Bishop Tutu spent a few weeks a year at our old church, All Saints in Pasadena. This particular photo was taken during a speech at UCLA, as I recall. There are very few people whom I've met and come to know a bit, who provide as great, and true, a moral compass as this guy. If he's ever speaking near you, make the effort to go, and listen.

Just 'cause I'm still trying hard to be a Linux desktop user, I set up my fast AMD box with a Canon flatbed scanner, VueScan and GIMP. So I can feed the prints with one hand while I'm working on the Mac, and share the scans via netatalk, the Linux AppleTalk-over-IP utility, with iPhoto on the Mac.

I rapped Linux on the desktop the other day, but so far this has worked pretty well. VueScan is pretty stable - about as stable as iPhoto on the Mac, and the Red Hat 8.0 Gnome desktop has an unbelievably cool feature: when you open a photo in a window, my USB mouse' scroll wheel zooms it up or down (no config required). And Linux hassles were fairly minimal, though I did have to tell the kernel's USB module the vendor (0x04a9) and ID number (0x2206) of my N656U USB scanner...
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