August 31 - I just signed up to exhibit my Atari 800XL at the Vintage Computer Festival in Mountain View, CA in October! (No confirmation yet)August 30 - When I checked the mail today, I found an incredible surprise... A cartridge version of my Atari 8-bit game, Gem Drop!
August 30 - Melissa and I just got back from a very short-notice vacation. (She's going back to school next week.) We hit the Montery Bay Aquarium, Hearst Castle, and visited a friend in San Luis Obispo. We even took over an abandoned bonfire on the beach. Sadly, I forgot my camera!
August 25 - It looks like I'll be able to hold a hands-on Tux Paint extravaganza for kids and parents at the Davis Food Co-Op in late October! Now to find computers, volunteers, and people to burn CDROMs...
August 21 - I've been invited to speak at a Computer Science Dept. Colloqium at Sonoma State University (my alma mater)! I'll be doing it on September 11th, right after my Gimp presentation at the North Bay Linux User Group in Sebastopol (on the 9th). Update: I'll be doing a talk on basic game design!
August 21 - My talk at the Sacramento PC Users Group went well last night. I used my slides from my Linux talk for the California 4-H Leadership Conference, and put out around 100 copies of "Knoppix for Kids," a version of Linux that runs right off of a CDROM. (They all got taken!) I also brought a dozen or so copies of the book Running Linux, which got raffled out. The audience seemed to enjoy the presentation.
My friend Brian Lavendar, from the Sacramento Linux User Group followed my presentation with one on "Win4Lin," which lets you run Windows software under Linux. (It seemed an appropriate follow-up.) I wonder if we made anyone convert.
;^)August 20 - During LinuxWorld, I was handed a copy of an Indian magazine called Linux For You. I just cracked it open, and discovered a review of my game Bug Squish! They didn't exactly rave over it, but it wasn't supposed to be a 'killer app.'
:^)(Most of the code was written over two evenings back March 2000.)August 19 - More karma points for me!
;^)Check out the article I posted to Slashdot about a new Linux PDA (from the folks [kinda] who made the first Linux PDA, the Agenda).August 19 - I released a new version of Tux Paint last night. Last Saturday was my brother's birthday, so I went to down and visited him. He was just installing Mac OS X, so I got him to download Tux Paint for my 2-year-old nephew. Muahahahaha!
August 12 - Postcards are going out to my high school classmates. They all have to go stare at the gaudy looking website I put together our 10-year reunion.
>:^)August 11 - At the 4-H talk this morning, I used my wife Melissa's laptop to do the presentation. The kids kept asking to see games, so I went to show them some of mine. Sadly, not many were installed yet. So just now, since her laptop is running Debian 3.0 ('Woody'), I was able to simply run
"apt-get install"for a bunch of my games, and it went out and got them. That, to me, is pretty damned awesome.:^)August 10 - I'll be doing a presentation on Linux to 4-H kids at UC Davis this morning (the same one I did last year). I'll probably be recycling it again for my Linux talk at the Sacramento PC Users Group next Wednesday, too! Many Knoppix discs will be handed out at both events, of course!
August 9 - All 200 of my Tux Paint pamphlets were handed out to folks at the LinuxWorld Expo this week! (Plus another 75 that were copied by folks at the Canon booth for me.) I had a ball helping staff LUGOD's booth, meeting friends I hadn't seen in a while (or never met in person; only online).
I also helped out with the Open Source Education Foundation booth (where all the Tux Paint pamphlets went), and tried my best to get the Debian volunteers in touch with each other (they were trying to find a booth to crash, much like EFF ended up doing with LUGOD). I barely had time to walk the floor and see what cool things there were on display!
Anyway, photos are online now: setup, day 1, day 2 and day 3.
August 1 - I've dug up some other pictures of myself to add to the sparse collection I had online before.
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