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 …
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 …
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.)
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 …
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, …
Very little to report lately, with the band on a temporary holiday hiatus. I’ve found myself much more satisfied at work lately after moving my desk to a new office. It’s quieter, and although I myself am not a big fan of very quiet offices, I find that my concentration …
My new article reviewing five Fedora books is in the new issue of Red Hat Magazine. RHM is a little late off the press this month since the Editor is currently on leave. Can’t wait to see what the next year has in store!
I showed Eleya that Sam, the world’s ugliest dog died today just shy of his 15th birthday. Without missing a beat she said, “How could they tell?” Egad, I love that broad.
Fortunately my fears about an internationally-managed Internet (UN management, anyone?) did not come to pass. Which means sanity will prevail in the small areas in which it is in fact present on the Internet already.