This morning we’re (finally!) having our air conditioner replaced. The crew is from a well-respected specialist outfit that’s been in business around here for over 75 years. (Thankfully, given the heat and humidity, none of the folks that came this morning have actually been at the company that long themselves.) …
Issue 58 of the Fedora Weekly News Out Loud podcast is now available. You can read the news here, or listen to it here (recommended, free format) or here (not recommended, patent encumbered format). Even better, just subscribe to the RSS feed to receive it automatically in your favorite audio …
I think we now know who’s dealing with software patents at the USPTO.
SuperWife has earned her title this week by finding good things for us to eat that involve very little cooking, which is a boon considering temperatures outside have been hovering near the century mark for a couple days now, with humidity somewhere between “sauna” and “armpit.” Ugly, hazy air is …
Issue 57 of the Fedora Weekly News Out Loud podcast is now available. You can read the news here, or listen to it here. Even better, just subscribe to the RSS feed to receive it automatically in your favorite audio player or aggregator. This podcast is available under a Creative …
Is there an Echo in here? Yessirreebob, that would be my Echo Audio Layla24, finally to be supported in the kernel! Drivers appeared in the 2.2 kernel, but then disappeared among the 2.4 upheaval process. According to this commit, I’ll soon be seeing them in the 2.6.18 kernel. I’m very …
Ethan is now at the stage where, between spates of screeching and spinning his head off his shoulders while fire shoots from his eyes and ears, he is taking quantum leaps of development, especially linguistic. At age 2-1/2 or so, he’s lagging only slightly behind where Evie was at his …
This McSweeney’s letter to the Amazing Randi contains no bad language or graphics, but may not be suitable for people of extremely sensitive dispositions. You’ve been warned, now click the damn link already.
Just got home from carousing and carrying on with some very close, old, and good friends (In the best senses of all words concerned) tonight. We holed up at a neighborhood pub (or the closest facsimile that the US can provide — given that we’re in Virginia, that’s not too …