by Jono Bacon | Dec 14, 2007 | Community, Ubuntu
As a last minute thing, tonight I will be joining Matthew Revell on his politics radio show, [The Wolverhampton Politics Show](https://www.wolverhamptonpolitics.co.uk/). I will be talking about Free Software and Ubuntu. It starts at 7pm UTC, and there is a [live...
by Jono Bacon | Dec 14, 2007 | Desktop
A few nights ago, we recorded [LugRadio](https://www.lugradio.org/). In this episode, Season 5 Episode 7, which is released on Mon 17th Dec 2007, we did a review of the [Asus EEE PC](https://eeepc.asus.com/global/), and we are also giving one away in a competition....
by Jono Bacon | Dec 13, 2007 | LUGRadio, Music, Ubuntu
Ladies and Gentleman, a few quickies to shoot out here: ## Open Source * On Sunday Dec. 16th, Richard Johnson (nixternal) and (hopefully) Mario Limonciello (superm1) will be leading an [Ubuntu Packaging Jam](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU/RunningPackagingJam) to teach...
by Jono Bacon | Dec 13, 2007 | Ubuntu
Kubuntu fans, **today** (yes, today!) a demonstration of Kubuntu love is going to be happening on `#kubuntu-devel` on Freenode. See [this page](https://wiki.kubuntu.org/KubuntuTutorialsDay) for more details and the schedule, but a quick summary: * **15:00 UTC –...
by Jono Bacon | Dec 11, 2007 | Music
What the hell is going on? Why on earth are good people taken away from us? On this planet we have millions of complete, utter, arseholes, people who treat other people like dirt, yet it seems in the grand scheme of things too many good people are taken from us. Three...
by Jono Bacon | Dec 7, 2007 | Music
Get in. Two awesome bands coming to Birmingham, on two respective Mondays: * **Divine Heresy** – [youtube vid](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ldfN6Wjx0U) – ex-Fear Factory guitarist and lover of pies, Dino Cazares formed this effort with ex-Vital Remains...
by Jono Bacon | Dec 7, 2007 | Humor
Wow, it turns out that *Jono* is *queue* in Finnish. This amazing fact comes from Lars Wirzenius. I feel a strange sense of pride with this. Queuing is something us Brits do very well. For the Finnish to recognise this, is an honor. Kind of. Keep your comments about...
by Jono Bacon | Dec 6, 2007 | Ubuntu
In the Ubuntu world, we love packagers. We think they are intelligent, attractive, perfect human beings who help make Ubuntu what it is. And, they are. They are great, great people and deserve the red-carpet treatment wherever they may roam. We encourage people to...
by Jono Bacon | Dec 3, 2007 | Random
Just so you know, I have been off work for a week with the flu, but I am back now. As such, I will be getting to the email backlog over the next few days. A few lessons learned from my week off: * Jeremy Kyle needs to go away, the irritating sod. So does Ricki Lake,...
by Jono Bacon | Nov 23, 2007 | Music
Everyone has a list of bands that they wish they got to see, but never did. One such band on my list is [Carcass](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcass_%28band%29), one of the first death metal bands I ever heard, and a huge inspiration for my own music. Well,...
