I have a concert video that I'd like to do a little editing on and post to YouTube. I had thought I remembered that even comparatively recently, the state of video editing on Linux was awful, but the article at http://www.techdrivein.com/2013/09/ ( Read more... )

I'm getting my Rails dev environment set up on Elementary OS. That means SublimeText, RVM, PostgreSQL, Git, and Zsh.

These are some quick thoughts about the installation.

SublimeText downloads a usable binary, but there's no automated way to get it into the application launcher menu (which I believe needs creation of a .desktop file). Fortunately, ( Read more... )

There are a couple of things I'd like to change about the look of Elementary OS. In particular, while I like Droid Sans, I think it's too narrow to look good as the title bar font on Mac-inspired windows (compare to the Mac default of Lucida Grande, a much wider font). So I'm gonna install Elementary Tweaks and play around!

One of the first things I did after setting up the Elementary OS VM was to install Google Chrome, my favorite Web browser. As I would have expected from Google, installation was a snap: the Download link on the website downloaded a .deb package file, which opened in Software Center and automatically started installing like any other self-respecting ( Read more... )

Liveblogging my installation of Elementary OS. (Well, almost live: I'm editing as I go, but not posting till the process is complete.)

Note: Download times shouldn't be taken as gospel. I'm using the public Wi-Fi at King Sauna, and who knows how fast that is? Also, the act of blogging slows everything down a bit.
12:21 a.m. Start downloading ( Read more... )

I've long since stopped using virtually all commercial software on my computer; there's so much good open-source stuff out there that I don't really feel like I need to spend money for software anymore (if anyone wants a list of what I use, let me know and I'll put one together). What isn't open-source is at least free as in beer (e.g. SublimeText ( Read more... )

For those who haven't heard yet: polyamory is wrong. See http://community.livejournal.com/polyamory/2835694.html for why (and the shirt...)

Once again, God/the universe/whatever has reminded me that you get what you want (or what you think you want) when you're not really looking for it.

Squee.

I'm in the process of redesigning my website, and while trolling the Web for good design tips, I found a link to http://www.miauk.com/ as a bad example. Go there. Really. It has to be seen to be believed. Sheesh.

Last night, during morris dance rehearsal, I noticed some hairs starting to get loose on my bow. Examination revealed that the hair was starting to slip out of the tip end. (The violinists among you will know how unusual this is -- normally hairs break rather than slipping out while intact.) I was hoping the bow would last the evening, but the ( Read more... )