Yesterday Earl Moore writes that he's ditching MS-Office for the Mac in favour of Neo-Office (a GPL'd Mac-tuned version of OpenOffice), then today it's announced that HP will join Dell and Lenovo in selling desktop PC's running pre-installed Linux.
I know that I don't run in the 'Redmond is great' circles, but there does […]

I’ve uploaded my latest Inkscape screencast (Episode 35). This one describes a neat method of creating reflections using a simple black to white mask. I discovered this neat trick at Nicu’s great blog.
While I’ve made reflections using Inkscape in the past, I’ve always had two problems. First, if the group of objects to be reflected […]

Did you know that over the past month, precisely 12 people have arrived at this blog via a google search on the term 'peeing'.
The awesomely well thought out title on this post a while back is the reason.
Anyways, welcome to the site pee-ple.

As I’ve likely mentioned before, one of the things I like about my newcar is the USB port right in the front panel of the stereo. I bought awee little Lexar Jumpdrive Firefly recently which I keep filled with variousfolders of music and podcast mp3 files. I just stick it into thestereo and it works. […]

Today we arrived back from a week’s vacation up in Fort Irwin, Ontario. We rented a 4-bedroom cottage on a nice quiet lake and recharged the proverbial batteries.
We had family up for a few days to join the three of us, which added a little hullabaloo, but all in all it was a nice relaxing […]

Here's my contribution for the 'lifehacking' culture out there. And it's a little bit selfish:
It's typically heavy morning traffic and you have to make a left turn at a set of traffic lights, as you approach the intersection the lights are red for you. If you're the only one in the left hand turn lane, […]

Here's my heretical post for the week:
There is one bit of functionality that I use and value while working in Windows that I miss when I'm using Gnome:
In XP, the standard File->Open or File->Save dialog box opens and I can rename, delete, copy or paste files that appear in the dialog. So for instance, if […]

Via this Usable Help blog post, comes a great article lucidly describing how to understand Engineers when it comes to feasibility.
If you want a clear and simple discussion of the terms impossible, trivial, unfeasible, non-trivial, hard, and very hard from an engineer’s perspective, then you should definitely check it out.
One misunderstanding by some non-engineers is […]

Earl Moore writes that the Appleworks suite has reached 'End of Life' status, and it got me to thinking. I've never owned or used a Mac or Appleworks. I wonder if it's anything like Microsoft's eternally retarded and resoundingly ignored MS-Works application suite.
MS-Works  had most if not all of the functionality that I needed […]

One sure sign that you're successful is when people are eager to start tearing you down. Witness the comments on this digg thread about some unpatched, unsecured, locally hosted - but Canonical sponsored servers that were taken off line today.  While I'm not a sysadmin, I would think that *any* operating system that is unsecured […]