The Grand Fallacy

Linux, musical road-dogging, and daily life by Paul W. Frields
 
The Grand Fallacy

Haven’t been keeping up here much… had to work over the weekend and left little time to goof around on the Web. In the meantime, the RH133 class went very well and I learned — well, a little bit, but it was good to hear how other people are putting …

I’m in RH133 this week away from the office. I’m boning up since so many things have changed substantially from two years ago when I got my RHCE for version 7.0. Eleya and I finished watching the third season of The Sopranos last night. Now what do we do until …

I had a great time recording at my buddy Rich’s house today. We laid down four tracks of guitars including solos and acoustic for a demo we’re producing for our friend Jenny. I really had to struggle to get back into the guitar mindset after spending all my practice time …

Recording session tomorrow. I can hardly wait to put some of my new gear through its paces. There’s interesting information at bugzilla regarding a problem with gnome-pilot in Red Hat Linux 8.0, with regard to some conduit controls that are improperly hidden from the user. This makes it really hard …

I’m really excited about the new Red Hat Linux 8.0. I’m now running it at work exclusively, with my Handspring Visor HotSync working via USB, in concert with the new Evolution PIM. It’s totally cool. I can even use AvantGo properly as well. Eleya and I saw The Straight Story …

My wife had what I think is a fascinating idea last night, as we saw a commercial for “Dr. Phil” or whatever that TV chat show psychologist guy is called. How about an amusement park (or at least an exhibit or tour) where people can get psychoanalyzed in a room …

Many people may talk about Seven Samurai or Rashomon when they discuss Akira Kurosawa, but I have to say that we just saw Red Beard this weekend, and it was one of the most moving pieces of cinema I’ve ever seen, regardless of national origin. I would highly recommend it …

Blowhard and wannabe “cultural commentator” Jan Herman is at it again at MSNBC. Err, Jan, isn’t Sin City actually Las Vegas? And a very nice suck-up job to Yoko Ono as well. Sure she’s in the right, but she doesn’t need you to tell her that, now does she? So …