Monthly Archives: November 2005

3BT: Latest Adventure

I’m back in the USA for meetings and The Last Badger. Perhaps I should’ve made a break from the 3BT moniker, because the sense of adventure that dominated my previous trip hasn’t gone away. “What now?!” you ask…

Despite the very simple SYD-LAX-PDX route, I am here in PDX without my checked luggage. It is in LAX […]

3BT: The Last Badger

Who: Lovers of GNOME, Ubuntu and/or Freedom.
What: Running With Scissors - Life on the Bleeding Edge of GNOME and Ubuntu… With your fully accredited rollercoaster designer and refrigeration engineer, Jeff Waugh.
Where: Smith Memorial Center, Room 338, Portland State University.
When: 19:30 on Tuesday, November 29.
WTF: Watch the 3BT page for updates to this info.

The Badger’s Back! In his last adventure, the […]

Speaker for the Dead

Silly memories and reflections on stuff.

The lovely Dell X300 laptop, which they don’t sell anymore. It was really a rebadged Samsung, so not the usual Dell crapola. 7.5 times better than the X40, mostly because it had a trackpad instead of a clit. Lost about five weeks of mail, photos and work while I’ve been away.
New Pentax […]

3BT: The New Hotness

During my travels, I pimp lot of sweet, sweet GNOME and Ubuntu action, so there’s always demand for a list of pointers to the new hotness. Here it is!

Beagle
Tomboy
F-Spot
Galago
Sabayon
NetworkManager
Nokia 770
GStreamer
Flumotion
DIVA
PiTiVi
Istanbul
Annodex
The Fridge
Ubuntu Forums
 Launchpad

3BT: Spain and Canada

My short time in Spain was defined mostly by my Barajas, Badajoz experience, which roughly translates to evil travel plan fuckage. I flew into Madrid’s Barajas airport, thinking I would be picked up there (as Pia was), but the organisers thought I was arriving at Badajoz, the nearest, teeny-tiny airport to Merida. Hilarity ensued. So […]

Ride the Wild Elmo

Nat and Luis, you guys may be interested to know that the Ubuntu community actually has a wild elmo. I’ve documented it in our wiki for future reference.