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This time one year ago, I was peering into 2006 wondering what the year would bring. Back then I worked at OpenAdvantage as an Open Source Advocate. I knew 2006 would be a challenging year, and back then I was gritted and determined to help push free software and myself as best as I could. [...]

I have released a new song – Reflections. Not the usual thumping metal but a good-time acoustic tune. I am quite pleased with it, and it is quite different to my usual style, even the acoustic work I have done. Download the Ogg or MP3. As usual, the rest of my music is at Recreant [...]

I normally don’t do memes, but I figured this one from my friend Mark Johnson at Microsoft may be interesting. So, I have been trying to think of things you lot may not know about me, and I have come up with the following: I am related to Ronan Keating – My nephew Jack (the [...]

I actually started writing this tutorial back in September but have been hugely busy and not got round to posting it. Well, I managed to pull my finger out and get it online. Enjoy! Friends, a while back I posted a short tutorial to get you lovely people up and running using GStreamer and Python. [...]

Well, its late on Christmas Eve and I am a bit drunk and about to get to bed. I just wanted to say a quick Happy Christmas to everyone! This has been a roller-coaster of a year for me, and a lot of people have helped it to run smoothly. A quick thanks to the [...]

I suck at coding. I really do. Its odd y’know, as when I was a kid I really, really wanted to be a good coder, the whole idea of writing code and running programs excited me. The idea of controlling the raw power of that 386 got me all-a-fruity sometimes. Not for want of trying, [...]

Just a quick housekeeping update. I made some changes to jonobacon.org to tidy some things up: Speaking Events – Speaking events are listed much more clearly now, and I have also added my current schedule of events for the first few months of 2007. Its gonna be a busy year, so do keep an eye [...]

Another post outlining something that seems rather cool, but unnoticed. Last time it was Flightgear. A mail to the LUGRadio email address pointed to a media player called Exaile. It is a GTK based media player using GStreamer, written in Python, and aims to be the same kind of kitchen-sink media player that Amarok is [...]

…is proving difficult right now as Recreant View is having DNS problems. Jokosher.org is also having the same DNS quirks. I have copied the new blastbeat-double-bass-drum-metal-tastic tune to jonobacon.org so you can grab it. So, to hear Take The Test, go and download the Ogg or download the MP3. Normal service should be resumed shortly. [...]

Wow, seems my last post is stirring up the debate, which is great! Thanks for all the excellent comments you folks have added to the the post. Its late here so I will wait until tomorrow to post some replies in the comments. In the meantime I just wanted to announce my new tune for [...]