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
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.
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/10/a-dollar-or-les.html
Seth Godin writes good stuff... I nearly always nod and learn something when reading his blog... he's made an audio file of his latest book and is selling it for US$1 on itunes, and audible is offering it for 'free' as a promotion.
