Reg Adkins writes about 10 Ways to Lose Friends and Alienate People. It’s an accurate list and I’m proud to say I pretty much avoid all 10 in my daily life - some more subconsciously than others.
One interesting thing I found while reviewing his list is that I think it’s as apropos to raising kids […]

One evening each year I get to pretend I’m a brain surgeon and cosmetic surgeon rolled into one. Three pumpkins went under the knife (and spoon) on the kitchen floor tonight to my daughter’s absolute delight. Although she seemed gung-ho to help me “scoop out the guts” tonight, one feel of the cool gooey innards […]

I read a post today by Penguin Pete asking whether or not there are any passionate Windows users. In terms of absolute numbers, I think there are a huge amount of them. But in terms of OS demographics I’m sure Mac and Linux have a much larger proportion of passionate users in their camps. In […]

Did you realize that today is "Take Back Your Time" Day?
The aim is to fight the "epidemic of overwork, overscheduling and time famine". You do this by cutting one thing out of your schedule, or maybe cutting one activity from your child’s schedule today, and spending that time going for a walk, spending family time […]

Undoubtedly, Richard Stallman will be pissed when he reads this article. And it won’t be because he’s accused of killing the Linux revolution (in terms of Linux proper, he doesn’t much care about that either way I think). No, I think he’ll be pissed because the article suggests that he thinks all software should be […]

1. It’s good that Felipe Massa won the Formula One Brazilian Grand Prix today. He’s the first Brazilian to win his home grand prix since Ayrton Senna did it some 13 years ago.
2. It’s even better that Spaniard Fernando Alonso won the F1 drivers championship for a second year running. Now that Fernando-Renault cap perched […]

Brad Kellett asks “what gadgets do you take with you when you go on a trip?”. I think he’ll be disappointed with my response.
Brad, I am a simple man. I don’t do a heck of a lot of work related travel. I actually do a fair amount of travel for work, but almost all of […]

One of the neat things about Linux is the fact that it has been developed in the open. Even if you’re not a Linux user, isn’t it neat to read this usenet posting where Linus Torvalds announces his project? Even better is one of the reply posts by James da Silva the very next […]

Earl Moore is trying out Ubuntu. And while it wasn’t all happy happy joy joy, he stuck it out and conquered his installation problems. Kudos Earl for stickin’ to it.
I had my fair share of issues when I first tried Ubuntu Breezy. So much so that I created a working dual boot system […]

Jonathon Wellons writes that ‘If you’re not blogging, you’re wasting your life‘. While I think the title of the post is a little extreme, I completely agree with the points he makes in his brief but nonetheless inspiring post, a snippet of which is:
“…You should be sharing the things you learned so other people will […]