Archive for September, 2010

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-09-26

September 26, 2010

Hard to feel good about my day when my morning involves disciplining kids who'd also rather stay in bed. # Hard to feel good about coming home from work each day when I'm asked to discipline the kids for whatever they did while I've been away. # @live885fm Catfish's uglies are seriously fugly some days. [...]

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-09-26

September 26, 2010

Hard to feel good about my day when my morning involves disciplining kids who'd also rather stay in bed. # Hard to feel good about coming home from work each day when I'm asked to discipline the kids for whatever they did while I've been away. # @live885fm Catfish's uglies are seriously fugly some days. [...]

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-09-26

September 26, 2010

Hard to feel good about my day when my morning involves disciplining kids who'd also rather stay in bed. # Hard to feel good about coming home from work each day when I'm asked to discipline the kids for whatever they did while I've been away. # @live885fm Catfish's uglies are seriously fugly some days. [...]

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-09-19

September 19, 2010

Trying to finally make the time to watch the Doctor Who reboot. Christopher Eccleston is likeable. Too bad he only did one season. RT @corey_nagle: The Linux Sweet Spot http://bit.ly/9vbhw7 # People are bowled over by Windows 7! Oops! It’s actually Linux with KDE desktop. http://bit.ly/aUd8xL (I’ve been using KDE since early ’05.) Why Linux [...]

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Collaboration Compared

September 17, 2010

I love this. Could it be expressed any more elegantly?

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On FarmVille…

September 17, 2010

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I Write Like…

September 15, 2010

Here’s an experiment.  While I did have to stitch together two pages to show this result in a single picture, the writing is my own work, and the results are the site’s actual response. So where’s my book deal? Try it yourself – http://iwl.me/

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Constance Bay Business (?) District

September 15, 2010

I haven’t seen that sort of open advertisement of adult services outside of Amsterdam. Oh Canada! Constance Bay, it turns out, has not designated its downtown a red-light district, despite what its signs may have indicated. The City of Ottawa sign, which was erected about a month ago, directed travellers to Constance Bay’s “business district” [...]

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Virtual Desktops in KDE

September 13, 2010

Linux OS desktops have had Virtual Workspaces since long before Windows or MacOS—just one of the reasons I’ve been a full time Linux user for the last 6 years, with no temptation to switch back.  Here’s a video demonstrating Novell’s openSUSE Linux, which is what I’m running on my main desktop at the moment.

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