I know I know.. I was gonna wait a week or two. But the trigger finger got itchy this morning and I clicked the upgrade button sitting atop Ubuntu’s update manager before I left for work this morning.
It came as no surprise to me that the process had stalled about 70% of the way through, […]
I’m still playing around with how I use Twitter. Some key points:
I use the Gtalk interface within Gmail to monitor Twitter. It’s more of a flow of information rather than the periodic polling that most Twitter clients do. With the Twitter problems this past weekend, my Gtalk gateway never seemed to stop working - at […]
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) is out today. I guess I’ll wait the customary week or two for the smoke to clear from the Ubuntu servers before trying it out. I’m not sure if it’s just simple underestimation, but in past releases the servers have always slowed to a crawl for many people. Hopefully this […]
Driving in to work today I saw gas prices at $1.20/litre (regular unleaded) for the first time. Every day that the price continues to rise, the happier I get that I bought a small car last time out.
For our neighbours to the south, that’s about $4.50 per US. Gal.
But I’m not going to complain too […]
While I’m a big fan of the Linux command line, one of the things that I’ve never managed to wrap my head around are the commands used for extracting archives. Sure I generally know what utilities I need to use, but those damn command line flags will be the death of me! Is it tar […]
The other day I received an email at work from a co-worker and friend. He had received it from a friend along with 30 or so other people in the “To:” address field and several other bunches of recipients along the way. He felt it was serious enough to forward to me - I clearly […]
As someone with 6 years of successful fatherhood under my belt - what… no award? - I’ve often reminisced about my youth, or more precisely my parents’ handling of my youth. I model a lot of my parenting, as do most I assume, on my own parents. I like the way I was brought up […]
Episode 057 is now up over on Screencasters. This one took more than a few takes. But I finally got something presentable.
The TV arm of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) has always been renowned country-wide for it’s hockey coverage and news, and that’s pretty much where the reputation always ended, unless of course you were a big Beachcombers or Hinterland Who’s Who fan. But they’ve been changing that reputation over the past few years.
One show that […]
I’ve been seeing more than a few mentions of CrunchBang Linux on “the Twitter” over the past few days. I had never heard of CrunchBang Linux, but I checked out the site and it appears to be an Ubuntu-based distro aimed at lightness and speed, and uses the Openbox window manager and GTK applications. Hmm.. […]