I have been running Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) for several days now, and I am mostly happy with it. I am finding a lot of things to be faster under this OS, including anything written in Java or C# (such as my Linux replacement for WLW, BloGTK). I thought for certain that I would be […]
James Biggers and Friends Art Exhibit on Display The James Biggers & Friends Art Exhibit will be on display January 20 – February 20, 2009 in the Jeanne Rauch (Rouwsh) Gallery on the Gaston College Dallas Campus. Fifteen artists from North and South Carolina will be featured in the exhibit. Gallery hours are Monday thru […]
My grandfather’s birthday was yesterday. Chris and I baked a cake for him.
I have pretty much decided that Drivel is a bit too trivial of a blog utility for how spoiled I have become from Windows Live Writer, so I am going to give BloGTK a try and see how it performs. It has some pretty cools features if they all work the way they are supposed […]
I have spent a great amount of time today trying to get a remote X-WIndow session on my Windows PCs (using CygWin) to my Ubuntu system. In WIndows I am used to starting a remote desktop connection and going right to my remote system. Things are a little more complicated at the moment in Ubuntu. […]
Two days ago I decided to install Ubuntu 8.10 on my laptop. The installation was difficult to complete due to a flaw in my Dell laptop’s “thermal management” functions, but otherwise, it was smooth. Once in the OS, I had some minor issues with getting my wireless network card driver to install, but the drivers […]
Staring at Beta 1 of Windows 7 I am also looking over GITI’s Education module and thinking about the comments I have been given recently about it. It would seem that while in general the assignment portion of the module is complete, except for a few process tweaks and a new feature for bulk edits. […]
This photo course (ART 288DH) is going to start off just like my other course, with an assignment involving stop-motion and blur. I remember really hating that assignment, there are so few things that move around me, my life is very static. Perhaps I should go out on some type of adventure and find motion. […]
I just discovered the term paper topic for my “Theories of Personality” class, and it is a bit of a shocker: “WHO ARE YOU and WHY DO YOU DO WHAT YOU DO?”. My first reaction to this is to run away from the topic screaming “I don’t want to know myself!” or some other overly […]
This is the buttermilk white bread…