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Disparagus (n.)
An asparagus feeling out of hope.

Somewhat related: Cute names for fruits and vegetables, Mornington Dictionary (and way funnier).

Cacti is a free network monitoring and graphing (”trending”) tool, which i’ve managed to install on a computer at work. The idea is that eventually i will have a portable network monitoring tool that is both easy to physically lug around and reasonably easy to plug into a new network and let it do its [...]

People like me should avoid reading stuff like The Art of The Start, by Guy Kawasaki. I’ve identified myself as a Starter person and this stuff is just feeding my easily persuaded bits. Wits. Whatever.
The guy even provides a free test drive of the first chapter The Art of Starting, plus auxiliary bits. [...]

This posting is just to announce that i installed a sitemap generator plugin for WordPress to Navelfluff. The plugin starts chunking away once i’ve actually written a new post. So it might just as well be this one.

As a small exercise in geekdom (when i probably should have been to bed already) i installed Xubuntu 6.10 on a one gig Kingston Mini-Migo USB flash drive. Yeah, it’s pretty small :). Instructions are here.
What i didn’t get running straight out of the box was the wireless network, which was handled with a [...]

My Windows and Mac colleagues will sneer at me, but i finally have MP3 support on my Linux box, that runs Kubuntu 6.06. The Ubuntu Wiki suggests enabling the multiverse repository and installing libxine-extracodecs but that didn’t help me since i couldn’t find the libxine-extracodecs listed at all.
In the end, i googled for libxine-extracodecs and [...]

Warning. Geek text ahead for next few paragraphs. Skip to here if you are a normal non-geek reader.
As one final performance here, i am to oversee the installation of a mail server for MNEC, This is something i haven’t done before, and as such, it is not a small task. An interesting one it is, [...]

Whoa! I’ve just experienced my first earthquake!
Yesterday evening, i was rained in at the office, praying that the electricity would not go out and chatting over the ‘net with a friend and colleague i Finland (hi, krisku!) when everything started to vibrate. It didn’t take a genius to realize what was happening, but what [...]

A few weeks ago, i –who try to be an evangelist for the contrary– gave in to proprietary software. I installed Skype. One driver was that a Skype client exists on Linux (my borrowed laptop runs Mepis). But i did feel dirty and ashamed. I’ve drummed for H.323 and SIP –we [...]

Recap time. I haven’t written much of what’s happened down here in a while. For a while. In some time. Whatever. In no particular order.
Emma
Not long after i whined about what guitar i should get, i went out and bought the sunburst Stratacoustic for three hundred USDs, bag included. I named the guitar Emma, [...]