The Grand Fallacy

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

And so it ends.

…At least for some of us who have to make it back to work in the morning. (I just returned home after a quick jump from Boston to Richmond.) I was able to fit a little docs work in this morning, but the majority of my day was spent behind …

Curse you, FUDPub!

Jesse’s not the only person paying today for last night’s festivities. But after a half a chicken curry plate, one boba tea, and a liter of water, I’m feeling a little more human. Reminder to self: Always — no, never try to keep up with Red Hat sales engineers when …

Release the hounds!

FUDCon starts this morning. I am woefully underprepared from the perspective of offering a photoblog or anything of the sort — I totally forgot to get moto4lin running on my box before I left, and I was way too tired last night to do anything about it. I did, however, …

Man on a mission.

Kevin Smith and I are a lot alike: both thirty-seven-year-old fathers of small children, and who love movies, pizza, beer, DVDs, and basically all things sedentary. Each of us has a family history of diabetes and yet, inexplicably, we’ve both managed to avoid facing the awful truth that we’re killing …

Free as in speech.

Thanks, Greg, for once again proving the point that free software is really about the freedom and not the cost. What’s the deal with the paper-thin FUD saying, “hardware vendors don’t certify source RPMs”? Of course they do! Source is tied one-to-one to the binary RPMs the hardware vendors certify; …

A little excitement.

Today was weirdly bifurcated between hacking and sightseeing. Morning and late night I spent working on Luke Macken’s irssi-notify script, which Thorsten wrote about earlier today. At Luke’s suggestion, I put a quick project page up at Google Code. Hopefully folks will feel free to make (reasonable) suggestions for improvements. …

Post-holiday chill.

Well, certainly I’m not talking about the weather. This is the second Saturday in a row with temperatures at or above the mid-60s. But after the normal stress of the holidays, there was not much news to report here. Ethan has of course abandoned all the toys Santa brought him …

Happy 2007!

We finished out 2006 with a wonderful weekend stay at a beautiful, enormous lakefront rental house, with two other families who have been good friends of ours for many a year. Unfortunately, we partied a little too hard the night before New Year’s Eve, so when the big night came …