2007 Archives

Remember the Asian Tsunami a couple Christmas's ago? What a birthday present for His Son! And how omnipotent of Him, right? Yet this time He willed a monstrous beast to feast on a young man while giving two others literally a gut-wrenching preview for when it was their turn. I'm starting to think that Jesus is hard to please.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. Speak or act with an impure mind and trouble will follow you as the wheel follows the Ox that draws the cart. Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded.

For those of you who have installed the fantastic AWN (Avant Window Navigator) animated dock to add that last extra Wow! to your desktop, I give you the following AWN themes. Remember you will need to first enable a composite window manager for AWN to display properly (Compiz Fusion is included by default in the new Ubuntu 7.10).

This is it. There are no hidden meanings. You can't get there from here, and besides there is no place to go. We are already dying, and we'll be dead a long time. Nothing lasts! There is no way of getting all you want. You can't have anything unless you let go of it. You only get to keep what you give away. There is no particular reason why you lost out on some things. The world is not necessarily just. Being good often does not pay off and there's no compensation for misfortune...

Below are 9 GRUB (GRand Unified Bootloader) splash images freely shared and a brief explanation of how I got GRUB configured to display them. a) Find gzipped, 640x480, 14 color only, xpm images (like the ones above). b) Put the images in /boot/grub/splashimages/. c) Rename the image you wish to use to 'splash.xpm.gz'. d) Make a link to /boot/grub/splashimages/splash.xpm.gz and put it in /boot/grub/...

WE ARE NOT CRUMBS; WE MUST NOT ACCEPT CRUMBS. Remarks on the occasion of the 20th Anniversary of ACT UP, NY Lesbian and Gay Community Center, March 13, 9007, By Larry Kramer...

My frequent trips to the Ubuntu forums often bring me in contact with posts about the visual wonder that is the Beryl composite window manager (now known as Compiz Fusion). I decided to take the plunge and see if my experience lived up to all the hype. In short, it has. I now find working with a regular desktop window manager limiting. Though I love the Gnome desktop environment, 3D desktops are so freeing it's difficult to go back to anything less...