Enjoy! Happy Sunday! I miss you, dad… :(

Can you tell Victor Borge has a special place in my memories? Here’s another one of his skits. Another one tomorrow too!!! BUSY weekend!

So, Santa DOES exist! Rhys wrote a letter to Santa telling him what he wants for Christmas. How cool is this? A hand signed response from Elf Jingle came back for Rhys today. Quite a cool thing that someone would take the time to do this. The postmark? North Pole, AK… Just a quickie for today since I seem to be falling behind, and this weekend is going to be super busy!

Happy Friday, gang!

I got bitten by the bling bug again. I listen to podcasts… It’s what I do. I’m a technologist, so many of those (read: most of those) podcasts are technology related. No, they aren’t all Linux related… I like to think I’m quite well rounded with my opinions. Sure, I evangelize Linux, but I can argue the pros to Windows, and the pros to OS X. When it boils down to it, you might as well be arguing Ford, Chevy, and GM… They all allow your average person to drive to work… It’s all preference.

So, I was listening to Windows Weekly on the TWiT network and they were talking about Vista. Specifically they were talking about whiny Windows users who moaned when OS X users got an accelerated GUI and they were still stuck in bitmapped boredom. Then when Windows ditched GDI for Aero, everyone’s moaning about the resource hog that it’s become… Well, all I could thing was, “Damn it! I’m stuck in bitmapped boredom, and I shouldn’t have to take it!” After all, I run Linux, and Linux is all about choice (usually at the sacrifice of ease of use)…

I didn’t like Beryl when I tried it, so this time I gave Compiz-Fusion a shot. As far as I can tell, there were two major projects, Compiz and Beryl, and they’ve “fused” to form Compiz-Fusion? … Don’t you wish sometimes, that you’d see something like that with Qt and GTK?

Anyway, I’m digging it so far. I’ve got my bling back! I did it because I was anticipating my buddy Kevin coming over to do some PHP shit, but he stood me up. :-P Well, at least I have my bling. :)

Well, I thought I had plugged this site before. I guess I didn’t, so I will do so now. Since moving back to Linux — and did I mention that it really feels good to be back — I have been setting up my keydrive to be my portable lifeline. Something that gives me all the tools I need to access the things I have at home. Things like an X Windows server, or an SSH client, or DOSBox for when I am bored, or OpenOffice, or Gimp, etc… You get the idea. Well, finding apps that were specifically built for portability (i.e. they don’t leave tracks in your registry) was a challenge.

But, as with most things in the computer world, if there is one certainty it is that you are not alone in your troubles. Enter Portable Apps, a great site that has put together a collection of popular apps that run portably on a keydrive. They even have a Launcher app to give you an interface right from the Systray. So, now, when I’m stuck on a Winders machine, as long as I have my keydrive, I’m not isolated from my box at home. :) YAY! Check em out!

Seattle? Yeah, it feels like we live in Seattle right now. Nothing but rain and dreary weather. Some say, I love the rain and gloom and dark skies… Well, so do I — if I could stay home in bed to enjoy it. But, no, we have to go out in it, and try to charge up the brain and toil away at our little jobs when we should be in bed with a cute girl who has been duped into thinking you are quite the catch watching a movie and eating popcorn…

I think I’ve figured it out. It’s not the weather that gets you depressed, it’s the fact that you can’t properly enjoy it that depresses you. That’s my theory and I’m sticking to it.