Gnome and Gnome

Aug 6, 2009 | 3 Comments

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Most of you know me by my handle Lockergnome. I started using this handle long before I came online. It was given to me back in high school and has stuck with me ever since. While in Hawaii recently, I got [...]

Whack me in the Face – You Know you Want To

Jan 18, 2008 | 29 Comments

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed I’ve always wanted to see my heads popping in and out of virtual holes. Mitch programmed my head into a “Whack a Gnome” game, that you can play for free in your web browser. You can go to my blog to [...]

World’s Highest Linux Distribution

Jan 12, 2007 | 9 Comments

I’ve taken over a hundred flights in my short lifetime. Some experiences have been great (JetBlue), and others have been wildly less-than-mediocre. No matter what, I always appreciate the infusion of technology / entertainment options with mass transit. Boeing is sadly killing their Connexion service, and that probably means we won’t ever see wireless Internet [...]

Rubbing XGL in Windows Vista’s Wounds

Sep 9, 2006 | 58 Comments

Everybody went ga-ga over the video I linked to the other day – showing XGL running on KDE in some random flavor of Linux. Some of you suffered from motion sickness after watching the entire thing, but I don’t think typical usage would require or necessitate that much desktop movement in such a small amount [...]

Why is it Called Gnomedex?

Jun 6, 2006 | 8 Comments

So, why is it called Gnomedex, anyway? As “pointed” out by the recent entry in the YPN blog, And Don’t Forget Your Pointy Hat, we have our reasons: “What’s the opposite of COMDEX?â€Â? asks Web entrepreneur and Lockergnome.com founder, Chris Pirillo (see Polls, at right). “Gnomedexâ€â€?something small that’s really big, something people want to attend [...]