You nailed the personality of #linux on irc.arstechnica.org, I don’t know anything that would’ve got it better.

See Jorge’s Blog for more.

Ok, made it to Linuxworld this year - I think that’s 5 years in a row now. Linuxworld isn’t the gee-whiz show it used to be - for the most part, it’s gone from geeks to slick marketing demos (with a few exceptions, like the Debian booth).

This year’s LW expo differs from the last few in that there’s certainly more vendors there, and they’re offering more free swag and goodies. For a geek like me, this is a good thing. :) Unfortunately, there weren’t any booth babes like back in the heyday of the bubble… oh well.

Enough of this, let’s see some pix!

This MP3 is absolutely hysterical. Check it out.

I’m working the Gilroy Garlic Festival this week - I’m asst. chair for the Communications Committee.

Since we have internet capability at the comms trailer, I’ve taken my Mac and iSight and am putting it up as a webcam. Here’s the webcam view of the comms trailer (updated once per minute):

Update: click on read more for the last 24 images.

This guy on Amazon.com is hysterical with his product reviews. Take some time and check it out. Example with a kid’s rattle:

I bought my first one a few weeks ago and was quite impressed with the grips, color-coded to clearly distinguish the 6 separate gripping possibilities on an x-y-z pyramidal coordinate configuration (few rattles bother to transcend 2-dimensional space); this is particulary helpful for younger babies, who tend to be awful with spacial cognition. I could easily see the green grip extending outward from me while holding the blue grip with my right and gumming the orange one in my mouth. “Ba!” I thought, pointing in the (relative) direction of the purple grip with sudden alacrity. Reaching for it with my foot I managed to grab on to it by trapping it between my toes and a nearby pantleg without wetting myself.