Must… resist… corny… lines…. nah what the hell. Just when you thought it was safe to enter the kitchen we have new nutty idea from the mind of the Gastronome. Now you can prepare authentic meatballs where the whole purpose is to balls it up. Then you can snack on a nut Sundae before you [...]
Archive > December 2008
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
Merry Christmas all and hope you have a fun and properous 2009.
Digikam
To post the lego harvester I used Digikam which is part of the KDE default desktop on kubuntu (KDE often use ‘k’ in their software names) and so far it’s one of the best pieces of linux software I’ve used. I used a somewhat old Canon Powershot A70 to take the pictures which is an [...]
Lego
Ever since childhood I’ve loved playing with lego, those little plastic blocks from which amazing things could be constructed. I remember the lego displays with interesting things made of ridiculous numbers of lego pieces and wonder what happen to them. Recently I finished a lego technic combine harvester which is perhaps the biggest technic thing [...]
I Have Bad Memory
Bad grammar too but not in this case. After getting one CRC error too many on my downloads and the odd glitch here and there I ran memtest86+ on my RAM just to be sure. It was ugly news and now my RAM is sent back for replacement and I am on a 1GB loaned [...]
Blogroll Time
I’ve finally gotten aorund to putting up a basic blogroll. I’ve probably missed people let me know if that’s the case.
Trying out KDE 4.1.2 as Kubuntu
One of the advantages of linux is there are a number of desktop environments to choose from whereas the Mac or Windows only gives one. I’ve been using Ubuntu (32bit) for a while as a basic user dual-booted with Vista (64 bit). I mainly use Vista for gaming and Ubuntu for everything else and that [...]
American Veteran Support
If you’re a veteran of the USA, John has written a summary of a rather extensive list of Veteran support links which might be a good place to start amongst the ugly bureaucracy that is government. Pay particular attention to the initial section.
Wacko Jacko Lives up to his Name Again
Pictures of Michael Jackson in new levels of gaudy, tacky, scary or all three never seem to end. Perhaps he really does drive the fashion industry. H/t: Isreallycool
Kids these Days
Over here school is winding down for the long summer holidays. The youngest had her primary graduation and it was good to see her end these early education years on a high note. She’s a remarkable girl with incredible social skills. It was interesting to see how kids are these days from a local sample [...]
Zimbabwe Cholera
Over 500 dead and that’s probably the nice estimate. “hospitals are no longer working.” Hospitals are not how you stop cholera. They are really an ineffective last line of defence. Proper infrastructure of sewerage and water is and better cleanliness habits. This epidemic is a nasty reflection of the inadequacies of the Zimbabwe government, which [...]
Natural Harvest?
The thing with the internet is just when you think you’ve seen it all something else comes along. A new angle of Gastronomy… Certainly, it promotes itself. It’s actually for sale and is exactly what it seems to be. “Semen is inexpensive to produce and is commonly available in many, if not most, homes and [...]