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Digging up some more old pictures…this time not even a year old….
Dan and Dave, my brothers:
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Some Linux News….
A couple of stories that I found interesting today. First of all, there’s a new Red Hat Fedora Core-based disto on the block, and it’s called Linux XP. It’s meant to be a drop-in replacement for Windows users. The screenshots look VERY nice and it definitely seems like a pretty enticing distro to show your…
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Fedora Core Sadness
Fedora Core 6 has slipped another two days to a release date of 19 Oct 2006.
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Natural Beauty
Ever since I can remember, I always thought my mom looked more beautiful on a day to day basis than when she dressed up for a special event. Perhaps it was the strangeness of the hairdo she would pick or something else. I just feel a stronger connection to the “real” person rather than a…
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Die Web 2.0!
In the “Technically Speaking” article of October 2006’s IEEE Spectrum Magazine, Paul McFedries speaks of a new term surfacing to counter the whole “Web 2.0” crap that’s going around. Web 2.0 always smacked of marketing to me – a way to get investors to put money into some kind of upgrade to the Internet. “Oh,…
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Pandas!
How I spent my Columbus Day:
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Fedora Core 6 Release Date Slips….
I noticed today that, as usual, the Fedora Core release date has slipped. This is a good thing as there are some bugs remaining to be fixed. However, it is annoying for me. I want the new toy! Here’s the explanation: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-October/msg00000.html
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Spine of Jellyfish?
So, North Korea has tested a nuclear weapon, despite our warnings. It is now time to see if our threats have some backbone to them. Kim has continuously defied the world and has been rebuffed each time. Does he give a darn? No, because all we do is threaten sanctions over and over and threaten…
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Rediscovery
When I first started posting pictures to flickr, I thought I had to post photographic art or pictures taken with the purpose of display such as: and But recently, as I’ve seen the work of other famous and important photographers, I’ve come to realize that some of the other shots I’ve been taking can also…
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Blogroll Adapted!
I have now adapted my blogroll code for YOU! That’s right! Now YOU can put in the URLs of blogs you want to keep track of and my program will put it all on one page for you! No more wandering from site to site! Just visit the link on the right or this one…
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Blast from the past!
Er….from 2 years ago….I miss you guys!
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Quotes!
“eat like a pig, ride [a bike] like a beast” – Marc S. “Given unlimited time and unlimited support, we’re winning the war” – General Abizaid about Iraq War “This is not a war on terror any more than WWII was a war against kamikazes.” – John Lehman about Iraq War
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Stick Figures in Peril?
Just before going to NY for my father-in-law’s surgery, I heard about a group on flickr called “Stick Figures in Peril”. I looked at the group and thought it was a pretty interesting concept – take pictures of warning lables where it looks as though the stick figures are in trouble. When I saw this…