Jon Cruz posted this:

These people didn't come to LCA this year, and I keenly missed their presence. This post is a wishful plea to the universe that I might get to catch up with them somewhere sometime this year.

Janet Hawtin
Alli Russell
Kelly Yeoh
Kim Weatherall
Val Henson
Sulamita Garcia
Leslie Hawthorn

linux.conf.au is an amazing event. I did not truly appreciate this fact until LCA2009 in Hobart. I had a brilliant time at the conference, saw some good sessions, caught up with fantastic people, and generally basked in the giddy reality of a total lack of responsibility for anything.  Ghosts never mentioned the intoxicating feeling one has at the conference immediatly following the one you've organised.

Even still, I had my share of tasks...interspersed with frivolity and freedom.

Meaning to post for days. I've been doing so much else. Finally getting around to it now.

http://www.pledgebank.com/AdaLovelaceDay

linux.conf.au 2009 starts in a little over 2 weeks in Hobart Tasmania...

Will you be there?

Deep into preparations for the Inkscape tutorial I'm giving at linux.conf.au in Hobart in January, I've been practicing techniques and recording them using RecordMyDesktop. It is a Linux application that does exactly what it says, screencast and audio recording of what's happening on screen.  It works very well!

Garamond is a gorgeous font and one I have loved for a long long time.

It has a magnificent italic ampersand, and back in my mac days, I recall it having some lovely ornaments I was fond of using on the title pages of essays.

Pascal has posted on garamond.

An interesting read for closet typogeeks like me.