Sunday, December 20, 2009, my husband and I were floored to see that the Oregonian wants to bring down benefits for all by ridiculing the area transit authority. In their front page article, the Oregonian lambasted union employees for sucking the system dry when the glorious management just wants to tidy up the bottom line. My husband and I dutifully wrote our letters responding to the article.
NRDC: Trashy Habits — Reducing Your Waste. So, everything is about the “Green Life” these days. Linux themes, many blogs, and even some green washing. One of my favorite sites for information is the Natural Resource Defense Council. And, it looks like they’ve picked up on the demand for Green Life blogs (linked above). Today’s blog was on Trash. A favorite topic of many the greeny. How do we dispose of our waste in a more responsible manner so that we’re not sweeping the issue under the rug? The author-urbanite provides some quick logic and a no-nonsense look at what we waste, why, and how to reduce it.
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This is BloGTK 2.0. It’s a front-end program that will allow you to post to your blog… kind of with out trying. I don’t know how image/video management will work.
I decided to remove my beloved window manager, Compiz Fusion. With the computer running so hard so often, and when I would check the processes that were taking up space – compiz fusion came up every time. Too many hitches, programs not working, possible conflicts with my proprietary driver… So. I uninstalled it. Super Tux, Secret Maryo, and Gcompris all seem to work or work better now. I read that low-end hardware could be the problem… and we know this mother board is 8 years old. So. It’s sad, but maybe it’s just a reality I need to accept.
We’ll see how this works… 
It snowed today! People say it never snows here, and this is my 6th year here. Every year it snows. Last year they called it Arctic Blast 2009 or 2008! I don’t remember if it was in December or January. The first year Levi was with us, it snowed, and we drove in it – and people were crazy going too fast, turning when they shouldn’t, or just not paying any attention at all. This year, the freeways are all blocked up and everything is getting canceled. Rain is supposed to come tonight. Here’s a gallery of photos from tonight’s event. Read the rest of this entry »
If you’ve read this blog, you know we installed Ubuntu after or vacation in September when windows kindly gave us the Black Screen of Death (NTLDR Missing). Peter has a love hate relationship with it, but he had a similar relationship with Windows. Granted, I wish he’d love Ubuntu 9.10 as much as I do, but I’ll take what I can get. And, what I can get is free. We’ve had a combination of hardware and software problems, so it’s not always easy to diagnose. Thankfully, Ubuntu has a terrific user’s forum where kindly users offer needed help. Today, I’m going to include some of my favorite things about Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala. Read the rest of this entry »
From the folks who brought The Story of Stuff comes The Story of Cap and Trade. Click on the links if it doesn’t show below.
The Story of Cap & Trade from Story of Stuff Project on Vimeo.
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See all four desktops at once.
Move applications from one desktop to another.
Image via Wikipedia
“Followers?” I thought. Weren’t disciples and prophets, like Jesus Christ, the only ones who get followers? But, then, a friend from high school who I wanted to follow sent me an invitation. So, I signed up for Twitter. I tweeted over 250 times, I followed up to 100, and about 100 followed me. The thing is, I only knew about 10 of those Twitter-ites. The rest were either in my region or linked somehow from things I was interested in, as that was the only point I could really find for Twitter – a type of RSS feed for my interests. So, what? I have one more way to keep track of my interests, but it felt like some strange popularity contest, only I didn’t know the other contestants. So, I deleted my Twitter account. And, what I am finding is that social networking, facebook, MySpace, Twitter and all the rest, are just empty ways in which we try vainly to have intimate connections.
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