Archive for January, 2007

Health update

Friday, January 26th, 2007

For those who might be concerned; I’m not at 100%, but I’m recovering well enough. Today I’m up and around, and while my foot is swollen and aches somewhat, the sharp, debilitating pain of earlier in the week seems to have passed.

Distance to the Linux desktop

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

I want to preface this rant (and it’s going to be a rant) with some background. I do this not trumpet my own experience , but to point out that I’m not ranting because I’m not capable. I’ve been playing with (and programming) computers for about 25 years. I ran my first Unix-based computer 17 [...]

Week 3: It all goes down the tubes

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

After starting off with 2 great weeks on the 101 things list, week 3 was a disaster. I should start off by pointing out that: I’m sick (flu-like symptoms, and I spent most of the week running mild fever) I had a colleague in town, so I had to go to the office everyday I’m [...]

Week #2

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

Time (actually very late) for another update on the 101 things list. I sent my Rolleiflex camera in for service (#55), it works out that the taking lens has a small chip in it (grrr…), but apparently it’s pretty minor, and I went ahead and approved the repairs to the mechanicals (shutter and transport overhaul [...]