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Do not mourn for things not done

Mark Wednesday, 22nd December, 2021 Leave a comment

Yesterday I went to my third funeral this year. All of them were unexpected. When somebody dies with little or no warning it’s too easy to get caught up in feeling that they were cheated out of their remaining time; …

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ddrescue article from Linux Voice issue #13

Mark Saturday, 14th August, 2021Saturday, 14th August, 2021 Leave a comment

Here’s a PDF of my dramatized account of rescuing Andy Clift’s comic creation, “Bertie Bear”, from a corrupted hard drive, using the ddrescue utility on a Linux box. This extract originally appeared in Linux Voice issue #13, and is under …

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Linux Miscellaneous Tech

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Mark Thursday, 1st July, 2021Thursday, 1st July, 2021 Leave a comment

Apart from the index for my Inkscape articles, I haven’t been actively updating this blog for quite some time. To be honest I’m more likely to post on Twitter these days, and I don’t often do that. But that hasn’t …

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Off-screen windows with Inkscape on MacOS and XQuartz

Mark Tuesday, 5th February, 2019Sunday, 6th June, 2021

My go-to editor for vector images is Inkscape. So much so that I use it in the creation of my cartoons and comic strips, and have been writing a monthly column about it in Full Circle Magazine for over six …

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Full Circle Magazine, Issue 63

Mark Saturday, 28th July, 2012Sunday, 6th June, 2021

The latest issue of Full Circle Magazine, featuring Part 3 of my Inkscape tutorial, is now available for free download. Full Circle Magazine is a free publication which focuses on Ubuntu and Linux in general, though the Inkscape tutorials are …

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Minimus AVR USB

Mark Thursday, 24th May, 2012Sunday, 6th June, 2021 2 Comments

Thanks to this overly syndicated blog post (really – Planet Ubuntu I can understand given its content, but Planet Mozilla and Planet Inkscape, too!?) I discovered a wonderful little device called Minimus AVR USB. Basically it’s a USB-enabled (and USB-programmable) …

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It’s not over ’til the fat Chumby sings

Mark Tuesday, 1st May, 2012Sunday, 6th June, 2021

I’ve written about my Chumby on this blog in the past (and this one, too). Alas! Chumby Indistries is effectively no more, the staff having moved on and any worthwhile intellectual property in the hands of a corporate trustee. Fortunately …

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Linux Miscellaneous My Green Life Tech Things I Love

RIP Jack Tramiel

Mark Wednesday, 11th April, 2012Sunday, 6th June, 2021

A couple of days ago Jack Tramiel, founder of Commodore and subsequently responsible for Atari’s home computer renaissance in the 1980s passed away. I grew up during the home computer boom of the 80s. My first machine was a Sinclair …

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Games Miscellaneous Tech

The League of Extraordinary Hypocrisy

Mark Friday, 3rd February, 2012Sunday, 6th June, 2021

So it would seem that DC comics are creating a prequel series for the seminal 1980s work, “Watchmen“. I’m not going to discuss whether or not this is a good thing, but rather consider the quotes on that page from …

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Ain’t That A Shame

Mark Tuesday, 3rd January, 2012

…is just one of the songs from 1955 what would now be out of copyright in the US, if it weren’t for the retroactive changes to copyright law that have taken place since then. The list of other works that, …

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