Linux, musical road-dogging, and daily life by Paul W. Frields
 
Author: <span>Paul Frields</span>

I am totally THRILLED and PSYCHED (yes, it’s worth shouting) that we will be sharing a stage on Saturday, Feb. 21 with Plink, a quiet-music group that features an old mate o’ mine, Brad Derrick, on (I would assume) drums and programming and such. Brad was one of the most …

To all those “MS Doom” (or whatever the Windows virus o’ the week is called) sufferers out there, I feel your pain. Have you thought about using a more secure platform for your personal computing needs? All the ice and snow had at least one good side effect for me: …

The house concert last night hosted by The Deej was a truly beautiful experience. Dan and Maria were gracious hosts, and the performance space was cozy and intimate. House concerts are one of the most direct and beneficial ways to support local music, so if you haven’t attended one, you …

Tonight we’re off to Borders Books in Tyson’s Corner. The show starts around 6:30pm, and is of course free. If you don’t have a copy yet, pick up the album Zero Dollars Spent while you’re there. If you do, get one for a friend! I am currently working on a …

Is it any surprise that Hollywood doesn’t want you to know there are two sides to every story?

Rehearsals have been underway for our house concert on the 24th. We have a “warmup” gig scheduled at Borders Books in Tyson’s Corner (VA) the evening before. We also did some demo recording of new material at Rich’s basement studio this past weekend, which went well after we straightened out …

I have a “updfstab Tutorial” available for use with Fedora Core. You can read the HTML version or get the XML source for use with the Fedora Documentation Project CVS tree.

Yikes, I’ve let time slip away between postings. Got some great DVD’s lately, thanks to my sister and her family’s Christmas gift: Sergio Leone’s masterpiece Once Upon a Time in the West; Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Trois Couleurs trilogy; and (on the more pedestrian side) Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. The …

I’ve been working on a Stick version of Mark Knopfler’s song The Ragpicker’s Dream. Also, Eleya got me the very excellent Sticktionary by Chris Crain. It’s an excellent chordal reference for all flavors of Sticks.

YES! It’s about time we made some headway on Mars. This will be the next step into exploring our solar system. Mars holds the promise of revealing a lot of scientific evidence about the universe, simply because it is a planet on which we’ve never set foot. Hopefully that will …