The SoapVox

Being a geek is hard work, so, what do geeks do? we create more geeks :)

I found this from…mmm…LinuxToday, I think (it was a couple of days ago, and my memory sucks and I forgot to note in the bookmark where I found it  ), and I think it’s a very interesting anecdote about being a linux advocate (which I am, BTW…I’m very much a linux geek, which is both my grandest hobby and my money-earning job :) and about the results of one particular advocate in doing what he likes to do.

Linux Advocacy…A Fool’s Errand or a Mission of Mercy?

Read it, it’s worth the time spent at it…it’ll give you a good perspective about linux and about good advocates…and it’ll even get you a couple of chuckles :)

On a different note, I’m posting this using Performancing for Firefox which is a blogging plugin for FF, instead of using my usual Flock. and I’m liking what I see.
 
There’s nothing wrong with Flock, I love Flock…but…I don’t like it as my primary browser. It rocks for blogging, but as a browser it lacks a whole lot of extensions that I use on firefox that aren’t available for Flock yet.

So…if Performancing works as well as Flock, this could be the perfect blogging solution for me :)

BTW, it’s Handy’s fault that I’m using Performanceing :)

Update: Well…I’m not 100% sure I like Performancing more than I like Flock, but it has its advantages…among them, the fact that I don’t use Flock as my primary browser, which makes it a bit of a PITA to blog about stuff I read when I use Flock only as a blog editor and not as my main reading tool.

On the other hand, Performancing needs to learn Flock’s trick for auto-trackbacking…it seems like Performancing requires you to actually give it the trackback URL by hand whenever yo want to trackback..and that’s no fun.

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