A Life Without Compunction

Thoughts by Dan on a myriad of topics.

Children and the WWW

Okay a post to end the techie madness. It’s not like I stare at code for that long but it does take up a good part of my day, after all that’s what I do.
However life is not made up of 1s and 0s, and so I look at the best part of my life: [...]

Kubuntu Herd 4 - Feisty Fawn

I just upgraded my Kubuntu to Fiesty Fawn Herd 4 which was released yesterday. Some nice updated features and for an alpha release it runs suprisingly stable.
My favourite feature so far is being able to assign static IP information to a connection using Network Manager.
Looking forward to the final of this release!
Update: I have a [...]

Flexible Values

I’ve made too many websites where variables have been hardcoded, down the road you need to change a path or info and you end up having to edit 5 or 10 files to achieve the desired result.
Recently I was faced with a decision between loading variables at runtime from a db or creating a single [...]

The Endtime dot com

We’ve embarked on a new mission — we being me and the other cool bureaucrat who founded the site — that is to document Endtime events. We are basing the project on Bible prophecies, the writings of David Brandt Berg and other writers. Bible prophecy is being fulfilled before our very eyes and the Bible [...]

Heavy Metal

My daugther is convinced that Heavy Metal song by STEM is sung by Larry the Cucumber. — Our dialog at breakfast went like this:
“Daddy, is that song really a silly song with Larry?”
“No that’s STEM, he’s just doing that for fun.”
“Oooh! But he really sounds like Larry.”

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