Monthly Archives: November 2009

Despite the obvious geek bent of my blog it would appear, based on web stats, that once a year I'm far more popular for my Deptartment 56 village setups than I am for Linux and open source. The spike in visitors isn't huge but its obvious and they're all headed […]

Less Geek, More Art

Fri November 27, 2009 in Art and Graphics / dept 56 / General tagged Department 56 / dept56 / dickens / Geek / Lemax / village

I’ve opened a little shop on CafePress called Go Geek Early. I’ve made a few small designs and I’m working on some more. This is just a way to generate a little extra cash to help, for example, get my kid a beater car while she’s up at college. It’s […]

CafePress: Go Geek Early

Mon November 23, 2009 in Art and Graphics / General / GIMP / Open Source / Personal tagged CafePress / Geek

I’ve added copies of the final image from each of the last four tutorials I did for Linux Format’s GIMP column. These are the last of the series, as Linux Format is putting the coumn to sleep for now. They said it might come back later. For now, however, I’ll […]

LXF Gallery updated and updating my

Sun November 22, 2009 in Art and Graphics / GIMP / Linux / Open Source / Writing tagged GIMP / Linux / linux format

There is a discussion ongoing in the GIMP Developer mailing list about rumors of the Ubuntu distribution removing GIMP from the base installation in an upcoming release. The reasoning is that GIMP is a professional application and should only be included as add-on software similar to how Photoshop is not […]

What Linux Users Need. Or Not.

Fri November 20, 2009 in General tagged Fedora / GIMP / Linux / Open Source / ubuntu (updated 5824 days ago)

I just got word that another article of mine has been accepted by Linux Journal. It should be published in February with the Desktop focused issue. The article is on the various ways to access remote Linux applications and have them display locally. For those who don’t know: there is […]

Another LJ article in the pipe

Fri November 13, 2009 in General tagged Linux / linux journal / lj (updated 5831 days ago)

I’ve publicly opened the XNotesNG project. The CVS, forums and related are on SourceForge but their policies for web services are restrictive to what I wanted to set up so I also registered xnotesng.org, set up a blog and wiki and pointed the SourceForge web stuff to that. The blog […]