http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog Life, The Universe, and Everything through an ADSL connection. Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:10:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en To quote Mike Hearn (maintainer): Exactly 2 years and 6 months after version 0.1 was released, the first release of the stable series is upon us. An OSNews article will follow shortly... If you're so inclined, please try it out, let us know how it works, and drop by #autopackage on irc.freenode.org. :) http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2005/03/26/autopackage-10-is-out/ Great little post by Ovid on identity theft: http://www.livejournal.com/users/publius_ovidius/111672.html He ended up catching these folks who stole his credit cards in under 2 hours! http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2005/03/25/idntify-theft/ Ever wonder what exactly a "Split Infinitive" is? Well, here's your chance to find out: http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~susan/cyc/s/split.htm Interesting little factoid. I can think of two very good reasons for not splitting an infinitive. Because you feel that the rules of English ought to conform to the grammatical precepts of a language that died a thousand ... http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2005/03/25/split-infinitives/ From Slate: Forget Me Not: How to win the U.S. memory championship. You have to memorize 1,000 digits in under an hour, the precise order of 10 shuffled decks of playing cards in the same amount of time, and one shuffled deck in less than two minutes... Wow! http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2005/03/19/forget-me-not/ taj@moria:~$ /usr/games/fortune Now, it we had this sort of thing: yield -a for yield to all traffic yield -t for yield to trucks yield -f for yield to people walking (yield foot) yield -d t* ... http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2005/03/13/usrgamesfortune/ Hi Folks, I've decided to draw up a list of what is wrong with Linux, why people avoid it, and what we can do about it (Note: This is mainly an idea-gathering post for Icewater). Here's my list, please leave comments and add to this list! Hardware Driver Installation: Nooo! Not this ... http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2005/03/13/what-is-wrong-with-linux/ I've been writing out sheet music for the folk songs that I know (mostly Texas-style fiddle): http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/Music.shtml. Off to Taigi Shinsakai (Ki-Aikido "recital") tomorrow :). http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2005/03/11/folk-music-in-lilypond/ Yeah, yeah, everybody's got them. I've got 50 invites, if you know anyone who want's one, send me their email. (Or, if you want one, send me your email!). Leave a comment. Emails are not displayed, except to me :). http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2005/03/10/anybody-want-a-gmail-invite-2/ [This was susposed to be posted yesterday, but the server was busy being taken down by a runaway shell script!] "The SDF" (Seed Drying Facility), our $40 almost greenhouse finally got an upgrade Sunday :). The old SDF was white PVC pipe and clear plastic. It lasted a while, but after ... http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2005/03/10/the-sdf-gets-an-upgrade/ We are now at WordPress 1.5 :)! It has a new template engine and a bunch of bug fixes! Sometime I'll make this journal look like the rest of my site. Until then, enjoy! http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2005/03/06/wordpress-15/ Hi Folks, I've got a new template for my site. It's done using all CSS (no tables!) and is valid CSS and XHTML Strict. http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/. Let me know what you think... http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2005/03/05/new-website-design/ A great little post from Jeremy Shields : Winnipegger Am I. http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2005/03/04/winnipegger-am-i/