Crossposted from Tux Machines

Yesterday: GNU/Linux Reaches 10% “Market Share” in statCounter

It’s up some more today:

upported or corroborated by several other surveys of Web traffic, statCounter shows us that 10% might be exceeded some time soon (maybe by month’s end) for GNU/Linux, the foremost carrier of Software Freedom. Combined with ChromeOS, it’s already past and beyond 11%.

ur first week of summer staycation has been very good. Vacations that involve staying in Greater Manchester still leave a very large radius for exploration and we did different things every day. Rianne has rated it 9 our of 10. After today “week 2″ starts, then we have one more week and it’s Bank Holiday. We can leave Town for a bit. Back to normal after that.

There are still some house chores to complete, some of them physical, but with 2+ week left there’s no pressure, no hurry.

In September we’ll take publication up a notch. Back to normal routines.

N two days from now Manchester City can lift another “trophy” (shield), the first one for the new coach, Enzo, as well as for some new players in the club.

We’ve already put some drinks in the fringe in case of celebrations.

The above photo was taken across the road from the stadium, at Lazy Panda.

‘ve decided that, weather factors taken into account, it would be better to go feed the birds again, not visit Trafford Centre like we originally planned. Or go around Town this coming Sunday.

The birds at the park look very hungry, desperate for food. We want to prioritise them.

Water shortages are also becoming a matter of urgency across Europe. This is climate change in action.

oday this blog hits the 3,000-posts milestone. It took 22 years. This year I decided to make better use of this blog, even if just to offload more personal stories and opinions… keeping them out of sites that are technical in nature.

Blogging is still a lot of fun.

“If you love the personal aspect of blogging, sharing your thoughts with the world, no matter the number of views, you will always have someone who loves your blog: you.” -Robert Birming, this week

think it’s fair to say that the Clacton by-election became a feeding frenzy for people who knew entering would guarantee much media attention.

People who don’t live in Clacton entered.

There were people whose entire platform was satirical.

Even some of the policies were, in effect, jokes.

Some local media moaned that Clacton election turned the town/area into a “circus” or an international laughing stock.

ased on these results from the Clacton by-election, 7 candidates received fewer votes than Daniel Pocock.

We hoped he’d win hundreds of vote(r)s, but he got 16.

Daniel Pocock’s campaign did, however, attract a lot of press.