Been playing with the K Desktop Environment version 3.1 for the last couple of days, and have to say I’m quite impressed. Once I figured out how to change some of the silly shortcuts (ie: non-ctrl+r for reloading a webpage) and got some other stuff going, I’m pretty impressed. I’m still a terminal guy though. […]
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I’m not sure what it is about karma coming back to bite or kiss you in the posterior area, but it seems to be flooding back my way nicely. Not only do I have 3 days a week work, plus two other projects on the side, but today I got a call from one of
Well, bowling was a great time. We grabbed our shoes, and grabbed our balls, and went on down to the bowling lane. Lets just say that geeks really shouldn’t dance or bowl 🙂 It was great fun though, I broke 200 on the last game, but I’m pretty sure no one there broke any records.
Lets Go Bowling Results Read Post »
In a couple of hours I am going to be participating in a “Bowl for Kids” with the IT team from my Chilliwack contract work. This is very similar to the big brothers and sisters bowl that we did at Merilus for a couple of years. Basically a bunch of folks go and have fun
Just in the middle of some mod_perl programming for my design contacts. One of the contracts I did work for them a while back has come back with some changes and enhancements, so I am doing that for them, of course 🙂 It’s nice to be back to this project, my code is mostly readable,
“When moronic lame stupid TV shows attack” would have been just as good a name for Fox’s new series “Man Vs Beast”. I caught about 5 minutes in total, in which I watched a tiny little japanese guy (granted, the world eating champion) square off against a bear to see who can eat 50 6″
They Have an “Image” to Uphold Read Post »
Not sure if I wrote it down, but after the FVLUG meeting a couple of weeks back I was so entranced by the PostgreSQL database that I had dreams about it, or at least kept on waking up saying to myself “so that’s how I solve my strange authentication problem!” We are using PostgreSQL here
I think I have finally made a breakthrough tonight! Not cured, but possibly “better”. Normally when I get an email that I want to respond to right away, and that needs attention and deep though (but non work stuff) I tend to do the knee-jerk of sending a reply right away, usually prefixed with something
The Drunken Sailor Read Post »
Things I accomplished today: Cleaned my desk off of cat hair, papers, gunk and grime Ditto for my shelf Cleaned out my wallet of old receipts, using space cleared by above cleaning Got my business accounting up to date, with the appropriate forms printed out for my meeting with the SEP accounting mentor tomorrow Got
Things Done During the Day Read Post »