January 2008 archive

Citimortgage PDFs: Ugh

Update, 16 February 2008: Converting PDFs into Image Files (Citimortgage PDF Reprise)

I highly doubt I'll get any satisfaction from Citimortgage on this, so I'll just complain ineffectually here.
Up till now, I've been able to view and save my monthly and other related mortgage statements with the Evince viewer in Ubuntu 7.04. Today I logged [...]

Review: Iron Maiden Biography by Mick Wall

Run to the Hills: Iron Maiden, the Authorised Biography, by Mick Wall
I'm not sure if I should mention this, since it could affect the willingness of people to loan me books, but I do a lot of my reading in the bathroom. Some books don't grab me enough to carry out of the bathroom [...]

Decriminalizing non-commercial file sharing

via QuestionCopyright.org:

Decriminalizing all non-commercial file sharing and forcing the market to adapt is not just the best solution. It’s the only solution, unless we want an ever more extensive control of what citizens do on the Internet. Politicians who play for the antipiracy team should be aware that they have allied themselves with a special [...]

Moving from MS Money to KMyMoney

At last. I'm free of Microsoft Money, and therefore very close to being free of all my old proprietary applications. I've settled on KMyMoney2 as a capable free-as-in-freedom bookkeeping replacement. It doesn't do everything that I was able to do in Money, but I can live with that while hoping some of my "wants" find [...]

This ain't no holiday

Oh no this ain't no vacation
(This is your chance to pay
The great casino foundation...)
Ain't no vacation anymore, anyway.
Twelve glorious days off work and now it's time to return to the grind.
So what have I been up to, besides miscellaneous family gatherings and activities?
Shoveling. We're getting a decent Minnesota winter this year, with more snow [...]