by Jono Bacon | Jan 14, 2008 | Community
You know what, I love [Blender](https://www.blender.org/), 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...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 14, 2008 | Music
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...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 14, 2008 | LUGRadio Live
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...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 11, 2008 | Music
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....
by Jono Bacon | Jan 11, 2008 | Community
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...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 11, 2008 | Ubuntu
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, fun and...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 9, 2008 | LUGRadio
Everyone is banging on about the [EEEPC](https://eeepc.asus.com/global/), and rightly so; it rocks a big ‘un. On [Season 5 Episode 7](https://www.lugradio.org/episodes/#episode90) of LugRadio we reviewed it and gave it a unanimous thumbs-up. Thankfully, the...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 7, 2008 | Community, Music, Speaking, Ubuntu
Tomorrow (Tues 8th Jan) I start back at work, and I will be chewing through the email mountain. If you have emailed me in the last three weeks or so, I hope to get to it over the next few days. In other news, I am now confirmed as the opening keynote for...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 7, 2008 | Music
I wanted to take a nice extended leave over the Christmas period, and while much of it was zipping up and down the country visiting people, I have also had the opportunity to spend some time at home. Now, this may conjour up the image of hours spent in front of the...
by Jono Bacon | Dec 29, 2007 | Community, Dogs, LUGRadio, Music, Speaking, Ubuntu
So here we are, drawing 2007 to a close, and what a year it has been! Understatement of the century. I think 2007 has possibly been the most turbulent year of my life, filled with its share of good and bad times, and a year in which I have felt a great degree of...
