Joe Terranova

This Friday, I’ll be giving a presentation on Ubuntu, the Ubuntu community, and LoCo teams to the Cherry Hill Linux User Group. According to their contact, after a Ubuntu install they did at last month’s meeting, they’re hyped and ready to hear more about it. Hopefully I’ll walk away with a few more Ubuntu users and the start of a real LoCo team. This is very exciting for me, as I’ve emailed basically every LUG in the state, so a response from CHLUG is a good sign. Hopefully news will spread to the other LUGs after the meeting.

If anyone wants to attend, the meeting is this Friday (March 2nd), from 7pm-9pm, at the Cherry Hill Public Library (about 2 miles from my house).

On another note, I’ve moved all my hosting to Dreamhost, and I’m fairly satisfied with the result. I’m also quite happy to see that the system for getting LoCo team hosting / dns changes has changed since last time.

When I originally got the domain, the system consisted of “email Matthias”. Unfortunately for me, Matthias happened to be sick and bedridden for around 2 weeks when I wanted it done, so I ended up spending quite a while playing whack-a-mole with the LoCo team project.

While Matthias is, as I’m told, a great guy, the old system failed to follow the golden “bus rule,” as developed by Google: the organization should be set up such that, if any one person were to be hit by a bus, things would continue to run. To my pleasant surprise, the new method is to submit a support request through Launchpad, which means there’s now redundancy, overhead, and quite frankly, people know if I made a request 2 weeks ago and got no response.

Overall, cheers to progress.

Let’s see:

• Ubucon kicked ass. Met a lot of great people, and I’m motivated for the LoCo team again.
• Moved all my stuff to a new host, Dreamhost. It’s cheaper, more reliable, and has more stuff.
• Moved my blog to a wordpress on my site. I’m tired of my livejournal, and I now have things set up so I can post here and automatically post there
• Sent out an email to the LoCo team, telling them I want to meet. In person. Because we’re all real people, I hope.
• Moved Philly By Night to the new version of Mediawiki, and added more content. You know you want to work on it, so just do it.
• I’m juggling 3 million things, but I’m still sane, some how. Let’s keep it that way if we can.

so if i don't on talk on aim, or use livejournal, etc for a while, it's because i'm switching to dvorak. If I start doing those things a lot more, it's because I'm practicing dvorak.

dvzine.org

I'm archiving this here, because I don't think it will stay up more than an hour. Original post is here. (All this is, of course, in reference to , a Livejournal Sponsored community being used to pimp “Blood And Chocolate”, ie “Underworld 3″)

Subject: *ahem*

On the plus side, I'm very happy that livejournal is receiving the revenue it needs to keep making itself a great place to blog.

Other than that, this is possibly one of the most asinine marketing schemes I've ever seen. You've managed to get a handful of people to actually go along with your “role-play” community, yet, as this post illustrates, they see your movie as a horrible perversion of the book they know and love. The following seems to be your general formula for making movies.

1. Make an atrocious movie.
   a. Take a well-known, well-loved dark fantasy staple.
   b. Make it into a movie with a multi-million dollar “guns, tits, and explosions” budget, replacing any meaningful plot with an 2 hours of gibberish.
   c. Feebly try to get the fans of 'a' to advertise it for you.
2. ???
3. Profit?

What's next? Perhaps you can ruin a few Neil Gaiman works? Personally, I think The Sandman would be a lot cooler if you just had a character named Morpheus, made him a short-tempered mal-adjusted 20-something looking guy living in Eastern Europe, and made the whole story about tits, guns, shooting tits with guns, and him being immortal and all torn up about it. Then you could start a livejournal community dedicated to roleplaying girls getting shot in the breasts while making out with Fairies who are also fighting ninjas. Seriously, the fans will do all the advertising for you, and you can just lay back and snort coke through 100 dollars bills.

I hope that you sent Livejournal a u-haul truck full of 100 dollar bills for this crap, because these ads about “Vivian's Secret” are really starting to get to me, and I'm thinking the “Livejournal Volunteer” that writes Vivian's posts probably soaks themselves in a bathtub full of peroxide when they get home, in a feeble attempt to wash off the shame.

Well, after a long day of being extremely annoyed with myself for leaving my door unlocked and getting my stuff stolen, a dealing with public safety,

I move the stuff off my bed to go to sleep.

The bag's sitting on my bed.

WTF.

Pete looked through the whole room.
I looked through the whole room.

And it's right. here.

The other 3 thefts in the building today? Complete coincidence. Now I get to go to public safety today to tell them in writing that I'm a moron.

This has been possibly one of the worst weeks ever. Paranoia better make up for it.