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Archive for 2008/12


Grandpa’s little powerhouse

Welcome back!It’s been a long time since I’ve had a baby to take care of. I’d forgotten how they can wear you out so quickly. Next time you find yourself thinking about taking diet pills, instead just go find a six-month-old you can take care of for a few weeks. I’m not complaining, really. I [...]

Is Linux holding our kids back?

I almost fell out of my chair when StumbleUpon’s toolbar served up this page for me. The Helios project, as I understand it based on 5 minutes worth of research, is a project to provide free computers to kids who would otherwise not be able to have them. In order to provide these computers at [...]

How’s that again?

Recently I heard and ad on the car radio for a tankless water heater and I was like, “a WHAT? How do you heat water without a tank?” Seriously, what do they do, wrap some industrial strength heat tapes around your water pipes so that between time the water enters your house’s plumbing system to [...]

Dual boot problem solved

Since I started complaining on this blog about my trouble getting Ubuntu Linux set up, it seems only right that I should announce that I found a fix for the problems I was having. First off, I gave up on the Ubuntu 8.04 LiveCD I was using and tried using 8.10 instead. That installed and [...]

Thanks a bunch, fellas

I’ve been meaning to write this out for a while, but there have just been too many other irons on the fire lately. A short while ago I got an email from my little sister (I’ll bet she loves being called that, especially now that she’s a grandmother) letting me know that she wasn’t working [...]

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