About a month or so ago, I reported on the growing number of mercenaries fighting the “war” in Iraq, particularly via the coporation called Blackwater. There are a few details that I left out.
We should not think that only American corporations are involved. Not to be outdone by the US, Canadian and British [...]

My birthday was Tuesday, and, although I told my wife not to get me anything, she insisted.
Amir Sulaiman’s latest: Like A Thief In The Night was on my Amazon.com wishlist. So, she ordered it for me, and it came probably a week before my birthday. She assumed that it was the [...]

Here is a list of planned projects from KDE for Google Summer of Code 2007.
Some of the ones that sound exciting to me:

KOffice — collaborative editing
Making KOrganizer look more like a paper-based calendar: theming improvements
Kontact Journal/Blog Support (something I’ve been hoping to get for quite some time)

There are many more and also other exciting free [...]

OK, so I spoke too soon. MythTV just didn’t work well for us. It ran too slowly on our admittedly old HTPC system (old hardware in a new case). Also, the slowness just made it unbearable to configure. With Freevo, there is not really a graphical setup. You have to [...]

I’ve made the switch to MythTV. It’s not that I no longer like Freevo, but MythTV is in the Ubuntu official repository. It was becoming too laborious to find packages for Freevo and/or compile them from source. I was just getting too many little python errors here and there. After upgrading [...]

What? You didn’t get the memo?

We’re approaching the end of another school year. Time flies. Even though our school is on a year-round schedule, our Library Media Center is expect to close up shop as though we were going on a normal summer vacation. Don’t get me wrong. We do get a summer recess, but it’s [...]