For a good long while I found myself very miserable, and very overweight. I was always eating way too large of portions of horrible foods all too often, being very sedentary in my spare time, drinking too much, smoking, never exercising, living in constant stress, etc., etc.,.. While I lived this way, I was in…
Tricking out Rhythmbox… or “How to share even more trivial minutia of your life with the world”
I have written before about some cool things you can do with Rhythmbox Music Player in linux, and it’s no secret that I love to find ways to make my desktop experience merge with my server/online presence. So I was particularly happy when I found a great third party plugin for Rhythmbox that can post…
How to clean up your Music library mess…aka: I just joined “Play Ogg”!
What do you do when your entire music library is infested with wma files, incorrectly tagged and renamed, sorted all wrong and just one big mess? You admit it was your own fault for not sticking to one single standard for naming and organizing, for letting Windows Media Player try to do the work for…
Dust
Dust it is all around me all I touch or feel all I make and all I am the dusts of mortality pass about us the turning of the leaves edging closer all of the time… as the wheel of the seasons turn and the green is cleansed turned and burned the entropy and illusion…
Twitter tricks with Ubuntu…How to serve your own personal Twitpic and Twitterfeed using Jaunty
A little while back I had a mind to set up a Twitpic account, so that I could post photos from my Centro directly to the microblogging service of kings, Identi.ca. But for some reason, either my mobile provider, or mobile platform didn’t want to play well with Twitpic, so I set out to find…
Reset and restart!
It’s official, the P90X doubles routine kicked my butt two times in a row. I have been out of commission for about a month due to two shoulder injuries, on top of the flu, on top of some crazy stress from my school this semester. This is a lesson learned: don’t overdo it! I definitely…
Should I work out when I’m sick?
I’ve done workouts when sick before, and they made me feel quite a bit better, so I just kept to them. It makes me feel like life is worth living beyond the cold! But is this a good idea? Should I “walk it off” or should I take to the couch and “let my body…
I have no name!
About a week ago I had a sort of system crash on my Intrepid server. After performing some rote maintenance, and deploying a vanity Drupal site for my daughter I was getting the “permission denied” error from Apache on all of my domains and sub-domains. To top this off, no users I host mail for…
One year anniversary of a very important date
So, one day shy of exactly one year ago, I posted a quick article about making it one whole week without any tobacco intake. It was not an easy decision to make to quite smoking cigarettes…for good, and here I sit, over one whole year later, an accomplished man. In that post I pointed out…
XMPP notices: a workaround for Drupal 5 (and how to install Openfire 3.6.3 in Ubuntu 8.10)
Since I got my self-hosted Ubuntu lamp server up and running some while back, I have made it my personal mission to find out exactly what she can do. “Why in the world would you want to run a home server?” is the question I sought to answer for myself, and sought to do so…