February 2009 archive

Gnus in Ngorongoro

By Guido Appenzeller

Found on Flickr
Thanks, Guido, for sharing this with theCreative Commons Attribution License!

Yes, your HP Scanjet 2400 might work in Ubuntu and maybe even other flavors of GNU/Linux

A long time ago, I complained about the crappy Windows software for the HP 2400 scanner. My struggles back then with getting the thing to work properly in the supported platform of Windows led me to avoid even trying to set it up for the past two years in the redheaded bastard stepchild oh-my-GOD-unsupported platform [...]

Budget Bird Houses

These egg-shaped ceramic bird houses are kind of cool-looking, but for...
$135?!
Really?
Maybe it's just a scale issue. Maybe instead of being chickadee and wren-sized, it's really made for pterodactyls. I can see where that would require a lot of material.
(I realize that pterodactyls are not birds. But it could just as easily be a flying reptile [...]

Dora the Explorer

I watched a Dora the Explorer with my three-year-old daughter in which Swiper the Fox is hiding in a trash can and stalking Dora and Boots. When suspicions arise over repeated sightings of the receptacle, Swiper says -- in character as the garbage can -- that it is just a trash can.
Dora asks us [...]

Copyright Quibble

I was happy to share my Hawaii vacation pictures under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license, but it occurred to me that I may not have the legal right to do so for several of them.
Three were taken by my wife, but I'm pretty sure she'll go along with me on the licensing choice.
Two of the [...]

Hawaii: Waipi'o Valley

From my last post, one of the busy things I had in mind was a trip to The Big Island of Hawaii. I didn't want to come right out and say it since I didn't feel comfortable broadcasting to the world that I'd be away. I'm weird that way, I guess.
We had a great time! [...]

memo

Hi, Everyone. Busy, busy. I'm not writing to apologize for not writing, because that's supposed to be lame, and I don't think I've neglected this place to the point of abandonment. I've just been busy with different things.
But I did want to mention an administrative detail. What with the busyness and [...]