Shallow Thoughts

Akkana's Musings on Open Source, Science, and Nature.

Tue, 25 Jan 2005

GIMP course started

I've started my "GIMP for Beginners" course on the Linuxchix Courses mailing list, topic "gimp".

Anyone reading this is welcome to join in!

Here's the first posting, Lesson 0.

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Wed, 01 Dec 2004

"Wireless on the Road" in Linux Journal

My article on Wireless on the Road, based on experiences getting wi-fi connections on our recent southwest trip, is in Linux Journal online, with a reference in Linux Today. My first official byline, Yeehaw!

Master wordsmith Carla Schroder helped, with both encouragement and proofreading. Thanks, Carla! (BTW, Carla's new book, The Linux Cookbook, just came out. I saw a couple of early pre-production chapters, and it's already solved several Linux problems I was struggling with. I'm sure the rest of the book is just as good, and I'll be buying it. Don't confuse it with the other book by the same name but a different author.)

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Sun, 31 Oct 2004

Image Formats for the Web

Every time I see someone ask about image formats, I think "Someone really ought to write up a howto explaining the difference between GIF, JPG and all the other formats, and what they're good for." There probably are documents like this, but I've never seen one. So I wrote one. Image Formats for the Web and Elsewhere. (I'll probably give a Toastmasters talk on the subject as well.)

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