Friday, as in yesterday, didn’t warrant a blog entry because essentially nothing happened. There was a lot of “housekeeping” matters to attend to, but nothing worth mentioning on a day that was filled with non-Lindependence errands more than anything. The evening ended, however, with an installfest at Cabrillo College, one of the third-Friday-of-the-month summer installfests at the college (the next one August 15 — make a note of it for those of you in the area), where Lindependence guru Jeremy Sturdivant brought his Nintendo DS running DS Linux, which is pretty cool in a PDA sort of way.
What sort of piqued my interest yesterday while catching up on my reading, digital and otherwise, was a couple of items. The first was Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols blog item which makes a great case for using GNU/Linux during the current economic downturn. It says, for the most part, that with the economy in a tailspin, we can no longer afford the “Microsoft tax” and the other surcharges that surround it (like, oh, for example, anti-virus software). A good read, and I agree with it wholeheartedly.
That definitely translated into something Feltoners should know. Thanks, Steven.
The second was a little more philosophical, but nonetheless significantly relevant. In a response to Thomas King’s article at Linux.com, a poster who goes by the name of “anonymous” writes in the last response (at least the last one on Saturday afternoon) that with installfests being on the wane, Lindependence may spark a renaissance in installfests. But rather than being “geekfests” (my word, not his or hers), these new installfests — installfest 2.0, if you will — are more geared to the non-geek general public seeking digital alternatives.
Hopefully, we are well on the way on the road to this installfest rebirth that is open and welcoming to everyone, not just the digitally inclined.
Also, Christian Einfeldt is cranking out the video — and he has more raw footage to view if you so desire. It starts here, and again this is raw video footage with which to make something a little more . . . documentary-like. With mad scientist hair, I take to the Felton Farmers Market to hand out fliers, and it’s worth a look (and Ken thinks this way, but you decide: Do I really look like Cheech Marin?).
70 degrees on a great day with only a few clouds.
