Renaissance Man

It's dark, dusty and very quiet over here... What you really want is to be over here at my current blog: http://blog.rfquerin.org

Well the time has finally arrived to shove this thing out the door. I'm done fiddling with my new site and blog for the time being. You ...

Through absolutely no effort of my own, the screencasters site is now rolling all blog-style. Major kudos to heathenx for man-handling word...

I hope everyone out there had a safe and happy holiday. Happy New Year to all. I just got back from a 4 day mini-trek down to Lockport NY to...

A while ago I purchased some hosting, bought a couple of domain names and committed myself to designing a new website for myself and moving ...

Finally... a rap song aimed straight at me.. motherf!#@er... [warning: if you didn't get the gist.. you might find the language (or at l...

Ryan Lerch spreads the news that the About Screen contest for the upcoming 0.46 release of Inkscape has been announced. The deadline is Jan...

I have had a Facebook account for at least a few months now. It has proved useful for one thing: reacquainting with school chums from long a...

I just responded to a comment on one of my blog posts about various aspects of the free and open-source OS world versus Windows. One part o...

I'm one of those people who figures out things bit by bit. I learn enough to get what I want accomplished and then move on. A consequenc...

One thing I've loved doing since I can remember is making paper airplanes. If you're looking for a few neat paper airplane designs t...

I've just finished wrestling with a small wxpython application I wrote a few years back for our bookkeeper. It needed minor updating wi...

Looks like CBS has *finally* decided to air the 7 episode long second season of Jericho. I'm not a big TV watcher at all, but this was ...

Posting here has slowed for the time being but for good reason (to me anyway). I'm finally shucking my blogspot diapers and have purchas...

Typically I've always used F-Spot to transfer the photos from my DSLR to my hard drive. I like the way it arranges my photos: /home/use...

So I'm checking out the We Are Smarter Than Me site (google it - they get no linkage from me). Hmm, nice, an interview with Doc Searls ...

I'm not sure if it's just a Canadian thing, but this recent AutoTrader commercial made me laugh - especially the last part of it. Du...

Via the Open Font Library Mailing list comes news of Font Matrix , a font manager for Linux. The opening line on the front page shows much p...

I was in Niagara Falls (Ontario) this weekend for a quick mini-vacation. On the first night, after checking in, (to the Doubletree which I ...

I was a little disappointed to hear the lack of love for the Openbox window manager during the most recent LinuxLinkTechShow . I've bee...

Several months ago I noticed that my posts were showing up on spam blogs every once in a while. Then it all stopped. But in the past week or...

I don't know about you, but the last two Apple ads I've seen on TV (the Mac vs PC thing) are really starting to annoy me. Don't ...

On a recent TechGuy podcast I heard about this Eye-Fi Wireless SD card that comes with built-in wi-fi capability. Yes wi-fi right inside th...

I've never had complete satisfaction with a distribution upgrade although they seem to get substantially less painful for me with each i...

I've *finally* completed a new screencast . Sorry for the long delay. This one was a fun one. It demonstrates a fairly easy way to take ...

Heathenx and I have decided to add a completely voluntary donation button to our screencasters website. He seemed to articulate the reasonin...

Turns out Earl Moore has some serious skillz when it comes to woodworking. He built a very nice looking dining room table extension. And th...

Does the world really need another font? Yes. Mine. For some inexplicable reason, I'm hell bent on designing/making my own font. I find ...

So after my accidental but terribly embarrassing Stumbleupon spam mail earlier today I finally got up the courage to crawl out from under my...

Excuse me.. Two phone calls so far... I'm going home right now to curl up and die. :<

I just inadvertently spammed 270 of my contacts. And I'm PISSED about it. Sincerest apologies if you received a Stumbleupon invite/refer...

I Love Typography cites a nice post over at Smashing Magazine describing 40+ excellent free fonts for professional design. I already have s...

If you've ever tried Google Docs, you'll know it's an online word processor in the traditional Google style - functional but not...

I picked this up listening to Leo Laporte's KFI podcast a week or two back and just forgot to blog about it: Did you know that... In Fir...

I visit my Facebook page every few weeks just to see what's up. I find my distaste for FB growing with each visit. All I see is a steady...

Lifehacker seems to have it's fair share of Linux related info lately which is nice. Something interesting spotted today was this articl...

About five years ago, I was thumbing through my local Chapters bookstore shelves and picked up a copy of Driving Ambition by Doug Nye which...

As I've posted about before , I run XP at work, but use several Linux-y tools in my workflow. A key tool for me is the rxvt terminal whi...

The second part of my guest segment on the linuxreality podcast is up today. More Inkscape chatter from yours truly. The new found fame I...

I'm not sure about the idea of people-powered search. But maybe Jason Calacanis should stick to video trailer production instead. This i...

Stuck with a crappy graphic designer? Say goodbye to all your worries with easy to apply "Make My Logo Bigger Cream". Big improvem...

While not one of my normal topics, I have to say that Top Gear is an absolute kickass show (and magazine). Very high quality production and...

Saw this excellent and interesting demo of something dubbed 'Liquid Rescaling'. In essence it allows you to stretch or compress an ...

I've entered a few logo contests in the past just for fun. It's been a creative outlet for me and always ends up being a learning ex...

I haven't done a lot of photography related posts lately. Unsurprisingly, that's because I haven't done a lot of photography lat...

As I've likely mentioned before, I've been very interested in graphic design for the last little while and typography is one of the ...

Over the past few months I have noticed something different in my neck of the woods. I do a lot of driving (commuting etc.) and a great deal...

Although as a parent, I'm twice removed from this situation  (I have only one child, and she's a 'she'), I did grow up as th...

While I don't necessarily like Apple's relatively closed system. I do hold their designers (both industrial and graphic) in high reg...

Screw Google Docs or Writely or whatever. Forget about ZohoWriter and MS-Office Online... If you're looking for a truly awe-inspiring on...