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A #tbldownunder tip jar for Pia 5 Feb 2013 | 03:54 pm
A year ago, when Pia thought it might be cool to bring Tim Berners-Lee to Australia for linux.conf.au 2013, she didn’t quite know what she was getting herself into. Interesting and prominent public fi...
A Sexual Awakening 6 Aug 2012 | 06:22 pm
Over the last twelve months or so I’ve gone through something of a sexual awakening. I want to tell you, my Twitter friends, about it first. — Jeff Waugh (@jdub) August 6, 2012 For as long as I can re...
QotD: Jon Corbet on linux.conf.au and Linux Australia 26 Jan 2012 | 07:52 pm
In summary, LCA remains unique in its combination of strongly technical talks, freedom-oriented and hands-on orientation, wide variety of topics covered, and infectious Australian humor. There is a re...
Depression, and the fight of my life 15 Sep 2011 | 12:45 pm
I’ve never really been sure how to say “I have depression”. It’s not like I have it. It comes and it goes, and usually it has me, not the other way around. I’d say, “I’m depressed”, but right now I’m ...
However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light 25 Aug 2011 | 08:55 pm
Playboy: If life is so purposeless, do you feel that it’s worth living? Kubrick: Yes, for those of us who manage somehow to cope with our mortality. The very meaninglessness of life forces man to cre...
Parting ways 9 Jun 2011 | 02:19 pm
After nine years together, Pia and I are separating. This is a mutual and amicable decision, and we wanted everyone to know that we’re both okay. Pia has also written about it. Although it’s a rough ...
Trying to will a world into existence 9 Apr 2011 | 02:26 am
From James Cameron’s introduction to an early scriptment of Strange Days: At the beginning of any writing project is the agonizing period in which nebulous ideas dance before the mind’s eye like memo...
Timeline: It’s 2009… and they have a plan 18 Mar 2011 | 07:48 pm
Note: This post is part seven of a series of thoughts on the relationship between Canonical and GNOME. Recap The GNOME User Experience Hackfest of October 2008 spawned a science project to build a n...
Moving the needle in GNOME 18 Mar 2011 | 10:35 am
Note: This post is part six of a series of thoughts on the relationship between Canonical and GNOME. I was incredibly tempted to entitle this post, “Pushing your turds into GNOME’s immaculate and exa...
Timeline: The Greatest Show on Earth 15 Mar 2011 | 04:54 am
Note: This post is part five of a series of thoughts on the relationship between Canonical and GNOME. Every now and then, the inexorable passage of time is rudely interrupted, and the natural path of...
