Just a smattering of stuff, no real set topic.

• My.Debian. is a neat little site I recently discovered and intend to put the RSS feed on my site. Honestly, the content is all over the board, with some basic stuff most Linux users should already know mixed with some really neat obscure stuff that is useful to know (like this post on VirtualBox and vboxmanager.) Any Debian, Ubuntu, or Debian-based distro user should check it out.
• Game graphics during the 8-bit era. Stumbled on this yesterday, posted it to FGIJ with general applause. Definitely a nice trip down memory lane, I cut my graphical teeth on the old 8-bit Atari computers. Interesting stuff for anyone who was a part of that scene.
• I purchased Endless Ocean for the Wii a while back. I've really been impressed by this non-game, it's a unique and enjoyable experience, even if a lot of the general game reviewer community is panning it. It's so unique, in fact, that I will be very tempted to include it in this year's Sam's Video Game Awards.

VirtualBox presentation to be given at CINLUG 6 June meeting.

Next week I will be giving a small presentation on VirtualBox at the CINLUG June 6, 2007 General Meeting. The presentation will honestly be pretty small and focus entirely on what VirtualBox is and what you can do with it, but any folks in the Indy area who are interested are encouraged to come as it should at least be fun if not terribly informative.

Recently I've had a need for virtual machines as I have to run various distros for work-related testing. Traditionally I probably would have just chrooted all my work and called it good, but I was very busy with other things, and decided to try real VMs instead.

The problem is, I didn't want any high maintenance ones that required a lot of tweaking and configuration (like bochs or qemu) and I also didn't want any proprietary hunk of shit like VMWare. So it was with great delight that I found VirtualBox.