I’ve been a long supporter of the Evolution Personal Information Management (PIM) application. For years I used version 1.4.6 under Redhat 9, and it served me well. I liked the interface, and I loved the integration between calendar, contacts, and mail. Sure, it had it’s warts, but I managed to cope with them. Then I [...]

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Courtesy of Ruth, Why Dogs Bite People.

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Happy Birthday, Jessica. Hope you have a great 21st birthday! Don’t stay out all night.

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Happy Birthday, Jeff! Hope you have a very Happy Birthday!

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Since the International Astronomical Union (IAU) is so hellbent on redefining everything, I think it’s only fitting that a new definition of the IAU is presented: “The International Astronomical Union is a member body of navel-gazing self-important wankers who have escaped the confines of their parent’s basements long enough to attend conventions of great importance. [...]

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Oh, the weather outside is frightful, But the fire is so delightful, And since we’ve no place to go, Let it snow Let it snow Let it snow URGENT – WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT/PONTIAC MI 430 AM EDT THU OCT 12 2006 …FREEZING TEMPERATURES ON TAP FOR TONIGHT… .MUCH COLDER TEMPERATURES WERE USHERED [...]

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Slashdot | Black Hole Observed by X-Ray Satellite Interesting information about black holes, considering the competing theory about MECOs gained some traction in July. Fascinating stuff. I don’t understand a lick of it, but it’s still fascinating.

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JoDee and I have started packing our goodies for the move. Already I wish we had a portable hole. If anyone has any ideas on how to make one of these (stable is key. I don’t want to throw a bunch of boxes into some trans-dimensional object only to have it irreperably removed from the [...]

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Last weekend JoDee and I went to Ohio Linuxfest. It was a lot of fun, and very informative. There were several talks that were top-notch (Jeff Waugh’s presentation on GNOME user interfaces and Ubuntu was great, as was John “maddog” Hall’s open-source revival). Unfortunately we got there too late to see Chris DiBon’a talk (which [...]

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Looks like someone is using the domain “decafbad.net” for the return address of their spam (as noticed by all the bounce messages I’ve received). Let me be clear: I am not a spammer, and I will never spam you. I think spam is despicable, and I will never harbour or send spam. decafbad.net is my [...]

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