Swimming in the Pensieve

2006.06.29, Thursday

*I’m Impressed*

Filed under: Technology, Linux — Allan @ 12:33:50

I have to confess that, despite the inherent stability, reliability and maturity of most contemporary Linux distros, the lack of serious issues with the MEPIS 6.0-rc2 release has the tendency to impress me. (more…)

2006.06.28, Wednesday

Everybody

Filed under: Spurrious Thoughts, The Pensieve — Allan @ 13:48:33

I have to confess that the following song is one of my favorites.

In spite of this, favorite songs don’t normally occupy my mind for the length of waking and ‘odd-moment’ time that this one has of late.

Of course I’ll share the lyrics with you–as if you ever thought that I wouldn’t. (more…)

2006.06.23, Friday

LA County is in Trouble Now…

Filed under: Los Angeles County, Civics — Allan @ 20:34:20

Take a look at what I found, here: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-scotus23jun23,0,3995801.story?coll=la-home-nation

…and I am going to post the entire LA Times story below, just so you can’t ignore it (comments after the story text). (more…)

Idiot Parents Harm Their Children

Filed under: Domesticity, Parenting, Top-View, Parenting — Allan @ 16:11:07

They really do!

Please read this BBC article about the development of RSI in children who engage in, among other things, too much SMS messaging (more…)

2006.06.21, Wednesday

SimplyMEPIS now in RC2

Filed under: Technology, Linux — Allan @ 20:36:07

Have a look-see at this latest news release from the MEPIS website.

I like the fact that Warren has slipped the release date back to 2006.07.10; because this is one of those little traits exhibited by people for whom quality is the highest priority. (more…)

2006.06.20, Tuesday

Father’s Day Foods

Filed under: Domesticity, Memories — Allan @ 22:33:28

Ribs, steak, hot dogs, corn and…

Holidays, in general, have a habit of passing under my radar; and, along with my own birthday, Father’s Day is probably one of the foremost of those stealth holidays. (more…)

2006.06.18, Sunday

SimplyMEPIS in Release Candidate

Filed under: Technology, Linux — Allan @ 15:29:27

I happen to like a lot of different Linux distributions, but I have narrowed in-upon upon SimplyMEPIS as the one that I tend to come back to time and time again. (more…)

2006.06.12, Monday

Wireless Woes: Reloaded

Filed under: Technology, Linux, Domesticity, Nuts-N-Bolts — Allan @ 09:39:21
Ever since posting, in ‘Wireless Woes‘, that I had no problems getting a Linksys WPC11-Version4 PCMCIA wireless card working on Linux, I’ve received the occasional email asking how I did it.Instead of continuing to answer emails with what amounts to snippets of crib notes on the procedure I followed, I’ll put this information here and tell you folks to read it for yourselves. (more…)

2006.06.09, Friday

CAMS Graduation

Filed under: Domesticity, Parenting, Education — Allan @ 15:59:50


A little less than four years ago, we entrusted our second-eldest daughter to the California Academy of Mathematics and Science, hosted (reasonably so, that is) by the California State University at Dominguez Hills. (more…)

2006.06.05, Monday

Ambivalence

Filed under: Domesticity, Spurrious Thoughts — Allan @ 16:35:49

Despite picking up hundreds of hits to the top-level page of the site, this has been a depressing day.

Nothing more to say about that…just venting a bit.

Get out and vote for David Barton, for LBUSD’s school board tomorrow.

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