We recieved a mysterious package today in the mail from what I can only assume are secret shadow government operatives posing as Charity’s Aunt and Uncle. In it there was, along with a wide range of innocuous items designed to throw the feds off the trail, a secret mission. Hit the jump to delve deeper into this mystery but I make no promises that we won’t delve too deep in the process!
My Mom got me a webcam as a Christmas present. I vaguely remember having one quite a long time ago but can’t seem to remember when and what for so maybe my mind is just going to pot. Not much blog worthy has been happening lately but I’m still around. Now that the holiday’s are almost over I’ll probably have more stuff to blog about since stuff will be happening to me again. We’ll see. Hit the jump for a pic of Charity and I.
So Charity took a bath and when she got out of it she was feeling faint. She laid down on the couch and seemed to feel better as long as she didn’t move too much. Eventually, nature called and as she got up to go to the washroom her vision dimmed and she essentially collapsed. The poor thing couldn’t even stand up. At this point I was freaking out so I go to Google Maps and get directions to the hospital (actually I got directions to an urgent care which was closed, luckily the hospital was near it, d’oh.) She doesn’t want to go but eventually comes around as whatever it is seems to be getting worse. So we get her bundled up and I take her out to the car that I had moved close to our door. More after the jump.
So I’ve been using OpenID for a long while now. OpenID is a way to create a single login that works across any site that supports openid. This saves me from having to create a new login and password for every single site that I want to join. It’s been around for a number of years but is really starting to gain traction this year with large sites like MySpace, Google, and Windows Live joining the band wagon. I use my openid to login into various wordpress blogs and other sites that support it that I use regularly. Read more for info on how to get one for yourself!
I came across a program today called Crossover Linux. It’s built off the venerable WINE project but with a focus on making the use of certain popular Windows applications easily installed and executed under Linux. Now I am as much a fan of FOSS software as the next guy but there are many times where I simply absolutely need to be able to open and edit Office documents and use them in ways the Openoffice does not quite provide support for. So a program like this is a godsend for systems with only Linux installed on them (like my laptop.) Picture and more after the jump.
The new Wordpress comes out tomorrow. I maintain a couple of blogs on my server other than my own so I decided to install their release candidate to have a head start on any problems that might come up. Happy to say the whole process was exceptionally smooth. You can get a full list of all the new goodies by going to their site and checking it out but here are a few that I found particularly useful or cool:
I finally found a theme I really like. It’s clean and elegant, but still fairly stylish. I like it quite a bit! Wish a bit of customization I can see it growing along with the site fairly easily. We’ll see how things shape up.
Well it seems the latest version of Twitter Tools is broken when used with the current version of Wordpress (2.6.5). This is fairly annoying. I was trying to see why my ‘tweets’ box in the sidebar wasn’t showing anything at all and when I opened my error log for the website I was confronted with a wall of Twitter Tools database errors.
I can’t seem to find a plugin that replicates the functionality of Twitter Tools yet so I guess I’ll wait for an update. With the new Wordpress 2.7.0 around the corner though I’m thinking I might just have to give up for now.
We shall see.
Hi, I’m Les Harris and this is my blog. There are many like it, but this one is mine, etc. I use this space as a place to write about things I find interesting. There is no gaurentee you’ll find any of this interesting but I can hope. I’m a student in college for now but also do alot of open source development work. I am a member of the GNOME Foundation. You can find my GNOME related blog here.
I’m also working on a novel (isn’t everyone?) with a good friend and we are making good progress on it.
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