I’ve upgraded WordPress to version 2.2 tonight, as usual let me know if anything is broken or doesn’t work.
Cool Quote
I use an Agile approach to life. Moving isn?t in this sprint, ask me again in two weeks.
From Code Craft, in answer to the question “How long will you stay in India?”.
For those of you who don’t know development methodolgies well here is a link to the Agile wikipedia page.
Why can’t they talk to each other?
Why can’t everything I have and use integrate into one giant “thing”? Why can’t I make a phone call from my fridge? blog from my toaster? Why can’t I integrate WordPress and Facebook? Why can’t I combine Yahoo & Google? Why can’t I have one central contact list across all my devices and there various operating systems? Why can’t I easily blog from my cell phone? or take a picture with my camera, upload it via my cell and post it to this site, flickr and Facebook all at once? Why? Why? Why?
I’ve decided to make it my mission in life to make everything I own and use talk to everything else.
Famous Friends
The internet is a strange place… was having a discusion over IM (Instant Messaging, for those of you are new to this Internet thing) with a friend about all the guys we were in school and what happened to the people.
Anyway while I was having a black & white flashback moment reliving my youth, I decided to put a few of my friends names into Google to see if any robbed banks, became multi billionaires or became famous while I was attempting to get a life. So it doesn’t appear that anyone robbed any banks or made large sums of money… but at least one of us accomplished something that got them into Google.
A friend of mine from high school, Christiaan Kritzinger (although I knew him as Tiaan) actually recorded a CD and got it released and he’s got a MySpace page and in true MySpace fashion you can listen to his music on the page. Now I’m not exaclty a fan of Afrikaans music but the music isn’t bad and its kinda cool being able to say “I know this guy with a CD out”.
Now I just need the guys email address so that I can acquire a signed CD (I’ll pay for it, I’m not that cheap.) and I’m not creating a MySpace account just to say hi.
SNOW !!!
So as most people in the Southern Cape of South Africa will know, this last weekend a cold front hit us and its now really, really, really… really cold. It also snowed and hailed in various parts of the Southern Cape.
So I sent out Stuff.za.net’s official photographer (My Brother, Devin) to go get some photos of the snow for those of us who are stuck in offices and can’t go out traveling in search of snow. More? pictures after the? jump… Continue reading
Facebook Friends
As if I don’t have enough things sucking up my free time, I’ve now been bitten by the Facebook bug. Yes that’s right I’m one of those people now sending out those annoying emails to all my friends asking begging them to acknowledge me as a friend.
Social networking software/websites are rather interesting, how you suddenly start tracking down people that you haven’t heard from or seen for years. You suddenly discover that a friend from high school is now sitting in London or that a girl in your primary school class is now incredibly *hot*. The big problem of course is that maintaining your friends list and keeping up with whats happening in there lives becomes almost a full time job, I’ve already spent a few hours going through friends, friends lists looking for friends that I’ve lost contact with and adding them to my friends list. (I hope that sentence made sense my friends.)
So if you know me, go add me as a friend. Now if you’ll excuse me I need to go find more friends…
Installing Fonts on Ubuntu
Been setting up my Linux machine and getting everything setup the way I like it. I had to install a few fonts that I like using. Found the following info:
If ~/.fonts does not exist, create it:
$ mkdir ~/.fonts
Copy the font, from the command line, run the following:
$ cp [fontfile] ~/.fonts
From the command line, run the following:
$ fc-cache -f -v ~/.fonts
or alternatively, log out, and log back in.
Works great.. found on this site.
Getting the Sun JDK as default on Linux.
If you’ve installed both GCJ & Sun JDK installed on the same Ubuntu Linux install then you might have the problem I add. I installed both Eclipse and NetBeans and now the default Java Runtime was set to GCJ. To fix this you just have to try run the following:
update-java-alternatives –set java-1.5.0-sun
This should switch everything to use the Sun JRE. Found this info on the Java – Ubuntu Community Documentation.
Getting Twinview to work
I had a bit of trouble getting Twin View to work on my new machine (Blizzard) to work.
The Blizzard Arrived
Blizzard arrived yesterday (Thursday) and below are a few photo’s of what the lounge looked like after the un-boxing and assembling it.
