A few hours ago a friend sent me mail about Philip Pullman’s fantasy series His Dark Materials. One of the novels in this series was recently made into a movie called The Golden Compass. Apparently there is some controversy over this series, which I have not read and only heard about recently, that the books [...]
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So I upgraded to Ubuntu 7.1 last weekend. Things went very smoothly. Prior to this, System76 sent out some upgrades for their hardware drivers, perhaps in anticipation of everyone migrating to 7.1. There was really only one hitch. My screen brightness now twitches on occasion. This is due to a known power management bug that [...]
“A Milo illustration of Dwalor, Holy Warrior of Molna, confronting 3 headed diabolic hounds” src=”images/circusthumb.jpg” height=”267″ width=”200″ /> Victor, Greg, Ralph and Ian in attendence. 9-23-2007 around 5PM until about 9:30PM. However what follows is really a summary of two sessions: To recap briefly: The Circus is in Darth Lom, driven there primarily by Thalin’s [...]
In early August my cat, Lola, was diagnosed with failing kidneys. The vet put her on a special diet, subcutaneous hydration and prescribe various medicines but the prognosis wasn’t good. It was mostly wait and see. She was old, over 16 years old. Years ago when I set up this site, I promised myself I’d [...]
Actually, that’s not strictly accurate. I don’t want to throw a keyboard out of a window. I want to remove the Microsoft branding from my Linux laptop keyboard. I don’t think it’s really spite. Microsoft makes a decent enough set of operating systems and applications. It’s just that it reduces my cognitive dissonance to have [...]
So I’ve had my new Darter Ultra laptop for about a week. I’ve noticed many improvements in speed for many tasks–still image rendering, page loading, conversion of file formats, copying large files and so on. I’m very pleased. A very small warning for strangers out there considering buying a System76 machine. They don’t exactly ship [...]
Some interesting science fiction web comics I came across recently: Bohemian Drive: In a post-human future, two obsolete robots go on a road trip through the Solar System. Hijinx and soul searching ensue. The Spiders: In an alternate history, President Gore’s Department of Defense wages war in Afghanistan. Mind control weapons and utterly ubiquitous servaillence [...]
This is another one of these lab-notebook, thinking-out-loud entries. So it’s been a while since I had a rant about Web standards. I think this is for a few reasons: It looked to me that we standardistas had won and this obsession of mine was getting boring. For a while , new things weren’t happening [...]
Day before yesterday, I bought a brand new laptop. This will be the first brand new computer I’ve bought in 7 years. My venerable Inspiron 3800 ran Win2k, XP, Redhat 7, Knoppix 3 and Ubuntu 6. I upgraded its RAM, upgraded its HDD, gave it 802.11g and replaced a cracked screen. Its DVD drive is [...]
So, about a week ago, Jamais Casico put up a page where he asked the following three questions: What do you fear we’ll likely see in fifteen years? What do you hope we’ll likely see in fifteen years? What do you think you’ll be doing in fifteen years? Here are my attempts to answer them.