Bah. The repairs I had done to my clutch around this time last year seem to be coming back to kick me in the ass. The last couple of days have had the point where the clutch engages “sink” further and further, and today, spurred by the feeling that it was starting to get to […]
Just got 237,550 (with 6 seconds left on the 5:00 clock) in this game, which is as close as I’ve found to pure crack, in an online form. Since I’ve now beaten all the scores people have posted since I originally saw the link, I can stop. Again.
Crack in an Online Form Read Post »
So I saw a note about a 10.3.3 update for MacOS X over at neurobashing and decided to check it out. My daily software update check hadn’t run yet, so I ran it manually and saw that yes, indeed there was a OS update available. Reading the notes on what was changed and new, I
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My Dad is selling his kayak, and if there’s anyone local (lower mainland/Vancouver area) interested, contact me. Details of the boat are as follows: “Critter” by Wilderness Systems, polyethylene single kayak (red), from Coast Mountain Sport in June 2002. Used maybe 10 times in 2002, stored all of 2003. 9’4″ long, 30″ wide, 14″ deep,
I’ve been trying to check out the latest GNOME before it’s released by using GARNOME but have been plauged by compile errors. Well, “plauged” is probably a bad term… I got “a” compile error and didn’t see an obvious way to fix it, so I gave up. The same error has prevented me from trying
Garnome VTE Compile Errors on Gentoo Solution Read Post »
Argh! Ever since I got the call about excessive bandwidth use I’ve been watching my use on the shaw secure site very carefully. It’s only the 12th and I’m already at 15 of the 20G I’m allowed before they come over here and beat me up with baseball bats. I was doing kinda ok but
Watching the Bandwidth Clock Read Post »
Fotoopa is a cool Highspeed Photography site with many nifty examples and pictures of bullets and ballons and whatnot.
High Speed Photography Read Post »
Had an FVLUG meeting last night which was pretty good. I did a presentation on the rdiff-backup tool (which can be found in PDF form here 91k), Wim did some stuff on the bash shell and various shell tools, and Robert F did a nice demo of the cron and at scheduling tools. As usual
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I have my windows box back today, but no new video card (too much to hope for I guess). I got a call today around 4pm from the tech at the shop saying “uhmm.. you have a linux OS installed on this box”. “No,” says I, “I have a Linux boot CD in the CD
I was at the gym the other day, on the treadmill and watching the TVs on the wall. I was watching a report out of Seattle on KOMO or KIRO or one of the US TV stations. The report started out talking about an armed home invasion followed by a car jacking, just blocks away.