I had a job interview today, sorta-kinda. I gave my card to a guy in town who opened a little computer shop down the street from me maybe six months ago in hopes he was hiring. Sadly he was not, but he seemed quite nice and I hoped he would hold onto my card in [...]

One thing that’s always annoyed me about printing pages from websites is that lame last page you always get that has just one or two lines on it. I have tried to avoid this by guessing the amount of pages to print, but this has been only moderately successful.
GreenPrint solves this problem, and here’s [...]

Sorry for the lack of posting. There’s all the usual excuses of course but mostly I just haven’t felt much like posting.
We have a new family member. His name is Bundit, since I found him devouring my veggies over at the community garden shortly before Christmas. It’s weird because I had been sort of turning [...]

The chipset fan in my main machine finally decided to die this past week. This led to many wonderful adventures in modern computing, like rebuilding the whole thing from the case up twice, having to get the new fan ground down at the computer shop because it was touching a power post, and the boot [...]

Here’s a video that shows just some of the reasons I *heart* Ubuntu. It shows how an average person can have a complete and working operating system on an old donated computer in ten minutes or so. From Librarian.net.

I finally got my computer back up and running a few days ago. Though the reformat/reinstalling process was an excruciating experience I hope I don’t have to repeat again for a very long time, it did allow me to ditch a lot of crap I wasn’t using and set everything up just the way I [...]