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 I'm writing this from Dropline Gnome 2.10.2. I thought I'd try Gnome one more time before I gave up on it completely. While I do have to say that the Dropline folks have done a great job of packaging software and making Gnome easy to install, Gnome just isn't for ... http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2005/08/31/whats-up-2/ NOAA was prediciting that it would rain on Sunday night and Monday. We went out to the lettuce field on Sunday and picked up at much lettuce as we could. What we didn't pick up we covered with tarps. Of course, it didn't rain Sunday or Sunday night. It waited ... http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2005/08/29/its-raining-dammit/ The seed crops are here, and don't show any sign of letting up anytime soon. We've been working at GTF 3 days a week 8-5. It's kind of crazy, but we've got a nice big crew of 7 people which is really sweet! :) Rock on! I've been finishing up mime-type ... http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2005/08/23/ahhhhhhhhhhhhh/ According to the BBC, businesses who don't pony up money cannot use the words Olympic, 2012, summer, and others together in one phrase. Slashdot example: "Pubs could not advertise that they have they're TV tuned to the Olympics on chalkboards." Why? Because "It's worth a lot of money, hehehehe!" --Douglas Adams. ... http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2005/08/16/use-of-words-restricted-for-2012-olympics/ Was visiting the local libraries website today when I noticed this: I thought that was pretty funny, and bizzare as well...although I admit it would be even funnier if I gimped the photo to say "Want to search but unable to spel?". http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2005/08/14/unable-to-spell/ We had the first lettuce thwacking today...highs around 32C (or 90F, for all ye imperial folks ;)). That means that my summer fun is over (all those fiddle camps), and the work is starting NOW!. Therefore I probably won't doing as much interesting stuff (like re-re-re-re-recompiling libtalkfilters for an ... http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2005/08/08/the-lettuce-harvest-is-now/ I just got back from Sisters, Oregon at The Booher Family Music Camp...an entire week of fiddle instruction, jamming, making friends, and good food. I had a great time there doing everything from learning neat songs from great teachers, to playing Set, to jamming until 1AM, and meeting lots of great ... http://www.wildgardenseed.com/Taj/blog/2005/08/06/back-from-booher-camp/