Linux, musical road-dogging, and daily life by Paul W. Frields
 
Category: <span>General</span>

We had a wonderful party for Evie’s 2nd birthday on Saturday. All her aunts, uncles and cousins came. Eleya had put together a whole “Lilo & Stitch” affair, with party favors, a theme cake, lots of balloons… we even had Elvis music! Evie had a great time and got some …

A new picture of Evie is in the links section on the left. (Hit “Reload” in your browser to make sure you have it updated.) What guy couldn’t be happy with such a cutie-pie for a rugrat?

Finally got around to offloading some old media from my Sony TRV-17 in Linux. So easy, I could hardly believe it was Linux. Thanks Red Hat! So now you can see a very short MPEG movie (471 KB) of Evie at her great-grandparents’ farm in Waverly, Tennessee, just before this …

Surreal, bizarre juxtaposition for the day: The beginning of Gulf War II and Evie’s second birthday. I hope she will grow up in a world without the threat of brutal dictators like Saddam Hussein.

I surely can’t be the only person in this position (at least let’s hope not, or I’m a big heel). I find myself increasingly distracted during the workday looking for more background information on the looming war with Iraq. I’ve been monitoring several news sites for timely information since I …

Here is a great article on mutual misunderstanding between the U.S. and European nations, and more importantly, their people. The article’s not about who’s right and who’s wrong, but rather that it is of the highest importance that our action in the upcoming conflict with Iraq reflect the character of …

Leah has the new CD (wishfully entitled “Zero Dollars Spent”) mixed and mastered. Design and duplication should commence shortly and we expect to have the finished product in hand by the end of next month or so. And we may have found our new bassist, more to come on that …

It’s a shame that more U.S. citizens lack the common sense to understand some of the basics of epidemiology. A rudimentary grasp of the information covered in this link will allow most people to dismiss a great deal of the breathless, inflammatory, and downright ignorant rumor-mongering that passes for news …

Yikes, I’m getting delinquent. Been busy with the new Red Hat beta 8.0.94, rebuilding old RPM’s from source and testing. Overall, feels much more responsive than 8.0; probably due to the use of the new POSIX threading library from what I gather.

I’m not sure exactly what to say about this (Shockwave/Flash required) other than the fact that I find it very disturbing. Witness the fish-headed superKikkoman and how he induces cowering fear in the lesser toppings, the ignominous end of the cat who can’t figure out which is the better condiment, …