May 2007 archive


    
30 May 2007

I'm Going In. (Freedom, Yeah!)

Penguin Pete had a thoughtful post recently about struggling with technology, and it reminded me of things I know but often forget.
One of my problems in moving to free software has been a stubborn resistance to letting go of my old Windows ways and jumping in to the deeper end of the freedom pool. [...]

by Scott Carpenter on 30 May 2007 at 10:04 pm
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28 May 2007

Monday Photopost: Quebec City Wall Mural

Stacy Cashman has some great pictures of wall murals in Quebec City at her Rambling Traveler blog. Go there to learn more about the murals and see the uncropped and larger version of the picture below and two others.
I love the detail with the birds and the balloon having shadows. I also [...]

by Scott Carpenter on 28 May 2007 at 11:37 am
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26 May 2007

The Recklessness of Storms

Remember that storm I told you about a couple of days ago? The one with the rap sheet a mile long? Here's some evidence of its delinquency at my mom's house.
This is big ash tree from the neighbor's yard. I think a combination of the power company and some tree service did [...]

by Scott Carpenter on 26 May 2007 at 11:33 pm
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24 May 2007

The 'History' of Storms

We had some severe thunderstorms move through the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area yesterday afternoon that pelted my house with marble-sized hail. (There were reports of "tennis ball" hail in the area, although the largest I saw on the news was closer to "golf ball.")
I heard sirens and along with the rattle of chunks of [...]

by Scott Carpenter on 24 May 2007 at 3:07 pm
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19 May 2007

For the Love of Problem Solving...

I've had a StarTribune op-ed piece by Garrison Keillor sitting on my desk for the past month (or two), waiting to be commented on here. Sometimes if I have an item age that much, I just toss it in the recycle bin, but this one still wants to be written about.
Picture of anthillcourtesy of [...]

by Scott Carpenter on 19 May 2007 at 11:29 am
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9 May 2007

HOWTO: Installing and Running WordPress on Ubuntu GNU/Linux

Step right this way for instructions on setting up your own instance of WordPress using Apache 2 (with mod_rewrite), PHP5, and MySQL. I'm using Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft), but I suspect this will apply to 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) also.
You may already know that WordPress is free blogging software, Apache is a free web server, PHP [...]

by Scott Carpenter on 9 May 2007 at 9:20 pm
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4 May 2007

Friday Photopost: Mahaulepu Beach in Kauai, Hawaii

Another nice beach on the south side of Kauai, reached by an inconspicuous dirt road full of potholes.
Picture taken with a two mega-pixel Olympus camera. Click on it for a 1600x1200 version suitable for framing or wallpaper.
Please feel free to use and share this picture under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license.
The [...]

by Scott Carpenter on 4 May 2007 at 7:00 am
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