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View ArticleFly in Google Earth!
Neat Easter Egg hidden in Google Earth: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/08/google-earth-easter-egg-flight.html How to see this feature. Make sure you have Google Earth 4.2. Open the application,...
View ArticleMicrowave Popcorn.
The smell of microwave popcorn makes me feel nauseated and irritates my sinus so badly that when someone opens a bag near me at work I have get well away from it. But, now it’s possible that the...
View ArticleBlink your NIC!
Useful tip from Red Hat: ethtool -p eth0 5 Will cause the LED on eth0 to blink for 5 seconds. But, this will probably only work on NIC’s in server type hardware (and not on my laptop!)....
View ArticleLinks!
Some of the more interesting pages I’ve been looking at today: Melting ice caps in Greenland triggering earthquakes: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/sep/08/climatechange/print And Polar...
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Sunset at the lake.
Another amazing sunset up at the lake this weekend. I took this one tonight: And this two nights ago: A few more here: http://flickr.com/photos/timony/tags/20070906/
View ArticleLinks: Sept 10th 2007
Today’s interesting links, via Reddit: About the guy who makes “2 buck chuck” a cheap wine sold by Trader Joe’s: http://money.cnn.com Franzia, who rose to fame several years ago when he started selling...
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Gnome Fonts too big in Ubuntu Gutsy?
I upgraded my Dell 700m laptop from Ubuntu Feisty to Ubuntu Gutsy. Gutsy is the current developemnt (beta) release of Ubuntu Linux and is planned to be released in October of 2007. After upgrading to...
View ArticleDollar down!
The Canadian dollar is at it’s highest rate against the US dollar and is now worth .98c: http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070918/dollar_parity_070918/20070918?hub=TopStories The...
View ArticleHealthy!
Cool: http://www.canadianliving.com From a man from Ireland: “My number one health tip is: walk everywhere possible! Since work is a 35-minute walk from home, I try to walk home every day, and I mean...
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Some NYC artists are moving to Berlin, for lower prices and a vibrant arts scene: http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,505553,00.html And, Der Spiegel’s look at Europe’s “coolest” city:...
View ArticleDebian & Nvidia & Kernels 2.6.20/21
Getting this error message after you’ve compiled the nvidia video module and try to load it: FATAL: modpost: GPL-incompatible module nvidia.ko uses GPL-only symbol ‘paravirt_ops’ This happens because...
View ArticleDebian: weird mouse behaviour
In my last post I upgraded to the 2.6.22 kernel to get the nvidia closed source driver to work. Since then the behaviour of the mouse has been very weird: Clicks register as double-clicks Can’t access...
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We have got to get our groove back.
From the NYTimes: Roger Dow, president of the Travel Industry Association, told me that the United States has lost millions of overseas visitors since 9/11 — even though the dollar is weak and America...
View ArticleUbuntu & Bluetooth, & SD Card.
Just got a Bluetooth dongle (adaptor) from NewEgg (for $12.99). To get it to be able to browse (using Gnome) my phone I had to install the gnome-vfs-obexftp package (along with the bluez-gnome...
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Canadian Living article about Boston
Written by my friend Helen, and with input from meself: http://www.canadianliving.com By Helen Racanelli and Mick Timony Traveling to Boston for a vacation, either for business or with the kids? From...
View ArticleLook and add your cell phone signal strength
In my neighbourhood: http://signalmap.com/us?carrier=1&lng=-71.085798&zoom=14&lat=42.34964
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