Linux, musical road-dogging, and daily life by Paul W. Frields
 
Author: <span>Paul Frields</span>

In Memoriam.

Why can’t the Oscar producers figure out a way to honor the deceased luminaries without the Applause-O-Meter? I always feel bad for the sound editor no one’s heard of, who, likely as not, was a wonderful guy who deserved some applause for his work.

The hard sell.

Look, we know box office is taking a hit, but it’s not the audiences that AMPAS needs to cajole. It’s not the downloaders you need to worry about; they weren’t going to the theaters anyway. It’s the exhibitors. Get them to start actually (1) cleaning their theaters, (2) policing their …

Heavy, man.

I guessed the “Best Live Action Short” based on the fact that a gun was involved in the clip. It seemed like a heavier clip than the others, and I haven’t seen any of them (sorry). For some reason this seems like a “heavy issues” year.

Dolly!

Dang, that woman can still sing her ass off! HALLELLUJAH! Nope, I have nothing trenchant to say or report. I’m just another fool with a laptop. It’s my server and I’ll do what I want to.

Oscar time!

Time for me to start making unnecessary, catty, and often stupid comments live with the broadcast! 8:05 – great opening sequence! I have a feeling that “not afraid to be gay” jokes are going to abound this evening. Not that there’s anything wrong with that of course.

One-way revolving door.

The FDP has been troubling lately over our translation tools, and we thought we lately had our problems licked by using xml2po from the gnome-doc-utils package, which purports to take care of the whole translation process. We’d use it to create POT template files, and the translators could use their …