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As part of my album writing/recording, I am taking a video diary of the whole thing. I was originally planning on producing video diaries and putting them online regularly, but I don’t think I have the time – so I am videoing everything and I will produce a documentary for the DVD when it is [...]

I am looking to buy a laptop, and need some advice. Right now I am running a Sony Vaio VGN-TX1XP – a small form-factor laptop, that has served me pretty well. That was, until a few months back. An hour before I left for the airport to the UDS, the keyboard stopped working. This resulted [...]

Quick note – email to jonobacon.org is not working. I am annoyed, very annoyed and just screamed in annoyance and had the neighbours knock on my door to ask if everything was alright. Now, thats annoyed for you. ZoneEdit, you suck. Send mail to jono AT ubuntu DOT com instead.

You know what, I love Blender, I really do. For those of you who have been living under a rock for the last 10 years, Blender is a free cross-platform 3D modelling application. You may be wondering why someone with the artistic talent of a rubber hammer is so interested in Blender, well its because [...]

When I started work on my new album, I had an idea in my head about what it should sound like. I wanted to write something brutally heavy, very death metal inspired, and taking influence from Cannibal Corpse, Anata, Decapitated, Pantera and Fear Factory. What is unfolding as I write is really quite different. I [...]

LugRadio Live USA 2008 is now confirmed to be happening on the 12th and 13th April 2008 at The Metreon, 101 4th St, San Francisco. More details about the event will be announced soon, but I just wanted to get the dates out so people can book plane tickets. We are looking for speakers and [...]

Time for a quick update on the album. Work is progressing pretty well, and I now have four final core song concepts. A song concept is what I refer to as the core seedling of a song, and is typically in the form of a verse and chorus and few other bits and pieces. The [...]

Congratulations to all of my old and new friends in the KDE team for shipping 4.0. They have made one hell of an achievement in that release, and I was testing the Kubuntu RC2 with KDE 4.0 the other day for a segment on LugRadio, and was mucho impressed. It all reminds me of the [...]

A bunch of people have been asking me since I got back to work what I would like to see in the Ubuntu community in 2008. As you can imagine, I have a big list of things I would like to achieve, but there is one major desire that I have – make it easy, [...]

Everyone is banging on about the EEEPC, and rightly so; it rocks a big ‘un. On Season 5 Episode 7 of LugRadio we reviewed it and gave it a unanimous thumbs-up. Thankfully, the review model we got from Dale at EfficientPC was not just for review, but to give away in our Pimp My LugRadio [...]