I've added a new gallery, Cafe Press, which shows all the designs I've created for the products I sell on my Cafe Press site.  These are pretty simplistic, except for the star field, but they have to be if you're trying to make designs for shirts and other prints for […]

Non-techie web site updates

I'm working with libvirtd/virt-manager/qemu at work.  I have a bunch of F11 systems installed and working just fine.  Today I tried one of the extra lab boxes, same OS config, but when I tried to use the virt-* commands I'd get an error: mjhammel(tty0)$ sudo virsh –connect qemu:///system error: failed […]

virsh/libvirt error: failed to connect to the hypervisor

It’s a good thing I check my blog stats otherwise I never would have known about this.  Linux Format has released, through TuxRadar, the PDFs for 18 of my GIMP tutorials from my column in their magazine.  Pretty cool.  I’d always hoped they’d get a wider net audience.  Too bad […]

LXF releases PDFs of a bunch of my tutorials

I've posted a page linking to my Slideshare presentation on Crunch Cloud, a product my company (or rather the software group) is working on.  This presentation has the added bonus of audio – my voice reading from a script I wrote for the slides.  Kind of a cool process to […]

New slide presentation with audio: Crunch Cloud

I'm in the process of creating a set of slides at work to describe a software product we're working on.  Making slides is easy.  I just use OpenOffice.  Publicizing the slides is just as easy.  I use Slideshare.net.  An interesting feature of this site is the ability to add audio […]

Creating slides with audio on Linux for SlideShare

The movie industry inundated us with 3D this past holiday season.  If you didn't catch Jim Carey's take on Dickens, you didn't miss much.  My wife and I saw it in 2D, sans glasses.  Turns out the movie is a flop if you're not into being wowed by 3D tricks.  […]

3D vision – get over it already

I’m was working on the 2nd edition of The Artists Guide to GIMP Effects tonight when I ran into an ugly bug.  The documents I exchange with my publisher are in RTF format, possibly because its easier for them on the production side though I’m not positive of that.  Anyway, […]

Hating RTF

In a twist of fate that I personally found less than humorous, on Tuesday I had to use an article I’d just submitted to Linux Journal to recover from my own stupidity. I had just submitted an article on doing automated backups to Linux Journal (due out in the March) […]

Using my own research: backup and recovery

I got word in late November that Linux Journal had accepted two more proposals for articles.  The last acceptance (in mid November) was for an article to be published in issue 190 (Desktop) which I wrote and submitted without a proposal.  The next two are for issues 191 (Systems Administrations) […]

Two more articles in the queue at Linux Journal

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

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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

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