Archive for June, 2008

June 28th

I love the whole world!

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I just got some flowers from a friend!

These are a thank you gift for helping to make Shea Bliss - Natural Shea Butter Body Care - the webshop is now open and ready for business! :) I personally use the products, and they do wonders for my skin … really good quality, and they make [...]

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June 21st

Ruby patches

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So i hear now is a good time to upgrade Ruby!
Unfortunately i downloaded 1.8.6 patch 230 and it gives an error trying to start up the web server. Does anyone know what this is about?
*** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (out): 0×0000000000daabc0 ***
Aborted
Looks like a C warning about memory deallocations or corruptions. I'm [...]

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June 20th

Hello World

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Resumo: Mi trovas min tre okupata, sed ankoraŭ tre feliĉa. Mi estas multa lernanta kun mia laboro.
It would be accurate to say that i have been pretty busy! My job has been totally excellent. I've been learning a whole bunch, but it's difficult to grasp and i have been slightly frustrated with myself at times [...]

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June 13th

Work going very well

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I feel i have settled in extremely well at my first week of my new job. I love the people, the environment, the work we do … it's fun and enjoyable, challenging, inspiring, makes me feel worthwhile. Most of the week i have been learning and paring with others, watching what they do, asking questions [...]

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June 9th

My passion

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Resumo: Mi tre ĝuis mian unuan tagon de la nova laboro!
I had a really great time at my new job today! I woke up stupidly early this morning because i was so excited. Had a lovely walk to work, thinking, "I'm going to do this every day! This is actually my regular walk to work [...]

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June 7th

How to install Beryl/Emerald on Debian

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Beryl provides neat 3D desktop features, and Emerald is a beautiful window decorator.
Acknowledgement: this information came from debianadmin.com. I am reproducing it here for two reasons. Firstly, it's nice to have my ultimate personal Debian setup guide all in one place. Secondly, the page i got it from has so-called "smart-quotes" which would confuse the [...]

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June 7th

How to configure Nvidia graphics card in Debian

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I got most of this information from the Debian wiki but it is a little complicated, so here's a summary of the way it worked for me. This method involves a re-build of the kernel, but it's not as scary as it sounds.

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June 7th

Greening, and thoughts on population growth

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Resumo: Mi diskutas la problemon de la eksponenciala kreskado de la mondloĝantaro. Mi estis hodiaŭ matene ĉe la kunveno por agado sur klimatŝanĝo.
This morning i went to the Winchester Action on Climate Change meeting. It was really very good; well-attended, with exciting ideas and news about greening projects in Winchester. One idea which particularly intrigued [...]

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June 3rd

Windoze

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Have you ever done a search in Windows, and kept the search window open for a really long time? That ridiculous dog starts going crazier than usual!
Here is the dog, not looking at its best …

In case anyone is worried i drugged the dog, or forgot to feed it or something, don't worry! It perked [...]

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