Arrived in LA

Arrived in LA

Well, here I am in Los Angeles. After nearly 15 hours of constant travelling, in which I travelled between England, Holland and the USA, I am finally here in my hotel room, and some sucker forgot to cancel the Internet in their room. Lucky ‘ol me. 🙂 Nothing much...
Boo yah

Boo yah

Well, it seems [my last blog entry](https://archivedblog.jonobacon.com/viewcomments.php?id=637) was [picked up on OSNews](https://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=13589). I was under the impression that most people saw the similarities between the mock-ups and the...
Arrived in LA

Help required. Apply within.

As many of you will be aware, the legendary David Watson has volunteered to package [RaccoonShow](https://archivedblog.jonobacon.com/projects/raccoonshow/) for Debian. Anyway, I need your help again. I mailed [Laurence Lessig](https://www.lessig.org/) about...
Groove brother

Groove brother

What a great weekend. After a nice lazy Friday night, I spent the early part of Saturday working on a few bits and pieces, and preparing for my presentation later this week. Then, later that day, Sooz and I drove to Nottingham for Aq’s 30th birthday bash. At a...
Raccoons and Schools

Raccoons and Schools

Wow, what a busy week this week has been. All kinds of things going on, and I have been preparing for my talk at the [Southern California Linux Expo](https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/). My talk is going to be about building the next generation desktop. I am looking...
Is the GPL all that free?

Is the GPL all that free?

I have been meaning to blog about this for a few days, and the intention of this blog entry is to solicit some discussion from you ‘orrible lot. I would be interested to hear your thoughts, so scribe them down. 🙂 In a [previous blog...
Second Life alpha client released

Second Life alpha client released

Got back in from the LUG meeting and popped on to check my mail. I saw that I had been subscribed to a list called `Linux-alpha-users` and was not entirely sure why. I then saw the following email: > Thank you all for participating in the Linux client alpha testing...
Groove brother

From the brain to the screen

Wow, been busy this week. I have a whole bunch of things I want to complete before I head off to Los Angeles in a week. there is lots going on and I am trying to tend to everything as efficiently as possible. Its tough though when you are balancing over 8 different...
Boo yah

RaccoonShow released

This weekend my mum and dad came up to visit and we had a great weekend. We went out and had some great food on Friday and Saturday night and we had our usual interesting discussions, debates and a good laugh. I look forward to seeing them sometime soon. 🙂 ##...
Boo yah

The raccoon needs YOU!

Well, after posting my bug on the swftools-common list, everything has gone quiet. This bug is a real pain and standing in the way for the release of RaccoonShow. As such, I need your help. I am sure some of you l33t coders out there are keen to lend your hand with an...