The last time I used my German language skills regularly was about twenty years ago in college. I was good enough at it to read “die unendliche Geschichte” in the original German in high school, and only had to take a single semester in college to fulfill my graduation requirements. …
Luke Macken, Fedora hacker extraordinaire, made an interesting suggestion to me the other day: How about having lightning talks like at PyCon 2008? I think it’s a great idea. We could hold a number of talks in five-minute slots for some length of time on Thursday night, after the hackfest …
With gas prices at record highs (and no end in sight), there is quite a lot to be said for being a remote employee working out of a home office. At my previous job, I commuted back and forth about 27 miles each way daily — very short for a …
I have other blog entries I need to make, but I feel driven to tell the Fedora community a Nice Thing About Max. Max sent me home from Raleigh a few weeks ago with a bunch of toys for my kids. (Long story, but let’s just say no one should …
In response to this meme: 1 firefox window 7 firefox tabs 1 evolution window 2 evolution message compose windows 1 tomboy note 1 xchat-gnome window, 26 channels
Did you know that the Fedora Marketing team has spawned a lot of great ideas lately? And did you further know that much of the great press we got came directly from the work of the Marketeers? The Marketing group has been reinvigorated lately by teamwork between some of our …
Credit where due: Karsten Wade blogged about this in his usual prophetic fashion about a week ago. One of the problems with remixing Creative Commons (CC) licensed material that includes a Non-Commercial (NC) clause is that it can hurt downstream community members. People might have the mistaken impression that there …
EDITOR’S NOTE: No spelling, punctuation, or other content changes have been made from the author’s original work. The Hero, by Evelyn (age 7) Once upon a time, when Nature was wild beyond rights, there was a young man who took a dare to go into the woods alone for 30 …
What the realtors call “foot traffic” — visitors to our house, presumably with purchasing intent — has picked up significantly in the past few weeks. In the last two weeks, we’ve had about a half-dozen visits. The feedback from the agents, where they tell you everything about your house that …
I was tickled by this new notification format for updates that fix security errata: That’s one of the uses for the metadata that packagers can enter into Bodhi when entering updates into the testing repository (and later, the stable one). PackageKit also gives you icons that let you know whether …