[Sussex] Last night's presentation

[Al Bennett]

Evening All

> I've put last night's presentation on blogging up on my blog (if  you'll 
> pardon the recursion) for anyone who'd like to see it. The OO  slides I 
> used are also linked from the post, should they be wanted for  the SLUG 
> website.

Great presentation, more later (me, toppost?  Never!)

I would say "greetings from Edinburgh/EDLUG" at this point, except I'm back 
in Horsham for a flying visit until Monday.  I'm still enjoying reading the 
SLUG list and it's nice to see things are going well, except for a few blips 
with the Worthing BCF.

Anyway, it's a shame I missed this presentation, it looks good on Dom's blog 
and was an interesting read.  I've just started blogging this year, I've 
been dragging my heels a bit even though my girlfriend's been badgering me 
to join her in the world of RSS and trackbacks for years.  A particularly 
interesting bit of Dom's presentation was the different types of bloggers. 
I think I'm going down the multi-modal route and doing a bit of all types, a 
little bit of ego, a bit of waffle and a bit of Linux.

I've decided to blog about Linux and the OSS that I use and why it's 
cool/timesaving and also how I got it to work.  I think that's important, I 
can't remember how many times Google has saved my arse and often that 
critical hint about an obscure bug was found in a list archive or 
linuxquestions.org thread.  The more useful snippets of information that 
make it onto the web the more likely people will be able to make their thing 
work, and that means they'll be more likely to actually use OS further and 
feel it's a safer prospect.

I'm planning to detail my progress setting up a MythTV box as I go along as 
I've already found useful stuff in other blogs that will make my setup that 
bit more painless.

If anyone's interested, I'll join Dom and Steve and pimp my blog (five posts 
and not counting!):
http://eggfriedrice.com

I'll probably also complain a lot about the number 5 Lothian buses service 
being crap (but feel free to ignore those posts...)

I was interested to read a bit ago about Steve's suggestion of cross 
pollinating LUGs with visits from other groups, I think it's a great idea 
and, if you're interested, I could maybe come along to a moot later in the 
year when I'm down and do a little talk about how EDLUG works.  I'm not sure 
how it would go but if there's any interest I'll try and work something out.

Anyway, I'll return to lurking.  Big brother is watching!

Al

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <linux at oneandoneis2.org>
To: <sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 4:39 PM
Subject: [Sussex] Last night's presentation


> Afternoon all,
>
> I've put last night's presentation on blogging up on my blog (if  you'll 
> pardon the recursion) for anyone who'd like to see it. The OO  slides I 
> used are also linked from the post, should they be wanted for  the SLUG 
> website.
>
> http://geekblog.oneandoneis2.org/index.php/2007/01/26/blogging_and_why_linux_users_should
>
> While I'm at it, what's the date of the next EG LUG meeting? I can't  make 
> next month's SLUG moot so I thought I'd drop in on EG's instead..
>
> Cheers
>
> Dominic
>
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