The Nitty Gritty
09.15.06
The 2006 Rocky Mountain Sustainable Living Fair takes place this weekend up in Fort Collins, CO. This event is not to be missed and is an opportunity to learn more about sustainable living practices. Winona LaDuke is among the many who will be speaking.
His Holiness The Dalai Lama is coming to Denver this Sunday. What an opportunity! It will be a blessing to hear this amazing world figure speak and to see him live and in person. I can't wait!
Welcome home Eddie! Can't wait to hear about your adventures!
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08.30.06
:: Convicted for endangering their computers? I saw this and thought that it was funny. Once, while attending a conference, I needed to respond to some work-related emails and only had a short time to do so; I decided that multi-tasking would be best solution. Fortunately, the wireless connection was available in the bathroom stall and it worked like a charm. However, I never placed my laptop on the floor, as shown in the image above. Here is a photo gallery of computers that have not been very well cared for.
:: Interview with Mike Melanson, lead engineer on the Linux Flash Player team.
:: Public access to research materials located in EPA libraries is being halted by President Bush. Budgetary Constraints is the excuse that he has chosen to use. Why is our president such a suck-ass?
Read more here >>
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08.22.06
:: Josef Cadek LOCUST bike - New folding bike technology that will allow for increased spacial efficiency -- this thing gets small.
Check out the photo gallery at http://www.coroflot.com/JOSEF_CADEK
Or view the full Locust folding bike thumbnail gallery here. However, my favorite folding bike out there is made by Brompton. I hope to own one of these fine beauties one of these days.
:: Fort Collins New West Fest 2006 was a hit, or so I gather. I missed the B-52's and Nickel Creek, both free concerts put on by the city of FC, also sponsored by Pat Striker's Bohemian Foundation. Than you Pat. I hope that you do a bang-up job next year too and I hope that I can attend at that time. The nasty brown carpet removal project [ below ] got the better of me. I'd just like to say, how stinkin' cool is it that our home town hosted such a grand and free event? I freakin' love this town!
:: Our nasty old brown carpet is gone. The last five days have been long and tough, but the new bamboo flooring is now fully installed, well... minus 1.5 boards spanning the length of our bedroom. That's close enough to call for beer-thirty and take a break.
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08.14.06
:: How stinkin' cool is this? Billboards advertising Linux are popping up along California's highways. Read more about this at DesktopLinux.
:: Google Earth is now available for Linux. Read more here...
:: In today's Slashdot, SpaceAdmiral wrote about how Paul Boutin analyzed AOL's recently released search logs and he came up with seven categories in which to group the types of people who are performing searches. What's more interesting is the series of comments that were spurred by the article. I enjoyed reading Chacham's creative response (titled "Moo") on the seven ways that people post on Slashdot; I'm sure that this will become a cult-favorite in years to come. Here's his description:
The seven ways that people post on Slashdot.
The First Poster - Although this phenominon has been addressed and has somewhat lessened, there are still echoes of "First Post". These people wait on a "Mysterious Furure" story as post stupidities just to get in first.
The Fisher - These posters, rarely named Bobby, check-in with a kingly posts to generate replies and nothing more. Their posts, perhaps at first, seem to make sense, but on closer review contain mnay misstakes, intentionally designed to garner replies.
The old-timer - These posters, who hang around slashdot land, have forgotten to move on. They post just to show off their low slashdot id. This makes some druel, and others comment that low id does not mean more intelligent. However, they're all wrong anyway.
The reposter - Reposters wait for old stories to come up again and find modded-up comments from the old stories to repost. If this is the first time such a story is up, they post a bunch of old buzzwords that realign synergistic paradigm shifts.
The soap stander - Soap-Standers have what to say, and don't care where they say it, such as about why Bush is beery good, and that the UN and its anonymous leader are drunkards, and no amount of coffee will help.
The idiot - Idiots can't count, post moronic comments, and quickly type in useless garbage to fill in a little more space.
:: Also in today's Slashdot news, it's nice to see that a major computer manufacturer is now standing behind a Linux distribution. HP Announces Support for Debain Linux - as related to some of its servers, not desktops. Read more about this announcement in PC World.
:: Something that I am trying to learn more about is web application security. Here's an interesting article on XSS, Cookies, and Session ID Authentication – Three Ingredients for a Successful Hack.
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08.10.06
:: The recent release of Freespire 1.0 has caught the attention of various Linux users. Apparently, this Debian-based Linux distro is being billed as having various proprietary codecs for multimedia that are built directly into the system. Most free Linux distributions do not come with such proprietary software because the idea is to stick with the concept of free and open source [ concepts that fall under the GNU operating system and the GPL ] . Freespire is based on the desktop-oriented Linspire operating system, uses KDE for desktop management, claims to offer effortless wireless capabilities, and is slated to support Flash, Java, DVD and WMV right out of the box. It will be interesting to see how Freespire is received amongst the international Linux community. Another distro that claims to be rich in multimedia capabilities is aLinux. I am anxious to see how these two distros compare. You can read a review about Freespire at Linux Format. Visit the Freespire website here. Should proprietary software (such as much of what is included with Freespire) be included in Linux distributions? Here is some food for thought.
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08.09.06
:: The Dalai Lama is coming to Denver's Pepsi Center in September. He will also be visiting the Shambala Center, located in the Red Feather Lakes area of northern Colorado. What a unique experience it will be to listen to His Holiness speak about "The Science of a Compassionate Life".
:: As usual, Rockygrass proved to be the bluegrass event of the year. The lineup was superb, there were no camera operators blocking our view this year, and there was plenty of campground pickin' to be had. Bedtime usually fell between 4:30 and 5:30 a.m. for many of the more inspired pickers. However, this year proved to have a different campground flavor; there seemed to be a large group of folks who were only interested in getting wasted, being loud, disturbing intent pickers, and falling down, crushing people's tents and campground possibles. This was a turnoff. I wonder if these folks flocked to experience jam-band, Yonder Mountain Stringband?
:: HilltopYodeler.com is coming along nicely. More photos have been added to the Fun Photos section, and content seems to be gradually making its way to the various internal pages. This is a fun project website, and will hopefully prove to be a usefull informational tool for the HilltopYodeler as well as for its readers. Please enjoy!
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