A Life Without Compunction

Thoughts by Dan on a myriad of topics.

Microsoft hits back at Apple

You won’t “get it” if you haven’t seen Apple’s ad campaign.

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 [...]

Wordpress 2.1

A nice update of Wordpress is out so I suggest you grab it. The feature that I think is the best is the tabbed editor. Additionally this feature is pretty cool:
You can set any “page” to be the front page of your site, and put the latest posts somewhere else, making it much easier to [...]

Rina has been sick the last few days, we’ve been keeping her resting but her little mind and body still want to race at 100 mph. Please keep her in your prayers as well as Gin who’s under the weather as well. Also pray that baby stays healthy through all of this. Thanks.
I think my [...]

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