Posted by admin on March 30, 2008
Well, How have you guys been?
Me, I’ve been doing great. Using a few new programs, playing a few new games. feeling like the king of the Leets on Linux.
Couple of updates:
- Got rid of Fedora.based on the responses from the 5 Favorite Linux Distros I thought I’d try PCLinuxOS. Stupid name. Great Product. Based on Mandriva, it’s extremely easy to use.
- Can’t get the printer to work under it. I’ve tried to alien the rpm to a deb (Is that right?) but it just won’t seem to work. Again, the Linux curse seems to be working. Not every peripheral will work at the same time. This seems to be Epson’s fault, however, not Linux’s.
- Found a great article on speeding up the Linux Desktop here. Did the two things it suggested and the system is running faster than it ever did under Windows.
All In all I’m very happy with the switch.
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Posted by admin on March 27, 2008
Adobe has released the open beta of PhotoShop Express Online.
This New service is meant to be a Flickr killer. We’ll see. so far, both the feature and file limits are pretty small, but I bet once it’s up and running it’ll be competitive.
That’s all for now. Fighting a cold.
Posted by admin on March 26, 2008
I’ve been listening to Sean HAnnity and Rush Limbaugh at work. Why? I don’t know…Maybe I’m just a masochist.
Anyway, one of the things that tI Keep hearing from them and their minions about Barack Obama is that he “Chose to stay at the church for 20 years.”
I can relate.
I’m Catholic. Always been catholic. Went to Catholic school, Catholic Marriage, Baptized Kid #1 who went to a Catholic School.
I sat there in the pews and cringed when the sermons were about abortion, about the need to give to do good works overseas when outside our doors the neighborhood fell apart.Cheered when we finally got a female deacon. and sighed when she left in a year.
But something happened. Our parish was getting smaller. Our Diocese was getting smaller and schools were closing everywhere. there was talk of closing the school, then we kept it open one more year. Then another. Then, when it seemed we would have to close it, another parish closed their school in the middle of the year. The rumor was there was a gentlemen’s agreement in place at the cathedral to only close one school a year.
So the bishop gave us enough money to keep the school open one more year. “Hmmm, I thought. With all the school closings, they only come up with the money now?” Then we tried to rent out the closed convent to a nursing home. The pastor didn’t want to. We tried to rent space in the school to Headstart, after school programs, adult education. You know, the kind of things churches do. Nope. Couldn’t afford security.
But guess what? After the school closed, all these things happened. And the church sex scandal hit, but the internal investigation showed our diocese was clean. Then we found out there was a retired pedophile priest living in a community with a daycare, but that was ok because he didn’t have contact with the kids.
Then there was the capital campaign whose money was to be used for improvements. But nobody knows where it really went.
Then My wife worked at a ministry with no resources, basically a couple who rented an old church, and they managed to do more outreach and giving than our church.
Finally I had enough. I can’t go back to the church. Kid #2 has never been baptized.
I want to find a church, I know they’re out there, but really I have no Idea how to go about picking a church. I’ve been to other services, but they seem weird to me. No kneeling? Over in a half hour? Shouting and raising your arms in the air? That’s not what my church was like.
So, should I go back to a church that was once my home because its familiar? I miss attending mass.
How do you pick a church anyway?
Posted by admin on March 22, 2008
Posted by admin on March 21, 2008
Tor.com is rolling out a brand spanking new, interactive, mysterious website that seems to be taking forever to build.
So, in an effort to keep you coming back week after week, they’re offering Mucho swag if you sign up.
First, There’s the sweepstakes to win an Asus Galaxy EEE
microcomputer.
Then, You get a free E-book in HTML, PDF, or Mobi format. Just cuz, you know, reading a book on your phone is sooooo 21st century. And these aren’t lame, backlist, gee we can’t sell them anyway books either. So far, they seem to be fresh, award wining works. Generally, the start of successful franchises so you’ll go out and by the sequels. All are worth the two minutes it takes to sign up.
Then you get a couple of promo wallpapers to download… Meh. There’s also a nice Blogroll of sites that are helping to promo the new site (Mostly the featured authors) and, of course, you’ll be notified when the new site is up and running.
Check out Tor.com for more info.
