Monthly Archives: April 2008

The Dark Side

Heh.

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Command Line Upgrade to 8.04 Hardy Heron

Ubuntu 8.04 is the second LTS release of the incredibly popular Linux distro. Inspired, I did a fresh install of my desktop at work and found the process smooth and about as simple as an XP install, (though admittedly about

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Reading The News With Little Time

Keeping up with the goings-on in the world seems to be harder than normal these days. Maybe it’s life and maybe it’s work, but it seems like I have less and less Quadrant 2 and 4 time lately. [I’m not

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Newseum: Today’s Front Pages

The other day, I caught a post on Signal Vs. Noise about using Automator in OS X to grab your favorite newspaper’s front pages from Newseum as PDFs and join them. This sounded like a great idea, so I set

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WordPress 2.5

The WordPress upgrade guide says: Consider rewarding yourself with a blog post about the upgrade, reading that book or article you’ve been putting off, or simply sitting back for a few moments and let the world pass you by. So,

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April 1st

I don’t get into April Fool’s Day. I think my nefarious side went to sleep somewhere around the time just after I saran wrapped my 12th grade area office (VP, class counselor, etc.). Since then, I can’t seem to come

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