Please, God, rest ye merry gentlemen.
Christmas music playing in the office today, and I have only one thing to say: Die, Mannheim Steamroller, DIE.
Superswank.
Linux super-artist and Red Hatter Diana Fong has created a bitchin new desktop invocation of the Fedora logo. Check it out! UPDATE: Helped contribute some images to the tour page.
Wake up America!
Greg writes an interesting bit about the discrepancy between telco and cable regulation and what it means — or at least what Lawrence Lessig thinks it means — to the future of information flow and open content on the Internet. The same spirit of innovation that fueled the Internet revolution …
A beautiful day for a drive.
Today I am taking the whole family down to Charlottesville for a Christmas supper party with some close friends. I normally love driving down Route 20 through Montpelier and Barboursville, but today I am looking forward to it even more. Because today I have a new companion for the drive, …
Pretty slick, Slick.
As my former colleague Dave found out, it was a very messy morning indeed. Not three cars ahead of me, going over a bridge that forms an overpass over the train route near our house, some bozo decided that there was really no reason to exercise any caution due to …
Triumphalism?
I heard this word today on the news and actually want no part of it. But the rest of the report was interesting in that it said that Iraqis are investing in real estate (as opposed to gold), and that refugees are returning, overall, in droves, which hardly seem like …
Will free your mind for food.
Here’s an interesting account of a Linux lover’s experiment in giving out freedom. I really enjoyed reading about the innovative way he chose to do this. What’s very sad are the many comments from other Linux geeks which completely missed the point of the article. Seriously, folks, you need to …
From the trenches.
Does anyone still harbor doubts about the utility and economy of free software? If so, here is confirmation from within the usually silent halls of Google. (And keep in mind the story is somewhat old, written by an ex-Googler.)
Have bag, will travel.
Don’t you love, with a sort of geeky fetishism, getting an official carrying bag for some new gizmo or other? Oh… you don’t. Above all that, are we? Well, sadly, I’m not. Nope, I love tucking a gadget into its perfectly-matched, accurately-sized carrying case, especially if said case carries some …
A tale of two series.
No rambling, poorly-connected rambling lately, so here goes. Over the last couple of months, I have been reading The Chronicles of Narnia to my daughter, who is a very precocious girl of almost five. I have been reading them to her not in the chronological order of the stories themselves, …