Mostly Ignored
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All That Jazz
Doo-wappa-doo shoo-doo-shoo-bee-ooo-bee louie-ooie-la-la-la skeep-beep de bop-bop beep bop bo-dope skeetle-at-de-op-de-day chicka chong chicka chong chicka chacka chooka chong chicka bop-dop choppin de bow wow wow zip-a-dee-doo-dah mah na mah na doo-dah doo-dah ooby dooby rama llama ding dong do wah diddy diddy diddy dum diddy do heebie jeebie skeep skype skoop brip ber breep ber…
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Chicken of the Sea
Based in San Diego, California, Chicken of the Sea is the company that is single-handedly responsible for the breeding of 96% of the world’s population of gill-equipped, underwater poultry. Originally, these schools of chickens were harvested for packing in nice, neat tins, for consumption by fat, bloated carcasses like you. However, after being liberated by…
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Pork is evil
Dear Diary, Yesterday I was eating a ham sandwich and I had another stark realization. Pork is evil. As wide as the gulf of understanding may be between the Muslims and the Jews, this much they can agree on: Pork is evil. Of course, they’ll continue their fervid debate on the relative merits of the…
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The Complete Anthology of Apologies for All Crimes I’ve Committed Since the Dawn of Time, Volume One
An apology follows, but first, the admissions of guilt: In Music I serviced Buddy Holly’s plane. I wrote the book of love. Clarification: But some other jerk removed all of the adult content I added. What gives? I put the bomp in the bomp bah bomp bah bomp, AND… I put the ram in the…
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Do-It-Yourself Degree Milling for Fun and… well, Just Fun
When I was younger, I liked to hang my degrees up in my office. I suppose that until I had a well established sense of identity and self worth, those framed bit of paper helped me feel like I belonged in the world of professionals. While they still have some importance to me—primarily as legal…
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Kaffeine: Can’t check DMA mode. Permission denied or no such device: “/dev/dvd”
I recently ran into trouble trying to play copy-protected DVDs on my new installation of Kubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron beta). Initially it seemed that there was a problem with the installation of libdvdcss2, because Kaffeine kept offering to re-install it. However, after a re-start of Kaffeine from Konsole with wizard mode (kaffeine -w), I got…
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Will The Canoniclique Finally Listen To Kubuntu?
Yesterday, Ubuntu tore a page from The Book of Dell and launched Brainstorm, an opportunity for its users to contribute their ideas for software development and marketing. To my own surprise, I signed up for an account. It’s not that I don’t enjoy giving my opinion. Tirades and diatribes are my raison d’être. If you…
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Persnickety Linux Isn’t Doing Itself Any PR Favours
I spent last Saturday fixing up an old computer. For the last 7 years or so, I’ve donated equipment to needy kids and families. This computer was a generic 1GHz Pentium-III: a local computer shop house brand. Apparently the previous owner tried to do a bit of fixing-up himself and got in over his head,…
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How do I love KDE? Let me count the ways.
No, I’m not actually going to count, but it was the first title that popped into my head and if I’ve learned anything about the creative process, it’s that your first instinct is usually the best. The GNOME vs. KDE war is not new. Since their very beginnings where one claimed to be the first…