Eleya and I watched Tim Burton’s quirky but entertaining Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It’s a miracle of production and set design, visually stunning but thankfully anchored by a nearly perfect performance by Johnny Depp. We agreed that he’s one of the few actors alive with the power to make …
Now that I’ve finished drafting some for-pay work I’ve been writing, I can move on to the Documentation Guide, which has become woefully outdated against our actual real-world processes. With some additional concerns about licensing and CVS i18n restructuring, just to name a few, it will be an interesting effort. …
I got a comment just today from a fellow Fedora Project person (he pulls far more weight than I, and on a more continual basis, so the term “colleague” is, I think, inappropriate — anyone have a better one?). I wanted to respond here on the blog and have the …
Children will teach you never to think too highly of yourself. I was goofing around while doing the dishes, while the kids cleaned up the family room. This is necessary because otherwise Mommy and Daddy come down after bedtime wondering how terrorists managed to detonate a roadside IED in our …
Apparently Google employees had a whale of a good time with a rather large order of Silly Putty. I have to admit I’m a big fan of putty too, but I get mine from Crazy Aaron’s. Anyone want to go in for a few pounds?
Last night after a mini-marathon fueled by a slice of my mom’s derby pie*, I finally got package building working in Fedora Docs for the example-tutorial. Once we get the Makefile rules moved into the common one, and everyone starts converting their docs to use the new “rpm-info” DTD, we …
Every once in a while it’s good to write a check you can’t cash, metaphorically speaking of course. I volunteered to help out on the upcoming Fedora marketing blast by doing some audio recording for screencasts. I’ve often heard the audio for these, and it’s generally pretty bad, usually recorded …
Merry Christmas! The weather outside is… well, if not frightful, maybe just off-putting, but we had a nice morning anyway. Got a haul of nice clothes, the collected Bone, aftershave from the kids (don’t laugh, I asked for it — literally), and a business card folio. We presented the kids …
I finally figured out the KDE documentation procedure, which means I can get FDP work packaged for both GNOME and KDE. This was very important to me because I didn’t want to help perpetuate the perception that hard-core Fedorans don’t like KDE. I googled far and wide and found only …
Christmas music playing in the office today, and I have only one thing to say: Die, Mannheim Steamroller, DIE.