Thoughts

National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day

April 2nd is National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day, not to be confused with National Peanut Butter Day, which is January 24th. The origin of this holiday is unclear, but the earliest internet mention of the event is on the Smucker’s website from 2002. Based on the company’s copious production of both peanut butter and [...]

s/testing/stable/

Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 “Lenny” has been released as “stable”. Congratulations and thank you for all the hard work, Debian release team, Debian CD team, Debian Developers, and all Debian contributors! mshuler@kokopelli:~$ apt-cache policy Package files: 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status release a=now 700 http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/non-free Packages release v=None,o=Debian,a=testing,l=Debian-Security,c=non-free origin security.debian.org 700 http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/contrib Packages release v=None,o=Debian,a=testing,l=Debian-Security,c=contrib origin security.debian.org [...]

Book Meme

Here are the rules: * Grab the nearest book. * Open it to page 56. * Find the fifth sentence. * Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions. * Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST. =============================== My result: “At [...]

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Image credit: http://www.patrickmoberg.com/blog/id:420/november-4-2008

Debconf8 Arrival Day

Eric and I landed in Buenos Aires at 9am and then had to wait until 4:30pm for a bus to Mar Del Plata – only because we screwed up the date that we requested to have our reservation, initially.. We requested a bus on 8/9/2008, which (except for the US) means September 8, 2008.. A [...]