by Jono Bacon | Jan 14, 2005 | Uncategorized
Had a good day yesterday, although I have been feeling under the weather for a few days. Yesterday I spend some time hacking some bits of Python code together so that I could connect to HAL and DBUS. It all went fairly smoothly, and it is quite cool that I could...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 12, 2005 | Uncategorized
Fun day today. This morning Matt and I interviewed Mark Shuttleworth for LUGRadio. I am pleased to report that Shuttleworth is an incredibly personable, honest and intelligent chap. We had an interesting conversation about some of the aspects of Ubuntu and Canonical,...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 11, 2005 | Uncategorized
Bejesus, its been busy recently. Got in today and had a meeting about some up and coming work that we are looking at. After a few hours in this meeting, I headed up to the office and continued working on an article for Linux User and Developer magazine about guerrilla...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 10, 2005 | Uncategorized
Its a funny old world, and in this funny old world, computers try to be funny and just end up being old. This weekend I decided I was going to get our network at home sorted out. I bought one of those green frog Speedtouch modems and I thought I would get it plugged...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 7, 2005 | Uncategorized
Got into work, revived my Hoary install again and heard it breathe a sigh of relief as it felt the soft presence of an Internet connection again. No Internet connection home is really starting to annoy me,and be prepared for me to rant until it is resolved. Luckily,...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 6, 2005 | Uncategorized
Well, after a well rested Christmas, and rather hectic new year, I am back at work. I started back on Tuesday, and spent the morning getting some initial bits and pieces sorted out when I got in. This included upgrading my laptop Hoary installation. I updated the...
by Jono Bacon | Jan 1, 2005 | Uncategorized
Astute readers of jonobacon.com will have noticed a distinct lack of blog postings. When I say to people before Christmas that I won’t be on the net much, I was not kidding when I referred to this Christmas. This is about the third time I have ventured onto the...
by Jono Bacon | Dec 27, 2004 | Uncategorized
Fear not folks, I am still around. You may have noticed a distinct lack of website activity around here, but I have had precious little net access. I have recently moved house, and buried somewhere between the boxes and piles of random crap that I never knew existed,...
by Jono Bacon | Dec 13, 2004 | Uncategorized
I know I seem to start each blog entry off by saying that things have been really hectic recently, but they truly have. These things are currently battling for time in my life at the moment: Moving house – tomorrow we move to a new house and as such, our current...
by Jono Bacon | Dec 9, 2004 | Uncategorized
Today is a sad day for metallers everywhere. One of the finest examples of a metal guitarist and all round good guy was murdered. Dimebag Darrell leaped to fame with Pantera in the 80’s, and they went on to become one of the most prominent metal bands of the...