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earobinson.org is back up

earobinson.org went down for a bit tonight but it is now back up. Please let me know if you find any problems.

A reddit neutral vote!

A lot of this post could also be applied to the Ubuntu Brainstorm but since I use reddit (an open source social news site)  a lot more I will make this post about reddit, yet it could apply to any voting site. I use mainly reddit, and google reader to get my news online. Google [...]

Come See RMS In Toronto!

Richard Matthew Stallman (RMS), the farther of the gnu project, will be speaking in Toronto  Febuary 2nd @ 5pm, in the Bahan Center (Bahen Center, 40 St. George Street Room 1160). This event is open to everyone and you can find the original notice here (Yes it is sad that I cant find a U [...]

New wireless mouse

This message was going to be on twitter but it got to long (due to links), and so this is my first post of the new year! (Happy new year everyone) My old mouse finally crapped out on me, I loved that old school microsoft mouse, and it is the only microsoft product that I [...]

Trac: enhanced wiki and issue tracking system

I love writing about projects that I really like. When I do I try not to write about projects that people may know about and I definitely do not write about projects that come pre installed with Ubuntu. I love open office but it comes  pre installed Ubuntu.  Trac however does not come pre installed [...]

Tilda: The gaming style terminal

Well its been ages since my last real post, but life and twitter have been keeping me busy. Ever since I started using computers every 5 months or so I get board of my current computer setup and start to look at my other options, this can be anything from replacing a program, to changing [...]

Me(me)

Well here is another one. Take a picture of yourself right now. Don’t change your clothes, don’t fix your hair…just take a picture. Post that picture with NO editing. Post these instructions with your picture. Full discloser the picture was taken yesterday morning when I read about this post but I only am just uploading [...]

My name is…

Well there is another meme on planet ubuntu and this one is about the name of your computers. I typically name my computers after different ways of saying NULL in different programing languages. I currently have: MinusOne – This is my main computer. -1 is a way sometimes used to mark an int as NULL. [...]

New Hackergotchi

With the release of wordpress 2.6.1 I have once again updated my hackergotchi. This will be my third hackergotchi since 2006, and the original image was taken by my mother at our cottage in Pointe au Baril, and yes I am sitting on the barrel that markes the site of the original barrel that the [...]

DeadlineExceededError on Google App Engine

A while back I wrote a post about using Google docs as an expense tracker. The post received a lot of great feedback and so when I wanted to learn about Google App Engine I decided the best way was to create a Google app that connects to my Google docs to let the user [...]