There goes the neighborhood.
The future is a great place to be. I’ll have more to say on this, and in a less flippant fashion, shortly — probably tomorrow. It’s been a great FUDCon Day 1, though.
Affaire d’etat.
Max has updated the FUDCon page with additional information on the specifics for Friday’s hackfest Day 1 at the State Club — make sure you check it out! Please excuse mistakes in the title as I’m not a Francophone.
The answer to all my prayers.
In case you hadn’t heard — maybe because of ear fatigue from records that are over-compressed — Turn Me Up! is leading the march toward a happier world full of clearer, more dynamic music. Watch the short video on the site, and then you’ll know why: You can’t find a …
Move over Beethoven, and tell Tchaikovsky the news.
I helped Evie learn TamTamEdit today on her OLPC XO. And another bedroom composer is born!
And a merry Christmas to you too!
What? Not enough news bones to chew about how we’re doing in the fights that matter? Try this one on for size. Now we need to work on transitioning this publicity battle into the hardware sphere. We still have HDMI HDCP, firmware, TPM, and many other issues yet to overcome. …
I see you’ve already found a seat at the table, splendid.
Regarding Matt Asay’s interview of the new Red Hat CEO, I’d just like to say, is it really so surprising that he’s an open source true believer? I don’t naively think that a current CEO gets to simply hand-pick and transplant a replacement, but certainly they get to weigh in …
Like a faucet, only icky.
Allergies have taken their toll today. Current histamine attack commenced at 0900 and continues unabated. Voice scratchy, exacerbated by too much phone conversation today. To cap off all the ignominy, there’s currently no hospitable place to set up our general use workstation at home, so I “gallantly volunteered” the supersexy …
Just trying to stay on the road.
spot’s last post hit home with me for a number of reasons. Before I left work on vacation a couple weeks ago, I made a super-large-print version of this quotation and hung it at my desk (from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, act II, scene 2): Cowards die many times before their …
Victory is mine!
Phase Five completed this afternoon. There’s a spot of cleanup left to do in the basement, but the basement great room has now been converted to a pretty decent media room. We need to do something about the furnishing situation, but there’s a recliner and a papasan chair that make …