Archive for July, 2006

Dog eats Nintendo DS Lite

Sunday, July 16th, 2006

Here is another story I found via digg. It is about someone that just got there DS Lite and the dog chewed it up. The person called Nintendo and they actually sold him a repleacment at 1/3 the cost of a new.
Reminds me of when I got my first NES.. I played that thing day [...]

Check for network and then load checkgmail

Friday, July 14th, 2006

I was trying to sort out why my gnome splash screen was hanging and needed me to click it to go away. It ended up being that I added checkgmail to my session startup. I was also getting asked to confirm my password for gmail when the laptop was not hooked up the internet. To [...]

New Posters

Tuesday, July 11th, 2006

I am not a very big fan of posters since they tend to get ripped with wind from windows and fans. But I went over to Debbies today after work since her student that was living with her left a few that he could not take back to China. Anyway there was 4 total, 3 [...]

New Office and Debian Updates

Monday, July 10th, 2006

I ended up moving to another office at work, because there was a new person to join the “team”. I am not sure why it was me that moved, but I had the cleanest desk and dont really need to be at the office to work on my stuff at all. So in any case [...]

Sid Vicious And Nancy Went To See The Misfits

Monday, July 10th, 2006

I am not really sleepie right now, so I figured I should do up a post. Ended up listen to Nashville Pussy for a large chunk of my day. I must say it is some of the best country sounding music I have found. I never have been a fan of country, but something about [...]

Google Music and Movies Searching

Sunday, July 9th, 2006

Playing with Google is one of those things that never ends. I always seem to find something new that you can do with you search.
For example today I relized that I could search for “music: Ramones“. This actually brings up a nice music type search and clicking around you can find track listings, links to [...]

Debian and Ubuntu

Saturday, July 8th, 2006

While looking around on digg.com today I came across this blog post. Normally I find that most the blogs that end up on digg are prob self promoted by the person who wrote it, and are just there to try and get more hits. In this case though it was a good post and I [...]