tree that thought it was a fern.
Most nights I don’t remember my dreams, which is good, because when I do, they usually don’t make any sense anyway. Every once in a while, though, there’s one that I think I need to remember, and I’ll write it down somewhere. So, as loathe as I am to begin …
Underhanded dealings in smoky back rooms.
Among the other thoughtful gifts I received, Eleya bought me a small amount of stock in Red Hat. Although the stock price has dropped somewhat from last year, most of the analysts rate it at hold or buy, and the outlook over the last six months has been pretty positive. …
Easy come, easy go.
Yesterday we had a nice cookout party, with many family and friends in attendance. My good friend and drummer Rich (who turned 38 the day before) and his family came, as well as our friends Scott and Jenny and son Jack, Ellen, and Amy and Cameron. We grilled steaks, bratwurst, …
Hail dystopia!
Chris sent me a link to Evgeny Zamyatin’s We, a marginally science-fiction dystopian novel that predates both 1984 and Brave New World. I haven’t read it, but it looks fascinating, especially considering that Zamyatin’s work was filtered through his experience of Communism’s rise in his own land.
Fear and loathing in my Inbox.
This morning I have 147 emails incoming from Gmail. (They’re not finished loading yet.) That’s double what I usually get overnight, even subscribed to several of the mailing lists. Have the spam hucksters found a better bazooka? I am dreading the end of the send/receive cycle. Of course, it could …
Older but not yet wiser, apparently.
Data Recovery After the catastrophe, I was able to recover most of my important information. I would classify as “important” the following things: * Taxes (backed up) * Digital pictures of the kids * Web site data Unfortunately, “most” in this case means all of the top two categories, and …
News of death greatly exaggerated.
…although we are missing a limb or two. Hopefully the blog will be back to full strength, or something resembling same, shortly. Then Chris can take down his “In Memoriam” sign. ?