Android phones are little handheld Linux computers, so you'd think it'd be a breeze to move files back and forth between a Linux machine and an Android phone, right ( Read more... )

I got home from work too late to see the oldest granddaughter appear in her play's premiere, so I took the evening off, had a little somethihg that closely resembled supper, and pulled out the banjo and the microphone to see what they could do. You'd think I would have run through one of my own songs, like Crossroads or Dark Lullaby, but I didn't. ( Read more... )

Yesterday I came home from work and found a package waiting for me. I expected a package - I'd ordered a high-capacity battery for my new phone. This package was much larger than you'd ship a battery in, though, unless it was a car battery ( Read more... )

I was going to post a big long Kilroy about how I upgraded our cell phones, but then I realized that nobody really cares about us upgrading our cell phones. Everyone over the age of 14 in most of the world has already had at least one cell phone upgrade. It's not all that exciting ( Read more... )

I wasn't going to buy anything on Friday. Honest I wasn't.

In case you haven't guessed, I'm one of those contrarian types who is opposed to shopping on Black Friday. It's as much an unwillingness to go out and drop a bunch of money on stuff I don't need as it is just not want to go out and fight my way through a bunch of crowds to do it. Throw in a ( Read more... )

I've been playing with my new computer to see what it can do. Short answer: a lot. Right now I'm running two virtual machines on it, one with Windows 7 and my favorite ham radio programs, one with XUbuntu 12.10 running some server software. That, and the native Linux apps I'm running on the main machine like chromium and thunderbird. I've even ( Read more... )

A couple of posts ago I mentioned my brand new development box, workstation, computer, toy or whatever you want to call it. I've been tinkering with it since that post and it is still the bee's knees. As of right now it's running a browser (chromium), an email client (Thunderbird), an instance of Windows 7 running in a virtual machine (virtualbox) ( Read more... )

Sunday night was not all that good a night for sleeping. We packed everything up and got to bed about 11:30 and had to be up at 5:30 to meet up with our guest liaison for the ride to the airport. Six hours is usually plenty of sleeping time, especially if I can get a nap later in the day, but that night's sleep was interrupted by a leg cramp, and ( Read more... )

So as many of you know, I was the Interfilk guest at Conchord which happened about ten days ago, thanks to the sponsorship of Juliana McCorison and Kathleen Sloane and the other board members at Interfilk. Pre-con planning was a bit chaotic but we finally got all the ducks in a row, I got my ticket and off we went ( Read more... )

I've been busy. That's my excuse, and I'm stickin' with it ( Read more... )