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

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 …

A little hair of the dog.

Despite her illness, Evie is back to shutterbugging tonight, and as usual her brother was her main Muse. “Stand over there.” “Now put your hand up like this.” We weren’t sure whether we should be pleased about bringing up the next Annie Leibowitz or worried about her creating a toddler-set …

Day of the (walking) dead.

Both the kids are down with double ear infections, as diagnosed by the doctor today… He prescribed them a different kind of 3-day regimen antibiotic, so hopefully they’ll feel some relief shortly, especially my poor little Evie who was complaining about her earache this morning. (Ethan doesn’t really ever complain …