“Brilliant people simplify things, and mediocre people complicate things.” — Unknone

Three XP Keys, But No XP Install

<rant>Although I get to use Linux mostly for work and personally, there always comes a time when I need to use Windows. It could be that I need to write a program for Windows, or that I have a friend, or family member that needs windows for something. This is one of those times.
What frustrates [...]

Google Docs As An Expense Tracker

I am a huge fan of the google docs, In fact I am pretty much a fan of all of googles services. I love having all my information with me wherever I go and I am willing to “sacrifice” my privacy in exchange for that service. Anything really important and I will keep it on [...]

Lets Let APT-URL Install Repositories

APT-URL is one of my favorite programs. The great thing about it is I can keep a list of programs I like on a website and easily install all the program I like on a new box, or point someone new to Ubuntu to the website with all my favorite programs. The problem is that [...]

A planet to call my own

I love planets, both the ones in the sky’s, and the ones on the web. But this post is about the latter. One of the things about the web is that you have profiles everywhere, and while openID partly solves this problem allowing me to use one user name to authenticate everywhere it does not [...]

Ubuntu Spam

Using gmails spam filters I normally don’t have a problem with spam. However my one email that does receive a lot of spam is my Ubuntu email address. Interestingly enough a few open source members have droped there open source email addresses due to this exact problem. Jeff Bailey has disabled his @gnu.org email address, [...]

AptUrl - Why don’t we use it for the Ubuntu wiki?

I often recommend Ubuntu to people and recommend that they install programs like miro, and geany. Geany comes stock in the Ubuntu repositories and miro has great step-by-step install instruction for beginners, however as I make this post they currently have no official Gutsy support. When I recommend a program to a user I [...]

Im a pouncer

Well I just got my pounce invite and so Im now a pouncer, seeing as I love digg I figured I would love pounce, so far no, but they do promises to have a linux version coming so who knows. Well im now looking for pounce frends so add me, the names earobinson :).
http://pownce.com/earobinson/

Any press is good press?

When the pale blue “Linux car,” also known as car #77 from Chastain Motorsports, was the first car to crash in the 91st Indianapolis 500 on Sunday, we can imagine hordes of geeks wishing it had been a “Vista car” instead. Imagine the “blue screen of death” jokes that could have resulted!
http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9723221-7.html
Hey at least we [...]

60 Minutes: One Laptop Per Child (Video)

[googlevideo=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1049354722405908055&hl=en]
Link to Google video.