by Jono Bacon | Feb 5, 2007 | Music
People of the world unite, for good news is afoot. [Last week I complained bitterly](https://archivedblog.jonobacon.com/?p=874) that I had missed Decapitated and Hammerfall at our local club, and most gutted I was. Well it turns out that I am a pleb. Not just a pleb,...
by Jono Bacon | Feb 2, 2007 | Humor
[Funny](https://www.understated.co.uk/blog/2007/info2pif-someones-spoofing-my-email/), I got some email from Matt mentioning something about some *Hot Goat Pornography!!1!1!!* and informing me about *willing barnyard companions* and I actually believed it was from...
by Jono Bacon | Feb 2, 2007 | Community, Speaking, Ubuntu
Recently I have been confirmed to give one of the keynotes at [GUADEC](https://guadec.org/) in Birmingham between 15th – 21st July 2007 and I am now confirmed as a speaker for [FISL 8.0](https://fisl.softwarelivre.org/8.0/www/?q=en) in Brazil between 12th...
by Jono Bacon | Feb 1, 2007 | LUGRadio
As one of the [four large gents](https://www.lugradio.org/) I am pleased to announce LUGRadio Live 2007 will happen on the **7th and 8th July 2007** at [The Lighthouse](https://www.light-house.co.uk/) in Wolverhampton, England. LUGRadio Live is an awesomely cool, fun,...
by Jono Bacon | Feb 1, 2007 | Community
OK Brits, time to call on you again. The BBC has an open consultation regarding its online services for making content available. Question 5 is whether this service should only be made available to Microsoft platforms. Naturally, this would be a bad idea for various...
by Jono Bacon | Feb 1, 2007 | Community, Ubuntu
We all like ‘free’, both free as in speech and free as in beer, well how about free as in “cool little device”? Technalign (producers of Pioneer Linux which based is on Kubuntu) and Canonical have hooked together for a competition for all you...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 31, 2007 | Desktop
Wow, kudos to the Novell team for their [recent roll out of Linux desktops and servers](https://tirania.org/blog/archive/2007/Jan-30-1.html), and great timing too! It is case studies like this that are really helping Linux and free software to shape the IT world....
by Jono Bacon | Jan 30, 2007 | Community, Speaking, Ubuntu
Well, the video of the very first, virgin performance of *How To Herd Cats And Influence People* is now available. This is a talk I will be trotting around the world at conferences. This was filmed on Thursday 18th Jan in Sydney at linux.conf.au. The talk discusses...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 29, 2007 | Music
First I get [myspace.com/jonobacon](https://myspace.com/jonobacon) and now I am using with YouTube. Wow, watch me go! Next I will need a Faceparty and Livejournal account… So yes, last night I uploaded some content to YouTube, and it is all video footage, music...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 29, 2007 | Community, Desktop, Jokosher, Ubuntu, Usability
The other day I did an interview with the fellas on the [Linux Action Show](https://www.linuxactionshow.com/?p=79). They are nice guys, good fun, and the interview covered my work with Ubuntu, Jokosher, my [new...