A Life Without Compunction Blog

I had been wanting to do a podcast this week as I’ve got two cool interviews already in with more on the way. But my family came down with the flu and I sound like a toad at present so that podcast will have to wait till I get better.

I came across Ubuntu Studio while reading the Ubuntu Fridge and think it’s an interesting goal, though I think the various sub distros of Ubuntu is becoming a bit much. I mean there’s even an Ubuntu Christian Edition (don’t even get me started on the domain name) with it’s dark nemesis Ubuntu Satanic Edition. Bottom line is all the packages that are being touted in each release are installable from any one of these distros via the online repositories. There’s a small advantage in making them presentable to the end user but I think in many ways making a nice fat DVD distro that has all the variants on it would be the best way to go.

For the last 48 hours Google and anything else on their network (Blogspot, etc) have been erratic from where I am. My assumption is it has something to do with my service provider because I doubt the great and powerful datacenters of Google would be having this much trouble.

In the meantime I’ve been forced to use other search engines and all I can say is:

I WANT MY GOOGLE BACK!

Well we are back “home” and it’s been a fun and exciting 16 days for us. We wanted to just post a little something to say thank you to each one who made our stay in their homes enjoyable and memorable. We especially want to thank those who lent us their rooms while we were visiting, it made the holiday season and the first few days with our son relaxing, stress free and special. And a special thanks to my Dad who let my Mom fly here to help us over the holiday season, and my Mom who we were happy to see and was such a help throughout. We love you!

A belated Happy New Year to all — may each of you have a wonderful New Year full of love and happiness.

Just wanted to give a heads up to any of my friends who may be shopping for tech items, that I stumbled across a site via PriceGrabber called BigWinterDeal.com. This site has some amazing deals but don’t be fooled, it’s a trick to steal your money.

More info at Yahoo! Answers

Happy Christmas shopping. (This is taking waaaay to long to load! Guess where I wrote this from :))

I try not to grace Windows that often but when I do I like to at least have some background music. Winamp stopped being my player of choice a while back, I prefer foobar2000, however it’s still on my wife’s computer. And now for the rant:

<rant>Minor upgrades need a better update process than downloading a whole new install of the program. It’s bad for the end user. Smart upgrades is something that needs to be perfected in the next 2 years via installer packages. Possibly something that can be added to NSIS?</rant>