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April 2008

The Worst Joke Ever

Patty Whack was working as a loan officer at her local Bank. Times were good, and the banks were lending money to just about anybody. However, one day a frog came in and hopped up on the desk. “I need a loan,” the frog said. Patty looked at the frog and thought about it for [...]

First Impressions of Hardy Heron

I installed Ubuntu Hardy Heron on the wife’s AMD 64 last night and have been playing around with it all day. Now, Lorie can cause a computer to stop working by looking at it and is afraid to go Window-less completely. But the new Vista Laptop blows. Several of her favorite older programs don’t work. [...]

Linux Distros Updated

A while back I listed my top five Linux Distros: these Live CDs that I enjoyed playing around with before finally taking the Linux plunge with Fedora. However, after three months, I think you deserve a little update. First, I am no longer using Fedora. Although it was the first Live Linux that worked out [...]

Hardy Heron Released: Seize the Download

The New release of Ubuntu, Hardy Heron(8.04) was released today. Over the last couple of cycles the Ubuntu project has become the go-to version of Linux. And this release is getting some major press for a couple of reasons: First, it’s a Long Term Support release. This means security upgrades and patches will be supported [...]

Site of the Week: Knights who say, “Ning.com”

Social Networks are here to stay. No one who’s reading this blog can deny the power of developing a network of enthusiastic, loyal readers. Most of us, whether we’re trying to make a blogging career, or using our blogs to promote other works, are constantly trying to build our audience. ( Hi BlogCatalog readers and [...]

Happy Earth Day!

Just a quick one. Been Celebrating Jamie’s 16th Birthday and haven’t been posting. got a little backlog to kick out this week.