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Ok, so its time for the Christmas decorations to come down. Actually it was time along time ago. My problem is that I was really tired of the look I had before I switched to the Christmas layout, so now I have to figure out another new look to replace the Christmas one. I haven't figured such a design out yet.
I'm thinking about keeping the hills that currently have a nativity on them but making them green and grassy. Any other ideas?
The phone I got back in December is suppose to support SMS messaging (and I don't doubt it does, really), but I ran into a rather peculiar problem. When a internet service tried to send me an SMS yesterday via the e-mail gateway Cingular provides, the arrival of those messages appeared in my phone's log but not in my phone's message inbox. Odd.
I don't know, maybe it's just me, but I actually like to read messages that are sent to me rather than being just told they arrived. Maybe my phone took care of them for me or something.
Seriously, has anyone else run into a problem like this?
I'm working on a really exciting project (well, to me, probably not terribly exciting otherwise…), thus why I've been kind of absent here a lot for the last few weeks. I'll post more on this soon…
I just watched Mel Gibson's interview on ABC News's Primetime. It was pretty good. Gibson for the most part did a good job conveying a remarkably Evangelical standpoint. I'm looking forward to the film, although I hear it is incredibly draining to watch.
Gibson also had a good sense of humor during the interview. He said, when asked if he was going to get back into movies, that he wanted to get away for a while — go where no one could find him. “You know where that is? Where no one can find you? I figure I'm going to set up my tent next to weapons of mass destruction — then no one will be able to find me!”
Did he say that he'd like to kill a New York Times columnist, have his intestines stuck on a pole and kill his dog? “Yes. Although I really regret that statment about the dog. I'd never want to hurt a dog.”
Moving back on the subject… It will be interesting to see how one of the first major Christian motion pictures in decades impacts the nation. I hope, at the very least, it makes people think about more important matters than we generally do… if only for a short while. Maybe it'll be just enough to get them started.
I'm just curious — what control panel does your web host use? CPanel? Plesk? Ensim? DirectAdmin? Webmin? Something else?
There's a lot out there, but virtually everyone I know uses CPanel. That's the one I've used the most, having enjoyed it at the last two hosts I've been at. Prior to that, my two other hosts I stayed at for anytime used their own proprietary control panels. I also signed up for (and quickly canceled for another reason) an account with an Alabanza reseller, who, of course, was using the rather dated looking Alabanza control panel.
Right now, I still like CPanel the best I think. However, I must say I'm really impressed with the new Plesk 7 interface that SW-Soft just released (I don't know any shared hosts using Plesk 7 yet). It looks like it offers many of the features that CPanel does, but in a much cleaner interface.
Ok, so I'm not going to be back in Blogger Idol this week. Oh well.
Here's a joke instead:
A woman was on a cross country trip. After days and days of traveling by car without talking to anyone, she noticed a hitchhiker on the side of the road. The hitchiker didn't know very much English and was very quiet, but kept eyeing a large bag the woman had in between the seats.
Finally, the woman said “That bag has a bottle of wine in it, I got it for my husband.” The hitchhiker was silent for a long time, but finally replied, “good trade.”
Well, after a really hectic week that culminated in a either a cold or a very mild case of the flu (might be — I had a flu shot, which should be worth something!), I'm back. Whew.
So, if you thought I must have fallen off into a bottomless pit, never fear.
Unfortunately, it does look like I missed blogger idol this week. Maybe I'll do last weeks along with the new one for this upcoming week. I also have failed to pick my favorites from past weeks. I'll hopefully do all that in the next few days.
In the mean time, I'm going to be a bit busy after hours this week. My pastor's Windows ME-powered laptop has data corruption that just happened to strike the area where c:\windows\system should have been (if it impacts any other directories is beyond me, I know c:\ and c:\windows\command are good). ScanDisk can't seem to handle whatever is wrong.
I'm going to try booting the system up with Knoppix (Linux live CD) to see if I can salvage his data tomorrow. I suggested, and he sounded interested, in moving to GNU/Linux after that. So the plan is to format the drive, install Fedora Core 1 and install a copy of Win4Lin using the church's extra Windows 98 license as the Win4Lin virtualized OS, thus letting him run TurboTax, etc., in a “sandbox” inside GNU/Linux. This should be interesting!
I, like Pressed, watched the Democratic Debate on January 22. I love debates, and this one was pretty good — although not as exciting as when the candidates are on opposite sides of the aisle. Since Pressed already gave a nice summary of each candidate in the post linked above, I'll just hit the high spots on who I thought won, etc. (This was originally written mostly on the 22nd, but I didn't have time to finish it, so here I am.)
Have you ever thought about your computer and freedom in the same thought? Have you ever thought about all of those licenses — contracts — you have to agree to just to get to your information, documents, and so on? If so, you may begin to understand why the Free Software movement works the way it does.
Imagine this scenario: a large corporation that provides software for creating letters, spreadsheets, and other documents might decide to patent its format and prevent you from opening your own documents in any tool other than their own. Sound far fetched?
Today marks the twentieth anniversary of the Apple Macintosh computer.While the original Mac is certainly meager by today's standards, thereare few that would argue against its revolutionary status in the earlyyears of personal computing. In commemoration of that event, today alsomarks the launch of OfB MacFor.Biz, the new section of Open for Businessthat will cover the Mac in much the same way OfB covers GNU/Linux andBSD. In this premier piece, we will examine the latest Mac OS X, 10.3”Panther,” on two separate generations of Macintosh systems. Read more at MacFor.Biz.Not much there yet, but more will be coming. Traditional OfB content will be moving to LinuxFor.Biz, and OfB.biz will have everything that gets posted to both sites.
