December 16, 2006

New OS: Kubuntu 6.10

Ok, trying out Kubuntu on my new work laptop and I’m liking it quite a bit- the only problems I’ve had so far are with Hibernate (which I think is self- inflicted) and wireless stuff. I’ve figured out the wireless stuff and wanted to mention it for the people out there having the same troubles as I did. First up, a little info on my setup: Model: IBM T42 (note, not the T42p, which is awesome, the crappier model)

December 13, 2006

My Fast is Appeased

So we got in a fender bender last week and had to put the car in the shop- Insurance got us a rental for a few days while it was in. Fortunately, the rental place was all out of cars in my range, so I had to drive a 2006 Dodge Charger. It Goes Fast. Sadly, it also gets 24mpg if you drive like a granny, so you can’t drive it fast or you’ll actually see the gas gauge drop.

December 3, 2006

New Job

So after 3 months of unemployment, I was offered a job over in Troy, so I’ll be moving about 3 hours away from Grand Rapids. The position is for a linux sys admin. Unlike the last place, this one seems like a winner from the get go- much more lively and has a (for lack of a better term) DC vitality, compared to companies in Grand Rapids which sort of feel like they’re recycling coffee grounds and requesting employees bring in their own toilet paper.

November 21, 2006

brain thrashing

I have a horrible habit of remembering bits and pieces of all sorts of random stuff- this includes faces. I may not remember your name or where I saw you but I’ll never forget a face. Last night on Heroes they did a preview for episode 10- they had a 1 second flash of a minor character’s face that I recognized: and I spent an hour last night trying to remember wtf he was from- unfortunately nbc didn’t have the promo clip up yet so I didn’t have the screenshot in hand.

November 21, 2006

Useful Utility: tee

I have two requirements for a program being on this list: the first one is it has to be a utility- something scriptable or usable on the command line. The second is it also needs to have multiple arcane flags that I can write about, or just be so unknown that it’ll bring it to the attention of people that have never heard of it. Tee falls into the “never heard of it” group.

November 21, 2006

The Harassment of CoolGui

This happened a month or 3 back and I forgot to post it. we enjoy harassing each other, and I felt the need to share this with the rest of the world… in #asp: 08:26 < CoolGui> dude 08:26 < CoolGui> I’ve had a fever since saturday 08:26 < CoolGui> Now I have these stomach cramps that won’t go away 08:27 < CoolGui> And all the doctor did was tell me it was probably a virus and call him if I didn’t feel better in a couple of days.

November 14, 2006

ambrosia…

mmmm… one thing about being jobless and poor is I’m finding ways to save money. When jackie and I were in DC making lots of money and had no freetime, we ate out quite a bit. Now we’re looking for ways to cut costs and we’re looking for foods that we can make a batch of and eat over the course of the week- we can make a batch of stew and eat it for 3 or 4 days.

November 13, 2006

The Baby’s Site

Jackie and I finally agreed on a name a week or three ago- “Ian Hawthorn Morgan”. We also bought the domain IanHawthorn.com for him- figured it was something he could take over when he’s old enough- it’s also gonna serve as a news center for family and friends. Jackie’s already set up a wordpress theme and started posting emails we’ve received and other such details. I’ve revised my categories on this site and added one for ian when I mention him.

November 13, 2006

Ruby on Rails

So I’ve had this on again, off again thing with ruby for a while now. Since I first started playing with ruby it got pretty big with rails, and I completely missed that boat. Well, now I’m playing with rails and it’s fairly interesting once you get it up and running. I picked up the O’Reilly book Ruby On Rails and have been walking through it’s Photo project. I’ve went so far as to even throw it in a subversion repository in case I pooch something.

November 7, 2006

I voted

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