Well, we (Vancouver) won the olympic bid and most people are pretty excited. There is a big party tomorrow at the Plaza of Nations from 12 to 2 that I want to go to. Threw a quick email to the folks nearby to hope to get a group together for an outing. I had zero […]
Party it up Olympic Style in Vancouver Read Post »
Too cool. Pointed to by jwz, a NASA space cowboy is sending letters from the International Space Station. They sound a bit like science lessons, and not a lot like actual blogging, but still very cool to see words written by someone hundreds of miles above us, travelling at 18,000 mph. From the site: While
Multi-monitor wallpaper does not mean you take a normally scaled image and display it proportioned so that it stretches wide. Some of the stuff on verybadcrc is what I consider “real” multi-monitor wallpaper, but most of it is not.
What Multi-monitor Wallpaper is not Read Post »
Found this the other day, but forgot to post. For those of you who use GNUPG (GPG) you know how it’s a bit of a pain in the ass to go and download someone’s public key? Put the following code in your $HOME/.gnupg/options file: keyserver wwwkeys.us.pgp.net keyserver-options “auto-key-retrieve” The keyserver can be whatever one you
GNUPG Auto Keyserver Retrieve Trick of the Day Read Post »
Last night A made some lovely pizza for dinner, and had extra dough. By “extra” I mean “enough to make enough pizza to feed us for the rest of the year”, which is fine by me, because normally bread, buns and the like are produced. Last night she put the dough into the fridge and
When You Leave Wild Dough Unchecked Read Post »
…and a promise is a promise. I asked, I recieved, and I do as requested. The toe is here to stay. Now if I can get Darren to throw me a few different shots, so I can rotate his lovely toe background on a daily basis….
Promises Are Supposed to be Kept Read Post »
If you’re going to design a stupid banner ad, why not make sure it does something right? I (for the sake of amusement) clicked on a “your computer needs a tuneup!” banner to see exactly what it would do with a Gentoo Linux system and a mozilla browser. As you can see from the screenshot
Note to self: When I get a house and need to wire it use this guide: Building A Home Network From Scratch – The Ins and Outs of Building a Home Network.
Wow, found Panoramic Photography by Brad Templeton and it’s a sweet site, with about 80,000 panoramas for your multi-desktop pleasure. Now I just need more monitors for some of the 360 degree shots!
Finished off my roll of film the other day and got it developed at London Drugs using their “we’ll put your images onto CD but we’ll rip you off by charging you $2 for a blank CD” deal to try it out. The images I got back weren’t bad, what you see haven’t gone through
New Pictures up in the Gallery Read Post »