Linux has rapidly become as easy to use as (or easier than) any other operating system, even on laptops like my ThinkPad T43. Today my WiFi is working at the snap of my fingers while waiting at the airport gate. “Thank you” to all the NetworkManager contributors for making it …
Last night we had a superb gig at Andy’s, although it was (as always) a tiring drive from the boondocks. The audience was responsive and attentive, and we got a lot of positive comments, and I think we sold plenty of copies of our new CD, which was just delivered …
Battlestar Galactica, simply one of the best shows I’ve seen on TV, and one of the only ones I watch anymore. Clever, poignant, exciting, dramatic, intelligent, and powerful. Tonight’s episode rocked hard. Can they keep up this dizzy pace of even better shows practically every week?
Yesterday I met with the parents of the kids involved in the earlier projectile incident. The mothers of the two boys who admitted to shooting the BB rifle in question were very apologetic. The ladies seemed like genuinely nice people, too, and it was a shame to have met them …
Yesterday, at about 3:30 in the afternoon, Eleya started hearing little pinging impact noises from the front of the house. When she opened up the curtains to see what was going on, she found that our neighbors’ teenage son and an assortment of his acquaintances were shooting a BB gun. …
OK, I apologize for the slug line; I couldn’t help myself. Could the news on Mono in Fedora have anything to do with this? Or is it purely an act of faith and community goodwill by the Fedora Foundation, still somewhat shrouded in a fog of obscurity and uncertainty? In …
My wife and I give to a number of charitable organizations, including many police charities that provide community support, like the Virginia State Police Association’s program that gives teddy bears to children involved in domestic abuse situations, and provides for families of officers killed or injured in the line of …
Eleya and I watched Tim Burton’s quirky but entertaining Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It’s a miracle of production and set design, visually stunning but thankfully anchored by a nearly perfect performance by Johnny Depp. We agreed that he’s one of the few actors alive with the power to make …
Now that I’ve finished drafting some for-pay work I’ve been writing, I can move on to the Documentation Guide, which has become woefully outdated against our actual real-world processes. With some additional concerns about licensing and CVS i18n restructuring, just to name a few, it will be an interesting effort. …
I got a comment just today from a fellow Fedora Project person (he pulls far more weight than I, and on a more continual basis, so the term “colleague” is, I think, inappropriate — anyone have a better one?). I wanted to respond here on the blog and have the …