My second week of experiencing Ramadan is already documented, this is week three. When studying Anthropology in higher education, you learn in your first class the necessity of “participant observation“. This is defined as getting involved with the group you wish to study. In other words, rather than sitting on the sidelines, just watching the [...]
I just discovered Newsbeuter supports synchronization with Google Reader. Not only your read/unread feed items, but you can also share and star items in Newsbeuter as you can in the Google Reader interface. This blog post is documenting how. Further, by using Buzz, you can also comment on your shared items, and others. I’ll cover [...]
Tagged email, google, mutt, newsbeuter, reader, rssMy first week of experiencing Ramadan is already documented, this is week two. This week was the week that school started for fall semester at my local university. I’m a bit nervous being able to keep my energy high all day long after going from class to class at school, so it will be interesting [...]
I mentioned that I wanted to participate in Ramadan, even though I’m Mormon. This is my first week of doing so. So, the first week of Ramadan has been a good one for me. There have been times when I have struggled with fasting, and there have been times when it wasn’t such a big [...]
I guess now that I’ve published this post, the rules are written down, even if they are still unofficial. However, with that said, I’d like to address a few things with the popular microblogging service Identi.ca. I’ve been actively involved with the service since July 2, 2008, which means I’ve been on the service now [...]
Just over the past couple of weeks, I have done a few Debian GNU/Linux installations for various people, including myself. I am a minimalist. I like to have installed on my system only exactly what I specify. However, I’m also a realist, and know that Debian has likely chosen sane defaults in the installer when [...]
I’m a Christian. Specifically, I belong to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Yes, I’m a Mormon. In fact, I’m a very active Mormon. I believe the doctrine, I attend church every Sunday, I read the Holy Scriptures, I pray, I attend the temple when I can and I try to live my [...]
After much sweat, pain and tears, I have finally nailed down the source to my troubles with OpenID on my blog, specifically when commenting on posts. It turns out that Filosofo Comments Preview plugin is the culprit, causing a “You must submit a comment using the comment form” error. The plugin hasn’t been updated in [...]
I’m constantly amazed to read, over and over again, about people who don’t “tweet”, because they don’t care what you had for breakfast. When I first heard about Twitter in early 2007, I had the same feeling. What am I supposed to do? Tell people when and what I’m eating, how often I’m using the [...]
At work, we use Symantec NetBackup for all our full and incremental backups to tape. With currently about 100 servers in operation, and roughly 300+ virtual development environments on the horizon using RHEV, NetBackup and Bare Metal Restore, also from Symantec, will be crucial in our operations. Recently, we had some virtual servers take a [...]
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The day before Mother’s Day, my family went up to the Golden Spike National Monument. We went through the museum, checked out the exhibits, and they even had a reenactment of the ceremony there on Promentory Summit. It was a fun day. On the way back to the car, I head some radio operators: CQ [...]
I almost let today go by without blogging about Open Discussion Day. Of course, lately, I haven’t been doing much blogging at all, which is entirely out of my person, but anyway, let’s get onto the festivities. First, so you understand, Open Discussion Day started back 4 years ago when Ploum first blogged about showing [...]
Now that school is out for the summer, I have a bit of time to work on some of the themes I’ve created for my ZSH prompt, Irssi and GNU Screen. The first focus of mine was to get all themes working well with both white text on black backgrounds, and black text on white [...]
A recent build of Chromium removes “http://” from the Omnibar in the browser, and replaces it with a globe icon. As a result, typing “http://www.google.com” will result in “www.google.com/” being displayed, rather than the full URI. There’s been a lot of heat and discussion about this, and near and far as I can tell, people [...]
