Recent news that Ubuntu will likely be giving up the GIMP as part of the default install are interesting, but not a huge concern to me – I already have to install Inkscape, so adding the GIMP to the huge sudo aptitude install command I run on a shiny new Ubuntu install isn’t a big [...]
Posts from ‘November, 2009’
First Winter Storm
Victoria Airport weather as of about forty minutes ago:
METAR CYYJ 190200Z 15028G36KT 3SM -RA BR FEW008 FEW016 OVC030 07/05
A2969 RMK SF1SC2SC6 SLP055
See that “15028G36KT”? That’s wind, lots of it. 28 knots is 50km/h, sustained wind speed, with gusts up to 38 knots, 70km/h!
Victoria Harbour – right down in the city proper, about 25km south of [...]
Over to Wordpress MU
In the interests of running most of my webspace with one system, I installed Wordpress Multiuser a while ago and started experimenting with it.
This evening I exported all my posts from my old Pivot-based blog into a new WPMU blog, cleaned the imports up, adjusted my Planet Ubuntu feed, and should be up and running [...]
Nov. 11, Reprise
Just about the only photo of mine that turned out from the Remembrance Day ceremony downtown a few days ago. It was sunny, fairly cold, and well attended – the paper said seven to ten thousand. Lots of kids & families, which is good.
November 11th
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To [...]
How To Get Backup Religion
… have your entire system freeze solid, and then, in the recovery console, fsck choke because of a galloping screenful of badblock errors. Then you realize you have no working LiveCDs in the house. And your last backup dates from April. Oh crap.
That was Sunday night; Monday I went down to my brother’s, snagged a [...]
Celebrating The Olympic Legacy!
Debt!
Erosion of civil liberties!
Biohazardous Waste!
Oh, and some sport somewhere in there. Yay.
