Archive for November 25th, 2005

Posted on November 25, 2005 - by jono

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Today I confirmed Matthew Bloch and Jonathan Riddell for [LUGRadio Live 2006] (http://www.lugradio.org/live/2006/). In addition to their talks, they will also be exhibiting at the show. Also, my friend yours, Josette from O’Reilly will be there to sell books. Everything is really coming together well.

I have now switched my blog over to use Markdown Syntax. Switching to this was prompted by some of the limitations that were exposed when I tried to post my MediaWiki Skinning HOWTO. The challenge was that the HTML tags inside <pre> tags were still acting as tags. This was fine to fix, but I still wanted the tags outside my <pre> tags to work. After a chat with Elliot, he turned me onto the idea of using Markdown. I chose Markdown over Textile as there is a great PHP implementation. Thanks to Elliot for the suggestion. Speaking of Elliot, check out his neat Flickr search engine called Flickrlilli. Elliot is speaking at LUGRadio Live 2006 too.

A few other things:

• The latest episode of LUGRadio is going to be on the cover disk on Linux User & Developer.
• I have added two confirmed dates for speaking appearences on the Events page. This include SCALE 4X in Los Angeles and WYLUG in Leeds. I am also speaking at ManLUG in the new year, but need to finalise some details first.
• An OpenPOWER machine is on its way from IBM. Should be fun see how it works. They certainly look rather snazzy.
• The backlog of things in my head is beginning to spill out of my ears. The first of a few articles I have been meaning to write is coming soon…
• The Sony VAIO which arrived the other day is running pretty well, and Breezy seems great on it. Still no success in turning the damn Synaptics touchpad off though.