Jeff’s Amazing blog

Thanks to Linc for pointing out that it’s National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo). I don’t know who comes up with these things, but it’s a good idea I guess. If I had known about it in advance, I might have given it a shot. As it is I’ve already failed, but I’m not too upset. Life is busy.

I guess a quick update wouldn’t hurt. I’m actually enjoying Twitter and hope to write about that in detail at some point. Working from home, it helps me feel I’m more connected to humanity if I can look and see posts going by.

I’m still running a lot and am signed up for the 100th annual Cincy Thanksgiving Day Race, which will be my first 10K. Some new aches and pains lately, but I’m surprised that my body continues to adapt to the increasing levels of stress I’m subjecting it to. I’m not even sore from the 5 mile run I did 2 days ago, when it would have killed me 4 months ago.

I continue to study for my  RCHE exam that I’ll be taking in December. It’s a lot of material to cover, but I’m surprised at how much I already know. 10 years of Linux experience isn’t wasted, and I see now that maintaining a home server has been good practice.

Other than that, I’m just busy. Lots to do and lots to deal with, but I’d rather be busy on what I love than bored and hopeless.

Slowly I’m finishing up the Ohio LinuxFest audio I have. Even though they’ll eventually be released by Ohio LinuxFest in better quality, I still recorded parts of a couple talks to see how my recorder would do.

First is Dann Washko’s talk on the Linux boot process. A guy sat down next to me halfway through the talk, and started making lots of noise, so I cut the recording short. Here it is in MP3 if you want it. It’s starts in the middle of Klaatu’s intoduction.

Second I have Jorge Castro’s talk “Building a Community Around Your Project.” This one actually came out pretty well. It stands up without the slides, and has good advice on not only building a community but on running a free software project in general. Here it is in MP3 and OGG format.

I finished editing another bit of OLF audio. Some folks went outside for a smoke break and a talk on religion broke out. I thought it was interesting enough to record.

Participants are, from left to right, Linc from TLLTS, me, Joel from TLLTS and Dave Yates. If you’re very religious or very anti-religious this might bother you. Otherwise, I hope you enjoy it. The MP3 is here.

OK. I’ve become just a tiny bit more stupid. I am now on the microblogs.

I was palying with Gwibber, which is a Linux Twitter client (among other things). Seems to work a lot better if you have an account for it to follow.

So I’m on the Twitter with ID Gomer_X. If you want to follow, whatever. I might say some interesting stuff, but I’m not one to let everyone know when I’m going to work or taking a crap. 

Well, I came back from OLF 2009 with a lot of audio and a lot of notes. I’m hoping to release at least most of the audio, but it might take a while.

I got a decent recording of the Friday night “podcasts! hosts and listeners unite!” talk. This is the one where Randy and Janet were supposed to get married. They did get married, but it didn’t happen until later. If you don’t know what that means, listen to the Tech Show, episode 316.

Anyway here’s the audio, which unfortunatley starts in the middle of 3thirty introducing himself. It’s only 5 minutes long, but as far as I know, nobody has any other OLF audio out yet. Enjoy.