The Grand Fallacy

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

Where’s my towel?

Richard, this bug was filed quite a while ago. I really wanted to just reply on your blog, but you don’t allow “anonymous” comments. I don’t use LJ, so I’m not familiar with how they handle comment spam. Is there a capability like the Akismet plugin I use for WordPress? …

Awoooooooo!

Yes, today is Fedora 8 (“Werewolf”) release day! I’m going to grab some coffee and then get ready to do a couple last minute web publishing tasks for the Web-based Release Notes and Installation Guide. Bugs against the Release Notes would be fine; we’ll be putting out an update in …

Presentation yen.

How to make a bad presentation, from the front lines of the RHGUD conference: Fill your slide deck with words. The more, the better. The smaller, the better. Avoid negative space. Use color schemes that make your words hard to read, or better yet, invisible in some places. Giving your …

Commonalities.

Both Tim Waugh and I are apparently big Justin Currie fans. My copy of his new solo album just showed up and HOLY HELL is it good. I was glad to see a bunch of the Dels play bit parts here and there, and Justin dedicates the record to longtime …