I thought I told you NEVER to call me here.
I think we now know who’s dealing with software patents at the USPTO.
V for “very good.”
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 …
Fedora Weekly News Issue 57 Out Loud (en)
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 …
C’mon, let’s get happy!
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 …
Scholarships ahoy!
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 …
The Amazing Randi meets his match.
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.
Guys’ night out.
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 …
Today’s 800lb (~360kg) elephant.
Thank you, thank you Konstantin, for pointing this out. This has been annoying me for a while and I had just internalized the rage. Here’s some additions to the list. Anything that calls itself “gnome” is, IMHO, grist for the mill: xchat-gnome: exit application This might make sense at first …
Challenge and response.
I am really enjoying the Python Challenge, a site to which Toshio sent me a link the other day on the #fedora-python channel. I’m at level 7 and — since this interrupted my reading of Dive Into Python — I’m now starting to bump against the limit of what I’ve …