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Just wanted to provide a quick update on life – things have been absolutely crazy recently. Literally, a-grade crazy. There are some fairly hefty changes going on in my life right now, and this combined with nearly two months of solid travelling, finishing up LugRadio, an incredibly busy worklife and recording the debut Severed Fifth [...]

419 Eater always amuses me – it is a website scam-baiters follow through with those Nigerian scam emails. Today though I read a case where someone manages to persuade the scammer to tattoo Baited By Shiver on his leg. Read it here. Comedy.

DIGG THIS! I am really pleased to see that Horseman Holbach has announced Ubuntu Developer Week. Ubuntu Developer Week is a more detailed continuation of Ubuntu Open Week in which we have a week of IRC tuition sessions, but in this week very much focused on technical developer topics. The week runs from Mon Sep [...]

The unstoppable Matt ‘mdz’ Zimmerman has caved in and now has a blog. He has posted some interesting stuff already, so go and check it out. He is also on Planet Ubuntu.

Fellow horseman, Jorge, and I are both big Metallica fans. Although we largely agree on what constitutes a great Metallica album (Master Of Puppets and …And Justice For All), Metallica have seen such a diverse change in their style, that fans have many different views on what makes the perfect ‘tallica album. Metallica really started [...]

One of the fun aspects of my job has been the opportunity to travel and see the world. In the last few years I have had the chance to visit some stunning places – Brazil, Argentina, Turkey, Australia, Czech Republic, Portugal, USA, Spain, Germany, Belgium, Ireland and various other places. Of course there are many [...]

I am pleased to announce that I will be keynoting at the Ohio LinuxFest. I have heard great things about the show, and never been there before, so I look forward to seeing everyone there. The talk will be brand new, and I am just solidifying a bunch of ideas around it right now – [...]

I am planning to go and see Overkill on Monday night in at Islington Academy in London, but…alas…all on my lonesome. Anyone heading down to the gig? would be fun to meet any Ubuntu / LugRadio / Free Software or otherwise people there for a night of thrash metal.

You know what, 5-A-Day is doing really, really well. The idea is simple – much in the same way people are encouraged to eat five portions of fruit or vegetables a day, we encourage our incredible community to work on five bugs a day. If everyone does five bugs a day, amazing progress gets made. [...]

Just got back home from attending DebConf over in Argentina. I would like to send out a big thankyou to my Debian friends for making me feel incredibly welcome. I was there with a bunch of other Canonical people – Mark Shuttleworth, Jorge Castro, Matthias ‘doko’ Klose, Kees Cook, Steve Langasek and Celso Providelo. It [...]