In light of a security breach at Twitter I am looking to terminate my presence there and stick with Identica instead. I need to sleep on this, though.
No, I don't intend to return to Google Plus. I've left it twice and don't intend to leave it a third time.
Podcast operations will resume eventually. In lieu of normal programs I pulled the dramatization of Murray Leinster's A Logic Named Joe out of the Archive.org vault for people to enjoy. Considering it is a tale about computers and computer networks going wild, it seems apropos these days. Normal programs, whether for library land or the Ohio LoCo, should be released on May 14th.
I put forward a proposal to include apt-offline on the LiveCD for Xubuntu. I don't feel confident enough to drive that by myself. I wrote up a rationale specification if somebody wants to adopt a fairly small project for the Quantal Quetzal cycle that helps bridge digital divides.
I need to look at scripting something using rsstail and pandoc to grab RSS feed updates and transmogrify them into EPUB files I can load to my ereader. The package calibre allows for this sort of thing but I want something that is somewhat safe to use cross-architecture and not as monolithic. Setting such up as a batch job on my SheevaPlug is a desired sort of endgame for such efforts.
The BeagleBoard-xM remains offline. Right now a rackmount box has taken its place. When time permits I will try to resume BeagleBoard operations.
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Stephen Michael Kellat: Miscellany: Madly Off In All Directions
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