For a while now in the Docs Project, we’ve used the concept of “beats” to separate the voluminous release notes into easily wrangled chunks. “Beat” is a term that originated in both journalism and law enforcement — and has since been used in other fields as well. A newspaperman would …
Somehow in the last few days, my Liferea program ate the OPML file that lists all the feeds it aggregates. I think I have a backup, but the disk is at my office. So with some quick thinking, some useful little Fedora utilities, and a modicum of organizational sense, I …
Eleya and I watched the fantastic documentary This Film Is Not Yet Rated last night, a scathing indictment of the corrupt and ultimately inscrutable MPAA component that is responsible for providing audience-appropriate ratings in the “voluntary” US system. I don’t want to rehash how that works here, since there are …
This seems like an opportune time to point out that free and open source software is a great way to escape persecution at the behest of megalomaniacal corporations from another country.
Taking a hint from Seth, I thought I should talk about things I worked on this weekend: New self-documenting example tutorial, including templates that a new writer can simply copy to start their own document Upgrades to the Documentation Guide, which we are going to continue slicing and dicing over …
…At least for some of us who have to make it back to work in the morning. (I just returned home after a quick jump from Boston to Richmond.) I was able to fit a little docs work in this morning, but the majority of my day was spent behind …
Jesse’s not the only person paying today for last night’s festivities. But after a half a chicken curry plate, one boba tea, and a liter of water, I’m feeling a little more human. Reminder to self: Always — no, never try to keep up with Red Hat sales engineers when …
FUDCon starts this morning. I am woefully underprepared from the perspective of offering a photoblog or anything of the sort — I totally forgot to get moto4lin running on my box before I left, and I was way too tired last night to do anything about it. I did, however, …
That would be true if every day-after-tomorrow was FUDCon. I’m thrilled that we have 150 attendees signed up and a few more on the wait list. I can’t wait to renew some acquaintances, shake hands with people I haven’t met yet, hear what people are working on, talk about what …
Kevin Smith and I are a lot alike: both thirty-seven-year-old fathers of small children, and who love movies, pizza, beer, DVDs, and basically all things sedentary. Each of us has a family history of diabetes and yet, inexplicably, we’ve both managed to avoid facing the awful truth that we’re killing …