I read one book this semester. I thought I'd be able to read three or four. I'll need to make more time for it. Summer's here now, so I made a last-minute effort to get it finished. I've been reading slowly, chapter-by-chapter, at the weekends.

The book, The Mythical Man-Month …

I found a handy little tool called mkvmerge. On Ubuntu and derivatives it's in a package called mkvtoolnix.

It's handy for when you need to split an mkv file up to get it onto a FAT32 filesytem such as on an iPod.

You can specify when you want the split …

Tablets. Do we need one? Do we want one? I think the answers for me are probably "not really".

But I'd been thinking for a while about getting a new device just for reading feeds and e-books. The desktop gets tiring when all you want to do is churn through …

I wanted a shortcut to launch a file manager using WIN-F, sort of like with Crunchbang. I'm slowly trying to get used to Midnight Commander as my file manager, instead of Nautilus. So I needed a terminal to launch with mc running. Sounds easy, right?

I was seeing a weird …

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Latest thing added to my Awesome: screenshot functionality.

Vanilla Awesome doesn't do anything when you press the print screen key. It's been one of those things that's been a minor annoyance, but fixing it got left by the wayside because obviously if I was taking a screenshot I was …

There's been a lot of rumblings recently about AAA games being released for Linux. I think the reasons for this can be traced back to the success of the Humble Indie Bundles and paid proprietary games being made available in the Ubuntu software center.

I admit, there's a little boy …

So as you may or may not notice my site looks a little bit different. Behind the scenes it's completely different. I've moved completely over to Jekyll, so what you're looking at now is a static html page that has been 'compiled' by Jekyll.

The move was disastrous. It was …

As I'm getting the hang of Awesome's config file and Lua, I'm finding it to be really powerful. Yesterday I added a volume control widget, and today I'm doing something I've been meaning to do for a while - adding a hotkey for opening a browser.

To do this you need …

I've started to enjoy keeping lists. Lists of albums I've listened to this year, lists of films I watch, lists of stuff I need to buy and stuff I need to do (although TaskWarrior is starting to replace a lot of this).

Like the list of podcasts I have here …