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{ Monthly Archives } September 2006

A Couple Things That Are Bothering Me

There are a few things that are really starting to bother me, and they have been on my task list for some time. Trouble is, I can’t find any decent documentation on any of it, and it seems that I can’t find help. Here is what’s troubling me so far:

Setting up my personal [...]

Ubuntu Explained By Nelson Mandela

Ubuntu is a South African ideology focusing on relationships within communities. “I am because we are.” “A person ‘becomes human’ through other persons.” “Humanity towards others.” Catholic Archbishop Desmond Tutu gave a further definition:
A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that [...]

Irrational Logic

Someone please, for the love of everything that is good and holy, explain the following to me. I am looking for rational, deductional logic, not opinions.
Why, when on IRC, I can use /me and /action, and no one could care less.
22:38:27 [...]

RIP lilo

Wow. What a day. It’s 2:30 in the morning, and I can’t sleep. Why? Rob Levin, head of PDPC and creator of Freenode died yesterday.
How tragic.
It’s all over the geek news. It’s been on Slashdot, Digg, Reddit and many other news sites. So I’m not about to go over [...]

Goodbye Gaim- Forever

Since Open Discussion Day, I have connected personally to Jabber as my only means of IM communication, and I haven’t looked back. I don’t miss MSN, AIM, ICQ (although I am stuck using that at work), or Yahoo!. It’s been wonderful connecting only to Jabber using my Gmail account.
Well, since connecting, I just [...]

Edgy Isn’t Ready

Well, duh. I is only at stage “Knot 2″, which means it’s still beta. However, with that said, I find it to be more alpha than anything.
Last night was one of the most unpleasant that I have had for a while. I decided to make the jump from Dapper to Edgy, thinking [...]