Organic?
Great, big companies are trying to cash in on Organic produce by having the definition of what is organic changed to included “19 food colorings, two starches, casings for sausages, hops, fish oil,...
View ArticleOne wee coffee plant left?
Neat story about a coffee plant, found on only one island in the Indian Ocean, thought to be extinct: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5307047 In 1877, a European visitor, passing...
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Howe Caverns
Went to the Howe Caverns yesterday was a fun day. Was 90f/32C above ground and a chilly 52F/11C below ground! It was pretty cool!
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DMC-TZ3 Zoom
So I got the Panasonic DMC-TZ3 for my birthday, which was July 10th! It does take decent pictures, but they do seem a little feathery when you zoom in. My old Canon S200 seemed to take sharper pics,...
View ArticleBad, bad boss, naughty boss, have a cookie.
Hardly a surprise: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070803/od_nm/work_bosses_dc “The fact that 64.2 percent of the respondents indicated that either nothing at all or something positive happened to the bad...
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Old Pics!
I forgot I had these pics up on my old CS address: http://www.cs.umb.edu/~mtimony/Donegal/index.html The first set has a few pics taken up in Dungloe. Meself, me sister Jeannie, and my friend Sue spent...
View ArticleLinux Install Fest Aug 18th 2007 @ MIT
From the BLU Discussion List: Boston Linux Installfest XXVI When: Saturday, August 18, 2007 from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Where: MIT Building E-51, Room 061 Parking: parking is available in front of the...
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Flickr Explore!
Cool: From http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/scout.php?username=bettlebrox&sort=date&page=1&makeimage=1 All the images: 1. Sunrise @ the lake, 2. Slieve League, 3. Boston Twilight, 4. Donegal...
View ArticleFlickr Badge
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View ArticleFly in Google Earth!
Neat Easter Egg hidden in Google Earth: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/08/google-earth-easter-egg-flight.html How to see this feature. Make sure you have Google Earth 4.2. Open the application,...
View ArticleMicrowave Popcorn.
The smell of microwave popcorn makes me feel nauseated and irritates my sinus so badly that when someone opens a bag near me at work I have get well away from it. But, now it’s possible that the...
View ArticleBlink your NIC!
Useful tip from Red Hat: ethtool -p eth0 5 Will cause the LED on eth0 to blink for 5 seconds. But, this will probably only work on NIC’s in server type hardware (and not on my laptop!)....
View ArticleLinks!
Some of the more interesting pages I’ve been looking at today: Melting ice caps in Greenland triggering earthquakes: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/sep/08/climatechange/print And Polar...
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Sunset at the lake.
Another amazing sunset up at the lake this weekend. I took this one tonight: And this two nights ago: A few more here: http://flickr.com/photos/timony/tags/20070906/
View ArticleLinks: Sept 10th 2007
Today’s interesting links, via Reddit: About the guy who makes “2 buck chuck” a cheap wine sold by Trader Joe’s: http://money.cnn.com Franzia, who rose to fame several years ago when he started selling...
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Gnome Fonts too big in Ubuntu Gutsy?
I upgraded my Dell 700m laptop from Ubuntu Feisty to Ubuntu Gutsy. Gutsy is the current developemnt (beta) release of Ubuntu Linux and is planned to be released in October of 2007. After upgrading to...
View ArticleDollar down!
The Canadian dollar is at it’s highest rate against the US dollar and is now worth .98c: http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070918/dollar_parity_070918/20070918?hub=TopStories The...
View ArticleHealthy!
Cool: http://www.canadianliving.com From a man from Ireland: “My number one health tip is: walk everywhere possible! Since work is a 35-minute walk from home, I try to walk home every day, and I mean...
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