General

Legal day

Today was a legal sort of day. I had to report for jury duty and spend the afternoon in a courtroom for jury selection. Then this evening, I completed online traffic school for a speeding ticket that I got in September. Well, I...
General

Finished The 4400 Season 2

A few of us have been getting together on occasion to watch the sci-fi show The 4400 (on DVDs from Netflix). It doesn't seem to be a hugely popular show, but it's actually quite good. It's the tale of what happens when 4400...
Mac

Mac OS X Screenshot Secrets

On OS X, taking a screenshot is not as easy as pressing PrtScn (Print Screen). Well it's easy to do, but it's not easy to remember and thus I present these shortcut keys from O'Reilly's Mac OS X Screenshot Secrets: Key...
LinuxUbuntu

Ubuntu mirror troubles

This has been happening all day every time I attempt to do apt-get dist-upgrade: The following packages will be upgraded: libsmbclient samba samba-common smbclient smbfs 5 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0...
General

links for 2007-11-16

Apple - Support - Discussions - X11 in Leopard ... Discussion thread on X11 in Leopard with links to updates and info on getting Gimp and Inkscape working (tags: mac osx x11 leopard gimp inkscape) Leopard and X11 - The...
General

Bookcase

This is the "bookcase" that was issued to me (and many of my colleagues) at work. As you can see, it's not very practical, especially with the height of the shelves, which makes it impossible to fully utilize the space without...