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Thank you, Cheese!

August 31, 2007 – 13:18

Pia & Jeff say thank you to Daniel for Cheese!

By Jeff Waugh | Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged cheese, desktop, FLOSS, GNOME | Comments (4)

Linux for… Ladies?

August 20, 2007 – 16:42

“If you want to sound like a creep, add the word ‘ladies’ to the end of things you say: Thanks for coming to my show… ladies.” — Demetri Martin on his hilarious comedy album, These Are Jokes

All kudos to Canonical for selling women’s form-fitting t-shirts at their new online store — they’re smart enough to [...]

By Jeff Waugh | Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged FLOSS, technology, Ubuntu, women | Comments (21)

Speaking with customers

June 18, 2007 – 21:23

Today, Pipka came home with a story about a customer who was considering moving to a 100% Windows environment because he was merely unfamiliar with Linux.
Now, I wouldn’t recommend the strategy she used in the general case — in fact, I’d find it hard to recommend it under many circumstances at all — but here’s [...]

By Jeff Waugh | Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged film, FLOSS, humanity, Linux, migration, monoculture, technology, windows | Comments (3)

Pia vs. MECHA-CAMERA

February 11, 2007 – 19:45

I’m really enjoying the new camera. Of course, that means Pia isn’t enjoying me enjoying the new camera!

But she can’t be too upset, with beautiful pictures like these.

By Jeff Waugh | Posted in General | Also tagged Pia Waugh, Waugh Family | Comments (1)

Business Cards + Hackergotchi = Awesome

January 9, 2007 – 02:36

I was looking for something zesty to personalise our 2007 business cards, and stumbled on the idea of putting hackergotchis on them. At first I thought it would suck pretty badly, but on changing the effective DPI of the image (meaning no interpolation or lossy scaling), I discovered that the average hackergotchi will be about [...]

By Jeff Waugh | Posted in General | Also tagged Waugh Partners | Comments (9)

Ubuntu Videogram Screentest

January 6, 2007 – 16:41

Some amusing Ubuntu history for you…
A few weeks back, Matt Zimmerman — who must be aiming for a world record in “dude, you so need a blog” demands — reminded me about a bizaare video created early last year as a test for a potential Ubuntu feature, so I thought I’d share one of the [...]

By Jeff Waugh | Posted in General | Also tagged mark shuttleworth, matt zimmerman, Ubuntu, Waugh Family | Comments (8)