America has a (possibly inaccurate, but nevertheless there) international reputation for competitiveness and brutal corporate efficiency. To a bewildered outsider like me, this makes college football even more inexplicable.
I like football, in the American sense. It’s a smartly designed game which, for me, kicks the crap out of the English football. Despite not being American […]
I love Fred Lepied.
The first 2006.0 Club release has an updated X.org. Yaaaay! Merry Christmas everyone.
As a vague followup to the previous post, I thought I might as well stick this page up. Part of my Mandriva work is copyediting / proofreading; if you need anything of this nature done, I’m available to do it freelance. I work quickly and professionally. Rates are entirely negotiable based on factors including but […]
I love bills.
So today’s mail contained two great pieces of news - 1, my cellphone decided for no apparent reason to download 7MB of…something last month, which will cost me the princely sum of $70 over my usual phone bill, and 2, the electricity bill is due a month before I thought it was due.
So […]
Thanks to Pascal Terjan for pointing out the solution to my Evo problem - change the delivery method on those accounts to None. I’m still angry, though. Just because I CAN be angry.
Just _who_ had the incredibly stupid idea to stop you sending email from disabled accounts in Evolution? I only want to RECEIVE mail from one account, my IMAP server, which aggregates the mail from my many providers. I want to SEND it from many accounts, though - sometimes I need the mail to come from […]
So after ESR turned out to be a moron, now it seems Linus is a troll. Life’s full of revelations!
What bothers me most about the infamous post is not that it’s wrong, although it is, but that it’s a horrible troll. Till posted a perfectly normal, productive, low-key request for discussion on how to implement […]
f-spot 0.15 finally supports exporting images to gallery2, so the gallery is now running gallery2 instead of gallery1 and looks much prettier. Yay. That’s new hotness #1.
New hotness #2 is the new version of deskbar-applet, with live Beagle queries. This is so insanely cool it’s hard to describe, but everyone should have one.
Had a terribly bourgeois day on Friday - we went to the market on Granville Island (which isn’t really an island…) and bought some excitingly expensive pasta, meat, fruit, vegetables, cheese, coffee and so forth. A nice change from Safeway and the Chinese supermarkets on Kingsway, and the stuff is pretty nice. Especially the pasta.
Realised […]
Bit of a round up after yesterday’s bitch post! What I omitted to mention yesterday was my Great Entertainment Rearrangement Project. I got paid unexpectedly early, so on Sunday I bought a new receiver, a Pioneer 815S. (Of course, immediately upon getting everything hooked up I discovered ten reasons I should have bought the higher […]