2007 May

To all the veterans out there on Memorial Day I would just like to say thank you. I’m a veteran myself and know the sacrifices, the birthdays, holidays, anniversaries and other memorable events in life that were missed because of your service. But most of all put aside the politics to remember and honour those […]

Music is one of my hobbies. Besides playing the bass I love listening to it (music that is) and discovering new bands to listen to. The last.fm plugin is on all of my media players and it is interesting to see what my friends are listening to. To see what I’m listening to just follow […]

Today’s rant is about Linux.  My machine is up and running but networking it with my other computers is an absolute nightmare i.e. it just isn’t happening. I have spent hours on various Linux forums, tried various Linux distros, used countless configurations and you know what: it still isn’t working. I’ve said this before and […]

No Linux rants today, that is reserved for CBS! Just found out that they canceled Jericho, one of the shows that I had to watch every week. Of course it ended on a hell of cliffhanger. It started out with great ratings but like all the other networks they give it a mid-season hiatus, people […]

Change! That is the name of the game. Picked up a “new” computer cheap the other day. It’s a P4 1.4 Ghz with 1 Gb of RAM. It had a pirated copy of XP Professional on it so I formatted the drive. Then I thought I’d give Ubuntu another try. Well I loaded it up […]