Month: July 2006
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On helping others
It’s interesting how simple acts of help / kindness towards other people can make my day. Walking home from work the other day, I happened to notice an older gentleman trying to lever a wooden post off of his wall and out of the ground. I stopped to watch for a few, and noticed he…
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Defining insanity
Silly me decided to try again to upgrade my ZyXEL firmware. I believe there’s a definition of insanity that reads ‘Trying the same thing over and over, expecting different results.’ I’m insane 🙂 This time, not only did SIP break, but I couldn’t downgrade either. This is a bit painful, as it means I can’t…
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Last.fm and Amarok
Amarok 1.4.1 just came out for Kubuntu Dapper, and it includes better support for Last.FM’s stuff. With 1.4 (and I think 1.3.x), you could set up a Last.FM account, and feed data in to the relational system they use to recommend music for you to listen to. 1.4.1 has introduced support for playing the custom…