It seems that Canonical are attempting to raise some money by inserting affiliate links into your Unity Dash when you type in a search term. Currently the main target for these links is Amazon, but I’m sure others will be …
Read moreFull Circle Magazine, Issue 63
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 …
Read moreMinimus AVR USB
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) …
Read moreIt’s not over ’til the fat Chumby sings
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 …
Read moreEnd of life for Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat)
Today I turned on my computers at home and at work to be presented with an alert telling me that the operating system on them, Ubuntu 10.10 “Maverick Meerkat”, has reached its end of life. This event has reminded me …
Read moreRIP Jack Tramiel
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 …
Read moreThe League of Extraordinary Hypocrisy
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 …
Read moreAnd with that news I shed a tear
As I come to the end of another day wrestling with code in an effort to get it to run in Internet Explorer 8, I find this post about some real world statistics from a large UK healthcare site. Internet …
Read moreAin’t That A Shame
…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, …
Read moreOpen Educational Resources for Typography
Typography is an art form all of its own. It combines aesthetic and stylistic concerns with elements of ergonomics, cultural history and science. While most of us happily plod along with a few basic fonts in our arsenal, the right …
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