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Just learned that Seth Vidal, an important developer in the open source community, has died. It actually happened almost a week ago, but I've been out of touch and didn't hear about it until I happened upon a post by a former colleague at Red Hat, so I'm passing the sad news along to anyone else who might not know.

I'd only met the guy a couple of times, but he was one of those nerds who was brilliant and knew it. He didn't brag about it, he just was what he was, and that inspired respect. If you've ever used RHEL or Fedora, or any modern RPM-based distro, you've used Seth's work (he created yum, for those to whom that has meaning), so raise a glass to him. The community has lost a lot.

Also, Seth was killed by a driver who hit him from behind while he was on his bike and then fled the scene (still at large, afaik), so umm... you can also honor his memory by not being a horrible @#$@ing human.

Ok, breathing deep here, dealing with some feelings.

Keeping up with my issues...

Hey techies, I want to set up a personal issue tracker (heh) for keeping up with various personal projects I've got going on. I think I would default to Bugzilla because I know it, but does anyone have strong enough feelings to try and talk me into RT/Trac/Jira/whatever else the new hotness is? Needs to be able to track multiple projects with subcomponents. Bonus points for having a wiki-like design space that can be attached to issues (which would be a point in Trac's favor from what I've seen?)

Anyway, thoughts?

Trekstravaganza

By the way, I've been meaning to post this for ages with a more complete list of highlights, but whatever. Better now than never.

All the Star Trek captains, on stage at a con, interviewed by John Barrowman ('cause he's also a captain, y'see).

Partial list of highlights, in case the crappy quality is too much to deal with:

• The opening, in which Barrowman squees like the adorable little fangirl that he is


• 14:50: one of the most audacious (and successful!) bits of on-demand fanservice ever


• 34:40: Kate Mulgrew tells a tale that could rival the one at 14:50, plus womance


• 37:30: If you're worried that Barrowman might not drop trou, skip here and worry no more

Basically, Shatner is Shatner, Stewart is Stewart, Barrowman is extremely Barrowman, Mulgrew is awesome (the more I watch (a carefully selected subset of) Voyager and the more I hear her speak, the more I <3 <3 <3 her), Bakula looks pleased as punch just to be there, and Brooks... is dayum. Avery Brooks. The dude somehow manages to come across as simultaneously too cool for school and the most intense person ever.