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Testing TunePost’s embedded Music feature

Just messing around with the early public beta from TunePost. This might not work for everyone, but you should get music when you hit the play button in the embedded code window below…

For those who prefer Rock, and a whole playlist rather than just one targeted song:

Wow - Virtualization via Xen is awesome!

We’ve been virtualizing our systems where I work for months now. OpenSuSE 11 with Xen virtualization and many OpenSuSE virtual servers on each physical server. Today that paid off big time, when I needed to clear one of the physical servers off, I was able to simply shutdown the virtual servers on that [...]

The new GParted LiveCD 0.4.1-2 boots RAM disk now

The new GParted LiveCD (v0.4.1-2) allows booting into a RAM disk so you can eject the CD and shred other servers with it while the first server is still doing long-running shred commands. Very cool!
For those who don’t know about it, GParted is a GPL (free and open source) software suite that allows re-partitioning [...]

Yuletide Ball in Washington

My New Year’s Eve started with me day cleaning my home office thoroughly, a multi-day job I am only getting started on; I want to reorganize and deep clean everything and re-configure my home work space…
I wasted a few hours fighting with horribly written Windows software to update our old Garmin StreetPilot 2620 GPS with [...]

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Yuletide Ball: New Year’s Eve Gala and Dance Competitions

Yuletide Ball has it’s New Year’s Eve Gala ($160/person) tonight; Dan Van Bey may have one more ticket with our group, and the Yuletide folks may have more for general seating.
The Gala is one big New Year’s Eve party with lots of ballroom dancing, some decent food and possibly some professional dance shows. It’s [...]

Now we clean the pantry….

The fun never stops at our house, we are cleaning the pantry and finding some… uh… er… rather old gems in the canned/jarred food category. Uh, a lot of stuff is getting disposed of since it is so old. Must develop a new habit of checking the pantry before going shopping or when [...]

Pleased by TV options

I am not myself in the market for a new television, but went out shopping for a new television with Fyrlocc yesterday to help her sort out the crazy marketing doublespeak from the pertinent and useful facts. I was pleasantly surprised by the dropping prices, generally better pictures on nearly all displays, and useful [...]

Haiku Day, Solstice

Hear Winter Solstice wind
Enjoy warm hugs, bright smiles, love
Contrast brings beauty

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Yule tree is up, 5 gallons of Blackcap Mead bottled

Erci rocks! She bottled the first five gallon carboy of Blackcap mead today while I cleaned the dining room and foyer, then we decorated the tree together and watched the cats pretend to be forest predators by stalking each other and us from under the branches of the artificial tree. We’ll have to [...]

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Deeply Concerned about Obama’s choice of Rick Warren

Rick Warren is an obnoxious slime, that is pretty much self-evident to anyone capable of independent thought. He is, at first calculation, a horrible choice to have speak publicly at any inauguration (even a conservative one). The fact that Obama has chosen him to speak at this inauguration has mystified me for several [...]

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