Entering the fray – 2014 DPL election
After a number of years in Debian, in various roles, I decided to put my name forward for election to Debian Project Leader. My platform has now been published, and campaigning is now under...
Category: Geek
Valve reveal Portal 2 Linux beta, sponsor DebConf14, public issue tracking, oh my!
Valve have announced the availability of Portal 2 beta for Linux! It’s exciting to see such a fantastic game coming to the platform. Luckily, some developers can get it for free :) Interestingly, there’s...
+++ BREAKING Debian 9.0 codename
A source close to the Debian Project has informed me that the project will break from it’s long running tradition of Pixar codenames for their releases. Going further than this, in what is surely...
Adblock adding ads to block ads
Confused yet? The popular browser extension AdBlock for Chrome/Chromium and Safari has launched a new crowdsourced campaign – to buy up internet advertising space inviting people to download AdBlock, so they can block ads....
IT recruitment sexism is alive and well
With the number of female software engineers standing at 20.9% [1], recruitment of females into the industry is a major concern. A friend of mine, Rosemary Francis who’s MD of Ellexus, has a great...
Kerning in LibreOffice
Are you a fan of kerning? Are all your letters running together? Do you want your documents in LibreOffice to look normal again? Try turning off hardware acceleration: Tools -> Options -> View ->...
Let’s get physical
Two recent announcements have been made about how it’s viewed that people should interact with each other. Both, in my opinion, are misguided. Firstly, Yahoo’s chief executive, Marissa Mayer has announced that she’s banning staff from remote...
Fleeing Google
For some time, I have been concerned about the amount of data I store on Google. This post aims to show alternatives to the service. This is primarily for two reasons. The first is...
How not to be a jerk online – chauvinism
Do you remember at school, when the teachers mentioned that something would be on your “permanent record”? The big secret is that there isn’t one. Apologies to all teachers, but it’s not likely this blog’s demographic will...
Unicode hearts!
I was impressed by http://unicodesnowman.com/, and I’m always forgetting sequences for hearts, so I present: http://unicodeheart.com ♥ Hearts for all! ♥