Archive for February, 2008
My Flickr Explore (Feb 2007)
1. Fred and his cap!, 2. Sunrise @ the lake, 3. Boston Twilight, 4. Donegal Town: The Diamond 1973, 5. Celtic Sprially Wrought-iron, 6. Frozen Bog Puddle, 7. Boston Sunset, 8. Maghery,
9. Under Lough Eske Bridge, 10. Celitc Spirally Wrought Iron, 11. Big Waves, 12. The Atlantic near Dungloe, Donegal Ireland, 13. Donegal Bay, 14. [...]
Boston Linux Installfest XXVII
Boston Linux Installfest XXVIII
When: Saturday, March 1, 2008 from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Where: MIT Building E-51, Room 061, 2 Amherst St, Cambridge
What you need to bring: Your computer, monitor, power strips and yourLinux distributions. We do have copies of some distributions. In general we have expertise with most distros, but if [...]
Golden Frogs
Two great videos on YouTube about the Golden Frogs and 2 scientists attempts to save frogs affected by the chytrid fungus, a fungus that is affecting and killing and driving many of the worlds frogs to extinction.
Part One:
Part Two:
See my previous posting about the Panamanian Golden Frog:
http://timony.com/mickzblog/2008/02/02/waving-frog-waves-for-the-last-time/
Fake IRS E-mail: AKA Spam
Don’t fall for it! If you get an e-mail like this don’t click on the link, because it’s NOT from the IRS. It’s someone is trying to fool you into giving them your bank account number and social security number.
After the last annual calculations of your fiscal activity we have determined that you are eligible [...]
Header Image
Trying to replace the header image in the theme I’m currently using. The image is the word unsleepable in the screenshot below:
The theme is called Unsleepable and is by Ben Gray, which is a modified version of the K2 theme by Michael Heilemann.
The instructions at http://openswitch.org/2006/04/16/title-graphic-how-to/ say what file needs to be replaced, and the [...]
Winter Wonderland #24!
Wow, over 3,000 views on Flickr.com, and #24 in the Boston Globe’s 2008 Winter Wonderland contest:
Drugs in Wexford
Interesting editoral on RTE about heroin use in Wexford (Ireland) and the lack of attention it’s getting from the Government. Seems to me (many) politicians wait until things reach crisis point before they act, as they don’t get credit for preventing things but for solving crisis’s!
http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0217/drugsfeature.html
If these people were dying at one time in one [...]
Favicon
Easy way to make a favicon:
http://www.favicon.cc/?
Mine is here.
Adobe Air for Linux?
A friend forwarded the e-mail below to me. It looks like there is a beta or prerelease of the Linux version of Adobe Air available. However, poking around Adobe’s site I can’t any references to this release and Googling hasn’t turned up anything useful (except for doc from last year saying Air for Linux [...]
Links
Different things that caught by eye today.
The worst foods to eat in America (via Boing-boing):
http://www.menshealth.com/20worst
The worst being fries with cheese and ranch dressing from a nation chain with 2,900 calories! That’s 900 more than is recommended for an average adult male should eat in a whole day! (Read the article to see more).
An Irish chef, [...]









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