Archive for July, 2008

Life – It’s Open Source by Osmosis

Inspiration comes from the weirdest places. This time it came from a plurk that I posted saying “TheNerd wishes he could open source his life“. AaronMSB responded with the following statement “isn’t your life a little open source already. You learn and take mannerisms and stuff from the people around you”. This was quite an [...]

eCSWare – Software for eComStation – Launched Today

I sent this announcement to a bunch of eComStation related site and hopefully it gets picked up here and there. Hello eComStation World! I would like to let you all know that today I have launched a new eComStation software website known as eCSWare.org. This site is a place where members will be able to [...]

WordPress software has been updated

I’ve finally gotten around to upgrading from WordPress 2.3.3 to WordPress 2.6. The upgrade went surprisingly well with only two plugins that did not work properly. The best part of the whole process was the automatic upgrading of the installed plugins. This made it very easy to get the newest versions of most of my [...]

How Plurk Saved The Day!

This is a short post on how Plurk (and one user in particular) saved the day for me yesterday. Last night I noticed that I was having problems with my internet connect. More specifically, the problems seemed to be related to name resolution. I was able to reach sites which I had very recently visited, [...]

Dear Canadian Professional Police Association – PLEASE FUCK OFF!

That’s right, please fuck off and leave me alone! Four years ago when you called and asked for a $20 donation I thought you sounded like a noble and respectable organization that would not sell my number or continue to harass me (at least that’s what you told me). Boy was I ever wrong. The [...]

Trying out openSUSE 11

Over the next few days I am going to be testing out openSUSE 11 (the latest version). What I’ve liked about openSUSE, in the past, is that it’s been a good preview of what will be included in Novell’s SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop and Server releases. I have taken some Novell training courses on SUSE [...]