Geoff Holden

I’m often asked why I use Linux and other Open Source software. There are a number of reasons, and some reasons that people assume, but are simply not true.

Because I hate Microsoft and/or Bill Gates — Simply untrue. I have no problem with Microsoft (or Apple for that matter) in particular. I do think the software is overpriced ($500 for an office package, no wonder most home users steal it).
I also think the monopoly is hurting the industry. If 90% […]

The holiday weekend was a pretty quiet one for me. Besides working on XFN Graph, it was pretty much a weekend of TV and movies. The TV watching was improved greatly thanks to XFN Graph, it was pretty much a weekend of TV and movies. The TV watching was improved greatly thanks to XFN Graph, it was pretty much a weekend of TV and movies. The TV watching was improved greatly thanks to MythTV (see previous post). The movie watching was very entertaining. I managed to watch two classics that I’ve meant to for quite […]

I finally saw Constantine this week. Although it looks like it could be a terrible movie, it’s actually pretty good. I had heard mixed reviews of it, but I’m glad I gave it the benefit of the doubt.

Also, I finished putting together the first version of XFN Graph, a graphing tool for XFN links.

I finally got all the pieces I needed to complete my homebrew PVR, so I finished the construction/configuration this weekend, and the project page is up.
I think it’s going to totally change how I watch television, and will seriously reduce the amount of shows I end up missing and then downloading from TV Torrents.

I also saw Being John Malkovich for the first time last night. I had thought that Adaptation was a […]

I gave my talk on Backups Thursday night, and I just posted my presentation on here. As I’ve mentioned in a previous post, it’s kind of funky looking in IE, and it dosen’t work properly in Konqueror. Oh well.
In other news (who am I kidding, it’s not news) I saw “Hitch” Wednesday night. It’s a pretty good movie, I’ll give it my full reccomendation.

Wow, it’s been almost a month again with no post. (This was brought to my attention over the weekend when I was told that upon checking my site, they get a picture of a Christmas tree) Maybe I should’ve made a New Year’s resolution to update my site more often… Oh well, too late… Maybe next year.
Well, I’ve been pretty busy. I’ve been playing poker 2 nights a week (it’s not a gambling problem until […]

It’s been a while since I posted, so here we go.

Christmas was OK, I enjoyed some much needed time off, but it’s still not the same as way back when. I think it’s because there are no children left in the family–I know it’s not supposed to be about gifts and stuff, but I think it would just be different with a few kids around.

As for my own gifts, received a few things relating to my golf and poker interests, […]

I was told a while ago that I haven’t posted here in quite some time. I investigated the matter and it turns out that it was true. So I decided to post here and just say what’s been happening for that past month.

Well, for starters, I bought an XBox. I’ve been playing a few games on there, mostly ones that I can pick up and play for 30 minutes or so and walk away–with the […]

I know most of you who read this site already know this, but a number of the cast and crew of The Screen Savers have been fired and the show is being “revamped”.

I only really started watching the show two months ago (I had bought a digital receiver and got on digital cable for that one show) but I don’t really know what to think of the new changes, whatever they may be.

I’ve been told that the show was once […]

I couldn’t think of anything interesting to write about this week, but then it hit me… “a picture’s worth a thousand words”, right?

So, here’s a photo I took this afternoon. (Slight imperfections repaired using the Gimp)

Maybe at some point I’ll put some sort of photo gallery on here for sharing pictures…