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Return to Colorado
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008I’m going to Colorado for 5 days to spend some quality time with the fam. My younger brother lives in Denver and the rest of my family lives on the east coast. But with me out here in California, why not meet up in the middle?
I went last year and had a really good time. I’m hoping to do a lot of new things as well as perhaps revisiting some fun places from last year as well.
I’m assuming my internet access will be limited, so this might mean the return of twittering. Vacations seem to be the only logical time to use twitter for me.
Winbuntu
Sunday, June 29th, 2008Now that I have a an iMac for my personal use at home, my old Dell Inspiron e1505 laptop has been tucked away in a bag, neglected, collecting dust.
This weekend I decided to make it useful again…by installing Ubuntu on it.
Well, actually I kept Windows on it as well. Well, actually I wiped the hard drive first then did a clean install of Windows XP followed by the Ubuntu installation. Yep, dual-boot to the max!
The Ubuntu installation was easy and functioned seamlessly with my Dell upon initial boot up. Of course, that wasn’t the case for the Windows XP installation.
Most of the drivers included in the Dell drivers disk didn’t work with my system which meant searching the internet for the correct ones. I found most on the Dell website, but there was at least one that I had to hunt elsewhere for. Blah. So after I got that mess figured out, I happily logged out of Windows to start working on the fun part.
I found some good resources on creating a dual-boot Windows/Ubuntu system, including a forum post with a good layout of partitioning proportions. Like I said, the Ubuntu installation went flawlessly. I even got Compiz Fusion up and running, bringing the sexiness level close to that of my iMac.
Needless to say, I don’t think I’ll be booting up Windows XP anytime soon.
English confuses me
Sunday, June 15th, 2008I’ve made it through my whole life up to this point without realizing that the words “defence” and “defense” can be used interchangeably. The realization came when the Firefox spell checker informed me that my spelling of “defence” was incorrect. I was a little surprised. It sure looked fine to me.
Sure enough, a quick check in Wikipedia informed me that there are in fact two spellings. I guess it has something to do with American and British English spelling differences or something.
I’ve never been that good with the English language. I guess I still dont understand it.
