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Anyone else get colds in summer?  I’ve got one and it sucks.  I’d say it’s an allergy attack, but it’s behaving just like a cold – itchy throat, then runny nose, then cough and fever…. ack!

When I read this, I thought of all the poor kids whose parents constantly correct them and scold them for making mistakes and prevent them from taking risks – intellectual risks, social risks, physical risks.  There’s strong motivation here for expanding your parenting style to incorporate allowing your kids to screw up.  And even for [...]

I follow this guy’s blog, Stephen Mills.  He wrote a piece today that explains very well one of the choices I’ve been trying to finishing making for the past five years or so.  Would You Rather Be Right or Be At Peace?.  Good stuff, Stephen.  Thanks!

Remember the pain we used to have to go through to cancel a credit card?  Well, not anymore.  And that’s weird.  You’d think that with the recession so close behind them the creditors would be trying hard to keep customers.
Luca and I just got back from fishing – caught a nice, 18″ large mouth and [...]

Don’t forget that by default, most python module install themselves in /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/. But the default install of python2.6 on Ubuntu 9.04 doesn’t look there. Ugh. So, instead of installing with
python setup.py install
use
python setup.py install –install-layout=deb
and the module will install itself in /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages and then python will be able to find it.

Old news. Didn’t upgrade my wordpress for a looong time. Came over this afternoon to make a new post and found the bottom of my blog covered in arabic. Ugh. Someone had added an administrator account, too. So, apply new theme and nuke the old – the templates [...]

Got a squirrel at 75 yards Sunday. Not a bad shot, but about 1/4 of an inch to the left would have been better.  As it happened, the round passed through it’s neck just aft of the skull and just above the spine, apparently just disabling it’s shoulders.  So, it fell out of the tree [...]

Randall Wood wrote a decent article about about customising Gnome for using Kinesis keyboards.

Power was out this morning.  It’s still out at home but I’m in the office where it’s warm and dry and happy…  ok, let’s not gloat.  Anyway, when the power goes out, we pull the digital, cordless phone base-station off the kitchen wall and plug in an old, analogue, single-line, business telephone.  And it works.  [...]

So, I used to pretend that I wasn’t really fat. “I’m just ‘beefy’ and solid” I’d tell myself. Even when I was listening to my doctor tell me to loose weight or else. He’d point at the chart, we’d find the row for my height, 6′ 2″, and scan across (way, way, [...]