One of my favourite pics from a trip home in 2006:

An interview with Rasterman on OSnews, founder of Enlightenment, on E17: http://www.osnews.com/story/19679 When will E17 be released? … does Rasterman have any timeframe in mind for the release of the final version of E17? His reply was to be expected – “No comment.” Smiley face included. The big blocker right now is a lack of [...]

Quickie install instructions: Add the following lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list: # repo from Falko Schmidt: deb http://debian.alphagemini.org/ unstable main This will also require you to have Debian’s unstable branch listed in your sources.list . If your have Enlightenment DR16 installed or any other versions of E17 installed you’ll need to uninstall them: sudo aptitude remove [...]

Update: I’ve decided to use Falko’s packages, see my posting here: http://timony.com/mickzblog/2008/04/24/e17-on-debian/ If you want to run E17 on Debian you have 4 choices (as of April 2008): Wait for E17 packages to make it into Debian’s experimental repository: http://sicherheitsschwankung.de/post/jan/2008-03-31/going-debconf-08 The Debian E17 team are in the process of loading packages into Debian experimental branch [...]

Ever since my original post on installing Enlightenment E17 on Debian and Ubuntu things have changed, such as the server that hosted the package repositories for both Debian & Ubuntu going off-line (supposedly temporarily but it’s been offline for almost 6 months). Also, I’ve been having issues with E17 working correctly on my laptop running [...]

Testing YAPB plugin for WordPress. WordPress is the Blog software that this blog runs on, YAPB is “Yet another Photo Blog” plugin for WordPress to help one manage photographs. After this one test post, I’m not really that sure how much more useful it is? Update: I just realised that this posting was posted with [...]

I took this a few Sundays ago, the same day we saw this hawk in the trees.

Went to see “Spirit of Uganda” at Berklee. Very enjoyable, inspiring, and entertaining. If they’re playing in your city or part of the world I’d recommend going to see them. Some news coverage at the following sites: http://www.patriotledger.com http://www.nytimes.com http://www.villagevoice.com

That Pizza being pizza.com! Some lad bought the domain name in 1994 at the “dawn” of the internet age, and has owned it ever since. After seeing how much vodka.com sold for (about 3 million dollars) he put Pizza.com up for auction and got 2.6 Million US dollars! http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7331042.stm In January, Mr Clark decided to [...]

Regularly drinking coffee may help prevent or reduce the symptoms of Alzheimer’s Disease: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7326839.stm And binge drinking can affect memory recall (at least in young drinkers): http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7328863.stm Ubuntu Linux to be certifiied on some of Sun’s hardware: http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN0236534620080402 A lot of Linux enthusiasts have taken to Ubuntu, and all of its versions are freely available. [...]