Grace is playing this…
Pajama Sam: No Need to Hide When It’s Dark Outside Walkthrough – IGN FAQs.
Good game for a cold day!
Update 12 Jan 2009: Grace has conquered darkness!
I should be careful…
I hope my parenting never degrades to this…
If your password is on this page, then you need to change it.
This seems like something I should do…
Oh, how I wish this was my problem…
Here’s a program I might use soon…
Snapter: Scan Your Documents Without A Scanner | MakeUseOf.com.
(Let’s hope it’s available for ubuntu…)
Time to catch up the 2blog folder…
Happy new year!
As usual, things overheard start us off
- Overheard in New York | Is There a “Ctrl Z”?
- Overheard in New York | One Time I Caught Him Doing a Line of Mashed Potatoes
- Overheard in New York | Yeah? Just Keep Your Force to Yourself, Then. (Or, how Luke and Leia came to be)
- Overheard in New York | But If That’s the Way You Roll…
Geeky links:
- Ubuntu Unleashed: Howto: Burn Audio Cd’s From mp3 in ubuntu
- BoonEx Community Software Products
- 10 mistakes new Windows administrators make | 10 Things | TechRepublic.com
- Diavlo :: a Free Quality Font from exljbris
- CSS3 module: Web Fonts
- Learning Linux OS: How to install open type fonts in Ubuntu?
- Installing OpenType Fonts [Archive] – Ubuntu Forums
- The 6 Coolest Things You Can Do With Your Dead Body | Cracked.com
- Ground Zero: Google Maps and Nuclear Weapons
- Slashdot | Is the Yellowstone Supervolcano About To Blow?
- DOE – NNSA/NSO — Test Films
- Play DVDs on your Wii – Hack a Wii – Wiimote Hacks, Mod Chips, DIY Nintendo Wii projects and more
Political things:
- Sarah Palin Calendar 2009 … Judy Patrick Photography
- Difference between voting and slot machines
- 10 Things You Won’t See After the Recession – Business Center – PC World
Parenting and golf go together in my book:
- Sarah Trillin: Ten Ways to Find Your Children More Likeable (And to Be More Likeable to Your Children)
- Gyroscopic Golf Club: Slicer’s Savior or Swinger’s Snakeoil? | Gadget Lab from Wired.com
- Obama’s Hawaiian Holiday: Spam Sushi, Golf, Offers To Buy Beer For Reporter
- Golfer shot by stray bullet while waiting to tee off – Telegraph
- Color blindness – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Adoptive dads get names on birth certificate – Life- msnbc.com
Funny things:
Oh, the pain…
Slow day…
- filled out two job applications
- took G to school
- almost got the AT&T wireless card working in my laptop (Using Cingular via Sierra Wireless Aircard 875 [Archive] – Ubuntu Forums ), until I discovered that my laptop has no PCMCIA slot
- got pam_usb working (using HOWTO: pam_usb login with USB memory stick [Archive] – Ubuntu Forums and Use Your USB Stick As a Key to Start Your PC | MakeUseOf.com)
- Picked up G and Jack from school, talked with Nina about Cosmos (she thinks Sagan thought aliens had visited long ago, I disagree)
- Fed Jack and Grace, and let them play Sly Cooper 3
- Baked a loaf of bread (need more yeast)
- Sent Jack home
- Let G play webkinz
- made dinner
- had G do her homework (no math, no spelling, extra reading)
- Fed G dinner
- Had her brush her teeth
- Read to her until she fell asleep
- Signed up for twitter (Why? Baby’s First Twitter)
- tied it into this blog
- uploaded the photos from yesterday
- Finished this blog post.
While we’re at it, Dogbert explains the financial crisis.
OK, the gallery is fully cleaned up!
It took a while, but every file is in the database, and the database is consistent!
2 days of catchup blogging
I’m getting quicker at keeping up, eh?
Geeky links:
- Widgets Reloaded: WordPress Plugin
- Imagine that — Microsoft doesn’t like linux!
- NumberSpiral.com – Home
Funny things:
- Didn’t Kurt Vonnegut write a bit about this?
- Sarcasm used to diagnose dementia | National Breaking News | News.com.au
- Supreme Court Overturns Bush v. Gore | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
And Dave Barry’s holiday gift guide is out:
Catchup blogging again…
Been too busy to check on things overheard, so let’s start with geeky links:
- How To Create A Custom Splashimage For GRUB | MakeUseOf.com
- Extension:Calendar (Barrylb) – MediaWiki
- Slashdot | (Useful) Stupid BlackBerry Tricks?
- Google Maps API Example: Simple Geocoding
- Google Map API Concepts – Google Maps API – Google Code
- Wikipedia:How to edit a page – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Abstruse Goose » True Things
- 50 Incredible Fonts for Professional Web & Print Design | Noupe
- “An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. The first one orders a …” – hot soup? anyone?
- The Blog of Ben Rockwood – ipmi
- The Big Ol’ Ubuntu Security Resource – IT Security
- HOW TO: Get the Most Out of Google Maps
- 20 Incredibly Useful Themes and Plugins to Boost your WordPress Admin Area | Noupe
- 50 Skills Every Real Geek Should Have | Maximum PC
- CARPE DIEM: So What Are Domain Names Worth?
- John M. Perez.Com: The 25 Best Alternatives To Your Enterprise Applications & Functions
Lots of golf links this month:
- Fairway to heaven: Hit some golfing highs at the loftiest resort around | Mail Online
- Fore! Here Comes the Ultimate Golf Ball | LiveScience
- SportsBiz: Golf industry gets hit hard – Sports Biz- msnbc.com
- Kiwi tipped to be golf’s next big thing – New Zealand’s source for sport, rugby, cricket & league news on Stuff.co.nz
- Rensselaer Magazine September 2008 – “The Science Behind the Swing”
Political things:
- Respectful Insolence: Brain death and fundamentalist religion
- 60 Minutes – Video, Reports, Profiles, Interviews – CBSNews.com
Funny things:
- 19 Ways to Enhance Your Sense of Humor: The Best Medicine | Healthy Habits | Reader’s Digest
- The Iterative Life » Family Financial Memo
- John Podesta Talks About His “Evil Twin” Skippy
- LOLCATS come to life
- What If Disney Remade Horror Flicks? – The Spill.com Movie Community
- Style Crunch » Quite Possibly The Worst Family Christmas Card Photo Ever
What I’ve been up to lately
So, since the layoff, I’ve been
- cleaning the house (caught up on laundry, re-organized the kitchen)
- job hunting (still wake up and take G to school every day)
- setting up IPMI remote console access (for both my colo box at IPMI 2.0 and my file server at IPMI 1.5)
- re-organized the photo gallery (decades for older stuff, yearly for more recent)
- fixed almost all gallery issues (certificates for SSL stuff, database cleanup)
- watching the economy continue to tank
Oh, and watching lots more discovery channel with G (mostly storm chasers and dirty jobs), and the 3rd season of Dexter (better than the second season).
I have also re-confirmed that I truly detest daytime television, so it usually stays off.
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