And that goes for you too, John Ashbery.
Evie’s first school newsletter came home this week, and printed in it was a twisted, cloying wreck of verse that reminded me: Most of you who write poetry, shouldn’t.
Release Notes countdown.
The Fedora Documentation Project uses “beats” — small, manageable subject matter areas — to organize and separate the Release Notes for each release of Fedora. We keep these beats on the wiki, and the entire community is able to contribute to them. We edit them for accuracy and readability, and …
On the whole, I prefer the root canal.
Today I am over at my sister’s trying in vain to use Microsoft’s “Easy File Transfer” (*snort*) to move her files from an older XP system to her newer Vista. (I tried to talk them into trying Linux but the kids have games, husband a proprietary app, yadda yadda.) This …
Why my kids are great, No. 27.
Today I managed to get some substantial work done around my “Daddy Day Care” duty: Published some new versions of the Translation Quick Start Guide for the L10n folks Edited a new README for Fedora Live images Imported said README into Docs CVS and set it up for our build …
The b0rken clock.
Even hardcore Windows developers agree: GConf beats the Windows registry, hands-down.
Nobody home but us monsters.
My better half has flown the coop, as it were, for Tennessee through Friday night, so I am home taking care of the kids. I’ve already familiarized myself with the contents of our knife block and the location of incendiary materials, so I should be able to tell if any …
Superhuman effort required.
Today Eleya brought home (admittedly at my request) the Heroes S1 DVD set. I never really saw the show when it was on broadcast TV, so I’m not yet sure how I’m going to fit in catching up to all those episodes before S2 starts at the end of next …
The long, delirious burning blue.
Today I took the family to the Smithsonian’s Udvar-Hazy Air and Space annex near Dulles. What a day! Unfortunately, neither my camera nor I are up to the challenge of great photography, so you’ll have to take what you can get here at my blog. I really don’t Flickr, but …
From hell’s heart, I stab at thee.
A friend for whom I built a computer about six years ago started having trouble with her Windows XP installation. I’ve already narrowed it down to a driver or startup service issue, but it is truly unbelievable not only how hard it is to arrive at that diagnosis (thanks to …