May 2007 Archives
May 31
ugh!
Once again apologies for not writing but my Mother hasn't been well lately and I had moved back home for a while, happily she is fine now and I have returned home to face several daunting computer related tasks.
Firstly of course is email.
Yucky, I think most of these will
get marked as read, I don't have it in me anymore to read that
much, especially as more comes piling in everyday.Secondly, I have to do some massive updates on several machines that run Debian unstable. About 800MB per machine. Maybe I should look at some local repository but it never until now, seemed worth it for only 3 computers.
May 12
southern boogie
I feel awful for not writing enough
but I am overwhelmed by how hectic this year has become. I have a
full time job, plus a bartending night job, a wedding to plan and
then just last week a conference in Ottawa to attend with work.
It's been pretty crazy, then on the weekends I take care of my
niece which means driving her to soccer practice and jumping up and
down on the side lines shouting stuff to keep her spirits up. (she
actually is a sneaky little poacher that hangs out at midfield
waiting for the goalie to to kick the ball down to her end and then
running in and scoring, complete with cartwheels and
high-fives.)
I have had very little occasion to even check slashdot or newspyle for my geekynews so I am basically out of the loop. Microsoft could have bought Yahoo for all I know (trust me, it's coming)
I installed a little app called hpodder which creates a directory for podcasts to download to. Unfortunately it cannot load the podcasts onto your IPod directly via GTKPod so you have to do that manually but still it takes most of the grunt work out of putting podcasts onto your iPod and staying current.
One of the best podcasts I have ever heard is called the Ongoing History Of New Music which is a fabulous show hosted by Alan Cross, who started out as a DJ and has since moved up to become the program director at CFNY. If you like music at all, check out this show.
Growing up with brothers inevitably leads to ACDC or Led Zeppelin being hammered at you every time they get partying but sometimes I actually don't mind. Cactus is a band that originally intended to have Carmine Appice, Jeff Beck and Rod Stewart as the main attraction but that combination never got going for various reasons.
I had never heard of the genre `southern boogie' but quite like the name and wondered what it sounded like, even today the music still stands up and is quite exciting and very 1972'ish, `southern boogie' sounds something like this...
I have had very little occasion to even check slashdot or newspyle for my geekynews so I am basically out of the loop. Microsoft could have bought Yahoo for all I know (trust me, it's coming)
I installed a little app called hpodder which creates a directory for podcasts to download to. Unfortunately it cannot load the podcasts onto your IPod directly via GTKPod so you have to do that manually but still it takes most of the grunt work out of putting podcasts onto your iPod and staying current.
One of the best podcasts I have ever heard is called the Ongoing History Of New Music which is a fabulous show hosted by Alan Cross, who started out as a DJ and has since moved up to become the program director at CFNY. If you like music at all, check out this show.
Growing up with brothers inevitably leads to ACDC or Led Zeppelin being hammered at you every time they get partying but sometimes I actually don't mind. Cactus is a band that originally intended to have Carmine Appice, Jeff Beck and Rod Stewart as the main attraction but that combination never got going for various reasons.
I had never heard of the genre `southern boogie' but quite like the name and wondered what it sounded like, even today the music still stands up and is quite exciting and very 1972'ish, `southern boogie' sounds something like this...